diff --git "a/exp/conformer_transducer/test_other_rnnt_greedy_search/text_value_tmp" "b/exp/conformer_transducer/test_other_rnnt_greedy_search/text_value_tmp" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/exp/conformer_transducer/test_other_rnnt_greedy_search/text_value_tmp" @@ -0,0 +1,2939 @@ + THERE'S IRON THEY SAY IN ALL OUR BLOOD AND A GRAIN'LL TOO PERHAPS IS GOOD BUT HIS HE MAKES ME HARSHLY FEEL HAS GOT A LITTLE TOO MUCH OF STEEL ANON + MARGARET SAID MISTER HALE AS HE RETURNED FROM SHOWING HIS GUEST DOWNSTAIRS I COULD NOT HELP WATCHING YOUR FACE WITH SOME ANXIETY WHEN MISTER THORNTON MADE HIS CONFESSION OF HAVING BEEN A SHOPBOY + YOU DON'T MEAN THAT YOU THOUGHT ME SO SILLY + I REALLY LIKED THAT ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE HE SAID + HIS STATEMENT OF HAVING BEEN A SHOPBOY WAS THE THING I LIKE BEST OF ALL + YOU WHO WERE ALWAYS ACCUSING PEOPLE OF BEING SHOPY AT HELSTONE + I DON'T THINK MISTER HALE YOU HAVE DONE QUITE RIGHT IN INTRODUCING SUCH A PERSON TO US WITHOUT TELLING US WHAT HE HAD BEEN + I REALLY WAS VERY MUCH AFRAID OF SHOWING HIM HOW MUCH SHOCKED I WAS AT SOME PARTS OF WHAT HE SAID + HIS FATHER DYING IN MISERABLE CIRCUMSTANCES + WHY IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THE WORKHOUSE + HIS FATHER SPECULATED WILDLY FAILED AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF BECAUSE HE COULD NOT BEAR THE DISGRACE + ALL HIS FORMER FRIENDS SHRUNK FROM THE DISCLOSURES THAT HAD TO BE MADE OF HIS DISHONEST GAMBLING WILD HOPELESS STRUGGLES MADE WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY TO REGAIN HIS OWN MODERATE PORTION OF WEALTH + NO ONE CAME FORWARDS TO HELP THE MOTHER AND THIS BOY + AT LEAST NO FRIEND CAME FORWARDS IMMEDIATELY AND MISS THORNTON IS NOT ONE I FANCY TO WAIT TILL TARDY KINDNESS COMES TO FIND HER OUT + SO THEY LEFT MILTON + HOW TAINTED ASKED HER FATHER + OPAL PAPA BY THAT TESTING EVERYTHING BY THE STANDARD OF WEALTH + WHEN HE SPOKE OF THE MECHANICAL POWERS HE EVIDENTLY LOOKED UPON THEM ONLY AS NEW WAYS OF EXTENDING TRADE AND MAKING MONEY + AND THE POOR MEN AROUND HIM THEY WERE POOR BECAUSE THEY WERE VICIOUS OUT OF THE PALE OF HIS SYMPATHIES BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT HIS IRON NATURE AND THE CAPABILITIES THAT IT GIVES HIM FOR BEING RICH + NOT VICIOUS HE NEVER SAID THAT + IMPROVIDENT AND SELF INDULGENT WERE HIS WORDS + MARGARET WAS COLLECTING HER MOTHER'S WORKING MATERIALS AND PREPARING TO GO TO BED + JUST AS SHE WAS LEAVING THE ROOM SHE HESITATED SHE WAS INCLINED TO MAKE AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT WHICH SHE THOUGHT WOULD PLEASE HER FATHER BUT WHICH TO BE FULL AND TRUE MUST INCLUDE A LITTLE ANNOYANCE + HOWEVER OUT IT CAME + PAPA I DO THINK MISTER THORNTON A VERY REMARKABLE MAN BUT PURSE ME I DON'T LIKE HIM AT ALL + AND I DO SAID HER FATHER LAUGHING + PERSONALLY AS YOU CALL IT AND ALL + I DON'T SET HIM UP FOR A HERO OR ANYTHING OF THAT KIND + BUT GOOD NIGHT CHILD + THERE WERE SEVERAL OTHER SIGNS OF SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT MISSUS HALE + SHE AND DIXON HELD MYSTERIOUS CONSULTATIONS IN A BEDROOM FROM WHICH DIXON WOULD COME OUT CRYING AND CROSS AS WAS A CUSTOM WHEN ANY DISTRESS OF HER MISTRESS CALLED UPON HER SYMPATHY + ONCE MARGARET HAD GONE INTO THE CHAMBER SOON AFTER DIXON LIFTED AND FOUND HER MOTHER ON HER KNEES AND AS MARGARET STOLE OUT SHE CAUGHT A FEW WORDS WHICH WERE EVIDENTLY A PRAYER FOR STRENGTH AND PATIENCE TO ENDURE SEVERE BODILY SUFFERING + BUT THOUGH SHE RECEIVED CARESSES AND FOND WORDS BACK AGAIN IN SUCH PROFUSION AS WOULD HAVE GLADDEN HER FORMERLY YET SHE FELT THAT THERE WAS A SECRET WITHHELD FROM HER AND SHE BELIEVED IT BORE SERIOUS REFERENCE TO HER MOTHER'S HEALTH + SHE LAY AWAKE VERY LONG THIS NIGHT PLANNING HOW TO LESSEN THE EVIL INFLUENCE OF THEIR MILTON LIFE ON HER MOTHER + A SERVANT GIVE DIXON PERMANENT ASSISTANCE SHOULD BE GOT IF SHE GAVE UP THE WHOLE TIME TO THE SEARCH AND THEN AT ANY RATE HER MOTHER MIGHT HAVE ALL THE PERSONAL ATTENTIONS SHE REQUIRED AND HAD BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO HER WHOLE LIFE + VISITING REGISTER OFFICERS SEEING ALL MANNER OF UNLIKELY PEOPLE AND VERY FEW IN THE LEAST LIKELY ABSORBED MARGARET'S TIME AND THOUGHTS FOR SEVERAL DAYS + ONE AFTERNOON SHE MET BESSY HIGGINS IN THE STREET AND STOPPED TO SPEAK TO HER + WELL BUSY HOW ARE YOU + BETTER AND NOT BETTER IF YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS + NOT EXACTLY REPLIED MARGARET SMILING + I'M BETTER IN NOT BEING TORN TO PIECES BY COUGHING O NIGHTS BUT I'M WEARY AND TIRED O MILTON AND LONGING TO GET AWAY TO THE LAND OF BOOLA AND WHEN I THINK I'M FARTHER AND FARTHER OFF MY HEART SINKS AND I'M NO BETTER I'M WORSE + MARGARET TURNED ROUND TO WALK ALONGSIDE OF THE GIRL IN HER FEEBLE PROGRESS HOMEWARD + BUT FOR A MINUTE OR TWO SHE DID NOT SPEAK + AT LAST SHE SAID IN A LOW VOICE + BESSY DO YOU WISH TO DIE + BESSY WAS SILENT IN HER TURN FOR A MINUTE OR TWO THEN SHE REPLIED + NOT WORSE THAN MANY OTHERS I RECKON + BUT WHAT WAS IT + YOU KNOW I'M A STRANGER HERE SO PERHAPS I'M NOT SO QUICK AT UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU MEAN AS IF I'D LIVED ALL MY LIFE IN MILTON + I HAD FORGOTTEN WHAT I SAID FOR THE TIME CONTINUED MARGARET QUIETLY + I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF IT AGAIN WHEN I WAS LESS BUSY MAY I GO WITH YOU NOW + THE SHARPNESS IN HER EYE TURNED TO A WISTFUL LONGING AS SHE MET MARGARET'S SOFT AND FRIENDLY GAZE + AS THEY TURNED UP INTO A SMALL COURT OPENING OUT INTO A SQUALID STREET BESSY SAID + YOU'LL NOT BE DAUNTED IF FATHERS AT HOME AND SPEAKS A BIT GRUFFISH AT FIRST + BUT NICHOLAS WAS NOT AT HOME WHEN THEY ENTERED + GASPE AT LAST + BESSY TOOK A LONG AND FEVERISH DRAUGHT AND THEN FELL BACK AND SHUT HER EYES + MARGARET BENT OVER AND SAID BESSY DON'T BE IMPATIENT WITH YOUR LIFE WHATEVER IT IS OR MAY HAVE BEEN + REMEMBER WHO GAVE IT TO YOU AND MADE IT WHAT IT IS + NOW I'LL NOT HAVE MY WENCH PREACHED TO + BUT SURELY SAID MARGARET FACING ROUND YOU BELIEVE IN WHAT I SAID THAT GOD GAVE HER LIFE AND ORDERED WHAT KIND OF LIFE IT WAS TO BE + I BELIEVE WHERE I SEE AND NO MORE + THAT'S WHAT I BELIEVE YOUNG WOMAN + I DON'T BELIEVE ALL I HEAR NO NOT BY A BIG DEAL + BUT WHO'S COME AT LAST AND WHO'S WELCOME AS LONG AS WHO WILL KEEP FROM PREACHING ON WHAT WHO KNOWS NOT ABOUT + IT'S SIMPLE AND NOT FAR TO FETCH NOR HARD TO WORK + BUT THE GIRL AND HE PLEADED THE MORE WITH MARGARET + DON'T THINK HARDLY ON HIM HE'S A GOOD MAN HE IS + I SOMETIMES THINK I SHALL BE MERPED WITH SORROW EVEN IN THE CITY OF GOD IF ARTHUR IS NOT THERE + THE FEVERISH COLLAR CAME INTO HER CHEEKS AND THE FEVERISH FLAME INTO HER EYE + BUT YOU WILL BE THEIR FATHER YOU SHALL OH MY HEART + SHE PUT HER HAND TO IT AND BECAME GHASTLY PALE + MARGARET HELD HER IN HER ARMS AND PUT THE WEARY HEAD TO REST UPON HER BOSOM + PRESENTLY THE SPASM THAT FORESHADOWED DEATH HAD PASSED AWAY AND BESSY ROUSED HERSELF AND SAID + I'LL GO TO BED IT'S BEST PLACE BUT CATCHING THAT MARGARET'S GOWN YOU'LL COME AGAIN I KNOW YOU WILL BUT JUST SAY IT + OH COME TO MORROW SAID MARGARET + MARGARET WENT AWAY VERY SAD AND THOUGHTFUL + SHE WAS LATE FOR TEA AT HOME + HAVE YOU MET WITH A SERVANT DEAR + NO MAMMA THAT ANNE BUCKLEY WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE + S'POSE I TRY SAID MISTER HALE + EVERYBODY ELSE HAS THEIR TURN AT THIS GREAT DIFFICULTY NOW LET ME TRY + I MAY BE THE CINDERELLA TO PUT ON THE SLIPPER AFTER ALL + WHAT WOULD YOU DO PAPA HOW WOULD YOU SET ABOUT HIM + WELL I WOULD APPLY TO SOME GOOD HOUSE MOTHER TO RECOMMEND ME ONE KNOWN TO HERSELF OR HER SERVANTS + VERY GOOD BUT WE MUST FIRST CATCH OUR HOUSE MOTHER + THE MOTHER OF WHOM HE SPOKE TO US SAID MARGARET + MISTER THORNTON THE ONLY MOTHER HE HAS I BELIEVE SAID MISTER HALE QUIETLY + I SHALL LIKE TO SEE HER SHE MUST BE AN UNCOMMON PERSON HER MOTHER ADDED + PERHAPS SHE MAY HAVE A RELATION WHO MIGHT SUIT US AND BE GLAD OF OUR PLACE + SHE SOUNDED TO BE SUCH A CAREFUL ECONOMICAL PERSON THAT I SHOULD LIKE ANY ONE OUT OF THE SAME FAMILY + MY DEAR SAID MISTER HALE ALARMED PRAY DON'T GO OFF ON THAT IDEA + I AM SURE AT ANY RATE SHE WOULD NOT LIKE STRANGERS TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT + TAKE NOTICE THAT THIS IS NOT MY KIND OF HAUGHTINESS PAPA IF I HAVE ANY AT ALL WHICH I ONLY AGREE TO THOUGH YOU ALWAYS ACCUSING ME OF IT + I DON'T KNOW POSITIVELY THAT IT IS HERS EITHER BUT FROM LITTLE THINGS I HAVE GATHERED FROM HIM I FANCY SO + THEY CARED TOO LITTLE TO ASK IN WHAT MANNER HER SON HAD SPOKEN ABOUT HER + IF CARTIER CASE SUPPOSED ARE SUSPECTED TO BE ONE OF POISONING THE MEDICAL MAN HAS TWO DUTIES TO PERFORM TO SAVE THE PATIENT'S LIFE AND TO PLACE HIMSELF IN A POSITION TO GIVE EVIDENCE IF CALLED UNTO DO SO + HE SHOULD MAKE INQUIRIES AS TO SYMPTOMS AND TIME AT WHICH FOOD OR MEDICINE WAS LAST TAKEN + HE SHOULD NOTICE THE POSITION AND TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY THE CONDITION OF RIGAMORE MORTARS MARKS OF VIOLENCE APPEARANCE OF LIPS AND MOUSE + IN MAKING A POSTMAT OF EXAMINATION THE ALIMENTARY CANAL SHOULD BE REMOVED AND PRESERVE FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION + THE GUTTEN THE GARAD BEING CUT ACROSS BETWEEN THESE LIGATURES THE STOMACH MAY BE REMOVED ENTIRE WITHOUT SPILLING AS CONTENTS + IF THE MEDICAL PARTITIONERS INDULGED ON ANY POINT HE SHOULD OBTAIN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS PAID ATTENTION TO THE SUBJECT + IN A CASE OF ATTEMPTED TO A SIDE BY POISONING IS IT THE DUTY OF THE DOCTOR TO INFORM THE POLICE + THE MATHEMATIC IS THAT WHICH IS ATTEND + THE DISWINDULGE IS TEN MINIMS + EPIMORPHON IS NOT ELLIOT AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION TO MORPHINE AND MAY BE GIVEN IN CASES OF NARCOTIC POISONING + TICKLING THE FARCES WITH THE FEATHER MAKE SIDE VOMITING + IN USING THE ELASTIC STOMACH TUBE SOME FLUID SHOULD BE INTRODUCED INTO THE STOMACH BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO EMPTY IT OR A PORTION OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE MAY BE SUCKED INTO THE APERTURE + THE TUBE SHOULD BE EXAMINED TO SEE THAT IT IS NOT BROKEN OR CRACKED AS ACCIDENTS HAVE HAPPENED FROM NEGLECTING THIS PRECAUTION + ANTIDOTES ARE USUALLY GIVEN HYPODERMICALLY OR IF THEIR MOUTH IN THE FORM OF TABLETS + IN THE ABSENCE OF THE HYPODERMIC SYRINGE THE REMEDY MAY BE GIVEN BY THE RECTUM + NOTICED A SMALL COLOUR AND GENERAL APPEARANCE OF THE MATTER SUBMITTED FOR EXAMINATION + FOR THE SEPARATION OF AN ALKALOID THE FOLLOWING IS THE PROCESS OF CHATAZZ OTTO + THIS PROCESS IS BASED UPON THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE SALTS OF THE AGOLOZE ARE SOLUBLE IN ACCULINEED WATER AND INSOLUBLE AN ETHER + THE PURE ACCOLOS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MORPHINE IN ITS CRYSTALLINE FORM ARE SOLUBLE IN ETHER + TWO COOL THE MIXTURE AND FILTER WASHED THE WEATHER DEW WITH STRONG AGHAL AND MIXED THE FUR TRADES + THE RETHER DEW MAY BE SET ASIDE FOR THE DETECTION OF THE METALLIC POISONS HAVE SUSPECTED EXPELL THE ACOHER CAREFUL EVAPORATION + ON THE EVAPORATION OF THE AGHAL THE BUSINESS AND FATTY MATTERS SEPARATE + EVAPORATE THE FLAGUATED TO A CYRUP AND EXTRACT WITH SUCCESSIVE PORTIONS OF ABSOLUTE ALCOHOL + SEPARATE THE ETHEREAL SOLUTION AND ERUPARATE + FIVE A PART OF THIS ETHEREAL SOLUTION IS PUT INTO A WATCHGLASS AND A LOUDER EVAPORATE + TO PURIFY IT IS A QUANTITY OF DILUTE SEVER ACID AND AFTER EVAPORATING TO THREE QUARTERS OF ITS BULK ED IS SATURATED SOLUTION OF CARBONATE OF POTASH OR SODA + BOY THE FINELY DIVIDED SUBSTANCE WITH ABOUT ONE EIGHTHS ITS BARK OF PURE HYDROCHLORIC ACID ED FROM TIME TO TIME POTASSA CHLOE READ UNTIL THE SOLIDS HAVE IT USED TO A STRAW YELLOW FLUID + THE RESIDUE OF THE MATERIAL AFTER ADJESTION WAS HYDROCHLOIC ACID AND POTASSIUM CHLORATE MAY HAVE TO BE EXAMINED FOR SILVER LEAD AND BARIUM + A THOUSAND BLESSING FROM A GRATEFUL HEART + PERUSAL SAID THE PAWNBROKER THAT'S THE WAY TO PRONOUNCE IT + HIS BOOKS TOLD HIM THE TREASURES BEST HIDDEN UNDER SPORTS AND AS OF COURSE YOUR HOUSE HAD THE SECRET PANEL WHICH HIS HAD NOT + HE GOT IT UP AND PUSHED HIS TREASURES AS FAR IN AS HE COULD ALONG THE ROUGH CRAMLY SURFACE OF THE LASS AND PLASTER + WHEN DICKIE CAME DOWN HIS AUNT'S SIDE HE SLEPT HIM AND HE TOOK THE HALFPENNY AND LIMPED OFF OBEDIENTLY + HE HAD NEVER SEEN ONE BEFORE AND IT INTERESTED HIM EXTREMELY + HE LOOKED ABOUT HIM AND KNEW THAT HE DID NOT AT ALL KNOW WHERE HE WAS + WHAT'S THAT MAITIE LOST YOUR WAY DICKIE EXPLAINED + WHEN HE SAID HAVE I BEEN ASLEEP + HERE WE ARE SAID THE MAN + NOT EXACTLY SAID THE MAN BUT IT'S ALL RIGHT + WHEN IT WAS OVER THE MAN ASKED DICKIE IF HE COULD WALK A LITTLE WAY AND WHEN DICKY SAID HE COULD THEY SET OUT IN THE MOST FRIENDLY WAY SIDE BY SIDE + AND THE TYRANNAL AND THE EGG + AND THIS IS THE PRETTIEST PLACE EVER I SEE + I SHALL CATCH IT A FAIR TREAT AS IT IS + SHE WAS WAITIN FOR THE WOOD TO BOIL THE KETTLE WHEN I COME OUT MOTHER + AND BAD WHEN SHE IS IN A GOOD TEMPER + THAT ANN BUT YOU'LL BE IN WHEN YOU GETS BACK + I GOT A STICKERT SAID DICKY SADLY I'D BEST BE GETTING HOME + I WOULDN'T GO HOME NOT IF THERE WAS YOU SAID THE MAN + NO SAID DICKIE OH NO NO I NEVER + I HEARD A DEAR HAVE I LIKE WHICH I AM TOO + WELL THOU SHOW YOU A SORT OF MAN I AM + THE MAN'S MANNER WAS SO KIND AND HEARTY THE WHOLE ADVENTURE WAS SO WONDERFUL ANEW IS IT COUNTRY WHERE YOU'RE GOING + THE SUN SHOT LONG GOLDEN BEAMS THROUGH THE GAPS ON THE HEDGE + A BIRD PASSED IN ITS FLIGHT ON A BRANCH QUITE CLOSE AND CLUNG THERE SWAYING + HE TOOK OUT OF HIS POCKET IN YOUR ENVELOPE A NEW SHEET OF PAPER AND A NEW PENCIL READY SHARPENED BY MACHINERY + AND I ASK YOU LET ME COME ALONG ARE YOU GOT THAT + KATISH WERE DOWN THEN TOM + THEN HE FOLDED IT AND PUT IT IN HIS POCKET + NOW HE'S QUEER HE SAID + THEY COULD PUT A MEN AWAY FOR LESS THAN THAT + I SEE THAT THEN A BOOK SAID DICKET CHARMED + HE REWARD THE WAKE THE LOSS OF THE ENGLISH AND I WON AT WHAT IT SOUGHT FOR + WHITE ONES AND A HALF SIZE ALI + ADVENTURES I SHOULD THINK SO + AH SAID DICKY AND A FOOT SILENCE FELL BETWEEN THEM + IT WAS CHARMING BUT IT WAS PLEASANT TOO TO WASH THE MATTER OF ON THE WET GRASS + DICKY ALWAYS REMEMBERED THAT MOMENT + SO YOU SHALL SAID MISTER BEALE A REG'LAR WASH ALL OVER THIS VERY NIGHT I ALWAYS LIKE A WASH MESELF + SOME BLOWS THINK IT PAYS TO BE DIRTY BUT IT DON'T + IF YOU'RE CLEAN THEY SAY HONEST POVERTY AND IF YOU'RE DIRTY THEY SAY SERVE YOU RIGHT + YOU ARE GOOD SAID DICKIE I DO LIKE YOU + I KNOW YOU WILL SAID DICKIE WAS ENTHUSIASM I KNOW HOW GOOD YOU ARE + BLESS ME SAID MISTER BEALE UNCOMFORTABLY WELL THERE + STOP OUT HONEY OR WE NEVER GET THERE THIS SORT OF CHRISTMAS + WELL YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT IT PRESENTLY + THE SINGING AND LAUGHING WHEN JOHN LONG AFTER HE HAD FALLEN ASLEEP AND IF LATER IN THE EVENING THERE WERE LOUD VOICED ARGUMENTS OR QUARRELS EVEN DICKIE DID NOT HEAR THEM + WHAT'S ON THAT THERE DICKIE ASKED POINTING TO THE ODD NOBLY BUNDLES OF ALL SORTS AND SHAPES TIED ONTO THE PERAMBULATOR'S FRONT + TELL YOUR WATCHMAID LOOKS TO ME AS IF I TOOK A FANCY TO YOU + SWABBE ME HE SAID HELPLESSLY + OH LOOK SAID DICKY THE FLOWERS + THEY ARE ONLY WEEDS SAID BEALE + BUT I SHALL HAVE THEM WHY THEY ARE ALIVE SAID DICKY AS HE HAD SAID TO THE PONDBROKER BUT THE MOON FLOWS + AY THERE GOES A RABBIT + SEEM CROSS THE ROAD THERE SEE EM + HOW BEAUTIFUL SAID DICKIE REDDLING WITH DELIGHT + THIS LIFE OF THE RABBIT AS DESCRIBED BY MISTER BEALE WAS THE CHILD'S FIRST GLIMPSE OF FREEDOM I'D LIKE TO BE A RABBIT + HOW AM I TO WE ARE THE ROOM AND PRAM IF YOU GO SIDE AS IF YOU WAS A PECK OF FIELDS + I LIKE YOU NEXT TO MY OWN DADDY AND MISTER BEX THE NEXT DOOR + THAT'S ALL RIGHT SAID MISTER BELL AWKWARDLY + DICKY QUICK TO IMITATE TOUCHED HIS + POOR LITTLE MAN SAID THE LADY YOU MISS YOUR MOTHER DON'T YOU + OH WELL DONE LITTLE ONCE SAID MISTER BEAUCHAMP HIMSELF + THE TWO TRAVELLERS WERE LEFT FACING EACH OTHER THE RICHER BY A PENNY AND OH WONDERFUL FOR GOOD FORTUNE A WHOLE HALF CROWN + NO I NEVER SAID DICKIE YES THE STEAMER + YOU STICK TO THAT SAID BEER RADIANT WAS DELIGHT YOUR AFFAIR MASTERPIECE YOU ARE YOU AND IT HONEST IF EVER KID DONE + THEY WENT ON UP THE HILL AS HAPPY AS ANY ONE NEED WISH TO BE + PLEASE DON'T BE TOO SHOCKED + REMEMBER THAT NEITHER OF THEM KNEW ANY BETTER + TO THE ALI TRAMP LIES IN PEGGING WHERE NATURAL MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD + BUT YOU SAID THE BAD WIST THE GREEN CURTAINS URGED DICKIE + WHICH THIS END NOT BY NO MEANS + THE NIGHT IS FULL OF INTERESTING LITTLE SOUNDS THAT WILL NOT AT FIRST LET YOU SLEEP THE RUSTLE OF LITTLE WHITE THINGS ON THE HATCHES THE BARKING OF DOGS IN DISTANT FARMS THE CHIRB OF CRICKETS AND THE CROAKING OF FROGS + THE NEW GAME OF BEGGING AND INVENTING STORIES TO INTEREST THE PEOPLE FROM WHOM IT WAS WORSE BAG WENT ON GAILY DAY BY DAY AND WEEK BY WEEK AND DICKIE BY CONSTANT PRACTICE GREW SO CLEVER TAKING HIS PART IN THE ACTING THAT MISTER BEE WAS QUITE DAZED WITH ADMIRATION + BLEST IF I EVER SEE SUCH A NIBBER HE SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN + CLEVER AS A TRAINED DOG EARS AND ALL OUT HIS OWN NET + I AM SURE AS I ADN'T BETTER STICK TO THE ROAD AND KEEP AWAY FROM OLD ENDS LIKE EUGENE + I HOPE HE IS CLEVER ENOUGH TO DO WHAT IS TOLD HE WAS MAXIBBED THAT'S ALL + IF HE'S STRAIGHT HE'LL DO FOR ME AND IF HE'D I'LL DO FOR HIM SEE + SEE THAT LOKES NOW SAID MISTER BEAURE YES SAID DICKIE + WELL YO NEVER SEE HIM + IF ANY ONE ASKS YOU IF YOU EVER SEE HIM YOU NEVER SET EYES ON HIM IN ALL YOU'RE BORN NOT TO REMEMBER + DICKIE WAS FULL OF QUESTIONS BUT MISTER BHAER HAD NO ANSWERS FOR THEM + NOR WAS IT SUNDAY ON WHICH THEY TOOK A REST AND WASHED THEIR SHIRTS ACCORDING TO MISTER BEALE'S RULE OF LIFE + THEY DID NOT STAY THERE BUT WALKED OUT ACROSS THE DOWNS WHERE THE SKYLACKS WERE SINGING AND ON A DIP OF THE DOWNS CAME UPON GREAT STONE WALLS AND TOWERS WERE STRONG AND GREY + WHAT'S THAT THERE SAID DICKIE + REPLIED HE OF A TRUTH I HEARD HIM NOT AND I WOT HIM NOT AN FOLKS ARE ALL SLEEPING + BUT SHE SAID WHOMSOEVER THOU SEEST AWAKE HE IS THE RECITER + THEN SAID THE EUNUCH ART THOU HE WHO REPEATED POETRY BUT NOW AND MY LADY HEARD HIM + REJOINED THE EUNUCH WHO THEN WAS THE RECITER POINT HIM OUT TO ME + BY ALLAH REPLIED THE FIREMAN I TELL THEE THE TRUTH + TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED QUOTH ALAMACAN + WHAT AILS THEE THEN THAT THOU MUST NEEDS RECITE VERSES SEEING THAT WE ARE TIRED OUT WITH WALKING AND WATCHING AND ALL THE FOG ARE ASLEEP FOR THEY REQUIRE SLEEP TO REST THEM OF THEIR FATIGUE + AND HE ALSO IMPROVISED THE TWO FOLLOWING DIS DITCH + WHEN NUSART ALZAMAN HEARD THE FIRST IMPROVISATION SHE CALLED TO MIND HER FATHER AND HER MOTHER AND HER BROTHER AND THERE WILL OWN HOME THEN SHE WEPT AND CRIED TO THE EUNUCH AND SAID TO HIM WOE TO THEE + HE WHO RECITED THE FIRST TIME HATH RECITED A SECOND TIME AND I HEARD HIM HARD BY + BY ALLAH AN THOU FETCH HIM NOT TO ME I WILL ASSUREDLY ROUSE THE CHAMBERLAIN ON THEE AND HE SHALL BEAT THEE AND CAST THEE OUT + BUT TAKE THESE HUNDRED DINNERS AND GIVE THEM TO THE SINGER AND BRING HIM TO ME GENTLY AND DO HIM NO HURT + RETURNED QUICKLY AND LINGER NOT + WHEN IT WAS THE SEVENTY THIRD NIGHT + BUT THE EUNUCH SAID I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE TILL THOU SHOW ME WHO IT WAS THAT RECITED THE VERSES FOR I DREAD RETURNING TO MY LADY WITHOUT HIM + NOW WHEN THE FIREMAN HEARD THESE WORDS HE FEARED FOR ZAU AL MAKAN AND WEPT WITH EXCEEDING WEEPING AND SAID TO THE EUNUCH BY ALLAH IT WAS NOT I AND I KNOW HIM NOT + SO GO THOU TO THY STATION AND IF THOU GAVE ME TO ANY ONE AFTER THIS HOUR RECITING AUGHT OF POETRY WHETHER HE BE NEAR OR FAR IT WILL BE I OR SOME ONE I KNOW AND THOU SHALT NOT LEARN OF HIM BUT BY ME + THEN HE KISSED THE UNUNUT'S HEAD AND SPAKE HIM FAIR TILL HE WENT AWAY BUT A CASTRATO FETCHED AROUND AND RETURNING SECRETLY CAME AND STOOD BEHIND THE FIREMEN FEARING TO GO BACK TO HIS MISTRESS WITHOUT TIDINGS + I SAY WHAT MADE MY IGNOMY WHATEVER THE BEATER CUP I DRAIN FAR BE FROM ME THE LAND TO FLEE NOR WILL I BOW TO THOSE WHO BLAME AND FOR SUCH LOVE WOULD DEAL ME SHAME + THEN SAID THE EUNUCH TO ZAU AL MAKAN PIE WITH THEE O MY LORD + O MY LORD CONTINUED THE EUNUCH AND SHAHRAZAD PERCEIVED THE DAWN OF DAY AND CEASED TO SAY HER PERMITTED SAY + WE WILL DO THEE NO UPRIGHT O MY SON NOR WRONG THEE IN AUGHT BUT OUR OBJECT IS THAT THOU BEND THY GRACIOUS STEPS WITH ME TO MY MISTRESS TO RECEIVE HER ANSWER AND RETURNING WEAL AND SAFETY AND THOU SHALT HAVE A HANDSOME PRESENT AS ONE WHO BRINGETH GOOD NEWS + THEN THE EUNUCH WENT OUT TO ZAL MACAN AND SAID TO HIM RECITE WHAT VERSEST THOU KNOWEST FOR MY LADIES HERE HARD BY LISTENING TO THEE AND AFTER I WILL ASK THEE OF THY NAME AND THY NATIVE COUNTRY AND THY CONDITION + AND ALSO THESE + THEN SHE THREW HERSELF UPON HIM AND HE GATHERED HER TO HIS BOSOM AND THE TWAIN FELL DOWN IN A FAINTING FIT + WHEN THE EUNUCHS SAW THIS CASE HE WANDERED AT THEM AND THROWING OVER THEM SOMEWHAT TO COVER THEM WAITED TILL THEY SHOULD RECOVER + AFTER A WHILE THEY CAME TO THEMSELVES AND NUZAT AL ZAMAN REJOICED WITH EXCEEDING JOY OPPRESSION AND DEPRESSION LEFT HER AND GLADNESS TOOK THE MASTERY OF HER AND SHE REPEATED THESE VERSES + ACCORDINGLY SHE TOLD HIM ALL THAT HAD COME TO HER SINCE THEIR SEPARATION AT THE KHAN AND WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HER WITH A BADAWI HOW THE MERCHANT HAD BOUGHT HER OF HIM AND HAD TAKEN HER TO HER BROTHER SHARRKAN AND HAD SOLD HER TO HIM HOW HE HAD FREED HER AT THE TIME OF BUYING HOW HE HAD MADE THEIR MARRIAGE CONTRACT WITH HER AND HAD GONE IN TO HER AND HOW THE KING THERE SIRE HAD SENT AND ASKED FOR HER FROM SHARKAN + BUT NOW GO TO THY MASTER AND BRING HIM QUICKLY TO ME + THE CHAMBERLAT CALLED CASTRATO AND CHARGED HIM TO DO ACCORDINGLY SO HE REPLIED I HEAR AND I OBEY AND HE TOOK HIS PAGES WITH HIM AND WENT OUT IN SEARCH OF THE STALKER TILL HE FOUND HIM IN THE REAR OF THE CARAVAN GIRDING HIS ASS AND PREPARING FOR FLIGHT + SHE SAID IT HATH REACHED ME O AUSPICIOUS KING THAT WHEN THE STALKER GIRTED HIS ASS FOR FLIGHT AND BESPAKE HIMSELF SAYING OH WOULD I KNEW WHAT IS BECOME OF HIM + I BELIEVE HE HATH DENOUNCED ME TO THE EUNUCH HENCE THESE PAGES AT ABOUT ME AND HE HATH MADE ME AN ACCOMPLICE IN HIS CRIME + WHY DIDST THOU SAY I NEVER REPEATED THESE COUPLETS NOR DO I KNOW WHO REPEATED THEM WHEN IT WAS IT THY COMPANION + BUT NOW I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE BETWEEN THIS PLACE AND BACK THAT AND WHAT BETIDE THY COMRADE SHALL BETIDE THEE + TWAS AS I FEARED THE COMMUNALS DISCERNING BUT UNTO ALLAH WE ARE ALL RETURNING + THEN THE EUNUCH CRIED UPON YOU THE PAGES SAYING TAKE HIM OFF THE ASS + AND HE ANSWERED I AM THE CHAMBERLAIN OF THE MERE OF DAMASCUS KING SHARRKAN SUNGOVAR BIN AL NEWMAN LORD OF WADDAD AND OF THE LAND OF KHORASAN AND I BRING TRIBUTE AND PRESENTS FROM HIM TO HIS FATHER IN BAGDAD + SO FAIRIE FORWARDS NO HARM SHALL BEFALL YOU TILL YOU JOIN HIS GRAND WAZIR THAN DONE + THEN HE BADE HIM BE SEATED AND QUESTIONED HIM AND HE REPLIED THAT HE WAS CHAMBERLAIN TO THE AMIR OF DAMASCUS AND WAS BOUND TO KING AMAR WITH PRESENTS AND THE TRIBUTE OF SYRIA + SO IT WAS AGREED THAT WE GO TO DAMASCUS AND FETCH THENCE THE KING'S SON SHARRKAN AND MAY CAME SULTAN OVER HIS FATHER'S REALM + AND AMONGST THEM WERE SOME WHO WOULD HAVE CHOSEN THE CADET ZAWAN FOR QUOTH THEY HIS NAME BE LIGHT OF THE PLACE AND HE HATH A SISTER NUZHAT ALZAMAN HIGHS THE DELIGHT OF THE TIME BUT THEY SET OUT FIVE YEARS AGO FOR ALHIGE JAS AND NONE WOTTETH WHAT IS BECOME OF THEM + SO HE TURNED TO THE WAZIR THEN DONE AND SAID TO HIM VERILY YOUR TALE IS A WONDER OF WONDERS + KNOW O CHIEF WAS EAR THAT HERE WHERE YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED ME ALLAH HATH GIVEN YOU REST FROM FATIGUE AND BRINGETH YOU YOUR DESIRE AFTER THE EASIEST OF FASHIONS FOR LET HIS ALMIGHTY WILL RESTORE IT TO YOU ZAH MAKAN AND HIS SISTER NUSART ALZAMAN WHEREBY WE WILL SETTLE THE MATTER AS WE EASILY CAN + WHEN THE MINISTER HEARD THESE WORDS HE REJOICED WITH GREAT JOY AND SAID O CHAMBERLAIN TELL ME THE TALE OF THE TWAIN AND WHAT BEFELL THEM AND THE CAUSE OF THEIR LONG ABSENCE + ZAHMA COUNT HIS HEAD AWHILE AND THEN SAID I ACCEPT THE POSITION FOR INDEED THERE WAS NO REFUSING AND HE WAS CERTIFIED THAT THE CHAMBERLAIN HAD COUNSELLED HIM WELL AND WISELY AND SET HIM ON THE RIGHT WAY + THEN HE ADDED O MY UNCLE HOW SHALL I DO WITH MY BROTHER SHARRKAN + AFTER A WHILE THE DUST DISPERSED AND THERE APPEARED UNDER IT THE ARMY OF BAGDAD AND KHORASAN A CONQUERING HOST LIKE THE POOL TIDE SEA AND SHAHRAZAD PERCEIVED THE DAWN OF DAY AND CEASED TO SAY HER PERMITTED SAY + WHEN IT WAS THE SEVENTEENTH NIGHT + AND IN IT OR REJOICED AT THE SESSION OF THE LIGHT OF THE PLACE + LASTLY THE MINISTER WENT IN AND KISSED THE GROUND BEFORE ZALMAKAN WHO ROSE TO MEET HIM SAYING WELCOME O WAZIR AND SIRE'S SONSPIERRE + MOREOVER THE SULTAN COMMANDED HIS WAZIR DUNDONE COAL AT TEN DAYS HALT OF THE ARMY THAT HE MIGHT BE PRIVATE WITH HIM AND LEARN FROM HIM HOW AND WHEREFORE HIS FATHER HAD BEEN SLAIN + HE THEN REPAIRED TO THE HEART OF THE ENCAMPMENT AND ORDERED THE HOST TO HALT TEN DAYS + WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME + HE ASKED HIMSELF SOMETHING WRONG AND LIVING QUICKEN AT ME IT MUST BE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD + WHEN HOWEVER THE TWO STRUT WAS QUITE NIGH AND TO THEM THEN DID HE HEAR PLAINLY WITH HUMAN VOICE BIG IN THE MIDST OF THE KIND AND APPARENTLY ALL OF THEM HAD TURNED THEIR HEADS TOWARD THE SPEAKER + BUT DO I HEAR + ANSWERED HE THE SAME THAT THOU SEEKEST THOU MISCHIEVOUS MAKER THAT IS TO SAY HAPPINESS UPON EARTH + FOR I TELL THEE THAT I HAVE ALREADY TALKED HALF A MORNING UNTO THEM AND JUST NOW WERE THEY ABOUT TO GIVE ME ANSWER + HE WOULD NOT BE RID OF HIS AFFLICIAN + WHO HATH NOT AT PRESENT HIS HEART HIS MOUTH AND HIS EYES FULL OF DISGUST + THOU ALSO THOU ALSO + BUT BEHOLD THIS KIND + THE KIND HOWEVER GAZED AT IT ALL AND WONDERED + WANTON ADITY BILIOUS ENVY CAME ON THE REVENGE POPULOUS PRIDE ALL THIS STRUCK MINE EYE + IT IS NO LONGER TRUE NOR THE POOR OUTBELLAST + THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN HOWEVER IS WITH THE KIND AND WISE IT NOT WITH A RICH + WHY THOUST THOU TEMPT ME + AND SO TO ADD HER + THOU KNOWEST IT THYSELF BETTER EVEN THAN I + THUS BIG THE PEACEFUL ONE AND PUFFED HIMSELF AND POSTPIED WITH HIS WORDS FOR IN THE KIND WONDERED ANEW + THOU DOEST VOWS TO THYSELF THOU PREACHER ON THE MOUNT AND THOU USEST SUCH SAVOUR WOODS + THEY ALSO ABSTAIN FROM ALL HEAVY THOUGHTS WHICH INFLIVED THEIR HEART +WELL + SAID ZARTOUSTRA THOU SHOULDST ALSO SAY MY ANIMALS MINE EAGLE AND MY SERPENT THEIR LIKE DO NOT AT PRESENT EXIST ON EARTH + AND TALKED TO MIND ANIMALS OF THE HAPPINESS OF ANIMALS + NOW HOWEVER TAKE LEAVE OF THAT KIND THOU STRANGE ONE + THOU AMIABLE ONE + FOR THEY ARE THY WARMEST FRIENDS AND PERCEPTORS + THOU AVISATURE + WHITHER HAD MY LONESOMENESS CALM SPAKE HE + MY SHADOW CALLETH ME + WHAT MATTER ABOUT MY SHADOW + LET IT TURN AFTER ME I RAN AWAY FROM IT + THUS SPAKE THEIR TOO STRAIGHT TO HIS HEART AND RAN AWAY + VERILY MY FOLLY HATH GROWN BIG IN THE MOUNTAINS + NOW DO I HEAL SIX OLD FOOD'S LEGS RATTLING BEHIND ONE ANOTHER + BUT DOT ZARATHUSTRA NEED TO BE FRIGHTENED BY A SHADOW + ALSO METHINKETH THAT AFTER ALL IT HATH LONG O'ERS IN MINE + WHO WHEN THEIR TWO DRESSCUTANISED HIM WITH HIS GLANCE HE WAS FRIGHTENED AS BY A CERTAIN APPARITION SO SLENDER SWARTHY HOLLOW AND WORN OUT DID HIS FOLLOWER APPEAR + ASKED REVOLUTION HE WHAT DOEST HAVE HERE + AND WHY CALL'D THOU THYSELF MY SHADOW + THOU ART NOT PLEASING INTO ME + MUST I EVER BE ON THE WAY + AWARD THOU HAST BECOME TO ROUN FOR ME + WHEN THE DEVIL CASTETH HIS SKIN DOTH NOT HIS NAME ALSO FALL AWAY IT IS ALSO SKINNED + THE DEVIL HIMSELF IS PERHAPS SKIN + SOMETIMES I MEANT TO LIE AND BEHOLD + THEN ALL LATE DID I HIT THAT TRUTH + HOW HAVE I STEALTH INTONATION + AND I STOOD A GIRL + I HAVEN'T DOORS WHICH MY SAILORS SET + FOR IT TOO I ASKED AND SEEK AND HAVE THOUGHT BUT HAVE NOT FOUND IT + WHO ETERNAL IN VAIN + THOU ART MY SHADOW + SAID HE AT LAST SADLY + THY DANGER IF HURTSWALL THOU FREE SPIRIT AND WONDER + THEY SLEEP QUIETLY THEY ENJOYED THE USE DIRTY + BEWARE LEST IN THE END A NARROW FAITH CAPTURED THEE A HARD REGRESS ILLUSION + FOR THOU EVERYTHING THAT IS NARROW AND FIXED SEDUCETH AND TEMPTETH THEE + THOU HAST LOST THY GOLD + THOU POOR ROVER AND RAMBLER NOW TIRED PUT TO FLY + WILT THOU HAVE A REST AND A HOME THIS EVENING + ONCE UPON A TIME A BRAHMIN WHO WAS WALKING ALONG THE ROAD CAME UPON AN IRON CAGE IN WHICH A GREAT TIGER HAD BEEN SHUT UP BY THE VILLAGES WHO CAUGHT HIM + THE BRAHMAN ANSWERED NO I WILL NOT FOR IF I LET YOU OUT OF THE CAGE YOU WILL EAT ME + O FATHER OF MERCY ANSWERED THE TIGER IN TRUTH THAT I WILL NOT + I WILL NEVER BE SO UNGRATEFUL ONLY LET ME OUT THAT I MAY DRINK SOME WATER AND RETURN + AND THEN THE BRAHMAN TOOK PITY ON HIM AND OPENED THE CAGE DOOR BUT NO SOONER HAD HE TURNED SO THAN THE TIGER JUMPING OUT SAID HOW I WILL EAT YOU FIRST AND DRINK THE WATER AFTERWARDS + SO THE BRAHMIN AND THE TIGER WALKED ON TILL THEY CAME TO A BANTON TREE AND THE BRAHMIN SAID TO IT BANYANTRY VANISHEDREY HERE AND GIVE JUDGMENT + ON WHAT MUST I DO JUDGMENT ASKED THE BEN TREE + THE TIGER SAID DE BRAMIN BEGGED ME TO LET HIM OUT OF HIS CAGE TO DRINK A LITTLE WATER AND HE PROMISED NOT TO HOLD ME IF I DID SO BUT NOW THAT I HAVE LEFT HIM OUT HE WISHES TO EAT ME + IT'S A JEALOUS THAT HE SHOULD DO SO OR NO + LET THE TIGER EAT THE MAN FOR MEN ARE AN UNGRATEFUL RACE + SIR CAMEL SIR CAMEL CRIED THE BRAHMAN HERE AND GIVE JUDGMENT + AT A LITTLE DISTANCE THEY FOUND A BULLOCK LYING BY THE ROADSIDE + IS IT FAIR THAT HE SHOULD DO SO OR NOT + LET THE TYRE EAT THE MAN FOR MEN HAVE NO PITY + THREE OUT OF THE SIX AND CAME JUDGMENT AGAINST THE BRAMMAN BUT STILL HE DID NOT LOSE ALL HOPE AND TO TURN MIND TO ASK THE OTHER THREE + ON WHAT MUST I GIVE JUDGMENT ASKED THE EAGLE + THE BRAHMAN SUITED THE CASE AND THE EAGLE ANSWERED WHENEVER MEN SEE ME THEY TRY TO SHOOT ME THEY CLIMB THE ROCKS AND STEAL AWAY MY LITTLE ONES + THEN THE TIGER BEGAN TO ROAR AND SAID JUDGMENT OF ALL IS AGAINST YOU OF BRAHMAN + AFTER THIS THEY SAW AN ALLIGATOR AND THE BRAMBLE RELATED THE MATTER TO HIM WHO BEING FOR A MORE FAVOURABLE VERDICT + WITH THE ALEGARE TO SIT WHENEVER I PUT MY NOSE OUT OF THE WATER MEANTIME TOM AND ME AND TRIED TO KILL ME + THE BRAHMIN GAVE HIMSELF UP AS LOST BUT AGAIN HE PRAYED THE TIGER TO HAVE PATIENCE AND LET HIM ASK THE OPINION OF THE SIXTH JUDGE + AND THE SIXTH WAS A JACKAL + THE BRAHMAN TOLD HIS STORY AND SAID TO HIM UNCLE JACKO AND WILL JACKO SAY WHAT IS YOUR JUDGMENT + SHOW ME THE PACE + AND THE COURT THERE THE JACKAL SAID NAB BRAHMAN SHOW ME EXACTLY WHERE YOU STOOD + EXACTLY THERE WAS THAT ASKED JAKO + EXACTLY HERE REPLIED THE PROMEN + WHERE WAS THE TIE OF DEN + WHY I STOOD SO SAID THE DRIVER JUMPING INTO THE CAGE AND MY HEAD WAS ON