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Rover Vol. 01 No. 19-Lawrence Labree, Seba Smith · The Best Short Stories of 1917

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  Speaker 1: Section one of the Rover Volume one, number nineteen. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Read by Mike Manelachus The Rover Volume one,
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  Speaker 1: number nineteen, edited by Seba Smith and Lawrence LaBrie. Section
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  Speaker 1: one Malvolio and the Countess, or the Story of the
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  Speaker 1: under Plot in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Seba Smith. According
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  Speaker 1: to the accounts given by one mister William Shakespeare, a
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  Speaker 1: gentleman who lived many years ago, and who was said
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  Speaker 1: to be quite a writer in his day, there lived
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in Ellyria a certain proud lady, a rich countess
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  Speaker 1: whose name was Olivia. She had many suitors, but being
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  Speaker 1: a proud, high toned miss, she would never give her
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  Speaker 1: hand where her heart was not. The Duke of Illyria
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  Speaker 1: wooed her with pressing importunity, but the burden of her
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  Speaker 1: answer was, I cannot love him, yet I suppose him virtuous,
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  Speaker 1: know him noble, of great est state, of fresh and
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  Speaker 1: stainless youth, in voices, well divulged, free, learned and valiant,
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  Speaker 1: and in dimension and the shape of nature, a gracious person,
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  Speaker 1: yet I cannot love him. This same rich countess had
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  Speaker 1: a roguish waiting maid whose name was Mariah. One Malvolio
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  Speaker 1: was her steward, a conceited, shallow, important personage, who may
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  Speaker 1: be seen by the reader if he will take the
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  Speaker 1: trouble to glance at the engraving herewith presented, standing by
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  Speaker 1: the side of his lady, fantastically dressed and bestowing upon
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  Speaker 1: her his sweetest and most effective smiles. The cause and
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  Speaker 1: the occasion of this meeting, And these looks and smiles,
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  Speaker 1: according to the chronicles left by the aforesaid mister William,
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  Speaker 1: shakers were something on this wise. Sir Toby Belch, an
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  Speaker 1: old uncle of the countess, a high liver and an
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  Speaker 1: uproarious sort of a fellow, was quartered on the rich
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  Speaker 1: lady to drink her wine and live on her bounty.
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  Speaker 1: To help him in his arduous labors, he had sometimes
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  Speaker 1: a boon companion by the name of Sir Andrew Aguchik.
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  Speaker 1: It happened one night that these gentlemen kept up the
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  Speaker 1: carousing to a late hour, and so full of noise
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  Speaker 1: and song were they that they disturbed the house, and
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  Speaker 1: in modern days probably would have secured to themselves the
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  Speaker 1: appellation of rowdies another stoop of wine Mariah, quoth Sir Toby,
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  Speaker 1: as the door opened and Malvolio entered, full of dignity
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  Speaker 1: and importance. He had been called up by his lady
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  Speaker 1: to go and put an end to the tumult. Malvolio
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  Speaker 1: was not the man to be mealy mouthed when he
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  Speaker 1: had stern duties to perform, and he led out upon
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  Speaker 1: them according to the importance of the occasion. My masters
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  Speaker 1: said he are you mad? Or what are you? Have
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  Speaker 1: you no wit, manners nor honesty but the gabble like
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  Speaker 1: tinkers at this time of the night. Do you make
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  Speaker 1: an alehouse of my lady's house? That ye squeak out
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  Speaker 1: your kozier's catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice.
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  Speaker 1: Is there no respect a place, persons nor time in you?
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  Speaker 1: Whereupon Sir Toby began to bristole up and replied, somewhat gruffly,
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  Speaker 1: we did keep time, sir, and our catches and be
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  Speaker 1: hanged to you. But Malvolio was down upon him again
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  Speaker 1: in a round turn. Sir Toby said, he I must
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  Speaker 1: be round with you. My lady bade me tell you
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  Speaker 1: that though she harbors you as her kinsman. She's nothing
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  Speaker 1: allied to your disorders. If you can separate yourself and
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  Speaker 1: your misdemeanors, you are welcome to the house. If not,
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  Speaker 1: and it please you to take leave of her, she
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  Speaker 1: is very willing to bid you farewell. Upon this, Sir
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  Speaker 1: Toby only breaks out into a new song, farewell, dear heart,
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  Speaker 1: since I must needs be gone. Mariah tried to hush
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  Speaker 1: him up, which, instead of recommending her to the favor
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  Speaker 1: of Malvolio, as it should have done, only had the
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  Speaker 1: effect to bring down a broadside upon herself. Mistress Mariah said, Malvolio,
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  Speaker 1: if you prized my mistress's favor at anything more than contempt,
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  Speaker 1: you would not give means for this uncivil rule. She
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  Speaker 1: shall know of it by this hand. Having thus blown
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  Speaker 1: his blast, he withdrew, leaving the company to digest his
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  Speaker 1: rebuke with what stomachs they could, and to pour out
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  Speaker 1: their indignation upon him. Sir Andrew Aguchik was for sending
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  Speaker 1: him a challenge to the field, and then to break
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  Speaker 1: the promise and make a fool of him. Sir Toby
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  Speaker 1: seconded the motion, but the roguish Mariah, with a true
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  Speaker 1: woman's spirit, was for adopting a deeper plot. Be patient
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  Speaker 1: for to night, said Mariah. My lady is much out
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  Speaker 1: of quiet for Monsieur Malvolio. Let me be alone with him,
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  Speaker 1: if I do not gull him into a by word
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  Speaker 1: and make him a common recreation. Do not think I
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  Speaker 1: have wit enough to lie straight in my bed? I
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  Speaker 1: know I can do it. Only see how the woman
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  Speaker 1: breaks out again here? I know I can do it.
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  Speaker 1: Who but a woman would be so positive? Well, true,
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  Speaker 1: she did do it. She had a right to be
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  Speaker 1: positive that time. But miss Mariah, how do you propose
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  Speaker 1: to do it? Why? Said she? He is so crammed
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  Speaker 1: as he thinks with excellencies that it is his ground
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  Speaker 1: of faith, that all that look on him love him,
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  Speaker 1: and on that vice in him? Will my revenge have
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  Speaker 1: some notable cause to work. I will drop in his
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  Speaker 1: way some obscure epistle of love, wherein by the color
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  Speaker 1: of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner
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  Speaker 1: of his gait, the expression of his eye, forehead and complexion,
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  Speaker 1: he shall find himself most feelingly personated. I can write,
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  Speaker 1: very like my lady, your niece, on a forgotten matter.
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  Speaker 1: We can hardly make distinction of our hands good, exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: Sir Toby. Excellent, I smell a device, and I have
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  Speaker 1: in my nose too, said Sir Andrew Aguchik. Believing Mariah
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  Speaker 1: had the matter well cut and dried and would bring
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  Speaker 1: it out about right, they concluded at last to go
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  Speaker 1: off quietly to bed. The next day, the scene of
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  Speaker 1: their operations was laid in the garden. At a certain
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  Speaker 1: hour when Malvolio would be walking there, Sir Toby and
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  Speaker 1: Sir Andrew concealed themselves in a box street to behold
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  Speaker 1: the sport. Mariah had dropped the letter where Malvolio could
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  Speaker 1: not fail to see it, and it seems she had
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  Speaker 1: given him certain hints before to put him on the
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  Speaker 1: right train of thought. For as Malvolio entered the guard
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  Speaker 1: and he was soliloquizing after this sort, tis but fortune,
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  Speaker 1: all his fortune. Mariah once told me she did affect me,
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  Speaker 1: and I have heard herself come thus near that she
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  Speaker 1: should fancy it should be one of my complexion. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: she uses me with more exalted respect than anyone else
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  Speaker 1: that follows her. What should I think on it? To be?
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  Speaker 1: Count Malvolio, gracious? There is example for it. The lady
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  Speaker 1: of the Strachie married the yeoman of the wardrobe, having
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  Speaker 1: been married three months to her, sitting in my state,
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  Speaker 1: calling my officers about me in my branched velvet gown,
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  Speaker 1: having come from my bed where I have left Olivia sleeping,
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  Speaker 1: and then to have the humor of state, and after
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  Speaker 1: a demure travel of regard, telling them I know my
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  Speaker 1: place as I would, they should do theirs to ask
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  Speaker 1: for my kinsman Toby. Seven of my people, with an
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  Speaker 1: obedient start make out for him. I frown the while,
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  Speaker 1: and perchance wind up my watch or play with some
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  Speaker 1: rich jewel. Toby approaches courtesies there to me. I extend
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  Speaker 1: my hand to him, thus quenching my familiar smile, with
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  Speaker 1: an austere regard of control, saying, cousin Toby, my fortunes
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  Speaker 1: having cast me on your niece, give me this prerogative
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  Speaker 1: of speech. You must amend your drunkenness. Besides, you waste
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  Speaker 1: the treasure of your time with a foolish knight. When
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  Speaker 1: sir Andrew here the eye of Malvolio fell upon the
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  Speaker 1: letter which Mariah had laid in his way, and he
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  Speaker 1: hastily caught it up. What employment have we here? By
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  Speaker 1: my life? This is my lady's hand. These be her
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  Speaker 1: very seas, her ewes, and her teas, and thus makes
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  Speaker 1: she her great peas. It is in contempt of question
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  Speaker 1: her hand. He reads the superscription. It is addressed to
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  Speaker 1: the unknown beloved. He breaks the seal and reads as follows.
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  Speaker 1: Jove knows I love, but who lips do not move?
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  Speaker 1: No man doth know. I may command where I adore,
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  Speaker 1: But silence, like a lucres knife with bloodless strokes, my
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  Speaker 1: heart doth gore, m o ai, doth sway my life.
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  Speaker 1: Nay quoth malvolio. But first let me see, Let me see,
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  Speaker 1: Let me see. I may command where I adore. Why
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  Speaker 1: she may command me. I serve her. She is my lady.
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  Speaker 1: Why this is evident to any formal capacity. But what
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  Speaker 1: should that alphabetical position pretend? If I can make that
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  Speaker 1: resemble something in me? Softly, m o ai, this simulation
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  Speaker 1: is not as the former. And yet to crush this
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  Speaker 1: a little, it would bow to me. For every one
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  Speaker 1: of these letters are in my name. Here follows prose.
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  Speaker 1: If this fall into thy hand and revolve in my stars,
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  Speaker 1: I am above thee. Be not afraid of greatness. Some
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  Speaker 1: are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness
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  Speaker 1: thrust upon them. Thy fates open their hands. Let thy
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  Speaker 1: blood and spirit embrace them. And to innure thyself to
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  Speaker 1: what thou art like to be cast thy humble sloth
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  Speaker 1: and appear fresh, be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants,
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  Speaker 1: put thyself into the trick of singularity. She thus advises
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  Speaker 1: THEE who sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy yellow
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  Speaker 1: stockings and wished to see thee ever cross gartered. I say, remember,
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  Speaker 1: go too, thou art made if thou desirest to be so,
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  Speaker 1: If not let me see thee a steward, still the
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  Speaker 1: fellow of servants and not worthy to touch fortune's fingers,
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  Speaker 1: she they would alter services with thee. The fortunate unhappy
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  Speaker 1: this is open. I will be proud. I will baffle
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  Speaker 1: Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance. I will
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  Speaker 1: be point de vice the very man. I do not
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  Speaker 1: now fool myself to let imagination jade me. For every
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  Speaker 1: reason excites to this that my lady loves me. She
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  Speaker 1: did commend my yellow stockings of late, she did praise
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  Speaker 1: my leg being cross guarded, And in this she manifests
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  Speaker 1: herself to my love, and with a kind of injunction,
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  Speaker 1: drives me to these habits of her liking. I think
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  Speaker 1: my stars. I am happy. I will be strange, stout
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  Speaker 1: in yellow stockings and cross guarded, even with the swiftness
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  Speaker 1: of putting on Jove, and my stars be praised. Here
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  Speaker 1: is yet a PostScript. Thou canst not choose, but know
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  Speaker 1: who I am. If thou entertainest my love, let it
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  Speaker 1: appear in thy smiling. Thy smiles become THEE. Well. Therefore
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  Speaker 1: in my presence, still smile, dear, my sweet I prithee Jove,
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  Speaker 1: I thank THEE. I will smile. I will do everything
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  Speaker 1: that thou wilt have me. Thus full of joy and exultation,
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  Speaker 1: Malvolio left the garden, and Sir Toby and Sir Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: who had seen and heard all, came forth from her
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  Speaker 1: hiding place and met the roguish Mariah. If you will
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  Speaker 1: see the fruits of this sport, said Mariah, mark his
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  Speaker 1: first approach before my lady. He will come to her
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  Speaker 1: in yellow stockings and tis a color she abhors, and
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  Speaker 1: cross guarded, a fashion she detests, and he will smile
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  Speaker 1: upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition.
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  Speaker 1: Being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it
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  Speaker 1: cannot but turn him into a notable contempt. If you
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  Speaker 1: will see it, follow me. Malvolio was not long in
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  Speaker 1: making his toilet, and Mariah, having watched his movements, again,
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  Speaker 1: met Sir Toby and Sir Andrew. If you desire spleen,
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  Speaker 1: said she, and will laugh yourselves into stitches. Follow me.
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  Speaker 1: He's in yellow stockings and cross guarded. He does obey
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  Speaker 1: every point of the letter that I drop to betray him.
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  Speaker 1: He does smile his face into more lines than are
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  Speaker 1: in the new map. With the augmentation of the indies.
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  Speaker 1: I can hardly forbear hurling things at him. I know
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  Speaker 1: my lady will strike him. If she do, he'll smile
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  Speaker 1: and take it for a great favor. The Countess was
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  Speaker 1: sitting in an arbor in her garden, musing sadly for
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  Speaker 1: an affair of the heart, was weighing heavily upon her.
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  Speaker 1: Where is Malvolio?
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  Speaker 2: Said she?
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  Speaker 1: He is sad and civil and suits well for servant
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  Speaker 1: with my fortunes, he is coming, madam, said Mariah. But
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  Speaker 1: in a strange manner. He is sure possessed. Why what
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  Speaker 1: is the matter? Does he rave no madam, he does
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  Speaker 1: nothing but smile. Your ladyship will best have guard about
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  Speaker 1: you if he come. For sure the man is tainted
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  Speaker 1: in his wits. Malvolio approaches, his face wreathed and smiles,
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  Speaker 1: his cap in hand and his chin resting on his finger.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet lady, ho ho, said Malvolio. Smilest thou said the Countess.
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  Speaker 1: I sent for thee upon a sad occasion. Sad, lady,
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  Speaker 1: I could be sad, said Malvolio. This does make some
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  Speaker 1: obstruction in the blood, this cross gartering, But what of that?
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  Speaker 1: If it please the eye of one, it is with
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  Speaker 1: me as the very true sonnet is, Please one, please all.
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  Speaker 1: Why how dost thou man, said the countess. What is
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  Speaker 1: the matter with thee? Not black in my mind, said Malvolio,
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  Speaker 1: Though yellow in my legs. It did come to his hands,
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  Speaker 1: and commands shall be executed. I think we do know
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  Speaker 1: the sweet Roman hand God comfort thee, said the countess.
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  Speaker 1: Why dost thou smile so and kiss thy hands so oft?
