data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000002_000000.wav|WHAT IS PROPERTY?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000042_000006.wav|For the people are credulous, but they are strong.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000006_000000.wav|MONSIEUR,--
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000027_000001.wav|When we have discovered the third term, the SYNTHESIS, we shall have the required solution.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000039_000005.wav|Upon property.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000031_000001.wav|Even now the legislative power is asked, no longer simply to regulate the government of factories, but to create factories itself.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000030_000000.wav|It will be the sole proprietor.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000019_000002.wav|In this case, instinctive justice belies legal justice.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000011_000001.wav|In the first place, the bees would not fail to try some new industrial process; for instance, that of making their cells round or square.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000022_000002.wav|Man esteems only the products of reflection and of reason.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000008_000002.wav|In man, talent varies, and the mind wavers; consequently, his will is multiform and vague.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000011_000001.wav|It was not to be expected that a system of inductions abstractly gathered together, and still more abstractly expressed, would be understood with equal accuracy in its ensemble and in each of its parts.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000027_000003.wav|Therefore it is necessary, by a final examination of their characteristics, to eliminate those features which are hostile to sociability.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000025_000002.wav|Always depending upon the future for the payment of his debts, he will be deceived in his hope, and surprised by maturity.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000004_000000.wav|The true form of human society cannot be determined until the following question has been solved:--
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000019_000001.wav|But notice that the learned observer defines the kind of reflection which distinguishes us from the animals as the POWER OF CONSIDERING OUR OWN MODIFICATIONS.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000018_000000.wav|That such a measure may be justly executed, it must be generalized; that is, the law which provides for it must decree also that interest on sums lent on deposit or on mortgage throughout the realm, as well as house and farm-rents, shall be reduced to three per cent.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000039_000004.wav|And upon what will the tax be levied?
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000026_000003.wav|It is the first phase of human civilization.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000021_000002.wav|The Chamber of Deputies, in the early part of this year, 1841, discussed this project, and the law was passed almost unanimously.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000003.wav|To maintain the beet-root, the cane had to be taxed.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000025_000000.wav|Thus, evil--or error and its consequences--is the firstborn son of the union of two opposing faculties, instinct and reflection; good, or truth, must inevitably be the second child.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000023_000001.wav|He keeps an account of his experience, and preserves the record; so that the race, as well as the individual, becomes more and more intelligent.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000042_000005.wav|Unhappy he who shall dare to trifle with them!
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000018_000002.wav|See! If at the moment of conversion a piece of real estate yields an income of one thousand francs, after the new law takes effect it will yield only six hundred francs.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000021_000003.wav|There is nothing more just, nothing more reasonable, nothing more philosophical apparently, than the motives which gave rise to this reform.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000004.wav|To protect the property of the one, it became necessary to violate the property of the other.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000008_000004.wav|You have criticised in a kindly spirit--I had almost said with partiality for the writer--a work which teaches a doctrine that you thought it your duty to condemn.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000006_000001.wav|Though this expression is inaccurate, the fact to which it refers is none the less true; namely, the classification of talents and capacities.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000026_000001.wav|But, just as reflection and reason are subsequent to spontaneity, observation to sensation, and experience to instinct, so property is subsequent to communism.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000016_000001.wav|Very well; but from this exception we will pass to another, from that to a third, and so on from exceptions to exceptions, until we have reduced the rule to a pure abstraction.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000038_000000.wav|3.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000010_000002.wav|In reflecting, he becomes deluded; in reasoning, he makes mistakes, and, thinking himself right, persists in them.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000024_000002.wav|This certainly is not my plan for the abolition of property.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000028_000002.wav|But it is a law of political economy that an increase of production augments the mass of available capital, consequently tends to raise wages, and finally to annihilate interest.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000027_000001.wav|But, as we have just seen, that is to limit property.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000019_000000.wav|If we grant intelligence to animals, we must also grant them, in some degree, reflection; for, the first cannot exist without the second, as F. Cuvier himself has proved by numerous examples.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000013_000001.wav|The difficulty of satisfying these various desires at the same time is the primary cause of the despotism of the will, and the appropriation which results from it.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000026_000002.wav|Communism--or association in a simple form--is the necessary object and original aspiration of the social nature, the spontaneous movement by which it manifests and establishes itself.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000017_000002.wav|Cuvier: Introduction to the Animal Kingdom.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000008_000003.wav|He seeks society, but dislikes constraint and monotony; he is an imitator, but fond of his own ideas, and passionately in love with his works.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000039_000001.wav|If, then, production continues in the national workshops, how will the crisis be terminated? Undoubtedly, by the general depreciation of merchandise, and, in the last analysis, by the conversion of private workshops into national workshops.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000039_000003.wav|By taxation.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000007_000001.wav|A society of beasts is a collection of atoms, round, hooked, cubical, or triangular, but always perfectly identical.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000022_000001.wav|Henceforth, the promptness of expropriation will save him from total ruin.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000008_000001.wav|In the bee, the will is constant and uniform, because the instinct which guides it is invariable, and constitutes the animal's whole life and nature.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000010_000000.wav|But man acquires skill only by observation and experiment.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000042_000003.wav|He disgraces himself and fails in respect for his fellows, who, in publishing his opinions, employs evasion and cunning.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000010_000001.wav|He reflects, then, since to observe and experiment is to reflect; he reasons, since he cannot help reasoning.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000009_000002.wav|Each one, without inquiring as to the object of his labor, and without troubling himself about the extent of his task, would obey orders, bring his product, receive his salary, and would then rest for a time; keeping meanwhile no accounts, envious of nobody, and satisfied with the distributor, who never would be unjust to any one.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000015_000011.wav|If public utility had interfered, that forest--the only one for miles around--would still be standing.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000008_000001.wav|This grand right--the sword of thought, which elevates the virtuous citizen to the rank of legislator, and makes the malicious citizen an agent of discord--frees us from all preliminary responsibility to the law; but it does not release us from our internal obligation to render a public account of our sentiments and thoughts.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000002_000000.wav|PART SECOND.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000009.wav|They sacrificed the property of the tax-payer.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000023_000000.wav|These arguments, and others besides, you clearly stated, sir, in your first lectures of this academic year.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000022_000003.wav|The most wonderful works of instinct are, in his eyes, only lucky GOD-SENDS; he reserves the name DISCOVERY--I had almost said creation--for the works of intelligence.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000015_000003.wav|"It is the field of our fathers," they would have cried, "and we will not sell it!" Among the ancients, the refusal of the individual limited the powers of the State.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000033_000000.wav|1.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000005_000000.wav|Property not being our natural condition, how did it gain a foothold? Why has the social instinct, so trustworthy among the animals, erred in the case of man?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000034_000002.wav|What becomes, during this progressive invasion, of independent cultivation, exclusive domain, property?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000021_000001.wav|For a long time, a revision of the law concerning mortgages was clamored for; a process was demanded, in behalf of all kinds of credit and in the interest of even the debtors themselves, which would render the expropriation of real estate as prompt, as easy, and as effective as that which follows a commercial protest.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000027_000004.wav|The union of the two remainders will give us the true form of human association.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000041_000006.wav|National workshops will follow; and soon, as a consequence, the excess of the proprietor's revenue over the workingman's wages will be swallowed up in the coffers of the laborers of the State.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000013_000002.wav|On the other hand, man always needs a market for his products; unable to compare values of different kinds, he is satisfied to judge approximately, according to his passion and caprice; and he engages in dishonest commerce, which always results in wealth and poverty.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000003_000001.wav|The Origin of Property.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000042_000004.wav|Before the people act, they need to know the whole truth.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000011_000000.wav|Like a stone thrown into a mass of serpents, the First Memoir on Property excited intense animosity, and aroused the passions of many. But, while some wished the author and his work to be publicly denounced, others found in them simply the solution of the fundamental problems of society; a few even basing evil speculations upon the new light which they had obtained.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000025_000007.wav|Now, the debtor's sentence is irrevocable: he has but a few days of grace.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000012_000000.wav|Thus, moral evil, or, in this case, disorder in society, is naturally explained by our power of reflection.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000043_000004.wav|For the rest, the present system is only a continuation of the municipal system, which, in the middle ages, sprang up in connection with feudalism,--an oppressive, mischief-making system, full of petty passions and base intrigues.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000010_000006.wav|A final illustration will make these facts still clearer.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000027_000000.wav|Lower interest on money!
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000015_000000.wav|A flagrant violation of the right of property.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000011_000004.wav|Evil would be introduced into the honey-producing republic by the power of reflection,--the very faculty which ought to constitute its glory.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000010.wav|Finally, did they prefer to cultivate the two varieties of sugar at the nation's expense, just as different varieties of tobacco are cultivated?
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000015_000000.wav|This progressive and painful education of our instinct, this slow and imperceptible transformation of our spontaneous perceptions into deliberate knowledge, does not take place among the animals, whose instincts remain fixed, and never become enlightened.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000011.wav|They abolished, so far as the sugar industry was concerned, the right of property.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000007_000002.wav|Any one who, wishing to publish a treatise upon the constitution of the country, could not satisfy this threefold condition, would be obliged to procure the endorsement of a responsible patron possessing the requisite qualifications.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000026_000000.wav|Property, born of the reasoning faculty, intrenches itself behind comparisons.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000025_000001.wav|Under the system of competition which is killing us, and whose necessary expression is a plundering and tyrannical government, the farmer will need always capital in order to repair his losses, and will be forced to contract loans.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000006_000003.wav|Man, by his nature and his instinct, is predestined to society; but his personality, ever varying, is adverse to it.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000007_000004.wav|Just as the swarm of bees is composed of individual bees, alike in nature and equal in value, so the honeycomb is formed of individual cells, constantly and invariably repeated.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000027_000005.wav|So the government thinks.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000012_000002.wav|Man, in his infancy, is neither criminal nor barbarous, but ignorant and inexperienced.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000002.wav|The native manufacturer was ruined by the colonist.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000018_000000.wav|Intelligence and instinct being common, then, though in different degrees, to animals and man, what is the distinguishing characteristic of the latter?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000012_000001.wav|But it is not my purpose here to pass upon the theory of the right of possession.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000016_000000.wav|But, it is said, expropriation on the ground of public utility is only an exception which confirms the principle, and bears testimony in favor of the right.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000022_000005.wav|3.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000025_000004.wav|I address this question to all whom this pitiless Nemesis pursues, and even troubles in their dreams.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000014_000000.wav|The practice of justice is a science which, when once discovered and diffused, will sooner or later put an end to social disorder, by teaching us our rights and duties.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000009_000000.wav|If, like the bees, every man were born possessed of talent, perfect knowledge of certain kinds, and, in a word, an innate acquaintance with the functions he has to perform, but destitute of reflective and reasoning faculties, society would organize itself.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000043_000003.wav|There are thousands of documents, even official documents, to prove this, if necessary.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000019_000001.wav|This last motive seems the most plausible one; for in spite of the clamors of interested parties, and the flagrant violation of certain rights, the public conscience is bound to fulfil its desire, and is no more affected when charged with attacking property, than when listening to the complaints of the bondholders.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000021_000005.wav|This fact is one of the most curious and indisputable which philology has observed.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000015_000010.wav|It is not two years since I saw a proprietor destroy a forest more than five hundred acres in extent.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000016_000003.wav|But, in man, almost every thing is accomplished by intelligence; and intelligence supplements instinct.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000010_000003.wav|He is wedded to his opinions; he esteems himself, and despises others.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000008.wav|Did they suppress the beet-root by granting an indemnity to the manufacturer?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000029_000003.wav|But to fix their minimum wages is to compel the proprietor, is to force the master to accept his workman as an associate, which interferes with freedom and makes mutual insurance obligatory.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000039_000000.wav|But, sir, the stoppage of private industry is the result of over-production, and insufficient markets.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000018_000002.wav|This lacks clearness, and requires an explanation.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000002_000001.wav|SECOND MEMOIR
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000033_000001.wav|TO CHECK THE CONTINUAL EMIGRATION OF LABORERS FROM THE COUNTRY INTO THE CITIES.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000026_000004.wav|In this state of society,--which the jurists have called NEGATIVE COMMUNISM--man draws near to man, and shares with him the fruits of the field and the milk and flesh of animals.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000017_000000.wav|How many supporters do you think, sir, can be claimed for the project of the conversion of the public funds?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000005_000000.wav|PARIS, April 1, 1841.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000006_000000.wav|I have said that human society is COMPLEX in its nature.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000015_000006.wav|Man leaves his imprint, stamps his character, upon the objects of his handiwork. This plastic force of man, as the modern jurists say, is the seal which, set upon matter, makes it holy.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000029_000001.wav|They formed a conspiracy against property! Their law to regulate the labor of children in factories will, without doubt, prevent the manufacturer from compelling a child to labor more than so many hours a day; but it will not force him to increase the pay of the child, nor that of its father.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000041_000001.wav|What is, after all, this electoral reform which the people grasp at, as if it were a bait, and which so many ambitious persons either call for or denounce?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000041_000000.wav|The tendency of society in favor of compelling proprietors to support national workshops and public manufactories is so strong that for several years, under the name of ELECTORAL REFORM, it has been exclusively the question of the day.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000009_000001.wav|We should see one man plowing a field, another building houses; this one forging metals, that one cutting clothes; and still others storing the products, and superintending their distribution.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000006.wav|Did they impose on each industry a proportional tax, so as to preserve a balance in the market?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000015_000002.wav|Naboth, and the miller of Sans-Souci, would have protested against French law, as they protested against the caprice of their kings.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000039_000002.wav|On the other hand, the government will need capital with which to pay its workmen; now, how will this capital be obtained?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000008_000000.wav|But we Frenchmen have the liberty of the press.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000042_000002.wav|There should be no secrets or reservations from peoples and powers.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000037_000000.wav|I omit, for the sake of brevity, the numerous considerations which the professor adduces in support of what he calls, too modestly in my opinion, his Utopia.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000022_000004.wav|Instinct is the source of passion and enthusiasm; it is intelligence which causes crime and virtue.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000027_000000.wav|Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development,--the THESIS; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term,--the ANTITHESIS.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000008_000002.wav|I have used, in all its fulness, and concerning an important question, the right which the charter grants us.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000026_000007.wav|To express this idea by an Hegelian formula, I will say:
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000005.wav|The most remarkable feature of this business was precisely that to which the least attention was paid; namely, that, in one way or another, property had to be violated.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000001.wav|Did they leave these two industries to themselves?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000015_000009.wav|Soon, in the name of public utility, methods of cultivation and conditions of enjoyment will be prescribed; inspectors of agriculture and manufactures will be appointed; property will be taken away from unskilful hands, and entrusted to laborers who are more deserving of it; and a general superintendence of production will be established.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000040_000003.wav|make haste to seize this glorious initiative; let the watchwords of equality, uttered from the heights of science and power, be repeated in the midst of the people; let them thrill the breasts of the proletaires, and carry dismay into the ranks of the last representatives of privilege!