THE SIDE + VERY GOOD SAID TO JEKYLL BUT I CANNOT JUDGE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE WHOLE MATTER EXACTLY + SHUT AND BOLTED SAID THE BRAHMIN + THEN SHERD ENVULGE IT SAID THE JACKAL + WHEN THE BRAHMAN HAD TURNED THIS THE JACKAL SAID UGH YOU WICKED AND UNGRATEFUL TIGER + WHEN A GOOD BRAHMAN OPENED YOUR CARE TO HER IS TO EAT HIM THE ONLY RETURN HE WOULD MAKE + PROCEED ON YOUR JOURNEY PRINCE BRAHMAN + YOUR ROAD LIES THAT WAY IN MIND THIS + AND THUS ACCOMPLISHED HE EXCITED THE ADMIRATION OF EVERY SILLY CROCKET AND THE ENVY OF EVERY REFLECTING PORCOMBE BUT BY ALL YOUNG GENTLEMEN IN LADIES OF UNDERSTANDING HE WAS HEARTILY DESPISED AS A MERE CIVILIZED MONKEY + THAT HIS SOUL MIGHT AFTERWARDS OCCUPY SUCH AS STATION AS WOULD BE MOST SUITABLE TO HIS CHARACTER IT WAS INTENSE TO INHABIT THE BODY OF THAT FINICAL GRINNING AND MICHELE WAS LITTLE MIMIC WITH FOUR LEGS WHICH YOU NOW BEHOLD BEFORE YOU + THE MOSES WAS AFRAID AND SAID SURELY THE THING IS KNOWN + OR ON HER FACTS HOLD OUT PATSANCE HIS GENIUS + LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MATRON MIGHT AND IN THAT FAITH THAT'S THERE TO DO OUR DUTY IF YOU UNDERSTAND IT LINCOLN + THE EGYPTIAN BACKGROUND OF THE BONDAGE + EVERY ONE WHOSE TREMOR HAS BEEN FOUND BANKY MARNETTE PATH THE TESTIMONY OF THE OLDEST BIBLICAL NARRATIVES REGARDING THE SOJOURN OF THE HEBREWS IN EGYPT IS ALSO IN PERFECT ACCORD WITH THE PICTURE WHICH THE CONTEMPORARY EGYPTIAN SCRUTINY GIVE OF THE PERIOD + THE ABSENCE OF THE DETAILED REVERENCE TO THE HEBREWS IS THEREFORE PERFIDRY NATURAL + IT SEEMS PROBABLE THAT NOT ALL BUT ONLY POINT THAT TRANSITS OUGHT TO MEET CAUBETTES INTO THE HEBREW NATION FOUND THEIR WAY TO EGYPT + THE STORIES REGARDING JOSEPH THERE ARE PRODUCED NO FARTHER THAT FROM IN MENHAZ SAY INCLINE THAT THESE STRONG CENTRAL TRIUMPHS POSSIBLY WITH THE SOUTHERN TIMES OF BENJAMIN IN JUDAH WERE THE CHIEF FACTORS OF ITS OPENING SEEN IN ISRAEL HISTORY + THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVES APPARENTLY DISAGREE REGARDING THE DEISSION OF THE SOJOURN IN EGYPT + THE LATER JUDAS INTRY STEMMED THE PERIOD + HE WERE FOUND SEVERAL INSCRIPTIONS BEARING THE EGYPTIAN NAME OF THE CITY PATUM OUTSIDE THE GOD ATOM + A CONTEMPORARY INSCRIPTS IN ANSWER STATES THAT HE FOUND A NEAR PITTAM THE HOUSE OF RAMESES A CITY WITH THE ROYAL RESIDENCE AND TEMPLES + THAT THE HEBREWS WERE RATS OF UNDER THE SURMIT WAS NATURALLY INEVITABLE + WAS ANY OTHER PROCEDURE TO BE SPECTRE FROM IT THAT SPONIC ROAR OF THAT LAND AND BAY + THE MAKING OF A LOYAL PATRIOT + THE STORY OF MOSES IS BIRTH IN EVERY CHILDHOOD IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING CHAPTERS IN BIBLICAL HISTORY + WIZ IT JUST FINDIN RESENTS INDEED MASTER + ITS OPINIONS ALWAYS DISAGREATES NOT OWING TO ITS VICTIMS BUT ALSO TO THE GOVERNMENT IMPOSING THAT + NATURALLY HE WENT TO THE LAND OF MEDIUM + THE WILDERNESS TO THE EAST OF EGYPT AND FOR CENTURIES BEEN THE PLATES OF REFUGE FOR EGYPTIAN FUGITIVES + FROM ABOUT TWO THOUSAND B C + ON THE BORDERS OF THE WILDERNESS HE FOUND CERTAIN BEDOWING HERDSMAN WHO RECEIVED HIM HATITABLY + THESE LEARNED WANDERERS SENT HIM ON FROM TIME TO TIME TO REACH THE LAND OF KIDAM EACH OF THE DEAD SEA WHERE HE REMAINED FOR A YEAR AND HALF + LATER HE FOUND HIS WAY TO THE COURT OF ONE OF THE LOCAL KINGS AND CENTRAL PALESTINE WHERE HE MARRIED AND BECAME IN THE TIME A PRAN SPIRIT LOCAL PRINCE + THE SCORE OF THE WEARINESS + THE STORY MOSES IS IN MANY WAYS COUCHED THROUGH PARALLEL TO THAT SINUATE + THE PRIEST OF THE SUB TRIBE OF THE CANITES RECEIVED HIM INTO HIS HOME AND GAVE HIM HIS DAUGHTER AND MARRIAGE + NOTE THE CARE OF REVERS STATE ORIENT TO AND GIVE MARYS + HERE MOSES LEARN THAT LET'S THAT WERE ESSENTIAL FOR HIS TRAINING AS HIS LEADER TO DELIVER OF HIS PEOPLE + AFTER THE CAPTURE OF JERICHO CERTAIN OF THEM WENT UP WITH A SUDDEN TRIBE SUKONKIM PALESTINE + MANY MINOR AND GONERS DRAWING THE CONCLUSION FROM THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE THAT IT WAS FROM THE CONITES THAT MOSES FIRST LEARNED OF YAHWAY OR AS THE DISTINCTIVE NAME OF ISRAEL'S GOWN WAS TRANSLATED BY LATER JEWISH SCRIBES JEHOVAH + DO THE ARIOT SEABREITTZANS IMPLY THAT THE ANCESTORS OF THE ISRACH WERE WORSHIP OF JEHOVAH + THE TITLE OF HIS FUNDING IN LAW IMPLIES AT THIS PRIEST MEANS AT SOME GIVEN AT SANCTUARY + MOSES IN THE HOME OF THE MENDIAN PRIESTS WAS BROUGHT INTO DIRECT IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH THE JEHOVAH WORSHIP + THE CRUEL FATE OF HIS PEOPLE AND THE PAINFUL EXPERIENCE IN EGYPT THAT HAD DRIVEN HIM INTO THE WILDERNESS PREPARED HIS MIND TO RECEIVE ITS TRAINING + HIS PRESS WAS FOR A JUTS AND STRONG ON ABLE TO DIVER THE OPPRESSED + THE WILDERNESS WITH ITS LURKING FOES THE EVER PRESENT DREAD OF HUNGER AND THIRST DEEPENS OF NEED AND OF DEPENDENCE UPON THE POWER ABLE TO GUIDE THE DEBTS NEEDS OF MEN + THE PEASANTS OF THE VASE AND TOLINE OF CENTRAL ASA MINOR STILL CALL EVERY LIFE GIVEN SPRING GOD HATH GIVEN + THE CONSTANT NECESSITY A MEETING THE DANGERS OF THE WILDERNESS AND THE DEFENDING THE FLAPS ENTRUTTED GILMOS ITS CARE DEVELOPED HIS COURAGE AND POWER OF LEGISP AND ACTION + EVIDENTLY THE INTENSION WAS MADE THINGS PRESENT FOR THE ROYAL FOLK THE TOBACCO DURING HIS VISIT + THE PROVIDS IN THE REGULATING QUOTE AT A SMOKING AND SAINT MARY'S CHURCH REFERRED IT MAY BE NOTED TO THE ACT WHICH WAS HELD THEREIN + SOMETIMES TOBACCO IS USED IN CHURCH FOR DISINFECTANT NO DEODERIZING PURPOSES + BACKBURN ARCHBINTHS OF YORK WAS A GREAT SMOKER + ON ONE OCCASION HE WAS OUT SAINT MARY'S CHURCH NINE AND HAM FOR COME FROM MAITSON + ANOTHER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CLERICAL WORTHY THE FAMOUS TOUCH OFAR AN INVETERATE SMOKER WAS ACCUSTOMED TO DO ADMIT SIR DINIE PREVENTED ARCHBISHOP OF BLACKBURN FROM DOING HE SMOKED IN HIS VETERY AT HATTON + POOR WAS SUCH A CONTINUOUS SMOKER THAT ANY ONE WHO CAME INTO HIS COMPANY HE HAD NEVER SMOKED BEFORE AND TO EARN THE SUB PIPE AS A MEANS OF SELF DEFENCE + ONE SUNDAY SAYS MONSIEUR DITCHFIELD HE ENDED THAT SIR PIPE AND CHARTHER THE CLERK TOLD HIM THAT THE PEOPLE WERE GETTING IN PATIENT + THEM TO THEM SEEING NETHER PSALMS SAY TO THE CURATE + THEY HAVE SERVED THE CLERK + THEN LET THEM SING THE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH REPLIED THE CURATE + SIX ARMS THE NOTES WITHIN REACH PRESENTED WITH AN OBEDIENT START AND AS MANY TOBACCO PILATISTS TO THE MAN OF OFFICE + DAVID DEAN SEVER DENOT PROVE THIS IRREVERENCE + GOING TO CHURCH AT HAZE AND THOSE DAYS MUST HAVE BEEN IT QUITE AND HE'S SIGNING HIS SPIRITS + WHEN THESE MEN IN THE COURTS AMONG REMONSTRANCE FOUND OUT THAT WAS NOT GOING TO CONTINUE THE CHASM THEY NO LONGER CARED TO BE COMMUNICANTS + PAROCHTS IN THAT QUARTER WHERE USURED DISCRUTTED BY THE SCYPS IT IS TRUE BUT THE SEA IS FOR THEM FAR MORE ARE INNOCENT THAN ARE GUILTY OF ANY ACTS OF ON IT + NOW WHERE AFTER THE SUN HAD SET THE WIND FELL TURNED LIGHT AIR DOT JITZ KEPT STEERAGE WAY ON THE SHIP + FORTUNATELY THE JOHN WAS NOT ONLY FAT BUT SHE MINDED HER HELM AS THE LIGHT FOOTED GIRL TURNED TO THE LIVELY DANCE + I NEVER WAS IN A BETTER STEERING SIP POSTY SPETTERY AND MODERATE WEATHER + MISTER MARBLE HE OUGHT TO BELIEVE WAS FAIRLY S NOOSING ON THE HINCOOPS WE LIKED THE SAILS AS ONE MIGHT SAY VERY ASLEEP + AT THAT MOMENT I HEARD A NOISE WENT FOR MARY TO SEE MEN THAT OF AN OAR FALLING IN THE BOAT + I THINK IT SAIL HO IN CLOSE ABROAD + HE WAS JIMS OF A SEAMAN TO REQUIRE A SECOND LOOK IN ORDER TO ASCERTAIN BUT IT WAS TO BE DONE + ALTHOUGH THEY WENT THREE FEET TWO ARE TWO THIS GAVE US A MOMENT OF BREATHING TIME + AS OUR SEATS WERE OFF FLYING FORWARD AND REMAINED SO FOR A FEW MINUTES HE GAVE ME A LEADER TO LOOK ABOUT + I SOON SAW BOTH PRATTS IN GRUNTING UP WAS I SHOULD PERCEIVE THAT THEY HAD NOT APPROACHED MATERIALLY NEAR + BESSIAI OBSERVED IT SO IN REMARK THAT OUR MOVEMENTS HAD BEEN SO PROMPT AS TO TAKE THE REST WAS ABACK + A PREFIX STILLNESS SUCCEEDED + THE POETS DID NOT ANSWER THE CORPSE BUT NEAR THAT'S FAST + I HEARD THE RIDING OF THE BOARDING PINTS TOO AS THEY WERE CUT ADRIFT FROM THE SPANKER BOOM AND FELL UPON THE DECKS + KITE WENT AFT AND RETURNED WITH THREE OR FOUR MUSKETS AND AS MANY PIKES + THE STILL KNITTED RING ON BOTH SIDES WAS LIKE THAT OF DEATH + THE GIANT BEHAVED BEAUTIFUL FREE HE CAME ROUND LIKE A TART + THE QUESTION WAS NOW WHETHER WE COULD PASS THEM OR NOT BEFORE THEY GOT NEARING UP TO GRAN'PA + THE CAPTAIN BEHAVED PERFIATORY AWAY WITH ITS CRITICAL INCIDENT COMMANDING A DEAD SIGN IT'S IN THE CLOSET'S SENTENCE INTO HIS ORDERS + NOW SO ON BOARD THE JOHN WAS HEART + WHEN OR SIGN WE GAVE THE GEN'LEMEN THE FOUR SEEKSES TO END THE NEWS AND TWO AT THE STERNMOST PROVO WHICH WAS STILL NEAR A CABLE'S LENGTH LIT SENT + THEY WERE LIKE THE YELLS OF FIEND IN ENGLAND + AND OUT IF WE TOUCH THE MEN IN THE NEAR SPRAY + LET STAKE THE SHIP PARTS THE HEAD ARE OF HER CANVAS BEEN FOR LEAVING THE PROXUNATES IN HER WAKE + THEY SWARMED UP IN FRONT OF SHERBURN'S PALINGS AS THICK AS THEY COULD JAM TOGETHER AN YOU COULDN'T HEAR YOURSELF THINK FOR THE NOISE + SOME SUNG OUT TEAR DOWN THE FENCE TEAR DOWN THE FENCE + THE STILLNESS WAS AWFUL CREEPY AND UNCOMFORTABLE + SHIRBAN RUN HIS EYES SLOW ALONG THE CROWD AND WHEREVER IT STRUCK THE PEOPLE TRIED A LITTLE TO OUT GAZE HIM BUT THEY COULDN'T THEY DROPPED THEIR EYES AND LOOKED SNEAKY + THE AVERAGE MAN'S A COWARD + BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID THE MAN'S FRIENDS WILL SHOOT THEM IN THE BACK IN THE DARK AND IT'S JUST WHAT THEY WOULD DO + SO THEY ALWAYS ACQUIT AND THEN A MAN GOES IN THE NIGHT WITH A HUNDRED MAST COWARDS AT HIS BACK AND LYNCHES THE RASCAL + YOU DIDN'T WANT TO COME + BUT A MOB WITHOUT ANY MAN AT THE HEAD OF IT IS BENEATH PITIFULNESS + NOW LEAVE AND TAKE YOUR HALF A MAN WITH YOU TOSSING HIS GUN UP ACROSS HIS LEFT ARM AND COCKING IT WHEN HE SAYS THIS + THE CROWD WASHED BACK SUDDEN AND THEN BROKE ALL APART AND WENT TEARING OFF EVERY WHICH WAY AND BUCK HEARTLESS HE HEALED IT AFTER THEM LOOKING TOLERABLE CHEEK + YOU CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL + THEY ARGUED AND TRIED TO KEEP HIM OUT BUT HE WOULDN'T LISTEN AND THE WHOLE SHOW COME TO HIS FANS DO + AND ONE OR TWO WOMEN BEGIN TO SCREAM + SO THEN THE RING MASTER HE MADE A LITTLE SPEECH AND SAID HE HOPED THERE WOULDN'T BE NO DISTURBANCE AND IF THE MAN WOULD PROMISE HE WOULDN'T MAKE NO MORE TROUBLE HE WOULD LET HIM RIDE IF HE THOUGHT HE COULD STAY ON THE HORSE + IT WARN'T FUNNY TO ME THOUGH I WAS ALL OF A TREMBLE TO SEE HIS DANGER + AN A HORSE O GOIN LIKE A HOUSE A FIRE TOO + HE SHED HIM SO THICK A KIND OF CLOGGED UP THE AIR AND ALTOGETHER HE SHED SEVENTEEN SUITS + WHY IT WAS ONE OF HIS OWN MEN + AN' BUT NEVER MIND THE REST OF HIS OUTFIT IT WAS JEST WILD BUT IT WAS AWFUL FUNNY + THE PEOPLE MOST KILLED THEMSELVES LAUGHING AND WHEN THE KING GOT DONE CAPERING AND CAPERED OFF BEHIND THE SCENES THEY ROARED AND CLAPPED AND STORMED AND HAWED TILL HE COME BACK AND DONE IT OVER AGAIN AND AFTER THAT THEY MADE HIM DO IT ANOTHER TIME + TWENTY PEOPLE SINGS OUT + THE DUKE SAYS YES + EVERYBODY SINGS OUT SOLD + BUT A BIG FINE LOOKIN MAN JUMPS UP ON A BENCH AN SHOUTS HOLD ON + JIST A WORD GENTLEMEN THEY STOPPED TO LISTEN + WHAT WE WANT IS TO GO OUT OF HERE QUIET AND TALK THIS SHOW UP AND SELL THE REST OF THE TOWN + YOU BET IT IS THE JUDGE IS RIGHT EVERYBODY SINGS OUT + WE STRUCK THE RAFT AT THE SAME TIME AND IN LESS THAN TWO SECONDS WE WAS GLIDING DOWN STREAM ALL DARK AND STILL AND EDGING TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER NOBODY SAYING A WORD + WE NEVER SHOWED A LIGHT TILL WE WAS ABOUT TEN MILES BELOW THE VILLAGE + GREENHORNS FLAT HEADS + NO I SAY IS IT DON'T + WELL IT DON'T BECAUSE IT'S IN DEBRIS I RECKON THEY'RE ALL ALIGHT + WELL THAT'S WHAT I'M A SAYING ALL KING'S IS MOSTLY RABBIT'S AS FUR AS I CAN MAKE OUT IS DAT'S SO + AND LOOK AT CHARLES SECOND AND LEWIS FOURTEEN AND LEWIS FIFTEEN AND JAMES SECOND AND EDWARD SECOND AND RICHARD THIRD AND FORTY MORE BESIDES ALL THEM SAXON HEPTARKE IS THAT USED TO RIP AROUND SO WHEN OLD TIMES AND RAYS CAME + MY YOU OUGHT TO SEE OLD HENRY THE EIGHTH WHEN HE WAS IN BLOOM HE WAS A BLOSSOM + RING UP FAIR ROSAMOND + WELL HENRI HE TAKES A NOTION HE WANTS TO GET UP SOME TROUBLE WITH THIS COUNTRY + S'POSE HE OPENED HIS MOUTH WHAT THEN + ALL I SAY IS KINGS AS CANS AND YOU GOT TO MAKE ALLOWANCES + TAKE EM ALL AROUND DER A MIGHTY ORNERY LIGHT IT'S THE WAY THEY RAISED + WELL THEY ALL DO JIM + NOW DE DO HE'S A TOLERABLE LIKE THE MAN IN SOME WAYS + THIS ONE'S A MIDDLIN HARD LOT FOR A DUPE + WHEN I WAKED UP JEST AT DAYBREAK HE WAS SITTING THERE WITH HIS HAT DOWN BETWIXT HIS KNEES MOURNING AND MOURNING TO HIMSELF + IT DON'T SEEM NATURAL BUT I RECKON IT SO + HE WAS OFTEN MOANED IN MOURNING THAT WAY NIGHTS WHEN HE JUDGED I WAS ASLEEP AND SAYING BOLILL ELIZABETH + DON'T YOU HEAR ME SHUT DEED DOUGH + I LAY I MAKE YOU MINE + JUST AS LOUD AS I COULD YELL + WHICH WAS SOUND ENOUGH JUDGMENT BUT YOU TAKE THE AVERAGE MAN AND HE WOULDN'T WAIT FOR HIM TO HOW + THE KING'S DUDS WAS ALL BLACK AND HE DID LOOK REAL AND STARCHY + WHY BEFORE HE LOOKED LIKE THE ORNERIEST OLD RIP THAT EVER WAS BUT NOW WHEN HE'D TAKE OFF HIS NEW WHITE BEAVER AND MAKE A BOW AND DO A SMILE HE LOOKED THAT GRAND AND GOOD AN PIOUS THAT YOU'D SAY HE'D WALK RIGHT OUT OF THE ARK AN MEBBE WAS OVAL OF VITICUS HIMSELF + JIM CLEANED UP THE CANOE AND I GOT MY PADDLE READY + WHERE ARE YOU BOUND FOR YOUNG MAN + GET ABOARD SAYS THE KING + I DONE SO AND THEN WE ALL THREE STARTED ON AGAIN + THE YOUNG CHAP WAS MIGHTY THANKFUL SAID HE WAS TOUGH WORK TOTING HIS BAGGAGE SUCH WEATHER + HE ASKED THE KING WHERE HE WAS GOING AND THE KING TOLD HIM HE'D COME DOWN TO RIVER AND LANDED AT THE OTHER VILLAGE THIS MORNING AND NOW HE WAS GOING UP A FEW MILE TO SEE AN OLD FRIEND ON A FARM UP THERE THE YOUNG FELLOW SAYS + BUT THEN I SAYS AGAIN NO I RECKON IT AIN'T HIM OR ELSE HE WOULDN'T BE PADDLING UP THE RIVER YOU AIN'T HIM ARE YOU + NO MY NAME'S BLOTCHET ALEXANDER BLIGHIA REVEREND ALEXANDER BLOGET I S'POSE I MUST SAY AS I'M ONE OF THE LARGE POOR SERVANTS + YOU SEE HE WAS PRETTY OLD AND GEORGE'S GOOD YEARLS WAS TOO YOUNG TO BE MUCH COMPANY FOR HIM EXCEPT MARY JANE THE RED HEADED AND SO HE WAS KINDER LONESOME AFTER GEORGE AND HIS WIFE DIED AND DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE MUCH TO LIVE + TOO BAD TOO BAD HE COULDN'T HAVE LIVED TO SEE HIS BROTHERS POOR SOUL + I'M GOING IN A SHIP NEXT WEDNESDAY FOR RIO JANEIRO WHERE MY UNCLE LESS + BUT IT'LL BE LOVELY WISHED I WUZ A GOIN + MARY JANE'S NINETEEN SUSAN'S FIFTEEN AND JOANNA IS ABOUT FOURTEEN THAT'S THE ONE THAT GIVES HERSELF TO GOOD WORKS AND HAS A HAIR LIP PUT WITH THINGS + WELL THEY COULD BE WORSE OFF + OH PETER HAD FRIENDS AN THEY AIN'T GOIN TO LET THEM COME TO NO HARM + BLAMED IF HE DIDN'T ACQUIRE ABOUT EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING IN THAT BLESSED TOWN AND ALL ABOUT THE WILKES AND ABOUT PETER'S BUSINESS WHICH WAS A TANNER AND ABOUT GEORGE'S WHICH WAS A CARPENTER AND ABOUT HARVEST WHICH WAS A DISSENTERING MINISTER AND SO ON AND SO ON THEN HE SAYS + WHEN HER TEETH THEY WON'T STOP FOR A HAIL + WAS PETER WILKES WELL OFF + WHEN WE STRUCK THE BOAT SHE WAS ABOUT DONE LOADING AND PRETTY SOON SHE GOT OFF + NOW HUSTLE BACK RIGHT OFF AN FETCH THE DUKE UP HERE AN THE NEW CARPET BAGS + SO THEN THEY WAITED FOR A STEAMBOAT + THAT THE KING WAS CARVED HE SAYS + THEY GIVE A GLANCE AT ONE ANOTHER AND NODDED THEIR HEADS AS MUCH AS TO SAY WOULD THEY TELL YE + THEN ONE OF THEM SAYS KIND OF SOFT AND GENTLE + PHELPSES WAS ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONE HORSE COTTON PLANTATIONS AND THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE + I WENT AROUND AND CLIMBED OVER THE BACK STILE BY THE ASH HOPPER AND STARTED FOR THE KITCHEN + I OUT WITH A YESM FOR I THOUGHT + SO THEN SHE STARTED FOR THE HOUSE LEADING ME BY THE HAND AND THE CHILDREN TAGGING AFTER + WHEN WE GOT THERE SHE SET ME DOWN IN A SPLIT BOTTOM CHAIR AND SET HERSELF DOWN ON A LITTLE LOW STOOL IN FRONT OF ME HOLDING BOTH OF MY HANDS AND SAYS + WELL IT'S LUCKY BECAUSE SOMETIMES PEOPLE DO GET HURT + AND I THINK HE DIED AFTERWARDS HE WAS A BAPTIST + YES IT WAS MORTIFICATION THAT WAS IT + YOUR UNCLE'S BEEN UP TO THE TOWN EVERY DAY TO FETCH YOU + YOU MUST HAVE MET HIM ON THE ROAD DIDN'T YOU OLDISH MAN WITH HER + WHY CHILD IT'LL BE STOLE + IT WAS KINDER THIN ICE BUT I SAYS + I HAD MY MIND ON THE CHILDREN ALL THE TIME I WANTED TO GIT THEM OUT TO ONE SIDE AND PUMP THEM A LITTLE AND FIND OUT WHO I WAS + PRETTY SOON SHE MADE THE COLD CHILL STREAK ALL DOWN MY BACK BECAUSE SHE SAYS + I SEE IT WARN'T A BIT OF USE TO TRY TO GO AHEAD I'D GOT TO THROW UP MY HAND + SO I SAYS TO MYSELF HERE'S ANOTHER PLACE WHERE I GOT TO RESCUE THE TRUTH + I OPENED MY MOUTH TO BEGIN BUT SHE GRABBED ME AND HUSTLED ME IN BEHIND THE BED AND SAYS HERE HE COMES + SURERENT DON'T YOU SAY A WORD + I SEE I WAS IN A FIX NOW + MISSUS PHELPS SHE JUMPS FOR HIM AND SAYS + HAS HE COME NO SAYS HER HUSBAND + I CAN'T IMAGINE SAYS THE OLD GENTLEMAN AND I MUST SAY IT MAKES ME DREADFUL UNEASY + UNEASY SHE SAYS I'M READY TO GO DISTRACTED + HE MUST A COME AND YOU'VE MISSED HIM ALONG THE ROAD + OH DON'T DISTRESS ME ANY MORE'N I'M ALREADY DISTRESSED + WHAR SILAS LOOK YANDER UP DE ROAD AIN'T THAT SOMEBODY COMIN + THE OLD GENTLEMAN STARED AND SAYS + I HAIN'T KNOW I DAT WHO IS IT + IT'S TOM SAWYER + BEING TIME SAWYER WAS EASY AND COMFORTABLE AND ITS STAID EASY AND COMFORTABLE TILL BY AND BY I HEAR A STEAMBOAT COUGHING ALONG DOWN THE RIVER + THEN I SAYS TO MYSELF S'POSE TOM SAWYER COMES DOWN ON HEADBOAT + BUT I AM USUALLY PLEASED THAT YOU HAVE SEEN MY LADY + I KNEW YOU COULD NOT CHOOSE BUT LIKE HER BUT YET LET ME TELL YOU YOU HAVE SEEN BUT THE WORST OF HER + HER CONVERSATION HAS MORE CHARMS THAN CAN BE IN MERE BEAUTY AND A HUMOUR AND DISPOSITION WOULD MAKE A DEFORMED PERSON APPEAR LOVELY + WHY DIDN'T YOU NOT SEND ME THAT NEWS AND A GOLN + WHY THE BEST HONOR IS THAT I HAVE A SQUIRE NOW THAT IS AS GOOD AS A KNIGHT + IN EARNEST WE HAVE HAD SUCH A SKIRMISH AND UPON SO FOOLISH AN OCCASION AS I CANNOT TELL WHICH IS STRANGERS + ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I HAD EVER AND MY LIFE REFUSED WERE BROUGHT AGAIN UPON THE STAGE LIKE RICHARD THE THIRD GHOSTS TO REPROACH ME WITHAL AND ALL THE KINDNESS'S DISCOVERIES COULD MAKE I HAD FOR YOU WAS LAID TO MY CHARGE + MY BEST QUALITIES IF I HAVE ANY THAT ARE GOOD SERVED BUT FOR AGGRAVATIONS OF MY FAULT AND I WAS ALLOWED TO HAVE WIT AN UNDERSTANDING AND DISCRETION IN OTHER THINGS THAT IT MIGHT APPEAR I HAD NONE IN THIS + TIS A STRANGE CHANGE AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR IT BUT I'LL SWEAR I KNOW NOT HOW TO HELP IT + MISTER FISH IS A SQUIRE OF DANES AND HAS SO MANY MISTRESSES THAT ANYBODY MAY PRETEND A SHARE IN HIM AND BE BELIEVED THAT THOUGH I HAVE THE HONOR TO BE HIS NEAR NEIGHBOR TO SPEAK FREELY I CANNOT BRAG MUCH THAT HE MAKES ANY COURT TO ME AND I KNOW NO YOUNG WOMAN IN THE COUNTRY THAT HE DOES NOT VISIT OFTEN + I THINK MY YOUNGEST BROTHER COMES DOWN WITH HIM + I CAN NO SOONER GIVE YOU SOME LITTLE HINTS WHEREABOUT THEY LIVE BUT YOU KNOW THEM PRESENTLY AND I MEANT YOU SHOULD BE BEHOLDING TO ME FOR YOUR ACQUAINTANCE + BUT IT SEEMS THIS GENTLEMAN IS NOT SO EASY ACCESS BUT YOU MAY ACKNOWLEDGE SOMETHING DUE TO ME IF I INCLINE HIM TO LOOK GRACIOUSLY UPON YOU AND THEREFORE THERE IS NOT MUCH HARM DONE + I HAVE MISSED FOUR FITS AND HAVE HAD BUT FIVE AND HAVE RECOVERED SO MUCH STRENGTH AS MADE ME VENTURE TO MEET YOUR LETTER ON WEDNESDAY A MILE FROM HOME + BUT BESIDES I CAN GIVE YOU OTHERS + I AM HERE MUCH MORE OUT OF PEOPLE'S WAY THAN IN TOWN WHERE MY AUNT SUCH HAS PRETEND AND INTEREST IN ME AND A POWER OVER ME DO SO PERSECUTE ME WITH THEIR GOOD NATURE AND TAKE IT SO ILL THAT THEY ARE NOT ACCEPTED AS I WOULD LIVE IN A HOLLOW TREE TO AVOID THEM + YOU WILL THINK HIM ALTERED AND IF IT BE POSSIBLE MORE MELANCHOLY THAN HE WAS + IF MARRIAGE AGREES NO BETTER WITH OTHER PEOPLE THAN IT DOES WITH HIM I SHALL PRAY THAT ALL MY FRIENDS MAY ESCAPE IT + WELL IN EARNEST IF I WERE A PRINCE THAT LADY SHOULD BE MY MISTRESS BUT I CAN GIVE NO RULE TO ANY ONE ELSE AND PERHAPS THOSE THAT ARE IN NO DANGER OF LOSING THEIR HEARTS TO HER MAY BE INFINITELY TAKEN WITH ONE I SHOULD NOT VALUE AT ALL FOR SO SAYS A JUSTINIAN WISE PROVIDENCE HAS ORDAINED IT THAT BY THEIR DIFFERENT HUMOURS EVERYBODY MIGHT FIND SOMETHING TO PLEASE THEMSELVES WITHAL WITHOUT ENVYING THEIR NEIGHBOURS + THE MATTER IS NOT GREAT FOR I CONFESS I DO NATURALLY HATE THE NOISE AND TALK OF THE WORLD AND SHOULD BE BEST PLEASED NEVER TO BE KNOWN IN UPON ANY OCCASION WHATSOEVER YET SINCE IT CAN NEVER BE WHOLLY AVOIDED ONE MUST SATISFY ONESELF BY DOING NOTHING THAT ONE NEED CARE WHO KNOWS + IF I HAD A PICTURE THAT WERE FIT FOR YOU YOU SHOULD HAVE IT + HOW CAN YOU TALK OF DEFYING FORTUNE NOBODY LIVES WITHOUT IT AND THEREFORE WHY SHOULD YOU IMAGINE YOU COULD + I KNOW NOT HOW MY BROTHER COMES TO BE SO WELL INFORMED AS YOU SAY BUT I AM CERTAIN HE KNOWS THE UTMOST OF THE INJURIES YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM HER + WE HAVE HAD ANOTHER TO BEAT BUT MUCH MORE CALMLY + NONE BESIDES THERE WAS A TIME WHEN WE OURSELVES WERE INDIFFERENT TO ONE ANOTHER DID I DO SO THEN OR HAVE I LEARNED IT SINCE + I HAVE BEEN STUDYING HOW TOM CHEEK MIGHT COME BY HIS INTELLIGENCE AND I VERILY BELIEVE HE HAS IT FROM MY COUSIN PETERS + HOW KINDLY DO I TAKE THE CIVILITIES OF YOUR FATHER'S IN EARNEST YOU CANNOT IMAGINE HOW HIS LETTER PLEASE ME + WOULD IT WOULD LEAVE ME AND THEN I COULD BELIEVE I SHALL NOT ALWAYS HAVE OCCASION FOR IT + MY POOR LADY VAVASOR IS CARRIED TO THE TOWER AND HER GREAT BELLY COULD NOT EXCUSE HER BECAUSE SHE WAS ACQUAINTED BY SOMEBODY THAT THERE WAS A PLOT AGAINST THE PROTECTOR AND DID NOT DISCOVER IT + SHE HAS TOLD NOW ALL THAT WAS TOLD HER BUT VOWS SHE WILL NEVER SAY FROM WHENCE SHE HAD IT WE SHALL SEE WHETHER HER RESOLUTIONS ARE AS UNALTERABLE AS THOSE OF MY LADY TOMISH + I WONDER HOW SHE BEHAVED HERSELF WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED + I NEVER SAW ANY ONE YET THAT DID NOT LOOK SIMPLY AND OUT OF COUNTENANCE NOR EVEN KNEW A WEDDING WELL DESIGN BUT ONE AND THAT WAS OF TWO PERSONS WHAT TIME ENOUGH I CONFESS TO CONTRIVE IT AND NOBODY TO PLEASE IN BUT THEMSELVES + THE TRUTH IS I COULD NOT ENDURE TO BE MISSUS BRIDE IN A PUBLIC WEDDING TO BE MADE THE HAPPIEST PERSON ON EARTH + DO NOT TAKE IT ILL FOR I WOULD ENDURE IT IF I COULD RATHER THAN FAIL BUT IN EARNEST I DO NOT THINK IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR ME + YET IN EARNEST YOUR FATHER WILL NOT FIND MY BROTHER PATENT WANTING IN CIVILITY THOUGH HE IS NOT A MAN OF MUCH COMPLIMENT UNLESS IT BE IN HIS LETTERS TO ME NOR AN UNREASONABLE PERSON IN ANYTHING SO HE WILL ALLOW HIM OUT OF HIS KINDNESS TO HIS WIFE TO SET A HIGHER VALUE UPON HER SISTER THAN SHE DESERVES + MY AUNT TOLD ME NO LONGER GONE IN YESTERDAY THAT I WAS THE MOST WILFUL WOMAN THAT EVER SHE KNEW AND HAD AN OBSTINACY OF SPIRIT NOTHING COULD OVERCOME TAKE HEED + DO YOU SEE I GIVE YOU FAIR WARNING + BY THE NEXT I SHALL BE GONE INTO KENT AND MY OTHER JOURNEY IS LAID ASIDE WHICH I AM NOT DISPLEASED AT BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE BROKEN OUR INTERCOURSE VERY MUCH + HERE ARE SOME VERSES OF COWARDICE TELL ME HOW YOU LIKE THEM + I TOLD YOU IN MY LAST THAT MY SUBTLE JOURNEY WAS LAID ASIDE AND THAT IN KENT HASTENED + IF I DROWN BY THE WAY THIS WILL BE MY LAST LETTER AND LIKE A WILL I BEQUEATH ALL MY KINDNESS TO YOU IN IT WITH A CHARGE NEVER TO BESTOW IT ALL UPON ANOTHER MISTRESS LEST MY GHOST RISE AGAIN AND HAUNT YOU + INDEED I LIKE HIM EXTREMELY AND HE IS COMMENDED TO ME BY PEOPLE THAT KNOW HIM VERY WELL AND ARE ABLE TO JUDGE FOR A MOST EXCELLENT SERVANT AND FAITHFUL AS POSSIBLE + BECAUSE YOU FIND FAULT WITH MY OTHER LETTERS THIS IS LIKE TO BE SHORTER THAN THEY I DID NOT INTEND IT SO THOUGH I CAN ASSURE YOU + I DO NOT FIND HER THOUGH I AM TOLD I WAS SO EXTREMELY WHEN I BELIEVED YOU LOVED ME + BUT I AM CALLED UPON + DIRECTED FOR YOUR MASTER + I SEE YOU CAN CHID WHEN YOU PLEASE AND WITH AUTHORITY BUT I DESERVE IT I CONFESS AND ALL I CAN SAY FOR MYSELF IS THAT MY FAULT PROCEEDED FROM A VERY GOOD PRINCIPLE IN ME + WE DARE NOT LET OUR TONGUES LIE MORE ON ONE SIDE OF OUR MOTHS THAN THE OTHER FOR FEAR OF OVERTURNING IT + YOU ARE SATISFIED I HOPE AT THIS THAT I ESCAPED DROWNING + BUT I AM TROUBLED MUCH YOU SHOULD MAKE SO ILL A JOURNEY TO SORE LITTLE PURPOSE INDEED I READ BY THE FIRST POST AFTER MY ARRIVAL HERE AND CANNOT IMAGINE HOW YOU CAME TO MISS OF MY LETTERS + HOW WELCOME YOU WILL BE BUT ALAS + FOR MY LIFE I CANNOT BEAT INTO THEIR HEADS A PASSION THAT MUST BE SUBJECT TO NO DECAY AN EVEN PERFECT KINDNESS THAT MUST LAST PERPETUALLY WITHOUT THE LEAST INTERMISSION + THEY LAUGH TO HEAR ME SAY THAT ONE UNKIND WORD WOULD DESTROY ALL THE SATISFACTION OF MY LIFE AND THAT I SHOULD EXPECT OUR KINDNESS SHOULD INCREASE EVERY DAY IF IT WERE POSSIBLE BUT NEVER LESSEN + WE GO ABROAD ALL DAY AND PLAY ALL NIGHT AND SAY I PRAY IS WHEN WE HAVE TIME + WELL IN SOBER EARNEST NOW I WOULD NOT LIVE THUS A TWELVEMONTH TO GAIN ALL THAT KING HAS LOST UNLESS IT WERE TO GIVE IT HIM AGAIN + WILL YOU BE SO GOOD NATURED + HE HAS ONE SON AND TIS THE FINEST BOY THAT ERE YOU SAW AND HAS A NOBLE SPIRIT BUT YET STANDS IN THAT ALL OF HIS FATHER THAT ONE WORD FROM HIM IS AS MUCH AS TWENTY WHIPPINGS + YOU MUST GIVE ME LEAVE TO ENTERTAIN YOU THUS WITH DISCOURSES OF THE FAMILY FOR I CAN TELL YOU NOTHING ELSE FROM HENCE + NOT TO KNOW WHEN YOU WOULD COME HOME I CAN ASSURE YOU NOR FOR ANY OTHER KITCHEN OF MY OWN BUT WITH A COUSIN OF MINE THAT HAD LONG DESIGNED TO MAKE HERSELF SPORT WITH HIM AND DID NOT MISS OF HER AIM + IN MY LIFE I NEVER HEARD SO RIDICULOUS A DISCOURSE AS HE MADE US AND NO OLD WOMAN WHO PASSES FOR A WITCH COULD HAVE BEEN MORE PUZZLED TO SEEK WHAT TO SAY TO REASONABLE PEOPLE THAN HE WAS + EVER SINCE THIS ADVENTURE I HAVE HAD SO GREAT A BELIEF IN ALL THINGS FOR THIS NATURE THAT I COULD NOT FORBEAR LAYING A PEASECOT WITH NINE PEAS INTO UNDER MY DOLL YESTERDAY IT WAS INFORMED BY IT THAT MY HUSBAND'S NAME SHOULD BE THOMAS HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT + SHE PULLED HER HEAD DOWN TURNED HIS GOOD BACK PUT HER FEET ON THE FENDER AND TOOK PARTER UNDER HER LAP ALL OF ARRANGEMENTS SIGNIFIED THAT SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT HAD GOT TO BE THOUGHT OVER AND SETTLED + THE MORE PROPOSALS THE MORE CREDIT + I'VE TRIED IT AND LIKED IT AND MAYBE THIS IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THAT NIGHT'S FUN + JUST SUPPOSE IT IS TRUE THAT HE THUS ASKED ME AND I SAY YES + WHAT A SPITEFUL THING I AM + I COULD DO SO MUCH FOR AUGHT AT HOME HOW I SHOULD ENJOY THAT + LET ME SEE HOW CAN I BEGIN + HE HAS KNOWN HER ALL HER LIFE AND HAS A GOOD INFLUENCE OVER HER + NOW AS POLLY WAS BY NO MEANS A PERFECT CREATURE I AM FREE TO CONFESS THAT THE OLD TEMPTATION ASSAILED HIM MORE THAN ONCE THAT WEEK FOR WHEN THE FIRST EXCITEMENT OF THE DODGING REFORM HAD SUBSIDED SHE MISSED THE PLEASANT LITTLE INTERVIEWS THAT USED TO PUT A CERTAIN FLAVOUR OF ROMANCE INTO HER DULL HEART WORKING DAYS + I DON'T THINK IT WAS HIS WEALTH ACCOMPLISHMENTS OR POSITION THAT KNOWS ATTRACTED POLLY THOUGH THESE DOUBTLESS POSSESSED A GREATER INFLUENCE THAN SHE SUSPECTED + IT WAS THAT INDESCRIBABLE SOMETHING WHICH WOMEN ARE QUICK TO SEE AND FEEL IN MEN WHO HAVE BEEN BLESSED THE WISE AND GOOD MOTHERS + THIS HAD AN ESPECIAL CHARM TO POLLY FOR SHE SOON FOUND THAT THIS SIDE OF HIS CHARACTER WAS NOT SHOWN TO EVERYONE + LATELY THIS HAD CHANGED ESPECIALLY TOWARDS POLLY AND IT FOLLOWED HER MORE THAN SHE WOULD CONFESS EVEN TO HERSELF + AT FIRST SHE TRIED TO THINK SHE COULD BUT UNFORTUNATELY HEARTS ARE SO CONTRARY THAT THEY WON'T BE A BEETER INTO REASON WILL OR EVEN GRATITUDE + POLLY FELT A VERY CORDIAL FRIENDSHIP FOR MISTER SIDNEY BUT NOT ONE PARTICLE OF THE LAUGH WHICH IS THE ONLY COIN IN WHICH LOVE CAN BE TRULY PAID + THIS FINISHED POLLY'S INDECISION AND AFTER THAT NIGHT SHE NEVER ALLOWED HERSELF TO DWELL UPON THE PLEASANT TEMPTATION WHICH CAME IN A GUISE PARTICULARLY ATTRACTIVE TO A YOUNG GIRL WITH THE SPIES OF THE OLD EVE IN HER COMPOSITION + WHEN SATURDAY CAME POLLY STARTED AS USUAL FOR A VISIT TO BAGY AND BESS BUT COULD NOT RESIST STOPPING AT THE SHORES TO LEAVE A LITTLE PARCEL FOR FAN THAT WAS CALLING TIME + A FOOLISH LITTLE SPEECH TO MAKE TO A DARK BUT YOU SEE POLLY WAS ONLY A TENDER HEARTED GIRL TRYING TO HER DUTY + TAKE HOLD OF MASSA CHARLEY'S HAND MISS MAMMY AND BUCK PRETTY LIKE WILLIE AND FLOSSIE SAID THE MAID + AT THE STREET CORNER A BLACK EYED SCHOOL BOY WAS PARTING FROM A ROSY FACED SCHOOL GIRL WHOSE MUSIC ROLL HE WAS RELUCTANTLY SO AND RAIN + HOW HE GOT THERE WAS NEVER VERY CLEAR TO POLLY BUT THERE HE WAS FLUSHED AND A LITTLE OUT OF BREATH BUT LOOKING SO GLAD TO SEE HER THAT SHE HAD NOT THE HEART TO BE STIFF AND COOL AS SHE HAD FULLY INTENDED TO BE WHEN THEY MET + SHE REALLY COULD NOT HELP IT IT WAS SO PLEASANT TO SEE HIM AGAIN JUST WHEN SHE WAS FEELING SO LONELY + THAT IS THE WAY I GET THE WORSE ANSWERED POLLY + SHE DID NOT MEAN TO TELL BUT HIS FRIGHTENEDNESS WAS SO AGREEABLE SHE FORGOT HERSELF + BUT I KNOW HER BETTER AND I ASSURE YOU THAT SHE DOESN'T IMPROVE SHE TRIES TO MENT HER FAULTS THOUGH SHE WON'T OWN IT AND WILL SURPRISE YOU SOME DAY BY THE AMOUNT OF HEART AND SENSE AND GOODNESS SHE HAS GOT + THANK YOU NO + HER LOVELY THE PARK LOOKS SHE SAID IN GREAT CONFUSION + ASKED THE ARTFUL YOUNG MAN LAYING A TRAP INTO WHICH POLLY IMMEDIATELY FELL + HE WAS QUICKER TO TAKE A HINT THAN SHE HAD EXPECTED AND BEING BOTH PROUD AND GENEROUS RESOLVED TO SETTLE THE MATTER AT ONCE FOR POLLY'S SAKE AS FAR AS HIS OWN + SO WHEN SHE MADE A LAST BOY AND REMARK HE SAID QUIETLY WATCHING HER FACE KEENLY ALL THE WHILE I THOUGHT SO WELL I'M GOING OUT OF TOWN ON BUSINESS FOR SEVERAL WEEKS SO YOU CAN ENJOY YOU A LITTLE BIT OF COUNTRY WITHOUT BEING ANNOYED BY ME ANNOYED + SHE THOUGHT SHE HAD A GOOD DEAL OF THE COQUETTE IN HER AND I'VE NO DOUBT THAT WITH TIME AND TRAINING SHE WOULD HAVE BECOME A VERY DANGEROUS LITTLE PERSON BUT NOW SHE WAS FAR TO TRANSPARENT AND STRAIGHTFORWARD BY NATURE EVEN TO TELL A WHITELIKE LOVELY + HE WAS GONE BEFORE SHE COULD DO ANYTHING BUT LOOK UP AT HIM WITH A REMORSEFUL FACE AND SHE WALKED ON FEELING THAT THE FIRST AND PERHAPS THE ONLY LOVER SHE WOULD EVER HAVE HAD READ HIS ANSWER AND ACCEPTED IT IN SILENCE + PARLEY DID NOT RETURN TO HER FAVOURITE WALK TILL SHE LEARNED FOR MINNIE THAT UNCLE HAD REALLY LEFT TOWN AND THEN SHE FOUND THAT HIS FRIENDLY COMPANY AND CONVERSATION WAS WHAT HAD MADE THE WAYS A PLEASANT AFTER ALL + WORKING TO AND FRO AS USUAL WHAT'S THE NEWS WITH YOU + PERHAPS HE TOLD HIM + UTTERLY DONE WITH AND LAID UPON THE SHELF + MINNIE SAID THE OTHER DAY SHE WISHED SHE WAS A PIGEON SO SHE COULD PADDLE IN THE PADDLES AND NOT FUSS ABOUT RABBLES + NOW DON'T BE AFFECTED POLLY BUT JUST TELL ME LIKE A