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  Speaker 1: Why appear you, said Mariah, with this ridiculous boldness before
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  Speaker 1: my lady. Be not afraid of greatness, said Malvolio. TI
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  Speaker 1: twas well writ what meanest thou by that, Malvolio, said
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  Speaker 1: the Countess. Some are born great, said Malvolio, some achieve greatness,
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  Speaker 1: and some have greatness thrust upon them. Heaven restore thee,
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  Speaker 1: said the Countess. Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, said Malvolio,
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  Speaker 1: and wished to see thee cross guarded thy yellow stockings,
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  Speaker 1: and cross guarded, said the Countess. Why this is very
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  Speaker 1: midsummer madness.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: The Countess was called away to see company, but before
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  Speaker 1: returning she gave Mariah strict orders to call Sir Toby
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  Speaker 1: and see that poor Malvolio was immediately looked at and
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  Speaker 1: special care taken of him. Sir Toby and the servants
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  Speaker 1: directly made their appearance, and after bantering with Malvolio a
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  Speaker 1: while and witnessing his haughty air and commanding tone, they
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  Speaker 1: thrust him into a dark room, where he was kept
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  Speaker 1: confined for the day. After much pleading with the clown,
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  Speaker 1: he obtained pen, ink and paper and wrote the following
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  Speaker 1: letter to the Lady Countess. By the Lord Madam, you
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  Speaker 1: wrong me, and the world shall know it. Though you
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  Speaker 1: have put me into darkness and given your drunken cousin
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  Speaker 1: rule over me, yet have I the benefit of my
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  Speaker 1: senses as well as your ladyship. I have put your
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  Speaker 1: own letter that induced me to the semblance I put
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  Speaker 1: on with the which I doubt not, but to do
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  Speaker 1: myself much right or you much shame. Think of me
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  Speaker 1: as you please. I leave my duty a little unthought of,
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  Speaker 1: and speak out of my injury. The madly used Malvolio.
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  Speaker 1: This letter was conveyed by the clown to the Countess.
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  Speaker 1: The Lady you read it, and at once concluded that
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  Speaker 1: it showed too much method for madness. She ordered Malvolio
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  Speaker 1: to be released and brought before her. Madam, you have
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  Speaker 1: done me wrong, notorious wrong, said Malvolio, as he came
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  Speaker 1: into her ladyship's presence. Have I Malvolio, No, said the Countess. Lady,
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  Speaker 1: you have said, Malvolio, pray you peruse that letter. You
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  Speaker 1: must not now deny it as your hand write from it.
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  Speaker 1: If you can in hand or phrase or say, tis
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  Speaker 1: not your seal nor your invention, you can say none
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  Speaker 1: of this. Well, grant it then, and tell me, in
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  Speaker 1: the modesty of honor, why you have given me such
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  Speaker 1: clear lights of favor. Bade me come smiling and cross
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  Speaker 1: gartered to you to put on yellow stockings. And to
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  Speaker 1: frown upon Sir Toby and the lighter people, and acting
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  Speaker 1: this in an obedient hope. Why have you suffered me
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  Speaker 1: to be imprisoned, kept in a dark house, visit by
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  Speaker 1: the priest, and made the most notorious gek and gull
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  Speaker 1: that our invention played on? Tell me why, alast Malvolio,
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  Speaker 1: said the Countess. This is not my writing, though I
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  Speaker 1: confess much like the character. But out of question tis
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  Speaker 1: Mariah's hand, And now I do bethink me it was
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  Speaker 1: she first told me thou wast mad, and then Kingston smiling,
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  Speaker 1: and in such forms which here were presupposed upon THEE
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  Speaker 1: in the letter. Prithee be content this practice hath most
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  Speaker 1: shrewdly passed upon THEE. But when we know the grounds
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  Speaker 1: and authors of it, thou shalt be both plaintive and
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  Speaker 1: the judge of thine own cause. Thereupon one of the
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  Speaker 1: servants spoke up and begged that there might be no
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  Speaker 1: fuss made about the matter. Confess that Mariah wrote the
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  Speaker 1: letter at the request of Sir Toby, and that the
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  Speaker 1: whole affair was the result of a sort of conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: to satisfy a grudge. They entertained against Malvolio. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: revenged on the whole pack of you, said Malvolio as
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  Speaker 1: he rushed out of the room. End of section one.
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  Speaker 3: and Lawrence Lippery. Section number two The Prodigal Sun from
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  Speaker 3: Tales of the Borders by John McKay Wilson. In introduction,
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  Speaker 3: obliged to overlook. Notwithstanding this, however, there is a mine
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  Speaker 3: of wealth left, and we are confident that what we
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: extract will be thankfully received by our patrons. No American
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: edition of mister Wilson's works has ever appeared, but very
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: few of his tales have ever found their way into
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the ablications of this country. It is singular that so
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: much merit and genius has been overlooked, while for the
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: last five years our presses have been groaning under the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: accumulated weight of foreign trash that has been poured in
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: upon us, until we are fairly glutted to satiety with
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: the monstrous doses that we have been forced to swallow.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Why our enterprising publishers have given no thought to the
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: genius of John mackay Wilson is in mystery we have
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: no clue to unfathom. Yet so it is, and there are, moreover,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: but in very few copies of English or Scotch editions
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: of his works to be found in the country. Who
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: is John mc kay Wilson asked a friend the other day,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: and he thought he knew everybody. I who was he marry?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: A poor scotchman, but little known to us, But we
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: dare say, much beloved by his countrymen. Come at any
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: rate we will introduce him to our readers. They, of
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: course will to their friends, and by the time we
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: shall have done with him, he will be as familiar
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  Speaker 3: to us as a brother. John Mackay Wilson was born
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  Speaker 3: at Berwick pon Tweed in the year eighteen o four
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: and died October second, eighteen thirty five, at the age
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: of thirty one. Ere his son had gained its meridian splendor.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: His early days were spent in peace and happiness under
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: his paternal roof, and were marked by a kind of
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: native thirst after knowledge. His tasks when at school were
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: a mere pastime and pleasure to him. When he arrived
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: at those years when young men make choice of a
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: profession in life, he fixed upon that of a printer.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: This threw him into a situation where he had an
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: opportunity of drinking at the streams of human knowledge that
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: passed by him. Naturally fond of literary pursuits, he soon
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: exhausted his scanty means of gratifying his taste in Berwick
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: on Tweed, and leaving the home of his childhood and
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: the scenes of his early days, his aspiring spirit carried
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: him to London to quench his thirst for knowledge and
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: for fame at those deeper and purer streams that flow
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: so copiously in the British metropolis. But like many an
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: aspiring and inexperienced youth, he did not seem to calculate
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: on the fact that those streams which, in their warm
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: fancy healed disease and soften pain, or within doors which
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: golden keys alone can open, difficulties and hardships. Not a
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: few pressed upon him, and some of the most touching
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: descriptions in the Border tales of sufferings endured by the
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: aspirant for fame were actually endured by himself. And often
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: amid the wealth and gayety of London did he wander
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: homeless and friendless. But all the waters of affliction through
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: which he passed could not repress the ardor of his
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: spirit or quench his thirst for fame. Far in the
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: distance of years, and through a rugged and difficult pathway,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: where many a storm raged and many a dark and
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: heavy cloud floated, he looked steadily onward to the object
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: of his ambition. Despair seemed an entire stranger to him,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: and the strength of his own mind stayed him amid
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: darkness and amid tempests. Disappointment and poverty did indeed drive
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: him away from the British metropolis, and he was forced
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: to seek in the provinces what he could not find there.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Nor did he do so in vain, For as the
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: public Prince often stated, his eloquence was admired, and his
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: toils were softened by the approbation of thousands of his countrymen.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: But amid the adulation that he met with stern preeniery
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: was still his companion. If he was reaping a golden
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: harvest of opinions, it was often with him, as it
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: had been with many illustrious literary men before him, he
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: had scarcely wherewithal to satisfy the cravings of nature. This
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: did indeed make inroad upon his constitution, and so to
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: the seeds of that disease which at a last carried
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: him away from us, but could not check the flights
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: of his spirit onward to happier and more prosperous days.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: And though the darkness which hung around him seemed to move,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: but tarnally away it did pass, and the sun of
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: prosperity shot out from amidst it and promised a rich
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: reward for his literary privations and toils. But alas how
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: uncertain are all all earthly things. Scarcely had that son
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: burst through the cloud which had so long concealed it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Scarcely had his bosom been warmed with this hope, And
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: scarcely had he prostrated his antagonist privation when death laid
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: his arrest upon him and terminated forever all his earthly enterprises.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: In eighteen twenty nine he wrote, at the suggestion of
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: a gentleman of high literary eminence in Edinburgh, a melodrama
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: entitled The Gowery Conspiracy. The favorable reception which this piast
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: met with upon this stage prompted him to write two
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: more dramatic compositions, which were announced by the names of
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: the Highland Widow and Margaret Vanjou. He finished at the
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: same period The Sojourner, a poem of considerable life in
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: the Spencerian Stanza. But not being able to meet with
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: a publisher, he commenced writing lectures on poetry with biographical
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: and individual sketches, which he completed in three manuscript volumes.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: The lectures he continued to deliver with various success in
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: the principal towns of Scotland and England till about eighteen
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: thirty two he wrested from his wanderings in his native
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: village among his friends and early associates, in consequence of
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: being invited to become editor of the Berwick Advertiser, a
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: provincial newspaper here. His employment was congenial to his taste.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: He threw his whole soul into his work and lent
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: his unwearied efforts to promote what he considered his country's weal.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: His spirit flashed with indignation at the thought either of
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: public or of private oppression, and he sought with warmest
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: zeal to advance the interest of his native place. But
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: amid his labors as an editor, his spirit still delighted
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: to dwell in the fields of literature, and the matter
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: of the journal was often diversified by his own poetical
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: and literary effusions. In eighteen thirty two he published a
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: poem entitled The Enthusiast, with other poetical pieces regarding which
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: the public at once pronounced a favorable opinion. But that
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: which wafted his fame through the length and breadth of
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: his native land was his border tales. It was from
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: there too that he and his friends saw a prospect
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: of a reward for his toils. Their circulation was beyond
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: even his own most sanguine expectations, and the remuneration from
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: them such as would soon have placed him in independent circumstances.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: But the scene which was thus opened before him has
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: been blighted. And from the high place which he had
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: gained in the estimation of his countrymen, from the caresses
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: of friends, and from the reproach of foes, he now
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: lies where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: weary are at rest. And now that we have given
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: our readers some account of a man from whose productions
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: they may hereafter glean much gratification, an account of him
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: that we know will be interesting to all, we will
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: open the series with the Prodigal Sun, from Tales of
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: the Borders by John Mackay Wilson. The early sun was
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: melting away the coronets of gray clouds on the brows
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: of the mountains, and the lark as if proud of
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: its plumage and surveying itself in an illuminated mirror caroled
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: over the bright water of Keswick. When two strangers met
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: upon upon the side of the lofty skidow, each carried
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: a small bag and a hammer, betokening that their common
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: errand was to search for objects of geological interest. The
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: one appeared about fifty the other some twenty years younger.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: There is something in the solitude of the everlasting hills
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: which makes men who are strangers to each other despise
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: the ceremonious introductions of the drawing room. So was it
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: with our geologists. Their place of meeting. Their common pursuit
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: produced an instantaneous familiarity. They spent the day and dined
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: on the mountain side together. They shared the contents of
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: their flasks with each other, and ere they began to
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: descend the hill, they felt the one toward the other
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: as though they had been old friends. They had begun
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to take the road towards Keswick, when the elder said
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: to the younger, my meeting with you to day recalls
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: to my recollection a singular meeting which took place between
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: a friend of mine and a stranger about seven years
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: ago upon the same mountain. But sir, I will relate
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: to you the circumstances connected with it, and they might
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: be called the history of the prodigal son. He paused
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: for a few moments and proceeded as follows. About thirty
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: years ago a mister Fenwick was possessed of property in
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: van Browshire worth about three hundred per aennium. He had
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: married while young, and seven fair children cheered the hearth
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: of a glad father and a happy mother. Many years
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: of joy and of peace had flown over them when
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: death visited their domestic circle and passed his lay hand
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: over the cheek of their first born, And for five
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: successive years, as their children opened into manhood and womanhood,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: the unwelcome visitor entered their dwelling. Till of their little
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: flock there was but one, the youngest left, and oh, Sir,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: in the leaving of that one lay the cruelty of death.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: To have taken him too would have been an act
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: of mercy. His name was Edward, and the love, the fondness,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: and the care which his parents had borne for all
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: their children were concentrated on him. His father, whose soul
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: was stricken with affliction yielded to his every wish, and
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: his poor mother would not permit the winds of heaven
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: to visit his cheek too roughly. But you shall hear
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: how cruelly he repaid her love, how murderously he returned
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: to their kindness. He was headstrong and weayward, and though
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: the still small voice of affection was never wholly silent
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: in his breast, it was stifled by the storm of
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: his passions and his propensities. His first manifestation of open
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: viciousness was a delight in the brutal practice of cock fighting,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: and he became a constant attender at every main that
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: took place in Northumberland. He was an habitual better, and
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: his losses were frequent, but high. There too. His father,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: partly through fear and partly from a too tender affection,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: had supplied him with money. A man was to take
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: place in the neighborhood of Morpheth, and he was present.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Two noble birds were disfigured, the savage instruments of death
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: were fixed upon them, and they were pitted against each other,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: a hundred to one on them. The gray shouted, Fenwick
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: done for guineas replied another done for guineas done, repeated
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: the prodigal, And at the next moment the gray lay
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: dead on the ground, pierced through the skull with the
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: spur of the other. He rushed out of the cockpit.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: I shall expect payment tomorrow, Fenwick, cried the other. The
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: prodigal mounted his horse and rode homeward with the fury
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: of a madman. Kind as his father was and had been,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: He feared to meet him or tell him the amount
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: of his loss. His mother perceived his agony and strove
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: to soothe him. What isn't that troubles thee, my bird inquired,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: She come tell thy mother, darling with an oath, he
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: cursed the mention of birds and threatened to destroy himself. Oh, Edward, love, cried,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: she thou wilt kill thy poor mother. What can I
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: do for thee? Do for me, he exclaimed wildly. Do
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: for me, mother, Give me a hundred pounds, or my
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: heart's blood shall flow at your feet. Child child, said
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: she thou hast been at thy black trade of bedding Again,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Thou wilt ruin thy father, Edward, and break thy mother's heart.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: But give me thy hand on dear thou thou'lt bet
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: no more, and i'lt get thy father to give THEE
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: the money. My father must not know, he exclaimed, I
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: will rather die love Love, repelled she, But without asking
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: thy father, where could I get THEE? A hundred pounds?
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: You have some money, mother, added he. And you have
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: trinkets jewelry. He gasped and hid his face as he spoke.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Thou shalt have them. Thou shalt have them, child, said she,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: and all the money that thy mother has. Only say,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: thou wilt bet no more? Dost thou promise, Edward? Oh
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: dost thou promise thy poor mother?
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: This?
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, he cried, and he burst into tears as
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: he spoke. He received the money and the trinkets, which
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: his mother had not worn for thirty years, and hurried
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: from the house, and with them discharged a portion of
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: his dishonorable debt. He, however, did bet again. And I
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: might tell you how he became a horse racer also,
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: but you shall hear that too. He was now about
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: two and twenty, and for several years he had been
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: acquainted with Eleanor Robinson, a fair being made up of
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: gentleness and love. If ever woman was, she was an orphan,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: and had a fortune at her own disposal of three
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: thousand pounds. Her friends had often warned her against the
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: dangerous habit of Edward Benwick, but she had given him
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: her young heart. To him, she had plighted her first vow,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: and though she beheld his follies, she trusted that time
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: and affection would wean him from them, And with a
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: heart full of hope and love, she bestowed on him
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: her hand and fortune. Poor Elinor, her hopes were vain,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: her love unworthily bestowed. Marriage produced no change in the
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: habits of the prodigal son and thoughtless husband. For weeks
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: he was absent from his own house, betting and carousing
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: with his companions of the turf, while one vice led
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: the way to another, and by almost imperceptible degrees, he
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: unconsciously sunk into all the habits of a profligate. It
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: was about four years after his marriage, when, according to
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: his custom, he took leave of his wife for a
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: few days to attend the meeting at Doncaster. Good Bye, Elinor, dear,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: said he gaily, as he rose to depart, and kissed
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: her cheek. I shall be back within five days. Well, Edward,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: She said tenderly. If you will go, you must, but
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: think of me, and think of these our little ones.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: With a tear in her eye, she desired a lovely
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: boy and girl to kiss their father. Now think of us, Edward,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: she added, And do not bet, dearest, do not bet nonsense,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Doug nonsense, said he. Did you ever see me lose?
