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  Speaker 1: If you will favor me with your attention for half
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  Speaker 1: a minute, I should like to have a word or
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  Speaker 1: two with you. You said just now that you had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to tell us about this business. You are quite
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  Speaker 1: sure of that before we go any further, Sir, I
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  Speaker 1: am sure.
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  Speaker 2: Aunt.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a gentleman from London present. Mister Bounderby made a
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  Speaker 1: back handed point at mister James Hearthhouse with his thumb
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  Speaker 1: A parliament gentleman, I should like him to hear a
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  Speaker 1: short bit of dialog between you and me, instead of
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  Speaker 1: taking the substance of it, for I know precious well
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  Speaker 1: beforehand what it will be. Nobody knows better than I do.
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  Speaker 1: Take notice instead of receiving it on trust from my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Stephan bent his head to the gentleman from London and
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  Speaker 1: showed a rather more troubled mind than usual. He turned
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  Speaker 1: his eyes involuntarily to his former refuge, but at a
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  Speaker 1: look from that quarter, expressive though instantaneous, he settled them
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  Speaker 1: on mister Bounderby's face. Now what do you complain of,
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  Speaker 1: asked mister Bounderby. I had not come here, sir. St
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  Speaker 1: Stephan reminded him to complain. I come for that I
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  Speaker 1: was sent for what, repeated mister bounderby folding his arms,
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  Speaker 1: do you people in general way complain of Stephan looked
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  Speaker 1: at him with some little irresolution for a moment, and
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  Speaker 1: then seemed to make up his mind. Sir, I were
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  Speaker 1: never good at schoen ought, though I had had my
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  Speaker 1: share of feeling ought. Indeed we are in a muddle, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Look round town so rich as tis, and see the
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  Speaker 1: numbers of people as have been broughten in too. beIN
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  Speaker 1: here for to weave and to card and to peace
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  Speaker 1: out to livin' ah the same one way somehows TwixT
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  Speaker 1: their cradles and their graves. Look how we live and
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  Speaker 1: where we live, and in what numbers, and by what chances,
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  Speaker 1: and we what sameness? And look how the mills is
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  Speaker 1: always a going, and how they never works us no
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  Speaker 1: nigher to any distant object steptin always death. Look how
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  Speaker 1: you considers of us, and writes of us, and talks
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  Speaker 1: of us, and those up we are deputations to secretaries
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  Speaker 1: of the state about us, And how you're always right,
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  Speaker 1: and how we are all as wrong and never had
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  Speaker 1: no reason in us and ever we were born. Look
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  Speaker 1: how this had grown and going, Sir, bigger and bigger,
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  Speaker 1: broader and broader, harder and harder, from year to year,
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  Speaker 1: from generation into generation. Who can look on it, sir
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  Speaker 1: and fairly tell a man tis not an of course,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Bounderby. Now perhaps you'll let the gentleman know
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  Speaker 1: how you would set this muddle, as you're so fond
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  Speaker 1: of calling it to rights. Ned, No, sir, I cannot
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  Speaker 1: be expecting to it. Tis not me as should be
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  Speaker 1: looking to for that, sir, tis them is put o'er
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  Speaker 1: me and o'er all the rest of us. What do
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  Speaker 1: they take upon themseld sir, if not to do it,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you something towards it. At any rate, returned
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  Speaker 1: mister Bounderby. We'll make an example of half a dozen
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  Speaker 1: slack bridges. We'll indict the blackers for felony and get
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  Speaker 1: them shipped off to penal settlements. Stephan gravely shook his head.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell me, we won't, man, said mister Bounderby, by
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  Speaker 1: this time blowing a hurricane, because we will, I tell you, sir,
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  Speaker 1: returned Stephan, with the quiet confidence of absolute certainty. If
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  Speaker 1: you was to take a hundred stalk bridges, and as
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  Speaker 1: there is and all the number ten times to and
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  Speaker 1: was to sew them in separate secks and sink him
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  Speaker 1: in the deepest ocean as were made ever dry land
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  Speaker 1: come to be. You'd leave the muddle just where it tis,
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  Speaker 1: mischievous strangers, said Stephan with an anxious smile. When how
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  Speaker 1: we not here? And I am sure sin ever we
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  Speaker 1: can call to mind? Oh, the mischievous strangers tis not
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  Speaker 1: by them the troubles made, Sir, tis not we them
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  Speaker 1: to commence us. I had no favor for them, I
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  Speaker 1: had no reason to favor him. But tis hopeless and
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  Speaker 1: useless to dream of taking them for their trade instead
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  Speaker 1: of taking their trade from them. Ah, that's about me
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  Speaker 1: in this room. We're here afore I come, and will
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  Speaker 1: be here when I am gone. Put that clock aboard
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  Speaker 1: a ship and pack it off to Norfolk Island, and
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  Speaker 1: the time will go on just the same. So tis
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  Speaker 1: way Slackbridge every bit. Reverting for a moment to his
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  Speaker 1: former refuge, he observed a cautionary movement of her eyes
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  Speaker 1: towards the door. Stepping back, he put his hand upon
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  Speaker 1: the lock. But he had not spoken out of his
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  Speaker 1: own will and desire, and he felt in his heart
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  Speaker 1: a noble return for his late injurious treatment. To be
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  Speaker 1: faithful to the last to those who had repudiated him,
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  Speaker 1: he stayed to finish what was in his mind. Sir,
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  Speaker 1: I can away, my little leernin and my coman way,
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  Speaker 1: tell the gentleman what will better owe this? Though some
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  Speaker 1: working man o this town could above my powers, but
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  Speaker 1: I can tell him what. A no will never do it.
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  Speaker 1: The straw hand will never do it. Victory and triumph
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  Speaker 1: will never do it. Agree in for to make one
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  Speaker 1: side unnaturally always and forever right, and to other side,
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  Speaker 1: oh naturally always and forever wrong, will never never do it.
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  Speaker 1: Nor yet, letting alone will never do it. Let thousands
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  Speaker 1: upon thousands alone, all leading the like lives and fall
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  Speaker 1: into the like muddle, and they will be as one,
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  Speaker 1: and you will be as another. We a black, unpassable
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  Speaker 1: world betwixt you, just as long or short a time
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  Speaker 1: as such like misery can last, not drawing nigh to
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  Speaker 1: folk with kindness and patience and cheery ways that so
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  Speaker 1: draws nigh one another in their money troubles, and so
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  Speaker 1: cherishes one another in their distresses with what they need themselves,
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  Speaker 1: like I humbly believe, as no people the gentleman has
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  Speaker 1: seen and all his travels can beat. Will never do
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  Speaker 1: it till the sun turns to ice. Most of all,
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  Speaker 1: raeting them has so much power, and regulating them as
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  Speaker 1: if they was figures in a in a some more
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  Speaker 1: machines without loves, and lichens without memories, and inclinations without souls,
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  Speaker 1: to weary in souls, to hope when all goes quiet,
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  Speaker 1: dragging on William as if they are not of the kind,
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  Speaker 1: and when all goes unquiet, reproaching them for their want
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  Speaker 1: of such humanly feelings in their dealings with you. This
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  Speaker 1: will never do it, sir, till God's work is unmade.
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  Speaker 1: Stephan stood with the open door in his hand, waiting
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  Speaker 1: to know if anything more were expected of him. Just
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  Speaker 1: stop a moment, said mister Bounderby, excessively red in the face.
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  Speaker 1: I told you the last time you were here with
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  Speaker 1: a grievance that you had better turn about and come
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  Speaker 1: out of that. And I also told you, if you
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  Speaker 1: remember that I was up to the gold Spoon look out,
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  Speaker 1: I were not up to myself, Sir. I do assure
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  Speaker 1: you now. It's clear to me, said mister Bounderby, that
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  Speaker 1: you are one of those chaps who have always got
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  Speaker 1: a grievance. You go about sewing it and raising crops.
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  Speaker 1: That's the business of your life, my friend. Stephan shook
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  Speaker 1: his head mutely, protesting that indeed he had other business
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  Speaker 1: to do for his life. You are such a waspish, raspish,
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  Speaker 1: ill conditioned chap, you see, said mister Bounderby, that even
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  Speaker 1: your own union, the men who know you best, will
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  Speaker 1: have nothing to do with you. I never thought those
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  Speaker 1: fellows could be right in anything, but I tell you
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  Speaker 1: what I so far go along with them for a
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  Speaker 1: novelty that I'll have nothing to do with you either.
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  Speaker 1: Stephan raised his eyes quickly to his face. You can
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  Speaker 1: finish off what you're at, said mister Bounderby, with a
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  Speaker 1: meaning nod, and then go elsewhere. Sir, you know well,
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  Speaker 1: said Stephen expressively that I cannot get work with you.
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  Speaker 1: I canna get it elsewhere. The reply was what I
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  Speaker 1: know I know, and what you know you know. I
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  Speaker 1: have no more to say about it. Stephan glanced at
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  Speaker 1: Louisa again, but her eyes were raised to his no more. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: with a sigh and saying barely above his breath, Heaven
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  Speaker 1: help us all in this world, he departed end of
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  Speaker 1: chapter five, Chapter six, Fading Away. It was falling dark
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  Speaker 1: when Stephan came out of mister Bounderby's house. The shadows
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  Speaker 1: of night had gathered so fast that he did not
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  Speaker 1: look about him when he closed the door, but plodded
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  Speaker 1: straight along the street. Nothing was farther from his thoughts
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  Speaker 1: than the curious old woman he had encountered on his
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  Speaker 1: previous visit to the same house. When he heard a
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  Speaker 1: step behind him that he knew, and turning saw her
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  Speaker 1: in Rachel's company. He saw Rachel first as he had
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  Speaker 1: heard her only. Ah, Rachel, my dear missus, thou we
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  Speaker 1: er well, And now you are surprised, to be sure,
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  Speaker 1: and with reason, I must say, the old woman returned
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  Speaker 1: here I am again, you see. But how will Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: said Stephan, falling into their step, walking between them, looking
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  Speaker 1: from one to the other. Why I come to be
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  Speaker 1: with this good lass pretty much as I came to
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  Speaker 1: be with you, said the old woman, cheerfully, taking the
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  Speaker 1: reply upon herself. My visiting time is later this year
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  Speaker 1: than usual, for I have been rather troubled with a
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  Speaker 1: shortness of breath, and so put it off till the
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  Speaker 1: weather was fine and warm. For the same reason. I
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  Speaker 1: don't make all my journey in one day, but divide
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  Speaker 1: it into two days, and get a bed to night
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  Speaker 1: at the traveler's coffee house down by the railroad, an
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  Speaker 1: ice clean house, and go back to Parliamentary at six
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. Well, but what has this to do
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  Speaker 1: with this good lass, says you, I am going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you I have heard of mister Bounderby being married.
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  Speaker 1: I read it in the paper where it looked grand. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it looked fine. The old woman dwelt on it with
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  Speaker 1: a strange enthusiasm, and I want to see his wife.
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  Speaker 1: I have never seen her yet. Now, if you'll believe me,
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  Speaker 1: she hasn't come out of that house since known today,
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  Speaker 1: So not to give her up too easily. I was
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  Speaker 1: waiting about a little last bit more when I passed
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  Speaker 1: close to this good last two or three times, and
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  Speaker 1: her face being so friendly, I spoke to her, and
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  Speaker 1: she spoke to me. There, said the old woman to Stephan,
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  Speaker 1: you can make all the rest out for yourself. Now
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  Speaker 1: to deal shorter than I can, I dare say once again,
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  Speaker 1: Stephan had to conquer an instinctive propensity to dislike this
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  Speaker 1: old woman, though her manner was as honest and simple
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  Speaker 1: as a manner possibly could be, with a gentleness that
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  Speaker 1: was as natural to him as he knew it to
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  Speaker 1: be to Rachel. He pursued the subject that interested her
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  Speaker 1: in her old age. Well, missus, said he. The lady
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  Speaker 1: and she were young and handsome. We fine, dark thinking
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  Speaker 1: eyes and a still way Rachel, as I had never
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  Speaker 1: seen the like on young and handsome, Yes, cried the
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  Speaker 1: old woman, Quite delighted as bunny as a rose. And
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  Speaker 1: what a happy wife. Aye, missus, I suppose she be,
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  Speaker 1: said Stephan, but with a doubtful glance at Rachel. Suppose
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  Speaker 1: she be? She must be. She's your master's wife, returned
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  Speaker 1: the old woman. Stephan nodded assent, though as to master,
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  Speaker 1: said he, glancing again at Rachel, not Master anymore. That's
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  Speaker 1: all end in TwixT him and me. Have you left
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  Speaker 1: his work? Stephen asked Rachel anxiously and quickly. Why Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: he replied, whether I have or left in his work,
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  Speaker 1: or whether his work are left in me comes to
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  Speaker 1: the same work and me are parted? Tis iss, weal
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  Speaker 1: so better? I were thinking when you come up with me,
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  Speaker 1: I would have brought in trouble upon trouble. If I
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  Speaker 1: had stayed there happily. Tis a kindness to money that
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  Speaker 1: I go happily, tis a kindness to myself. Anyways, it
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  Speaker 1: mun be done. It mun turned my face through Coketown
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  Speaker 1: for the time and seek a fortune deer by beginning fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Where will you go, Stephen? And to know tonight, said he,
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  Speaker 1: lifting off his hat and smoothing his thin air with
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  Speaker 1: the flat of his hand. But I'm not going tonight, Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: nor yet tomorrow. Tain't easy over much to know where
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  Speaker 1: I turn. But a good heart will come to me
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  Speaker 1: herein too, the sense of even thinking unselfishly aided him.
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  Speaker 1: Before he had so much as close mister Bounderby's door,
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  Speaker 1: he had reflected that at least his being a blot
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  Speaker 1: to go away was good for her, as it would
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  Speaker 1: save her from the chance of being brought into question
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  Speaker 1: for not withdrawing from him. Though it would cost him
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  Speaker 1: a hard pang to leave her, and though he could
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  Speaker 1: think of no similar place in which his condemnation would
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  Speaker 1: not pursue him, perhaps it was almost a relief to
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  Speaker 1: be forced away from the endurance of the last four days,
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  Speaker 1: even to unknown difficulties and distresses. So he said, with truth,
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  Speaker 1: I more lightsome, Rachel undert and than I could have believed.
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  Speaker 1: It was not her part to make his burden heavier,
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  Speaker 1: she answered with her comforting smile, and the three walked
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  Speaker 1: on together. Age, especially when it strives to be self
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  Speaker 1: reliant and cheerful, finds much consideration among the poor. The
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  Speaker 1: old woman was so decent and contented, and made so
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  Speaker 1: light of her in friend remities. Though they had increased
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  Speaker 1: upon her since her former interview with Stephan, that they
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  Speaker 1: both took an interest in her. She was too sprightly
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  Speaker 1: to allow of their walking at a slow pace on
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  Speaker 1: her account, but she was very grateful to be talked to,
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  Speaker 1: and very willing to talk to any extent. So when
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  Speaker 1: they came to their part of the town, she was
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  Speaker 1: more brisk and vivacious than ever. Come to my poor place, missus,
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  Speaker 1: said Stephan, and take a cup of tea. Rachel will
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  Speaker 1: come then, and I afterwards, I'll see thee safe to
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  Speaker 1: thy traveler's lodge, and to maybe long Rachel, ere I
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  Speaker 1: had the chance of thy company again. They complied, and
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  Speaker 1: the three of them went on to the house where
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  Speaker 1: he lodged. When they turned into a narrow street, Stephan
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  Speaker 1: glanced at his window with a dread that always haunted
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  Speaker 1: with his desolate home. But it was open as he
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  Speaker 1: had left it, and no one was there. The evil
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  Speaker 1: spirit of his life had flitted away again months ago,
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  Speaker 1: and he had heard no more of her since. The
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  Speaker 1: only evidences of her return now were the scantier movables
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  Speaker 1: in his room and the grayer hair upon his head.
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  Speaker 1: He lighted a candle, set out his little tea board,
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  Speaker 1: got hot water from below, and brought in small portions
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  Speaker 1: of tea and sugar, a loaf and some butter from
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  Speaker 1: the nearest shop. The bread was new and crusty, the
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  Speaker 1: butter fresh, and the sugar lump, of course, in fulfillment
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  Speaker 1: of the standard testimony of the Coketown's magnets that these
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  Speaker 1: people lived like princes, Sir Rachel made the tea so
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  Speaker 1: large a party necessitated the borrowing of a cup, and
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  Speaker 1: the visitor enjoyed it mightily. It was the first glimpse
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  Speaker 1: of sociality the host had had for many days. He too,
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  Speaker 1: with the world a wide heath before for him, enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: the meal again in cooboration of the magnets, as exemplifying
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  Speaker 1: the utter want of calculation on the part of these people, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: I had never thought yet, missus, said Stephan. Oh, asking
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  Speaker 1: thy name, the old lady announced herself as Missus Pegler,
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  Speaker 1: A widder, I think, said Stephan. Oh, many long years.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Pegler's husband, one of the best on the record,
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  Speaker 1: was already dead by Missus Pegler's calculation when Stephan was born.
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  Speaker 1: Twer a bad job too to lose so good a one,
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  Speaker 1: said Stepan. Only children. Missus Pegler's cup rattling against her
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  Speaker 1: saucer she held it, denoted some nervousness on her part. No,
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  Speaker 1: she said, not now, not now dead. Stephan Rachel softly hinted, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I have spoken, said Stephan. I ought to
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  Speaker 1: have been in my mind as I might touch a
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  Speaker 1: sore place. I blame my son. While he excused himself,
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  Speaker 1: the old lady's cup rattled more and more. I had
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  Speaker 1: a son, she said, curiously, distressed, and not by any
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  Speaker 1: of the usual appearances of sorrow. And he did well,
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  Speaker 1: wonderfully well. But he is not to be spoken of,
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  Speaker 1: if you please. He is putting down her cup. She
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  Speaker 1: moved her hands as if she would have added by
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  Speaker 1: her action dead. Then she said aloud, I have lost him.
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  Speaker 1: Stephan had not yet got the better of his, having
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  Speaker 1: given the old lady Paine when his landlady came stumbling
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  Speaker 1: up the narrow stairs and calling him to the door,
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  Speaker 1: whispered in his ear. Missus Pegley was by no means deaf,
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  Speaker 1: for she caught a word of as it was uttered. Bounderby,
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  Speaker 1: She cried in a suppressed voice, starting up from the table.
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  Speaker 1: Oh hide me, don't let me be seen for the world.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let him come up till I've got away. Pray, pray,
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  Speaker 1: She trembled, and was excessively agitated, getting behind Rachel when
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  Speaker 1: Rachel tried to reassure, and not seeming to know what
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  Speaker 1: she was about. But harken, Missus Harkin, said Stephane, astonished,
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  Speaker 1: tisn't mister bounderby' tis his wife. You're for fear of her?
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  Speaker 1: You was hey go mad about her? But an hour sin,
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  Speaker 1: But are you sure it's the lady not the gentleman,
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  Speaker 1: she asked, still trembling. Certain, Sure, Well, then, pray don't
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  Speaker 1: speak to me, nor yet take any notice of me,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: said the old woman. Let me be quite to myself
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  Speaker 1: in this corner. Stephan nodded, looking to Rachel for an explanation,
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  Speaker 1: which she was quite unable to give him, took the kennel,
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  Speaker 1: went down stairs in a few moments, return lighting Louisa
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  Speaker 1: into the room. She was followed by the whelp Rachel
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  Speaker 1: had risen and stood apart with her shawl and bonnet
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  Speaker 1: in her hand, when Stephan, himself profoundly astonished by this visit,
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  Speaker 1: put the candle on the table. Then he too stood
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  Speaker 1: with his doubled hand upon the table near it, waiting
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  Speaker 1: to be addressed. For the first time in her life,
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  Speaker 1: Louisa had come into one of the dwellings of the
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  Speaker 1: Coketown Hands. For the first time in her life, she
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  Speaker 1: was face to face with anything like individuality and connection
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  Speaker 1: with them. She knew of their existence by hundreds and
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  Speaker 1: by thousands. She knew what results in work a given
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  Speaker 1: number of them would produce in a given space of time.
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  Speaker 1: She knew them in crowds, passing to and from their nests,
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  Speaker 1: like ants or beadles. But she knew from her reading
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  Speaker 1: infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of
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  Speaker 1: these toiling men and women. Something to be worked so
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  Speaker 1: much and paid so much, and there ended, something to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: be infallibly settled by laws of supply and demand, something
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that blundered against those laws and floundered into difficulty. Something
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: that was a little pinched when wheat was dear and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: over ate itself, and wheat was cheap. Something that increased
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: at such a rate of percentage and yielded such another
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: percentage of crime, and such another percentage of pauperism. Something wholesale,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of which vast fortunes were made. Something that occasionally rose
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: like a sea, and did some harm and waste, chiefly
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to itself, and fell again. This she knew the Coketown
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: hands to be, but she had scarcely thought more of
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: separating them into units than of separating the sea itself
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: into compodent drops. She stood for a moment, looking round
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the room, from the few chairs, the few books, the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: common prince, the bed. She glanced to the two women
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and to Stephen. I have come to speak to you
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: in consequence of what passed just now. I should like
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to be serviceable to you, if you will let me.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Is this your wife? Rachel raised her eyes, and they
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: sufficiently answered no, and dropped again. I remember, said Louisa,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: reddening at her mistake. I recollect now to have heard
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: your domestic misfortunes spoken of, though I was not attending
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to the particulars at the time. It was not my
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: meaning to ask a question that would give pain to
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: any one here. If I should ask any other question
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: that may happen to have that result, give me credit,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: if you please, for being in ignorance. How to speak
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to you as I ought? As Stephan had but a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: little while ago, instinctively addressed himself to her, So she
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: now instinctively addressed herself to Rachel. Her manner was short
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and abrupt, yet faltering and timid. He has told you
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: what has passed between himself and my husband. You would
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: be his first resource. I think I have heard the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: end of it, young lady, said Rachel. Did I understand
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that being rejected by one employer, he would probably be
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: rejected by all? I thought? He said as much. The
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: chances are very small, young lady, next to nothing for
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a man who gets a bad name among them. What
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: shall I understand that you mean by a bad name
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the name aim of being troublesome, Then, by prejudices of
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: his own class, and by the prejudices of the other,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he has sacrificed alike. Are the two so deeply separated
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: in this town that there is no place whatever for
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: an honest workman between them. Rachel shook her head in silence.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: He fell into suspicion, said Louisa, with his fellow weavers,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: because he had made a promise not to be one
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: of them. I think it must have been to you
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that he made that promise. Might I ask why he
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: made it? Rachel burst into tears. I didn't seek it
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: of him, poor lad. I prayed him to avoid trouble
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: for his own good little thinking he'd come to it
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: through me. But I know he'd die a hundred deaths
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: ere he'd break his word. I know that of him. Well.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Stephan had remained quietly attentive in his usual thoughtful attitude,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: with his hand at his chin. He now spoke in
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a voice rather less steady than usual. No one except
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: in myself can ever know what honor and what love
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and respect I bear to Rachel, or we what cause
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: when I passed that promise, I told her true, she
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: were the angel of my life. To a solemn promise,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: tis gone for me forever. Louisa turned her head to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: him and bent it with a deference that was new
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: in her She looked from him to Rachel and her
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: features softened. What will you do, she asked him, and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: her voice had softened too well, ma'am, said Stephan, making
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the best of it with a smile. When I have
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: finished off, I'm quit this part and try another of
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: fortnete or misfortinet. A man can but try. There's naught
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to be done without trying. Set lying down and dyin.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: How will you travel? Afoot, my kind lady, afoot? Luisa colored,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and a purse appeared in her hand. The rustling of
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: a bank note was audible as she unfolded and laid
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: it on the table. Rachael, will you tell him, for
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you know how without offense, that this is freely his,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to help him on his way? Will you entreat him
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to take it? I cannot do that, young lady, she answered,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: turning her head aside. Bless you for thinking of the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: poor lad with such tenderness. But tis for him to
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: know his heart and what is right according to it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Luisa looked, in part incredulous, in part frightened, in part
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: overcome with quick sympathy. When this man of so much
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: self command, who had been so plain and steady through
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the late interview, lost his comp in a moment, and
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: now stood with his hand before his face. She stretched
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: out hers as if she would have touched him, then
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: checked herself and remained still. No even Rachel, said Stephen,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: when he stood again with his face uncovered, could make
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: such a kind offering by any words, kinder, to show
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that I'm not a man without reason and gratitude. I'll
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: take two pound. I'll borrow it for to pay to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: back till be the sweetest work as ever I had done.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: That puts it in my power to acknowledge once more
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: my last and thankfulness for this present action. She was
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: fain to take up the note again and to substitute
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the much smaller sum he had named. He was neither courty,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: nor handsome, nor picture esque in any respect, and yet
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: his manner of accepting it, and of expressing his thanks
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: without more words, had a grace in it that Lord
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: chester Field could not have taught his son in a century.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Tom had sat upon the bed, swinging one leg and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: sucking his walking stick with sufficient unconcern until the visit
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: had attained this stage. Seeing his sister ready to depart,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: he got up rather hurriedly and put in a word.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Just wait a moment, Lou, before we go, I should
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: like to speak to him a moment something comes into
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: my head. If you'll step out on the stairs, Blackpool,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I'll mention it in never mind a light man. Tom
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: was remarkably impatient of his moving towards the cupboard to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: get one. I don't want a light. Stephen followed him out,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and Tom closed the room door and held the lock
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: in his hand.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I say, he whispered.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I think I can do you a good turn. Don't
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: ask me what it is, because it may not come
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to anything, but there's no harm in my trying. His
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: breath like a flame of fire on Stephan's ear. It
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: was so hot. That was our light porter at the bank,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: said Tom, who brought you the message to night? I'll
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I call him our light porter because I belonged to
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the bank too. Stephan thought, what a hurry he's in.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: He spoke so confusedly. Well, said Tom. Now look here,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: when are you off Today's mundy? Replied Stephan, considering why sir,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Friday or Saturday? Nigh bout Friday or Saturday? Said Tom,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Now look here, I'm not sure that I can do
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you the good turn I want to do you. That's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: my sister. You know the in your room. But I
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: may be able to, and if I should not be
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: able to, there's no harm done. So i'll tell you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: what you'll know our light porter. Again, Yes, sure, said Stephan,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: very well, returned Tom. When you leave work of a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: night between this and your going away, just hang about
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the bank an hour, so will you. I don't take
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: on as if you meant anything if he should see
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you hanging about there, because I shan't put him up
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to speak to you unless I find I can do
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: you the service I want to do you. In that case,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: he'll have a note or a message for you, but
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: not else. Now look here, you're sure you understand. He
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: had wormed a finger in the darkness through a buttonhole
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: of Stephen's coat and was screwing that corner of the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: garment tight up, round and round in an extraordinary manner.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I understand, sir, said Stephan. Now look here, repeated Tom.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Be sure you don't make any mistake then, and don't forget.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I shall tell my sisters we go home what I
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: have in view, and she'll approve. I know. Now look here,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you're all right? Are you you understand all about it
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: very well. Then come along, lou. He pushed the door
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: open as he called to her, not return into the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: room or wait to be lighted down the narrow stairs.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: He was at the bottom when she began to descend,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and was in the street before she could take his arm.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Missus Pegler remained in her corner until the brother and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: sister were gone, and until Stephen came back with a
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: candle in his hand. She was in a state of
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: inexpressible admiration of Missus bounderby, and like an unaccountable old woman,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: wept because she was such a pretty dear. Yet Missus
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Pegler was so flurried lest the object of her admiration
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: should return by chance, or anybody else should come, that
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: her cheerfulness was ended for that night. It was late
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: too to people who rose early and worked hard. Therefore
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the party broke up, and Stephan and Rachel escorted their
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: mysterious acquaintance to the door of the traveler's coffee house,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: where they parted from her. They walked back together to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the corner of the street where Rachel lived lived, and
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: as they drew nearer and nearer to it, silence s
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: crept upon them. When they came to the dark corner
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: where their unfrequent meetings always ended, they stopped still, silent,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: as if both were afraid to speak. I shall strive
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to see THEE again, Rachel, afore I go. But if not,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: thou wilt not, Stephen, I know tis better we make
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: up our minds to be open we of one another.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Thout always right, tis bolder and better. I have been thinking, then, Rachel,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that tis but a day or two that remains tw
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: better for THEE, my dear, not to be seen with me,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: d might bring THEE into trouble for no good. Tis
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: not for that Stefan that I mind. But thou knowest
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: our old agreement tis for that, well well said he
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: tis better anyways, thou'rt write to me and tell me
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: all that happened, Stephen. Yes h, what can I say now?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: But Heaven be we Ye Heaven bless THEE. Heaven thank THEE,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: and reward THEE. May it bless THEE Stephen too, in
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: all thy wanderings, and send THEE peace and rest. At last,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I told THEE, my dear, said Stephen Blackpool, that knight,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that I would never see or think o anything that
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: angered me. But thou so much better than me, shouldst
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: be beside it. Thou art beside it now, Thou makest
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: me see it? Wi better, Aye, bless thee, good night,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: good bye. It was but a hurried parting in a
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: common street, Yet it was sacred remembrance to these two
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: common people, utilitarian economists, skeletons of schoolmasters, commissioners of fact,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: genteel and used up infidels, grabbers of many little dogs,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: eared creeds. The poor you have always with you, cultivate
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: in them where there as yet time the utmost graces
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: of fancies and affections to adorn their lives so much
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: in need of ornament. Or in the day of your triumph,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: when romances utterly driven out of their souls, and they
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and a bare existence stand face to face, reality will
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: take a wolfish turn and make an end of you.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Stephen worked next day and the next, uncheered by a
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: word from anyone, and shunned in all his comings and goings.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: As before, at the end of the second day he
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: saw land. At the end of the third, his looms
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: stood empty. He had overstayed his hour in the street
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: outside the bank. On each of the two first evenings
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and nothing had happened there, good or bad, that he
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: might not be remiss in his part of the engagement.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: He resolved to wait full two hours. On his third
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and last night, there was the lady who had once
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: kept mister Bounderby's house, sitting at the first floor window,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: as he had seen her before, And there was the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: light porter, sometimes talking with her there, and sometimes looking
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: over the blind below, which had bank upon it, and
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: sometimes coming to the door and standing on the steps
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: for a breath of air. When he first came out,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Stephan thought he might be looking for him, and passed near,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: But the light porter only cast his winking eyes upon
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: him slightly and said nothing. Two hours were a long
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: stretch of lounging about after a long day's labor. Stephan
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: sat upon the step of a door, leaned against the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: wall under an archway, strolled up in down, listened for
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: the church clock stopped, and watched children playing in the street.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Some purpose or other is so natural to everyone that
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: a mere loiterer always looks and feels remarkable. When the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: first hour was out, Stephan even began to have an
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable sensation upon him of being for the time a
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: disreputable character. Then came the lamp lighter and two lengthening
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: lines of light, all down the long perspective of the street,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: until they were blended and lost in the distance. Missus
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Sparsit closed the first floor window, drew down the blind,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and went upstairs. Presently a light went upstairs after her,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: passing first the fan light of the door, and afterwards
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the two staircase windows. On its way up, by and
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: by one corner of the second floor blind was disturbed,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: as if Missus Sparsit's eye were there, also the other corner,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: as if the light porter's eye were on that side.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Still no communication was made to Stephen. Much relieved when
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: at a quick pace, as to recompense for so much loitering.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: He had only to take leave of his landlady and
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: lie down on the temporary bed upon the floor. For
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: his bundle was made up for tomorrow, and all was
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: arranged for his departure. He meant to be clear of
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the town very early before the hands were in the streets.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: It was barely daybreak when with a parting look round
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: his room, mournfully wondering whether he should ever see it again.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: He went out. The town was entirely deserted, as if
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the inhabitants had abandoned it rather than hold communication with him.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Everything looked wan at that hour. Even the coming sun
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: made but a pale waste in the sky, like a
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: sad sea. By the place where Rachel lived, though it
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: was not in his way, By the red brick streets,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: by the great silent factories not trembling yet, by the railway,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: where the danger lights were wanting in the strengthening day,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: By the railway's crazy neighborhood, half pulled down and half
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: built up, by scattered red brick villas, where the besmoked
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: evergreens were sprinkled with a dirty powder, like untowdy snuff takers,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: by cold dust paths, and many varieties of ugliness. Stephen
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: got to the top of the hill and looked back.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Day was shining radiantly upon the town then, and the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: bells were going for the morning work. Domestic fires were
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: not yet lighted, and the high chimneys had the sky
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to themselves out their poisonous volumes. They would not be
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: long in hiding it, but for half an hour some
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: of the many windows were golden which showed the Coketown
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: people a sun eternally in eclipse through a medium of
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: smoked glass. So strange to turn from the chimneys to
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the birds, So strange to have the road dust on
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: his feet instead of the cold grit, So strange to
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: have lived to this time of life, and yet to
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: be beginning like a boy this summer morning. With these
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: musings in his mind and his bundle under his arm,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Stephen took his attentive face along the high road, and
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: the trees arched over him, whispering that he left a
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: true and loving heart behind. End of chapter six.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Chapter seven Gunpowder. Mister James Harthouse, going in for his
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: adopted party, soon began to score. With the aid of
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: a little more coaching for the political sages, a little
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: more genteel listlessness for the general society, and a tolerable
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: management of the assumed honesty in dishonesty, most effective and
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: most patronized of the polite, deadly sins, he speedily came
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: to be considered of much promise. The not being troubled
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: with earnestness was a grand point in his favor, enabling
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: him to take to the hard fact fellows with as
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: good a grace as if he had been born one
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: of the tribe, and to throw all other tribes overboard
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: as conscious hypocrites whom none of us believe, my dear
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: missus bounderby, and who do not believe themselves. The only
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: difference between us and the professors of virtual or benevolence
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: or philanthropy, never mind the name, is that we know
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: it as all meaningless and say so, while they know
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: it equally and will never say so. Why should she
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: be shocked or warned by this reiteration? It was not
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: so unlike her father's principles and her early training that
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: it need startle her. Where was the great difference between
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: the two schools, when each chained her down to material
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: realities and inspired her with no faith in anything else.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: What was there in her soul for James Harthouse to
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: destroy which Thomas Gradgrind had nurtured there in its state
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: of innocence. It was even the worse for her at
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: this past that in her mind implanted there before her
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: eminently practical father began to form it a struggling disposition
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: to believe in a wider and nobler humanity than she
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: had ever heard of constantly strove with doubts and resentments,
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: with doubts because the aspiration had been so laid waste
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: in her youth, with resentments because of the wrong that
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: had been done her. If it were indeed a whisper
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: of the truth upon a nature long accustomed to self suppression.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: Thus torn and divided, the Harthouse philosophy came as a
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: relief and justification, everything being hollow and worthless. She had
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: missed nothing and sacrificed nothing. What did it matter, she
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: had said to her father when he proposed her husband.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: What did it matter? She said? Still, with a scornful
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: self reliance, she asked herself what did anything matter? And
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: went on towards what, step by step, onward and downward,
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: towards some end, yet so gradually that she believed herself
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: to remain motionless. As to mister Harthouse, whither he tended,
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: he neither considered nor cared. He had no particular design
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: or plan before him, no energetic wickedness ruffled his lassitude.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: He was as much amused and interested at present as
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: it became so fine a gentleman to be, perhaps even
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: more than it would have been consistent with his reputation
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: to confess. Soon after his arrival, he languidly wrote to
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: his brother, the Honorable and jocular Member, that the Bounderbys
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: were great fun, and further that the female Bounderby, instead
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: of being the gorgon he had expected, was young and
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: remarkably pretty. After that he wrote no more about them,
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: and devoted his leisure chiefly to their house. He was
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: very often in their house in his flittings and visitings
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: about the Kopetown district, and was much encouraged by mister Bounderby.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: It was quite in mister Bounderby's gusty way to boast
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: to all his world that he didn't care about your
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: highly connected people, but that if his wife, Tom Gradgrind's
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: daughter did, she was welcome to their company. Mister James
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Harthouse began to think it would be a new sensation
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: if the face which changed so beautifully for the whelp
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: would change for him. He was quick enough to observe
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: he had a good memory and did not forget a
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: word of the brother's revelations. He interwove them with everything
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: he saw of the sister, and he began to understand her.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: To be sure, the better and profounder. Part of her
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: character was not within his scope of perception, for in
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: nature's as in seas, depth answers unto depth. But he
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: soon began to read the rest with a student's eye.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: Mister Bounderby had taken possession of a house and grounds
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: about fifteen miles from the town, and accessible within a
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: mile or two by a railway, Striding on many arches
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: over a wild country undermined by deserted coal shafts, and
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: spotted at night by fires and black shapes of stationary
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: engines at Pitt's mouths, this country gradually softening towards the
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: neighborhood of mister Bounderby's retreat. There mellowed into a rustic landscape,
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: golden with heath and snowy with hawthorn in the spring
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: of the year, and tremulous with leaves and their shadows
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: all the summer time. The bank had foreclosed a mortgage
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: effected on the property, thus pleasantly situated by one of
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: the Coketown magnates, who, in his determination to make a
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: shorter cut than usual to an enormous fortune, overspeculated himself
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: by about two hundred thousand pounds. These accidents did sometimes
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: happen in the best regulated families of Coketown, but the
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: bankrupts had no connection whatever with the improvident classes. It
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: afforded mister Bounderby's supreme satisfaction to install himself in the
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: snug little estate, and with demonstrative humility to grow cabbages
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: in the flower garden. He delighted to live barrack fashion
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: among the elegant furniture, and he bullied the very pictures
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: with his origin. Why, sir, he would say to a visitor,
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: I am told that Nickeotts, the late owner, gave seven
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: hundred pound for that sea beach. Now, to be plain
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: with you, if I ever, in the whole course of
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: my life, takes seven looks at it at a hundred
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: pound a look, it will be as much as I
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: shall do. No, By George, I don't forget that I
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: am Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. For years upon years, the
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: only pictures in my possession, or that I could have
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: got into my possession by any means unless I stole em,
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: were the engravings of a man shaving himself in a
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: boot on the blacking bottles. That I was overjoyed to
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: use in cleaning boots with and that I sold when
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: they were empty for a farthing apiece, and glad to
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: get it. Then he would address mister Harthouse in the
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: same style. Harthouse, you have a couple of horses down here.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: Bring half a dozen more if you like, and we'll
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: find room for em. There's stabling in this place for
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: a dozen horses. And unless Nickots is belied, he kept
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: the full number, a round dozen of 'em, sir. When
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: that man was a boy, he went to Westminster School,
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: went to Westminster School as a king's scholar. When I
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: was principally living on garbage and sleeping in market baskets,
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: Why if I wanted to keep a dozen horses, which
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: I don't, for one's enough for me. I couldn't bear
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: to see him in their stalls here and think what
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: my own lodging used to be. I couldn't look at him,
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: sir and not order em out. Yet, so things come round.
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: You see this place, You know what sort of a
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: place it is.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: You are aware that.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: There's not a completer place of its size in this
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: kingdom or elsewhere, I don't care where, and here got
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: into the middle of it like a maggot into a nut.
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: Is Josiah Bounderby. While Nicotts as a man came into
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: my office and told me yesterday Nicots who used to
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: act in Latin in the Westminster School plays with the
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: chief justices and nobility of this country, applauding him till
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: they were black in the face is driveling at this minute, driveling, sir.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: In a fifth floor up a narrow, dark back street
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: in Antwerp. It was among the leafy shadows of this
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: retirement in the long sultry summer days, that mister Harthouse
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: began to prove the face which had set him wondering
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: when he first saw it, and to try if it
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: would change for him. Missus Bounderby, I esteem it a
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: most fortunate accident that I find you alone here. I
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: have for some time had a particular wish to speak
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: to you. It was not by any wonderful accident that
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: he found her, the time of day being that at
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: which she was always alone, and the place being her
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: favorite resort. It was an opening in a dark wood
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: where some felled trees lay, and where she would sit
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: watching the fallen leaves of last year, as she had
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: watched the falling ashes at home. He sat down beside
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: her with a glance at her face, Your brother, my
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: young friend Tom. Her color brightened, and she turned in
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: him with a look of interest. I never, in my life,
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: he thought, saw anything so remarkable and so captivating as
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: the lighting of those features. His face betrayed his thoughts,
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: perhaps without betraying him, for it might have been according
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: to its instructions to do so. Pardon me, The expression
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: of your sisterly interest is so beautiful. Tom should be
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: so proud of it. I know this is inexcusable, but
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: I am so compelled to admire being so impulsive, she
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: said composedly, missus bounderby No, you know I make no
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: pretense with you. You know I am a sordid piece
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: of human nature, ready to sell myself at any time
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: for any reasonable sum, and altogether incapable of any Arcadian proceeding.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: Whatever I am waiting. She returned, for your further reference
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: to my brother, you are rigid with me, and I
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: deserve it. I am as worthless a dog as you
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: will find, except that I am not false, not false.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: But you surprised and started me from my subject, which
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: was your brother. I have an interest in him? Have
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: you an interest in anything, mister Harthouse, she asked, half
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: incredulously and half gratefully. If you had asked me when
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: I first came here, I should have said no. I
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: must say now, even at the hazard of appearing to
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: make a pretense, and of justly awakening your incredulity. Yes.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: She made a slight movement, as if she were trying
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: to speak, but could not find voice. At length, she said,
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: mister Harthouse, I give you credit for being interested in
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: my brother. Thank you. I claim to deserve it. You
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: know how little I do claim, but I will go
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: that length. You have done so much for him, You
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: are so fond of him your whole life. Missus Bounderby
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: expresses such charming self forgetfulness on his account. Pardon me again,
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: I am running wide of the subject. I am interested
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: in him for his own sake. She had made the
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: slightest action possible, as if she would have risen in
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: a hurry and gone away. He had turned the course
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: of what he said at that instant, and she remained
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: Missus Bounderby. He resumed in a lighter manner, and yet
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: with a show of effort in assuming it, which was
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: even more expressive than the manner he dismissed. It is
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: no irrevocable offense in a young fellow of your brother's years,
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: if he is heedless, inconsiderate, and expensive, a little dissipated
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: in the common phrase, is he yes? Allow me to
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: be frank. Do you think he games at all? I
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: think he makes bets, mister Harthouse, Waiting as if that
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: were not her whole answer, she added, I know he does.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: Of course he loses. Yes, everybody does lose. Who bets?
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: May I hint at the probability of yours sometimes supplying
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: him with money for these purposes? She sat looking down,
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: But if this question raised her eyes searchingly and a
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: little resentfully, acquit me of impertinent curiosity, My dear missus bounderby,
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: I think Tom may be gradually falling into trouble, and
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: I wish to stretch out a helping hand to him
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: from the depths of my wicked experience. Shall I say again,
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: for his sake? Is that necessary? She seemed to try
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: to answer, but nothing came of it. Candidly, to confess
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: everything that has occurred to me, said James Harthouse, again,
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: gliding with the same appearance of effort into his more
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: airy manner. I will confide to you my doubt whether
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: he has had many advantages, whether, forgive my plainness, whether
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: any great amount of confidence is likely to have been
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: established between himself and his most worthy father. I do not,
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: said Louisa, flushing with her own great remembrance, and that
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: wise think it likely, or between himself and I may
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: trust to your perfect understanding of my meaning. I am
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: sure and just highly esteemed brother in law. She flushed
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: deeper and deeper, and was burning red when she replied,
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: in a fainter voice. I do not think that likely, either,
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: missus Bounderby, said Harthouse, after a short silence. May there
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: be a better confidence between yourself and me? Tom has
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: borrowed a considerable sum of you. You will understand, mister Harthouse,
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: she returned, after some indecision. She had been more or
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: less uncertain and troubled throughout the conversation, and yet had
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: in the main preserved her self contained manner. You will
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: understand that if I tell you what you press to know,
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: it is not by way of complaint or regret. I
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: would never complain of anything in what I have done.
