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35 - At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald · At the Back of the North Wind

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  Speaker 1: I make diamonds acquaintance. Mister Raymond's house was called the
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  Speaker 1: Mound because it stood upon a little steep knoll, so
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  Speaker 1: smooth and symmetrical that it showed itself at once to
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  Speaker 1: be artificial. It had, beyond doubt been built for Queen
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth as a hunting tower, a place, namely, from the
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  Speaker 1: top of which you could see the country for miles
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  Speaker 1: on all sides, and so be able to follow with
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  Speaker 1: your eyes the flying deer and the pursuing hounds and horsemen.
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  Speaker 1: The mound had been cast out to give a good
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  Speaker 1: basement advantage over the neighboring heights and woods. There was
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  Speaker 1: a great quarry hole not far off, brim full of water,
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  Speaker 1: from which, as the current legend stated, the materials forming
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  Speaker 1: the heart of the mound, a kind of stone unfit
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  Speaker 1: for building, had been dug. The house itself was of brick,
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  Speaker 1: and they said the foundations were first laid in the
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  Speaker 1: natural level, and then the stones at the earth of
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  Speaker 1: the mound were heaped about and between them, so that
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  Speaker 1: its great height should be well buttressed. Joseph and his
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  Speaker 1: wife lived in a little cottage a short way from
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  Speaker 1: the house. It was a real cottage with the roof
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  Speaker 1: of thick thatch, which in June and July the wind
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  Speaker 1: sprinkled with red and white petals. It shook from the
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  Speaker 1: loose topmost sprays of the rose trees climbing the walls.
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  Speaker 1: At first Diamond had a nest under this thatch, a
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  Speaker 1: pretty little room with white muslin curtains. But afterwards mister
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  Speaker 1: and missus Raymond wanted to have him for a page
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  Speaker 1: in the house, and his father and mother were quite
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  Speaker 1: pleased to have him employed without his leaving them. So
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  Speaker 1: he was dressed in a suit of blue, from which
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  Speaker 1: his pale face and fair hair came out like the
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  Speaker 1: loveliest blossom, and took up his abode in the house.
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  Speaker 1: Would you be afraid to sleep alone, Diamond asked his mistress.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you mean, ma'am, said Diamond. I
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  Speaker 1: never was afraid of anything that I can recollect, not much.
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  Speaker 1: At least, there's a little room at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the house, all alone. She returned, Perhaps you would not
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  Speaker 1: mind sleeping there. I can sleep anywhere, and I like
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  Speaker 1: best to be high up. Should I be able to
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  Speaker 1: see out, I will show you the place, she answered,
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  Speaker 1: and taking him by the hand, she led him up
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  Speaker 1: and up the oval winding stair. In one of the
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  Speaker 1: two towers. Near the top, they entered a tiny little
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  Speaker 1: room with two windows, from which you could see over
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  Speaker 1: the whole country. Diamond clapped his hands with delight. You
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  Speaker 1: would like this room, then, Diamond, said his mistress. It's
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  Speaker 1: the grandest room in the house. He answered, I shall
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  Speaker 1: be near the stars, and yet not far from the
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  Speaker 1: tops of the trees. That's just what I like, I
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  Speaker 1: dare say. He thought also that it would be a
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  Speaker 1: nice place for north Wind to call at in passing,
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  Speaker 1: but he said nothing of that sort. Below him spread
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  Speaker 1: a lake of green leaves, with glimpses of grass here
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  Speaker 1: and there at the bottom of it. As he looked down,
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  Speaker 1: he saw a squirrel appear suddenly and as suddenly vanish
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  Speaker 1: amongst the topmost branches. Aha, little squirrel, he cried. My
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  Speaker 1: nest is built higher than yours. You can be up
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  Speaker 1: here with your books as much as you like, said
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  Speaker 1: his mistress. I will have a little bell hung at
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  Speaker 1: the door, which I can ring when I want you.
