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  Speaker 1: The Wheels of Chance by Hedge Wells the Surbiton Interlude,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty six, And here, thanks to the glorious institution
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  Speaker 1: of sleep, comes a break in the narrative again. These
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  Speaker 1: absurd young people are safely tucked away now, their head
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  Speaker 1: full of glowing nonsense. Indeed, but the course of events
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  Speaker 1: at any rate is safe from any fresh developments through
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  Speaker 1: their activities. For the next eight hours or more, they
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  Speaker 1: are both sleeping healthily. You will perhaps be astonished to
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  Speaker 1: hear here is the girl what girls are coming to nowadays?
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  Speaker 1: Only missus lind Linton can tell in company with an
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  Speaker 1: absolute stranger of low extraction and uncertain accent, and chap
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  Speaker 1: round and unabashed. Indeed, now she fancies she is safe.
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  Speaker 1: She is, if anything, a little proud of her own
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  Speaker 1: share in these transactions. Then this mister hoopdriver of yours
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  Speaker 1: rose it idiot that he is is an illegal possession
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  Speaker 1: of a stolen bicycle, a stolen young lady, and two
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  Speaker 1: stolen names, established with them in an hotel that is
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  Speaker 1: quite beyond his means, and immensely proud of himself in
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  Speaker 1: a somnolent way. For these incomparable follies, there are occasions
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  Speaker 1: when a moralizing novelist can merely wring his hands and
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  Speaker 1: leave matters to take their course. For all Hoopdriver knows
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  Speaker 1: or cares. He may be locked up the very first
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  Speaker 1: thing tomorrow morning for the rape of the cycle. Then
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  Speaker 1: in bonniere Let alone, that melancholy vestige beg camel with
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  Speaker 1: whom our dealings are thank goodness. Over there is a
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  Speaker 1: coffee tavern with the steak mister Hoopdriver ordered done to
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  Speaker 1: a cinder long ago, his American cloth parcel in a bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: and his own proper bicycle by way of garat, carefully
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  Speaker 1: locked up in the hayloft. Tomorrow he will be a mystery,
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  Speaker 1: and they will be looking for his body along the seafront.
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  Speaker 1: And so far we have never given a glance at
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  Speaker 1: the desolate home in Surbiton, familiar to you, no doubt
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  Speaker 1: through the medium of illustrated interviews, where the unhappy stepmother.
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  Speaker 1: That stepmother, it must be explained, is quite well known
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  Speaker 1: to you. That is a little surprise I have prepared
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  Speaker 1: for you. She is Thomas Plantagenet, the gifted authoress of
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  Speaker 1: that witty and daring book, a soul untrammeled, and quite
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  Speaker 1: an excellent woman in her way, only to such a
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  Speaker 1: crooked way. Her real name is Milton. She is a
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  Speaker 1: widow and a charming one, only ten years older than Jesse,
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  Speaker 1: and she is always careful to dedicate her more daring
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  Speaker 1: works to the sacred memory of my husband, to show
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  Speaker 1: that there is nothing personal, you know, in the matter.
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  Speaker 1: Considering her literary reputation, she was always speaking of herself
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  Speaker 1: as one I martyred for truth because the critics advertised
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  Speaker 1: her written indeat Crimson column long slaves. Considering her literary reputation,
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  Speaker 1: I say she was one of the most respectable women.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible to imagine. She furnished correctly, she dressed correctly,
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  Speaker 1: had severe notions of whom she might meet, went to church,
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  Speaker 1: and even at times took the sacrament in some esoteric spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesse she brought up so carefully that she never
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  Speaker 1: even let her read a soul untrammeled, which therefore, naturally
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  Speaker 1: enough Jessie did and went on from that to a
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  Speaker 1: feast of advanced literature. Missus Milton not only brought up
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  Speaker 1: Jessie carefully, but very slowly, so that at seventeen she
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  Speaker 1: was still a clever school girl as you have seen her,
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  Speaker 1: and quite in the background of the little literary circle
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  Speaker 1: of unimportant celebrities which Thomas Plantagenet adorned. Missus Milton knew
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  Speaker 1: the camel's reputation of being a dangerous man, but then
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  Speaker 1: bad men are not bad women, and she let him
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  Speaker 1: come to her house to show she was not afraid
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  Speaker 1: of no account to Jessie when the elopement came. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: it was a double disappointment to her, for she perceived
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  Speaker 1: his hand by a kind of instinct. She did the
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  Speaker 1: correct thing. The correct thing, as you know, is to
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  Speaker 1: take handsome cabs, regardless of expense, and weep and say
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  Speaker 1: you do not know what to do round the circle
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  Speaker 1: of your confidential friends. She could not have ridden or
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  Speaker 1: wept more had Jessee been her own daughter. She showed
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  Speaker 1: the properest spirit, and she not only showed it but
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  Speaker 1: felt it. Missus Milton as a successful little authoress and
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  Speaker 1: still more successful widow of thirty two Thomas Plantagnet is
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  Speaker 1: a charming woman. Her reviewers used to write invariably, even
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  Speaker 1: if they spoke ill of her, found the steady growth
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  Speaker 1: of Jessee into womanhood an unmitigated nuisance, and had been
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  Speaker 1: willing enough to keep her in the background. And Jessee,
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  Speaker 1: who had started this intercourse at fourteen with abstract objections
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  Speaker 1: to stepmothers, had been active in in resenting this increasing
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  Speaker 1: rivalry and antagonism had sprung up between them until they
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  Speaker 1: could engender quite a vivid hatred from a dropped hairpin
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  Speaker 1: or the cutting of a book with a sharpened knife.