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: I do not in the least regret so spirited too,
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: thought James Harthouse. When I married, I found that my
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: brother was even at that time heavily in day, heavily
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: for him. I mean heavily enough to oblige me to
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: sell some trinkets. They were no sacrifice. I sold them
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: very willingly. I attached no value to them. They were
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: quite worthless to me. Either she saw in his face
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: that he knew, or she only feared in her conscience
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: that he knew that she spoke of some of her
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: husband's gifts. She stopped and reddened again. If he had
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: not known it before, he would have known it then,
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: though he had been a much duller man than he was.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: Since then, I have given my brother at various times
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: what money I could spare, in short, what money I
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: have had confiding in you at all, on the faith
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: of the interest you profess for him. I will not
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: do so by halves. Since you have been in the
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: habit of visiting here. He has wanted in one sum
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: as much as a hundred pounds. I have not been
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: able to give it to him. I have felt uneasy
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: for the consequences of his being so involved. But I
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: I have kept these secrets until now when I trust
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: them to your honor, I have held no confidence with
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: anyone because you anticipated my reason just now she abruptly
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: broke off. He was a ready man, and he saw
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: and seized an opportunity here of presenting her own image
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: to her slightly disguised as her brother. Missus Bounderby, though
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: a graceless person of the world worldly, I feel the
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: utmost interests. I assure you in what you tell me,
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: I cannot possibly be hard upon your brother. I understand
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: and share the wise consideration with which you regard his
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: errors with all possible respect. Both for mister Gradgrind and
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: for mister Bounderby. I think I perceive that he has
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: not been fortunate in his training, bred at a disadvantage
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: towards the society in which he has his part to play.
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: He rushes into these extremes for himself from opposite extremes
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: that have long been forced with the very best intentions.
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: We have no doubt upon him. Mister Bounderby's fine bluff
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: English independence, though a most charming characteristic, does not, as
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: we have agreed, invite confidence. If I might venture to
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: remark that it is the least in the world deficient
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: in that delicacy to which a youth mistaken, a character misconceived,
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: and abilities misdirected, would turn for relief and guidance. I
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: should express what it presents to my own view. As
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: she sat looking straight before her across the changing lights
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: upon the grass into the darkness of the wood beyond,
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: he saw in her face her application of his very
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: distinctly uttered words. All allowance, he continued, must be made.
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: I have one great fault to find with Tom, however,
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: which I cannot forgive, and for which I take him
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: heavily to account. Louisa turned her eyes to his face
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: and asked him what fault was that? Perhaps, he returned,
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: I have said enough. Perhaps it would have been better
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: on the whole if no allusion to it had escaped me.
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: You alarm me, mister Harthouse. Pray let me know it,
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: to relieve you from needless apprehension. And as this confidence
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: regarding your brother, which I prize, I am sure above
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: all possible things, has been established between us, I obey.
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: I cannot forgive him for not being more sensible in
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: every word, look, and act of his life, of the
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: affection of his best friend, of the devotion of his
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: best friend, of her unselfishness, of her sacrifice. The return
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: he makes her, within my observation, is a very poor one.
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: What she has done for him demands his constant love
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: and gratitude, not his ill humor and caprice. Careless fellow
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: as I am, I am not so indifferent, Missus Bounderby,
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: as to be regardless of this vice in your brother,
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: or inclined to consider it a venial offense. The wood
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: floated before her, for her eyes were suffused with tears
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: they rose from a deep well long concealed, and her
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: heart was filled with acute pain that found no relief
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: in them. In a word, it is to correct your
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: brother in this, Missus bounderby, that I must aspire my
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: better knowledge of his circumstances in my direction, and advice
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: in extricating them. Rather valuable I hope, as coming from
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: escapegrace on a much larger scale, will give me some
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: influence over him, and all I gain I shall certainly
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: use towards this end. I have said enough, and more
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: than enough. I seem to be protesting that I am
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: a sort of good fellow, when upon my honor, I
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: have not the least intention to make any protestation to
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: that effect, and openly announced that I am nothing of
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: the sort. Yonder among the trees, he added, having lifted
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: up his eyes and looked about, for he had watched
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: her closely. Until now is your brother himself, no doubt?
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: Just come down, as he seems to be loitering in
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: this direction. It may be as well, perhaps to walk
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: towards him and throw ourselves in his way. He has
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: been very silent and doleful of late. Perhaps his brotherly
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: conscience is touched. If there are such things as consciences,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: though upon my honor, I hear of them much too
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: often to believe in them. He assisted her to rise,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: and she took his arm, and they advanced to meet
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: the whelp. He was idly beating the branches as he
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: lounged along, or he stooped viciously to rip the moss
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: from the trees with his stick. He was startled when
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: they came upon him while he was engaged in this
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: latter pastime, and his color changed. Hullo, he stammered, I
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: didn't know you were here. Whose name? Tom, said mister Harthouse,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: putting his hand upon his shoulder and turning him so
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: that they all three walked towards the house together. Have
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: you been carving on the trees? Whose name? Returned Tom? Oh,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: you mean what girl's name? You have a suspicious appearance
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: of inscribing some fair creatures on the bark. Tom, Not
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: much of that, mister Harthouse. Unless some fair creature with
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: a slashing fortune at her own disposal would take a
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: fancy to me, or she might be as ugly as
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: she was rich without any fear of losing me, I'd
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: cover her name as often as she liked. I am
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: afraid you are mercenary, Tom, mercenary, repeated Tom, who is
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: not mercenary? Asked my sister. Have you so proved it
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: to be a failing of mine? Tom, said Louisa, showing
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: no other sense of his discontent and ill nature. You
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: know whether the cat fits you, lou returned her brother sulkily.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: If it does, you can wear it. Tom is misanthropical
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: to day, as all bored people are. Now, and then
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: said mister Harthouse. Don't believe him, missus Bounderby, he knows
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: much better. I shall disclose some of his opinions of
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: you privately expressed to me, unless he relents a little.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: At all events, mister Harthouse, said Tom, softening in his
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: admiration of his patron, but shaking his head sullenly too.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: You can't tell her that I ever praised her for
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: being mercenary. I may have praised her for being the contrary,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: and I should do it again if I had as
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: good reason. However, never mind this now. It's not very
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: interesting to you, and I am sick of the subject.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: They walked on to the house, where Louisa quitted her
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: visitor's arm and went in. He stood looking after her
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: as she ascended the steps and passed into the shadow
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: of the door, then put his hand upon her brother's
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: shoulder again and invited him, with a confidential nod, to
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: a walk in the garden. Tom My, fine fellow, I
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: want to have a word with you. They had stopped
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: among a disorder of roses. It was part of mister
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: Bounderby's humility to keep Nichots's roses on a reduced scale,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: and Tom sat down on a terrace parapet, plucking buds
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: and picking them to pieces, while his powerful familiar stood
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: over him, with a foot upon the parapet and his
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: figure easily resting on the arms supported by that knee.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: They were just visible from her window. Perhaps she saw them. Tom,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: what's the matter, Oh, mister Harthouse, said Tom, with a groan.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: I am hard up and bothered out of my life,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: my good fellow, so am I you returned? Tom, you
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: are the picture of independence. Mister Harthouse. I am in
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: a horrible mess. You have no idea what a state
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: I have got myself into. What a state my sister
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: might have got me out of, if she would only
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: have done it. He took to biting the rose buds
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: now and tearing them away from his cheek with a
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: hand that trembled like an infirm old man's. After one
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: exceedingly observant look at him, his companion relapsed into his
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: lightest air. Tom, you are in consider it. You expect
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: too much of your sister. You have had money of her,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: you dog. You know you have? Well, mister Harthouse, I
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: know I have. How else was I to get it?
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: Here's old Bounderby always boasting that at my age he
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: lived upon tuppets a month or something of that sort.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: Here's my father drawing what he calls a line and
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: tying me down to it from a baby neck and heels.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: Here's my mother who never has anything of her own
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: except her complaints. What is a fellow to do for money?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: And where am I to look for it? If not
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: to my sister. He was almost crying and scattered the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: buds about by dozens. Mister Harthouse took him persuasively by
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: the coat. But my dear Tom, if your sister has
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: not got it, not got it, mister Harthouse, I don't
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: say she has got it. I may have wanted more
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: than she was likely to have got, but then she
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: ought to get it she could get it. It's of
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: no use pretending to make a secret of matters. Now,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: after what I have told you already, you know she
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: didn't marry old Bounderby for her own sake or for
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: his sake, but for my sake? Then why doesn't she
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: get what I want out of him? For my sake?
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: She is not obliged to say what she is going
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: to do with it. She is sharp enough she could
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: manage to coax it out of him if she chose.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: Then why doesn't she choose when I tell her of
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: what consequence it is? But no, there she sits in
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: his company like a stone, instead of making herself agreeable
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: and getting it easily. I don't know what you may
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: call this, but I call it unnatural conduct. There was
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: the other side, into which mister James Harthouse had a
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: very strong inclination to pitch. Mister Thomas Gradgrind Junior, as
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: the injured men of Coketown, threatened to pitch their property
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: into the Atlantic. But he preserved his easy attitude, and
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: nothing more solid went over the stone balustrades than the
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: accumulated rose buds now floating about a little surface island.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: My dear Tom, said Harthouse. Let me try to be
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: your banker, for God's sake, replied Tom, suddenly, don't talk
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: about bankers. And very white he looked, in contrast with
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: the roses. Very white. Mister Harthouse, as a thoroughly well
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: bred man accustomed to the best society, was not to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: be surprised. He could as soon have been effected, but
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: he raised his eyelids a little more, as if they
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: were lifted by a feeble touch of wonder. Albeit it
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: was as much against the precepts of his school to
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: wonder as it was against the doctrines of the Gradgrind college.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: What is the present need? Tom? Three figures out with them?
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: Say what they are? Mister Harthouse returned Tom, now actually crying,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: and his tears were better than his injuries. However pitiful
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: a figure he made. It's too late. The money is
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: of no use to me at present. I should have
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: had it before to be of use to me. But
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: I am very much obliged to you. You're a true friend,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: a true friend. Welp, welp, thought mister Harthouse lazily. What
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: an ass you are. And I take your offer as
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: a great kindness, said Tom, grasping his hand as a
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: great kindness. Mister Harthouse well returned the other. It may
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: be of more use by and bye, and my good fellow,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: if you will open your bedevilments to me when they
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: come thick upon you, I may show you better ways
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: out of them than you can find for yourself. Thank you,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: said Tom, shaking his head dismally and chewing rosebuds. Wish
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: I had known you sooner, mister Harthouse. Now you see, Tom,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: said mister Harthouse in conclusion, himself, tossing over a rose
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: or two. As a contribution to the island which was
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: always drifting to the wall. As if it wanted to
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: become a part of the mainland. Every man is selfish
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: in everything he does, and I am exactly like the
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: rest of my fellow creatures. I am desperately intent, the
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: languor of his desperation being quite tropical. On your softening
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: towards your sister, which you ought to do, and on
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: your being a more loving and agreeable sort of brother,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: which you ought to be. I will be, mister Harthouse,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: no time like the present. Tom, begin at once, certainly
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: I will, and my sister lu shall say so. Having
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: made which bargain, Tom said Harthouse, clapping him on the
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: shoulder again with an air which left him at liberty
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: to infer as he did, poor fool that this condition
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 4: was imposed upon him in mere careless good nature, to
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: lessen his sense of obligation. We will tear ourselves asunder
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: until dinner time. When Tom appeared before dinner, though his
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: mind seemed heavy enough, his body was on the alert,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: and he appeared before mister Bounderby came in. I didn't
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: mean to be cross, Lou, he said, giving her his
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: hand and kissing her. I know you are fond of me,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: and you know I am fond of you. After this,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: there was a smile upon Louise's face that day for
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: someone else, alas for someone else, so much the less
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 4: is the wolp, the only creature that she cares for,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: thought James Harthouse, reversing the reflection of his first day's
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: knowledge of her pretty face. So much the less, so
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: much the less end of Section thirteen.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: Chapter eight explosion. The next morning was too bright a
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: morning for sleep, and James Harthouse rose early and sat
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: in the pleasant bay window of his dressing room, smoking
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 5: the rare tobacco that had had so wholesome an influence
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 5: on his young friend. Reposing in the sunlight, with the
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 5: fragrance of his eastern pipe about him, and the dreamy
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 5: smoke vanshing into the air so rich and soft with
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: summer odors, he reckoned up his advantages as an idle
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 5: winner might count his gains. He was not at all
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: bored for the time, and could give his mind to it.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 5: He had established a confidence with her from which her
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: husband was excluded. He had established a confidence with her
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 5: that absolutely turned upon her indifference toward her husband, and
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 5: the absence, now and at all times of any congeniality
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 5: between them. He had artfully but plainly assured her that
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 5: he knew her heart in its last most delicate recesses.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 5: He had come so near to her through its tenderest sentiment,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 5: he had associated himself with that feeling, and the barrier
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 5: behind which she lived had melted away all very odd
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: and very satisfactory. And yet he had not even now
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 5: any earnest wickedness of purpose in him. Publicly and privately.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: It were much better for the age in which he lived,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 5: that he and the legion of whom he was one
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 5: were designedly bad than indifferent and purposeless. It is the
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 5: drifting iceberg, setting with any current anywhere, that wreck the ships.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: When the devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: goeth about in a shape by which few but savages
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 5: and hunters are attracted. But when he is trimmed, smoothed,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 5: and varnished according to the mode, when he is a
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 5: weary of vice and a weary of virtue, used up
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 5: as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss, then
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 5: whether he take to the serving out of red tape
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 5: or to the kindling of red fire, he is the
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: very devil. So James Harthouse reclined in the window, indolently
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 5: smoking and reckoning up the steps he had taken on
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 5: the road by which he happened to be traveling. The
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: end to which it led was before him pretty plainly,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: but he troubled himself with no calculations about it. What
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: will be will be. As he had rather a long
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 5: ride to take that day, for there was a public
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 5: occasion to do at some distance, which afforded a tolerable
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 5: opportunity of going in for the ground grind men. He
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: dressed early and went down to breakfast. He was anxious
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 5: to see if she had relapsed since the previous evening. No,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 5: he resumed where he had left off. There was a
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: look of interest for him again. He got through the
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: day as much or as little to his own satisfaction
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 5: as was to be expected under the fatiguing circumstances, and
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 5: came riding back at six o'clock. There was a sweep
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 5: of some half mile between the lodge and the house,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 5: and he was riding along at a foot pace over
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: the smooth gravel once Nickots, when mister Bounderby burst out
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: of the shrubbery with such violence as to make his
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: horse shy across the road. Hothouse cried mister Bounderby. Have
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 5: you heard heard what? Said Harthouse, soothing his horse and
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 5: inwardly favoring mister Bounderby with no good wishes. Then you
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 5: haven't heard. I have heard you, and so is this brute.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: I have heard nothing else. Mister Bounderby, red and hot,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 5: planted himself in the center of the path before the
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 5: horse's head to explode his bombshell with more effect. The
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 5: bank's robbed. You don't mean it robbed last night, sir,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: robbed in an extraordinary manner, robbed it with a false
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: key of much. Mister Bounderby, in his desire to make
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 5: the most of it, really seemed mortified by being obliged
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 5: to reply. Why no, not of very much, but it
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 5: might have been of how much? Oh as a sum
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 5: if you stick to a sum of not more than
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 5: a hundred and fifty pound, said Bounderby, with impatience. But
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 5: it's not the sum, it's the fact. It's the fact
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 5: of the bank being robbed, that's the important circumstance. I
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 5: am surprised you don't see it, my dear Bounderby, said James,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 5: dismounting and giving his bridle to his servant. I do
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: see it, and am as overcome as you can possibly
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 5: desire me to be by the spectacle afforded to my
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 5: mental view. Nevertheless, I may be allowed I hope to
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 5: congratulate you, which I do with all my soul. I
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: assure you on your not having sustained a greater loss. Thank'ee,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 5: replied Bounderby in a short, ungracious manner. But I tell
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 5: you what it might have been. Twenty thousand pound. I
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 5: suppose it might. Suppose it might, by the Lord, you
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 5: may suppose so, by George, said mister Bounderby with sundry
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 5: menacing nods and shakes.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: Of his head.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 5: It might have been twice twenty. There's no knowing what
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 5: it would have been or wouldn't have been as it
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 5: was but for the fellow's being disturbed. Louisa had come
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: up now and missus sparsit and bits her. Here's Tom
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 5: Gradgrind's daughter knows pretty well what it might have been,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 5: if you don't, blustered Bounderby dropped, sir, as if she
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 5: was shot when I told her, never knew her do
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 5: such a thing before. Does her credit under the circumstances,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 5: In my opinion, she still looked faint and pale. James
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: Harthouse begged her to take his arm, and as they
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 5: moved on very slowly asked her how the robbery had
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 5: been committed. Why I am going to tell you, said
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 5: bounderby irritably giving his arm to missus Sparsit. If you
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 5: hadn't been so mighty particular about the sum, I should
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 5: have begun to tell you before you know this lady,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 5: for she is a lady, Missus Sparsit, I have already
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 5: had the honor very well. And this young man Bitzer,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 5: you saw him too on the same occasion. Mister Harthouse
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 5: inclined his head in assent, and Bitzer knuckled his forehead
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 5: very well. They live at the bank, you know, they
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 5: live at the bank, perhaps very well. Yesterday afternoon, at
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: the close of business hours, everything was put away as
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 5: usual in the iron room that this young fellow sleeps
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 5: outside of. There was never mind how much in the
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 5: little safe in young Tom's closet, the safe used for
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: petty purposes, there was a hundred and fifty odd pound,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 5: a hundred and fifty four seven one, said Bitzer. Come,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 5: retorted bounderby stopping to wheel round upon him. Let's have
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 5: none of your interruptions. It's enough to be robbed while
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 5: you're snoring because you're too comfortable without being put right
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 5: with your four seven want. I didn't snore myself when
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 5: I was your age. Let me tell you, I hadn't
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 5: vittles enough to snore, and I didn't four seven one,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 5: not if I knew it. Bitzer knuckled his forehead again
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: in a sneaking manner, and seemed at once particularly impressed
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 5: and depressed by the instances last given of mister Bounderby's
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 5: moral abstinence. One hundred and fifty odd pound resumed mister Bounderby.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 5: That sum of money young Tom locked in is safe,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 5: not very strong safe. But that's no matter. Now everything
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 5: was left all right. Sometime in the night while this
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 5: young fellow snored. Missus sparsit, ma'am, you say you have
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 5: heard him snore, Sir returned, Missus sparsit. I cannot say
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 5: that I have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 5: has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 5: all what I should prefer to describe as partially choke.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 5: I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: a nature similar to what may be sometimes heard in
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 5: Dutch clocks. Not said missus sparsit with a lofty sense
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 5: of giving strict evidence that I would convey any imputation
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 5: on his moral character. Far from it. I have always
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: considered bits or a young man of the most upright principle,
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 5: and to that I beg to bear my testimony. Well
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 5: said the exasperated boundarby. While he was snoring, or choking,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 5: or Dutch clocking, or something or other, being asleep, Some fellows, somehow,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 5: whether previously concealed in the house or not, remains to
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 5: be seen. God to young Tom say, forced it and
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: abstracted the contents. Being then disturbed, they made off, letting
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 5: themselves out at the main door and double locking it again.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 5: It was double locked, and the key under missus sparsit's
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 5: pillow with a false he which was picked up in
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 5: the street near the bank about twelve o'clock today. All
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 5: arm takes place till this chap Bitzer turns out this
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 5: morning and begins to open and prepare the officers for business. Then,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 5: looking at Tom's safe, he sees the door ajar and
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 5: finds the lock forced and the money gone. Where is
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 5: tom By the bye, asked Harthouse, glancing round. He's been
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: helping the police, said Bounderby, and stays behind at the bank.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 5: I wish these fellows had tried to rob me when
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 5: I was at his time of life. They would have
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 5: been out of pocket if they had invested eighteen pence
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 5: in the job. I can tell him that is anybody
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 5: suspected suspected? I should think there was somebody suspected, e God,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 5: said Bounderby, relinquishing, missus sparsit's arm to wipe his heated head.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 5: Josiah Bounderby of Coketown is not to be plundered, and
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 5: nobody suspected. No, thank you, might mister Harthouse inquire who
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 5: was suspected? Well, said Bounderby, stopping and facing about to
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 5: confront them all. I'll tell you it's not to be
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 5: mentioned everywhere. It's not to be mentioned anywhere in order
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: that the scoundrel's concerned. There's a gang of em may
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: be thrown off their guard. So take this in confidence.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 5: Now wait a bit, mister Bounderby wiped his head again.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: What should you say to here, he violently exploded, to
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 5: a hand being in it. I hope, said Harthouse lazily.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 5: Not our friend black pot, say pool instead of pot, Sir,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: returned Bounderby. And that's the man. Louisa faintly uttered some
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 5: word of incredulity and surprise. Oh yes, I know, said Bounderby,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 5: immediately catching at the sound.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 5: I'm used to that. I know all about it. They
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 5: are the finest people in the world, these fellows are.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 5: They have got the gift of the gab they have.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 5: They only want to have their rights explained to them.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 5: They do. But I tell you what, Show me a
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 5: dissatisfied hand, and I'll show you a man that's fit
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 5: for anything bad. I don't care what it is. Another
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 5: of the popular fictions of cokedil, which some pains had
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 5: been taken to disseminate, and which some people really believed.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 5: But I am acquainted with these chaps, said Bounderby. I
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 5: can read em off like books. Missus sparsit, ma'am. I
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 5: appeal to you. What warning did I give that fellow
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 5: the first time he set foot in the house, when
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 5: the express object of his visit was to know how
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 5: he could knock religion over and floor the established church.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 5: Missus sparsit in point of high connections. You are on
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 5: a level with the aristocracy. Did I say or did
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 5: I not say? To that fellow you can't hide the
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 5: truth from me. You are not the kind of fellow
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 5: I like. You'll come to no good, assuredly, sir returned,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 5: Missus sparsit. You did, in a highly impressive manner, give
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 5: him such an admonition when he shocked you, ma'am, said Bounderby,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 5: when he shocked your feelings. Yes, sir returned Missus Sparsit,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 5: with the meek shake of her head. He certainly did so,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 5: though I do not mean to say but that my
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 5: feelings may be weaker on such points, more foolish, if
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 5: the term is preferred, then they might have been if
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 5: I had always occupied my present physician. Mister Bounderby stared
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 5: with a bursting pride at mister Harthouse as much as
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: to say, I am the proprietor of this female, and
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 5: she's worth your attention, I think, then resumed his discourse.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 5: You can recall for yourself, Harthouse, what I said to
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 5: him when you saw him. I didn't mince the matter
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 5: with him. I am never merely with him. I know
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 5: em very well, sir. Three days After that he bolted
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 5: went off. Nobody knows where, as my mother did in
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 5: my infancy, only with this difference that he is a
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 5: worse subject than my mother, if possible. What did he
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 5: do before he went? What do you say? Mister Bounderby,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 5: with his hat in his hand, gave a beat upon
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 5: the crown at every little division of his sentences, as
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 5: if it were tambourine. To his being seen night after
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 5: night watching the bank, to his lurking about there after dark,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 5: to it striking missus sparsity, he could be lurking for
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: no good, to her calling Bits's attention to him, and
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 5: they're both taking notice of him, And to it's appearing
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 5: on inquiry today that he was also noticed by the neighbors.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 5: Having come to the climax, Mister Bounderby, like an oriental dancer,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 5: put his tambourine on his head. Suspicious, said James Harthouse.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 5: Certainly I think so, sir, said Bounderby, with a defiant nod.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 5: I think so. But there are more of a minute.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 5: There's an old woman. One never hears of these things
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 5: till the mischief's done. All sorts of defects are found
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 5: out in the stable door after the horse is stolen.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 5: There's an old woman turns up now, an old woman
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 5: who seems to have been flying into town on a
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: broomstick every now and then. She watches the place a
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: whole day before this fellow begins. And on the night
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 5: when you saw him, she steals away with him and
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 5: holds a council with him. I suppose to make her
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 5: report on going off duty, and be damned to her,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: there was such a person in the room that night,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: and she shrunk from observation, thought Louisa. This does not
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 5: all of em, even as we already know them, said Bounderby,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 5: with many nods of hidden meaning. But I've said enough
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 5: for the present. You'll have the goodness to keep it
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 5: quiet and mention it to no one. It may take time,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 5: but we shall have em. It's policy to give him
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 5: line enough, and there's no objection to that. Of course,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 5: they will be punished with the utmost rigor of the law,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: as notice boards observe, replied James Harthouse. And serve them right.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 5: Fellows who go in for banks must take the consequences.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 5: If there were no consequences, we should all go in
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 5: for banks. He had gently taken Louise's parasol from her hand,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 5: and had put it up for her, and she walked
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 5: under its shade, though the sun did not shine there
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 5: for the present lou bounderby, said her husband. Here's Missus
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 5: Sparsit to look after. Missus Sparsit's nerves have been acted
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 5: upon by this business, and she'll stay here a day
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: or two. So make her comfortable. Thank you very much, sir,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 5: that discreet lady observed, But pray, do not let my
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 5: comfort be a consideration. Anything will do for me. It
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 5: soon appeared that if missus Sparsit had a failing in
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 5: her association with that domestic establishment, it was that she
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 5: was so excessively regardless of herself and regardful of others,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 5: as to be a nuisance on being shown her chamber.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 5: She was so dreadfully sensible of its comforts as to
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 5: suggest the inference that she would have preferred to pass
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 5: the night on the mangle in the laundry. True, the
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 5: Powlers and the Scaggardses were accustomed to splendor, but it
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 5: is my duty to remember Missus Sparsit was fond of
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 5: observing with a lofty grace, particularly when any of the
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 5: domestics were present, that what I was. I am no longer, indeed,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 5: said she, if I could altogether cancel the remembrance that
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 5: mister Sparsit was a paula all that I myself am
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 5: related to the Scadger's family, or if I could even
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 5: revoke the fact and make myself a person of common
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 5: descent and ordinary connections, I would gladly do so. I
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 5: should think it, under existing circumstances right to do so.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 5: The same. Her mytical state of mind led to her
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 5: renunciation of made dishes and wines at dinner until fairly
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 5: commanded by mister Bounderby to take them when she said, indeed,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 5: you are very good, sir, and departed from a resolution
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 5: of which she had made rather formal and public announcement
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 5: to wait for the simple mutton. She was likewise deeply
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 5: apologetic for wanting the salt, and feeling amiably bound to
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 5: bear out mister Bounderby to the fullest extent in the
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 5: testimony he had borne to her nerves, occasionally sat back
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 5: in her chair and silently wept. At which periods a
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 5: tear of large dimensions, like a crystal ear ring might
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: be observed, or rather must be, for it insisted on
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 5: public notice sliding down her Roman nose. But Missus Sparsit's
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 5: greatest point, first and last was her determination to pity
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 5: mister Bounderby. There were occasions when in looking at him,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 5: she was involuntarily moved to shake her head as who
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 5: would say, alas poor yorick. After allowing herself to be
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 5: betrayed into these evidences of emotion, she would force a
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 5: lambent brightness and would be fitfully cheerful, and would say
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 5: you have still a good spirit, sir, I am thankful
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: to find, and would appear to hail it as a
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: blessed dispensation that mister Bounderby bore up as he did.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 5: One idiosyncrasy for which she often apologized. She found it
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 5: excessively difficult to conquer. She had a curious propensity to
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 5: call Missus Bounderbury miss gradgrind, and yielded to it some
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 5: three or four score times in the course of the evening.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 5: Her repetition of this mistake covered Missus Sparsit with modest confusion.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 5: But indeed she said it seemed so natural to say
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 5: miss gradgrind, whereas to persuade herself that the young lady
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 5: whom she had had the happiness of knowing from a
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 5: child could be really and truly Missus Bounderby, she found
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 5: almost impossible. It was a further singularity of this remarkable
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 5: case that the more she thought about it, the more
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 5: impossible it appeared, the differences she observed being such. In
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 5: the drawing room after dinner, mister Bounderby tried the case
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 5: of the robbery. Examined the witnesses, made notes of the evidence,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 5: found the suspected persons guilty, and sentenced them to the
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 5: extreme punishment of law. That done, Bitsir was dismissed to
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 5: town with instructions to recommend Tom to come home by
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 5: the mail train. When candles were brought, Missus Sparsit murmured,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 5: don't be low, sir, pray let me see you cheerful, sir,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 5: as I used to do. Mister Bounderby, upon whom these
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 5: consolations had begun to produce the effect of making him,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 5: in a bull headed, blundering way sentimental, sighed like some
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 5: large sea animal. I cannot bear to see you, so, sir,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 5: said Missus Sparsit. Try a hand it backgammon, sir, as
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: you used to do when I had the honor of
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 5: living under your roof. I haven't played backgammon, ma'am, said
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 5: mister Bounderby since that time. No, sir, said Missus Sparsit soothingly.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 5: I am aware that you have not. I remember that
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 5: Miss Gradgrind takes no interest in the game. But I
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 5: shall be happy, sir, if you will condescend. They played
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 5: near a window opening on the garden. It was a
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 5: fine night, not moonlight, but sultry and fragrant. Louisa and
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 5: mister Harthouse strolled out into the garden, where their voices
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 5: could be heard in the stillness, though not what they said.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 5: Missus Sparsit, from her place at the backgammon board was
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 5: constantly straining her eyes to pierce the shadows without. What's
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 5: the matter, ma'am, said mister Bounderby. You don't see a fire,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 5: do you, Oh dear, No, sir, returned Missus Sparsit. I
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 5: was thinking of you. What have you got to do
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 5: with the dew, ma'am, said mister Bounderby. It's not myself, sir,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 5: returned Missus Sparsit. I am fearful of miss Gragrind's taking cold.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 5: She never takes cold, said mister Bounderby. Really, sir, said
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 5: Missus sparsit and was affected with a cough in her throat.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 5: When the time drew near for retiring, mister Bounderby took
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 5: a glass of water. Oh, sir, said missus Sparsit. Not
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 5: your sherry warm with lemon peel and nutmeg. Why I've
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 5: got out of the habit of taking it now, ma'am,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 5: said mister Bounderby. The more's the pity, sir, returned missus Sparsit.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 5: You are losing all of your good old habits. Cheer up, sir.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 5: If miss Gradgrind will permit me, I will offer to
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 5: make it for you, as I have often done. Miss
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 5: Gradgrind readily permitting Missus Sparsit to do anything. She pleased.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: That considerate lady made the beverage and handed it to
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: mister Bounderby. It will do your good, sir, It will
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 5: warm your heart. It is the sort of thing you
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: want and ought to take, sir. And when mister Bounderby said,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 5: your health, ma'am, she answered with great feeling, thank you, sir.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 5: The same to you, and happiness also. Finally, she wished
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 5: him good night with great pathos, and mister Bounderby went
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 5: to bed with a maudlin persuasion that he had been
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: crossed in something tender, though he could not, for his
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 5: life have mentioned what it was. Long after Louisa had
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 5: undressed and lain down, she watched and waited for her
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 5: brother's coming home. That could hardly be, she knew. Until
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 5: an hour passed midnight, but in the country silence, which
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 5: did anything but calm the trouble of her thoughts, time
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 5: lagged wearily. At last, when the darkness and stillness had
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 5: seemed for hours to thicken one another, she heard the
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 5: bell at the gate. She felt as though she would
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 5: have been glad that it rang on until daylight. But
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 5: it ceased, and the circles of its last sound spread
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 5: out fainter and wider in the air, and all was
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 5: dead again. She waited yet some quarter of an hour,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 5: as she judged. Then she arose, put on a loose robe,
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 5: and went out of her room in the dark and
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 5: up the staircase to her brother's room. His door being shut,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 5: she softly opened it and spoke to him. Approaching his
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 5: bed with a noiseless step, she kneeled down beside it,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 5: passed her arm over his neck, and drew his face
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 5: to hers. She knew that he only feigned to be asleep,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 5: but she said nothing to him. He started by and
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 5: by as if he were just then awakened, and asked
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 5: who that was and what was the matter?
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: Tom?
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 5: Have you anything to tell me, if ever you loved
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 5: me in your life, and have anything concealed from every
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 5: one besides tell it to me. I don't know what
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 5: you mean, Lou. You've been dreaming, my dear brother. She
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 5: laid her head down on his pillow, and her hair
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 5: flowed over him, as if she would hide him from
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 5: every one but herself. Is there nothing you have to
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 5: tell me? Is there nothing you can tell me? If
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 5: you will, you can tell me nothing that will change me? Oh, Tom,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 5: tell me the truth. I don't know what you mean, Lou.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 5: As you lie here alone, my dear, in the melancholy night.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 5: So you must lie somewhere one night when even I,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: if I am living, then shall have left you. As
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 5: I am here beside you, barefoot, unclothed, undistinguishable in darkness.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 5: So must I lie through all the night of my
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 5: decay until I am dust in the name of that time. Tom,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 5: tell me the truth?
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 5: What is it you want to know? You may be
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 5: certain in the energy of her love. She took him
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 5: to her bosom, as if you were a child. That
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 5: I will not reproach you. You may be certain that
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 5: I will be compassionate and true to you. You may
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 5: be certain that I will save you at whatever cost. Oh, Tom,
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 5: have you nothing to tell me? Whisper very softly, Say
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 5: only yes, and I shall understand you. She turned her
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 5: ear to his lips, but he remained doggedly silent.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: Not a word.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 6: Tom.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 5: How can I say yes? Or how can I say no?
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 5: When I don't know what you mean? Lou you are
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 5: a brave, kind girl worthy. I begin to think of
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 5: a better brother than I am. But I have nothing
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 5: more to say. Go to bed, Go to bed. You
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 5: are tired, she whispered, presently more in her usual way. Yes,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 5: I am quite tired out. You have been so hurried
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 5: and disturbed to day. Have any fresh discoveries been made?
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 5: Only those you have heard of from him?
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: Tom?
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 5: Have you said to any one that we made a
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 5: visit to those people and that we saw those three together?
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 4: No?
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 5: Didn't you yourself particularly ask me to keep it quiet
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 5: when you asked me to go there with you? Yes,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 5: but I did not know then what was going to happen,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 5: nor I neither, how could I. He was very quick
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 5: upon her with this retort. Ought I to say, after
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 5: what has happened, said his sister, standing by the bed.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 5: She had gradually withdrawn herself and risen that I made
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 5: that visit. Should I say so? Must I say so?
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: Good?
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 5: Heavens, Lou returned her brother. You are not in the
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 5: habit of asking my advice. Say what you like. If
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 5: you keep it to yourself, I should keep it to myself.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 5: If you disclose it, there's an end of it. It
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 5: was too dark for either to see the other's face,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 5: but each seemed very attentive and to consider before speaking, Tom,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 5: do you believe the man I gave the money too
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 5: is really implicated in this crime? I don't know. I
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 5: don't see why he shouldn't be. He seemed to me
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 5: an honest man. Another person may seem to you dishonest
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 5: and yet not be so. There was a pause, for
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 5: he had hesitated and stopped. In short resumed Tom, as
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 5: if he had made up his mind. If you come
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 5: to that, perhaps I was so far from being altogether
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 5: in his favor that I took him outside the door
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 5: to tell him quietly that I thought he might consider
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 5: himself very well off to get such a windfall as
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 5: he had got from my sister, and I hoped he
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 5: would make good use of it. You remember whether I
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 5: took him out or not. I say nothing against the man.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 5: He may be a very good fellow. For anything I know,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 5: I hope he is. Was he offended by what you said? No,
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 5: he took it pretty well. He was civil enough. Where
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 5: are you, Lou? He sat up in bed and kissed her.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 5: Good night, My dear, good night. You have nothing more
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 5: to tell me? No, what should I have You wouldn't
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 5: have me tell you a lie. I wouldn't have you
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 5: do that. To night, tom Of all the knights in
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 5: your life, many and much happier as I hope they
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 5: will be. Thank you, my dear Lou. I am so
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 5: tired that I am sure I wonder I don't say
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 5: anything to get to sleep, Go to bed, Go to bed.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 5: Kissing her again, he turned round, drew the coverlet over
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 5: his head, and lay as still as if that time
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 5: had come by which she had adjured him. She stood
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 5: for some time at the bedside before she slowly moved away.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 5: She stopped at the door, looked back when she had
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 5: opened it, and asked him if he had called her,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 5: But he lay still, and she softly closed the door
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 5: and returned to her room. Then the wretched boy looked
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 5: cautiously up and found her gone, crept out of bed,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 5: fastened his door, and threw himself upon his pillow, again,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 5: tearing his hair, morosely, crying, grudgingly, loving her hatefully, but impenitently,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 5: spurning himself and no less hatefully and unprofitably, spurning all
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 5: the good in the world. End of Chapter eight, Section fourteen.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 7: Chapter nine. Hearing lost of it, missus farsit, lying by
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 7: to recover the tone of her nerves in mister Bounderby's retreat,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 7: kept such a sharp look out night and day under
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 7: her Carlonian eyebrows, that her eyes, like a couple of
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 7: lighthouses on an iron bound coast, might have warned all
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 7: prudent mariners from that bold rock, her Roman nose in
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 7: the dark and craggy region in its neighborhood. But for
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 7: the placidity of her manner, although it was hard to
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 7: believe that her retiring for the night could be anything
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 7: but a form, So severely wide awake were those classical
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 7: eyes of earth, and so impossible did it seem that
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 7: her rigid nose could yield to any relaxing influence. Yet
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 7: her manner of sitting smoothing her uncomfortable, not to say,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 7: gritty mittens. They were constructed of a cool fabric, like
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 7: a meat safe, or of ambling to unknown places of
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 7: destination with her foot in her cotton stirrup. Was so
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 7: perfectly serene that most observers would have been constrained to
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 7: suppose her a dove embodied by some freak of nature
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 7: in the earthly tabernacle of a bird of the hook
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 7: beaked order. She was a most wonderful woman for prowling
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 7: about the house. How she got from story to story
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 7: was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 7: herself and so highly connected was not to be suspected
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 7: of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them. Yet
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 7: her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Another
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 7: noticeable circumstance in Missus Barsett was that she was never hurried.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 7: She would shoot consummate velocity from the roof to the hall,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 7: yet would be in full possession of her breath and
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 7: dignity on the moment of her arrival there, neither was
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 7: she ever seen by human vision to go at a
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 7: great pace. She took very kindly to mister Ardas and
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 7: had some pleasant condos station with him. Soon after her arrival,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 7: she made him a stately curtesy in the garden one
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 7: morning before breakfast. It appears, but yesterday, Sir said Missus Parsit,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 7: that I had the honor of receiving you at the
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 7: bank when you were so good as to wish to
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 7: be made acquainted by mister Bounderby's address, an occasion I
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 7: am sure not to be forgotten by myself in the
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 7: course of ages, said mister Harthas, inclining his head to
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 7: Missus Farset with the most indolent of all possible heirs.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 7: We live in a singular world, Sir, said Missus Farst,
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 7: I have had the honor by a coincidence of which
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 7: I am proud to have made a remark similar in effect,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 7: though not so epigrammatically expressed a singular world, I would say, sir,
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 7: pursued Missus Barsit, after acknowledging the compliment with a drooping
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 7: of her dark eyebrows. Not altogether so mild in its expression,
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 7: as her voice was in its dulcene tones. As regards
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 7: the intimacies we form at one time with individuals we
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 7: were quite ignorant of at another, I recall, sir, that
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 7: on that occasion you went so far as to say
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 7: you are actually apprehensive for missus Gradgrind. Your memory does
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 7: me more honor than my insignificance deserves. I avowed myself
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 7: of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 7: is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate, Missus
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 7: Sparsit's talent for in fact, for anything requiring accuracy with
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 7: a combination of strength of mind and family is too
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 7: habitually developed to admit of any question. He was almost
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 7: falling asleep over this compliment. It took him so long
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 7: to get through, and in mine wandered so much in
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 7: the course of its execution. You've found miss Gradgrind. I
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 7: really cannot call him Missus Bounderby. It's very absurd of
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 7: me as youthful as I described her, asked mister Sparsit sweetly.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 7: You drew a portrait perfectly, said mister Harthous, presented her
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 7: dead image very engaging, Sir said missus sparsit, causing omitten
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 7: slowly to revolve over one another highly. So it used
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 7: to be considered, said Missus Sparsit, that miss Gradgrinned was
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 7: wanting in adimation. But I confess she appears to me
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 7: considerably and strikingly improved in that respect. Eh, and indeed
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 7: here is mister Bounderby, cried Missus Parsit, nodding her head
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 7: a great many times, as if she had been talking
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 7: and thinking of no one else. How do you find
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 7: yourself this morning, sir? Pray let us see you cheerful, sir. Now,
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 7: these persistent assuagements of his misery and lightnings of his
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 7: load had by this time begun to have the effect
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 7: of making mister Bounderby softer than usual towards Missus Sparsit,
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 7: and harder than usual to most the people from his
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 7: wife downward. So when Missus bars had said, with forced
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 7: lightness of art, you want your breakfast, sir, But I
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 7: dare say, Missus gradmrand will soon be here to preside
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 7: at the table, mister Bounderby replied, if I waited to
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 7: be taken care of by my wife, ma'am, I believe
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 7: you know pretty well I should wait till doomsday, so
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 7: I'll trouble you to take charge of the teapot. Missus
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 7: Fos had complied and presumed her old position at table.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 7: This again made the excellent woman vastly sentimental. She was
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 7: so humble withal that when Louisa appeared, she rose protesting.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 7: She never could think of sitting in that place under
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 7: existing circumstances. Often, as she had had the honor of
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 7: making mister Bounderby's breakfast before Missus Gradgrand, she begged Lordon.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 7: She meant to say miss Bounderby. She hoped to be excused,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 7: but she really could not get it right yet, though
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 7: she trusted to become familiar with it, by and by
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 7: had assumed her present position. It was only she observed,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 7: because Missus Cragggrian to happen to be a little late,
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 7: and mister Bounderby's time was so very precious, and she
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 7: knew it of old to be so essential that he
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 7: should breakfast to the moment that she had taken the
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 7: liberty of complying with his request, long as his will
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 7: had been a law to her. There, stop where you are, ma'am,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 7: said mister Bounderby. Stop where you are Missus Bounderby will
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 7: be very glad to be relieved of the trouble. I believe.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 7: Don't say that, sir, returned. Missus barsit almost with severity,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 7: because that is very unkind to Missus Bounderby, and to
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 7: be unkind is not to be you. Sir. You may
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 7: set your mind at rest, ma'am. You can take it
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 7: very quietly, can't you, lou said mister Bounderby in a
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 7: blustering way to his wife. Of course, it is of
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 7: no moment. Why should it be of any importance to me?
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 7: Why should it be of any importance to any one?
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 7: Missus farsit, ma'am, said mister Bounderby, swelling with a sense
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 7: of slight. You attach too much importance to these things, ma'am.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 7: By George, you will be corrupted in some of your notions. Here.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 7: You are old fashioned, ma'am. You are behind to Tom
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 7: Gradgrind's children's time. What is the matter with you? Asked Louisa,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 7: coldly surprised. What has given you offense? Offense? Repeated Bounderby.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 7: Do you suppose if there was any offense given me
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 7: I shouldn't name it and request to have it corrected?