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  Speaker 1: Half Way down the stair is the drawing room. So
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  Speaker 1: Diamond was installed as page, and his new room got
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  Speaker 1: ready for him. It was very soon after this that
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  Speaker 1: I came to no Diamond. I was then a tutor
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  Speaker 1: in a family whose estate adjoined the little property belonging
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  Speaker 1: to the mound. I had made the acquaintance of mister
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  Speaker 1: Raymond in London some time before, and was walking up
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  Speaker 1: the drive towards the house to call upon him one
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  Speaker 1: fine warm evening when I saw Diamond for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: He was sitting at the foot of a great beech
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  Speaker 1: tree a few yards from the road, with a book
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  Speaker 1: on his knees. He did not see me. I walked
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  Speaker 1: up behind a tree, and, peeping over his shoulder, saw
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  Speaker 1: that he was reading a fairy book. What are you reading?
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  Speaker 1: I said, and spoke suddenly, with the hope of seeing
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  Speaker 1: a startled little face look round at me. Diamond turned
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  Speaker 1: his head as quietly as if he were only obeying
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  Speaker 1: his mother's voice, and the calmness of his face rebuked
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  Speaker 1: my unkind desire and made me ashamed of it. I
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  Speaker 1: am reading the story of the Little Lady and the
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  Speaker 1: Goblin Prince, said Diamond. I am sorry, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the story. I returned, who is it by? Mister Raymond
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  Speaker 1: made it? Is he your uncle? I asked? At a guess. No,
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  Speaker 1: he's my master. What do you do for him? I asked, respectfully,
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  Speaker 1: anything he wishes me to do? He answered, I am
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  Speaker 1: busy for him. Now. He gave me this story to read.
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  Speaker 1: He wants my opinion upon it. Don't you find it
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  Speaker 1: rather hard to make up your mind? Oh, dear, No,
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  Speaker 1: Any story always tells me itself when I'm to think
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  Speaker 1: about it. Mister Raymond doesn't want me to say whether
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  Speaker 1: it is a clever story or not, but whether I
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  Speaker 1: like it and why I like it. I can never
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  Speaker 1: tell what they call clever from what they call silly.
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  Speaker 1: But I always know whether I like a story or not.
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  Speaker 1: And can you always tell why you like it or not? No?
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  Speaker 1: Very often I can't at all. Sometimes I can. I
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  Speaker 1: always know, but I can't always tell why. Mister Raymond
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  Speaker 1: writes the stories and then tries them on me. Mother
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  Speaker 1: does the same when she makes jam. She's made such
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  Speaker 1: a lot of jam since we came here, and she
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  Speaker 1: always makes me taste it to see if it'll do.
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  Speaker 1: Mother knows by the face I make whether it will
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  Speaker 1: or not. At this moment, I caught sight of two
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  Speaker 1: more children approaching. One was a handsome girl, the other,
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  Speaker 1: a pale faced, awkward looking boy who limped much on
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  Speaker 1: one leg. I withdrew a little to see what would follow,
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  Speaker 1: for they seemed in some consternation. After a few hurried words,
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  Speaker 1: they went off together, and I pursued my way to
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  Speaker 1: the house, where I was kindly received by mister and
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  Speaker 1: missus Raymond. As I could have desired from them. I
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  Speaker 1: learned something of Diamond, and was, in consequence the more
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  Speaker 1: glad to find him when I returned, seated in the
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  Speaker 1: same place as before. What did the boy and girl
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  Speaker 1: want with you, Diamond, I asked. They had seen a
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  Speaker 1: creature that frightened them, and they came to tell you
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  Speaker 1: about it. They couldn't get water out of the well
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  Speaker 1: for it, so they wanted me to go with them.
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  Speaker 1: They're both bigger than you, Yes, but they were frightened
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  Speaker 1: at it. And weren't you frightened at it? No? Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm silly. I'm ever frightened the things. I could
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  Speaker 1: not help thinking of the old meaning of the word city.
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  Speaker 1: And what was it? I asked. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: a kind of an angel, a very little one. It
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  Speaker 1: had a long body and great wings, which it drove
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  Speaker 1: about so fast that they grew a thin cloud all
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  Speaker 1: round it. It flew backwards and forwards over the well,
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  Speaker 1: or hung right in the middle, making a mist of
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  Speaker 1: its wings, as if its business was to take care
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  Speaker 1: of the water. And what did you do to drive
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  Speaker 1: it away? I didn't drive it away. I knew whatever
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  Speaker 1: the creature was the well was to get water out
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  Speaker 1: of So I took the jug, dipped it in, and
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  Speaker 1: drew the water. And what did the creature do? Flew about?
