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Little Lord Fauntleroy Chapter 1 · The Frances Hodgson Burnett Library

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  Speaker 1: CHAPTER I Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it. It
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  Speaker 1: had never been even mentioned to him, He knew that
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  Speaker 1: his papa had been an Englishman because his mama had
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  Speaker 1: told him so. But then his papa had died when
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  Speaker 1: he was so little a boy that he could not
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  Speaker 1: remember very much about him, except that he was big
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  Speaker 1: and had blue eyes and a long mustache, and that
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  Speaker 1: it was a splendid thing to be carried around the
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  Speaker 1: room on his shoulder. Since his papa's death, Cedric had
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  Speaker 1: found out that it was best not to talk to
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  Speaker 1: his mama about him. When his father was ill, Cedric
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  Speaker 1: had been sent away, and when he had returned, everything
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  Speaker 1: was over, and his mother, who had been very ill too,
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  Speaker 1: was only just beginning to sit in her chair by
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  Speaker 1: the window. She was pale and thin, and all the
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  Speaker 1: dimples had gone from her pretty face, and her eyes
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  Speaker 1: looked large and mournful, and she was dressed in black.' Dearest,'
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  Speaker 1: said Cedric. His papa had called her that always, and
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  Speaker 1: so the little boy had learned to say it.' Dearest,
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  Speaker 1: is my papa better?' He felt her arms tremble, and
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  Speaker 1: so he turned his curly head and looked in her face.
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  Speaker 1: There was something in it that made him feel that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to cry. Dearest, he said, is he well?
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  Speaker 1: Then suddenly his loving little heart told him that he'd
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  Speaker 1: better put both his arms around her neck and kiss
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  Speaker 1: her again and again, and keep his soft cheek close
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  Speaker 1: to hers. And he did so, and she laid her
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  Speaker 1: face on his shoulder and cried bitterly. holding him as
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  Speaker 1: if she could never let him go again. Yes, he
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  Speaker 1: is well, she sobbed. He is quite, quite well. But we,
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  Speaker 1: we have no one left but each other. No one
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  Speaker 1: at all. Then, little as he was, he understood that
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  Speaker 1: his big, handsome young papa would not come back any more,
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  Speaker 1: that he was dead, as he had heard of other
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  Speaker 1: people being, although he could not comprehend exactly what strange
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  Speaker 1: thing had brought all this sadness about. It was because
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  Speaker 1: his mama always cried when he spoke of his papa
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  Speaker 1: that he secretly made up his mind it was better
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  Speaker 1: not to speak of him very often to her, and
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  Speaker 1: he found out, too, that it was better not to
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  Speaker 1: let her sit still and look into the fire or
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  Speaker 1: out the window without moving or talking. He and his
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  Speaker 1: mama knew very few people, and lived what might have
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  Speaker 1: been thought very lonely lives, although Cedric did not know
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  Speaker 1: it was lonely until he grew older and heard why
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  Speaker 1: it was they had no visitors. Then he was told
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  Speaker 1: that his mama was an orphan, and quite alone in
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  Speaker 1: the world when his papa had married her. She was
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  Speaker 1: very pretty, and had been living as companion to a
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  Speaker 1: rich old lady who was not kind to her. And
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  Speaker 1: one day Captain Cedric Errol, who was calling at the house,
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  Speaker 1: saw her run up the stairs with tears on her eyelashes.
