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044 - Chapter 22 · Pirate

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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty two of the Pirate by Sir Walter Scott.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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Speaker 1: Dion John's Salt Lake City, Utah, Go some of you
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Speaker 1: cry a reprieve Beggar's opera. Captain Weatherport had before this
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Speaker 1: time reached Kirkwall in person, and was received with great
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Speaker 1: joy and thankfulness by the magistrates who had assembled in
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Speaker 1: council for the purpose. The Provost in particular expressed himself
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Speaker 1: delighted with the providential arrival of the Halcion at the
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Speaker 1: very conjuncture when the pirate could not escape her. The
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Speaker 1: Captain looked a little surprised and said, for that, Sir,
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Speaker 1: you may thank the information you yourself supplied that I supplied,
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Speaker 1: said the Provost, somewhat astonished. Yes, Sir, answered Captain Weatherport,
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Speaker 1: I understand you to be George Torfey, chief Magistrate of Kirkwall,
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Speaker 1: who subscribes this letter. The astonished Provost took the letter
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Speaker 1: addressed to Captain Weatherport of the Halcian, stating the arrival
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Speaker 1: force et cetera of the pirate's vessel, but adding that
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Speaker 1: they had heard of the Halcian being on the coast
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Speaker 1: and that they were on their guard and ready to
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Speaker 1: baffle her by going among the shoals and through the
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Speaker 1: islands and homes where the frigate could not easily follow,
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Speaker 1: and at worst they were desperate enough to propose running
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Speaker 1: the sloop ashore and blowing her up, by which much
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Speaker 1: booty and treasure would be lost to the captors. The
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Speaker 1: letter therefore suggested that the Halcian should cruise betwixt Duncan's
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Speaker 1: Behead and Cape Wrath for two or three days to
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Speaker 1: relieve the pirates of the alarm her neighborhood occasioned and
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Speaker 1: lull them into security. The more especially as the letter
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Speaker 1: writer knew it to be their intention if the frigate
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Speaker 1: left the coast to go into Stromness Bay and there
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Speaker 1: put their guns ashore for some necessary repairs, or even
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Speaker 1: for careening their vessel, if they could find means. The
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Speaker 1: letter concluded by assuring Captain Weatherport that if he could
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Speaker 1: bring his frigate into Stromness Bay on the morning of
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Speaker 1: the twenty fourth of August, he would have a good
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Speaker 1: bargain of the pirates, if sooner he was not unlikely
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Speaker 1: to miss them. This letter is not of my writing
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Speaker 1: or subscribing Captain Weatherport, said the Provost, nor would I
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Speaker 1: have ventured to advise any delay in your coming Hither
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Speaker 1: the Captain was surprised in his turn. All I know
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Speaker 1: is that it reached me when I was in the
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Speaker 1: Bay of Thursoe, and that I gave the boat's crew
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Speaker 1: that brought it five dollars for crossing the Pentland Firth
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Speaker 1: in very rough weather. They had a dumb dwarf, as Coxswain,
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Speaker 1: the ugliest urchin my eyes ever opened upon. I'd give
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Speaker 1: you much credit for the accuracy of your intelligence, mister Provost.
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Speaker 1: It is lucky as it is, said the Provost. Yet
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Speaker 1: I question whether the writer of this letter would not
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Speaker 1: rather that you had found the nest cold and the
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Speaker 1: bird flown, so saying, he handed the letter to Magnus Troyle,
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Speaker 1: who returned it with a smile, but without any observation, aware,
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Speaker 1: doubtless with the sagacious reader that Norna had her own
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Speaker 1: reasons for calculating with accuracy on the date of the
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Speaker 1: Halcian's arrival. Without puzzling himself farther concerning a circumstance which
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Speaker 1: seemed inexplicable, the captain requested that the examinations might proceed,
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Speaker 1: and Cleveland and Altamont, as he chose to be called,
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Speaker 1: were brought out the first of the pirate crew on
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Speaker 1: the charge of having acted as captain and lieutenant. They
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Speaker 1: had just commenced the examination when, after some expostulation with
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Speaker 1: the officers who kept the door, the Sommertown burst into
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Speaker 1: the apartment and exclaimed, take the old victim for the
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Speaker 1: young one. I am Basil Vaughan, too well known on
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Speaker 1: the windward station. Take my life and spare my sons.