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  Speaker 1: And it did it hurt you? No? Why should it?
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't doing anything wrong. What did your companion say? Then?
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  Speaker 1: They said, thank you, diamond? What dear silly you are?
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  Speaker 1: And weren't you angry with him? No? Why should I?
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  Speaker 1: I should like if they would play with me a little,
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  Speaker 1: But they always like better to go away together when
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  Speaker 1: their work is over. They never heed me. I don't
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  Speaker 1: mind it much. Though the other creatures are friendly. They
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  Speaker 1: don't run away from me. Only they're all so busy
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  Speaker 1: with their own work. They don't mind me much. Do
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  Speaker 1: you feel lonely? Then? No? No, When nobody minds me,
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  Speaker 1: I get into my nest and look up, and then
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  Speaker 1: the sky does mind me and thinks about me. Where
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  Speaker 1: is your nest. He rose, saying I will show you,
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  Speaker 1: and led me to the other side of the tree.
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  Speaker 1: There hung a little rope ladder from one of the
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  Speaker 1: lower boughs. The boy climbed up the ladder and got
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  Speaker 1: upon the bough. Then he climbed farther into the leafy
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  Speaker 1: branches and went out of sight. After a little while,
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  Speaker 1: I heard his voice coming down out of the tree.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in my nest now, said the voice. I can't
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  Speaker 1: see you, I returned. I can't see you either, but
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  Speaker 1: I can see the first star peeping out of the sky.
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  Speaker 1: I should like to get up into the sky, don't
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  Speaker 1: you think I shall some day? Yes? I do. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me what more you see up there? I don't see
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  Speaker 1: anything more except a few leaves and the big sky
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  Speaker 1: over me. It goes swinging about. The earth is all
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  Speaker 1: behind my back. There comes another star. The wind is
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  Speaker 1: like kisses from a big lady. When I get up here,
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  Speaker 1: I feel as if I were in north Wind's arms.
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  Speaker 1: This was the first I heard of north Wind. The
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  Speaker 1: whole ways and look of the child, so full of
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  Speaker 1: quiet wisdom, yet so ready to accept the judgment of
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  Speaker 1: others in his own disprays, took hold of my heart,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt myself wonderfully drawn towards him. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: to me, somehow, as if little Diamond was says the
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  Speaker 1: secrets of life, and was himself was what he was
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  Speaker 1: so ready to think, the lowest living thing, an angel
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  Speaker 1: of God with something special to say or do. A
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  Speaker 1: gush of reverence came over me, and with a single
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  Speaker 1: good night, I turned and left him in his nest.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him often after this, and gained so much
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  Speaker 1: of his confidence that he told me all I have
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  Speaker 1: told you, I cannot pretend to account for it. I
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  Speaker 1: leave that for each philosophical reader to do after his
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  Speaker 1: own fashion. The easiest way is that of Nanny and Jim,
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  Speaker 1: who said often to each other that Diamond had a
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  Speaker 1: tile loose. But mister Raymond was much of my opinion
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  Speaker 1: concerning the boy, while Missus Raymond confessed that she often
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  Speaker 1: rang her bell just to have once more the pleasure
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  Speaker 1: of seeing the lovely stillness of the boy's face, with
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  Speaker 1: those blue eyes, which seemed rather made for other people
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  Speaker 1: to look into than for himself to look out of.
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  Speaker 1: It was plainer to others than to himself that he
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  Speaker 1: felt the desertion of Nanny and Jim. They appeared to
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  Speaker 1: regard him as a mere toy, except when they found
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  Speaker 1: he could minister to the scruple of using him generally
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  Speaker 1: with success. They were, however, well behaved to a wonderful degree,
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  Speaker 1: while I have little doubt that much of their good
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  Speaker 1: behavior was owing to the unconscious influence of the boy
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  Speaker 1: they called God's Baby. One very strange thing is that
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  Speaker 1: I could never find out where he got some of
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  Speaker 1: his many songs. At times they would be but bubbles
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  Speaker 1: blown out of a nursery rhyme, as was the following
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  Speaker 1: which I heard him sing one evening to his little dulcimer.
