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Stranger - August von Kotzebue · A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride

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  Speaker 1: Act one of The Stranger by August Vaughan Kottbu. This
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  Speaker 2: Dramatis Personae Stranger read by Rick Cordrey and Vinderson read
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  Speaker 2: by Al G.
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  Speaker 3: Pag Barren Steinfords read by Thomas Peter, Mister Solomon read
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  Speaker 3: by The Swax.
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  Speaker 4: Candle Peter read by Alan Mapstein.
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  Speaker 5: Tobias read by Laurie.
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  Speaker 6: Wilson, Francis read by Greg Girdano.
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  Speaker 7: George read by Ko William The Strangest Son, Aged five
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  Speaker 7: read by Enco.
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  Speaker 8: Missus Haller read by Wendy Katzeller.
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  Speaker 2: Countess Vinterson read by Kelly Taylor.
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  Speaker 9: Charlotte read by Tammy Johnson.
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  Speaker 10: Annett read by Jen Broda.
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  Speaker 2: Susan read by Michelle Wood.
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  Speaker 1: Bookworm. Stage directions read by Oogie's Ragdoll. Act the first
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  Speaker 1: scene one the skirts of Count Winterson's park. The park
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  Speaker 1: gates in the center on one side, a low lodge
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  Speaker 1: among the trees on the other. In the background a
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  Speaker 1: peasant's hut.
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  Speaker 4: Enter Peter po Poo never tell me. I'm a clever
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  Speaker 4: lad for all fathers crying out every minute, Peter and
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  Speaker 4: stupid Peter. But I say Peter is not stupid, though
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  Speaker 4: Father will always be so wise. First I talk too much,
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  Speaker 4: then I talk too little, And if if I talk
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  Speaker 4: a bit to myself, he calls me a dribbler. Now
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  Speaker 4: I like best to talk to myself, for I never
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  Speaker 4: contradict myself, and I don't laugh at myself as other
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  Speaker 4: folk do. That laughing is off on a plaguey teasing custom.
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  Speaker 4: To be sure, when Missus Haller laughs, one can bear
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  Speaker 4: it well enough. There's enough sweetness even in her reproof
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  Speaker 4: that somehow but lud I had near forgot what I
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  Speaker 4: was sent about. Yes, then they would have laughed at me.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, draws a green purse from his pocket.
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  Speaker 4: I am to carry this money to old to buy us,
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  Speaker 4: and Missus Allor said, I must be sure not to
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  Speaker 4: blab or say that she had sent it.
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  Speaker 11: Well, well, she may be easy.
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  Speaker 4: For that matter, not a word should drop from my lips.
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  Speaker 4: Missus Halldor is charming, but silly Father is right. Forefather says,
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  Speaker 4: he that spends his money is not wise, but it
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  Speaker 4: gives it away. You start mad.
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  Speaker 1: Enter the stranger from the lodge, followed by Francis. At
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  Speaker 1: sight of Peter, the stranger stops and looks suspiciously at him.
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  Speaker 1: Peter stands opposite to him with his mouth wide open.
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  Speaker 1: At length, he takes off his hat, scrapes a bow,
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  Speaker 1: and goes into the hut.
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  Speaker 6: Who is that the steward son of the castle? Yes, stranger.
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  Speaker 6: After a pause, you were you were speaking last night
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  Speaker 6: of the old countryman. I you would not hear me out?
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  Speaker 12: Proceed?
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  Speaker 6: He is poor, who told you so himself?
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  Speaker 1: Stranger with a chromy.
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  Speaker 12: He knows how to tell his story no doubt.
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  Speaker 6: And to impose you think right, this man does not fool.
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  Speaker 6: A fielding fool is better than a cold skeptic. False
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  Speaker 6: charity begets gratitude false and blesses the giver more than
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  Speaker 6: the receiver.
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  Speaker 12: True.
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  Speaker 6: Well, sir, this countryman.
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  Speaker 12: Has he complained to you? Yes, he who is really
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  Speaker 12: unhappy never complains. Pauses, Princess, you have had means of
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  Speaker 12: education beyond your lot in life, and hence you are
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  Speaker 12: encouraged to attempt imposing on me.
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  Speaker 13: But go on.
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  Speaker 6: His only son has been taken.
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  Speaker 12: From him, taken from him by.
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  Speaker 6: The exigency of the times for a soldier. Ah, the
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  Speaker 6: old man is poor, it is likely sick and forsaken.
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  Speaker 12: I cannot help him.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, how buy money. He may buy his son's release.
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  Speaker 12: I'll see him myself do so. But if he is
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  Speaker 12: an impostor.
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  Speaker 6: He is not in that hut.
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  Speaker 1: In that hut, Stranger goes into the hut.
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  Speaker 6: He could master, though one almost loses the use of
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  Speaker 6: speech by living with him. A man kind and clear,
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  Speaker 6: though I cannot understand him, he rails against the whole world,
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  Speaker 6: and yet no beggar leaves his door unsatisfied. I have
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  Speaker 6: now lived three years with him, and yet I know
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  Speaker 6: not who he is. A hater of society, no doubt,
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  Speaker 6: but not by providence intended to be so. Misanthropy is
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  Speaker 6: in his head, not in his heart.
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  Speaker 1: Enter the stranger and Peter from the hut, pray walcome
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  Speaker 1: stranger to Francis.
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  Speaker 6: Fool so soon returned.
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  Speaker 12: What should I do there?
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  Speaker 6: Did you not find it? As I said this, glad
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  Speaker 6: I found? What has he to do with your charity?
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  Speaker 12: The old man and he understand each other perfectly? Well?
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  Speaker 12: How what would this boy and the countryman doing?
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  Speaker 1: Frances smiling and shaking his head.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you shall hear to Peter, young man, what were
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  Speaker 6: you doing in that hut?
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  Speaker 4: Doing nothing?
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  Speaker 6: Well, but you couldn't go there for nothing?
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  Speaker 4: And why not pray? But I did go there for nothing?
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  Speaker 11: Though?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think one must be paid for everything? If
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  Speaker 4: Missus Llor were to give me but a smiling look,
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  Speaker 4: I jump up to my neck in the Great Poem?
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  Speaker 4: For nothing?
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  Speaker 6: It seems then Missus Haller sent you.
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  Speaker 4: Why, yes, but I'm not to talk about it.
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  Speaker 12: Why so now should I know?
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  Speaker 4: Look you, says Missus Aller. Master Peter be so good
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  Speaker 4: as not to mention it to anybody.
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  Speaker 1: With much consequence.
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  Speaker 4: Master Peter be so good. Ai ai ai, Master Peter
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  Speaker 4: be so ai ai ai.
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  Speaker 6: Oh that is quite a different thing. Of course you
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  Speaker 6: must be silent.
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  Speaker 4: Then, I know that, And so I am too, For
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  Speaker 4: I told old Tobias, says I. Now you're not to
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  Speaker 4: think is how missus Haller sent the money? For I
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  Speaker 4: shall not say a word about it as long as
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  Speaker 4: I live, says I.
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  Speaker 6: There, you were very right. Did you carry him much money?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I didn't count it, but it was
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  Speaker 4: in a bit of a green purse. Mayapp it may
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  Speaker 4: be some little mare that she has scripped together in
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  Speaker 4: the last fortnight.
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  Speaker 6: And why just in the last fortnight.
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  Speaker 4: Because about a fortnight since I carried him some money.
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  Speaker 6: Before from Missus Haller.
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  Speaker 4: I sure who else think you fungl There's not such
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  Speaker 4: a fool, he says. It is our bounden duty as
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  Speaker 4: Christians to take care of our money and not give
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  Speaker 4: anything away, especially in summer. For then says he des
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  Speaker 4: herbs and roots enough in conscience to satisfy all the
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  Speaker 4: reasonable angry poor. But I say father's wrong and Missus
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  Speaker 4: Haller's right.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, but this is Haller seems a strange woman, Peter.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, Yet time she's plea odd why she'll sit and
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  Speaker 4: cry for her all day through without anyone's knowing why? Why?
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  Speaker 4: And yet somehow or other whenever she cries, Oh, I
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  Speaker 4: always cry too.
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  Speaker 6: We aut knowing why, Frances to the stranger, are you satisfied?
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  Speaker 12: Rid me of that bubbler?
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  Speaker 6: Good day, Master Peter.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going yet, are you?
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  Speaker 6: Missus hall will be waiting for an answer.
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  Speaker 4: So she will, and I have another place or two
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  Speaker 4: to call her.
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  Speaker 1: Takes off his hat to stranger.
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  Speaker 4: Servant, Sir sh sure what he's angry.
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  Speaker 1: Peter turns to Francis in a half whisper.
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  Speaker 4: He's angry, I suppose because he can get nothing out
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  Speaker 4: of me.
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  Speaker 6: It almost seems.
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  Speaker 4: So Oh, I don't even know I no blab exit.
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  Speaker 6: Now, sir, what do you want? Were you not wrong?
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  Speaker 8: Sir?
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  Speaker 12: Wrong?
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  Speaker 6: Can you still doubt?
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  Speaker 12: Have you no more? Who is this? Missus? Holler? Why
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  Speaker 12: do I always follow her path? Go where I will?
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  Speaker 12: Whenever I try to do good? She has always been
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  Speaker 12: before me.
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  Speaker 6: You should rejoice at that. Rejoice surely that there are
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  Speaker 6: other good and charitable people in the world beside yourself.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yes, why not seek to be acquainted with her?
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  Speaker 6: I saw her yesterday in the garden up at the castle.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Solomon the stewart says. She has been unwell and
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  Speaker 6: confined to her room almost ever since we have been here.
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  Speaker 6: But one would not think of it to look at
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  Speaker 6: her for a more beautiful creature. I never saw so
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  Speaker 6: much the worse. Beauty is a mask in her. It
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  Speaker 6: seems a mirror of the soul her charities.
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  Speaker 12: Talk not to me of her charities. All women wish
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  Speaker 12: to be conspicuous and towned by their wit, in the country,
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  Speaker 12: by their heart.
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  Speaker 6: Tis immaterial in what way good is done. No, tis
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  Speaker 6: not immaterial to this poor old man.
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  Speaker 12: At least he needs no assistance of mine.
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  Speaker 6: His most urgent wants. Indeed Missus has relieved. But whether
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  Speaker 6: she has or could have given as much as would
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  Speaker 6: purchase liberty for the sun, the prop of his age.
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  Speaker 12: Silence, I will not give him a det in a
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  Speaker 12: peevish tone. You interest yourself very warmly in his behalf.
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  Speaker 12: Perhaps you ought to be a shafer.
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  Speaker 6: In the gift, sir, sir, that did not come from
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  Speaker 6: your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Stranger recollecting himself, forgive.
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  Speaker 6: Me, poor master, How must the world have used you before?
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  Speaker 6: It could have instilled this hatred of mankind, this constant
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  Speaker 6: doubt of honesty and virtue?
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  Speaker 12: Leave me to myself.
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  Speaker 1: Throws himself on a seat, takes from his pocket Zimmerman
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  Speaker 1: on Solitude, and reads Francis Aside, surveying.
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  Speaker 6: Him again, reading, thus, it is from morn to night
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  Speaker 6: to him. Nature has no beauty, life, no charm. For
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  Speaker 6: three years I have never seen him smile. Will be
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  Speaker 6: his fate? At last? Nothing diverts him. Oh, if he
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  Speaker 6: would but attach himself to any living thing. We're at
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  Speaker 6: an animal for something. Man must love.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Tobias from the hut.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, how refreshing after seven long weeks to feel these
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  Speaker 5: warm sunbeams once again. Thanks, thanks bounteous Heaven for the joy.
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  Speaker 5: I taste, presses his.
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  Speaker 1: Cat between his hands, looks up and prays. The stranger
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  Speaker 1: observes him attentively. Francis to the stranger.
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  Speaker 6: This old man's share of earthly happiness can be but little.
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  Speaker 6: Yet mark how grateful he is for his portion of.
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  Speaker 12: It, because though old, he is but a child in
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  Speaker 12: the leading strings of hope.
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  Speaker 6: Hope is the nurse of life, and her.
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  Speaker 12: Cradle is the grave.
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  Speaker 1: Tobias replaced cap.
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  Speaker 6: I wish you joy. I'm glad to see you are
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  Speaker 6: so much recovered.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you Heaven and the assistance of a kind lady
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  Speaker 5: have saved me for another year.
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  Speaker 6: Two How old are you pray?
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  Speaker 5: Seventy six?
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  Speaker 12: To be sure?
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  Speaker 5: I can expect but little joy before I die. Yet
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  Speaker 5: there is another and a better world.