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  Speaker 1: And she looked so sweet and innocent and sorrowful that
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  Speaker 1: the captain could not forget her. And after many strange
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  Speaker 1: things had happened, they knew each other well. and loved
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  Speaker 1: each other dearly, and were married, although their marriage brought
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  Speaker 1: them the ill will of several persons. The one who
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  Speaker 1: was most angry of all, however, was the captain's father,
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  Speaker 1: who lived in England, and was a very rich and
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  Speaker 1: important old nobleman, with a very bad temper, and a
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  Speaker 1: very violent dislike to America and Americans. He had two
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  Speaker 1: sons older than Captain Cedric, and it was the law
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  Speaker 1: that the elder of these sons should inherit the family
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  Speaker 1: title and estates, which were very rich and splendid. If
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  Speaker 1: the eldest son died, the next one would be heir. So,
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  Speaker 1: though he was a member of such a great family,
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  Speaker 1: there was little chance that Captain Cedric would be very
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  Speaker 1: rich himself. But it so happened that nature had given
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  Speaker 1: to the youngest son gifts which she had not bestowed
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  Speaker 1: upon his elder brothers. He had a beautiful face and
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  Speaker 1: a fine, strong, graceful figure. He had a bright smile
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  Speaker 1: and a sweet, gay voice. He was brave and generous,
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  Speaker 1: and had the kindest heart in the world, and seemed
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  Speaker 1: to have the power to make everyone love him. And
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  Speaker 1: it was not so with his elder brothers. Neither of
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  Speaker 1: them was handsome, or very kind, or clever. When they
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  Speaker 1: were boys at Eton, they were not popular. When they
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  Speaker 1: were at college, they cared nothing for study, and wasted
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  Speaker 1: both time and money, and made few real friends. The
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  Speaker 1: old earl, their father, was constantly disappointed and humiliated by them.
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  Speaker 1: His heir was no honor to his noble name, and
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  Speaker 1: did not promise to end in being anything but a selfish, wasteful,
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  Speaker 1: insignificant man, with no manly or noble qualities. It was
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  Speaker 1: very bitter, the old earl thought, that the son who
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  Speaker 1: was only third, and would have only a very small fortune,
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  Speaker 1: should be the one who had all the gifts, and
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  Speaker 1: all the charms, and all the strength and beauty, Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: he almost hated the handsome young man, because he seemed
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  Speaker 1: to have the good things which should have gone with
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  Speaker 1: the stately title and the magnificent estates. And yet, in
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  Speaker 1: the depths of his proud, stubborn old heart, he could
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  Speaker 1: not help caring very much for his youngest son. It
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  Speaker 1: was in one of his fits of petulance that he
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  Speaker 1: sent him off to travel in America. He thought he
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  Speaker 1: would send him away for a while, so that he
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  Speaker 1: should not be made angry by constantly contrasting him with
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  Speaker 1: his brother's, who were at that time giving him a
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  Speaker 1: great deal of trouble by their wild ways. But after
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  Speaker 1: about six months he began to feel lonely and longed
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  Speaker 1: in secret to see his son again, so he wrote
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  Speaker 1: to Captain Cedric and ordered him home. The letter he
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  Speaker 1: wrote crossed on its way a letter the captain had
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  Speaker 1: just written to his father, telling of his love for
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  Speaker 1: the pretty American girl and of his intended marriage, and
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  Speaker 1: when the earl received that letter he was furiously angry.