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000019_000002.wav|This I shall endeavour to interpret, by developing to the best of my ability the laconism of the philosophical naturalist.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000020_000007.wav|They created a maximum PRICE for each variety of sugar; and, as this maximum PRICE was not the same, they attacked property in two ways,--on the one hand, interfering with the liberty of trade; on the other, disregarding the equality of proprietors.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000041_000005.wav|Already we have a minister of public works.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000023_000002.wav|The animals do not transmit their knowledge; that which each individual accumulates dies with him.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000039_000007.wav|What, think you, will become, in this fatal circle, of the possibility of profit,--in a word, of property?
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000029_000005.wav|Little by little the government will become manufacturer, commission-merchant, and retail dealer.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000007_000003.wav|The labors which animals perform, whether alone or in society, are exact reproductions of their character.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000010_000001.wav|Poets have sung of it in their hymns; philosophers have dreamed of it in their Utopias; priests teach it, but only for the spiritual world.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000010_000004.wav|Consequently, he isolates himself; for he could not submit to the majority without renouncing his will and his reason,--that is, without disowning himself, which is impossible.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000034_000000.wav|But, to keep the peasant in his village, his residence there must be made endurable: to be just to all, the proletaire of the country must be treated as well as the proletaire of the city.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000011_000000.wav|If to the blind but convergent and harmonious instincts of a swarm of bees should be suddenly added reflection and judgment, the little society could not long exist.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000024_000003.wav|Far from mobilizing the soil, I would, if possible, immobilize even the functions of pure intelligence, so that society might be the fulfilment of the intentions of Nature, who gave us our first possession, the land.
data/8/5/3/8534_216564_000020_000000.wav|The intelligence acquired by animals never modifies the operations which they perform by instinct: it is given them only as a provision against unexpected accidents which might disturb these operations.
data/8/5/3/8534_216567_000017_000002.wav|Now, this so-called conversion is an extensive expropriation, and in this case with no indemnity whatever. The public funds are so much real estate, the income from which the proprietor counts upon with perfect safety, and which owes its value to the tacit promise of the government to pay interest upon it at the established rate, until the fund-holder applies for redemption.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000004_000005.wav|No one had ever succeeded in rendering him drunk.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000009_000003.wav|He looked puzzled.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000038_000003.wav|Carefully he examined the wing to see if any bones were broken.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000009_000000.wav|Peter listened.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000013_000000.wav|"Of course it is," retorted Jenny.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER XXVIII.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000006_000002.wav|He and Mrs. Rosebreast have been here for quite a little while.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000005_000000.wav|Just then there were two or three rather sharp, squeaky notes from the top of one of the trees.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000018_000000.wav|This was quite true.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000026_000002.wav|I can't fly, and if I have to stay on the ground some enemy will be sure to get me.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000014_000005.wav|It was Rosebreast the Grosbeak.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000026_000003.wav|What shall I do, Peter?
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000023_000001.wav|So he scampered for the Green Forest, lipperty-lipperty-lip.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000034_000000.wav|"Can't you fly up just a little way so as to get off the ground?" she cried anxiously.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000035_000003.wav|"Don't be afraid, Redcoat," he whispered.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000003_000000.wav|Instantly Jenny Wren popped her head out of her doorway.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000007_000001.wav|"And what anybody wants to scold like that for when they can sing as Mr. Wren can, is too much for me," retorted Peter.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000024_000001.wav|"What is it, Redcoat?
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000004_000006.wav|He smoked a big pipe.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000036_000000.wav|Of coarse Farmer Brown's boy saw Redcoat.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000012_000002.wav|Now you speak of it, Jenny, that song IS quite different from Welcome Robin's."
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000017_000001.wav|Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted for his skill in shooting.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000014_000004.wav|The rest of him underneath was white.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000024_000004.wav|You don't have anything to fear from me," cried Peter.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000009_000005.wav|"Do you mean Welcome Robin's song?" he asked rather sheepishly, for he had a feeling that he would be the victim of Jenny Wren's sharp tongue.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000021_000000.wav|"Do you mean to say that they live on buds and blossoms?" cried Peter. "I never heard of such a thing."
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000037_000001.wav|You poor, beautiful little creature," said Farmer Brown's boy softly as he saw the cruel twig sticking through Redcoats' shoulder.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000010_000005.wav|I wouldn't have a pair of ears like yours for anything in the world, Peter Rabbit."
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000024_000003.wav|It is just Peter Rabbit.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000005_000001.wav|"There!" cried Peter.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000035_000002.wav|Peter heard the sound of heavy footsteps, and looking back, saw that Farmer Brown's boy was coming.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000030_000001.wav|Whatever shall I do?" sobbed Redcoat.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000012_000001.wav|She was not even the mistress.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000015_000000.wav|"Isn't he lovely!"' cried Peter, and added in the next breath, "Who is that with him?"
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000013_000001.wav|"That is Rosebreast singing up there, and there he is right in the top of that tree.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000026_000001.wav|I've had a terrible accident, and I don't know what I am to do.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000022_000001.wav|You can ask more silly questions than anybody of my acquaintance," retorted Jenny Wren.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000023_000007.wav|At first Peter had eyes only for the wonderful beauty of Redcoat.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000023_000003.wav|Fluttering on the ground was a bird than whom not even Glory the Cardinal was more beautiful.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000009_000002.wav|One song was a little louder and clearer than the others because it came from a tree very close at hand, the very tree from which those squeaky notes had come just a few minutes before. Peter suspected that that must be the song Jenny Wren meant.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000028_000001.wav|"In dodging him among the trees I was heedless for a moment and did not see just where I was going.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000012_000003.wav|She worked; he created.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, Peter," he gasped, "you don't know how glad I am that it is only you.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000032_000000.wav|Redcoat nodded.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000024_000000.wav|What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the midst of men all naked!
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000011_000001.wav|"What are you laughing at?" demanded Jenny crossly.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000003_000002.wav|Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an elephant.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000022_000003.wav|If they did they would soon starve to death, for buds and blossoms don't last long.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000022_000005.wav|You ask Farmer Brown's boy who helps him most in his potato patch, and he'll tell you it's the Grosbeaks. They certainly do love potato bugs.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000034_000004.wav|Hide!" Mrs. Tanager flew off a short distance to one side and began to cry as if in the greatest distress.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000016_000000.wav|In this same year, 1823, Thenardier was burdened with about fifteen hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000022_000002.wav|"Of course they don't live on buds and blossoms.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000012_000000.wav|Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame Thenardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000025_000000.wav|The look of terror which had been in the eyes of Redcoat died out, and he stopped fluttering and simply lay panting.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000003_000001.wav|She did everything about the house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything else.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000011_000002.wav|"Don't you dare laugh at me!
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000038_000006.wav|Then he sat there for some time as if fearful of trying that injured wing. Meanwhile Mrs. Tanager came and fussed about him and talked to him and coaxed him and made as much of him as if he were a baby.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000003_000004.wav|Her big face, dotted with red blotches, presented the appearance of a skimmer.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000012_000011.wav|At certain moments she beheld him like a lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000028_000002.wav|I struck a sharp-pointed dead twig and drove it right through my right wing."
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000007_000000.wav|At that very instant Mr. Wren began to scold as only he and Jenny can. Peter looked up at Jenny and winked slyly.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000010_000000.wav|"No, I don't mean Welcome Robin's song," snapped Jenny.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000014_000003.wav|But it was his breast that made Peter catch his breath with a little gasp of admiration, for that breast was a beautiful rose-red.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000017_000001.wav|"She doesn't look the least bit like him."
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000022_000007.wav|Now run along, Peter Rabbit, and don't bother me any more."
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000013_000002.wav|But her maternity stopped short with her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000038_000004.wav|None were, and after holding Redcoat a few minutes he carefully set him up in a tree and withdrew a short distance.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000004_000008.wav|He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly enough, Saint Augustine.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000033_000002.wav|She looked no more like beautiful Redcoat than did Mrs. Grosbeak like Rosebreast.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000027_000001.wav|"What kind of an accident was it, Redcoat, and how did it happen?" he asked.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000014_000000.wav|Peter looked up to see a bird a little smaller than Welcome Robin.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000035_000004.wav|"It's Farmer Brown's boy and I'm sure he won't hurt you. Perhaps he can help you." Then Peter scampered off for a short distance and sat up to watch what would happen.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000014_000001.wav|His head, throat and back were black.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000002_000000.wav|Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000004_000007.wav|He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an old black coat.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000005_000001.wav|This rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being comfortably astride of both frontiers.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000023_000009.wav|Then quite suddenly it came over Peter that something was wrong with Redcoat, and he hurried forward to see what the trouble might be.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000003_000001.wav|She cocked her head on one side to listen, then looked down at Peter, and her sharp little eyes snapped.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000006_000001.wav|"That's Rosebreast.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000034_000002.wav|We've just got our nest half built, and I don't know what I shall do if anything happens to Redcoat.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000029_000001.wav|The wing was bleeding a little.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000005_000002.wav|As for his prowess at Waterloo, the reader is already acquainted with that.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000019_000000.wav|"What is she doing that for?" inquired Peter.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000023_000006.wav|It was Redcoat the Tanager.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000016_000001.wav|Who else would it be?" sputtered Jenny rather crossly, for she was still a little put out because she had been laughed at.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000040_000000.wav|"I knew Farmer Brown's boy would help him, and I'm so glad he found him," cried Peter happily and started for the dear Old Briar-patch.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000003_000005.wav|She had a beard.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000008_000001.wav|He did not disdain his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000029_000000.wav|Redcoat held up his right wing and sure enough there was a little stick projecting from both sides close up to the shoulder.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000032_000002.wav|"It is the thought of what MAY happen to me."