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 7: I am a straightforward man, I believe I don't go
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 7: beating about for side winds. I suppose no one ever
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 7: had occasion to think you too diffident or too delicate.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 7: Louisa answered him composedly, I have never made that objection
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 7: to you, either as a child or as a woman.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 7: I don't understand what you would have have her turn,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 7: mister Bounderby, nothing otherwise, don't you? Lou Bounderby note thoroughly
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 7: well that I, Joshua Bounderby of Coketon, would have it.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 7: She looked at him as he struck the table and
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 7: made the teacup's ring, with a proud color in her face.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 7: That was a new change. Mister Harthouse thought, you are
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 7: incomprehensible this morning, said Louisa. Pray take no further trouble
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 7: to explain yourself. I am not curious to know your meaning.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 7: What does it matter? Nothing more was said on this theme,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 7: and mister Harthhole's was soon idly gay on indifferent subjects.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 7: But from this day the sparse at action upon mister Bounderby,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 7: through Louisa and James Hardou's more together and strengthened the
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 7: dangerous alienation from her husband and confidence against him. With
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 7: another into which she had fallen by degrees so fine
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 7: that she could not retrace them if she tried. But
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 7: whether she ever tried or no, lay hidden in her
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 7: own closed heart. Missus Barst was so much effected on
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 7: this particular occasion that, assisting mister Bounderby to his hat
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 7: after breakfast, and being then alone within the hall, she
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 7: imprinted a chaste kiss upon his hand, murmured, my benefactor,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 7: and retired overwhelmed with grief. Yet it is an indubitable
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 7: fact within the cognizance of this history that, five minutes
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 7: after he had left the house in the self same hat,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 7: the same descendant to the scantess in connection of matrimony
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 7: of the Powlers, shook her right hand mitten at his portrait,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 7: made a contemptuous grimace at that quirk of art, and said,
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 7: serve you right, you noodle, and I am glad of it.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 7: Mister Bounderby had not been long gone when Bitser appeared.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 7: Bitser had come down by train, shrieking and rattling over
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 7: the long line of arches that bestrode the wild country
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 7: of past and present coal pits, with an express from
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 7: stone Lodge. It was a hasty note to inform Louisa
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 7: that missus Gradmand lay very ill. She had never been
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 7: well within her daughter's knowledge, but she had declined within
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 7: the last few days, had continued sinking all through the night,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 7: and was now as nearly dead as her limited capacity
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 7: of being in any state that implied the ghost of
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 7: an intention to get out of it aloud, accompanied by
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 7: the lightest porters, bit colorless servitore death's door. When missus
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 7: Gradfrid knocked Louisa Rumbole took oakton over the coal pits
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 7: past and present, and was whirled into its snoopy jaws.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 7: She dismissed the messenger to his own devices and rode
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 7: away to her old home. She had seldom been there
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 7: since her marriage. Her father was usually sifting and sifting
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 7: at his parlementary cinder heap in London without being observed
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 7: turn up many previous articles among the rubbish, and was
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 7: still hard added in the National dust yard. Her mother
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 7: had taken it rather as a disturbance than otherwise to
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 7: be visited, as she relied upon us over young people.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 7: Louisa felt herself all unfit for sissy. She had never
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 7: softened to again since the night when the stroller's child
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 7: had raised her eyes to look at mister Bounderby's intended wife.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 7: She had no inducements to go back, and had rarely
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 7: gone neither as she approached her old home. Now did
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 7: any of the best influences of old home descend upon her.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 7: The dreams of childhood, its airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane,
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 7: impossible adornments of the world beyond so good to be
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 7: believed in, once so good to be remembered when outgrown.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 7: But then least among them rises to the stature of
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 7: a great charity in the heart, suffering little children to
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 7: come into the midst of it, and to keep with
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 7: their pure hands a garden in the stony ways of
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 7: this world, wherein it were better for all the children
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 7: of Adam that they should oftener sun, themselves simple and
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 7: trustful and not worldly wise. What had she to do
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 7: with these remembrances of how she had journeyed to the
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 7: little that she knew by the enchanted roads, of what
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 7: she and millions of innocent creatures had hoped and imagined
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 7: a vow first coming upon reason, through that in de
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 7: light of fancy she had seen it, a beneficent God,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 7: deferring to gods as great as itself. Not a grim idol,
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 7: cruel and cold, with its victims bound or hand and foot,
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 7: but its big, dumb shape set up for the sightless stare,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 7: never to be moved by anything, but so many calculated
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 7: tons of leverage. What had she to do with these?
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 7: Her remembrances of home and child were remembrances of the
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 7: drying up of every spring and fountain in her young heart.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 7: As it gushed out, the golden waters were not there,
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 7: They were flowing for the fertilization of the land where
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 7: grapes are gathered from thorns and figs from thistles. She
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 7: went with a heavy, hardened kind of sorrow upon her
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 7: into the house and into her mother's room. Since the
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 7: time of her leaving home, Sissy had lived with the
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 7: rest of the family on equal terms. Cissy was at
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 7: her mother's side, and Jane, her sister, now ten or
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 7: twelve years old, was in the room. There was great
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 7: trouble before it could be made known to missus Gradgrind
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 7: that her eldest child was there. She reclined, propped up
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 7: from near abbot on a couch, as nearly in her
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 7: old usual attitude as anything so helpless could be kept in.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 7: She had positively refused to take to her bed, on
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 7: the ground that it she did, she would never hear
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 7: the last of it. Her feeble voice sounded so far
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 7: away in her bundle of shawls, and the sound of
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 7: another voice addressing her seemed to take such a long
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 7: time in getting down to her ears that she might
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 7: have been lying at the bottom of a well. The
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 7: poor lady was nearer truth than she, however, had been,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 7: which had much to do with it. On being told
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 7: that Missus Bounderby was there, she replied, at cross purposes
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 7: that she had never called him by that name since
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 7: he married Louisa, that, bending her choice of an objectionable name,
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 7: she had called him j and that she could not
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 7: at present depart from that regulation, not being yet provided
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 7: with a permanent substitute. Louisa had sat by her for
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 7: some minutes and had spoken to her often before she
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 7: arrived at a clear understanding who it was. She then
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 7: seemed to come to it all at once. Well, my dear,
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 7: said Missus gradgrind, and I hope you are going on
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 7: satisfactorily to yourself. It was all your father's doing. He
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 7: set his heart upon it, and he ought to know.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 7: I want to hear of you, mother, not of myself.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 7: You want to hear of me, my dear. That's something new.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 7: I am sure when anybody wants to hear of me,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 7: not at all. Well, Louisa, very faint and giddy. Are
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 7: you in pain, dear mother? I think there's a pain
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 7: somewhere in the room, said missus Gradgrand. But I couldn't
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 7: positively say that I have got it. After this strange speech,
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 7: she lay silent for some time. Louisa, holding her hand,
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 7: could feel no pulse, but kissing it could see a slight,
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 7: thin thread of life in flattering motion. You very seldom
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 7: see your sister, said missus Gradgrand. She grows like you.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 7: I wish you would look at her. Sissy, bring her here.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 7: She was brought and stood with her hand and her sisters.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 7: Louisa had served her with her arm round Sissy's neck,
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 7: and she felt the difference of this approach. Do you
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 7: see the likeness, Louisa? Yes, mother, I should think her
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 7: like me. But hey, yes, I always say so, missus
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 7: Gradgrin cried with unexpected quickness, and that reminds me. I
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 7: want to speak to you, my dear Cissy, my good girl,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 7: leave us alone a minute. Louisa had relinquished. Her aunt
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 7: had thought that her sister's was a better and brighter
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 7: face than hers had ever been, had seen in it,
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 7: not without arising feeling of resentment, even in that place,
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 7: and at that time something of the gentleness of the
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 7: other face in the room, the sweet face with the
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 7: trusting eyes made beller than watching and sympathy made it
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 7: by the rich dark air. Left alone with her mother,
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 7: Louises saw her lying with an awful lull upon her face,
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 7: like one who was floating away upon some great water,
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 7: all resistance over, content to be carried down the stream.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 7: She put the shadow over her hand to her lips
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 7: again and recalled her You were going to speak to me, mother, Eh, Yes,
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 7: to be sure, my dear, You know your father is
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 7: almost always away now, and therefore I must write to
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 7: him about it, about what mother tent be troubled about
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 7: what he must remember, my dear, that whenever I have
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 7: said anything on any subject, I have never heard the
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 7: last of it, And consequently that I have long left
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 7: off saying anything. I can hear you, mother, But it
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 7: was only by dint of bending down to her ear
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 7: and at the same time attentively watching the lips as
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 7: they moved, that she could link such faint and broken
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 7: sounds into any chain of connection. You learnt a great deal, Louisa,
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 7: and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds from
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 7: morning to night. If there is any ology left of
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 7: any description that has not been worn to rags in
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 7: this house, all I can say is I hope I
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 7: shall never hear its name. I can hear you, mother,
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 7: when you have strength to go on this to keep
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 7: her from floating away. But there is something, not an
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 7: ology at all, that your father has missed or forgotten. Louisa.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 7: I don't know what it is. I have often sat
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 7: with Sissy near me and thought about it. I shall
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 7: never get its name now, but your father may. It
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 7: makes me restless. I want to write to him to
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 7: find out, for God's sake what it is. Give me
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 7: a pen, and give me a pen. Even the power
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 7: of restlessness was gone except from the poor head, which
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 7: could just turn from side to side. She fancied, however,
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 7: that her request had been complied with, and that the
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 7: pen she could not have held was in her And
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 7: it matters little what figures of wonderful no meaning. She
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 7: began to trace upon her wrappers the hands in stopped
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 7: in the midst of them. The light that had always
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 7: been feeble and dim behind the weak transparency went out,
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 7: and even Missus gradgrind emerged from the shadow in which
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 7: man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain took upon the
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 7: dread solemnity of the sages and patriarchs. End of chapter nine,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 7: Chapter ten, Missus Farsit's staircase, Missus Farsit's nerves being slow
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 7: to recover their tone, the worthy woman made a stay
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 7: of some weeks in duration at mister Bounderby's retreat, where,
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 7: notwithstanding her anchorite turn of mind, based upon her becoming
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 7: consciousness of her altered station, she resigned herself with noble
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 7: fortitude to lodging, as one may say, in clover and
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 7: feeding on the fat of the land. During the whole
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 7: term of this recess from the guardianship of the bank,
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 7: Missus Farsit was a pattern of consistency, continuing to take
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 7: such pity on mister Bounderby to his face as is
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 7: rarely taken on man, and to call his portrait a
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 7: noodle to its face, with the greatest acrimony and contempt
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 7: mister bounderby having got into his explosive composition that Missus
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 7: Farsitt was a highly superior woman to perceive that he
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 7: had that general cross upon him in his desserts, for
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 7: he had not yet settled what it was, and further
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 7: that Louisa would have objected to her as a frequent visitor,
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 7: if it had comported with his greatness that she should
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 7: object to anything he chose to do. Resolved not to
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 7: lose sight of Missus Farsit easily, so when her nerves
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 7: were strung up to the pitch of again consuming sweetbreads
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 7: and solitude, he said to her at the dinner table
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 7: on the day before her departure, I tell you what, ma'am.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 7: You shall come down here on a Saturday, while the
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 7: fine weather lasts, and stay till Monday, to which missus
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 7: Farsit returned in effect, though not of the Mahomedan persuasion.
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 7: To hear is to obey. Now, Missus Sparsit was not
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 7: a poetical woman, but she took an idea in the
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 7: nature of an allegorical fancy into her head. Much watching
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 7: of Louisa and much consequent observation of her impenetrable demeanor,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 7: which keenly wetted and sharpened Missus Sparsit's edge must have
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 7: given her, as it were, a lift in the way
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 7: of inspiration. She erected in her mind a mighty staircase
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 7: with a dark pit of shame and ruin at the bottom,
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 7: and down the stairs. From day to day and hour
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 7: to hour she saw Louisa coming. It became the business
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 7: of missus Barsit's life to look up at her stair
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 7: case and to watch Louisa coming down, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly,
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 7: sometimes several steps at one bout, sometimes stopping, never turning back.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 7: If she had once turned back, it might have been
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 7: the death of Missus Sparsit. In spleen and grief. She
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 7: had been descending steadily to the day, and on the
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 7: day when mister Bounderby issued the weekly invitation recorded above,
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 7: Missus Sparsit was in good spirits and inclined to be conversational,
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 7: and Braser said she, if I may venture to ask
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 7: a question appertaining to any subject on which you shall reserve,
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 7: which is indeed hardy in me, for I well know
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 7: you have a reason for everything you do. Have you
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 7: received intelligence respecting the robbery. Why, ma'am, no, not yet
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 7: under the circumstances. I didn't expect it yet. Rome wasn't
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 7: built in a day. Very true, sir, said Missus Bossit,
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 7: shaking her head. Nor yet in a weak ma'am. No, indeed,
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 7: Sir returned Missus Barsit with a gentle melancholy upon her.
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 7: In a similar man of ma'am said Botnderby, you can wait.
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 7: You know, if Romulus and Remus could wait, Josiah Bounderby
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 7: can wait. They were better off in their youth than
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 7: I was. However, they had a she wolf for a nurse.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 7: I had only a she wolf for a grandmother. She
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 7: didn't give any milk, ma'am. She gave bruises. She was
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 7: a regular alderly. At that ah, Missus Fossit sighed and shuddered. No, ma'am,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 7: continued Bounderby. I have not heard anything more about it.
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 7: It's in Anne, though, and young Tom, who rather sticks
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 7: to business at present. Something new for him. He hadn't
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 7: the schooling I had is helping. My injunction is keep
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 7: it quiet and let it seem to blow over. Do
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 7: what you like under the rose, but don't give a
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 7: sign of what you're about, or half a hundred of
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 7: them will combine together and get this fellow who has
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 7: vaulted out of reach for good. Keep it quiet, and
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 7: the thieves will grow in confidence by little and little,
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 7: and we shall have them very sagacious. Indeed, sir, said
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 7: Missus sparsit, very interesting the old woman you mention, sir,
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 7: The old woman I mentioned, ma'am, said bounderby cutting the
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 7: matter short as it were, nothing to boast about is
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 7: not laid hold of. But she may take her oath
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 7: she will be if that is any satisfaction to her
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 7: villainous old mind. In the meantime, ma'am, I am of opinion,
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 7: if you ask me my opinion that the less she
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 7: has talked about, the better. The same evening, Missus Sparsit
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 7: in her chamber window, resting from her packing operations, looked
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 7: towards her great staircase since aw Louisa still. She sat
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 7: by mister Harthou's in an alcove in the garden, talking
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 7: very low. He stood leaning over as they whispered together,
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 7: and his face almost touched her air, if not quite,
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 7: said Missus barfit, straining her hawk's eyes to the outmost
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 7: missus Barsit was too distant to hear a word of
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 7: their discourse, or even to know that they were speaking
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 7: softly otherwise than from the expression of their figures. And
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 7: what they said was this, You recollect the man, mister Harthouse,
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 7: oh perfectly, his face and his manner, and what he
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 7: said perfectly, and an infinitely dreary person. He appeared to
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 7: me to be latethy and prosy in the extreme. It
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 7: was knowing to hold forth in the humble virtue school
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 7: of eloquence. But I assure you, I thought, at the time,
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 7: my good fellow, you are overdoing this. It has been
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 7: very difficult to me to think ill of that man,
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 7: My dear Louisa, as Tom says, which he never did, say,
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 7: you know no good of the fellow, no, certainly, nor
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 7: of any other such person. How can I She returned,
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 7: with more of a first manner on her than he
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 7: had seen lately, when I know nothing of them men
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 7: or women, My dear Louisa, then consent to receive the
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 7: submissive representation of your devoted friend, who knows something of
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 7: several varieties of his excellent fellow creatures. For excellent they are,
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 7: I am quite ready to believe in spite of such
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 7: little foibles, as always helping themselves to what they can
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 7: get hold of. This fellow talks, while every fellow talks,
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 7: he professes morality. Well, all sorts of humbugs profess morality,
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 7: from thous of garmons to the hows of correction, there
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 7: is a general profession of morality, except among our It
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 7: really is that exception which makes out people quite reviving.
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 7: You saw and heard the case here was one of
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 7: the fluffy classes pulled off extremely short by my esteemed
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 7: friend mister Bounderby, who as we know, is not possessed
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 7: of that delicacy which would soften so tight a hand.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 7: The member of the fluffy classes was injured, exasperated, left
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 7: the house grumbling, met somebody who proposed to him to
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 7: go in for some share in this bank business, went in,
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 7: put something in his pocket which had nothing in it before,
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 7: and relieved his mind extremely Really, he would have been
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 7: an uncommon instead of a common fellow if he had
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 7: not availed himself of such an opportunity, or he may
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 7: have originated it altogether if he had the cleverness. I
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 7: almost feel as though it must be bad in me,
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 7: returned Louisa, after sitting thoughtful a while, to be so
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 7: ready to agree with you, and to be so lightened
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 7: in my heart by what you say. I only say
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 7: what is reasonable, nothing worse. I have talked it over
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 7: with my friend arm more than once. Of course, I
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 7: remain on terms of perfect confidence with Tom, and he
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 7: is quite of my opinion, and I am quite of his.
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 7: Will you walk? They strolled away among the lanes, beginning
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 7: to be indistinct in the twilight. She leaning on his arm,
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 7: and she little thought how she was going down, down,
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 7: down Missus Barsit's staircase night and day. Missus Sparsit kept
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 7: it standing. When Louisa had arrived at the bottom and
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 7: disappeared into the gulf. It might fall in upon her,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 7: if it would. But until then there it was to
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 7: be a building before missus Sparsit's eyes. And now Louisa
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 7: always was upon it, and always gliding down, down, down,
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 7: Missus Sparsits are James Harthouse, come and go? She heard
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 7: of him here and there she saw the changes of
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 7: the face he had studied. She too remarked to the
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 7: nicety how in when it clouded, how in when it cleared?
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 7: She kept her black eyes wide open, with no touch
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 7: of pity, with no touch of compunction, all absorbed in interest,
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 7: in the interest of seeing her ever drawing with no
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 7: anne to stay her nearer and nearer to the bottom
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 7: of this new giant staircase. With all her deference for
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 7: mister Bounderby as country distinguished from his portrait, Missus Bassett
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 7: had not the smallest intention of interrupting the descent. Eager
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 7: to see it accomplished, and yet patient, she waited for
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 7: the last fall, as for the ripeness and fullness of
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 7: the harvest of her hopes. Hushed in expectancy, she kept
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 7: her weary gaze upon the stairs, and seldom so much
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 7: as darkly shook her right bitten with her fist in
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 7: it at the figure coming down end of chapter ten,
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 7: end of section fifteen.
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 4: Chapter eleven. Lower and lower, the figure descended the great stairs, steadily, steadily,
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 4: always verging like a weight in deep water, to the
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 4: black gulf at the bottom. Mister Gradgrind, apprized of his
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 4: wife's decease, made an expedition from London and buried her
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 4: in a business like manner. He then returned with promptitude
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 4: to the National cinder heap and resumed his sifting for
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 4: the odds and ends he wanted, and his throwing of
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 4: the dust about into the eyes of other people who
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 4: wanted other odds and ends, in fact, resumed his parliamentary duties.
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 4: In the meantime, Missus Sparsit kept unwinking watch and ward,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 4: separated from her staircase all the week by the length
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 4: of iron Road Coketown from the country house. She yet
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 4: maintained her catlike observation of Louisa, through her husband, through
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 4: her brother, through James Harthouse, through the outsides of letters
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 4: and packets, through everything animate and inanimate, that at any
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 4: time went near the stairs. Your foot on the last step,
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 4: my lady, said, Missus Sparsit, apostrophising the descending figure with
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 4: the aid of her threatening mitten. And all your art
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 4: shall never blind me art or nature. Though the original
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 4: stock of Louise's character, or the graft of circumstances upon it,
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 4: her curious reserve did baffle, while it stimulated one as
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 4: sagacious as Missus Sparsit. There were times when mister James
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 4: Harthouse was not sure of her. There were times when
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 4: he could not read the face he had studied so long,
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 4: and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 4: him than any woman of the world with a ring
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 4: of satellites to help her. So the time went on
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 4: until it happened that mister Bounderby was called away from
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 4: home by business which required his presence elsewhere for three
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 4: or four days. It was on a Friday that he
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 4: intimated this to Missus Sparsit at the bank, adding, but
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 4: you'll go down tomorrow, ma'am, all the same. You'll go
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 4: down just as if I was there. It will make
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 4: no difference to you, pray sir, returned Missus Sparsit reproachfully.
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 4: Let me beg you not to say that your absence
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 4: will make a vast difference to me, sir, as I
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 4: think you very well know well, ma'am. Then you must
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 4: get on in my absence as well as you can,
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 4: said mister Bounderby. Not displeased, mister Bounderby retorted, Missus Sparsit,
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 4: your will is to me a law, sir, otherwise it
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 4: might be my inclination to dispute your kind commands. Not
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 4: feeling sure that it will be quite so agreeable to
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 4: miss gradgrind to receive me as it ever is to
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 4: your own munificent hospitality, But you shall say no more, Sir,
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 4: I will go upon your invitation. Why when I invite
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 4: you to my house, ma'am, said Bounderby, opening his eyes,
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 4: I should hope you want no other invitation? No, indeed,
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 4: sir returned Missus Sparsit. I should hope not say no more, Sir,
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 4: I would, Sir, I could see you gay again. What
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 4: do you mean, ma'am, blustered Bounderby, Sir rejoined Missus sparsit.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 4: There was wont to be an elasticity in you, which
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 4: I sadly miss be buoyant, Sir. Mister Bounderby, under the
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 4: influence of this difficult adjuration, backed up by her compassionate eye,
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 4: could only scratch his head in a feeble and ridiculous manner,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 4: and afterwards assert himself at a distance by being heard
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 4: to bully the small fry of business all the morning, bit, sir, said,
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 4: Missus Sparsit. That afternoon, when her patron was gone on
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 4: his journey and the bank was closing, present my compliments
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 4: to young mister Thomas and ask him if he would
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 4: step up and partake of a lamb chop and walnut
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 4: ketchup with a glass of India ale, young mister Thomas,
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 4: being usually ready for anything in that way, returned a
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 4: gracious answer and followed on its heels. Mister Thomas said,
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 4: Missus Sparsit, these plain viands being on table, I thought
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 4: you might be tempted. Thank ye, Missus Sparsit, said the whelp,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 4: and gloomily fell to how is mister Harthouse? Mister Tom
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 4: asked Missus Sparsit. Oh, he's all right, said Tom. Where
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 4: may he be at present? Missus Sparsit asked, in a
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 4: light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the Whelp to the
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 4: furies for being so uncommunicated. He is shooting in Yorkshire,
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 4: said Tom. Sent lua basket half as big as a
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 4: church yesterday. The kind of gentleman now, said Missus Sparsit sweetly.
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 4: One might wager to be a good shot crack, said Tom.
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 4: He had long been a down looking young fellow, but
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 4: this characteristic had so increased of late that he never
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 4: raised his eyes to any face for three seconds together.
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 4: Missus Sparsit consequently had ample means of watching his looks
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 4: if she were so inclined. Mister Harthouse is a great
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 4: favorite of mine, said Missus Sparsit, as indeed he is
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 4: of most people. May we expect to see him again shortly?
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 4: Mister Tom? Why I expect to see him tomorrow? Returned
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 4: the whelp Good news, cried missus Sparsit, blandly. I have
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 4: got an appointment with him, to meet him in the
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 4: evening at the station here, said Tom, and I am
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 4: going to dine with him afterwards. I believe he is
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 4: not coming down to the country house for a week
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 4: or so, being due somewhere else at least, he says so.
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 4: But I shouldn't wonder if he was to stop here
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 4: over Sunday and stray that way, which reminds me, said
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 4: missus Sparsit. Would you remember a message to your sister,
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 4: mister Tom, if I was to charge you with one? Well,
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 4: I'll try, returned the reluctant welp, If it isn't a
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 4: long un it is merely my respectful compliments, said missus Sparsit.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 4: And I fear I may not trouble her with my
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 4: society this week, being still a little nervous, and better
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 4: perhaps by my poor self. Oh, if that's all observed Tom,
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 4: it wouldn't much matter even if I was to forget
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 4: it for Lou's not likely to think of you unless
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 4: she sees you having paid for his entertainment. With this
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 4: agreeable compliment, he relapsed into a hang dog's silence until
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 4: there was no more India Ale left when he said, well,
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 4: missus Sparsit, I must be off, and went off. Next day, Saturday,
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 4: missus Sparsit sat at her window all day long, looking
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 4: at the cutustomers coming in and out, watching the postman,
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 4: keeping an eye on the general traffic of the street,
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 4: revolving many things in her mind, but above all keeping
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 4: her attention on her staircase. The evening come she put
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 4: on her bonnet and shawl and went quietly out, having
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 4: her reasons for hovering in a furtive way about the
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 4: station by which a passenger would arrive from Yorkshire, and
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 4: for preferring to peep into it, round pillars and corners
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 4: and out of ladies waiting room windows, to appearing in
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 4: its precincts openly. Tom was in attendance and loitered about
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 4: until the expected train came in. It brought no mister Harthouse.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 4: Tom waited until the crowd had dispersed and the bustle
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 4: was over, and then referred to a post a list
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 4: of trains, and took council with porters. That done, he
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 4: strolled away, idly, stopping in the street and looking up
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 4: and down it, and lifting his hat off and putting
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 4: it on again, and yawning, and stretching himself, and exhibiting
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 4: all the symptoms of mortal weariness to be expected in
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 4: one who had still to wait until the next train
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 4: should come in an hour and forty minutes. Hence this
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 4: is a device to keep him out of the way,
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 4: said missus sparsit, starting from the dull office window. Whence
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 4: she had watched him last harthouse is with his sister.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 4: Now it was the conception of an inspired moment, and
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 4: she shot off with her utmost swiftness to work it out.
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 4: The station for the country house was at the opposite
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 4: end of the town. The time was short, the road
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 4: not easy. But she was so quick in pouncing on
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 4: a disengaged coach, so quick in darting out of it,
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 4: producing her money, seizing her ticket, and diving into the train,
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 4: that she was borne along the arches spanning the land
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 4: of coal pits past and present, as if she had
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 4: been caught up in a cloud, and whirled away all
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 4: the journey, immovable in the air, though never left behind,
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 4: played into the dark eyes of her mind. As the
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 4: electric wires which ruled a colossal strip of music paper
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 4: out of the evening sky were playing to the dark
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 4: eyes of her body. Missus Sparsit saw her staircase with
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 4: the figure coming down very near the bottom. Now upon
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 4: the brink of the abyss an overcast September evening, just
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 4: at nightfall, saw beneath its drooping eyelids, Missus Sparsit glide
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 4: out of her carriage, passed down the wooden steps of
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 4: the little station into a stony road, crossed it into
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 4: a green lane, and become hidden in a summer growth
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 4: of leaves and branches, one or two late birds sleepily
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 4: chirping in their nests, and a bat heavily crossing and
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 4: recrossing her and the reek of her own tread in
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 4: the thick dust that felt like velvet, where all Missus
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 4: Sparsit heard or saw until she very softly closed the gate.
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 4: She went up to the house, keeping within the shrubbery,
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 4: and went round it, peeping between the leaves. At the
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 4: lower windows. Most of them were open, as they usually
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 4: were in such warm weather, but there were no lights yet,
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 4: and all was silent. She tried the garden, with no
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 4: better effect. She thought of the wood, and stole towards it,
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 4: heedless of long grass and briers, of worms, snails and slugs,
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 4: and all the creeping things that be. With her dark
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 4: eyes and her hooked nose, warily in advance of her,
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 4: Missus Sparsit softly crushed her way through the thick undergrowth,
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 4: so intent upon her object that she probably would have
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 4: done no less if the wood had been a wood
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 4: of adders. Hark, the smaller birds might have tumbled out
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 4: of their nests, fascinated by the glittering of Missus Sparsit's
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 4: eyes in the gloom as she stopped and listened, low
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 4: voices close at hand, his voice and hers. The appointment
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 4: was a device to keep the brother away. There they were,
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 4: yonder by the felled tree, bending low among the dewy grass,
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 4: Missus Sparsit advanced closer to them. She drew herself up
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 4: and stood behind a tree, like Robinson Crusoe in his
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 4: ambuscade against the savages, so near to them that at
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 4: a spring, and that no great one she could have
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 4: touched them both. He was there secretly, and had not
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 4: shown himself at the house. He had come on horseback
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 4: and must have passed through the neighboring fields, for his
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 4: horse was tied to the meadow side of the fence
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 4: within a few paces. My dearest love, said he, What
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 4: could I do, knowing you were alone? Was it possible
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 4: that I could stay away? You may hang your head
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 4: to make yourself more attractive. I don't know what they
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 4: see in you when you hold it up, thought missus Sparsit.
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 4: But you little think, my dearest love, whose eyes are
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 4: on you, that she hung her head was certain. She
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 4: urged him to go away. She commanded him to go away,
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 4: But she neither turned her face to him, nor raised it.
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 4: Yet it was remarkable that she sat as still as
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 4: ever the amiable woman in Ambuscade had seen her sit
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 4: at any period in her life. Her hands rested in
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 4: one another, like the hands of a statue, and even
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 4: her manner of speaking was not hurried. My dear child,
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 4: said Harthouse. Missus Sparsit saw with delight that his arm
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 4: embraced her. Will you not bear with my society for
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 4: a little while? Not here where Louisa, not here? But
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 4: we have so little time to make so much of
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 4: and I have come so far, and am altogether so
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 4: devoted and distracted. There never was a slave at once
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 4: so devoted and ill used by his mistress. To look
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 4: for your sonny welcome that has warmed me into life,
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 4: and to be received in your frozen manner is a
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 4: heart rending. Am I to say again that I must
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 4: be left to myself here? But we must meet, my
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 4: dear Louisa. Where shall we meet? They both started. The
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 4: listeners started guiltily too, for she thought there was another
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 4: listener among the trees. It was only rain beginning to
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 4: fall fast in heavy drops. Shall I ride up to
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 4: the house a few minutes, hence innocently supposing that its
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 4: master is at home and will be charmed to receive me. No,
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 4: your cruel commands are implicitly to be obeyed. Though I
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 4: am the most unfortunate fellow in the world, I believe
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 4: to have been insensible to all other women, and to
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 4: have fallen prostrate at last under the foot of the
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 4: most beautiful and the most engaging and the most imperious,
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 4: My dearest Louisa. I cannot go myself or let you
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 4: go in this heart abuse of your power. Missus Sparsit
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 4: saw him detain her with his encircling arm, and heard
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 4: him then and there within her missus Sparsit's greedy hearing
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 4: tell her how he loved her, and how she was
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 4: the stake for which he ardently desired to play away.
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 4: All that he had in life, the objects he had
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 4: lately pursued, turned worthless beside her, such success as was
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 4: almost in his grasp, he flung away from him like
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 4: the dirt it was compared with her, its pursuit. Nevertheless,
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 4: if it kept him near her, or its renunciation, if
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 4: it took him from her, or flight, if she shared it,
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 4: or secrecy, if she commanded it, or any fate or
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 4: every fate, all was alike to him, so that she
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 4: was true to him. The man who had seen how
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 4: cast away she was, whom she had inspired at their
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 4: first meeting with an admiration, an interest of which he
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 4: had taught himself incapable, whom she had received into her confidence,
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 4: who was devoted to her and adored her. All this
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 4: and more in his hurry and in hers, in the
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 4: whirl of her own gratified malice, in the dread of
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 4: being discovered, in the rapidly increasing noise of heavy rain
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 4: among the leaves, and a thunderstorm rolling up Missus Sparsit
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 4: received into her mind, set off with such an unavoidable
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 4: halo of confusion and indistinctness, that, when at length he
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 4: climbed the fence and led his horse away, she was
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 4: not sure where they were to meet or when, except
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 4: that they had said it was to be that night.
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 4: But one of them yet remained in the darkness before her.
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 4: And while she tracked that one, she must be right. Oh,
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 4: my dearest love, thought missus Sparsit, you little think how
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 4: well attended you are. Missus Sparsit saw her out of
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 4: the wood, and saw her enter the house. What to
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 4: do next? It rained now in a sheet of water.
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 4: Missus Sparsit's white stockings were of many colors, green predominating.
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 4: Prickly things were in her shoes. Caterpillars slung themselves in
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 4: hammocks of their own making from various parts of her dress.
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 4: Rules ran from her bonnet and her roman nose. In
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 4: such condition, Missus Sparsit stood hidden in the density of
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 4: the shrubbery, considering what next. Lo Louisa, coming out of
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 4: the house, hastily cloaked and muffled and stealing away, she elopes.
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 4: She falls from the lowermost stare and is swallowed up
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 4: in the gulf. Indifferent to the rain and moving with
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 4: a quick, determined step, she struck into a side path
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 4: parallel with the ride. Missus Sparsit followed in the shadow
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 4: of the trees at but a short distance, for it
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 4: was not easy to keep a figure in view, going
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 4: quickly through the umbrageous darkness. When she stopped to close
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 4: the side gate without noise, Missus Sparsit stopped. When she
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 4: went on, Missus Sparsit went on. She went by the
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 4: way Missus Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane,
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 4: crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 4: the railroad. A train for coke would come through presently,
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 4: Missus Sparsit knew, so she understood Coketown to be her
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 4: first place of destination. In Missus Sparsit's limp and streaming state,
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 4: no extensive precautions were necessary to change her usual appearance.
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 4: But she stopped under the lee of the station wall,
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 4: tumbled her shawl into a new shape, and put it
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 4: on over her bonnet. So disguised she had no fear
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 4: of being recognized when she followed up the railroad steps
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 4: and paid her money. In the small office, Louisa sat
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 4: waiting in a corner. Missus Sparsit sat waiting in another corner.
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 4: Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 4: the rain as it washed off the roof and pattered
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 4: on the parapets of the arches. Two or three lamps
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 4: were rained out and blown out, so both saw the
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 4: lightning to advantage as it quivered and zigzagged on the
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 4: iron tracks. The seizure of the station, the fit of trembling,
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 4: gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train,
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 4: fire and steam and smoke in red light, a hiss,
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 4: a crash, a bell, and a shriek. Louisa put into
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 4: one carriage, Missus Sparsit put into another, the little station
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 4: a desert speck in the thunderstorm. Though her teeth chattered
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 4: in her head from wet and cold, Missus Sparsit exalted hugely.
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 4: The figure had plunged down the precipice, and she felt
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 4: herself as it were attending on the body. Could she,
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 4: who had been so active in the getting up of
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 4: the funeral triumph do less than exalt. She will be
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 4: at Coketown long before him thought missus Sparsit, though his
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 4: horse is never so good. Where will she wait for him?
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 4: And where will they go together? Patience we shall see.
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 4: The tremendous rain occasioned infinite confusion when the train stopped
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 4: in its destination, and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed,
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 4: and streets were under water. In the first instant of alighting,
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 4: missus Sparsit turned her distracted eyes towards the waiting coaches,
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 4: which were in great request. She will get into one,
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 4: she considered, and will be away before I can follow
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 4: in another, at all risks of being run over. I
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 4: must see the number and hear the order given to
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 4: the coachman. But missus Sparsit was wrong in her calculation.
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 4: Louisa got into no coach and was already gone. The
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 4: black eyes kept upon the railroad carriage in which she
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 4: had traveled, settled upon it a moment too late, the
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 4: door not being opened. After several minutes, missus Sparsit passed
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 4: it and repassed it, saw nothing, looked in and found
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 4: it empty, wet through and through, with her feet squelching
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 4: and squashing in her shoes whenever she moved with a
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 4: rash of rain upon her classical visage, with a bonnet
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 4: like an over ripe fig, with all all her clothes
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 4: spoiled with damp impressions of every button, string and hook
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 4: and eyes she wore printed off upon her highly connected back,
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 4: with a stagnant verdure on her general exterior, such as
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 4: accumulates on an old park fence in a moldy lane.
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 4: Missus Sparsit had no resource but to burst into tears
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 4: of bitterness and say I have lost her Chapter twelve
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 4: down the National Dustman. After entertaining one another with a
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 4: great many noisy little fights among themselves, had dispersed for
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 4: the present, and mister Gradgrind was at home for the vacation.
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 4: He sat riding in the room with a deadly statistical clock,
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 4: proving something no doubt, probably in the main, that the
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 4: good Samaritan was a bad economist. The noise of the
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 4: rain did not disturb him much, but it attracted his
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 4: attention sufficiently to make him raise his head sometimes as
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 4: if he were rather remonstrating with the elements. When it
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 4: thundered very loudly, he glanced towards Coketown, having it in
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 4: his mind that some of the tall chimneys might be
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 4: struck by lightning. The thunder was rolling into distance, and
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 4: the rain was pouring down like a deluge. When the
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 4: door of his room opened, he looked round the lamp
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 4: upon his table and saw with amazement his eldest daughter, Louisa. Father,
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 4: I want to speak to you. What is the matter?
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 4: How strange you look? And good heaven, said mister Gradgrind,
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 4: wondering more and more have you come here exposed to
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 4: this storm? She put her hands to her dress, as
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 4: if she hardly knew. Yes. Then she uncovered her head,
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 4: and letting her cloak and hood fall where they might stood,
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 4: looking at him, so colorless, so disheveled, so defiant and despairing,
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 4: that he was afraid of her.
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 7: What is it?
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 4: I conjure you, Louisa, tell me what is the matter.
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 4: She dropped into a chair before him and put her
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 4: cold hand on his arm. Father, you have trained me
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 4: from my cradle, Yes, Louisa, I cursed the hour in
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 4: which I was born to such a destiny. He looked
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 4: at her in doubt and dread, vacantly repeating curse the
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 4: hour curse the hour. How could you give me life
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 4: and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 4: it from the state of conscious death? Where are the
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 4: graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart?
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 4: What have you done, oh father? What have you done
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 4: with the garden that should have bloomed once in this
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 4: great wilderness? Here? She struck herself with both her hands
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 4: upon her bosom. If it had ever been here, its
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 4: ashes alone would save me from the void in which
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 4: my whole life sinks. I did not mean to say this,
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 4: but Father, you remember the last time we conversed in
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 4: this room. He had been sold unprepared for what he
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 4: heard now that it was with difficulty he answered, yes, Louisa,
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 4: what has risen to my lips now would have risen
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 4: to my lips then if you had given me a
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 4: moment's help. I don't reproach you, father, What you have
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 4: never nurtured in me, you have never nurtured in yourself.
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 4: But oh, if you had only done so long ago,
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 4: or if you had only neglected me, what a much
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 4: better and much happier creature I should have been this day.
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 4: On hearing this, after all his care, he bowed his
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 4: head upon his hand and groaned aloud. Father. If you
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 4: had known when we were last together here, what even
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 4: I feared while I strove against it? As it has
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 4: been my task from infancy to strived against every natural
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 4: prompting that has arisen in my heart. If you had
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 4: known that there lingered in my breast sensibilities, affections, weaknesses,
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 4: capable of being cherished into strength, defying all the calculations
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 4: ever made by man, and no more known to his
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 4: arithmetic than his creator is. Would you have given me
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 4: to the husband whom I am now sure that I hate?
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 4: He said, no, no, my poor child. Would you have
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 4: doomed me at any time to the frost and blight
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 4: that have hardened and spoiled me? Would you have robbed
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 4: me for no one's enrichment, only for the greater desolation
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 4: of this world, of the immaterial part of my life,
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 4: the spring and summer of my belief, my refuge from
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 4: what is sortid and bad, and the real things around me,
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 4: my school in which I should have learned to be
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 4: more humble and more trusting with them, and to hope,
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 4: in my little sphere to make them better. Oh no, no, no, Louisa. Yet, Father,
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 4: if I had been stone blind, if I had groped
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 4: my way by my sense of touch, and had been
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 4: free while I knew the shapes and services of things
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 4: to exercise my fancy some one in regard to them,
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 4: I should have been a million times wiser, happier, more loving,
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 4: more contented, more innocent and human in all good respects
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 4: than I am. With the eyes I have now hear
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 4: what I have come to say. He moved to support
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 4: her with his arm, she rising as he did so.
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 4: They stood close together, she with a hand upon his shoulder,
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 4: looking fixedly in his face. With a hunger and thirst
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 4: upon me, Father, which have never been, for a moment
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 4: appeased with an ardent impulse towards some region where rules
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 4: and figures and definitions were not quite absolute. I have
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 4: grown up battling every inch of my way. I never
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 4: knew you were unhappy, my child father, I always knew it.
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 4: In this strife, I have almost repulsed and crushed my
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 4: better angel into a demon. What I have learned has
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 4: left me doubting, misbelieving, despising, regretting what I have not learned,
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 4: and my dismal resource has been to think that life
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 4: would soon go by, and that nothing in it could
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 4: be worth the pain and trouble of a contest. And
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 4: you so young, Louisa, he said, with pity, And I
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 4: so young in this condition. Father, For I show you, now,
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 4: without fear or favor, the ordinary, deadened state of my
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 4: mind as I know it. You proposed my husband to me.
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 4: I took him. I never made a pretense to him
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 4: or you that I loved him. I knew, and Father,
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 4: you knew, and he knew that I never did. I
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 4: was not wholly indifferent, for I had a hope of
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 4: being pleasant and useful to Tom. I made that wild
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 4: escape into something visionary, and have slowly found out how
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 4: wild it was. But Tom had been the subject of
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 4: all the little tenderness of my life. Perhaps he became
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 4: so because I knew so well how to pity him.
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 4: It matters little now, except as it may dispose you
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 4: to think more leniently of his error. As her father
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 4: held her in his arms, she put her other hand
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 4: upon his other shoulder, and, still looking fixedly in his face,
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 4: went on. When I was irrevocably married, there rose up
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 4: into rebellion against the tie the old strife made fiercer
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 4: by all those causes of disparity which arise out of
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 4: our two individual natures, and which no general laws shall
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 4: ever rule or state for me, Father, until they shall
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 4: be able to direct the anatomist where to strike his
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 4: knife into the secrets of my soul. Louisa, he said,
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 4: and said imploringly, for he well remembered what had passed
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 4: between them in their former interview. I do not reproach you, father,
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 4: I make no complaint. I am here with another object.
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 4: What can I do? Child? Ask me what you will?
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 4: I am coming to it. Father. Chance then threw into
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 4: my way a new acquaintance, a man such as I
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 4: had had no experience of, used to the world, light, polished, easy,
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 4: making no pretenses, avowing the low estimate of everything that
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 4: I was half afraid to form in secret, conveying to
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 4: me almost immediately. Though I don't know how or by
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 4: what degrees that he understood me and read my thoughts,
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 4: I could not find that he was worse than I.
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 4: There seemed to be a near affinity between us. I
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 4: only wondered it should be worth his while, who cared
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 4: for nothing else to care so much for me? For you? Louisa,
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 4: her father might instinctively have loosened his hold, but that
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 4: he felt her strength departing from her, and saw a wild,
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 4: dilating fire in the eyes steadfastly regarding him. I say
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 4: nothing of his plea for claiming my confidence. It matters
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 4: very little how he gained it. Father, He did gain it.
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 4: What you know of the story of my marriage. He
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 4: soon knew just as well. Her father's face was as
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 4: she and he held her in both his arms. I
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 4: have done no worse. I have not disgraced you. But
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 4: if you ask me whether I have loved him or
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 4: do love him, I tell you plainly, father, that it
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 4: may be so. I don't know. She took her hands
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 4: suddenly from his shoulders and pressed them both upon her side,
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 4: while in her face not like itself, and in her
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 4: figure drawn up, resolute to finish by a last effort
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 4: what she had to say. The feelings long suppressed, broke
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 4: loose this night. My husband being away, he has been
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 4: with me, declaring himself my lover. This minute he expects
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 4: me for I could release myself of his presence by
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 4: no other means. I do not know that I am sorry.
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 4: I do not know that I am ashamed. I do
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 4: not know that I am degraded in my own esteem.
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 4: All that I know is your philosophy, and your teaching
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 4: will not save me. Now, Father, you have brought me
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 4: to this, Save me by some other means. He tightened
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 4: his hold in time to prevent her sinking on the floor,
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 4: but she cried out in a terrible voice, I shall
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 4: die if you hold me. Let me fall upon the ground.
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 4: And he laid her down there and saw the pride
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 4: of his heart and the triumph of his system lying
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 4: an insensible heap at his feet. End of Chapter twelve.
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 4: End of the second book, Chapter One, Another Thing Needful.
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 4: Louisa awoke from a torpor, and her eyes languidly opened
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 4: on her old bed at home and her old room.
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 4: It seemed at first as if all that had happened
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 4: since the days when these objects were familiar to her
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 4: were the shadows of a dream. But gradually, as the
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 4: objects became more real to her sight, the events became
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 4: more real to her mind. She could scarcely move her
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 4: head for pain and heaviness. Her eyes restrained and sore,
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 4: and she was very weak. A curious passive inattention had
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 4: such possession of her that the presence of her little
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 4: sister in the room did not attract her notice for
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 4: some time. Even when their eyes had met and her
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 4: sister had approached the bed, Louisa lay for minutes, looking
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 4: at her in silence and suffering her timidly to hold
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 4: her passive hand, before she asked, when was I brought
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 4: to this room last night? Louisa? Who brought me here? Cissy?
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 4: I believe? Why do you believe so? Because I found
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 4: her here this morning. She didn't come to my bedside
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 4: to wake me as she always does, and I went
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 4: to look for her. She was not in her own
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 4: room either, and I went looking for her all over
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 4: the house until I found her here taking care of
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 4: you and cooling your head? Will you see, father, Cissy said?
