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  Speaker 1: Chapter two of the Pirate by Sir Walter Scott. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Dion
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  Speaker 1: Jine's Salt Lake City, Utah. There was a laughing devil
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  Speaker 1: in his sneer that raised emotions both of rage and fear,
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  Speaker 1: and where his frown of hatred darkly fell, hope withering fled,
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  Speaker 1: and mercy side farewell the corsair Conto I. The ling
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  Speaker 1: or white fishery is the principal employment of the natives
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  Speaker 1: of Zetland, and was formerly that upon which the gentry
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  Speaker 1: chiefly depended for their income and the poor for their subsistence.
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  Speaker 1: The fishing season is, therefore, like the harvest of an
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  Speaker 1: agricultural country, the busiest and most important, as well as
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  Speaker 1: the most animating period of the year. The fishermen of
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  Speaker 1: each district assemble at particular stations with their boats and crews,
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  Speaker 1: and direct upon the shore small huts composed of shingle
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  Speaker 1: and covered with turf for their temporary lodging, and skios
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  Speaker 1: or drying houses for the fish, so that the lonely
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  Speaker 1: beach at once assumes the appearance of an Indian town.
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  Speaker 1: The banks to which they repair for the half fishing
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  Speaker 1: are often many miles distant from the station where the
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  Speaker 1: fish is dried, so that they are always twenty or
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  Speaker 1: thirty hours absent, frequently longer, and under unfavorable circumstances of
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  Speaker 1: wind and tide. They remain at sea with a very
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  Speaker 1: small stock of provisions, and in a boat of a
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  Speaker 1: construction which seems extremely slender, for two or three days,
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  Speaker 1: and are sometimes heard of no more. The departure of
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  Speaker 1: the fissures therefore on this occupation has in it a
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  Speaker 1: character of danger and of suffering, which renders it dignified.
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  Speaker 1: And the anxiety of the females who remain on the
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  Speaker 1: beach watching the departure of the lessening boat, or anxiously
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  Speaker 1: looking out for its return, gives pathos to the scene.
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  Speaker 1: The scene, therefore, was in busy and anxious animation when
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  Speaker 1: the U Dollar and his friends appeared on the beach.
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  Speaker 1: The various crews of about thirty boats, amounting each two
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  Speaker 1: from three to five or six men, were taking leave
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  Speaker 1: of their wives and female relatives and jumping on board
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  Speaker 1: their long Norway skiffs, where their lines and tackle lay
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  Speaker 1: ready stowed. Magnus was not an idle spectator of the scene.
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  Speaker 1: He went from one place to another, inquiring into the
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  Speaker 1: state of their provisions for the voyage and their preparations
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  Speaker 1: for the fishing now, and then with a rough Dutch
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  Speaker 1: or Norse oath, abusing them for blockheads, or going to
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  Speaker 1: see with their boats indifferently found, but always ending by
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  Speaker 1: ordering from his own stores a gallon of gin, a
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  Speaker 1: lispand of meal, or some similar essential addition to their
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  Speaker 1: sea stores. The hardy sailors, on receiving such favors, expressed
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  Speaker 1: their thanks in the brief gruff manner which their landlord
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  Speaker 1: best approved. But the women were more clamorous in their gratitude,
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  Speaker 1: which Magnus was often obliged to silence by cursing all
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  Speaker 1: female tongues from eves downwards. At length, all were on
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  Speaker 1: board and ready, the sails were hoisted, the signal for
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  Speaker 1: departure given, the rowers began to pull, and all started
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  Speaker 1: from the shore in strong emulation to get first to
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  Speaker 1: the fishing ground and to have their lines set before
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  Speaker 1: the rest and exploit, to which no little consequence was
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  Speaker 1: attached by the boat's crew, who should be happy enough
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  Speaker 1: to perform it. While they were yet within hearing of
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  Speaker 1: the shore. They chanted an ancient Norse ditty appropriate to
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  Speaker 1: the occasion of which Claude Hulcrow had executed the following
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  Speaker 1: literal translation, farewell Mary, maidens, to song and to laugh,
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  Speaker 1: For the brave lads of Westra are bound to the Hoff,
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  Speaker 1: and we must have labor and hunger and pain. Ere
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  Speaker 1: we dance with the maids of Dunrossness again. For now
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  Speaker 1: in our trim boats of Norway deal. We must dance
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  Speaker 1: on the waves with the porpoise, and seal the breeze.