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Do you suppose that Ned Fenwick is not wide awake?
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: I know my horse and it's rider too. Barrymore's Highlander
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: can distance everything. But if it could not, I have
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: it from a sure hand. The other horses are all safe.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Do you understand that? Eh? No, I do not understand it, Edward,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: nor do I wish to understand it, added she. But dearest,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: as you love me, as you love our children, risk nothing.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Love you, little gipsy, you know I'd die for you,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: said he, And with all his sins, the prodigal spoke
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: the truth. Come now kiss me again, my dear, No
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: long faces. Don't take a leaf out of my old
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: mother's book. You know the saying, never venture, never win,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: faint heart, never won. Fair lady, good bye, my love
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: by Ned, good Bye Mother's darling, said he, addressing the
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: children as he left the house. He reached Doncaster. He
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: had paid his guinea for admission to the bedding rooms.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: He had whispered with and slipped a fee to all
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: the shriveled skin and bone half melted little mannikins called
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: jockeys to ascertain the secrets of their horses. All safe,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: said the prodigal to himself, well, rejoicing in his heart.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: The great day of the festival, the important Saint Legerire arrived.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Hundreds were ready to back Highlander against the field. Among
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: them was Edward Fenwick. He would take any odds. He
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: did take them. He staked his all a thousand to
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: five hundred on Highlander against the field. He cried as
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: he stood near a bedding post. Done, shouted a mustachioed
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: peer of the realm in a baroche by his side. Done,
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: cried Fenwick, for the double if you like, my lord, done,
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: added the peer. And I'll trouble it if you dare done,
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: rejoined the prodigal in the confidence and excitement of the moment. Done,
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: my lord. The eventful hour arrived. There was not a
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: false start. The horses took the ground beautifully. Highlander led
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: the way at his ease, and his rider in a
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Tartan jacket and mazarine cap. Looked confident. Fenwick stood near
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: the winning post, grasping the rails with his hands. He
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: was still confident, but he could not chase the admonition
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: of his wife from his mind. The horses were not
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: to be seen. His very soul became like a solid
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: and sharp edged substance within his breast. Of the twenty
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: forces that started, four again appeared in sight. The Tartan. Yet,
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: the Tartan, yet, shouted the crowd. Fenwick raised his eyes.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: He was blind with anxiety. He could not discern them.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Still he heard the cry of the Tartan, the Tartan,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: and his heart sprang to his mouth. Well done, orange,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: the orange will have it, was the next cry. He
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: again looked up, but he was more blind than before. Beautiful, beautiful,
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: go it, Tartan, Well done orange, shouted the spectators. A
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: noble race, neck and neck, six to five on the orange.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: He became almost deaf as well. Is blind. Now for it,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: now for it, it won't do Tartan. Hurrah, hurrah, Orange
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: has it? Liar, exclaimed Fenwick, starting as if from a
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: tramp and grasping the spectator who stood next to him
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: by the throat. I am not ruined. In a moment,
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: he dropped his hands by his side. He leaned over
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: the railing and gazed vacantly on the ground. His splash
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: writhed and his soul groaned in agony. Eleanor, my poor Eleanor,
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: cried the prodigal. The crowd hurried toward the winning post.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: He was left alone. The peer with whom he had bedded,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: came behind him. He touched him on the shoulder with
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: his whip. Well, sir, said he you have lost it.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Fenwick gazed on him with a look of fury and
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: despair and repeated, lost it. I am ruined soul and body,
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: wife and children ruined. Well, mister Fenwick, said the sporting peer.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I suppose if that be the case, you won't come
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: to Doncaster again in a hurry. But my settling day
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: is tomorrow. You know I keep sharp accounts, and if
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: you have not the ready I shall expect an equivalent.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: You understand me so saying he wrote off, leaving the
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: prodigal to commit suicide if he chose. It is enough
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: for me to tell you that in his madness and misery,
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: and from the influence of what he called his sense
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: of honor. He gave the winner a bill for the
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: money payable at sight. My feelings will not permit me
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: to tell you how the poor infatuated madman more than
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: once made attempts upon his own life. But the latent
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: love of his wife and of his children prevailed over
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: the rash thought, And in a state bordering on insanity,
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: he presented himself before the beings he had so deeply injured.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: I might describe to you how poor Eleanor was sitting
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: in their little parlor, with her boy upon a stool
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: by her side, and her little girl on her knee,
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: telling them fondly that their father would be home soon,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: and Anon singing to them. When the door opened and
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: the guilty bother entered, his eyes rolling with the wildness
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: of despair, and the cold sweat standing upon his pale face. Eleanor, Eleanor,
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: he cried as he flung himself upon a sofa. She
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: placed her little daughter on the floor. She flew toward him.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: My Edward, Oh, my Edward, she cried, what is it?
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Love?
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Something troubles you? Curse me, Eleanor, exclaimed, the wretched prodigal
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: I have ruined you I've ruined my children. I am
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: lost forever. No, my husband exclaimed, the best of wives.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Your Eleanor will not curse you. Tell me the worst,
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: and I will bear it, cheerfully bear it for my
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: his sake. You will not. You cannot cried he. I
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: have sinned against you as never man sinned against woman. Oh,
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: if you would spit upon the very ground where I tread,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: I would feel it as an alleviation of my sufferings.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: But your sympathy, your affection, makes my very soul destroy itself. Eleanor, Eleanor,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: if you have mercy hate me, tell me show me
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: that you do. Oh, Edward, she said, imploringly. Was it
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: thus when your Eleanor spurned every offer for your sake,
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: when you pledged to her everlasting love? She has none
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: but you? And can you speak thus? Oh husband, if
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: you will forsake me, forsake not my poor children, Tell
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: me only tell me the worst, and I will rejoice
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: to endure it with my Edward then cried Fedwick. If
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: you will add to my misery by professing to love
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: a wretch like me, No, you are a beggar, and
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: I have made you one. Now can you share beggary
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: with me. She repeated the word beggary. She clasped her
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: hands together. For a few moments she stood in silent anguish.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Her bosom heaved, the tears gushed forth. She flung her
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: arms around her husband's neck. Yes, she cried, I can
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: meet even begary with my Edward. Oh, Heaven, cried the
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: prodigal would that the earth would swallow me. I cannot
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: stand this. I will not dwell upon the endeavors of
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: the fond for giving wife to soothe and to comfort
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: her unworthy husband, Nor yet will I describe to you
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: the anguish of the prodigal's father and of his mother
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: when they heard the extent of his folly and of
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: his guilt. Already he had cost the old man much,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: and with a heavy and sorrowful heart, he proceeded to
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: his son's house to comfort his daughter in law. When
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: he entered, she was endeavoring to cheer her husband with
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: a tune upon the harpsichord, though Heaven knows there was
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: no music in her breast save that of love, enduring love.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: Well Edward, said the old man, as he took a seat.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: What is this that thou hast done? Now? The prodigal
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: was silent. Edward continued the gray haired parent. I have
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: had deaths in my family, many deaths, and thou knowest it.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: But I have never had to blush for a child.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: But thee I have felt sorrow. But thou hast added
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: shame to sorrow. O father, cried Elinor, imploringly, do not
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: upbraid my poor husband. The old man wept. He pressed
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: her hand, and with a groan said, I am ashamed
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: that thou shouldst call me father, sweetest. But if thou
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: canst forgive him, I should. He is all that has
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: left me, all that the hand of death has spared
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: me in this world. Yet Elinor, his conduct is a
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: living death to me. It is worse than all that
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: I have suffered. When affliction pressed heavily upon me, and
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: year after year, I followed my dear children to the grave.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: My neighbors sympathized with me. They mingled their tears with mine.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: But now, child, oh, now I am ashamed to hold
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: up my head among them, O Edward. Man, If thou
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: hast no regard for thy father or thy heart broken mother,
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: hast thou no affection for thy poor wife, canst thou
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: bring her and thy helpless children to ruin. But that
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: I may say, thou hast done already, Son, Son, If
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: thou wilt murder thy parents, hast thou no mercy for
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: thine own flesh and blood. Wilt thou destroy thine own offspring?
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: O Edward. If there be any sin that I repent
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: upon my death, fed, it will be that I have
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: been a too indulgent father to thee, that I am
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: the author of thy crimes. No father, no, cried the prodigal.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: My sins are my own. Spurn me, cast me off,
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: disown me forever. It is all I ask of you.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: You despise me, hate me too, and I will be
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: less miserable. Oh, Edward, said the old man, thou art
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: a father, But little dost thou know a father's heart?
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: Disown thee? Cast thee off, sayest thou, as soon could
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: the grave of thy brother give up their dead? Never, Edward, Never,
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: O Son, wouldst thou but reform thy ways? Wouldst thou
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: but become a husband worthy of our dear Eleanor. And
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: after all the suffering thou hast brought upon her, and
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: the shame thou hast brought upon thy family, I would
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: part with my last shilling for thee Edward. Though I
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: should go into the workhouse myself. You are affected, Sir.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: I will not borrow up your feelings by further describing
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: the interview between the father and his son. The misery
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: of the prodigal was remorse, not penitence. It is sufficient
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: for me to say that the old man took a
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: heavy mortgage on his property. And Edward Fenwick commenced business
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: as a wine and spirit merchant in Newcastle. But Sir,
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: he did not attend upon business, and I need not
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: tell you that such being the case, business was too
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: proud a customer to attend upon. Neither did he forsake
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: his old habits, and within two years he became involved,
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: deeply involved. Already to sustain his tottering credit, his father
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: had been brought to the verge of Ruin. During his
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: residence in Van Browershire, he had become acquainted with many
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: individuals carrying on a country band trade with Holland. To
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: amend his desperate fortunes, he recklessly embarked in it. In
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: order to obtain a part in the ownership of a luger.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: He used his father's name. This was the crowning evil
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: in the Prodigal's drama. He made the voyage himself. They
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: were pursued and overtaken when attempting to effect a landing
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: near the coquet. He escaped, but the papers of the
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: vessel bespoke her as being chiefly the property of his father.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Need I tell you that this was a finishing blow
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: to the old man. Edward Fenwick had ruined his wife
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: and family. He had brought ruin upon his father, and
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: was himself a fugitive. He was pursued by the law.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: He fled from them, and he would have fled from
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: their remembrance if he could. It was now, Sir, that
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: the wrath of heaven was showered upon the head and
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: began to touch the heart of the prodigal. Like Cain,
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: he was a fugitive and a vagabond on the face
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: of the earth. For many months he wandered in a
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: distant part of the country. His body was emaciated and
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: clothed with rags, and hunger preyed upon his very heart strings.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: It is a vulgar thing, Sir, to talk of hunger,
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: but they have never felt it, know not what it means.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: He was fainting by the wayside. His teeth were grating together,
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: the tears were and down his cheeks. The servants of
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: my father's house, he cried, have bred enough and to
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: spare while I perish with hunger, And continuing the language
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: of the prodigal in the scriptures, he said, I will
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: arise and go on to my father and say I
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: have sinned against Heaven. And in thy sight, with a
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: slow and tottering step, he arose to proceed on his
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: journey to his father's house. A month had passed, for
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: every day he made less progress. Ere the home of
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: his infancy appeared in sight. It was noon, and when
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: he saw it he sat down in the little wood
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: by a hillside and wept until it had become dusk,
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: for he was ashamed of his rags. He drew near
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: the house, but none came forth to welcome him. A
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: stranger came from one of the outhouses and inquired, what
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: dost thou want?
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: Mister Fenwick feebly answered the Why nobody lives there, said
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: the other, And old Benwick died in Morpeth jail Mere.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: Then thirty months in died in Morpeth jail groaned the
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: miserable fiam and fell against the door of the house
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: that had been his father's. I tell ye ye cannot
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: get in there, continued the other Sir, replied Edward, pity me, Oh,
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: tell me, is not missus Benwick here or her daughter
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: in law? I know naughts about them, said the stranger.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: I'm put in charge here by the trustees. Want and
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: misery kindled all their fires in the breast of the fugitive.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: He groaned, and, partly from exhaustion, partly from agony, sink
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: upon the ground. The other lifted him to a shed
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: where cattle were wont to be fed. His lips were parched,
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: his languid eyes rolled vacantly. Water Give me water, muttered
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: in a feeble voice, and a cup of water was
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: brought to him. He gazed wistfully in the face of
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: the person who stood over him. He would have asked
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: for bread, but in the midst of his sufferings, pride
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: was yet strong in his heart, and he could not.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: The stranger, however, was not wholly destitute of humanity, poor wretch,
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: said he, ye look very fatigued. Do ye think ye
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: kit eat beat of bread? If I give it to
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: thee tears gathered in the lustrous eyes of the prodigal,
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: but he could not speak. The stranger left him, and, returning,
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: placed a piece of coarse bread in his hand. He
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: ate a morsel, but his very soul was sick, and
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: his heart loathed to receive the food, for lack of
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: which he was perishing. Vain, Sir, were the inquiries after
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: his wife, his children, and his mother. All that he
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: could learn was that they had kept their sorrow and
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: their shame to themselves, and had left Northumberland together. But
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: where none knew. He also learned that it was understood
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: among his acquaintances that he had put a period to
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: his existence, and that this belief was entertained by his family.
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: Months of wretchedness followed, and Fenwick, in despair, enlisted into
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: a foot regimen, which, within twelve months was ordered to
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: embark for Egypt. At that period, the British were anxious
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: to hide the remembrance of their unsuccessful attack upon Cadiz,
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: and resolved to wrench the ancient kingdom of the Pharaohs
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: from the grasp of the proud armies of Napoleon. The cabinet, therefore,
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: on the surrender of Malta, having seconded the views of
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: Sir Ralph Abercrombie. Several transports were fitted out to join
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: the squadron under Lord Keith. In one of these transports,
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: the penitent prodigal embarked, You are too young to remember it, sir,
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: But at that period a love of country was more
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: widely than ever becoming the ruling passion of every man
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: in Britain. And with all his sins, his follies, and
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: his miseries, such a feeling glowed in the breast of
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: Edward Fenwick. He was weary of existence, and he longed
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: to listen to the neighing of the war horse and
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: the shout of its rider, and as they might rush
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: on the invulnerable phalanx and its breast work of bayonets,
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: to mingle in the ranks of heroes, and rather than
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: pine than a glorious grief, to sell his life for
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: the welfare of his country, or, like the gallant Graham,
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: amidst the din of war and the confusion of glory,
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: to forget his sorrows. The regiment to which he belonged
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: joined the main army off the Bay of Marmorice, and
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: was the first that, with the gallant more at its head.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: On the memorable seventh of March raised the shout of
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: victory on the shores of Abakir. In the moment of victory,
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: Fenwick fell wounded on the field, and his comrades, in
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: their triumph, passed over him. He had some skill in surgery,
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: and he was enabled to bind up his wound. He
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: was fainting upon the burning sand, and he was creeping
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: among the bodies of the slain for a drop of
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: moisture to cool his parched tongue. When he perceived a
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: small bottle in the hands of a dead officer. It
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: was half filled with wine. He eagerly raised it to
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: his lips. Englishmen cried a feeble voice, for the love
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: of Heaven, give me one drop, only one, or I die.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: He looked around. A French officer, apparently in the agonies
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: of death, was vainly endeavoring to raise himself on his
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: side and stretching his hand toward him. Why should I live,
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: cried the wretched prodigal. Take it, take it and live
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: if you desire life. He raised the wounded frenchman's head
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: from the sand. He placed the bottle to his lips.