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000002_000000.wav|"Who's that?" Peter Rabbit pricked up his long ears and stared up at the tops of the trees of the Old Orchard.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000018_000005.wav|While Rosebreast sang, Mrs. Grosbeak was very busily picking buds and blossoms from the tree.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000036_000003.wav|Farmer Brown's boy understood instantly that something was wrong with one wing, and running forward, he caught Redcoat.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000010_000004.wav|Welcome Robin's song is one of good cheer, but this one is of pure happiness.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000023_000000.wav|Seeing Farmer Brown's boy coming through the Old Orchard Peter decided that it was high time for him to depart.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000009_000004.wav|He was puzzled.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000014_000002.wav|His wings were black with patches of white on them.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000011_000001.wav|He had something of the look of sailors, who are accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. Thenardier was a statesman.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000020_000000.wav|"For the same reason that you bite off sweet clover blossoms and leaves," replied Jenny Wren tartly.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000037_000002.wav|"We'll have to get that out right away," continued Farmer Brown's boy, stroking Redcoat ever so gently.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000018_000003.wav|Over each eye was a whitish line.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000005_000002.wav|"There!
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000031_000000.wav|"Does it pain you dreadfully?" asked Peter.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000034_000001.wav|"Isn't it dreadful, Peter Rabbit, to have such an accident?
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000004_000001.wav|His cunning began here; he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000037_000000.wav|"You poor little thing.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, dear, whatever shall I do, Peter Rabbit?
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000036_000001.wav|No one with any eyes at all could have helped seeing him, because of that wonderful scarlet coat.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000016_000000.wav|"Mrs. Grosbeak, of course.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000023_000004.wav|It was about the size of Redwing the Blackbird.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000004_000004.wav|His coquetry consisted in drinking with the carters.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000017_000002.wav|He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, which was particularly dangerous.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000008_000002.wav|Listen to that!
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000007_000002.wav|He allowed it to be thought that he was an educated man.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000038_000005.wav|Redcoat hopped from branch to branch until he was halfway up the tree.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000003_000003.wav|Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, furniture, and people.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000038_000000.wav|Somehow at that gentle touch Redcoat lost much of his fear, and a little hope sprang in his heart.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000027_000000.wav|Right away Peter was full of sympathy.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000017_000000.wav|"I would never have guessed it," said Peter.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000018_000001.wav|There was no beautiful rose color about Mrs. Grosbeak.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000010_000001.wav|"What good are a pair of long ears if they can't tell one song from another?
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000038_000002.wav|Then, doing his best to be careful and to hurt as little as possible, he worked the other part of the twig out from the under side.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000035_000000.wav|Poor Redcoat, with the old look of terror in his eyes, fluttered along, trying to find something under which to hide.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000032_000001.wav|"But I don't mind the pain," he hastened to say.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000004_000000.wav|"I don't hear any strange voice," said she.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000028_000000.wav|"Broadwing the Hawk tried to catch me," sobbed Redcoat.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000009_000001.wav|This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters into it.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000011_000003.wav|If there is any one thing I can't stand it is being laughed at."
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000004_000009.wav|He declared that he had "a system." In addition, he was a great swindler.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000008_000001.wav|"If you don't know Rosebreast the Grosbeak, Peter Rabbit, you certainly must have been blind and deaf ever since you were born.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000017_000000.wav|Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, Thenardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized peoples,--hospitality.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000010_000003.wav|That's a better song than Welcome Robin's.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000023_000005.wav|Wings and tail were pure black and all the rest was a beautiful scarlet.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000003_000007.wav|She swore splendidly; she boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000024_000000.wav|Redcoat heard the rustle of Peter's feet among the dry leaves and at once began to flap and flutter in an effort to fly away, but he could not get off the ground.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000021_000002.wav|The man and the woman each had a different method: Cosette was overwhelmed with blows--this was the woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000004_000001.wav|"The way you are staring, Peter Rabbit, one would think that you had really heard something new and worth while."
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000033_000001.wav|She was dressed almost wholly in light olive-green and greenish-yellow.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000018_000002.wav|She was dressed chiefly in brown and grayish colors with a little buff here and there and with dark streaks on her breast.
data/1/6/2/1624_142933_000018_000004.wav|Altogether she looked more as if she might be a big member of the Sparrow family than the wife of handsome Rosebreast.
data/1/6/2/1624_168623_000008_000000.wav|He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. Thenardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000022_000000.wav|"You, my dear?
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000017_000000.wav|"It should not be difficult to find out all about him," said Mr. Briggerland easily.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000016_000002.wav|Just like a book."
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000020_000000.wav|The False Hare smiled a sickly sort of smile.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000031_000001.wav|The last time they had noticed them was at the moment of Peter's ducking when in their excitement, the foolish creatures had hidden their faces on each other's shoulders, rolled themselves into a kind of ball, and stowed themselves under a seat.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000034_000002.wav|As they drew alongside, Growler muttered in a not unfriendly whisper:
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000022_000000.wav|But this was not to be the case.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000040_000001.wav|Yes, that was how they swore the officers at my court martial."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000015_000000.wav|"Do you think he is a detective?"
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000005_000000.wav|"Do you remember that man Talmot, my dear?" he asked.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000011_000001.wav|"Nobody knows anything about it, not even the--er--fortunate occupant of the flat they were evidently trying to burgle.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000032_000000.wav|"Find anything?" asked Growler, eying him suspiciously.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000002_000002.wav|Then, after a few, rapid, nervous strokes at the oars, one or the other of them would pull his blade out of the water and polish it anxiously with his handkerchief, as if the important thing was to keep it dry.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000043_000001.wav|Mr. Briggerland breathed a little more quickly as he felt the strength of the patient's biceps.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000022_000006.wav|His arms were folded on his breast.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000057_000000.wav|"I shall not fail you," said Mr. Briggerland hastily.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000040_000000.wav|"Without fear, favour or prejudice, eh?
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000056_000001.wav|6, the first cubicle on the left," he whispered, "you will not fail me?
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000022_000002.wav|A group of pirates was gathered at the rail, staring at the rowboat through their glasses. There was no mistake about these fellows being pirates--that was easy enough to see from their queer bright-colored clothes and the number of weapons they carried, even if the ugly black flag had not been floating over their heads.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000028_000004.wav|Just as all was ready for the start the cat in red cried:
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000036_000000.wav|"What is your Chief's name, Mr. Growler, dear sir?" asked Ann timidly.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000016_000002.wav|He is not a Scotland Yard man.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000013_000001.wav|The psychologist would find in Mr. Briggerland's reticence the embryo of a once dominant rectitude, no trace of which remained in his daughter's moral equipment.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000002_000000.wav|Chapter XII
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000004_000000.wav|On a morning when pale yellow sunlight brightened his dining-room, Mr. Briggerland put down his newspaper and looked across the table at his daughter.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000035_000000.wav|"Look here, youngsters, here's a word of advice that may save you your skins.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000025_000003.wav|But, look, they are sending a boat to us now."
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000035_000001.wav|Don't show any cheek--not to me or Prowler, we're the mates--and above all, not to the Chief!"
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000048_000001.wav|"I happen to know where they are."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000012_000001.wav|"The possibility of their trying rather worried me.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000066_000000.wav|"Half the difficulty is going to be to cover up your visit to the asylum, because this man is certain to mention your name, and it will not all be dismissed as the imagination of a madman.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000019_000000.wav|Rudolf shipped his oars while he loosened his sword.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000018_000000.wav|As for the two white mice, after one glance at the ship, they gave two little shrieks and hid their faces in their paws.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000009_000000.wav|The girl reached for bacon from the hot plate.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000022_000004.wav|He was dressed in some kind of tight gray and white striped suit with a red sash tied round his waist stuck full of shiny-barreled pistols and long bright-bladed knives.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000003_000002.wav|You're a pair of swell old sea-dogs, you are.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000007_000001.wav|Did you wash it off--on purpose?" he added sternly.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000004_000001.wav|When their boat was at last beached, they jumped out of it, turned their backs to the rest of the party, and standing as close together as they could get, gazed anxiously out over the water.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000047_000000.wav|Mr. Briggerland drew a long breath.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000034_000000.wav|"Aren't you ever afraid of these men escaping?" asked Mr. Briggerland.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000003_000002.wav|Moreover, he had published a book on the subject.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000056_000002.wav|If I thought you'd fail me----" His eyes lit up again.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000036_000000.wav|Mr. Briggerland hesitated only for a second.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000022_000007.wav|As Rudolf looked at this fellow, he began to have the queerest feeling that somewhere-- somehow--under very different conditions--he had seen the Pirate Chief before!
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000064_000000.wav|"The rough work!" he said indignantly.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000060_000001.wav|Yet--he shuddered at the picture he conjured--that climb over the high wall (he had already located the ward, for he had followed the General and the attendants and had seen him safely put away), the midnight association with a madman....
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000019_000001.wav|"I shall be prepared to fight," said he, "though I am afraid we must make up our minds to being captured.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000028_000003.wav|The prisoners were quickly transferred to the other boat, and the pirate with the green sash took the oars.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000010_000000.wav|"He should have broken his neck," she said calmly.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000008_000000.wav|"Excuse me, sir, we don't believe in washing," muttered one of the poor things hastily.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000026_000002.wav|One had a red sash and one a green, and each carried knives and pistols enough to set up a shop.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000042_000000.wav|Thun nodded.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000031_000001.wav|Except one, they were unattended by keepers, but in the case of this one man, two stalwart uniformed men walked on either side of him.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000009_000001.wav|"Hush!" she whispered.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000003_000001.wav|Hurrah, my fine Jack Tars!
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000025_000001.wav|"I have an engagement in town, but my assistant, Dr. Carew, will conduct you over the asylum and give you all the information you require.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000063_000001.wav|"That's the rough work done, at any rate."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000008_000000.wav|"He's in hospital," said Mr. Briggerland.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000052_000000.wav|"Suppose I came to-morrow night," he said, lowering his voice, "and helped you to get away?
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000011_000000.wav|"No, no," Mr. Briggerland hastened to assure her.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000013_000000.wav|"Sail ahead!"
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000030_000000.wav|It was a harrowing, heart-breaking, and to some extent, a disappointing experience for Mr. Briggerland.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000018_000000.wav|He looked at his watch.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000050_000000.wav|"They are safe from my vengeance," he said a little sadly.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000041_000000.wav|"The doctor was the general who was responsible for the losses at Caperetto," explained Dr. Carew.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000033_000003.wav|Luckily they detected him before he did any mischief or he would have been in Broadmoor."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000045_000000.wav|"Certainly," murmured Mr. Briggerland.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000050_000001.wav|"As long as they keep me in this place pretending that I am mad, there is no possible chance for me."
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000009_000003.wav|Will you, Mr. False Hare?"
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000038_000002.wav|The two attendants exchanged glances with the asylum doctor and strolled off.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000004_000001.wav|He had a club in the East End of London and his manager had telephoned that morning sending a somewhat unhappy report.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000053_000001.wav|His eyes were blazing.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000054_000000.wav|"Do you think you will remember?" asked Briggerland.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000038_000000.wav|There was nothing in the appearance of the patient to suggest that he was in any way dangerous.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000033_000001.wav|He had pointed out many "sad cases" in the same bright manner.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000003_000001.wav|He was a sociologist--a loose title which covers a great deal of inquisitive investigation into other people's affairs.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000017_000001.wav|"A man with his afflictions should be pretty well-known."
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000028_000001.wav|Much against his will, Rudolf was now forced to surrender his beloved sword.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000021_000002.wav|"They may sail right past without speaking to us, you know."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000055_000000.wav|Thun nodded.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000046_000001.wav|Naturally, they do not wish me to get at my enemies, who I have every reason to believe are in London."
