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018 - chapter 18 · In Our Time

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Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. This
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Speaker 1: sleeprivox recording us in the public domain. Chapter number eighteen.
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Speaker 1: The King was working in the garden. He seemed very
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Speaker 1: glad to see me. We walked through the garden. This
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Speaker 1: is the queen, he said. She was clipping a rose bush. Oh,
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Speaker 1: how do you do? She said. We sat down at
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Speaker 1: a table under a big tree, and the King ordered
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Speaker 1: whiskey and soda. We have good whisky anyway, he said.
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Speaker 1: The revolutionary committee, he told me, would not allow him
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Speaker 1: to go outside the palace grounds. Plas Tierras is a
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Speaker 1: very good man, I believe, he said, but frightfully difficult.
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Speaker 1: I think he did write through shooting those chaps. If
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Speaker 1: Kerensky had shot a few men, things might have been
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Speaker 1: altogether different. Course, the great thing in this sort of
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Speaker 1: affair is not to be shot oneself. It was very jolly.
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Speaker 1: We talked for a long time. Like all Greeks, he
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Speaker 1: wanted to go to America. End of chapter eighteen. End
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Speaker 1: of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway.