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10 - Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy by Barbara Hofland · Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy

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Speaker 1: Recording by Chieco The Young Groussau or The Shipwrecked Boy
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Speaker 1: by Barbara Hoflin. Chapter ten, Charles goes to watch in
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Speaker 1: the tree. Here's a voice which is not the parrot's,
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Speaker 1: discovers a great stranger, wonderful events, and great happiness. It
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Speaker 1: had frequently been a source of regret to Charles, especially
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Speaker 1: during that time when his mind was better able to
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Speaker 1: pursue his studies, that he had not been provided with
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Speaker 1: a few pencils and a little paper that he might
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Speaker 1: occupy his lonely hours with drawing, or that he had
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Speaker 1: not a slate and an account book. And now, though
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Speaker 1: it is probable that he would have used them much less,
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Speaker 1: he wished for them still more, because he found that
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Speaker 1: the perpetual solicitude of his mind required diverting. For this purpose,
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Speaker 1: he frequently got a long stick and wrote or made
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Speaker 1: figures on the smooth sands near the shore. And as
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Speaker 1: his thoughts were always wandering after his father, his writing
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Speaker 1: generally consisted of letters addressed to him, and many an
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Speaker 1: epistle full of tenderness and good feelings, was day after
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Speaker 1: day washed away by the returning waves which passed over it.
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Speaker 1: One morning, as he was going to take his station
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Speaker 1: in the tree, he remarked that every word was obliterated
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Speaker 1: except dear Papa. Ah said he, those two words remain.
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Speaker 1: Yet they are the last words on the sands, and
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Speaker 1: I dare say they will be the last words I
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Speaker 1: shall ever utter. I remember reading in history that Queen
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Speaker 1: Mary said Calais would be found written on her heart,
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Speaker 1: and if the thing were possible, dear Papa would now
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Speaker 1: be written on mine. As Paul always considered his master's
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Speaker 1: words addressed to him, he answered with don't despair. But
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Speaker 1: it was in a very sleepy tone, for his master
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Speaker 1: had this morning roused him before his time. With his
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Speaker 1: usual consideration, Charles placed the poor bird on the first
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Speaker 1: comfortable bow he found, but not until he had carefully
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Speaker 1: reconnordered the ground below with his usual fear of serpents,
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Speaker 1: so that he might be sure that all was safe,
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Speaker 1: and then proceeded to take his regular stand on the
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Speaker 1: topmost branches. From whence his shawl continued to wave. In
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Speaker 1: the course of a quarter of an hour, he saw
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Speaker 1: in the distant horizon a dark speck, which soon increased
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Speaker 1: in dimensions. Again, his heart began to throw violently, for
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Speaker 1: it was indeed a ship bearing to the east, and
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Speaker 1: every moment showing itself more plainly as a large, complete vessel,
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Speaker 1: fanned by a breeze that gently filled its sails more
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Speaker 1: and more towards the islands, yet without evincing any intention
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Speaker 1: to touch it them. It was in truth far distant still,
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Speaker 1: and there was no probability that if he took to
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Speaker 1: his boat this very moment, that he should be discerned,
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Speaker 1: unless it steered much nearer the island. And if it
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Speaker 1: did so, and should discern the flags now visible from
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Speaker 1: three points, would it not be better that he should
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Speaker 1: wait where he was and receive the strangers, who were
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Speaker 1: on their way from the Cape to India, and had
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Speaker 1: probably heard of the shipwreck of the Alexander, and might
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Speaker 1: be on the lookout for some remnant of the crew.
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Speaker 1: I shall be kindly received in India, said Charles, for
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Speaker 1: people cannot have forgotten my dear father, and for his
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Speaker 1: sake they will send me to my mother some time.
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Speaker 1: And at this moment, something like the sound of a
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Speaker 1: piece when it flashes in the pan struck his ear,
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Speaker 1: and the words mister Charlie, mister Charlie, uttered in great trepidation,
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Speaker 1: were spoken very near him. It was evident that the
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Speaker 1: parrot had heard the sound and was alarmed by it.
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Speaker 1: So Charles first care was to descend to his relief,
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Speaker 1: though sorry to lose sight of the ship for a moment, since,
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Speaker 1: however far removed, it was the link that tied him
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Speaker 1: to his fellow creatures. When he had descended to the
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Speaker 1: lower boughs, he found Paul, to his great astonishment, fast
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Speaker 1: asleep where he had left him, without a single feather
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Speaker 1: ruffle or the least indication of that recent flutter which
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Speaker 1: had induced him to cry out. Why, surely, Paul, you
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Speaker 1: were talking in your sleep? What could disturb you so much,
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Speaker 1: my fine fellow, said his kind master, putting out his
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Speaker 1: head and to draw him into his arms. Mister Charley,
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Speaker 1: Mister Charley, screamed a voice within a little distance, and
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Speaker 1: at the same moment a gun was distinctly heard. Am
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Speaker 1: I awake or is it all a dream? Cried the astonished,
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Speaker 1: bewildered transported boy. As in trembling expectation, he fell rather
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Speaker 1: than descended from the tree. When lo within fifty yards
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Speaker 1: stood a living human being. Another look convinced him it
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Speaker 1: was Sambo, dear faithful sambo forgetting the snakes and everything
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Speaker 1: else but thankfulness to God. Charles dropped on his knees,
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Speaker 1: but in another moment felt himself hugged, fondly, hugged to
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Speaker 1: the beating breast of his faithful servant, who, between tears
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Speaker 1: and laughter, half shouting and half sobbing, cried out him
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Speaker 1: quack alive him brown a sambo's self him, lovey him sambo,
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Speaker 1: same as before, Oh, happy, happy him, quack alive him.
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Speaker 1: Poor father, look for him bones, no bones here, my father,
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Speaker 1: my father, cried Charles, but he could not utter another word.
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Speaker 1: His tongue clove to his mouth, His eyes seemed starting
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Speaker 1: out of his head, and he looked so wild and
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Speaker 1: pallid that the joy of the poor Hindoo was suddenly
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Speaker 1: turned into terror and earnestly shaking Charles, he cried out
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Speaker 1: in a voice of distress, alternately to the long lost
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Speaker 1: object of his care and the party who were seeking him,
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Speaker 1: Mister Charlie, mister Charlie, nibber go for loose him senses
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Speaker 1: now when joy come home to him heart here you
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Speaker 1: sailor tom and ned, what for you not come carry
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Speaker 1: mister cuso un son and palanquin, you great rascal idols ha,
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Speaker 1: mister Charlie nibber, you know what we have suffer about you, Sambo,
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Speaker 1: cry him, eyes out, Sambo, lie down to death for you.
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Speaker 1: But where where is my father? Him? Here? Him? Dare him?
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Speaker 1: Run an ibory place? I know well best place. Come, Come, halloo, halloo,
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Speaker 1: I fine I find Sambo, Fine a hoy. Captain Gordon
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Speaker 1: a hoy, bawled the parrot, flapping his wings with delight
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Speaker 1: and evidently recognizing his old friend Sambo by jumping on
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Speaker 1: his shoulders, even from the arms of his master, who,
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Speaker 1: shaking in every limb, was rather dragged than led by
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Speaker 1: Sambo towards the beach, where he began to believe that
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Speaker 1: the whole scene was not an illusion of the senses,
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Speaker 1: by perceiving two sailors and an officer standing near Captain
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Speaker 1: Gordon's grave, apparently listening to the halloos of Sambo and
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Speaker 1: the screams of the parrot, the moment they beheld Sambo
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Speaker 1: drawing forward, a boy about his own size, whose appearance
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Speaker 1: bespoke all the peculiarities of his situation, and who at
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Speaker 1: this moment looked more dead than alive, and conveyed the
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Speaker 1: idea of his being snatched from present destruction. They set
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Speaker 1: up a shout of joy that seemed to rend the heavens,
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Speaker 1: and two of them fired at the same moment. Just then,
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Speaker 1: Charles heard a voice cry, where where is he? That
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Speaker 1: voice was surely his father's, and he thought that his
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Speaker 1: figure was emerging from the trees, but he could see
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Speaker 1: no more. His head swam, his eyes failed. He fell
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Speaker 1: fainting on the ground, believing that he was expiring by degrees.