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  Speaker 6: To the unfortunate. Then death is scarce and evil?
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  Speaker 5: Am I so unfortunate? Do I not enjoy this glorious morning?
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  Speaker 5: Am I not in health?
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  Speaker 14: Again?
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  Speaker 5: Believe me, sir, he who leaving the bed of sickness
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  Speaker 5: for the first time breathes the fresh, pure air, is
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  Speaker 5: at that moment the happiest of his maker's creatures.
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  Speaker 6: Yet tis a happiness that fails upon enjoyment.
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  Speaker 5: True, but less so in old age. Some fifty years ago,
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  Speaker 5: my father left me this cottage. I was a strong
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  Speaker 5: lad and took an honest wife. Heaven blessed my farm
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  Speaker 5: with rich crops and my marriage with five children. This
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  Speaker 5: lasted nine or ten years. Two of my children died.
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  Speaker 5: I felt it sorely. The land was afflicted with a famine.
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  Speaker 5: My wife assisted me in supporting our family. But four
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  Speaker 5: years after she left our dwelling for a better place,
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  Speaker 5: and of my five children, only one son remained. This
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  Speaker 5: was blow upon blow. It was long before I regained
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  Speaker 5: my fortitude. At length, resignation and religion had their effect.
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  Speaker 5: I again attached myself to life. My son grew and
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  Speaker 5: helped me in my work. Now the state has called
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  Speaker 5: him away to bear a musket. This is to me
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  Speaker 5: a loss. Indeed, I can work no more. I am
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  Speaker 5: old and weak and true. It is but for missus
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  Speaker 5: Haller I must have perished.
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  Speaker 6: Still, then life has its charms for you.
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  Speaker 5: Why not while the world holds anything that's dear to me,
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  Speaker 5: have not I a son.
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  Speaker 6: Who knows that you will ever see him more. He
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  Speaker 6: may be dead, alas.
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  Speaker 5: He may, but as long as I am not as
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  Speaker 5: sure of it, he lives to me. And if he
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  Speaker 5: falls tis in his country's cause. Nay, should I lose him? Still,
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  Speaker 5: I should not wish to die. Here is the hut
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  Speaker 5: in which I was born. Here is the tree that
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  Speaker 5: grew with me, and I am almost ashamed to confess it.
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  Speaker 5: I have a dog.
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  Speaker 6: I love a dog.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, smile if you please, But dear me, my benefactress
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  Speaker 5: once came to my hut herself some time before you
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  Speaker 5: fix here. The poor animal, unused to see the form
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  Speaker 5: of elegance and beauty into the door of penury, rowled
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  Speaker 5: at her. I wonder you keep this eurly ugly animal,
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  Speaker 5: mister Tobias, said she, you who have hardly food enough
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  Speaker 5: for yourself. Ah Madam, I replied, if I part with him,
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  Speaker 5: are you sure that anything else will love me? She
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  Speaker 5: was pleased with my answer.
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  Speaker 1: Francis to stranger.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me, sir, but I wish you had listened. I
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  Speaker 6: have listened, and Sir, I wish you would follow this
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  Speaker 6: poor old man's example.
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  Speaker 1: Stranger pauses, here, take this book and lay it on
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  Speaker 1: my desk. Francis goes into the lodge with the book.
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  Speaker 14: Here.
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  Speaker 12: How much has this missus Holler given you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh sir, she has given me so much that I
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  Speaker 5: can look towards winter.
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  Speaker 12: Without fear no more.
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  Speaker 5: What could I do with more?
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  Speaker 14: Ah?
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  Speaker 12: True, I know it. You might buy your son's release.
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  Speaker 1: There presses a purse into his hand and exit.
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  Speaker 5: What is all this?
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  Speaker 1: Opens the purse and finds it full of gold.
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  Speaker 5: Merciful Heaven enter Francis now look, sir, is confidence in
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  Speaker 5: heaven unrewarded.
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  Speaker 6: I wish you joy. My master gave you this.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, your noble master, Heaven reward him.
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  Speaker 6: Just like him. He sent me with this book that
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  Speaker 6: no one might be witness to his bounty.
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  Speaker 5: He would not even take my thanks. He was gone
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  Speaker 5: before I could speak.
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  Speaker 6: Just his way.
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  Speaker 5: Now I'll go as quick as these old lads will
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  Speaker 5: bear me. What a delightful errand I go to release
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  Speaker 5: my Robert. How the lad will rejoice. There is a
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  Speaker 5: girl too in the village that will rejoice with him.
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  Speaker 5: Oh Providence, How good art thou. Years of distress never
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  Speaker 5: can efface the recollection of former happiness, but one joyful
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  Speaker 5: moment drives from the memory and age of misery.
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  Speaker 1: Exit. Frances looks after him.
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  Speaker 6: Why am I not wealthy? Death? Why am I not
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  Speaker 6: a prince? I never thought myself envious, but I feel
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  Speaker 6: I am. Yes, I must envy those who with the
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  Speaker 6: will have the power to do good.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Seene to an ante chamber in Wintersen Castle and
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  Speaker 1: Sir Susan meeting footmen with table and chairs. Why, George, Harry,
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  Speaker 1: where have you been latering? Put down those things?
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  Speaker 2: Misrus Holler has been calling for you this half hour.
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  Speaker 2: Luish done? What does she want with me?
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  Speaker 1: That she will tell you herself? Here she comes inter
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  Speaker 1: Missus Haller with a letter, a maid following very well.
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  Speaker 8: If those things are done, let the drawing room be
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  Speaker 8: made ready, immediately Exit Maids and George run immediately into
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  Speaker 8: the park and tell mister Solomon I wish to speak
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  Speaker 8: with him.
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  Speaker 1: Exit footman.
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  Speaker 8: I cannot understand this. I do not learn whether they're
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  Speaker 8: coming to this place be but the whim of a
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  Speaker 8: moment or a plan for a longer stay. If the latter, farewell, solitude, farewell, study, farewell. Yes,
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  Speaker 8: I must make room for gaiety and mere frivolity. Yet
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  Speaker 8: could I willingly submit to all? But should the Countess
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  Speaker 8: give me new proofs of her attachment, perhaps of her respect? Oh,
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  Speaker 8: how will my conscience upbraid me? Or I shudder at
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  Speaker 8: the thought if the seat be visited by company, and
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  Speaker 8: chance should conduct hither any of my former acquaintance. Alas, alas,
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  Speaker 8: how wretched is the being who fears the sight of
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  Speaker 8: any one fellow creature? But oh, superior misery to dread
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  Speaker 8: still more the presence of a former friend who's there?
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  Speaker 8: Enter Peter, nobody zony me so soon returned.
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  Speaker 4: Sharp lad and I on the road. I've had a
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  Speaker 4: bit of talk to and.
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  Speaker 8: But you have observed my directions.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, yes, I told old tobonas how he would
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  Speaker 4: never know as long as he lived that the money
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  Speaker 4: came from you.
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  Speaker 8: You found him quite recovered, I hope, I sure did.
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  Speaker 4: I he's coming out today for the first time.
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  Speaker 8: I rejoice to hear it.
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  Speaker 4: He said that he was obliged to you for all,
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  Speaker 4: and that before dinner would crawl up to thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Good Peter, do me another service.
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  Speaker 4: Ah a hundred, if you'll only let me have a
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  Speaker 4: good long stare at you.
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  Speaker 8: With all my heart. Observe when old Tobias comes and
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  Speaker 8: send him away. Tell him I am busy or asleep
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  Speaker 8: or unwell, or what you please, I.
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  Speaker 1: Will, I will Solomon without there go to.
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  Speaker 11: The post office.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, here comes mister Solomon.
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  Speaker 4: What Father? I so there is. Father's a main clever man.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: He knows what's going on all over the world.
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  Speaker 8: No wonder, for you know he receives as many letters
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: as a prime minister and all his secretaries.
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: Enter Solomon, Good morning to you, missus Halla. It gives
• 21:46
  Speaker 11: me infinite pleasure to see you look so charmingly well
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: you have had the goodness to send for your humble
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: servant any news from the great city. They're very weighty
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: matters in agudation.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I have my too, Missus Holler smiling.
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  Speaker 8: I think, mister Solomon, you must correspond with the four
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  Speaker 8: quarters of the globe.
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  Speaker 11: A big pardon, not with the whole world, Missus Haller.
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  Speaker 15: Consequently, but do be sure I have correspondents on whom
• 22:18
  Speaker 15: I can rely in the chief cities of Europe, Asia,
• 22:22
  Speaker 15: Africa and America.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: And yet I have my doubts whether you know what
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: is to happen this very day, at this very place.
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  Speaker 11: At these fairy place in nothing material be meant to
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: have sown a little balley today, But the ground is
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: too dry, and the sheep cheering is not to be
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: till tomorrow.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: No, nor the bullbay a'till.
• 22:46
  Speaker 11: Held your tongue, blockhead, Get about your business.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Blockhead, very again. I suppose I'm not opened more man too,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: missus holler goodbye, exit.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: The count will be here today, now what with his
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: lady and his brother in law Baron Steinfort.
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  Speaker 11: My letters say nothing of this. You were laughing at
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: your humble.
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  Speaker 8: Servant, you know, sir, I'm not much given to jesting.
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  Speaker 11: Peter, good letter day, His right honorable Excellency, Count Vindition
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: and her right honorable Excellency the counter is Vivendition, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: his honorable Lordship Baron Steinfort and Lord have mercy. Nothing
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  Speaker 11: in proper order here, Peter, Peter, enter.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Peter, Well, now wash the matter again.
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: Call all the house together directly as MP to the gamekeeper,
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: telling him to bring some venison to Rebecca, to uncase
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: the furniture and take the covering from the Venetian looking glasses,
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: that her right honorable Ladyship the Countess may look at
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: her gracious counter nnts, and tell the Girk to let
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: me see him without loss of time. And tell John
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  Speaker 11: to catch a brace or two of carp and tell
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: and tell, and tell Frederick to freeze my sunday Wig
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  Speaker 11: Mercy on us.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Tell there go exit Peter.
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: Evans, and so little the new furnishing of this old
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: castle is completed. Where are we to put his honorable
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: lordship the Baron?
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: Let him have the little chamber at the head of
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: the stairs. It is a neat room and commands a
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: beautiful prospect.
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: Very right, very right. But that room has always been
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: occupied by the Count's private secretary. I suppose, Oh, I
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: haven't you know the little lodge at the end of
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: the park. We can thrust the secretary into that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: You forget, mister Solomon, You told me that the stranger
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: lived there.
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  Speaker 11: What have we to do with the stranger who told
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: him to live there? He must turn.
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  Speaker 8: Out, that would be unjust. For you said that you
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: let the dwelling to him, and by your own account,
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  Speaker 8: he pays well for it.
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  Speaker 11: He does, he does. Nobody knows who he is. The
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: devil himself can't make him out, to be sure. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: lately received a letter from Spain which informed me that
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: a spy had taken up at his abode in this country.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: And from the description a spy ridiculous, everything I have
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: heard bespeaks him to be a man who may be
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: allowed to dwell anywhere. His life is solitude and silence.
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: It so it is.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: You tell me too. He does much good that he does,
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: He hurts nothing, not the worm in his way.
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  Speaker 11: That he does not.
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  Speaker 8: He troubles no one, true, true, Well, but what do
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  Speaker 8: you want more?
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  Speaker 11: I want to know who he is? The man would
• 26:04
  Speaker 11: only converse a little. One might have an opportunity of bumping.
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: If one meets him in the lime walk or by
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: the river, it's nothing but good morrow, and off he marches,
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  Speaker 11: once or twice. I've contrived to age in a word,
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: fine day, Yes, taking a little exercise, I perceive, yes,
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: and off again like a shot the devil take such
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: close fellows, say I, and like master, like men, not
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: a syllable. Do I know that Months's servant said, his
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: name is Francis.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: You are putting yourself into a passion, and quite forget
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: who are expected?
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: Oh so I do mercy on us? Then now you
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: see what misfortunes arise from not knowing people.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Tis near twelve o'clock already, if his Lordship has stolen
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: an hour from his usual sleep, the family must soon
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: be here. I go to my duty, and you will
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: attend to yours, mister Solomon Exit.
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: Yes, I'll look after my duty. Never fear. There goes
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: another of the same class. Nobody knows who she is. Again, However,
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: this much I do know of her, that her right
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: Honorable Ladyship, the Countess, all at once popped her into
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: the house like a blot of ink upon a sheet
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: of paper. But why, wherefore, or for what reason no
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: soul can tell. She is to manage the family within doors,
• 27:34
  Speaker 11: She to manage fire and faggots never die, managed everything
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: within and without, most reputably these twenty years, I must own.