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  Speaker 1: There were about a score of sheep feeding in a
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  Speaker 1: paddock near him. Their white wool dyed a pale rose
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  Speaker 1: in the light of the setting sun. Those in the
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  Speaker 1: long shadows from the trees were dead white. Those in
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  Speaker 1: the sunlight were half glorified with pale rose. Little Bope
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  Speaker 1: she lost her sheep and didn't know where to find them.
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  Speaker 1: They were over the height and out of sight, trailing
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  Speaker 1: their tails behind them. Little bo Peep woke out of
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  Speaker 1: her sleep, jumped up, and set out to find them.
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  Speaker 1: The silly things they've got no wings, and they've left
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  Speaker 1: their trails behind them. They've taken their tails, but they've
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  Speaker 1: left their trails, And so I shall follow and find them.
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  Speaker 1: For wherever a tail had dragged a trail, the long
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  Speaker 1: grass grew behind them, and day's eyes and buttercups, cowslips,
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  Speaker 1: and crows feet were glittering in the sun. She threw
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  Speaker 1: down her book and caught up her crook, and after
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  Speaker 1: her sheep did run. She ran, and she ran, and
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  Speaker 1: ever as she ran, the grass grew higher and higher.
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  Speaker 1: Tail over the hill, the sun began to set in
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  Speaker 1: a flame of fire. She ran on still up the
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  Speaker 1: grassy hill, and the grass grew higher and higher. When
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  Speaker 1: she reached its ground, the sun was down and had
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  Speaker 1: left a trail of fire. The sheep and her tails
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  Speaker 1: were gone, all gone, and no more trail behind them. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they were there, long tailed and fair, but alas she
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  Speaker 1: could not find them, purple and gold and rosy and blue,
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  Speaker 1: with their tails all white behind them, her sheep. They
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  Speaker 1: did run in the trail of the sun. She saw them,
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  Speaker 1: but could not find them after the sun. Like clouds,
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  Speaker 1: they did run, but she knew they were her sheep.
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  Speaker 1: She sat down to cry and look up at the sky.
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  Speaker 1: But she cried herself asleep, and as she slept, the
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  Speaker 1: dew fell fast, and the wind blew from the sky,
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  Speaker 1: and strange things took place that shunned the day's face.
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  Speaker 1: Because they are sweet and shy. Nibble nibble crop, she
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  Speaker 1: heard as she woke. A hundred little lambs did pluck
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  Speaker 1: and eat the grass so sweet that grew in the
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  Speaker 1: trails of their dams. Little bo peep caught up her
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  Speaker 1: crook and white the tears that did blind her, and
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  Speaker 1: nibble nibble crop without a stop, the lambs came eating
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  Speaker 1: behind her home home. She came both tired and lame,
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  Speaker 1: with three times as many sheep. In a month or more,
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  Speaker 1: they'll be as big as before, And then she'll laugh
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  Speaker 1: in her sleep. But what would you say if one
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  Speaker 1: fine day, when they've got their bushy as tails, their
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  Speaker 1: grown up games should be just the same, and she
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  Speaker 1: have to follow their trails. Never weep, bo peep, though
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  Speaker 1: you lose your sheep and do not know where to
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  Speaker 1: find them. Tis after the sun the mothers have run,
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  Speaker 1: and there are their lambs behind them. I confess again
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  Speaker 1: to having touched up a little, but it loses far
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  Speaker 1: more in Diamond's sweet voice singing it than it gains
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  Speaker 1: by a rhyme here and there. Some of them were
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  Speaker 1: out of books mister Raymond had given him. These he
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  Speaker 1: always knew, but about the others he could seldom tell.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes he would say I made that one, but generally
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  Speaker 1: he would say I don't know. I found it somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: or I got it at the back of the north wind.
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  Speaker 1: One evening I found him sitting on the grassy slope
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  Speaker 1: under the house, with his dulcimer in his arms, and
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  Speaker 1: his little brother rolling on the grass beside them. He
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  Speaker 1: was chanting in his usual way, more like the sound
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  Speaker 1: of a brook than anything else I can think of.
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  Speaker 1: When I went up to them, he seized his chant.