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  Speaker 1: It shall pipe, so it pipe not too high. And
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  Speaker 1: the gull be our songstress, whenever she flits by, sing on,
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  Speaker 1: my brave bird, while we follow like thee by bank,
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  Speaker 1: shoal and quicksand the swarms of the sea. And when
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  Speaker 1: twenty scorefishes are straining our line, sing louder, brave bird,
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  Speaker 1: for their spoils shall be thine. We'll sing while we bait,
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  Speaker 1: and will sing when we hull, For the deeps of
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  Speaker 1: the Hoff have enough for us all. There is trusk
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  Speaker 1: for the gentle, and skate for the coral, and there's
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  Speaker 1: wealth for bull Magnus, the son of the Earl. Huzza,
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  Speaker 1: My brave comrades, give way for the hoff, we shall
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  Speaker 1: sooner come back to the dance and the laugh. For
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  Speaker 1: life without mirth is a lamp without oil. Then mirth
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  Speaker 1: and long life to the bold magnus troil. The root
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  Speaker 1: words of the song were soon drowned in the ripple
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  Speaker 1: of the waves, but the tune continued long to mingle
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  Speaker 1: with the sound of wind and sea. And the boats
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  Speaker 1: were like so many black specks on the surface of
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  Speaker 1: the ocean, diminishing by degrees as they bore far and
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  Speaker 1: farther seaward, while the ear could distinguish touches of the
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  Speaker 1: human voice, almost drowned amid that of the elements. The
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  Speaker 1: fishermen's wives looked their last after the parting sails, and
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  Speaker 1: were now departing slowly with downcast and anxious looks, towards
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  Speaker 1: the huts in which they were to make arrangements for
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  Speaker 1: preparing and drying the fish with which they hoped to
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  Speaker 1: see their husbands and friends return deeply laden. Here and there,
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  Speaker 1: an old Sybil displayed the superior importance of her experience
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  Speaker 1: by predicting from the appearance of the atmosphere that the
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  Speaker 1: wind would be fair or foul, While others recommended a
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  Speaker 1: vow to the kirk of Saint Ninians for the safety
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  Speaker 1: of their men and boats, and ancient Catholic superstition not
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  Speaker 1: yet wholly abolished, and others, but in a low and
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  Speaker 1: timorous tone, regretted to their companions that Norna of fitful
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  Speaker 1: head had been suffered to depart in discontent that morning
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  Speaker 1: from Burguestra, and of all days in the year, that
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  Speaker 1: they should have contrived to give her displeasure. On the
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  Speaker 1: first day of the white fishing, the gentry guests of
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  Speaker 1: Magnus Troil, having whiled away as much time as could
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  Speaker 1: be so disposed of in viewing the little armament, set
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  Speaker 1: sail and in conversing with the poor women who had
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  Speaker 1: seen their friends embark in it, began now to separate
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  Speaker 1: into various groups and parties, which strolled in different directions
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  Speaker 1: as fancy led them to enjoy what may be called
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  Speaker 1: the clare obscure of a Zetteland summer day, which, though
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  Speaker 1: without the brilliant sunshine that cheers other countries during the
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  Speaker 1: fine season, has a mild and pleasing character of its
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  Speaker 1: own that softens while it saddens, landscapes which in their
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  Speaker 1: own lonely, bare and monotonous tone have something in them
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  Speaker 1: stern as well as barren. In one of the loneliest
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  Speaker 1: recesses of the coast, where a deep indenture of the
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  Speaker 1: rocks gave the tide access to the cavern, or, as
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  Speaker 1: it is called the Helure of Swartuster, Minnetroil was walking
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  Speaker 1: with Captain Cleveland. They had probably chosen that walk as
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  Speaker 1: being little liable to interrupt from others, for as the
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  Speaker 1: force of the tide rendered the place unfit either for
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  Speaker 1: fishing or sailing, so it was not the ordinary resort
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  Speaker 1: of walkers, on account of its being the supposed habitation
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  Speaker 1: of a mermaid, a race which Norwegian superstition invests with
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  Speaker 1: magical as well as mischievous qualities. Here therefore, Mina wandered
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  Speaker 1: with her lover a small spot of milk white sand
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  Speaker 1: that stretched beneath one of the precipices, which walled in
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  Speaker 1: the creek on either side, afforded them space for a dry,
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  Speaker 1: firm and pleasant walk of about one hundred yards, terminated
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  Speaker 1: at one extremity by a dark stretch of the bay, which,
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  Speaker 1: scarce touched by the wind, seemed almost as smooth as glass,
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  Speaker 1: and which was seen from between two lofty rocks, the
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  Speaker 1: jaws of the creek indenture that approached each other above
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  Speaker 1: as if they wished to meet over the dark tide
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  Speaker 1: that separated them. The other end of their promenade was
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  Speaker 1: closed by a lofty and almost unscalable precipice, the abode
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  Speaker 1: of hundreds of seafowl of different kinds, in the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of which the huge heluar sea cave itself yonned, as
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  Speaker 1: if for the purpose of swallowing up the advancing tide,
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  Speaker 1: which it seemed to receive into an abyss of immeasurable
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  Speaker 1: depth and extent. The entrance to this dismal cavern consisted
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  Speaker 1: not in a single arch, as usual, but was divided
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  Speaker 1: into two by a huge pillar of natural rock, which,
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  Speaker 1: rising out of the sea and extending to the top
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  Speaker 1: of the cavern, seemed to lend its support to the roof,
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  Speaker 1: and thus formed a double portal to the heluar on
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  Speaker 1: which the fishermen and peasants had bestowed the rude name
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  Speaker 1: of the Devil's nostrils. In this wild scene, lonely and undisturbed,
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  Speaker 1: but by the claim of the seafowl, Cleveland had already
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  Speaker 1: met with Minnetroil more than once, for with her. It
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  Speaker 1: was a favorite walk, as the objects which it presented
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  Speaker 1: agreed peculiarly with the love of the wild, the melancholy,
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  Speaker 1: and the wonderful. But now the conversation in which she
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  Speaker 1: was earnestly engaged was such as entirely to withdraw her attention,
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  Speaker 1: as well as that of her companion, from the scenery
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  Speaker 1: around them. You cannot deny it, she said, You have
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  Speaker 1: given way to feelings respecting this young man which indicate
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  Speaker 1: prejudice and violence. The prejudice unmerited as far as you
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  Speaker 1: are concerned, at least, and the violences equally imprudent and unjustifiable.
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  Speaker 1: I should have thought, replied Cleveland, that the service I
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  Speaker 1: rendered him yesterday might have freed me from such a charge.
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  Speaker 1: I do not talk of my own risk, for I
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  Speaker 1: have lived in danger and loved it. Is not everyone, however,
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  Speaker 1: would have ventured so near the furious animal to save
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  Speaker 1: one with whom they had no connection. It is not
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  Speaker 1: every one, indeed, who could have saved him, answered Minna gravely.
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  Speaker 1: But everyone who has courage and generosity would have attempted it.
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  Speaker 1: The giddy brained Claude Holcrow would have done as much
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  Speaker 1: as you had his strength been equal to his courage,
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  Speaker 1: my father would have done as much, though, having such
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  Speaker 1: just cause of resentment against the young man for his
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  Speaker 1: vain and braggart abuse of our hospitality. Do not, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: boast of your exploit too much, my good friend, lest
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  Speaker 1: you should make me think that it required too great
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  Speaker 1: an effort. I know you love not Mordaunt Mertown, though
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  Speaker 1: you exposed your own life to save his. Will you
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  Speaker 1: allow nothing, then, said Cleveland, for the long misery I
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  Speaker 1: was made to endure from the common and prevailing report
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  Speaker 1: that this beardless bird hunter stood betwixt me and what
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  Speaker 1: I on earth coveted most the affections of Mina Troil.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke in a tone at once impassioned and insinuating,
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  Speaker 1: and his whole language and manner seemed to express a
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  Speaker 1: grace and elegance which formed the most striking contrast with
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  Speaker 1: the speech and gesture of the unpolished seamen, which he
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  Speaker 1: usually affected or exhibited. But his apology was unsaid satisfactory
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  Speaker 1: to Minna. You have known, she said, perhaps too soon,
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  Speaker 1: and too well, how little you had to fear, if
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  Speaker 1: you indeed feared that Mertown or any other had interest
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  Speaker 1: with Minna, troil nay truce to thanks and protestations. I
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  Speaker 1: would accept it as the best proof of gratitude that
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  Speaker 1: you would be reconciled with this youth, or at least
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  Speaker 1: avoid every quarrel with him. That we should be friends, Minna,
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  Speaker 1: is impossible, replied Cleveland. Even the love I bear you,
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  Speaker 1: the most powerful emotion that my heart ever knew, cannot
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  Speaker 1: work that miracle. And why I pray you, said Minna,
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  Speaker 1: there have been no evil offenses between you, but rather
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  Speaker 1: an exchange of mutual services. Why can you not be friends?
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  Speaker 1: I have many reasons to wish it. And can you
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  Speaker 1: then forget the slights which he has cast upon Brenda,
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  Speaker 1: and on yourself and on your father's house. I can
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  Speaker 1: forgive them all, said Minna. Can you not say so much?
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  Speaker 1: Who have, in truth received no offense? Cleveland looked down
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  Speaker 1: and paused for an instant, then raised his head and replied,
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  Speaker 1: I might easily deceive you, Minna, and promise you what
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  Speaker 1: my soul tells me is an impossibility. But I am
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  Speaker 1: forced to use too much to see with others, and
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  Speaker 1: with you I will use none. I cannot be friend
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  Speaker 1: to this young man. There is a natural dislike an
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  Speaker 1: instinctive aversion, something like a principle of repulsion in our
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  Speaker 1: mutual nature, which makes us odious to each other. Ask himself,
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  Speaker 1: he will tell you he has the same antipathy against me.
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  Speaker 1: The obligation he conferred on me was a bridle to
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  Speaker 1: my resentment. But I was so galled by the restraint
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  Speaker 1: that I could have gnawed the curb till my lips
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  Speaker 1: were bloody. You have worn what you are wont to
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  Speaker 1: call your iron mask so long that your features, replied Minna,
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  Speaker 1: retain the impression of its rigidity even when it is removed.