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 4: I was to tell him when you woke. What a
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 4: beaming face you have, Jane, said Louisa, as her young
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 4: sister timidly still bent down to kiss her. Have. I
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 4: I am very glad you think so. I am sure
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 4: it must be Sissy's doing. The arm Louisa had begun
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 4: to twine around her neck unbent itself. You can tell father,
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 4: if you will. Then, staying her for a moment, she
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 4: said it was you who made my room so cheerful
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 4: and gave it this look of welcome. Oh, no, Louisa,
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 4: it was done before I came. It was. Louisa turned
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 4: upon her pillow and heard no more. When her sister
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 4: had withdrawn, she turned her head back again and lay
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 4: with her face towards the door until it opened and
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 4: her father entered. He had a jaded, anxious look upon him,
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 4: and his hand, usually steady, trembled in hers. He sat
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 4: down at the side of the bed, tenderly, asking how
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 4: she was, and dwelling on the necessity of her keeping
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 4: very quiet after her agitation and exposure to the weather
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 4: last night. He spoke in a subdued and troubled voice,
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 4: very different from his usual dictatorial manner, and was often
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 4: at a loss for words. My dear Louisa, my poor daughter.
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 4: He was so much at a loss at that place
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 4: that he stopped altogether. He tried again, my unfortunate child.
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 4: The place was so difficult to get over, that he
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 4: tried again. It would be hopeless for me, Louisa, to
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 4: endeavor to tell you how overwhelmed I have been, and
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 4: still am, by what broke upon me last night. The
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 4: ground on which I stand has ceased to be solid
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 4: under my feet. The only support on which I leaned,
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 4: and the strength of which it seemed and still does
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 4: seem impossible to question, has given way in an instant.
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 4: I am stunned by these discoveries. I have no selfish
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 4: meaning in what I say, but I find the shock
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 4: of what broke upon me last night to be very heavy. Indeed,
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 4: she could give him no comfort herein she had suffered
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 4: the wreck of her whole life upon the rock. I
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 4: will not say, Louisa, that if you had, by any
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 4: happy chance, undeceived me some time ago, it would have
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 4: been better for us, both better for your peace and
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 4: better for mine. For I am sensible that it may
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 4: not have been a part of my system to invite
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 4: any confidence of that kind. I had proved my system
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 4: to myself, and I have rigidly administered it, and I
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 4: must bear the responsibility of its failures. I only entreat
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 4: you to believe, my favorite child, that I have meant
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 4: to do right. He said it earnestly, and to do
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 4: him justice. He had engaging fathomless deeps with his little, mean,
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 4: excise rod, and in staggering over the universe with his trust.
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 4: These stiff legged compasses. He had meant to do great
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 4: things within the limits of his short tether. He had
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 4: tumbled about annihilating the flowers of existence with greater singleness
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 4: of purpose than many of the blatant personages whose company
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 4: he kept. I am well assured of what you say, father.
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 4: I know I have been your favorite child. I know
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 4: you have intended to make me happy. I have never
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 4: blamed you, and I never shall. He took her outstretched
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 4: hand and retained it in his. My dear, I have
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 4: remained all night at my table, pondering again and again
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 4: on what has so painfully passed between us. When I
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 4: consider your character, when I consider that what has been
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 4: known to me for hours has been concealed by you
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 4: for years, When I consider under what immediate pressure it
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 4: has been forced from you, at last, I come to
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 4: the conclusion that I cannot but mistrust myself. He might
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 4: have added more than all, when he saw the face
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 4: now looking at him. He did add it in effect,
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 4: perhaps as he softly moved her scattered hair from her
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 4: forehead with his hand. Such little actions, slight in another man,
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 4: were very noticeable in him, and his daughter received them
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 4: as if they had been words of contrition, but said
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 4: mister gradgrind slowly and with hesitation, as well as with
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 4: a wretched sense of happiness. If I see reason to
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 4: mistrust myself for the past, Louisa, I should also mistrust
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 4: myself for the present and the future. To speak unreservedly
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 4: to you, I do. I am far from feeling convinced now. However, differently,
• 2:42:43
  Speaker 4: I might have felt only this time yesterday that I
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 4: am fit for the trust you repose in me, that
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 4: I know how to respond to the appeal you have
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 4: come home to make to me. That I have the
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 4: right instinct, supposing it for the moment to be some
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 4: quality of that nature, how to help you and to
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 4: set you right, My child, She had turned upon her
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 4: pillow and lay with her face upon her arm, so
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 4: that he could not see it. All her wildness and
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 4: passion had subsided. But though softened, she was not in tears.
• 2:43:14
  Speaker 4: Her father was changed in nothing so much as in
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 4: the respect that he would have been glad to see
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 4: her in tears. Some persons hold, he pursued, still hesitating,
• 2:43:26
  Speaker 4: that there is a wisdom of the head, and that
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 4: there is a wisdom of the heart. I have not
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 4: supposed so but as I have said, I mistrust myself.
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 4: Now I have supposed the head to be all sufficient,
• 2:43:39
  Speaker 4: it may not be all sufficient. How can I venture
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 4: this morning to say it is if that other kind
• 2:43:46
  Speaker 4: of wisdom should be what I have neglected, and should
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 4: be the instinct that is wanted Louisa. He suggested it,
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 4: very doubtfully, as if he were half unwilling to admit it.
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 4: Even now she made him know answer, lying before him
• 2:44:01
  Speaker 4: on her bed, still half dressed, much as he had
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 4: seen her lying on the floor of his room last
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 4: night Louisa, and his hand rested on her hair again.
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 4: I have been absent from here, my dear, a good
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 4: deal of late. And though your sister's training has been
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 4: pursued according to the system, he appeared to come to
• 2:44:22
  Speaker 4: that word with great reluctance. Always it has necessarily been
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 4: modified by daily associations, begun in her case at an
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 4: early age. I ask you, ignorantly and humbly, my daughter,
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 4: for the better, do you think, father, she replied, without stirring,
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 4: If any harmony has been awakened in her young breast
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 4: that was mute in mind until it turned to discord,
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 4: let her thank Heaven for it and go upon her
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 4: happier way, taking it as her greatest blessing that she
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 4: has avoided my way. Oh, my child, my child, he said,
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 4: in a forlorn manner, I am an unhappy man to
• 2:45:03
  Speaker 4: see you. Thus, what avails it to me that you
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 4: did not reproach me? If I so bitterly reproached myself?
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 4: He bent his head and spoke low to her, Louisa,
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 4: I have a misgiving that some change may have been
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 4: slowly working about me in this house, by mere love
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 4: and gratitude, that what the head had left undone and
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 4: could not do, the heart may have been doing silently.
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 4: Can it be so? She made him no reply. I
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 4: am not too proud to believe it, Louisa. How could
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 4: I be arrogant in you before me? Can it be so?
• 2:45:39
  Speaker 4: Is it so? My dear? He looked upon her once
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 4: more lying cast away there, and without another word, went
• 2:45:46
  Speaker 4: out of the room. He had not been long gone
• 2:45:49
  Speaker 4: when she heard a light tread near the door, and
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 4: knew that someone stood beside her. She did not raise
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 4: her head, a dull anger that she should be seen
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 4: in her distressed and that the involuntary look she had
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 4: so resented should come to this fulfillment smolded within her
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 4: like an unwholesome fire. All closely imprisoned forces rend and
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 4: destroy the air that would be healthful to the earth,
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 4: the water that would enrich it, the heat that would
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 4: ripen it, tear it when caged up. So in her bosom,
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 4: even now, the strongest qualities she possessed long turned upon themselves,
• 2:46:28
  Speaker 4: became a heap of obduracy that rose against a friend.
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 4: It was well that soft touch came upon her neck,
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 4: and that she understood herself to be supposed to have
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 4: fallen asleep. The sympathetic hand did not claim her resentment.
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 4: Let it lie there. Let it lie. It lay there,
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 4: warming into life a crowd of gentler thoughts, And she rested.
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 4: As she softened with the quiet and the consciousness of
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 4: being so watched, some tears made their way into her eyes.
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 4: The face touched hers, and she knew that there were
• 2:47:02
  Speaker 4: tears upon it, too, and she the cause of them.
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 4: As Louisa feigned to rouse herself and sat up, Cissy
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 4: retired so that she stood placidly near the bedside. I
• 2:47:15
  Speaker 4: hope I have not disturbed you. I have come to
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 4: ask if you would let me stay with you. Why
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 4: should you stay with me. My sister will miss you.
• 2:47:23
  Speaker 4: You are everything to her. Am, I returned Cissy, shaking
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 4: her head. I would be something to you if I might,
• 2:47:32
  Speaker 4: what said Louisa, almost sternly, whatever you want most, if
• 2:47:36
  Speaker 4: I could be that at all events, I would like
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 4: to try to be as near it as I can,
• 2:47:42
  Speaker 4: and however far off that may be, I will never
• 2:47:44
  Speaker 4: tire of trying. Will you let me? My father sent
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 4: you to ask me. No, indeed, replied Cissy. He told
• 2:47:53
  Speaker 4: me that I might come in now, But he sent
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 4: me away from the room this morning, or at least
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 4: she had and stopped at least, what said Louisa, with
• 2:48:04
  Speaker 4: her searching eyes upon her. I thought it best myself
• 2:48:08
  Speaker 4: that I should be sent away, for I felt very
• 2:48:10
  Speaker 4: uncertain whether you would like to find me here. Have
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 4: I always hated you so much? I hope not, for
• 2:48:19
  Speaker 4: I have always loved you, and have always wished that
• 2:48:21
  Speaker 4: you should know it. But you changed to me a
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 4: little shortly before you left home. Not that I wondered
• 2:48:28
  Speaker 4: at it. You knew so much and I knew so little,
• 2:48:31
  Speaker 4: and it was so natural in many ways, going as
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 4: you were among other friends, that I had nothing to
• 2:48:37
  Speaker 4: complain of and was not at all hurt. Her color
• 2:48:41
  Speaker 4: rose as she said it modestly and hurriedly. Louisa understood
• 2:48:45
  Speaker 4: the loving pretense, and her heart smote her. May I try,
• 2:48:51
  Speaker 4: said Cissy, emboldened to raise her hand to the neck
• 2:48:54
  Speaker 4: that was insensibly drooping towards her. Louisa, taking down the
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 4: hand that would have embraced her in another moment, held
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 4: it in one of hers and answered, first, Cissy, do
• 2:49:07
  Speaker 4: you know what I am? I am so proud and
• 2:49:10
  Speaker 4: so hardened, so confused and troubled, so resentful and unjust
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 4: to everyone and to myself, that everything is stormy, dark
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 4: and wicked to me. Does not that repel you?
• 2:49:23
  Speaker 1: No?
• 2:49:25
  Speaker 4: I am so unhappy, and all that should have made
• 2:49:28
  Speaker 4: me otherwise is so laid waste that if I had
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 4: been bereft of sense to this hour, and instead of
• 2:49:34
  Speaker 4: being as learned as you think me, had to begin
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 4: to acquire the simplest truths, I could not want a
• 2:49:41
  Speaker 4: guide to peace, contentment, honor, all the good of which
• 2:49:44
  Speaker 4: I am quite devoid, more abjectly than I do. Does
• 2:49:48
  Speaker 4: not that repel you?
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 7: No.
• 2:49:52
  Speaker 4: In the innocence of her brave affection and the brimming
• 2:49:55
  Speaker 4: up of her old, devoted spirit. The once deserted girl
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 4: shone like a beauty full light upon the darkness of
• 2:50:01
  Speaker 4: the other. Louisa raised the hand that it might clasp
• 2:50:05
  Speaker 4: her neck and join its fellow. There she fell upon
• 2:50:08
  Speaker 4: her knees, and, clinging to this stroller's child, looked up
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 4: at her, almost with veneration. Forgive me, pity me, help
• 2:50:17
  Speaker 4: me have compassion on my great need, and let me
• 2:50:20
  Speaker 4: lay this head of mine upon a loving heart. Oh
• 2:50:23
  Speaker 4: lay it here, cried Sissy, Lay it here, my dear
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 4: Chapter two, Very ridiculous. Mister James Harthouse passed a whole
• 2:50:37
  Speaker 4: night and a day in a state of so much
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 4: hurry that the world, with its best glass in his eye,
• 2:50:44
  Speaker 4: would scarcely have recognized him during that insane interval as
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 4: the brother Jem of the honorable and jocular Member. He
• 2:50:52
  Speaker 4: was positively agitated. He several times spoke with an emphasis
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 4: similar to the vulgar manner. He went in and went
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 4: out in an unaccountable way, like a man without an object.
• 2:51:04
  Speaker 4: He rode like a highwayman. In a word, he was
• 2:51:07
  Speaker 4: so horribly bored by existing circumstances that he forgot to
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 4: go in for boredom in the manner prescribed by the authorities.
• 2:51:16
  Speaker 4: After putting his horse at Coketown through the storm as
• 2:51:19
  Speaker 4: if it were a leap, he waited up all night
• 2:51:22
  Speaker 4: from time to time, ringing his bell with the greatest fury,
• 2:51:26
  Speaker 4: charging the porter who kept watch with delinquency and withholding
• 2:51:30
  Speaker 4: letters or messages that could not fail to have been
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 4: entrusted to him, and demanding restitution on the spot. The
• 2:51:38
  Speaker 4: dawn coming, the morning coming, in the day coming, and
• 2:51:41
  Speaker 4: neither message nor letter coming with either, he went down
• 2:51:45
  Speaker 4: to the country house. There the report was mister Bounderby
• 2:51:49
  Speaker 4: away and missus Bounderby in town left for town suddenly
• 2:51:53
  Speaker 4: last evening, not even known to be gone until receipt
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 4: of message, Importing that her return was not to be
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 4: expected for the present. In these circumstances, he had nothing
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 4: for it but to follow her to town. He went
• 2:52:08
  Speaker 4: to the house in town. Missus Bounderby not there. He
• 2:52:12
  Speaker 4: looked in at the bank, Mister Bounderby away and missus
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 4: sparsit Away. Missus sparsit Away, who could have been reduced
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 4: to sudden extremity for the company of that griffin. Well,
• 2:52:24
  Speaker 4: I don't know, said Tom, who had his own reasons
• 2:52:28
  Speaker 4: for being uneasy about it. She was off somewhere at
• 2:52:31
  Speaker 4: daybreak this morning. She's always full of mystery. I hate her,
• 2:52:35
  Speaker 4: so I do that white chap He's always got his
• 2:52:37
  Speaker 4: blinking eyes upon a fellow. Where were you last night? Tom?
• 2:52:43
  Speaker 4: Where was I last night? Said Tom? Come, I like that.
• 2:52:47
  Speaker 4: I was waiting for you, mister Harthouse, till it came down,
• 2:52:50
  Speaker 4: as I never saw it come down before. Where was
• 2:52:53
  Speaker 4: I too? Where were you? You mean? I was prevented
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 4: from coming? Detained? Detained, murmured Tom. Two of us were detained.
• 2:53:04
  Speaker 4: I was detained looking for you till I lost every
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 4: train with the mail. It would have been a pleasant
• 2:53:10
  Speaker 4: job to go down by that on such a night
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 4: and have to walk home through a pond. I was
• 2:53:15
  Speaker 4: obliged to sleep in town, after all. Where where? Why
• 2:53:21
  Speaker 4: in my own bed at Bounderby's Did you see your sister? How?
• 2:53:26
  Speaker 4: The deuce returned Tom, staring, Could I see my sister
• 2:53:30
  Speaker 4: when she was fifteen miles off? Cursing these quick retorts
• 2:53:34
  Speaker 4: of the young gentleman to whom he was so true
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 4: a friend, mister Harthouse disembarrassed himself of that interview with
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 4: the smallest conceivable amount of ceremony and debated for the
• 2:53:45
  Speaker 4: hundredth time what all this could mean. He made only
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 4: one thing clear. It was that whether she was in
• 2:53:52
  Speaker 4: town or out of town, whether he had been premature
• 2:53:55
  Speaker 4: with her who was so hard to comprehend, or she
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 4: had lost courage, or there were discovered, or some mischance
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 4: or mistake at present incomprehensible had occurred, he must remain
• 2:54:07
  Speaker 4: to confront his fortune, whatever it was. The hotel where
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 4: he was known to live when condemned to that region
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 4: of blackness was the stake to which he was tied.
• 2:54:17
  Speaker 4: As to all the rest, what will be will be so,
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 4: whether I am waiting for a hostile message, or an assignation,
• 2:54:27
  Speaker 4: or a penitent remonstrance, or an impromptu wrestle with my
• 2:54:31
  Speaker 4: friend Bounderby in the Langancashire manner, which would seem as
• 2:54:35
  Speaker 4: likely as anything else in the present state of affairs,
• 2:54:38
  Speaker 4: I'll dine, said mister James Harthouse. Bounderby has the advantage
• 2:54:43
  Speaker 4: in point of weight, and if anything of a British
• 2:54:46
  Speaker 4: nature is to come off between us, it may be
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 4: as well to be in training. Therefore, he rang the bell,
• 2:54:52
  Speaker 4: and tossing himself negligently on a sofa, ordered some dinner
• 2:54:56
  Speaker 4: at six with a beefsteak in it, and got through
• 2:54:59
  Speaker 4: the interview time as well as he could. That was
• 2:55:02
  Speaker 4: not particularly well, for he remained in the greatest perplexity,
• 2:55:07
  Speaker 4: and as the hours went on and no kind of
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 4: explanation offered itself, his perplexity augmented at compound interest. However,
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 4: he took affairs as coolly as it was in human
• 2:55:18
  Speaker 4: nature to do, and entertained himself with a facetious idea
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 4: of the training. More than once it wouldn't be bad.
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 4: He yawned at one time to give the waiter five
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 4: shillings and throw him. At another time it occurred to
• 2:55:32
  Speaker 4: him or a fellow of about thirteen or fourteen stone
• 2:55:35
  Speaker 4: might be hired by the hour. But these jests did
• 2:55:38
  Speaker 4: not tell materially on the afternoon or his suspense, and
• 2:55:43
  Speaker 4: soothed to say they both legged fearfully. It was impossible
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 4: even before dinner to avoid often walking about in the
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 4: pattern of the carpet, looking out of the window, listening
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 4: at the door for footsteps, and occasionally becoming rather when
• 2:56:00
  Speaker 4: any steps approached that room. But after dinner, when the
• 2:56:04
  Speaker 4: day turned to twilight and the twilight turned to night,
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 4: and still no communication was made to him. It began
• 2:56:12
  Speaker 4: to be, as he expressed it, like the Holy Office
• 2:56:15
  Speaker 4: in slow torture. However, still true to his conviction that
• 2:56:19
  Speaker 4: indifference was the genuine high breeding, the only conviction he had,
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 4: he seized this crisis as the opportunity for ordering candles
• 2:56:27
  Speaker 4: and a newspaper. He had been trying in vain for
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 4: half an hour to read this newspaper when the waiter
• 2:56:34
  Speaker 4: appeared and said, at once mysteriously and apologetically, beg your pardon, sir.
• 2:56:40
  Speaker 4: You're wanted, sir, if you please. A general recollection that
• 2:56:45
  Speaker 4: this was the kind of thing the police said to
• 2:56:47
  Speaker 4: the swell mob caused mister Harthouse to ask the waiter
• 2:56:51
  Speaker 4: in return, with bristling indignation, what the devil he meant
• 2:56:55
  Speaker 4: by wanted Beg your pardon, sir, Young lady outside her
• 2:57:00
  Speaker 4: wishes to see you outside? Where outside this door, sir?
• 2:57:07
  Speaker 4: Giving the waiter to the personage before mentioned as a
• 2:57:10
  Speaker 4: blockhead duly qualified for that consignment, mister Harthouse hurried into
• 2:57:15
  Speaker 4: the gallery. A young woman whom he had never seen,
• 2:57:19
  Speaker 4: stood there, plainly dressed, very quiet, very pretty. As he
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 4: conducted her into the room and placed a chair for her.
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 4: He observed, by the light of the candles that she
• 2:57:30
  Speaker 4: was even prettier than he had at first believed. Her
• 2:57:33
  Speaker 4: face was innocent and youthful, and its expression remarkably pleasant.
• 2:57:38
  Speaker 4: She was not afraid of him or in any way disconcerted.
• 2:57:42
  Speaker 4: She seemed to have her mind entirely preoccupied with the
• 2:57:45
  Speaker 4: occasion of her visit, and to have substituted that consideration
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 4: for herself. I speak to mister Harthouse, she said, when
• 2:57:53
  Speaker 4: they were alone. To mister Harthouse, he added, in his mind,
• 2:57:58
  Speaker 4: and you speak to him with the most confis fighting
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 4: eyes I ever saw, in the most earnest voice, though
• 2:58:03
  Speaker 4: so quiet I ever heard. If I did not understand,
• 2:58:08
  Speaker 4: and I do not, sir, said Cissy, what your honor
• 2:58:11
  Speaker 4: as a gentleman binds you to in other matters. The
• 2:58:15
  Speaker 4: blood really rose in his face as she began in
• 2:58:17
  Speaker 4: these words. I am sure I may rely upon it
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 4: to keep my visit secret and to keep secret what
• 2:58:23
  Speaker 4: I am going to say. I will rely upon it
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 4: if you will tell me. I may so far trust you.
• 2:58:30
  Speaker 4: May I assure you I am young as you see,
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 4: I am alone as you see in coming to you, Sir,
• 2:58:37
  Speaker 4: I have no advice or encouragement beyond my own hope,
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 4: he thought, But that is very strong. As he followed
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 4: the momentary upward glance of her eyes, he thought, besides,
• 2:58:48
  Speaker 4: this is a very odd beginning. I don't see where
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 4: we are going, I think, said Cissy, you have already
• 2:58:54
  Speaker 4: guessed whom I left just now. I have been in
• 2:58:58
  Speaker 4: the greatest concern and uneasy during the last four and
• 2:59:01
  Speaker 4: twenty hours, which have appeared as many years. He returned
• 2:59:06
  Speaker 4: on a lady's account, the hopes I have been encouraged
• 2:59:09
  Speaker 4: to form that you come to me from that lady.
• 2:59:11
  Speaker 4: Do not deceive me, I trust. I left her within
• 2:59:15
  Speaker 4: an hour at at her father's. Mister Harthouse's face lengthened
• 2:59:22
  Speaker 4: in spite of his coolness, and his perplexity increased. Then,
• 2:59:26
  Speaker 4: I certainly, he thought, do not see where we are going?
• 2:59:31
  Speaker 4: She hurried there last night. She arrived there in great agitation,
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 4: and was insensible all through the night. I live at
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 4: her father's and was with her. You may be sure, sir,
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 4: you will never see her again as long as you live.
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 4: Mister Harthouse drew a long breath, and if ever man
• 2:59:49
  Speaker 4: found himself in the position of not knowing what to say,
• 2:59:52
  Speaker 4: made the discovery beyond all question that he was so circumstanced,
• 2:59:56
  Speaker 4: the childlike ingenuousness with which his visitors, her modest fearlessness,
• 3:00:02
  Speaker 4: her truthfulness which put all artifice aside, her entire forgetfulness
• 3:00:06
  Speaker 4: of herself, and her earnest quiet holding to the object
• 3:00:10
  Speaker 4: with which she had come. All this, together with her
• 3:00:14
  Speaker 4: reliance on his easily given promise, which in itself shamed him,
• 3:00:19
  Speaker 4: presented something in which he was so inexperienced, and against
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 4: which he knew any of his usual weapons would fall,
• 3:00:25
  Speaker 4: so powerless that not a word could he rally to
• 3:00:29
  Speaker 4: his relief. At last, he said, so startling an announcement
• 3:00:34
  Speaker 4: so confidently made and by such lips is really disconcerting.
• 3:00:39
  Speaker 4: In the last degree, May I be permitted to inquire
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 4: if you are charged to convey that information to me
• 3:00:45
  Speaker 4: in those hopeless words by the lady of whom we speak,
• 3:00:49
  Speaker 4: I have no charge from her. The drowning man catches
• 3:00:54
  Speaker 4: at the straw with no disrespect for your judgment and
• 3:00:58
  Speaker 4: with no doubt of your sincerity. Excuse my saying that
• 3:01:01
  Speaker 4: I cling to the belief that there is yet hope,
• 3:01:04
  Speaker 4: that I am not condemned to perpetual exile from that
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 4: lady's presence. There is not the least hope. The first
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 4: object of my coming here, sir, is to assure you
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 4: that you must believe that there is no more hope
• 3:01:16
  Speaker 4: of your ever speaking with her again than there would
• 3:01:19
  Speaker 4: be if she had died when she came home last night.
• 3:01:24
  Speaker 4: Must believe. But if I can't, or if I should,
• 3:01:27
  Speaker 4: by infirmity of nature, be obstinate and won't, it is
• 3:01:31
  Speaker 4: still true there is no hope. James Harthouse looked at
• 3:01:37
  Speaker 4: her with an incredulous smile upon his lips, but her
• 3:01:40
  Speaker 4: mind looked over and beyond him, and the smile was
• 3:01:43
  Speaker 4: quite thrown away. He bit his lip and took a
• 3:01:46
  Speaker 4: little time for consideration. Well, if it should unhappily appear,
• 3:01:51
  Speaker 4: he said, after due pains and duty on my part,
• 3:01:54
  Speaker 4: that I am brought to a position so desolate as
• 3:01:57
  Speaker 4: this banishment. I shall not become the lady persecutor. But
• 3:02:01
  Speaker 4: you said you had no commission from her. I have
• 3:02:05
  Speaker 4: only the commission of my love for her and her
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 4: love for me. I have no other trust than that
• 3:02:11
  Speaker 4: I have been with her since she came home, and
• 3:02:13
  Speaker 4: that she has given me her confidence. I have no
• 3:02:16
  Speaker 4: further trust than that I know something of her character
• 3:02:19
  Speaker 4: and her marriage. Oh, mister Harthouse, I think you had
• 3:02:22
  Speaker 4: that trust too. He was touched in the cavity where
• 3:02:27
  Speaker 4: his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs,
• 3:02:30
  Speaker 4: where the birds of heaven would have lived if they
• 3:02:32
  Speaker 4: had not been whistled away by the fervor of this reproach.
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 4: I am not a moral sort of fellow, he said,
• 3:02:39
  Speaker 4: And I never make any pretensions to the character of
• 3:02:42
  Speaker 4: a moral sort of fellow. I am as immoral as
• 3:02:46
  Speaker 4: need be. At the same time, in bringing any distress
• 3:02:49
  Speaker 4: upon the lady who is the subject of the present conversation,
• 3:02:53
  Speaker 4: or in unfortunately compromising her in any way, or in
• 3:02:56
  Speaker 4: committing myself by any expression of sentiments towards her not
• 3:03:00
  Speaker 4: perfectly reconcilable with, in fact with the domestic hearth, or
• 3:03:06
  Speaker 4: in taking any advantage of her father's being a machine,
• 3:03:10
  Speaker 4: or of her brother's being a whelp, or of her
• 3:03:12
  Speaker 4: husband's being a bear. I beg to be allowed to
• 3:03:15
  Speaker 4: assure you that I have had no particularly evil intentions,
• 3:03:19
  Speaker 4: but have glided on from one step to another with
• 3:03:21
  Speaker 4: a smoothness so perfectly diabolical that I had not the
• 3:03:25
  Speaker 4: slightest idea of the catalog was half so long until
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 4: I began to turn it over, where as I find,
• 3:03:31
  Speaker 4: said mister James Harthouse, in conclusion, that it is really
• 3:03:35
  Speaker 4: in several volumes. Though he said all this in his
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 4: frivolous way, the ways seemed for that once a conscious
• 3:03:42
  Speaker 4: polishing of but an ugly surface. He was silent for
• 3:03:45
  Speaker 4: a moment, and then proceeded with a more self possessed air,
• 3:03:49
  Speaker 4: though with traces of vexation and disappointment that would not
• 3:03:52
  Speaker 4: be polished out. After what has been just now represented
• 3:03:56
  Speaker 4: to me in a manner, I find it impossible to doubt.
• 3:04:00
  Speaker 4: I know of hardly any other source from which I
• 3:04:02
  Speaker 4: could have accepted it so readily. I feel bound to
• 3:04:05
  Speaker 4: say to you in whom the confidence you have mentioned
• 3:04:08
  Speaker 4: has been reposed, that I cannot refuse to contemplate the possibility,
• 3:04:13
  Speaker 4: however unexpected of my seeing the lady. No more, I
• 3:04:17
  Speaker 4: am solely to blame for the thing having come to this,
• 3:04:20
  Speaker 4: And and I cannot say, he added, rather hard up
• 3:04:25
  Speaker 4: for a general peroration, that I have any sanguine expectation
• 3:04:29
  Speaker 4: of ever becoming a moral sort of fellow, or that
• 3:04:32
  Speaker 4: I have any belief in any moral sort of fellow whatever.
• 3:04:36
  Speaker 4: Cissy's face sufficiently showed that her appeal to him was
• 3:04:39
  Speaker 4: not finished. You spoke, he resumed, as she raised her
• 3:04:44
  Speaker 4: eyes to him again, of your first object, I may
• 3:04:47
  Speaker 4: assume that there is a second to be mentioned. Yes,
• 3:04:52
  Speaker 4: will you oblige me by confiding it? Mister Harthouse returned
• 3:04:57
  Speaker 4: Cissy with a blending of gentleness and steadiness that quite
• 3:05:01
  Speaker 4: defeated him, and with a simple confidence in his being
• 3:05:04
  Speaker 4: bound to do what she required that held him at
• 3:05:07
  Speaker 4: a singular disadvantage. The only reparation that remains with you
• 3:05:12
  Speaker 4: is to leave here immediately. And finally, I am quite
• 3:05:16
  Speaker 4: sure that you can mitigate in no other way the
• 3:05:18
  Speaker 4: wrong and harm you have done. I am quite sure
• 3:05:21
  Speaker 4: that it is the only compensation you have left it
• 3:05:24
  Speaker 4: in your power to make. I do not say that
• 3:05:27
  Speaker 4: it is much, or that it is enough, but it
• 3:05:29
  Speaker 4: is something, and it is necessary. Therefore, though without any
• 3:05:34
  Speaker 4: other authority than I have given you, and even without
• 3:05:37
  Speaker 4: the knowledge of any other person than yourself and myself,
• 3:05:40
  Speaker 4: I ask you to depart from this place tonight, under
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 4: an obligation never to return to it. If she had
• 3:05:47
  Speaker 4: asserted any influence over him beyond her plain faith in
• 3:05:51
  Speaker 4: the truth and right of what she said. If she
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 4: had concealed the least doubt or irresolution, or had harbored
• 3:05:58
  Speaker 4: for the best purpose any reason of her pretense, if
• 3:06:01
  Speaker 4: she had shown or felt the lightest trace of any
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 4: sensitiveness to his ridicule or his astonishment, or any remonstrance
• 3:06:09
  Speaker 4: he might offer, he would have carried it against her
• 3:06:12
  Speaker 4: at this point. But he could as easily have changed
• 3:06:15
  Speaker 4: a clear sky by looking at it in surprise as
• 3:06:18
  Speaker 4: affect her. But do you know, he asked, quite at
• 3:06:23
  Speaker 4: a loss the extent of what you ask. You probably
• 3:06:27
  Speaker 4: are not aware that I am here on a public
• 3:06:29
  Speaker 4: kind of business, preposterous enough in itself, but which I
• 3:06:33
  Speaker 4: have gone in for and sworn by, and am supposed
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 4: to be devoted to in quite a desperate manner. You
• 3:06:39
  Speaker 4: probably are not aware of that. But I assure you
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 4: it's the fact it had no effect on Sissy, fact
• 3:06:45
  Speaker 4: or no fact besides which, said mister Harthouse. Taking a
• 3:06:50
  Speaker 4: turn or two across the room dubiously is so alarmingly
• 3:06:54
  Speaker 4: absurd it would make a man so ridiculous, after going
• 3:06:57
  Speaker 4: in for these fellows, to back out in such an
• 3:07:00
  Speaker 4: incomprehensible way. I am quite sure, repeated Cissy, that it
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 4: is the only reparation in your power. Sir, I am
• 3:07:08
  Speaker 4: quite sure, or I would not have come here. He
• 3:07:12
  Speaker 4: glanced at her face, and walked about again. Upon my soul,
• 3:07:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to say, so immensely absurd. It
• 3:07:20
  Speaker 4: fell to his lot now to stipulate for secrecy. If
• 3:07:24
  Speaker 4: I were to do such a very ridiculous thing, he said,
• 3:07:27
  Speaker 4: stopping again presently and leaning against the chimney piece, it
• 3:07:32
  Speaker 4: could only be in the most inviable confidence. I will
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 4: trust to you, sir, returned Cissy, and you will trust
• 3:07:39
  Speaker 4: to me. His leaning against the chimney piece reminded him
• 3:07:43
  Speaker 4: of the night with the Whelp. It was the self
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 4: same chimney piece, and somehow he felt as if he
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 4: were the Whelp tonight. He could make no way at all.
• 3:07:53
  Speaker 4: I suppose a man never was placed in a more
• 3:07:55
  Speaker 4: ridiculous position, he said, after looking down and looking up,
• 3:07:58
  Speaker 4: and laughing and frowning, and walking off and walking back again.
• 3:08:04
  Speaker 4: But I see no way out of it. What will
• 3:08:07
  Speaker 4: be will be, this will be. I suppose I must
• 3:08:10
  Speaker 4: take off myself. I imagine, in short, I engage to
• 3:08:13
  Speaker 4: do it, Cissy Rose. She was not surprised by the result,
• 3:08:18
  Speaker 4: but she was happy in it, and her face beamed brightly.
• 3:08:22
  Speaker 4: You will permit me to say, continued mister James Harthouse,
• 3:08:26
  Speaker 4: that I doubt if any other ambassador or ambassadorss could
• 3:08:30
  Speaker 4: have addressed me with the same success. I must not
• 3:08:34
  Speaker 4: only regard myself as being in a very ridiculous position,
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 4: but as being vanquished at all points. Will you allow
• 3:08:42
  Speaker 4: me the privilege of remembering my enemy's name? My name,
• 3:08:46
  Speaker 4: said the ambassadors, the only name I could possibly care
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 4: to know tonight, Sissy Jupe. Pardon my curiosity at parting
• 3:08:58
  Speaker 4: related to the family. I am only a poor girl,
• 3:09:02
  Speaker 4: returned Sissy. I was separated from my father. He was
• 3:09:05
  Speaker 4: only a stroller, and taken pity on by mister Gradgrind.
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 4: I have lived in the house ever since she was gone.
• 3:09:15
  Speaker 4: It wanted this to complete the defeat, said mister James Harthouse,
• 3:09:19
  Speaker 4: sinking with a resigned air on the sofa. After standing
• 3:09:22
  Speaker 4: transfixed a little while, the defeat may now be considered
• 3:09:26
  Speaker 4: perfectly accomplished. Only a poor girl, only a stroller. Only
• 3:09:31
  Speaker 4: James Harthouse made nothing of Only James Harthouse. A great
• 3:09:36
  Speaker 4: pyramid of failure the great pyramid put it into his
• 3:09:40
  Speaker 4: head to go up the nile. He took a pen
• 3:09:43
  Speaker 4: upon the instant and wrote the following note in appropriate hieroglyphics,
• 3:09:47
  Speaker 4: to his brother, dear Jack, All up at Coketown, bored
• 3:09:53
  Speaker 4: out of the place and going in for camels. Affectionately jem,
• 3:09:58
  Speaker 4: he rang the bell, Send my fellow here gone to bed, Sir,
• 3:10:03
  Speaker 4: tell him to get up and pack up. He wrote
• 3:10:07
  Speaker 4: two more notes, one to mister bounderby announcing his retirement
• 3:10:11
  Speaker 4: from that part of the country and showing where he
• 3:10:13
  Speaker 4: would be found for the next fortnight. The other similar
• 3:10:17
  Speaker 4: in effect to mister Gradgrind. Almost as soon as the
• 3:10:21
  Speaker 4: ink was dry upon their superscriptions, he had left the
• 3:10:24
  Speaker 4: tall chimneys of Coketown behind, and was in a railway carriage,
• 3:10:28
  Speaker 4: tearing and glaring over the dark landscape. The moral sort
• 3:10:34
  Speaker 4: of fellows might suppose that mister James Harthouse derived some
• 3:10:37
  Speaker 4: comfortable reflections afterwards from this prompt retreat, as one of
• 3:10:42
  Speaker 4: his few actions that made any amends for anything, and
• 3:10:45
  Speaker 4: as a token to himself that he had escaped the
• 3:10:47
  Speaker 4: climax of a very bad business. But it was not
• 3:10:51
  Speaker 4: so at all. A secret sense of having failed and
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 4: been ridiculous, A dread of what other fellows who went
• 3:10:58
  Speaker 4: in for similar sorts of things would say at his
• 3:11:01
  Speaker 4: expense if they knew it. So oppressed him that what
• 3:11:04
  Speaker 4: was about the very best passage in his life was
• 3:11:07
  Speaker 4: the one of all others he would not have owned
• 3:11:09
  Speaker 4: to on any account, and the only one that made
• 3:11:13
  Speaker 4: him ashamed of himself. End of Section seventeen, Chapter three,
• 3:11:21
  Speaker 4: very decided the indefatigable Missus Sparsit with a violent cold
• 3:11:27
  Speaker 4: upon her, her voice reduced to a whisper, and her
• 3:11:30
  Speaker 4: stately frame so racked by continual sneezes that it seemed
• 3:11:35
  Speaker 4: in danger of dismemberment, gave chase to her patron until
• 3:11:39
  Speaker 4: she found him in the metropolis, and, there, majestically sweeping
• 3:11:43
  Speaker 4: in upon him at his hotel in Saint James's Street,
• 3:11:47
  Speaker 4: exploded the combustibles with which she was charged and blew up,
• 3:11:52
  Speaker 4: Having executed her mission with infinite relish. This high minded
• 3:11:56
  Speaker 4: woman then fainted away on mister Bounderby's coat collar. Mister
• 3:12:01
  Speaker 4: Bounderby's first procedure was to shake Missus Sparsit off and
• 3:12:05
  Speaker 4: leave her to progress as she might through various stages
• 3:12:08
  Speaker 4: of suffering on the floor. He next had recourse to
• 3:12:12
  Speaker 4: the administration of potent restoratives, such as screwing the patient's thumbs,
• 3:12:16
  Speaker 4: smiting her hands, abundantly watering her face, and inserting salt
• 3:12:21
  Speaker 4: in her mouth. When these attentions had recovered her, which
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 4: they speedily did, he hustled her into a fast train
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 4: without offering any other refreshment, and carried her back to
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 4: Coketown more dead than alive. Regarded as a classical ruin,
• 3:12:38
  Speaker 4: missus Sparsit was an interesting spectacle on her arrival at
• 3:12:41
  Speaker 4: her journey's end, but considered in any other light, the
• 3:12:45
  Speaker 4: amount of damage she had by that time sustained was
• 3:12:48
  Speaker 4: excessive and impaired her claims to admiration. Utterly heedless of
• 3:12:53
  Speaker 4: the wear and tear of her clothes and constitution. An
• 3:12:57
  Speaker 4: adamant to her pathetic sneezes, Miss Bounderby immediately crammed her
• 3:13:01
  Speaker 4: into a coach and bore her off to Stone Lodge.
• 3:13:07
  Speaker 4: Now Tom gradgrind, said Bounderby, bursting into his father in
• 3:13:11
  Speaker 4: law's room late at night. Here's a lady here, missus Sparsit.
• 3:13:15
  Speaker 4: You know, missus Sparsit, who has something to say to
• 3:13:18
  Speaker 4: you that will strike you dumb. You have missed my letter,
• 3:13:22
  Speaker 4: exclaimed mister Gradgrind, surprised by the apparition miss your letters, sir,
• 3:13:28
  Speaker 4: bawled Bounderby. The present time is no time for letters.
• 3:13:31
  Speaker 4: No man shall talk to Josiah Bounderby of Coketown about
• 3:13:35
  Speaker 4: letters with his mind in the state it's in now, Bounderby,
• 3:13:39
  Speaker 4: said mister Gradgrind, in a tone of temperate remonstrance. I
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 4: speak of a very special letter I have written to
• 3:13:46
  Speaker 4: you in reference to Louisa Tom Gradgrind, replied Bounderby, knocking
• 3:13:52
  Speaker 4: the flat of his hands several times with great vehemence
• 3:13:54
  Speaker 4: on the table. I speak of a very special messenger
• 3:13:57
  Speaker 4: that has come to me in reference to missus sparsit, ma'am,
• 3:14:02
  Speaker 4: stand forward. That unfortunate lady hereupon essaying to offer testimony
• 3:14:08
  Speaker 4: without any voice, and with painful gestures expressive of an
• 3:14:11
  Speaker 4: inflamed throat, became so aggravating and underwent so many facial
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 4: contortions that mister Bounderby, unable to bear it, seized her
• 3:14:20
  Speaker 4: by the arm and shook her. If you can't get
• 3:14:23
  Speaker 4: it out, ma'am, said Bounderby, leave me to get it out.
• 3:14:27
  Speaker 4: This is not a time for a lady, however, highly connected,
• 3:14:30
  Speaker 4: to be totally inaudible and seemingly swallowing marbles. Tom gradgrind
• 3:14:35
  Speaker 4: missus Sparsit latterly found herself by accident in a situation
• 3:14:39
  Speaker 4: to overhear a conversation out of doors between your daughter
• 3:14:43
  Speaker 4: and your precious gentleman friend, mister James Harthouse. Indeed, said
• 3:14:48
  Speaker 4: mister gradgrind. Ah indeed, cried Bounderby. And in that conversation
• 3:14:54
  Speaker 4: it is not necessary to repeat its tenor Bounderby, I
• 3:14:57
  Speaker 4: know what passed you do, perhaps said Bounderby, steering with
• 3:15:03
  Speaker 4: all his might at his so quiet and eersuasive father
• 3:15:06
  Speaker 4: in law. You know where your daughter is at the
• 3:15:08
  Speaker 4: present time. Undoubtedly she is here here, my dear Bounderby,
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 4: let me beg you to restrain these loud outbreaks on
• 3:15:17
  Speaker 4: all accounts. Louisa is here the moment she could detach
• 3:15:21
  Speaker 4: herself from that interview with the person of whom you
• 3:15:23
  Speaker 4: speak and whom I deeply regret to have been the
• 3:15:26
  Speaker 4: means of introducing to you. Louisa hurried here for protection.
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 4: I myself had not been at home many hours when
• 3:15:33
  Speaker 4: I received her here in this room, she hurried by
• 3:15:36
  Speaker 4: the train to town. She ran from town to this
• 3:15:39
  Speaker 4: house through a raging storm, and presented herself before me
• 3:15:42
  Speaker 4: in a state of distraction. Of course, she has remained
• 3:15:45
  Speaker 4: here ever since. Let me entreat you, for your own
• 3:15:48
  Speaker 4: sake and for hers, to be more quiet. Mister Bounderby
• 3:15:53
  Speaker 4: silently gazed about him for some moments in every direction
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 4: except missus Sparsit's direction, and then, abruptly, turning upon the
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 4: niece of Lady Scadgers, said to that wretched woman, now, ma'am,
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 4: we shall be happy to hear any little apology you
• 3:16:08
  Speaker 4: may think proper to offer for going about the country
• 3:16:11
  Speaker 4: at express pace with no other luggage than a cock
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 4: and a bull. Ma'am, sir, whispered missus Sparsit. My nerves
• 3:16:19
  Speaker 4: are at present too much shaken, and my health is
• 3:16:21
  Speaker 4: at present too much impaired in your service to admit
• 3:16:24
  Speaker 4: of my doing more than taking refuge in tears, which
• 3:16:27
  Speaker 4: she did well, ma'am, said Bounderby, without making any observation
• 3:16:33
  Speaker 4: to you that may not be made with propriety to
• 3:16:36
  Speaker 4: a woman of good family. What I have got to
• 3:16:38
  Speaker 4: add to that is that there is something else in
• 3:16:41
  Speaker 4: which it appears to me you may take refuge, namely
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 4: a coach and the coach in which we came here.