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  Speaker 1: Do go on, Diamond, don't mind me, I said. He
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  Speaker 1: began again at once while he sang. Nanny and Jim
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  Speaker 1: sank a little way off, one hemming a pocket handkerchief,
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  Speaker 1: and the other reading a story to her. But they
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  Speaker 1: never heeded Diamond. This is as near what he sang
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  Speaker 1: as I can recollect or reproduce. Rather, what would you
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  Speaker 1: see if I took you up to my little nest
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  Speaker 1: in the air, You would see the sky like a
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  Speaker 1: clear blue cup turned upside downwards? There? What would ye
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  Speaker 1: do if I took you there? To my little nest
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  Speaker 1: in the tree? My child, with cries would trouble the
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  Speaker 1: air to get what she could. But see, what would
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  Speaker 1: you get in the top of the tree for all
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  Speaker 1: your crying and grief? Not a star? Would you clutch?
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  Speaker 1: Of all you see? You could only gather a leaf.
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  Speaker 1: But when you had lost your greedy grief, content to
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  Speaker 1: see from afar, you would find in your hand a
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  Speaker 1: withering leaf, in your heart a shining star. As Diamond
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  Speaker 1: went on singing, it grew very dark, and just as
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  Speaker 1: he ceased, there came a great flash of lightning that
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  Speaker 1: blinded us all for a moment. Dulcimer crowed with pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: but when the roar of the thunder came after it,
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  Speaker 1: the little brother gave a loud cry of terror. Nanny
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  Speaker 1: and Jim came running up to us, pale with fear.
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  Speaker 1: Diamond's face too, was paler than usual, but with delight.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the glory seemed to have clung to it
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  Speaker 1: and remained shining. You're not fright, are you, Diamond? I said? No?
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  Speaker 1: Why should I be? He answered with his usual question,
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  Speaker 1: looking up in my face with calm, shining eyes. He
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  Speaker 1: ain't got sense to be frightened, said Nanny, going up
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  Speaker 1: to him and giving him a pitying hug. Perhaps there's
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  Speaker 1: more sense in not being frightened, Nanny I returned. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think the lightning can do as it likes? It
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  Speaker 1: might kill you, said Jim. Oh no, it mightn't, said Diamond.
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  Speaker 1: As he spoke, there came another great flash and a
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  Speaker 1: tearing crack. There's a tree struck, I said, And when
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  Speaker 1: we looked round, after the blinding of the flash had
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  Speaker 1: left our eyes, we saw a huge bough of the
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  Speaker 1: beech tree, in which was Diamond's nest, hanging to the
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  Speaker 1: ground like the broken wing of a bird. There, cried Nanny.
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  Speaker 1: I told you so. If you had been up there,
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  Speaker 1: you see what would have happened, you little silly. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, said Diamond, and began to sing to dulcimer.
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  Speaker 1: All I could hear of the song, for the other
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  Speaker 1: children were going on with their chatter. Was the clock
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  Speaker 1: struck one, and the mouse came down, dickery, dickery, dock.
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  Speaker 1: Then there came a blast of wind, and the rain
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  Speaker 1: followed in straight pouring lines, as if out of a
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  Speaker 1: watering pot. Diamond jumped up with his little dulcimer in
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  Speaker 1: his arms, and Nanny caught up the little boy, and
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  Speaker 1: they ran for the cottage. Jim vanished with a double shuffle,
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  Speaker 1: and I went into the house. When I came out
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  Speaker 1: again to return home, the clouds were gone, and the
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  Speaker 1: evening sky glimmered through the trees blue and pale green
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  Speaker 1: towards the west. I turned my steps a little aside
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  Speaker 1: to look at the stricken beech. I saw the bough
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  Speaker 1: torn from the stem, and that was all the twilight
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  Speaker 1: would allow me to see. While I stood gazing down
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  Speaker 1: from the sky came a sound of singing. But the
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  Speaker 1: voice was neither of lark nor of nightingale. It was
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: sweeter than either. It was the voice of Diamond up
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: in his airy nest. The lightning and thunder they go
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: and they come, but the stars and the stillness are
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: always at home. And then the voice ceased. Good night, Diamond,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I said, good night, sir, answered Diamond. As I walked away, pondering,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I saw the great black top of the beach swaying
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: about against the sky in an upper wind, and heard
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the murmur of as many dim half articulate voices filling
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the solitude around diamond's nest. End of Chapter thirty five.
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