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  Speaker 1: You do me injustice, Minna replied her lover, And you
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  Speaker 1: are angry with me because I deal with you plainly
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  Speaker 1: and honestly. Plainly and honestly. However, will I say that
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  Speaker 1: I cannot be Murtown's friend, But it shall be his
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  Speaker 1: own fault, not mine, if I am ever his enemy.
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  Speaker 1: I seek not to injure him, but do not ask
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  Speaker 1: me to love him. And of this remain satisfied that
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  Speaker 1: it would be vain even if I could do so.
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  Speaker 1: For as sure as I attempted any advances towards his confidence,
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  Speaker 1: so sure would I be to awaken his disgust and
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  Speaker 1: suspicion leave us to the exercise of our natural feelings, which,
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  Speaker 1: as they will unquestionably keep us as far separate as possible,
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  Speaker 1: I am most likely to prevent any possible interference with
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  Speaker 1: each other. Does this satisfy you? It must, said Minna,
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  Speaker 1: since you tell me there is no remedy. And now
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  Speaker 1: tell me why you looked so grave when you heard
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  Speaker 1: of your consort's arrival. For that it is her. I
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  Speaker 1: have no doubt in the port of Kirkwall, I fear
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  Speaker 1: replied Cleveland, the consequences of that vessel's arrival with her
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  Speaker 1: crew as comprehending the ruin of my fondest hopes. I
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  Speaker 1: had made some progress in your father's favor, and with
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  Speaker 1: time might have made more. When hither come Hawkins and
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  Speaker 1: the rest to blight my prospects forever I told you
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  Speaker 1: on what terms we parted. I then commanded a vessel
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  Speaker 1: braver and better found than their own, with a crew who,
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  Speaker 1: at my slightest nod would have faced fiends armed with
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  Speaker 1: their own fiery element. But I now stand alone, a
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  Speaker 1: single man, destitute of all means to overawe or to
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  Speaker 1: restrain them, and they will soon show so plainly the
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  Speaker 1: ungovernable license of their habits and dispositions that ruin to
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  Speaker 1: themselves and to me, will in all probability be the consequence.
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  Speaker 1: Do not fear it, said Minna. My father can never
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  Speaker 1: be so unjust as to hold you liable for the
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  Speaker 1: offenses of others. But what will Magnus Troyle say to
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  Speaker 1: my own demerits, fair, Minna, said Cleveland, smiling. My father
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  Speaker 1: is a Zetlander, or rather a Norwegian, said Minnah, one
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  Speaker 1: of an oppressed race, who will not care whether you
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  Speaker 1: fought against the Spaniards, who are the tyrants of the
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  Speaker 1: new world, or against the Dutch and English, who have
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  Speaker 1: succeeded to their usurped dominions. His own ancestors supported and
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  Speaker 1: exercised the freedom of the seas in those gallant barks,
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  Speaker 1: whose pinions were the dread of all Europe. I fear nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: said Cleveland, that the descendant of an ancient sea king
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  Speaker 1: will scarce acknowledge of fitting acquaintance in a modern rover.
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  Speaker 1: I have not disguised from you that I have reason
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  Speaker 1: to dread the English laws. And Magnus, though a great
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  Speaker 1: enemy to taxes, imposts, scoat waddle and so forth has
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  Speaker 1: no idea of latitude upon points of a more general character,
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  Speaker 1: he would willingly wreath a rope to the yard arm
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  Speaker 1: for the benefit of an unfortunate buccaneer. Do not suppose so,
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  Speaker 1: said Minna. He himself suffers too much oppression from the
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  Speaker 1: tyrannical laws of our proud neighbors of Scotland. I trust
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  Speaker 1: he will soon be able to rise in resistance against them.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy, such I will call them, are now divided
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  Speaker 1: amongst themselves, and every vessel from their coast brings intelligence
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  Speaker 1: of fresh commotions, the Highlands against the Lowlands, the Williamites
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  Speaker 1: against the Jacobites, the Whigs against the Tories, and to
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  Speaker 1: some the whole the Kingdom of England against that of Scotland.
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  Speaker 1: What is there, as Claude holcrow Well hinted to prevent
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  Speaker 1: our availing ourselves of the quarrels of these robbers, to
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  Speaker 1: assert the independence of which which we are deprived to
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  Speaker 1: hoist the raven standard on the castle of Skolloway, said Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: in imitation of her tone and manner, and proclaim your father,
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  Speaker 1: Earl Magnus, the first, Earl Magnus the seventh, if it please, you,
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  Speaker 1: answered Minna, For six of his ancestors have worn, or
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  Speaker 1: were entitled to wear the coronet before him. You laugh
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  Speaker 1: at my ardor but what is there to prevent all this?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing will prevent it, replied Cleveland, because it will never
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  Speaker 1: be attempted. Anything might prevent it that is equal in
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  Speaker 1: strength to the long boat of a British man of war.