• 3:16:46
  Speaker 4: Being at the door, you'll allow me to hand you
• 3:16:48
  Speaker 4: down to it and pack you home to the bank,
• 3:16:51
  Speaker 4: where the best course for you to pursue will be
• 3:16:53
  Speaker 4: to put your feet into the hottest water you can bear,
• 3:16:55
  Speaker 4: and take a glass of scalding rum and butter after
• 3:16:58
  Speaker 4: you get into bed. With these words, mister Bounderby extended
• 3:17:02
  Speaker 4: his right hand to the weeping lady and escorted her
• 3:17:05
  Speaker 4: to the conveyance in question, shedding many plaintive sneezes by
• 3:17:10
  Speaker 4: the way. He soon returned alone. Now as you showed
• 3:17:14
  Speaker 4: me in your face, Tom gradgrind that you wanted to
• 3:17:17
  Speaker 4: speak to me, he resumed here. I am, but I
• 3:17:20
  Speaker 4: am not in a very agreeable state, I tell you plainly,
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 4: not relishing this business even as it is, and not
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 4: considering that I am at any time as dutifully and
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 4: submissively treated by your daughter as Josiah Bounderby of Coketown
• 3:17:33
  Speaker 4: ought to be treated by his wife. You have your opinion,
• 3:17:37
  Speaker 4: I dare say, and I have mine. I know if
• 3:17:39
  Speaker 4: you mean to say anything to me to night that
• 3:17:41
  Speaker 4: goes against this candid remark, you had better let it alone,
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 4: mister Gradgrind. It will be observed being much softened. Mister
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 4: Bounderby took particular pains to harden himself at all points.
• 3:17:53
  Speaker 4: It was his amiable nature. My dear Bounderby, mister Gradgrind
• 3:17:58
  Speaker 4: began in reply. Now you'll excuse me, said Bounderby. But
• 3:18:03
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be too dear that to start with.
• 3:18:06
  Speaker 4: When I begin to be dear to a man, I
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 4: generally find that his intention is to come over me.
• 3:18:11
  Speaker 4: I am not speaking to you politely, but as you
• 3:18:14
  Speaker 4: are aware, I am not polite. If you like politeness,
• 3:18:17
  Speaker 4: you know where to get it. You have your gentlemen friends,
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 4: you know, and they'll serve you with as much of
• 3:18:22
  Speaker 4: the article as you want. I don't keep it myself,
• 3:18:26
  Speaker 4: Bounderby urged mister Gradgrind. We are all liable to mistakes.
• 3:18:31
  Speaker 4: I thought you couldn't make em, interrupted Bounderby. Perhaps I
• 3:18:36
  Speaker 4: thought so, But I say we are all liable to mistakes,
• 3:18:40
  Speaker 4: and I should feel sensible of your delicacy and grateful
• 3:18:43
  Speaker 4: for it. If you would spare me these references to Harthouse,
• 3:18:47
  Speaker 4: I shall not associate him in our conversation with your
• 3:18:49
  Speaker 4: intimacy and encouragement. Pray do not persist in connecting him
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 4: with mine. I never mentioned his name, said Bounderby. Well. Well,
• 3:19:00
  Speaker 4: and mister Gradgrind with a patient, even a submissive air.
• 3:19:03
  Speaker 4: And he sat for a little while pondering Bounderby, I
• 3:19:07
  Speaker 4: see reason to doubt whether we have ever quite understood Louisa.
• 3:19:12
  Speaker 4: Who do you mean by we? Let me say I?
• 3:19:15
  Speaker 4: Then he returned, in answer to the coarsely blurted question,
• 3:19:19
  Speaker 4: I doubt whether I have understood Louisa. I doubt whether
• 3:19:22
  Speaker 4: I have been quite right in the manner of her education.
• 3:19:26
  Speaker 4: There you hit it, returned Bounderby. There I agree with you.
• 3:19:30
  Speaker 4: You have found it out at last. Have you education?
• 3:19:34
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what education is, to be tumbled out
• 3:19:37
  Speaker 4: of doors, neck and crop, and put upon the shortest
• 3:19:39
  Speaker 4: allowance of everything except blows. That's what I call education.
• 3:19:45
  Speaker 4: I think your good sense will perceive. Mister Gradgrind remonstrated
• 3:19:49
  Speaker 4: in all humility that whatever the merits of such a
• 3:19:52
  Speaker 4: system may be, it would be difficult of general application
• 3:19:55
  Speaker 4: to girls. I don't see it at all, sir, returned
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 4: the oppo Bounderby Well sighed mister Gradgrind, we will not
• 3:20:05
  Speaker 4: enter into the question. I assure you I have no
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 4: desire to be controversial. I seek to repair what is
• 3:20:11
  Speaker 4: amiss if I possibly can, and I hope you will
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 4: assist me in a good spirit, Bounderby, for I have
• 3:20:17
  Speaker 4: been very much distressed. I don't understand you yet, said Bounderby,
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 4: with determined obstinacy, and therefore I won't make any promises.
• 3:20:28
  Speaker 4: In the course of a few hours, my dear Bounderby,
• 3:20:30
  Speaker 4: mister Gradgrind, proceeded in the same depressed and propitiatory manner.
• 3:20:35
  Speaker 4: I appear to myself to have become better informed as
• 3:20:38
  Speaker 4: to Louise's character than in previous years. The enlightenment has
• 3:20:43
  Speaker 4: been painfully forced upon me, and the discovery is not mine.
• 3:20:48
  Speaker 4: I think there are Bounderby, you will be surprised to
• 3:20:51
  Speaker 4: hear me say this. I think there are qualities in
• 3:20:54
  Speaker 4: Louisa Witch which have been harshly neglected and a little perverted.
• 3:20:59
  Speaker 4: And and I would suggest to you that if you
• 3:21:03
  Speaker 4: would kindly meet me in a timely endeavor to leave
• 3:21:06
  Speaker 4: her to her better nature for a while, and to
• 3:21:08
  Speaker 4: encourage it to develop itself by tenderness and consideration it
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 4: it would be the better for the happiness of all
• 3:21:15
  Speaker 4: of us. Louisa, said mister Gradgrind, shading his face with
• 3:21:19
  Speaker 4: his hand, has always been my favorite child. The blustress Bounderby,
• 3:21:24
  Speaker 4: crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these
• 3:21:28
  Speaker 4: words that he seemed to be, and probably was, on
• 3:21:31
  Speaker 4: the brink of a fit, with his very ears a
• 3:21:34
  Speaker 4: bright purple shot with Crimson. He bent up his indignation, however,
• 3:21:38
  Speaker 4: and said, you'd like to keep her here for a time.
• 3:21:41
  Speaker 4: I had intended to recommend, my dear Bounderby, that you
• 3:21:45
  Speaker 4: should allow Louisa to remain here on a visit and
• 3:21:48
  Speaker 4: be attended by Cissy. I mean, of course, Cecilia Jupe,
• 3:21:52
  Speaker 4: who understands her and in whom she trusts. I gather
• 3:21:57
  Speaker 4: from all this, Tom Gradgrind, said Bounderby, standing up with
• 3:22:00
  Speaker 4: his hands in his pockets. The juror of opinion that
• 3:22:03
  Speaker 4: there's what people call some incompatibility between lou Bounderby and myself.
• 3:22:10
  Speaker 4: I fear there is at present a general incompatibility between
• 3:22:13
  Speaker 4: Louisa and and and almost all the relations in which
• 3:22:18
  Speaker 4: I have placed her, was her father's sorrowful reply. Now
• 3:22:23
  Speaker 4: look you here, Tom Gradgrind, said Bounderby, the flushed confronting
• 3:22:27
  Speaker 4: him with his legs wide apart, his hands deeper in
• 3:22:30
  Speaker 4: his pockets, and his hair like a hay field, wherein
• 3:22:33
  Speaker 4: his windy anger was boisterous. You have said your say.
• 3:22:37
  Speaker 4: I am going to say mine. I am a Coketown man.
• 3:22:41
  Speaker 4: I am Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. I know the bricks
• 3:22:45
  Speaker 4: of this town, and I know the works of this town.
• 3:22:48
  Speaker 4: And I know the chimneys of this town, and I
• 3:22:50
  Speaker 4: know the smoke of this town, and I know the
• 3:22:52
  Speaker 4: hands of this town. I know them all pretty well.
• 3:22:55
  Speaker 4: They're real. When a man tells me anything about imaginative qualities,
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 4: I always tell that man, whoever he is, that I
• 3:23:03
  Speaker 4: know what he means. He means turtle soup and venison
• 3:23:06
  Speaker 4: with a gold spoon, and that he wants to be
• 3:23:08
  Speaker 4: set up with a coach in six. That's what your
• 3:23:11
  Speaker 4: daughter wants. Since you are of opinion that she ought
• 3:23:14
  Speaker 4: to have what she wants, I recommend you to provide
• 3:23:17
  Speaker 4: it for her, because Tom Gradgrind, she will never have
• 3:23:20
  Speaker 4: it from me. Bounderby said mister Gradgrind. I hoped, after
• 3:23:25
  Speaker 4: my entreaty, you would have taken a different tone. Just
• 3:23:29
  Speaker 4: wait a bit, retorted Bounderby, you have said yours say,
• 3:23:32
  Speaker 4: I believe I heard you out. Hear me out if
• 3:23:35
  Speaker 4: you please, don't make yourself a spectacle of unfairness as
• 3:23:38
  Speaker 4: well as inconsistency, because although I am sorry to see
• 3:23:42
  Speaker 4: Tom Gradgrind reduced to his present position, I should be
• 3:23:45
  Speaker 4: doubly sorry to see him brought so low as that.
• 3:23:49
  Speaker 4: Now there's an incompatibility of some sort or another I
• 3:23:52
  Speaker 4: am given to understand by you between your daughter and me.
• 3:23:57
  Speaker 4: I'll give you to understand and reply to that that
• 3:23:59
  Speaker 4: there unquestionably is an incompatibility of the first magnitude to
• 3:24:04
  Speaker 4: be summed up in this, that your daughter don't properly
• 3:24:07
  Speaker 4: know her husband's merits and is not impressed with such
• 3:24:10
  Speaker 4: a sense as would become her by George of the
• 3:24:13
  Speaker 4: honor of his alliance. That's plain speaking. I hope, Bounderby
• 3:24:19
  Speaker 4: urged mister Gradgrind. This is unreasonable, is it, said Bounderby.
• 3:24:24
  Speaker 4: I am glad to hear you say so, because when
• 3:24:27
  Speaker 4: Tom Gradgrind, with his new lights, tells me that what
• 3:24:30
  Speaker 4: I say is unreasonable, I am convinced at once it
• 3:24:33
  Speaker 4: must be devilish sensible. With your permission, I am going on.
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 4: You know my origin, and you know that for a
• 3:24:39
  Speaker 4: good many years of my life I didn't want a
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 4: shoeing horn in consequence of not having a shoe. Yet,
• 3:24:45
  Speaker 4: you may believe or not, as you think proper, that
• 3:24:48
  Speaker 4: there are ladies, born ladies belonging to families, families who
• 3:24:53
  Speaker 4: next to worship the ground I walk on. He discharged
• 3:24:57
  Speaker 4: this like a rocket at his father in law's head,
• 3:25:00
  Speaker 4: whereas your daughter proceeded. Bounderby is far from being a
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 4: born lady. That you know yourself. Not that I care
• 3:25:07
  Speaker 4: a pinch of candle snuff about such things, for you
• 3:25:10
  Speaker 4: are very well aware. I don't, but that such is
• 3:25:13
  Speaker 4: the fact, and you, Tom Gradgrind, can't change it. Why
• 3:25:17
  Speaker 4: do I say this? Not I fear, observed mister Gradgrind
• 3:25:21
  Speaker 4: in a low voice, to spare me. Hear me out,
• 3:25:24
  Speaker 4: said Bounderby, and refrain from cutting in till your turn
• 3:25:28
  Speaker 4: comes round. I say this because highly connected females have
• 3:25:31
  Speaker 4: been astonished to see the way in which your daughter
• 3:25:34
  Speaker 4: has conducted herself, and to witness her insensibility. They have
• 3:25:38
  Speaker 4: wondered how I have suffered it, and I wonder myself now,
• 3:25:41
  Speaker 4: and I won't suffer it, Bounderby returned, mister gradgrind rising,
• 3:25:46
  Speaker 4: The less we say to night, the better I think.
• 3:25:49
  Speaker 4: On the contrary, Tom Gradgrind, the more we say to night,
• 3:25:52
  Speaker 4: the better I think. That is the consideration, checked him.
• 3:25:57
  Speaker 4: Till I have said all I mean to say, and
• 3:25:59
  Speaker 4: then I don't care how soon we stop. I come
• 3:26:02
  Speaker 4: to a question that may shorten the business. What do
• 3:26:05
  Speaker 4: you mean by the proposal you made just now? What
• 3:26:08
  Speaker 4: do I mean, Bounderby, by your visiting proposition, said Bounderby,
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 4: with an inflexible jerk of the hayfield. I mean that
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 4: I hope you may be induced to arrange in a
• 3:26:21
  Speaker 4: friendly manner for allowing Louisa a period of repose and
• 3:26:24
  Speaker 4: reflection here, which may tend to a gradual alteration for
• 3:26:28
  Speaker 4: the better, in many respects, to a softening down of
• 3:26:32
  Speaker 4: your ideas of the incompatibility, said Bounderby. If you put
• 3:26:36
  Speaker 4: it in those terms, what made you think of this,
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 4: said Bounderby. I have already said, I fear Louisa has
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 4: not been understood. Is it asking too much? Bounderby? That
• 3:26:48
  Speaker 4: you so far her elder should aid in trying to
• 3:26:51
  Speaker 4: set her right? You have accepted a great charge of her,
• 3:26:54
  Speaker 4: for better for worse. For mister Bounderby may have been
• 3:26:58
  Speaker 4: annoyed by the repetition of his own words to Stephen Blackpool,
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 4: but he cut the quotation short with an angry start.
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 4: Come said he I don't want to be told about that.
• 3:27:09
  Speaker 4: I know what I took her for as well as
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 4: you do. Never you mind what I took her for.
• 3:27:13
  Speaker 4: That's my lookout. I was merely going on to remark Bounderby,
• 3:27:18
  Speaker 4: though we may all be more or less in the wrong,
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 4: not even accepting you, and that some yielding on your part,
• 3:27:25
  Speaker 4: remembering the trust you have accepted may not only be
• 3:27:28
  Speaker 4: an act of true kindness, but perhaps a debt incurred
• 3:27:31
  Speaker 4: towards Louisa. I think differently, blustered Bounderby. I am going
• 3:27:36
  Speaker 4: to finish this business according to my own opinions. Now.
• 3:27:40
  Speaker 4: I don't want to make a quarrel of it with you,
• 3:27:42
  Speaker 4: Tom Gradgrind to tell you the truth, I don't think
• 3:27:44
  Speaker 4: it would be worthy of my reputation to quarrel on
• 3:27:47
  Speaker 4: such a subject. As to your gentleman friend, he may
• 3:27:50
  Speaker 4: take himself off wherever he likes best. If he falls
• 3:27:54
  Speaker 4: in my way, I shall tell him my mind. If
• 3:27:56
  Speaker 4: he don't fall in my way, I shan't, for it
• 3:27:58
  Speaker 4: won't be worth my while to do it. As to
• 3:28:02
  Speaker 4: your daughter, whom I made Lou Bounderby, and might have
• 3:28:05
  Speaker 4: done better by leaving Lou Gradgrind, if she don't come
• 3:28:08
  Speaker 4: home tomorrow by twelve o'clock at noon, I shall understand
• 3:28:12
  Speaker 4: that she prefers to stay away, and I shall send
• 3:28:15
  Speaker 4: her wearing apparel and so forth over here, and you'll
• 3:28:18
  Speaker 4: take charge of her for the future. What I shall
• 3:28:20
  Speaker 4: say to people in general of the incompatibility that led
• 3:28:24
  Speaker 4: to my soul laying down the law will be this.
• 3:28:27
  Speaker 4: I am Josiah Bounderby, and I had my bringing up.
• 3:28:30
  Speaker 4: She is the daughter of Tom Gradgrind, and she had
• 3:28:33
  Speaker 4: her bringing up, and the two horses wouldn't pull together.
• 3:28:37
  Speaker 4: I am pretty well known to be rather an uncommon man,
• 3:28:39
  Speaker 4: I believe, and most people will understand fast enough that
• 3:28:43
  Speaker 4: it must be a woman rather out of the common also,
• 3:28:46
  Speaker 4: who in the long run would come up to my mark.
• 3:28:50
  Speaker 4: Let me seriously entreat you to reconsider this Bounderby, urged
• 3:28:54
  Speaker 4: mister Gradgrind, before you commit yourself to such a decision.
• 3:28:58
  Speaker 4: I always come to a deceis vision, said Bounderby, tossing
• 3:29:02
  Speaker 4: his hat on, and whatever I do, I do at once.
• 3:29:05
  Speaker 4: I should be surprised that Tom Gradgrind's addressing such a
• 3:29:08
  Speaker 4: remark to Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, knowing what he knows
• 3:29:12
  Speaker 4: of him, if I could be surprised by anything Tom
• 3:29:15
  Speaker 4: gradgrind did after his making himself a party to sentimental humbug.
• 3:29:20
  Speaker 4: I have given you my decision, and I have got
• 3:29:22
  Speaker 4: no more to say. Good night, So mister Bounderby went
• 3:29:27
  Speaker 4: home to his townhouse to bed. At five minutes past
• 3:29:30
  Speaker 4: twelve o'clock next day, he directed Missus Bounderby's property to
• 3:29:34
  Speaker 4: be carefully packed up and sent to Tom Gradgrinds, advertised
• 3:29:38
  Speaker 4: his country retreat for sale by private contract, and resumed
• 3:29:42
  Speaker 4: a bachelor life. Chapter four Lost the robbery at the bank,
• 3:29:52
  Speaker 4: had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy
• 3:29:55
  Speaker 4: a front place in the attention of the principle of
• 3:29:58
  Speaker 4: that establishment. Now in boastful proof of his promptitude and
• 3:30:02
  Speaker 4: activity as a remarkable man, and a self made man,
• 3:30:06
  Speaker 4: and a commercial wonder more admirable than Venus, who had
• 3:30:10
  Speaker 4: risen out of the mud instead of the sea. He
• 3:30:13
  Speaker 4: liked to show how little his domestic affairs abated his
• 3:30:16
  Speaker 4: business ardor Consequently, in the first few weeks of his
• 3:30:20
  Speaker 4: resumed bachelorhood, he even advanced upon his usual display of bustle,
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 4: and every day made such a route in renewing his
• 3:30:27
  Speaker 4: investigations into the robbery that the officers who had it
• 3:30:31
  Speaker 4: in hand almost wished it had never been committed. They
• 3:30:35
  Speaker 4: were at fault too, and off descent, although they had
• 3:30:39
  Speaker 4: been so quiet since the first outbreak of the matter
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 4: that most people really did suppose it to have been
• 3:30:44
  Speaker 4: abandoned as hopeless. Nothing new occurred, No implicated man or
• 3:30:49
  Speaker 4: woman took untimely courage, or made a self betraying step.
• 3:30:53
  Speaker 4: More remarkable yet, Stephen Blackpool could not be heard of,
• 3:30:57
  Speaker 4: and the mysterious old woman remained a miss things. Having
• 3:31:02
  Speaker 4: come to this pass and showing no latent signs of
• 3:31:05
  Speaker 4: stirring beyond it. The upshot of mister Bounderby's investigations was
• 3:31:10
  Speaker 4: that he resolved to hazard a bold burst. He drew
• 3:31:13
  Speaker 4: up a placard offering twenty pounds reward for the apprehension
• 3:31:17
  Speaker 4: of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery. Of
• 3:31:21
  Speaker 4: Coketown Bank on such a night. He described the said
• 3:31:24
  Speaker 4: Stephen Blackpool by dress, complexion, estimated height, and manner. As
• 3:31:29
  Speaker 4: minutely as he could. He recited how he had left
• 3:31:33
  Speaker 4: the town and in what direction he had been last
• 3:31:36
  Speaker 4: seen going. He had the whole printed in great black
• 3:31:39
  Speaker 4: letters on a staring broadsheet, and he caused the walls
• 3:31:43
  Speaker 4: to be posted with it in the dead of night,
• 3:31:45
  Speaker 4: so that it should strike upon the sight of the
• 3:31:47
  Speaker 4: whole population at one blow. The factory bells had need
• 3:31:52
  Speaker 4: to ring their loudest that morning to disperse the groups
• 3:31:55
  Speaker 4: of workers who stood in the tardy daybreak collected round
• 3:31:58
  Speaker 4: the placardsouring them with eager eyes. Not the least eager
• 3:32:03
  Speaker 4: of the eyes assembled were the eyes of those who
• 3:32:06
  Speaker 4: could not read. These people as they listened to the
• 3:32:09
  Speaker 4: friendly voice that read aloud, there was always some such
• 3:32:12
  Speaker 4: ready to help them. Stared at the characters which meant
• 3:32:15
  Speaker 4: so much, with a vague awe and respect that would
• 3:32:18
  Speaker 4: have been half ludicrous of any aspect of public ignorance
• 3:32:22
  Speaker 4: could ever be otherwise than threatening and full of evil.
• 3:32:26
  Speaker 4: Many ears and eyes were busy with a vision of
• 3:32:28
  Speaker 4: the matter of these placards. Among turning spindles, rattling looms,
• 3:32:33
  Speaker 4: and whirling wheels for hours afterwards, And when the hands
• 3:32:37
  Speaker 4: cleared out again into the streets, there were still as
• 3:32:40
  Speaker 4: many readers as before. Slackbridge the Delegate had to address
• 3:32:45
  Speaker 4: his audience too that night, and Slackbridge had obtained a
• 3:32:49
  Speaker 4: clean bill from the printer and had brought it in
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 4: his pocket. Oh, my friends and fellow countrymen, the down
• 3:32:56
  Speaker 4: trodden operatives of Coketown, Oh my fellow brothers, fellow workmen,
• 3:33:00
  Speaker 4: and fellow citizens and fellow men. What to do? Was
• 3:33:04
  Speaker 4: there when Slackbridge unfolded what he called that damning document
• 3:33:09
  Speaker 4: and held it up to the gaze and for the
• 3:33:11
  Speaker 4: execration of the working man community. Oh, my fellow men,
• 3:33:16
  Speaker 4: behold of what a traitor in the camp of those
• 3:33:18
  Speaker 4: great spirits who are enrolled upon the holy scroll of
• 3:33:22
  Speaker 4: Justice and of Union, is appropriately capable, Oh, my prostrate friends,
• 3:33:28
  Speaker 4: with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks, and
• 3:33:31
  Speaker 4: the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms
• 3:33:34
  Speaker 4: into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad
• 3:33:37
  Speaker 4: would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your
• 3:33:40
  Speaker 4: bellies all the days of your lives. Like the serpent
• 3:33:42
  Speaker 4: in the garden, oh, my brothers, And shall I, as
• 3:33:46
  Speaker 4: a man not add my sisters too? What do you
• 3:33:49
  Speaker 4: say now of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in
• 3:33:52
  Speaker 4: his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as
• 3:33:56
  Speaker 4: set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill,
• 3:34:00
  Speaker 4: this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement, And with what majesty
• 3:34:05
  Speaker 4: of denouncement will you crush the viper who would bring
• 3:34:08
  Speaker 4: this stain and shame upon the godlike race that happily
• 3:34:12
  Speaker 4: has cast him out forever. Yes, my compatriots, happily cast
• 3:34:17
  Speaker 4: him out and sent him forth. For you remember how
• 3:34:20
  Speaker 4: he stood here before you on this platform. You remember how,
• 3:34:23
  Speaker 4: face to face and foot to foot I pursued him
• 3:34:26
  Speaker 4: through all his intricate windings. You remember how he sneaked
• 3:34:30
  Speaker 4: and slunk, and sidled and splitted of straws, until with
• 3:34:34
  Speaker 4: not an inch of ground which to cling, I hurled
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 4: him out from amongst us, an object for the undying
• 3:34:41
  Speaker 4: finger of scorn to point at, and for the avenging
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 4: fire of every free and thinking mind to scorch and scar.
• 3:34:48
  Speaker 4: And now, my friends, my laboring friends, for I rejoice
• 3:34:52
  Speaker 4: in triumph in that stigma, my friends, whose hard but
• 3:34:56
  Speaker 4: honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but
• 3:34:59
  Speaker 4: into pots are boiled in hardship. And now I say,
• 3:35:03
  Speaker 4: my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself,
• 3:35:09
  Speaker 4: when with a mask torn from his features, he stands
• 3:35:12
  Speaker 4: before us in all his native deformity. A what a thief,
• 3:35:17
  Speaker 4: a plunderer, a proscribed fugitive with a price upon his head,
• 3:35:21
  Speaker 4: a fester and a wound upon the noble character of
• 3:35:24
  Speaker 4: the Coketown Operative. Therefore, my band of brothers, in a
• 3:35:28
  Speaker 4: sacred bond to which your children and your children's children
• 3:35:32
  Speaker 4: yet unborn, have set their infant hands and seals, I
• 3:35:36
  Speaker 4: propose to you, on the part of the United Aggregate Tribunal,
• 3:35:40
  Speaker 4: ever watchful for your welfare, ever zealous for your benefit,
• 3:35:44
  Speaker 4: that this meeting does resolve that Stephen Blackpool Weaver referred
• 3:35:49
  Speaker 4: to in this placard, having been already solemnly disowned by
• 3:35:52
  Speaker 4: the community of Coketown hands the same are free from
• 3:35:56
  Speaker 4: the shame of his misdeeds, and cannot, as a class
• 3:35:59
  Speaker 4: be approached with his dishonest actions. Thus, slackbridge, gnashing and perspiring.
• 3:36:06
  Speaker 4: After a prodigious sort, A few stern voices called out no,
• 3:36:11
  Speaker 4: and a score or two hailed with assenting cries of hear,
• 3:36:15
  Speaker 4: hear the caution from one man, Slackbridge, you're overhead, errant,
• 3:36:21
  Speaker 4: you are going too fast. But these were pigmies against
• 3:36:25
  Speaker 4: an army. The general assemblage subscribed to the gospel, according
• 3:36:30
  Speaker 4: to Slackbridge, and gave three cheers for him as he
• 3:36:33
  Speaker 4: sat demonstratively panting at them. These men and women were
• 3:36:37
  Speaker 4: yet in the streets, passing quietly to their homes, when Cissy,
• 3:36:41
  Speaker 4: who had been called away from Louisa some minutes before, returned.
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 4: Who is it, asked Louisa. It is mister Bounderby, said Cissy,
• 3:36:50
  Speaker 4: timid of the name, and your brother mister Tom, and
• 3:36:54
  Speaker 4: a young woman who says her name is Rachel, and
• 3:36:56
  Speaker 4: that you know her. What do they want, Cissy, dear,
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 4: they want to see you. Rachel has been crying and
• 3:37:04
  Speaker 4: seems angry. Father, said Louisa, for he was present. I
• 3:37:09
  Speaker 4: cannot refuse to see them for a reason that we'll
• 3:37:12
  Speaker 4: explain itself. Shall they come in here? As he answered
• 3:37:16
  Speaker 4: in the affirmative, Sissy went away to bring them. She
• 3:37:20
  Speaker 4: reappeared with them directly. Tom was last and remained standing
• 3:37:24
  Speaker 4: in the obscurest part of the room near the door.
• 3:37:28
  Speaker 4: Missus Bounderby said her husband, entering with a cool nod.
• 3:37:32
  Speaker 4: I don't disturb you. I hope this is an unseasonable hour.
• 3:37:36
  Speaker 4: But here is a young woman who has been making
• 3:37:38
  Speaker 4: statements which render my visit necessary. Tom gregggrind as your son,
• 3:37:43
  Speaker 4: young Tom refuses, for some obstinate reason or other to
• 3:37:46
  Speaker 4: say anything at all about those statements, good or bad,
• 3:37:50
  Speaker 4: I am obliged to confront her with your daughter. You
• 3:37:53
  Speaker 4: have seen me once before, young lady, said Rachel, standing
• 3:37:56
  Speaker 4: in front of Louisa. Tom coughed. You have seen me,
• 3:38:00
  Speaker 4: young lady, repeated Rachel. As she did not answer once before,
• 3:38:05
  Speaker 4: Tom coughed again, I have Rachel cast her eyes proudly
• 3:38:11
  Speaker 4: towards mister Bounderby, and said, will you make it known,
• 3:38:14
  Speaker 4: young lady? Where and who was there? I went to
• 3:38:19
  Speaker 4: the house where Stephen Blackpool lodged on the night of
• 3:38:21
  Speaker 4: his discharge from his work, and I saw you there.
• 3:38:25
  Speaker 4: He was there too, and an old woman who did
• 3:38:27
  Speaker 4: not speak, and whom I could scarcely see, stood in
• 3:38:30
  Speaker 4: a dark corner my brother was with me. Why couldn't
• 3:38:34
  Speaker 4: you say so, young Tom, demanded Bounderby. I promised my
• 3:38:39
  Speaker 4: sister I wouldn't, which Louisa hastily confirmed, and besides, said
• 3:38:44
  Speaker 4: the whelp bitterly. She tells her own story so precious
• 3:38:48
  Speaker 4: well and so full that what business had I to
• 3:38:51
  Speaker 4: take it out of her mouth? Say, young lady, if
• 3:38:54
  Speaker 4: you please, pursued Rachel, Why in an evil hour you
• 3:38:57
  Speaker 4: ever came to Stephen's that night? I felt compassion for him,
• 3:39:02
  Speaker 4: said Louisa, her color deepening. And I wished to know
• 3:39:06
  Speaker 4: what he was going to do, and wished to offer
• 3:39:08
  Speaker 4: him assistance. Thank you, ma'am, said Bounderby, much flattered and obliged.
• 3:39:14
  Speaker 4: Did you offer him, asked Rachel, a bank note? Yes,
• 3:39:18
  Speaker 4: but he refused it and would only take two pounds
• 3:39:21
  Speaker 4: in gold. Rachel cast her eyes towards mister Bounderby again. Oh, certainly,
• 3:39:27
  Speaker 4: said Bounderby. If you put the question whether your ridiculous
• 3:39:30
  Speaker 4: and improbable account was true or not, I am bound
• 3:39:33
  Speaker 4: to say it's confirmed, young lady, said Rachel. Stephen Blackpool
• 3:39:39
  Speaker 4: is now named as a thief in public print all
• 3:39:41
  Speaker 4: over this town and where else there have been a
• 3:39:44
  Speaker 4: meeting to night where he had been spoken of in
• 3:39:47
  Speaker 4: the same shameful way, Stephen, the honestest lad, the truest lad,
• 3:39:52
  Speaker 4: the best. Her indignation failed her and she broke off, sobbing.
• 3:39:57
  Speaker 4: I am very very sorry, said Louisa, Oh, young lady.
• 3:40:01
  Speaker 4: Young lady, returned Rachel. I hope you may be, but
• 3:40:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I can't say what you may have
• 3:40:07
  Speaker 4: done the like of you don't know us, don't care
• 3:40:10
  Speaker 4: for us, don't belong to us. I am not sure
• 3:40:13
  Speaker 4: why you may have come that night, can't tell, but
• 3:40:16
  Speaker 4: what you may have come with some aim of your own,
• 3:40:18
  Speaker 4: not mind into what trouble you brought, such as the
• 3:40:20
  Speaker 4: poor lad. I said, then, bless you for coming, And
• 3:40:24
  Speaker 4: I said it of my heart. You seem to take
• 3:40:26
  Speaker 4: so pitifully to him, But I don't know. Now, I
• 3:40:29
  Speaker 4: don't know. Louisa could not reproach her for her unjust suspicions.
• 3:40:34
  Speaker 4: She was so faithful to her idea of the man
• 3:40:37
  Speaker 4: and so afflicted. And when I think, said Rachel, through
• 3:40:41
  Speaker 4: her sobs, that the poor lad was so grateful, thinking
• 3:40:45
  Speaker 4: you so good to him, When I mind that he
• 3:40:47
  Speaker 4: put his hand over his hard working face to hide
• 3:40:50
  Speaker 4: the tears that you brought up there. Oh, I hope
• 3:40:53
  Speaker 4: you may be sorry and had no bad cause to
• 3:40:55
  Speaker 4: be it. But I don't know. I don't know. We're
• 3:41:00
  Speaker 4: a pretty article, growled the whelp, moving uneasily in his
• 3:41:03
  Speaker 4: dark corner. To come here with these precious imputations. You
• 3:41:07
  Speaker 4: ought to be bundled out for not knowing how to
• 3:41:09
  Speaker 4: behave yourself, and you would be by right. She said
• 3:41:13
  Speaker 4: nothing in reply, and her low weeping was the only
• 3:41:16
  Speaker 4: sound that was heard until mister Bounderby spoke come, said
• 3:41:20
  Speaker 4: he you know what you have engaged to do. You
• 3:41:23
  Speaker 4: had better give your mind to that, not this. Indeed,
• 3:41:27
  Speaker 4: I am loth, returned Rachel, drying her eyes, that any
• 3:41:31
  Speaker 4: here should see me like this, but I won't be
• 3:41:33
  Speaker 4: seen so again, young lady. When I had read what's
• 3:41:37
  Speaker 4: put in print of Stephen, and what is just as
• 3:41:39
  Speaker 4: much truth in it as if it had been put
• 3:41:41
  Speaker 4: in print of you, I went straight to the bank
• 3:41:43
  Speaker 4: to say I knew where Stephen was, and to give
• 3:41:46
  Speaker 4: assuring certain promise that he should be here in two days.
• 3:41:49
  Speaker 4: I couldn't meet when mister Bounderby then and your brother
• 3:41:52
  Speaker 4: sent me away, and I tried to find you, but
• 3:41:54
  Speaker 4: you was not to be found, and I went back
• 3:41:57
  Speaker 4: to work. Soon as I come out of the mill
• 3:41:59
  Speaker 4: to night, I hastened to hear what was said of Stephen,
• 3:42:02
  Speaker 4: for I know what pride he will come back to
• 3:42:04
  Speaker 4: shame it. And then I went again to seek mister Bounderby,
• 3:42:07
  Speaker 4: and I found him, and I told him every word
• 3:42:09
  Speaker 4: I knew, and he believed no word I said, and
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 4: brought me here. So far that's true enough, assented mister Bounderby,
• 3:42:16
  Speaker 4: with his hands in his pockets and his hat on.
• 3:42:19
  Speaker 4: But I have known new people before. To day you'll observe,
• 3:42:22
  Speaker 4: and I know you never die for want of talking.
• 3:42:25
  Speaker 4: Now I recommend you not so much to mind talking
• 3:42:28
  Speaker 4: just now as doing. You have undertaken to do something.
• 3:42:31
  Speaker 4: All I remark upon that at present is do it.
• 3:42:35
  Speaker 4: I have written to Stephen by the post that went
• 3:42:37
  Speaker 4: out this afternoon, as I have written to him once
• 3:42:39
  Speaker 4: before since he went away, said Rachel, and he will
• 3:42:43
  Speaker 4: be here at Furthest in two days. Then I'll tell
• 3:42:46
  Speaker 4: you something you are not aware, perhaps, retorted mister Bounderby,
• 3:42:51
  Speaker 4: that you yourself have been looked after now and then
• 3:42:54
  Speaker 4: not being considered quite free from suspicion in this business
• 3:42:58
  Speaker 4: on account of most people being judged acording to the
• 3:43:00
  Speaker 4: company they keep. The post office hasn't forgotten either. What
• 3:43:05
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you is that no letter to Stephen Blackpool
• 3:43:08
  Speaker 4: has ever got into it. Therefore, what has become of yours?
• 3:43:11
  Speaker 4: I leave you to guess. Perhaps you're mistaken and never
• 3:43:14
  Speaker 4: wrote any He hadn't been gone from here, young lady,
• 3:43:18
  Speaker 4: said Rachel, turning appealingly to Louisa. As much as a
• 3:43:22
  Speaker 4: week when he sent me the only letter I have
• 3:43:24
  Speaker 4: had from him, saying that he was forced to seek
• 3:43:27
  Speaker 4: work in another name. Oh by, George, cried bounderby shaking
• 3:43:31
  Speaker 4: his head with a whistle. He changes his name, does he?
• 3:43:34
  Speaker 4: That's rather unlucky too, for such an immaculate chap. It's
• 3:43:38
  Speaker 4: considered a little suspicious in courts of justice, I believe
• 3:43:41
  Speaker 4: when an innocent happens to have many names. What said Rachel,
• 3:43:47
  Speaker 4: with the tears in her eyes. Again, what young lady,
• 3:43:49
  Speaker 4: in the name of mercy was left the poor lad
• 3:43:52
  Speaker 4: to do? The Master is against him on one hand,
• 3:43:55
  Speaker 4: the men against him on the other. He only wanting
• 3:43:58
  Speaker 4: to work hard in peace and what he felt right.
• 3:44:01
  Speaker 4: Can a man have no soul of his own? No
• 3:44:03
  Speaker 4: mind of his own. Must he go wrong all through
• 3:44:06
  Speaker 4: with this side, or must he go wrong all through
• 3:44:09
  Speaker 4: with that, or else be hunted like a hare. Indeed,
• 3:44:13
  Speaker 4: indeed I pity him from my heart, returned Louisa, and
• 3:44:16
  Speaker 4: I hope that he will clear himself. You need have
• 3:44:20
  Speaker 4: no fear of that, young lady. He is sure, all
• 3:44:23
  Speaker 4: the sure, I suppose, said mister Bounderby, for your refusing
• 3:44:27
  Speaker 4: to tell where he is. Eh, he shall not, through
• 3:44:31
  Speaker 4: any act of mind, come back with the unmerited reproach
• 3:44:34
  Speaker 4: of being brought back. He shall come back of his
• 3:44:36
  Speaker 4: own cord to clear himself and put all those that
• 3:44:39
  Speaker 4: have injured his good character. And he not here for
• 3:44:42
  Speaker 4: its defense to shame. I have told him what has
• 3:44:45
  Speaker 4: been done against him, said Rachel, throwing off all distrust
• 3:44:49
  Speaker 4: as a rock throws off the sea. And he will
• 3:44:52
  Speaker 4: be here at Furthest in two days. Notwithstanding which added
• 3:44:57
  Speaker 4: mister Bounderby, if he can be laid hold of soon,
• 3:45:00
  Speaker 4: he shall have an earlier opportunity of clearing himself. As
• 3:45:04
  Speaker 4: to you, I have nothing against you. What you came
• 3:45:07
  Speaker 4: and told me turns out to be true, and I
• 3:45:09
  Speaker 4: have given you the means of proving it to be true,
• 3:45:11
  Speaker 4: and there is an end of it. I wish you
• 3:45:13
  Speaker 4: good night all. I must be off to look a
• 3:45:15
  Speaker 4: little further into this. Tom came out of his corner
• 3:45:19
  Speaker 4: when mister Bounderby moved, moved with him, kept close to him,
• 3:45:23
  Speaker 4: and went away with him. The only parting salutation of
• 3:45:26
  Speaker 4: which he delivered himself was a sulky good night father.
• 3:45:31
  Speaker 4: With a brief speech and a scowl at his sister.
• 3:45:33
  Speaker 4: He left the house. Since his sheet anchor had come home,
• 3:45:38
  Speaker 4: mister Gradgrind had been sparing of speech. He still sat
• 3:45:42
  Speaker 4: silent when Louisa mildly said, Rachel, you will not distrust
• 3:45:46
  Speaker 4: me one day when you know me better. It goes
• 3:45:50
  Speaker 4: against me. Rachel answered in a gentler manner to mistrust anyone.
• 3:45:54
  Speaker 4: But when I am so mistrusted, when we all are,
• 3:45:57
  Speaker 4: I cannot keep such things quite out of my mind.
• 3:46:00
  Speaker 4: I ask your pardon for having done you an injury.
• 3:46:03
  Speaker 4: I don't think what I said now, yet, I might
• 3:46:05
  Speaker 4: come to think it again. With the poor lad so wronged,
• 3:46:09
  Speaker 4: did you tell him in your letter? Inquired Cissy that
• 3:46:12
  Speaker 4: suspicion seemed to have fallen upon him because he had
• 3:46:15
  Speaker 4: been seen about the bank at night. He would then
• 3:46:18
  Speaker 4: know what he would have to explain on coming back,
• 3:46:20
  Speaker 4: and would be ready. Yes, dear, she returned, But I
• 3:46:24
  Speaker 4: can't guess what can have ever taken him there. He
• 3:46:27
  Speaker 4: never used to go there. It was never in his way.
• 3:46:30
  Speaker 4: His way was the same as mine, and not near it.
• 3:46:34
  Speaker 4: Sissy had already been at her side, asking her where
• 3:46:36
  Speaker 4: she lived and whether she might come tomorrow night to
• 3:46:39
  Speaker 4: inquire if there were news of him. I doubt, said Rachel.
• 3:46:43
  Speaker 4: If he can be here till next day, then I
• 3:46:46
  Speaker 4: will come next night too, said Cissy. When Rachel, assenting
• 3:46:51
  Speaker 4: to this, was gone, mister Gradgrind lifted up his head
• 3:46:54
  Speaker 4: and said to his daughter, Louisa, my dear, I have
• 3:46:57
  Speaker 4: never that I know of, seen this man. Do you
• 3:47:00
  Speaker 4: believe him to be implicated? I think I have believed it, father,
• 3:47:04
  Speaker 4: though with great difficulty. I do not believe it now.
• 3:47:09
  Speaker 4: That is to say, you once persuaded yourself to believe
• 3:47:12
  Speaker 4: it from knowing him to be suspected. His appearance and
• 3:47:15
  Speaker 4: manner are they so honest? Very honest? And her confidence
• 3:47:20
  Speaker 4: not to be shaken? I ask myself, said mister Gradgrind,
• 3:47:24
  Speaker 4: musing does the real culprit know of these accusations, where
• 3:47:29
  Speaker 4: is he? Who is he? His hair had latterly began
• 3:47:33
  Speaker 4: to change its color as he leaned upon his hand again,
• 3:47:37
  Speaker 4: looking gray and old. Louisa, with a face of fear
• 3:47:41
  Speaker 4: and pity, hurriedly went over to him and sat close
• 3:47:44
  Speaker 4: at his side. Her eyes, by accident, met Cissy's at
• 3:47:48
  Speaker 4: the moment. Cissy flushed and started, and Louisa put her
• 3:47:51
  Speaker 4: finger on her lip. Next night, when Cissy returned home
• 3:47:56
  Speaker 4: and told Louisa that Stephen was not come, she told
• 3:47:59
  Speaker 4: it in a way whisper. Next night again, when she
• 3:48:02
  Speaker 4: came home with the same account and added that he
• 3:48:05
  Speaker 4: had not been heard of, she spoke in the same low,
• 3:48:08
  Speaker 4: frightened tone. From the moment of that interchange of looks,
• 3:48:13
  Speaker 4: they never uttered his name or any reference to him aloud,
• 3:48:17
  Speaker 4: nor ever pursued the subject of the robbery when mister
• 3:48:20
  Speaker 4: Gradgrind spoke of it. The two appointed days ran out,
• 3:48:25
  Speaker 4: three days and nights ran out, and Stephen Blackpool was
• 3:48:28
  Speaker 4: not come and remained unheard of. On the fourth day, Rachel,
• 3:48:33
  Speaker 4: with unabated confidence, but considering her dispatch to have miscarried,
• 3:48:38
  Speaker 4: went up to the bank and showed her letter from him,
• 3:48:40
  Speaker 4: with his address at a working colony, one of many
• 3:48:44
  Speaker 4: not upon the main road, sixty miles away. Messengers were
• 3:48:48
  Speaker 4: sent to that place, and the whole town looked for
• 3:48:50
  Speaker 4: Stephen to be brought in next day. During this whole time,
• 3:48:55
  Speaker 4: the Whelp moved about, with mister Bounderby like his shadow,
• 3:48:58
  Speaker 4: assisting in all the proceeding. He was greatly excited, horribly fevered,
• 3:49:03
  Speaker 4: bit his nails down to the quick, spoke in a hard,
• 3:49:07
  Speaker 4: rattling voice, and with lips that were black and burnt up.
• 3:49:12
  Speaker 4: At the hour when the suspected man was looked for,
• 3:49:14
  Speaker 4: the Whelp was at the station, offering to Wager that
• 3:49:17
  Speaker 4: he had made off before the arrival of those who
• 3:49:20
  Speaker 4: were sent in quest of him, and that he would
• 3:49:22
  Speaker 4: not appear. The Whelp was right. The messengers returned alone.