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: I grow a little old, and she does take a
• 27:48
  Speaker 11: deal of pains. But all this she learned of me
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: when she first came here. Mercy otters. She didn't know
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: that linen was made of flex. But what was to
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: be expected from one who has no foreign correspondence?
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  Speaker 1: Exit end of Act one, Act two of The Stranger
• 28:22
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• 28:35
  Speaker 7: Act The second scene one a drawing room in the
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: castle with a piano, forte, harp, music, bookstand, sofas, chairs, tables,
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: et cetera.
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: Enter Solomon, Well for one, So I think I have
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: the advantage of Madame Hella. Such a dance a vibrom
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: I had to welcome their excellencies, and she's quite out
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: of the secret. And such a horn pipe by the
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: little brunette. I'll have a rehearsal first, though, and then
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: surprise their honors after dinner.
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: A flourish of raw music without Peter, without Stell may way,
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: there may.
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  Speaker 4: Way, my good friends, Tenant, Evilagers, John, George, Frederick, good friends,
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  Speaker 4: make way.
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  Speaker 11: It is not the count, it is any Baronshteinfort stand back,
• 29:37
  Speaker 11: I say, and stop the music.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Enter Baron Steinfort ushered in by Peter and footman, Peter
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: mimics and apes his father.
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: I have the honor to introduce to your lordship myself,
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: mister Solomon, who blesses the hour in which fortune allows
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: him to become acquainted with the Honorable Baron Steinfort, brother
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: in law of his right Honorable Excellency, Count vinces In
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: my noble.
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  Speaker 4: Master, bless our noble master.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Old and young. I see they'll allow me no peace
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: aside enough enough, good, mister Solomon. I am a soldier.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I pay a few compliments and require as few from others.
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  Speaker 11: I beg my Lord. We do live in the country,
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: to be sure, but we are equainted with reverence due
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: to insulted personages.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, we are acquainted with exalted personages.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: What is to become of me?
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: Well?
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Well, I hope we shall be better acquainted. You must know,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: mister Solomon, I intend to assist for a couple of
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: months at least in attacking the well stocked sellers of winters.
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: And why not whole years, my Lord, inexpressible would be
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: the satisfaction of your humble servant. And though I say it,
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: well stocked indeed are our sellers I have in every
• 30:56
  Speaker 11: respect here. Marriage matters in so fruval a prominent way.
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  Speaker 11: That is right, honorable expensive account will be.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Astonished, Barren Yarns, extremely sorry.
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: It is not in my power to entertain your lordship.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Extremely sorry.
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: Where can missus Hallah have hit herself, missus Hallah, Who
• 31:16
  Speaker 11: is she?
• 31:17
  Speaker 14: Why?
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: Who she is? I cannot exactly tell your.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Lordship, No, nor I.
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: None of my correspondents give any account of her. She
• 31:28
  Speaker 11: is hearing the capacity of a kind of a superior
• 31:31
  Speaker 11: housekeeper meetings. I hear her silver voice upon the stairs.
• 31:36
  Speaker 11: I will have the honor of sending her to your
• 31:38
  Speaker 11: lordship in an instant. Ah, don't trouble yourself, No trouble whatever.
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: I remain at all times, your Honorable Lordship's most obedient,
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: humble and devoted servant.
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  Speaker 1: Exit bowing, devoted servant, exit bowing.
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  Speaker 3: Now for a fresh place. Now am I to be
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: tormented by some shattering old, ugly hag till I am
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: stunned with her noise and officious hospitality. Oh patience, what
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: a virtue art thou.
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  Speaker 1: Into, missus Haller with a becoming curtsy. Barren rises and
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: returns abow in confusion aside, No, old she is not
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: cass another glance at her.
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  Speaker 3: No, by jove nor ugly.
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  Speaker 8: I rejoice, my Lord, in thus becoming acquainted with the
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: brother of my benefactress Madam.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: That title shall be doubly valuable to me, since it
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: gives me an introduction equally to be rejoiced at.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Missus holler without attending to the compliment.
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: This lovely weather then has enticed the Count from the city.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Not exactly that you know him, Sunshinea clouds are to
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: him alike, as long as eternal summer reigns.
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: In his own heart and family, the Count possesses a
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: most cheerful and amiable philosophy, ever in the same happy humor,
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: ever enjoying each minute of his life. But you must confess,
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: my lord, that he is a favorite child of Fortune,
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: and has much to be grateful to her for, not
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: merely because she has given him birth and riches, but
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: for a native sweetness of temper never to be acquired,
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: and a graceful suavity of manners, whose school must be
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: the mind and need. I enumerate among Fortune's favors the
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: hand and affections of your accomplished.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Sister Baron more and more shuck as her understanding opens
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: upon him.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: True, Madam, my good easy brother too seems fully sensible
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: of his happiness and is resolved to retain it. Yes,
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: quitted the service to live here, I am yet afraid
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: he may soon grow weary of wyndsoon and retirement.
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: I should try us not. They who bear a cheerful
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: and unreproaching conscience into solitude surely must increase the measure
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: of their own enjoyments. They quit the poor, precarious, the
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: dependent pleasures which they borrowed from the world, to draw
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: a real bliss from that exhaustless source of true delight,
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: the fountain of a pure, unsullied heart.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: This retirement long possessed so lovely an advocate.
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: I have lived here three years.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I never felt a secret wish for the society you left,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: and must have adorned never to fear. Thus belongs either
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: to a very rough or a very polished soul. The
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: first side convinced me in which class I am to
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: place you.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Missus holler with a sigh.
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: There may perhaps be a third class.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Indeed, Madam, I wish not to be thought forward, but
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: women always seem to me less calculated for a time. Men,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: there are a thousand employments, a thousand amusements.
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: But you have not dare I ask what they are?
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: The hands you play read write.
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: The noble employments of the chase, and the still more
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: noble employment of play.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I grant you nay, But did I ask what are
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: your employments for a day?
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: Oh my lord, you cannot imagine how quickly time passes
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: when a certain uniformity guides the minutes of our life.
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: How often do I ask? Is Saturday come again? So soon?
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: On a bright, cheerful morning, My books and breakfast are
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: carried out upon the grass plot. Then is the sweet
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: picture of reviving industry and eager innocence, always new to me.
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: The bird's notes, so often heard, still waken new ideas.
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: The herds are led into the fields, the peasant bends
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: his eye upon his plow. Everything lives and moves, and
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: in every creature's mind it seems as it were morning.
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: Towards evening, I begin to roam about from the park
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: into the meadows, and sometimes returning. I pause to look
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: at the village boys and girls as they play. Then
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: do I bless their innocence and pray to Heaven those laughing,
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: thoughtless hours could be their lot forever.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: This is excellent.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: These are summer amusements.
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: The winter the winter, Why forever picture winter like old age, torpid,
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: tedious and uncheerful. Winter has its own delights. This is
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: the time to instruct and mend the mind. By reading
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: and reflection at the season and two. I often take
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: my harp and amuse myself by playing or singing the
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: little favorite airs that remind me of the past, or
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: solicit hope for the future.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Happy indeed are they who can thus create and vary
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: their own pleasures and employments.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: Enter Peter, well well, pray now always ordered. All can
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: keep him back. No longer.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: He will come in inter tobias forcing his way.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: I must good Heaven, I must.
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: Missus, holler confused, I have no time at present. I
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: I you see, I am not alone.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, this good gentleman will forgive me. What do you
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: want to return? Thanks? Even charity is a burden if
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: one may not be grateful for it.
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: Tomorrow, good Tobias, Tomorrow, Nay, no false delicacy, Madam, allow
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  Speaker 8: him to the feedings of his heart, and permit me.
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  Speaker 3: To witness a scene which convinces me even more powerfully
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: than your conversation. How nobly you employ your time? Speak,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: old man.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: O lady, that each word which drops from my lips
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: might call down a blessing on your head. I lay
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: forsaken and dying in my hut. Not even bread nor
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: hope remained Oh, then you came in the form of
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: an angel, brought medicines to me, and your sweet consoling
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: voice did more than those. I am recovered to day
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: for the first time. I have returned thanks in presence
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: of the sun. And now I come to you, noble lady.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Let me drop my tears upon your charitable hand. For
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: your sake, Heaven has blessed my latter days. The stranger, too,
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: who lives near me, has given me a purse of
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: gold to buy my son's release. I am on my
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: way to the city. I shall purchase my Robert's release.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: Then I shall have an honest daughter in law. And
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: you if ever after that you pass our happy cottage.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: Oh what must you feel when you say to yourself,
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: this is my work?
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Missus Haller, in a tone of injury enough to bias enough.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: I beg pardon. I cannot utter what is breathing in
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: my breast. There is one who knows it. May his
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: blessing and your own heart.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Reward you exit Peter Following, Missus Haller casts her eyes
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: upon the ground and contends against the confusion of an
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: exalted soul. When surprised in a good action, the baron
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: stands opposite to her, and from time to time casts
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: a glance at her in which his heart is swimming.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Missus Holler, endeavoring to bring about a conversation.
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: I suppose, my lord, we may expect the Count and
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: Countess every minute.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Now, not just yet, Madam. He travels at his nature.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: I am selfish. Perhaps in not being anxious for his speed,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: the delay has procured me a delight which I never
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: shall forget.
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: Missus Haller, smiling, you satirize mankind, my lord. How so,
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: in supposing such scenes to be uncommon, I confess.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I was a little prepared for such an acquaintance as yourself.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I am extremely surprised when Solomon told me your name, situation.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: How could I suppose that A pardon my curiosity, you
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: have been or ah married.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Missus Haller, suddenly sinking from her cheerful raillery into mournful gloom.
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: I have been married, my.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Lord, baron whose inquiries convince his curiosity. You are restrained
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: within the bounds of the nicest respect a widow.
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: Then I beseech you. There are strings in the human
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: heart which touched will sometimes utter dreadful discord. I beseech you.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: I understand you I see you know how to conceal
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: everything except your perfections.
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: By perfections, alas.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: We're all music without.
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: That. I hear the happy tenantry announce the Count's arrival.
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: Your pardon, my lord, I must attend them.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Exit excellent creature?
• 41:27
  Speaker 12: What is she?
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: What can be her history? I must seek my sister instantly.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: How strong and how suddenly is the interest I feel
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: for her? But it is a feeling I ought to check.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: And yet why so? Whatever are the emotions she has inspired?
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: I am sure they are eyes from the perfections of
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: the mind, and never shall they be met with unworthiness.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: In mine exit scene too, the lawn Solomon and Peter
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: are discovered arranging the tenor trey rural music, inter Count
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: and Countess Winterson, the latter leading her child, the Baron,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Missus Holler, Charlotte and servants following.
• 42:19
  Speaker 11: Welcome ten thousand welcomes, your excellencies. Is some little preparation
• 42:25
  Speaker 11: made for welcome too, but that will be seen Anon.
• 42:29
  Speaker 14: Well, here we are Heaven bless our advance and retreat.
• 42:34
  Speaker 14: Missus Halla, I bring you an invalid who in future
• 42:37
  Speaker 14: will swear to new flag.
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: But yours mine flies for retreat and rural happiness.
• 42:43
  Speaker 14: But not without retreating graces and retiring cupids.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Too, Countess, who has in the meantime kindly embraced Missus
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Holler and by her been welcome to Winterson, My dear.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Count you forget I am present?
• 43:00
  Speaker 14: Why in the name of chivalry? How could I do
• 43:03
  Speaker 14: less than your gallant brother, the baron, who has been
• 43:06
  Speaker 14: so kind and nearer to kill my four grades in
• 43:09
  Speaker 14: order to be here five minutes before me.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Had I known all the charms of this place, you
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: should have said so with justice, don't you think William
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: much grown?
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: The sweet boy stoops to kiss him, and deep melancholy
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: overshadows her continance.
• 43:26
  Speaker 14: Well, Solomon, you provided a good dinner.
• 43:30
  Speaker 11: As good as haste would allow, Please your right honorable excellency.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, as good as count goes. Aside with Solomon and Peter.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Tell me iconjure you, sister, what juel you have thus
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: buried in the country?
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: What brother you caught it? At last?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Answer me, well, her.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Name is missus Holler, that I know, But but but
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I know no more.
• 43:59
  Speaker 12: Myself jesting apart, I wish to know.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: And jesting apart, I wish you would not plague me.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I have at least a hundred thousand important things to do. Heavens,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: the vicar may come to pay his respects to me
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: before I have been at my toilette. Of course, I
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: must consult my looking glass on the occasion. Come, William,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: will you help to dress me? Or stay with your father?