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  Speaker 1: You treat us with scorn, sir, said Minna. Yet yourself
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  Speaker 1: should know what a few resolved men may perform. But
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  Speaker 1: they must be armed, Minna, replied Cleveland, and willing to
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  Speaker 1: place their lives upon each desperate adventure. Think not of
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  Speaker 1: such visions. Denmark has been cut down into a second
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  Speaker 1: rate kingdom, incapable of exchanging a single broadside with England.
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  Speaker 1: Norway is a starving wilderness, and in these islands the
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  Speaker 1: love of independence has been suppressed by a long term
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  Speaker 1: of subjection. Or shows itself. But in a few muttered
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  Speaker 1: growls over the bowl and bottle, And were your men
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  Speaker 1: as willing warriors as their ancestors, what could the unarmed
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  Speaker 1: crews of a few fishing boats do against the British Navy?
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  Speaker 1: Think no more of it, sweet Mina. It is a
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  Speaker 1: dream and I must term it so. Though it makes
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  Speaker 1: your eyes so bright and your step so noble, it
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  Speaker 1: is indeed a dream, said Minna, looking down, And it
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  Speaker 1: ill becomes a daughter of Haitland to look or to
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  Speaker 1: move like a free woman. Our eye should be on
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and our step slow and reluctant, as that
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  Speaker 1: of one who obeys a taskmaster. There are lands, said Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: in which the eye may look bright upon groves of
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  Speaker 1: the palm and the cocoa, and where the foot may
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  Speaker 1: move light as a galley under sail, over fields carpeted
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  Speaker 1: with flowers and savannahs, surrounded by aromatic thickets, and where
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  Speaker 1: subjection is unknown except that of the brave, to the bravest,
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  Speaker 1: and of all to the most beautiful Mena paused a
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  Speaker 1: moment ere she spoke, and then answered, no, Cleveland, my
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  Speaker 1: own rude country has charms for me, even desolate as
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  Speaker 1: you think it, and depressed as it surely is, which
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  Speaker 1: no other land on earth can offer to me. Endeavor
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  Speaker 1: in vain to represent to myself those visions of trees
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  Speaker 1: and of groves which my eye never saw, but my
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  Speaker 1: imagination can conceive no sight in nature more sublime than
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  Speaker 1: these waves. When agitated by a storm, or more beautiful
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  Speaker 1: than when they come as they now do, rolling in
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  Speaker 1: calm tranquility to the shore. Not the fairest scene in
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of foreign land, Not the brightest sunbeam that ever shone
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: upon the richest landscape, would win my thoughts for a moment.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: From that lofty rock, misty hill, and wide rolling ocean.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Hotland is the land of my deceased ancestors and of
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: my living father. And in Hatland will I live and die? Then?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: In Hatland, answered Cleveland, will I too live and die?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I will not go to Kirkwall. I will not make
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: my existence known to my comrades, from whom it were
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: else hard for me to escape. Your father loves me, Minna.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Who knows whether long attention anxious care might not bring
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: him to receive me into his family. Who would regard
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the length of a voyage that was certain to terminate
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: in happiness? Dream Not of such an issue, said Minna.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It is impossible. While you live in my father's house,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: while you receive his assistance and share his table, you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: will find him the generous friend and the hearty host.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: But touch him on what concerns his name and family,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and the frank hearted you dollar will start up before you,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the haughty and proud descendant of a Norwegian jarl see
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you a moment. Suspicion has fallen on mordaunt Mertown, and
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: he has banished from his favor the youth whom he
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: so lately loved as a son. No one must ally
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: with his house that is not of untainted Northern descent,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and mine may be so for aught that is known
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to me. Upon the subject, said Cleveland, How said, Minna,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: have you any reason to believe yourself of Norse descent?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I have told you before, replied Cleveland that my family
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: is totally unknown to me. I spent my earliest days
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: upon a solitary plantation in the little island of Tortuga,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: under the charge of my father than a different person
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: from what he afterwards became. We were plundered by the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Spaniards and reduced to such extremity of poverty that my father,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: in desperation and in thirst of revenge, took up arms, and,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: having become chief of a little band who were in
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the same circumstances, became a buccaneer, as it is called,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and cruised against Spain with various vicissitudes of good and
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: bad fortune, until while he interfered to check some violence
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: of his companions, he fell by their hands, no uncommon
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: fate among the captains of these rovers. But once my
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: father came, or what was the place of his birth?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I know not, fair, Mina, nor have I ever had
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: a curious thought on the subject. He was a Briton,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: at least your unfortunate father, said Minna. I have no
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: doubts of it, said Cleveland. His name, which I have
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: rendered too formidable to be openly spoken, is an English one.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: And his acquaintance with the English language and even with
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: English literature, together with the pains which he took in
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: better days to teach me, both plainly spoke him to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: be an Englishman. If the rude bearing which I displayed
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: towards others is not the genuine character of my mind
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and manners, it is to my father, Minna, that I
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: owe any share of better thoughts and principles, which may
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: render me worthy in some small degree of your notice
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and approbation. And yet it sometimes seems to me that
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I have two different characters. For I cannot bring myself
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to believe that I, who now walk this lone beach