• 3:49:28
  Speaker 4: Rachel's letter had gone, Rachel's letter had been delivered, Stephen
• 3:49:32
  Speaker 4: Blackpool had decamped in that same hour, and no soul
• 3:49:36
  Speaker 4: knew more of him. The only doubt in Coketown was
• 3:49:40
  Speaker 4: whether Rachel had written in good faith, believing that he
• 3:49:43
  Speaker 4: really would come back, or warning him to fly. On
• 3:49:47
  Speaker 4: this point, opinion was divided. Six days, seven days far
• 3:49:52
  Speaker 4: on into another week. The wretched welp plucked up a
• 3:49:56
  Speaker 4: ghastly courage and began to grow defiant. Was the suspected
• 3:50:00
  Speaker 4: fellow the thief? A pretty question? If not, Where was
• 3:50:04
  Speaker 4: the man and why did he not come back? Where
• 3:50:08
  Speaker 4: was the man and why did he not come back?
• 3:50:10
  Speaker 4: In the dead of night? The echoes of his own words,
• 3:50:13
  Speaker 4: which had rolled heaven knows how far away in the daytime,
• 3:50:16
  Speaker 4: came back instead and abided by him until morning. End
• 3:50:22
  Speaker 4: of Section eighteen.
• 3:50:24
  Speaker 6: Section nineteen, Book three, Chapter five found day and night again,
• 3:50:36
  Speaker 6: Day and night again, No Stephen Blackpool? Where was the man?
• 3:50:42
  Speaker 6: And why did he not come back? Every night Sissy
• 3:50:46
  Speaker 6: went to Rachel's lodging and sat with her in her small,
• 3:50:50
  Speaker 6: neat room all day. Rachel toiled, as such people must toil,
• 3:50:55
  Speaker 6: whatever their anxieties. The smoke serpents were indifferent who was
• 3:51:00
  Speaker 6: lost or found, who turned out bad or good? The
• 3:51:04
  Speaker 6: melancholy mad elephants, like the hard fact men, abated nothing
• 3:51:09
  Speaker 6: of their set routine. Whatever happened day and night again,
• 3:51:14
  Speaker 6: day and night again. The monotony was unbroken. Even Stephen
• 3:51:19
  Speaker 6: Blackpool's disappearance was falling into the general way and becoming
• 3:51:23
  Speaker 6: as monotonous a wonder as any piece of machinery in Coketown. Now, misdoubt,
• 3:51:30
  Speaker 6: said Rachael, if there is as many as twenty left
• 3:51:33
  Speaker 6: in all this place who have any trust in the
• 3:51:35
  Speaker 6: poor dear lad Now she said it to Cissy as
• 3:51:39
  Speaker 6: they sat in her lodging, lighted only by the lamp
• 3:51:42
  Speaker 6: at the street corner. Cissy had come there when it
• 3:51:46
  Speaker 6: was already dark to await her return from work, and
• 3:51:49
  Speaker 6: they had since sat at the window where Rachel had
• 3:51:52
  Speaker 6: found her, wanting no brighter light to shine on their
• 3:51:56
  Speaker 6: sorrowful talk. If it hadn't been merciful fully brought about
• 3:52:01
  Speaker 6: that I was to have you to speak to, pursued Rachael.
• 3:52:05
  Speaker 6: Times are when I think my mind would not have
• 3:52:07
  Speaker 6: kept right, But I get hope and strength through you,
• 3:52:12
  Speaker 6: and you believe that though appearances may rise against him,
• 3:52:15
  Speaker 6: he'll be proved clear. I do believe, so, returned Sissy,
• 3:52:20
  Speaker 6: with my whole heart. I feel so certain, Rachael, that
• 3:52:24
  Speaker 6: the confidence you hold in yours against all discouragement is
• 3:52:27
  Speaker 6: not like to be wrong. That I've no more doubt
• 3:52:30
  Speaker 6: of him than if I had known him through as
• 3:52:32
  Speaker 6: many years of trial as you have, And I my dear,
• 3:52:36
  Speaker 6: said Rachel, with a tremble in her voice. HAVE known
• 3:52:39
  Speaker 6: him through them all to be according to his quiet ways,
• 3:52:43
  Speaker 6: so faithful to everything honest and good, that if he
• 3:52:47
  Speaker 6: was never to be heard of more, and I was
• 3:52:50
  Speaker 6: to live to be a hundred years old, I could
• 3:52:53
  Speaker 6: say with my last breath, God knows my heart, I've
• 3:52:56
  Speaker 6: never once left trusting Stephen Blackpool. We all believe up
• 3:53:01
  Speaker 6: at the lodge, Rachael, that he'll be freed from suspicion,
• 3:53:04
  Speaker 6: sooner or later. The better I know it to be.
• 3:53:08
  Speaker 6: So believed there, my dear, said Rachael, and the kinder,
• 3:53:12
  Speaker 6: I feel it that you come away from there purposely
• 3:53:15
  Speaker 6: to comfort me and keep me company and be seen
• 3:53:19
  Speaker 6: with me when I'm not yet free from all suspicion myself.
• 3:53:23
  Speaker 6: The more grieved I am that I should ever have
• 3:53:25
  Speaker 6: spoken those mistrusting words to the young lady. And yet
• 3:53:31
  Speaker 6: you don't mistrust her now, Rachael, now that you've brought
• 3:53:36
  Speaker 6: us more together. No, but I can't at all times
• 3:53:39
  Speaker 6: keep out of my mind, her voice so sunk into
• 3:53:44
  Speaker 6: a low and slow communing with herself, that Cissy, sitting
• 3:53:48
  Speaker 6: by her side, was obliged to listen with attention. I
• 3:53:52
  Speaker 6: can't at all times keep out of my mind mistrustings
• 3:53:56
  Speaker 6: of some one. I can't think who tis, I can't
• 3:54:00
  Speaker 6: think how or why it may be done. But I
• 3:54:03
  Speaker 6: mistrust that some one has put Stephen out of the way.
• 3:54:07
  Speaker 6: I mistrust that by his coming back of his own
• 3:54:09
  Speaker 6: accord and showing himself innocent before them all, some one
• 3:54:14
  Speaker 6: would be confounded. Who to prevent that has stopped him
• 3:54:18
  Speaker 6: and put him out of the way. That is a
• 3:54:22
  Speaker 6: dreadful thought, said Sissy, turning pale. It is a dreadful
• 3:54:26
  Speaker 6: thought to think he may be murdered. Sissy shuddered and
• 3:54:31
  Speaker 6: turned paler. Yet when it makes its way into my mind, dear,
• 3:54:37
  Speaker 6: said Rachel. And it will come sometimes, though I do
• 3:54:40
  Speaker 6: all I can to keep it out, with counting on
• 3:54:43
  Speaker 6: to high numbers as I work, and saying over and
• 3:54:46
  Speaker 6: over again pieces that I knew when I were a child,
• 3:54:49
  Speaker 6: I fall into such a wild, hot hurry that, however
• 3:54:53
  Speaker 6: tired I am, I want to walk fast, miles and miles.
• 3:54:58
  Speaker 6: I must get the better of this before bedtime. I'll
• 3:55:01
  Speaker 6: walk home with you. He might fall ill upon the
• 3:55:05
  Speaker 6: journey back, said Sissy, faintly, offering a worn out scrap
• 3:55:09
  Speaker 6: of hope. And in such a case, there are many
• 3:55:12
  Speaker 6: places on the road where he might stop, but he
• 3:55:16
  Speaker 6: is in none of them.
• 3:55:17
  Speaker 3: He has been.
• 3:55:18
  Speaker 6: Sought for in all, and he's not there. True was
• 3:55:23
  Speaker 6: Sissy's reluctant admission. He'd walked the journey in two days.
• 3:55:28
  Speaker 6: If he was footsore and couldn't walk, I sent him
• 3:55:31
  Speaker 6: in the letter. He got the money to ride, lest
• 3:55:33
  Speaker 6: he should have none of his own to spare. Let
• 3:55:38
  Speaker 6: us hope that tomorrow will bring something better. Rachel come
• 3:55:41
  Speaker 6: into the air. Her gentle hand adjusted Rachel's shawl upon
• 3:55:47
  Speaker 6: her shining black hair, in the usual manner of her
• 3:55:49
  Speaker 6: wearing it. And they went out the night being fine.
• 3:55:54
  Speaker 6: Little knots of hands were here and there, lingering at
• 3:55:57
  Speaker 6: street corners, but it was supper time, with the great
• 3:56:00
  Speaker 6: eat a part of them, and there were but few
• 3:56:02
  Speaker 6: people in the streets. You are not so hurried now, Rachel,
• 3:56:06
  Speaker 6: and your hand is cooler. I get better, dear, if
• 3:56:10
  Speaker 6: I can only walk and breathe a little fresh. Times
• 3:56:13
  Speaker 6: when I can't, I turn weak and confused. But you
• 3:56:16
  Speaker 6: must not begin to fail, Rachel, for you may be
• 3:56:19
  Speaker 6: wanted at any time to stand by Stephen tomorrow's Saturday.
• 3:56:24
  Speaker 6: If no news comes tomorrow, let us walk in the
• 3:56:26
  Speaker 6: country on Sunday morning and strengthen you for another week.
• 3:56:30
  Speaker 6: Will you go, yes, dear. They were by this time
• 3:56:36
  Speaker 6: in the street where mister Bounderby's house stood. The way
• 3:56:40
  Speaker 6: to Sissy's destination led them past the door, and they
• 3:56:43
  Speaker 6: were going straight towards it. Some train had newly arrived
• 3:56:47
  Speaker 6: in Coketown, which had put a number of vehicles in
• 3:56:50
  Speaker 6: motion and scattered a considerable bustle about the town. Several
• 3:56:55
  Speaker 6: coaches were rattling before them and behind them as they
• 3:56:58
  Speaker 6: approached mister Bounderby's, and one of the latter drew up
• 3:57:02
  Speaker 6: with such briskness as they were in the act of
• 3:57:05
  Speaker 6: passing the house that they looked round involuntarily. The bright
• 3:57:09
  Speaker 6: gaslight of mister Bounderby's steps showed them. Missus Sparsit in
• 3:57:14
  Speaker 6: the coach in an ecstasy of excitement, struggling to open
• 3:57:18
  Speaker 6: the door. Missus Sparsit, seeing them at the same moment,
• 3:57:22
  Speaker 6: called them to stop. It's a coincidence, exclaimed Missus Sparsit
• 3:57:26
  Speaker 6: as she was released by the coachman. It's a providence.
• 3:57:30
  Speaker 6: Come out, ma'am, then said missus sparsit to some one inside,
• 3:57:34
  Speaker 6: come out, or we'll have you dragged out hereupon no
• 3:57:39
  Speaker 6: other than the mysterious old woman descended, whom Missus sparsit
• 3:57:43
  Speaker 6: incontinently collared. Leave her alone, everybody cried, missus sparsit with
• 3:57:49
  Speaker 6: great energy. Let nobody touch her. She belongs to me.
• 3:57:53
  Speaker 6: Come in, ma'am, then said Missus sparsit, reversing her former
• 3:57:58
  Speaker 6: word of command. Come in, ma'am, or we'll have you
• 3:58:02
  Speaker 6: dragged in the spectacle of a matron of classical deportment,
• 3:58:08
  Speaker 6: seizing an ancient woman by the throat and hailing her
• 3:58:12
  Speaker 6: into a dwelling house would have been, under any circumstances,
• 3:58:15
  Speaker 6: sufficient temptation to all true English stragglers so blessed as
• 3:58:19
  Speaker 6: to witness it, to force a way into that dwelling
• 3:58:22
  Speaker 6: house and see the matter out. But when the phenomenon
• 3:58:25
  Speaker 6: was enhanced by the notoriety and mystery, by this time
• 3:58:29
  Speaker 6: associated all over the town with the bank robbery, it
• 3:58:32
  Speaker 6: would have lured the stragglers in with an irresistible attraction,
• 3:58:36
  Speaker 6: though the roof had been expected to fall upon their heads. Accordingly,
• 3:58:41
  Speaker 6: the chance witnesses on the ground, consisting of the busiest
• 3:58:46
  Speaker 6: of the neighbors in the number of some five and
• 3:58:48
  Speaker 6: twenty closed in after Sissy and Rachel. As they closed
• 3:58:53
  Speaker 6: in after Missus Sparsit and her prize, and the whole
• 3:58:57
  Speaker 6: body made a disorderly irruption into mister Boundery's dining room,
• 3:59:01
  Speaker 6: where the people behind lost not a moment's time in
• 3:59:04
  Speaker 6: mounting on the chairs to get the better of the
• 3:59:06
  Speaker 6: people in front. Fetch mister Bounderby down, cried Missus Sparsit. Rachael,
• 3:59:12
  Speaker 6: young woman, you know who this is. It's Missus Pegler,
• 3:59:16
  Speaker 6: said Rachel. I should think it is, cried Missus Sparsit, exulting.
• 3:59:21
  Speaker 6: Fetch mister Bounderby. Stand away, everybody here. Old missus Pegler,
• 3:59:27
  Speaker 6: muffling herself up and shrinking from observation, whispered a word
• 3:59:31
  Speaker 6: of entreaty. Don't tell me, said missus Sparsit aloud. I
• 3:59:36
  Speaker 6: have told you twenty times coming along that I will
• 3:59:38
  Speaker 6: not leave you till I have handed you over to
• 3:59:41
  Speaker 6: him myself. Mister Bounderby now appeared, accompanied by mister Gradgrind
• 3:59:47
  Speaker 6: and the whelp with whom he had been holding conference upstairs.
• 3:59:51
  Speaker 6: Mister Bounderby looked more astonished than hospitable at sight of
• 3:59:56
  Speaker 6: this uninvited party in his dining room. Why what's the
• 4:00:01
  Speaker 6: matter now, said he? Missus Sparsit, ma'am, Sir explained that
• 4:00:07
  Speaker 6: worthy woman, I trust it is my good fortune to
• 4:00:10
  Speaker 6: produce a person you have much desired to find, stimulated
• 4:00:14
  Speaker 6: by my wish to relieve your mind, Sir, and connecting
• 4:00:17
  Speaker 6: together such imperfect clues to the part of the country
• 4:00:20
  Speaker 6: in which that person might be supposed to reside, as
• 4:00:24
  Speaker 6: have been afforded by the young woman Rachel fortunately now
• 4:00:27
  Speaker 6: present to identify. I have had the happiness to succeed
• 4:00:31
  Speaker 6: and to bring that person with me. I need not say,
• 4:00:34
  Speaker 6: most unwillingly on her part. It has not been, Sir,
• 4:00:38
  Speaker 6: without some trouble that I have effected this. But trouble
• 4:00:41
  Speaker 6: in your service is to me a pleasure and hunger,
• 4:00:44
  Speaker 6: thirst and cold, a real gratification. Here, missus Sparsit ceased
• 4:00:52
  Speaker 6: for mister Bounderby's visage exhibited an extraordinary combination of all
• 4:00:58
  Speaker 6: possible colors and expressions of comfiture. As old Missus Pegler
• 4:01:02
  Speaker 6: was disclosed to his view. Why what do you mean
• 4:01:06
  Speaker 6: by this? Was his highly unexpected demand in great warmth,
• 4:01:11
  Speaker 6: I ask you, what do you mean by this? Missus sparsit, ma'am.
• 4:01:15
  Speaker 6: Sir exclaimed, missus sparsit faintly. Why don't you mind your
• 4:01:20
  Speaker 6: own business, ma'am, roared Bounderby. I'll dare you go and
• 4:01:24
  Speaker 6: poke your fisher's nose into my family affairs. This allusion
• 4:01:30
  Speaker 6: to her favorite feature overpowered Missus sparsit. She sat down
• 4:01:36
  Speaker 6: stiffly in a chair, as if she were frozen, and
• 4:01:40
  Speaker 6: with a fixed stare at mister Bounderby, slowly grated her
• 4:01:45
  Speaker 6: mittens against one another, as if they were frozen too.
• 4:01:51
  Speaker 6: My dear Josiah, cried Missus Pegler, trembling, My darling boy,
• 4:01:55
  Speaker 6: I'm not to blame. It's not my fault, Josiah. I
• 4:01:59
  Speaker 6: told his lady over and over again, and I knew
• 4:02:02
  Speaker 6: she was doing what would not be agreeable to you,
• 4:02:04
  Speaker 6: but she would do it. What did you let her
• 4:02:07
  Speaker 6: bring you for? Couldn't you knock a cap off on
• 4:02:09
  Speaker 6: her tooth out, or scratch her or do something or
• 4:02:12
  Speaker 6: other to her, asked Bounderby. My own boy, She threatened
• 4:02:17
  Speaker 6: me that if I resisted her, I should be brought
• 4:02:20
  Speaker 6: by constables. And it was better to come quietly than
• 4:02:23
  Speaker 6: make that stir in such a Missus Pegler glanced timidly
• 4:02:28
  Speaker 6: but proudly round the walls such a fine house as this. Indeed, indeed,
• 4:02:33
  Speaker 6: it is not my fault, my dear noble stately boy.
• 4:02:38
  Speaker 6: I've always lived quiet and seecretu as I are, my dear,
• 4:02:42
  Speaker 6: I've never broken the condition once. I've never said that
• 4:02:45
  Speaker 6: I was your mother. I've admired you at a distance.
• 4:02:49
  Speaker 6: And if I've come to town, sometimes with long times between,
• 4:02:53
  Speaker 6: to take a proud peep at you, I've done it
• 4:02:56
  Speaker 6: unbeknown my love, and gone away again. Mister Bounderby, with
• 4:03:01
  Speaker 6: his hands in his pockets, walked in impatient mortification up
• 4:03:07
  Speaker 6: and down at the side of the long dining table,
• 4:03:10
  Speaker 6: while the spectators greedily took in every syllable of Missus
• 4:03:13
  Speaker 6: Pegler's appeal, and at each succeeding syllable became more and
• 4:03:17
  Speaker 6: more round eyed. Mister Bounderby, still walking up and down.
• 4:03:23
  Speaker 6: When Missus Pegler had done, mister Gradgrind addressed that maligned
• 4:03:28
  Speaker 6: old lady. I am surprised, madam. He observed with severity
• 4:03:33
  Speaker 6: that in your old age you have the face to claim,
• 4:03:37
  Speaker 6: mister Bounderby, for your son, after your unnatural and inhuman treatment,
• 4:03:41
  Speaker 6: of him. Me unnatural, cried poor old missus Peggler, me
• 4:03:47
  Speaker 6: inhuman to my dear boy. Dear, repeated mister Gradgrind, Yes, dear,
• 4:03:54
  Speaker 6: in his self made prosperity, Madam, I dare say not,
• 4:03:58
  Speaker 6: very dear. However, when you deserted him in his infancy
• 4:04:02
  Speaker 6: and left him to the brutality of a drunken grandmother,
• 4:04:05
  Speaker 6: I deserted my Josiah, cried missus Peckler, clasping her hands. Now, Lord,
• 4:04:12
  Speaker 6: forgive you, sir, for your wicked imaginations and for your
• 4:04:15
  Speaker 6: scandal against the memory of my poor mother, who died
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  Speaker 6: in my arms before Josiah was born. May you repent
• 4:04:22
  Speaker 6: of it, sir, and live to know better. She was
• 4:04:26
  Speaker 6: so very earnest and injured that mister Gradgrind, shocked by
• 4:04:31
  Speaker 6: the possibility which dawned upon him, said, in a gentler tone.
• 4:04:36
  Speaker 6: Do you deny, then, madam, that you left your son
• 4:04:39
  Speaker 6: to be brought up in the gutter? Josiah in the gutter,
• 4:04:45
  Speaker 6: exclaimed missus Peckler. Nor such a thing, sir, Never, for
• 4:04:50
  Speaker 6: shame on you. My dear boy knows and will give
• 4:04:53
  Speaker 6: you to know that though he come a humble parentcy,
• 4:04:57
  Speaker 6: he come of parents that loved him as dear as
• 4:05:00
  Speaker 6: the best could, and never thought it hardship on themselves
• 4:05:03
  Speaker 6: to pinch a bit that he might write and cipher beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: And I have his books at home to show it,
• 4:05:09
  Speaker 6: aye have I said Missus Pegler, with indignant pride. And
• 4:05:14
  Speaker 6: my dear boy knows and will give you to know, sir,
• 4:05:17
  Speaker 6: that after his beloved father died when he was eight
• 4:05:19
  Speaker 6: years old, his mother too could pinch a bit, as
• 4:05:22
  Speaker 6: it was her duty and her pleasure and her pride
• 4:05:25
  Speaker 6: to do it, to help him out in life and
• 4:05:27
  Speaker 6: put him prentice and a steady lad he was, and
• 4:05:30
  Speaker 6: a kind master he had to lend him a hand,
• 4:05:33
  Speaker 6: and well he worked his own way forward to be
• 4:05:36
  Speaker 6: rich and thriving. And I'll give you to know, sir,
• 4:05:39
  Speaker 6: for this, my dear boy want that though his mother
• 4:05:42
  Speaker 6: kept at a little village shop, he never forgot her,
• 4:05:45
  Speaker 6: but pensioned me on thirty bounds a year more than
• 4:05:48
  Speaker 6: I want for I put buy out of it, only
• 4:05:52
  Speaker 6: making the condition that I was to keep down in
• 4:05:54
  Speaker 6: my own part and make no boasts about him, and
• 4:05:57
  Speaker 6: not trouble him. And I have except with looking at
• 4:06:01
  Speaker 6: him once a year, when he's never knowed it, and
• 4:06:04
  Speaker 6: it's right, said poor old Missus Pegler in affectionate championship,
• 4:06:08
  Speaker 6: that I should keep down in my own part, and
• 4:06:11
  Speaker 6: I have no doubts that if I was here, I
• 4:06:14
  Speaker 6: should do a many unbefitting things. And I'm well contented,
• 4:06:18
  Speaker 6: and I can keep my pride in my Josiah to myself,
• 4:06:22
  Speaker 6: and I can love for love's own sake. And I'm
• 4:06:25
  Speaker 6: ashamed of you, sir, said Missus Pegler, lastly, for your
• 4:06:28
  Speaker 6: slanders and suspicions, and for I never stood here before, no,
• 4:06:33
  Speaker 6: never wanted to stand here when my dear son said no.
• 4:06:36
  Speaker 6: And I shouldn't be here now if it hadn't been
• 4:06:39
  Speaker 6: for being brought here. And for shame upon you, oh,
• 4:06:42
  Speaker 6: for shame to accuse me of being a bad mother
• 4:06:44
  Speaker 6: to my son, with my son standing here to tell
• 4:06:47
  Speaker 6: you so different. The bystanders on and off the dining
• 4:06:53
  Speaker 6: room chairs raised a murmur of sympathy with Missus Pegler,
• 4:06:57
  Speaker 6: and mister Gradgrind felt himself inno placed in a very
• 4:07:01
  Speaker 6: distressing predicament when mister Bounderby, who had never ceased walking
• 4:07:06
  Speaker 6: up and down and had every moment swelled larger and
• 4:07:09
  Speaker 6: larger and grown redder, and Redder stopped short. I don't
• 4:07:13
  Speaker 6: exactly know, said mister Bounderby, how I come to be
• 4:07:16
  Speaker 6: favored with the attendance of the present company. But I
• 4:07:20
  Speaker 6: don't inquire. When they are quite satisfied, perhaps they'll be
• 4:07:24
  Speaker 6: so good as to disperse. Whether they're satisfied or not,
• 4:07:28
  Speaker 6: perhaps they'll be so good as to disperse. I'm not
• 4:07:31
  Speaker 6: bound to deliver electra of my family affairs. I've not
• 4:07:34
  Speaker 6: undertaken to do it, and I'm not a going to
• 4:07:37
  Speaker 6: do it. Therefore, those who expect any explanation whatever upon
• 4:07:41
  Speaker 6: that branch of the subject will be disappointed, particularly Tom gradgrind,
• 4:07:46
  Speaker 6: and he can't know it too soon. In reference to
• 4:07:50
  Speaker 6: the bank robbery, there has been a mistake made concerning
• 4:07:53
  Speaker 6: my mother. If there hadn't been over officiousness, it wouldn't
• 4:07:57
  Speaker 6: have been made. And I hate over officiousness at all times,
• 4:08:00
  Speaker 6: whether or no good evening. Although mister Bounderby carried it
• 4:08:07
  Speaker 6: off in these terms, holding the door open for the
• 4:08:10
  Speaker 6: company to depart, there was a blustering, sheepishness upon him,
• 4:08:15
  Speaker 6: at once extremely crest fallen and superlatively absurd, detected as
• 4:08:22
  Speaker 6: the bully of humility who had built his windy reputation
• 4:08:26
  Speaker 6: upon lies, and in his boastfulness, had put the honest
• 4:08:30
  Speaker 6: truth as far away from him as if he had
• 4:08:32
  Speaker 6: advanced the mean claim. There is no meaner to tack
• 4:08:36
  Speaker 6: himself on to a pedigree. He cut a most ridiculous figure.
• 4:08:40
  Speaker 6: With the people filing off at the door he held,
• 4:08:42
  Speaker 6: who he knew would carry what had passed to the
• 4:08:45
  Speaker 6: whole town to be given to the four winds. He
• 4:08:48
  Speaker 6: could not have looked a bully more shorn and forlorn
• 4:08:51
  Speaker 6: if he had his ears cropped. Even that unlucky female
• 4:08:55
  Speaker 6: Missus Sparsit, fallen from her pinnacle of exultation into the
• 4:09:00
  Speaker 6: slough of Despond, was not in so bad a plight
• 4:09:03
  Speaker 6: as that remarkable man and self made humbug Josiah Bounderby
• 4:09:08
  Speaker 6: of Coketown. Rachel and Sissy, leaving Missus Pegler to occupy
• 4:09:16
  Speaker 6: a bed at her son's for that night, walked together
• 4:09:19
  Speaker 6: to the gate of Stone Lodge, and there parted. Mister
• 4:09:23
  Speaker 6: Gradgrind joined them before they had gone very far, and
• 4:09:26
  Speaker 6: spoke with much interest of Stephen Blackpool, for whom he
• 4:09:30
  Speaker 6: thought this signal failure of the suspicions against missus Pegler
• 4:09:33
  Speaker 6: was likely to work well as to the whelp. Throughout
• 4:09:38
  Speaker 6: this scene, as on all other late occasions, he had
• 4:09:41
  Speaker 6: stuck close to Bounderby. He seemed to feel that as
• 4:09:44
  Speaker 6: long as Bounderby could make no discovery without his knowledge,
• 4:09:47
  Speaker 6: he was so far safe. He never visited his sister,
• 4:09:51
  Speaker 6: and had only seen her once since she went home,
• 4:09:54
  Speaker 6: that is to say, on the night when he still
• 4:09:56
  Speaker 6: stuck close to Bounderby. As already related, there was one dim,
• 4:10:02
  Speaker 6: unformed fear lingering about his sister's mind, to which she
• 4:10:06
  Speaker 6: never gave utterance, which surrounded the graceless and ungrateful boy
• 4:10:11
  Speaker 6: with a dreadful mystery. The same dark possibility had presented
• 4:10:16
  Speaker 6: itself in the same shapeless guise this very day to Sissy,
• 4:10:20
  Speaker 6: when Rachel spoke of some one who would be confounded
• 4:10:23
  Speaker 6: by Stephen's return, having put him out of the way.
• 4:10:27
  Speaker 6: Louisa had never spoken of harboring any suspicion of her
• 4:10:30
  Speaker 6: brother in connection with the robbery. She and Sissy had
• 4:10:33
  Speaker 6: held no confidence on the subject, save in that one
• 4:10:37
  Speaker 6: interchange of looks when the unconscious father rested his gray
• 4:10:41
  Speaker 6: head on his hand, But it was understood between them
• 4:10:44
  Speaker 6: and they both knew it. This other fear was so
• 4:10:48
  Speaker 6: awful that it hovered about each of them like a
• 4:10:51
  Speaker 6: ghostly shadow, neither daring to think of its being near herself,
• 4:10:55
  Speaker 6: far less of its being near the other. And still
• 4:10:59
  Speaker 6: the force spirit which the whelp had plucked up, throve
• 4:11:02
  Speaker 6: with him. If Stephen Blackpool was not the thief, let
• 4:11:06
  Speaker 6: him show himself. Why didn't he another night? Another day
• 4:11:13
  Speaker 6: and night? No, Stephen Blackpool? Where was the man? And
• 4:11:19
  Speaker 6: why did he not come back? End of Section nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter six The starlight. The Sunday was a bright sunday
• 4:11:32
  Speaker 2: in autumn, clear and cool, when early in the morning
• 4:11:35
  Speaker 2: Sissy and Rachel met to walk in the country as
• 4:11:39
  Speaker 2: Coketown cast ashes not only on its own head, but
• 4:11:42
  Speaker 2: on the neighborhoods too. After the manner of those pious
• 4:11:45
  Speaker 2: persons who do penance for their own sins by putting
• 4:11:48
  Speaker 2: other people into sackcloth, it was customary for those who
• 4:11:51
  Speaker 2: now and then thirsted for a draft of pure air,
• 4:11:54
  Speaker 2: which is not absolutely the most wicked among the vanities
• 4:11:57
  Speaker 2: of life, to get a few miles away by the railroad,
• 4:12:00
  Speaker 2: and then begin their walk or their lounge in the fields.
• 4:12:04
  Speaker 2: Sissy and Rachel helped themselves out of the smoke by
• 4:12:06
  Speaker 2: the usual means, and were put down at a station
• 4:12:09
  Speaker 2: about midway between the town and mister Bounderby's retreat. Though
• 4:12:13
  Speaker 2: the green landscape was blotted here and there with heaps
• 4:12:16
  Speaker 2: of coal, it was green elsewhere, and there were trees
• 4:12:19
  Speaker 2: to see, and there were larks singing, though it was Sunday,
• 4:12:23
  Speaker 2: and there were pleasant scents in the air, and all
• 4:12:25
  Speaker 2: was overarched by a bright blue sky. In the distance
• 4:12:29
  Speaker 2: one way, Coketown showed as a black mist. In another distance,
• 4:12:33
  Speaker 2: hills began to rise. In a third there was a
• 4:12:35
  Speaker 2: faint change in the light of the horizon, where it
• 4:12:37
  Speaker 2: shone upon the far off sea. Under their feet, the
• 4:12:41
  Speaker 2: grass was fresh, beautiful, shadows of branches flickered upon it
• 4:12:45
  Speaker 2: and speckled it. Hedgerows were luxuriant. Everything was at peace.
• 4:12:50
  Speaker 2: Engines at Pitt's mouths and lean old horses that had
• 4:12:52
  Speaker 2: worn the circle of their daily labor into the ground
• 4:12:55
  Speaker 2: were alike. Quiet wheels had ceased for a short space
• 4:12:59
  Speaker 2: to turn, and the great wheel of earth seemed to
• 4:13:02
  Speaker 2: revolve without the shocks.
• 4:13:04
  Speaker 3: And noises of another time.
• 4:13:07
  Speaker 2: They walked on across the fields and down the shady lanes,
• 4:13:10
  Speaker 2: sometimes getting over a fragment of a fence so rotten
• 4:13:12
  Speaker 2: that it dropped at a touch of a foot, sometimes
• 4:13:15
  Speaker 2: passing near a wreck of bricks and beams overgrown with
• 4:13:18
  Speaker 2: grass marking the site of deserted works. They followed paths
• 4:13:22
  Speaker 2: and tracks. However, slight mounds, where the grass was rank
• 4:13:26
  Speaker 2: and high, and where brambles, dock weed, and suchlike vegetation
• 4:13:30
  Speaker 2: were confusedly heaped together, they always avoided, for dismal stories
• 4:13:34
  Speaker 2: were told in that country of the old pits hidden
• 4:13:37
  Speaker 2: beneath such indications. The sun was high when they sat
• 4:13:41
  Speaker 2: down to rest. They had seen no one near or
• 4:13:43
  Speaker 2: distant for a long time, and the solitude remained unbroken.
• 4:13:48
  Speaker 2: It is so still here, Rachel, and the way is
• 4:13:51
  Speaker 2: so untrodden that I think we must be the first
• 4:13:53
  Speaker 2: who have been here all the summer. As Sissy said it,
• 4:13:57
  Speaker 2: her eyes were attracted by another of those rotten fragments
• 4:14:00
  Speaker 2: of fence upon the ground. She got up to look
• 4:14:02
  Speaker 2: at it.
• 4:14:03
  Speaker 3: And yet I don't know. This has not been broken
• 4:14:06
  Speaker 3: very long.
• 4:14:07
  Speaker 1: The wood is.
• 4:14:08
  Speaker 2: Quite fresh where it gave way. Here are footsteps, too, oh, Rachel.
• 4:14:12
  Speaker 3: She ran back and caught her round the neck. Rachael
• 4:14:15
  Speaker 3: had already started up. What is the matter, I don't know.
• 4:14:19
  Speaker 2: There's a hat lying in the grass. They went forward together.
• 4:14:23
  Speaker 2: Rachel took it up, Shaking from head to foot. She
• 4:14:26
  Speaker 2: broke into a passion of tears and lamentations. Stephen Blackpool
• 4:14:31
  Speaker 2: was written in his own hand on the inside, Oh
• 4:14:35
  Speaker 2: the poor lad, the poor lad, he has been made
• 4:14:38
  Speaker 2: away with.
• 4:14:38
  Speaker 3: He is lying murdered.
• 4:14:39
  Speaker 2: Here is there?
• 4:14:41
  Speaker 4: Eh?
• 4:14:42
  Speaker 3: Has the hat any blood upon it? Sissy faltered.
• 4:14:45
  Speaker 2: They were afraid to look, but they did examine it
• 4:14:48
  Speaker 2: and found no marks of violence inside or out. It
• 4:14:51
  Speaker 2: had been lying there some days, for rain and dew
• 4:14:54
  Speaker 2: had stained it, and the mark of its shape was
• 4:14:56
  Speaker 2: on the grass where it had fallen. They looked fearfully
• 4:14:59
  Speaker 2: about them, without moving, but could see nothing more. Rachael says,
• 4:15:04
  Speaker 2: he whispered, I will go on a little by myself.
• 4:15:07
  Speaker 2: She had unclasped her hand and was in the act
• 4:15:10
  Speaker 2: of stepping forward when Rachel caught her in both arms
• 4:15:12
  Speaker 2: with a scream that resounded over the wide landscape. Before them.
• 4:15:17
  Speaker 2: At their very feet was the brink of a black,
• 4:15:20
  Speaker 2: ragged chasm, hidden by the thick grass. They sprang back
• 4:15:23
  Speaker 2: and fell upon their knees, each hiding her face upon
• 4:15:26
  Speaker 2: the other's neck. Oh, my good lord, he's down there,
• 4:15:30
  Speaker 2: down there. At first, this and her terrific screams were
• 4:15:33
  Speaker 2: all that could be got from Rachel by any tears,
• 4:15:36
  Speaker 2: by any prayers, by any representations, by any means. It
• 4:15:39
  Speaker 2: was impossible to hush her, and it was deadly necessary
• 4:15:42
  Speaker 2: to hold her, or she would have flung herself down
• 4:15:45
  Speaker 2: the shaft. Rachel, dear Rachel, good Rachel, for the love
• 4:15:49
  Speaker 2: of Heaven, not these dreadful cries. Think of Stephen. Think
• 4:15:53
  Speaker 2: of Stephen, Think of Stephen. By an earnest repetition of
• 4:15:57
  Speaker 2: this entreaty poured out in all the agony of such
• 4:15:59
  Speaker 2: a moment, Sissy at last brought her to be silent,
• 4:16:02
  Speaker 2: and to look at her with a tearless face of stone. Rachael,
• 4:16:06
  Speaker 2: Stephen may be living. You wouldn't leave him lying maimed
• 4:16:10
  Speaker 2: at the bottom of this dreadful place a moment if
• 4:16:12
  Speaker 2: you could bring help to him. No, no, no, don't
• 4:16:15
  Speaker 2: stir from here for his sake.
• 4:16:17
  Speaker 3: Let me go and listen.
• 4:16:19
  Speaker 2: She shuddered to approach the pit, but she crept towards
• 4:16:22
  Speaker 2: it on her hands and knees and called to him
• 4:16:24
  Speaker 2: as loud as she could call. She listened, but no
• 4:16:27
  Speaker 2: sound replied. She called again and listened, still no answering sound.
• 4:16:31
  Speaker 2: She did this twenty thirty times. She took a little
• 4:16:34
  Speaker 2: clod of earth from the broken ground where he had stumbled,
• 4:16:37
  Speaker 2: and threw it in. She could not hear it fall.
• 4:16:41
  Speaker 2: The wide prospect, so beautiful in its stillness, but a
• 4:16:43
  Speaker 2: few minutes ago, almost carried despair to her brave heart
• 4:16:47
  Speaker 2: as she rose and looked all round her, seeing no help. Rachel,
• 4:16:51
  Speaker 2: we must lose not a moment. We must go in
• 4:16:53
  Speaker 2: different directions, seeking eight. You shall go by the way
• 4:16:56
  Speaker 2: we have come, and I will go forward by the path.
• 4:16:58
  Speaker 2: Tell any one you see and everyone what has happened.
• 4:17:01
  Speaker 2: Think of Stephen. Think of Stephen. She knew by Rachel's
• 4:17:06
  Speaker 2: face that she might trust her now, and after standing
• 4:17:08
  Speaker 2: for a moment to see her running, wringing her hands
• 4:17:11
  Speaker 2: as she ran, she turned and went upon her own search.
• 4:17:14
  Speaker 2: She stopped at the hedge to tie her shawl there
• 4:17:16
  Speaker 2: as the guide to the place, then threw her bonnet
• 4:17:19
  Speaker 2: aside and ran as she had never run before. Run, Sissy,
• 4:17:22
  Speaker 2: Run in Heaven's name, don't stop for breath, run run,
• 4:17:27
  Speaker 2: quickening herself by carrying such entreaties in her thoughts. She
• 4:17:30
  Speaker 2: ran from field to field, and lane to lane, and
• 4:17:33
  Speaker 2: place to place, as she had never run before, until
• 4:17:36
  Speaker 2: she came to a shed by an engine house, where
• 4:17:38
  Speaker 2: two men lay in the shade, asleep on straw, first
• 4:17:42
  Speaker 2: to wake them, and next to tell them, all so
• 4:17:44
  Speaker 2: wild and breathless as she was, what had brought her.
• 4:17:46
  Speaker 2: There were difficulties, but they no sooner understood her than
• 4:17:49
  Speaker 2: their spirits were on fire like hers. One of the
• 4:17:52
  Speaker 2: men was in a drunken slumber, but on his comrade
• 4:17:54
  Speaker 2: shouting to him that a man had fallen down the
• 4:17:57
  Speaker 2: old hell shaft, he started out to a pool of
• 4:17:59
  Speaker 2: dirty water, put his head in it, and came back sober.
• 4:18:03
  Speaker 2: With these two men, she ran to another half a
• 4:18:06
  Speaker 2: mile further, and with that one to another. While they
• 4:18:08
  Speaker 2: ran elsewhere. Then a horse was found, and she got
• 4:18:11
  Speaker 2: another man to ride, for life or death to the
• 4:18:13
  Speaker 2: railroad and send a message to Louisa, which she wrote
• 4:18:16
  Speaker 2: and gave him. By this time a whole village was up,
• 4:18:19
  Speaker 2: and windlasses, ropes, poles, candles, lanterns, all things necessary were
• 4:18:24
  Speaker 2: fast collecting and being brought into one place to be
• 4:18:26
  Speaker 2: carried to the old hell shaft.
• 4:18:29
  Speaker 3: It seemed now.
• 4:18:29
  Speaker 2: Hours and hours since she had left the lost man
• 4:18:32
  Speaker 2: lying in the grave where he had been buried alive.
• 4:18:35
  Speaker 2: She could not bear to remain away from it any longer,
• 4:18:38
  Speaker 2: and was like deserting him, and she hurried swiftly back,
• 4:18:41
  Speaker 2: accompanied by half a dozen laborers, including the drunken man,
• 4:18:44
  Speaker 2: whom the news had sobered and who was the best
• 4:18:46
  Speaker 2: man of all. When they came to the old hell shaft,
• 4:18:49
  Speaker 2: they found it as lonely as she had left it.
• 4:18:52
  Speaker 2: The men called and listened as she had done, and
• 4:18:54
  Speaker 2: examined the edge of the chasm, and settled how it
• 4:18:56
  Speaker 2: had happened, and then sat down to wait until the
• 4:18:58
  Speaker 2: implements they wanted should come up. Every sound of insects
• 4:19:02
  Speaker 2: in the air, every stirring of the leaves, every whisper
• 4:19:04
  Speaker 2: among these men made Sissy tremble, for she thought it
• 4:19:07
  Speaker 2: was a cry at the bottom of the pit. But
• 4:19:10
  Speaker 2: the wind blew idly over it, and no sound arose
• 4:19:13
  Speaker 2: to the surface. And they sat upon the grass, waiting, waiting.
• 4:19:18
  Speaker 3: After they had.
• 4:19:18
  Speaker 2: Waited some times, straggling people who had heard of the
• 4:19:21
  Speaker 2: accident began to come up. Then the real help of
• 4:19:23
  Speaker 2: implements began to arrive. In the midst of this, Rachael returned,
• 4:19:27
  Speaker 2: and with her party there was a surgeon who brought
• 4:19:29
  Speaker 2: some wine and medicines. But the expectation among the people
• 4:19:33
  Speaker 2: that the man would be found.
• 4:19:33
  Speaker 3: Alive was very slight.
• 4:19:36
  Speaker 2: Indeed, there being now people enough present to impede the work,
• 4:19:40
  Speaker 2: the sobered man put himself at the head of the
• 4:19:42
  Speaker 2: rest or was put there by the general consent, and
• 4:19:46
  Speaker 2: made a large ring round the old hell shaft, and
• 4:19:49
  Speaker 2: appointed men to keep it. Besides such volunteers as were
• 4:19:53
  Speaker 2: accepted to work. Only Sissy and Rachel were at first
• 4:19:55
  Speaker 2: permitted within this ring. But later in the day, when
• 4:19:58
  Speaker 2: the message brought an express from Coketown, mister Gradgrind and
• 4:20:01
  Speaker 2: Louisa and mister Bounderby and the whelp were also there.
• 4:20:06
  Speaker 3: The sun was four.
• 4:20:07
  Speaker 2: Hours lower than when Sissy and Rachel had first sat
• 4:20:09
  Speaker 2: down upon the grass before a means of enabling two
• 4:20:12
  Speaker 2: men to descend securely was rigged with poles and ropes.
• 4:20:15
  Speaker 2: Difficulties had arisen in the construction of this machine, simple
• 4:20:18
  Speaker 2: as it was, requisites had been found wanting and messages
• 4:20:22
  Speaker 2: that had to go and to return. It was five
• 4:20:25
  Speaker 2: o'clock in the afternoon of the bright autumnal Sunday before
• 4:20:28
  Speaker 2: a candle was sent down to try the air, while
• 4:20:30
  Speaker 2: three or four rough faces stood crowded close together attentively
• 4:20:34
  Speaker 2: watching it. The man at the windlass lowering as they
• 4:20:37
  Speaker 2: were told. The candle was brought up again, feebly burning,
• 4:20:41
  Speaker 2: and then some water was cast in. Then the bucket
• 4:20:43
  Speaker 2: was hooked on, and the sobern man and another got
• 4:20:46
  Speaker 2: in with lights, giving the word lower away. As the
• 4:20:50
  Speaker 2: rope went out tight and strained, and the windlass creaked,
• 4:20:53
  Speaker 2: there was not a breath among the one or two
• 4:20:55
  Speaker 2: hundred men and women looking on that came as it
• 4:20:58
  Speaker 2: was wont to come. The signal was given and the
• 4:21:01
  Speaker 2: windlass stopped with abundant rope despair. Apparently so long an
• 4:21:05
  Speaker 2: interval ensued, with the men at the windlass standing idle,
• 4:21:08
  Speaker 2: that some women shrieked that another.
• 4:21:10
  Speaker 3: Accident had happened, But.
• 4:21:11
  Speaker 2: The surgeon who held the watch declared five minutes not
• 4:21:14
  Speaker 2: to have elapsed yet, and sternly admonished them to keep silence.