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  Speaker 1: There is very little deliberate wickedness in the world. The
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  Speaker 1: stupidity of our selfishness gives much the same results, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: but in the ethical laboratory it shows a different nature.
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  Speaker 1: And when the disaster came, Missus Milton's remorse for their
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  Speaker 1: gradual loss of sympathy and her share in the losing
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  Speaker 1: of it, was genuine enough. You may imagine the comfort
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  Speaker 1: she got from her friends, and how West Kensington and
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  Speaker 1: notting Hill and Hampstead, the literary suburbs whose decent penitentiaries
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  Speaker 1: of a once bohemian calling hummed with the business her
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  Speaker 1: men as a charming, literary lady. She had, of course
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  Speaker 1: an organized corpse. Were immensely excited and were sympathetic, helpfully, energetic, suggestive,
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  Speaker 1: alert asked their ideals of their various dispositions required them
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  Speaker 1: to be Any news of Jessie was the pathetic opening
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  Speaker 1: of a dozen melancholy but interesting conversations. To her men.
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  Speaker 1: She was not perhaps so damp as she was to
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  Speaker 1: her women friends, but in a quiet way she was
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  Speaker 1: even more touching. For three days wed this day, that is,
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, nothing was heard of the fugitives. It
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  Speaker 1: was known that Jessie, wearing a patent costume with button
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  Speaker 1: up skirts and mounting on a diamond frame safety with
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  Speaker 1: dunlaps and alofah covered saddle, had ridden forth early in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, taking with her about two pounds seven shillings
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  Speaker 1: in money and a great touring case packed and there
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  Speaker 1: save for the brief note to her stepmother, her declaration
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  Speaker 1: of independence. It was said, an assertion of her ego,
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  Speaker 1: containing extensive and very annoying quotations from her soul, untrammeled,
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  Speaker 1: and giving no definite intimation of her plants. Knowledge ceased.
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  Speaker 1: That note was shown to few, and then only in
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  Speaker 1: the strictest confidence. But on Friday evening late came a
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  Speaker 1: breathless man, friend Witchery, a correspondent of hers, who had
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  Speaker 1: heard of her trouble among the first. He had been
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  Speaker 1: touring in Sussex. His knapsack was still on his back,
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  Speaker 1: and he testified hurriedly that at a place called Midhurst,
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  Speaker 1: in the bar of an hotel called the Angel, he
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  Speaker 1: had heard from a barmaid a vivid account of a
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  Speaker 1: young lady in gray. Descriptions tallied, But who was the
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  Speaker 1: man in brown? The poor misguided girl. I must go
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  Speaker 1: to her at once, she said, choking and rising with
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  Speaker 1: her hand to her heart. It's impossible to night. There
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  Speaker 1: are no more trains. I looked on my way. A
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  Speaker 1: mother's love, she said. I bear her that I know
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  Speaker 1: you do. He spoke with feeling, for no one admired
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  Speaker 1: his photographs of scenery more than missus Milton. It's more
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  Speaker 1: than she deserves. Oh, don't speak unkindly of her. She
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  Speaker 1: has been misled. It was really very friendly of him,
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  Speaker 1: he declared. He was only so his news ended. There
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  Speaker 1: should he follow them and bring her back. He had
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  Speaker 1: come to her because he knew of her anxiety. It
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  Speaker 1: is good of you, she said, and quite instinctively took
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  Speaker 1: and pressed his hand. And to think of that poor
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  Speaker 1: girl to night, it is dreadful. She looked into the
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  Speaker 1: fire that he had lit when he came in. The
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  Speaker 1: warm light fell upon her dark purple dress and left
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  Speaker 1: her features in a warm shadow. She looked such a slight,
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  Speaker 1: frail thing to be troubled. So he must follow her.