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000021_000001.wav|"I'm nine years old and I've never seen a real live pirate, and goodness knows when I ever will again--I wouldn't miss this for anything." Then, as he saw how really worried his little sister looked, he added cheerfully.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000025_000002.wav|Somehow I hadn't noticed that before.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000031_000003.wav|He was gone but a moment, and when he returned his whiskers were very shiny, and he was looking extremely jolly as he hummed a snatch of a pirate song.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000023_000003.wav|Rudolf had kicked off his shoes and was ready to jump in after Peter, when he saw that quick as a flash, on an order from their Chief, the pirates had lowered a long rope with something bobbing at the end of it.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000002_000003.wav|They would probably never have reached land that day if this had depended on their own efforts, but luckily the breeze was blowing them in the right direction.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000020_000000.wav|"Would you rather I went?" asked the girl.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000006_000000.wav|She nodded, and looked up quickly.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000011_000001.wav|I dare say the mice will be glad of a rest."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000027_000000.wav|Dr. Carew proved to be a young and enthusiastic alienist whose heart and soul was in his work.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000022_000003.wav|At the bow stood he who was evidently the Pirate Chief.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000026_000001.wav|He was prepared to the extent of two full noggins of brandy.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000019_000001.wav|He made a little grimace of disgust.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000063_000000.wav|"I thought you would," she said quietly.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000012_000003.wav|They were enjoying themselves very much, in spite of this, when suddenly Ann, who had very sharp eyes, called out:
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000020_000001.wav|"And such nice ones," he murmured.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000010_000000.wav|"Why certainly, dearie, I adore rowing," said the False Hare sweetly.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000016_000001.wav|"If he is, he has been imported from the provinces.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000022_000002.wav|I would not allow you to have such an experience.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000037_000000.wav|"Yes," he said huskily.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000006_000000.wav|The mice turned a pale greenish color in their embarrassment and looked nervously at each other, but answered never a word.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000016_000003.wav|He may, of course, be an old police pensioner, and I have been trying to trace him from that source."
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000030_000000.wav|"All right, Prowler."
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000004_000004.wav|He walked around in front of the two mice, who tried vainly not to meet his eye, looked at them long and earnestly, and said:
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000032_000000.wav|"Who is he?" asked Briggerland.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000061_000000.wav|He burst in upon Jean with his news.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000004_000000.wav|It seemed as if the white mice knew the False Hare and the value of his remarks, for they made no attempt to answer him, but only looked more and more frightened and uncomfortable.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000052_000001.wav|What is your ward?"
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000023_000004.wav|Peter when he came to the surface, seized this rope and was rapidly hauled on board the pirate ship.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000025_000003.wav|I should have thought you would have got more material for your book in one of the big public asylums.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000026_000000.wav|Mr. Briggerland nodded.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000021_000000.wav|Mr. Briggerland would much rather that she had undertaken the disagreeable experience which lay before him, but he dare not confess as much.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000051_000000.wav|The visitor looked round and saw that the three men who were following were out of ear shot.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000015_000001.wav|It's a pirate ship!"
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000022_000001.wav|Of course not!
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000012_000002.wav|The children loved being on the water better than anything else, and they would have been perfectly happy now, if the False Hare had not had quite so many nice compliments to make to Rudolf on his rowing, and if the white mice had not complained so bitterly of them all for "sitting all over the boat cushions," and "wetting the nice dry oars!"
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000033_000002.wav|"He's a doctor and a genuine homicide.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000046_000000.wav|"Keeping me here," Thun went on, "is part of the plot of the Italian government.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000025_000000.wav|"I'm sorry I shan't be able to show you round, Mr. Briggerland," he said.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000026_000000.wav|In a small boat which had been towed behind the catboat, a couple of pirates--big, rough-looking fellows--were sculling rapidly toward the children.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000025_000004.wav|The people who are sent to Norwood, you know, are not the mild cases, and you will see some rather terrible sights.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000023_000000.wav|Nevertheless, he tossed down two long glasses of brandy before he left.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000025_000002.wav|This, of course, as you know, is a private institution.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000029_000000.wav|"Hold on a minute, Growler!
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000005_000000.wav|"I say, Mr. Mouses, was you always white?"
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000035_000000.wav|"You asked that before," said the doctor in surprise.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000012_000000.wav|"Anyway I'm glad they didn't succeed," said Jean after a while.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000014_000000.wav|At first Rudolf thought she had said this just because it sounded well, but on turning his head he saw for himself a small boat heading toward them as fast as it could come.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000038_000001.wav|A fair, bearded man, with pale blue eyes, he held out his hand impulsively to the visitor, and after a momentary hesitation, Mr. Briggerland took it and found his hand in a grip like a vice.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000035_000001.wav|"No.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000016_000001.wav|"How awfully jolly!
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000012_000002.wav|The Hoggins type is such a bungler that it was almost certain they would fail."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000057_000001.wav|"When the clock strikes twelve you may expect me."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000022_000003.wav|No, no, I don't mind it a bit."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000011_000002.wav|I only learnt of it because the manager of the club, who gets information of this character, thought I would be interested."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000010_000001.wav|"I suppose now the police are making tender inquiries?"
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000025_000001.wav|"Why so they are cats, Ann!
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000031_000002.wav|Prowler leaped into the little boat which the pirates had fastened by a tow-rope to their own, and during his search he kept his back turned to his companions.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000065_000000.wav|She nodded.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000048_000000.wav|"They are in London," he said a little hoarsely.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000003_000000.wav|Mr. Briggerland, it seemed, had some other object in life than the regeneration of the criminal classes.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000041_000001.wav|"That was where the Italians lost so heavily."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000049_000000.wav|"Really?" said the other easily, and then a cloud passed over his face and he shook his head.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000016_000000.wav|"I don't know," she said thoughtfully.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000007_000000.wav|"Yes, what about him?"
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000019_000000.wav|"My appointment at Norwood is at eleven o'clock," he said.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000030_000001.wav|True, his heart did not break, because it was made of infrangible material, and his disappointment was counter-balanced by a certain vague relief.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000023_000000.wav|Just at that instant he heard the sound of a struggle behind him, and turning round he saw that Peter had become terribly excited.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000062_000000.wav|"At the first attempt, my dear, what do you think of that?" His dark face glowed with almost childish pride, and she looked at him with a half-smile.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000023_000001.wav|"Mittens! Mittens!" he screamed, and breaking loose from Ann's hold, he stood up and leaned so far over the side of the boat that he lost his balance and fell into the water.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000028_000000.wav|"I suppose you are prepared to see jumpy things," he said with a smile, as he conducted Mr. Briggerland along a stone-vaulted corridor.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000024_000000.wav|His car set him down before the iron gates of a squat and ugly stucco building, surrounded by high walls, and the uniformed attendant, having examined his credentials, admitted him.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000026_000002.wav|Moreover, he was well aware that Norwood was the asylum to which the more dangerous of lunatics were transferred.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000044_000000.wav|"My conviction," said Dr. Thun seriously, "was due to the fact that women were sitting on the court martial, which is, of course, against all regulations."
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000001_000002.wav|One of them had just unshipped the little sail, and--not seeming to know what else to do with it--had cut it loose from the oar that served as a mast and wrapped it round and round his body, tying himself tightly with a piece of string.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000017_000000.wav|"Dee-lightful!" the False Hare exclaimed, shuddering all over to the tips of his whiskers.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000035_000002.wav|You see, an insane asylum is not like a prison; to make a good get-away from prison you have to have outside assistance.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000035_000004.wav|Would you like to talk to Dr. Thun?"
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000033_000000.wav|"Oh, 'twas nothing--nothing of any importance," answered Prowler airily.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000060_000000.wav|Jean had said he might have to visit a dozen asylums before he found his opportunity and the right man, and he had succeeded at the first attempt.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000033_000000.wav|"That is rather a sad case," said the alienist cheerfully.
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000024_000002.wav|We can't leave poor darling Peter to be carried off by those terrible cats."
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000025_000005.wav|You are prepared for that?"
data/1/3/7/1370_138531_000012_000001.wav|He wanted to pet them a little, so he said, but from the strained expressions on their faces and the startled squeaks they gave from time to time, it seemed as if they were hardly enjoying his attentions.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000013_000000.wav|It was a curious fact that whilst her father made the most guarded references to all their exploits and clothed them with garments of euphemism, his daughter never attempted any such disguise.
data/1/3/7/1370_140972_000008_000001.wav|"I fear that he and Hoggins were engaged in some nefarious plan and that in making an attempt to enter--as, of course, they had no right to enter--a block of flats in Cavendish Place, poor Talmot slipped and fell from the fourth floor window-sill, breaking his leg.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000038_000000.wav|Chapter XVIII.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000031_000001.wav|And past thyself and thy seven devils leadeth thy way!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000010_000000.wav|Thus, once on a time, did I also cast my fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000009_000000.wav|Art thou a new strength and a new authority?
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000035_000002.wav|Leave the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue with thy tongue!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000026_000000.wav|And be on thy guard against the good and just!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000006_000000.wav|The voice of the herd will still echo in thee.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000019_000000.wav|And then it sought to get through the ultimate walls with its head--and not with its head only--into "the other world."
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000030_000002.wav|May they become convalescents and overcomers, and create higher bodies for themselves!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000020_000000.wav|There are feelings which seek to slay the lonesome one; if they do not succeed, then must they themselves die!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000011_000000.wav|Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000036_000000.wav|But it is a sickly thing to them, and gladly would they get out of their skin.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000018_000000.wav|Believe me, my brethren!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000027_000000.wav|The sick and perishing--it was they who despised the body and the earth, and invented the heavenly world, and the redeeming blood-drops; but even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the body and the earth!
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000004_000005.wav|An old greyhound will trust the more fatiguing part of the chace to the younger, and will place himself so as to meet the hare in her doubles; nor are the conjectures, which he forms on this occasion, founded in any thing but his observation and experience.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000014_000000.wav|To me the convalescent would it now be suffering and torment to believe in such phantoms: suffering would it now be to me, and humiliation.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000025_000001.wav|Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000030_000000.wav|Gentle is Zarathustra to the sickly.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000008_000001.wav|Has not the same custom the same influence on all?
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000028_000000.wav|From their misery they sought escape, and the stars were too remote for them.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000037_000001.wav|The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000009_000000.wav|This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image--an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator:--thus did the world once seem to me.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000040_000001.wav|Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000009_000003.wav|Canst thou also compel stars to revolve around thee?
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000014_000002.wav|Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me: free FOR WHAT?
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000003_000003.wav|But where the objects have not so exact a similarity, the analogy is less perfect, and the inference is less conclusive; though still it has some force, in proportion to the degree of similarity and resemblance.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000021_000000.wav|Hast thou ever known, my brother, the word "disdain"?
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000004_000001.wav|There is no fire like passion; there is no losing throw like hatred; there is no pain like this body; there is no happiness higher than rest.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000010_000003.wav|It is therefore considered as a matter of great importance to observe the consequences of things; and as one man may very much surpass another in attention and memory and observation, this will make a very great difference in their reasoning.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000013_000001.wav|Few men can think long without running into a confusion of ideas, and mistaking one for another; and there are various degrees of this infirmity.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000027_000000.wav|Be on thy guard, also, against holy simplicity!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000011_000000.wav|Alas! there are so many great thoughts that do nothing more than the bellows: they inflate, and make emptier than ever.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000011_000001.wav|Where there is a complication of causes to produce any effect, one mind may be much larger than another, and better able to comprehend the whole system of objects, and to infer justly their consequences.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000012_000001.wav|He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000020_000001.wav|But art thou capable of it--to be a murderer?
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000024_000000.wav|Chapter XVII.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000029_000000.wav|Beyond the sphere of their body and this earth they now fancied themselves transported, these ungrateful ones.
data/1/3/9/1392_135654_000008_000007.wav|Though we give the preference to that which has been found most usual, and believe that this effect will exist, we must not overlook the other effects, but must assign to each of them a particular weight and authority, in proportion as we have found it to be more or less frequent.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000009_000001.wav|He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk.
data/1/3/9/1392_135654_000008_000001.wav|The case is the same with the probability of causes, as with that of chance.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000004_000003.wav|The ignorance and inexperience of the young are here plainly distinguishable from the cunning and sagacity of the old, who have learned, by long observation, to avoid what hurt them, and to pursue what gave ease or pleasure.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000026_000001.wav|They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue--they hate the lonesome ones.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000005_000002.wav|And long didst thou belong to the herd.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000005_000000.wav|"He who seeketh may easily get lost himself.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000012_000001.wav|One man is able to carry on a chain of consequences to a greater length than another.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000010_000002.wav|By means of this general habitual principle, we regard even one experiment as the foundation of reasoning, and expect a similar event with some degree of certainty, where the experiment has been made accurately, and free from all foreign circumstances.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000003_000002.wav|Where the causes are entirely similar, the analogy is perfect, and the inference, drawn from it, is regarded as certain and conclusive: nor does any man ever entertain a doubt, where he sees a piece of iron, that it will have weight and cohesion of parts; as in all other instances, which have ever fallen under his observation.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000010_000002.wav|Show me that thou art not a lusting and ambitious one!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000015_000000.wav|Canst thou give unto thyself thy bad and thy good, and set up thy will as a law over thee?