• 44:25
  Speaker 14: We'll take care of him.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Come, Missus Haller.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Exit with Missus Haller, Charlotte following baron aside and going.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I am in a very singular humor.
• 44:36
  Speaker 14: With it so fast, good brother, to my apartment.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: I have let us to.
• 44:43
  Speaker 14: I sure day, let us take a turn in the
• 44:48
  Speaker 14: park together.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Excuse me, I am not perfectly well. I should be
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: much bad company.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I exit the tenentry, retire.
• 44:59
  Speaker 14: Well, Solomon, you are as great a fool as ever
• 45:02
  Speaker 14: I see.
• 45:03
  Speaker 11: At your right, honorable excellency, service count points to Peter.
• 45:09
  Speaker 14: Who is that ape at your elbow?
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: Ape?
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 45:15
  Speaker 11: That is with respect to your excellency, be it spoken
• 45:19
  Speaker 11: the son of my body by name Peter Peter bows.
• 45:24
  Speaker 14: So so well, how goes all on?
• 45:29
  Speaker 11: Well? And good? Well and good? Your excellency will see
• 45:33
  Speaker 11: how I've improved the park. You'll not know it again.
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: Hermitage here Serpentine walks there an obelisk, a ruin, and
• 45:43
  Speaker 11: all so sparingly, all done with the most economical economy.
• 45:48
  Speaker 14: Well, I'll have a peep at your obelisk and ruins
• 45:52
  Speaker 14: while they prepare for dinner.
• 45:53
  Speaker 11: I have already ordered it and will have the honor
• 45:57
  Speaker 11: of attending your right honorable excellency.
• 46:00
  Speaker 14: Come lead the way, Peter, attend your young master to
• 46:04
  Speaker 14: the house. You must not tie him.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Exit conducted by Solomon.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: We'll go round this way, your little excellency, and then
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: we shall see the bridge as we go by, and
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: the new boat with all the fine ribbons and streamers.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: This way, your little excellency.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Exit leading the child. Scene three the ante chamber. Enter missus, Holler, what.
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: Has thus alarmed and subdued me? My tears flow? My
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: heart leads already? Had I apparently overcome my chagrin? Already?
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: Had I at least assumed that easy gaiety once so
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: natural to me? When the sight of this child in
• 46:59
  Speaker 8: an instant of powered me. When the Countess called him William,
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: Oh she knew not that she plunged uponiard in my heart.
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: I have a William too, who must be as tall
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: as this. If he be still alive, Ah, yes, if
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: he be still alive his little sister too. Why fancy
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: dost thou rack me? Thus? Why dost thou image my
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: poor children fainting in sickness and crying to their mother,
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: to the mother who has abandoned them?
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Weeps?
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: What a wretched outcast, am I, And that just today
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: I should be doomed to feel these horrible emotions just today?
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: Who had disguise? Was so necessary?
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: Arlette Charlotte entering, very pretty, very pretty? Indeed, better send
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: me to the garret at once, your servant, Missus Haller,
• 48:08
  Speaker 9: I beg, madam, I may have a room fit for
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: a respectable person.
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: The chamber into which you have been shown is I
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: think a very neat one, A.
• 48:17
  Speaker 9: Very neat one.
• 48:18
  Speaker 14: Is it?
• 48:19
  Speaker 9: Up the back stairs and over the laundry? I should
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: never be able to close my eyes.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Missus Haller, very mildly.
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: I slept there a whole year, did you?
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Then?
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: I advise you to remove into it again, And the
• 48:31
  Speaker 9: sooner the better I'd have you know, Madam, there is
• 48:35
  Speaker 9: a material difference between certain persons and certain persons. Much
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: depends upon the manner in which one has been educated.
• 48:44
  Speaker 9: I think, Madam, it would be only proper if you
• 48:47
  Speaker 9: resign your room to me.
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: If the Countess desires it.
• 48:51
  Speaker 9: Certainly, the Countess very pretty indeed, would you have me
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: think of plaguing her ladyship with such trifles? I shall
• 48:59
  Speaker 9: order my trunk to be carried wherever I.
• 49:01
  Speaker 8: Please, certainly, only not into my chamber provoking creature.
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: But how could I expect to find breeding among creatures born?
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: If one knows not whom in coming? One knows not?
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: Whence the remark is very just, Interer Peter, in haste?
• 49:20
  Speaker 16: Oh lord, oh lord, oh lord, oh lord?
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: What's the matter?
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: The child is falling into the river. Is Little Excellency's drowned?
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: Who?
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: What, honor, my young master?
• 49:37
  Speaker 8: Drowned?
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: Dead?
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: No, he's not dead.
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: Well, well, then, softly you will alarm the Countess, enter
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: the baron.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: What is the matter? Why oldest noise?
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: Noise?
• 49:52
  Speaker 8: Why be not alarmed? My lord? Whatever may have happened,
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: the dear child is now at least safe, you said, so,
• 50:01
  Speaker 8: I think, Master Peter.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Why to be sure? Is little excellency he's not her?
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: But he's very wet though, And the Count's taking in
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: the garden door to the house.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Right that the Countess may not be alarmed. But tell us,
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: young man, how could it happen from beginning to end?
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: Never mind particulars? You attended the dear child true into
• 50:28
  Speaker 8: the park, true, and then you went to the river.
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: True, long rebbit, I believe you're a witch.
• 50:37
  Speaker 8: Well. And what happened further?
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: Why you see his dear little excellency would see the
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: bridge ship father bill out of the old summer house,
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: and the streamers and the boat and all that. I
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: only turned my head round for a moment to look
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: after a magpie, and crush down went the bridge with
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: his little excellency. And oh how I was scared to
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: see him carry down the river?
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: And you drew him out again directly?
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: No, I didn't, No, your father did.
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: No he didn't.
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: Why you did not leave him in the water.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, we did, but we bored as loud as we could.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: You might have heard us down in the village.
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: Aye. And so the people came immediately to his assistance.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: No they didn't. But the stranger came that lives yonder
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: close to Old Toby and never speaks a syllable. Oddsportly kins,
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: what devil of a fellow is with a single spring
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: bounces he slap into the torrent sails and dives about
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: and about like a duck. Gets me old of the
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: little angels air and evm bless him, pulls him safe
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: and sound to try again.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: Ha ha ha, he's a stranger with him.
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: Oh no, he ran away. His excellency wanted to thank
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: him and all there, but he was off reinquished like
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: a ghost.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Enter Solomon.
• 52:17
  Speaker 11: Oh they'll careless, Violet. I disown you what an accident
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: might have happened, and how you have terrified his exit.
• 52:25
  Speaker 11: But I beg pardon bows his right honorable excellency. The
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: Count requests your will come.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Exit with missus.
• 52:33
  Speaker 9: Holler ha ha, Why mister Solomon, you seem to have
• 52:37
  Speaker 9: a hopeful pupil, Yes, Sarah, But mister Solomon, why were
• 52:41
  Speaker 9: you not nimble enough to have saved his young lordship?
• 52:44
  Speaker 11: Not in time, my sweetness. Besides mercy on us, I
• 52:49
  Speaker 11: should have sunk like a lump of lead. And I
• 52:53
  Speaker 11: happened to have a letter of consequence in my pocket
• 52:55
  Speaker 11: which would have been made totally illegible, a letter from
• 52:59
  Speaker 11: Constantine written by Chavellier what's his name?
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Draws a letter from his pocket and putting it up
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: again directly drops it. Peter takes it up slyly and unobserved.
• 53:13
  Speaker 11: It contains momentous matter. I assure you the world will
• 53:17
  Speaker 11: be astonished when it comes tonight. Not a soul will
• 53:20
  Speaker 11: suppose that old Solomon had a finger and pie.
• 53:24
  Speaker 9: No that I believe.
• 53:25
  Speaker 11: But I must go and see to the cellar, Miss,
• 53:28
  Speaker 11: your most obedient servant.
• 53:31
  Speaker 9: Exit Charlotte with pride, your servant, mister Solomon.
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: Is the letter from Constantinople. I wonder what it can
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: be about. Now, for it.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Opens it, I'd let us have it, Peter reads.
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: If so be, you say so, I'll never work for you, never,
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: no more. Considering is how your Sunday waistcoat has been
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: turned three times? It don't look amiss, and our charged
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: as little as any tailor of them all. You say
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: I must pay for the buckram, But I say I'll
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: be damned if I do so. No more from your
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: loving nephew Timothy. Twist from Constantinople. Why cousin Tim, ritty?
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Cousin Tim?
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: Who is he good? Lack? Don't you know cousin Tim?
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: Why is one of the best tailors in all a tailor?
• 54:35
  Speaker 9: No, sir, I do not know him. My father was
• 54:38
  Speaker 9: state coachman and wore his highness's livery.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Exit Peter, mimicking.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: My father was state coachwin and wore his ironish livery well.
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: And cousin Tim could have made his livery if you
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: go to that state coachman, indeed going enter.
• 55:01
  Speaker 11: Peter, you nini stay where you are? Is that chattering
• 55:06
  Speaker 11: girl gone? Didn't I tell you we would have a
• 55:09
  Speaker 11: practice of our dance. They're already on the lawn. Mock me.
• 55:13
  Speaker 11: I represent the count and you the baron.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Exit with affective dignity. Peter follows, mimicking Scene four. The
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: lawn seats placed rustic music dancers are discovered as ready
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: to perform. Solomon and Peter enter and seat themselves a
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: dance in which the dancers pay their reverence to Solomon
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: and Peter as they pass. At the end, Solomon and
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Peter strut off before the dancers. End of Act two,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Act three of the Strain by August Vaughan Kotsibu. This
• 56:04
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• 56:11
  Speaker 1: liberyvox dot org. Act the third scene one, the skirts
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: of the park and lodge, et cetera. As before the
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: stranger is discovered on a seat, reading.
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: Sir, sir, dinner is ready.
• 56:31
  Speaker 12: I want no dinner.
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: I've got something good.
• 56:34
  Speaker 12: You did yourself.
• 56:36
  Speaker 6: You are not hungry, no rises nor I The heat
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: takes away all appetite. Yes, I'll put it by perhaps
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: at night.
• 56:47
  Speaker 12: Perhaps.
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: Dear sir, dare I speak speak? You have done a
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: noble action walked you have saved a fellow creature's life.
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: Please do you know who he was? No, the only
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: son of Count Winterson, immaterial, a gentleman by report, worthy
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: and benevolent as.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: Yourself, stranger angry silence?
• 57:15
  Speaker 12: Dare you flatter me?
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: As I look to heaven for mercy? I speak from
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: my heart when I observe how you are doing good
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: around you, how you are making every individual's wants your own,
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: and are yet yourself unhappy? Alas my heart bleeds for you.
• 57:37
  Speaker 12: I thank you, Francis. I can only thank you, yet
• 57:44
  Speaker 12: share this consolation with me. My sufferings are unmerited.
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: My poor master.
• 57:52
  Speaker 12: Have you forgotten what the old man said this morning?
• 57:56
  Speaker 12: There is another and a better world. Oh? Oh tis true?
• 58:02
  Speaker 12: Then let us hope with fervency, and yet endure with patience.
• 58:08
  Speaker 12: What's here?
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Enter Charlotte from the park gate.
• 58:11
  Speaker 9: I presume, sir, you are the strange gentleman that drew
• 58:15
  Speaker 9: my young master out of the water.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: The stranger reads, or to Francis, are you he? Francis
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: makes a wry face.
• 58:23
  Speaker 9: Are the creatures? Both dumb?
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Looks at them by turns.
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: Surely Old Solomon has fixed two statues here by way
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: of ornament of any use. There is no sign.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Approaches Francis.
• 58:34
  Speaker 9: No, this is alive, and breathes yes, and moves its eyes.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Balls in his ear.
• 58:41
  Speaker 9: Good friend, I'm not deaf, no nor dumb. I perceive
• 58:45
  Speaker 9: at last is yon lifeless thing.
• 58:47
  Speaker 6: Your master, that honest, silent gentleman is my master.
• 58:53
  Speaker 9: The same that drew the young count out of the water.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: The same Charlotte to the stranger.
• 58:59
  Speaker 9: Sir, my master and mistress, the Count and Countess present
• 59:03
  Speaker 9: their respectful compliments and request the honor of your company
• 59:07
  Speaker 9: at a family supper this evening.
• 59:08
  Speaker 12: I shall not come, but you'll scarce.