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Speaker 1: Life revisited the pale cheek of poor Charles, and as
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Speaker 1: his senses returned, he began to think that he had
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Speaker 1: been afflicted with the fever in which he had suffered
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Speaker 1: from the delusions of delirious fancies. He found that he
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Speaker 1: was sitting on the sands. The trees he had planted
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Speaker 1: round the captain's grave were before him, and the voice
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Speaker 1: of poor Paul was still ringing in his ears. But
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Speaker 1: he also found that he was supported by some person's arms,
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Speaker 1: and that his head was pillowed on a kind shoulder.
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Speaker 1: Nay more, Samba was kneeling before him and offering him
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Speaker 1: something in a teacup. You drink ee him, mister Charlie, him,
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Speaker 1: do you great goody? That is very true, Master Crusoe,
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Speaker 1: said a voice close to him. Let Sambo hold the
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Speaker 1: cup to your lips and try to swallow the contents.
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Speaker 1: At this moment a pang shot through Charles's heart. Had
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Speaker 1: he then been deceived? Was his father not here? He
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Speaker 1: took the cup as the medium of gaining strength for
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Speaker 1: further inquiry, and the moment he had swallowed the liquid
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Speaker 1: it contained, inquired, pray, sir, is my father living? I thought?
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Speaker 1: I hoped you are right in those hopes. My dear boy,
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Speaker 1: your father is near you. He lives and is well.
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Speaker 1: He even sees you at this very moment. But you
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Speaker 1: have been so overcome by hearing his voice that, by
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Speaker 1: my advice as the surgeon of the ship that brought him,
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Speaker 1: he now stands at a distance and forbears to speak
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Speaker 1: to you. You too must obey me, my dear boy,
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Speaker 1: You must not suffer even your joy natural as it
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Speaker 1: is to overcome you. I will obey you, Sir. I
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Speaker 1: will try to get well that he may be happy.
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Speaker 1: But sir, please please to put me on my knees,
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Speaker 1: support my hands as the hands of Moses were supported,
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Speaker 1: for if I do not thank God, I shall die again.
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Speaker 1: I feel I shall. The benevolent friend instantly complied with
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Speaker 1: his request by placing him on his knees and supporting
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Speaker 1: him as he exclaimed, I thank THEE, O God, I
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Speaker 1: thank THEE that I have lived to this hour, and
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Speaker 1: that my dear Papa is still. At these words, he
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Speaker 1: burst into a flood of tears, which relieved his loaded heart,
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Speaker 1: and the surgeon then beckoned to mister Crusoe, who, pale
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Speaker 1: and trembling, scarcely able to endure the joy and the
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Speaker 1: fear of this awful scene, now took him in his arms,
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Speaker 1: and holding him to his heart, thanked God for the
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Speaker 1: possession of a gift so much beyond his hopes that
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Speaker 1: but a single hour before, he had, as Sambo truly said,
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Speaker 1: searched the island to find the precious remains of a
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Speaker 1: child lost to him under the most afflictive circumstances that
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Speaker 1: he thought possible for or father to endure. The honest Tars,
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Speaker 1: though they had weathered many a rough gale without shrinking,
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Speaker 1: found the scene before them affecting to the highest degree,
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Speaker 1: and large tears rolled down their rough faces as they, too,
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Speaker 1: devoutly lifted up their hearts in thankfulness to Heaven. The
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Speaker 1: surgeon alone, though a man whose feelings were as acute
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Speaker 1: as his heart was, kind, preserved the power to control
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Speaker 1: the sensibility of those around him as well as his own.
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Speaker 1: And seeing at sambo by turns, laughed and cried as
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Speaker 1: if he were going into hysterics. He ordered him instantly
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Speaker 1: to the boat to fetch some provisions, as he thought
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Speaker 1: dinner would be good for all the party, and slapping
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Speaker 1: Charles on the shoulder, he exclaimed, come, my young friend,
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Speaker 1: look up and tell us where your stores lie. We
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Speaker 1: have all come a long way to visit you, and
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Speaker 1: expect that you will entertain us handsomely. Charles felt feeble
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Speaker 1: and exhausted in consequence of the agitation he had undergone,
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Speaker 1: and he was so entirely content, so perfectly happy, as
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Speaker 1: he laid in the arms of his father, he thought
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Speaker 1: it was almost a cruelty in mister Parker to compel
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Speaker 1: him to speak. But when he looked in his good
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Speaker 1: humored countenance, he saw his motive for commanding attention from
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Speaker 1: all parties, and immediately answered, in as gay a tone
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Speaker 1: as his spirits could muster, I have got some sea
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Speaker 1: stores on board my vessel, the Calypso, Sir, which lies
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Speaker 1: a short way to the leeward, and they are at
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Speaker 1: your service. Your men will find them in a tin case.
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Speaker 1: There is island bread also in my hut, and choice
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Speaker 1: fish ready for the fire, very good, and a spring
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Speaker 1: of pure water too, I perceive, to which you may
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Speaker 1: add a little brandy from my ship's store. And it
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Speaker 1: will be easy for you to procure a barrel of wine.
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Speaker 1: For there is such a thing fairly wedged into the
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Speaker 1: sand where it has lain ever since the time of
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Speaker 1: the wreck. And have you, my dear Charles, never been
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Speaker 1: able to get to it. What a sad loss you
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Speaker 1: have had, I think, Papa, I could have got the
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Speaker 1: wine out of it, though I had not the strength
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Speaker 1: to move the barrel, but I thought it better not
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Speaker 1: to try unless I had another fever or something of
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Speaker 1: that kind. I remembered that I was very fond of
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Speaker 1: a glass of madeira, and I was afraid that I
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Speaker 1: might be tempted to drink too much, especially when I
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Speaker 1: was unhappy, and when I was hungry, in which case
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Speaker 1: it would have made me tipsy, you know, And have
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Speaker 1: you ever taken any of the brandy, then, my dear Oh, yes,
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Speaker 1: I have taken a small quantity very often, when I
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Speaker 1: was wet through with the rain, or had been working
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Speaker 1: above my strength. I took it as I did physic
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Speaker 1: to do me good, and as I dislike it very much.
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Speaker 1: I had no fear of being tempted with it, as
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Speaker 1: I should have been with the wine. Well done, my
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Speaker 1: young philosopher, cried mister Parker. Your school has been a
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Speaker 1: strange one, but it has nevertheless taught you most invaluable lessons.
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Speaker 1: So it ought, sir, for I had in my distress
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Speaker 1: the best of books, and surely I may add the
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Speaker 1: first of all masters. At this moment the sailors returned,
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Speaker 1: bringing with them all they had found of the highly
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Speaker 1: prized property of Charles. At this moment, his father whispered,
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Speaker 1: my dear child, have you ever touched certain things which
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Speaker 1: I wrapped in a handkerchief. Those things are all safely
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Speaker 1: stowed on my person, dear father, so you will neither
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Speaker 1: have the trouble to seek for them, nor the necessity
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Speaker 1: of exciting attention on a subject which might be dangerous. See, Papa,
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Speaker 1: what curious bread I have made out of roots? I
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Speaker 1: call them crusoe, carrot, cakes. Mister Crusoe took the bread
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Speaker 1: in his hand, willing to please his son by admiring it,
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Speaker 1: but when he put it to his lips, it was
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Speaker 1: moistened by his tears. The remembrance of those tender and
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Speaker 1: unceasing cares which a fond mother had lavished on her
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Speaker 1: only son from his birth rushed to his mind, contrasting
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Speaker 1: with the many privations that dear son must have suffered,
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Speaker 1: And whilst he sincerely thanked God that his beloved child
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Speaker 1: had possessed strength of mind and constitution to overcome them,
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Speaker 1: yet his feelings as a parent were deeply moved. Again.
