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31 - Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood · Classic Sci Fi Books - Daily

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  Speaker 2: That's s O L g OO d n E d
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  Speaker 2: i A.
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  Speaker 3: Dot com chapter thirty one, in which you read of
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  Speaker 3: the glorious caverns of white marble fronting on the wonderful
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  Speaker 3: river in the tropics of the underworld.
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  Speaker 4: How we came upon a solitary wanderer on the banks
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  Speaker 4: of the river, my conversation with him, and my joy
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  Speaker 4: at finding myself in the land of the rattle brains
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  Speaker 4: or happy for getters, brief description of them. With every
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  Speaker 4: turn in the winding way that skirted the white shores
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  Speaker 4: of this wonderful stream, it swarms of light emitting animals
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  Speaker 4: lented in new beauty. For as the day advanced, if
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  Speaker 4: I may so express it, they lifted their glowing bodies
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  Speaker 4: nearer and nearer to the surface, until now the river
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  Speaker 4: shone like molten silver, and as the sheer walls of
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  Speaker 4: rock on the opposite bank held set in them vast
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  Speaker 4: slabs of mica. The effect was that these gigantic natural
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  Speaker 4: mirrors reflected the glowing stream with startling fidelity, and through
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  Speaker 4: the flood of soft light in dazzling shimmer against the
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  Speaker 4: fantastic portals of the white marble caverns on this side
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  Speaker 4: of the stream. It was a scene never to forget.
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  Speaker 4: And again again I paused, in silent wonder to feast
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  Speaker 4: my eyes upon some newly discovered beauty. Now for the
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  Speaker 4: first time I noted that every white marble basin of
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  Speaker 4: cove and inlet was filled with a different glow, according
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  Speaker 4: to the nature of the tiny phosphorescent animals which happened
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  Speaker 4: to fill its waters, one being a delicate pink, another
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  Speaker 4: a glorious red, the third a deep, rich purple, the
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  Speaker 4: fourth a soft blue, the fifth a golden yellow, and
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  Speaker 4: so on, the charm of each tent being greatly enhanced
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  Speaker 4: by the snowy whiteness of these marble basins, through which
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  Speaker 4: long lines of curious fish scaled in hues of polished
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  Speaker 4: gold and silver, swam slowly along, turning up their glorious
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  Speaker 4: sides to catch the full splendor of the light reflected
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  Speaker 4: from the mica mirrors. And now the chilly breath of
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  Speaker 4: King Galadus's domain no longer filled the air. I stood
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  Speaker 4: in the tropics of the underworld, so to speak, And
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  Speaker 4: but one thing was lacking to make my enjoyment of
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  Speaker 4: this fairy region complete, and that was some one to
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  Speaker 4: share it with me. True Bulgar had an idea of
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  Speaker 4: its beauty, for he testified his happiness at being once
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  Speaker 4: more in a warm land by executing some mad capers
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  Speaker 4: for my amusement, and by scampering along the shore of
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  Speaker 4: the glowing river and barking at the stately fish as
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  Speaker 4: they slowly fanned the water with their many colored fins.
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  Speaker 4: But I must admit that I longed for the Princess
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  Speaker 4: Shnibuleh to keep me company. But it was a rash wish,
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  Speaker 4: for the warm air would have thrown her into convulsions
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  Speaker 4: of fear, and she would have preferred to meet her
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  Speaker 4: death in the cool river rather than attempt to breathe
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  Speaker 4: such a fiery atmosphere. By this time I had advanced
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  Speaker 4: several miles along the white shores of the glowing stream,
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  Speaker 4: and feeling somewhat fatigued, I was about to sit down
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  Speaker 4: on the jutting edge of a natural bench of rock,
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  Speaker 4: which seemed almost placed on the river ranks by human hands,
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  Speaker 4: for human forms to rest upon and watch the wonderful
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  Speaker 4: play of tints and hues in this wide sweeping inlet, when,
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  Speaker 4: to my amazement, I saw that a human creature was
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  Speaker 4: already sitting there. His eyes were fixed upon the water,
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  Speaker 4: and methought that his face, which was gentle and placid,
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  Speaker 4: wore a tired look. Certainly, he was plunged into such
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  Speaker 4: deep meditation that he either took or feigned to take
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  Speaker 4: no notice of my approach. Bulgar was inclined to dash
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  Speaker 4: forward and attract his attention by a string of ear
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  Speaker 4: splitting barks. But I shook my head. This wanderer along
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  Speaker 4: the glowing stream of day wore rather a graceful cloak
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  Speaker 4: like garment woven of some substance that shimmered in the light,
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  Speaker 4: and so I cancluded that it must be a mineral wool.
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  Speaker 4: His head was bare, and so were his legs to
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  Speaker 4: the knees, his feet being shod with white metal sandals,
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  Speaker 4: tied on with what looked like leathern thongs. All in all,
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  Speaker 4: he had a friendly, though somewhat peculiar look about him,
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  Speaker 4: and his attitude struck me as being that of a
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  Speaker 4: person either plunged into deep thought or possibly listening for
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  Speaker 4: some anxiously expected signal. At any rate, accustomed as I
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  Speaker 4: was to meet all sorts of people on my travels
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  Speaker 4: in the four corners of the globe. I determined to
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  Speaker 4: make bold enough to interrupt the gentleman's meditations and wish
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  Speaker 4: him good morrow. Whom have I the pleasures meeting in
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  Speaker 4: this beautiful section of the world within a world. The
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  Speaker 4: man looked at me in a dazed sort of way
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  Speaker 4: and replied, I really don't know. I'm happy to say,
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  Speaker 4: but sir, thy name, I insisted, forgot it years ago,
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  Speaker 4: was his remarkable answer. But surely, sir, I exclaimed, rather testily,
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  Speaker 4: or not the sole inhabitant of this beautiful underworld, thou
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  Speaker 4: hast kinsman wife family, a gentle stranger. He replied, in
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  Speaker 4: slow and measured tones. There are people farther along the shore,
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  Speaker 4: and they are good, dear souls, although I have forgotten
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  Speaker 4: their names, and I have to a very faint recollection
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  Speaker 4: that two of these people are sons of mine. Stop no, uh,
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  Speaker 4: their names are gone from me too. I forgot them
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  Speaker 4: the day my own name slipped from my mind. And
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  Speaker 4: as he uttered these words, he threw his head back
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  Speaker 4: with a sudden jerk, and I heard a strange click
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  Speaker 4: inside of it, as if something had slipped from its place.