• 59:10
  Speaker 9: Send such an uncivil answer as this. The Count is
• 59:14
  Speaker 9: overpowered with gratitude. You saved his son's life. I did
• 59:17
  Speaker 9: it willingly and won't accept of I thank you in return. No,
• 59:23
  Speaker 9: you really are cruel, sir. I must tell you there
• 59:26
  Speaker 9: are three of us ladies at the castle, and we
• 59:28
  Speaker 9: are all dying with curiosity to know who you are.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Exit stranger.
• 59:33
  Speaker 9: The master is crabbed enough. However, let me try what
• 59:37
  Speaker 9: I can make of the man bray.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Sir Francis turns his back to.
• 59:41
  Speaker 9: Her, beginning promises, little enough, friend, why won't you look
• 59:44
  Speaker 9: at me?
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: I like to look at green trees better than green eyes.
• 59:50
  Speaker 9: Green eyes, you monster who told you that my eyes
• 59:53
  Speaker 9: were green? Let me tell you there have been sonnets
• 59:57
  Speaker 9: made on my eyes before. Now glad to hear it
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 9: to the point. Then at once? What is your master?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: A man?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 9: I surmised as much. But what's his name?
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 6: The same as his father's?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 9: Not unlikely? And his father.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: Was married to whom to a woman?
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 9: Charlotte enraged, I'll tell you what who your master is?
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 9: I see I shall not learn, and I don't care,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 9: but I know what you are.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 9: What am I a bear?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: Thank you? Now to see how happy an example corrupts
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: one's manners, I am naturally the civilist spoken fellow in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: the world. To the pretty prattling rogues. Yet, following my
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: master's humor, I have rudely driven this wench away. I
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: must have a peep at her.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Though, looking towards the park gate enter stranger.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 12: Is that woman gone? Yes, princess sir, we must be
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 12: gone too, But with her, I don't care.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: I'll attend you.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 12: To any place to death. Heaven granted to me. At
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 12: least there is peace.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: Peace is everywhere. Let the storm rage without, if the
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 6: heart be but at rest. Yet, I think we are
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: very well where we are. The situation is inviting in nature,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 6: lavish of her beauties, and of her bounties too.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 12: But I am not a wild beast to be stared
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 12: at and set for as a show. Is it fit
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 12: I should.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: Be another of your interpretations? Then a man the life
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: whose only son you have saved, should invite you to
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: his house? Seems to me not very unnatural.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 12: I will not be invited to any house.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 6: For once methinks you might submit, you will not be
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 6: asked a second time.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 12: Proud wretches leave. The most essential service is requited if
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 12: one may but have the honor of sitting at the table.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 12: Let us be gone.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 6: Yet, hold sir, this bustle will soon be over used
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: to the town. The Count and his party will soon
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: be tired of simple nature, and you will again be
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: freed from observation, not from yours. This is too much.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 6: Do I deserve your doubts?
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 12: Am I in the wrong? You are, indeed, Francis my servant,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 12: you are my only friend.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: That title makes amends for all.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 12: But look, look, Frances, there are uniforms and gay dresses
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 12: in the walk again. No, I must be gone here.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 12: I'll stay no longer.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 6: Well, then I'll tie up my bundle.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 12: The sooner the better they come this way. Now I
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 12: must shut myself in my hovel and lose this fine breeze. Nay,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 12: if they be your high bred class of all, they
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 12: may have impudence enough to walk into my chamber, Princess,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 12: I shall lock.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: The door, goes into the lodge, locks the door, and
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: fastens the shutters.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 6: And I'll be your sentinel.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 12: Very well.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 6: Now, should these people be as inquisitive as their maid,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: I must summon my whole stock of impertinence. But their
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: questions and my answers need little study. They can learn
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: nothing of the stranger from me. For the best of
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 6: all possible reasons, I know nothing myself inter baron and countess.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: There is a strange face the servant, probably.
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  Speaker 3: Friend, Can we speak to your master? No, only for
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: a few minutes.
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  Speaker 6: He has locked himself in his room.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Tell him a lady waits for him.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: Then he's sure not to come.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: Does he hate all six?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: He hates the whole human race, but women particularly, And
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: why he may perhaps have been deceived.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: This is not very courteous.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: My master is not over courteous. But when he sees
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 6: a chance of saving a fellow creature's life, he'll attempt
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: it at the hazard of his own.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: You are right now he other reason of our visit,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: the wife and brother in law of the man whose
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: child your master has saved, wish to acknowledge their obligations.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 6: To him that he dislikes. He only wishes to live unnoticed.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: He appears to be unfortunate, appears an affair of honor perhaps,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: or some unhappy attachment may have.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: They may be this as it may.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: I wish to know who he is, So do I what?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: Don't you know him yourself?
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 6: Oh? I know him well enough. I mean his real self,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 6: his heart, his soul, his worth, his honor. Perhaps you
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: think one knows a man when one is acquainted with
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 6: his name in person.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Tis Well said, friend, you please me much, and now
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: I should like to know you. Who are you?
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 6: Your humble servant?
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Excellent?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: This is affectation, a desire to appear singular. Every one
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: wishes to make himself distinguished. One sails round the world,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: another creeps into a hovel, and.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: The man apes his master.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Come, brother, let us seek the count. He and Missus
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Holler turned into the lawn, going.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: Stay first a word or two. Sister, I am in love.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: For the hundredth time, for.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: The first time in my life.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: I wish you joy.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: Till now you have evaded my inquiries.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 11: Who is she?
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: I beseech you, distur be serious. There is a time
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: for all.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: Things, bless us.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: Why you look as if you were going to raise
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: a spirit? Don't fix your eyes so earnestly? Well, if
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: I am to be serious, I obey. I do not
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: know who Missus Haller is, as I have already told you,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: But what I do know of her shall not be
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: concealed from you. It may now be three years ago,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: when one evening about twilight, a lady was announced who
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: wished to speak to me in private. Missus Haller appeared
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: with all that grace and modesty which enchanted you. Her
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: features at that moment bore keener marks of sorrow and confusion,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: which have since settled into gentle melancholy. She threw herself
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: at my feet and besought me to save a wretch
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: who was on the brink of despair. She told me
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: she had heard much of my benevolence, and offered herself
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: as a servant to attend to me. I endeavored to
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: dive into the cause of her sufferings, but in vain
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: she concealed her secret, yet opened to me more and
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: more each day, a heart chosen by virtue as her temple,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: an understanding improved by the most refined attainments. She no
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: longer remained my servant, but became my friend, and by
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: her own desire, has ever since resided here.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: Curtseying brother, I have done.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: Too little to satisfy my curiosity, yet enough to make
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: me realize my project. Sister, len me your age. I
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: will marry her.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: You I beren steinfault for shame. If I understand you,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: not so harsh and not so hasty. Those great sentiments
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: of contempt of inequality in rank are very fine in
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: a romance. But we happen not to be the inhabitants
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: of an ideal world. How could you introduce her to
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: the circle we live in. You surely would not attempt
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: to present her.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: To object as you will. My answer is I love, sister.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: You see a man before.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: You who wants a wife.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: No with deliberately poised advantage against disadvantage, domestic keys, and
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: comfort against the false gareities of fashion, I can withdraw
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: into the country. I need no honors to make my
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: tenants happy, and my heart will teach me to make
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: that happiness my own. Such a wife as this, children
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: who resemble her, and fortunate enough to spread comfort around me?
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: What will the sirre This.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Is all vastly fine. I admire your plan. Only you
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: seem to have forgotten one trifling circumstance, and that is
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: whether Missus Holler will have you or not.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: There, sister, I just want your assistance seizing her hand.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: Good, Henriette, Well, here's my hand. I'll do all I
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: can for you. We had never been overheard. They are coming.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: Be patient and obedient, inter Count, and Missus Holler leaning
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: on his arm.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 14: Upon my word, Missus Heller, you are a nibbled walker.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 14: I should be sorry to run a rage with you.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 8: Custom my lord, you need only take the same walk
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 8: every day for a month.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 14: Yes, you are wanted to resemble by greyhounds. Well, what
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 14: says the stranger?
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: He gave Charlotte a flat refusal, and you see his
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: door and even his shutters are closed against.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 14: What an unaccountable being. But it won't do. I must
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 14: sure my gratitude one way or other, steinfought. We will
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 14: take the ladies home, and then you shall try once
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 14: again to see him. You can talk to these oddities
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 14: better than I can.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: If you wish it with all my heart.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 14: Thank you, thank you, Come, ladies, Come, Missus Halla.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: Exuit a scene to a close walk in the garden
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: into Countess and missus holler.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: Well, Missus Halla, how do you like the man that
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: just now left us? Who my brother?
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 8: He deserves to be your brother, Countess curtseying.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: Your most obedient That shall be written in my pocket.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 8: Book without flattery, then, Madam, he appears to be most amiable.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: Good and a handsome man.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: Missus holler with indifference.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh yes, it sounded almost like oh no,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: But I must tell you that he looks upon you
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: to be a handsome woman.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Missus Haller smiles.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: You make no reply to this?
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 8: What shall I reply? Derision never fell from your lips,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 8: and I am little calculated to support.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: It, as little as you are calculated to be the
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: cause of it. No, I was in earnest.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 8: Now you confuse me. But why should I play the prude?
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 8: I will own there was a time when I thought
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 8: myself handsome. Tis past alas the enchanting beauties of a
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 8: female countenance arise from peace of mind. The look which
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 8: captivates an honorable man must be reflected from a noble soul.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Then Heaven grant my bosom may ever hold as pure
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: a heart as now those eyes bear witness lives in yours.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: Missus holler with sudden wildness. Oh Heaven forbid, countess astonished,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: how Missus Haller, checking her tears.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 8: Spare me, I am a wretch. The sufferings of three
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 8: years can give me no claim to your friendship, No,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 8: not even to your compassion. Oh spare me.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: Going stay, missus Holler, for the first time, I beg
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: your confidence. My brother loves you.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Missus Haller, starting and gazing full in the face of
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: the countess, for.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 8: Mirth, too much, for earnest, too mournful.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: I revere that modest blush. Discover to me who you are?
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: You risk nothing, Pour all your griefs into a sister's bosom.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: Not kind, and can I not be silent?
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 8: Alas? But a frank reliance on a generous mind is
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 8: the greatest sacrifice to be offered by true repentance. This
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 8: sacrifice I will offer hesitating. Did you never hear? Pardon me?
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 8: Did you never hear?
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 8: How shocking it is to unmask a deception which alone
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 8: has recommended me to your regard? But it must be so,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 8: Madam I adelaide, does pride become you? Did you never
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 8: hear of the Countess Waldborg?
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: I think I did hear at the neighboring court of
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: such a creature. She plunged an honorable husband into misery,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: She ran away with a villain.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: She did indeed, falls at the feet of a count.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 8: Do not cast me from you, For Heaven's sake, you
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 8: are I amn't.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: That wretch countess turning from her with horror begone going
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: her heart draws her back.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: Yet she is unfortunate, she is unfriended. Her image is
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: repentance her life, the proof she has wept her fault
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: in three years, agony would be still a while remorseless prejudice,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: And let the genuine feelings of my soul avow. They
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: do not truly honor virtue? Who can insult the erring
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: heart that would return to her sanctuary looking with sorrow
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: on her rise? I beseech you rise, My husband and
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: my brother may surprise us. I promise to be silent
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: raising her.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 8: Yes, you will be silent. But, oh, conscience, conscience, thou
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 8: know ever wilt be silent clasping her hands, do not
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 8: cast me from you.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Never, your lonely life, your silent anguish and contrition may
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: at length atone your crime. And never shall you want
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: an asylum where your penitence may lament your loss. Your
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: crime was youth and inexperience. Your heart never was, never
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: could be concerned in it.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 8: Oh spare me. My conscience never martyrs me so horribly
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 8: as when I catch my base thoughts in search of
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 8: an excuse. No nothing can palliate my guilt. And the
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 8: only just consolation left me is to acquit the man
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 8: I wronged and own. I erred without a cause of
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 8: fair complaint.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: And this is the mark of true repentance. Alas my
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: friend when superior since recommended two by superior charms of
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: person a sail a young the wedded.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: Ah.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 8: Not even that mean excuses left me in all that
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 8: merit's admiration, respect and love. He was far far beneath
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 8: my husband. But to attempt to account for my strange infatuation,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 8: I cannot bear it. I thought my husband's manner grew
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 8: colder to me. Tis true. I knew that his expenses,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 8: and his confidence and deceitful friends had embarrassed his means
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 8: and clouded his spirits. Yet I thought he denied me
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 8: pleasures and amusements still within our reach. My vanity was mortified,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 8: my confidence not courted. The serpent tongue of my seducer
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 8: promised everything, but never could. Such arguments of vayled till,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 8: assisted by forged letters and the treachery of a servant
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 8: whom I most confided in, he fixed my belief that
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 8: my lord was false, and that all the coldness I
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 8: complained of was disgusted to me and love for another.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 8: All his home retrenchments but the means of satisfying a
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 8: rival's luxury maddened with this conviction. Conviction it was for
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 8: artifice was most ingenious in its proof. I left my children, father,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 8: husband to follow a villain.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: But with such a heart my friend could not remain
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: long in her delusion.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 8: Long enough to make sufficient penitence impossible. Tis true that
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 8: in a few weeks the delirium was at an end. Oh,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 8: what were my sensations when the mist dispersed before my eyes.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 8: I called for my husband, but in vain I listened
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 8: for the prattle of my children.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: But in vain, Countess, embracing her.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: Here, here on this bosom, only shall your future tears
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: be shed? And may I, dear sufferer, make you again
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: familiar with hope.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 8: Oh impossible?