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Speaker 1: All were astonished, and none more than Magnus Troyle, who
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Speaker 1: hastily explained to the magistrates and Captain Weatherport that this
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Speaker 1: gentleman had been living peaceably and honestly on the mainland
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Speaker 1: of Zetland for many years. In that case, said the Captain,
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Speaker 1: I wash my hands of the poor man, for he
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Speaker 1: is safe under two proclamations of mercy, and by my soul.
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Speaker 1: When I see them, the father and his offspring hanging
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Speaker 1: on each other's neck, I wish I could say as
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Speaker 1: much for the son. But how is it? How can
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Speaker 1: it be? Said the provost. We always call the old
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Speaker 1: man Mertown and the young Cleveland, and now it seems
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Speaker 1: they are both named Vaughan. Von answered, Magnus is a
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Speaker 1: name which I have some reason to remember, and from
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Speaker 1: what I have lately heard from my cousin Norna, that
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Speaker 1: old man has a right to bear it, and I
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Speaker 1: trust the young man, also, said the captain, who had
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Speaker 1: been looking over a memorandum. Listen to me a moment,
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Speaker 1: added he, addressing the younger Vaughan, whom we have hitherto
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Speaker 1: called Cleveland, hark you, sir. Your name is said to
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Speaker 1: be Clement Vaughan. Are you the same who? Then a
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Speaker 1: mere boy commanded a party of rovers who, about eight
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Speaker 1: or nine years ago pillaged a Spanish village called Campoa
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Speaker 1: on the Spanish main with the purpose of seizing some treasure.
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Speaker 1: It will avail me nothing to deny it, answered the prisoner. No,
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Speaker 1: said Captain Weatherport, but it may do you service to
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Speaker 1: admit it well. The muleteers escaped with the treasure while
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Speaker 1: you were engaged in protecting, at the hazard of your
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Speaker 1: own life, the honor of two Spanish ladies against the
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Speaker 1: brutality of your followers. Do you remember anything of this?
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Speaker 1: I am sure I do, said Jack Bunch. For our
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Speaker 1: captain here was marooned for his gallantry, and I narrowly
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Speaker 1: escaped flogging and pickling for having taken his part. When
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Speaker 1: these points are established, said Captain Weatherport, Vaughan's life is safe.
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Speaker 1: The women he saved were persons of quality, daughters to
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Speaker 1: the governor of the province, and application was long since
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Speaker 1: made by the grateful Spaniard to our government for favor
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Speaker 1: to be shown to their preserver. I had special orders
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Speaker 1: about Clement Vaughan when I had a commission for cruising
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Speaker 1: upon the pirates in the West Indies six or seven
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Speaker 1: years since. But Vaughan was gone then as a name
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Speaker 1: amongst them, and I heard enough of Cleveland in his room. However,
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Speaker 1: Captain b U Cleveland or Vaughn, I think that, as
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Speaker 1: the Campoa hero, I can assure you a free pardon
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Speaker 1: when you arrive in London. Cleveland bowed, and the blood
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Speaker 1: mounted to his face. Mertown fell on his knees and
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Speaker 1: exhausted himself in thanksgiving to Heaven. They were removed amidst
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Speaker 1: the sympathizing sobs of the spectators. And now, good Master Lieutenant,
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Speaker 1: what have you got to say for yourself, said Captain
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Speaker 1: Weatherport to the si devant Rossius. Why little or nothing
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Speaker 1: please your honor, only that I wish your honor could
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Speaker 1: find my name in that book of mercy you have
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Speaker 1: in your hand. For I stood by Captain Clement Vaughan
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Speaker 1: in that Campoa business you call yourself, Frederick Altamont, said
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Speaker 1: Captain Weatherport. I can see no such name here one
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Speaker 1: John Bounce or Bune, the late put on her tablets.
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Speaker 1: Why that is me? That is I myself, Captain. I
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Speaker 1: can prove it, and I am determined, though the sound
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Speaker 1: be something plebeian. Rather to live, Jack Bunch than to hang,
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Speaker 1: as Frederick Altamont in that case, said the Captain, I
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Speaker 1: can give you some hopes as John Bunch. Thank your
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Speaker 1: noble worship, shouted Bunch. Then changing his tone, he said, ah,
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Speaker 1: since aunt Alias has such virtue. Poor Dick Fletcher might
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Speaker 1: have come off as Timothy Tugmutton. But howsome deavor do
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Speaker 1: you see? To use his own phrase? Away with the Lieutenant,
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Speaker 1: said the Captain, and bring forward Goff and the other fellows.
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Speaker 1: There will be ropes reaved for some of them, I think.
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Speaker 1: And this prediction promised to be amply fulfilled. So strong
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Speaker 1: was the proof which was brought again them. The Halcian
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Speaker 1: was accordingly ordered round to carry the whole prisoners to London,
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Speaker 1: for which she set sail in the course of two days.
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Speaker 1: During the time that the unfortunate Cleveland remained at Kirkwall,
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Speaker 1: he was treated with civility by the captain of the Helcian,
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Speaker 1: and the kindness of his old acquaintance Magnus Troyle, who
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Speaker 1: knew in secret how closely he was allied to his blood,
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Speaker 1: pressed on him accommodations of every kind, more than he
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Speaker 1: could be prevailed on to accept. Norna, whose interest in
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Speaker 1: the unhappy prisoner was still more deep, was at this
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Speaker 1: time unable to express it. The sexton had found her
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Speaker 1: lying on the pavement in a swoon, and when she
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Speaker 1: recovered her mind for the time had totally lost its equipois,
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Speaker 1: and it became necessary to place her under the restraint
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Speaker 1: of watchful attendance of the sisters of Burgwestra. Cleveland only
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Speaker 1: heard that they remained ill in consequence of the fright
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Speaker 1: to which they had been subjected, until the evening before
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Speaker 1: the Halcian sailed, when he received by a private conveyance
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Speaker 1: the following billet. Farewell, Cleveland, we part forever and it
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Speaker 1: is right that we should be virtuous and be happy.
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Speaker 1: The delusions which a solitary education and limited acquaintance with
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Speaker 1: the modern world had spread around me are gone and
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Speaker 1: dissipated forever. But in you, I am sure I have
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Speaker 1: been thus far free from error. That you are one
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Speaker 1: to whom good is naturally more attractive than evil, and
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Speaker 1: whom only necessity, example, and habit have forced into your
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Speaker 1: late course of life. Think of me as one who
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Speaker 1: no longer exists, unless you should become as much the
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Speaker 1: object of general praise as now of general reproach. And
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Speaker 1: then think of me as one who will rejoice in
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Speaker 1: your reviving fame, though she must never see you more.
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Speaker 1: The note was signed M. T. And Cleveland, with a
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Speaker 1: deep emotion which he testified even by tears, read it
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Speaker 1: an hundred times over, and then clasped it to his bosom.
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Speaker 1: Mordaunt Mertown heard by letter from his father, but in
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Speaker 1: a very different style. They subeye him farewell forever, and
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Speaker 1: acquitted him henceforward of the duties of a son, as
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Speaker 1: one on whom he, notwithstanding the exertions of many years,
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Speaker 1: had found himself unable to bestow the affections of a parent.
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Speaker 1: The letter informed him of a recess in the old
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Speaker 1: house of Dralshoff, in which the writer had deposited a
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Speaker 1: considerable quantity of specie and of treasure, which he desired
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Speaker 1: Mordaunt to use as his own. You need not fear,
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Speaker 1: the letter bore, either that you lay yourself under obligation
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Speaker 1: to me, or that you are sharing the spoils of piracy.