DEAR HAS NOT HE PROPOSED + DON'T YOU THINK HE MEANS TO + TRULY JULIE FAN + I DON'T MEAN TO BE PRYING BUT I REALLY THOUGHT HE DID + WELL I ALWAYS MEANT TO TRY IT IF I GOT A CHANCE AND I HAVE + I JUST GAVE HIM A HINT AND HE TOOK IT + HE MEANT TO GO AWAY BEFORE THAT SO THEN THINK HIS HEART IS BROKEN OR MIND WHAT CITY TATTLERS SAY + HE UNDERSTOOD AND BEING A GENTLEMAN MADE NO FUSS + BUT POLLY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GRAND THING FOR YOU + I'M NOT YOU KNOW I'M PREFER TO BE AN INDEPENDENT SPINSTER AND TEACH MUSIC ALL MY DAYS + NEVER MIND WHAT A BUSINESS WAS IT SUFFICES TO SAY THAT IT WAS A GOOD BEGINNING FOR A YOUNG MAN LIKE TOM WHO HAVING BEEN BORN AND BRED IN THE MOST CONSERVATIVE CLASS OF THE MOST CONCEITED CITY IN NEW ENGLAND NEEDED JUST THE HEALTHY HEARTY SOCIAL INFLUENCES OF THE WEST TO WIDEN HIS VIEWS AND MAKE A MAN OF HIM + FORTUNATELY EVERYONE WAS SO BUSY WITH THE NECESSARY PREPARATIONS THAT THERE WAS NO TIME FOR ROMANS OF ANY SORT AND THE FOUR YOUNG PEOPLE WORKED TOGETHER AS SOBERLY AND SENSIBLY AS IF ALL SORTS OF EMOTIONS WERE NOT BODIED UP IN THEIR RESPECTIVE HEARTS + PITY THAT THE END SHOULD COME SO SOON BUT THE HOUR DID ITS WORK AND WEND ITS WAY LEAVING A CLEARER ATMOSPHERE BEHIND THAT THE YOUNG FOLKS DID NOT SEE IT THEN FOR THEIR EYES WERE DIM BECAUSE OF THE PARTINGS THAT MUST BE + IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR TWO THINGS I FEARED SHE NEVER WOULD HAVE STOOD A SUMMER IN TOWN BUT SYDNEY OFTEN CALLED TO HER VACATION CAME AND OF VOLUMINOUS CORRESPONDENCE WITH POLLY BEGUILED THE LONG DAYS + TOM WROTE ONCE A WEEK TO HIS MOTHER BUT THEIR LETTERS WERE SHORT AND NOT VERY SATISFACTORY FOR MEN NEVER DO TELL THE INTERESTING LITTLE THINGS THAT WOMEN BEST LIKE TO HEAR + NOW I'M ONLY TIRED HAD A GOOD DEAR TO DO LATELY AND THE DOLL RATHER MAKES ME JUST A TWELVE BLUE + FORGIVE ME POLLY BUT I CAN'T HELP SAYING IT FOR THIS THERE AND I WANT TO BE AS TRUE TO YOU AS YOU WERE TO ME IF I CAN + I TRIED NOT A DECEIVE MYSELF BUT IT DOES SEEM AS IF THERE WAS A CHANCE OF HAPPINESS FOR ME + THANK HEAVEN FOR THAT + CRIED POLLY WITH THE HEARTIEST SATISFACTION IN HER VOICE + POOR POLLY WAS SO TAKEN BY SURPRISE THAT SHE HAD NOT A WORD TO SAY + NONE WHEN NEEDED HAD HELD HER FACE ANSWERED FOR HER AS WELL AS THE IMPULSE WHICH MADE HER HIDE HER HEAD IN THE SOFA CUSHION LIKE A FOOLISH OSTRICH WHEN THE HUNTERS ARE AFTER IT + ONCE OR TWICE BUT SORT OF CHOKINGLY AND I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY SOME LITTLE FLIRTATION + IT WAS SO STUPID OF ME NOT TO GUESS BEFORE + IT WAS HER TENDER EARNEST AND DEFIANT THAT FANNY FORGOT THE DEFENCE OF HER OWN LOVER AND ADMIRATION OF POLLY'S LOYALTY TO HERS FOR THIS FAITHFUL ALL ABSORBING LOVE WAS A NEW REVELATION TO FANNY WHO WAS USED TO HEARING HER FRIENDS BOAST OF TWO OR THREE LOVERS A YEAR UNCALCULATED THEIR RESPECTIVE VALUES WITH ALMOST AS MUCH COOLNESS AS THE YOUNG MEN DISCUSSED THE FORTUNES OF THE GIRLS THEY WISHED FOR BUT COULD NOT AFFORD TO MARRY + I HOPE MARIA BAILEY IS ONLY THINK SIR SHE ADDED SOFTLY FOR I COULD NOT BEAR TO HAVE HIM DISAPPOINTED AGAIN + SAID FANNY TURNING HOPEFUL ALL AT ONCE + SUPPOSE I SAY A WORD TO TOM JUST ENQUIRE AFTER HIS HEART IN A JOURNAL AWAY YOU KNOW AND GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO TELL ME IF THERE'S ANYTHING TO TELL + BEAR IT PEOPLE ALWAYS DO BEAR THINGS SOMEHOW ANSWERED POLLY LOOKING AS IF SENTENCE HAD BEEN PASSED UPON HER + IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT WINDOW FROM THE LAST ABOVE THE GIRLS + IF FANNY WANTED TO SHOW HIM WHAT SHE COULD DO TOWARD MAKING A PLEASANT HOME SHE CERTAINLY SUCCEEDED BETTER THAN SHE SUSPECTED FOR IN SPITE OF MANY FAILURES AND DISCOURAGEMENTS BEHIND THE SCENES THE LITTLE HOUSE BECAME A MOST ATTRACTIVE PLACE TO MISTER SIDNEY AT LEAST FOR HE WAS MORE THE HOUSE FRIEND THAN EVER AND SEEMED DETERMINED TO PROVE THAT CHANGE OF FORTUNE MADE NO DIFFERENCE TO HIM + SHE KEPT MUCH AT HOME WHEN THE DAY'S WORK WAS DONE FINDING IT PLEASANTER TO SEE DREAMING OF A BOOK OR SOON ALONE THAN TO EXERT HERSELF EVEN TO GO TO THE SHORES + POLLY WAS NOT AT ALL LIKE HERSELF THAT WINTER AND THOSE NEAREST TO HER SAW AND WANDERED AT IT MOST + FOR NED WAS SO ABSORBED IN BUSINESS THAT HE IGNORED A WHOLE BAILEY QUESTION AND LEFT THEM IN OTHER DARKNESS + THEN HE CAME BOGGING IN UPON A ONE DAY LOOKING AS IF SHE BROUGHT TIDINGS OF SUCH GREAT JOY THAT SHE HARDLY KNEW HOW TO TELL THEM + BUT IF WORK BASKETS WERE GIFTED WITH POWERS OF SPEECH THEY COULD TELL STORIES MORE TRUE AND TENDER THAN ANY WE READ + SHE HAD EVEN BEEN IN SOCIETY BEFORE THE REVOLUTION + IT WAS HER PLEASURE AND HER VANITY TO DRAG IN THESE NAMES ON EVERY PRETEXT + EVERY YEAR SHE SOLEMNLY RENEWED HER VOWS AND AT THE MOMENT OF TAKING THE OATH SHE SAID TO THE PRIEST MONSEIGNEUR SAINT FRASOIS GAVE IT TO MONSEIGNEUR SAINT JULIAN MONSEIGNEUR SAINT JULIAN GAVE IT TO MONSEIGNEUR SAINT EUSCIAS MASIL SAINT EUSYVIS GAVE IT TO MONSEIGNEUR SAINT PROCOPIUS ET CETERA ET CETERA + AND THE SCHOOLGIRLS WOULD BEGIN TO LAUGH NOT IN THEIR SLEEVES BUT UNDER THE VEILS CHARMING LITTLE STIFLED LAUGHS WHICH MADE THE VOCAL MOTHERS FROWN + IT WAS A CENTURY WHICH SPOKE THROUGH HER BUT IT WAS THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + THE RULER OF VON TREVILLE DID NOT FORBID THIS + SHE WOULD NOT SHOW THE SUBJECT TO ANY ONE + THUS IT FURNISHED A SUBJECT OF COMMENT FOR ALL THOSE WHO WERE UNOCCUPIED OR BORED IN THE CONVENT + SOME MUNIQUE CHAPLET SYMPATHETIC RELIC + THEY LOST THEMSELVES IN CONJECTURES + WHEN THE POOR OLD WOMAN DIED THEY RUSHED TO HER CUPBOARD MORE HASTILY THAN WAS FITTING PERHAPS AND OPENED IT + HE IS RESISTING FLUTTERING HIS TINY WINGS AND STILL MAKING AN EFFORT TO FLY BUT THE DANCERS LAUGHING WITH A SATANICAL AIR + MORAL LOVE CONQUERED BY THE COLIC + THE PRIORESS RETURNED AND SEATED HERSELF ONCE MORE ON HER CHAIR + WE WILL PRESENT A STENOGRAPHIC REPORT OF THE DIALOGUE WHICH THEN ENSUED TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY + FATHER FOVENT + REVERENT MOTHER DO YOU KNOW THE CHAPEL + AND YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE CHOIR IN PURSUANCE OF YOUR DUTIES TWO OR THREE TIMES + THERE IS A STONE TO BE RAISED HEAVY + THE SLAB OF THE PAVEMENT WHICH IS AT THE SIDE OF THE ALTAR + THE SLAB WHICH CLOSES THE VAULT YES + IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO HAVE TWO MEN FOR IT + A WOMAN IS NEVER A MAN + BECAUSE DON MABELAN GIVES FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN EPISTLES OF SAINT BERNARD WHILE MERLEUNOIS HORSE ONLY GIVES THREE HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN I DO NOT DESPISE MER LONEUS HORSES NEITHER DO I + MARRIAGE CONSISTS IN WORKING ACCORDING TO ONE'S STRENGTH A CLOISTER IS NOT A DOCK YARD + AND A WOMAN IS NOT A MAN BUT MY BROTHER IS THE STRONG ONE THOUGH + AND CAN YOU GET A LOVER + THERE IS A RING IN THIS STONE + I WILL PUT THE LOVER THROUGH IT + THAT IS GOOD REVEREND MOTHER I WILL OPEN THE VAULT + WILL THAT BE ALL NO + GIVE ME YOUR ORDERS VERY REVEREND MOTHER + FOR THAT WE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU + I AM HERE TO DO ANYTHING YOU WISH + AND TO HOLD YOUR PEACE ABOUT EVERYTHING YES ROBIN MOTHER + WHITHER IS OPEN I WILL CLOSE IT AGAIN + BUT BEFORE THAT WHAT REVERED MOTHER + FATHER FOR MEN REVENUTHER + YOU KNOW THAT A MOTHER DIED THIS MORNING + NO DID YOU NOT HEAR THE BELL + NOTHING CAN BE HEARD AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN REALLY + AND THEN THE WIND IS NOT BLOWING IN MY DIRECTION THIS MORNING + IT WAS MOTHER CRUCIFIXION + THREE YEARS AGO MADAME DE BESOON A JANSENIST TURNED DORTHODOX MERELY FROM HAVING SEEN MOTHER CRUCIFIXION AT PRAYER AH + THE MOTHERS HAVE TAKEN HER TO THE DEAD ROOM WHICH OPENS ON THE CHURCH I KNOW + A FINE SIGHT IT WOULD BE TO SEE A MAN ENTER THE DEAD ROOM MORE OFTEN + HEY MORE OFTEN + WHAT DO YOU SAY + I SAY MORE OFTEN MORE OFTEN THAN WHAT + REVER'D MOTHER I DID NOT SAY MORE OFTEN THAN WATCH I SAID MORE OFTEN + BUT I DID NOT SAY MORE OFTEN + AT THAT MOMENT NINE O'CLOCK STRUCK + AT NINE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND AT ALL HOURS PRAISED AND ADORED BE THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR SAID THE PRIRIS + IT CUT MORE OFTEN SHORT + FASH LEVANT MOCKED HIS FOREHEAD + IN HER LIFETIME MOTHER CRUCIFIXION MADE CONVERTS AFTER HER DEATH SHE WILL PERFORM MIRACLES SHE WILL + FATHER FOVIN THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN BLESSED IN MOTHER PERSFICTION + SHE RETAINED HER CONSCIOUSNESS TO THE VERY LAST MOMENT + SHE GAVE US HER LAST COMMANDS + IF YOU HAD A LITTLE MORE FAITH AND IF YOU COULD HAVE BEEN IN HER CELL SHE WOULD HAVE CURED YOUR LEG MERELY BY TOUCHING IT SHE SMILED + THERE WAS SOMETHING OF PARADISE IN THAT DEATH + FAUCHELEVENT THOUGHT THAT IT WAS AN ORISON WHICH SHE WAS FINISHING + FAUCHELEVENT HELD HIS PEACE SHE WENT ON + I HAVE CONSULTED UPON THIS POINT MANY ECCLESIASTICS LABORING IN OUR LORD WHO OCCUPY THEMSELVES IN THE EXERCISES OF THE CLERICAL LIFE AND WHO BEAR ONE OF FRUIT + FORTUNATELY THE PRIORESS COMPLETELY ABSORBED IN HER OWN THOUGHTS DID NOT HEAR IT + SHE CONTINUED FATHER PROVEN + YES REVENUTHER + SAINT TORRENTIUS BISHOP OF PORT WHERE THE MOUTH OF THE TIBER EMPTIES INTO THE SEA REQUESTED THAT ON HIS TOMB MIGHT BE ENGRAVED THE SIGN WHICH WAS PLACED ON THE GRAVES OF PARRICIDES IN THE HOPE THAT PASSERS BY WOULD SPIT ON HIS TOMB THIS WAS DONE + THE DEAD MUST BE OBEYED SO BE IT + FOR THAT MATTER NO REVEREND MOTHER + FATHER PROVENT MOTHER CRUCIFIXION WILL BE INTERRED IN THE COFFIN IN WHICH SHE HAS SLEPT FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS THAT IS JUST + IT IS A CONTINUATION OF HER SLUMBER + SO I SHALL HAVE TO NAIL UP THAT COFFIN YES + I AM AT THE ORDERS OF THE VERY REVEREND CUNITY + THE FOUR MOTHER PRESENTERS WILL ASSIST YOU + NO IN LOWERING THE COFFIN + WHERE INTO THE VAULT + FAUCHELEVENT STARTED THE VAULT UNDER THE ALTAR + UNDER THE ALTAR BUT + YOU WILL HAVE AN IRON BAR YES BUT + YOU WILL RACE THE STONE WITH THE BAR BY MEANS OF THE RING BUT + THE DEAD MUST BE OBEYED TO BE BURIED IN THE VAULT UNDER THE ALTAR OF THE CHAPEL NOT TO GO TO PROFANE EARTH TO REMAIN THERE IN DEATH WHERE SHE PRAYED WHILE LIVING SUCH WAS THE LAST WISH OF MOTHER CRUCIFIXION + SHE ASKED IT OF US THAT IS TO SAY COMMANDED US + BUT IT IS FORBIDDEN + OH I AM A STONE IN YOUR BALLS + THINK FATHER FOR VENTNOR IF SHE WERE TO WORK MIRACLES HERE + WHAT A GLORY OF GOD FOR THE COMMUNITY AND MIRACLES ISSUE FROM TOMBS + BUT REVERED MOTHER IF THE AGENT OF THE SANITARY COMMISSION + BUT THE COMMISSIONARY OF POLICE + SHONO DE MER ONE OF THE SEVEN GERMAN KINGS WHO ENTERED AMONG THE GAULS UNDER THE EMPIRE OF CONSTANTIUS EXPRESSLY RECOGNIZED THE RIGHT OF NUNS TO BE BURIED IN RELIGION THAT IS TO SAY BENEATH THE ALTAR + THE WORLD IS NOTHING IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CROSS + MARTIN THE ELEVENTH GENERAL OF THE CARTHUSIANS GAVE TO HIS ORDER THIS DEVICE STAT CRUMBHOVETER ORBUS + THE PRIORESS WHO WAS USUALLY SUBJECTED TO THE BARRIER OF SILENCE AND WHOSE RESERVOIR WAS OVER FULL ROSE AND EXCLAIMED WITH THE LEQUERITY OF A DAM WHICH HAS BROKEN AWAY + I HAVE ON MY RIGHT BENOIS AND ALL MY LEFT BERNARD WHO WAS BERNARD + THE FIRST ABBOT OF CLERVALIS + HIS ORDER HAS PRODUCED FORTY POPES TWO HUNDREDS FIFTY PATRIARCHS SIXTEEN HUNDRED ARCHBISHOPS FOUR THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED BISHOPS FOUR EMPERORS TWELVE EMPRESSES FORTY SIX KINGS FORTY ONE QUEENS THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED CANONIZED SAINTS AND HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR FOURTEEN HUNDRED YEARS + ON ONE SIDE SAINT BERNARD ON THE OTHER THE AGENT OF THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT + GOD SUBORDINATED TO THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE SUCH IS THE AGE SILENCE FAVAT + NO ONE DOUBTS THE RIGHT OF THE MONASTERY TO SEPULTURE + ONLY FANATICS AND THOSE IN ERROR DENY IT + WE LIVE IN TIMES OF TERRIBLE CONFUSION + WE ARE IGNORANT AND IMPIOUS + AND THEN RELIGION IS ATTACKED WHY + BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN BAD PRIESTS BECAUSE SAGOTAR BISHOP OF GAP WAS A BROTHER OF SALONE BISHOP OF AMBROM AND BECAUSE BOTH OF THEM FOLLOWED MA'AM ALL + THEY PERSECUTE THE SAINTS + THEY SHUT THEIR EYES TO THE TRUTH DARKNESS IS THE RULE + THE MOST FEROCIOUS BEASTS ARE BEASTS WHICH ARE BLIND + OH HOW WICKED PEOPLE ARE + BY ORDER OF THE KING SIGNIFIES TO DAY BY ORDER OF THE REVOLUTION + ONE NO LONGER KNOWS WHAT IS DUE TO THE LIVING OR TO THE DEAD A HOLY DEATH IS PROHIBITED + GATHHIERE BISHOP OF CHELON HELD HIS OWN IN THIS MATTER AGAINST OTHO DUKE OF BURGUNDY + THE PRIOS TOOK BREATH THEN TURNED TO FASCILANT + YOU WILL CLOSE THE COFFIN THE SISTERS WILL CARRY IT TO THE CHAPEL + THE OFFICE FOR THE DEAD WILL THEN BE SAID + BUT SHE WILL HEAR SHE WILL NOT LISTEN + BESIDES WHAT THE CLOISTER KNOWS THE WORLD LEARNS NOT + A PARSON SUIT + YOU WILL REMOVE YOUR BELL + HAS THE DOCTOR FOR THE DEAD PAID HIS VISIT + HE WILL PAY IT FOUR O'CLOCK TO DAY + THE PEAL WHICH ORDERS THE DOCTOR FOR THE DEBT TO BE SUMMONED HAS ALREADY BEEN RUNG + BUT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ANY OF THE PEALS + THAT IS WELL FOLLOWED FOR VENTNOR + WHERE WILL YOU OBTAIN IT + I HAVE MY HEAP OF OLD IRON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN + REVER WHAT + IF YOU WERE EVER TO HAVE ANY OTHER JOBS OF THIS SORT MY BROTHER IS THE STRONG MAN FOR YOU A PERFECT TURK + YOU WILL DO IT AS SPEEDILY AS POSSIBLE + I CANNOT WORK VERY FAST I AM INFIRM THAT IS WHY I REQUIRE AN ASSISTANT I LIMP + EVERYTHING MUST HAVE BEEN COMPLETED A GOOD QUARTER OF AN HOUR BEFORE THAT + I WILL DO ANYTHING TO PROVE MY ZEAL TOWARDS THE COMMUNITY THESE ARE MY ORDERS I AM TO NAIL UP THE COFFIN + AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK EXACTLY I AM TO BE IN THE CHAPEL + MOTHER ASCENSION WILL BE THERE TWO MEN WOULD BE BETTER + HOWEVER NEVER MIND I SHALL HAVE MY LOVER + AFTER WHICH THERE WILL BE NO TRACE OF ANYTHING + THE GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE NO SUSPICION + THE EMPTY COFFIN REMAINS THIS PRODUCED A PAUSE + WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH THAT COFFIN FATHER PROVENT + IT WILL BE GIVEN TO THE EARTH EMPTY + AH LIDA EXCLAIMED FAUCHELEVENT + THE VEAL STUCK FAST IN HIS THROAT + HE MADE HASTE TO IMPROVISE AN EXPEDIENT TO MAKE HER FORGET THE OATH + I WILL PUT EARTH IN THE COFFIN REVER THAT WILL PRODUCE THE EFFECT OF A CORPSE + I WILL MAKE THAT MY SPECIAL BUSINESS + GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON PRESERVES CONFECTIONERY ICES AND DESSERT DISHES + THE EXPENSE OF PRESERVING THEM WITH SUGAR IS A SERIOUS OBJECTION FOR EXCEPT A SUGAR IS USED IN CONSIDERABLE QUALITIES THE SUCCESS IS VERY UNCERTAIN + FRUIT GATHERED IN WET OR FOGGY WEATHER WILL SUE BE MILDED AND BE OF NO SERVICE FOR PRESERVES + BUT TO DISTINGUISH THESE PROPERLY ACQUIRES BY A GREAT ATTENTION AND CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE + IF YOU DIP THE FINGER INTO THE SERF AND APPLY IT TO THE THUMB THE TENACITY OF THE SERVE WILL ON SEPARATING THE FINGER AND THUMB AFFORD A THREAD WHICH SHORTLY BREAKS THIS IS THE LITTLE THREAD + LET IT BOIL UP AGAIN THEN TAKE IT OFF AND REMOVE CAREFULLY THE SCUM THAT HAS RISEN + IT IS CONSIDERED TO BE SUFFICIENTLY BOILED WHEN SOME TAKEN UP IN A SPOON POURS OUT LIKE OIL + BEFORE SUGAR WAS IN USE HONEY WAS EMPLOYED TO PRESERVE MANY VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS THOUGH THIS SUBSTANCE IS NOW GIVEN WAY TO THE JUICE OF THE SUGAR CANE + FOURTEEN NINETY NINE + BOIL THEM UP THREE DAYS SUCCESSIVELY SKIMMING EACH TIME AND THEY WILL THEN BE FINISHED AND IN A STATE FIT TO BE PUT INTO POTS FOR USE + THE REASON WHY THE FRUIT IS EMPTIED OUT OF THE PRESERVING PAN INTO AN EARTHEN PAN IS THAT THE ACID OF THE FRUIT ACTS UPON THE COPPER OF WHICH THE PRESERVING PANS ARE USUALLY MADE + FROM THIS EXAMPLE THE PROCESS OF PRESERVING FRUITS BY SYRUP WOULD BE EASILY COMPREHENDED + THEY SHOULD BE DRIVE IN THE STOVE OR OVEN ON A SEA AND TURNED EVERY SIX OR EIGHT HOURS FRESH POWDERED SUGAR BEING SIFTED OVER THEM EVERY TIME THEY RETURNED + IN THIS WAY IT IS ALSO THAT ORANGE AND LEMONSHIPS ARE PRESERVED + MARMALADES JAMS AND FRUIT PAST ARE OF THE SAME NATURE AND ARE NOW IN VERY GENERAL QUEST + MARMAIDS AND JAMS DIFFER LITTLE FROM EACH OTHER THEIR PRESERVES OF HALF LIQUID CONSISTENCY MADE BY BOILING THE PULP OF FRUITS I AM SOMETIMES PART OF THE RHINES WITH SUGAR + THAT THEY MAY KEEP IT AS NECESSARY NOT TO BE SPARING OF SUGAR FIFTEEN O THREE + IN ALL THE OPERATIONS FOR PRESERVED MAKING WHEN THE PRESERVING PAN IS USED IT SHOULD NOT BE PLACED ON THE FIRE BUT ON A TRIBUT UNLESS THE JAM IS MADE ON A HOT PLATE WHEN THIS IS NOT NECESSARY + CONFECTIONERY FIFTEEN O EIGHT + IN SPEAKING OF CONFECTIONERY SHOULD BE REMARKED THAT ALL THE VARIOUS PREPARATIONS ABOVE NAMED COME STRICTLY SPEAKING UNDER THAT HEAD FOR THE VARIOUS FRUITS FLOWERS HERBS RECENT JUICES WHICH ONE BOILED WITH SUGAR WERE FORMERLY EMPLOYED IN PHARMACY AS WELL AS FOR SWEETMEATS WERE CALLED CONFECTIONS FROM THE LATIN WORD COMPRESSATE TO MAKE UP BUT THE TERM CONFECTIONERY EMBRACES A VERY LARGE CLASS INDEED OF SWEET FOOD MANY KINDS OF WHICH SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED IN THE ORDINARY CAISINE + THE THOUSAND AND ONE ORNAMENTAL DISHES THAT ADORNED THE TABLES OF THE WEALTHY SHOULD WE PURCHASE FROM THE CONFECTIONER THEY CANNOT PROFITABLY BE MADE AT HOME + HOWEVER AS LATE AS THE REIGN OF OUR TWO LAST GEORGES FABULOUS SUMS WERE OFTEN EXPENDED UPON FANCIFUL DESERTS + THE SHAPE OF THE DISHES VARIES AT DIFFERENT PERIODS THE PREVAILING FASHION AT PRESENT BEING OVAL AND CIRCULAR DISHES ON STEMS + ICES + IT DESERTS OR AT SOME EVENING PARTIES ICES ARE SCARCELY TO BE DISPENSED WITH + THE SPATL IS GENERALLY MADE OF COPPER KEPT BRIGHT AND CLEAN + THEY SHOULD BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE REPAST OR SOME HOURS AFTER BECAUSE THE TAKING OF THESE SUBSTANCES DURING THE PROCESS OF DIGESTION IS APT TO PROVOKE IN DISPOSITION + THERE WAS ONE TILL THE TIME A WIDOWER WHO HAD A SON AND A DAUGHTER BY HIS FIRST WIFE + FROM THE VERY DAY THAT THE NEW WIFE CAME INTO THE HOUSE THERE WAS NO PEACE FOR THE MAN'S CHILDREN AND NOT A CORNER TO BE FOUND WHERE THEY COULD GET ANY REST SO THE BOY THOUGHT THAT THE BEST THING HE COULD DO WAS TO GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND TRY TO EARN HIS OWN BREAD + BUT HIS SISTER WHO WAS STILL AT HOME FARED WORSE AND WORSE + KISS ME GO SAID THE HEAD + WHEN THE KING ENTERED AND SAW IT HE STOOD STILL AS IF HE WERE IN FETTERS AND COULD NOT STIR FROM THE SPOT FOR THE PICTURE SEEMED TO HIM SO BEAUTIFUL + THESE PROMISED TO MAKE ALL THE HASTE HE COULD AND SET FORTH FROM THE KING'S PALACE + AT LAST THEY CAME IN SIGHT OF LAND + WELL IF MY BROTHER SAYS SO I MUST DO IT SAID THE MAN'S DAUGHTER AND SHE FLUNG HER CASKET INTO THE SEA + WHAT IS MY BROTHER SAYING ASKED HIS SISTER AGAIN + ON THE FIRST THURSDAY NIGHT AFTER THIS A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN CAME INTO THE KITCHEN OF THE PALACE AND BEGGED THE KITCHEN MAID WHO SLEPT THERE TO LENT HER BRUSH + SHE BEGGED VERY PRETTILY AND GOT IT AND THEN SHE BRUSHED HER HAIR AND THE GOLD DROPPED FROM IT + OUT ON ME UGLY BUSHY BRIDE SLEEPING SO SOFT BY THE YOUNG KING'S SIDE ON SAND AND STONES MY BED I MAKE AND MY BROTHER SLEEPS WITH THE COLD SNAKE UNPITIED AND UNLEPT + I SHALL COME TWICE MORE AND THEN NEVER AGAIN SAID SHE + THIS TIME ALSO AS BEFORE SHE BORROWED A BRUSH AND BRUSHED HER HAIR WITH IT AND THE GOLD DROPPED DOWN AS SHE DID IT AND AGAIN SHE SENT THE DOG OUT THREE TIMES AND WHEN DAY DAWNED SHE DEPARTED BUT AS SHE WAS GOING SHE SAID AS SHE HAD SAID BEFORE I SHALL COME ONCE MORE AND THEN NEVER AGAIN + NO ONE CAN TELL HOW DELIGHTED THE KING WAS TO GET RID OF THAT HIDEOUS BUSHY BRIDE AND GET A QUEEN WHO WAS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL AS DAY ITSELF + WILT THOU SERVE ME AND WATCH MY SEVENFOLDS AS THE KING + THE YOUTH SAW THAT IT WAS VERY EASY WORK TO WASH THE FOLDS AND HE COULD DO IT WELL ENOUGH + HAST THOU WATCH FAITHFULLY AND WELL THE WHOLE DAY LONG SAID THE KING WHEN THE LAD CAME INTO HIS PRESENCE IN THE EVENING + YES THAT I HAVE SAID THE YOUTH + HE HAD GONE AT ONCE TO SEEK A PLACE HE SAID BUT NEVER WOULD HE DO SUCH A THING AGAIN + THE KING PROMISED HIM THE SAME PUNISHMENT AND THE SAME REWARD THAT HE HAD PROMISED HIS BROTHER + WHEN HE HAD RUN AFTER THE FOOLS FOR A LONG LONG TIME AND WAS HOT AND TIRED HE PASSED BY A CLEF IN THE ROCK WHERE AN OLD WOMAN WAS SITTING SPINNING WITH A DISTIFF AND SHE CALLED TO HIM + COME HITHER COME HITHER MY HANDSOME SON AND LET ME COMB YOUR HAIR + THE YOUTH LIKED THE THOUGHT OF THIS LET THE FOLDS RUN WHERE THEY CHOSE AND SEATED HIMSELF IN THE CLEFT OF THE ROCK BY THE SIDE OF THE OLD HAG + SO THERE HE SAT WITH HIS HEAD ON HER LAP TAKING HIS EASE TO LIVELONG DAY + ON THE THIRD DAY SAID THE LAD WANTED TO SET OUT + THE TWO BROTHERS LAUGHED AT HIM AND HIS FATHER AND MOTHER BEGGED HIM NOT TO GO BUT ALL TO NO PURPOSE AND CINDER LAD SET OUT ON HIS WAY + I AM WALKING ABOUT IN SEARCH OF A PLACE SAID CINDER LAD + I WOULD MUCH RATHER HAVE THE PRINCESS SAID SINDER LAD + AND THUS THEY JOURNEYED ONWARDS A LONG LONG WAY + WHEN THEY HAD GONE THUS FOR A LONG LONG WAY THE FULL AGAIN ASKED DOST THOU SEE ANYTHING NOW + YES NOW I SEE SOMETHING THAT IS WHITE SAID SINDRI LAD + IT LOOKS LIKE A CHALK OF A GREAT THICK BIRCH TREE + CIBBER LAD TRIED BUT COULD NOT DO IT SO HE HAD TO TAKE A DROP FROM THE PITCHER AND THEN ONE MORE AND AFTER THAT STILL ANOTHER AND THEN HE WAS ABLE TO WIELD THE SWORD WITH PERFECT EASE + FOR WE ARE BROTHERS OF THE PRINCESS WHOM THOU ART TO HAVE WHEN THOU CANST TELL THE KING WHAT WE EAT AND DRINK BUT THERE IS A MIGHTY CHOW WHO HAS CAST A SPELL OVER US + WHEN THEY HAD TRAVELLED A LONG LONG WAY THE FULL SAID DOST THOU SEE ANYTHING + AND NOW INQUIRE THE FULL SEEST THOU NOTHING NOW + NOW THEN SAID THE FOAL DOST THOU NOT SEE ANYTHING NOW + THAT IS A RIVER SAID THE FOAL AND WE HAVE TO CROSS IT + I HAVE DONE MY BEST REPLIED SIN + ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A KING IN THE NORTH WHO HAD WON MANY WARS BUT NOW HE WAS OLD + THE OLD KING WENT OUT AND FOUGHT BRAVELY BUT AT LAST HIS SWORD BROKE AND HE WAS WOUNDED AND HIS MEN FLED + BUT IN THE NIGHT WHEN THE BATTLE WAS OVER HIS YOUNG WIFE CAME OUT AND SEARCHED FOR HIM AMONG THE SLAIN AND AT LAST SHE FOUND HIM AND ASKED WHETHER HE MIGHT BE HEALED + SO HE ASKED THE QUEEN HOW DO YOU KNOW IN THE DARK OF NIGHT WHETHER THE HOURS ARE WEARING TO THE MORNING AND SHE SAID + THEN THE OLD MAN SAID DRIVE ALL THE HORSES INTO THE RIVER AND CHOOSE THE ONE THAT SWIMS ACROSS + HE IS NO BIGGER THAN OTHER DRAGON SAID THE TUTOR AND IF YOU WERE AS BRAVE AS YOUR FATHER YOU WOULD NOT FEAR HIM + THEN THE PERSON WHO HAD KILLED OTTER WENT DOWN AND CAUGHT THE DWARF WHO OWNED ALL THE TREASURE AND TOOK IT FROM HIM + ONLY ONE RING WAS LEFT WHICH THE DWARF WORE AND EVEN THAT WAS TAKEN FROM HIM + SO REGAN MADE A SWORD AND SIGUR TRIED IT WITH A BLOW ON A LUMP OF IRON AND THE SWORD BROKE + THEN SIGURD WENT TO HIS MOTHER AND ASKED FOR THE BROKEN PIECES OF HIS FATHER'S BLADE AND GAVE THEM TO REGAN + SO SINGERS SAID THAT SWORD WOULD DO + THEN HE SAW THE TRACK WHICH THE DRAGON HAD MADE WHEN HE WENT TO A CLIFF TO DRINK AND THE TRACK WAS AS IF A GREAT RIVER HAD ROLLED ALONG AND LEFT A DEEP VALLEY + BUT SIGURD WAITED TILL HALF OF HIM IT CALLED OVER THE PIT AND THEN HE THRUST THE SWORD GRAHAM RIGHT INTO HIS VERY HEART + SIGURD SAID I WOULD TOUCH NONE OF IT IF BY LOSING IT I SHOULD NEVER DIE + BUT ALL MEN DIE AND NO BRAVE MAN LETS DEATH FRIGHTEN HIM FROM HIS DESIRE + GUY THOU FAFFER AND THEN SASHNER DIED + THEN SIGURD RODE BACK AND MET RIGAN AND RIGAN ASKED HIM TO ROAST BAFFNER'S HEART AND LET HIM TASTE OF IT + SO SIRUP PUT THE HEART OF FAFFNER ON A STEAK AND ROASTED IT + THERE IS SIGURD ROASTING FATHNER'S HEART FOR ANOTHER WHEN HE SHOULD TASTE OF IT HIMSELF AND LEARN ALL WISDOM + THAT LET HIM DO THEN RIDE OVER HINTFELDT TO THE PLACE WHERE BURNHILLED SLEEPS + THERE MUST SHE SLEEP TILL THOU COMES FOR HER WAKING RISE UP AND RIDE FOR NOW SURE SHE WILL SWEAR THE VOW FEARLESS OF BREAKING + THEN HE TOOK THE HELMET OFF THE HEAD OF THE SLEEPER AND BEHOLD SHE WAS A MOST BEAUTIFUL LADY + THEN SIGURD RODE AWAY AND HE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF A KING WHO HAD A FAIR DAUGHTER + WHEN BURN HELP'S FATHER TOLD GUNNER THAT SHE WOULD MARRY NONE BUT HIM WHO COULD RIDE THE FLAME IN FRONT OF HER ENCHANTED TOWER AND THITHER THEY RODE AND GUNNER SET HIS HORSE AT THE FLAME BUT HE WOULD NOT FACE IT + FOR ONE DAY WHEN BORN HELDEN GUNDRON WERE BATHING BURNE HELD WAITED FARTHEST OUT INTO THE RIVER AND SAID SHE DID THAT TO SHOW SHE WAS GUNRED SUPERIOR + FOR HER HUSBAND SHE SAID HAD RIDDEN THROUGH THE FLAME WHEN NO OTHER MAN DARED FACE IT + NOT LONG TO WAIT HE SAID TILL THE BITTER SWORD STANDS FAST IN MY HEART AND THOU WILT NOT LIVE LONG WHEN I AM DEAD + LOBSTERS AND LOBSTERS + WHEN IS A LOBSTER NOT A LOBSTER WHEN IT IS A CRAYFISH + THIS QUESTION AN ANSWER MIGHT WELL GO INTO THE PRIMARY OF INFORMATION FOR THOSE WHO COME TO SAN FRANCISCO FROM THE EAST FOR WHAT IS CALLED A LOBSTER IN SAN FRANCISCO IS NOT A LOBSTER AT ALL BUT A CRAYFISH + THE PACIFIC CRAYFISH HOWEVER SERVES EVERY PURPOSE AND WHILE MANY CONTEND THAT ITS MEAT IS NOT SO DELICATE IN FLAVOR AS THAT OF ITS EASTERN COUSIN THE CALIFORNIA WILL ASTRENUOUSLY INSISTS THAT IT IS BETTER BUT OF COURSE SOMETHING MUST ALWAYS BE ALLOWED FOR THE PATRIOTISM OF THE CALFORMAGE + A BOOK COULD BE WRITTEN ABOUT THIS RESTAURANT AND THAT ALL WOULD NOT BE TOLD FOR ALL ITS SECRETS CAN NEVER BE KNOWN + IT WAS HERE THAT MOST MAGNIFICENT DINNERS WERE ARRANGED IT WAS HERE THAT EXTRAORDINARY DISHES WERE CONCOCTED BY SHEFTS OF WORLDWIFE FAME IT WAS HERE THAT LOBSTER ALIEN NEWBERG REACHED ITS HIGHEST PERFECTION AND THIS IS THE RECIPE THAT WAS FOLLOWED WHEN IT WAS PREPARED IN THE DOMORE + LOBSTER ELINUK + ONE POUNDS OF LOBSTER MEAT ONE TEASPOONFUL OF BUTTER ONE HALF PINT OF CREAM YOLKS OF FOUR EGGS ONE WINE GLASS OF SHERRY LOBSTER FAT + PUT THIS IN A DOUBLE BOILER AND LET COOK UNTIL THICK STIRRING CONSTANTLY + SERVE AT A CHAFING DISH WITH THIN SLICES OF DRY TOAST + KING OF SHELLFISH + ONE HAS TO CONDESCEND FRANCISCO TO PARTAKE OF THE KING OF SHELLFISH THAT MAMMOTH PACIFIC CRAB + I SAY COME TO SAN FRANCISCO ADVISEDLY FOR WHILE THE CRAB IS FOUND ALL ALONG THE COAST IT IS PREPARED NOWHERE SO DELICIOUSLY AS IN SAN FRANCISCO + GOBBY'S PASSED WITH THE FIRE AND THE LITTLE RESTAURANT BEARING HIS NAME IN CHARGE OF HIS WIDOW IN UNION SCRAPANO HAS NOT ATTAINED THE FAME OF THE OLD PLACE + IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SHE KNOWS THE SECRET OF PREPARING CRAB AS IT WAS PREPARED IN THE GOBIES OF BEFORE THE FIRE BUT HIS PROCEED DID NOT DESCEND TO HER + GOBBY'S CRABS DO + TAKE THE MEAT OF ONE LARGE CRAB SCRAPING OUT ALL THE FAT FROM THE SHELL + SOAKED TO CRAB ME IN THE SHERRY TWO HOURS BEFORE COOKING + CHOP FINE THE ONION SWEET PEPPER AND TOMATO WITH THE ROSEMARY + HEAT THIS IN A STEWPAN AND WHEN SIMMERING ADD THE SHERRY AND CRAB ME AND LET ALL COOK TOGETHER WITH THE SLOW FIRE FOR EIGHT MINUTES + SERVE IN A CHAFING DISH WITH TOAST TO CRACKERS OR THIN SLICES OF TOASTED BREAD + LOBSTER IN MINIATURE + SO FAR HAS BEEN USED MOSTLY FOR GARNISHMENT OF OTHER DISHES AND IT IS ONLY RECENTLY THAT THE HOLF BROW HAS BEEN MAKING A SPECIALTY OF THEM + ALL OF THE BETTER CLASS RESTAURANTS HOWEVER WE'LL SERVE THEM IF YOU ORDER THEM + THIS IS THE RECIPE FOR EIGHT PEOPLE AND IT IS WELL IT WORTH TRYING IF YOU ARE GIVING A DINNER OF IMPORTANCE + BISK OF CROUGHFISH + TAKE THIRTY CROFTISH FROM WHICH REMOVE THE GUT CONTAINING THE GALL IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER TAKE FIRM HOLD OF THE CRAWFISH WITH THE LEFT HAND SO AS TO AVOID BEING PINCHED BY ITS CLOTH WITH THE THUMB AND FOREFING OF THE RIGHT HAND PINCHED THE EXTREME END OF THE CENTRAL FIN OF THE TAIL AND WITH A SUDDEN JERK THE GUT WILL BE WITHDRAWN + MINCER CUT INTO SMALL DICE A CARROT AN ONION ONE HEAD OF CELERY AND A FEW PARSLEY ROOTS AND TO THESE AT A BAY LEAF OF SPRIG OF THYME A LITTLE MINOR NUT PEPPER AND TWO OUNCES OF BUTTER + PUT THESE INGREDIENTS INTO A STEWPAN AND FRY THEM TEN MINUTES THEN THROW IN THE CROPISH AND POUR ON THEM HALF A BOTTLE OF FRENCH WHITE WINE + ALLOW US TO BOIL AND THEN ADD A QUART OF STRONG CONSUMM AND LET ALL CONTINUE BOILING FOR HALF AN HOUR + PICK OUT THE CRAWFISH AND STRAIN THE BROTH THROUGH A NAPKIN BY PRESSURE INTO A BASIN ON ORDER TO EXTRACT ALL THE ESSENCE FROM THE VEGETABLES + PICKED THE SHELLS OFF TWENTY FIVE OF THE CROUFISH TAILS TRIMMED THEM NEEDLING AND SET THEM ASIDE UNTIL WANTED + RESERVE SOME OF THE SPAWN ALSO HALF OF THE BODY SHELLS WITH WHICH TO MAKE THE CROUFISH BUTTER TO FINISH THE SOUP + THIS BUTTER IS MADE AS FOLLOWS PLACE THE SHELLS AND A BAKING SHEET IN THE OVEN TO DRY LET THE SHELLS COOL AND THEN POUND THEM IN A MORTAR WITH A LITTLE LOPSE RECOIL IN FOUR OUNCES OF FRESH BUTTER THOROUGHLY BRUISING THE WHOLE TOGETHER SO AS TO MAKE A FINE PASTE + I SWEAR ANSWERED SANCHO + I SAY SO CONTINUED DON QUIXOTE BECAUSE I HATE TAKING AWAY ANY ONE'S GOOD NAME + I SAY REPLIED SANCHO THAT I SWEAR TO HOLD MY TONGUE ABOUT IT TILL THE END OF YOUR WORSHIP STAYS AND GONG I MAY BE ABLE TO LET IT OUT TO MORROW + THOUGH YOUR WORSHIP WAS NOT SO BADLY OFF HAVING IN YOUR ARMS THE INCOMPARABLE BEAUTY YOU SPOKE OF BUT I WHAT DID I HAVE EXCEPT THE HEAVIEST WAX THAT I THINK I HAD IN ALL MY LIFE + UNLUCKY ME AND THE MOTHER THAT BORE ME + DIDN'T I SAY SO WORSE LUCK TO MY LINE SAID SANCHO + IT CANNOT BE THE MORE ANSWERED DON QUIXOTE BUT THOSE UNDER ENCHANTMENT DO NOT LET THEMSELVES BE SEEN BY ANYONE + IF THEY DO NOT LET THEMSELVES BE SEEN THEY LET THEMSELVES BE FELT SAID SANCHO IF NOT LET MY SHOULDERS SPEAK TO THE POINT + MIKE COULD SPEAK TOO SAID DON QUIXOTE BUT THAT IS NOT A SUSPICION OF REASON FOR BELIEVING THAT WHAT WE SEE IS THE ENCHANTED MORE + THE OFFICERS TURNED TO HIM AND SAID WELL HOW GOES A GOOD MAN + SAUNTER GOT UP WITH PAIN ENOUGH IN HIS BONES AND WENT AFTER THE INNKEEPER IN THE DARK AND MEANING THE OFFICER WHO WAS LOOKING TO SEE WHAT HAD BECOME OF HIS ENEMY HE SAID TO HIM SENOR WHOEVER YOU ARE DO US TO FAVOUR AND KINDNESS TO GIVE US A LITTLE ROSEMARY OIL SALT AND WHITE FOR IT IS WATER TO HEAR ONE OF OUR BEST KNIGHTS ERRANT ON EARTH WHO LIES ON YONDER BED WOUNDED BY THE HANDS OF THE ENCHANTED MOORE THAT IS IN THIS INN + TO BE BRIEF HE TOOK THE MATURES OF WHICH HE MADE A COMPOUND MIXING THEM ON BOILING THEM A GOOD WHILE THAT UNTIL IT SEEMED TO HIM THEY HAD COME TO PERFECTION + SANCHO PONZA WHO ALSO REGARDED THE AMENDMENT OF HIS MASTER AS MIRACULOUS BEGGED HIM TO GIVE HIM WHAT WAS LEFT IN A PIXON WHICH WAS NO SMALL QUANTITY + DON QUIXOTE CONSENTED AND HE TAKING HIM WITH BOTH HANDS IN GOOD FAITH AND WITH A BETTER WILL GULTED DOWN AND DRAINED A