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: with the lovely Minna Troil, and am permitted to speak
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: to her of the passion which I have cherished? Have
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: ever been the daring leader of the bold band whose
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: name was as terrible as a tornado? You had not
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: been permitted, said Minna, to use that bold language towards
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the daughter of Magnus Troil, Had you not been the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: brave and undaunted leader, who, with so small means has
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: made his name so formidable. My heart is like that
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: of a maiden of the ancient days, and is to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: be won not by fair words, but by gallant deeds.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Alas that heart, said Cleveland. And what is it that
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I may do? What is it that men can do
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to win? In it? The interest which I desire? Rejoin
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: your friends, pursue your fortunes, Leave the rest to destiny,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: said Minna. Should you return the leader of a gallant fleet,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: who can tell what may befall? And what shall assure
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: me that when I return, If return I ever shall,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I may not find Minna Troyal, a bride or a spouse. No, Minna,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I will not trust to destiny the only obs worth
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: attaining which my stormy voyage in life has yet offered me.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Hear me, said, Minna, I will bind myself to you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: if you dare accept such an engagement by the promise
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: of odin the most sacred of our northern rites, which
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: are yet practiced among us, that I will never favor
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: another until you resign the pretensions which I have given
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: to you. Will that satisfy you? For more? I cannot
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: more I will not give. Then, with that, said Cleveland,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: after a moment's pause, I must perforce be satisfied. But
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: remember it is yourself that thrown me back upon a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: mode of life which the laws of Britain denounce as criminal,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and which the violent passions of the daring men by
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: whom it is pursued have rendered infamous. But I, said, Minna,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: am superior to such prejudices. In warning with England, I
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: see their laws in no other light than as if
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: you were engaged with an enemy who, in fullness of
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: pride and power, has declared he will give his antagonist
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: no quarter. A brave man will not fight the worse
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: for this, and for the manners of your comrades, so
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: that they do not infect your own. Why should their
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: evil report attached to you? Cleveland gazed at her as
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: she spoke, with a degree of wondering admiration, in which
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: at the same time there lurked a smile at her simplicity.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I could not, he said, have believed that such high
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: courage could have been found united with such ignorance of
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the world, as the world is now wilded for my manners,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: They who best know me will readily allow that I
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: have done my best, at the risk of my popularity
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and of my life itself, to mitigate the ferocity of
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: my mates. But how can you teach humanity to men
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: burning with vengeance against the world by whom they are proscribed,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: or teach them temperance and moderation in enjoying the pleasures
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: which chance throws in their way, to vary a life
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: which would be otherwise one constant scene of peril and hardship.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: But this promise, Minnah, this promise which is all I
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: am to receive in Garden for my faithful attachment. Let
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: me at least lose no time in claiming that it
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: must not be rendered here. But in Kirkwall we must
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: invoke to witness the engagement the spirit which presides over
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the ais ancient circle of Stennis. But perhaps you fear
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to name the ancient father of the slain, too, the severe,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the terrible. Cleveland smiled to me the justice to think lovely, Minna,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: that I am little subject to fear real causes of terror,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: and for those which are visionary, I have no sympathy
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: whatever you believe. Not in them, then said Minna, And
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: are so far better suited to be Brenda's lover than mine,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I will believe, replied Cleveland. In whatever you believe, the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: whole inhabitants of that valhalla about which you converse so
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: much with that fiddling, rhyming fool Claude Holcrow, all these
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: shall become living and existing things to my credulity. But Minna,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: do not ask me to fear any of them. Fear
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: no not to fear them, early replied the Maiden. For
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: not before thor or Odin, when they approached in the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: fullness of their terrors, did the heroes of my dauntless
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: race yield one foot in retreat. Nor do I own
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: them as deities. A better faith prevents so foul an error.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: But in our own conception they are powerful spirits for
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: good or evil. And when you boast not to fear them,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: bethink you that you defy an enemy of a kind
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you have never yet encountered, not in these northern latitudes,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: said the lover, with a smile. Where hitherto I have
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: seen bud angels, but I have faced in my time
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the demons of the Equinoctial line, which we rovers suppose
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to be as powerful and as malignant as those of
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the north. Have you then witnessed those wonders which are
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: beyond the visible world, said Minna, with some degree of awe.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Cleveland composed his countenance and replied. A short while before
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: my father's death, I came, though then very young, into
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: the command of a sloop, manned with thirty as desperate
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: fellows as ever handled a musket. We cruised for a
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: long while with bad success, taking nothing but wretched small
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: craft which were destined to catch turtle or otherwise loaded
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: with coarse and worthless trumpery. I had much ado to
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: prevent my comrades from avenging upon the cruise of those
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: babbling shallops the disappointment which they had occasioned to us.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: At length, we grew desperate and made a descent on