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Speaker 1: What is now given over to you is almost entirely
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Speaker 1: the property of your deceased mother, Louisa Gonzago, and is
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Speaker 1: yours by every right. Let us forgive each other, was
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Speaker 1: the conclusion, as they who must meet no more, and
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Speaker 1: they never meant more. For the elder Mertown, against whom
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Speaker 1: no charge was ever preferred, disappeared after the fate of
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Speaker 1: Cleveland was determined, and was generally believed to have retired
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Speaker 1: into a foreign convent. The fate of Cleveland will be
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Speaker 1: most briefly express us in a letter which Minna received
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Speaker 1: within two months after the Halcion left Kirkwall. The family
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Speaker 1: were then assembled at Burgwestra and Mordaunt was a member
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Speaker 1: of it for the time. The good u Dollar, thinking
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Speaker 1: he could never sufficiently repay the activity which he had
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Speaker 1: shown in the defense of his daughters. Norna, then beginning
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Speaker 1: to recover from her temporary alienation of mind, was a
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Speaker 1: guest in the family, and Minna, who was sedulous in
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Speaker 1: her attention upon this unfortunate victim of mental delusion, was
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Speaker 1: seated with her, watching each symptom of returning reason. When
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Speaker 1: the letter we allude to was placed in her hands Minna,
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Speaker 1: it said, dearest Minna, farewell and forever believe me. I
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Speaker 1: never meant you wrong. Never From the moment I came
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Speaker 1: to know you. I resolved to detect myself from my
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Speaker 1: hateful comrades, and had framed a thousand schemes which have
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Speaker 1: proved as vain as they deserved to be. For why
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Speaker 1: or how should the fate of her that is so lovely,
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Speaker 1: pure and innocent be involved with that of one so
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Speaker 1: guilty of these dreams? I will speak no more. The
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Speaker 1: stern reality of my situation is much milder than I
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Speaker 1: either expected or deserved, and the little good I did
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Speaker 1: has outweighed in the minds of honorable and merciful judges
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Speaker 1: much that was evil and criminal. I have not only
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Speaker 1: been exempted from the ignominious death to which several of
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Speaker 1: my compeers are sentenced, But Captain Weatherport about once more
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Speaker 1: to sail for the Spanish main, under the apprehension of
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Speaker 1: an immediate war with that country, has generously solicited and
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Speaker 1: obtained permission to employ me and two or three more
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Speaker 1: of my less guilty associates in the same service, a
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Speaker 1: measure recommended to him by his own generous compassion, and
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Speaker 1: to others by our knowledge of the coast and of
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Speaker 1: local circumstances, which, by whatever means acquired, I now hope
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Speaker 1: to use for the service of our country. Minna, you
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Speaker 1: will hear my name pronounced with honor, or you will
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Speaker 1: never hear it again. If virtue can give happiness, I
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Speaker 1: need not wish it to you, for it is yours already. Farewell, Minna.
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Speaker 1: Minna wept so bitterly over this letter that it attracted
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Speaker 1: the attention of the convalescent Norna. She snatched it from
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Speaker 1: the hand of her kinswoman and read it over, at
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Speaker 1: first with the confused air of one to whom it
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Speaker 1: conveyed no intelligence, then with a dawn of recollection, then
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Speaker 1: with a burst of me joy and grief, in which
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Speaker 1: she dropped it from her hand. Minna snatched it up
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Speaker 1: and retired with her treasure to her own apartment. From
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Speaker 1: that time, Norna appeared to assume a different character. Her
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Speaker 1: dress was changed to one of a more simple and
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Speaker 1: less imposing appearance. Her dwarf was dismissed with ample provision
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Speaker 1: for his future comfort. She showed no desire of resuming
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Speaker 1: her erratic life, and directed her observatory, as it might
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Speaker 1: be called on fitful head, to be dismantled. She refused
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Speaker 1: the name of Norna and would only be addressed by
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Speaker 1: her real appellation of Oola Troil. But the most important
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Speaker 1: change remained behind. Formerly from the dreadful dictates of spiritual
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Speaker 1: despair arising out of the circumstances of her father's death,
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Speaker 1: she seemed to have considered herself as an outcast from
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Speaker 1: devas grace. Besides that, enveloped in the vain occult sciences
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Speaker 1: which she pretended to practice, Her study, like that of
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Speaker 1: Chaucer's physician, had been but little in the Bible. Now,
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Speaker 1: the sacred volume was seldom laid aside, and to the poor,
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Speaker 1: ignorant people who came as formerly to invoke her power
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Speaker 1: over the elements, she only replied, the winds are in
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Speaker 1: the hollow of his hand. Her conversion was not perhaps
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Speaker 1: altogether rational. For this the state of a mind disordered
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Speaker 1: by such a complication of horrid incidents probably prevented, but
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Speaker 1: it seemed to be sincere and was certainly useful. She
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Speaker 1: appeared deeply to repent of her former presumptuous attempts to
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Speaker 1: interfere with the course of human events, superintended as they
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Speaker 1: are by far higher powers, and bressed bitter compunction when
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Speaker 1: such her former pretensions were in any manner recalled to
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Speaker 1: her memory. She still showed a partiality to Mordaunt, though
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Speaker 1: perhaps arising chiefly from habit. Nor was it easy to
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Speaker 1: know how much or how little she remembered of the
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Speaker 1: complicated events in which she had been connected. When she died,
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Speaker 1: which was about four years after the events we have commemorated,
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Speaker 1: it was found that, at the special and earnest request
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Speaker 1: of Minatroil, she had conveyed her very considerable property to Brenda.