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  Speaker 1: Bad as his temper was, he had never given way
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  Speaker 1: to it in his life as he gave way to
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  Speaker 1: it when he read the captain's letter. His valet, who
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  Speaker 1: was in the room when it came, thought his lordship
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  Speaker 1: would have a fit of apoplexy, he was so wild
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  Speaker 1: with anger. For an hour he raged like a tiger,
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  Speaker 1: and then he sat down and wrote to his son,
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  Speaker 1: and ordered him never to come near his old home,
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  Speaker 1: nor to write to his father or brothers again. He
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  Speaker 1: told him he might live as he pleased, and die
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  Speaker 1: where he pleased, that he should be cut off from
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  Speaker 1: his family forever, and that he need never expect help
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  Speaker 1: from his father as long as he lived. The captain
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  Speaker 1: was very sad when he read the letter. He was
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  Speaker 1: very fond of England, and he dearly loved the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: home where he had been born. He had even loved
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  Speaker 1: his ill-tempered old father, and had sympathized with him in
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  Speaker 1: his disappointments. But he knew he need expect no kindness
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  Speaker 1: from him in the future. At first he scarcely knew
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  Speaker 1: what to do. He had not been brought up to work,
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  Speaker 1: and had no business experience. But he had courage and
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  Speaker 1: plenty of determination. So he sold his commission in the
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  Speaker 1: English army, and, after some trouble, found a situation in
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  Speaker 1: New York, and married. The change from his old life
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  Speaker 1: in England was very great. But he was young and happy,
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  Speaker 1: and he hoped that hard work would do great things
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  Speaker 1: for him in the future. He had a small house
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  Speaker 1: on a quiet street, and his little boy was born there,
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  Speaker 1: and everything was so gay and cheerful in a simple
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  Speaker 1: way that he was never sorry for a moment that
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  Speaker 1: he had married the rich old lady's pretty companion, just
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  Speaker 1: because she was so sweet, and he loved her, and
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  Speaker 1: she loved him. She was very sweet indeed, and her
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  Speaker 1: little boy was like both her and his father. Though
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  Speaker 1: he was born in so quiet and cheap a little home,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed as if there never had been a more
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  Speaker 1: fortunate baby. In the first place, he was always well,
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  Speaker 1: and so he never gave anyone trouble. In the second place,
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  Speaker 1: he had so sweet a temper and ways so charming
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  Speaker 1: that he was a pleasure to everyone. And in the
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  Speaker 1: third place, he was so beautiful to look at that
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  Speaker 1: he was quite a picture. Instead of being a bald-headed baby,
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  Speaker 1: he started in life with a quantity of soft, fine,
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  Speaker 1: gold-colored hair. which curled up at the ends and went
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  Speaker 1: into loose rings by the time he was six months old.
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  Speaker 1: He had big brown eyes and long eyelashes and a
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  Speaker 1: darling little face. He had so strong a back and
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  Speaker 1: such splendid sturdy legs that at nine months he learned
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  Speaker 1: suddenly to walk. His manners were so good for a
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  Speaker 1: baby that it was delightful to make his acquaintance. He
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  Speaker 1: seemed to feel that everyone was his friend, and when
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  Speaker 1: anyone spoke to him, when he was in his carriage
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  Speaker 1: in the street, he would give the stranger one sweet,
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  Speaker 1: serious look with the brown eyes, and then follow it
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  Speaker 1: with a lovely, friendly smile. And the consequence was that
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  Speaker 1: there was not a person in the neighborhood of the
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  Speaker 1: quiet street where he lived, even to the grocery man
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  Speaker 1: at the corner, who was considered the crossest creature alive,
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  Speaker 1: who was not pleased to see him and speak to him.
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  Speaker 1: And every month of his life he grew handsomer and
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  Speaker 1: more interesting. When he was old enough to walk out
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  Speaker 1: with his nurse, dragging a small wagon and wearing a
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  Speaker 1: short white kilt skirt and a big white hat set
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  Speaker 1: back on his curly yellow head, HE WAS SO HANDSOME
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  Speaker 1: AND STRONG AND ROSY THAT HE ATTRACTED EVERYONE'S ATTENTION, AND
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  Speaker 1: HIS NURSE WOULD COME HOME AND TELL HIS MAMA STORIES
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  Speaker 1: OF THE LADIES WHO HAD STOPPED THEIR CARRIAGES TO LOOK
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  Speaker 1: AT AND SPEAK TO HIM, AND OF HOW PLEASED THEY
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  Speaker 1: WERE WHEN HE TALKED TO THEM IN HIS CHEERFUL LITTLE WAY,
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  Speaker 1: AS IF HE HAD KNOWN THEM ALWAYS. His greatest charm
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  Speaker 1: was this cheerful, fearless, quaint little way of making friends
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  Speaker 1: with people. I think it arose from his having a
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  Speaker 1: very confiding nature, and a kind little heart that sympathized
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  Speaker 1: with everyone, and wished to make everyone as comfortable as
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  Speaker 1: he liked to be himself. It made him very quick
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  Speaker 1: to understand the feelings of those about him. Perhaps this
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  Speaker 1: had grown on him, too, because he had lived so
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  Speaker 1: much with his father and mother, who were always loving
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  Speaker 1: and considerate and tender and well-bred. He had never heard
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  Speaker 1: an unkind or uncourteous word spoken at home. He had
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  Speaker 1: always been loved and caressed and treated tenderly, and so
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  Speaker 1: his childish soul was full of kindness and innocent warm feeling.