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Speaker 1: He clasped his boy to his bosom and asked his
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Speaker 1: heart if it durst confide in its own happiness, if
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Speaker 1: his long suffering, deserted sons still lived in possession of
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Speaker 1: health and understanding, with affections quickened not impaired by absence.
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Speaker 1: On examining him, he perceived that, although very thin, he
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Speaker 1: yet was considerably grown and had proportionably increased in muscular strength.
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Speaker 1: His complexion seemed embrowned to a perfect bronze on his face,
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Speaker 1: but this was evidently the partial effect of continual exposure,
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Speaker 1: for on taking off his jacket. His arms and neck,
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Speaker 1: though without the advantage of being covered by a shirt,
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Speaker 1: retained their usual color. His hands gave decisive proof that
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Speaker 1: his labor had been various, and seeing his father so
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Speaker 1: much affected by surveying his person, Charles began strenuously to
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Speaker 1: maintain that although there was a time when he had
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Speaker 1: been a sad figure, yet he might now be considered
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Speaker 1: altogether a very respectable bow For notwithstanding his dark, curly
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Speaker 1: hair was as bushy as a counselor's wig, he knew
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Speaker 1: that he had cut a great deal from it, and
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Speaker 1: he conceived that his cap was really a most meritorious covering,
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Speaker 1: for which he claimed great praise. When they sat down
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Speaker 1: to dinner on the sand, where there was scarcely any
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Speaker 1: shade from the trees, everyone allowed that his projecting head
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Speaker 1: dress was indeed an admirable contrivance. In fact, they admired
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Speaker 1: and extolled everything about him, gazing at him as if
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Speaker 1: he were a living miracle. But the mind of Charles
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Speaker 1: was too much occupied with joy and gratitude to admit
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Speaker 1: of any other emotion, and he was therefore happily prevented
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Speaker 1: from imbibing those ideas which might have injured him by
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Speaker 1: feeding pride and simulating vanity. After they had dined, the
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Speaker 1: good surgeon hastened their departure, but not till he had
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Speaker 1: secured what he called the drowned Madera, which indeed proved
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Speaker 1: a quarter cask of that wine which had been sent
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Speaker 1: out to India to be improved by the voyage. And
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Speaker 1: Charles took care together all his goods together, not forgetting
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Speaker 1: the parrot's cage and the beautiful shawl which was still
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Speaker 1: waving on the top of his church tree. For this
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Speaker 1: Sambo was dispatched, as he knew the place exactly, and
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Speaker 1: whilst he was gone, Charles examined his almonac trees and
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Speaker 1: counted as many notches as made seven months and eleven days,
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Speaker 1: commencing with the first he could remember. Just as he
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Speaker 1: had finished counting them, and mister Parker was drawing nearer
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Speaker 1: to announce that all things were ready for their departure,
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Speaker 1: Sambo came running towards them with looks of great dismay,
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Speaker 1: declaring that he had seen three serpents, from one of
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Speaker 1: which he had escaped with difficulty, and having no stick
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Speaker 1: in his hand or means of defense, had been terribly frightened.
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Speaker 1: Then you did not come back the way you went,
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Speaker 1: Shirley Sambo or we should have seen them this morning
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Speaker 1: when you were under the tree. I told you to
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Speaker 1: go and come the same way. Yes, mister Charley, let
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Speaker 1: him think him make one short cut. As for morning.
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Speaker 1: If fifty serpents was there, Sambo see only you? You
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Speaker 1: see only Sambo. And was this danger added to the rest,
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Speaker 1: cried mister Croussoe with new emotion. Yes, Papa, it has
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Speaker 1: been the worst evil I have had to contend with,
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Speaker 1: at least to my own apprehension, for of all other
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Speaker 1: I feared at the most. But let us go. When
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Speaker 1: we are safe on board, I will tell you as
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Speaker 1: Othellow says, all my travel's history. I will only ask
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Speaker 1: you one word, now, Charles, Did you think I had
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Speaker 1: purposely forsaken you? No? No, the thought once rushed through
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Speaker 1: my mind, but I banished it directly. I knew you
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Speaker 1: would rather die with me than leave me, and that
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Speaker 1: although it was your duty perhaps to prefer my Mama
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Speaker 1: and my sister, if you are obliged to give up
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Speaker 1: either them or me, yet I felt that you could
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Speaker 1: not forsake me. No, Papa, I have cried for you,
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Speaker 1: as dead or in slavery many a time, very bitterly.