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  Speaker 1: Her resolution seemed magnificent. I have no one to go
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  Speaker 1: with me. He must marry her, said the man. She
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  Speaker 1: has no friends. We have no one. After all, two
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  Speaker 1: women so helpless, And this fair haired little figure was
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  Speaker 1: a woman that people who knew her only from her
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  Speaker 1: books called bold, prurient, even simply because she was great
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  Speaker 1: hearted intellectual. He was overcome by the unspeakable pathos of
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  Speaker 1: her position. Missus Milton, he said, hetty. She glanced at him.
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  Speaker 1: The overflow was imminent. Not now, she said, not now,
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  Speaker 1: I must find her first. Yes, he said, with intense emotion.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of those big, fat men who feel deeply.
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  Speaker 1: But let me help you, at least let me help you.
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  Speaker 1: But can you spare time? She said, for me, for you?
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  Speaker 1: But what can I do? What can we do? Go
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  Speaker 1: to Midhurst, follow her on trace her. She was there
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday night. Last night she cycled out of the town. Courage.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we will save her. Yet she put out
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  Speaker 1: her hand and pressed his again. Courage, he repeated, finding
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  Speaker 1: it so well received, there were alarms and excursions without
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  Speaker 1: She turned her back to the fire and he sat down.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly the big arm chair, who suited his dimensions admirably.
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  Speaker 1: Then the door open, and the girl chowed in Dangle,
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  Speaker 1: who looked curiously from one to the other. There was
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  Speaker 1: emotion here. He had heard the arm chair creaking, and
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  Speaker 1: missus Milton, whose face was flushed, displayed a suspicious alacrity.
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  Speaker 1: To explain you too, she said, are one of my
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  Speaker 1: good friends, and we have news of her. At last,
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  Speaker 1: it was decidedly an advantage to Vichery, but Dangle determined
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  Speaker 1: to show himself a man of resource. In the end,
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  Speaker 1: he too was accepted for the Midhurst expedition. To the
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  Speaker 1: intense disgust of Butchery, and young Phipps, a callow youth
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  Speaker 1: of few words, faultless collars and fervent devotion, was also
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  Speaker 1: when rolled. Before the evening was out, they would score
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  Speaker 1: the country, all three of them. She appeared to brighten
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  Speaker 1: up a little, but it was evident she was profoundly touched.
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  Speaker 1: She did not know what she had done to merit
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  Speaker 1: such friends. Her voice broke a little. She moved towards
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  Speaker 1: the door, and young Phipps, who was a youth of
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  Speaker 1: action rather than words, sprang and opened it, proud to
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  Speaker 1: be first. She is sorely troubled, said Dangle to Rigery.
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  Speaker 1: We must do what we can for her. She is
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful woman, said Dangle, So subtle, so intricate, so
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  Speaker 1: many faceted. She feels this deeply. Young Phipps said nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but he felt the more. And yet they say the
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  Speaker 1: age of Chivaldry is dead. But this is only an interlude,
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  Speaker 1: introduced to give our wanderers time to refresh themselves by good,
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  Speaker 1: honest sleeping. For the present, therefore, we will not concern
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  Speaker 1: ourselves with the starting of the rescue party, nor with
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  Speaker 1: missus Milton's simple but becoming great dress, with the healthy rigeries,
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  Speaker 1: norfolk jacket and thick boots, with the slender Dangle's energetic bearing,
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  Speaker 1: nor with the wonderful checkerings that set off the legs
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  Speaker 1: of the golf suited Phipps. They are after us. In
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  Speaker 1: a little while they will be upon us. You must
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  Speaker 1: imagine as you best can the competitive ratings at Midhurst
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  Speaker 1: of Ridgery, Dangle and Phipps. How Ridgery was great at questions,
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  Speaker 1: and Dangle good at inference, and Phipps so conspicuously inferior
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  Speaker 1: in everything that he felt it and sulked with Missus
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  Speaker 1: Milton most of the day. After the manner of your
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  Speaker 1: callow youth the world over, Missus Milton stopped at the
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  Speaker 1: Angel and was very sad and charming and intelligent. And
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  Speaker 1: Ridgery paid the bill. In the afternoon of Saturday, Kychestra
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  Speaker 1: was attained, but by that time are fugitives as usual.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately hear the awakening of mister Hoopdriver Chapter twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Hoopdriver stirred on his pillow, opened his eyes, and,
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  Speaker 1: staring unmeaningly, yawned. The bedclothes were soft and pleasant. He
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  Speaker 1: turned the peaked nose that overrides the insufficient mustache up
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  Speaker 1: to the ceiling, a pinkish projection over the billow of white.