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: Have you never heard of your children?
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 8: Never?
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: We must endeavor to gain some account of them. We
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: must hold my husband and my brother. Oh, my poor brother,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: I had quite forgotten him. Quick, dear missus, holler, wipe
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: your eyes, let us meet them.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 8: Madam, I'll follow. Allow me a moment to compose myself.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: Exit, Countess.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 8: I pause, Oh, yes, to compose myself. Ironically, she little
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 8: thinks it is but to gain one solitary moment to
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 8: vent my soul's remorse. Once the purpose of my unsettled
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 8: mind was self destruction. Heaven knows how I have sued
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 8: for hope and resignation. I did trust my prayers were heard.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 8: Oh spare me further trial. I feel, I feel my
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 8: heart and brain can bear no more.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: Exit. End of Act three, Act four of The Stranger
• 1:19:46
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• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: fourth scene one the skirts of the park lodge, et cetera.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: As before, a table spread with fruits, et cetera, francis
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: discovered placing the supper.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 6: I know he loves to have his early supper in
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 6: the fresh air, and while he sucks. Not that I
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 6: believe anything can amuse him. Yet I will try my
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 6: little savoyards pretty voices. I have heard him speak as
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 6: if he had loved music.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: Music without Oh here they are enter Anet and Claudine
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: playing on their guitars.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 8: Too well.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 16: The time less please we roumly.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 11: Free to have.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 16: Lessly We Rambles by Sigsbe.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 5: And where.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 16: Smile sasba le andes when creating to.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: During the duet, the stranger looks from the lodge window,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: and at the conclusion he comes out, what mummery is this?
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: I hoped it might amuse you, sir, amuse me? Well,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: then I wished to amuse myself a little. I don't
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 6: think my recreations are so very numerous.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 12: That's true, my poor fellow. Indeed they're not. Let them
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 12: go on.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 6: Well listen, But to please you, poor master, I fear
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 6: it must be a sadder strain. Annette, have you none
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 6: but these cheerful songs?
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 10: Oh plenty, If you are dolefully given, we can be
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 10: as sad as night. I'll sing you and air and
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 10: Missus Holler taught me the first year she came to
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 10: the castle.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: Missus Haller, I should like to hear that I have
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 6: a sign and sorrow.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 16: You agree on apod it rereads no sigh and chance,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 16: no tea.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 8: But it consumes my heart.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 16: This chaverish war, this love to despair my lot foreverever
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 16: be so my.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 7: Song's lord, the pays I there be never now ever known.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: By the stranger.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 12: Surprised and moved, Oh, I have heard that her before,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 12: But twas with other words, princess, share our supper with
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 12: your friends. I need none.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 6: Enters the lodge, so I feared. Well, my pretty favorites,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 6: here are refreshments. So disturbed again. Now will this gentleman
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 6: call for more music and make my master man return?
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 6: When you observe this man is gone.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: Exut Annette and Claudine. Francis sits and eats.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 6: I was in hopes that I might at least eat
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 6: my supper peaceably in the open air. But they follow
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 6: at our heels like bloodhounds.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 3: Enter Baron, my good friend, I must speak to your Mauster.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 6: Can't serve you?
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 6: It's forbidden.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: Baron offers money there, announce me?
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 6: Want no money?
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: Well, only announce me.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 6: Then I will announce you, sir. But it won't avail.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 6: I shall be abused and you rejected. However, we can,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: but try going.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: I only ask half a minute.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: Francis goes into the lodge.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: But when it comes, how am I to treat him?
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 3: I never encountered a Missinger before. I've heard of instructions
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: as to conduct in society. But how I am to
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 3: behave towards a being who loaths the whole world and
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: his own existence? I have never learned.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: Enter the stranger.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 12: Now, what's your will?
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: I beg pardon sir.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: For suddenly recognizing him, Charles Steindfort. They embrace.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 3: Is it really you, my dear friend? It is merciful
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: heavens how you are altered?
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 12: The hand of misery lies heavy on me. But how
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 12: came you here? What want you?
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 3: Strange?
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 5: Here?
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 3: Was I ruminating how to address this mysterious recluse. He
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: appears and proves to be my old and dearest friend.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 12: And you were not in search of me or knew
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 12: that I lived here.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 3: As little as I know who lives on the summit
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: of Carcassa's You this morning saved the life of my
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: brother in law's only son. A grateful family wishes to
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: behold you in its circle. You refuse my sister's messenger. Therefore,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: to give more way to the invitation, I was deputed
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: to be the bearer it, And thus his fortune restored
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: to me a friend whom my heart is so long missed,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 3: and whom my heart tis now so much requires.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 12: Yes, I am your friend, your sincere Fred. You are
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 12: a true man, an uncommon man. To you, my heart
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 12: is still the same. But if this assurance be of
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 12: any value to you. Go leave me and return no more.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: Stay. All that I see and to hear of you
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: is inexplicable tis you? But these alas are not the
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: features which once enchanted every female bosom, beamed gaiety through
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 3: all society, and one you friends before your lips were opened.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: Why do you avert your face? Is the sight of
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: a friend become made ful? Would you fear that I
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 3: should read in your eye what passes in your soul?
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: Where is that open look of fire which at once
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: penetrated into every heart and revealed your.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: Own stranger with asperity?
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 12: My look penetrate into every heart? Ah?
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, heavens, Rather may I never hear you laugh than
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: in such a tone, For Heaven's sake, Tell me, Charles,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: Tell me, I conjure you, what has happened to you?
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 12: Things that happen every day occurrence has heard of in
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 12: every street. Steinfort. If I'm not to hate you, ask
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 12: me not another question. If I am to love.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 17: You, leave me her, Charles awake as the fated ideas
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 17: of pastureys feel that a friend is near, recollect the
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 17: days we passed and hungry, when we wandered.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: Arm in arm upon the banks of the Danube, while
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: nature opened our hearts and made us enamored of benevolence
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: and friendship, And those blessed moments you gave me the
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: seal as a pledge of your regard. Do you remember it?
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 14: Yes? Am I?
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: Since that time become less worthy of your confidence. No, Charles,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: it grieves me that I am thus compelled to enforce
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: my rights upon you.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 12: Do you know this scar, comrade? Hat for hand, It
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 12: received and resisted the stroke aimed at my life. I
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 12: have not forgotten it. You knew not what a present
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 12: you then made me speak.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: Then I beseech you you cannot help me? Then I
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: can mourn with you.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 12: That I hate. Besides I cannot weep.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: Then give me words instead of tears. Both relieve the heart.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 12: Relieve the heart. My heart is like a close shut suppulcher.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 12: Let what is within it molder and decay. Why why
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 12: open the wretched charnel house of to spread up pestilence around?
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: How horrid are you look? Yes, a shame a man
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: like who has to crouch beneath a chance of fortune?
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 12: Steinfort I did think that the opinion of all mankind
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 12: was alike indifferent to me but I feel that it
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 12: is not so, my friend. You shall not quit me
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 12: without learning how I have been robbed of every joy
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 12: which life afforded. Listen, much misery may be contained in
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 12: a few words. Attracted by my native country, I quitted
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 12: you and the service. What pleasing pictures did I form
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 12: of a life employed in improving society and diffusing happiness.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 12: I fixated on castle as to be my abode. All
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 12: went on admirably. I found friends at length too. I
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 12: found a wife, a lovely, innocent creature, scarce sixteen years
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 12: of age. Oh, how I loved her. She bore me
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 12: a son and a daughter. Both were endowed by nature
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 12: with the beauty of their mother. Ask me not how
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 12: I loved my wife and children? Yes, yes, then I
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 12: was really happy.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: Wiping his eyes.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 12: Ha ha, a tear. I could not have believed it.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 12: Welcome old friends, twas long since we have known each
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 12: other well. My stories nearly ended. One of my friends,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 12: for whom i'd become engaged, treacherously lost me more than
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 12: half my fortune. This hurt me. I was obliged to
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 12: retrench my expenses contentment needs. But little I forgave him.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 12: Another friend, a villain to whom I was attached heart
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 12: and soul, whom I had assisted with my means and
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 12: promoted by my interest. This fiend seduced my wife and
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 12: bore her from me. Tell me, sir, is this enough
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 12: to justify my hatred of mankind and to palliate my
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 12: seclusion from the world? Kings laws, tyranny or guilt can
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 12: but imprison me or kill me? But oh God, oh God,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 12: hop Oh, what are chains or death compared to the
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 12: tortures of it deceived yet doting husband.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 3: To lament the loss of the theseus wife is madness.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 12: Call it what you please, Say what you please. I
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 12: love her still, and where is she? I know not,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 12: nor do I wish to know. And your children I
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 12: left them at a small town hard By.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: But why did you not keep your children with you?
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: They would have amused you in many.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 12: A chreary hour, amused me? Oh yes? Or their likeness
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 12: to their mothers should every hour remind me of my
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 12: past happiness? No, for three years I have never seen them.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 12: I hate that any human creatures should be near me,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 12: young or old. Had not ridiculous habit made a servant necessary,
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 12: I should never have engaged him, though he is not
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 12: the worst among the bad.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 3: Such too often are the consequences of great alliances. Therefore, Charles,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 3: I have resolved to take a wife from a lower
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: rank of life. You marry, you shall see her. She
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: is in the house when you are expected.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 12: Come with me what I mix again with the world
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 12: To do.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 3: A generous action without requiring things as noble and praiseworthy.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 3: It so obstinately to avoid those things, as to me,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: the kindness of burden is affectation.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 12: Leave me, believe me. Every one tries to form a
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 12: circle of which he may be this sutter. As long
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 12: as there remains a bird in these woods, to greet
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 12: the rising sun with its melody, I shall court no
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 12: other society.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 3: Do as you please to morrow, but give me your
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: company this.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: Evening, stranger, resolutely.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 3: No not to though it were in your power, by
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 3: this single visit to secure the happiness of your friendful.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: Life stranger starting ah.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 12: And I must.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 3: But how you shall sue in my behalf to missus haller,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: you have the talent of persuasion.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 12: I, my dear stang fart.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 3: The happiness or misery of your friend depends upon it.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: I can try that you shall speak to her alone,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 3: will you.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 12: I will, but on one condition, name it that you
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 12: allow me to be gone tomorrow and not endeavor to
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 12: detain me. Go whither no matter, promise this, or I
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 12: will not come.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 3: Well, I do promise. Come.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 12: I have directions to give my servant in.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: Half an hour, then we shall expect you. Remember we have.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 6: Given you a word.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: I have exit baron. The stranger walks up and down,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: thought and melancholy.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 12: Francis. Enter Francis, sir, why are you out of the way?
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 6: Sir? I came when I heard you call.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 12: I shall leave this place tomorrow with all my heart,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 12: perhaps to go into another.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 6: Land with all my heart again.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 12: Perhaps into another quarter of the globe.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 6: With all my heart still, into which quarter.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 12: Wherever heave it directs away away from Europe, from this
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 12: cultivated moral lazaret. Do you hear, Francis?
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 6: Tomorrow early very well going?
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 12: Come here? Come here first, I have an errand for you.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 12: Hire that carriage in the village. Drive to the town
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 12: hard by. You may be back by sunset. I shall
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 12: give you a letter to a widow who lives there.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 12: With her, you will find two children.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: They are mine, Francis, astonished, Your children.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 12: Sir, take them and bring them hither.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 6: Your children, sir.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 12: Yes, mine? Is it so very inconceivable.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 6: That I should have been three years in your service
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 6: and never have heard them mentioned? Is somewhat strange? Oh
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 6: you have been married?