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Speaker 1: But I have also cheered my heart with the hopes
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Speaker 1: of seeing you again every hour of my life, or
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Speaker 1: else I could not have sustained my existence. It is true.
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Speaker 1: After three months were over, I then began to expect
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Speaker 1: if you had the power of returning, you would be coming,
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Speaker 1: and you will be aware from my storing my mind
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Speaker 1: boat that I intended to keep a sharp lookout. It
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Speaker 1: was observation of a distant ship that made me lose
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Speaker 1: sight of your boat. Your vessel, I conclude, is hidden
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Speaker 1: by the wood. Since I saw you, as Sambo says,
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Speaker 1: I have desired to see nothing else, and never once
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Speaker 1: looked for that which is so precious in my eyes,
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Speaker 1: a ship bound for my own country, my dear boy.
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Speaker 1: Since we parted, I have been to the Cape of
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Speaker 1: Good Hope, from thence to Ceylon, and we are now
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Speaker 1: bound direct to England. Oh, Joy, Joy, this is more
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Speaker 1: than I dared hope for. I have got so many
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Speaker 1: things for Mamma, you can't think at least for Emily,
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Speaker 1: and I have got one for them better than all
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Speaker 1: the rest. When I never hope to take them, but
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Speaker 1: we must go. You will not fret after your desolate island,
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Speaker 1: my young Crousoe. I shall not regret its snakes nor
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Speaker 1: its sorrow's father. But yet I feel some way a
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Speaker 1: kind of trouble in quitting it, for I have known
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Speaker 1: two very miserable nights for one of its accommodations, and
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Speaker 1: I have learnt in it more of God's word, and
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Speaker 1: more of his providential goodness, too, than I should have
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Speaker 1: gained in any other place. So fare thee well island
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Speaker 1: of Saint Paul thou hast got a good name, and
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Speaker 1: I will not give thee a bad one. They now
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Speaker 1: entered the boat, which was only a small one, the
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Speaker 1: vessel to which it belonged being far inferior to that
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Speaker 1: noble ship which had been stranded at the spot from which,
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Speaker 1: with some difficulty, they now took their departure. Charles wished
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Speaker 1: much that they could have taken his boat, but this
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Speaker 1: was found impracticable, and therefore he gave up all thoughts
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Speaker 1: of it, But earnestly desired the best accommodation for his parrot, which,
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Speaker 1: disliking the confinement of his cage, screamed incessantly, never despair,
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Speaker 1: my dear boy, to the great delight of the seaman.
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Speaker 1: When the boat reached the vessel, every person within the
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Speaker 1: latter crowded to the deck the moment the figure of
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Speaker 1: Charles was descried, and the most extraordinary natural curiosity ever
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Speaker 1: caught or exhibited would have failed to awaken wonder or
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Speaker 1: excite interest so much as he did. Every person on
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Speaker 1: board knew that mister Crusoe had engaged the captain, by
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Speaker 1: the payment of a considerable sum, to visit this island
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Speaker 1: for the purpose of seeing if his son survived. But
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Speaker 1: as every day lessened the probability of such an event,
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Speaker 1: and they had been detained much beyond their expectation, not
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Speaker 1: one person expected that his examination of Saint Paul's could
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Speaker 1: produce anything beyond the realization of his fears. As the
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Speaker 1: settled melancholy of his countenance, the gentleness of his manners,
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Speaker 1: and the character he bore in Bombay made him generally beloved.