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: He untied his sash and bound up his wounds. They
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: were conveyed from the field together. Fenwick was unable to
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: follow the army, and he was disabled from continuing in
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: the service. The French officer recovered, and he was grateful
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: for the poor service that had been rendered to him,
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: and previous to his being sent off with other prisoners,
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: he gave a present of a thousand francs to the
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: joyless being, whom he called his deliverer. I have told
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: you that Fenwick had some skill in surgery. He had
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: studied some years for the medical profession, but abandoned it
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: for the turf and its vices. He proceeded to Alexandria,
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: where he began to practice as a surgeon, and among
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: an ignorant people, gained reputation. Many years passed and he
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: had acquired it, if not riches, at least an independency.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Repentance also had penetrated his soul. He had inquired long
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: and anxiously after his family. He yet but few other relatives,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: and to all of them he had anxiously written, imploring
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: them to acquaint him with the residence of the beings
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: whom he had brought to Ruin, but whom he still loved.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: Some returned no answer to his applications, and others only
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: said that they knew nothing of his wife, of his mother,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: or of his children, nor whether they yet lived. All
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: they knew was that they had endeavored to hide the
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: shame he had brought upon them from the world. These
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: words were daggers to his bruised spirit, but he knew
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: he deserved them, and he prayed that Heaven would grant
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: him the consolate and the mercy that was denied him
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: on earth. Somewhat more than seven years ago he returned
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: to his native country, and he was wandering on the
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: very mountain where to day I met you, when he
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: entered into conversation with a youth apparently about three or
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: four and twenty years of age. And they spent the
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: day together, as we have done. Fenwick was lodging in Keswick,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: and as toward evening they proceeded along the road together,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: they were overtaken by a storm. You must accompany me home,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: said the young man, until the storm has passed. My
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: mother's house is at hand. And he conducted him to
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: yonder lovely cottage, whose white walls you perceived peering through
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: the trees by the water side. It was dusk when
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: the youth ushered him into a little parlor where two
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: ladies sat. The one appeared about forty, the other three. Scoring.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: They welcomed the stranger graciously. He ascertained that they let
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: out the rooms of their cottage to visitors to the
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: lakes during the summer season. He expressed a wish to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: become their lodger, and made some observations on the beauty
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: of the situation. Yes, sir, said the younger lady, the
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: situation is indeed beautiful. But I have seen it when
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: the water and the mountains around it could impart no
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: charm to its dwellers. Providence has indeed been kind to us,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: and our lodgings have seldom been empty. But Sir, when
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: we entered it, it was a sad house. Indeed, my
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: poor mother in law and myself had experienced many sorrows.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: Yet my poor fatherless children, for I might call them fatherless,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: and she wept as she spoke with their innocent prattle
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: soothed our affliction. But my little Eleanor, who was loved
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: by everyone, began to droop. Day by day. It was
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: a winter night. The snow was on the ground. I
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: heard my little darling give a deep sigh upon my bosom.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: I started up. I called to my poor mother. She
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: brought a light to the bedside, and I found my
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: sweet child dead upon my breast. It was a long
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: and sad night as we sat by the dead body
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: of my Eleanor, with no one near us. And after
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: she was buried, my poor Edward, there, as he sat
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: by our side at night, would draw forward to his
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: knee the stool on which his sister sat, while his
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: grandmother would glance at him fondly and push aside the
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: stool with her foot that I might not see it.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: But I saw it all. The twilight had deepened in
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: the little parlor, and its inmates could not perfectly distinguish
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: the features of each other. But as the lady he spoke,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: the soul of Edward Fenwick glowed within him. His heart throbbed,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: his breathing became thick, the sweat burst upon his brow.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: Pardon me, lady, he cried in agony. But oh, tell
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: me your name, Fenwick, sir Eleanor, my injured Eleanor, he exclaimed,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: finding himself at her feet. I am Edward, your guilty husband.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Mother.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: Can you forgive me my son, my son, intercede for
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: your guilty father. Ah, Sir, there needed no intercession. Their
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: arms were around his neck. The prodigal was forgiven. Behold
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: yonder from the cottage comes the mother, the wife, and
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: the son of whom I have spoken. I will introduce
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: you to them. You shall witness the happiness and penitence
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: of the prodigal. You must stop with me tonight, start not, sir.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: I am Edward Fenwick, The Prodigal Sun. End of section two.
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  Speaker 3: Recording by April six zero nine zero.
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  Speaker 4: Section three of The Rover Volume one, number nineteen. This
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  Speaker 4: by Seba Smith and Lawrence LaBrie. Section three to Eliza
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  Speaker 4: The Rows of the Valley by C. D. Stewart, Sweet
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  Speaker 4: Rows of the Valley, How softly at rest thy feet
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  Speaker 4: on the sward that is mossy are pressed? How fondly
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  Speaker 4: thou liftest thy face to the sky, or gaze ester
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  Speaker 4: down on the brook passing by? How fair when thy
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  Speaker 4: lips like a gay jeweled cup, the dew drops and
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  Speaker 4: fragrance of evening drink up when the eyes of the
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  Speaker 4: morn from the east, as they shine, see the tears
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  Speaker 4: of the angels reflected in thine, Sweet Rose of the Valley.
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  Speaker 4: In childhood away, when my heart was as free as
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  Speaker 4: the sunbeams that play on the hills of the North,
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  Speaker 4: how I pluck'd thee and press'd thy lips on my
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  Speaker 4: own till thou died on my breast. Since then, thou
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  Speaker 4: hast been like a dream to my heart, sometimes on
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  Speaker 4: the side of the mountain to start, or up in
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  Speaker 4: the vale, on the bright summer's wing, like a long
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  Speaker 4: absent friend, on my vision to spring, Sweet Rose of
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  Speaker 4: the Valley, unspotted and bright, May thy face ever shine
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  Speaker 4: like a gleaming of light as fresh as I saw
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  Speaker 4: it in childhood away among the hills of the North,
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  Speaker 4: where the summer winds play. End of section three. Recording
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  Speaker 4: by Alan Mapstone.
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  Speaker 1: Section four of the Rover, Volume one, number nineteen. This
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  Speaker 1: number nineteen, edited by Seba Smith and Lawrence LaBrie. Section
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  Speaker 1: four The Field of Waterloo. Erastus Brooks, one of the
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  Speaker 1: editors of the New York Express, is now on a
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  Speaker 1: tour in Europe. He is a flowing and spirited writer,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: and a good observer of men and things. From one
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  Speaker 1: of his last letters, we extract his description of the
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  Speaker 1: present appearance of the memorable field of Waterloo, with some
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  Speaker 1: striking reminiscences of the Battle Waterloo, May eighteen forty three.
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  Speaker 1: Like a pilgrim, I have put my feet upon the
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: soil of Waterloo, traversing its fields, visiting its monuments, and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: tracing step by step those memorable movements of a day
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  Speaker 1: gone by, which, in all time to come will distinguish
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  Speaker 1: the place where I am. It is impossible for any
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  Speaker 1: man to visit a scene like this, I care not
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  Speaker 1: how cold his temperament, with the same feelings that control
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  Speaker 1: him in the every day affairs of life. It is
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  Speaker 1: true that nature wears the same smiling face here that
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  Speaker 1: it puts on elsewhere. That your eyes are greeted with
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  Speaker 1: fruitful and beautiful fields, that hillside and valley the near
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  Speaker 1: and the distant land alike team with an abundance of
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  Speaker 1: the treasures of the earth. The lands, too, are only
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  Speaker 1: rich and plenteous by cultivation. And the day has passed,
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  Speaker 1: if it has ever been, as it probably has been,
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  Speaker 1: when the blood and bones of the thousands of victims
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: who feel here a sacrifice to the fate of war,
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  Speaker 1: serve to manure and beautify the soil. For one, I
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  Speaker 1: can see Waterloo rather with the soldier's enthusiasm or the
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  Speaker 1: traveler's romance. I have read with an interest that made
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  Speaker 1: the blood thrill quicker in the veins, the deeds of
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  Speaker 1: a day to endure forever in the memory of man.
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  Speaker 1: And I survey now at this distance of time, the
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  Speaker 1: scenes where this great drama was enacted, as I would
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  Speaker 1: the spot had the curtain risen, but yesterday to see
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  Speaker 1: it performed. Waterloo, though of itself all in the past,
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  Speaker 1: is as visible here to the eye now, as are
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  Speaker 1: the recollections of its achievement to those who have just
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  Speaker 1: risen from the perusal of the results of the battle
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  Speaker 1: here fought. It is a morning in June, and the
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  Speaker 1: two contending armies are upon the ground of Waterloo, Napoleon
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  Speaker 1: is there, and Wellington is there. The master spirits of
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: great and rival nations, the fate of empires are there also,
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  Speaker 1: and empires and kingdoms are represented upon the field. A day,
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  Speaker 1: one little day, almost the one foot space of time
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  Speaker 1: in the life of man is to destroy or save.
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  Speaker 1: Men are to be mowed down like autumn leaves. But
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: long contending nations are to obtain peace and quiet at
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  Speaker 1: the sacrifice he whose star for years had been far
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  Speaker 1: in the ascendant, who had given kings to nations and
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: exacted obedience from subjects, who was here and there and
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: everywhere and in all feats, a conqueror whose genius was transcendent,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: whose power irresistible, and the mention of whose name was
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: like the wand of a magician. Now the soldier, now
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: the council, now the emperor, and the man invincible is doomed,
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  Speaker 1: like the hunted beast of the field or bird of
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: the air, the fly for his life, and at last
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: to be caught in the snare of the enemy. Here
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: stood too, where just now I stood, upon what is
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: now the highway and cross road, the only man who
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: had been more successful than Napoleon. It is easy to
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  Speaker 1: imagine with what feelings upon a day like that eventful one,
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  Speaker 1: commemorated around me by monuments innumerable. Wellington stood here, entrusted
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  Speaker 1: with his own fame and the fortune of his own
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  Speaker 1: and other nations all around him, undaunted as the angel
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  Speaker 1: of death, ready to do or die. He is early
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  Speaker 1: at his post, fearing no evil for himself, but seeking
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  Speaker 1: to avert it from others. Both commanders were the very
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  Speaker 1: antipodies of each other in their schemes of military tactics,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: of different schools, as of different minds, the one the
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  Speaker 1: very inspiration of a wild and daring genius, ever moving
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  Speaker 1: on like a meteor in its own course, and the
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: other almost of a plotting firmness, seeking not so much
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: how he may destroy the ranks of his foe, as
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: gain through their mishaps advantages for himself. Two braver men,
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  Speaker 1: one can see here if he knew it not before
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  Speaker 1: the world had never seen, And successful as both had
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: been from time to time in their peculiar modes of warfare,
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  Speaker 1: it would be presumption, perhaps, if success is truly to
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  Speaker 1: be the test of ability, to say who was the
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: better soldier at Waterloo. An honest Englishman will readily admit
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: that Napoleon would have been the victor had Wellington and
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: his army been the only opponents to contend with the
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: advantages of position which Wellington had upon the field of
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: battle twice made up for the disparity of the force
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  Speaker 1: of ten or twelve thousand men between the two armies.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: And no one can dream of the extent of this
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  Speaker 1: advantage of position, which had long before been selected by Wellington,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: who had not for himself surveyed the ground where the
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: battle was fought. There could not have been selected from
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  Speaker 1: all the country around so good a natural defense for
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  Speaker 1: the Allied army, and there could not well have been
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: a worse position for the army of the French. Wellington
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: relied upon the superiority of his force, the courage of
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: his men, and the coolness of himself and others in command.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: In firmness, he expected to be invincible, but not of
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  Speaker 1: himself in the army that stood around him on the
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: morning of the eighteenth of June, For there was no
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: moment when he did not rely upon and looked with
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: longing eyes to the spot where Blucher and his Prussians
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  Speaker 1: must arrive. He had, it was true the same confidence
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: that Napoleon had through the day, but with a less
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: boasting spirit, would to God that night or Blucher would come.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: Was one of the natural but agonized expressions of Wellington,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: when told by an aide de camp that it was
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  Speaker 1: utterly impossible for one of his favorite regiments longer to
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  Speaker 1: maintain their ground. I cannot help it, said the Duke.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: They must keep the ground with myself to the last man.
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  Speaker 1: And then came that wish for bluecher which had often
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: been uttered, and to realize which alone could ensure victory
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: not only to Wellington and to England, but to Prussia
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: and Holland and to Belgium. For all of these, with
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: their hosts of generals and some of their bravest men,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: were in arms against one man and a single power.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: The day was everything to Napoleon as a man, and
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  Speaker 1: wrapped up in the glory of France as he was,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: he deemed it everything to France. His men had toiled
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  Speaker 1: with a cheerful spirit through a wet and jury night
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  Speaker 1: to be early in the field, and here they now were,
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  Speaker 1: upon the ground opposite to that where I have just been.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: When Napoleon, upon a neighboring eminence acquainting himself with his
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: map in hand, and at the earliest hours of the day,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: with every line and feature rode in pathway of the
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  Speaker 1: surrounding country. It was with the in an hour of
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  Speaker 1: midday when the Emperor gave the word for attack. The
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  Speaker 1: English front did not extend more than a mile and
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  Speaker 1: a half, and the line of the French but half
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  Speaker 1: a mile beyond that of the English. For such a
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  Speaker 1: body of men eighty thousand in the one army and
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: from sixty five to seventy thousand in the other, no
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  Speaker 1: battle had ever been fought within so small a compass
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  Speaker 1: of land. The chateau of Ugumut was the most important,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore the first point of attack by the French.
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  Speaker 1: The English had been strongly posted there, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a place which of itself was a strong defense. An
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: easy victory would have been given to Napoleon had he
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  Speaker 1: become the possessor of the chateau. Once and again and again,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: the left wing of the attacking army, commanded by Jerame Buonaparte,
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  Speaker 1: advanced against the chateau. The battalions which occupied the Wooden
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  Speaker 1: front for a time were scattered like shaft before the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: wind under the merciless fire of a superior force. A
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: body of the last wing penetrated even to the house.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: But a second brigade of a chosen guard, who occupied
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  Speaker 1: the chateau and lined the garden walls, were in possession
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  Speaker 1: of the orchard, and there strong enough to resist every
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: effort to dislodge them. The French were thundering at the
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  Speaker 1: very doors of the chateau, but a reinforcement of English
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: troops and a well directed fire drove them back again.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: They rallied and pushed onward, and again they were driven
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: back in confusion. In thirty minutes of time, fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: men perished in the orchard of Ugoumont alone, and upon
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: a piece of ground containing not more than four acres.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: A more frightful scene followed when the house was set
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: on fire by the French. Friend and foe were now
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: alike enveloped in the flames and in the very thickest
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: of the fire and smoke. The combat raged the fiercest.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: Each man maintained his ground in spite of fire and sword,
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  Speaker 1: and while one of the outbuildings of the chateau was
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: filled with a dying and wounded who lay crowded in
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: heaps together, dying as it were the thousand deaths of
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: flame and fire, shrieking too, until their cries of despair
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: echoed through the woods and along the plain. The combatants
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: were as fiercely fighting without as if the scene of
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: strife had been in an open field. The engagement here
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: partook more of the ferocity of the wild beasts of
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: the forest, made furious from hunger and confinement, than of
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  Speaker 1: men engaged in a manly struggle to become victors. The
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: wounded were, many of them burnt alive, and in the
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: agonies of a most horrible oath, the dying gave up
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: the ghost the living hereabout. In the meantime, man to
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: man fought with a desperation so fierce that they saw
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: not the danger of the surrounding flames, and were at
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: last engulfed in the fire from which they could now
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: make no escape. Thus hundreds and hundreds fell, and though
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: the chateau had been reduced to a mere shell, the
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: marks of which it carries now in common with every
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: spot around, not by the face of nature. The British
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: maintained their posts, and the French were driven back as
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  Speaker 1: often as they attempted to become masters of the field.