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000031_000000.wav|Neither is Zarathustra indignant at a convalescent who looketh tenderly on his delusions, and at midnight stealeth round the grave of his God; but sickness and a sick frame remain even in his tears.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000025_000002.wav|No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form, and who calls nothing his own.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000012_000001.wav|Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000030_000000.wav|But the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou thyself always be; thou waylayest thyself in caverns and forests.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000005_000001.wav|The work of a suffering and tortured God, did the world then seem to me.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000041_000001.wav|Thy life has come to an end, thou art come near to death (Yama), there is no resting-place for thee on the road, and thou hast no provision for thy journey.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000006_000001.wav|And when thou sayest, "I have no longer a conscience in common with you," then will it be a plaint and a pain.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000024_000001.wav|Anger
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000036_000000.wav|To create, desireth the loving one, because he despiseth!
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000019_000000.wav|It would be easy to discover many other circumstances that make a difference in the understandings of men.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000003_000001.wav|All our reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on a species of Analogy, which leads us to expect from any cause the same events, which we have observed to result from similar causes.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000039_000000.wav|Thus spake Zarathustra.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000008_000001.wav|Then show me thine authority and thy strength to do so!
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000003_000005.wav|We shall make trial of this, with regard to the hypothesis, by which we have, in the foregoing discourse, endeavoured to account for all experimental reasonings; and it is hoped, that this new point of view will serve to confirm all our former observations.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000002_000001.wav|Let us live happily then, though we call nothing our own!
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000044_000001.wav|As the impurity which springs from the iron, when it springs from it, destroys it; thus do a transgressor's own works lead him to the evil path.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000013_000000.wav|What happened, my brethren?
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000017_000001.wav|It was the body which despaired of the body--it groped with the fingers of the infatuated spirit at the ultimate walls.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000007_000002.wav|For if there be in reality any arguments of this nature, they surely lie too abstruse for the observation of such imperfect understandings; since it may well employ the utmost care and attention of a philosophic genius to discover and observe them.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000018_000001.wav|It was the body which despaired of the earth--it heard the bowels of existence speaking unto it.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000005_000000.wav|Once on a time, Zarathustra also cast his fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000036_000001.wav|Therefore hearken they to the preachers of death, and themselves preach backworlds.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000051_000001.wav|And the man who gives himself to drinking intoxicating liquors, he, even in this world, digs up his own root.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000033_000001.wav|Raving of the reason was likeness to God, and doubt was sin.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000011_000000.wav|Chapter XVI.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000003_000000.wav|Thus spake Zarathustra.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000042_000002.wav|When thy impurities are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt not enter again into birth and decay.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000016_000000.wav|Terrible is aloneness with the judge and avenger of one's own law. Thus is a star projected into desert space, and into the icy breath of aloneness.
data/1/3/9/1392_135654_000008_000011.wav|Let any one try to account for this operation of the mind upon any of the received systems of philosophy, and he will be sensible of the difficulty.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000039_000001.wav|Thou art now like a sear leaf, the messengers of death (Yama) have come near to thee; thou standest at the door of thy departure, and thou hast no provision for thy journey.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000013_000002.wav|And lo!
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000003_000002.wav|He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000009_000001.wav|A first motion?
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000024_000000.wav|"How could ye be just unto me!"--must thou say--"I choose your injustice as my allotted portion."
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000035_000000.wav|Verily, not in backworlds and redeeming blood-drops: but in the body do they also believe most; and their own body is for them the thing-in-itself.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000018_000001.wav|After we have acquired a confidence in human testimony, books and conversation enlarge much more the sphere of one man's experience and thought than those of another.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000007_000001.wav|The creator wished to look away from himself,--thereupon he created the world.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000012_000002.wav|And verily, it came not unto me from the beyond!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000029_000001.wav|But to what did they owe the convulsion and rapture of their transport?
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000052_000001.wav|O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time!
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000020_000001.wav|He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000012_000000.wav|Free, dost thou call thyself?
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000034_000001.wav|Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000038_000001.wav|I love him who seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth.--
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000034_000002.wav|Leave the sins of the body, and with thy body practise virtue!
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000005_000001.wav|Is it not experience, which renders a dog apprehensive of pain, when you menace him, or lift up the whip to beat him?
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000034_000000.wav|Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way of the creating one: a God wilt thou create for thyself out of thy seven devils!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000004_000002.wav|Tarry yet a little and hearken unto me.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000014_000000.wav|Free from what?
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000020_000002.wav|These we denominate Instincts, and are so apt to admire as something very extraordinary, and inexplicable by all the disquisitions of human understanding.
data/1/3/9/1392_135654_000008_000002.wav|There are some causes, which are entirely uniform and constant in producing a particular effect; and no instance has ever yet been found of any failure or irregularity in their operation.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000010_000001.wav|Beyond man, forsooth?
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000011_000001.wav|Pleasure
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000032_000000.wav|Many sickly ones have there always been among those who muse, and languish for God; violently they hate the discerning ones, and the latest of virtues, which is uprightness.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000022_000001.wav|Thou camest nigh unto them, and yet wentest past: for that they never forgive thee.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000026_000001.wav|He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000020_000000.wav|But that "other world" is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000023_000000.wav|Thou goest beyond them: but the higher thou risest, the smaller doth the eye of envy see thee.
data/1/3/9/1392_135654_000008_000009.wav|Here then it seems evident, that, when we transfer the past to the future, in order to determine the effect, which will result from any cause, we transfer all the different events, in the same proportion as they have appeared in the past, and conceive one to have existed a hundred times, for instance, another ten times, and another once.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000029_000000.wav|To many a one mayest thou not give thy hand, but only thy paw; and I wish thy paw also to have claws.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000006_000000.wav|The dream--and diction--of a God, did the world then seem to me; coloured vapours before the eyes of a divinely dissatisfied one.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000014_000001.wav|Let, therefore, no man love anything; loss of the beloved is evil. Those who love nothing and hate nothing, have no fetters.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000013_000000.wav|Art thou one ENTITLED to escape from a yoke?
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000034_000000.wav|Too well do I know those godlike ones: they insist on being believed in, and that doubt is sin.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000029_000002.wav|To their body and this earth.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000025_000000.wav|Injustice and filth cast they at the lonesome one: but, my brother, if thou wouldst be a star, thou must shine for them none the less on that account!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000028_000001.wav|Then they sighed: "O that there were heavenly paths by which to steal into another existence and into happiness!" Then they contrived for themselves their by-paths and bloody draughts!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000010_000000.wav|Alas! there is so much lusting for loftiness!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000036_000001.wav|What knoweth he of love who hath not been obliged to despise just what he loved!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000033_000000.wav|Backward they always gaze toward dark ages: then, indeed, were delusion and faith something different.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000016_000000.wav|Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000048_000001.wav|Life is easy to live for a man who is without shame, a crow hero, a mischief-maker, an insulting, bold, and wretched fellow.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000004_000004.wav|A horse, that has been accustomed to the field, becomes acquainted with the proper height which he can leap, and will never attempt what exceeds his force and ability.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000023_000001.wav|In like manner his good works receive him who has done good, and has gone from this world to the other;--as kinsmen receive a friend on his return.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000021_000001.wav|And the anguish of thy justice in being just to those that disdain thee?
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000014_000002.wav|The separation of it often requires great attention, accuracy, and subtilty.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000049_000001.wav|But life is hard to live for a modest man, who always looks for what is pure, who is disinterested, quiet, spotless, and intelligent.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000047_000001.wav|But there is a taint worse than all taints,--ignorance is the greatest taint.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000007_000000.wav|Good and evil, and joy and woe, and I and thou--coloured vapours did they seem to me before creative eyes.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000013_000001.wav|I surpassed myself, the suffering one; I carried mine own ashes to the mountain; a brighter flame I contrived for myself.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000008_000001.wav|Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
data/1/3/9/1392_135654_000007_000003.wav|If we allow, that belief is nothing but a firmer and stronger conception of an object than what attends the mere fictions of the imagination, this operation may, perhaps, in some measure, be accounted for.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000010_000001.wav|There are so many convulsions of the ambitions!
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000047_000002.wav|O mendicants! throw off that taint, and become taintless!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000039_000000.wav|Thus spake Zarathustra.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000038_000000.wav|With my tears, go into thine isolation, my brother.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000006_000001.wav|Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches; trust is the best of relationships, Nirvana the highest happiness.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000005_000002.wav|Is it not even experience, which makes him answer to his name, and infer, from such an arbitrary sound, that you mean him rather than any of his fellows, and intend to call him, when you pronounce it in a certain manner, and with a certain tone and accent?
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000005_000001.wav|All isolation is wrong": so say the herd.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000009_000000.wav|We shall here endeavour briefly to explain the great difference in human understandings: After which the reason of the difference between men and animals will easily be comprehended.
data/1/3/9/1392_135654_000007_000004.wav|The concurrence of these several views or glimpses imprints the idea more strongly on the imagination; gives it superior force and vigour; renders its influence on the passions and affections more sensible; and in a word, begets that reliance or security, which constitutes the nature of belief and opinion.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000038_000001.wav|Impurity
data/1/3/9/1392_135654_000007_000000.wav|It seems evident, that, when the mind looks forward to discover the event, which may result from the throw of such a dye, it considers the turning up of each particular side as alike probable; and this is the very nature of chance, to render all the particular events, comprehended in it, entirely equal.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000010_000001.wav|When we have lived any time, and have been accustomed to the uniformity of nature, we acquire a general habit, by which we always transfer the known to the unknown, and conceive the latter to resemble the former.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000034_000001.wav|Too well, also, do I know what they themselves most believe in.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000013_000001.wav|Let no man ever look for what is pleasant, or what is unpleasant. Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000028_000000.wav|And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000007_000000.wav|Lo, that pain itself did the same conscience produce; and the last gleam of that conscience still gloweth on thine affliction.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000055_000001.wav|There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000013_000003.wav|Thereupon the phantom WITHDREW from me!
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000022_000000.wav|Yea, this ego, with its contradiction and perplexity, speaketh most uprightly of its being--this creating, willing, evaluing ego, which is the measure and value of things.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000038_000000.wav|More uprightly and purely speaketh the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaketh of the meaning of the earth.--
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000022_000000.wav|Thou forcest many to think differently about thee; that, charge they heavily to thine account.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000032_000000.wav|A heretic wilt thou be to thyself, and a wizard and a sooth-sayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000003_000000.wav|XVII.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000015_000001.wav|Canst thou be judge for thyself, and avenger of thy law?
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000031_000000.wav|Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way to thyself!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000009_000002.wav|A self-rolling wheel?
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000003_000001.wav|Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000023_000001.wav|Most of all, however, is the flying one hated.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000007_000001.wav|He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, is free from fear and free from sin, while he tastes the sweetness of drinking in the law.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000008_000001.wav|The sight of the elect (Arya) is good, to live with them is always happiness; if a man does not see fools, he will be truly happy.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000021_000000.wav|Verily, it is difficult to prove all being, and hard to make it speak. Tell me, ye brethren, is not the strangest of all things best proved?
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000015_000001.wav|From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.
data/1/3/9/1392_140654_000042_000001.wav|Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise!
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000013_000001.wav|Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000028_000001.wav|Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000014_000001.wav|The circumstance, on which the effect depends, is frequently involved in other circumstances, which are foreign and extrinsic.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000012_000000.wav|A man was he, and only a poor fragment of a man and ego.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000037_000000.wav|Hearken rather, my brethren, to the voice of the healthy body; it is a more upright and pure voice.
data/1/3/9/1392_128240_000027_000001.wav|All is unholy to it that is not simple; fain, likewise, would it play with the fire--of the fagot and stake.