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Speaker 1: Every person of an amiable disposition felt for a father
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Speaker 1: so situated, and from motives of delicacy and sympathy, intended
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Speaker 1: to hold themselves secluded on his return till he should
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Speaker 1: have reached his own cabin for which kind purpose. The
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Speaker 1: captain promised to give them notice when the boat should
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Speaker 1: be seen to leave the shore, Mister Parker, the surgeon,
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Speaker 1: determining to accompany him for the purpose of performing the
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Speaker 1: funeral ceremony over the body of poor Charles, and afterwards
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Speaker 1: withdrawing the father as soon as possible from the scene.
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Speaker 1: When the boat left the island, from its being deeply loaded,
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Speaker 1: it came slowly, which seemed to the few who saw it,
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Speaker 1: a movement in unison with the affliction of the father.
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Speaker 1: On taking up his glass, Captain Linton perceived that there
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Speaker 1: was another passenger, dressed in a singular helmet, gazing wistfully
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Speaker 1: at the ship, as an intelligent savage might be supposed
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Speaker 1: to do, whose admiration and delight were vividly expressed by
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Speaker 1: his gestures. But when he saw the supposed wild youth
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Speaker 1: sink down at the feet of mister Croussoe lay his
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Speaker 1: head in his lap and draw the shawl in which
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Speaker 1: he was arrayed over his face to hide the transports
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Speaker 1: or the tears drawn from him by the novelty of
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Speaker 1: this situation. He was convinced that the last sheep was found,
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Speaker 1: and the news ran through the vessel like electricity, every
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Speaker 1: heart beat with joy, every eyelid was moistened with pity,
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Speaker 1: and when the young stranger stepped on board, a shout
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Speaker 1: of welcome and exultation ran through the ship and seemed
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Speaker 1: to swell the very sails with triumph. Hands were held
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Speaker 1: out on all sides, Voices in all tones uttered congratulations,
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Speaker 1: and as there were several ladies among the passengers, Charles
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Speaker 1: almost believed that his mother was addressing him, and in
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Speaker 1: the confusion of pleasure, felt bewildered and overpowered by the
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Speaker 1: advice of mister Parker, both father and son for this
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Speaker 1: evening retired to the cabin of the former, into which
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Speaker 1: suitable accommodation for the stranger was speedily handed, together with Paul, who,
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Speaker 1: like his master, had not all at once the power
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Speaker 1: of meeting his new acquaintance with composure. Charles intended to
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Speaker 1: remain perfectly quiet for some time, but he could not
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Speaker 1: forbear to go on deck and gaze upon the island
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Speaker 1: so long as it remained in view, wondering at his
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Speaker 1: own strange sensation, in which something like sen sorrow that
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Speaker 1: he should never see it more mingled with pleasure for
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Speaker 1: his escape from it as a prison, condemning him to
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Speaker 1: solitary confinement, to fear and to want when the fonsin
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Speaker 1: returned to the cabin, much as he desired to know
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Speaker 1: everything that related to his father and to Sambo also,
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Speaker 1: who never lost sight of his recovered young master five
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Speaker 1: minutes at a time, he yet complied willingly with the
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Speaker 1: advice he had received from mister Parker to ask no
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Speaker 1: questions or relate any adventures for that night, being well
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Speaker 1: aware that he was now much in the same state
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Speaker 1: of exhaustion from his surprise and happiness that he had
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Speaker 1: repeatedly been from his misery and disappointment. But there was
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Speaker 1: one thing he could not deny himself, which was that
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Speaker 1: of closely nestling to his father and either holding him
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Speaker 1: by the hand or the clothes, as if he feared
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Speaker 1: to lose him. For a moment. When thus seated with
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Speaker 1: his faithful Sambo before his eyes, and poor Paul now
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Speaker 1: well fed and sleeping by his side, and the remembrance
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Speaker 1: that he was sailing towards dear England which contained another
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Speaker 1: parent and sister full on his mind, he wanted nothing
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Speaker 1: more to render him the happiest boy on the face
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Speaker 1: of the wide earth. Following day he became acquainted with
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Speaker 1: the reason of his father's mysterious disappearance. But as mister
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Speaker 1: Crissot's narrative was frequently interrupted by the inquiries of his
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Speaker 1: anxious son, we will comprise the circumstances in the following chapter.
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Speaker 1: End of Chapter ten,