VERY LITTLE LESS THAN HIS MASTER + IF YOUR WORSHIP KNEW THAT RETURNED SANCHO WELL BETIDE ME IN ALL MY KINDRED WHY DID YOU LET ME TASTE IT + SEARCH YOUR MEMORY AND IF YOU FIND ANYTHING OF THIS KIND YOU NEED ONLY TELL ME OF IT AND I PROMISE YOU BY THE ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD WHICH I HAVE RECEIVED TO PROCURE YOU SATISFACTION AND REPARATION TO THE UTMOST OF YOUR DESIRE + THEN THIS IS AN INN SAID DON QUIXOTE + AND A VERY RESPECTABLE ONE SAID THE INNKEEPER + THE CRIES OF THE POOR BLANKETED WRETCH WERE SO LOUD THAT THEY REACHED THE EARS OF HIS MASTER WHO HALTING TO LISTEN ATTENTIVELY WAS PERSUADED THAT SOME NEW ADVENTURE WAS COMING UNTIL HE CLEARLY PERCEIVED THAT IT WAS HIS SQUIRE WHO UTTERED THEM + HE SAW HIM RISING AND FALLING IN THE AIR WITH SUCH GRACE AND NIMBLENESS THAT HAD HIS RAGE ALLOWED HIM IT IS MY BELIEF HE WOULD HAVE LEFT + SAUNTER TOOK IT AND AS HE WAS RAISING INTO HIS MOUTH HE WAS STOPPED BY THE CRIES OF HIS MASTER EXCLAIMING SANCHO MY SON DRINK NOT WATER DRINKIN UP MY SON FOR IT WILL KILL THEE SEE HERE I HAVE THE BLESSED BALSAM AND HE HELD UP THE FLASK OF LIQUOR AND WITH DRINKING TWO DROPS WHAT THOU WILT CERTAINLY BE RESTORED + THE STRIDES OF A LAME MAN LIKE THE OGLING GLANCES OF A ONE EYED MAN THEY DO NOT REACH THEIR GOAL VERY PROMPTLY + COSETTE HAD WAKED UP + JEAN VALJEAN HAD PLACED HER NEAR THE FIRE + YOU WILL WAIT FOR ME AT A LADY'S HOUSE I SHALL COME TO FETCH YE + EVERYTHING IS RANGED AND NOTHING IS SAID FAUCHELEVENT + I HAVE PERMISSION TO BRING YOU IN BUT BEFORE BRINGING YOU IN YOU MUST BE GOT OUT + THAT'S WHERE THE DIFFICULTY LIES + IT IS EASY ENOUGH WITH THE CHILD YOU WILL CARRY HER OUT + AND SHE WILL HOLD HER TONGUE I ANSWER FOR THAT + FAUCHELEVENT GRUMBLED MORE TO HIMSELF THAN TO JEAN VALJEAN + YOU UNDERSTAND FATHER MADELEINE THE GOVERNMENT ONE NOTICE IT + JEAN VALJEAN STARED HIM STRAIGHT IN THE EYE AND THOUGHT THAT HE WAS RAVING + FIRST LIVE I WENT ON + IT IS TO MORROW THAT I AM TO BRING YOU IN THE PRIORESS EXPECTS YOU + THEN HE EXPLAINED TO JEAN VALJEAN THAT THIS WAS HIS RECOMPENSE FOR A SERVICE WHICH HE FAUCHELEVENT WAS TO RENDER TO THE COMMUNITY + THAT THE NUN WHO HAD DIED THAT MORNING HAD REQUESTED TO BE BURIED IN THE COFFIN WHICH HAD SERVED HER FOR A BED AND INTERRED IN THE FAULT UNDER THE ALTAR OF THE CHAPEL + THAT THE PRIORESS AND THE VOCAL MOTHERS INTENDED TO FULFIL THE WISH OF THE DECEASED + THAT HE FOR CHAUVELIN WAS TO NAIL UP THE COFFIN IN THE CELL RAISED THE STONE IN THE CHAPEL AND BLOW THE CORPSE INTO THE VAULT + AND THEN THAT THERE WAS ANOTHER THE EMPTY COFFIN + WHAT IS THAT EMPTY COFFIN + ASKED JEAN VALJEAN FAUCHELEVENT REPLIED + WHAT COFFIN WHAT ADMINISTRATION + FAUCHELEVENT WHO WAS SEATED SPRANG UP AS THOUGH A BOMB HAD BURST UNDER HIS CHAIR YOU + YOU KNOW FAUCHELEVENT WHAT YOU HAVE SAID MOTHER CRUCIFIXION IS DEAD + AND I ADD AND FATHER MADELINE IS BURIED AH + YOU ARE NOT LIKE OTHER MEN FATHER MADELINE + THIS OFFERS THE MEANS BUT GIVE ME SOME INFORMATION IN THE FIRST PLACE + HOW LONG IS THE COFFIN SIX FEET + IT IS A CHAMBER ON THE GROUND FLOOR WHICH HAS A GRATED WINDOW OPENING ON THE GARDEN WHICH IS CLOSED ON THE OUTSIDE BY A SHUTTER AND TWO DOORS ONE LEADS INTO THE CONVENT THE OTHER INTO THE CHURCH + THAT THE CHURCH IN THE STREET THAT THE CHURCH WHICH ANY ONE CAN ENTER + HAVE YOU THE KEYS TO THOSE TWO DOORS + NO I HAVE THE KEY TO THE DOOR WHICH COMMUNICATES WITH THE CONVENT THE PORTER HAS THE KEY TO THE DOOR WHICH COMMUNICATES WITH THE CHECHE + ONLY TO ALLOW THE UNDERTAKERS MEN TO ENTER WHEN THEY COME TO GET THE COFFIN + WHO NAILS UP THE COFFIN I DO + WHO SPREADS THE POOR OVER IT + NOT ANOTHER MAN EXCEPT THE POLICE DOCTOR CAN ENTER THE BEDROOM THAT IS EVEN WRITTEN ON THE WALL + COULD YOU HIDE ME IN THAT ROOM TO NIGHT WHEN EVERY ONE IS ASLEEP + ABOUT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON + I SHALL BE HUNGRY I WILL BRING YOU SOMETHING + YOU CAN COME AND NA ON ME UP IN THE COFFIN AT TWO O'CLOCK + FASH LIVE OVER A COILED AND CRACKED HIS FINGER JOINTS BUT THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE + BAH IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE A HAMMER AND DRIVE SOME NAILS IN A PLANK + JEAN VALJEAN HAD BEEN IN WORSE STRAIGHT THAN THIS + ANY MAN WHO HAS BEEN A PRISONER UNDERSTANDS HOW TO CONTRACT HIMSELF TO FIT THE DIAMETER OF THE ESCAPE + WHAT DOES NOT A MAN UNDERGO FOR THE SAKE OF A CURE + TO HAVE HIMSELF NAILED UP IN A CASE AND CARRIED OFF LIKE A BAIL OF GOODS TO LIVE FOR A LONG TIME IN A BOX TO FIND AIR WHERE THERE IS NONE TO ECONOMIZE HIS BREATH FOR HOURS TO KNOW HOW TO STIFLE WITHOUT DYING THIS WAS ONE OF JEAN VALJEAN'S GLOOMY TALENTS + YOU SURELY MUST HAVE A GIMLET YOU WILL MAKE A FEW HOLES HERE AND THERE AROUND MY MOUTH AND YOU WILL NAIL THE TOP PLAN LOOSELY GOOD AND WHAT IF YOU SHOULD HAPPEN TO COUGH OR TO SNEEZE + A MAN WHO IS MAKING HIS ESCAPE DOES NOT COUGH OR SNEEZE + WHO IS THERE WHO HAS NOT SAID TO A CAT DO COME IN + THE OVERPRUDENT CATS AS THEY ARE AND BECAUSE THEY ARE CATS SOMETIMES INCUR MORE DANGER THAN THE AUDACIOUS + BUT JEAN VALJEAN'S COOLNESS PREVAILED OVER HIM IN SPITE OF HIMSELF HE GRUMBLED + IF YOU ARE SURE OF COMING OUT OF THE COFFIN ALL RIGHT I AM SURE OF GETTING YOU OUT WITH THE GRAVE + AN OLD FELLOW OF THE OLD SCHOOL THE GRAY DIGGER PUTS THE CORPSES IN THE GRAVE AND I PUT THE GRAVE DIGGER IN MY POCKET + I SHALL FOLLOW THAT IS MY BUSINESS + THE HAS HOLTS THE UNDERTAKER'S MEN NOT A ROPE AROUND YOUR COFFIN AND LOWER YOU DOWN + THE PRIESTS AS THE PRAYERS MAKES THE SIGN OF THE CROSS SPRINKLES THE HOLY WATER AND TAKES HIS DEPARTURE + ONE OF TWO THINGS WILL HAPPEN HE WILL EITHER BE SOBER OR HE WILL NOT BE SOBER + THAT IS SETTLED FATHER FAUCHELEVENT ALL WILL GO WELL + ON THE FOLLOWING DAY AS THE SUN WAS DECLINING THE VERY RARE PASSERS BY ON THE BOULEVARD DEI MEN PULLED OFF THE HATS TO AN OLD FASHIONED HEARSE ORNAMENTED WITH SKULLS CROSS BONES AND TEARS + THIS HEARSE CONTAINED A COFFIN COVERED WITH A WHITE CLOTH OVER WHICH SPREAD A LARGE BLACK CROSS LIKE A HUGE CORPSE WITH DROOPING ARMS + A MORNING COACH IN WHICH COULD BE SEEN A PRIEST IN HIS SURPLICE AND A CHOIR BOY IN HIS RED CAP FOLLOWED + BEHIND IT CAME AN OLD MAN IN THE GARMENTS OF A LABOURER WHO LIMPED ALONG + THE GRAVE DIGGERS BEING THUS BOUND TO SERVICE IN THE EVENING IN SUMMER AND AT NIGHT IN WINTER IN THIS CEMETERY THEY WERE SUBJECTED TO A SPECIAL DISCIPLINE + THESE GATES THEREFORE SWUNG INEXORABLY ON THEIR HINGES AT THE INSTANT WHEN THE SUN DISAPPEARED BEHIND THE DOME OF THE INVALID + DAMPNESS WAS INVADING IT THE FLOWERS WERE DESERTING IT + THE BOURGEOIS DID NOT CARE MUCH ABOUT BEING BURIED IN THE ROGER IT HINTED AT POVERTY BAHAL CHAISE IF YOU PLEASE + TO BE BURIED IN PETHELA CHAISE IS EQUIVALENT TO HAVING FURNITURE OF MAHOGANY IT IS RECOGNIZED AS ELEGANT + THE INTERMENT OF MOTHER CRUCIFIXION IN THE VAULT UNDER THE ALTAR THE EXIT OF COSETTE THE INTRODUCTION OF JEAN VALJEAN INTO THE DEAD ROOM ALL HAD BEEN EXECUTED WITHOUT DIFFICULTY AND THERE HAD BEEN NO HITCH LET US REMARK IN PASSING THAT THE BURIAL OF MOTHER CRUCIFIXION UNDER THE ALTAR OF THE CONVENT IS A PERFECTLY VENAL OFFENSE IN OUR SIGHT + IT IS ONE OF THE FAULTS WHICH RESEMBLE A DUTY + THE NUNS HAD COMMITTED IT NOT ONLY WITHOUT DIFFICULTY BUT EVEN WITH THE APPLAUSE OF THEIR OWN CONSCIENCES + IN THE CLOISTER WHAT IS CALLED THE GOVERNMENT IS ONLY AN INTERMEDDLING WITH AUTHORITY AN INTERFERENCE WHICH IS ALWAYS QUESTIONABLE + MAKE AS MANY LAWS AS YOU PLEASE MEN BUT KEEP THEM FOR YOURSELVES + A PRINCE IS NOTHING IN THE PRESENCE OF A PRINCIPLE + FAUCHELEVENT LIMPED ALONG BEHIND THE HEARSE IN A VERY CONTENTED FRAME OF MIND + JEAN VALJEAN'S COMPOSURE WAS ONE OF THOSE POWERFUL TRANQUILLITIES WHICH OUR CONTAGIOUS + WHAT REMAINED TO BE DONE WAS A MERE NOTHING + HE PLAYED WITH FATHER MOUSTON + HE DID WHAT HE KNOCKED WITH HIM HE MADE HIM DANCE ACCORDING TO HIS WHIM + THE PERMISSION FOR INTERMENT MUST BE EXHIBITED + HE WAS A SORT OF LABORING MAN WHO WORE A WAISTCOAT WITH LARGE POCKETS AND CARRIED A MATTOCK UNDER HIS ARM + THE MAN REPLIED THE GRAVE DIGGER + THE GRAVE DIGGER YES + YOU I + FATHER MISCHAEND IS THE BRAVE DIGGER HE WAS + FASHION OF WHAT HAD EXPECTED ANYTHING BUT THIS BUT A GRAVE DIGGER COULD DIE + IT IS TRUE NEVERTHELESS THAT GRAVE DIGGERS DO DIE THEMSELVES + HE HAD HARDLY THE STRENGTH TO STAMMER + BUT HE PERSISTED FEEBLY FATHER IS THE GRAVE DIGGER + DO YOU KNOW WHO LITTLE FATHER AND LYRES HE IS A JUG OF RED WINE + BUT YOU ARE A JOLLY FELLOW TOO + ARE YOU NOT COMRADE WE'LL GO AND HAVE A DRINK TOGETHER PRESENTLY + THE MAN REPLIED + HE LIMPED MORE OUT OF ANXIETY THAN FROM INFIRMITY + THE GRAVEDIGGER WALKED ON IN FRONT OF HIM + FAUCHELEVENT PASSED THE UNEXPECTED CREVIER ONCE MORE IN REVIEW + FAUCHELEVENT WHO WAS ILLITERATE BUT VERY SHARP UNDERSTOOD THAT HE HAD TO DEAL WITH A FORMIDABLE SPECIES OF MAN WITH A FINE TALKER HE MUTTERED + SIR FATHER MASTIENNE IS DEAD + THE MAN REPLIED COMPLETELY + THE GOOD GOD CONSULTED HIS MILK BOOK WHICH SHOWS WHEN THE TIME IS UP IT WAS FATHER MASTIENNE'S TURN FATHER MASTIENNE DIED + STAMMERED FAUCHELEVENT IT IS MADE + YOU ARE A PEASANT I AM A PARISIAN + FOR CHIVAL THOUGHT I AM LOST + THERE WERE ONLY A FEW TURNS OF THE WHEEL DISTANT FROM THE SMALL ALLEY LEADING TO THE NUN'S CORNER + AND HE ADDED WITH THE SATISFACTION OF A SERIOUS MAN WHO IS TURNING A PHRASE WELL + FORTUNATELY THE SOIL WHICH WAS LIGHT AND WET WITH THE WINTER RAINS CLOGED THE WHEELS AND RETARDED ITS SPEED + MY FATHER WAS A PORTER AT THE PRETERNAIUM TOWN HOME + BUT HE HAD REVERSES HE HAD LOSSES UNCHANGED I WAS OBLIGED TO RENOUNCE THE PROFESSION OF AUTHOR BUT I AM STILL A PUBLIC WRITER + SO YOU ARE NOT A GRAVE DIGGER THEN + RETURNED FAUCHELEVENT CLUTCHING AT THIS BRANCH FEEBLE AS IT WAS + HERE A REMARK BECOMES NECESSARY + A FAUCHELEVENT WHATEVER HIS ANGUISH OFFERED A DRINK BUT HE DID NOT EXPLAIN HIMSELF ON ONE POINT WHO WAS TO PAY + THE GRAVEDIGGER WENT ON WITH A SUPERIOR SMILE + ONE MUST EAT + THE DUKE COMES EVERY MORNING THEY WILL TELL HIM WHEN HE COMES THAT I AM ASLEEP AND PERHAPS HE WILL WAIT UNTIL I AWAKE + YES BUT IF I SHOULD ALREADY ASK FOR SOMETHING WHAT + WELL DO IT FOR ME FOR I SWEAR TO YOU THAT I DON'T LOVE YOU AS THE OTHERS HAVE LOVED YOU + THERE ARE BOLTS IN THE DOOR WRETCH + I DON'T KNOW HOW IT IS BUT IT SEEMS TO ME AS IF I DO + NOW GO I CAN'T KEEP MY EYES OPEN + IT SEEMED TO ME AS IF THIS SLEEPY CITY BELONGS TO ME I SEARCHED MY MEMORY FOR THE NAMES OF THOSE WHOSE HAPPINESS I HAD ONCE BEEN ENVIED AND I COULD NOT RECALL ONE WITHOUT FINDING MYSELF THE HAPPIER + EDUCATION FAMILY FEELING A SENSE OF DUTY THE FAMILY ARE STRONG SENTINELS BUT THERE ARE NO SENTIMENTS SO VIGILANT AS NOT TO BE DECEIVED BY A GIRL OF SIXTEEN TO WHOM NATURE BY THE VOICE OF THE MAN SHE LOVES GIVES THE FIRST COUNSEL OF LOVE ALL THE MORE ARDENT BECAUSE THEY SEEM SO PURE + THE MORE GIRL BELIEVES IN GOODNESS THE MORE ISLE WILL SHE GIVE WAY IF NOT TO HER LOVER AT LEAST TO LOVE FOR BEING WITHOUT MISTRUST SHE IS WITHOUT FORCE AND TO WIN HER LOVE IS A TRIUMPH THAT CAN BE GAINED BY ANY YOUNG MEN OF FIVE AND TWENTY SEE HOW YOUNG GIRLS ARE WATCHED AND GUARDED + THEN HOW SURELY MUST THEY DESIRE THE WORLD WHICH IS HIDDEN FROM THEM HOW SURELY MUST THEY FIND IT TEMPTING HOW SURELY MUST BE LISTENED TO THE FIRST VOICE WHICH COMES TO TELL ITS SECRETS THROUGH THEIR BARS AND BLESS THE HAND WHICH IS THE FIRST TO RAISE A CORNER OF THE MYSTERY VEIL + WITH THEM THE BODY HAS WORN OUT THE SOUL THE SENSES HATH BURNED UP THE HEART DISSIPATION HAS BLUNTED THE FEELINGS + THEY LOVE BY PROFESSION AND NOT BY INSTINCT + WHEN A CREATURE WHO HAS ALL HER PAST TO REPROACH HERSELF WITH IS TAKEN ALL AT ONCE BY A PROFOUND SINCERE IRRESISTIBLY LOVE OF WHICH SHE HAD NEVER FELT HERSELF CAPABLE WHEN SHE HAS CONFESSED HER LOVE HOW ABSOLUTELY THE MAN WHOM SHE LOVES DOMINATES HER + THEY KNOW NOT WHAT PROOF TO GIVE + IN ORDER TO DISTURB THE LABORERS IN THE FIELD WAS ONE DAY DEVOURED BY A WOLF BECAUSE THOSE WHOM HE HAD SO OFTEN DECEIVED NO LONGER BELIEVED IN HIS CRIES FOR HELP + THIS IS THE SAME WITH THESE UNHAPPY WOMAN WHEN THEY LOVE SERIOUSLY + BUT WHEN THE MAN WHO INSPIRES THIS REDEEMING LOVE IS GREAT ENOUGH AND SOUL TO RECEDE WITHOUT REMEMBERING THE PAST WHEN HE GIVES HIMSELF UP TO IT WHEN IN SHORT HE LOVES AS HE IS LOVED THIS MAN DREAMS AT ONE DRAUGHT ALL EARTHLY EMOTIONS AND AFTER SUCH A LOVE HIS HEART WILL BE CLOSED TO EVERY OTHER + BUT TO RETURN TO THE FIRST DAY OF MELIE UZANOV + WHEN I REACHED HOME I WAS IN A STATE OF MAD GAIETY + THE WOMAN BECOMES A MAN'S MISTRESS AND LOVES HIM + HOW WHY + MY WHOLE BEING WAS EXALTED INTO JOY AT THE MEMORY OF THE WORDS WE HAD EXCHANGED DURING THAT FIRST NIGHT + HERE ARE MY ORDERS TONIGHT AT A VAUDEVILLE + COME DURING THE THIRD ENTRACT + THE BOXES FILLED ONE AFTER ANOTHER + ONLY ONE REMAINED EMPTY THE STAGE BOX + AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD ACT I HEARD THE DOOR OF THE BOX ON WHICH MY EYES HAD BEEN ALMOST CONSTANTLY FIXED OPEN AND MARGUERITE APPEARED + DOES SHE LOVE ME ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT THE MORE BEAUTIFUL SHE LOOKED THE HAPPIER I SHOULD BE + WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU TO NIGHT SAID MARGUERITE RISING AND COMING TO THE BACK OF THE BOX AND KISSING ME ON THE FOREHEAD + YOU SHOULD GO TO BED SHE REPLIED WITH THAT IRONIC ERROR WHICH WENT SO WELL WITH HER DELICATE AND WITTY FACE + WHERE AT HOME + YOU STILL LOVE ME CAN YOU ASK + BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE SEEING HIM + NEVERTHELESS I WAS VERY UNHAPPY ALL THE REST OF THE EVENING AND WENT AWAY VERY SADLY AFTER HAVING SEEN PRUDENCE THE COUNT AND MARGUERITE GET INTO THE CARRIAGE WHICH WAS WAITING FOR THEM AT THE DOOR + I HAVE NOT COME TO HINDER YOU FROM LEAVING PARIS + YOU IN THE WAY MARGUERITE BUT HOW + WELL YOU MIGHT HAVE HAD A WOMAN HERE SAID PRUDENCE AND IT WOULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN AMUSING FOR HER TO SEE TWO MORE ARRIVE + DURING THIS REMARK MARGUERITE LOOKED AT ME ATTENTIVELY + MY DEAR PRUDENCE I ANSWERED YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING + YES BUT BESIDES NOT WISHING TO PUT YOU OUT I WAS SURE THAT IF YOU CAME AS FAR AS MY DOOR YOU WOULD WANT TO COME UP AND AS I COULD NOT LET YOU I DID NOT WISH TO LET YOU GO AWAY BLAMING ME FOR SAYING NO + BECAUSE I AM WATCHED AND THE LEAST SUSPICION MIGHT DO ME THE GREATEST HARM + IS THAT REALLY THE ONLY REASON + IF THERE WERE ANY OTHER I WOULD TELL YOU FOR WE ARE NOT TO HAVE ANY SECRETS FROM ONE ANOTHER NOW + HONESTLY DO YOU CARE FOR ME A LITTLE A GREAT DEAL + I FANCIED FOR A MOMENT THAT I MIGHT GIVE MYSELF THAT HAPPINESS FOR SIX MONTHS YOU WOULD NOT HAVE IT YOU INSISTED ON KNOWING THE MEANS + WELL GOOD HEAVENS THE MEANS WERE EASY ENOUGH TO GUESS + I LISTENED AND I GAZED AT MARGUERITE WITH ADMIRATION + WHEN I THOUGHT THAT THIS MARVELLOUS CREATURE WHOSE FEET I HAD ONCE LONGED TO KISS WAS WILLING TO LET ME TAKE MY PLACE IN HER THOUGHTS MY PART IN HER LIFE AND THAT I WAS NOT YET CONTENT WITH WHAT SHE GAVE ME I ASKED IF MEN'S DESIRE HAD INDEED LIMITS WHEN SATISFIED AS PROMPTLY AS MINE HAD BEEN IT REACHED AFTER SOMETHING FURTHER + TRULY SHE CONTINUED WE POOR CREATURES OF CHANCE HAVE FANTASTIC DESIRE AND INCONCEIVABLE LOVES + WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE HEARTS UNDER PENALTY OF BEING HOOTED DOWN AND OF RUINING OUR CREDIT + WE NO LONGER BELONG TO OURSELVES + WE STAND FIRST IN THEIR SELF ESTEEM LAST IN THEIR ESTEEM + NEVER DO HE GIVE YOU ADVICE WHICH IS NOT LUCRATIVE + IT MEANS LITTLE ENOUGH TO THEM THAT WE SHOULD HAVE TEN LOVERS EXTRA AS LONG AS THEY GET DRESSES OR A BRACELET OUT OF THEM AND THAT THEY CAN DRIVE IN OUR CARRIAGE FROM TIME TO TIME OR COME TO OUR BOX AT THE FUTURE + SUCH A MAN I FOUND IN THE DUKE BUT THE DUKE IS OLD AND THE OLD AGE NEITHER PROTECTS NOR CONSOLES + I THOUGHT I COULD AT SUCH A LIFE WHICH HE OFFERED ME BUT WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE + WHAT I LOVED IN YOU WAS NOT THE MAN WHO WAS BUT THE MAN WHO WAS GOING TO BE + MARGUERITE TIRED OUT WITH HIS LONG CONFESSION THREW HERSELF BACK ON THE SOFA AND TO STIFLE A SLIGHT COUGH PULL UP HER HANDKERCHIEF TO HER LIPS AND FROM THAT TO HER EYES + MARGUERITE DO WITH ME AS YOU WILL I AM YOUR SLAVE YOUR DOG BUT IN THE NAME OF HEAVEN TEAR UP THE LETTER WHICH I WROTE TO YOU AND DID NOT MAKE ME LEAVE YOU TO MORROW IT WOULD KILL ME + MARGUERITE DREW THE LETTER FROM HER BOSOM AND HANDING IT TO ME WITH A SMILE OF INFINITE SWEETNESS SAID + HERE IT IS I HAVE BROUGHT IT BACK + I TORE THE LETTER INTO FRAGMENT AND KISSED WITH TEARS THE HAND THAT GAVE IT TO ME + LOOK HERE PRUDEST DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE WANTS SAID MARGUERITE + HE WANTS YOU TO FORGIVE HIM + ONE HAS TO BUT HE WANTS MORE THAN THAT WHAT THEN + I EMBRACED MARGUERITE UNTIL SHE WAS ALMOST STIFLED + OH MISTER PUZZERD GRINNED + THIS SOUNDED LIKE ANOTHER STORY + HE WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THAT BLACK HEADED COUSIN OF ALL MISTER BUZZARD VERY CURIOUS INDEED + ANYWAY HE WOULD FIND OUT + PLEASE MISTER BALZIR PLEASE TELL US THE STORY HE BEGGED + NOW ALL MISTER BUZZARD IS NATURALLY GOOD NATURED AND ACCOMMODATING AND WHEN PETER BEGGED SO HARD HE JUST COULDN'T FIND IT IN HIS HEART TO REFUSE + WAY BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN GRANDPAPAZZARD HAD HIS LITTLE FALLING OUT WITH OLD KING EAGLE AND DONE FLY SO HIGH HE SCORCHED THE FEATHERS OFTEN HIS HEAD HE HAD A COUSIN DID GRANDPAPA BUZZARD AND THIS COUSIN WAS JUST NATURALLY LAZY AND NO COUCH + LIKE MOST NO COUNT PEOPLE HE USED TO MAKE A REGULAR NUISANCE OF HIMSELF POKING HIS NOSE INTO EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS AND NEVER TENDING TO HIS OWN + WASN'T ANYTHING GOING ON THAT THIS TRIFLING MEMBER OF THE PUZZARD FAMILY DIDN'T FIND OUT ABOUT A MEDAL IN HE COULD ASK MORE QUESTIONS THAN PETER RABBIT CAN AND ANYBODY THAT CAN DO THAT HAS GOT TO ASK A LOT + EVERYBODY LOOKED AT PETER AND LAUGHED + SO WE UNS DID ON THE CHIMNEY TUBS WHENEVER OLD JACK FROST GETS TO STRAIN DOWN WHERE HE HAVE NO BUSINESS + ONE DAY THIS NO COUNT TRIFLING COUSIN OF GRANDPAPAZARD GET COLD IN HIS FEET + IT WAS ON A LOWER OLD HOUSE ANOTHER OLD TUMBLEDOWN HOUSE + WHY HE JUST STRETCH HIS FULL HEAD AS FAR DOWN THE CHIMNEY AS HE CAN AND LISTEN AND LISTEN + BUT HE DON'T MIND THAT + OH YO ALL PLEASE SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER HE HOLLERED DOWN THE CHIMNEY JUST LIKE THAT + YES SAW SHE SURELY WAS PLUMP SCARED + THEY LIKE TO CHOKE THAT NO COMPOSER TO DEATH + WHEN HE'D GET HOME HE TRIED TO BRUSH THE SUIT OFF BUT IT DONE GET INTO THE SKIN AND IT'S STAY THERE + A LITTLE SIGH OF SATISFACTION WENT ROUND THE CIRCLE OF LISTENERS + IT WAS JUST AS GOOD AS ONE OF GRANDFATHER FROGS + DRAW WHEAT FILL MIX GIVE IT ME WITHOUT WATER + SO MY FRIEND SO WHIP ME OFF THIS GLASS NEATLY BRING ME HITHER SOME CLARET A FULL WEEPING GLASS TILL IT RUN OVER + A CESSATION AND TRUTH WITH THIRST + YOU HAVE CAST A COLD GAMMAR YE AFE FORSOOTH SIR + BY THE BELLY OF SAINT BUFF LET US TALK OF OUR DRINK I NEVER DRINK WET AT MY HOURS LIKE THE POPE'S MULE + WHICH WAS FIRST THERE WAS A DRINKING + WHAT IT SEEMS I DO NOT DRINK BUT BY AN ATTORNEY + DRINK ALWAYS AND YOU SHALL NEVER DIE + IF I DRINK NOT I AM A GROUND DRY GRAVELLED AND SPENT I AM STARK DEAD WITHOUT DRINK AND MY SOUL READY TO FLY INTO SOME MORSE AMONGST FROGS THE SOUL NEVER DWELLS IN A DRY PLACE DROUTH KILL IT THAT + HE DRINKS IN VAIN THAT FILLS NOT THE PLEASURE OF IT + IT IS ENOUGH TO BREAK BOTH GIRDS AND PETROL + WHAT DIFFERENCE IS THERE BETWEEN A BOTTLE AND A FLAGON + BRAVELY AND WELL PLAYED UPON THE WORDS + OUR FATHERS DRANK LUSTILY AND EMPTIED THEIR CANS + WELL CAGO WELL SUNG + COME LET US DRINK WILL YOU SEND NOTHING TO THE RIVER + I DRANK NO MORE THAN HIS BARNES + I DRINK LIKE A TAP LOR NIGHT + AND I TAME QUAR SPONSUS + AND I CICAT TERRACE IN AQUA + GIVE ME A SYNONYM FOR A GAMIN OF BACON + IT IS THE COMPULSORY OF DRINKERS IT IS A PULLEY + A LITTLE RAIN ALLAYS A GREAT DEAL OF WIND LONG TIPPLING BREAKS THE THUNDER + BUT IF THERE CAME SUCH LIQUOR FOR MY BALLIC WERE YOU NOT WILLINGLY THEREAFTER SUCKED THE UTTER WHENCE IT ISOUD + HERE PAINS FILL + I APPEAL FROM THIRST AND DISCLAIM ITS JURORS DIXAM + I WAS WONT HERE TO FORE TO DRINK OUT ALL BUT NOW I LEAVE NOTHING + HEY DYE DYE HERE A TRIPE FIT FOR OUR SPORT AND IN EARNEST EXCELLENT GO TO BILLIOSE OF THE DUN OX YOU KNOW WITH THE BLACK STREET + OH FOR GOD'S SAKE LET US LAST THEM SOUNDLY YET DRIFTILY + SPARROWS WHEN I EAT UNLESS YOU BOB THEM ON THE TAIL NOR CAN I DRINK IF I BE NOT FAIRLY SPOKE TO + OH THIS WAS BEGGING SOUNDLY + BUT THEY SABANTSLY UTTERLY + LET US WIND OUR HORNS BY THE SOUND OF FLAG GUNS AND BOTTLES AND CRY ALOUD THERE WHOEVER HATH LOST HIS THIRST COME NOT HITHER TO SEEK IT + THE GREAT GOD MADE THE PLANETS AND WE MAKE THE PLATTERS NEATH + APPETITE COMES WITH EATING SAYS ANGSTAND BUT THE THIRST GOES AWAY WITH DRINKING + I HAVE A REMEDY AGAINST THIRST QUITE CONTRARY TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD AGAINST THE BITING OF A MAN DOG + WHITE WHY HERE WINE BOYS + O LACHRAMAL CHRISTI IT IS OF THE BEST GRAPE + I FAITH PURE GREEK GREEK O THE FINE WHITE WINE + THERE IS NO ENCHANTMENT NOR CHARM THERE EVERY ONE OF YOU HATH SEEN IT + MY PRENTICE IS OUT I'M A FREE MAN AT THIS TRAY + I SHOULD SEE MASTER PASS + O THE DRINKERS THOSE THAT ARE A DRY O POOR THIRSTY SOULS + CLEAR OFF NEAT SUPERNACUUM + ALTHOUGH THE PLAGUE WAS THERE IN THE MOST PART OF ALL THE HOUSES THEY NEVERTHELESS ENTERED EVERYWHERE THEN PLUNDERED AND CARRIED AWAY ALL THAT WAS WITHIN AND YET FOR ALL THIS NOT ONE OF THEM TOOK ANY HURT WHICH IS A MOST WONDERFUL CASE + I BESEECH YOU THINK UPON IT + NEVERTHELESS AT ALL VENTURES THEY RANG THE BELLS AT CAPITULUM CAPITULANT DAYS + BY THE VIRTUE OF GOD WHY DO NOT YOU SING PANNIERS FAREWELL VINTAGE IS DONE + BY THE BILLY OF SAINT JAMES WHENCE HOW WE POOR DEVILS DRINK THE WHILE + LORD GOD THOU ME HE POTEM + LET HIM BE CARRIED THE PRISONER FOR TROUBLING THE DIVINE SERVICE + WHEREFORE IS IT THAT OUR DEVOTIONS WERE INSTITUTED TO BE SHORT IN THE TIME OF HARVEST INVENTAGE AND LONG IN THE ADVENT AND ALL THE WINTER + ARE YOU MY MASTERS YOU THAT LOVE THEM WINE COPSE'S BODY FOLLOW ME FOR SAINT ANTHONY BURN ME AS FREELY AS A FAGOT DID THEY GET LEAVE TO TASTE ONE DROP OF THE LICORE THAT WILL NOT NOW COME AND FIGHT FOR RELIEF OF THE VINE + TO OTHERS AGAIN HE UNJOINTED THE SPONDULES OR KNUCKLES OF THE NECK THIS FIGURED THEIR CHAPS GAS THEIR FACES MADE THEIR CHEEKS HANG FLAPPING ON THEIR CHIN AND SO SWINGED AND BELAMMED THEM THAT THEY FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM LIKE HAY BEFORE MORE + TO SOME A SMART SOUS ON THE EPAGASTER HE WOULD MAKE THEIR MIDDRIFT SWAG THEN REDOUBLING THE BLOW GAVE THEM SUCH A HOME PUSH ON THE NAVEL THAT HE MADE THEIR PUDDINGS TO GUSH OUT + BELIEVE THAT IT WAS THE MOST HORRIBLE SPECTACLE THAT EVER ONE SAW + OH THE HOLY LADY KNIGHTS IT SAID ONE THE GOOD SANCTUS OH OUR LADY OF SECURES SAID ANOTHER HELP HELP + SOME DIED WITHOUT SPEAKING OTHERS SPOKE WITHOUT DYING SOME DIED IN SPEAKING OTHERS SPOKE AND DYING + CAN YOU TELL WITH WHAT INSTRUMENTS THEY DID IT + IN THE MEANTIME FRIED JOHN WITH HIS FORMIDABLE BATAAN OF THE CROSS GOT TO THE BREACH WHICH THE ENEMIES HAD MADE AND THERE STOOD TO SNATCH UP THOSE THAT ENDEAVORED TO ESCAPE + IT IS SIGNIFICANT TO NOTE IN THIS CONNECTION THAT THE NEW KING WAS AN UNSWERVING ADHERENT OF THE CULT OF ASHER BY THE ADHERENTS OF WHICH HE WAS PROBABLY STRONGLY SUPPORTED + AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS REIGN THERE WAS MUCH SO SO DISCONTENT AND SUFFERING + WELL MIGHT YOUR EXCLAIM IN THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET WHERE IS THE KING OF ARPAID + TO GLASS POLIZER HOWEVER CROSSED THE EUPHRATES AND MOVING NORTHWARD DELIVERED AND UNEXPECTED ATTACKED ON THE RACIAN ARMY AND CUMAC + A FIERCE BATTLE ENSUED AND ONE OF HIS DRAMATIC INCIDENTS WAS A SINGLE COMBAT BETWEEN THE RIVAL KINGS + AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO CAPTURE KING SHADDORUS WHO LEAPT FROM HIS CHARIOT AND MADE HASTY ESCAPE ON HORSEBACK HARTLY PURSUED IN THE GATHERING DARKNESS BY AN ASSYRIAN CONTINGENT OF CAVALRY + DESPITE THE BLOW DEALT AGAINST YOURRTU A SYRIA DID NOT IMMEDIATELY REGAIN POSSESSION OF NORTH CYRIA + THE SHIFTY MATTI ILU EITHER CHERISHED THE HOPE THATCH DURRANCE WOULD RECOVER STRENGTH AND AGAIN IN VAIN NORTH SERIA OR THAT HE MIGHT HIMSELF ESTABLISH AN EMPIRE IN THAT REGION + TO GLASS BELEASURE HAD THEREFORE TO MARCH WESTWARD AGAIN + FOR THREE YEARS HE CONDUCT THE VIGOROUS CAMPAIGNS IN THE WESTERN LAND WHERE HE MET WITH VIGOROUS RESISTANCE + OR PAD WAS CAPTURED AND MATTIU DEPOSED AND PROBABLY PUT TO DEATH + ONCE AGAIN THE HEBREWS CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THESERA + ITS FORM MAY NOT HAVE BEEN UNCONNECTED WITH THE TREND OF EVINCED IN ASSYRIA DURING THE CLOSING YEARS OF THE MIDDLE EMPIRE + GIO ASH THE GRANDSON OF JEHU HAD ACHIEVED SUCCESSES IN CONFLICT WITH DAMASCUS + SIX MONTHS AFTERWARD HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY SCHILLAM + THIS USURPER HELD SWAY AT SUMERIA PHONE A MONTH + NO RESISTANCE WAS POSSIBLE ON THE PART OF MANY HIM THE USURPER WHO WAS PROBABLY READY TO WELCOME THE ASSYRIAN CONQUEROR SO THAT BY ARRANGING AN ALLIANCE HE MIGHT SECURE HIS OWN POSITION + TAKE LAST BELIEVER NEXT OPERATED AGAINST THE MEDIUM AND OTHER HILL TRIBES IN THE NORTHEAST + HE OVERTHREW BUILDINGS DESTROYED ORCHARDS AND TRANSPORTED TO NINEVEH THOSE OF THEIR INHABITANTS HE HAD NOT PUT TO THE SWORD WITH ALL THE LIVE STOCK HE COULD LAY HANDS ON + THUS WAS URTO CRIPPLED AND HUMILIATED IT NEVER REGAINED ITS FORM OF PRESTIGES AMONG THE NORTHERN STATES + IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR TAKE GLASS BELIZER RETURN TO SYRIA + MANYHIM KING OF ISRAEL HAD DIED AND WAS SUCCEEDED BY HIS SON PICCAH + JUDAH HAD TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE DISTURBED CONDITIONS IN ISRAEL TO ASSERT ITS INDEPENDENCE + HE CONDEMNED ISRAEL FOR ITS IDOLATRIES INCRED + FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL SEEK YE ME AND YE SHALL LIVE HAVE YE OFFERED UNTO ME SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEARS O HOUSE OF ISRAEL + THE REMNANT OF THE PHILISTINE SHALL PERISH + ISRAEL WAS ALSO DEALT WITH + HE SWEPT THROUGH ISRAEL LIKE A HURRICANE + THE PHILISTINES AND THE ARABIANS OF THE DESERT WERE ALSO SUBDUED + HE INVADED BABYLONIA + EUCINGER TOOK REFUGE IN HIS CAPITAL SHAPEIA WHICH HELD OUT SUCCESSFULLY ALTHOUGH THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY WAS RAVAGED AND DESPOILED + AS I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS DUE TO SOME FAULT IN THE EARTH I WANTED TO MAKE THESE FIRST EXPERIMENTS BEFORE I UNDERTOOK MY PERSEUS + WHEN I SAW THAT THIS BUST CAME OUT SHARP AND CLEAN I SET AT ONCE TO CONSTRUCT A LITTLE FURNACE IN THE WORKSHOP ERECTED FOR ME BY THE DUKE AFTER MY OWN PLANS AND DESIGN IN THE HOUSE WHICH THE DUKE HAD GIVEN ME + IT WAS AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TASK AND I WAS ANXIOUS TO OBSERVE ALL THE NICETIES OF ART WHICH I HAD LEARNED SO AS NOT TO LAPSE INTO SOME ERROR + I IN MY TURN FEEL THE SAME DESIRE AND HOPE TO PLAY MY PART LIKE THEM THEREFORE MY LORD GIVE ME THE LEAVE TO GO + BUT BEWARE OF LETTING BEND NELLO QUIT YOU RATHER BESTOW UPON HIM ALWAYS MORE THAN HE DEMANDS FOR IF HE GOES INTO FOREIGN PARTS HIS IGNORANCE IS SO PRESUMPTUOUS THAT HE IS JUST THE MAN TO DISGRACE OUR MOST ILLUSTRIOUS SCHOOL + I ASKED NO FURTHER REWARD FOR MY LABOURS UP TO THIS TIME THAN THE GRACIOUS FAVOUR OF YOUR MOST ILLUSTRIOUS EXCELLENCY + THEN I THANKED HIM AND SAID I HAD NO GREATER DESIRE THAN TO SHOW THOSE ENVIOUS FOLK THAT I HAD IT IN ME TO EXECUTE THE PROMISED WORK + I HAD BETTER LOOK TO MY CONDUCT FOR IT HAD COME TO HIS EARS THAT I RELIED UPON HIS FAVOUR TO TAKE IN FIRST ONE MAN AND THEN ANOTHER + I BEGGED HIS MOST EXCELLENCY TO NAME A SINGLE PERSON WHY HAD EVER TAKEN IN + I SAID MY LORD I THANK YOU AND BEG YOU TO CONDESCEND SO FAR AS TO LISTEN TO FOUR WORDS IT IS TRUE THAT HE LENT ME A PAIR OF OLD SCALES TWO EMVILS AND THREE LITTLE HAMMERS WHICH ARTICLES I BEGGED HIS WORKMEN GEORGODIC CORTONA FIFTEEN DAYS AGO TO FETCH BACK + GEORGIA CAME FOR THEM HIS HEALTH + I HOPE TO PROVE ON WHAT ACCOUNT THAT SCOUNDREL TRIES TO BRING ME INTO DISGRACE + WHEN HE HAD HEARD THIS SPEECH THE DUKE ROSE UP IN ANGER AND SENT FOR BERNARD ONLY WHO WAS FORCED TO TAKE FLIGHT AS FAR AS VENICE HE AND ANTONIA LANDY WITH HIM + YOU HAD BETTER PUT THIS TO THE PROOF AND I WILL GO AT ONCE TO THE BARGIANO + I AM WILLING TO ENTER INTO COMPETITION WITH THE ANCIENTS AND FEEL ABLE TO SURPASS THEM FOR SINCE THOSE EARLY DAYS IN WHICH I MADE THE MEDALS OF POPE CLEMENT I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH THAT I CAN NOW PRODUCE FAR BETTER PIECES OF THE KIND I THINK I CAN ALSO OUTDO THE COINS I STRUCK FOR DUKE GALISANRO WHICH ARE STILL HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM IN LIKE MANNER I COULD MAKE FOR YOU LARGE PIECES OF GOLD AND SILVER PLATE AS I DID SO OFTEN FOR THAT NOBLE MONARCH KING FRANCIS OF FRANCE THANKS TO THE GREAT CONVENIENCES HE ALLOWED ME WITHOUT EVER LOSING TIME FOR THE EXECUTION OF COLOSSAL STATUES OR OTHER WORKS OF THE SCULPTOR'S CRAFT + AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS WERE WASTED AND PIERO WOULD NEITHER WORK NOR PUT MEN TO WORK UPON THE PIECE I MADE HIM GIVE IT BACK + AMONG ARTISTS CERTAIN IN RAGE SCULPTORS LAUGHED AT ME AND CALLED ME THE NEW SCULPTOR + NOW I HOPE TO SHOW THEM THAT I AM AN OLD SCULPTOR IF GOD SHALL GRANT ME THE BOON OF FINISHING MY PERSEUS FOR THAT NOBLE PIAZZA OF HIS MOST ILLUSTRIOUS EXCELLENCY + HAVING THIS EXCELLENT RESOLVE IN HEART I REACHED MY HOME + WYLDER WAS RATHER SURLY AFTER THE LADIES HAD FLOATED AWAY FROM THE SCENE AND HE DRANK HIS LIQUOR DOGGEDLY + IT WAS HIS FANCY I SUPPOSE TO REVIVE CERTAIN SENTIMENTAL RELATIONS WHICH HAD IT MAY BE ONCE EXISTED BETWEEN HIM AND MISS LAKE AND HE WAS A PERSON OF THAT COMBATIVE TEMPERAMENT THAT MAGNIFIES AN OBJECT IN PROPORTION AS ITS PURSUIT IS THWARTED + THE STORY OF FRIADILLON AND WRETCHES PRETTY OUTLINES + SIT DOWN BESIDE ME AND I'LL TELL YOU THE STORY + HE ASSISTED AT IT BUT TOOK NO PART AND IN FACT WAS LISTENING TO THAT OTHER CONVERSATION WHICH SOUNDED WITH ITS PLEASANT GABBLE IN LAUGHTER LIKE A LITTLE MUSICAL TINKLE OF BELLS IN THE DISTANCE + BUT HONEST MARK FORGOT THAT YOUNG LADIES DO NOT ALWAYS COME OUT QUITE ALONE AND JUMP UNASSISTED INTO THEIR VEHICLES + BUT THE MIDDLE SUN WAS LITTLE AND LORN HE WAS NEITHER DARK NOR FAIR HE WAS NEITHER HANDSOME NOR STRONG + ROWING HIMSELF ON HIS KNEES BEFORE THE KING HE CRIED O ROYAL SIRE BESTOW UPON ME ALSO A SWORD IN HIS STEED THAT I MAY UP AND AWAY TO FOLLOW MY BRETHREN + BUT THE KING LAUGHED HIM TO SCORN THOU A SWORD HE QUOTH + IN SOOTH THOU SHALT HAVE ONE BUT IT SHALL BE ONE BEFITTING THY MAIDEN SIZE AND COURAGE IT'S SO SMALL A WEAPON CAN BE FOUND IN