• 4:21:19
  Speaker 2: He had not well done speaking when the windlass was
• 4:21:21
  Speaker 2: reversed and worked again practiced eyes knew that it did
• 4:21:25
  Speaker 2: not go as heavily as it would if both workmen
• 4:21:27
  Speaker 2: had been coming up, and that only one was returning.
• 4:21:31
  Speaker 2: The rope came in, tight and strained, and ring after
• 4:21:34
  Speaker 2: ring was coiled upon the barrel of the windlass, and
• 4:21:36
  Speaker 2: all eyes were fastened on the pit. The sobered man
• 4:21:39
  Speaker 2: was brought up and leaped out briskly on the grass.
• 4:21:42
  Speaker 2: There was a universal cry of alive or dead, and
• 4:21:45
  Speaker 2: then a deep, profound hush. When he said alive, a
• 4:21:49
  Speaker 2: great shout arose, and many eyes had tears in them.
• 4:21:52
  Speaker 2: But he's hurt, very bad, he added, as soon as
• 4:21:55
  Speaker 2: he could make himself hurt again. Where's doctor? He's hurt
• 4:21:58
  Speaker 2: so very bad, sir, that we dunno how to get
• 4:22:01
  Speaker 2: him up. They all consulted together and looked anxiously at
• 4:22:05
  Speaker 2: the surgeon as he asked some questions, and shook his
• 4:22:07
  Speaker 2: head on receiving the replies. The sun was setting now,
• 4:22:11
  Speaker 2: and their red light in the evening sky touched every
• 4:22:13
  Speaker 2: face there and caused it to be distinctly seen in
• 4:22:16
  Speaker 2: all its rapt suspense. The consultation ended, and the men
• 4:22:20
  Speaker 2: returning to the windlass, and the pitmen going down again,
• 4:22:23
  Speaker 2: carrying the wine and some other small matters with him.
• 4:22:27
  Speaker 2: Then the other man came up. In the meantime, under
• 4:22:29
  Speaker 2: the surgeon's direction, some men brought a hurdle, on which
• 4:22:32
  Speaker 2: others made a thick bed of spare clothes covered with
• 4:22:34
  Speaker 2: loose straw, while he himself contrived some bandages and slings
• 4:22:38
  Speaker 2: from shawls and handkerchiefs. As these were made, they were
• 4:22:41
  Speaker 2: hung upon an arm of the pitman, who had last
• 4:22:43
  Speaker 2: come up with instructions how to use them. And as
• 4:22:46
  Speaker 2: he stood shown by the light, he carried, leaning his
• 4:22:49
  Speaker 2: powerful loose hand upon one of the poles, and sometimes
• 4:22:52
  Speaker 2: glancing down the pit, and sometimes glancing round upon the people.
• 4:22:56
  Speaker 2: He was not the least conspicuous figure in the scene.
• 4:22:59
  Speaker 2: It was darkness out, and torches were kindled. It appeared
• 4:23:03
  Speaker 2: from the little this man said to those about him,
• 4:23:06
  Speaker 2: which was quickly repeated all over the circle, that the
• 4:23:08
  Speaker 2: lost man had fallen upon a mass of crumbled rubbish
• 4:23:12
  Speaker 2: with which the pit was half choked up, and that
• 4:23:14
  Speaker 2: his fall had been further broken by some jagged earth
• 4:23:16
  Speaker 2: at the side. He lay upon his back, with one
• 4:23:19
  Speaker 2: arm doubled under him, and, according to his own belief,
• 4:23:23
  Speaker 2: had hardly stirred since he fell, except that he had
• 4:23:25
  Speaker 2: moved his free hand to his side pocket, in which
• 4:23:27
  Speaker 2: he remembered to have some bread and meat, of which
• 4:23:30
  Speaker 2: he had swallowed crumbs, and had likewise scooped up a
• 4:23:32
  Speaker 2: little water in it. Now and then, he had come
• 4:23:35
  Speaker 2: straight away from his work on being written to, and
• 4:23:37
  Speaker 2: had walked the whole journey, and was on his way
• 4:23:39
  Speaker 2: to mister Bounderby's country house after.
• 4:23:41
  Speaker 3: Dark when he fell.
• 4:23:43
  Speaker 2: He was crossing that dangerous country at such a dangerous time,
• 4:23:46
  Speaker 2: because he was innocent of what was laid to his charge,
• 4:23:49
  Speaker 2: and couldn't rest from coming the nearest way to deliver
• 4:23:51
  Speaker 2: himself up the old hell shaft, the pitman said, with
• 4:23:56
  Speaker 2: a curse upon it was worthy of its bad name
• 4:23:58
  Speaker 2: to the last. Though Stephen could speak now, he believed
• 4:24:02
  Speaker 2: it would soon be found to have mingled the life
• 4:24:04
  Speaker 2: out of him. When all was ready, this man, still
• 4:24:07
  Speaker 2: taking his last hurried charges from his comrades and the surgeon,
• 4:24:10
  Speaker 2: after the windlass had begun to lower him, disappeared into
• 4:24:13
  Speaker 2: the pit. The rope went out as before, the signal
• 4:24:16
  Speaker 2: was made as before, and the windlass stopped. No man
• 4:24:19
  Speaker 2: removed his hand from it. Now everyone waited, with his
• 4:24:22
  Speaker 2: grasp set and his body bent down to the work,
• 4:24:25
  Speaker 2: ready to reverse and wind in.
• 4:24:28
  Speaker 3: At length.
• 4:24:29
  Speaker 2: The signal was given, and all the ring leaned forward.
• 4:24:32
  Speaker 2: For now the rope came in, tightened and strained to
• 4:24:35
  Speaker 2: its utmost as it appeared, and the men turned heavily,
• 4:24:37
  Speaker 2: and the windlass complained. It was scarcely endurable to look
• 4:24:41
  Speaker 2: at the rope and think of its giving way.
• 4:24:43
  Speaker 3: But ring after ring was.
• 4:24:44
  Speaker 2: Coiled upon the barrel of the windlass safely, and the
• 4:24:47
  Speaker 2: connecting chains appeared. And finally the bucket, with the two
• 4:24:50
  Speaker 2: men holding on at the sides, a sight to make
• 4:24:52
  Speaker 2: the head swim and oppress the heart, and tenderly supporting
• 4:24:56
  Speaker 2: between them, slung and tied within the figure of a
• 4:25:00
  Speaker 2: he wore crushed human creature. A low murmur of pity
• 4:25:05
  Speaker 2: went round the throng, and the women wept aloud as
• 4:25:08
  Speaker 2: this form, almost without form, was moved very slowly from
• 4:25:12
  Speaker 2: its iron deliverance and laid upon the bed of straw.
• 4:25:15
  Speaker 2: At first, none but the surgeon went close to it.
• 4:25:17
  Speaker 2: He did what he could in its adjustment on the couch,
• 4:25:20
  Speaker 2: but the best that he could do was to cover
• 4:25:22
  Speaker 2: it that gently Donnie called to him, Rachel and Sissy,
• 4:25:26
  Speaker 2: and at that time the pale, worn, patient face was
• 4:25:29
  Speaker 2: seen looking up at the sky, with the broken right
• 4:25:32
  Speaker 2: hand lying bare on the outside of the covering garments,
• 4:25:35
  Speaker 2: as if waiting to be taken by another hand. They
• 4:25:39
  Speaker 2: gave him drink, moistened his face with water, and administered
• 4:25:43
  Speaker 2: some drops of cordial and wine. Though he lay quite
• 4:25:46
  Speaker 2: motionless looking up at the sky, he smiled and said, Rachel.
• 4:25:50
  Speaker 2: She stooped down on the grass at his side and
• 4:25:53
  Speaker 2: bent over him until her eyes were between his and
• 4:25:55
  Speaker 2: the sky, for he could not so much as turn
• 4:25:57
  Speaker 2: them to look at her.
• 4:25:59
  Speaker 3: Rachael, my dear. She took his hand. He smiled again
• 4:26:03
  Speaker 3: and said, don't let it go douart and great pain,
• 4:26:08
  Speaker 3: my own, dear Stephen, I have been, but not now.
• 4:26:13
  Speaker 2: I have been dreadful and dree and long, my dear.
• 4:26:17
  Speaker 2: But tis hour now, ah, Rachael, Ah, A muddle, for
• 4:26:22
  Speaker 2: first to last, a muddle. The specter of his old
• 4:26:25
  Speaker 2: look seemed to pass as he said the word I
• 4:26:28
  Speaker 2: have fell into the pit, my dear, as hath cost
• 4:26:32
  Speaker 2: within the knowledge of old folk now livin hundreds and
• 4:26:36
  Speaker 2: hundreds of men's lives, fathers, sons, brothers, dear to thousands
• 4:26:41
  Speaker 2: and thousands, and keepin 'em from want and hunger. I
• 4:26:45
  Speaker 2: have fell into a pit, that have been with the fire, damp,
• 4:26:48
  Speaker 2: crueler than battle. I have read on it in the
• 4:26:51
  Speaker 2: public petition as ony one my read for the men
• 4:26:55
  Speaker 2: that works in pits in which they are praying and
• 4:26:58
  Speaker 2: praying the lawmakers for Christ's sake, not to let their
• 4:27:01
  Speaker 2: work be murder to 'em, but to spare 'em for
• 4:27:04
  Speaker 2: the wives and children that they loves as well as
• 4:27:06
  Speaker 2: gentlefolk loves theirs. When it were in work, it killed,
• 4:27:10
  Speaker 2: We're out need. When tis let alone, it kills, we're
• 4:27:14
  Speaker 2: out need. See how we die in no need, one
• 4:27:17
  Speaker 2: way in another, in a muddle every day. He faintly
• 4:27:22
  Speaker 2: said it, without any anger against any one, merely as
• 4:27:26
  Speaker 2: the truth, Thy little sister Rachael, thou hast not forgot her,
• 4:27:31
  Speaker 2: Thou art not like to forget her now, and me
• 4:27:34
  Speaker 2: so nigh her.
• 4:27:35
  Speaker 3: Thou know'st poor.
• 4:27:36
  Speaker 2: Patience, suffering, dear, how thou didst work for her seatin
• 4:27:40
  Speaker 2: all day long in her little chair at thy winder,
• 4:27:44
  Speaker 2: And how she died young and misshapen along a sickly
• 4:27:48
  Speaker 2: air as hadn't no need to be and along a
• 4:27:52
  Speaker 2: workin people's miserable homes.
• 4:27:54
  Speaker 3: A muddle, awe a muddle.
• 4:27:58
  Speaker 2: Louisa approached him, but he could not, lying with his
• 4:28:00
  Speaker 2: face turned up to the night sky. If all the
• 4:28:04
  Speaker 2: things that teouches us, my dear, was not so muddled,
• 4:28:07
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't a needin to comb here. If we was
• 4:28:12
  Speaker 2: not in a muddle among ourseln I shouldn't have been
• 4:28:15
  Speaker 2: by my own fellow weavers and workin brothers so mistook.
• 4:28:20
  Speaker 2: If mister Bounderby had ever knowed me right, if he'd
• 4:28:23
  Speaker 2: ever knowed me at all, he wouldn't have took an
• 4:28:25
  Speaker 2: offense with me.
• 4:28:27
  Speaker 3: He wouldn't a suspecting me.
• 4:28:30
  Speaker 2: But look up yonder, Rachael look above, following his eyes,
• 4:28:35
  Speaker 2: she saw that he was gazing at a star. It
• 4:28:38
  Speaker 2: has shined upon me, he said, reverently, in my pain
• 4:28:42
  Speaker 2: and trouble down below. It has shined into my mind.
• 4:28:46
  Speaker 2: I had looking at it and thought of thee Rachel,
• 4:28:49
  Speaker 2: till the muddle in my mind had cleared a while
• 4:28:52
  Speaker 2: above a bit. I hope if soon had been wanting
• 4:28:55
  Speaker 2: in understanding me better, I too have been wanting in
• 4:28:59
  Speaker 2: understanding to them better. When I got thy letter, I
• 4:29:03
  Speaker 2: easily believe in that what the young ladies send An
• 4:29:06
  Speaker 2: done to me, and what her brother's send an done
• 4:29:08
  Speaker 2: to me, was won, and that there was a wicked
• 4:29:11
  Speaker 2: plot betwixt em. When I fell, I were in anger,
• 4:29:15
  Speaker 2: wearer and hur and on to be as unjust to
• 4:29:19
  Speaker 2: her as the others was to me. But in our judgments,
• 4:29:23
  Speaker 2: like as in our doings, we mun bear and forbear
• 4:29:27
  Speaker 2: in my pain and trouble, lookin up yonder with it
• 4:29:30
  Speaker 2: shinin on me.
• 4:29:31
  Speaker 3: I had seemed more clear.
• 4:29:33
  Speaker 2: And have made it my dying prayer that all the
• 4:29:35
  Speaker 2: world may only come together more and get a better
• 4:29:39
  Speaker 2: understanding on one another. Then, when I were in to
• 4:29:44
  Speaker 2: my own weak self, Louisa, hearing what he said, bent
• 4:29:50
  Speaker 2: over him on the opposite side to Rachael so that
• 4:29:52
  Speaker 2: he could see her. You have heard, he said, after
• 4:29:56
  Speaker 2: a few moments silence. I had not forgot you. Letty, Yes, Stephen,
• 4:30:01
  Speaker 2: I have heard you, and your prayer is mine. You
• 4:30:05
  Speaker 2: have father, Will YO take a message to him?
• 4:30:10
  Speaker 3: He is here, said Louisa with dread. Shall I bring
• 4:30:13
  Speaker 3: him to you? If ye please?
• 4:30:16
  Speaker 2: Louisa returned with her father, standing hand in hand they
• 4:30:19
  Speaker 2: both looked down upon the solemn countenance. Sir, you will
• 4:30:24
  Speaker 2: clear me and make my name good WI all men,
• 4:30:28
  Speaker 2: this I leave to you, mister Gradgrind was troubled and
• 4:30:32
  Speaker 2: asked how, sir was the reply, your son will tell
• 4:30:38
  Speaker 2: you how ask him.
• 4:30:39
  Speaker 3: I make no charges.
• 4:30:41
  Speaker 2: I'll leave none ahind me, not a single word I
• 4:30:44
  Speaker 2: has seen and spoken WI your son one night. I
• 4:30:48
  Speaker 2: ask no more o yo, than that you'll clear me,
• 4:30:51
  Speaker 2: and I trust to you to do it. The bearer's
• 4:30:55
  Speaker 2: being now ready to carry him away, and the surgeon
• 4:30:57
  Speaker 2: being anxious for his removal. Those who had torches or
• 4:31:00
  Speaker 2: lanterns prepared to go in front of the litter before
• 4:31:03
  Speaker 2: it was raised. And while they were arranging how to go,
• 4:31:06
  Speaker 2: he said to Rachel looking.
• 4:31:07
  Speaker 3: Upward at the star.
• 4:31:10
  Speaker 2: Often as I combed to myseln and found it shining
• 4:31:14
  Speaker 2: on me down there in my trouble, I I thought
• 4:31:16
  Speaker 2: it were the star as guided to our saviors home.
• 4:31:21
  Speaker 2: I almost think it be the very star. They lifted
• 4:31:24
  Speaker 2: him up, and he was overjoyed to find that they
• 4:31:26
  Speaker 2: were about to take him in the direction whither the
• 4:31:28
  Speaker 2: star seemed to him to lead. Rachael beloved last, don't
• 4:31:33
  Speaker 2: let go my hand, we may walk together to night.
• 4:31:36
  Speaker 2: My dear, I will hold thy hand and keep beside
• 4:31:40
  Speaker 2: these stephen all the way. Bless thee. Will somebody be
• 4:31:45
  Speaker 2: pleased to cover my face?
• 4:31:49
  Speaker 3: They carried him very.
• 4:31:50
  Speaker 2: Gently along the fields and down the lanes, and over
• 4:31:53
  Speaker 2: the wide landscape, Rachel always holding the hand in hers.
• 4:31:58
  Speaker 2: Very few whispers broke the mournful sigh silence. It was
• 4:32:01
  Speaker 2: soon a funeral procession. The star had shown him where
• 4:32:05
  Speaker 2: to find the God of the poor, and through humility
• 4:32:08
  Speaker 2: and sorrow and forgiveness he had gone to his redeemer's rest.
• 4:32:16
  Speaker 2: End of chapter six, end of section twenty, chapter seven,
• 4:32:22
  Speaker 2: well punting. Before the ring formed round the old hell
• 4:32:26
  Speaker 2: shafts was broken, one figure had disappeared from within it.
• 4:32:30
  Speaker 2: Mister Bounderby and his shadow had not stood near Louisa,
• 4:32:33
  Speaker 2: who held her father's arm, but in a retired place
• 4:32:36
  Speaker 2: by themselves. When mister Gradgrind was summoned to the couch, Sissy,
• 4:32:40
  Speaker 2: attentive to all that had happened, slipped behind.
• 4:32:43
  Speaker 3: That wicked shadow a sight in the horror of his face.
• 4:32:46
  Speaker 2: If there had been eyes there for any sight but one,
• 4:32:48
  Speaker 2: and whispered in his ear without turning his head. He
• 4:32:52
  Speaker 2: conferred with her a few moments and vanished. Thus the
• 4:32:55
  Speaker 2: whelp had gone out of the circle before the people moved.
• 4:32:59
  Speaker 2: When the father reached home, he sent a message to
• 4:33:01
  Speaker 2: mister Bounderby's desiring his son to come to him directly.
• 4:33:04
  Speaker 2: The reply was that mister Bounderby, having missed him in
• 4:33:07
  Speaker 2: the crowd, and seeing nothing of him since, had supposed
• 4:33:10
  Speaker 2: him to be at Stone Lodge. I believe, father, said Louisa,
• 4:33:15
  Speaker 2: he will not come back to town tonight. Mister Gradgrind
• 4:33:18
  Speaker 2: turned away and said no more. In the morning, he
• 4:33:21
  Speaker 2: went down to the bank himself as soon as it
• 4:33:23
  Speaker 2: was opened, and, seeing his son's place empty, he had
• 4:33:26
  Speaker 2: not the courage to look in at first, went back
• 4:33:29
  Speaker 2: along the street to meet mister Bounderby on his way there,
• 4:33:32
  Speaker 2: to whom he said that for reasons he would soon explain,
• 4:33:35
  Speaker 2: but entreated not then to be asked, for he had
• 4:33:37
  Speaker 2: found it necessary to employ his son at a distance
• 4:33:40
  Speaker 2: for a little while, also that he was charged with
• 4:33:43
  Speaker 2: the duty of vindicating Stephen Blackpool's memory and declaring the thief.
• 4:33:48
  Speaker 2: Mister Bounderby, quite confounded, stood stock still in the street
• 4:33:51
  Speaker 2: after his father in law had left him, swelling like
• 4:33:53
  Speaker 2: an immense soap bubble without its beauty. Mister Gradgrind went home,
• 4:33:59
  Speaker 2: locked himself in his room, and kept it all that day.
• 4:34:02
  Speaker 2: When Cissy and Luisa tapped at his door, he said,
• 4:34:04
  Speaker 2: without opening it, not now, my DearS in the evening.
• 4:34:08
  Speaker 2: On their return in the evening, he said, I am
• 4:34:11
  Speaker 2: not able yet tomorrow. He ate nothing all day and
• 4:34:15
  Speaker 2: had no candle after dark, and they heard him walking
• 4:34:17
  Speaker 2: to and fro late at night. But in the morning
• 4:34:20
  Speaker 2: he appeared at breakfast at the usual hour and took
• 4:34:23
  Speaker 2: his usual place at the table. Aged and bent, he
• 4:34:26
  Speaker 2: looked and quite bowed down, And yet he looked a
• 4:34:29
  Speaker 2: wiser man and a better man than in the days
• 4:34:31
  Speaker 2: when in this life he wanted nothing but facts. Before
• 4:34:35
  Speaker 2: he left the room, he appointed a time for them
• 4:34:38
  Speaker 2: to come to him, and so, with his gray head drooping,
• 4:34:40
  Speaker 2: went away. Dear father, said Louisa, when they kept their appointment.
• 4:34:45
  Speaker 2: You have three young children left. They will be different.
• 4:34:48
  Speaker 2: I will be different, yet with Heaven's help. She gave
• 4:34:51
  Speaker 2: her hand to Cissy, as if she meant with her
• 4:34:53
  Speaker 2: help too. Your wretched brother, said mister Gradgrind. Do you
• 4:34:58
  Speaker 2: think he had planned this robbery when he went with
• 4:35:00
  Speaker 2: you to the lodging. I fear so, Father, I know
• 4:35:04
  Speaker 2: he had wanted money very much and had spent a
• 4:35:07
  Speaker 2: good deal the poor man. Being about to leave the town,
• 4:35:11
  Speaker 2: it came into his evil brain to cast suspicion on him.
• 4:35:15
  Speaker 2: I think it must have flashed upon him while he
• 4:35:17
  Speaker 2: sat there, Father, for I asked him to go there
• 4:35:20
  Speaker 2: with me. The visit did not originate with him. He
• 4:35:23
  Speaker 2: had some conversation with the poor man, did he did
• 4:35:26
  Speaker 2: he take him aside? He took him out of the room.
• 4:35:30
  Speaker 2: I asked him afterwards why he had done so, and
• 4:35:32
  Speaker 2: he made a plausible excuse. But since last night, Father,
• 4:35:35
  Speaker 2: and when I remember the circumstances by its light, I'm
• 4:35:38
  Speaker 2: afraid I can imagine too truly what passed between them.
• 4:35:42
  Speaker 2: Let me know, said her father, if your thoughts present
• 4:35:45
  Speaker 2: your guilty brother in the dark, the same dark view
• 4:35:48
  Speaker 2: as mine, I fear father, hesitated Louisa, that he must
• 4:35:55
  Speaker 2: have made some representation to Stephen Blackpool, perhaps in my name,
• 4:35:59
  Speaker 2: perhaps in his own, which induced him to do, in
• 4:36:02
  Speaker 2: good faith and honesty what he had never done before,
• 4:36:05
  Speaker 2: and to wait about the bank those two or three
• 4:36:07
  Speaker 2: nights before he left town. Too. Plain returned the father
• 4:36:12
  Speaker 2: too plain. He shaded his face and remained silent for
• 4:36:16
  Speaker 2: some moments. Recovering himself, he said, and now how is
• 4:36:20
  Speaker 2: he to be found? How is he to be saved
• 4:36:22
  Speaker 2: from justice? In the few hours that I can possibly
• 4:36:25
  Speaker 2: allow to elapse before I publish the truth? How is
• 4:36:28
  Speaker 2: he to be found by us? And only by us?
• 4:36:31
  Speaker 2: Ten thousand pounds could.
• 4:36:32
  Speaker 3: Not affect it? Cissy has affected it. Father.
• 4:36:37
  Speaker 2: He raised his eyes to where she stood like a
• 4:36:39
  Speaker 2: good fairy in his house, and said, in a tone
• 4:36:41
  Speaker 2: of softened gratitude and grateful kindness.
• 4:36:44
  Speaker 3: It is always you, my child.
• 4:36:47
  Speaker 2: We had our fears, Cissy explained, glancing at Louisa before yesterday,
• 4:36:52
  Speaker 2: and when I saw you brought to the side of
• 4:36:54
  Speaker 2: the litter last night, and heard what passed being close
• 4:36:57
  Speaker 2: to Rachel all the time, I went to him when
• 4:37:00
  Speaker 2: no one saw, and said to him, don't look at me,
• 4:37:02
  Speaker 2: See where your father is.
• 4:37:04
  Speaker 3: Escape at once, for.
• 4:37:05
  Speaker 2: His sake and your own. He was in a tremble
• 4:37:08
  Speaker 2: before I whispered to him, and he started and trembled
• 4:37:11
  Speaker 2: more then, and said, where can I go? I have
• 4:37:14
  Speaker 2: very little money, and I don't know who will hide me.
• 4:37:17
  Speaker 2: I thought of father's old circus. I have not forgotten
• 4:37:21
  Speaker 2: where mister Sleery goes at this time of year, and
• 4:37:24
  Speaker 2: I read of him in a paper only the other day.
• 4:37:26
  Speaker 2: I told him to hurry there and tell his name,
• 4:37:29
  Speaker 2: and ask mister Sleary to hide him till I came.
• 4:37:33
  Speaker 2: I'll get to him before the morning, he said, and
• 4:37:36
  Speaker 2: I saw him shrink away among the people. Thank Heaven,
• 4:37:40
  Speaker 2: exclaimed his father.
• 4:37:41
  Speaker 3: He may be got abroad.
• 4:37:43
  Speaker 2: Yet it was the more hopeful, as the town to
• 4:37:47
  Speaker 2: which Sissy had directed him was within three hours journey
• 4:37:50
  Speaker 2: of Liverpool. Whence he could be swiftly dispatched to any
• 4:37:53
  Speaker 2: part of the world, but caution being necessary, and communicating
• 4:37:56
  Speaker 2: with him, for there was a greater danger every moment
• 4:37:59
  Speaker 2: of his being so expected now, and nobody could be
• 4:38:02
  Speaker 2: sure at heart, but that mister bounderby himself, in a
• 4:38:05
  Speaker 2: bullying vein of public zeal, might play a Roman part.
• 4:38:08
  Speaker 2: It was consented that Cissy and Louisa should repair to
• 4:38:11
  Speaker 2: the place in question by a circuit discourse alone, and
• 4:38:15
  Speaker 2: that the unhappy father, setting forth in an opposite direction,
• 4:38:18
  Speaker 2: should get round to the same boorn by another and
• 4:38:20
  Speaker 2: wider route. It was further agreed that he should not
• 4:38:24
  Speaker 2: present himself to mister Sleary, lest his intentions should be mistrusted,
• 4:38:29
  Speaker 2: or the intelligence of his arrival should cause his son
• 4:38:32
  Speaker 2: to take flight anew, but that the communication should be
• 4:38:35
  Speaker 2: left to Cissy and Louisa to open, and that they
• 4:38:38
  Speaker 2: should inform the cause of so much misery and disgrace
• 4:38:41
  Speaker 2: of his father's being at hand, and of the purpose
• 4:38:43
  Speaker 2: for which they had come. When these arrangements had been
• 4:38:46
  Speaker 2: well considered and were fully understood by all three, it
• 4:38:49
  Speaker 2: was time to begin to carry them into execution. Early
• 4:38:52
  Speaker 2: in the afternoon, mister Gradgrind walked direct from his own
• 4:38:55
  Speaker 2: house into the country to be taken up on the
• 4:38:58
  Speaker 2: line by which he was to travel, And at night
• 4:39:00
  Speaker 2: ight the remaining two set forth upon their different course.
• 4:39:03
  Speaker 2: Encouraged by not seeing any face they knew, the two
• 4:39:06
  Speaker 2: traveled all night, except when they were left for odd
• 4:39:09
  Speaker 2: numbers of minutes at branch places up illimitable flights of
• 4:39:12
  Speaker 2: steps or down wells, which was the only variety of
• 4:39:16
  Speaker 2: those branches, and early in the morning were turned out
• 4:39:18
  Speaker 2: on a swamp a mile or two from the town
• 4:39:20
  Speaker 2: they sought. From this dismal spot they were rescued by
• 4:39:24
  Speaker 2: a savage old postilion who happened to be up early
• 4:39:27
  Speaker 2: kicking a horse in a fly, and so they were
• 4:39:30
  Speaker 2: smuggled into the town by all the back lanes where
• 4:39:32
  Speaker 2: the pigs lived, which, although not a magnificent or even
• 4:39:36
  Speaker 2: savory approach, was, as is usual in such cases, the
• 4:39:39
  Speaker 2: legitimate highway. The first thing they saw on entering the
• 4:39:43
  Speaker 2: town was the skeleton of Sleary Circus. The company had
• 4:39:46
  Speaker 2: departed for another town more than twenty miles off, and
• 4:39:49
  Speaker 2: had opened there last night. The connection between the two
• 4:39:52
  Speaker 2: places was by a hilly turnpike road, and the traveling
• 4:39:55
  Speaker 2: on that road was very slow, though they took but
• 4:39:57
  Speaker 2: a hasty breakfast and no rest, which had would have
• 4:40:00
  Speaker 2: been in vain to seek under such anxious circumstances. It
• 4:40:03
  Speaker 2: was noon before they began to find the bills of
• 4:40:05
  Speaker 2: Sleary's horse riding on barns and walls, and one o'clock
• 4:40:08
  Speaker 2: when they stopped in the market place. A grand morning
• 4:40:12
  Speaker 2: performance by the riders commencing at that very hour was
• 4:40:15
  Speaker 2: in course of announcement by the bellman. As they set
• 4:40:18
  Speaker 2: their feet upon the stones of the street, Sissy recommended that,
• 4:40:21
  Speaker 2: to avoid making inquiries and attracting attention in the town,
• 4:40:25
  Speaker 2: they should present themselves to pay at the door. If
• 4:40:27
  Speaker 2: mister Sleary were taking the money, he would be sure
• 4:40:30
  Speaker 2: to know where and would proceed with discretion. If he
• 4:40:33
  Speaker 2: were not, he would be sure to see them inside, and,
• 4:40:35
  Speaker 2: knowing what he had done with the fugitive, would proceed
• 4:40:37
  Speaker 2: with discretion. Still, therefore they repaired with fluttering hearts to
• 4:40:42
  Speaker 2: the well remembered booth. The flag with the inscription Sleary's
• 4:40:46
  Speaker 2: horse riding was there, and the Gothic niche was there,
• 4:40:49
  Speaker 2: But mister Sleary was not there. Master Kidderminster, grown too
• 4:40:53
  Speaker 2: maturely turfy to be received by the wildest credulity as
• 4:40:56
  Speaker 2: Cupid any more, had yielded to the invincible force of circumcins,
• 4:41:00
  Speaker 2: dances and his beard, and, in the capacity of a
• 4:41:02
  Speaker 2: man who made himself generally useful, presided on this occasion
• 4:41:06
  Speaker 2: over the exchequer, having also a drum in reserve on
• 4:41:09
  Speaker 2: which to expend his leisure moments and superfluous forces.
• 4:41:13
  Speaker 3: In the extreme.
• 4:41:13
  Speaker 2: Sharpness of his lookout for base coin, mister Kidderminster, so
• 4:41:17
  Speaker 2: at present situated, never saw anything but money. So Cissy
• 4:41:20
  Speaker 2: passed him unrecognized, and they went in the Emperor of
• 4:41:24
  Speaker 2: Japan on a steady old white horse, tenseiled with black spots,
• 4:41:28
  Speaker 2: was twirling five wash hand basins at once, as it
• 4:41:31
  Speaker 2: is the favorite recreation of that monarch to do. Cissy,
• 4:41:34
  Speaker 2: though well acquainted with his royal line, had no personal
• 4:41:37
  Speaker 2: knowledge of the present emperor, and his reign was peaceful.
• 4:41:41
  Speaker 2: Miss Josephine Sleary in her celebrated, graceful Equestrian Tyrolean Flower
• 4:41:45
  Speaker 2: Act was then announced by a new clown who humorously
• 4:41:48
  Speaker 2: said Cauliflower Act, and mister Sleary appeared leading her in.
• 4:41:53
  Speaker 2: Mister Sleary had only made one cut at the clown
• 4:41:55
  Speaker 2: with his long whiplash, and the clown had only said,
• 4:41:58
  Speaker 2: if you'd do it again, I'll throw the horle you
• 4:42:00
  Speaker 2: when Cissy was recognized both by father and daughter, but
• 4:42:05
  Speaker 2: they got through the act with great self possession, and
• 4:42:07
  Speaker 2: mister Sleary, saving for the first instant, conveyed no more
• 4:42:11
  Speaker 2: expression into his locomotive eye than into.
• 4:42:13
  Speaker 3: His fixed one.
• 4:42:14
  Speaker 2: The performance seemed a little long to Cissy and Louisa,
• 4:42:17
  Speaker 2: particularly when it stopped to afford the clown an opportunity
• 4:42:20
  Speaker 2: of telling mister Sleary, who said, indeed, Sir, to all
• 4:42:22
  Speaker 2: this observations in the calmest way, and with his eye
• 4:42:25
  Speaker 2: on the house about two legs, sitting on three legs,
• 4:42:29
  Speaker 2: looking at one leg, when in came four legs, laid
• 4:42:31
  Speaker 2: hold of one leg, and up got two legs, caught
• 4:42:34
  Speaker 2: hold of three legs, and threw him at four legs,
• 4:42:36
  Speaker 2: who ran away with one leg. For although an ingenious
• 4:42:39
  Speaker 2: allegory relating to a butcher, a three legged stool, a dog,
• 4:42:42
  Speaker 2: and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time, and
• 4:42:45
  Speaker 2: they were in great suspense. At last, however, little fair
• 4:42:49
  Speaker 2: haired Josephine made her curtsey amid great applause, and the
• 4:42:52
  Speaker 2: clown left alone in the ring, had just warmed himself
• 4:42:55
  Speaker 2: and said, now I'll have a turn. When Cissy was
• 4:42:58
  Speaker 2: touched on the shoulder and beckon out. She took Louisa
• 4:43:02
  Speaker 2: with her, and they were received by mister Sleary in
• 4:43:05
  Speaker 2: a very little private apartment with kansas sides, a grass
• 4:43:08
  Speaker 2: floor and a wooden ceiling, all aslant on which the
• 4:43:11
  Speaker 2: box company stamped their approbation, as if they were coming
• 4:43:14
  Speaker 2: through Tithelia, said mister Sleary, who had brandy and water
• 4:43:18
  Speaker 2: at hand. It doth me good to see you you
• 4:43:22
  Speaker 2: with all, we've a favorite with us and and you've
• 4:43:25
  Speaker 2: done a credit since the old time. I'm thure you
• 4:43:30
  Speaker 2: must see our people, my dear, afore we speak of Bithneth,
• 4:43:33
  Speaker 2: or they'll break their hearth. It's beectly. The women he
• 4:43:37
  Speaker 2: hath doth fiend hath been and got married to e
• 4:43:41
  Speaker 2: W b Childeth, and the hath Hath got a boy,
• 4:43:45
  Speaker 2: And though he's only three years old, he's stickth on
• 4:43:48
  Speaker 2: to any pony you can bring against him. He's named
• 4:43:51
  Speaker 2: the little Wonder of s Colothic equitation. And if you
• 4:43:56
  Speaker 2: don't hear of that boy at Athlete, you'll hear of
• 4:43:58
  Speaker 2: him at parath and you recollect Kidderminster. They were thought
• 4:44:02
  Speaker 2: to be rather thweed upon yourself. Well he's married, too,
• 4:44:06
  Speaker 2: married a widow old enough to be his mother. See
• 4:44:10
  Speaker 2: worth tightrope she was and now sees nothing on account
• 4:44:14
  Speaker 2: of fact they've got two children. So we're strong in
• 4:44:18
  Speaker 2: the fairy business and the nursery dodge. If you were
• 4:44:21
  Speaker 2: to see our children in the wood with their father
• 4:44:24
  Speaker 2: and mother, both are dying on a horse, their uncle
• 4:44:27
  Speaker 2: a rethieving of them at the wart upon a horse
• 4:44:31
  Speaker 2: themselves both to go and a BlackBerry and upon a horse,
• 4:44:34
  Speaker 2: and the and the robins are coming in to cover
• 4:44:37
  Speaker 2: them with leaves upon a horse. You'd say it was
• 4:44:39
  Speaker 2: the completest thing that ever youth set your ithon. And
• 4:44:44
  Speaker 2: you remember, Emma Gordon, my dear as was almost a
• 4:44:48
  Speaker 2: mother to you.
• 4:44:49
  Speaker 3: Of course you do.
• 4:44:50
  Speaker 2: I needn't ask well, Emma he lost her husband. He
• 4:44:55
  Speaker 2: would throwed a heavy backfall off an elephant in a thought,
• 4:45:00
  Speaker 2: what of a pagoda thing at the thulton of the
• 4:45:03
  Speaker 2: indieth And he never got the better of it? And
• 4:45:06
  Speaker 2: and the the married a second time married the Cheethmonga
• 4:45:11
  Speaker 2: has fell in love with her from the front, and
• 4:45:14
  Speaker 2: he the over thea and making a fortune. These various changes,
• 4:45:19
  Speaker 2: mister Sleary, very short of breath, now related with great heartiness,
• 4:45:23
  Speaker 2: and with a wonderful kind of innocence, considering what a
• 4:45:25
  Speaker 2: bleary and brandy and watery old veteran he was. Afterwards
• 4:45:29
  Speaker 2: he brought in Josephine and E. W. B. Childers, rather
• 4:45:32
  Speaker 2: deeply lined in the jaws by daylight, and the little
• 4:45:36
  Speaker 2: wonder of scholastic equitation, and in a word, all the
• 4:45:39
  Speaker 2: company amazing creatures. They were, in Louise's eyes, so white
• 4:45:42
  Speaker 2: and pink of complexion, so scant of dress, and so
• 4:45:45
  Speaker 2: demonstrative of leg But it was very agreeable to see
• 4:45:48
  Speaker 2: them crowding about Sissy, and very natural in Sissy to
• 4:45:51
  Speaker 2: be unable to refrain from tears. There Now Thethilia hath
• 4:45:56
  Speaker 2: kissed all the children and hugged all the women, and
• 4:45:59
  Speaker 2: they can have all round with all the men, clear
• 4:46:02
  Speaker 2: every one of you, and ring in the band for
• 4:46:04
  Speaker 2: the second part. As soon as they were gone, he
• 4:46:07
  Speaker 2: continued in a low tone. Now Thethilia, I don't ask
• 4:46:11
  Speaker 2: to know any Thiecrith, but I suppose I may consider
• 4:46:15
  Speaker 2: this to be myth Guia. This is his sister, yes,
• 4:46:21
  Speaker 2: and to other anth daughter, that's what I mean. Hope
• 4:46:24
  Speaker 2: I see well myth, and I hope the Thkaieth.
• 4:46:27
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 4:46:28
  Speaker 2: My father will be here soon, said Louisa, anxious to
• 4:46:31
  Speaker 2: bring him to the point. Is my brother safe, Fife
• 4:46:35
  Speaker 2: and found, He replied, I want you just to take
• 4:46:38
  Speaker 2: a peep at the ring Myth through here, Cethilia, you
• 4:46:41
  Speaker 2: know the dodgeitth find a spy hole for your self.
• 4:46:45
  Speaker 2: They each lit looked through a chink in the boards
• 4:46:48
  Speaker 2: thatth Jack the giant killer Pete of comic infantith Myth
• 4:46:53
  Speaker 2: said Sleary, they're the property houth, you thief for Jack
• 4:46:56
  Speaker 2: to hideen the'th my clown with a fothpan lid and
• 4:46:59
  Speaker 2: a thpis for Jack thurvant and death little Jack himself
• 4:47:03
  Speaker 2: in a splendid thooit of armor. They're two comic. Black
• 4:47:07
  Speaker 2: Servant twice at big of the house to stand by
• 4:47:11
  Speaker 2: it and to bring it in and clear it, and
• 4:47:14
  Speaker 2: the giant a very expensive bathket one. He ain't done yet.
• 4:47:18
  Speaker 2: Now do you see him all? Yes, they both said,
• 4:47:22
  Speaker 2: Look at him again, said Sleary, look at him? Well,
• 4:47:25
  Speaker 2: you see him all?
• 4:47:26
  Speaker 3: Very good?
• 4:47:27
  Speaker 2: Now if he put a form for them to sit on.
• 4:47:30
  Speaker 2: I have my opinions. And the squire your father hath hid.
• 4:47:34
  Speaker 2: I don't want know what your brother has been up to.
• 4:47:37
  Speaker 2: It's better for me not to know. All I faith
• 4:47:40
  Speaker 2: the squire hath stood by Fathilia, and I'll stand by
• 4:47:44
  Speaker 2: the squire. Your brother is one of them. Black servant.
• 4:47:49
  Speaker 3: Louisa uttered an.
• 4:47:50
  Speaker 2: Exclamation, partly of dispress distress, partly of satisfaction. If the fact,
• 4:47:56
  Speaker 2: said Sleary, and even known it, you couldn't put your
• 4:47:59
  Speaker 2: finger on him. Let the squire come. I shall keep
• 4:48:02
  Speaker 2: your brother here after the performance. I caan't undress him
• 4:48:06
  Speaker 2: nor yet woteth patenth Off, Let the squire come here
• 4:48:10
  Speaker 2: after the performance, or come here your thelf after the performance,
• 4:48:13
  Speaker 2: and youth thaull find your brother and have the whole
• 4:48:16
  Speaker 2: plaith to talk to him in never mind the look
• 4:48:19
  Speaker 2: of him, as long as heath well hid. Louisa, with
• 4:48:23
  Speaker 2: many thanks and with a lightened load, detained mister Sleary
• 4:48:26
  Speaker 2: no longer. Then she left her love for her brother,
• 4:48:29
  Speaker 2: with her eyes full of tears, and she and Sissy
• 4:48:31
  Speaker 2: went away until later in the afternoon. Mister Gradgrind arrived
• 4:48:36
  Speaker 2: within an hour afterwards. He too had encountered no one
• 4:48:39
  Speaker 2: whom he knew, and was now sanguine with Sleary's assistance
• 4:48:42
  Speaker 2: of getting his disgraced son to Liverpool in the night.
• 4:48:45
  Speaker 2: As neither of the three could be his companion without
• 4:48:47
  Speaker 2: almost identifying him under any disguise, he prepared a letter
• 4:48:51
  Speaker 2: to a correspondent whom he could trust, beseeching him to
• 4:48:54
  Speaker 2: ship the bearer off at any cost to North or
• 4:48:56
  Speaker 2: South America, or any distant part of the world to
• 4:48:59
  Speaker 2: which he could be the more speedily and privately despatched.
• 4:49:03
  Speaker 2: This done, they walked about, waiting for the circus to
• 4:49:05
  Speaker 2: be quite vacated not only by the audience, but by
• 4:49:08
  Speaker 2: the company and by the horses. After watching it a
• 4:49:11
  Speaker 2: long time, they saw mister Sleary bring out a chair
• 4:49:14
  Speaker 2: and sit down by the side door, smoking, as if
• 4:49:17
  Speaker 2: that were his signal that they might approach. Your ferventh
• 4:49:21
  Speaker 2: choir was his cautious salutation as they passed in. If
• 4:49:24
  Speaker 2: you want me, you'll find me here. You mustn't mind
• 4:49:27
  Speaker 2: your son having a comic livery on. They all three
• 4:49:30
  Speaker 2: went in, and mister Gradgrind sat down forlorn on the
• 4:49:33
  Speaker 2: clown's performing chair in the middle of the ring. On
• 4:49:36
  Speaker 2: one of the back benches, remote in the subdued light
• 4:49:39
  Speaker 2: and the strangeness of the place, sat the villainous whelp
• 4:49:42
  Speaker 2: Sulky to the last, whom he had the misery to
• 4:49:44
  Speaker 2: call his son, in a preposterous coat like a beetle's,
• 4:49:48
  Speaker 2: with cuffs and flaps exaggerated to an unspeakable extent, in
• 4:49:52
  Speaker 2: an immense waistcoat, knee breeches, buckled shoes, and a mad
• 4:49:56
  Speaker 2: cocked hat with nothing fitting him, and everything of course
• 4:49:59
  Speaker 2: material moth eaten and full of holes with seams in
• 4:50:03
  Speaker 2: his black face where fear and heat had started through
• 4:50:06
  Speaker 2: the greasy composition daubed all over it. Anything so grimly, destestably,
• 4:50:10
  Speaker 2: ridiculously shameful as the Whelp and his comic livery. Mister
• 4:50:14
  Speaker 2: gradgrind never could by any other means have believed him
• 4:50:17
  Speaker 2: weighable and measurable, fact though it was, and one of
• 4:50:20
  Speaker 2: his model children had come to this at first, the
• 4:50:24
  Speaker 2: Whelp would not draw any nearer, but persisted in remaining
• 4:50:27
  Speaker 2: up there by himself yielding at length. If any concession
• 4:50:31
  Speaker 2: so sullenly made can be called yielding to the entreaties
• 4:50:33
  Speaker 2: of Sissy for Louisa, he disowned altogether. He came down,
• 4:50:37
  Speaker 2: bench by bench until he stood in the sawdust on
• 4:50:40
  Speaker 2: the verge of the circle, as far as possible, within
• 4:50:43
  Speaker 2: its limits, from where his father sat. How was this done,
• 4:50:48
  Speaker 2: asked the father. How is what done?