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000016_000001.wav|When we reason from analogies, the man, who has the greater experience or the greater promptitude of suggesting analogies, will be the better reasoner.
data/1/3/9/1392_128226_000025_000000.wav|A new pride taught me mine ego, and that teach I unto men: no longer to thrust one's head into the sand of celestial things, but to carry it freely, a terrestrial head, which giveth meaning to the earth!
data/1/3/9/1392_135659_000015_000001.wav|The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000021.wav|In short, in a few Days he became a perfect Mad-man.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000007_000004.wav|Both, however, were disappointed, as both of us were fled.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000003_000015.wav|At last, she gave him a particular Detail of her own Misfortunes, and again requested to know his.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000022.wav|Her Caprice, which seem'd a Judgement from above, portended a sudden Revolution.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000032.wav|Judge the dreadful Apprehensions I was under, upon his making such a peremptory Declaration.
data/1/5/7/1572_141715_000003_000003.wav|What could tempt me, in short, to a Prolongation of my Life, I can't imagine, I, who am grown a perfect Skeleton, all wrinkled and deform'd.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000014_000001.wav|You must kick this Bladder, Sir, once a Day about your Hall for a whole Hour together, with all the Vigour and Activity you possibly can.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000002_000005.wav|And pray, if you will be so good as to inform me, with what View, are you searching after a Creature so very difficult to be met with?
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000003_000001.wav|But as he came to the Banks of a Rivulet, at the remotest part of the Meadow, he perceiv'd another young Lady, reclin'd on the Grass, and entirely disengag'd.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000036.wav|I talk'd as big as a Queen; but I was treated like the most servile Domestic.
data/1/5/7/1572_141715_000003_000005.wav|Blasted, Madam, said the luscious Pontiff; No!
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000010_000003.wav|He is excessively fat, and puffs and blows every Moment, like one half choak'd.
data/1/5/7/1572_141715_000002_000007.wav|Now the Reader shall hear with how much Benevolence and Discretion this amiable Widow behav'd on this emergent Occasion.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000012_000004.wav|I am a Physician by Profession.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000006_000001.wav|You know very well too, that indulgent Heav'n inspir'd, as it were, my little Dwarf, with artful Means to give me timely Notice of the rash Resolutions of the King, my cruel Husband.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000030.wav|You'll smile, doubtless, when I tell you the Prince look'd upon me as the most amiable Captive of the two; but then, I presume you will be sorry to hear, that my hard Fate doom'd me to be a Vassal in his Seraglio.
data/1/5/7/1572_141715_000002_000005.wav|She ponder'd upon this weighty Affair very seriously; but said nothing to any one whomsoever.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000009.wav|For she pleas'd the King of Kings: In short, she had such an Ascendancy over him, that he didn't scruple in publick to own her as his Wife.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000040.wav|What a shocking State was I in for the first Queen of the Universe!
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000013_000000.wav|The Proposition was readily embrac'd.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000014_000004.wav|In short, our Doctor in about eight Days Time, perform'd an absolute Cure.
data/1/5/7/1572_141715_000005_000002.wav|He put the Question to her, in short, at once, and agreed to sign upon her Compliance.
data/1/5/7/1572_141715_000006_000002.wav|Each of the pontifical Gallants observ'd their Summons to a Moment.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000016.wav|All the World deplor'd the Loss of me their former Queen. The King, who never acted the Part of a Tyrant, till the Moment he would have imprison'd me, and strangled you, seem'd to have drown'd all his good Qualities in his Dotage on that capricious Enchantress. He came to the Temple on the solemn Festival of the sacred Fire.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000014.wav|Whereupon she gave his Post to her favourite Dwarf, and made her Fop of a Page the Keeper of his Majesty's great Seal, and Confidence.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000024.wav|Whereupon I was taken from my magnificent Prison, the Bowels of his God, and set up at the Head of a very powerful Party.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000002_000008.wav|The Case, being thus circumstantiated, Sir, I hope you will not interrupt me any longer, lest my Rivals here in the Field should happen to circumvent me.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000034.wav|I answer'd him with all the Resentment becoming one of my high Character and unspotted Virtue.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000003_000011.wav|He threw himself prostrate on the Ground, and kiss'd the Dust of her Feet.
data/1/5/7/1572_141715_000004_000004.wav|With all my Soul, said the amorous Pontiff, provided----you'll be kind, my dearest.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000003.wav|She was found alone, and in a very disconsolate Condition.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000008.wav|And in Effect, she was so: She had as much Art, however, as Caprice.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000002_000001.wav|He took the Freedom to approach one of them, and ask her, in the most courteous Manner, if he might have the Honour to assist her in her Researches.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000018.wav|I, with an audible and distinct, but hollow Tone, address'd my self thus, like an Oracle, to the King of Kings.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000003_000013.wav|Every now and then she wip'd her Eyes, as the Tears trickl'd down afresh her lovely Cheeks.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000012_000003.wav|May immortal Health descend from Heaven to preserve a Life, Sir, so precious as yours is.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000010_000002.wav|He is a perfect Debauchee; his sole Delight lies in good Eating, Wine, and Women; and is one, who imagines, that the Almighty sent him into the World for no other Purpose but to gratify his unruly Appetites.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000010_000004.wav|When he has gorg'd himself so unmercifully that he is ready to burst, his chief Physician can persuade him to take any Thing for his Relief; tho' he laughs at him, and despises his Advice when he's well and sober.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000000.wav|The Couriers, who flew after me, knew nothing of me.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000010_000001.wav|He purchas'd me at all Adventures, without enquiring what, or who I was.
data/1/5/7/1572_141715_000003_000000.wav|In the first Place, she made use of the most costly Perfumes; and drest herself to the utmost Advantage to render her Charms as conspicuous as possible; And thus gaily attir'd, demanded a private Audience of the High Priest of the Stars.
data/1/5/7/1572_141718_000008_000005.wav|Their gross Blunder at first incens'd his Majesty to the last Degree; but after he had view'd the Lady with an attentive Eye, he found she was extremely pretty, and was soon pacify'd.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000038_000001.wav|"Is Mr. Yorke there?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000068_000001.wav|"Have you forgotten the inked surplice?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000041_000001.wav|"You may be proud to have such children, Mrs. Channing."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000075_000001.wav|"A sneak! a coward!
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000004_000000.wav|There was once a king, who had lost his wife.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000014_000001.wav|Constance thought it a negative shake, and her hopes fell again.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000025_000000.wav|And the old man told her what else to do, blessed her, and disappeared.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000004_000001.wav|They had a family of thirteen--twelve gallant sons, and one daughter, who was exquisitely beautiful.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000064_000002.wav|Gaunt entered, and the rest trooped in after him.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000050_000000.wav|The princess trembled with fear; she had nothing more to give him, and she felt that he was becoming exhausted.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000079_000000.wav|Gaunt lifted his finger, and made a sign to Charles to approach.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000067_000000.wav|"What has the school done, sir?" respectfully asked Gaunt.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000053_000000.wav|"Princess, what were those two delicious morsels you gave me last?
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000030_000000.wav|The princess looked around her, and wept bitterly.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000004_000004.wav|It appears to be a plain duty thrown in my path."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000058_000000.wav|"Oh, ah, I recollect," cried his lordship--for it was not the first time he had been to Helstonleigh.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000008_000001.wav|Mr. Yorke followed and stood before her.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000052_000000.wav|So she cut off another piece of her flesh; the bird seized it greedily, and flew on so fast that in a few minutes he reached the ground at the top of the precipice.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000050_000000.wav|Judith, with a pettish movement, returned to her kitchen; and at that moment Hamish came downstairs.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000074_000000.wav|"Isn't it a stunning shame?" cried hot Tom Channing.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000006_000001.wav|"Oh, William, William, do not be displeased with me! do not forbid it!
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000034_000001.wav|They came round her, and caressed her hands lovingly with their beaks.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000003_000000.wav|"Have you fully made up your mind?" he at length asked.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000069_000000.wav|Gaunt paused.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000031_000000.wav|"But Lady Augusta is so indulgent to her children!" interrupted Constance.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, do not, do not!
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000013_000001.wav|I shall go about it then with the lightest heart!"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000058_000002.wav|My compliments to the head-master, and I beg he will grant the boys a holiday."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000038_000000.wav|"Bird of heavenly pity here, By each labour, prayer and tear, Come in thine unvanquished power, Come and aid us in this hour!"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000059_000002.wav|The least they feared was, that the town had taken fire.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000072_000003.wav|Prayers."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000048_000000.wav|The princess was just going to break off some to give him, when a sudden violent gust of wind from the bottom of the abyss snatched the loaf from her hand, and sent it whistling downwards.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000085_000002.wav|When he gets found out, he had better not come within reach of the seniors; I warn him of that: they might not leave him a head on his shoulders, or a tooth in his mouth."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000018_000001.wav|Why will you not answer me?
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000086_000000.wav|"Suppose it should turn out to have been a senior, Mr. Gaunt?" spoke Bywater.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000066_000000.wav|"Holiday!" interrupted the master.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000042_000000.wav|"I will, but you must know, princess, that before I can reach the top of this precipice with you on my back, three days and nights must pass; and I must have food on the way, or my strength will fail me, and I shall fall down with you to the bottom, and we shall all perish."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000032_000001.wav|But Death only threatened them with his scythe, saying:
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000005_000000.wav|"By yourself, Constance?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000001_000000.wav|"Annabel said the truth--that I do think of going out as daily governess," she replied, bending over a carnation to hide the blush which rose to her cheeks, a very rival to the blushing flower.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000069_000001.wav|"But that was not the act of the whole school, sir.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000070_000003.wav|Will you confess now?--he who did it?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000027_000000.wav|Mr. Yorke smiled.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000052_000000.wav|There was a stress on the word "to-night," and Hamish marked it.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000009_000000.wav|"What are you here for, old man?" she asked.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000079_000002.wav|The master has called the seniors to his aid, and I order you to speak.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000057_000000.wav|The king was coming back victorious over his enemies, and on his way home had first heard of the sudden disappearance of his children and of the queen, and how his palace was tenanted only by a basilisk with a death-dealing glance.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000066_000001.wav|"Holiday!" he repeated, with emphasis, as if disbelieving his own ears.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000032_000001.wav|If you go there you will witness them occasionally, and I assure you they are not edifying.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000036_000002.wav|Shall I ascertain particulars for you, Constance; touching salary and other matters?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000080_000000.wav|"No, I did not!" fearlessly replied little Channing.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000045_000000.wav|"Gone entirely, Judith.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000018_000000.wav|"What are you grieving for, pretty dove?" asked an old man, with a snow-white beard, who just then came by.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000059_000001.wav|The basilisk saw herself reflected in this mirror, and her own glance slew her immediately.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000015_000000.wav|"But it seems to be my duty," she urged from between her pale and parted lips.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000019_000001.wav|But, Oh, William, if you gave me up--"
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000051_000000.wav|Having eaten this the bird recovered strength, and flew upwards faster than before; but after an hour or two he looked round once more.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000019_000001.wav|I am grieving also for myself.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000047_000000.wav|"It is not the Lord Chancellor's fault, Judith.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000025_000000.wav|"How could you doubt me?