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  Speaker 1: All this, however, was but the movements of one wing
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  Speaker 1: of the French army. The French artillery with columns of
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: infantry and cavalry, while the left wing was the most
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  Speaker 1: fiercely engaged, had ascended the eminence occupied by the enemy.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: Whole squares of the British were mowed down like the
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: grass of the field. But the chasms were as soon
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  Speaker 1: filled as made vacant, and here not one foot of
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: ground was lost or won foiled. Here Napoleon commenced a
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  Speaker 1: fierce attack on the left of the British army, in
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  Speaker 1: the hope of turning it and separating the main army
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  Speaker 1: from the Prussians, and also cutting off the retreat in
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: the direction of the alson should one be attempted. The
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: maneuver was a bold one, and success and defeat were alternate.
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  Speaker 1: The French, however, conducted themselves worsier than anywhere else, and
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: were often repulsed. The Scotch behaved most valiantly here, and
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  Speaker 1: one of their regiments was reduced to two hundred men.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: Three of the French regiments lost their eagles here, and
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: in the British ranks, Sir T. Picton and Sir William
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  Speaker 1: Ponsonby lost what was more important their lives. Napoleon was
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: never idle, never disinhearted. His position was a commanding one,
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  Speaker 1: and although amazed at the resistance he had met with,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: he was determined to move on and to give his
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: enemy neither time for thought nor rest Beyond the moment.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: The farm of the Elson, a position almost as important
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: as the chateau of Ugomont, was the next point of attack,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: and if successful, here were the strength of the British
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: army rested, and upon the road leading from Waterloo to Brussels,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: the means of retreat would be cut off and the
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: ranks of the British broken. The boldness of the enterprise
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: was worthy of Napoleon, and showed how little he had
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: been influenced by the reverses of the day, and how
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: ready he was to make a bolder push than any
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: he had yet attempted. The British commander penetrated the design
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: of his foe and at once prepared himself for the onslaught.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: The troops for a time stood like the embedded rocks.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: The farm was surrounded. After an hour's contest as severe
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: as ever was waged and the position was thoroughly carried
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: only when the last of its defenders had ceased to breathe.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: Now was the brightest moment of the day for Napoleon.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: Fortune seemed to smile upon him most graciously, and under
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: the two ardent anticipations of certain success, even to the end.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: It was here and now that he dispatched a courier
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: to Paris with the news that the battle was won,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: and France and her Emperor were again victorious. End of section.
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  Speaker 2: Four Section five of The Rover Volume one, number nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 2: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 2: visit LibriVox dot org. The Rover Volume one, number nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: edited by Seba Smith and Lawrence LaBrie. Section five Lady
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: Betty's pocket Book, by the author of The Lover's Quarrels
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: Into it Night thou must not look Scott. I passed
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: my five and twentieth birthday at Oakenshade, sweet sentimental age,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: dear deeply regretted place. Oakenshade is the fairest child of
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: Father Thames, from Gloucestershire to Blackwall. She is the very
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: queen of cottages, for she has fourteen best bedrooms and
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: stabling for squadron. Her trees are the finest in Europe,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: and her inhabitants the fairest in the world. Her old
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: mistress is the lady beautiful of the country, and her
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: young mistresses are its pride. Lady Barbara is black eyed
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: and hyacinthine, Lady Betty blue eyed and Madonna.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 5: Like.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: In situations of this kind, it is absolutely necessary for
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: a man to fall in love, and in due compliance
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: with the established custom, I fell in love both with
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: Lady Betty and Lady Barbara. Now Barbara was a soft hearted,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: high minded rogue and pretended, as I thought, not to
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: care for me, that she might not interfere with the
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: interests of her sister. And Betty was a reckless, giddy
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: witted baggage who cared for nobody and nothing upon earth
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: except the delightful occupation of doing what she pleased. Accordingly,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: we became the Romeo and Juliet of the place, excepting
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: that I never could sigh and she never could apostrophize. Nevertheless,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: we loved terribly. Over a time was that I would
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: just give us sample of a day we rose at
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: seventh it was July, and wandered among moss roses, velvet lawns,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: and sequestered summer houses till the lady mother summoned us
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: to the breakfast table. I know not how it was,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: but the footmen on these occasions always found dear Barbara
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: absent on a butterfly chase, gathering flowers or feeding her
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: pet Robin, and Betty and myself on a sweet honeysuckle seat,
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: just large enough to hold to and hidden round a
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: happy corner, as snug as a bird's nest. The moment
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: the villain came within hearing, I used to begin in
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: an audible voice to discourse upon the beauties of nature,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: and Betty allowed me to be the best moral philosopher
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: of the age. After breakfast we used to retire to
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: the young Lady's study, in which blast retreat I filled
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: some hundred pages of their albums, while Betty looked over
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: my shoulder, and Barbara hammered with all her might upon
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: the grand piano, that we might not be afraid to talk.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: I was acknowledged to be the prince of poets and
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: riddle mongers, and in the graphic art I was a prodigy,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: perfectly unrivaled. Sand dute I was a little overrated. My
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: riddles were so plain, and my metaphors so puzzling, And
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: then my trees were like mountains, and my men were
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: like monkeys. But love had such penetrating optics. Lady Betty
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: could perceive beauties to which the rest of the world
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: were perfectly blind. Then fathered our equestrian exercises. Now, Barbara
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: was a good horsewoman, and Betty was a bad one. Consequently,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: Barbara wrote a pony, and Betty wrote a donkey. Sequently,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: Barbara rode a mile before, and Betty rode a mile behind.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: And consequently it was absolutely necessary for me to keep
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: fast hold of Betty's hand, for fear she should tumble off.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: Thus did we journey through wood and through valley, by
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: flood and by field, through the loveliest and most love
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: making scenes that ever figured in rhyme or on canvas.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: The trees never looked so green, the flowers never smelled
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: so sweetly. And the exercise in the fears of her
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: high mettled Palfrey gave my companion a blush which is
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: quite beyond the reach of Semele. Of course, we always
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: lost ourselves and trusted to Barbara to guide us home.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: At dinner, the Lady Mother would inquire what had become
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: of us, but none of us could tell where we
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: had been, excepting Barbara. Why Betty, my dear, you understood
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: our geography well enough when you were guide to our
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: good old friend, the General Ah. But Betty found it
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: was quite a different thing to be guid to her
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: good young friend, the Captain. And then her explanation was
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: generally a zig zag sort of performance, which outdid the
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: best riddle of her album. It was the custom of
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: the Lady Mother to take a nap after dinner, and
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: having a due regard for her, we always left her
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: to this enjoyment as soon as possible. Sometimes we floated
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: in a little skiff down the broad and tranquil river, which,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: kindled by the setting sun, moved onward like a stream
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: of fire, turning our voices to glees and duets, till
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: the nightingales themselves were astonished, Oh the witchery of bright
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: eyes at sunset and music on the water. Sometimes we
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: stole through the cavernous recesses of the old oak wood,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: conjuring up fawns and satyrs at every step, and sending
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: Barbara to detect the deceptions of play at hide and
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: seek with us. At last, our mistress the moon would
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: open her eye and warn us home, where on the
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: little study sofa we watched her progress and repeated sweet Poesy.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: Many a time did I long to break the footman's
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: head when he brought the lights and announced the tea.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: The lady mother never slept after this, and the business
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: of the day was ended. Things went on in this
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: way for a week or ten days, and Lady Betty
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: appeared to have less spirits and a more serious and
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: languid air than heretofore. There was now nothing hoidenish in
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: her behavior, and instead of the upper lip curling with scorn,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: the under one was dropping with sentiment. Her voice was
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: not so loud, and felt in a gentler cadence, and
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: the madonna braid was festooned with a more exquisite grace.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: When I besought her to let me hear the subject
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: of her thoughts, the little budget was always of so
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: mournful a description that I could not choose but use
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: my tenderest mode of comforting her. She had She knew
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: not why I become more serious. She supposed it was
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: because she was growing older. She hoped it was because
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: she was growing better. In fine, she had determined to
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: mend her life and appointed me master of the ceremonies
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: to her conscience, which sooth to say, had been in
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: an awful state of anarchy. I could not, of course,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: have any doubt that my sweet society had been the
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: cause of this metamorphosis, and I congratulated myself with fervency.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: She was becoming the very patent for a wife, and
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: I contemplated in her the partner of my declining years,
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: the soother of my cares, the mother of my children.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: It was cruel to postpone my declaration, But though I
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: have no Scotch blood in my veins, I was always
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: a little given to caution. Lady Betty had been a
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: sad mad cap, and might not this be a mere
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: freak of the moment. Besides, there was a charm about
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: the very uncertainty which a declared lover has no idea of,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: so I determined to observe and act with deliberation. Our
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: pastimes continued the same as before, and our later changes
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: of kindness increased. Among other things, Lady Betty signalized me
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: by a purse and pencil case, and in return was
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: troubled with an extreme longing for a lilac and gold
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: pocket book, in which I was rash enough to note
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: down my fugitive thoughts. It had been given me by
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: no matter whom. There was nothing on earth that I
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: would not have sacrificed to Lady Betty. She received it
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: in both her hands, passed it to her bosom, and
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: promised faithfully that she would pursue the plan I had
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: adopted in it, casting up her delinquences at the end
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: of the year to see what might be amended. Alas
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: the pinnacle of happiness is but a sorrow resting place
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: from which the chief occupation of mankind is to push
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: one another headlong. Of my own case, I have particular
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: reason to complain, for I was precipitated from the midst
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: of my burning, palpitating existence by the veriest blockhead in life.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: He came upon us like this sim moon, devastating every
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: green spot in his progress and leaving our hearts a blank.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: In short, he was a spark of quality who drove
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: for bloods and cut his own coats. His visage was
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: dangerously dissipated in Cadophorus. His figures taper as a fishing rock,
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: and his manner had a geernessecoix of languid impertinence, which
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: was a great deal overwhelming. Altogether, he was a gallant
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: whose incursion would have caused me very considerable uneasiness, had
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: I not felt secure that my mistress was already one.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: I shall never forget the bust so which was occasioned
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: by the arrival of this worthy. He was some sort
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: of a connection of the lady mother, thought himself privileged
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: to come without invitation, and declared his intention of remaining
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: till he was tired. He ordered the servants about and
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: gave directions for his accommodation precisely as if he had
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: been at home, and scarcely deigned to tender his forefinger
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: to the ladies till he had made himself perfectly comfortable.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: When I was introduced from the background from which I
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: had been scowling with indignation and amazement, he regarded my
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: commonplace appearance with careless contempt, made me a bow as
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: cold as if it had come from Lapland, and in
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: return received one from the north Pole. I considered that
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: he was usurping all my rights in the establishment perfect freedom.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: With Betty and Barbara were a violation of my private property,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: And I even grudged him his jokes with the Lady Mother.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: We were foes from first sight. Lady Betty saw how
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: the spirit was working within me, and dasined to prevent
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: its efforvesdence. She gave me one of her overpowering looks
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: and besought me to assist her in being civil to him,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: for in truth, the attentions of common politeness had already
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: completely exhausted her. I was quite charmed with the vexation.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: She felt that his intrusion and loved her a thousand
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: times better because she detested him. His visit indeed had
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: such an effect upon her that before the day was over,
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: she complained to me in consequence of being seriously unwell.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: From this time the whole tenor of our amusements was revolutionized.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: Lady Betty's illness was not fancied. She was too weak
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: to ride her donkey, too qualmish to go inside the baruge,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: which was turned out every day to keep the bloods
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: in wind. And nothing agreed with her delicate health. But
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: being mounted on the box beside Lord S. The evenings
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: passed off as heavily as the mornings. Lady Barbara used
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: to ask me to take the usual stroke with her,
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: and Lady Betty, being afraid to venture upon the damp grass,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: was again left to the mercy of Lord S, to
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: whom walking was a low lifed amusement for which he
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: had no taste. The Lady Mother, as usual, had her
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: sleeping fits, and when we returned, we invariably found things
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: in disorder. The candles had not been lighted, the tea
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: things had not been brought in, and Lord S had
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: turned sulky with his bottle and was sitting quietly with
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: Lady Betty. I felt for her more than I can express,
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: and could not, for the life of me conceive where
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: she picked up patience to be civil to him. She
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: even affected to be delighted with his conversation, and her
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: good breeding was beyond all praise. With such an example
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: of endurance before me, and the pacific promise which I'd made,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: I could not avoid wearing a benevolent aspect. Indeed, though
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: the enemy had effectually cut off the direct communication of
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: sentiment between us, I was not altogether without my triumphs
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: and secret satisfactions. The general outline which I've given was
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: occasionally inter sected with little episodes which were quite charming.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: For instance, Lady Betty used constantly to employ me upon
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: errands to her mother, who was usually absent in the
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: private room manufacturing caudal and flannel petticoats for the workhouse.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: When I returned, she would despatch me to her sister,
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: who required my advice upon her drawing in the study.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: And thus Lord s could not fail to observe the
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: familiar terms we were upon, and that we perfectly understood
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: each other. What gave me more pleasure than all was
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: that he must see I had no fears of leaving
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: my liege Lady alone with him, which must have galled
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: him to the quick. When she had no other means
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: of showing her devotion to me, she would produce the
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: Lilac pocket book and pursue the work of amendment which
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: I had suggested to her. Indeed, this was done with
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: a regularity, which, when I considered her former er born character,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: I knew could only be sustained by the most ardent attachment.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: My pride and my passion increased daily at last by
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: a happy reverse of fortune. I was led to look
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: for the termination of my trials. Lord s was a
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: personage of too great importance to the nation to be
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: permitted to enjoy his own peace and quiet, and his
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: bilious visage was required to countenance mighty concerns in other parts.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: His dressing case was packed and the baruge was ordered
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: to the door. But poor lady Betty was still doomed
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: to be a sufferer. She was somehow or other hampered
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: with an engagement to write with him as far as
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: the village in order to pay a visit for her
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: mother to the charity school. And I saw her born
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: off the most bewitching example of patience and resignation. I
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: did not offer to accompany them, for I thought it
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: would have looked like jealousy, but engaged in answer to
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: a sweetly whispered invitation to meet her in her walk back.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: When I returned to the drawing room, Barbara and the
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: lady mother were absent on their usual occupations, and I
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: sat down for a moment of happy reflection on the
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: delights which awaited me. My heart was dingling with anticipation,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: and every thought was poetry. A scrap of paper lay
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: upon the table, and was presently enriched with a sonnet
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: on each side, which I had the vanity to think
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: were quite good enough to be transferred to Lady Betty's
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: most beloved and lilac pocketbook. I raised my eyes and low,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: in the bustle of parting with Lord s, she had
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: forgotten to deposit it in her desk. What an agreeable
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: surprise it would be for her to find how I
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: had been employed. How fondly would she thanked me for
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: such a delicate mode of showing my attention. The songs
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: were written in my best hand, and I was about
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: to close the book when I was struck with the
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: extreme beauty of Lady Betty's calligraphy. Might I venture to
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: peruse a page or so and enjoy the luxury of
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: knowing her private thoughts of me? Nay, was it not
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: evidently a sweet little finesse to teach me the secrets
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: of her heart? And should I not mortify her exceedingly
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: if I neglected to take advantage of it? This reflection
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: was quite sufficient, and I commenced the chronicle of her
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: innocent cogitations forthwith. It began with noting the day of
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: the month on which I had presented the gift, and