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 12: Then well go go and prepare for our journey.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 6: That I can do in five minutes going.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 12: I shall come and write the letter directly.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 6: Very well, sir, exit, Yes, I'll.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 12: Take them with me. I'll accustom myself to the sight
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 12: of them, the innocence. They shall not be poisoned by
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 12: the refinements of society. Rather, let them hunt their daily
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 12: sustenance upon some desert island with their bow and arrow,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 12: or creep like torpid hotent tots into a corner and
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 12: stare at each other. Better to do nothing than to
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 12: do evil. Fool that I was to be prevailed upon
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 12: once more, to exhibit myself among these apes, What a
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 12: ridiculous figure I shall make? And in the character of
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 12: a suitor too. He cannot be serious? Tis but some
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 12: friendly artifist to draw me from my solitude? Why did
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 12: I promise him? Yet? My sufferings have been many, and
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 12: to oblige a friend, why should I hesitate at another
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 12: painful hour? To the wretched calendar of my life. I'll go,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 12: I'll go.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: Exit er seem to the ante chamber, Enter Charlotte.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 9: No, indeed, my lady, if you choose to bury yourself
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 9: in the country, I shall take my leave. I am
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 9: not calculated for a country life. And to sum up
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 9: all when I think of this, Missus Haller.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: Enter Solomon Solomon overhearing her last words, won't missus, my sweet.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 9: Miss Why, mister Solomon, who is Missus Haller? You know everything?
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 9: You hear everything.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 11: I've received no letters from any part of Europe on
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 11: the subject miss.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 9: But who is to blame the counted countess? She dines
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 9: with them, and at this very moment is drinking tea
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 9: with them.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 6: Is this proper by No?
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 9: Means shouldn't a count and a countess in all their
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 9: actions show a certain degree of pride and pomposity?
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 11: To be sure? To be sure they should?
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 9: No, I won't submit to it. I'll tell her ladyship
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 9: when I address her tomorrow that either Missus Haller or
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 9: I must quit the house.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: Solomon, seeing the baron, Enter Baron, Didn't I hear Missus
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: Hallah's name here? Solomon confused?
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 11: Why?
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, we Charlotte, tell my sister I wish to see her.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 3: Assume as the tea table is.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: Removed, Charlotte aside to Solomon.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 9: Either she or I. Oh that I'm determined.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 11: I asked what it was you were saying, right, please,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 11: your honorable lordship. We were talking here.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 3: And there they said that I almost began to suspect
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 3: some secret secret.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 11: Heaven forbid, messy you ornes knew I should have had
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 11: letters on the subject if there had been a secret.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: Well, then, since it was no secret, I presume I
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 3: may know your conversation.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 11: You do us great honor, my lord. Why then, at
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 11: first we were making a few commonplace observations. Miss Charlotte
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 11: remarked that we all had our faults. I said yes.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 11: Soon after I remarked that the best persons in the
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 11: world were not without their weaknesses.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 3: She said, yes, if you refer to missus Haller's faults
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 3: and weaknesses, I am desirous to hear more.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 11: Sure enough, Sir, and missus Hella is an excellent woman,
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 11: but she's not an angel. For all that, I am
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 11: an old, faithful servant who his excellency the Count. And
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 11: therefore it is mind you for you to speak when
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 11: anything is done disadvantageous to his interest. Well, for instance,
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 11: now his excellency may think he has at least some
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 11: score of dozens of the old six and twenty arc
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 11: mercy on us, there are not ten dozen bottles left,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 11: and not a drop has gone down my throat.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: I'll swear barren smiling.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: Missus Halla's non drunket.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 11: I suppose not she herself, for she never drinks wine.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 11: But if anybody be ill in the village, any poor
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 11: woman lying in the way, he goes a bottle of
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 11: the six and twenty. Innumerable other times that I've approved her,
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 11: she always answers me snappishly that she will be responsible
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 11: for it. So will I, mister Solomon, No, with all
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 11: my heart, You're honorable lordship. It makes no difference to me.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 11: I had care of the seller twenty years. It can
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 11: safely take my oath that I never gave the poorest
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 11: single drop of the whole course of my trust.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: How extraordinary is this woman?
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 11: Extraordinary? One can make nothing of her today. The vicar's
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 11: wife is not good enough for her. Tomorrow you may
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 11: see her sitting with all the women of the village.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 11: To be sure, she and I agree pretty well. For
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 11: between me and your Honorable Lordship, she has cast an
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 11: eye upon my son Peter. Has she yes? Peter's no
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 11: full I assure you the schoolmaster is teaching him to write.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 11: Would your Honorable Lordship please see a specimen. I'll go
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 11: for his copy book. He makes his potholes capitally.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 3: Another time, another time. Goodbye for the present.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: Mister Solomon Solomon bows without attempting to go.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 3: Good day, Mister Solomon.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: Solomon, not understanding the hint.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 11: Your Honorable Lordship's most obedient.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 3: Sir, Mister Solomon, I wish to be alone, as.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 11: Your lordship commands. If the time should seem long in
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 11: my absence, and your Lordship wishes to hear the newest
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 11: news from the seat of war, you need only sern
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 11: for old Solomon. I have letters from Leghorn, Cape Horn,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 11: and every known part of the habitable globe.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 3: Exit teat yourself, get hold. Did he not speak in
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 3: praise of missus hallah pan be his rage for news
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 3: and politics? Enter Countess well, sister, have you spoken to her?
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: I have, And if you do not steer for another haven,
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: you will be doomed to drive upon the.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 3: Ocean forever is she married.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 3: Is she have a good family?
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: I can't tell?
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 3: Does she dislike me?
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: Excuse my making a reply?
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 3: I thank you for your sisterly affection and the explicitness
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 3: of your communications. Luckily I placed it a reliance on either.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: I found a friend who will save your ladyship all
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 3: further trouble.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 2: A friend.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, the stranger who saved your son's life this morning
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: proves to be my intimate friend.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: What's his name?
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: Is he of a good family?
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 3: I can't tell?
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: Will he come herether?
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: Excuse my making a reply?
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: Well, the retort is fair but insufferable.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: You can't object to the dakapa your own composition.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: Inter Count and missus holler zones.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 14: Do you think I am sinocritic? But like the poor
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 14: sultan with marble legs? There you leave me tay to
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 14: tape with Missus haller as if my heart were a
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 14: mayor flint. So you prevailed, brother. The stranger will come then, it.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 3: Seems I expect him every minute.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 14: I'm glad to hear it. One companion more. However, in
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 14: the country we never can have two many.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 3: This gentleman will not exactly be in an addition to
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: your second. He leaves this place to morrow.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 14: But he won't I think no, Lady Vinderson, summon all
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 14: your charms. There is no art in conquering us poor devils.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 14: But this strange man, who does not care a doit
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 14: for you altogether is worth your efforts, thry your skill.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 14: I shan't be jealous.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: I allow the conquest to be worth the trouble. But
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: what Missus Haller has not been able to effect in
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: three months ought not to be attempted by.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: Me, Missus holler jocosely.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, madam, he has given me no opportunity of
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 8: trying the force of my charms, for I have never
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 8: once happened to see him.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 14: Then he's a blockhead, and you an idler, Solomon.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: Without this way, sir, this way, Solomon.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 11: The stranger begs leave.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 14: To have the honor welcome, Welcome, exit.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon turns to meet the stranger, whom he conducts in by.
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  Speaker 14: The hand, My dear sir, Lady Vitison, missus Hallah.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Haller, as soon as she sees the stranger, shrieks
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  Speaker 1: and swoons in the arms of the baron. The stranger
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  Speaker 1: cast a look at her and struck with astonishment and horror,
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  Speaker 1: rushes out of the room. The baron encounters bear Missus
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  Speaker 1: haller off, count following in great surprise. End of Act four,
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  Speaker 1: Act five of The Stranger by August Vaughan Kotsibu. This
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  Speaker 1: liberyvox org. At the fifth scene one the ante chamber,
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  Speaker 1: enter barren.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, deceitful hope, thou phantom of future happiness to thee?
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  Speaker 3: Have I stretched out my arms and thou hast vanished
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  Speaker 3: into air? Wretched Steinfolt. The mystery is solved. She is
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 3: the wife of my friend. I cannot myself be happy,
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  Speaker 3: but I may perhaps be able to reunite two lovely
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 3: souls whom cruel fate has severed. Huh, they are here.
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  Speaker 3: I must propose it instantly, inter.
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  Speaker 2: Countess and Missus holler into the garden, my dear friend,
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  Speaker 2: into the air.
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  Speaker 8: I am quite well. Do not alarm yourselves on my account, Madam.
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  Speaker 3: Pardon my intrusion, but to lose a moment may be fatal.
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  Speaker 3: He means to quit the country tomorrow you must devise me, sir,
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  Speaker 3: reconcile you to the stranger.
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  Speaker 8: How, my lord, you seem acquainted with my history.
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  Speaker 3: I am Wahlberg, has been my friend ever since we
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 3: were boys. We serve together from the rank of cadet.
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  Speaker 3: We have been separated seven years. Chance brought us this
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 3: day together, and his heart.
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  Speaker 6: Was open to me.
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  Speaker 8: Now do I feel what it is to be in
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  Speaker 8: the presence of an honest man? When I dare not
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  Speaker 8: meet his eye.
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  Speaker 1: Hides her face?
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  Speaker 3: If sincere repentance, if years without reproach, do not give
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 3: us a title to man's forgiveness? What must we expect hereafter? No,
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  Speaker 3: lovely penitent, Your contrition is complete error for a moment,
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  Speaker 3: rested from slumbering virtue the dominion of your heart. But
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: she awoke and with a look, banished her enemy forever.
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  Speaker 3: I know, my friend, he has the firmness of the man,
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 3: but with it the gentlest feelings your sex. I hastened
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 3: him with a fire of pure disinterested friendship. Will I
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 3: enter on this work that when I look back upon
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 3: my past life, I may derive from this good action consolation, disappointment,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 3: and even the resignation and despair.
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  Speaker 1: Going, Oh, stay, what would you do?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 8: Never. My husband's honor is sacred to me. I love
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 8: him unutterably, But never, never can I be his wife again,
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  Speaker 8: even if he were generous enough to pardon me.
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  Speaker 3: Madam, can you, Countess, be serious?
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  Speaker 8: Not that title? I beseech you. I am not a
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 8: child who wishes to avoid deserved punishment. What were my
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 8: penitents if I hoped advantage from it beyond the consciousness
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 8: of atonement for past offense? But if your husband himself, oh,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 8: he will not, he cannot, And let him rest assured.
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  Speaker 8: I never would replace my honor at the expense of his.
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  Speaker 3: He still loves you, loves.
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  Speaker 8: Me, then he must not. No, he must purify his
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  Speaker 8: heart from a weakness which would degrade him.
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  Speaker 3: Incomparable, woman, I gave to my friend, perhaps for the
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  Speaker 3: last time, Have you not one word to send him?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I have two requests to make. Often, when in
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 8: excess of grief, I have despaired of every consolation, I
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  Speaker 8: have thought I should be easier if I might behold
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 8: my husband once again, acknowledge my injustice to him, and
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  Speaker 8: take a gentle leave of him forever. This, therefore is
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  Speaker 8: my first request, a conversation for a few short minutes.
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  Speaker 8: If he does not quite abhor the sight of me.
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  Speaker 8: My second request is, oh, not to see, but to
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  Speaker 8: hear some account of my poor children.
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  Speaker 3: If humanity and friendship canevale, he will not for a
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  Speaker 3: moment delay your wishes.
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  Speaker 2: Heaven be with you, and.
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  Speaker 1: My prayers exit.
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  Speaker 2: Baron, come, my friend, come into the air, till he
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: returns with hope and consolation.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, my heart, how art thou afflicted my husband, my
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 8: little ones, pass joys and future fears. Oh dearest madam,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 8: there are moments in which we live years, moments which
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 8: steal the roses from the cheek of health and plow
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 8: deep furrows in the brow of youth.
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  Speaker 2: Banish these sad reflections. Come, let us walk. The sun
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: will set soon. Let nature's beauties dissipate anxiety.
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  Speaker 8: Alas, yes, the setting sun is a proper scene for me.
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  Speaker 2: Never forget a morning will succeed exceuent.
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  Speaker 1: Seem to the skirts of the park, lodge, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: As before ter barren honor.
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  Speaker 3: There is but one such pair. They shall not be parted.
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  Speaker 3: What I have undertaken is not so easy as I
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 3: at first hoped. What can I answer? When he asked
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 3: me whether I would persuade him to announce his character
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 3: and become the derision of society where he is right.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 3: A faithless wife is a dishonor, and to forgive her
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: is to share her shame. What though Adelaide may be
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 3: an exception, a young deluded girl who has so long
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 3: and so sincerely repented, Yet what cares an unfeeling world
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 3: for this? The world he has quitted? It tis evident
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 3: he loves us still. Upon this assurance bills my sanguine
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 3: heart the hope of a happy termination to an honest enterprise.