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  Speaker 1: You might see it wrinkle as he yawned again, and
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  Speaker 1: then became quiet. So matters remained for a space very slowly.
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  Speaker 1: Recollection returned to him. Then a shock of intermediate brown
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  Speaker 1: hair appeared, and first one watery gray eye, a wandering
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  Speaker 1: and then two. The bed upheaved, and you had him,
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  Speaker 1: his thin neck projecting abruptly from the clothes he held
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  Speaker 1: about him, his face staring about the room. He held
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  Speaker 1: the clothes about him. I hope I may explain because
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  Speaker 1: his snipe shirt was at Bonnior in an American cloth
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  Speaker 1: packet derelict. He yawned the third time, rubbed his eyes,
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  Speaker 1: smucked his lips. He was recalling almost everything now, the pursuit,
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  Speaker 1: the hotel, the tremulous daring of his entry, the swift
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  Speaker 1: adventure of the inn yard, the moonlight. Abruptly, he threw
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  Speaker 1: the clothes's back and rose into a sitting position on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the bed. Without was the noise of
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  Speaker 1: the shutters being unfastened and doors unlocked, and the passing
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  Speaker 1: of hoofs and we in the street. He looked at
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  Speaker 1: his watch. Half past six. He surveyed the sumptuous room again. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: said hoopdriver. It wasn't a dream after all. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: what they charged for these jewed rooms, said mister hoopdriver.
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  Speaker 1: Nursing one rosy foot, he became meditative, tugging at his
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  Speaker 1: insufficient mustache. Suddenly he gave vent to a noiseless laugh.
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  Speaker 1: What a rush it was, rushed in and off with
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  Speaker 1: his girl right under his nose. Plant it well too,
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  Speaker 1: talk of highway robbery, talk of brigands up and off,
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  Speaker 1: how jothed sold He must be feeling it was a
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  Speaker 1: shave too in the coach yard. Suddenly he became silent. Abruptly,
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  Speaker 1: his eyebrows rose and his jaw fell. I say, said
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  Speaker 1: mister hoopdriver. He had never thought of it before. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you will understand the world he had been in overnight.
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  Speaker 1: But wance these things clearer in the daylight. I am
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  Speaker 1: hanged if I haven't and stolen a blessed bicycle. Who cares,
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  Speaker 1: said mister hoopdriver presently, and his face supplied the answer.
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  Speaker 1: Then he thought of the young lady in gray again,
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  Speaker 1: and tried to put a more heroic complexion on the business.
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  Speaker 1: But of an early morning on an empty stomach, as
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  Speaker 1: with characteristic coarseness, medical men put it here, writs, are
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  Speaker 1: of a more difficult growth than by moonlight. Everything had
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  Speaker 1: seemed exceptionally fine and brilliant, but quite natural the evening before,
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  Speaker 1: mister Hoopdriver reached out his hand, took his Norfolk jacket,
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  Speaker 1: laid it over his big knees, and took out the
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  Speaker 1: money from the little ticket pocket fourteen and six half,
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  Speaker 1: he said, holding the coins in his left hand and
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  Speaker 1: stroking his chin with his right. He verified by patting
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  Speaker 1: the presence of a pocket book in the breast pocket
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  Speaker 1: five fourteen six half said. Mister Hoopdriver left, with the
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  Speaker 1: Norfolk jacket still on his knees. He plunged into another
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  Speaker 1: silent meditation. That wouldn't matter, he said. It's the bite's
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  Speaker 1: the bother no good. Going back to Bonnier might set
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  Speaker 1: it back by carrier, of course, thank him for the loan.