ALL MY KINGDOM + FORTHWITH THE GRINNING JESTER BEGAN SHRIEKING WITH LAUGHTER SO THAT THE BELLS UPON HIS MOTLEY CAP WERE ALL SET A JANGLING + I DID BUT LAUGH TO THINK THE SWORD OF ETHELRIED HAD BEEN SO QUICKLY FOUND RESPONDED THE JESTER AND HE POINTED TO THE SCISSORS HANGING FROM THE TAILOR'S GIRDLE + ONE NIGHT AS HE LAY IN A DEEP FOREST TOO UNHAPPY TO SLEEP HE HEARD A NOISE NEAR AT HAND IN THE BUSHES + THOU SHALT HAVE THY LIBERTY HE CRIED EVEN THOUGH THOU SHOULDST RUN ME IN PIECES THE MOMENT THOU ART FREE + IT HAD IT SUDDENLY DISAPPEARED AND IN ITS PLACE STOOD A BEAUTIFUL FAIRY WITH FILMY WINGS WHICH SHONE LIKE RAINBOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT + AT THIS MOMENT THERE WAS A DISTANT RUMBLING AS OF THUNDER TIS THE OGRE CRIED THE FAIRY WE MUST HASTEN + SCISSORS GROW A GIANT'S HEIGHT AND SAVE US FROM THE OGRE'S MIGHT + HE COULD SEE THE OGRE STANDING POWERLESS TO HURT HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CHASM AND GNASHING HIS TEETH EACH ONE OF WHICH WAS AS BIG AS A MILLSTONE + THE SIGHT WAS SO TERRIBLE THAT HE TURNED ON HIS HEEL AND FLED AWAY AS FAST AS HIS FEET COULD CARRY HIM + THOU SHALT NOT BE LEFT A PRISONER IN THIS DISMAL SPOT WHILE I HAVE THE POWER TO HELP THEE + HE LIFTED THE SCISSORS AND WITH ONE STROKE ASTREAD THE WEB AND GAVE THE FLY ITS FREEDOM + A FAINT GLIMMER OF LIGHT ON THE OPPOSITE WALL SHOWS ME THE KEYHOLE + THE PRINCE SPENT ALL THE FOLLOWING TIME UNTIL MIDNIGHT TRYING TO THINK OF A SUITABLE VERSE TO SAY TO THE SCISSORS + AS HE UTTERED THE WORDS THE SCISSORS LEAPED OUT OF HIS HAND AND BEGAN TO CUT THROUGH THE WOODEN SHUTTERS AS EASILY AS THROUGH A CHEESE + IN A VERY SHORT TIME THE PRINCE AND CRAWLED THROUGH THE OPENING + WHILE HE STOOD LOOKING AROUND HIM IN BEWILDERMENT A FIREFLY ALIGHTED DOWN HIS ARM FLASHING ITS LITTLE LANTERN AND THE PRINCE'S FACE IT CRIED THIS WAY MY FRIEND THE FLY SENT ME TO GUY DO IT WHO A PLACE OF SAFETY + WHAT IS TO BECOME OF ME CRIED THE POOR PEASANT + MY GRAIN MUST FALL AND ROTTEN THE FIELD FROM OVER RIPENESS BECAUSE I HAVE NOT THE STRENGTH TO RISE AND HARVEST IT THEN INDEED MUST WE ALL STARVE + THE GRAND DAME WHOM HE SUPPLIED WITH VAGOTS THE MERCHANT WHOM HE RESCUED FROM ROBBERS THE KING'S COUNSELLOR TO WHOM HE GAVE AID ALL BECAME HIS FRIENDS UP AND DOWN THE LAND BEGGAR OR LORD AT HOMELESS WANDERER OR HIGH BORN DAME HE GLADLY GAVE UNSELFISH SERVICE ALL UNSOUGHT AND SUCH AS HE HELPED STRAIGHTWAY BECAME HIS FRIENDS + TO HIM WHO COULD BRING HER BACK TO HER FATHER'S CASTLE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE THRONE AND KINGDOM AS WELL AS THE PRINCESS HERSELF SO FROM FAR AND NEAR INDEED FROM ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY UNDER THE SUN CAME KNIGHTS AND PRINCES TO FIGHT THE OGRE + AMONG THOSE WHO DREW BACK WERE ETHELRIED'S BROTHERS THE THREE THAT WERE DARK AND THE THREE THAT WERE FAIR + BUT ETHEL READ HEEDED NOT THEIR TAUNTS + SO THEY ALL CRIED OUT LONG AND LOUD LONG LOVE THE PRINCE PRINCES OH + HE FELT WHAT THE EARTH MAY POSSIBLY FEEL AT THE MOMENT WHEN IT IS TORN OPENED WITH THE IRON IN ORDER THAT GRAIN MAY BE DEPOSITED WITHIN IT IT FEELS ONLY THE WOUND THE QUIVER OF THE GERM THE JOY OF THE FRUIT ONLY ARRIVED LATER + HE HAD BUT JUST ACQUIRED THE FAITH MUST HE THEN REJECT IT ALREADY + HE AFFIRMED TO HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD NOT HE DECLARED TO HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD NOT DOUBT AND HE BEGAN TO DOUBT IN SPITE OF HIMSELF + TO STAND BETWEEN TWO RELIGIONS FROM ONE OF WHICH YOU HAVE NOT AS YET EMERGED AND ANOTHER INTO WHICH YOU HAVE NOT YET ENTERED IS INTOLERABLE AND TWILIGHT IS PLEASING ONLY TO BAT LIKE SOULS + MARIUS WAS CLEAR EYED AND HE REQUIRED THE TRUE LIGHT + THE HALF LIGHTS OF DOUBT PAINED HIM + WHATEVER MAY HAVE BEEN HIS DESIRE TO REMAIN WHERE HE WAS HE COULD NOT HALT THERE HE WAS IRRESISTIBLY CONSTRAINED TO CONTINUE TO ADVANCE TO EXAMINE TO THINK TO MARCH FURTHER + HE FEARED AFTER HAVING TAKEN SO MANY STEPS WHICH HAD BROUGHT HIM NEARER TO HIS FATHER TO NOW TAKE A STEP WHICH SHOULD ESTRANG HIM FROM THAT FATHER + HIS DISCOMFORT WAS AUGMENTED BY ALL THE REFLECTIONS WHICH OCCURRED TO HIM + IN THE TROUBLED STATE OF HIS CONSCIENCE HE NO LONGER THOUGHT OF CERTAIN SERIOUS SIDES OF EXISTENCE + THEY SOON ELBOWED HIM ABRUPTLY + REQUEST HER FOR ACT TO COME AND TALK WITH ME SAID MARIUS + WHAT IS TO BECOME OF YOU SAID CURFE RACK + WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO I DO NOT KNOW + SILVER GOLD HERE IT IS + YOU WILL THEN HAVE ONLY A PAIR OF TROUSERS A WAISTCOAT A HAT AND A COAT AND MY BOOTS + THAT WILL BE ENOUGH + NO IT IS NOT GOOD WHAT WILL YOU DO AFTER THAT + DO YOU KNOW GERMAN NO + IT IS BADLY PAID WORK BUT ONE CAN LIVE BY IT + THE CLOTHES DEALER WAS SENT FOR + HE PAID TWENTY FRANCS FOR THE CAST OFF GARMENTS THEY WENT TO THE WATCHMAKERS + HE BOUGHT THE WATCH FOR FORTY FIVE FRANCS + HELLO I'D FORGOTTEN THAT SAID MARIUS + THE LANDLORD PRESENTED HIS BILL WHICH HAD TO BE PAID ON THE SPOT + I HAVE TEN FRANCS LEFT SAID MARIUS + THAT WILL BE SWALLOWING A TONGUE VERY FAST OR A HUNDRED SOU VERY SLOWLY + ONE MORNING ON HIS RETURN FROM THE LOST SCHOOL MARIUS FOUND A LETTER FROM HIS AUNT AND THE SIXTY PISTOL THAT IS TO SAY SIX HUNDRED FRANCS IN GOLD AND A SEALED BOX + MARIUS SENT BACK THE THIRTY LOUIS TO HIS AUNT WITH A RESPECTFUL LETTER IN WHICH HE STATED THAT HE HAD SUFFICIENT MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE AND THAT HE SHOULD BE ABLE THENCEFORTH TO SUPPLY ALL HIS NEEDS + AT THAT MOMENT HE HAD THREE FRANCS LEFT + HE PERCEIVED THAT IT WAS NO GOOD TALKING TO THE OLD MAN AND THAT THE PRINCIPAL PERSON IN THE HOUSE WAS THE MOTHER + BEFORE HER HE DECIDED TO SCATTER HIS PEARLS + THE PRINCESS WAS DISTRACTED AND DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO SHE FELT SHE HAD SINNED AGAINST KITTY + WELL DOCTOR DECIDE OUR FATE SAID THE PRINCESS TELL ME EVERYTHING + IS THERE HOPE SHE MEANT TO SAY BUT HER LIPS QUIVERED AND SHE COULD NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION WELL DOCTOR + AS YOU PLEASE THE PRINCESS WENT OUT WITH A SIGH + THE FAMILY DOCTOR RESPECTFULLY CEASED IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS OBSERVATIONS + AND THERE ARE INDICATIONS MALLETRISIAN NERVOUS EXCITABILITY AND SO ON + THE QUESTION SENDS THUS IN PRESENCE OF INDICATIONS OF TUBERCULOUS PROCESS WHAT IS TO BE DONE TO MAINTAIN NUTRITION + YES THAT'S AN UNDERSTOOD THING RESPONDED THE CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN AGAIN GLANCING AT HIS WATCH + BEG PARDON IS THE YEOSKIP BRIDGE DONE YET OR SHALL I HAVE TO DRIVE AROUND + HE ASKED AH IT IS + OH WELL THEN I CAN DO IT IN TWENTY MINUTES + AND HOW ABOUT IT TO HER BROTHER ASKED THE FAMILY DOCTOR + WHAT IS WANTED AS THE MEANS OF IMPROVING UTRITION ENOUGH FOR LOWERING IT + THE FAMILY DOCTOR LISTENED ATTENTIVELY AND RESPECTFULLY + BUT IN FAVOUR OF FOREIGN TRAVEL I WOULD URGE THE CHANGE OF HABITS THE REMOVAL FROM CONDITIONS CALLING AT REMINISCENCE + AND THEN THE MOTHER WISHES IT HE ADDED + AH WELL IN THAT CASE TO BE SURE LET THEM GO ONLY THOSE GERMAN QUARKS ARE MISCHIEVOUS + OH TIMES UP ALREADY AND HE WENT TO THE DOOR + THE CELEBRATED DOCTOR ANNOUNCED TO THE PRINCESS A FEELING OF WHAT WAS DUE FROM HIM DICTATED HIS DOING SO THAT HE OUGHT TO SEE THE PATIENT ONCE MORE + OH NO ONLY A FEW DETAILS PRINCESS COME THIS WAY + AND THE MOTHER ACCOMPANIED BY THE DOCTOR WENT INTO THE DRAWING ROOM TO KITTY + WHEN THE DOCTOR CAME IN SHE FLUSHED CRIMSON AND HER EYES FILLED WITH TEARS + SHE ANSWERED HIM AND ALL AT ONCE GOT UP FURIOUS + EXCUSE ME DOCTOR BUT THERE IS REALLY NO OBJECT IN THIS + THIS IS THE THIRD TIME YOU'VE ASKED ME THE SAME THING + THE CELEBRATED DOCTOR DID NOT TAKE OFFENCE + NERVOUS IRRITABILITY HE SAID TO THE PRINCESS WHEN KITTY HAD LEFT THE ROOM HOWEVER I HAD FINISHED + AND THE DOCTOR BEGAN SCIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINING TO THE PRINCESS AS AN EXCEPTIONALLY INTELLIGENT WOMAN THE CONDITION OF THE YOUNG PRINCESS AND CONCLUDED BY INSISTING ON THE DRINKING OF THE WATERS WHICH WERE CERTAINLY HARMLESS + AT THE QUESTION SHOULD THEY GO ABROAD THE DOCTOR PLUNGED INTO DEEP MEDITATION AS THOUGH RESOLVING A WEIGHTY PROBLEM + FINALLY HIS DECISION WAS PRONOUNCED THEY WERE TO GO ABROAD BUT TO PUT NO FAITH IN FOREIGN QUACKS AND TO APPLY TO HIM IN ANY NEED + IT SEEMED AS THOUGH SOME PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE HAD COME TO PASS AFTER THE DOCTOR HAD GONE + THE MOTHER WAS MUCH MORE CHEERFUL WHAT SHE WENT BACK TO HER DAUGHTER AND KITTY PRETENDED TO BE MORE CHEERFUL + EDUCATED PEOPLE OF THE UPPER CLASSES ARE TRYING TO STIFLE THE EVER GROWING SENSE OF THE NECESSITY OF TRANSFORMING THE EXISTING SOCIAL ORDER + THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT + IN THE SOCIAL CONCEPTION OF LIFE IT IS SUPPOSED THAT SINCE THE AIM OF LIFE IS FOUND IN GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS INDIVIDUALS WILL VOLUNTARILY SACRIFICE THEIR OWN INTERESTS FOR THE INTEREST OF THE GROUP + THE CHAMPIONS OF THE SOCIAL CONCEPTION OF LIFE USUALLY TRY TO CONNECT THE IDEA OF AUTHORITY THAT IS OF VIOLENCE WITH THE IDEA OF MORAL INFLUENCE BUT THIS CONNECTION IS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE + THE MAN WHO IS CONTROLLED BY MORAL INFLUENCE ACTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS OWN DESIRES + THE BASIS OF AUTHORITY IS BODILY VIOLENCE + THE POSSIBILITY OF APPLYING BODILY VIOLENCE THE PEOPLE IS PROVIDED ABOVE ALL BY AN ORGANIZATION OF ARMED MEN TRAIN TO ACT IN UNISON AND SUBMISSION TO ONE WILL + THESE BANDS OF ARMED MEN SUBMISSIVE TO A SINGLE WILL ARE WHAT CONSTITUTENT THE ARMY + THE ARMY HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND STILL IS THE BASIS OF POWER + POWER IS ALWAYS IN THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO CONTROL THE ARMY AND ALL MEN IN POWER FROM THE ROMAN CAESARS TO THE RUSSIAN AND GERMAN EMPERORS TAKE MORE INTEREST IN THEIR ARMY THAN IN ANYTHING IN COURT POPULARITY IN THE ARMY KNOWING THAT IF THAT IS ON THEIR SIDE THEIR POWER IS SECURE + INDEED IT COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE + ONLY UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS COULD THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION BE JUSTIFIED + BUT SINCE THIS IS NOT THE CASE AND ON THE CONTRARY MEN IN POWER ALL IS FAR FROM BEING SINKS THROUGH THE VERY FACT OF THEIR POSSESSION OF POWER THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION BASED ON POWER HAS NO JUSTIFICATION + EVEN IF THERE WAS ONCE A TIME WHEN OWING TO THE LOW STANDARDS OF MORALS ON THE DISPOSITION OF MEN TO VIOLENCE THE EXISTENCE OF AN AUTHORITY TO RESTRAIN SUCH VIOLENCE WAS AN ADVANTAGE BECAUSE THE VIOLENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT WAS LESSENED THE VIOLENT OF INDIVIDUALS ONE CANNOT BUT SEE THAT THIS ADVANTAGE COULD NOT BE LASTING + BETWEEN THE MEMBERS OF ONE STATE SUBJECT TO A SINGLE AUTHORITY THE STRIFE BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL SEEMS STILL LESS AND THE LIFE OF THE STATE SEEMS EVEN MORE SECURE + IT WAS PRODUCED ON ONE HAND BY THE NATURAL GROWTH OF POPULATION AND ON THE OTHER BY STRUGGLE AND CONQUEST + AFTER CONQUEST THE POWER OF THE EMPEROR PUTS AN END TO INTERNAL DISSENSIONS AND SO THE STATE CONCEPTION OF LIFE JUSTIFIES ITSELF + BUT THIS JUSTIFICATION IS NEVER MORE THAN TEMPORARY + INTERNAL DISSENSIONS DISAPPEAR ONLY IN PROPORTION TO THE DEGREE OF OPPRESSION EXERTED BY THE AUTHORITY OVER THE DISSENTIENT INDIVIDUALS + GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY EVEN IF IT DOES SUPPRESS PRIVATE VIOLENCE ALWAYS INTRODUCES INTO THE LIFE OF MEN FRESH FORMS OF VIOLENCE WHICH TEND TO BECOME GREATER AND GREATER IN PROPORTION TO THE DURATION AND STRENGTH OF THE GOVERNMENT + AND THEREFORE THE OPPRESSION OF THE OPPRESSED ALWAYS GOES ON GROWING UP TO THE FURTHEST LEMON BEYOND WHICH IT CANNOT GO WITHOUT KILLING THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS + THE MOST CONVINCING EXAMPLE OF THIS IS TO BE FOUND IN THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES OF OUR EPOCH WHO ARE IN REALITY NO BETTER THAN THE SLAVES OF ANCIENT TIMES BY CONQUEST + SO IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN + FOOTNOTE THE FACT THAT IN AMERICA THE ABUSES OF AUTHORITY EXIST IN SPITE OF A SMALL NUMBER OF THEIR TRUCE NOT ONLY FAILS TO DISPROVE THIS POSITION BUT POSITIVELY CONFIRMS THEM + THE UPPER CLASSES KNOW THAT AN ARMY OF FIFTY THOUSAND WILL SOON BE INSUFFICIENT AND NO LONGER BELONGING ON PINKERTON'S MEN THEY FEEL THAT THE SECURITY OF THEIR POSITION DEPENDS ON THE INCREASED DRINK OF THE ARMY + THE REASON TO WHICH HE GAVE EXPRESSION IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS THAT WHICH MADE THE FRENCH KINGS AND THE POPES ENGAGE SWISS AND SCOTCH GUARDS AND MAKES THE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES OF TO DAY SO CAREFULLY DISTRIBUTE THE REMRUITS SO THAT THE REGIMENTS FROM THE FRONTIER ARE STATIONED IN CENTRAL DISTRICTS AND THE REGIMENTS FROM THE CENTRE ARE STATIONED ON THE FRONTIERS + THE MEANING OF CAPRIVA'S SPEECH PUT INTO PLAIN LANGUAGE IS THAT FUNDS ARE NEEDED NOT TO RESIST FOREIGN FOES BUT TO BUY UNDER OFFICERS TO BE READY TO ACT AGAINST THE ENSLAVE TOILING MASSES + AND THIS ABNORMAL ORDER OF THANKS IS MAINTAINED BY THE ARMY + BUT THERE IS NOT ONLY ONE GOVERNMENT THERE ARE OTHER GOVERNMENTS EXPLOITING THEIR SUBJECTS BY VIOLENCE IN THE SAME WAY AND ARE ALWAYS READY TO POUNCT DOWN ON ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT AND CARRY OFF THE FRUITS OF THE TOIL OF ITS IN SLAVE SUBJECTS + AND SO EVERY GOVERNMENT NEEDS AN ARMY ALSO TO PROTECT ITS BOOTY FROM ITS NEIGHBOR BRIGANDS + THIS INCREASE IS CONTAGIOUS AS MONTESQUIEU POINTED OUT A HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS AGO + EVERY INCREASE IN THE ARMY OF ONE STATE WITH THE AIM OF SELF DEFENCE AGAINST ITS SUBJECTS BECOMES A SOURCE OF DANGER FOR NEIGHBORING STATES AND CALLS FOR A SIMILAR INCREASE IN THEIR ARMIES + THE DESPOTISM OF THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS INCREASES WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE ARMY AND ITS EXTERNAL SUCCESSES AND THE AGGRESSIVENESS OF A GOVERNMENT INCREASES WITH ITS INTERNAL DESPOTISM + THE RIVALRY OF THE EUROPEAN STATES AND CONSTANTLY INCREASING THEIR FORCES HAS REDUCED THEM TO THE NECESSITY OF HAVING RECOURSE THE UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE SINCE BY THAT MEANS THE GREATEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF SOLDIERS HAS OBTAINED AT THE LEAST POSSIBLE EXPENSE + AND BY THIS MEANS ALL CITIZENS ARE UNDER ARMS TO SUPPORT THE INIQUITIES PRACTISED UPON THEM ALL CITIZENS HAVE BECOME THEIR OWN OPPRESSORS + THIS INCONSISTENCY HAS BECOME OBVIOUS AND UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE + IN FACT THE WHOLE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SOCIAL CONCEPTION OF LIFE CONSISTS IN MAN'S RECOGNITION OF THE BARBARITY OF STRIFE BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND THE TRANSITORIANISTS OF PERSONAL LIFE ITSELF AND THE TRANSFERENCE OF THE AIM OF LIFE THE GROUPS OF PERSONS + BUT WITH UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE IT COMES TO PASS THAT MEN AFTER MAKING EVERY SACRIFICE TO GET RID OF THE CRUELTY OF STRIFE AND THE INSECURITY OF EXISTENCE ARE CALLED UPON TO FACE ALL THE PERILS THEY HAD MEANT TO AVOID + BUT INSTEAD OF DOING THAT THEY EXPOSED THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE SAME NECESSITY OF STRIFE SUBSTITUTING STRIFE WITH INDIVIDUALS OF OTHER STATES FOR STRIFE WITH NEIGHBORS + THE TAXES RAISED FROM THE PEOPLE FOR WAR PREPARATIONS ABSORBED THE GREATER PART OF THE PRODUCE OF LABOR WHICH THE ARMY OUGHT TO DEFEND + THE DANGER OF WAR EVER READY TO BREAK OUT RENDERS ALL REFORMS OF LIFE SOCIAL LIFE VAIN AND FRUITLESS + BUT THE FATAL SIGNIFICANCE OF UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE AS THE MANIFESTATION OF THE CONTRADICTION INHERENT IN THE SOCIAL CONCEPTION OF LIFE IS NOT ONLY APPARENT IN THAT + GOVERNMENTS ASSERT THAT ARMIES ARE NEEDED ABOVE ALL FOR EXTERNAL DEFENSE BUT THAT IS NOT TRUE + THERE NEEDED PRINCIPLES AGAINST THEIR SUBJECTS AND EVERY MAN UNDER UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE BECOMES AN ACCOMPLICE IN ALL THE ACTS OF VIOLENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE CITIZENS WITHOUT ANY CHOICE OF HIS OWN + AND FOR THE SAKE OF WHAT I MAKE HIM + I AM EXPECTED FOR THE SAKE OF A STATE TO MAKE THESE SACRIFICES TO RENOUNCE EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE PRECIOUS TO MAN PEACE FAMILY SECURITY AND HUMAN DIGNITY + EXCEPT AT THE STATE THEY SAY WE SHOULD BE EXPOSED TO THE ATTACKS OF EVIL DISPOSED PERSONS IN OUR OWN COUNTRY + WE NOW KNOW THAT THREATS AND PUNISHMENTS CANNOT DIMINISH THEIR NUMBER THAT THAT CAN ONLY BE DONE BY CHANGE OF ENVIRONMENT AND MORAL INFLUENCE + SO THAT THIS JUSTIFICATION OF STATE VIOLENCE ON THE GROUND OF THE PROTECTION IT GIVES US FROM EVIL DISPOSED PERSONS EVEN IF IT HAD SOME FOUNDATION THREE OR FOUR CENTURIES AGO HAS NONE WHATEVER KNOW + EXCEPT FOR THE STATE THEY TELL US WE SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY RELIGION EDUCATION CULTURE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IN SO ON + WITHOUT THE STATE MEN WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FORM THE SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS NEEDED FOR DOING ANYTHING + THIS ARGUMENT TOO WAS WELL FOUNDED ONLY SOME CENTURIES AGO + THE GREAT EXTENSION OF MEANS OF COMMUNICATION AND INTERCHANGE OF IDEAS HAS MADE MEN COMPLETELY ABLE TO DISPENSE WITH STATE AID IN FORMER SOCIETIES ASSOCIATIONS CORPORATIONS AND CONGRESSES FOR SCIENTIFIC ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL OBJECTS + WITHOUT GOVERNMENT NATIONS WOULD BE ENSLAVED BY THEIR NEIGHBORS + THE GOVERNMENT THEY TELL US WITH ITS ARMY IS NECESSARY TO DEFEND US FROM NEIGHBORING STATES WHO MIGHT ENSLAVE US + AND IF DEFENCE AGAINST BARBAROUS NATIONS IS MEANT ONE THOUSAND PART OF THE TROOPS NOW UNDER ARMS WOULD BE AMPLY SUFFICIENT WITH THAT PURPOSE + THE POWER OF THE STATE FAR FROM BEING A SECURITY AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF OUR NEIGHBORS EXPOSES US ON THE CONTRARY TO MUCH GREATER DANGER AT SUCH ATTACKS + EVEN LOOKING AT IT PRACTICALLY WEIGHING THAT IS TO SAY ALL THE BURDENS LAID ON HIM BY THE STATES NO MAN CAN FAIL TO SEE THAT FOR HIM PERSONALLY TO COMPLY WITH THE STATE DEMANDS AND SERVE IN THE ARMY WOULD IN THE MAJORITY OF CASES BE MORE DISADVANTAGES THAN TO REFUSE TO DO SO + TO RESIST WOULD NEED INDEPENDENT THOUGHT AN EFFORT OF WHICH EVERY MAN IS NOT CAPABLE + SO MUCH FOR THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BOTH LIES OF CONDUCT FOR A MAN OF A WEALTHY CLASS AND OPPRESSOR + FOR A MAN OF THE POOR WORKING CLASS THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES WILL BE THE SAME BUT WITH A GREAT INCREASE OF DISADVANTAGES + SAY YOU KNOW SUCKIN + CHRIS LOOKED FROM A NICKEL PLATED FLASHLIGHT TO A CAR JACK AND SPARK PLUG + NO ONE NEEDS A JOB BAN THAT'S JAKIE HEIRS + O K HE SAID + ONLY WHAT DID YOU ASK EM YOURSELF + MIKE BECAME UNEASY AND FISHED IN MONASTIC BAND OUT OF HIS POCKET MADE A FLICK OF PAPER AND SENT IT SOARING OUT IN EM STREET + WELL HE ADMITTED I DID + CHRIS ASKED AND FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT DAY THE HEAVY WEIGHT HE CARRIED WITHIN HIM LIFTED AND LIGHTENED A LITTLE + THINK HE REALLY NEEDS IT IN PURSUIT + HE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO GET THE JOB FOR JAKIE WHO NEEDED IT BUT SOMEHOW THE TASK OF FACING MISTER WICKER ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THE LIGHT WAS GOING AND DUSK EDGED INTO THE STREETS WAS NOT WHAT CHRYSITON TENDED FOR ENDING THE AFTERNOON + LIKE SUSPICION CHANGED AT WHAT WANTS TO ONE OF TRIUMPH BUT UMRIS WAS ONLY PARTIALLY ENCOURAGED + BUTCHER AND GOIN AFTER ALL IT'S TURNED TO IN HIM + MIKE WAS STANDING ON THE CORNER + OUR SHOCKS + CHRIS STARTED OFF ONCE MORE PASSING A BLEAK LITTLE VICTORIAN CHURCH PERCHED ON THE HILL ABOVE MISTER WICKER'S HOUSE + AN EMPTY LOT CUT IN INTO BY CHURCH LANE GAVE A LOOK OF ISOLATIONS OF THE EL SHAPED BRICK BUILDING THAT SIR MISTER WICKER WAS BOTH HOUSE IN PLACE OF BUSINESS + THE LONGER WING TOWARD THE BACK GOT A BACK DOOR THAT OPENED ON A WATER STREET THE SPACE BETWEEN THE HOUSE AND WISCONSIN AVENUE HAD BEEN MADE INTO A NEAT OBLONG FLOWER GARDEN FENCED OFF FOR THE SIDEWALK BY BOX SHRUGS AND THE WHITE PICKET FENCE + A LIVID YELLOW STAINED HORIZON BEYOND THE FACTORIES AND GRAY CLOUDS LOWERED AND TUMBLED ABOVE + THE AIR WAS GROWING CHILL AND CHRIS DECIDED TO FINISH THE JOB + ALL AT ONCE HE WONDERED HOW HIS MOTHER WAS AND EVERYTHING IN HIM IMPINGED AND TIGHTENED ITSELF + AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL HE REACHED THE HOUSE + THERE WERE THREE THINGS THAT ALWAYS CAUGHT HIS EYE AMID THE LITTER OF DUSTY PIECES + ON THE LEFT THE COIL OF ROPE IN THE CENTER THE MODEL OF A SAILING SHIP IN A GRAINED GLASS BOTTLE AND ON THE RIGHT THE WOODEN STATUE OF A NEGRO BOY AND BAGGY TROUSERS TURKISH JACKET AND WHITE TURBAN + BUT THE NAME STILL SHOWED AT THE PROW AND MANY A TIME CHRIS SAFE AT HOME AND BED HAD SAILED IMAGINARY VOYAGES IN THE MIRABELLE + HE HAD NEVER SEEN ANY ONE GO INTO MISTER WICKER'S SHOP NOW HE THOUGHT OF IT + HOW THEN DID HE TO LIVE AND WHAT DID HE EVER SELL + A SUDDEN CARHORN WALKING FROM HIS DREAM + OF THE MANY TIMES HE'D EXAMINE MISTER WICKER'S WINDOW AND POUR IT OVER THE ROPE THE SHIP AND THE NUBIAN BOY HE HAD NEVER GONE INTO MISTER WICKER'S SHOP + SOME NOW ALONE UNTIL SOME ONE SHOULD ANSWER THE BELL THEY LOOKED EAGERLY IF UNEASILY AROUND HIM + WHAT WITH THE ONE WINDOW IN THE LOWERING DAY OUTSIDE THE LONG NARROW SHOP WAS SOMBER + HEAVY HAND EUNED BEAMS CROSSED IT FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER + MISTER'S BACK BEING TOWARD THE SOURCE OF LIGHT CHRIS COULD NOT SEE HIS FACE + THE DOUBLE FANS OF MINUTE WRINKLES BREAKING FROM EYE CORNERED A TEMPLE IN JOINING WITH THOSE OVER THE CHEEK BONES WERE DRAWN INTO THE HORIZONTAL LINES ACROSS THE DOMED FOREHEAD + LITTLE TUFTS OF WHITE FUZZ ABOVE THE EARS WERE ALL THAT REMAINED OF THE ANTIQUARIAN'S HAIR BUT WHAT DREW AND HELD CHRIS'S GAZE WITH THE OLD MAN'S EYES + CRISP LINKED AND LOOKED AGAIN YES THEY WERE STILL THERE + CHRIS SWALLOWED AND HIS VOICE CAME BACK TO HIM + YES SIR HE SAID + I SAW YOUR SIGN AND I KNOW A BOY WHO NEEDS THE JOCK + HE'S A SCHOOLMATE OF MINE + JIGRESS'S NAME IS AND HE REELING IT'S THE JOB + I I JUST WONDERED IF THE PLACE WAS STILL OPEN + WHAT HE SAW WAS A FRESH CHEEK LAD TALL FOR THIRTEEN STURDY WITH SINCERITY AND GOOD HUMOR IN HIS FACE AND SOMETHING SENSITIVE AND APPEALING ABOUT HIS EYES + HE GUESSED THERE IT MUST BE A LIVELY FIRE IN THAT ROOM BEYOND + WOULD THAT INTERFERE WITH JAKIE GOODS GETTING THE JOB SIR + BUT EVEN AS HE SLOWLY TURNED THE THOUGHT PIERCED HIS MIND WHY HE NOT SEEN THE REFLECTION OF THE HEADLIGHTS OF THE CARS MOVING UP AROUND THE COILER OF WALL AT HER STREET NOT THE HILL TOWARD THE LYPIC SIGNALS + THE ROAM SEEMED OVERLY STILL + THEN IN THAT SECOND HE TURNED AND FACED ABOUT + THE WIDE BOW WOULDN'T IT WAS THERE BEFORE HIM AND THREE OBJECTS HE LIKED BEST SHOWING FROSTY IN THE MOONLIGHT THAT POURED IN FROM ACROSS THE WATER + ACROSS THE WATER WHERE WAS THE FREEWAY + IT WAS NO LONGER THERE NOR WERE THE HIGH WALLS AND SMOKE STACKS OF FACTORIES TO BE SEEN + THE WAREHOUSES WERE STILL THERE + FLAVOR GASTED AND BREATHLESS CHRIS WAS UNAWARE THAT HE HAD MOVED CLOSER TO PEER OUT THE WINDOW IN EVERY DIRECTION + NO ELECTRIC SIGNS NO LAMPLET STREETS + WHERE THE PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE HAD STOOD BUT HALF AN HOUR BEFORE ROSE THE ROOFS OF WHAT WAS EVIDENTLY AN INN + A COURTYARD WAS FIRSTLY LIT BY FLARING TORTURE TWO SHOWING THE SWINGING SIGN HUNG ON THE POST + THE POST WAS PLENTY AT THE EDGE OF WHAT WAS NOW A BROAD AND MONEY ROAD + THE COACHMAN STOPPED PILED HIGH WITH LEGGED STAM TO A HALT BESIDE THE FLYING COURTYARD + THEY MOVED INTO THE INN THE COACH RATTLED OFF TO THE STABLE + MY WINDOW HAS A PATH FOR THOSE FEW WHO ARE TO SEE + THE LEARNING OF MAGIC WAS BY NO MEANS EASY + HE TOLD HIS MASTER AT ONCE HE BOUGHT SIMON GOSLER HIS HOARD OF MONEY IN HIS HIDING PLACES FOR IT + CHRIS THEREFORE THREW HIMSELF INTO ALL THE PRIMONARIES OF HIS TASK + ONE AFTERNOON WHEN HE HAD RETURNED AFTER A REST TO MISTER WICKER'S STUDY HE SAW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING NEW IN THE ROOM A BULL WITH A GOLD FISHERMAN STOOD ON THE TABLE BUT MISTER WICKER WAS NOT TO BE SEEN + WHAT SHOULD ALL I DO FIRST + HOW YOU'VE IMPROVED MY BOY HE EXCLAIMED IT IS NOW A TIME FOR YOU TO TRY THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE AS ANY + SUPPOSE I CHANGE AND CATCH BACK + MISTER WICKER WAITED PATIENTLY BESIDE HIM FOR A FEW MOMENTS FOR CHRIS TO GET UP HIS COURAGE + THEN IT'S NOTHING HAPPENED WITH A VOICE LIKE A WHIP MISTER WICKER SAID START AT ONCE + THE SENSATION SPREAD FASTER AND FASTER + HIS HEAD SWAM AND HE FELT FAINT IN A LITTLE SICK BUT HE PERSISTED THROUGH THE FINENT WORDS + HE THOUGHT NOT WITHOUT A FEELING A PRIDE AND COMMENCED EXPERIMENTING WITH HIS TAIL AND FINS WITH SUCH ENTHUSIASM AND DELIGHT AT SOME LITTLE TIME ELAPSED BEFORE MISTER WICKER'S VOICE BOOMED BUT OWES BY + SEVENTY FOUR BOOK ONE FOR RETURN + THE FIGURE'S SHOES CARVED IN SOME EASTERN STYLE AT CURVED DUCK POINTING TOES + THEN ALL AT ONCE THE IDEA CAME TO CHRIS + IF HE WAS TO BE A MAGICIAN COULD HE MAKE THIS BOY COME TO LIFE + HE SQUATTED ON HIS HAUNCHES EXAMINED THE CARVED WOOD AND FIGURE ATTENTIVELY AND FELT CONVINCED THAT ONCE ALIVE THE BOY WOULD BE AN IDEAL AND HAPPY COMPANION + BUT HOW DID ONE A CHANGE INANIMATE TO ANIMATE + CHRIS GOT UP AND STOLE BACK TO MISTER WICKER'S DOOR + HE HEARD THAT MAGICIAN GOING UP THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE TO HIS ROOM ABOVE AND AFTER CHANGING HIMSELF TO A MOUSE TO SLIP UNDER THE DOOR AND SEE THAT THE ROOM WAS REELING EMPTY WITH SIR JAMES'S PROPER SHAPE AND OPENED THE DOORS OF THE CUPBOARD AT THE FAR END OF THE ROOM + THE AFTERNOON RAINING BEFORE INCREASED IN STORM + THUS CAME TWO HOURS BEFORE ITS TIME THUNDER SNARLS IN THE SKY + CERTAIN ELEMENTS WERE TO BE MIXED AND POURED AT THE PROPER TIME + MISTER WORKER BEGAN MOVING ABOUT UPSTAIRS THE FLOORBOARDS CREAKED GREAT AND STILL CHRIS COULD NOT LEAVE UNTIL THE FOCHE FUMED AND GLOWED + WITH INFINITE CAUTION CHRIS CLOSED THE DOOR SILENTLY BEHIND HIM AND RUNNING LIGHT BEFORE REACHED THE FIGURE OF THE NEGRO BOY + IT WAS AS IF THE STIFFNESS MELTED + UNDER HIS EYES AND FOLDS OF CLOTH BECAME RICH SILK EMBROIDERY GLEAMED IN ITS REALITY UPON THE COAT AND OH THE FACE + THE WOODEN GRIN LOOSENED THE LARGE EYES TURNED THE HAND HOLDING THE HARD BOUQUET OF CARVED FLOWERS MOVED THE EARTH BOUQUET FALL + THEY WENT DOWN TO THEIR QUARTERS FIRST + GUESS MISTER FINNEY WENT TO HIS QUARTERS I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING HIM CROSS THE DECK OR COME OVER THAT WAY AT ALL + NEXT NED CILLEY WAS ROLLING INTO THE HELM BY ELBOW JONES HE TOOK OVER NED WENT ON DOWN + IT LOOKS TO ME AS IF IT COULD BID A BEEN ONE OF SEVERAL PEOPLE AND I'LL BE SWITCHED IF I KNOW WHO LOOK IN MY EYES OPEN + THE MIRABELLE WAS NEARING TIDY + WE'VE WATER AND FRES STORES TO TICKLE THERE + CHRIS LOST NO TIME AS SOON AS HE COULD DO IT WITHOUT BEING NOTICED IN HURRYING DOWN TO HIS CABIN + CERTAINLY MY BOY BOOMED UP THE CAPTAIN AS BLUE EYES ABRUPTLY KEEN AND PENETRATING + MISTER FINNOW WILL BE SOME TIME ON DECK WE CANNOT BE OWN HEARD IN HERE + HIS FACE ROSE WITH NERVOUSNESS THAT THIS MIGHT BE UT DO AS IN ANSWER AND HE STOOD STIFF AND STILL BEFORE CAPTAIN BLIZZARD + THE CAPTAIN SAT FORWARD IN HIS CHAIR LOOKING AT HIM FOR A LONG MOMENT CONSIDERING + THEN HE SAID WELL I DO NOT CARE FOR IT I CANNOT SAY THAT DO + THE SHIP IS MORE TO ME THAN WIFE OR MOTHER OR FAMILY + PAUSED FINGERING HIS LOWER LIP THE LOOKING SIDEWAYS IN A REFLECTIVE FASHION AT CHRIS STANDING BEFORE HIM + WE SHALL SAY NO MORE BUT I TRUST YOU UNDERSTAND THE RESPONSIBILITY YOU HAVE + THE SHIP ITS CARGO AND ITS MEN WILL BE IN YOUR HANDS + YES SIR I THINK I CAN DO IT SAFELY OR I SHOULD NOT TRY SIR + CAPTAIN BLIZZARD'S ROUND PINK FACED CREASED IN ITS WINNING SMILE + HE THEN WENT ON TO DESCRIBE WHAT ELSE WAS TO FOLLOW THE COVERING OF THE SHIP WITH ME USED TO MAKE IT BLEND WITH ITS SURROUNDINGS + TO CAMAFLASH WAS NOT A WORD THE CAPTAIN OR ANY ONE ELSE OF HIS TIME HE HAD UNDERSTOOD + WHAT CAN BE SAID DURING THAT TIME SIR CHRISTANT ASKED + I AM SOMEWHAT SKILL IN MEDITMENTS I HAVE TO BE AS A CAPTAIN OF SHIP AND CREW KNOW IT + I SHALL SAY THAT YOU ARE IN MY OWN CABINS AS I CAN CARE FOR YOU + NOT SINCE HE HAD LEFT MISTER WICKER AND CHRIS FELT SUCH CONFIDENCE AS HE DID IN THE WORDS AND ACTIONS OF CAPTAIN BLIZZARD + HE KNEW NOW THAT HIS ABSENCE FOR AS LONG AS HE HAD HAD TO BE AWAY WOULD BE COVERED UP AND SATISFACTIONILY ACCOUNTED FOR + THEIR CONVERSATION HAD TAKEN SOME LITTLE WHILE + WHEN CHURCHYARDS YON + I KNEW WELL ENOUGH THAT HE MIGHT BE CARRIED THOUSAND A MOUSE IN THE BOX CAR LOCKED IN PERHAPS WITHOUT WATER OR FOOD + I'M SURE I KISSED LIDDY AND I'VE HAD SEVERAL MOMENTS SINCE WHEN I SEEM TO REMEMBER KISSING MISTER JAMIESON TOO WITH THE EXCITEMENT + FORTUNATELY WORN OR IN THE DETECTIVE WERE KEEPING BACHELOR HALL IN LODGE + OUT OF DEFERENCE LIDDY THEY WASHED HER DISHES ONCE A DAY AND A CONCOCTED QUEER MESSES ACCORDING TO THEIR SEVERAL ABILITIES + MISS EANES HE SAID STOPPING ME AS I WAS ABOUT YOU GO TO MY ROOM UPSTAIRS HOW ARE YOUR NERVES TO NIGHT + I HAVE NONE I SAID HAPPILY + I MEAN HE PERSISTED DO YOU FEEL AS THOUGH YOU COULD GO THROUGH WITH SOMETHING RATHER UNUSUAL + THE MOST UNUSUAL THING I CAN'T THINK OF WOULD BE A PEACEFUL NIGHT + SOMETHING IS GOING TO OCCUR HE SAID + PUT ON HEAVY SHOES AND SOME OLD OUR CLOTHES AND MAKE UP YOUR MIND NOT TO BE SURPRISED WITH ANYTHING + LIDDY WAS SLEEPING SLEEP OF THE JUST WHEN I WENT UPSTAIRS AND I HUNTED OUT MY THINGS CAUTIOUSLY + THEY WERE CHUCKING COIENTLY TOGETHER BUT WHEN I CAME DOWN THEY CEASED + THERE WERE A FEW PREPARATIONS TO BE MADE THE LOCKS TO BE GONE OVER WINTERS TO INSTRUCTED AS TO RENEWED VIGILANCE AND THEN AFTER EXTINGUISHING THE WHOLE LIGHT WE CREPT IN THE DARKNESS THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR AND INTO THE NIGHT + I ASK NO QUESTIONS + ONCE ONLY SOMEBODY SPOKE AND THEN IT WAS AN EMPHATIC WITH A PROFANITY FROM DOCTOR STEWARD WHEN HE RAN INTO A WIRE FENCE + I OFTEN KNOW WHAT I EXPECTED + THE DOCTOR WAS PUFFING SOMEWHAT WHEN WE FINALLY CAME TO A HALT + I CONFESS THAT JUST AT THAT MINUTE EVEN SUICIDE SEEMED A CHEERFUL SPOT + IN SPITE OF MYSELF I DREW MY BREATH IN SHARPLY + IT WAS ALEX ON THE TWO LONG HANDLED SPADES + THE DOCTOR KEPT A KEEN LOOK OUT BUT NO ONE APPEARED + THERE'S ONE THING'S SURE I'LL NOT BE SUSPECTED OF COMPLICITY + A DOCTOR IS GENERALLY SUPPOSED TO BE A HANDUR AT BEARING FOLKS THEN A TIGGING THEM UP + I HELD ON TO HIM FRANTICALLY