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a village where we were told we should intercept the
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: mules of a certain Spanish governor, laden with treasure, succeeded
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: in carrying the place. But while I endeavored to save
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: the inhabitants from the fury of my followers, the muleteers,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: with their precious cargo, escaped into the neighboring woods. This
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: filled up the measure of my unpopularity. My people, who
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: had been long discontented, became openly mutinous. I was deposed
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: from my command in solemn Council and condemned as having
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: too little luck and too much humanity for the profession
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I had undertaken. To be marooned, as the phrase goes on,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: one of those little sandy bushy islets which are called
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: in the West Indies quays, and which are frequented only
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: by turtle and by seafowl. Many of them are supposed
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to be haunted, some by the demons worshiped by the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: old inhabitants, some by cocciques and others whom the Spaniards
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: had put to death by torture to compel them to
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: discover their hidden treasures, and others by the various specters
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: in which sailors of all nations have implicit faith. My
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: place of banishment called coffin Key, about two leagues and
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: a half to the southeast of bermudas was so infamous
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: as the resort of these supernatural inhabitants, that I believe
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the wealth of Mexico would not have persuaded the bravest
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: of the scoundrels who put me ashore there to have
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: spent an hour on the islet alone, even in broad daylight.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: And when they rode off, they pulled for the sloop
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: like men that dared not cast their eyes behind them,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: And there they left me to subsist as I might,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: on a speck of unproductive sand, surrounded by the boundless Atlantic,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and haunted, as they supposed by malignant demons. And what
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: was the consequence, said Minna eagerly? I supported life, said
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the adventurer, at the expense of such seafowl aptly called boobies,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: as were silly enough to let me approach so near
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: as to knock them down with a stick, and by
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: means of turtle eggs. When these complacent birds became better
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: acquainted with the mischievous disposition of the human species, and
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: more shy, of course, of my advances, and the demons
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: of whom you spoke, continued Minna, I had my secret
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: apprehensions upon their account, said Cleveland. In open daylight or
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: in absolute darkness, I did not greatly apprehend their approach.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: But in the misty dawn of the morning, or when
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: evening was about to fall, I saw, for the first
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: week of my abode on the key many a dim
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and undefined specter, now resembling a Spaniard, with his coppa
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: wrapped around him, and his huge sombrero as large as
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: an umbrella upon his head, now a Dutch sailor with
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: his rough cap and trunk hose, and now an Indian
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: khaki with his feathery crown and long lance of caine.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Did you not approach and address them, said Minna. I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: always approached them, replied the seamen. But I grieved to
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: disappoint your expectations, my fair friend. Whenever I drew near them,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: the phantom changed into a bush, or a piece of driftwood,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: or a wreath of mist, or some such cause of deception,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: until at last I was taught by experience to cheat
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: myself no longer with such visions, and continued a solitary
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: inhabitant of coffin Key, as little alarmed by visionary terrors,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: as I ever was in the great cabin of a
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: stout vessel, with a score of companions around me. You
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: have cheated me into listening to a tale of nothing,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: said Minna. But how long did you continue on the island?
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Four weeks of wretched existence? Said Cleveland, when I was
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: relieved by the crew of a vessel which came thither
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: a turtling. Yet my miserable seclusion was not entirely useless
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to me, For on that spot of barren sand I found,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: or rather forged, the iron mask, which has since been
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: my chief security against treason or mutiny of my followers.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: It was there I formed the resolution to seem no
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: softer hearted, nor better instructed, no more humane, and no
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: more scrupulous than those with whom fortune had leaved me.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I thought over my former story and saw that, seeming
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: more brave, skillful, and enterprising than others, had gained me
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: command and respect, and that, seeming more gently nurtured and
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: more civilized than they, had made them envy and hate
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: me as a being of another species. I bargained with
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: myself then, that since I could not lay aside my
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: superiority of intellect and education, I would do my best
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: to disguise and to sink in the rude seamen all
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: appearance of better feeling and better accomplishments. I foresaw, then,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: what has since happened, that under the appearance of daring obduracy,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I should acquire such an habitual command over my followers,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: that I might use it for the insurance of discipline
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: and for relieving the dis dresses of the wretches who
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: fell under our power. I saw, in short, that to
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: attain authority, I must assume the external semblance, at least
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: of those over whom it was to be exercised. The
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: tidings of my father's fate, while it excited me to
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: wrath and to revenge, confirmed the resolution I had adopted.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: He also had fallen a victim to his superiority of mind, morals,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: and manners above those whom he commanded. They were wont
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: to call him the gentleman, and unquestionably they thought he
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: waited some favorable opportunity to reconcile himself, perhaps at their expense,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: to those existing forms of society. His habits seemed best
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: to suit with, and even therefore they murdered him. Nature
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: and justice alike called on me for revenge. I was
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: soon at the head of a new body of the