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  Speaker 1: He had always heard his mama called by pretty, loving names,
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  Speaker 1: and so he used them himself when he spoke to her.
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  Speaker 1: He had always seen that his papa watched over her
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  Speaker 1: and took great care of her, and so he learned, too,
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  Speaker 1: to be careful of her. So when he knew his
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  Speaker 1: papa would come back no more, and saw how very
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  Speaker 1: sad his mama was, there gradually came into his kind
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  Speaker 1: little heart the thought that he must do what he
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  Speaker 1: could to make her happy. He was not much more
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  Speaker 1: than a baby, but that thought was in his mind
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  Speaker 1: whenever he climbed upon her knee and kissed her and
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  Speaker 1: put his curly head on her neck, and when he
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  Speaker 1: brought his toys and picture books to show her. and
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  Speaker 1: Winnie curled up quietly by her side as she used
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  Speaker 1: to lie on the sofa. He was not old enough
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  Speaker 1: to know of anything else to do, so he did
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  Speaker 1: what he could, and was more of a comfort to
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  Speaker 1: her than he could have understood. Oh, Mary, he heard
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  Speaker 1: her say once to her old servant. I am sure
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  Speaker 1: he is trying to help me in his innocent way.
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  Speaker 1: I know he is. He looks at me sometimes with
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  Speaker 1: a loving, wondering little look, as if he were sorry
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  Speaker 1: for me, and then he will come and pet me
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  Speaker 1: or show me something. He is such a little man.
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  Speaker 1: I really think he knows. As he grew older, he
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  Speaker 1: had a great many quaint little ways which amused and
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  Speaker 1: interested people greatly. He was so much of a companion
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  Speaker 1: for his mother that she scarcely cared for any other.
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  Speaker 1: They used to walk together and talk together and play together.
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  Speaker 1: When he was quite a little fellow, he learned to read.
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  Speaker 1: and after that he used to lie on the hearth-rug
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  Speaker 1: in the evening and read aloud, sometimes stories, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: big books such as older people read, and sometimes even
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  Speaker 1: the newspaper. And often at such times Mary, in the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: would hear Mrs. Arrow laughing with delight at the quaint
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  Speaker 1: things he said. And indeed, said Mary to the grocery man,
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  Speaker 1: nobody could help laughing at the choir little ways of
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  Speaker 1: him and his old-fashioned sayings. Didn't he come into my
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  Speaker 1: kitchen the night the new president was nominated and stand
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  Speaker 1: afore the fire, looking like a picture, with his hands
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  Speaker 1: in his small pockets and his innocent bit of a
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  Speaker 1: face as serious as a judge? And says he to me, Mary,
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  Speaker 1: says he, I'm very much interested in the election, says he.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a publican, and so is dearest. Are you a publican, Mary?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry a bit, says I. I'm the best of Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: and he looks up at me wid a look that'd
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  Speaker 1: go to your heart and says he mary says he
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  Speaker 1: the country will go to ruin and never a day
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  Speaker 1: since then has he let go by widout arguin wid
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  Speaker 1: me to change me politics mary was very fond of
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  Speaker 1: him and very proud of him too she had been
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  Speaker 1: with his mother ever since he was born and after
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  Speaker 1: his father's death had been cook and housemaid and nurse
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  Speaker 1: and everything else She was proud of his graceful, strong
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  Speaker 1: little body and his pretty manners, and especially proud of
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  Speaker 1: the bright curly hair which waved over his forehead and
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  Speaker 1: fell in charming love locks on his shoulders. She was
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  Speaker 1: willing to work early and late to help his mama
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  Speaker 1: make his small suits and keep them in order.' Ristocratic,
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  Speaker 1: is it?' she would say.' Faith, and I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: see the child on Fifth Avenue, as looks like him
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  Speaker 1: and steps out as handsome as himself.' and every man, woman,
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  Speaker 1: and child looking after him in his big old black
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  Speaker 1: velvet skirt made out of his mistress's old gowns, and
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  Speaker 1: his little head up, and his curly hair flying and shining.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a young lord he looks. Cedric did not
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  Speaker 1: know that he looked like a young lord. He did
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  Speaker 1: not know what a lord was. His greatest friend was
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  Speaker 1: the grocery man at the corner, a cross grocery man
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  Speaker 1: who was never crossed to him. His name was Mr. Hobbs.