AND SOMEHOW I GOT TARRANT LOOKED DOWN + BUT HOW AM I TO GET OVER THE TEN OR TWELVE DAYS THAT MUST YET ELAPSE BEFORE THEY GO + FOR NONE CAN ENDURE ME AS HE HAS DONE OH + THE WORDS TEARS ME IN THE FACE LIKE A GUILTY CONFESSION BUT IT IS TRUE I HATE HIM I HATE HIM + I SOMETIMES THINK I ARE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR THE GOOD FEELING HE SIMILAR IT SO WELL AND THEN AGAIN I THINK IT IS MY DUTY TO SUSPECT HIM UNDER THE PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH I AM PLACED + I HAVE DONE WELL TO RECORD HIM SO MINUTELY + THEY HAD TAKEN THEMSELVES TO THEIR WORK I LESS DIVERT MY MIND THAN TO DEPRECATE CONVERSATION I PROVIDE MYSELF AT A BOOK + I AM TOO WELL ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR CHARACTER AND CONDUCT TO FEEL ANY REAL FRIENDIVE FOR YOU AND AS I AM WITHOUT YOUR TALENT FOR DISSIMULATION I CANNOT ASSUME THE APPEARANCE OF IT + UP ON PRUSING THIS SHE TURNS SCARLET AND BIT HER LIP + YOU MAY GO MILICIN UNTIL FOLLOWING A WHILE MILICENT WENT + OH YOU OBLIGE ME ALLAN CONTINUED SHE + AH YOU ARE SUSPICIOUS + IF I WERE SUSPICIOUS I REPLIED I SHOULD HAVE DISCOVERED YOUR IF I BELONG BEFORE + I ENJOY YOU MOMENT RAMBLE AS WELL AS YOU I ANSWERED STEADILY FIXING MY EYES UP ON EARTH AND FEBRUARY HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF MY FAVORITE RESORTS + SHE COLOURED AGAIN EXCESSIVELY AND REMAINED SILENT PRESSING HER FINGER AGAINST HER CHEEKS AND GAZING INTO THE FIRE + I WATCHED A FEW MOMENT TO THE FEELING OF MALEVOLENT GRATIFICATION THEN MOVING TOWARDS THE DOOR I CALMLY ASKED IF SHE HAD ANYTHING MORE TO SAY + YES YES + SUPPOSE I DO + SHE PAUSED IN EVIDENT DISCONTENT AND PERPLEXITY MINGLED WITH ANGER SHE DARED NOT SHOW + I CANNOT RENOUNCE THAT IS DEARER THAN LIFE SHE MUTTERED IN A LOW HURRIED TONE + IF YOU ARE GENEROUS HERE IS A FITTING OPPORTUNITY FOR THE EXERCISE OF YOUR MAGNANIMITY IF YOU ARE PROUD HERE AM I A RIVAL RATHER PRONOUNCE MYSELF YOUR DEBTOR FOR AN ACT OF MOST NOBLE FORBEARANCE + I SHALL NOT TELL HIM + GIVE ME NO THANKS IT IS NOT FOR YOUR SAKE THAT I REFRAIN + AND MILICENT UDEL HER + I WILL NOT FOR MUCH THAT YOU SHOULD NOT EVEN BE IN DISGRACE OF HER RELATION + YOU USE OUR WORDS MISSUS HUNTINGDON BUT I CAN PARDON YOU + HOW DARE YOU MENTION HIS NAME TO ME + IT SEEMS VERY INTERESTING LOVE SAID HE LIFTING HIS HEAD AND SHOOTING TO WHERE I STOOD WRINGING MY HAND IN SILENT RAGE AND ANGUISH BUT IT'S RATHER LONG I LOOK AT IT SOME OTHER TIME AND MEANWHILE I'LL TROUBLE YOU FOR YOUR CASE MY DEAR WHAT CASE + THE KEYS OF YOUR CABINET DESK TOWER AND WHATEVER ELSE YOU POSSESS SAID HE RISING AND HOLDING OUT HIS HAND + THE KEY OF MY VESQUE IN FACT WAS AT THAT MOMENT IN LAW AND THE OTHERS WERE ATTACHED TO IT + NOW THEN SNEERED HE WE MUST HAVE A CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY + AND PUTTING THE KEYS INTO HIS POCKET HE WALKED INTO THE LIBRARY + THAT AND ALL REPLIED MASSER AND THE THINGS WERE CLEARED AWAY + MISTER HUNTINGDON THEN WENT UPSTAIRS + MUTTERED HE STARTING BACK SHE'S VERY DABBLE SPIT + I THEN SAY I'VE BROKEN IT DID I RETURNED HE + I SHALL PUT YOU UP AND A SMALL MONTHLY ALLOW US IN FUTURE FOR YOUR OWN PRIVATE EXPENSES AND YOU NEEDN'T TROUBLE YOURSELF ANY MORE ABOUT MY CONCERNS I SHALL LOOK OUT FOR A STEWARD MY DEAR I WON'T EXPOSE YOU TO THE TEMPTATION + AND AS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD MATTERS MISSUS GREEB'S MUST BE VERY PARTICULAR IN KEEPING HER ACCOUNTS WE MUST GO UP AT AN INCHAWY NEW PLAN + WHAT GREAT DISCOVERY HAVE YOU MADE NOW MISTER HUNTINGON + HAVE I TENDED TO DEFRAUD YOU + NOT IN MONEY MATTERS EXACTLY IT SEEMS BUT IS BEST TO KEEP OUT OF THE WAY OF TEMPTATION + HERE BESSEN ENTERS THE CANDLES AND THERE FOLLOWED THE BRIEF INTERVAL OF SILENCE I SITTING STEALING MY CHAIR AND HE STANDING WITH HIS BACKED FIRE SILENCED A TRYING THING IN MY DESPAIR + I KNOW THAT DAY AFTER DAY SUCH FEELINGS WILL RETURN UPON ME + I TRY TO LOOK TO HIM AND RAISE MY HEART TO HEAVEN BUT IT WILL CLEAVE TO THE DUST + VAIN HOPE I SHEER + MISTER AND MISSUS HOTTERSLEY I'VE BEEN SEEING IT TO GROW A FORTNIGHT AND AS MISSUS HARGRAVE IS STILL ABSENT AND WHETHER WAS REMARKABLY FINE I NEVER PASSED THE DAY WITHOUT SEEING MY TWO FRIENDS MILISON AN ESSER EITHER THERE OR HERE + NO UNLESS YOU CAN TELL ME WHEN TO EXPECT HIM HOME + I CAN'T IF ANNOYS HIM DO YOU + IT IS A RESOLUTION YOU ARE FORMED LONG AGO + WE ALL HAVE A BIT OF A LIKING FOR HIM AT THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS THOUGH WE CAN'T RESPECT HIM + NO I'D RATHER BE LIKE MYSELF WHETHER I AM + NEVER MIND MY PLAIN SPEAKING SAID I IT IS FROM THE BESTENED MOTIVES + BUT TELL ME SHOULD YOU WISH YOUR SONS TO BE LIKE MISTER HUNTINGDON OR EVEN LIKE YOURSELF + OH NO I COULDN'T STAND THAT + FAR AND FURY + NOW DON'T POUR INTO A TEMPEST AT THAT + BUT HANG IT AS NOT MY FAULT + NOT YEARS FOR SHE IS ONLY FIVE AND TWENTY + WHAT WOULD YOU MAKE OF ME AND THE CHILDREN TO BE SURE THAT WERE YOU HEARD DEATH BETWEEN THEM + I KNOW THEY ARE BLESSED + HE FOLLOWED ME INTO THE LIBRARY + I SOUGHT OUT AND PUT INTO HIS HAND STEW OF MILISON'S LETTERS ONE DID IT FROM LONDON AND WRITTEN DURING ONE OF HIS WILDEST SEASONS OF RECKLESS DISSIPATION THE OTHER IN THE COUNTRY DURING A LUCID INTERVAL + THE FORMER WAS FULL OF TROUBLE AND ANGUISH NOT ACCUSING HIM BUT DEEPLY REGRETTING HIS CONNECTION WITH HIS PROFLIGATE COMPANIONS ABUSING MISTER GRIMSBY AND OTHERS INSINUATING BITTER THINGS AGAINST MISTER HUNTINGDON AND MOST INGENUOUSLY THROWING THE BLAME OF HER HUSBAND'S MISCONDUCT ON THE OTHER MAN'S SHOULDERS + I'VE BEEN A CURSED RASCAL GOD KNOWS SAID HE AS HE GAVE IT A EARTHLY SQUEEZE BUT YOU SEE IF I DON'T MAKE AMENDS FOR IT THEN ME IF I DON'T + IF INTENT WITH FORM INVOKE GOD'S BLESSING IS MERCY IN THIS APE NOR DISCOURSE + GOD HELP ME THEN FOR I AM SURE I NEED IT + WHERE IS MILLICENT + NAY NOT I SAID HE TURNING IT ROUND AND PUSHING IT TOWARDS ME + MILISON FLEW TO THANK ME OVERWHELMING ITS GRATITUDE + CRIED SHE I COULDN'T HAVE IT FULLEST HIM I'M SURE BY ANYTHING THAT I COULD HAVE SAID + YOU NEVER TRIED ME MERELY SAID HE + AFTER THAT THEY WILL REPAIR TO THEIR COUNTRY HOME + CAPTAIN LAKE DID NOT LOOK AT ALL LIKE A LONDON DANDY NOW + THERE WAS A VERY NATURAL SAVAGERY AND DEJECTION THERE AND A WILD LURE IN HIS YELLOW EYES RACHEL SAT DOWN + A SLAVE ONLY THINK A SLAVE + OH FRIGHTFUL FRIGHTFUL IS IT A DREAM + ALL RIGHT FROM BREAD + STANLEY STANLEY IT WOULD BE MERCY TO KILL ME SHE BROKE HER AGAIN + BRIGHT AND NATTY WITH THE CHINTZ CURTAINS AND THE LITTLE TOILET SET OUT NOT INELLEGANTLY AND HER PET PIPING GOLDFINCH ASLEEP ON HIS PERCH WITH HIS BIT OF SUGAR BETWEEN THE WIES OF A SKATE HER PILLOW SO WHITE AND UNPRESSED WITH ITS LITTLE EDGING OF LACE + WHEN HE CAME BACK TO THE DRAWING ROOM A TOTTERED BOTTLE OF OVER KLOON IN HIS HAND WITH HER LACE HANDKERCHIEF HE BADE HER TEMPLE AND FOREHEAD + THERE WAS NOTHING VERY BROTHERLY IN HIS LOOK AS HE PEERED INTO A PALE SHARP PEACHES DURING THE PROCESS + THERE DON'T MIND ME SHE SAID SHARPLY AND GETTING UP SHE LOOKED DOWN AT HER DRESS AND THIN SHOES AND SEEMING TO RECOLLECT HERSELF SHE TOOK THE CANDLE HE HAD JUST SAT DOWN AND WENT SWIFTLY TO HER ROOM + AND SHE THREW BACK HER VEIL AND GOING HURRIEDLY TO THE TOILET MECHANICALLY SURVEYED HERSELF IN THE GLASS + RICH AND WEAK NATURE LAKE WHAT ARE YOU NOW + I'LL STAY HERE THAT IS IN THE DRAWING ROOM SHE ANSWERED AND THE FACE WAS WITHDRAWN + HE SLACKENED HIS PACE AND TAPPED SHARPLY AT THE LITTLE WINDOW OF THE MODEST POST OFFICE AT WHICH THE YOUNG LADIES IN THE PONY CARRIAGE HAD PULLED UP THE DAY BEFORE AND WITHIN WHICH LITTLE WAGGON WAS WONT TO SLEEP IN A SORT OF WOODEN BOX THAT FOLDED UP AND APPEARED TO BE A CHEST OF DRAWERS ALL DAY + LOOK TOOK CARE OF MISTER LARKIN'S DOGS AND GROOMED MISTER WILDER'S HORSE AND CLEANED UP HIS DOOR CART FOR MARKING CLOTHES ABOUT MONEY AND FINDING THAT THE THING WAS TO BE DONE MOODY THAT WAY PUT UP HIS HORSE AND DOG CART IN THE POST OF HIS PREMISES AND SO EVADED THE LIVERY CHARGES OF THE BRANDON ARMS + BUT LUKE WAS NOW THERE AND CAPTAIN LAKE RECOLLECTING HIS HABITS AND HIS HAUNT HURRIED ON TO THE SILVER LINE WHICH HAS ITS CABLE TOWARDS THE COMMON ONLY ABOUT A HUNDRED STEPS AWAY FOR DISTANCES ARE NOT GREAT IN GILINGTON + HERE WERE THE FLOW OF SOUL AND OF STOUT LONG PIPES LONG YARNS INTOLERABLY LONG CREDITS AND THE HUMBLE CAPE RACES OF THE TOWN RESORTED THITHER FOR THE PLEASURES OF A CLUB LIFE AND OFTEN DEVELOPED DEEP INTO THE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING + LOSE NO TIME BUT I'LL GIVE YOU HALF A CROWN + LUKE STUCK ON HIS GREASY WIDE AWAKE AND IN A FEW MINUTES MORE THE DARK CART WAS TRUNDLED OUT INTO THE LANE AND THE HORSE HARNESSED WENT BETWEEN THE SHAFTS WITH THAT WONDERFUL CHEERFULNESS WITH WHICH THEY BEAR TO BE PULLED UP AND THE STARTLING CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNSEASONABLE HOURS + IF I THOUGHT YOU'D FAIL ME NOW TAMAR I SHOULD NEVER COME BACK GOOD NIGHT TAMAR + THE ACTS SAID THAT IN IS OF DIFFERENCE OF OPINION THERE MUST BE A BALLOT + HE WENT UP TO THE TABLE AND STRIKING IT WITH HIS FINGERING HE SHOUTED LOUDLY A BALLAD + HE WAS SHOUTING FOR THE VERY COARSE SURGY IVANOVITCH HAD PROPOSED BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE HATED HIM AND ALL HIS PARTY AND THIS FEELING OF HATRED SPREAD THROUGH THE WHOLE PARTY AND ROUSED IN OPPOSITION TO IT THE SAME VINDICTIVENESS THOUGH IN A MORE SEEMLY FORM ON THE OTHER SIDE + SHOUTS WERE RAISED AND FOR A MOMENT ALL WAS CONFUSION SO THAT THE MARSHAL OF THE PROVINCE HAD TO CALL FOR ODOR A BALLAD + WE SHED OUR BLOOD FOR OUR COUNTRY + THE CONFIDENCE OF THE MONARCH NO CHECKING THE ACCOUNTS OF THE MARTIAN HE'S NOT A CASHIER BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT + VOTES PLEASEN + THEY EXPRESSED THE MOST IMPLACABLE HATRED + LEVIN DID NOT IN THE LEAST UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS A MATTER AND HE MARVELLED AT THE PASSION WITH WHICH IT WAS DISPUTED WHETHER OR NOT THE DECISION ABOVE FLAROV SHOULD BE PUT TO THE VOTE + HE FORGOT AS SIR GIVANOVITCH EXPLAINED TO HIM AFTERWARDS THIS SYLLOGISM THAT IT WAS NECESSARY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD TO GET RID OF THE MARSHAL OF THE PROVINCE THAT TO GET INTO THE MARSHAL IT WAS NECESSARY TO HAVE A MAJORITY OF VOTES THAT TO GET A MAJORITY OF VOTES IT WAS NECESSARY TO SECURE FYROPS RIGHT TO VOTE THAT TO SECURE THE RECOGNITION OF LEAROV'S RIGHT TO VOTE THEY MUST DECIDE ON THE INTERPRETATION TO BE PUT ON THE ACT + BUT LEVIN FORGOT ALL THAT AND IT WAS PAINFUL TO HIM TO SEE ALL THESE EXCELLENT PERSONS FOR WHOM HE HAD A RESPECT IN SUCH AN UNPLEASANT AND VICIOUS STATE OF EXCITEMENT + TO ESCAPE FROM THIS PAINFUL FEELING HE WENT AWAY INTO THE OTHER ROOM WHERE THERE WAS NOBODY EXCEPT THE WAITERS AT THE REFRESHMENT BAR + HE PARTICULARLY LIKED THE WAY ONE GRAY WHISKERED WAITER WHO SHOWED HIS SCORN FOR THE OTHER YOUNGER ONES AND WAS JEERED AT BY THEM WAS TEACHING THEM HOW TO FOLD UP NAPKINS PROPERLY + LEVIN ADVANCED BUT UTTERLY FORGETTING WHAT HE WAS TO DO AND MUCH EMBARRASSED HE TURNED TO SEARCHY IVANOVITCH WITH THE QUESTION WE'RE A MOMENT TO PUT IT + SO SHE IVANOVITCH FROWNED + THAT IS A MATTER FOR EACH MAN'S OWN DECISION HE SAID SEVERELY + HAVING PUT IT IN HE RECOLLECTED THAT HE OUGHT TO HAVE THRUST HIS LEFT HAND TOO AND SO HE THRUST IT THOUGH TOO LATE AND STILL MORE OVERCOME WITH CONFUSION HE BEAT A HASTY RETREAT INTO THE BACKGROUND + A HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX FOR ADMISSION NINETY EIGHT AGAINST + SANG ON THE VOICE OF THE SECRETARY WHO COULD NOT PRONOUNCE THE LETTER R + THEN THERE WAS A LAUGH OF BUTTON AND TWO KNOTS WERE FOUND IN THE BOX + BUT THE OLD PARTY DID NOT CONSIDER THEMSELVES CONQUERED + INTROPLIS SNUTKOV SPOKE OF THE TRUST THE NOBLEMAN OF THE PROVINCE HAD PLACED IN HIM THE EFFECT THEY HAD SHOWN HIM WHICH HE DID NOT DESERVE AS HIS ONLY MERIT HAD BEEN HIS ATTACHMENT TO THE NOBILITY TO WHOM HE HAD DEVOTED TWELVE YEARS OF SERVICE + THIS EXPRESSION IN THE MARSHAL'S FACE WAS PARTICULARLY TOUCHING TO LEVIN BECAUSE ONLY THE DAY FOR HE HAD BEEN AT HIS HOUSE ABOUT HIS TRUSTY BUSINESS AND HAD SEEN HIM IN ALL HIS GRANDEUR A KIND HEARTED FATHERLY MAN + IF THERE ARE MEN YOUNGER AND MORE DESERVING THAN I LET THEM SERVE + AND THE MARSHAL DISAPPEARED THROUGH A SIDE DOOR + THEY WERE TO PROCEED IMMEDIATELY TO THE ELECTION + TWO NOBLE GENTLEMEN WHO HAD A WEAKNESS A STRONG DRINK HAD BEEN MADE DRUNK BY THE PARTISANS OF SNETKOV AND THE THIRD HAD BEEN ROBBED OF HIS UNIFORM + ON LEARNING THIS THE NEW PARTY HAD MADE HASTE DURING THE DISPUTE ABOUT FLAROV TO SEND SOME OF THEIR MEN IN A SLEDGE TO CLOTHE THE STRIPPED OF GENTLEMEN AND TO BRING ALONG ONE OF THE INTOXICATED TO THE MEETING + LEVIN DID NOT CARE TO EAT AND HE WAS NOT SMOKING HE DID NOT WANT TO JOIN HIS OWN FRIENDS THAT IS SERGY IVANOVITCH STEPAN ARKADYEVITCH SVIERSKY AND THE REST BECAUSE VRONSKY IN AN EQUERRIES UNIFORM WAS STANDING WITH THEM IN EAGER CONVERSATION + HE WENT TO THE WINDOW AND SAT DOWN SCANNING THE GROUPS AND LISTENING TO WHAT WAS BEING SAID AROUND HIM + HE'S SUCH A BLANK CARD + I HAVE TOLD HIM SO BUT IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE ONLY THINK OF IT + THESE PERSONS WERE UNMISTAKABLY SEEKING A PLACE WHERE THEY COULD TALK WITHOUT BEING OVERHEARD + SHALL WE GO ON YOUR EXCELLENCY FINE CHAMPAGNE + LAST YEAR AT OUR DISTRICT MARSHAL NIKOLAY IVANOVITCH'S + OH STILL JUST THE SAME ALWAYS AT A LOSS THE LANDOWNER ANSWERED WITH A RESIGNED SMILE BUT WITH AN EXPRESSION OF SERENITY AND CONVICTION THAT SO IT MUST PAY + WHY WHAT DOES THAT UNDERSTAND + THERE IS NO MEANING IN IT AT ALL + THEN TWO ONE MUST KEEP UP CONNECTIONS + IT'S A MORAL OBLIGATION OF A SORT + AND THEN TO DELITUDE THERE'S ONE'S OWN INTEREST + THEIR PROPRIETORS OF A SORT BUT WE ARE THE LANDOWNERS + THAT IT MAY BE BUT STILL IT OUGHT TO BE TREATED A LITTLE MORE RESPECTFULLY + IF WE ARE LAYING OUT A GARDEN PLANNING ONE BEFORE THE HOUSE YOU KNOW AND THERE YOU HAVE A TREE THAT STOOD THE CENTURIES IN THE VERY SPOT OLD AND GNAWED IT MAY BE AND YET YOU DON'T CUT DOWN THE OLD FELLOW TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE FLOWER BEDS BUT LAY OUT YOUR BEDS SO AS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE TREE + WELL AND HOW IS YOUR LAND DOING + BUT ONE'S WORK IS THROWN IN FOR NOTHING + OH WELL ONE DOES IT WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE + AND WHAT'S MORE THE LANTERNER WENT ON LEANING HIS ELBOWS ON THE WINDOW AND CHATTING ON MY SON I MUST TELL YOU HAS NO TASTE FOR IT + SO THERE'LL BE NO ONE TO KEEP IT UP AND YET ONE DOES IT + WE WALKED ABOUT THE FIELDS AND THE GARDEN NO SAID HE STEPAN MISLIVAGE EVERYTHING'S WELL LOOKED AFTER BUT YOUR GARDENS NEGLECTED + TO MIND THINKING I'D CUT DOWN THAT LUNCHY + FURY OF THOUSANDS OF LINES AND EACH WOULD MAKE TWO GOOD BUNDLES OF PARK + YOUR MERIT I HEARD SAID THE LANDOWNER + YES IT'S RATHER STRANGE HE WENT ON + THE LANDLORD CHUCKLED UNDER HIS WHITE MOUSTACHES + WHY DON'T WE CUT DOWN OUR BOX FOR TIMBER + SAID LEVIN RETURNING TO A THOUGHT THAT HAD STRUCK HIM + THERE'S A CLASS INSTINCT TOO OF WHAT ONE OUGHT AND OUGHT NOT TO DO + THERE'S THE PEASANTS TOO I WONDER OF THEM SOMETIMES ANY GOOD PEASANT TRIES TO TAKE ALL THE LAND HE CAN + WITHOUT A RETURN TOO ADD A SIMPLE LOSS + WHEN HE CAME FROM THE BATH POCLASS VISITED HIM AGAIN + BUT HERRON WAS NOT IN THE MOOD TO SHARE A JOYOUS REVEL AND HE FRANKLY SAID SO ALTHOUGH IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS RETURN HE HAD ACCEPTED THE INVITATION TO THE FESTIVAL WHICH THE WHOLE FELLOWSHIP OF ARTISTS WOULD GIVE THE FOLLOWING DAY AND HONOR OF THE SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY OF THE OLD SCULPTOR EUPHRAMER + SHE WOULD APPEAR HERSELF AT DESSERT AND THE BANQUET MUST THEREFORE BEGIN AT AN UNUSUALLY EARLY HOUR + SO THE ARTIST FOUND HIMSELF OBLIGED TO RELINQUISH HIS OPPOSITION + THE BANQUET WAS TO BEGIN IN A FEW HOURS YET HE COULD NOT LET THE DAY PASS WITHOUT SEEING DAPHNE AND TELLING HER THE WORDS OF THE ORACLE + HE LONGED WITH ARDENT YEARNING FOR THE SOUND OF HER VOICE AND STILL MORE TO UNBURDEN HIS SORELY TROUBLED SOUL TO HER + SINCE HIS RETURN FROM THE ORACLE THE FEAR THAT THE RESCUE DEMETER MIGHT YET BE THE WORK OF MERCILESS HAD AGAIN MASTERED HIM + THE APPROVAL AS WELL AS THE DOUBTS WHICH HAD ARISED IN OTHERS STRENGTHENED HIS OPINION ALTHOUGH EVEN NOW HE COULD NOT SUCCEED IN BRINGING IT INTO HARMONY WITH THE FACTS + THEN HE WENT DIRECTLY TO THE NEIGHBOURING PALACE THE QUEEN MIGHT HAVE APPEARED ALREADY AND IT WOULD NOT DO TO KEEP HER WAITING + HITHERTO THE MERCHANT HAD BEEN INDUCED IT IS TRUE TO ADVANCE LARGE SUMS OF MONEY TO THE QUEEN BUT THE LOYAL DEVOTION WHICH HE SHOWED TO HER ROYAL HUSBAND HAD RENDERED IT IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE HIM EVEN A HINT OF THE CONSPIRACY + WHEN HERMON ENTERED THE RESIDENCE OF THE GRAMMATIUS IN THE PALACE THE GUESTS HAD ALREADY ASSEMBLED + THE PLACE BY HERRMAN'S SIDE WHICH ALPHY HAD CHOSEN FOR HERSELF WOULD THEN BE GIVEN UP TO ARSENO + TRUE AN INTERESTING CONVERSATION STILL HAD POWER TO CHARM HIM BUT OFTEN DURING ITS CONTINUANCE THE FULL CONSCIOUSNESS OF HIS MISFORTUNE FORCED ITSELF UPON HIS MIND FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE SUBJECTS DISCUSSED BY THE ARTISTS CAME TO THEM THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF SIGHT AND REFERRED TO NEW CREATIONS OF ARCHITECTURE SCULPTURE AND PAINTING FROM WHOSE ENJOYMENT HIS BLINDNESS DEBARRED HIM + A STRANGER OUT OF HIS OWN SPHERE HE FELL CHILLED AMONG THESE CLOSELY UNITED MEN AND WOMEN TO WHOM NO TIE BOUND HIM SAVE THE PRESENCE OF THE SAME HOST + CREATES HAD REALLY BEEN INVITED IN ORDER TO WIN HIM OVER TO THE QUEEN'S CAUSE BUT CHARMING FAIR HAIRED NICHO HAD BEEN COMMISSIONED BY THE CONSPIRATORS TO PERSUADE HIM TO SING ARCINEAU'S PRAISES AMONG HIS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATES + HIS SON HAD BEEN THE ROYAL DAME'S FIRST HUSBAND AND SHE HAD DESERTED HIM TO MARRY LESMACHUS THE AGED KING OF THRACE + THE KING'S SISTER THE OBJECT OF HIS LOVE CRIED HARMONIOUSLY + WE WOMEN ARE ONLY AS OLD AS WE LOOK AND THE LEECH'S ENTIRE WOMAN OF THIS BEAUTY OF FORTY PRACTICE ARTS WHICH GIVE HER THE APPEARANCE OF TWENTY FIVE YET PERHAPS THE KING VALUES HER INTELLECT MORE THAN HER PERSON AND THE WISDOM OF A HUNDRED SERPENTS IS CERTAINLY UNITED IN THIS WOMAN'S HEAD + THE THREE MOST TRUSTWORTHY ONES ARE HERE AMMUNS THE LIEGE CHRYSIPPUS AND THE ADMIRABLE PROGRESS + LET US HOPE THAT YOU WILL MAKE THIS THREE LEAVED CLOVER THE LUCK PROMISING FOUR LEAVED ONE + YOUR UNCLE TOO HAS OFTEN WITH PRAISEWORTHY GENEROSITY HELPED ARSENOT IN MANY AN EMBARRASSMENT + HOW LONG HE KEPT YOU WAITING FROM THE FIRST WORD CONCERNING A WORK WHICH JUSTLY TRANSPORTED THE WHOLE CITY WITH DELIGHT + WHEN HE DID FINALLY SUMMON YOU HE SAID THINGS WHICH MUST HAVE WOUNDED YOU + THAT IS GOING TOO FAR REPLIED HERMAN + HE WINKED AT HER AND MADE A SIGNIFICANT GESTURE AS HE SPOKE AND THEN INFORMED THE BLIND ARTIST HOW GRACIOUSLY ARSENO HAD REMEMBERED HIM WHEN SHE HEARD OF THE REMEDY BY WHOSE AID MANY A WONDERFUL CURE OF BLIND EYE HAD BEEN MADE IN ROADS + THE ROYAL LADY HAD INQUIRED ABOUT HIM AND HIS SUFFERINGS WITH ALMOST SISTERLY INTEREST AND ALPHA EAGERLY CONFIRMED THE STATEMENT + HERMAN LISTENED TO THE PARENT SILENCE + THE RADIUM WAS JUST BEGINNING TO PRAISE ARSENOT ALSO AS A SPECIAL FRIEND AND CONNOISSEUR OF THE SCULPTURES ART WHEN CRATES HERMANN'S FELLOW STUDENT ASK THE BLIND ARTIST IN BEHALF OF HIS BEAUTIFUL COMPANION WHY HIS DEMETER WAS PLACED UPON A PEDESTAL WHICH TO OTHERS AS WELL AS HIMSELF SEEMED TOO HIGH FOR THE SIZE OF THE STATUE + YET WHAT MATTERED IT EVEN IF THESE MISERABLE PEOPLE CONSIDERED THEMSELVES DECEIVED AND POINTED THE FINGER OF SCORN AT HIM + A WOMAN WHO YEARNS FOR THE REGARD OF ALL MEN AND MAKES LOVE A TOY EASILY LESSONS THE DEMANDS SHE IMPOSES UPON INDIVIDUALS + ONLY EVEN THOUGH LOVE HAS WHOLLY DISAPPEARED SHE STILL CLAIMS CONSIDERATION AND ALTHEA DID NOT WISH TO LOSE HERMOND'S REGARD + HOW INDIFFERENT TO LOOK BUT I TELL YOU HER DEEP BLUE EYES FLASHED AS SHE SPOKE THAT SO LONG AS YOU WAS STILL A GENUINE CREATING ARTIST THE CASE WAS DIFFERENT + THOUGH SO LOUD A DENIAL IS WRITTEN ON YOUR FACE I PERSIST IN MY CONVICTION AND THAT NO IDLE DELUSION AND SNAS ME I CAN PROVE + IT WAS NAY IT COULD HAVE BEEN NOTHING ELSE THAT VERY SPIDER + NOT A SOUND IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIVES + TO OFFER RESISTANCE WOULD HAVE BEEN MADNESS FOR EVEN HERMON PERCEIVED BY THE LOUD CLANKING OF WEAPONS ROUND THEM THE GREATLY SUPERIOR POWER OF THE ENEMY AND THEY WERE ACTING BY THE ORDERS OF THE KING TO THE PRIZE THE PLACE OF EXECUTION + WAS HE TO BE LED TO THE EXECUTIONER'S BLOCK + WHAT PLEASURE HAD LIKED TO OFFER HIM THE BLIND MAN WHO WAS ALREADY DEAD TO HIS ART + OUGHT HE NOT TO GREET HIS SUDDEN END AS A BOOM FROM THE IMMORTALS + DID IT NOT SPARE HIM A HUMILIATION AS GREAT AND PAINFUL AS COULD BE IMAGINED + WHATEVER MIGHT AWAIT HIM HE DESIRED NO BETTER FATE + IF HE HAD PASSED INTO ANNIHILATION HE HERMON WISHED TO FOLLOW HIM THITHER AN ANNIHILATION CERTAINLY MEANT REDEMPTION FROM PAIN AND MISERY + BUT IF HE WERE DESTINED TO MEET HIS BERTELIS AND HIS MOTHER IN THE WORLD BEYOND THE GRAVE WHAT HAD HE NOT TO TELL THEM HOW SURE HE WAS A FINDING A JOYFUL RECEPTION THERE FROM BOTH + THE POWER WHICH DELIVERED HIM OVER TO DEATH JUST AT THAT MOMENT WAS NOT NEMESIS NO IT WAS A KINDLY DEITY + YET IT WAS NO ILLUSION THAT DECEIVED HIM + AGAIN HE HEARD THE BELOVED VOICE AND THIS TIME IT ADDRESSED NOT ONLY HIM BUT WITH THE UTMOST HASTE THE COMMANDER OF THE SOLDIERS + SOMETIMES WITH THE TOUCHING ENTREATY SOMETIMES WITH IMPERIOUS COMMAND SHE PROTESTED AFTER GIVING HIM HER NAME THAT THIS MATTER COULD BE NOTHING BUT AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE + LASTLY WITH EARNEST WARMTH SHE BESOUGHT HIM BEFORE TAKING THE PRISONERS AWAY TO PERMIT HER TO SPEAK TO THE COMMANDING GENERAL PHILLIPUS HER FATHER'S GUEST WHO SHE WAS CERTAIN WAS IN THE PALACE + CRIED HERON IN GRATEFUL AGITATION BUT SHE WOULD NOT LISTEN TO HIM AND FOLLOW THE SOLDIER WHOM THE CAPTAIN DETAILED TO GUIDE HER INTO THE PALACE + TO MORROW YOU SHALL CONFESS TO ME WHO TREACHEROUSLY DIRECTED YOU TO THIS DANGEROUS PATH + DAPHNE AGAIN PLEADED FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE PRISONERS BUT PHILIPPA SILENCED HER WITH A GRAVE EXCLAMATION THE AUDA OF THE KING + AS SOON AS THE CAPTIVE ARTIST WAS ALONE WITH A WOMAN HE LOVED HE CLASPED HER HAND POURING FORTH INCOHERENT WORDS OF THE MOST ARDENT GRATITUDE AND WHEN HE FELT HER WARMLY RETURN THE PRESSURE HE COULD NOT RESTRAIN THE DESIRE TO CLASP HER TO HIS HEART + IN SPITE OF HIS DEEP MENTAL DISTRESS HE COULD HAVE SHOUTED ALOUD IN THIS DELIGHTING GRATITUDE + HE MIGHT NOW HAVE BEEN PERMITTED TO BIND FOREVER TO HIS LIFE THE WOMAN WHO HAD JUST RESCUED HIM FROM THE GREATEST DANGER BUT THE CONFESSION HE MUST MAKE TO HIS FELLOW ARTISTS IN THE POSTURE THE FOLLOWING MORNING STILL SEALED HIS LIPS YET IN THIS HOUR HE FELT THAT HE WAS UNITED TO HER AND OUGHT NOT TO CONCEAL WHAT AWAITED HIM SO OBEYING A STRONG IMPULSE HE EXCLAIMED YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU + I LOVE YOU AND HAVE LOVED YOU ALWAYS + DAVY EXCLAIMED TENDERLY WHAT MORE IS NEEDED + BUT HERMAN WITH DROOPING HEAD MURMURED TO MORROW I SHALL NO LONGER BE WHAT I AM NOW + THEN DAFFY RAISED HER FACE TO HIS ASKING SO THE DEMETERS THE WORK OF MYRTLES + WHAT A TERRIBLE ORDEAL AGAIN AWAITS YOU + AND I FOOL BLINDED ALLSORE IN MIND COULD BE VEXED WITH YOU FOR IT + BRING THIS BEFORE YOUR MIND AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT YOU MUST ACCEPT WITH IT IF YOU CONSENT WHERE THE TIME ARRIVES TO BECOME MINE CONCEAL IN PALEOT NOTHING + SO OUR KAYS INTENDED TO LEAVE THE CITY ON ONE OF HIS OWN SHIPS THAT VERY DAY + HE HIMSELF ON THE WAY TO EXPOSE HIMSELF TO THE MALICE AND MOCKERY OF THE WHOLE CITY + HIS HEART CONTRACTED PAINFULLY AND HIS SOLICITUDE ABOUT HIS UNCLE'S FATE INCREASED WHEN PHILIPUS INFORMED HIM THAT THE CONSPIRATORS HAD BEEN ARRESTED AT THE BANQUET AND HEADED BY AMINTES VERODIAN CHRYSIPPUS AND PROCLAS HAD PERISHED BY THE EXECUTIONER'S SWORD AT SUNRISE + BESIDES HE KNEW THAT THE OBJECT OF HIS LOVE WOULD NOT PART FROM HIM WITHOUT GRANTING HIM ONE LAST WORD + ON THE WAY HIS HEART THROBBED ALMOST A BURSTING + EVEN THEFNESED IMAGE AND WHAT THREATENED HER FATHER AND HER WITH HIM WAS SEATED FAR INTO THE BACKGROUND + HE WAS APPEARING BEFORE HIS COMPANIONS ONLY TO GIVE TRUTH IT'S JUST DUE + THE EGYPTIAN OBEYED AND HIS MASTER CROSSED THE WIDE SPACE STREWN WITH SAND AND APPROACHED THE STAGE WHICH HAD BEEN ERECTED FOR THE FEAST OF PERFORMANCES EVEN HAD HIS EYES RETAINED THE POWER OF SIGHT HIS BLOOD WAS COURSING SO WIDELY THROUGH HIS VEINS THAT HE MIGHT PERHAPS HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH THE STATUES AROUND HIM AND THE THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS WHO CROWDED CLOSELY TOGETHER RICHLY GARLANDED THEIR CHEEKS GLOWING WITH ENTHUSIASM SURROUNDED THE ARENA HERMON + SHOUTED HIS FRIEND SATULOUS AND JOYFUL SURPRISE IN THE MIDST OF HIS PAINFUL WALK HERMON + EVEN WHILE HE BELIEVED HIMSELF TO BE THE CREATOR OF THE DEMETER HE HAD BEEN SERIOUSLY TROUBLED BY THE PRAISE OF SO MANY CRITICS BECAUSE IT HAD EXPOSED HIM TO THE SUSPICION OF HAVING BECOME FAITHLESS TO HIS ART AND HIS NATURE + HONOR TO MERCILESS AND HIS ART BUT HE TRUSTED THIS NOBLE FEAST A ASSEMBLAGE WOULD PARDON THE UNINTENTIONAL DECEPTION AND AID HIS PRAYER FOR RECOVERY + AFTERWARD IT WAS SUPPOSED THAT HE WAS SATISFIED WITH A BLOOD OF OXEN LAMPS AND DOVES AND AT AN EXCHANGE FOR OR IN ACCOUNT OF THESE SACRIFICES THESE GOD GAVE RAIN SUNSHINE AND HARVEST + WHETHER HE WAS THE CREATOR OF YOURSELF AND MYSELF + WHETHER ANY PRAYER WAS EVER ANSWERED + WHY DID HE CREATE THE INTELLECTUAL INFERIOR + WHY DID HE CREATE THE DEFORMED AND HELPLESS WHY DID HE CREATE THE CRIMINAL THE IDIOTIC THE INSANE + ARE THE FAILURES UNDER OBLIGATIONS TO THEIR CREATOR + IS IRRESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE WALLS THAT HAVE BEEN WAGED FOR ALL THE INNOCENT BLOOD THAT HAS BEEN SHED + IS HE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CENTURIES OF SLAVERY FOR THE BACKS THAT HAVE BEEN SCARED WITH A LASH FOR THE BABE THAT HAD BEEN SOLD FROM THE BREASTS OF MOTHERS FOR THE FAMILIES THAT HAVE BEEN SEPARATED AND DESTROYED + IS DISCOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION FOR THE INQUISITION FOR THE THUMB SCREW AND RACK AND FOR ALL THE INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE + DID THIS GOT HOLD THE CRUEL AND VILE TO DESTROY THE BRAVE AND VIRTUOUS + DID HE LOW TYRANTS TO SHED A BLOOD OF PATRIOTS + CAN WE CONCEIVE OF A DEVIL BASE ENOUGH TO PREFER HIS ENEMIES TO HIS FRIENDS + HOW CAN WE ACCOUNT FOR THE WILD BEASTS THAT THE FOUR HUMAN BEINGS FOR THE FAINT SERPENTS WHOSE BITE IS DEATH + HOW CAN WE ACCOUNT FOR A WORLD WERE LIFE FEATS ON LIFE + DID INFINITE WITH THEM INTENTIONALLY PRODUCE THE MICROSCOPIC BEASTS THAT FEET UPON THE OPTIC NURSE THINK OF BLINDING A MAN TO SATISFY THE APPETITE OF A MIKE ROBE + FEAR BEATS THE ALTAR AND OFFERS THE SACRIFICE + FEAR ERECTS THE CATHEDRAL AND BOWS THE HEAD OF MAN IN WORSHIP + LIDZ RELIGIOUS AND FEARFUL TREMBLINGLY REPEAT THIS PASSAGE THOUGH HE SLAY ME YET WILL I TRUST HIM + CAN WE SAY THAT HE CARED FOR THE CHILDREN OF MEN + CAN WE SAY THAT HIS MERCY ENDURED FOR EVER + DO WE PROVE HIS GOODNESS BY SHOWING THAT HE HAS OPENED THE EARTH AND SWALLOWED TO THOUSAND OF HIS HELPLESS CHILDREN OR THAT WITH THE VOLCANOES HE HAS OVERWHELMED THEM WITH RIVERS OF FIRE + WAS THEIR GOODNESS WAS THEIR WISDOM IN THIS + ALL THE SUPERIOR RACE TOO THANK GOD THAT THEY ARE NOT THE INFERIOR + MOST PEOPLE TINK TO THE SUPERNATURAL + IF THEY GIVE UP ONE GOD THEY IMAGINE ANOTHER + WHAT IS POWER + MAN ADVANCES AND NECESSARILY ADVANCES TRUE EXPERIENCE + A MAN WISHING TO GO TO A CERTAIN PLACE COME TO WHERE THE ROYAL DIVIDES + HE HAS TRIED THAT ROAD AND KNOWS THAT IT IS THE WRONG ROAD + A CHILD SHONE BY THE BEAUTY OF THE FLAME GRASPED IT WITH HIS DIMPLED AND + THE POWER WITH THAT WORK FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS HAD TAUGHT THE CHILD A LESSON + IT IS A RESULT + IT IS INSISTED BY THESE THEOLOGIANS AND BY MANY OF THE SO CALLED PHILOSOPHERS THAT THIS MORAL SENSE THIS SENSE OF DUTY OF OBLIGATION WAS IMPORTED AND THAT CONSCIENCE IS AN EXOTIC + WE LIVE TOGETHER IN FAMILIES TRIBES AND NATIONS + THEY ARE PRAISED ADMIRED AND RESPECTED + THEY ARE REGARDED AS GOOD THAT IS TO SAY AS MORAL + THE MEMBERS WHO ADD TO THE MISERY OF THE FAMILY THE TRIBE OF THE NATION ARE CONSIDERED BAD MEMBERS + THE GREATEST OF HUMAN BEINGS HAD SAID CONSCIENCE IS BORN OF LOVE + AS PEOPLE ADVANCE THE REMOTE CONSEQUENCES ARE PERCEIVED + THE IMAGINATION IS CULTIVATED + A MAN BUT HIMSELF IN THE PLACE OF ANOTHER + THE SENSE OF DUTY BECOMES STRONGER MORE IMPERATIVE + MAN JUDGES HIMSELF + IN ALL THIS THERE IS NOTHING SUPERNATURAL + MAN HAS DECEIVED HIMSELF + HAS CHRISTIANITY DONE GOOD + WHEN THE CHURCH HAD CONTROL WERE MEN MADE BETTER AND HAPPIER + WHAT HAS RELIGION DONE FOR HUNGARY O AUSTRIA + COULD THESE COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN WORSE WITHOUT RELIGION + COULD I HAVE BEEN WORSE HAD THEY HAD ANY OTHER RELIGION THAN CHRISTIANITY + WHAT DID CHRISTIANITY DO FOR THEM + THEY HATED PLEASURE + THEY MUFFLED ALL THE BELLS OF GLADNESS + THE RELIGION OF THE PURITAN WAS AN ADULTERATED CURSE + THE PURITAN BELIEVED THE BIBLE TO BE THE WORLD OF GOD AND THIS BELIEF HAS ALWAYS MADE THOSE WHO HELD IT CRUEL AND WRETCHED + LET ME REFER TO JUST ONE FACT SHOWING THE INFLUENCE OF A BELIEF IN THE BIBLE ON HUMAN BEINGS + THE QUEEN RECEIVED THE BIBLE KISSED IT AND PLEDGED HERSELF TO DILIGENTLY WRIT DEREN + IN OTHER WORDS IT WAS JUST AS FIENDISH JUST AS IN FAMOUS AS THE CAT OF SPIRIT + HAS THE DIABLE MADE THE PEOPLE OF GEORGE A KIND AND MERCIFUL + RELIGION HAS BEEN TRIED AND IN ALL COUNTRIES IN ALL TIMES THAT HAS FAILED + RELIGION HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE ENEMY OF SCIENCE OF INVESTIGATION AND THOUGHT + RELIGION HAS NEVER MADE MEN FREE + IT IS NEVER MADE MAN MORAL TEMPERATE INDUSTRIOUS AND HONEST + OUR CHRISTIANS MORE TEMPERED NEARER VIRTUOUS NEARER HONEST THAN SAVAGES + CAN SECURE DISEASE BY SUPPLICATION + CAN WE RECEIVE VIRTUE OR HUNTER AS ARMS + RELIGION RESTS ON THE IDEA THAT NATURE HAS A MASTER AND THAT HIS MASTER WILL LISTEN TO PRAYER THAT HIS MASTER PUNISHES AND REWARDS THAT HE LOVES PRAISE AND FLATTERY AND HATES THE BRAVE AND FREE + WE MUST HAVE GONE THE STONES + THE STRUCTURE MUST HAVE ABASEMENT + IF WE BUILD WE MUST BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM + I HAVE A THEORY AND I HAVE FOUR CORNERS + THE FIRST STONE IS THAT MATTER SUBSTANCE CANNOT BE DESTROYED CANNOT BE ANNIHILATED + IF THESE CONDESTONES ARE FACTS IT FOLLOWS AS A NECESSITY THAT MATTER AND FORCE ARE FROM END TO ETERNITY THAT THEY CAN NEITHER BE INCREASED NOR DIMINISHED + IT FOLLOWS THAT