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: adventurers who are so numerous in those islands. I sought
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: not after those by whom I had been myself marooned,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: but after the wretches who had betrayed my father, and
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: on them I took a revenge so severe that it
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: was of itself sufficient to stamp me with the character
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: of that inexorable ferocity which I was desirous to be
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: thought to possess, and which perhaps was gradually creeping on
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: my natural disposition. In actual earnest, my manner, speech, and
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: conduct seemed so totally changed that those who formerly knew
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: me were disposed to ascribe the alteration to my intercourse
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: with the demons who haunted the sands of Coffin Key. Nay,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: there were some superstitious enough to believe that I had
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: actually formed a league with them. I tremble to hear
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the rest, said, Minna, did you not become the monster
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: of courage and cruelty whose character you assumed if I
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: have escaped being so it is to you. Minna replied
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Cleveland that the wonder must be ascribed. It is true
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I have always endeavored to distinguish myself rather by acts
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: of adventurous valor than by schemes of revenge or of plunder,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: and that at length I could save lives by a
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: rude jest, and sometimes by the excess of the measures
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: which I myself proposed, could induce those under me to
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: intercede in favor of prisoners, so that the seeming severity
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: of my character has better served the cause of humanity
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: than had I appeared directly devote to it. He ceased,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: and as Minna replied, not a word. Both remained silent
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: for a little space. When Cleveland again resumed the discourse.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: You are silent, he said, Miss Troyle, and I have
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: injured myself in your opinion by the frankness with which
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I have laid my character before you. I may truly
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: say that my natural disposition has been controlled, but not altered,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: by the untoward circumstances in which I am placed. I
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: am uncertain, said Mina, after a moment's consideration, whether you
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: had been thus candid had you not known, I should
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: soon see your comrades and discover from their conversation and
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: their manners what you would otherwise gladly have concealed. You
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: do me injustice, Minna, cruel injustice from the instant that
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: you knew me to be a sailor of fortune, an adventurer,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: a buccaneer, or, if you will have the broad word,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: a pirate. What had you to expect less than what
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I have told you? You speak too, truly, said Minna.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: All this I might have anticipated, and I know not
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: how I should have expected it otherwise. But it seemed
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: to me that a war on the cruel and superstitious
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Spaniards had in it something ennobling, something that refined the
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: fierce employment to which you have just now given its
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: true and dreaded name. I thought that the independent warriors
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: of the western Ocean, raised up as it were, to
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: punish the wrongs of so many murdered and plundered tribes,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: must have had something of gallant elevation, like that of
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: the Suns of the North, whose long galleys avenged on
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: so many coasts rush of degenerate rome. This I thought,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: and this I dreamed. I grieved that I am awakened
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: and undeceived. Yet I blame you not for the airing
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: of my own fancy. Farewell, we must now part, say,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: at least said Cleveland, that you do not hold me
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: in horror for having told you the truth. I must
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: have time for reflection, said Minna, time to weigh what
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: you have said. Ere I can fully understand my own feelings.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: This much. However, I can say even now that he
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: who pursues the wicked purpose of plunder by means of
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: blood and cruelty, and who must veil his remains of
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: natural remorse under an affectation of superior profligacy, is not
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: and cannot be, the lover whom Minna Troil expected to
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: find in Cleveland. And if she still love him, it
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: must be as a penitent, and not as a hero.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: So saying, she extricated herself from his grasp, for he
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: still endeavored to detain her, making an imperative sign to
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: him to forbear from following her. She is gone, said Cleveland,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: looking after her, wild and fanciful as she is. I
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: expected not this. She startled, not at the name of
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: my perilous course of life, yet seems totally unprepared for
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: the evil which must necessarily attend it. And so all
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: the merit I have gained by my resemblance to a
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Norse champion or king of the sea is to be
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: lost at once, because a gang of pirates do not
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: prove to be a choir of saints. I would that Rackham,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Hawkins and the rest had been at the bottom of
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the race of Portland. I would the Pentland Frith had
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: swept them to Hell rather than to Orkney. I will, not, however,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: quit the chase of this angel. For all that these
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: fiends can do, I will I must to Orkney before
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: the U Dollar makes his voyage. Thither our meeting might
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: alarm even his blunt understanding, Although thank Heaven, in this
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: wild country men know the nature of our trade only
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: by hearsay, through our honest friends, the Dutch, who take
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: care never to speak very ill of those they make
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: money by. Well, if fortune would but stand my friend
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: with this beautiful enthusiast, I would pursue her. We'll no
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: farther at sea, but set myself down amongst these rocks,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: as happy as if they were so many groves, bananas
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and palmettos. With these and such thoughts, half rolling in
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: his bosom, half expressed in indistinct hints and murmurs, that
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: pirate Cleveland returned to the mansion of Berg Weestra end
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: of chapter two,