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Speaker 1: A clause in her will specially directed that all the books,
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Speaker 1: implements of her laboratory, and other things connected with her
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Speaker 1: former studies should be committed to the flames. About two
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Speaker 1: years before Norna's death, Brenda was wedded to Mordaunt Mertown.
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Speaker 1: It was some time before Old Magnus Troil, with all
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Speaker 1: his affection for his daughter and all his partiality for Mordaunt,
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Speaker 1: was able frankly to reconcile himself to this match. But
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Speaker 1: Mordaunt's accomplishments were peculiarly to the you Dollar's taste, and
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Speaker 1: the old man felt the impossibility of supplying his place
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Speaker 1: in his family so absolutely that at length his Norse
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Speaker 1: blood gave way to the natural feeling of the heart,
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Speaker 1: and he comforted his pride while he looked around him
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Speaker 1: and saw what he considered as the encroachments of the
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Speaker 1: Scottish gentry upon the country. So Zeteland is fondly termed
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Speaker 1: by its inhabitants, that as well his daughter married the
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Speaker 1: son of an English pirate, as of a Scottish thief,
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Speaker 1: in scornful allusion to the Highland and border families, to
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Speaker 1: whom Zeteland owes many respectable land holders, but whose ancestors
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Speaker 1: were generally esteemed more renowned for ancient family and high
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Speaker 1: courage than for accurately regarding the trifling distinctions of meum
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Speaker 1: and tuum. The jovial old man lived to the extremity
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Speaker 1: of human life, with the happy prospect of a numerous
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Speaker 1: succession in the family of his younger daughter, and having
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Speaker 1: his board cheered alternately by the minstrelsy of Claude Holcrow,
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Speaker 1: and enlightened by the lucubrations of mister Tryptolemus Yellowly, who,
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Speaker 1: laying aside his high pretensions, was when he became better
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Speaker 1: acquainted with the manners of the islanders and remembered the
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Speaker 1: various misadventures which had attended his premature attempts at reformation,
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Speaker 1: an honest and useful representative of his principle, and never
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Speaker 1: so happy as when he could escape from the spare
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Speaker 1: commons of his sister Barbara to the genial table of
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Speaker 1: the u Dollar. Barbara's temper also was much softened by
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Speaker 1: the unexpected restoration of the Horn of silver coins, the
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Speaker 1: property of Norna, which she had concealed in the mansion
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Speaker 1: of Old Stauerberg for achieving some of her mysterious plans,
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Speaker 1: but which she now restored to those by whom it
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Speaker 1: had been accidentally discovered, with an intimation, however, that it
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Speaker 1: would again disappear unless a reasonable portion was expended on
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Speaker 1: the sustenance of the family, a precaution to which Tronda,
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Speaker 1: Drown's daughter, probably an agent of Norna's, owed her escape
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Speaker 1: from a slow and wasting death by inanition, Mordaunt and
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Speaker 1: Brenda were as happy as our mortal condition permits us
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Speaker 1: to be. They admired and loved each other, enjoyed easy circumstances,
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Speaker 1: had duties to discharge which they did not neglect, and
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Speaker 1: clear in conscience as light of heart, laughed, sung, danced,
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Speaker 1: doffed the world aside, and bid it pass. But Minna,
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Speaker 1: the high minded and imaginative Minna, she gifted with such
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Speaker 1: depth of feeling and enthusiasm, yet doomed to see both
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Speaker 1: blighted in early youth, because with the inexperience of a
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Speaker 1: disposition equally romantic and ignorant, she had built the fabric
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Speaker 1: of her happiness on a quicksand instead of a rock.
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Speaker 1: Was she could she be happy? Reader, She was happy
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Speaker 1: for whatever may be alleged to the contrary by the
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Speaker 1: skeptic and the scorner. To each duty performed, there is
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Speaker 1: as signed a degree of mental peace and high consciousness
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Speaker 1: of honorable exertion corresponding to the difficulty of the task accomplished.
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Speaker 1: That rest of the body which succeeds to hard and
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Speaker 1: industrious toil is not to be compared to the repose
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Speaker 1: which the spirit enjoys under similar circumstances. Her resignation, however,
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Speaker 1: and the constant attention which she paid to her father,
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Speaker 1: her sister, the afflicted Norna, and to all who had
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Speaker 1: claims on her, were neither menaced soul nor her most
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Speaker 1: precious source of comfort. Like Norna, but under a more
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Speaker 1: regulated judgment, she learned to exchange the visions of wild
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Speaker 1: enthusiasm which had exerted and misled her imagination for a
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Speaker 1: truer and purer connection with the world beyond us than
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Speaker 1: could be learned from the sagas of heathen bards or
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Speaker 1: the visions of later rhymers. To this she owed the
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Speaker 1: support by which she was enabled, after various accounts of
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Speaker 1: the honorable and gallant conduct of Cleveland, to read with
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Speaker 1: resignation and even with a sense of comfort mingled with
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Speaker 1: sorrow that he had at length fallen leading the way
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Speaker 1: in a gallant and honorable enterprise, which was successfully accomplished
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Speaker 1: by those companions to whom his determined bravery had opened
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Speaker 1: the road. Bunch his fantastic follower in good as formerly
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Speaker 1: in evil, transmitted an account to Minna of this melancholy
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Speaker 1: event in terms which showed that though his head was weak,
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Speaker 1: his heart had not been utterly corrupted by the lawless
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Speaker 1: life which he had for some time led, or at
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Speaker 1: least that it had been amended by the change, and
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Speaker 1: that he himself had gained credit and promotion in the
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Speaker 1: same action seemed to be of little consequence to him
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Speaker 1: compared with the loss of his old captain and comrade.
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Speaker 1: Menna read the intelligence and thanked Heaven, even while the
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Speaker 1: eyes which she lifted up were streaming with tears, that
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Speaker 1: the death of Cleveland had been in the bed of honor. Nay,
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Speaker 1: she even had the courage to add her gratitude that
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Speaker 1: he had been snatched from a situation of temptation ere
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Speaker 1: circumstances had overcome his new born virtue, and so strongly
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Speaker 1: did his reflection operate that her life, after the immediate
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Speaker 1: pain of this event had passed away, seemed not only
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Speaker 1: as resigned, but even more cheerful than before. Her thoughts, however,
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Speaker 1: were detached from the world, and only visited it with
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Speaker 1: an interest like that which guardian spirits take for their
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Speaker 1: charge in behalf of those friends with whom she lived
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Speaker 1: in love, or of the poor whom she could serve
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Speaker 1: and comfort. Thus passed her life, enjoying from all who
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Speaker 1: approached her, and affection enhanced by reverence, insomuch that when
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Speaker 1: her friends sorrowed for her death, which arrived at a
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Speaker 1: late period of her existence, they were comforted by the
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Speaker 1: fond reflection that the humanity which she then laid down
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Speaker 1: was the only circumstance which had placed her, in the
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Speaker 1: words of Scripture, a little lower than the angels. End
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Speaker 1: of Chapter twenty two and of the Pirate by Sir
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Speaker 1: Walter Scott