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: stated prettily the plan of improvement which I had suggested.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: The very first memorandum contained her reasons for loving her,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: dear M. I pressed the book to my lips and
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: proceeded to reason. The first, A good temper is better
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: in a companion than a great wit. If dear M
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: is deficient in the latter, it is not his fault,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: and his excellence in the former makes ample amends. How
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: as much as to say I'm a good natured fool,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: or is there no other construction, no error of the press, none.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: The context assured me that I was not mistaken. Reason
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: the second, personal beauty is not requisite in a husband,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: and if he is a little mistaken in his estimate
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: of himself in this respect, it will make him happy
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: and save me the trouble of laboring for that end.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: Conceded and ill favored, my head began to swim reason
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: the third, I've been told that very passionate attachments between
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: married people are productive of much disquietude and jealousy. The
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: tempered regard, therefore, which I feel for dear M, argues
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: well for the serenity of our lives. High ho furies.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: Reason the fourth, I have sometimes doubted whether this temperate
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: regard to be really loved, But as pity is next
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: to kin to love, and I pity him on so
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: many points, I think I cannot be mistaken pity one
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: exclamation mark. Reason the fifth, I pity him because it
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: is necessary that I should place him on the shelf
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: during Lord S's visit, for fear S should be discouraged
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: by appearances and not make the declaration which I've been
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: so long expecting. Place me on the shelf to exclamation marks.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: Reason the sixth, I pity him because if S really
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: comes forward, I shall be obliged to submit poor, dear
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: him to the mortification of a dismissal three exclamation marks.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: Reason the seventh, I pity him because he is so
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: extremely kind and obliging in quitting the room whenever his
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: presence becomes troublesome. For exclamation marks. Reason the eighth, I
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: pity him because his great confidence in my infection makes
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: him appear so ridiculous, and because S laughs at him
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: five exclamation marks. Reason the ninth, I pition him because
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: if I do ultimately marry him, S will tell everybody
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: that it is only because I could not obtain the
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: barush and four high high hoe six exclamation marks. Reason
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: the tenth I pition him because he is so kind
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: of consented to meet me on my return from the
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: charity school, without one suspecting that I go to give
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: s a last opportunity. He is really a very good
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: young man. Ah well a day, and ah well a day,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: six exclamation marks, etc. Etc. Let no man handsforth endeavor
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: to enjoy the luxury of his mistress's secret thoughts. I
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: closed the book and walked to the window. The river
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: flowed temptingly beneath. Would it be best to drown myself
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: or shoot myself? Or would it be best to take
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: horse after the barush and shoot Lord s. I was
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: puzzled with the alternatives. It was absolutely necessary that somebody
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: should be put to death, but my confusion was too
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: great to decide upon the victim. At this critical juncture
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: of my fate, when I was wavering between the gallows
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: and a grave, wherefore roads meet, Lady Barbara came dancing
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: in to request my assistance. Upon her drawing, she was
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: petrified at my suicidal appearance, and indeed seemed in doubt
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: whether the act of immolation had not been already effected.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: Her fears rushed in crimson to her cheeks as she
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: inquired the cause of my disorder, and her beauty, and
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: the interesting concern she expressed cast an entire new light
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: upon me. I would be revenged on Lady Betty in
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: a manner far more cutting than either drowning or shooting.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: Barbara was the prettiest by far. Barbara was the best
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: by infinity, Sweet, simple gentle Barbara. How generously had she
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: sacrificed her feelings and given me up to her sister,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: How happy was I to have it in my power
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: to reward her for it. She now should be the
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: partner of my declining years, the soother of my the
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: mother of my children. And as for Lady Betty, I
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: renounced her. I found that my heart had all along
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: been Barbara's, and I congratulated myself upon being brought to
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: my senses. The business was soon opened, and we were
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: all eloquence and blushes. I expressed my warm admiration of
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: her self, denial and affection for her sister, hinted at
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: my knowledge of her sentiments for myself explained every particular
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: of my passion prospects and genealogy, fixed upon our place
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: of residence, and allotted her pen money. It was now
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: Barbara's turn. She was confused, she was distressed, she feared,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: she hoped, She knew not what to say. She paused
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: for composure, and I waited in an ecstasy. Why, I exclaimed,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 2: Why will you hesitate my own My gentle Barbara, let
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: me not lose one delicious word of this heavenly confession.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: Barbara regained her courage. Indeed, then, indeed, and indeed, I've
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: been engaged to my cousin for more than three years.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: This was a stroke of which I had never once calculated,
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: and my astonishment was awful. Barbara then was not in
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: love with me after all, and the concern which I'd
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: felt for her blighted affections was altogether erroneous. I'd made
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: the proposal to be revenged on lady Betty, and my
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: disappointment had completely turned the tables upon me. Instead of
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: bringing her to shame, I was ashamed of myself, and
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: my mortification made me feel as though she had heaped
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 2: a new injury upon me. What I said upon the
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: occasion I cannot precisely remember, and if I could. I
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: doubt whether my reader would be able to make head
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: or tail of it. I concluded, however, with my compliments
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: to the lady mother and an urgent necessity to DeCamp,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: Barbara knew not whether she ought to laugh or cry.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 2: I gave her no time to recover herself, for Betty
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: would be home presently, and there was material to be
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: off before they had an opportunity of comparing notes. In
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: three minutes, I was mounted on my horse and again
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: ruminating on the various advantages of hanging, drowning, and shooting.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: I thought I had got clear off, but at the
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: end of the lawn I was fated to encounter the
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: bewitching smile of Lady Betty on her return from the village.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: Her words were brimming with tenderness, and her delight to
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: be rid of that odious lord s was beyond measure.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: It had quite restored her health. She was able to
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: recommence her rides and would order the donkey to be
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: got ready immediately. So then it appeared that the drive
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: to the charity school had not answered the purpose after all,
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: and I was to be the locum tenens of Lady
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: Betty's affection till the arrival of a new acquaintance. I
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: know not whether my constitution is different from that of
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: other people. A pretty face is certainly a terrible criterion
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: of a man's resolution. But for the honor a man
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: whom I contrived for once to be superior to its fascinations,
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: to adherage strictly to truth, I must confess, however humiliating
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: the confession may be that this dignified behavior was very
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: materially sustained by the transactions with Lady Barbara, for the
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: consequence of whose communications there was no answering. I declined
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: the donkey right, looked a most explanatory look of reproach,
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 2: and declared my necessity of returning to town. Lady Betty
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: was amazed, remonstrated, and treated looked like an angel, and
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: finally put her handkerchief to her eyes. There was no
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 2: standing this. I go, said I I go because it
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 2: is proper to quit. Whenever my presence becomes troublesome. I
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: will not oblige you to put me on the shelf.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 2: I will not be too encroaching upon your temperate regard.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 2: High High ho. With that, I plunged my spurs into
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: my steat and vanished at full gallop. It was long
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: before I heard anything more of Oaken Shade or its inhabitants.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: In the middle of the following December, I received a
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 2: piece of wedding cake from the gentle barber, and in
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: the same packet a letter from Lady Betty. She had
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: written instead of Mamma, who was troubled with a gouty affection.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: In the hand she spoke much, and I have no
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: doubt sincerely of the cruel separation from her sister. Touched
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 2: feelingly upon the happiness of the time I had spent
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 2: at Oak and Shade, and trusted she might venture to
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: claim a week of me at Christmas. She was truly
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: sorry that she had no inducement to hold out beyond
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 2: the satisfaction of communicating happiness, which she knew was always
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 2: a paramount feeling with me. She was all alone and
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 2: wretched in the long evenings when Mamma went to sleep,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: and reverted plaintively and prettily to the Little Study and
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: the ghost stories. As for the Lilac pocketbook, she had
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: cast up her follies and misdemeanors, and found the total
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: even before the end of the year, so full of
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: shame and repentance, that she had incontinently thrown it into
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: the fire, trusting to my kindness to give her another
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 2: with fresh advice. Dear Lady Betty, my resentment was long
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 2: gone by. I had long felt the conviction that her
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: little follies were blameless and not at all uncommon, and
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: I vowed that had her happiness depended upon me, I
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 2: would have done anything to insure it. I was obliged, however,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: to send an excuse for the present, for I had
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 2: only been married a week.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 4: In a section five, Section six of The Rover, Volume one,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 4: number nineteen, this is a liveryvox recording. All liberyvox recordings
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 4: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 4: please visit liveryvox dot org. The Rover of Volume one,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 4: number nineteen, edited by Ciba Smith and Lawrence LaBrie. Section six.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 4: Let us love one another, Let us love one another.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 4: Not long may we stay in this bleak world of mourning.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 4: Some droop while tis day, others fade in their noon,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 4: and few linger till eve. Oh their breaks. Not a heart,
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 4: but leave some one to grieve, And the fondest to
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 4: the purest, the truest that met have still found the
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 4: need to forgive and forgets. Then, oh, though the hopes
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 4: that we nourish decay, let us love one another as
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: long as we stay. There are hearts like the ivy,
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 4: though all be decay'd, that seem to twine fondly in
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 4: sunlight and shade. No leaves droop in sadness. Still gayly
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 4: they spread undimm'd midst the blighted and lonely and dead.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 4: But the mistletoe clings to the oak, not in part,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 4: but with leaves closely round it. The root at its
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 4: heart exists, but to twine it imbibe the same dew,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 4: or fall with its loved oak, and perish there too.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 4: Thus love one another amid sorrows, the worst, unalter'd and
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 4: fond as we lov'd at the first. Though the false
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 4: wing of pleasure may change and forsake, and the bright
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 4: sun of wealth into particles break, there are some sweet
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 4: affections that wealth cannot buy, that clean but still closer
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 4: when sorrow draws nigh, and remain with us yet, though
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 4: all else pass away. Thus, let's love one another as
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 4: long as we stay. End of section six, recording by
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 4: Allan Mapstone.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 5: Section seven of the Rover, Volume one, number nineteen. This
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  Speaker 5: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 5: public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
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  Speaker 5: LibriVox dot org. Read by Adrian Stephens. The Rover, Volume one,
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  Speaker 5: number nineteen, edited by ciber Smith and Lawrence Librie. Section
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 5: seven Old Dupe, or how to win a Western vote? Come, Earth,
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 5: said an old hunter. A sheriff ought always to be
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 5: able to tell a good story that he may amuse
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 5: a fellow when he's making him shall out Let us
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 5: say what you can do in that way. Time enough,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 5: said Earth, when I am elected, but at present I
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 5: must knock about to see if I cannot pick up
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 5: a vote or two. The best way to pick up votes.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 5: Earth replied in acquaintance is to tell a good story.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 5: Very well, then, Jack, said Earth, addressing the last speaker,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 5: make a ring and give me fair play, and I
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 5: will tell one. Whether it be good or bad, I
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 5: leave you all to judge. It shall be the truth,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 5: that is, it shall be something that happened to me
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 5: at some time of my life. And if after telling
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 5: it you don't vote for me, if I don't lick you,
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 5: I will agree never to take another coon hunt, then
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 5: whack away, said Jack. Well. Well, well, well, once upon
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 5: a time began Earth, and what happened? Then, asked one
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 5: of the group, Why so many things have happened to me,
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 5: said Earth, since I've been rooting about these woods that
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 5: I hardly know what to tell or which will interest most.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 5: Then tell us of the time that you've floated down
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 5: the Ohio. Well well, said Earth, bursting out in a
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 5: loud laugh. I will tell that, for I had almost
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 5: clean forgot it. But I was in a predicament, wasn't
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 5: I tell us the story, and we shall be able
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 5: to judge, said an old hunter, who standing near was
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 5: leaning on his rifle. Do begin, Earth, and make no
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 5: more preparation. You take us long to get underway, as
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 5: a man does who breaks a yoke of young steers
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 5: or greases a pair of cartwheels before he sets out
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 5: on his journey. Then I'm off, old man, said Earth.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 5: But I must take a running start and begin again. Well, well, well,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 5: once upon a time i'd taken my old bitch Jupiter
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 5: that you've often heard me tell of. Oh Jupe was
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 5: a nice thing. I had taken her long and got
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 5: off on a bear hunt had been absent two or
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 5: three weeks, and had wandered very far from home. I
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 5: was a venturesome lad in those days, and never better
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 5: satisfied than when alone in the wild woods. I had
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 5: worked my way down into the fork formed by the
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 5: emptying of the Cumberland into the Ohio River, and I
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 5: had worried the bears right badly. I had had rare spot.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 5: Oh Jupe was in good humor, and she and I
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 5: was mighty loving. For she had fought some fights which
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 5: I never can forget, and which made me love her
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 5: like a new flint. And she loved me as if
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 5: I was a bacon bone. For I had helped her
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 5: out of some of her difficulties when it would have
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 5: been a gone case if I hadn't been present. I
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 5: say difficulties, for I never did see a dog so
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 5: tired as she was. I do believe during some of
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 5: these fights that I am now talking about, I saw
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 5: the bear's hug her until they stretched her out into
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 5: a long string. Yes, I've seen em squeeze her until
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 5: she wasn't larger than my arm, and at least nine
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 5: or ten feet long. You might have wound her up
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 5: into a ball just as you would have done a
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 5: bank of yarn. Then they must have killed her, Earth,
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 5: said one of the group. You know nothing about it,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 5: said Earth. Don't interrupt me, but I'm good for your vote. Then,
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 5: turning to the crowd, only it's so gentlemen, don't you
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 5: forget it? First? Stoppin me? Certainly, was the reply. Then
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 5: I've already made two votes, said Earth. Oh now cried
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 5: go on, Earth, go on with your story, well, said Earth,
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 5: he stopped me something about the bear's killing Jupe. Now, oh,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 5: Jupe wasn't of that breed of dogs at all. For
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 5: when she was stretched out in a string, or even
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 5: tangled up in a knot, I would shoot the bear,
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 5: draw her off to one side, throw a little cold
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 5: water over, leave her, and go to butchering. In an hour,
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 5: or sometimes it would take longer, she would begin to
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 5: come together like a jointed snake. And presently she would
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 5: fetch her yelp and come streaking it to me, shout
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 5: as she ought to be, showing a teeth and looking
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 5: as fresh as if she was a new made dog.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 5: And then wasn't she vigorous?
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 5: Who says she? Want? You might have hung a cross
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 5: cut sore to a swinging limb, and she would have
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 5: chewed upon it the balance of the day, or have
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 5: thrown her a bear's head, and she wouldn't touch the meat,
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 5: but draw all the teeth out, merely for spite. But
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 5: there was one thing I noticed about Old Jupe. Whenever
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 5: the bear stretched her out into a string, she always
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 5: lost her appetite for the remainder of the day. Well,
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 5: Old Jupe and I was down there, and we have
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 5: been doing pretty much what I've been telling you, when
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 5: one day the bear spun her out rather longer than usual,
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 5: and she got cut so badly that we had to
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 5: rest during the whole of the evening. I was sorry
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 5: for Old Jupe, but didn't care much about having to
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 5: stop myself, for I was right tired and wanted rest,
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 5: and having seen hard times that week. The sun, I suppose,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 5: was about an hour I and I was setting down
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 5: under a big tree, nursing Old Dupe and trying to
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 5: see if I couldn't set her upon our legs again,
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 5: when she raised her nose and snuffed the air, then
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 5: looked in my face and wind. As she did this,
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 5: I saw the hair upon her back begin to rise.
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 5: I knew that there was danger in the wind, and
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 5: from what Old Jupe had told me, I thought the
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 5: redskins were about. The Injuns were not so rife then
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 5: as they had been. It was the fall before Squire
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 5: Ralph came out from the old State, but people had
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 5: to keep sharp lookout, for they would come down upon
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 5: the settlements once in a while, and they were mighty
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 5: apt to carry off some one's hair with them well.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 5: As soon as Old Jupe spoke to me, I looked
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 5: about and Seed five coming along in the direction in
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 5: which I was. They was well loaded, and I knowed
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 5: at once that they had been down upon the settlements,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 5: and we're now making their way to the river, that
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 5: they might cross over and get clear.