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  Speaker 4: In that instant, a mysterious expression used by that master
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  Speaker 4: of masters, Don Fume, flashed through my mind. Rattlebrains. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: that was it, and now I felt sure that I
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  Speaker 4: was standing in the presence of one of the curious
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  Speaker 4: folk inhabiting the world within a world to whom Don
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  Speaker 4: Fum had given the strange name of rattlebrains or happy forgetters.
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  Speaker 4: I was so delighted that I could barely keep myself
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  Speaker 4: rushing up to this gentle visaged and mild mannered person
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  Speaker 4: whose head had just given forth the sharp click, and
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  Speaker 4: grasping him by the hand. But I feared to shock
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  Speaker 4: him by such a friendly greeting, and so I contented
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  Speaker 4: myself with crying out, Sir, thou seest before thee none
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  Speaker 4: other than the famous traveler Baron Sebastian von Trump. But
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  Speaker 4: to my great amazement and greater chagrin, he simply turned
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  Speaker 4: his strange eyes with the far away look upon me
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  Speaker 4: for an instant, and then resumed his contemplation of the
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  Speaker 4: beautifully tinted sheet of water, as if I hadn't opened
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  Speaker 4: my mouth. It was the most extraordinary treatment that I
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  Speaker 4: had experienced since my descent into the underworld, and I
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  Speaker 4: was upon the point of resenting it, as became a
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  Speaker 4: true knight, and especially of von Trump when don Fum's
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  Speaker 4: brief description of the rattle brains are happy forgetters flitted
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  Speaker 4: through my mind, said he, By the exercise of their
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  Speaker 4: strong wills, they have been busy for ages, striving to
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  Speaker 4: unload their brains of the to them now useless stock
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  Speaker 4: of knowledge accumulated by their ancestors. And the natural consequence
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  Speaker 4: has been that the brains of these curious folk, who
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  Speaker 4: call themselves the happy forgetters, relieved of all labor and
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  Speaker 4: strain of thought, have absolutely shrunken, rather than increased in size,
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  Speaker 4: so that with many of the happy forgetters, their brains
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  Speaker 4: are like the shriveled kernel of the last year's nut,
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  Speaker 4: and give forth a sharp click when they move their
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  Speaker 4: heads suddenly with a jerk, as is often their wont
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  Speaker 4: for they take great pride in proving to the listener
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  Speaker 4: that they deserve the name of rattle brain. Nor do
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  Speaker 4: I need remind the old reader. Concluded don Fum, in
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  Speaker 4: his celebrated work on the World within a World, that
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  Speaker 4: the chiefest among the happy forgeters is the man whose
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  Speaker 4: head gives forth the loudest and sharpest click. For he
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  Speaker 4: it is who has forgotten most. You can have but
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  Speaker 4: a faint idea, Dear friends, of my delight at the
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  Speaker 4: prospect of spending some time among these curious people, people
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  Speaker 4: who look with absolute dread upon knowledge as the one
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  Speaker 4: thing necessary to get rid of before happiness can enter
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  Speaker 4: the human heart. No joy can equal the happy forgetters.
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  Speaker 4: When upon class spin a friend's hand, he finds that
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  Speaker 4: he has forgotten his very name. And no day is
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  Speaker 4: well spent in this land at the close of which
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  Speaker 4: the inhabitant may not exclaim this day I succeeded in
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  Speaker 4: forgetting something that I knew yesterday. At last, the happy
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  Speaker 4: forget a rose from his seat and calmly walked away,
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  Speaker 4: without so much as wishing me good day. But I
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  Speaker 4: was resolved not to be so easily gotten rid of,
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  Speaker 4: so I called after him in a loud voice in
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  Speaker 4: vulgar following my example, raised a racket at his heels,
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  Speaker 4: whereupon he faced about and remarked, beg, pardon, I had
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  Speaker 4: quite forgotten thee I'm happy to say, and thy name too,
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  Speaker 4: I've forgotten that. Let me see art thou al radiant
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  Speaker 4: one of the animals in the water. I was more
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  Speaker 4: than half inclined to lose my temper at this slur,
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  Speaker 4: classing me a backboned animal with a mere jellyfish. But
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  Speaker 4: under all the circumstances, I thought it best to control myself,
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  Speaker 4: for I could well imagine that from the size of
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  Speaker 4: my head and the utter absence of all click inside
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  Speaker 4: of it, I not destined to be a very welcome
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  Speaker 4: visitor among the happy forgetters. And therefore, swallowing my injured feelings,
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  Speaker 4: I made a very low bow and beg this curious
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  Speaker 4: gentleman to be kind enough to conduct me to his people,
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  Speaker 4: among whom I wish to bide for a few days.
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  Speaker 4: End of chapter thirty one.
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