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000015_000001.wav|But her glance was so deadly, that it killed every one she looked at; so that all the people in the palace were soon dead, including her own son, whom she slew by merely looking at him.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000032_000002.wav|You must endeavour to train the girls to something better than they have been trained to yet, Constance."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000017_000000.wav|Meanwhile the princess, who had been changed into a dove, flew after her brothers the eagles, but not being able to overtake them, she rested under a wayside cross, and began cooing mournfully.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000023_000001.wav|I saw you doubted me at the first, when Annabel spoke of it in the study.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000083_000001.wav|"You say you did not see the surplice damaged?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000018_000002.wav|What would be your course if I forbade it?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000050_000001.wav|He had changed his dress, and had a pair of new white gloves in his hand.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000034_000000.wav|The eagles were about to turn and fly, when all at once they perceived their sister.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000012_000000.wav|"I saw it."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000060_000000.wav|They gathered up the remains of the basilisk, and burnt them in a great fire in the courtyard, afterwards scattering the ashes to the four winds.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000068_000000.wav|"Your memory must be conveniently short," chafed the master.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000064_000001.wav|They could not understand it; they had not the most distant idea what their offence could have been.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000047_000001.wav|He only administers the law."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000011_000000.wav|"Then you saw it?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000014_000002.wav|"You did not answer my question," said Mr. Yorke.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000020_000000.wav|She could not continue.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000012_000001.wav|"Was that what you were about to say, Constance?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000059_000000.wav|Roberts did as he was bid--he also had been to Helstonleigh before with his master--and delivered the card and message to Gaunt.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000044_000000.wav|"Then climb upon my back, and whenever I look round, give me some bread to eat."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000037_000000.wav|But the princess knelt down and prayed:
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000069_000002.wav|It was probably the act of only one."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000014_000001.wav|The old man disappeared in a blaze of sunshine; and the queen, as she stood there, dumb with terror, was changed into a basilisk.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000041_000000.wav|"But they seem determined to bear it bravely," he answered, in a hearty tone.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000005_000001.wav|He thought never to marry again; for he had promised his dying wife never to give her children a stepmother.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000047_000000.wav|So they went on steadily for two nights and days; but upon the third day, when they were hoping in a short time to view the summit of the precipice, and to land upon the borders of this world, the bird looked round as usual for a piece of the loaf.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000014_000000.wav|She whispered some magical words.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000039_000000.wav|"He is here, mamma," replied Constance, walking forward to Mrs. Channing, Mr. Yorke attending her.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000021_000001.wav|"Though you brought it on yourself," he added, laughing, as he bent his face down.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000072_000002.wav|There will be no holiday to-day.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000022_000000.wav|"How did I bring it on myself?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000081_000001.wav|"Come, Miss Channing."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000024_000000.wav|"You will sanction the measure then?" she rejoined, her countenance lighting up.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000033_000001.wav|you must fulfil your penance on earth, till I come for you myself."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000002_000002.wav|He was of an excellent family, and she supposed he disliked the step she was about to take--deemed it would be derogatory to his future wife.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000031_000001.wav|Soon she heard the sound of wings over her head, and saw twelve eagles flying.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000008_000000.wav|The queen looked out of the window, to see in what direction they would fly, when she saw right under the window an old man, with a beard as white as snow.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000040_000002.wav|The children have told you the tidings.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000006_000000.wav|"Not by myself," she whispered, lifting for a moment her large blue eyes.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000007_000000.wav|"Let that carnation alone, Constance; give your attention to me.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000060_000003.wav|The servant met them at the door, and grinned dreadfully at the crowd.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000010_000000.wav|"A daily governess, I think you said?"
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000021_000000.wav|So saying he stroked the little dove, and she at once regained her natural shape.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000037_000000.wav|"If you please.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000042_000000.wav|"Not proud," she softly said.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000051_000000.wav|"Are you going out to-night, Hamish?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000026_000001.wav|"But you looked so grave and were so silent."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000024_000002.wav|And when it is full...."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000066_000003.wav|A pretty senior you must be, if you do."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000075_000002.wav|If he has a spark of manly honour in him, he'll speak up now."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000045_000001.wav|Gone for good."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000046_000000.wav|"For good!" groaned Judith; "I should say for ill.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000046_000001.wav|Why does the Queen let there be a Lord Chancellor?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000062_000001.wav|"What do you mean?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000007_000001.wav|What if I do forbid it?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000027_000002.wav|Lady Augusta is looking out for a daily governess."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000056_000000.wav|The princess and her brothers resumed their journey, this time towards the sunrise, and at last arrived in their own country, where they met their father, returning from the wars.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000032_000000.wav|"Perniciously indulgent, generally; and when the effects break out in insolence and disobedience, then there ensues a scene.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000070_000000.wav|"But, so long as that one does not confess, the whole school must bear it," returned the master, looking round on the assembly.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000038_000000.wav|"Constance!" interrupted a voice at this juncture.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000040_000003.wav|It is a great blow to their prospects."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000043_000000.wav|"True.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000009_000000.wav|"William, I must do my duty.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000014_000000.wav|He looked at her with an expression she did not understand, and shook his head.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000000_000000.wav|"Now, Constance, that we have a moment alone, what is this about you?" began Mr. Yorke, as they stood together in the garden.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000061_000000.wav|"Won't you catch it, gentlemen!
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000049_000000.wav|Not having received his usual meal the bird became sensibly weaker, and looked round once more.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000085_000000.wav|"That's enough," said Gaunt.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000033_000000.wav|"If I do go."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000016_000000.wav|"Constance, that is no answer."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000004_000003.wav|"Think of papa! think of his strait!
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000029_000000.wav|"Your brothers," said Death, "fly here every day in the guise of eagles. They want to reach the other side of this door, which leads into the other world; for they hate the one they live in; nevertheless they, and you also, must remain there, until your time be come.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000020_000002.wav|It was wet with tears.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000064_000000.wav|At this unexpected reply, the boys slunk away to the college schoolroom, their buoyant spirits sunk down to dust and ashes--figuratively speaking.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000052_000003.wav|Fare you well, my pretty sister.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000045_000000.wav|The bird was so large that all the princes, and the princess in the midst of them, could easily find place on his back, and he began to fly upwards.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000077_000000.wav|"Who says he did?" quickly asked Tom Channing.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000043_000000.wav|"I have an ever-growing loaf, which will suffice both for you and ourselves," replied the princess.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000082_000000.wav|"We don't declare things upon suspicion, do we, Mr. Gaunt?" appealed Charles.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000042_000001.wav|"Thankful!"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000025_000003.wav|I shall not love my wife the less, because she has had the courage to turn her talents to account.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000079_000003.wav|Did you see this mischief done?"
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000033_000000.wav|"Hence! ye enchanted princes!
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000059_000001.wav|The consequence of which was, the school tore through the streets in triumph, shouting "Holiday!" in tones to be heard a mile off, and bringing people in white garments, from their beds to the windows.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000076_000001.wav|"He saw it done!"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000052_000001.wav|"I promised, you know, Constance.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000006_000003.wav|Strive to see it in the right light."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000022_000000.wav|"How can I ever thank you enough!
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000010_000000.wav|"To be witness of your deed," he answered.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000082_000001.wav|"I may suspect one; Hurst may suspect another; Bywater said he suspected two; the whole school may be suspicious, one of another. Where's the use of that?"
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000032_000000.wav|The eagles dashed themselves against the iron portal, beating their wings upon it, and imploring Death to open it to them.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000062_000000.wav|"Gone into school!" repeated Gaunt, haughtily, resenting the familiarity, as well as the information.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000050_000001.wav|In utter desperation she cut off a piece of her flesh, and gave it to him.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000028_000001.wav|"Must I go back without my poor brothers?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000075_000000.wav|"The fault lies in the boy, not in the master," interrupted Gaunt.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000055_000000.wav|Before seven o'clock, the whole school, choristers and king's scholars, assembled in the cloisters.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000066_000002.wav|"Do you consider that the school deserves it?
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000064_000005.wav|"You are three-quarters of an hour behind your time."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000020_000001.wav|She turned away to hide her face from Mr. Yorke. He followed and obtained forcible view of it.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000046_000000.wav|He flew higher and higher, and whenever he looked round at her, she gave him bits of the loaf, and he flew on, and upwards.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000001_000003.wav|I must assume my share of the burden."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000055_000000.wav|The bird breathed upon her wounds; and the flesh at once healed over, and grew again as before.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000070_000001.wav|"Boys, understand me.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000014_000003.wav|"What if I forbid it?"
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000035_000000.wav|She at once began to sprinkle them with her tears from the lachrymatory; and in one moment the twelve eagles were changed back into the twelve princes, and joyfully embraced their sister.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000030_000001.wav|"Unseemly anger on my lady's part, and rebellion on Carry's, forming, as usual, its chief features."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000084_000000.wav|"I did not; upon my word of honour."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000011_000000.wav|"Papa could not spare me to go out altogether; Annabel could not spare me either; and--"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000012_000000.wav|"I would not spare you," he struck in, filling up her pause.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000031_000000.wav|But remembering what the mysterious old man had said she took courage, and began to pray and weep, till she had filled the little bottle with her tears.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000021_000000.wav|"Nay, but I did not mean to carry it so far as to cause you real grief, my dearest," he said, in a changed tone.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000081_000000.wav|"If he doesn't know, he suspects," persisted Hurst.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000002_000000.wav|Mr. Yorke was silent.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000029_000002.wav|Probably the same doubt had made one of the "disadvantages" hinted at by Mr. Yorke.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000024_000001.wav|Go towards the sunset, and weep your tears into this little bottle.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000026_000000.wav|"Forgive me, William," she softly pleaded.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000030_000000.wav|"I called there yesterday, and interrupted a 'scene' between Lady Augusta and Miss Caroline," he said.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000040_000000.wav|"What are your commands, princess?" asked the bird.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000029_000001.wav|Therefore every day I must compel them to go back, which they can do, because they are eagles.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000015_000000.wav|The basilisk ran off in fright; trying to hide herself underground.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000029_000002.wav|But how are you going to get back yourself?--look there!"
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000053_000001.wav|I never ate anything so good before."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000028_000000.wav|"Is she?" exclaimed Constance.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000041_000000.wav|"Carry us from this threshold of eternity to our own world."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000078_000000.wav|"Some one said so; and that he was afraid to tell."
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000057_000002.wav|It's the holiday they are asking for."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000039_000000.wav|And all at once there shot down from heaven to the depth of the abyss a ray of sunshine, on which descended a gigantic bird, with rainbow wings, a bright sparkling crest, and peacock's eyes all over his body, a golden tail, and silvery breast.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000027_000000.wav|"Stop, princess!" he said; "You can proceed no further, for you are not yet parted by death from your own world."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000005_000000.wav|For twelve years after his wife's death the king grieved very much; he used to go daily to her tomb, and there weep, and pray, and give away alms to the poor.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000028_000000.wav|"But what am I to do?" she asked.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000002_000001.wav|Constance took it for granted that he was displeased.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000006_000001.wav|But before long he found out that he had made a great mistake.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000018_000000.wav|"The temptation, as you call it, must be for a later consideration.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000025_000004.wav|What could you be thinking of, child?"
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000029_000000.wav|Constance spoke hesitatingly.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000063_000000.wav|"Why, I just mean that, sir," was the reply, upon which Gaunt felt uncommonly inclined to knock him down.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000004_000002.wav|William, how could I reconcile it to my conscience not to help?" she continued.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000061_000001.wav|The head-master's gone into school, and is waiting for you; marking you all late, of course."
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000007_000000.wav|One day, when the king was far away, at war against his enemies, the queen went into her stepchildren's apartments, and pronounced some magical words--on which every one of the twelve princes flew away in the shape of an eagle, and the princess was changed into a dove.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000023_000000.wav|The old man gave her an ever-growing loaf, and said:
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000013_000000.wav|The rosy hue stole over her face again, and a sweet smile to her lips: "Oh, William, if you will only sanction it!
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000065_000000.wav|"We have been up to the judges, as usual, for holiday, sir," replied Gaunt, in a tone of deprecation.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000072_000000.wav|"You may think--I speak now to the guilty boy, and let him take these words to himself--that you were quite alone when you did it; that no eye was watching.
data/6/9/3/6937_262269_000056_000000.wav|"College boys!" cried his lordship, winking and blinking, as other less majestic mortals do when awakened suddenly out of their morning sleep.
data/6/9/3/6937_112761_000015_000002.wav|And this once populous and happy royal residence quickly became an uninhabited ruin, which no one dared approach, for fear of the basilisk lurking in its underground vaults.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000023_000001.wav|At length the space slowly began to thin.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000004_000010.wav|It is only nature makes the blunder of giving the sharpest swords the weakest scabbards.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000011_000000.wav|You need not have taken such trouble about accounts and expenditure; of course, whatever you have done I perfectly approve of.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000010_000004.wav|Imagine his delight as each day opened new stores of knowledge to him, surrounded as he was by all that could encourage zeal and reward research.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000002_000000.wav|Chapter XXX.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000019_000002.wav|You know as well as I, Princess, that social credit is as great a bubble as commercial; we should all of us be bankrupts if our books were seen.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000011_000001.wav|He came over here and fell in love with the girl, and they ran off together; but they forgot to get married, Princess.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000092_000000.wav|The gentleman turned his horse and galloped back to Montepoole.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000074_000000.wav|"I am confident he would be here at this moment," said Constance, "if he wasn't in London."
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000003_000002.wav|Important questions!
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000014_000000.wav|"Well, mamma!--" said Constance with great equanimity,--"Mr.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000007_000000.wav|I go out very little; my notion is, that the Diplomatist, like the ancient Augur, must not suffer himself to be vulgarized by contact.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000004_000001.wav|What is it, Scaresby?
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000067_000001.wav|She is a very good girl! but she might have been made something much better than a farmer's wife."