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 2: Although I saw.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 5: Them, I knew they hadn't seen me. So I gathered
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 5: up my things to start off, without thinking that Old
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 5: Jupe was so badly cut it couldn't follow. When I
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 5: was ready, I looked at Old Joop. She tried to
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 5: get up, but couldn't. My eyes felt watery, for I
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 5: ate it to leave her, and I hadn't a minute
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 5: to spare. But Old Hoop was a sensible dog. Yes,
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 5: as I said before, she was a nice thing. For
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 5: without speaking a word, she poked her nose under the leaves,
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 5: as much as to say, cover me up and leave me.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 5: I did so, and getting a tree between me and
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 5: the injuns, I streaked it. You ought to have seen
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 5: me run to know how fast a man up to
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 5: move when injuns are after him. Well, ar'd a striking
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 5: it a while. I thought it would never do to
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 5: get off that way and know nothing about em, so
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 5: I began to haul in my horns and back a little.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 5: I got behind a tree and kept a sharp lookout.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 5: Presently I seed them all coming straight toward me. So
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 5: I buckled off again and went for some distance like
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 5: a bear through a cane brake, and then stopped and
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 5: took a stand. I hadn't been there long before I
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 5: seed them come in again. The reason why I saw
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 5: them so often was that I kept before them, and,
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 5: knowing that they were making straight for the river, I
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 5: watched them narrowly, looked at him with both eyes wide open,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 5: and saw they didn't seem to have any notion of me.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 5: They were putting it down fast and heavy that they
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 5: might get across. It was now getting dark, and I
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 5: knew that under cover of the night. As they did
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 5: not suspect anybody was near him, I could keep close
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 5: enough to watch them without their knowing it. And this
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 5: I determined to do, thinking that by possibly something might
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 5: happen to pay me for my trouble. You all know
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 5: I never spared an injun. No, there don't breathe one
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 5: who can say I ever showed him any favor. Well,
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 5: I kept on before him until I got down upon
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 5: the river bank. I was then quite dark, and growing
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 5: more so every minute, for a fog was rising from
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 5: the surface of the water. I looked about to see
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 5: if they had a boat there, thinking if they had one,
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 5: I could take it and let them get across as
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 5: they could. I was searching longer than I thoughtful, and
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 5: didn't know how the time passed, and suddenly I heard
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 5: them coming down the river at the very point where
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 5: I was. I was now skeered and looked about me
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 5: to see if I could get out of the way.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 5: But there was no place to hide, and it was
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 5: too late to escape either up or down the bank.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 5: I'm a gone case, thought I used up at last,
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 5: But just at that moment I saw a large log
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 5: or tree which had been lodged by some high fresh
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 5: at for one end of it still rested on the bank,
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 5: while the other extended out into the stream. Said I
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 5: to myself, I'll get upon this, for it is so
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 5: dark they can't see me, and I can then keep
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 5: a bright look out upon their movements. So I stepped
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 5: on it and crawled along to the far end. I
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 5: found out that the log was floating, and getting as
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 5: near the small end as I could, I straddled it,
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 5: putting my legs in the water to steady me, and
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 5: laid my rifle across my lap. Oh that it would
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 5: but float off, said I. But it wouldn't down to
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 5: the water. They all came and stood about fifteen or
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 5: twenty feet of me. It is all over now, thought I.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 5: If discovered, I am used up as fine as salt.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 5: If I ain't, there's no taste in a rough simon.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 5: Well there they stood in a good humor, laughing and
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 5: talking about I hardly know what, for I couldn't catch
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 5: many of their words. At last I heard one of
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 5: them say, in shore knee, where is the canoe? It
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 5: must be close by. Step upon the lock and find it.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 5: Hold my gun, answered one of them, and passing it
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 5: to one of his friends. He stepped upon the log
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 5: and began to walk right to where I was. Now,
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 5: didn't I squat low and feel mean? But hush? He
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 5: hadn't got far before another must jump on to help
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 5: him find the boat. This last one had only walked
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 5: a few steps when the log slipped and splash. It
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 5: came right in the river with the two injuns. They
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 5: both held on, though they got a little wet, and
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 5: the first thing I knowed, the lock was going out
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 5: into the stream with all three of us on it.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 5: I was slanting at first and slipped got pushed off.
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 5: Those on shore set up a loud laugh, and they
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 5: wouldn't hear anything until it was too late to give
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 5: any help. But for those on the log it was
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 5: no joke, for they was already out in the stream
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 5: and going down it with a smart current. They now
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 5: halloed manfully for help, and those on shore, seeing how
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 5: it was, told them to hold on, that they would
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 5: find the boat and take them off. Well have I
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 5: often told you I have seen hard times? Now? Wasn't
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 5: here a predicament on a log with two engines and
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 5: floating along at night down the Ohio? Well, sure enough,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 5: there I was, and what did I think of?
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 5: Of everything in the world. It really made me feel
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 5: right nigh and what to do? I didn't know. We
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 5: had now floated two or three hundred yards, and I
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 5: was sitting, as I told you before, straddled on the
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 5: log end, just as silent as a deer, listening for
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 5: the dogs, thinking how the affair would terminate. When one
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 5: of the injuns, who was standing upon the log, slipped
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 5: off upon one of the limbs to make room for
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 5: his companion. His stepping caused the log to crean me
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 5: in the water, and forgetting where I was and what
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 5: I was about, I cried, stop, stop, you'll turn me
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 5: over Zones, said I to myself. It is all over
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 5: and now clean gone this time. How the injuns looked,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know, for it was so dark I couldn't
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 5: see their faces. But they must have been worse scared
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 5: than I was, for I knew who they were and
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 5: they didn't know who or what I was. They kept
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 5: muttering about something very fast, and I thought I was
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 5: going to quit the log and streak it, But arter
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 5: a few minutes they became silent and began peeping toward
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 5: where I was like a couple of turkeys looking for worms.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 5: And then one said, don't you see something? Yes, answered
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 5: the other, dark lump bear perhaps, And the other, who
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 5: first spoke, cried out, who's there. I didn't answer, but
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 5: I growed small, so far ast, trying to squeeze myself
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 5: out of sight, that my skin hung as loose as
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 5: if it was a big jacket. They kept peeping at me,
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 5: and I heard one say it is no bear, it
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 5: is a man. Look at his head. When I heard
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 5: him say so, I was so mad. I wish my
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 5: head was under the log. But then I thought if
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 5: it was, I wouldn't be any how better off than
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 5: I was. Then, so I straightened up, and I knowed
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 5: they'd seen me, and I thought twain worth while to
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 5: play possib any longer. Well, when I straightened up, he
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 5: cried out again, who's there? I am here, said I,
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 5: speaking in his own language. The moment I spoke, he
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 5: laughed and said to the other he is a pale face.
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 5: How could he tell that? Earth inquired another group. You
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 5: say it was dark and a fog was rising. I've
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 5: got you, jin, said Earth, Then, pausing, he began to
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 5: count on his fingers. Saying that is four, no three.
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 5: Now don't forget Jim, go on, go on, earth, cried
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 5: half a dozen voices. Well, the reason he knowed me
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 5: so quick was that he seed I didn't speak the
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 5: real injun arda. He had told the other that I
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 5: was a pale face. He turned to me and said,
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 5: what you doing there? Setting down straddle on the small end,
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 5: said I. When I said this, they burst out into
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 5: a laugh. I myself was in no laughing humor, and
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 5: it didn't sound to me like a laugh, but like
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 5: a sort of chuckle. And once said to the other,
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 5: he is a pale face, a lean dog sleeping on
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 5: a log. We did catch him good. And saying thus,
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 5: they put their hands to their mouth and gave the
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 5: war whoop. Well, I tell you what, it was an
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 5: awful sound. And then they told their companions on shore
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 5: that a pale face was on the log, with them
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 5: to get the boat and come quick. Those on the
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 5: shore answered them and ran laughing down the river, looking
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 5: for the boat, and keeping along with the log. I
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 5: now found that I must go at the old work,
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 5: and my bristles began to rise. Come here, said one
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 5: of them, beckoning to me, come quick, before the others come.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 5: I want your hair. What did he mean by that?
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 5: Said one, who with the most fixed attention had been
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 5: standing by eagerly devouring all the earth had been telling
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 5: why he wanted to scalp me, But recollect if you please.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 5: I have your vote, too, said Earth again, pausing an
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 5: instant that is five no four. Well, when he called
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 5: me to him to let him have my air, I
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 5: couldn't stand it any longer, but throwing up my rifle,
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 5: blazed away. He jumped up like a buck and fell
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 5: splash in the water. My rifle made a mighty pretty noise,
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 5: and I heard the report rolling away for miles up
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 5: and down the river. As soon as I fired, the
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 5: engines on the bank also screamed the war whoop, and
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 5: the feller on the log cried out to him to
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 5: bring his gun. I jumped up and crawled at him.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 5: He gathered up an old limb and stood his ground.
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 5: The first thing I knowed, he came down upon me,
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 5: all in an heap, breaking the old limb into a
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 5: dozen pieces o'er my head and shoulders. It was a
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 5: good thing for me that the limb wasn't sound. His
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 5: blow staggered me but I soon rose up and, seizing
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 5: my rifle with both hands, brought him a side swipe
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 5: with the barrel. As I did this, he slipped off
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 5: the log in the water. I then hit him another lick, and,
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 5: stooping quickly down, seized him by the ad as he
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 5: tried to crawl up upon the lone. I was now
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 5: upon the log and he in the water, so I
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 5: had him at a disadvantage. Well, I kept bobbing his
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 5: head under. When I first did it, the bubbles came up,
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 5: just like you were filling a bottle with water. You know,
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 5: after a bottle is full, it won't bubble. Well, I
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 5: kept bobbing his head under until he wouldn't bubble, so
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 5: I concluded he was full of water, and then let
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 5: him go. He went down to the bottom, and I
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 5: never seed him any more. Or was now quiet, for
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 5: both injuns had sunk and I was master of the log.
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 5: But I had yet another struggle to make, for I
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 5: heard the Injuns on shore push off their boat and
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 5: seed the water as splash as they darted toward me.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 5: It was too late to load, and then I could kill.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 5: But one that wouldn't do. No, the only oape was
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 5: to hide, so I took out a string, and, placing
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 5: my rifle in the water, lashed to the log. I
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 5: then threw away my hat, and, crawling as far as
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 5: I could go toward the small end, ease myself gently
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 5: down into the water, leaving nothing out but my head,
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 5: and holding on with both ends by a small limb.
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 5: Another minute and the canoe grated as it run upon
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 5: the log. The Indians looked about and spoke to each other,
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 5: but I could see nothing. They then called their companions
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 5: by name, but there was no answer. They were now
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 5: very distressed, and all got out upon the log and
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 5: began to walk about and examine it. When they came
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 5: to the end where I was, I sunk all together,
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 5: and it being the small end of the log, it
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 5: began to sink, and the engine soon went back. I
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 5: then threw my head back and put my mouth out
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 5: that I might breathe, just as a crippled duck sometimes
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 5: does its bill. I made no noise. It was dark,
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 5: and they could not see me, and all went well.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 5: I heard them say they must have killed him, and
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 5: then that they are all gone. They seemed very much distressed,
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 5: wondered much at the whole affair, and none could explain it.
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 5: After about fifteen minutes, they again stepped into their boat
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 5: and pushed off. I waited until I could hear nothing
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 5: of them, then crawled up upon the log. As I
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 5: did not wish to run any farther risk. I sat
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 5: there till daybreak. The sun was just about arise when
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 5: the log which I was on washed up against the bank,
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 5: not far from where the Ohio empties into the Mississippi.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 5: I caught hold of some bushes and pulled the log
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 5: up alongside the bank and loosened my rifle and got out.
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 5: Had been in the water so long that I was
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 5: mighty weak, and I was shriveled up. But as I
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 5: began to stir about, I felt better, and setting off,
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 5: I went back up the river to whar I started
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 5: upon the log. The first thing I seed upon getting
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 5: back was old Dupe, sitting on the bank waiting for
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 5: me at the very spot where the lock had slipped off.
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 5: The thing wanted to lick me all over. She was
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 5: so glad to see me. I was then right tired,
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 5: so I started off home, and in about a week
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 5: or two, Choop and I arrived there safe and sound.
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 5: And that is the end of my story. Well, Earth,
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 5: said one other company. You are all sorts of a
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 5: looking critter. Yes, said Earth, I know that I am
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 5: a ring striped, speckled and streaked, but I ain't thinking
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 5: about that. I'm thinking about the votes. Now, gentlemen, continued Earth,
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 5: don't you think they ought to make me sheriff? I say,
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 5: if Bob Black has floated farther on a log, killed
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 5: more engines, or stayed longer under the water than I
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 5: have elect him. If not, I say, what has he
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 5: done to qualify him for the office of sheriff? I
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 5: have killed more bears than Bob could eat if they
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 5: were coons, and I have fought some harder fights than
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 5: Bob ever saw. Now I say again, tell me what
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 5: has he done that he ought to be my sheriff.
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 5: Did any of you ever know him call for a quart?
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 5: I never did I have known him to call for
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 5: several half points in the course of a day. But
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 5: I never did know him to step forward manfully and say,
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 5: give us a quart of your best. Then I say again,
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 5: what has Bob Black done to qualify him for sheriff? Now,
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 5: if you beat me, beat me with somebody beat me
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 5: with a man who knows something which ought to qualify
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 5: him for sheriff, and not with Bob Black. Bob can't
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 5: tell you this minute when a bear begins to suck
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 5: his pores. Then, apparently disgusted with the character and acquirements
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 5: of his competitor, Earth turned away to seek other company.
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 5: As he did so, why of the group who had
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 5: taken more than his proportion of a court staggered forward
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 5: and cried out, Hurrah for Earthquake. I tell you what
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 5: he's a squealer. End of section seven.
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  Speaker 6: Section eight of The Rover, Volume one, number nineteen. This
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  Speaker 6: number nineteen, edited by Seba Smith and Lawrence Debris. Section
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 6: eight the Humpback and Green Spectacles. How much of human
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 6: hostility depends on that circumstance distance. If the most bitter
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 6: enemies were to come into contact, how much their ideas
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 6: of each other would be chastened and corrected They would
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 6: mutually amend their erroneous in depressions seem much to admire
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 6: and much to imitate in each other, and have the
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 6: animosity that sheds its painful influence on society would fade
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 6: away and be forgotten. It was one day, when I
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 6: was about seven years old, after an unusual bustle in
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 6: the family mansion, and my being arrayed in a black frock,
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 6: much to my inconvenience, in the hot month of August,
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 6: that I was told my asthmatic old uncle had gone
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 6: off like a lamb, and that I was heiress of
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 6: ten thousand per annum. This information, given with an air
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 6: of infinite importance, made no very great impression upon me
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 6: at the time, and in spite of the circumstance being
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 6: regularly dwelt on by my French Governess at Camden House
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 6: after every heenous misdemeanor, I had thought little or nothing
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 6: on the subject till at the age of eighteen I
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 6: was called on to bid Thedeu to Lavizac and Pirets,
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 6: and her uncle's will read by my guardian, it appears
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 6: that my father and uncle, though brothers, had wrangled and
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 6: jangled through life, and that the only subject on which
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 6: they ever agreed was supporting the dignity of the Vavassur
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 6: family that in a moment of unprecedented unison, they had
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 6: determined that, as the title fell to my cousin Edgar,
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 6: and the estates to me, to keep both united in
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 6: the family, we should marry. And it seemed whichever party
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 6: violated these precious conditions was actually dependent on the other
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 6: for bread and butter. When I first heard of this arrangement,
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 6: I blessed myself, and Sir Edgar cursed himself. A passionate, overbearing,
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 6: dissolute young man, thought I for a husband, for the
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 6: husband of an orphan, of a girl who has not
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 6: a nearer relation than himself in the world, who has
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 6: no father to advise her, no mother to support her.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 6: A professed rake too, who will merely view me as
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 6: an encumbrance on his estate, who will think no love,
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 6: no confidence, no respect due to me, who will insult
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 6: my feelings. I write my sentiments and wither with unkindness
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 6: the best affections of my nature. No, I concluded, as
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 6: my constitutional levity returned, I have the greatest possible respect
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 6: for guardians, revere their office and tremble at their authority,
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 6: but make myself wretched merely to please them. No no,
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 6: I positively cannot think of it well. Time, who is
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 6: no respector of persons went on. The gentleman was within
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 6: a few months of being twenty one, and on the
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 6: day of his attaining age, he was to say whether
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 6: it was his pleasure to fulfill the engagement. My opinion,
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 6: I found, was not to be asked. A titled husband
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 6: was procured for me, and I was to take him
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 6: and be thankful. I was musing on my singular situation
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 6: when the thoughts struck me. Can I not see him
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 6: and judge of his character unsuspected by himself? This is
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 6: the season when he pays an annual visit to my godmother.