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  Speaker 1: and Cedric admired and respected him very much. He thought
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  Speaker 1: him a very rich and powerful person. He had so
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  Speaker 1: many things in his store, prunes and figs and oranges
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  Speaker 1: and biscuits, and he had a horse and wagon. Cedric
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  Speaker 1: was fond of the milkman and the baker and the apple-woman,
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  Speaker 1: but he liked Mr. Hobbs best of all, and was
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  Speaker 1: on terms of such intimacy with him that he went
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  Speaker 1: to see him every day, and often sat with him
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  Speaker 1: quite a long time. discussing the topics of the hour.
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  Speaker 1: It was quite surprising how many things they found to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. The Fourth of July, for instance. When they
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  Speaker 1: began to talk about the Fourth of July, there really
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  Speaker 1: seemed no end to it. Mr. Hobbes had a very
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  Speaker 1: bad opinion of the British, and he told the whole
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  Speaker 1: story of the Revolution, relating very wonderful and patriotic stories
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  Speaker 1: about the villainy of the enemy and the bravery of
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  Speaker 1: the revolutionary heroes. and he even generously repeated part of
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  Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence. Cedric was so excited that his
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  Speaker 1: eyes shone, and his cheeks were red, and his curls
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  Speaker 1: were all rubbed and tumbled into a yellow mop. He
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  Speaker 1: could hardly wait to eat his dinner after he went home.
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  Speaker 1: He was so anxious to tell his mama. It was
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  Speaker 1: perhaps Mr. Hobbs who gave him his first interest in politics. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Hobbs was fond of reading the newspapers. and so Cedric
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  Speaker 1: heard a great deal about what was going on in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: And Mr. Hobbs would tell him whether the president was
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  Speaker 1: doing his duty or not. And once, when there was
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  Speaker 1: an election, he found it all quite grand, and probably
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  Speaker 1: but for Mr. Hobbs and Cedric the country might have
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  Speaker 1: been wrecked. Mr. Hobbs took him to see a great
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  Speaker 1: torchlight procession, and many of the men who carried torches
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  Speaker 1: remembered afterward a stout man who stood near a lamppost
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  Speaker 1: and held on his shoulder a handsome little shouting boy
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  Speaker 1: who waved his cap in the air. It was not
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  Speaker 1: long after this election, when Cedric was between seven and
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  Speaker 1: eight years old, that the very strange thing happened which
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  Speaker 1: made so wonderful a change in his life. It was
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  Speaker 1: quite curious, too, that the day it happened he had
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  Speaker 1: been talking to Mr. Hobbs about England and the Queen,
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  Speaker 1: and Mr. Hobbs had said some very severe things about
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  Speaker 1: the aristocracy, being specially indignant against earls and marquises. It
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  Speaker 1: had been a hot morning, and after playing soldiers with
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  Speaker 1: some friends of his, Cedric had gone into the store
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  Speaker 1: to rest, and had found Mr. Hobbs looking very fierce
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  Speaker 1: over a piece of the Illustrated London News, which contained
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  Speaker 1: a picture of some court ceremony. Ah, he said, that's
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  Speaker 1: the way they go on now, but they'll get enough
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  Speaker 1: of it some day, when those they've trod on rise