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000018_000000.wav|"How?--" said Philetus.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000091_000000.wav|"No--we'll keep that for dinner.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000059_000000.wav|"And so she acts," said Constance.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000082_000001.wav|Mr. Carleton, did your ears receive a faint announcement of ham and eggs which went quite through and through mine just now?"
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000004_000005.wav|The King has most kindly placed a little villa at Ischia at my disposal; but I do not mean to avail myself of the politeness.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER XXII.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000004_000008.wav|I wish you would ask Brodie, or any of our best men, whether they have met with this affection; what class it affects, and what course it usually takes? My Italian doctor implies that it is the passing malady of men highly excitable, and largely endowed with mental gifts.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000057_000000.wav|"I can hardly say that," he replied.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000011_000006.wav|Now, our poor boy could not stand this ordeal, nor would it be fair he should be exposed to it.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000089_000003.wav|Lucas won't be here and now the weather is so fine I want to make haste with the hay."
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000019_000001.wav|Are they fresh picked?"
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000025_000003.wav|The despotism of beauty is not a very mild sway, after all; and perhaps the Countess had exercised her rule right royally.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000010_000000.wav|"Never mind his father."
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000090_000000.wav|"Well, will you have the samp for breakfast?"
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000059_000001.wav|"I wish you had heard her yesterday.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000026_000000.wav|"Who doos?
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000047_000000.wav|"Are Mr. Rossitur's circumstances so much reduced?" he said, drawing nearer to Mrs. Evelyn.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000036_000000.wav|He, however, effected this much: he kept the memory of her who had gone, alive by daily calumnies.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000045_000000.wav|"She's too lovely for anything!" said Constance.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000025_000007.wav|The next morning large bills of sale, posted over the walls, declared that all the furniture and decorations-were to be sold.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000087_000000.wav|This second voice was hardly raised, but it came from so much nearer that the words could be distinctly heard.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000010_000001.wav|The man is eminently remarkable,--with his opportunities, miraculous.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000011_000007.wav|Besides this, it was never Glencore's wish, but the very opposite to it, that he should be brought prominently forward in life.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000055_000000.wav|"And his niece takes care of his farm in the meantime?"
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000012_000000.wav|You have interested me much by what you say of the boy's progress.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000030_000000.wav|"I wish we were certain of another bad reputation to replace her," grunted out Scaresby; "they are the only kind of people who give good dinners, and never ask for returns."
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000010_000006.wav|Poor lad, there is something very sad in his case.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000021_000002.wav|Not one, however, sincerely professed that he disbelieved it.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000079_000000.wav|"Did you see him?" said Mrs. Evelyn.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000037_000002.wav|It forgets not only all it owes to others,--gratitude, honor, and esteem,--but even the closer obligations it has contracted with itself.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000020_000000.wav|Whose Magnesia is it that contains essence of Bark?
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000009_000000.wav|"All is very briefly related, then," said he.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000015_000005.wav|He has left three cards upon me, each duly returned; but I am resolved that our inter-change of courtesies shall proceed no farther.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000015_000001.wav|Her house at Florence is uninhabited, the furniture is sold off; but no one seems even to guess whither she has betaken herself.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000007_000000.wav|"I suppose that must suffer also.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000088_000000.wav|"Mr. Skillcorn wants to know if you're going to fix the flowers for him to carry?"
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000037_000003.wav|The Palazzo della Torre was for a fortnight the resort of the curious and the idle.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000002_000002.wav|Should it ever reach you, you will perceive how unjustly you have charged me with neglecting your wishes.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000024_000001.wav|Witnesses were heard and evidence taken as to her case.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000011_000003.wav|And now as to his future.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000025_000002.wav|Lady Glencore's beauty and her vast fortune were now counts in the indictment against her, and many a jealous rival was not sorry at this hour of humiliation.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000041_000000.wav|"She doos," said Philetus.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000032_000000.wav|It may seem small-minded and narrow to stigmatize such conduct as this. Some may say that for the ordinary courtesies of society no pledges of friendship are required, no real gratitude incurred.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000080_000000.wav|"Only at that impracticable distance, mamma; but I introduced his name afterwards in my usual happy manner and I found that Miss Ringgan's cheeks were by no means indifferent to it.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000000_000001.wav|SOME TRAITS OF LIFE
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000072_000001.wav|I don't think he has forgotten her."
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000004_000000.wav|It is very kind of you to think of my health.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000030_000000.wav|"All that basketful!"
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000007_000004.wav|Of my colleagues I see as little as possible, though, when we do meet, I feel an unbounded affection for them.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000006_000000.wav|"You can't mean that her fortune is in peril?"
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000011_000005.wav|The young men who figure at embassies and missions are all "cognate numbers." They each of them know who and what the other is, whence he came, and so on.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000011_000004.wav|I should have no objection whatever to having him attached to my Legation here, and perhaps no great difficulty in effecting his appointment; but there is a serious obstacle in his position.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000008_000003.wav|Is it not painting the lily?
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000078_000000.wav|"Didn't you introduce your favourite Mr. Olmney to Miss Ringgan last summer?
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000085_000000.wav|"Fleda!--"
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000013_000000.wav|If you really press the question of his coming to me, I will not refuse, seeing that I can take my own time to consider what steps subsequently should be adopted.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000011_000002.wav|There is both good and evil in this.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000001_000000.wav|It was the night Lady Glencore received; and, as usual, the street was crowded with equipages, which somehow seemed to have got into inextricable confusion,--some endeavoring to turn back, while others pressed forward,--the court of the palace being closely packed with carriages which the thronged street held in fast blockade.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000084_000000.wav|The sun was not much more than two hours high the next morning when a rider was slowly approaching Mr. Rossitur's house from the bridge, walking his horse like a man who wished to look well at all he was passing.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000005_000001.wav|I do, perhaps, as well as I should like anywhere.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000005_000002.wav|There is a wonderful sameness over the world just now, preluding, I have very little doubt, some great outburst of nationality from all the countries of Europe,--just as periods of Puritanism succeed intervals of gross licentiousness.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000056_000000.wav|"Do you know her?" asked both the Miss Evelyns again.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000077_000000.wav|"But what have I done, my child?" said Mrs. Evelyn.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000008_000002.wav|A moonstruck, romantic youth at a German University.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000046_000000.wav|He smiled a little as he complied with the young lady's invitation, but the expression of ecstasy did not come.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000025_000006.wav|The gate of the palace, locked and barred all day, refused entrance to every one; at night, it opened to admit the exit of a travelling-carriage.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000029_000001.wav|"Her and me was a picking 'em afore sunrise."
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000011_000000.wav|"Whose are they?
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000009_000002.wav|Let him "moon away," as you call it, my dear Harcourt.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000017_000000.wav|"Where do you get them?" said Mrs. Evelyn.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000015_000000.wav|"She'll not see you.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000034_000002.wav|They do not, at first blush, appear to discharge any very great or necessary function in life; but we must by no means, from that, infer their inutility.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000004_000011.wav|What a pity the weapon cannot be worn naked!
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000015_000002.wav|The fast and loose of that pleasant city are, as I hear, actually houseless since her departure.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000059_000002.wav|It was beyond everything.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000050_000001.wav|Rossitur failed and lost everything--bankrupt--a year or two after they came home."
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000089_000002.wav|Philetus must make haste back, for you know Mr. Douglass wants him to help in the barn meadow.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000042_000000.wav|And receiving a gratuity which he accepted without demonstration of any kind whatever, the basket-bearer at length released moved off.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000022_000000.wav|"From Mr. Rossitur's down to Queechy."
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000013_000002.wav|Why, how do we go anywhere, nowadays, except by 'not believing' the evil stories that are told of our entertainers."
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000020_000001.wav|Tripley's or Chipley's, I think.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000001_000003.wav|The explanation of "sudden illness" was rapidly disseminated, but as rapidly contradicted, and the reply given by the porter to all demands quickly repeated from mouth to mouth, "Her Ladyship will not receive."
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000009_000004.wav|Indeed, I half suspect that the soil might be left quietly to rear weeds till that time; and as to dreaminess, it signifies nothing if there be a strong "physique." With a weak frame, imagination will play the tyrant, and never cease till it dominates over all the other faculties; but where there is strength and activity, there is no fear of this.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000006_000000.wav|It was the very next morning that several ladies and gentlemen were gathered on the piazza of the hotel at Montepoole, to brace minds or appetites with the sweet mountain air while waiting for breakfast.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000012_000000.wav|"I don't believe a word of it,--I'll never believe it," cried the Princess.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000034_000006.wav|Are they not invariably devouring and destroying some vermin a little smaller than themselves, and making thus a healthier atmosphere for their betters?
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000014_000000.wav|Lord Selby, whom you may remember in the Blues formerly, dined here yesterday, and mentioned a communication he had received from his lawyer with regard to some property entail, which, if Glencore should leave no heir male, devolved upon him.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000009_000003.wav|It is wonderfully little consequence what any one does with his intellect till he be three or four and twenty.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000024_000002.wav|They all agreed it was a great hardship,--a terrible calamity; but still, if true, what could be done?
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000019_000000.wav|"I'll tell you, then.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000072_000000.wav|"Yes," said Mrs. Evelyn in an indulgent tone,--"he was very attentive to her last winter when she was with us, but she went away before anything was decided.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000073_000000.wav|"I shouldn't think anybody could forget her," said Edith.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000034_000000.wav|"But hasn't she any help in taking care of the garden?" said Constance.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000021_000000.wav|Various were the sentiments expressed by the different speakers,--some sorrowfully deploring the disaster; others more eagerly inveighing against the infamy of the man who had proclaimed it.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000084_000002.wav|Another figure presently appeared at the hall-door and called out,
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000070_000000.wav|"I don't know,--" said Constance, intent upon her basket,--"I feel a friend's distress for Mr. Thorn--it's all your doing, mamma,--you won't be able to look him in the face when we have Fleda next fall--I am sure I shall not want to look at his!
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000081_000000.wav|"I am very glad of it!
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000032_000000.wav|"And does she send that too?"
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000028_000000.wav|"What does she have to do with it?" said Mrs. Evelyn.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000025_000001.wav|A few might, perhaps, have been merciful, but they were overborne by numbers.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000007_000003.wav|They tell me "what is going on," far better and more truthfully than paid employees, and they cannot trace my intentions through my inquiries, and hasten off to retail them at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000004_000003.wav|I feel it greatly; and though the season is midsummer, I am obliged to dress entirely in a light costume of buckskin, and take Marsalla baths, which refresh me, at least for the while.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000014_000002.wav|My taste leads me to prefer the simplicity of primitive arrangements this morning."
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000054_000001.wav|He has gone down hill sadly since his misfortunes.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000009_000001.wav|"The charming Countess, you remember, ran away with a countryman of mine, young Glencore, of the 8th Hussars; I used to know his father intimately."
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000027_000000.wav|"I must really have those large Sevres jars," said one.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000058_000000.wav|"So she says."
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000052_000001.wav|They don't look like it.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000017_000001.wav|I am, as I have the right to be, on the sick list, and it is as well my rest should remain undisturbed.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000001_000001.wav|As the apartments which faced the street were not ever used for these receptions, the dark unlighted windows suggested no remark; but they who had entered the courtyard were struck by the gloomy aspect of the vast building: not only that the entrance and the stairs were in darkness, but the whole suite of rooms, usually brilliant as the day, were now in deep gloom.
data/7/4/9/7495_252341_000013_000001.wav|I said, you need n't believe it.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000016_000000.wav|I trust I have omitted nothing in reply to your last despatch, except it be to say that I look for you here about September, or earlier, if as convenient to you; you will, of course, write to me, however, meanwhile.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000054_000002.wav|I am very sorry for them."
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000004_000007.wav|He calls it arterial arthriticis,--a kind of inflammatory action of one coat of the arterial system; his notion is highly ingenious, and wonderfully borne out by the symptoms.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000006_000002.wav|I don't perceive that there is more levity than elsewhere.
data/7/4/9/7495_102612_000068_000001.wav|I think Fleda's strong pastoral tastes are likely to develope themselves in a new direction."
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000007_000001.wav|He can only lose, not gain, by that mixed intercourse with the world.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000014_000001.wav|I tried to find out the whereabouts and the amount of this heritage; but, with the admirable indifference that characterizes him, he did not know or care.
data/7/4/9/7495_252342_000020_000003.wav|I have got so accustomed to their stimulating power that I never write without one or two on my forehead.