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  Speaker 1: Having no further use, mister Hoopdriver chuckled and lapsed into
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  Speaker 1: the silent concoction of a delightfully impudent letter. Mister j
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  Speaker 1: Hoopdriver presents his compliments, but the grave note, reasserted itself.
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  Speaker 1: Might trundle back there in an hour, of course, and
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  Speaker 1: exchange them. My old Croc's so blessed shabby. He's sure
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  Speaker 1: to be spiteful too. Have me run in perhaps then
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  Speaker 1: she'd be in just the same old fix, only worse.
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  Speaker 1: You see, I'm her knight errant. It complicates things. So
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  Speaker 1: his eye, wandering loosely rested on the sponge bath. What
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  Speaker 1: the Jews do they want with cream pants in a bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: said mister hoopdriver, om passat. Best thing I can do
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  Speaker 1: is to get out of here as soon as possible. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose she'll go home to her friends. That bicycle
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  Speaker 1: is a juicy nuisance. Anyhow, juicy nuisance. He jumped to
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  Speaker 1: his feet with a sudden awakening of energy to proceed
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  Speaker 1: with his toilet. Then, with a certain horror, he remembered
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  Speaker 1: that the simple necessaries of that process were at Bonnier
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  Speaker 1: Laud he remarked and whistled silently for a space, rummy
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  Speaker 1: girl profit and loss profit one sister with bicycle complete?
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  Speaker 1: What offers cheap for tooth and air? Brushed vests, sniped
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  Speaker 1: shirt stockings and sunrise? Make the best of it? And presently,
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  Speaker 1: when it came to hair brushing, he had to smooth
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  Speaker 1: his troubledlocks with his hands. It was a poor result.
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  Speaker 1: Sneak out and get a shave, I suppose, and buy
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  Speaker 1: a brush and so on, chink again beard, don't show much.
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  Speaker 1: He ran his hand over his chin, looked at himself
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  Speaker 1: steadfastly for some time, and curled his insufficient mustache up
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  Speaker 1: with some care. Then he fell a meditating on his beauty.
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  Speaker 1: He considered himself three quartered face left and right. An
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  Speaker 1: expression of distaste crept over his features. Looking. Won't alter it, hoopdriver,
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  Speaker 1: he remarked, you're a weedy customer, my man, shoulders narrow, skimpy. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: he put his knuckles on the toilet table and regarded
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  Speaker 1: himself with his chin lifted in the air. Good lord,
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  Speaker 1: he said, what a neck. Wonder why I got such
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  Speaker 1: a thundering lump there? He sat down on the bed,
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  Speaker 1: his eyes still on the glass. If I'd been exercised properly,
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  Speaker 1: if I had been fed reasonable, if I hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: shoved out of a silly school into a silly shop.
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  Speaker 1: But there the old folks did know no better. The
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  Speaker 1: schoolmaster ought to have, but he didn't, poor old fool. Still,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to meeting a girl like this, it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder what Adam D think of me as a
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  Speaker 1: specimen civilization, Eh, heir of the ages, I'm nothing, I
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  Speaker 1: know nothing. I can't do anything. Sketch a bit. Why
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  Speaker 1: wasn't I made an artist beastly cheap? After all? The
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  Speaker 1: suit does look in the sunshine? No good, hoopdriver anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: You don't tell yourself any lies about it. Lovers ain't
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  Speaker 1: your game anyway. But there's other things yet. You can
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  Speaker 1: help the young lady, and you will. I suppose she'll
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  Speaker 1: be going home. And that business of the bicycles to
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  Speaker 1: see to too, My man, forward, hoopdriver. If you ain't
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  Speaker 1: a beauty, there's no reason why you should stop and
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  Speaker 1: be copped, is it? And having got back in this
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  Speaker 1: way to a gloomy kind of self satisfaction, he had
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  Speaker 1: another attempt at his hair, preparatory to leaving his room
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  Speaker 1: and hurrying on breakfast for an early departure. While breakfast
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: was preparing, he wanted out into South Street and reflect
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: furnished himself with the elements of luggage again, though expense
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: to be spared. He murmured disgorging the half sovereign end
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of section nine