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  Speaker 1: and blow them up sky-high, earls and marquises and all.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming, and they may look out for it. Cedric
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  Speaker 1: had perched himself as usual on the high stool and
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  Speaker 1: pushed his hat back and put his hands in his
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  Speaker 1: pockets in delicate compliment to Mr. Hobbs.' Did you ever
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  Speaker 1: know many Marquesses, Mr. Hobbs?' Cedric inquired.' Or earls?'' No,'
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  Speaker 1: answered Mr. Hobbs with indignation.' I guess not. I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to catch one of them inside here, that's all. I'll
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  Speaker 1: have no grasping tyrants sitting around on my cracker-barrels.' and
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  Speaker 1: he was so proud of the sentiment that he looked
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  Speaker 1: around proudly and mopped his forehead. Perhaps they wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: earls if they knew any better, said Cedric, feeling some
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  Speaker 1: vague sympathy for their unhappy condition. Wouldn't they, said Mr. Hobbs.
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  Speaker 1: They just glory in it. It's in them. They're a
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  Speaker 1: bad lot. They were in the midst of their conversation
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  Speaker 1: when Mary appeared. Cedric thought she had come to buy
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  Speaker 1: some sugar, perhaps, but she had not. She looked almost pale,
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  Speaker 1: and as if she were excited about something. Come home, darling,
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  Speaker 1: she said. The mistress is wanting you. Cedric slipped down
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  Speaker 1: from his stool. Does she want me to go out
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  Speaker 1: with her, Mary? he asked. Good morning, Mr. Hobbs. I'll
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  Speaker 1: see you again. He was surprised to see Mary staring
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  Speaker 1: at him in a dumbfounded fashion, and he wondered why
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  Speaker 1: she kept shaking her head. What's the matter, Mary? he said.
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  Speaker 1: Is it the hot weather? no said mary but there's
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  Speaker 1: strange things happenin to us has the sun given dearest
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  Speaker 1: a headache he inquired anxiously but it was not that
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  Speaker 1: when he reached his own house there was a coupé
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  Speaker 1: standing before the door, and someone was in the little
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  Speaker 1: parlor talking to his mama. Mary hurried him upstairs and
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  Speaker 1: put on his best summer suit of cream-colored flannel with
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  Speaker 1: the red scarf around his waist and combed out his
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  Speaker 1: curly locks.' Lords, is it?' he heard her say.' And
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  Speaker 1: the nobility and gentry!' Ugh! Bad cess to them!' Lords, indeed!'
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  Speaker 1: Worse luck!' It was really very puzzling, but he felt
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  Speaker 1: sure his mama would tell him what all the excitement meant,
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  Speaker 1: so he allowed Mary to bemoan herself without asking many questions.
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  Speaker 1: When he was dressed, he ran downstairs and went into
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  Speaker 1: the parlor. A tall, thin old gentleman with a sharp
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  Speaker 1: face was sitting in an armchair. His mother was standing
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  Speaker 1: nearby with a pale face, and he saw that there
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  Speaker 1: were tears in her eyes. Oh, Setty, she cried out,
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  Speaker 1: and ran to her little boy, and caught him in
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  Speaker 1: her arms, and kissed him in a frightened, troubled way. Oh, Setty, darling!
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  Speaker 1: The tall old gentleman rose from his chair and looked
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  Speaker 1: at Cedric with his sharp eyes. He rubbed his thin
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  Speaker 1: chin with his bony hand as he looked. He seemed
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  Speaker 1: not at all displeased. And so, he said at last slowly,
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  Speaker 1: and so, this is little Lord Fauntleroy. End of chapter one.