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: Inter Francis with two children, William and Amelia.
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  Speaker 6: Come along, my pretty ones. Come?
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  Speaker 2: Is it far to him? No?
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  Speaker 6: We shall be there directly now.
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  Speaker 3: Old Whose children are these?
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 6: My masters?
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 7: Is that my father?
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 3: It darts like lightning through my brain. A word with you,
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 3: I know you love your master. Strange things have happened here.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 3: Your master has found his wife again.
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  Speaker 6: Indeed, glad to hear it, missus Haller. Is she his wife?
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 6: Still more glad to hear it?
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 3: But he is determined to go from her? Oh, they
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 3: must try to prevent it. Surely the unexpected appearance of
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 3: the children may perhaps assist us how so, how do
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 3: yourself with them in that hut? For a quarter of
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 3: an hour is past. You shall know more, But no
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 3: more questions, I entreat you. Time is precious.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 6: Well, well, questions are not much in my way. Come, children, Why.
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  Speaker 8: I thought you told me I should see my.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 6: Father, So you shall, my dear Come, morpet goes.
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  Speaker 1: Into the hut with the children.
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  Speaker 3: Excellent, I promise myself much from missus. Artis. If the
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 3: mile look of the mother fails, the innocent smiles of
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 3: these his own children will surely find the way to
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 3: his heart.
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  Speaker 1: Taps at the large door. The stranger comes out, Charles.
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  Speaker 3: I wish you joy of what you have found her.
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  Speaker 12: Again, show a bankdrupt the treasure which he once possessed,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 12: and then congratulate him on the amount.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 3: Why not if it be your power to retrieve the whole.
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  Speaker 12: I understand you. You are a negotiator from my wife.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 12: It won't avail.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 3: Learn to know your wife better. Yes, I am a
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 3: messenger from her, but without a power to treat she,
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 3: who loves you unuttery, who without you never can be happy,
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 3: renounces your forgiveness because, as she thinks, your hown eye
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 3: is incompatible with such a.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 12: Weakness, for I am not to be caught, Charles can
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 12: sit well stank for it. Let me explain all this.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 12: I have lived here four months. Adelaide knew it, knew it.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 3: She never saw you too to day.
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  Speaker 12: That you may make fools believe here. Further, she knows
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 12: too that I am not a common sort of bed,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 12: that my heart is not to be attacked in the
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 12: usual manner. She therefore framed a deep, concerted plan. She
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 12: played a charitable part, but in such a way that
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 12: it always reached my ears. She played a pious, modest,
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 12: reserved part in order to cite my curiosity. And at
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 12: last to day she plays the prude. She refuses my
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 12: forgiveness in hopes, by this generous device, to extort it
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  Speaker 12: from my compassion.
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  Speaker 3: Charles, I have listened to you with astonishment. This is
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 3: a weakness only to be pardoned in a man who
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 3: has so often been deceived by the world. Your wife
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 3: is expressly and steadfastly declared that she will not accept
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 3: your forgiveness, even if you yourself were weak enough to
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 3: offer it.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 12: What then, has brought you hither.
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 3: More than one reason? First, I am come in my
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 3: own name as your friend and comrade, to conjure you
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 3: solemnly not to spurn this creature. From you or by myself.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 3: You will not find her equal.
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  Speaker 12: Give yourself no further trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Be candid, Charles, you love her still alas Yes, a
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  Speaker 3: sincere repentance has long since obliterated her.
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  Speaker 12: Crime, Sir. A wife, once in deuced to forfeit her
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 12: honor must be capable of a second crime.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 3: Not, sir, Charles, Ask your heart, what portion of the
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 3: blame may be your own?
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 12: Mine yours?
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 3: Who told you to marry a thoughtless and experienced girl
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 3: one scarce expects to establish principles at five and twenty
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 3: in a man? Did you require them? And a girl
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 3: of sixteen?
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 14: What of this?
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 3: No more? She has erd, she has repented, and during
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 3: three years their conduct has been so far above reproach
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 3: that even the piercing eye of calumny has not discovered
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 3: a speck upon this ragiant orb.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 12: Now were I to believe all this, and I confess,
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 12: I would willingly believe it. Yet she can never again be.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: Buid with extreme asperity.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 12: Oh what a feast it would be for the painted
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 12: dolls and firmen of the world. When I appeared among
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 12: them with my runaway wife upon my arm, What mark you, whispering, pointing, never, never,
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 12: never enough.
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 3: As a friend, I have done my duty. I now
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 3: appear as Adelaide's ambassador. She requests one moment's conversation. She
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 3: wishes once again to see you, and never more. You
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 3: cannot deny her this, this only, this last request.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 12: I understand this too. She thinks my firmness will be
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 12: melted by her tears. She is mistaken.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 6: She may coup.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 3: She will come, make you feel how much you mistake her.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 12: I give her another word, another word, give her this
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 12: paper and these jewels they belong to.
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: Her, presenting them that you may do yourself.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 12: Exit the last anxious moment of my life. Cross near.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 12: I shall see her once again. I shall see her
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 12: on whom my soul does this? Is this the language
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 12: of an injured husband? What is this principle of which
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 12: we call honor? Is it a feeling of the heart
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 12: or a quibble in the brain. I must be resolute.
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 12: It cannot now be otherwise. Let me speaks solemnly, yet mildly,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 12: and bewareth nothing of reproach escape my lips. Yes, her
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 12: penitence is real. It is real. She shall not be
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 12: obliged to live in mean dependence. She shall be mistress
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 12: of herself.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: She shall looks around and shudders.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 12: Oh, they come awake, insulted pride, Protect me, injured, honor.
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  Speaker 1: Inter Missus Haller, Countess and Baron. Missus Haller advances slowly
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: and in a trumor, Countess attempts to support her.
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  Speaker 8: Leave me now, I beseech you.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: Approaches the stranger, who, with averted conan and an extreme
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: agitation awaits her address, My lord stranger, with gentle, tremulous utterance,
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  Speaker 1: and face still turned.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 12: Away, what would you with me?
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: Adelaide, Missus Haller, much agitated, No.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 8: For heaven's sake. I was not prepared for this, adelaide. No, No,
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 8: for heaven's sake. Harsh tones alone are suited to a
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 8: culprit's ear.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: Stranger endeavoring to give his voice firmness.
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 8: Well, madam, oh, if you will ease my heart, if
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 8: you will spare and pity me use.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 12: Reproaches, reproaches. Here they are here on my sallow cheek,
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 12: here in my hollow eye, here, in my faded form,
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 12: these reproaches I could not spare you.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 8: Were I a hardened sinner. This forbearance would be charity.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 8: But I am a suffering penitent, and it overpowers me.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 8: Oh hus, then I must be the herald of my
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 8: own shame. For where shall I find peace till I
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 8: have eased my soul by my confession?
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 12: No confession, Madam, I release you from every humiliation. I
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 12: perceive you feel that we must part forever.
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  Speaker 8: I know it. Nor come I here to supplicate your pardon.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 8: Nor has my heart contained a ray of hope that
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 8: you would grant it. All I dare ask is that
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 8: you will not curse my memory.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: Stranger moved.
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  Speaker 12: No, I do not curse you. I shall never curse you.
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 8: Missus haller agitated from the conviction that I am unworthy
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 8: of your name, I have during three years, has abandoned it.
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 8: But this is not enough. You must have that redress
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 8: which will enable you to choose another, another wife in
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 8: whose chaste arms may Heaven protect your hours in bliss.
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 8: This paper will be necessary for the purpose. It contains
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 8: a written acknowledgment of my guilt.
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  Speaker 1: Offers it trembling, stranger tearing.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 12: It, perish the record forever. No, Adelaide, You've only possessed
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 12: my heart. I am not ashamed to own it. You
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 12: alone will reign there forever sensations of virtue, your resolute
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 12: honor forbid you to profit by my weakness. And even
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 12: if this is beneath the man, but never will another
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 12: fell Adelaide's place here missus haller trembling.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 8: Then nothing now remains but that one sad, hard just word.
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  Speaker 12: Farewell, stay a moment. For some months we have, without
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 12: knowing it, lived near each other. I have learnt much
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 12: good of you. You have a heart open to the
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 12: wants of your fellow creatures. I am happy that it
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 12: is so. You shall not be without the power of
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 12: gratifying your benevolence. I know you have a spirit that
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 12: must shrink from a state of obligation. This paper, to
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 12: which the whole remnant of my fortune is pledged, secures
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 12: you independence, Adelaide. And let only the recommendation of the
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 12: gift be that it will administer to you the means
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 12: of indulging in charity the divine propensity of your nature.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 8: Never to the labor of my hands alone will I
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 8: owe my sustenance. A morsel of bread moistened with the
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 8: tear of penitence will suffice my wishes exceed my merits.
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 8: It would be an additional reproach to think that I
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 8: served myself for even others, from the bounty of the
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 8: man whom I so deeply injured.
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 12: Take it, madam, take it.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 8: I have deserved this, but I throw myself upon your generosity.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: Have compassion on me, stranger aside.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 12: Phil Hunen, of what a woman hast thou robbed me?
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: Puts up the paper.
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 12: Well, madam, I respect your sentiments and withdraw my request,
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 12: but on condition that, if ever you shall be in
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 12: want of anything, I may be the first and only
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 12: person in the world to whom you will make your application.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 8: I promise it, my lord.
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 12: And now I may at least desire you to take
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 12: back what is your own.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: Your jewels gives her the casket, Missus holler open in
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: violent agitation, and her tears burst upon it.
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 8: How well do I recollect the sweet evening? When you
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 8: gave me these That evening my father joined our hands,
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 8: and joyfully I pronounced the oath of eternal fidelity. It
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 8: is broken, this locket you gave me on my birthday.
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 8: That was a happy day. We had a country feast.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 8: How cheerful we all were. This bracelet I received after
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 8: my William was born. No, take them, take them. I
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 8: cannot keep these unless you wish that the sight of
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 8: them should be an incessant reproach to my almost broken heart.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: Gives them back, stranger aside, I must go.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 12: My soul and pride will hold no.
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: Locker, turning towards her farewell.
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 8: Oh, but one minute more an answer to but one
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 8: more question? Feel for a mother's heart. Are my children
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 8: still alive?
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 12: Yes, they're alive and well, Yes they are well.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 8: Heaven be praised. William must be much grown, So what
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 8: have you not seen them? And little Amelia? Is she
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 8: still your favorite?
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: The stranger, who is in violent agitation throughout this scene,
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: remains in silent contention between honor and affection.
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 8: Oh, let me behold them once again. Let me once
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  Speaker 8: more kiss the features of their father and his babes,
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  Speaker 8: and I will kneel to you and part with them forever.
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  Speaker 1: She kneels.
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  Speaker 12: He raises her willingly adelaide. This very night, I expect
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  Speaker 12: the children. Every minute they have been brought up near
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  Speaker 12: this spot. I have already set my servant for them.
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  Speaker 12: Might ere this time have returned. I pledge my word
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  Speaker 12: to send them to the castle as soon as they
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  Speaker 12: arrive there, if you please, they may remain till daybreak tomorrow.
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  Speaker 12: Then they must go with me.
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  Speaker 1: The Countess and Baron, who at a little distance have
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  Speaker 1: listened to the whole conversation with the warmest sympathy, exchange signals.
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  Speaker 1: Baron goes into the hut and soon returns with Frances
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  Speaker 1: and the children. He gives the girl to the Countess,
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  Speaker 1: who places herself behind the stranger. He himself walks with
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  Speaker 1: the boy behind Missus Haller.
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  Speaker 8: In this world, then we have no more.
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  Speaker 1: To say, seizing his hand.
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  Speaker 8: Forget a wretch who never will forget you. And when
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  Speaker 8: my penance shall have broken my heart, when we meet
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  Speaker 8: again in a better world.
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  Speaker 12: There Adelaide, you may be mine, agad.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh parting. But as they are going, she encounters
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  Speaker 1: the boy and he the girl.
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  Speaker 8: Dear father, dear mother.
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  Speaker 1: They press the children in their arms with speechless affection,
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  Speaker 1: then tear themselves away, gaze at each other, spread their arms,
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  Speaker 1: and rush into an embrace. The children run and clean
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  Speaker 1: around their parents. The curtain falls. End of the Stranger
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  Speaker 1: by August Vaughan Kotsubu