• 4:50:50
  Speaker 3: Moodily, answered the son.
• 4:50:52
  Speaker 2: This robbery, said the father, raising his voice upon the word.
• 4:50:57
  Speaker 2: I forced the safe myself over night and shut up
• 4:51:00
  Speaker 2: a jar before I went away. I had had the
• 4:51:02
  Speaker 2: key that was found made long before I dropped it
• 4:51:05
  Speaker 2: that morning, that it might be supposed to have been used,
• 4:51:08
  Speaker 2: and it take.
• 4:51:08
  Speaker 3: The money all at once.
• 4:51:10
  Speaker 2: I pretended to put my balance away every night, but
• 4:51:12
  Speaker 2: I didn't and now you know all about it. If
• 4:51:16
  Speaker 2: a thunderbolt had fallen on me, said the father, it
• 4:51:18
  Speaker 2: would have shocked me less than this. I don't see why,
• 4:51:22
  Speaker 2: grumbled the sun. So many people are employed in situations
• 4:51:25
  Speaker 2: of trust, so many people out of so many will
• 4:51:28
  Speaker 2: be dishonest. I have heard you talk a hundred times
• 4:51:31
  Speaker 2: of its being a law. How can I help laws?
• 4:51:34
  Speaker 2: You have comforted others with such things, Father, comfort yourself.
• 4:51:38
  Speaker 2: The father buried his face in his hands, and the
• 4:51:40
  Speaker 2: son stood in his disgraceful grotesqueness, biting straw, his hands
• 4:51:45
  Speaker 2: with the black partly worn away inside, looking like the
• 4:51:47
  Speaker 2: hands of a monkey. The evening was fast closing in,
• 4:51:50
  Speaker 2: and from time to time he turned the whites of
• 4:51:52
  Speaker 2: his eyes restlessly and impatiently toward his father. They were
• 4:51:55
  Speaker 2: the only parts of his face that showed any life
• 4:51:57
  Speaker 2: or expression. The pigment upon it was so thick. You
• 4:52:02
  Speaker 2: must be got to Liverpool and sent abroad. I suppose
• 4:52:06
  Speaker 2: I must. I. I can't be more miserable anywhere, whimpered
• 4:52:11
  Speaker 2: the whelp than I have been here ever since.
• 4:52:14
  Speaker 3: I can remember. That's one thing.
• 4:52:17
  Speaker 2: Mister Gradgrind went to the door and returned with sleary
• 4:52:19
  Speaker 2: to whom he submitted the question how to get this
• 4:52:21
  Speaker 2: deplorable object away?
• 4:52:24
  Speaker 3: Why I've been thinking of it?
• 4:52:26
  Speaker 2: Squire, there have not much time to lose, though, you
• 4:52:30
  Speaker 2: must say yet or no. It's over twenty miles to
• 4:52:34
  Speaker 2: the rail. They are the coat in half an hour.
• 4:52:38
  Speaker 2: That goes to the rail. But propose to keet the
• 4:52:43
  Speaker 2: mail train. That train will take him right to Liverpool.
• 4:52:47
  Speaker 2: But look at him, groaned mister Gradgrind.
• 4:52:50
  Speaker 6: Will any coach.
• 4:52:52
  Speaker 2: I don't mean that he should go into comic livery,
• 4:52:55
  Speaker 2: said Sleary. They the wood and I'll make a jopkin
• 4:52:58
  Speaker 2: of him out of the wardrobe and in five minutes.
• 4:53:02
  Speaker 2: I don't understand, said mister Gragrind, a jothkin a carter.
• 4:53:08
  Speaker 2: Make up your mind quick, squire. There'll be beer to feth.
• 4:53:13
  Speaker 2: I've never met with nothing but beer. If they'll ever
• 4:53:16
  Speaker 2: clean a comic blackamore, mister Gradgrind rapidly assented. Mister Sleary
• 4:53:21
  Speaker 2: rapidly turned out from a box a smock, frock, a
• 4:53:25
  Speaker 2: felt hat and other essentials. The whelp rapidly changed clothes
• 4:53:29
  Speaker 2: behind a screen of bays, and mister Sleary rapidly brought
• 4:53:31
  Speaker 2: beer and washed him white again. Now, said Sleary, Come
• 4:53:36
  Speaker 2: along to the coat and jump up behind. I'll go
• 4:53:39
  Speaker 2: with you there, and they'll suppose you one of my people.
• 4:53:42
  Speaker 2: They farewell to your family, and thoft the word with
• 4:53:46
  Speaker 2: which he delicately retired. Here is your letter, said mister gradgrind.
• 4:53:51
  Speaker 2: All necessary means will be provided for you atone by
• 4:53:55
  Speaker 2: repentance and better conduct for the shocking action which you
• 4:53:58
  Speaker 2: have committed and dreadful consequences to which it has led.
• 4:54:02
  Speaker 2: Give me your hand, my poor boy, and may God
• 4:54:05
  Speaker 2: forgive you as I do. The culprit was moved to
• 4:54:09
  Speaker 2: a few abject tears by these words in their pathetic tone,
• 4:54:12
  Speaker 2: But when Louise opened her arms, he.
• 4:54:14
  Speaker 3: Repulsed her afresh.
• 4:54:16
  Speaker 2: Not you, I don't want to have anything to say
• 4:54:19
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 4:54:19
  Speaker 3: Oh Tom, Tom, do we end?
• 4:54:21
  Speaker 4: So?
• 4:54:22
  Speaker 2: After all my love, after all your love, He returned obdurately,
• 4:54:27
  Speaker 2: Pretty love, leaving old Bounderby to himself and packing my
• 4:54:31
  Speaker 2: best friend mister Harthouse off and going home, just when
• 4:54:33
  Speaker 2: I was in the greatest danger. Pretty love that coming
• 4:54:36
  Speaker 2: out with every word about our having gone to that
• 4:54:39
  Speaker 2: place when you saw the net was gathering round me,
• 4:54:41
  Speaker 2: Pretty love, that you have regularly given me up you
• 4:54:45
  Speaker 2: never cared for me. Sarp's the word, said mister Sleary
• 4:54:49
  Speaker 2: at the door. They all confusedly went out, Louisa crying
• 4:54:53
  Speaker 2: to him that she forgave him and loved him still,
• 4:54:55
  Speaker 2: and that he would one day be sorry to have
• 4:54:57
  Speaker 2: left her so and glad to think of these past words.
• 4:55:00
  Speaker 2: Far away, when someone ran against them, mister Gradgrind and Sissy,
• 4:55:05
  Speaker 2: who were both before him, while his sister yet clung
• 4:55:07
  Speaker 2: to his shoulders, stopped and recoiled. Four There was Bitzer,
• 4:55:12
  Speaker 2: out of breath, his thin lips parted, his thin nostrils distended,
• 4:55:15
  Speaker 2: his white eyelashes quivering, his colorless face more colorless than ever,
• 4:55:19
  Speaker 2: as if he ran himself into a white heat when
• 4:55:21
  Speaker 2: other people ran themselves into a glow. There he stood,
• 4:55:25
  Speaker 2: panting and heaving, as if he had never stopped since
• 4:55:28
  Speaker 2: the night now long ago, when he had run them
• 4:55:30
  Speaker 2: down before.
• 4:55:31
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to.
• 4:55:32
  Speaker 2: Interfere with your plan, said Bitser, shaking his head. But
• 4:55:35
  Speaker 2: I can't allow myself to be done by horse riders.
• 4:55:38
  Speaker 2: I must have young mister Tom. He mustn't be got
• 4:55:40
  Speaker 2: away by horse riders. Here he is in a smock frock,
• 4:55:44
  Speaker 2: and I must have him by the collar too, it
• 4:55:47
  Speaker 2: seemed four, so he took possession of him. End of
• 4:55:54
  Speaker 2: Section twenty one, Chapter eight Philosophical. They went back into
• 4:55:59
  Speaker 2: the booth, Sleery, shutting the door to keep intruders out. Bitzer,
• 4:56:03
  Speaker 2: still holding the paralyzed culprit by the collar, stood in
• 4:56:06
  Speaker 2: the ring, blinking at his old patron through the darkness
• 4:56:09
  Speaker 2: of the twilight. Bitzer said mister Gradgrind, broken down and
• 4:56:13
  Speaker 2: miserably submissive to him. Have you a heart the circulation? Sir,
• 4:56:18
  Speaker 2: returned Bitzer, smiling at the oddity of the question. Couldn't
• 4:56:22
  Speaker 2: be carried on without one? No man, Sir, acquainted with
• 4:56:25
  Speaker 2: the facts established by Harvey relating to the circulation of
• 4:56:28
  Speaker 2: the blood, can doubt that I have a heart? Is
• 4:56:32
  Speaker 2: it accessible, cried mister Gradgrind, to any compassionate influence? It
• 4:56:37
  Speaker 2: is accessible to reason, Sir, returned the excellent young man,
• 4:56:41
  Speaker 2: and to nothing else. They stood looking at each other.
• 4:56:45
  Speaker 2: Mister Gragrind's face as white as the pursuer's. What motive,
• 4:56:50
  Speaker 2: even what motive in reason, can you have for preventing
• 4:56:53
  Speaker 2: the escape of this wretched youth? Said mister Gradgrind, and
• 4:56:56
  Speaker 2: crushing his miserable father, see his sister here pity us, Sir,
• 4:57:01
  Speaker 2: returned Bitzer in a very business like and logical manner.
• 4:57:04
  Speaker 2: Since you ask me what motive I have in reason
• 4:57:08
  Speaker 2: for taking young mister Tom back to Coketown, it is
• 4:57:10
  Speaker 2: only reasonable to let you know I have suspected young
• 4:57:14
  Speaker 2: mister Tom of this bank robbery from the first. I
• 4:57:17
  Speaker 2: had had my eye upon him before that time, for
• 4:57:19
  Speaker 2: I knew his ways.
• 4:57:21
  Speaker 3: I have kept my.
• 4:57:21
  Speaker 2: Observations to myself, but I have made them, and I
• 4:57:25
  Speaker 2: have got ample proofs against him now, besides his running away,
• 4:57:29
  Speaker 2: and besides his own confession, which I was just in
• 4:57:32
  Speaker 2: time to overhear, I had the pleasure of watching your
• 4:57:35
  Speaker 2: house yesterday morning and following you here, I am going
• 4:57:38
  Speaker 2: to take young mister Tom back to Coketown in order
• 4:57:41
  Speaker 2: to deliver him over to mister Bounderby, Sir. I have
• 4:57:43
  Speaker 2: no doubt whatever that mister Bounderby will then promote me
• 4:57:46
  Speaker 2: to young mister Tom's situation. And I wish to have
• 4:57:50
  Speaker 2: his situation, sir, for it will.
• 4:57:52
  Speaker 3: Be a rise to me and will do me good.
• 4:57:55
  Speaker 2: If this is solely a question of self interest with you,
• 4:57:58
  Speaker 2: mister gradgrind began, I I beg your pardon for interrupting you, sir,
• 4:58:02
  Speaker 2: returned Bitzer. But I am sure you know that the
• 4:58:05
  Speaker 2: whole social system is a question of self interest. What
• 4:58:08
  Speaker 2: you must always appeal to is a person's self interest.
• 4:58:11
  Speaker 3: It's your only hold.
• 4:58:12
  Speaker 2: We are so constituted. I was brought up in that
• 4:58:15
  Speaker 2: catechism when I was very young. Sir, as you are
• 4:58:18
  Speaker 2: aware what sum of money, said mister Gragrind, will you
• 4:58:22
  Speaker 2: set against your expected promotion. Thank you, sir, returned Bitzer,
• 4:58:26
  Speaker 2: for hinting at the proposal. But I will not set
• 4:58:29
  Speaker 2: any sum against it, knowing that your clear head would
• 4:58:32
  Speaker 2: propose that alternative. I have gone over the calculations in
• 4:58:34
  Speaker 2: my mind, and I find that to compound a felony,
• 4:58:37
  Speaker 2: even on very high terms, indeed, would not be as
• 4:58:40
  Speaker 2: safe and good for me as my improved prospects in
• 4:58:43
  Speaker 2: the bank. Bitzer, said mister Gragrind, stretching out his hands
• 4:58:47
  Speaker 2: as though he would have said, see how miserable I am, Bitzer,
• 4:58:50
  Speaker 2: I have but one chance left to soften you. You
• 4:58:54
  Speaker 2: were many years at my school. If in remembrance of
• 4:58:57
  Speaker 2: the pains bestowed upon you there, you can persuade yourself
• 4:59:00
  Speaker 2: in any degree to disregard your present interest and release
• 4:59:03
  Speaker 2: my son. I entreat and pray you to give him
• 4:59:06
  Speaker 2: the benefit of that remembrance. I really wonder, sir, rejoined
• 4:59:11
  Speaker 2: the old pupil in an argumentative manner, to find you
• 4:59:14
  Speaker 2: taking a position so untenable. My schooling was paid for.
• 4:59:19
  Speaker 2: It was a bargain, and when I came away, the
• 4:59:21
  Speaker 2: bargain ended. It was a fundamental principle of the gradgrind
• 4:59:25
  Speaker 2: philosophy that everything was.
• 4:59:27
  Speaker 3: To be paid for.
• 4:59:28
  Speaker 2: Nobody was ever on any account to give anybody anything,
• 4:59:32
  Speaker 2: or to render anybody help without purchase. Gratitude was to
• 4:59:36
  Speaker 2: be abolished, and the virtues springing from it were not
• 4:59:39
  Speaker 2: to be Every inch of the existence of mankind from
• 4:59:42
  Speaker 2: birth to death, was to be a bargain across the counter.
• 4:59:45
  Speaker 2: And if we didn't get to Heaven that way, it
• 4:59:47
  Speaker 2: was not a political economical place, and we had no
• 4:59:49
  Speaker 2: business there. I don't deny, added Bitzer that my schooling
• 4:59:54
  Speaker 2: was cheap, But that comes right, sir. I was made
• 4:59:57
  Speaker 2: in the cheapest market, and have to myself in the
• 5:00:01
  Speaker 2: dearest He was a little troubled here by louise En
• 5:00:04
  Speaker 2: sissy crying. Pray, don't do that, said he it's of
• 5:00:08
  Speaker 2: no use doing that. It only worries you seem to
• 5:00:11
  Speaker 2: think that I have some animosity against young mister Tom,
• 5:00:14
  Speaker 2: whereas I have none at all. I am only going
• 5:00:16
  Speaker 2: on the reasonable grounds I have mentioned to take him.
• 5:00:19
  Speaker 3: Back to Coketown.
• 5:00:20
  Speaker 2: If he was to resist, I should set up the
• 5:00:22
  Speaker 2: cry of stop thief.
• 5:00:23
  Speaker 3: But he won't resist. You may depend upon it.
• 5:00:27
  Speaker 2: Mister Sleary, who, with his mouth open and his rolling
• 5:00:30
  Speaker 2: eye as immovably jammed in his head as his fixed one,
• 5:00:32
  Speaker 2: had listened to these doctrines with profound attention. Here stepped forward, Squire.
• 5:00:38
  Speaker 2: You know perfectly well, and your daughter knoweth perfectly well
• 5:00:41
  Speaker 2: better than you. Because I fed it to her that
• 5:00:44
  Speaker 2: I didn't know what your thun had done, and that
• 5:00:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to know. I said it was better
• 5:00:49
  Speaker 2: not though I only thought then that it was thumb skylarking. However,
• 5:00:54
  Speaker 2: this young man, having made it known to be a
• 5:00:57
  Speaker 2: robbery of a bank wife, AffA theory I thing must too.
• 5:01:01
  Speaker 2: Theory is the thing for me to compound, as this
• 5:01:04
  Speaker 2: young man hath very properly called it. Consequently, Squire, you
• 5:01:08
  Speaker 2: mustn't quarrel with me if I take this young man thide,
• 5:01:12
  Speaker 2: and they heth right, and there's no help for it.
• 5:01:15
  Speaker 2: But I tell you what I'll do, Squire. I'll drive
• 5:01:18
  Speaker 2: your thumb and this young man over to the rail
• 5:01:21
  Speaker 2: and prevent exposure here. I can't consent to do more,
• 5:01:25
  Speaker 2: but I'll do that. Fresh lamentations from Louisa and deeper
• 5:01:30
  Speaker 2: affliction on mister Gradgrind's part followed this desertion of them
• 5:01:34
  Speaker 2: by their last friend. But Cissy glanced at him with
• 5:01:37
  Speaker 2: great attention, nor did she in her own breast misunderstand him.
• 5:01:41
  Speaker 2: As they were all going out again, he favored her
• 5:01:44
  Speaker 2: with one slight roll of his movable eye, and desiring
• 5:01:48
  Speaker 2: her to linger behind. As he locked the door, he said, excitedly,
• 5:01:52
  Speaker 2: the squieth stood by youth Athelia, and I'll stand by
• 5:01:55
  Speaker 2: the squire more than that.
• 5:01:57
  Speaker 3: This is a prethiouth rascal, and belong to.
• 5:02:00
  Speaker 2: That blunthering cove that my people nearly pissed out a window.
• 5:02:05
  Speaker 2: It'll be a dark night. I've got a horse that'll
• 5:02:07
  Speaker 2: do anything but speak. I've got a pony that'll go
• 5:02:10
  Speaker 2: fifteen mile an hour with childeth driving of him. I've
• 5:02:14
  Speaker 2: got a dog that'll keep man to one place. Four
• 5:02:18
  Speaker 2: and twenty hours. Get a word with the young schoire.
• 5:02:21
  Speaker 2: Tell him, when he seeth our horse begin to dance,
• 5:02:25
  Speaker 2: not to be afraid of being spilt, but to look
• 5:02:28
  Speaker 2: out for a pony gig coming up. Tell him, when
• 5:02:31
  Speaker 2: he sees that gig clothed by, to jump down, and
• 5:02:34
  Speaker 2: it'll take him off at a ratlan path. If my
• 5:02:37
  Speaker 2: dog let this young man thir a peg on foot,
• 5:02:41
  Speaker 2: I give him leave to go. And if my horse
• 5:02:44
  Speaker 2: ever stirs from that spot where he begins a damping
• 5:02:48
  Speaker 2: till the morning, I don't know him.
• 5:02:50
  Speaker 3: Sarp's the word.
• 5:02:52
  Speaker 2: The word was so sharp that in ten minutes mister Childers,
• 5:02:55
  Speaker 2: sauntering about the marketplace and a pair of slippers, had
• 5:02:57
  Speaker 2: his cue, and mister Sleary's equipped was ready. It was
• 5:03:01
  Speaker 2: a fine sight to behold the learned dog barking round it,
• 5:03:04
  Speaker 2: and mister Sleery instructing him with his one practicable eye
• 5:03:08
  Speaker 2: that Bitser was the object of his particular attentions. Soon
• 5:03:11
  Speaker 2: after dark they all three got in and started. The
• 5:03:15
  Speaker 2: learned dog, a formidable creature, already pinning Bitzer with his
• 5:03:18
  Speaker 2: eye and sticking close to the wheel on his side,
• 5:03:21
  Speaker 2: that he might be ready for him in the event
• 5:03:23
  Speaker 2: of his showing the slightest disposition to a light. The
• 5:03:26
  Speaker 2: other three sat up in the inn all night in
• 5:03:28
  Speaker 2: great suspense. At eight o'clock in the morning, mister Sleary
• 5:03:31
  Speaker 2: and the dog reappeared, both in high spirits. All right, Squire,
• 5:03:35
  Speaker 2: said mister Sleary, your thun may be aboard a thip
• 5:03:38
  Speaker 2: by this time Childreth took him off. An hour and
• 5:03:41
  Speaker 2: a half after we left there last night. The horse
• 5:03:44
  Speaker 2: damped the poker till he was dead beat. He would
• 5:03:47
  Speaker 2: have watzed if he hadn't been in harness. And then
• 5:03:50
  Speaker 2: I gave him the word. He went to sleep comfortable.
• 5:03:53
  Speaker 2: When that precious young rathcal thad he'd go forward afoot,
• 5:03:57
  Speaker 2: the dog hung on to his neck handkerchief with all
• 5:04:00
  Speaker 2: four length in the air, and pulled him down and
• 5:04:02
  Speaker 2: rolled him over, though he'd come back into the drag,
• 5:04:05
  Speaker 2: and there he thaught till I turned the hoarse it
• 5:04:08
  Speaker 2: head at half past sixth fifth morning. Mister Gradgrind overwhelmed
• 5:04:13
  Speaker 2: him with thanks, of course, and hinted as delicately as
• 5:04:16
  Speaker 2: he could at a handsome remuneration in money. I don't
• 5:04:20
  Speaker 2: want money myself, quire, but Childeth is a family man,
• 5:04:24
  Speaker 2: and if you was to like to offer him a
• 5:04:26
  Speaker 2: five pound note, it mightn't be unacceptable. Likewise, if you
• 5:04:30
  Speaker 2: were to stand a collar for the dog, or a
• 5:04:33
  Speaker 2: or a fred of bells for the horse, either'd be
• 5:04:37
  Speaker 2: very glad to take him. Brandy and water I always take.
• 5:04:40
  Speaker 2: He had already called for a glass, and now called
• 5:04:42
  Speaker 2: for another. If you wouldn't think it going too far,
• 5:04:45
  Speaker 2: quire to make a little spread for the company at
• 5:04:49
  Speaker 2: about three and thixth ahead, not reckoning loth, it would
• 5:04:53
  Speaker 2: make him happy. All these little tokens of his gratitude,
• 5:04:57
  Speaker 2: mister gradgrind very willingly undertook to render, though he thought
• 5:05:01
  Speaker 2: them far too slight, he said, for such a service,
• 5:05:04
  Speaker 2: very well, Squire. Then, if you'll only give a horse
• 5:05:07
  Speaker 2: riding a a bespeak whenever you can, you'll more than
• 5:05:10
  Speaker 2: balance the account. Now, Squire, if your daughter will it
• 5:05:14
  Speaker 2: excuse me, I would like one parting word with you.
• 5:05:18
  Speaker 2: Louise and Sissy withdrew into an adjoining room. Mister Sleary,
• 5:05:22
  Speaker 2: stirring and drinking his brandy and water as he stood,
• 5:05:24
  Speaker 2: went on, Squire, you don't need to be told that
• 5:05:28
  Speaker 2: dogth Wonderful animals their instinct, said mister gradgrind is surprising,
• 5:05:34
  Speaker 2: whatever you call it, And I'm blessed if I know
• 5:05:37
  Speaker 2: what to call it, said Sleary. Itth athonithing the way,
• 5:05:41
  Speaker 2: and with a dog will find you the distant he'll
• 5:05:45
  Speaker 2: come his scent, said mister gradgrind, being so fine. I'm
• 5:05:49
  Speaker 2: blessed if I know what to call it, repeated Sleary,
• 5:05:52
  Speaker 2: shaking his head. But I have had dogs find me,
• 5:05:55
  Speaker 2: Squire in a way that made me think whether that
• 5:05:57
  Speaker 2: dog hadn't gone to another dog? Said you don't happen
• 5:06:01
  Speaker 2: to know a person of the name of Fleery, do
• 5:06:03
  Speaker 2: you person of the name of Fleery in the hoarse
• 5:06:06
  Speaker 2: riding way stout man game eye? And whether that dog
• 5:06:10
  Speaker 2: mightn't have fed will I can't they I know him myself,
• 5:06:14
  Speaker 2: But I know a dog that I think would be
• 5:06:16
  Speaker 2: likely to be acquainted with him. And whether that dog
• 5:06:19
  Speaker 2: mightn't have thought it over and said Fleery Fleery, Oh, yes.
• 5:06:24
  Speaker 3: To be sure.
• 5:06:25
  Speaker 2: A friend of mine mentioned him to me at one time.
• 5:06:27
  Speaker 2: I can get you hit adress directly in consequence of
• 5:06:31
  Speaker 2: my being afore the public and going about Tholmots. You see,
• 5:06:34
  Speaker 2: there must be a number of dogs acquainted with me,
• 5:06:38
  Speaker 2: Squire that I don't know. Mister Gragrind seemed to be
• 5:06:42
  Speaker 2: quite confounded by this speculation. Anyway, said Sleary, after putting
• 5:06:46
  Speaker 2: his lips to his brandy and water. It's fourteen months ago, Squire,
• 5:06:51
  Speaker 2: since we were at Theester. We was getting up our
• 5:06:55
  Speaker 2: children in the wood one morning when they're coming to
• 5:06:57
  Speaker 2: our ring by the stage door, a door. He had
• 5:07:01
  Speaker 2: traveled a long way. He within a very bad condition.
• 5:07:04
  Speaker 2: He was lame and pretty well blind. He went round
• 5:07:07
  Speaker 2: to our children one after another, as if he was
• 5:07:10
  Speaker 2: a theeking for a child he knowed. And then he
• 5:07:13
  Speaker 2: come to me and throwed hisself up behind and stood
• 5:07:16
  Speaker 2: on his two fore legs, weak as he was, and
• 5:07:19
  Speaker 2: then he wagged his tail and died. Squire, that dog
• 5:07:24
  Speaker 2: wath Merry length, Sissy's father's dog, the Theiliath fatherth old dog. Now, Squire,
• 5:07:32
  Speaker 2: I can take my oath from my knowledge of that dog,
• 5:07:35
  Speaker 2: that that man was dead and buried. Afore that dog
• 5:07:38
  Speaker 2: came back to me. Joth Fiend and Childreth and me
• 5:07:42
  Speaker 2: talked it over a long time whether I could write
• 5:07:45
  Speaker 2: or not, but we agreed. Note it is nothing comfortable
• 5:07:48
  Speaker 2: to tell why unfattle her mind to make her unhappy,
• 5:07:51
  Speaker 2: though whether her father Baithley deserted her, or whether he
• 5:07:55
  Speaker 2: broke his own heart alone rather than pull her down
• 5:07:58
  Speaker 2: along with him, never will be known, now, squire, No, no,
• 5:08:03
  Speaker 2: till not till we know how the dogs findeth us out.
• 5:08:09
  Speaker 2: She keeps the bottle that he sent her for to
• 5:08:12
  Speaker 2: this hour, and she will believe in his affection to
• 5:08:15
  Speaker 2: the last moment of her life, said mister Gragrind. It
• 5:08:18
  Speaker 2: seems to prevent two things to a perth and don't quire,
• 5:08:22
  Speaker 2: said mister Sleary, musing as he looked down into the
• 5:08:24
  Speaker 2: depths of his brandy and water. One that theareth a
• 5:08:28
  Speaker 2: love in the world, not all self interest after all,
• 5:08:31
  Speaker 2: but something very different t'other that it bath bathe away
• 5:08:37
  Speaker 2: of its own of calculating or not calculating with somehow
• 5:08:42
  Speaker 2: or another, it at least hath hard to give.
• 5:08:45
  Speaker 3: A name to.
• 5:08:46
  Speaker 2: At the wave of the dog faith, mister Gragrind looked
• 5:08:49
  Speaker 2: out of window and made no reply. Mister Sleary emptied
• 5:08:53
  Speaker 2: his glass and recalled the ladies, Dithelia, my dear, kiss
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  Speaker 2: me and goodbye, mis gire. See you treating of her
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  Speaker 2: like a fister, and a fister that you trust and
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  Speaker 2: honor with all your heart. And more. It's a very
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  Speaker 2: pretty fight to me. I hope your brother may live
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  Speaker 2: to be better deserving of you, and a greater comfort
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  Speaker 2: to you. Squire, take hands first and last. Don't be
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  Speaker 2: croth with a poor vagabonds. People must be amused. They
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  Speaker 2: can't be all with a learning nor yet they can't
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  Speaker 2: be all with a workin' they ain't made for it.
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  Speaker 2: You must have a squire, do the white thing and
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  Speaker 2: the kind thing too, and make the best of us
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  Speaker 2: not the worst. And I never thought before, said mister Sleary,
• 5:09:41
  Speaker 2: putting his head in at the door again, to say it,
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  Speaker 2: that I were tho much of a cackler. Chapter nine final,
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  Speaker 2: It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the
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  Speaker 2: sphere of a vain blusterer before the blame us blusterer
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  Speaker 2: sees it himself. Mister b felt that Missus Sparsit had
• 5:10:01
  Speaker 2: audaciously anticipated him and presumed to be wiser than he,
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  Speaker 2: inappeasably indignant with her for her triumphant discovery of Missus Pegler.
• 5:10:09
  Speaker 2: He turned this presumption on the part of a woman
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  Speaker 2: in her dependent position over and over in his mind
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  Speaker 2: until it accumulated with turning like a great snowball. At last,
• 5:10:19
  Speaker 2: he made the discovery that to discharge this highly connected female,
• 5:10:23
  Speaker 2: to have it in his power to say she was
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  Speaker 2: a woman of family and wanted to stick to me,
• 5:10:27
  Speaker 2: but I wouldn't have it and got rid of her,
• 5:10:30
  Speaker 2: would be to get the utmost possible amount of crowning
• 5:10:33
  Speaker 2: glory out of the connection, and at the same time
• 5:10:35
  Speaker 2: to punish Missus Sparsit according to her deserts filled fuller
• 5:10:40
  Speaker 2: than ever with this great idea, mister Bounderby came in
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  Speaker 2: to lunch and sat himself down in the dining room
• 5:10:45
  Speaker 2: of former days, where his portrait was. Missus Sparsit sat
• 5:10:49
  Speaker 2: by the fire with her foot in the cotton stirrup,
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  Speaker 2: little thinking whether she was posting. Since the peglar affair,
• 5:10:56
  Speaker 2: this gentlewoman had covered her pity for mister Bounderby with
• 5:10:59
  Speaker 2: a veil of quiet, melancholy and contrition.
• 5:11:02
  Speaker 3: In virtue.
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  Speaker 2: Thereof, it had become her habit to assume a woeful look,
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  Speaker 2: which woeful look she now bestowed upon her patron. What's
• 5:11:10
  Speaker 2: the matter now, ma'am, said mister Bounderby in a very
• 5:11:13
  Speaker 2: short rough way. Pray, sir, returned Missus Sparsit, do not
• 5:11:17
  Speaker 2: bite my nose off. Bite your nose off, ma'am, repeated
• 5:11:21
  Speaker 2: mister Bounderby, your nose, meaning as missus Sparsit conceived that
• 5:11:25
  Speaker 2: it was too developed a nose for that purpose, after
• 5:11:29
  Speaker 2: which offensive implication, he cut himself a crust of bread
• 5:11:32
  Speaker 2: and threw the knife down with a noise. Missus Sparsit
• 5:11:35
  Speaker 2: took her foot out of her stirrup and said mister Bounderby, sir. Well,
• 5:11:39
  Speaker 2: ma'am retorted mister Bounderby, what are you staring at?
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  Speaker 3: May I ask?
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  Speaker 2: Sir, said missus Sparsit. Have you been ruffled this morning? Yes, ma'am,
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  Speaker 2: May I inquire, Sir pursued the injured woman whether I
• 5:11:52
  Speaker 2: am the unfortunate cause of your having lost your temper? Now,
• 5:11:56
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, ma'am, said Bounderby. I am not
• 5:11:58
  Speaker 2: come here to be bullied of. Female may be highly connected,
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  Speaker 2: but she can't be permitted to bother and badger a
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  Speaker 2: man in my position, and I am not going to
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  Speaker 2: put up with it. Mister Bounderby felt it necessary to
• 5:12:08
  Speaker 2: get on foreseeing that if he allowed of details, he
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  Speaker 2: would be beaten. Missus Sparsit first elevated, then knitted her
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  Speaker 2: Coriolanian eyebrows gathered up her work into its proper basket
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  Speaker 2: and rose, sir, said she majestically. It is apparent to
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  Speaker 2: me that I am in your way at present. I
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  Speaker 2: will retire to my own apartment. Allow me to open
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  Speaker 2: the door, ma'am. Thank you, sir, I can do it
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  Speaker 2: for myself. You had better allow me, ma'am, said Bounderby,
• 5:12:38
  Speaker 2: passing her and getting his hand upon the lock, because
• 5:12:41
  Speaker 2: I can take the opportunity of saying a word to
• 5:12:43
  Speaker 2: you before you go. Missus sparsit, ma'am, I rather think
• 5:12:46
  Speaker 2: you are cramped here.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know?
• 5:12:48
  Speaker 2: It appears to me that under my humble roof there
• 5:12:51
  Speaker 2: is hardly opening enough for a lady of your genius
• 5:12:53
  Speaker 2: in other people's affairs, Missus Sparsit, gave him a look
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  Speaker 2: of the darkest scorn, and said with great politeness, Really, sir,
• 5:13:03
  Speaker 2: I have been thinking it over, you see, since the
• 5:13:05
  Speaker 2: late affairs have happened, ma'am, said Bounderby. And it appears
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  Speaker 2: to my poor judgment. Oh, oh, pray, sir, Missus sparsit,
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  Speaker 2: interposed with sprightly cheerfulness. Don't disparage your judgment. Everybody knows
• 5:13:17
  Speaker 2: how unerring mister Bounderby's judgment is everybody has had proofs
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  Speaker 2: of it. It must be the theme of general conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Disparage anything in yourself but your judgment, sir said, Missus sparsit, laughing.
• 5:13:29
  Speaker 2: Mister Bounderby, very red and uncomfortable, resumed. It appears to me, ma'am,
• 5:13:35
  Speaker 2: I say that a different sort of establishment altogether would
• 5:13:38
  Speaker 2: bring out a lady of your powers. Such an establishment
• 5:13:42
  Speaker 2: as your relation, Lady Scadgers. Now don't you think you
• 5:13:45
  Speaker 2: might find some affairs there, ma'am, to interfere with it?
• 5:13:50
  Speaker 2: Never occurred to me before, Sir returned Missus sparsit. But
• 5:13:53
  Speaker 2: now you mention it, should think it highly probable. Then
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  Speaker 2: suppose you try, ma'am, said Bounderby, laying an envelope with
• 5:14:02
  Speaker 2: a check in it in her little basket. You can
• 5:14:04
  Speaker 2: take your own time for going, ma'am, But perhaps in
• 5:14:07
  Speaker 2: the meanwhile it will be more agreeable to a lady
• 5:14:09
  Speaker 2: of your powers of mind to eat her meals by herself,
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  Speaker 2: and not to be intruded upon. I really ought to
• 5:14:15
  Speaker 2: apologize to you, being only Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, for
• 5:14:19
  Speaker 2: having stood in your light so long. Pray don't name it,
• 5:14:23
  Speaker 2: Sir returned, missus sparsit. If that portrait could speak, sir,
• 5:14:27
  Speaker 2: but it has the advantage over the original of not
• 5:14:30
  Speaker 2: possessing the power of committing itself and disgusting others. It
• 5:14:33
  Speaker 2: would testify that a long period has elapsed since I
• 5:14:36
  Speaker 2: first habitually addressed it as the picture of a noodle.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing that a noodle does can awaken surprise or indignation.
• 5:14:43
  Speaker 2: The proceedings of a noodle can only inspire contempt. Thus
• 5:14:48
  Speaker 2: saying Missus sparsit with her roman features like a metal struck.
• 5:14:52
  Speaker 2: To commemorate her scorn of mister Bounderby, surveyed him fixedly
• 5:14:55
  Speaker 2: from head to foot, swept disdainfully past him, and ascended
• 5:14:59
  Speaker 2: the staircase. Mister Bounderby closed the door and stood before
• 5:15:02
  Speaker 2: the fire, projecting himself after his old explosive manner, into
• 5:15:06
  Speaker 2: his portrait and into futurity, into how much of futurity
• 5:15:11
  Speaker 2: he saw. Missus sparsit, fighting out a daily fight at
• 5:15:13
  Speaker 2: the points of all the weapons in the female armory
• 5:15:16
  Speaker 2: with the grudging, smarting, peevish, tormenting Lady Scadgers, still laid
• 5:15:20
  Speaker 2: up in bed with her mysterious leg and gobbling her
• 5:15:23
  Speaker 2: insufficient income down by about the middle of every quarter
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  Speaker 2: in a mean, little airless lodging, a mere closet for one,
• 5:15:30
  Speaker 2: a mere crib for two.
• 5:15:31
  Speaker 3: But did he see more?
• 5:15:33
  Speaker 2: Did he catch any glimpse of himself making a show
• 5:15:35
  Speaker 2: of bitzer to stranger's as the rising young man, so
• 5:15:39
  Speaker 2: devoted to his master's great merits, who had won Young
• 5:15:42
  Speaker 2: Tom's place, and had almost captured Young Tom himself in
• 5:15:45
  Speaker 2: the times when by various rascals he was spirited away,
• 5:15:48
  Speaker 2: did he see any faint reflections of his own image
• 5:15:51
  Speaker 2: making a vainglorious will? Whereby five and twenty humbugs passed
• 5:15:55
  Speaker 2: five and fifty years of age, each taking upon himself
• 5:15:58
  Speaker 2: the name Josiah Bounderby of Coked should forever dine in
• 5:16:01
  Speaker 2: bounderby hall, forever lodge in bounderby buildings, Forever attend to
• 5:16:06
  Speaker 2: bounderby chapel, Forever go to sleep under a bounderby chaplain,
• 5:16:10
  Speaker 2: forever be supported out of a bounderby estate, and forever
• 5:16:13
  Speaker 2: nauseate all healthy stomachs with a vast amount of bounderby
• 5:16:16
  Speaker 2: balderdash and bluster. Had he any prescience of the day
• 5:16:20
  Speaker 2: five years to come, when Josiah Bounderby of Coketown was
• 5:16:24
  Speaker 2: to die of a fit in the Coketown Street. And
• 5:16:27
  Speaker 2: this same precious will was to begin its long career
• 5:16:30
  Speaker 2: of quibble, plunder, false pretenses, vile example, little service, and
• 5:16:35
  Speaker 2: much law. Probably not yet the portrait was to see
• 5:16:40
  Speaker 2: it all out. Here was mister gradgrind on the same
• 5:16:43
  Speaker 2: day and in the same hour, sitting thoughtful in his
• 5:16:46
  Speaker 2: own room. How much of futurity did he see? Did
• 5:16:49
  Speaker 2: he see himself? A white haired, decrepit man, bending his
• 5:16:52
  Speaker 2: hitherto inflexible theories, to appointed circumstances, making his facts and
• 5:16:57
  Speaker 2: figures subservient to faith, open charity, and no longer trying
• 5:17:00
  Speaker 2: to grind that heavenly trio in his dusty little mills?
• 5:17:04
  Speaker 3: Did he catch sight of himself? Therefore?
• 5:17:06
  Speaker 2: Much despised by his late political associates. Did he see them,
• 5:17:10
  Speaker 2: in the era of its being quite settled that the
• 5:17:13
  Speaker 2: national dust men have only to do with one another
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  Speaker 2: and own no duty to an abstraction called a people
• 5:17:18
  Speaker 2: taunting the honorable gentleman with this and that, and with
• 5:17:21
  Speaker 2: what not, five nights a week until the small.
• 5:17:24
  Speaker 3: Hours of the morning.
• 5:17:25
  Speaker 2: Probably he had that much foreknowledge, knowing his men. Here
• 5:17:30
  Speaker 2: was Louisa on the night of the same day, watching
• 5:17:33
  Speaker 2: the fire as in days of yore, though with a
• 5:17:35
  Speaker 2: gentler and a humbler face. How much of the future
• 5:17:39
  Speaker 2: might arise before her vision broadsides in the streets, signed
• 5:17:42
  Speaker 2: with her father's name, exonerating the late Stephen Blackpool Weaver
• 5:17:46
  Speaker 2: from misplaced suspicion, and publishing the guilt of his own son.
• 5:17:50
  Speaker 2: With such extenuation as his years and temptation he could
• 5:17:53
  Speaker 2: not bring himself to add his education might beseech. Whereof
• 5:17:57
  Speaker 2: the present? So Stephen Blackpool's tombstone, with her father's record
• 5:18:02
  Speaker 2: of his death, was almost of the present, for she
• 5:18:05
  Speaker 2: knew it was to be these things she could plainly see.
• 5:18:09
  Speaker 3: But how much of the future.
• 5:18:11
  Speaker 2: A working woman Chris and Rachel, after a long illness,
• 5:18:15
  Speaker 2: once again appearing at the ringing of the factory bell
• 5:18:18
  Speaker 2: and passing to and fro at the set hours among
• 5:18:20
  Speaker 2: the Coketown hands. A woman of pensive beauty, always dressed
• 5:18:24
  Speaker 2: in black, but sweet tempered and serene and even cheerful, who,
• 5:18:28
  Speaker 2: of all the people in the place alone appeared to
• 5:18:30
  Speaker 2: have compassion on a degraded, drunken wretch of her own sex,
• 5:18:35
  Speaker 2: who was sometimes seen in the town, secretly begging of
• 5:18:38
  Speaker 2: her and crying to her. A woman working, ever working,
• 5:18:42
  Speaker 2: but content to do it, and preferring to do it
• 5:18:44
  Speaker 2: as her natural lot until she should be too old
• 5:18:46
  Speaker 2: to labor any more.
• 5:18:48
  Speaker 3: Did Louisa see this?
• 5:18:50
  Speaker 2: Such a thing was to be a lonely brother, many
• 5:18:54
  Speaker 2: thousands of miles away, writing on paper blotted with tears,
• 5:18:57
  Speaker 2: that her words had too soon come true, and that
• 5:19:00
  Speaker 2: all the treasures in the world would be cheaply bartered
• 5:19:02
  Speaker 2: for a sight of her dear face at length, this
• 5:19:05
  Speaker 2: brother coming near her home with hope of seeing her,
• 5:19:08
  Speaker 2: and being delayed by onus. And then a letter in
• 5:19:10
  Speaker 2: a strange hand saying.
• 5:19:12
  Speaker 3: He died in hospital a fever such a day.
• 5:19:15
  Speaker 2: And died in penitence and love of you, his last
• 5:19:18
  Speaker 2: word being your name. Did Louisa see these things?
• 5:19:22
  Speaker 3: Such things were.
• 5:19:23
  Speaker 1: To be.
• 5:19:25
  Speaker 2: Herself again, a wife, a mother lovingly watchful of her children,
• 5:19:29
  Speaker 2: ever careful that they should have, a childhood of the
• 5:19:31
  Speaker 2: mind no less than a childhood of the body, as
• 5:19:34
  Speaker 2: knowing it to be even a more beautiful thing, and
• 5:19:36
  Speaker 2: a possession any hoarded scrap of which is a blessing
• 5:19:40
  Speaker 2: and happiness to the wisest did Louisa see this, Such
• 5:19:45
  Speaker 2: a thing was never to be but happy Sissy's happy
• 5:19:49
  Speaker 2: children loving her, all children loving her. She grown learned
• 5:19:53
  Speaker 2: and childish lore, thinking no innocent and pretty fancy ever
• 5:19:56
  Speaker 2: to be despised, trying hard to know her humbler fellow creatures,
• 5:20:00
  Speaker 2: and to beautify their lives of machinery and reality with
• 5:20:03
  Speaker 2: those imaginative graces and delights, without which the heart of
• 5:20:07
  Speaker 2: infancy will wither up. The sturdiest physical manhood will be
• 5:20:10
  Speaker 2: morally stark death, and the plainest national prosperity figures can
• 5:20:15
  Speaker 2: show will be the writing on the wall. She holding
• 5:20:19
  Speaker 2: this course as part of no fantastic vow or bond
• 5:20:21
  Speaker 2: or brotherhood or sisterhood or pledge or covenant, or fancy
• 5:20:25
  Speaker 2: dress or fancy fair, but simply as a duty to
• 5:20:28
  Speaker 2: be done. Did Louisa see these things of herself? These
• 5:20:32
  Speaker 2: things were to be, Dear reader, It rests with you
• 5:20:37
  Speaker 2: and me whether in our two fields of action similar
• 5:20:40
  Speaker 2: things shall be, or not let them be. We shall
• 5:20:45
  Speaker 2: sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth to see the
• 5:20:48
  Speaker 2: ashes of our fires turn gray and cold. End of
• 5:20:53
  Speaker 2: Section twenty two.