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 6: Why not persuade her to let me visit her in call?
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 6: The idea, strange as it was, was instantly acted on,
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 6: and the week saw me yet veil Royale, without carriages,
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 6: without horses, without servants, to all appearance, a girl of
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 6: no pretensions or expectations, and devouredly dependent on a distant
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 6: relation to this hour. I remember my heart beating audibly
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 6: as I descended to the dining room, where I was
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 6: to see for the first time the future arbiter of
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 6: my fate. And I shall never forget my surprise when
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 6: a pale, gentlemanly and rather reserved young man in apparent
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 6: ill health was introduced to me for the noisy, dissolute,
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 6: distracting and distracted baronet. Preciously have I been hoaxed? Thought I,
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 6: as after a long and rather interesting conversation with Sir Edgar,
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 6: I with the other ladies, left the room. Days rolled
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 6: on in succession. Chance continually brought us together, and prudence
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 6: began to whisper, you had better return home. Still I
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 6: lingered till evening, toward the close of a long tete
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 6: a tete conversation on my saying that I never considered
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 6: money and happiness as synonymous terms, and thought it very
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 6: possible to live on five hundred a year. He replied
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 6: one admission more, could you live on it with me?
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 6: You are doubtless acquainted, He continued, with increasing emotion, with
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 6: my unhappy situation, but not perhaps aware that, revolting from
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 6: a union with Miss Vavasour, I have resolved on taking
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 6: orders and accepting a living from a friend, if, foregoing
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 6: more brilliant prospects, you would condescend to share my retirement
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 6: his manner the moment the lovely scene which surrounded us,
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 6: all combined against me. And Heaven only knows what answer
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 6: I might have been hurried into had I not got
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 6: out with a gaiety foreign to my heart. I can
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 6: say nothing to you till you have in person explained
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 6: your sentiments to Miss Vavasour. Nothing positively, nothing, But why
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 6: can see her? Again and again he returned, Ever reconcile
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 6: me to her manner as habits and sentiments or any
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 6: estates induce me to place at the head of my
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 6: table a humpback barb blue in green spectacles, humpbacked, yes,
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 6: from her cradle, But you color? Do you know her? Intimately?
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 6: She is my most particular friend. I sincerely beg your pardon.
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 6: What an unlucky dog I am. I hope you're not offended? Offended? Offended? Offended?
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 6: Oh no, not offended. Humpback good, heavens not the least
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 6: offended humpback of all things in the world. And I
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 6: involuntarily gave a glance at the glass. I had no conception,
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 6: he resumed, as soon as he could recollect himself, that
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  Speaker 6: there was any acquaintance the most intimate, I replied, and
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  Speaker 6: I can assure you that you have been represented to
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  Speaker 6: her as the most dissolute, passionate, awkward is disposed young
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  Speaker 6: men breathing see your cousin, you will find yourself mistaken.
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  Speaker 6: With her answer, you shall have mine, And with a
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  Speaker 6: ludicrous attempt to smile, when I was monstrously inclined to cry,
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  Speaker 6: I contrived to make my escape. We did not meet
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  Speaker 6: again for the next morning. In no very enviable frame
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  Speaker 6: of mind, I returned home. A few weeks afterward, Sir
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  Speaker 6: Edgar came of age. The belts were ringing in the breeze,
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  Speaker 6: the tenants were carousing on the lawn. When he drove
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  Speaker 6: up to the door, Mike Cue was taken with a
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  Speaker 6: large pair of green spectacles on my nose. In a
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  Speaker 6: darkened room, I prepared for this tremendous interview after hands
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  Speaker 6: and hears, innumerable and with confusion, the most distressing to
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  Speaker 6: himself and the most amusing to me. He gave me
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  Speaker 6: to understand he could not fulfill the engagement made for him,
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  Speaker 6: and regretted it had ever been contemplated. No, no, said I,
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  Speaker 6: in a voice that made him start taking off my
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  Speaker 6: green spectacles with a profound courtesy. No, No, it is
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  Speaker 6: preposterous to suppose that Sir Edgar Vavassour would ever connect
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  Speaker 6: himself with an ill bred, awkward, humpbacked girl. Exclamations and explanations,
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 6: laughter and railleries intermixed with more serious feelings followed. But
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  Speaker 6: the result of all was that that that we were married.
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  Speaker 6: End of section eight.
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  Speaker 3: Section nine of The Rover Volume one, number nineteen. This
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  Speaker 3: the Rover Volume one, number nineteen. It is by Seba
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  Speaker 3: Smith and Lawrence le Breaux. Section nine A beautiful thought
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  Speaker 3: with a beautiful response A lady had written on a
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  Speaker 3: card and placed in her garden house on the top
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  Speaker 3: of an hour glass, a beautiful simple stanzas from one
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  Speaker 3: of the fugitive pieces of John Claire, the rural poet.
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  Speaker 3: It was at the season of the year, when the
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  Speaker 3: flowers were in their highest beauty, to think of summers
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  Speaker 3: yet to come, that I am not to see. To
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  Speaker 3: think a weed is yet to bloom from dust, that
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  Speaker 3: I shall be the next morning. She found pencils on
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  Speaker 3: the back of the same card, to think, when heaven
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  Speaker 3: and Earth are fled and times in seasons over, when
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  Speaker 3: all that can die shall be dead, that I must
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  Speaker 3: die no more? Ah, Where will then my portion be?
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  Speaker 3: How will I spend each? End of section.
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  Speaker 7: Nine Section ten of The Rover Volume one number nineteen.
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  Speaker 7: Volume one number nineteen, edited by Seba Smith and Lawrence LaBrie.
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  Speaker 7: Section ten vanity of the world, What then, is all
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  Speaker 7: this pageant sad or gay? Its elements are seeds of
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  Speaker 7: mare decay. One thing alone remaineth in the waste of
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  Speaker 7: ruined ages, which, when time is past, shall be, when
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  Speaker 7: Glory's badge hath faded and fame shall be a chef
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  Speaker 7: bhado shall endure. And it is thou religion bright, unshaded
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  Speaker 7: by the deep dusk of setting years and pure. End
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  Speaker 7: of section ten.
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  Speaker 4: Section eleven of The Rover Volume one number nineteen. This
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  Speaker 4: by Ceba Smith and Lawrence Labree, Section eleven, Washington Alston.
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  Speaker 4: We gave some notice of the death of this distinguished
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 4: artist in the last number of the Rover. After that
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  Speaker 4: number had gone to press, we received a letter from
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  Speaker 4: a young friend in body Elston, who enjoyed the privilege
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  Speaker 4: of an acquaintance with mister Alston and his family, from
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  Speaker 4: which we make the following extract. Washington Alston, the great
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  Speaker 4: poet and painter, as you may know, is no more.
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  Speaker 4: What a beautiful life was his, how sublime his death,
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  Speaker 4: and how sacred his memory. The tongue of time had
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  Speaker 4: just heralded the birth of the holy Sabbath, when the spirit,
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  Speaker 4: as if conscious of the fitness of the moment, embraced
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  Speaker 4: the sacred chirubed day and glided calmly up the asure
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  Speaker 4: fields to heaven. Alston was sitting quietly in his chair.
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  Speaker 4: His niece, a young lady, was by his side. He
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  Speaker 4: kissed her forehead and sighed tenderly, God, bless you. These
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 4: were the last words the poet ever uttered. He gave
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 4: up life, even where he sat without the slightest movement
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  Speaker 4: of a muscle, He passed away from the pleasant dream
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  Speaker 4: of death into the bright and beautiful reality of eternity,
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  Speaker 4: without a struggle. He died as he had always lived,
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  Speaker 4: and lived as all men would wish when they come
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  Speaker 4: to die. We notice in the Boston Courier the following
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  Speaker 4: lines on the death of Alston, which by the initials
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  Speaker 4: attached we recognize as coming from the pen of H. T. Tuckerman,
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  Speaker 4: a person eminently qualified to appreciate the merits both of
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 4: the man and the artist. On the death of Alston.
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  Speaker 4: The element of beauty, which in THEE was a prevailing spirit,
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  Speaker 4: pure and high, and from all guile, had made thy
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  Speaker 4: being free now seems to whisper thou canst never die.
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  Speaker 4: For Nature's priests we shed no idlety their mantles on
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  Speaker 4: a deathless lineage fall. Though thy white locks at length
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  Speaker 4: have pressed the bier, death could not fold thee in
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 4: Oblivion's pall majestic forms. Thy hands, in grace arrayed eternal
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  Speaker 4: watch will keep beside the tomb, while use aerial which
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  Speaker 4: thy pencil stayed in shades with Heaven's radiance. Illuone arts
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  Speaker 4: meek apostle, Holy is thy sway from the Heart's records.
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  Speaker 4: Ne'er pass away. End of section eleven. Recording by Alum Mapstone.
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  Speaker 5: Section twelve of The Rover, Volume one, number nineteen. This
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  Speaker 5: one nineteen, edited by Seba Smith and Lawrence LaBrie. Section
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  Speaker 5: twelve Sonnet Brackets, Buster Bryant by T. B Read. The
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  Speaker 5: three sister arts poetry, painting and sculpture. Here we have
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  Speaker 5: them altogether in an effective, well written sonnet from a
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  Speaker 5: young and very promising painter on a bust by a
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  Speaker 5: young and self taught sculptor who is destined to rank
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  Speaker 5: high in the world of art, and that bust io
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 5: of a poet whose brow is already entwined with unfading laurels.
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  Speaker 5: Young Reid was born and brought up in Pennsylvania, or
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  Speaker 5: rather came up alone, as the Yankees say, for he
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  Speaker 5: was left to take care of himself when a mere
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  Speaker 5: While quite a young lad, he wandered to Cincinnati, and
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  Speaker 5: there of his own accord, and without any instruction, he
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  Speaker 5: took to painting painted portraits, succeeded remarkably while producing striking likenesses,
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  Speaker 5: and a few months before the death of President Harrison,
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 5: he took his portrait, which we believe was the last,
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  Speaker 5: and many consider it the best likeness that was ever
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  Speaker 5: taken of the venerable farmer of North Bend. After that
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 5: he wandered to New York, working his way by painting
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 5: portraits in the villages and hotels on the road. He
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 5: remained something like a year in New York, where he
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  Speaker 5: left some valuable productions of his pencil. But genius is
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  Speaker 5: restless and far reaching. The boy would not tarry at Jericho,
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 5: nor at Gotham till his beard was grown. He must
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  Speaker 5: needs journey to the land of the Pilgrims and rub
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  Speaker 5: his head against the Yankees. He has resided the last
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  Speaker 5: year in Boston, where we hear occasionally that he is
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  Speaker 5: gaining much credit for his progress in the beautiful art
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  Speaker 5: to which he is devoted, having, besides his portraits, produced
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  Speaker 5: a number of imaginative pieces of great merit. Brackett Edward Brackett,
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 5: the sculptor, originated in the state of Maine. He too,
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 5: when quite a boy, went with his parents to Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 5: and there commenced his career as a sculptor, where Powers
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 5: and Clevenger had started in the race before him. He too,
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  Speaker 5: like Reid, had no advantages of education, and was self
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  Speaker 5: taught in his art. He came to New York, where
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 5: he spent a couple of years, and where many of
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 5: our citizens witnessed the proof of his genius. He has
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 5: resided for the last year in Boston, and is working
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  Speaker 5: his way up to inscribe his name we trust at
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 5: an honorable height on the temple of Fame. Among his works,
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 5: we have heard d his busts of Danna and Bryant,
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 5: both of which have been taken since he went to Boston,
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  Speaker 5: very highly commended William Cullen Bryant of him, we need
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  Speaker 5: not say a word, for wherever the English language is
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  Speaker 5: spoken there is his name known. Original Sonnet Brackets Buster
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  Speaker 5: Bryant by t E read Thou art divine whose magic
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  Speaker 5: powers prolong the perfect semblance of the good and great.
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  Speaker 5: While death with tyrant will subdues the strong, thou still
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  Speaker 5: canst grapple with the hand of fate and hold the
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  Speaker 5: form above the reach of time. Thou makest the solid
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  Speaker 5: block grow animate till every line displays the soul sublime.
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 5: Oblivion thus is baffled, while the stone and language, in
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  Speaker 5: their beauty shall survive. Though many a tuneful chord vibrates,
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  Speaker 5: unknown and heaven touched frames, unhonored cease to live, returning heaven.
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  Speaker 5: What Heaven alone could give? Yet such a life that
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  Speaker 5: art and song impart, that Bryant long shall hold dominion
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  Speaker 5: o'er the heart. End of section twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Section thirteen of The Rover Volume one, number nineteen. This
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  Speaker 3: the Rover Volume one, number nineteen, edited by CEB. Smith
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  Speaker 3: and Lawrence Relivery, Section thirteen. Now we are here, Now
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  Speaker 3: we are here, driven to this little corner. What shall
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  Speaker 3: we say to our pleasant readers, and not fret their patience?
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  Speaker 3: Shall we ask them to look again at our plate
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  Speaker 3: and laugh at the woeful position of the conceited, shallow
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  Speaker 3: and important malvolio, or admire that pretty rogue Maria has
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  Speaker 3: not the artist told the story cleverly. Indeed there is
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  Speaker 3: much merit in it. How like you, the story is
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  Speaker 3: the plot, not a genuine shakespeare one. Ah, though glorious
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  Speaker 3: Bard of Avon, though sweetest Swan that ever sang, how
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  Speaker 3: small a thought hadst thou of all thy greatness, thy
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  Speaker 3: marvelous grandeur, thy thunder rolling verse speaking of Avon Swan
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  Speaker 3: reminds us of an old friend that once did attempt
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  Speaker 3: some verses to the memory of Shakespeare. He was a
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  Speaker 3: pretty clever fellow English, clever, but no poet, nothing so
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  Speaker 3: difficult as a beginning. Mister Nobbs found it so, thus
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  Speaker 3: wrote he, great Bard of Avon, sweet inspiring Swan. Tis
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  Speaker 3: been a great while since thou hast been gone England
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  Speaker 3: laments the earth laments in vain twill be a good
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 3: while ere thoulbu comest again. The thunderclap, the earthquake, and
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 3: the the poet had got thus far. We were sitting
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  Speaker 3: at his side. He was laboring. He read the lines
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  Speaker 3: aloud with a fine accent, and coming to the line
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  Speaker 3: the thunderclap, the earthquake, and the and and and said
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  Speaker 3: he rubbing his temples. We could withstand laughter. No longer
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  Speaker 3: we fairly roared, He looked thunder at us, started from
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  Speaker 3: his seat, and left the room, and never after that
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  Speaker 3: attempted poetry. A good hint to many who are laughed
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  Speaker 3: at even now Section thirteen, end of The Rover, Volume one,
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  Speaker 3: number nineteen, edited by Seba Smith and Lawrence Liberte.