NOTHING HAS BEEN OR CAN BE CREATED THAT THERE NEVER HAS BEEN OR CAN BE A CREATOR + IT FOLLOWED THAT THERE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANY INTELLIGENCE AND A DESIGN BACK OF MATTER AND FORCE + I SAY WHAT I THINK + EVERY EVENT HAS PARENTS + THAT WHICH HAS NOT HAPPENED COULD NOT + IN THE INFINITE CHANGE AND A CAN BE NO BROKEN NO MISSING LINK + WE NOW KNOW THAT OUR FIRST PARENTS WERE NOT FOREIGNERS + WE NOW KNOW IF IN KNOW ANYTHING THAT THE UNIVERSE IS NATURAL AND THAT MEN AND WOMEN HAVE BEEN NATURALLY PRODUCED + WE KNOW THE PARTS THAT LIFE HAS TRAVELLED + WE KNOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCE THEY HAVE BEEN TRACED + FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MEN AND WOMEN HAVE BEEN CRYING TO REFORM THE WORLD + WHY HAVE THE REFORM OF SAYING + THEY DEPEND ON THE LOT UNLUCKY CHARITY + THEY LIVE BY FRAUD AND VIOLENCE AND BEQUEATH THEIR VICES TO THEIR CHILDREN + FAILURE SEEMS TO BE THE TRADE MARK OF NATURE WHY + NATURE PRODUCED WITHOUT PURPOSE SUSTAINS WITHOUT INTENTION AND DESTROYS WITHOUT THOUGHTS + MASTER WORLD FOR EVER REMAINED THE VICTIM OF IGNORANT PASSION + WHY SHOULD MEN AND WOMEN HAVE CHILDREN THAT THEY CANNOT TAKE CARE OF CHILDREN THAT ARE A BURGUND AND CURSES WHY + PASSION IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN DEATH + LO CAN'T PUNISH BUT IT CAN NEITHER REFORM CRIMINALS NOR PREVENT CRIME + THIS CANNOT BE DONE BY TALK OR EXAMPLE + THIS IS THE SOLUTION OF THE WHOLE QUESTION + THIS FREEZEWOMEN + POVERTY AND CRIME WILL BE CHILDLESS + IT IS FAR BETTER TO BE FREE TO LEAVE THE FAULTS AND BARRICADES OF FEAR TO STAND ERECT AND FACE THE FUTURE TO SMILE + THERE DONE FAR SAID THE SCHOOLMASTER IN THE LOKI TO THE SHRED OUT WITH YEARD VITRIOL AND MIND YOUR EYE + THE TWO MONSTERS TOOK OFF THEIR SHOES AND MOVED STEALTHILY ALONG KEEPING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE HOUSES + BY MEANS OF THIS STRATAGEM THEY FOLLOWED SO CLOSELY THAT ALTHOUGH WITHIN A FEW STEPS OF SEREN TOM THEY DID NOT HEAR THEM + SARAH AND HER BROTHER HAVING AGAIN PASSED BY THE TUBBY FROG ARRIVED CLOSE TO THE DILAPIDATED HOUSE WHICH WAS PARTLY IN RUINS AND ITS OPEN CELLARS FORMED A KIND OF GULF ALONG WHICH THE STREET RAN IN THAT DIRECTION + IN AN INSTANT THE SCHOOLMASTER WITH A LEE RESEMBLING IN STRENGTH AND AGILITY THE SPRING OF A TIGER SEIZED SATAN WITH ONE HAND BY THE THROAT AND EXCLAIMED YOUR MONEY OR I WILL FLING YOU INTO THIS HOLE + NO SAID THE OLD BRUTE DRUMBLINGLY NO NOT ONE RING WHAT ASHAMED + TOM SEYTON DID NOT LOSE HIS PRESENCE OF MIND DURING THIS SCENE RAPIDLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY AS IT HAD OCCURRED + O AH TO LAY A TRAP TO CATCH US REPLIED THE THIEF + THEN ADDRESSING THOMAS CYTERN YOU KNOW THE PLANE OF SAINT DENIS + DID YOU SEE IN THE CABARET WE HAVE JUST LEFT FOR I KNOW YOU AGAIN THE MAN WHOM THE CHARCOAL MAN CAME TO SEEK + CRIED THE SCHOOLMASTER A THOUSAND FRANCS AN I'LL KILL HIM + WRETCH I DO NOT SEEK HIS LIFE REPLIED SARAH TO THE SCHOOLMASTER + LET'S GO AND MEET HIM + ALL BY IT WILL PAY FOR LOOKING AFTER + WELL MY WIFE SHALL BE THERE SAID THE SCHOOLMASTER YOU WILL TELL HER WHAT HE WANTS AND I SHALL SEE + IN THE PLAIN OF SAINT DENIS + BETWEEN SAINT ONE AND THE ROAD OF LA REVOLTE AT THE END OF THE ROAD AGREED + HE HAD FORGOTTEN THE ADDRESS OF THE SELF STYLED PAN PAINTER + THE THEACAD + FRANZ WHO SEEMED ATTRACTED BY SOME INVISIBLE INFLUENCE TOWARDS THE COUNT IN WHICH TERROR WAS STRANGELY MINGLED FELT AN EXTREME RELUCTANCE TO PERMIT HIS FRIEND TO BE EXPOSED ALONE TO THIS SINGULAR FASCINATION THAT THIS MYSTERIOUS PERSONAGE SEEMED TO EXERCISE OVER HIM AND THEREFORE MADE NO OBJECTION TO ALBERT'S REQUEST BUT AT ONCE ACCOMPANIED HIM TO THE DESIRED SPOT AND AFTER A SHORT DELAY THE COUNT JOINED THEM IN THE SALON + MY VERY GOOD FRIEND AN EXCELLENT NEIGHBOUR REPLIED THE COUNT WITH A SMILE YOU REALLY ET CETERA MY TRIFLING EXERTIONS + MY FATHER THE COMTE DE MORCERF ALTHOUGH OF SPANISH ORIGIN POSSESSES CONSIDERABLE INFLUENCE BOTH AT THE COURT OF FRANCE AND MADRID AND I UNHESITATINGLY PLACE THE BEST SERVICES OF MYSELF AND ALL TO WHOM MY LIFE IS DEAR AT YOUR DISPOSAL + I CAN SCARCELY CREDIT IT + THEN IT IS SETTLED SAID THE COUNT AND I GIVE YOU MY SOLEMN ASSURANCE THAT I ONLY WAITED IN A POTUITY LIKE THE PRESENT TO REALISE PLANS THAT I HAVE LONG MEDITATED + SHALL WE MAKE A POSITIVE APPOINTMENT FOR A PARTICULAR DAY AND HOUR INQUIRED THE COUNT ONLY LET ME WARN YOU THAT I AM PROVERBIAL FOR MY PUNCTILIOUS EXACTITUDE IN KEEPING MY ENGAGEMENTS DAY FOR DAY HOUR FOR HOUR SAID ALBERT THAT WILL SUIT ME TO A DOT + SO BE IT THEN REPLIED THE COUNT AND EXTENDING HIS HAND TOWARDS THE CALENDAR SUSPENDED NEAR THE CHIMNEY PIECE HE SAID TO DAY IS THE TWENTY FIRST OF FEBRUARY AND DRAWING OUT HIS WATCH ADDED IT IS EXACTLY HALF PAST TEN O'CLOCK NOW PROMISED ME TO REMEMBER THIS AND EXPECT ME THAT TWENTY FIRST OF ME AT THE SAME HOUR IN THE FORENOON + I RESIDE IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE BUT OCCUPY A PAVILION AT THE FARTHER SIDE OF THE COURTYARD AND TILS SEPARATED FROM THE MAIN BUILDING + NOW THEN SAID THE COUNT RETURNING HIS TABLETS TO HIS POCKET MAKE YOURSELF PERFECTLY EASY THE HAND OF YOUR TIMEPIECE WILL NOT BE MORE ACCURATE IN MARKING THE TIME THAN MYSELF + THAT DEPENDS WHEN DO YOU LEAVE + FOR FRANCE NO FOR VENICE I SHALL REMAIN IN ITALY FOR ANOTHER YEAR OR TWO + THEN WE SHALL NOT MEET IN PARIS + I FEAR I SHALL NOT HAVE THAT HONOUR + WELL SINCE WE MUST PART SAID THE COUNT HOLDING OUT A HAND TO EACH OF A YOUNG MAN ALLOW ME TO WISH YOU BOTH A SAFE AND PLEASANT JOURNEY + WHAT IS THE MATTER ASKED ALBERT OF FRANCE WHEN THEY HAD RETURNED TO THEIR OWN APARTMENTS YOU SEEM MORE THAN COMMONLY THOUGHTFUL + I WILL CONFESS TO YOU ALBERT REPLIED FRANZ THE COUNT IS A VERY SINGULAR PERSON AND THE APPOINTMENT YOU HAVE MADE TO MEET HIM IN PARIS FILLS ME WITH A THOUSAND APPREHENSIONS + DID YOU EVER MEET HIM PREVIOUSLY TO COMING HITHER + UPON MY HONOUR THEN LISTEN TO ME + HE DWELT WITH CONSIDERABLE FORCE AND ENERGY ON THE ALMOST MAGICAL HOSPITALITY HAD RECEIVED FROM THE COUNT AND THE MAGNIFICENCE OF HIS ENTERTAINMENT IN THE ROTTO OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHT HE RECOUNTED WITH CIRCUMSTANTIAL EXACTITUDE ALL THE PARTICULARS OF THE SUPPER THE HASHISH THE STATUES THE DREAM AND HOW AT HIS AWAKENING THERE REMAINED NO PROOF OUR TRACE OF ALL THESE EVENTS SAVE THE SMALL YACHT SEEN IN THE DISTANT HORIZON DRIVING UNDER FULL SAIL TOWARD PORTO VECCHU + THEN HE DETAILED THE CONVERSATION OVERHEARD BY HIM AT THE COLISEUM BETWEEN THE COUNT AND VAMPA IN WHICH THE COUNT HAD PROMISED TO OBTAIN THE RELEASE OF THE BANDIT PEPPINO AN ENGAGEMENT WHICH AS OUR READERS ARE AWARE HE MOST FAITHFULLY FULFILLED + BUT SAID FRANZ THE CORSICAN BANDITS THAT WERE AMONG THE CREW OF HIS VESSEL + WHY REALLY THE THING SEEMS TO ME SIMPLE ENOUGH + TALKING OF COUNTRIES REPLIED FRANZ OF WHAT COUNTRIES THE COUNT WHAT IS HIS NATIVE TONGUE WHENCE DOES HE DERIVE HIS IMMENSE FORTUNE AND WHAT WERE THOSE EVENTS OF HIS EARLY LIFE A LIFE AS MARVELLOUS AS UNKNOWN THAT HATH TINTURED HIS SUCCEEDING YEARS WITH SORE DARK AND BLOOMING A MISANTHROPY + CERTAINLY THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT IN YOUR PLACE I SHOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANSWERED + MY DEAR FRANZ REPLIED ALBERT WHEN UPON RECEIPT OF MY LETTER YOU FOUND THE NECESSITY OF ASKING THE COUNT'S ASSISTANCE YOU PROMPTLY WENT TO HIM SAYING MY FRIEND ALBERT DE MORCERF IS IN DANGER HELP ME TO DELIVER HIM + WHAT ARE HIS MEANS OF EXISTENCE WHAT IS HIS BIRTHPLACE OF WHAT COUNTRY IS HE A NATIVE + I CONFESS HE ASKED ME NONE NO HE MERELY CAME AND FREED ME FROM THE HANDS OF SENOR VAMPA WHERE I CAN ASSURE YOU IN SPITE OF ALL MY OUTWARD APPEARANCE OF EASE AND CONCERN I DID NOT VERY PARTICULARLY CARE TO REMAIN + AND THIS TIME IT MUST BE CONFESSED TO THAT CONTRARIAGE OF THE USUAL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN THE YOUNG MEN THE EFFECTIVE ARGUMENTS WERE ALL ON ALBERT'S SIDE + WELL SAID FRANZ WITH A SIGH DO AS YOU PLEASE MY DEAR VISCOUNT FOR YOUR ARGUMENTS ARE BEYOND MY POWERS OF REFUTATION + AND NOW MY DEAR FRANZ LET US TALK OF SOME DAY ELSE + THEN SHOULD ANYTHING APPEAR TO MERIT A MORE MINUTE EXAMINATION ALBERT DE MORCERF WOULD FOLLOW UP HIS RESEARCHES BY MEANS OF A SMALL GATE SIMILAR TO THAT CLOSE TO THE CONCIERGE'S STORE AND WHICH MERITS A PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION + SHRUBS AND CREEPING PLANTS COVERED THE WINDOWS AND HID FROM THE GARDEN AND CAUGHT THESE TWO APARTMENTS THE ONLY ROOMS INTO WHICH AS THEY WERE ON THE GROUND FLOOR THE PRYING EYES OF THE CURIOUS COULD PENETRATE + AT A QUARTER TO TEN A VALID ENTERED HE COMPOSED WITH A LITTLE ROOM NAMED JOHN AND WHO ONLY SPOKE ENGLISH ALL ALBERT'S ESTABLISHMENT ALTHOUGH THE COOK OF THE HOTEL WAS ALWAYS AT HIS SERVICE AND ON GREAT OCCASIONS THE COUNT SHASSAR ALSO + WAIT THEN DURING THE DAY THEY'LL ROSA THAT WHEN I LEAVE THE OPERA I WILL SUP WITH HER AS SHE WISHES IT + VERY WELL AT HALF PAST TEN + IS THE COUNTESS UP YET + THE VALLEY LEFT THE ROOM + GOOD MORNING THIS YOUNG GOOD MORNING SAID ALBERT YOUR PUNCTUALITY ALARMS ME + YOU WHOM I EXPECTED LAST YOU ARRIVE AT FIVE MINUTES TO TEN WHEN THE TIME FIXED WAS HALF PAST + NO NO MY DEAR FELLOW DO NOT CONFOUND OUR PLANS + YES HE HAS NOT MUCH TO COMPLAIN OF BOUCH IS THE CAPITAL OF CHARLES THE SEVEN + IT IS FOR THAT REASON YOU SEE ME SO EARLY + I RETURNED HOME AT DAYBREAK AND STROVE TO SLEEP BUT MY HEAD ACHED AND I GOSSIP TO HAVE A RIDE FOR AN HOUR + PESTS I WILL DO NOTHING OF THE KIND THE MOMENT THEY COME FROM GOVERNMENT YOU WOULD FIND THEM ACCESSIBLE + BESIDES THAT DOES NOT CONCERN THE HOME BUT THE FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT + ABOUT WHAT ABOUT THE PAPERS + IN THE ENTIRE POLITICAL WORLD OF WHICH YOU ARE ONE OF THE LEADERS + THEY SAY THAT IT IS QUITE FAIR AND THAT SOWING SO MUCH RED YOU OUGHT TO REAP A LITTLE BLUE + COME COME THAT IS NOT BAD SAID LUCIA + WITH YOUR TALENTS YOU WOULD MAKE YOUR FORTUNE IN THREE OR FOUR YEARS + THE GENTLEMAN HAD NOT EVEN NEEDED TO SIT DOWN TO BECOME INTERESTED APPARENTLY HE HAD TAKEN UP THE VOLUME FROM A TABLE AS SOON AS HE CAME IN AND STANDING THERE AFTER A SINGLE GLANCE ROUND THE APARTMENT HAD LOST HIMSELF IN HIS SPEECHS + THAT HAS AN UNFLASSERING SOUND FOR ME SAID THE YOUNG MAN + SHE IS WILLING TO RISK THAT + JUST AS I AM THE VISITOR INQUIRED PRESENTING HIMSELF WITH RATHER A WORK A DAY ASPECT + HE WAS TALL AND LEAN AND DRESSED THROUGHOUT IN BLACK HIS SHIRT COLOUR WAS LOW AND WIDE AND THE TRIANGLE OF LINEN A LITTLE CRUMPLED EXHIBITED BY THE OPENING OF HIS WAISTCOAT WAS ADORNED BY A PIN CONTAINING A SMALL RED STONE + IN SPITE OF THIS DECORATION THE YOUNG MAN LOOKED POOR IS POOR AS A YOUNG MAN COULD LOOK WHO HAD SUCH A FINE HEAD AND SUCH MAGNIFICENT EYES + THOSE OF BASAL MANSEN WERE DARK DEEP AND GLOWING HIS HEAD HAD A CHARACTER OF ELEVATION WHICH FAIRLY ADDED TO HIS STATUE IT WAS A HEAD TO BE SEEN ABOVE THE LEVEL OF A CROWD ON SOME JUDICIAL BENCH OR POLITICAL PLATFORM OR EVEN ON A BRONZE MEDAL + THESE THINGS THE EYES ESPECIALLY WITH THEIR SMOLDERING FIRE MIGHT HAVE INDICATED THAT HE WAS TO BE A GREAT AMERICAN STATESMAN OR ON THE OTHER HAND THERE MIGHT SIMPLY HAVE PROVED THAT HE CAME FROM CAROLINA OR ALABAMA + AND YET THE READER WHO LIKES A COMPLETE IMAGE WHO DESIRES TO READ WITH THE SENSES AS WELL AS WITH THE REASON IS ENTREATED NOT TO FORGET THAT HE PROLONGED HIS CONSONANCE AND SWALLOWED HIS VOWELS THAT HE WAS GUILTY OF ELEGIANCE AND INTERPOLATIONS WHICH WERE EQUALLY UNEXPECTED AND THAT HIS DISCOURSE WAS PERVADED BY SOMETHING SULTRY AND VAST SOMETHING ALMOST AFRICAN IN ITS RICH BASKING TONE SOMETHING THAT SUGGESTED THE TEEMING EXPANSE OF THE COTTON FIELD + AND HE TOOK UP HIS HAT VAGUELY A SOFT BLACK HAT WITH A LOW CROWN AND AN IMMENSE STRAIGHT BRIM + WELL SO IT IS THEY ARE ALL WHICH IS IN WIZARDS MEDIUMS AND SPIRIT WRAPPERS AND ROW AND RADICALS + IF YOU ARE GOING TO DINE WITH HER YOU HAD BETTER KNOW IT OH MURDER + LOOKED AT MISSUS LUNA WITH INTELLIGENT INCREDULITY + SHE WAS ATTRACTIVE AND IMPERTINENT ESPECIALLY THE LATTER + HAVE YOU BEEN IN EUROPE + NO I HAVEN'T BEEN ANYWHERE + SHE HATES IT SHE WOULD LIKE TO ABOLISH IT + THIS LAST REMARK HE MADE THAT ADVENTURE FOR HE HAD NATURALLY NOT DEVOTED ANY SUPPOSITION WHATEVER TO MISSUS LENA + ARE YOU VERY AMBITIOUS YOU LOOK AS IF YOU WERE + AND MISSUS LENA ADDED THAT NOW SHE WAS BACK SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SHE SHOULD DO + ONE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT ONE HAD COME BACK FOR + BESIDES I LIFTED AND WON HER IN BUSTON AND DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE FORM OF SAYING SO + THAT WAS ONE COMFORT WITH A LIVE SHE NEVER WENT THROUGH ANY FORMS + SHE STOOD THERE LOOKING CONSCIOUSLY AND RATHER SERIOUSLY AND MISTER RANSOM A SMILE OF EXCEEDING FAINTNESS PLAYED ABOUT HER LIPS IT WAS JUST PERCEPTIBLE ENOUGH TO LIGHT UP THE NATIVE GRAVITY OF HER FACE + HER VOICE WAS LOW AND AGREEABLE A CULTIVATED VOICE AND SHE EXTENDED A SLENDER WHITE HAND TO HER VISITOR WHO REMARKED WITH SOME SOLEMNITY HE FELT A CERTAIN GUILT OF PARTICIPATION IN MISSUS LUNAR'S INDISCRETION THAT HE WAS INTENSELY HAPPY TO MAKE HER ACQUAINTANCE + HE OBSERVED THAT MISS CHANCELLOR'S HAND WAS AT ONCE CALLED AND LIMP SHE NEARLY PLACED IT IN HIS WITHOUT EXERTING THE SMALLEST PRESSURE + I SHALL BE BACK VERY LATE WE'RE THEN TOO FUTIVE PARTY THAT'S WHY WE DINE SO EARLY + MISSUS LUNE'S FAMILIARITY EXTENDED EVEN TO HER SISTER SHE REMARKED TO MISS CHANCELLOR THAT SHE LOOKED AS IF SHE WERE GOT HER FOR A SEA VOYAGE + POOR RONASON ANNOUNCED THIS FACT TO HIMSELF AS IF HE HAD MADE A GREAT DISCOVERY BUT IN REALITY HE HAD NEVER BEEN SO B OTION AS AT THAT MOMENT + THE WOMEN HE HAD HITHERTO KNOWN HAD BEEN MAINLY OF HIS OWN SOFT CLIME AND IT WAS NOT OFTEN EXHIBITED THE TENDENCY HE DETECTED AND CURSORY DEPLORED IN MISSUS LUNA'S SISTER + RANSOM WAS PLEASED WITH THE VISION OF THAT REMEDY IT MUST BE REPEATED THAT HE WAS VERY PROVINCIAL + HE WAS SORRY FOR HER BUT HE SAW IN A FLASH THAT NO ONE COULD HELP HER THAT WAS WHAT MADE HER TRAGIC + SHE COULD NOT DEFEND HERSELF AGAINST A RICH ADMIRATION A KIND OF TENDERNESS OF ENVY OF ANY ONE WHO HAD BEEN SO HAPPY AS TO HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY + HIS FAMILY WAS RUINED THEY HAD LOST THEIR SLAVES THEIR PROPERTY THEIR FRIENDS AND RELATIONS THEIR HOME HAD TASTED OF ALL THE CRUELTY OF DEFEATS + THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI SINNED TO HIM THE STATE OF DESPAIR SO HE SURRENDERED THE REMNANTS OF HIS PATRIMONY TO HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS AND AT NEARLY THIRTY YEARS OF AGE ALIGHTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK IN THE COSTUME OF HIS PROVENCE WITH FIFTY DOLLARS IN HIS POCKET AND GNAWING HUNGER IN HIS HEART + IT WAS IN THE FEMALE LINE AS BALES AND RANSOM HAD WRITTEN IN ANSWERING HER LETTER WITH A GOOD DEAL OF FORM AND FLOURISH HE SPOKE AS IF THEY HAD BEEN ROYAL HOUSES + IF IT HAD BEEN POSSIBLE TO SEND MISSUS RANSOM MONEY OR EVEN CLOTHES SHE WOULD HAVE LIKED THAT BUT SHE HAD NO MEANS OF ASCERTAINING HER SUCH A SUFFERING WOULD BE TAKEN + OLIVE HAD A FEAR OF EVERYTHING BUT HER GREATEST FEAR WAS OF BEING AFRAID + SHE HAD ERECTED IT INTO A SORT OF RULE OF CONDUCT THAT WHENEVER SHE SAW A RISK SHE WAS TO TAKE IT AND SHE HAD FREQUENT HUMILIATIONS AT FINDING HERSELF SAVED AFTER ALL + SHE WAS PERFECTLY SAFE AFTER WRITING TO BEESER RANSOM AND INDEED IT WAS DIFFICULT TO SEE WHAT HE COULD HAVE DONE TO HER EXCEPT THANK HER HE WAS ONLY EXCEPTIONALLY SUPERLATIVE FOR HER LETTER AND ASSURE HER THAT HE WOULD COME AND SEE HER THE FIRST TIME HIS BUSINESS HE WAS BEGINNING TO GET A LITTLE SHOULD TAKE HIM TO BOSTON + HE WAS TOO SIMPLE TO MISSISSIPPI FOR THAT SHE WAS ALMOST DISAPPOINTED + OF ALL THINGS IN THE WORLD CONTENTION WAS MOST SWEET TO HER THE WHY IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE WHO HAD ALWAYS COST HER TEARS HEADACHES A DAY OR TWO IN BED ACUTIMATION AND IT WAS VERY POSSIBLE BASER RANSOM WOULD NOT CARE TO CONTEND + MISS CHANCELLOR HERSELF HAD THOUGHT SO MUCH ON THE VITAL SUBJECT WOULD NOT SHE MAKE A FEW REMARKS AND GIVE THEM SOME OF EXPERIENCES + HOW DID THE LADY'S UNBEAKMENT STREET FEEL ABOUT THE BALLOT + PERHAPS SHE COULD SPEAK FOR THEM MORE THAN FOR SOME OTHERS + WITH HER IMMENSE SYMPATHY FOR REFORM SHE FOUND HERSELF SO OFTEN WISHING THAT BEFORE IN HIS WAY A LITTLE DIFFERENT + I HAVE HATED TO HEAR THAT FINE AVENUE TALKED ALOUD AS IF IT WAS SUCH A REMARKABLE PLACE AND TO LIVE THERE WERE A PROOF OF WORLDLY GLORY + ALL SORTS OF INFERIOR PEOPLE IF THERE AND SO BRILLIANT A WOMAN AS MISSUS FLANDER WHO LIVED AT BRUXBURY OUGHT NOT TO MIX THANKS UP + SHE KNEW HER PLACE IN THE BOSTON HIEROGLY AND IT WAS NOT WHAT MISSUS FAMINE WAS SUPPOSED SO THAT IT WAS A WANT OF PERSPECTIVE IN TALKING TO HER AS IF SHE HAD BEEN HER REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ARISTOCRACY + SHE WISHED TO ACT IN ANOTHER FIELD SHE HAD LONG BEEN PREOCCUPIED WITH THE ROMANCE OF THE PEOPLE + THIS MIGHT SEEM ONE OF THE MOST ACCESSIBLE OF PLEASURES BUT IN POINT OF FACT SHE HAD NOT FOUND IT SO + CHARLIE WAS A YOUNG MAN IN A WIDE OVERCOAT AND APPED THE COLLAR IT WAS FOR HIM IN THE LATTER NASIS THAT THEY CARED MUCH THE MOST + ON A CHANCELLOR WONDERED HOW MISSUS DINDA WOULD TREAT THAT BRANCH OF THE QUESTION + IT WOULD BE NECESSARY WE ARE PREPARED TO TAKE SENTENCE TO CONCILIATE THE SHRINKING + OUR MOVEMENT IS FOR ALL IT WILL BE ALSO THE MOST DELICATE LADIES + RACE THE STANDARD AMONG THEM AND BRING ME A THOUSAND NAMES + AND LOOK AFTER THE DETAILS AS WELL AS THE BIG CURRANTS MISSUS FARRINGER ADDED IN A TONE AS EXPLANATORY AS COULD BE EXPECTED OF SUCH A WOMAN AND WITH A SMILE OF WHICH THE SWEETNESS WAS FILLING TO HER LISTENER + SAID OLDISH CHANCELLOR WITH A FACE WHICH SEEMED TO PLEAD FOR A REMISSION AS RESPONSIBILITY + I WANT TO BE NEAR TO THEM TO HELP THEM + IT WAS NOTHING TO CHOOSE FOR HERSELF BUT NOW THE GREAT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ENCONSTMENT OF THEIR SEX FROM EVERY FORM OF BONDAGE HAD CHOSEN FOR HER + THE UNHAPPINESS OF WOMEN + THEY WERE HIS SISTERS THEY WERE HER OWN AND THE DAY OF THEIR DELIVERY HAD DAWNED + THIS WAS THE ONLY SACRED CAUSE THIS WAS THE GREAT THE JUST REVOLUTION IT WAS TRIUMPH IT WAS SWEEP EVERYTHING BEFORE IT IT MUST EXACT FROM THE OTHER THE BRUTAL BLOODSTAINED WAVING RACE THE LAST PARTICLE OF EXPIATION + THERE WOULD BE NAMES OF WOMEN WEAK INSULTED PERSECUTED BUT DIVERTED IN EVERY PULSE OF THEIR BEING TO THE CAUSE AND ASKING NO BETTER FATE THAN TO DIE FOR IT + IT WAS NOT CLEAR TO THIS INTERESTING GIRL IN WHAT MANNER SUCH A SACRIFICE OF THIS LAST WOULD BE REQUIRED OF HER BUT SHE SOLD A MATTER THROUGH A KIND OF SUNRISE MISTILLINATION WHICH MADE DANGER AS ROSY IS SUCCESS + WHEN MISS BIRD'S EYE APPROACHED IT TRANSFIGURED HER FAMILIAR HYCONICAL SHAPE AND MADE THE POOR LITTLE HUMANITARY HACK SIMILAR READY A MARTYR + OLIVE CHANCELLOR LOOKED AT HER WITH LOVE REMEMBERED THAT SHE HAD NEVER IN HER LONG INROADED WEARY LIFE HAD A THOUGHT OF AN IMPULSE FOR HERSELF + SHE HAD BEEN CONSUMED BY THE PASSION OF SYMPATHY IT HAD CRUMPLED HER INTO AS MANY CREASES AS AN OLD GLAZED DISTENDED GLOVE + EXCUSE ME DANIEL FAGON DURING SOME DETECTIVE AND GIVEN UP FISHING + AND SHAG WITH THE FREEDOM OF AN OLD SERVANT STOOD LOOKING AT HIS MASTERY AS IF NOT QUITE UNDERSTANDING THE NEW TWIST THE AFFAIRS HAD TAKEN + I AM GOING OFF FISHING I MAY NOT CATCH ANYTHING AND MAY NOT WANT TO AFTER I GET THERE + GID READY SHAG YAS A KUN + AND HAVING PUT HIMSELF IN A FAIR WAY AS HE HOPED TO SOLVE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH THE DARCY CASE COLONEL ASHLEY WENT DOWN TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS TO LEARN MORE FACTS IN THE CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER OF THE EAST INDIA + PINK US AND DONOVAN HAVEN'T THEY CARROLL HEP + KAREL WAS TOO MUCH ENGAGED AND WATCHING THE BLUE SMOKE GIRL LAZILY UPWARD FROM HIS CIGAR JUST THEN TO SAY MORE + ARE YOU GOING TO WORK ON THAT CASE COLONEL + BUT HE HADN'T ANY MORE TO DO WITH IT COLONEL THAN THAT CAT + PERHAPS NOT ADMITTED COLONEL ASHLEY + WE'VE GOT OUR MAN AND THAT'S ALL WE WANT + YOU'RE ON THE DARCY CASE THEY TELL ME IN A WAY YES + I'M WORKING IN THE INTEREST OF THE YOUNG MAN + IT'S JUST ONE OF THEM COINCIDENT AS LIKE + BUSTED HIS HEAD IN WITH A HEAVY CANDLESTICK ONE OF A PAIR + GAD EXPLAINED THE COLONEL + THE VERY PAIR I WAS GOING TO BUY + LOOK HERE COLONEL DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS + AND THE DETECTIVE'S PROFESSIONAL INSTINCTS GOT THE UPPER HAND OF HIS FRIENDLINESS NOT THE LEAST IN THE WORLD NOT AS MUCH AS YOU DO WAS THE COOL ANSWER + I HAPPENED TO SEE THOSE CANDLESTICKS IN THE WINDOW OF SINKA FOOT'S SHOP THE OTHER DAY AND I MADE UP MY MIND TO BUY THEM WHEN I HAD A CHANCE + NOW I'M AFRAID I WON'T BUT HOW DID IT HAPPEN + FUT I DUNNO WHETHER THAT'S HIS FIRST OR HIS LAST NAME ANYHOW HE HAD A PARTNER NAMED SHEER ALI + ANYHOW HE IN FRONT OF GET ALONG WHERE IT SEEMS + NEIGHBORS OFTEN HEARD EM SCRAPING A LOT IN THIS AFTERNOON THEY WENT AT IT AGAIN AT AUGHT HEAVY + TOWARD DARK A MAN WENT INTO BY A LAMP + HE FOUND THE PLACE WITHOUT A LIGHT IN IT STUMBLED OVER SOMETHING ON THE FLOOR AND THERE WAS A EASE BODY WITH THE HEAD BUSTED IN AND THIS HEAVY CANDLESTICK NEAR IT + SURE HELD SO TIGHT WE COULD HARDLY GET IT OUT + MAYBE THE FIGHT WAS ABOUT WHO OWNED THE WATCH FOR THE DAGOS TALKED IN THEIR FOREIGN LINGO AND NONE OF THE NEIGHBORS COULD TELL WHAT THEY WERE SAYING I SEE + AND THE WATCH HAVE YOU IT YES IT'S TO HER + THAT'S THE WATCH ANNOUNCED THE HEADQUARTERS DETECTIVE REACHING IN FOR IT GOING YET SEE + YOU'RE NOT A SCREAMISHES ALL THAT ARE YOU JUST BECAUSE IT WAS IN A DEAD MAN'S HANDS AND A WOMAN'S + AT DONOVAN'S VOICE WAS PLAINLY SCEPTICAL + YES IT MAY HAVE SOME ROUGH EDGES ON IT + AND I'VE READ ENOUGH ABOUT GERMS AND KNOW THE DANGER I'D ADVISE YOU TO BE CAREFUL + IF YOU DON'T MIND I SHOULD LIKE TO EXAMINE THIS A BIT + BEFORE THE BIG WIND IN IRELAND SUGGESTED THONG WITH A NODDED AS IRV'ST COMPATRIOT SLIGHTLY TO HAVE THE COLONEL + THAT'S RIGHT AGREED THE COLONEL AS IT CONTINUED TO MOVE HIS MAGNIFYING GLASS OVER THE SURFACE OF THE STILL TICKING WATCH + AND A CLOSE OBSERVER MIGHT HAVE OBSERVED THAT HE DID NOT TOUCH HIS BARE FINGERS TO THE TIMEPIECE BUT POKED IT ABOUT AND TOUCHED IT HERE AND THERE WITH THE END OF A LEAD PENCIL + AND DONALDAN TAKE A FRIEND'S ADVICE AND DON'T BE TOO FREE WITH THAT WATCH TOO FREE WITH IT + ASKED THE SURPRISED DETECTIVE YES + DON'T SCRATCH YOURSELF ON IT WHATEVER YOU DO WHY NOT + SIMPLY BECAUSE THIS WATCH + SOME ONE OUT HER TO SEE YOU + ALL RIGHT BE THERE IN A SECOND + SHING THE FOOT WAS THE PANTING ANSWER + I WANT TO TALK OVER DARCY'S CASE WITH YOU THE COLONEL HAD SAID AND THE TWO HAD TALKED HAD THOUGHT HAD TALKED AGAIN AND NOW WERE SILENT FOR A TIME + WHAT ARE THE CHESTS OF GETTING HIM OFF LEGALLY IF WE GO LIGHTED FROM A NEGATIVE STANDPOINT ASKED THE COLONEL + RATHER A HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION COLONEL BUT I SHOULD SAY IT MIGHT BE A FIFTY FIFTY PROPOSITION + AT BEST HE WOULD GET OFF FOR THE SCOTCH VERDICT OF NOT PROVEN BUT HE DOESN'T WANT THAT NOR DO I + AND YOU I DON'T WANT IT EITHER + BUT I WANT TO KNOW JUST WHERE WE STAND NOW I KNOW + BUT I NEED TO DO A LITTLE MORE SMOKING OUT FIRST NOW I WANT TO THINK + IF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME I'LL PRETEND I'M FISHING AND I MAY CATCH SOMETHING + IN FACT I HAVE A FEELING THAT I WIN MY FISH + I'D RECOMMEND HIM TO YOU INSTEAD OF BLACKSTONE THANKS SLIVED KENNETH + WHAT IS IT PERHAPS I CAN HELP YOU + THE OLD ADAGE OF TWO HEADS YOU KNOW + YES IT'S STILL HOLES GOOD + NO ALIMONY REPLIED THE COLONEL PUZZLED YES JUST THAT + AND THERE'S NO REASON YOU SHOULDN'T KNOW + CHUCKLED THE COLONEL AS HE SKILLFULLY PLAYED THE LUCKLESS TROUT NOW STRUGGLING TO GET LOOSE FROM THE HOOK + AND WHEN THE FISH WAS LANDED PANTING ON THE GRASS AND SHAG HAD BEEN ROUSED FROM HIS SLUMBER TO SLIP THE NOW LIMP FISH INTO THE CREOLE COLONEL ASHLEY GAVE A SIGH OF RELIEF AND REMARKED I THINK I SEE IT NOW + THE REASON SHE ASKED NO ALIMONY ENQUIRED KENNETH + NO I WASN'T THINKING OF THAT + HOWEVER DON'T THINK I'M NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR CASE I'VE FINISHED ENOUGH FOR TO DAY + WELL I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN + IT ISN'T GENERALLY KNOWN WENT ON THE LAWYER THAT THE HOTEL KEEPER'S WIFE HAS LEFT HIM + IT WAS ONE OF WHAT AT FIRST MIGHT BE CALLED REFINED CRUELTY ON HER HUSBAND'S PART DEGENERATING GRADUALLY INTO THAT OF A BASER SORT + YOU DON'T MEAN THAT LARCH STRUCK HER THAT THERE WAS PHYSICAL ABUSE DO YOU ASKED THE COLONEL THAT'S WHAT HE DID + THE COLONEL DID NOT DISCLOSE THE FACT THAT IT WAS NO NEWS TO HIM + AARON GRAFTON'S STATEMENT WAS BEING UNEXPECTED GREAT CONFIRMED + HE REMEMBERED THAT CYNTHIA AND GRAFTON HAD ONCE BEEN IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER + SHE SAID HE HAD STRUCK HER MORE THAN ONCE AND SHE COULD STAND IT NO LONGER + BECAUSE LARCH MADE NO DEFENCE + LARGE BY REFUSING TO APPEAR PRACTICALLY ADMITTED THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM AND DID NOT OPPOSE THE SEPARATION + SO I HAD TO LET HER HAVE HER WAY AND ME DID NOT ASK THE COURT FOR MONEY THOUGH I HAD NO SUCH SQUEAMISH FEELINGS WHEN IT CAME TO MY COUNSEL FEE + NO BUT HE WILL OR ELSE SUE AND GET JUDGMENT OH HE'LL PAY ALL RIGHT + AND IT TAKES ALL SORTS OF PERSONS TO MAKE IT UP + STILL I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW + THE MURDER OF MISSUS DARCY HAD SOME TIME AGO BEEN SHIFTED OFF THE FRONT PAGE THOUGH IT WOULD GET BACK THERE WHEN THE YOUNG JEWELLER WAS TRIED + IT HAD A DOUBLE REPUTATION SO TO SPEAK + GRAVE AND EVEN REVEREND THE CONVENTIONS ASSEMBLED IN ITS BALL ROOM AND POLITICIANS OF THE UPPER IF NOT BETTER CLASS WERE FREQUENTLY SEEN IN ITS DINING ROOM OR CAFE + LARGE HIMSELF WAS A PECULIAR CHARACTER + IN A SMALLER PLACE HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED A SALOON KEEPER + AND IT WAS THIS MAN RICH IT WAS SAID HANDSOME CERTAINLY THAT CYNTHIA RETCHFORD HAD MARRIED + TO THIS WAS THE ANSWER WHISPERED MONEY + AND IN A WAY IT WAS TRUE + SHE ALSO SAW AN OPPORTUNITY OF PAYING OLD DEBTS AND REAPING SOME REVENGES + AFTER THE MARRIAGE WHICH WAS A BRILLIANT AND GAY ONE IF NOT HAPPY THE LARGE HOTEL IT COULD HARDLY BE CALLED A HOME BECAME THE SCENE OF MANY FESTIVE OCCASIONS + THEN IT WAS SAID OF LARGE THAT SOON AFTER THE ECHOES OF THE WEDDING CHIMES HAD DIED AWAY HE HAD BEGUN TO TREAT HIS WIFE FOR THE REFINED CRUELTY THAT HIDDEN AWAY FROM THE PUBLIC UNDERNEATH HIS HABITUAL MANNER THERE WAS THE RAWNESS OF THE BRUTE + BUT IT WAS NOTICED THAT THE OLDER AND MORE CONSERVATIVE FAMILIES WERE LESS OFTEN REPRESENTED AND WHEN THEY WERE IT WAS BY SOME OF THE YOUNGER MEMBERS WHOSE REPUTATIONS WERE ALREADY SMARTED OR WHO HAD NOT YET ACQUIRED ANY AND WERE WILLING TO TAKE A CHANCE + IT WOULDN'T DO YOU KNOW AFTER THAT STORY CAME OUT FOR ME AND THE VICE CHANCELLOR WHO SAT IN THE CASE AS WELL AS OTHER JUDGES AND MEMBERS OF THE BAR TO BE SEEN THERE KENNETH EXPLAINED TO THE COLONEL + MEANWHILE COLONEL ASHLEY WAS A VERY BUSY MAN AND TO NO ONE DID HE TELL VERY MUCH ABOUT HIS ACTIVITIES HE SAW DARCY FREQUENTLY AT THE JAIL AND TO THAT YOUNG MAN'S PLEADINGS THAT SOMETHING TO BE DONE ALWAYS RETURNED THE ANSWER + DON'T WORRY IT WILL COME OUT ALL RIGHT + I'M GOING TO RECTIFY THEM BUT IT WILL TAKE TIME + IT'S HARD FOR MISS MASON TOO ALTHOUGH SHE'S BEARING UP LIKE A MAJOR + SO KING GOD BAIL WHO PUT IT UP + IT WAS TIME LARCH + THEY TOOK HARRY AWAY A WHILE AGO + BUT HE'S A PRETTY UNCERTAIN SHOES TO BE IN JUST THE SAME + ONLY DID I DARCY HESITATED AND GREW RED + GOOD EVENING COLONEL HE CALLED GENIALLY WILL YOU JOIN ME IN A WELSH RABBIT + THANK YOU NO + I'M AFRAID MY DIGJUSCAN ISN'T QUITE UP TO THAT AS I'VE HAD TO CUT OUT MY FISHING OF LATE + NOW AS TO CERTAIN MATTERS IN THE STORE ON THE MORNING OF THE MURDER + THE STOPPED CLOCKS FOR INSTANCE HAVE YOU ANY THEORY + THERE WERE THREE OF THEM THE CENTER FIGURE BEING THAT OF HARRY KING AND HE WAS VERY MUCH INTOXICATED + THAT IS NOT ALWAYS BUT SOMETIMES IT HAPPENED TO BE SO NOW + I BEG YOUR PARDON HE SAID IN THE CULTURED TONES HE KNOWS SO WELL HOW TO USE YET OF WHICH HE MADE SO LITTLE USE OF LATE + I SAID WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN REMARKED TOGETHER WE'VE MISSED YOU + I SAID I WAS GOLFING HE WENT ON EXCEEDINGLY DISTINCTLY THOUGH WITH AN EFFORT + WHY POLONIUS SOME ONE ASKED + BECAUSE DEAR FRIEND REPLIED KING SOFTLY HE SOMEWHAT RESEMBLES A CERTAIN PERSON HERE WHO TALKS TOO MUCH BUT WHO IS NOT SO WISE AS HE THINKS + THERE WAS A RATTLE OF COINT ON THE MAHOGANY BAR AS KING SOUGHT TO DISENTANGLE A SINGLE BILL FROM THE WADDED UP CURRENCY IN HIS POCKET + IT'S IT'S AN ODD COIN AN OLD ROMAN ONE THAT MISSUS DARCY HAD AN PRIVATE COLLECTION KEPT IN THE JEWELRY STORE SAFE WAS THE WHISPERED ANSWER + I WENT OVER THEM NEAR THE DAY AND NOTICED SOME WERE MISSING THOUGH I SAW THEM ALL WHEN I PAID A VISIT TO HER JUST A SHORT TIME BEFORE SHE WAS KILLED + THAT WAS HERS WENT ON THE DOOR + NOW HARRY KING HAS EXCLAIMED COLONEL ASHLEY + EVEN THE SUN CAME OUT PALE AND WATERY AT NOON + THE COARSE AND RHEUMATISM OF THE RENEE MONTHS VANISHED + ASKED A WORKER LAST SUNDAY YOU DID IT WHEN THE YOUNGERS + WELL DIDN'T HE SHOOT US ONE MAN EXHIBITED HIS ARM IN A SLING + HAVEN'T I GOT SOMETHING TO REMEMBER THEM BY THE DEVILS + WHO ARE YOU TO DESTROY THE LEGAL GOVERNMENT WITH LINEN A GERMAN + WHO ARE YOU A COUNTERRELISHNESS A PROVOCATOR THEY BELOVED AT HIM + YOU CALL YOURSELF AS THE PEOPLE OF WORSHIP YOU ARE NOT THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA + THE PEACE AND OTHER PEOPLE OF RUSSIA WAIT UNTIL THE PEASANTS + WE KNOW WHAT THE PEASANTS WILL SAY AREN'T THEY WORKING MAN LIKE OURSELVES + THIS MAN HAS PATIENTLY WELCOMED THE CALL TO A CONGRESS OF PEASANTS + THIS LAST WERE THE YOUNG GENDURATION WHO HAD BEEN SERVING IN THE ARMY + WHEREUPON THE OLD EXECUTARY COMMITTEE LEFT THE HALL + DOWN WITH HIM THEY SHRIEKED + FEARFUL TUMULT WITH THE BOLSHEVIKI + UPON MY RETURN I VISITED SMALLLY NO SUCH ACCUSATION WAS MADE AGAINST ME THERE AFTER A BRIEF CONVERSATION I LEFT AND THAT SAUL LET ANYONE PRESENT MAKE SUCH AN ACCUSATION + MEANWHILE THE QUESTION OF THE STRATA OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WAS AGITATING ALL MINDS + BY DECLARING THEIR FAMILY EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE IT HAD BEEN PLANNED TO PLUCK THE REELECTION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE + BUT THIS WORTH BOTH WAGES THE LAST SOCIALIST DECIDED THAT IF THE CONGRESS HAD NO POWER OVER THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THEN THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HAD NO POWER OVER THE CONGRESS + ON THE TWENTY SEVENTH OCCURRED THE DEBATE ON THE LAND QUESTION WHICH REVELLED THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE EGREHEN PROGRAMME OF THE BOLSHEVIKI AND THE LEFT SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARIES + THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY WILL NOT DARE TO BREAK WITH THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE + FOLLOWED HIM LINEN LISTENED TO NOW WITH ABSORBING INTENSITY + THE FIRST AGE WAS THE CRUSHING OF AUTOCRACY AND THE CRUSHING OF THE POWER OF THE INDUSTRIAL CAPITALIST AND THE LANDOWNERS WHOSE INTEREST ARE CLOSELY RELATED + THE TUMIS AND THEMSTROPES WERE DROPPED + HE KNEW THAT AN AGREEMENT WITH THE BOLSHEVIKI WAS BEING DISCUSSED BUT HE DID NOT KNOW THAT IT HAD BEEN CONCLUDED + HE SPOKE TO THE WRONG CONVENTION + THE VILLAGES WILL SAVOURS IN THE END + BUT THE PRESENT MOMENT IS INTERNATIONAL AND THAT IS WHY IT IS INVINCIBLE + THE WEED OF MILLIONS OF WORKRESSES ARE CONCENTRATED IN THE HALL + A NEW HUMANITY WILL BE BORN OF THIS WAR + I GREET YOU WITH THE CHRISTIAN OF A NEW RUSSIAN LIFE AND FREEDOM + THEN I TOOK UP A GREAT STONE FROM AMONG THE TREES AND COME ENOUGH TO HIM SMOTE HIM THEREWITH ON THE HEAD WITH ALL MY MIGHT AND CRUSHED IN HIS SKULL AS HE LAY DEAD DRUNK + BEHOLD A SHIP WAS MAKING FOR THE ISLAND THROUGH THE DASHING SEA AND CLASHING WAVES + HERE IN THIS I WAS SORE TROUBLED REMEMBERING WHAT I HAD BEFORE SUFFERED FROM THE APE KIND + UPON THIS HE BROUGHT ME A COTTON BAG AND GIVEN IT TO HIM HE SAID TAKE THIS BAG AND FILL IT WITH PEBBLES FROM THE BEACH AND GO FORTH WITH A COMPANY OF THE TOWNSFOLK TO WHOM I WILL GIVE A CHARGE RESPECTING THEE + DO AS THEY DO AND BELIKE THOU SHALT GAIN WHAT MAY FURTHER THY RETURN VOYAGE TO THY NATIVE LAND + THEN HE CARRIED ME TO THE BEACH WHERE I FILLED MY BAG WITH PEBBLES LARGE AND SMALL AND PRESENTLY WE SAW A COMPANY OF FOLK ISSUE FROM THE TOWN EACH BEARING A BAG LIKE MINE FILLED WITH PEBBLES + TO THESE HE COMMITTED ME COMMENDING ME TO THEIR CARE AND SAYING THIS MAN IS A STRANGER SO TAKE HIM WITH YOU AND TEACH HIM HOW TO GATHER THAT HE MAY GET HIS DAILY BREAD AND YOU WILL EARN YOUR REWARD AND RECOMPENSE IN HEAVEN + NOW SLEEPING UNDER THESE TREES WERE MANY APES WHICH WHEN THEY SAW US ROSE AND FLED FROM US AND SWARMED UP AMONG THE BRANCHES WHEREUPON MY COMPANIONS BEGAN TO PELT THEM WITH WHAT THEY HAD IN THEIR BAGS AND THE APES FELL TO PLUCK IN OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREES AND CASTING THEM AT THE FOLK + WE WEIGHED ANCHOR AND SHAHRAZAD PERCEIVED THE DAWN OF DAY AND CEASED SAYING HER PERMITTED SAY + WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINTH NIGHT + AND CEASED NOT SAILING TILL WE ARRIVED SAFELY AT BUSSARAT + THERE I ABODE A LITTLE AND THEN WENT ON TO BAGDAD RE ENTERED MY QUARTER AND FOUND MY HOUSE AND FORGATHERED WITH MY FAMILY AND SALUTED MY FRIENDS WHO GAVE ME JOY OF MY SAFE RETURN AND I LAID UP ALL MY GOODS AND VALUABLES IN MY STOREHOUSES + AFTER WHICH I RETURNED TO MY OLD MERRY WAY OF LIFE AND FORGOT ALL I HAD SUFFERED IN THE GREAT PROFIT AND GAIN I HAD MADE + NEXT MORNING AS SOON AS IT WAS LIGHT HE PRAYED THE DAWN PRAYER AND AFTER BLESSING MOHAMMED THE CREAM OF ALL CREATURES BETOOK HIMSELF TO THE HOUSE OF SINBAD THE SEAMEN AND WISHED HIM A GOOD DAY + HERE I FOUND A GREAT SHIP READY FOR SEA AND FULL OF MERCHANTS AND NOTABLES WHO HAD WITH THEM GOODS OF PRICE SO I EMBARKED MY BALES THEREIN + HAPPILY MONGST YOU IS ONE RIGHTEOUS WHOSE PRAYERS THE LORD WILL ACCEPT + PRESENTLY THE SHIP STRUCK THE MOUNTAIN AND BROKE UP AND ALL AND EVERYTHING ON BOARD OF HER WERE PLUNGED INTO THE SEA + BUT IT BURNETH IN THEIR BELLIES SO THEY CAST IT UP AGAIN AND IT CAN DEALETH ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER WHEREBY ITS COLOR AND QUANTITIES ARE CHANGED AND AT LAST THE WAVES CAST IT ASHORE AND THE TRAVELLERS AND MERCHANTS WHO KNOW IT COLLECTED AND SELL IT + EACH THAT DIED WE WASHED AND SHROUDED IN SOME OF THE CLOTHES AND LINEN CAST ASHORE BY THE TIDES AND AFTER LITTLE THE REST OF MY FELLOWS PERISHED ONE BY ONE TILL I HAD BURIED THE LAST OF THE PARTY AND ABODE ALONE ON THE ISLAND WITH BUT A LITTLE PROVISION LEFT I WHO WAS WONT TO HAVE SO MUCH + BUT THERE IS MAJESTY AND THERE IS NO MIGHT SAVE IN ALLAH THE GLORIOUS THE GREAT + WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIRST NIGHT + THEN SIGNED FOR MYSELF I SET TO WORK COLLECTING A NUMBER OF PIECES OF CHINESE AND CORMOR AND ALOES WOOD AND I BOUND THEM TOGETHER WITH ROPES FROM THE WRECKAGE THEN I CHOSE OUT FROM THE BROKEN UP SHIPS STRAIGHT PLANKS OF EVEN SIZE AND FIXED THEM FIRMLY UPON THE ALOES WOOD MAKING ME A BOAT RAFT A LITTLE NARROWER THAN THE CHANNEL OF THE STREAM AND I TIED IT TIGHTLY AND FIRMLY AS THOUGH IT WERE NAILED + LAND AFTER LAND SHALT THOU SEE CONFINED BUT NO OTHER LIFE ON THY WISH SHALL WAIT FRET NOT THY SOUL IN THY THOUGHTS A KNIGHT ALL WOES SHALL END OR SOONER OR LATE + I RODE MY CONVEYANCE INTO THE PLACE WHICH WAS INTENSELY DARK AND THE CURRENT CARRIED ME THE RAFT WITH IT DOWN THE UNDERGROUND CHANNEL + AND I THREW MYSELF DOWN UPON MY FACE ON THE RAFT BY REASON OF THE NARROWNESS OF THE CHANNEL WHILST THE STREAM CEASED NOT TO CARRY ME ALONG KNOWING NOT NIGHT FROM DAY FOR THE EXCESS OF THE GLOOM WHICH ENCOMPASSED ME ABOUT IN MY TERROR AND CONCERN FOR MYSELF LEST I SHOULD PERISH + WHEN I AWOKE AT LAST I FOUND MYSELF IN THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN AND OPENING MY EYES I SAW MYSELF IN A BROAD STREAM AND THE RAFT MOORED TO AN ISLAND IN THE MIDST OF A NUMBER OF INDIANS AND ABYSSINIANS + BUT I WAS DELIGHTED AT MY ESCAPE FROM THE RIVER + WHEN THEY SAW I UNDERSTOOD THEM NIGHT AND MADE THEM NO ANSWER ONE OF THEM CAME FORWARD AND SAID TO ME IN ARABIC PEACE BE WITH THEE O MY BROTHER + O MY BROTHER ANSWERED HE WE ARE HUSBANDMEN AND TILLERS OF THE SOIL WHO CAME OUT TO WATER OUR FIELDS AND PLANTATIONS AND FINDING THEE ASLEEP ON THIS RAFT LAID HOLD OF IT AND MADE IT FAST BY US AGAINST THOU SHOULDEST AWAKE AT THY LEISURE + I ANSWERED FOR ALLAH'S SAKE AND MY LORD ERE I SPEAK GIVE ME SOMEWHAT TO EAT FOR I AM STARVING AND AFTER ASK ME WHAT THOU WILT + WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SECOND NIGHT + SHE SAID IT HATH REACHED ME O AUSPICIOUS KING THAT SINDBAD THE SEAMEN CONTINUED WHEN OUR LANDED AND FOUND MYSELF AMONGST THE INDIANS AND ABYSSINIANS AND HAD TAKEN SOME REST THEY CONSULTED AMONG THEMSELVES AND SAID TO ONE ANOTHER THERE IS NO HELP FOR IT BUT WE CARRY HIM WITH US AND PRESENT HIM TO OUR KING THAT HE MAY ACQUAINT HIM WITH HIS ADVENTURES + SO I CONSORTED WITH THE CHIEF OF THE ISLANDERS AND THEY PAID ME THE UTMOST RESPECT + SO I ROSE WITHOUT STAY OR DELAY AND KISSED THE KING'S HAND AND ACQUAINTED HIM WITH MY LONGING TO SET OUT WITH THE MERCHANTS FOR THAT I PINED AFTER MY PEOPLE AND MINE OWN LAND + QUOTH HE THOU ART THINE OWN MASTER YET IF IT BE THY WILL TO ABIDE WITH US I HAD AN EYES BE IT FOR THOU GLADENEST US WITH THY COMPANY + BY ALLAH ARE MY LORD ANSWERED I THOU HAST INDEED OVERWHELMED ME WITH THY FAVOURS AND WELL DOINGS BUT I WEARY FOR A SIGHT OF MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND NATIVE COUNTRY + THEN I TOOK LEAVE OF HIM AND OF ALL MY INTIMATES AND ACQUAINTANCES IN THE ISLAND AND EMBARKED WITH THE MERCHANT SAFOR SAID + HE ASKED ME WHENCE THEY CAME AND I SAID TO HIM BY ALLAH O COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL I KNOW NOT THE NAME OF THE CITY NOR THE WAY THITHER + FOR STATE PROCESSIONS A THRONE IS SET FOR HIM UPON A HUGE ELEPHANT ELEVEN CUBITS HIGH AND UPON THIS HE SITTETH HAVING HIS GREAT LORDS AND OFFICERS AND GUESTS STANDING IN TWO RANKS ON HIS RIGHT HAND AND ON HIS LEFT + HIS LETTER HATH SHOWN ME THIS AND AS FOR THE MIGHTINESS OF HIS DOMINION THOU HAST TOLD US WHAT THOU HAST I WITNESSED + PRESENTLY MY FRIENDS CAME TO ME IN I DISTRIBUTED PRESENCE AMONG MY FAMILY AND GAVE ARMS AND LARGESSE AFTER WHICH I YIELDED MYSELF TO JOYANCE AND ENJOYMENT MIRTH AND MERRYMAKING AND FORGOT ALL THAT I HAD SUFFERED + SUCH THEN O MY BROTHERS IS THE HISTORY OF WHAT BEFELL ME IN MY SIXTH VOYAGE AND TO MORROW INSHALLAH + I WILL TELL YOU THE STORY OF MY SEVENTH AND LAST VOYAGE WHICH IS STILL MORE WONDROUS AND MARVELLOUS THAN THAT OF THE FIRST SIX + WHEN IT WAS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THIRD NIGHT + SHE SAID IT HATH REACHED ME O AUSPICIOUS KING THAT WHEN SINBAD THE SEAMEN HAD RELATED THE HISTORY OF WHAT BEFELL HIM IN HIS SIXTH VOYAGE AND ALL THE COMPANY HAD DISPERSED SINBAD THE LANDSMAN WENT HOME AND SLEPT AS OF WANT + THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD THE SEAMEN + NO O COMPANY THAT AFTER MY RETURN FROM MY SIXTH VOYAGE WHICH BROUGHT ME ABUNDANT PROFIT I RESUMED MY FORMER LIFE AND ALL POSSIBLE JOYANCE AND ENJOYMENT AND MIRTH AND MAKING MERRY DAY AND NIGHT AND I TARRIED SOME TIME IN THIS SOLACE AND SATISFACTION TILL MY SOUL BEGAN ONCE MORE TO LONG TO SAIL THE SEAS AND SEE FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND COMPANY WITH MERCHANTS AND HERE NEW THINGS + SO HAVING MADE UP MY MIND I PACKED UP IN BALES A QUANTITY OF PRECIOUS STUFFS SUITED FOR SEA TRADE AND REPAIRED WITH THEM FROM BAGHDAD CITY TO BASSORAH TOWN WHERE I FOUND A SHIP READY FOR SEA AND IN HER A COMPANY OF CONSIDERABLE MERCHANTS + BUT THE CAPTAIN AROSE AND TIGHTENING HIS GIRDLE TUCKED UP HIS SKIRTS AND AFTER TAKING REFUGE WITH ALLAH FROM SATAN THE STONE CLIMBED TO THE MASTHEAD WHENCE HE LOOKED OUT RIGHT AND LEFT AND GAZING AT THE PASSENGERS AND CREW FELL TO BUFFET IN HIS FACE AND PLUCKING OUT HIS BEARD + THIS HE SET IN A SAUCER WETTED WITH A LITTLE WATER AND AFTER WAITING A SHORT TIME SMELT AND TASTED IT AND THEN HE TOOK OUT OF THE CHEST A BOOKLET WHEREIN HE READ AWHILE AND SAID WEEPING KNOW O YE PASSENGERS THAT IN THIS BOOK IS A MARVELLOUS MATTER DENOTING THAT WHOSO COME THITHER SHALL SURELY DIE WITHOUT HOPE OF ESCAPE FOR THAT THIS OCEAN IS CALLED THE SEA OF THE CLIME OF THE KING WHEREIN IS A SEPULCHRE OF OUR LORD SOLOMON SON OF DAVID ON BOTH BE PEACE + A SECOND FISH RATE ITS APPEARANCE AND WHICH WE HAD SEEN NOUGHT MORE MONSTROUS + WHEN SUDDENLY A VIOLENT SQUALL OF WIND AROSE AND SMOTE THE SHIP WHICH ROSE OUT OF THE WATER AND SETTLED UPON A GREAT REEF THE HAUNT OF SEA MONSTERS WHERE IT BROKE UP AND FELL ASUNDER INTO PLANKS AND ALL AND EVERYTHING ON BOARD WERE PLUNGED INTO THE SEA + UNFORTUNATELY THERE COULD BE NO DOUBT OR MISCONCEPTION AS TO PLATTER BUFF'S GUILT + HE HAD NOT ONLY PLEADED GUILTY BUT HAD EXPRESSED HIS INTENTION OF REPEATING HIS ESCAPADE IN OTHER DIRECTIONS AS SOON AS CIRCUMSTANCES PERMITTED THROUGHOUT THE TRIAL HE WAS BUSY EXAMINING A SMALL MODEL OF THE FREE TRADE HALL IN MANCHESTER + VICTORY COULD NOT POSSIBLY FIND THAT THE PRISONER HAD NOT DELIBERATELY AND INTENTIONALLY BLOWN UP WE ALBERT HALL THE QUESTION WAS COULD THEY FIND ANY EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH WOULD PERMIT OF AN ACQUITTAL + OF COURSE ANY SENTENCE WHICH THE LAW MIGHT FEEL COMPELLED TO INFLICT WOULD BE FOLLOWED BY AN IMAGE AT PARDON BUT IT WAS HIGHLY DESIRABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT SPITE OF VIEW THAT THE NECESSITY FOR SUCH AN EXERCISE OF CLEMENCY SHOULD NOT ARISE + I HAD LONG PARDON AND THE EVE OF A BIE ELECTION WITH THREATS OF A HEAVY VOTING AFFECTION IF IT WERE WITHHELD OR EVEN DELAYED WOULD NOT NECESSARILY BE A SURRENDER BUT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE ONE + HENCE THE ANXIETY IN THE CROWDED COURT AND IN THE LITTLE GROUPS GATHERED ROUND THE TAP MACHINES IN WHITE HALL AND DAWNING STREET AND OTHER AFFECTED CENTRES + THE JURY RETURNED FROM CONSIDERING THEIR VERDICT THERE WAS A FLUTTER AN EXCITED MURMUR A DEATH LIKE HUSH + THE FOREMAN DELIVERED HIS MESSAGE + THE JURY FIND THE PRISONER GUILTY OF BLOWING UP THE ALBERT HALL + THE JURY WISHED TO ADD A WRITER DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT A BI ELECTION IS SPENDING IN THE PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION OF NEMESIS ON HAND + AND MAY THE LORD HAVE MERCY ON THE POLE A JUNIOR CONSEIL EXCLAIMED IRREVERENTLY + FIFTEEN HUNDRED SAID A PRIME MINISTER WITH A SHUDDER IT'S TOO HORRIBLE TO THINK OF + OUR MAJORITY LAST TIME WAS ONLY A THOUSAND AND SEVEN + SEVEN THIRTY AMENDED THE PRIME MINISTER WE MUST AVOID ANY APPEARANCE OF PRECIPITANCY + NOT LATER THEN SEVEN THIRTY THEN SAID THE CHIEF ORGANIZER I HAVE PROMISED THE AGENT DOWN THERE THAT HE SHALL BE ABLE TO DISPLAY POSTERS ANNOUNCING PLATTERBAFF IS OUT BEFORE THE POLE OPENS + HE SAID IT WAS OUR ONLY CHANCE OF GETTING A TELEGRAM RED DROP IS INN TO NIGHT + DESPITE THE EARLINESS OF THE HOUR A SMALL CROWD HAD GATHERED IN THE STREET OUTSIDE AND THE HORRIBLE MENACING TREE LONER REFRAIN OF THE FIFTEEN HUNDRED VOTING MEN CAME IN A STEADY MONOTONOUS CHANT + HE EXCLAIMED WON'T GO + HE SAYS HE NEVER HAS LEFT PRISON WITHOUT A BRASPEN TO PLAY HIM OUT AND HE'S NOT GOING TO GO WITHOUT ONE NOW + SAID A PRIME MINISTER WE CAN HARDLY BE SUPPOSED TO SUPPLY A RELEASE PRISONER WITH A BRASS BAND HOW ON EARTH COULD BE DEFENDED ON THE ESTIMATES + AND AWAY YOU WON'T GO UNLESS HE HAS A BAND + PAUL OPENS IN FIVE MINUTES + IS BLADDER BUFF OUT YET + IN HEAVEN'S NAME WHY + THE CHIEF ORGANISER RANG OFF + THIS IS NOT A MOMENT FOR STANDING ON DIGNITY HE OBSERVED BLUNTLY MUSICIANS MUST BE SUPPLIED AT ONCE + CAN'T YOU GET A STRIKE PERMIT THE ORGANIZER + I'LL TRY SAID THE HOME SECRETARY AND WENT TO THE TELEPHONE + EIGHT O'CLOCK STRUCK THE CROWD OUTSIDE CHANTED WITH AN INCREASING VOLUME OF SOUND WITHOUT THE OTHER WAY + A TELEGRAM WAS BROUGHT IN + IT WAS FROM THE CENTRAL COMEDY ROOMS AT NEMESIS + WITHOUT A BAND HE WOULD NOT GO AND THEY HAD NO BEND + A QUARTER PAST TEN HALF PAST + HAVE YOU ANY BAND INSTRUMENTS OF AN EASY NATURE TO PLAY + DEMANDED THE CHIEF ORGANIZER OF THE PRISON GOVERNOR DRUMS SYMBOLS THOSE SORT OF THINGS + THE ORDERS HAVE A PRIVATE BAND OF THEIR OWN SAID THE GOVERNOR BUT OF COURSE I COULDN'T ALLOW THE MEN THEMSELVES + LEND US THE INSTRUMENTS SAID THE CHIEF ORGANIZER + THE POPULAR SONG OF THE MOMENT REPLIED THE AGITATOR AFTER A MOMENT'S REFLECTION + IT WAS A TUNE THEY HAD ALL HEARD HUNDREDS OF TIMES SO THERE WAS NO DIFFICULTY IN TURNING OUT A PASSABLE IMITATION OF IT TO THE IMPROVISED STRAINS OF I DON'T WANT TO DO IT THE PRISONER STRODE FORTH TO FREEDOM + THE WORD OF THE SOUND HAD REFERENCE IT WAS UNDERSTOOD DID THE INCARCERATING GOVERNMENT AND NOT TO THE DESTROYER OF THE ALBERT HALL + THE SEAT WAS LOST AFTER ALL BY AN NARROW MATURITY + THE LOCAL TRADE UNIONISTS TOOK OFFENSE AT THE FACT OF CABINET MINISTERS HAVING PERSONALLY ACTED AS STRIKE BREAKERS AND EVEN THE RELEASE OF PLATTER BUFF FAILED TO PACIFY THEM + WITH THAT NOTORIOUS FAILING OF HIS HE WAS NOT A SORT OF PERSON ONE WANTED IN ONE'S HOUSE + WELL THE FAILING STILL EXISTS DOESN'T IT SAID THE HUSBAND OR A DO YOU SUPPOSE A REFORM OF CHARACTER IS ENTAILED ALONG WITH THE ESTATE + BESIDES CYNICISM APART IS BEING RICH WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WAY PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT HIS FAILING + WHEN A MAN IS ABSOLUTELY WEALTHY NOT MERELY WELL TO DO ALL SUSPICION OF SERDID MOTIVE NATURAL DISAPPEARS THE THING BECOMES MERELY ATTIRESOME MALADY + WILFRED DECENT COAT HAD SUDDENLY BECOME HEIR TO HIS UNCLE SEVERAL FRIED PIGEON COAT UNDER DEATH OF HIS COUSIN MAJOR WILFRID PIGEONCOTE WHO HAD SUCCUMBED TO THE AFTER EFFECTS OF APOLLO ACCIDENT + A WILFRED VIGILDE HAD COVERED HIMSELF WITH HONORS IN THE COURSE OF MARLBOROUGH'S CAMPAIGNS AND THE NAME LILFRED HAD BEEN ABOVE DISMAL WEAKNESS IN THE FAMILY EVER SINCE THE NEW HEIR TO THE FAMILY DIGNITY AND ESTATES WAS A YOUNG MAN OF ABOUT FIVE AND TWENTY WHO WAS KNOWN MORE BY REPETITION THAN BY PERSON THE A WIDE CIRCLE OF COUSINS AND KENSFOLK + AND THE REPUTATION WAS AN UNPLEASANT ONE + FROM HIS LATE SCHOOL DAYS ONWARD HE HAD BEEN POSSESSED BY AN ACUTE AND OBSTINATE FORM OF CLEPTOMANIA HE HAD THE ACQUISITIVE INSTINCT OF THE COLLECTOR WITHOUT ANY OF THE COLLECTOR'S DISCRIMINATION + THE SEARCH USUALLY PRODUCE A LARGE AND VARIED YIELD THIS IS FUNNY SAID PETER PIGEONABLE TO HIS WIFE SOME HALF HOUR AFTER THEIR CONVERSATION HERE'S A TELEGRAM FROM WILFRID SAYING HE'S PASSING THROUGH HERE IN HIS MOTOR AND WOULD LIKE TO STOP AND PAY US HIS RESPECTS + SIGN WILFRID PEACH AND COAT + I SUPPOSE IS BEING A PRESENT FOR THE SILVER WEDDING GOOD GRACIOUS + THE TALK FLITTED NERVOUSLY AND HURRIEDLY FROM ONE IMPERSONAL TOPIC TO ANOTHER + IN THE DRAWING ROOM AFTER DINNER THEIR NERVOUSNESS AND AWKWARDNESS INCREASED + OH WE HAVEN'T SHOWN YOU THE SILVER WEDDING PRESENTS SAID MISSUS PETER SUDDENLY AS THOUGH STRUCK BY A BRILLIANT IDEA OF HER ENTERTAINING THE GUEST HERE THEY ALL ARE + SUCH NASTIESFUL GIFTS A FEW DUPLICATES OF COURSE + SEVEN CREAM JUGS PUT IN PETER + WE FEEL THAT WE MUST LIVE UNCLEAN FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES + OF COURSE SOME OF THEM CAN BE CHANGED + I PUT IT DONE BY THE CLARAGE HUB SAID WILFRID BESIE WITH ANOTHER OBJECT + VIGILANCE WAS NOT COMPLETELY CROWNED WITH A SENSE OF VICTORY + AFTER THEY HAD SAID GOOD NIGHT TO THEIR VISITOR MISSUS PETER EXPRESSED HER CONVICTION THAT HE HAD TAKEN SOMETHING + HOW ON EARTH ARE WE TO KNOW SAID PETER THE MEAN PIG HASN'T BROUGHT US A PRESENT AND I'M HANGED IF HE SHALL CARRY ONE OFF + IS THE ONLY THING TO DO + WILFRID WAS LAID IN COMING DOWN TO BREAKFAST AND HIS MANNER SHOWED PLAINLY THAT SOMETHING WAS AMISS + IT IS AN UNPLEASANT THING TO HAVE TO SAY HE BLURTED OUT PRESENTLY BUT I'M AFRAID YOU MUST HAVE A THIEF AMONG YOUR SERVANTS SOMETHING'S BEEN TAKEN OUT OF MY PORTMANTEAU + IT WAS A LITTLE PRESENT FROM MY MOTHER AND MYSELF FOR YOUR SILVER WEDDING + I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU LAST NIGHT AFTER DINNER ONLY IT HAPPENED TO BE A CLEAN JUG AND YOU SEEMED ANNOYED AT HAVING SO MANY DEPLICATES SO I FELT RATHER AWKWARD OF A GIVING YOU ANOTHER + THE SNATCHER HAD BEEN AN ORPHAN THIS MANY YEARS + LADY EARNESTIN PEACHEON CALLED HIS MOTHER MOVED IN CIRCLES WHICH WERE ENTIRELY BEYOND THEIR COMPASS OR AMBITIONS AND THE SON WOULD PROBABLY ONE DAY BE AN AMBASSADOR + HUSBAND AND WIFE LOOKED BLANKLY AND DESPERATELY AT ONE ANOTHER + IT WAS MISSUS PETER WHO ARRIVED FIRST AT AN INSPIRATION HOW DREADFUL TO THINK THERE ARE THIEVES IN THE HOUSE WE GIVE THE DRAWING ROOM LOCKED UP AT NIGHT OF COURSE BUT ANYTHING MIGHT BE CARRIED OFF WHILE WE ARE AT BREAKFAST + SHE ROSE AND WENT OUT HURRIEDLY AS THOUGH TO ASSURE HERSELF THAT THE DRAWING ROOM WAS NOT BEING STRIPPED OF ITS SILVERWARE AND RETURNED A MOMENT LATER BEARING A CREAM JUG IN HER HANDS + THE KITCHEN COATS HAD TURNED PETER THAN EVER MISSUS PETER HAD A FINAL INSPIRATION + PETER DASHED OUT OF THE ROOM WITH GLAD RELIEF HE HAD LIVED SO LONG DURING THE LAST FEW MINUTES THAT A GOLDEN WEDDING SEEMED WITH IMMEASURABLE DISTANCE + MISSUS PETER TURNED TO HER GUEST WITH CONFIDENTIAL KINDNESS + PETER IS LITTLE WEAKNESS A TRANSCEND THE FAMILY GOOD LORD + DO YOU MEAN TO SAY HE IS ACCLAPTOMINIA LIKE COUSIN SNATCHER + BRAVE LITTLE WOMAN SAID BITTER WITH A GASP OF RELIEF I COULD NEVER HAVE DONE IT + AND FROM THE CURRENT LYING OFF THE COAST + DON'T CRY HE SAID I WAS OBLIGED TO COME + AND AND YOU HAVE NOT FOUND OUT ANYTHING CAME IN QUICK FRIGHTENED TONES + I WISH YOU WOULD BELIEVE ME THAT I AM IN AS GREAT TROUBLE ABOUT IT AS YOU ARE + THAT MY FATHER SIR RISDON GRAHAM SMUGGLED GOODSEER + HE COULD NOT HELP IT HE HATES THE SMUGGLERS YOU SHALL NOT TELL + PRAY PRAY SAY YOU WILL NOT AREN'T YOU A SILENT + THEN AS ARCHIE STOOD IN THE DARK LITERALLY AGHAST WITH ASTONISHMENT HE HEARD THE FAINT RUSTLING ONCE MORE AND AGAIN ALL WAS SILENT + HE LAUGHED BUT IT WAS A CURIOUS KIND OF LAUGH FULL OF VEXATION INJURED AMOUR PROPRE AS THE FRENCH CALL OUR LOVE OF OUR OWN DIGNITY OF WHICH ARQUEBALD RAYS STROKE IN THE FULL FLUSH OF HIS YOUNG BELIEF IN HIS IMPORTANCE AS A BRITISH OFFICER HAD A PRETTY GOOD STOCK + AND ALL COMES OF DRESSING UP IN THIS STUPID WAY LIKE A ROUGH FISSURE LAD + COLD WATER CAME ON THIS IDEA DIRECTLY AS HE RECALLED THE FACT THAT THE DARKNESS WAS INTENSE AND CELIA COULD NOT HAVE SEEN HIM + I'LL SOON SHOW THEM THAT I AM NOT GOING TO BE PLAYED WITH + FOR IT SUDDENLY OCCURRED TO HIM THAT HE WAS NOT ONLY A PRISONER BUT A PRISONER IN THE POWER OF A VERY RECKLESS SET OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD STOP AT NOTHING + NO HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF I DON'T BELIEVE THEY WOULD KILL ME BUT THEY WOULD NOT ME ABOUT + THE KICK HE HAD RECEIVED WAS A FORETASTE OF WHAT HE MIGHT EXPECT AND AFTER A LITTLE CONSIDERATION HE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HIS DUTY WAS TO ESCAPE AND GET BACK TO THE CUTTER AS QUICKLY AS HE COULD + TO DO THIS HE MUST SCHEME LIE HID TILL MORNING THEN MAKE FOR THE NEAREST POINT AND SIGNAL FOR HELP ALMOST A BOAT'S CREW WERE ALREADY SURGING FOR HIM HOW TO ESCAPE + THE WINDOW WAS BARRED BUT HE WENT TO IT AND TRIED THE BARS ONE BY ONE TO FIND THEM ALL SOLIDLY FITTED INTO THE STONE SO + NEXT MOMENT AS HE FELT HIS WAY ABOUT HIS HAND TOUCHED AN OLD FASHIONED MARBLE MANTELPIECE FIREPLACE CHIMNEY + YES IF OTHER WAYS FAILED HE COULD ESCAPE UP THE CHIMNEY + NO THAT WAS TOO BAD HE COULD NOT DO THAT + SYMPATHY AND PITY FOR THE DWELLERS IN THE HOSE WERE COMPLETELY GONE NOW AND HE SET HIS TEETH FAST AND MENTALLY CALLED HIMSELF A WEAK IDIOT FOR EVER THINKING ABOUT SUCH PEOPLE + A NARROW TABLE AGAINST THE WALL IN TWO PLACES + HE WENT AND TRIED TO FORCE HIS HEAD THROUGH RECALLING AS HE DID THAT WHERE A PERSON'S HEAD WOULD GO THE REST OF THE BODY WOULD PASS + BUT THERE WAS NO CHANCE FOR HIS BODY THERE THE HEAD WOULD NOT GO FIRST + A FELLOW WHO WAS SHUT UP IN PRISON FOR LIFE MIGHT DO IT HE SAID BUT NOT IN A CASE LIKE THIS + SURE YOU LOOK ROUND EVERYWHERE BOY YES FATHER QUITE + I'M GOING HOME TO BREAKFAST + SHALL I COME TO FATHER NO + STOP HERE TILL SIR RISDOM COMES DOWN AND TELL HIM I'M VERY SORRY THAT WE SHOULD HAVE CLEARED OUT LAST NIGHT ONLY A BORN FOOL SAW JERRY AND ANDY'S LOBSTER BOAT COMING INTO THE COVE AND CAME RUNNING TO SAY IT WAS A PARTY FROM THE CUTTER YES FATHER + TELL HIM NOT TO BE UNEASY TIS ALL RIGHT AND I'LL HAVE EVERYTHING CLEAR AWAY TO NIGHT + THE DULL SOUND OF DEPARTING STEPS AND A LOW WHISTLING SOUND COMING DOWN THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT WINDOW INTO THE CABIN WHERE ARCHIE RAY STROKE LAY WITH HIS HEAVY EYELIDS PRESSED DOWN BY SLEEP + WHAT A QUEER DREAM HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF + BUT HOW QUEER FOR MISTER GERRETT TO BE TALKING LIKE THAT TO ANDREWTELE THE BOY WHO HELPED THE COOK + AND WHY DID ANDY CALL MISTER GERFATHER + THERE WAS AN INTERVAL OF THINKING OVER THIS KNOTTY QUESTION DURING WHICH THE LOW WHISTLING WENT ON + AND I'M HUNGRY TOO TOM I WAS UP I SUPPOSE + NO HE WAS NOT DREAMING FOR HE WAS LOOKING OUT ON THE SEA OVER WHICH A FAINT MIST HUNG LIKE WREATHS OF SMOKE + WHAT DID THEY SAY FALSE ALARM TELL SERVICED AND THEY WOULD CLEAR ALL AWAY TO NIGHT SEE IF ANYTHING HAD BEEN LEFT ABOUT LOBSTER BOAT + ONCE OUT OF THAT ROOM HE COULD RAN AND BY DAYLIGHT THE SMUGGLERS DARED NOT HUNT HIM DOWN + OH THOSE BARS HE MENTALLY EXCLAIMED AND HE WAS ADVANCING TOWARDS THEM BUT JUST AS HE DREW NEAR THERE WAS A RUSTLING NOISE UNDER THE WINDOW A COUPLE OF HANDS SEIZED THE BARS THERE WAS A SCRATCHING OF BOOTOES AGAINST STONEWORK AND RAM'S FACE APPEARED TO GAZE INTO THE ROOM BY INTENTION BUT INTO THE ASTONISHED COUNTENANCE OF THE YOUNG MAGICIAN INSTEAD + RAN WAS THE FIRST TO RECOVER FROM HIS SURPRISE + HULLO HE SAID WHO ARE YOU + GO ROUND AND OPEN THE DOOR I WAS SHUT IN LAST NIGHT BY MISTAKE + I SAW YOU LAST NIGHT AND WONDERED WHOSE BOY YOU WAS + IT WAS YOU FATHER KICKED FOR SHIRKING AND MY WELL I HARDLY KNOWED YOU +NONSENSE + WON'T DO SAID REMONING + THINK I DON'T KNOW YOU MISTER ORPHASER + WON'T DO SAID REM QUICKLY I KNOW YOU + IMPLYING THE SPY THAT'S WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING WHO LOCKED YOU IN + ARCHIE STEPPED BACK TO THE DOOR LISTENING BUT THERE WAS NOT A SOUND + HE HAS GONE TO GIVE THE ALARM THOUGHT THE PRISONER AND HE LOOKED EXCITEDLY ROUND FOR A WAY OF ESCAPE + NOTHING BUT THE CHIMNEY PRESENTED ITSELF + A HAPPY INSPIRATION HAD COME AND PLACING ONE HAND UPON HIS CHEST HE THRUST IN THE OTHER GAVE A TUG AND DREW OUT HIS LITTLE CURVE DIRK GLANCED AT THE EDGE RAN TO THE WINDOW AND BEGAN TO CUT AT ONE OF THE BARS LABOR IN VAIN + HE DIVIDED THE PAINT AND PRODUCED A FEW SQUEAKS AND GRATING SOUNDS AS HE REALIZED THAT THE ATTEMPT WAS MADNESS + THE RESULT WAS NOT VERY SATISFACTORY BUT SUFFICIENTLY SO TO MAKE HIM ESSAY THE BAR OF THE WINDOW ONCE MORE PRODUCING A GRATING EAR ASSEMLLING SOUND AS HE FOUND THAT NOW HE DID MAKE A LITTLE IMPRESSION SO LITTLE THOUGH THAT THE PROBABILITY WAS IF HE KEPT ON WORKING WELL FOR TWENTY FOUR HOURS HE WOULD NOT GET THROUGH + BUT AT THE END OF FIVE MINUTES HE STOPPED AND THRUST BACK THE DIRK INTO ITS SHEATH + NO I CAN'T PART WITH THAT HA HA HA LAUGHED THE BOY JEERINGLY + BUT I'LL YES I'LL GIVE YOU A GUINEA IF YOU WILL LET ME OUT + GUINEAS OF THE BOY THINK I'LL DO IT FOR A GUINEA WELL THEN TOO + BE QUICK THERE'S A GOOD FELLOW I WANT TO GET AWAY AT ONCE + NOT YOU ONLY SHAM + WHY YOUR CLOTHES DON'T FIT YOU AND YOUR CAPS PUT ON A SKUA + NEVER MIND ABOUT THAT LET ME OUT OF THIS PLACE + I TOLD YOU A FISHERMAN CRIED ARCHIE IMPATIENTLY BUT TRYING NOT TO OFFEND HIS VISITOR WHO POSSESSED THE POWER OF CONFERRING FREEDOM BY SPEAKING SHARPLY + NOT YOU LOOK LIKE A WILD BEAST IN A CAGE LIKE A MONKEY YOU INSOLENT + ARCHIE CHECKED HIMSELF AND THE BOY LAUGHED + IT WAS YOUR TURN YESTERDAY IT'S MINE TO DAY WHAT A GAME + YOU LAUGHED AND FLEEED AT ME WHEN I WAS ON THE CUTTER'S DECK + I SAY YOU DO LOOK LIKE A RUM JUST LIKE A BIG MONKEY IN A SHOW + RAM SHOWED HIS WHITE TEETH AS HE BURST OUT WITH A LONG LOW FIT OF LAUGHTER + YOUR ROBES AND ME HE SAID + WHY I COULD TIE YOU UP IN A KNOT AND HEAVE YOU OFF THE CLIFF ANY DAY WHAT A GAME + BIT OF A MITTY FED ON A SALT TACK AND REEVLY BISCUIT TALK OF GIVING ME ROPES AND + ONCE MORE WILL YOU COME AND LET ME OUT NO + TO HIS ASTONISHMENT THE BOY DID NOT FLINCH BUT THRUST HIS OWN ARMS THROUGH PLACING THEM ABOUT THE MIDDY'S WAIST CLENCHING HIS HAND BEHIND AND UTTERING A SHARP WHISTLE + SEEMING GOOD SPIRITS LAST NIGHT MISTER GER HE + YES SIR BUT YOU MAY TURN UP ONLY CLIFF AT ANY MOMENT + YES MINCLIN READY YES SIR + THAT'S RIGHT OF COURSE WE'RE ALARMED + SOON AS THE SIGNAL COMES WE SHALL PUSH OFF + AWKWARD BIT A COUNTRY SIR SIX MILES ROW BEFORE YOU CAN FOUND PLACE TO LAND + SO SHALL WE YES SIR + YOU DON'T THINK MISTER GIRD THEY WOULD DARE TO INJURE HIM IF HE WAS SO UNLUCKY AS TO BE CAUGHT + WELL SIR SAID THE MASTER HESITATING SMUGGLERS OR SMUGGLERS + CERTAINLY SIR SMUGGLERS ARE SMUGGLERS INDEED + BEG PARDON SIR DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM + I'M GETTING VERY ANXIOUS ABOUT MISTER RAYSTROPE START AT ONCE SIR + NO WAIT ANOTHER AND A HALF HOUR + VERY ADVICE THING TO DO + THEN I MUST REQUEST THAT YOU WILL NOT MAKE IT AGAIN VERY TRUE + AWKWARD MISTER GURR AWKWARD + YES SIR OF COURSE + SAY AWKWARD IN THE FUTURE NOT UPWARD + I MEAN ALL ALONE BY MYSELF SIR + BUT FOUR THERE ARE PUBLIC ASKED FOR TEN MILES DIDN'T MEAN THAT + THEN WHAT DID YOU MEAN SPEAK OUT AND DON'T DO THE DOUBLE SHUFFLE OLIVER MY CLEAN DECK NO SIR + HOPPING ABOUT THE GOOD CAT ON HOT BRICKS + NOW THEN WHY DO YOU WANT TO GO ASHORE + THEY PARDON DIDN'T MEAN NOW SIR SAID THE SAILOR TOUCHING HIS FORELOCK + YES SIR SAID THE MAN HUMBLY SHALL I GO AT ONCE SIR + NO WAIT + HE'D A SHARP LOOK OUT ON THE CLIFF TO SEE IF MISTER RAYSDROP IS MAKING SIGNALS FOR A BOAT + HE SWUNG ROUND WALKED AFF AND BEGAN SWEEPING THE SHORE AGAIN WITH HIS GLASS WHILE THE MASTER HAD DICK EXCHANGED GLANCES WHICH MEANT TO GREET YOU + AT LAST THE LITTLE TENT COULD BEAR THE ANXIETY NO LONGER + PIPE AWAY THEM INTO THAT BOAT THERE HE SAID AND IS THE CREW SPRANG IN + NOW MISTER GURR HE SAID I'M ONLY GOING TO SAY ONE THING TO YOU IN THE WAY OF INSTRUCTIONS YES SIR + BEG PARDON SIR SAID THE MASTER DEPRECATINGLY + STEADY MY LAD STEADY CRIED THE MASTER KEEP STROKE AND THEN HE BEGAN TO MAKE PLANS AS TO HIS FIRST PROCEEDING SOME GETTING ASHORE + SAY MISTER GIRK SAID DICK AFTER ONE OF THESE SEARCHES HE WOULDN'T RUN AWAY WHAT + MISTER RAYS DON'T SIR DON'T BE A FOOL + WHAT CHATHAMOV YONDER + GUAR GLANCED ROUND TO SEE IF THE MEN WERE LOOKING AND THEN SAID RATHER HUSKILY BICKILLE + AH EJACULATED SADLY + SAY MISTER GURR SIR WHICH THANKFUL I AM FOR YOU FOR SPEAKING SO BUT YOU DON'T REALLY THINK AS HE HAS COME TO HARM + I HOPE NOW DICK I HOPE BUT SMUGGLERS DON'T STAND AT ANYTHING SOMETIMES + I DO ASSURE YOU THERE'S NOTHING HERE BUT WHAT YOU MAY SEE + IF YOU'D LET ME FINISH YOU'D KNOW SAID GURD ROUGHLY ONE OF OUR BOYS IS MISSING SEEN HIM UP HERE + BOY ABOUT SEVENTEEN WITH A RED CAP NO SIR INDEED OF NOT + DON'T KNOW IF HE HAS BEEN SEEN ABOUT HERE DO YOU SAID GURR LOOKING AT HER SEARCHINGLY NO SIR + IF SHE KNEW EVIL HAD COME TO THE POOR LAD HER FACE WOULD TELL TALES LIKE PRINT + I SAID A LAD ABOUT SEVENTEEN YOUR RED CATHOLIC YOURS SAID GRIRALLY + THE MAN SHOOK HIS HEAD AND STARED AS IF HE DIDN'T HALF UNDERSTAND THE DRIFT OF ALL BUT SAID + HERE MY LAD WHERE'S YOUR MASTER + EH I SAY WHERE'S YOUR MASTER + GER TURNED AWAY IMPATIENTLY AGAIN AND SUNNING TO HIS MEN TO FOLLOW THEY ALL BEGAN TO TRAMP UP THE STEEP TRACK LEADING TOWARD THE HOSE WITH THE RABBITS SCUTTLING AWAY AMONG THE FIRS AND SHOWING THEIR WHITE COTTONILE TAILS FOR A MOMENT AS THEY DARTED DOWN INTO THEIR HOLES + I DUNNO MUTTERED DICK AND A MEN CAN'T BE SURE + GER SALUTED AND STATED HIS BUSINESS WHILE THE BARONET WHO HAD TURNED SALUER AND MORE CAREWORN THAN HIS LOT DREW A BREATH OF FULL OF RELIEF ONE OF YOUR SHIP BOYS HE SAID + A LAD LOOKING LIKE A COMMON SAILOR AND WEARING A RED CAP NO SAID SIR RISDON + I HAVE SEEN NO ONE ANSWERING TO THE DESCRIPTION HERE + BEG PARDON SIR BUT CAN YOU AS GENTLEMEN ASSURE ME THAT HE IS NOT HERE CERTAINLY SAID SIR RISDON + SURELY HE CRIED SIR NASTON ACCEPTEDLY + SHEER WRITTEN A SILENCE + LADY GRAHAM LOOKED GHASTLY + YOU DO NOT KNOW NO + THESE HATREDS WERE SOON TO MY TROUBLE FOR ME OF WHICH I HAD NEVER DREAMED + HENRY WASHINGTON YOUNGER MY FATHER REPRESENTED JACKSON COUNTY THREE TIMES IN THE LEGISLATURE AND WAS ALSO A JUDGE OF THE COUNTY COURT + MY MOTHER WHO WAS BISHOP FOR OF INDEPENDENCE WAS A DAUGHTER OF RICHARD FRISTOV WHO FOUGHT UNDER GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON AT NEW ORLEANS JACKSON COUNTY HAVING BEEN SO NAMED AND MY GRANDFATHER FIRST SO'S INSISTENCE + I CANNOT REMEMBER WHEN I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO SHEET + MY BROTHER JAMES WAS BORN JANUARY FIFTEEN EIGHTEEN FORTY EIGHT JOHN IN EIGHTEEN FIFTY ONE IN ROBERT IN DECEMBER EIGHTEEN FIFTY THREE + MY ELDEST BROTHER RICHARD DIED IN EIGHTEEN SIXTY + MY FATHER WAS IN THE EMPLOY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND HAD THE MALE CONTRACT FOR FIVE HUNDRED MILES + HE HAD STARTED BACK TO HARRISONVILLE AND A BUGGY BUT WAS WAYLAID ONE MILE SOUTH OF WESTPORT A SUBURB OF KANSAS CITY AND BRUTLY MURDERED FALLING OUT OF HIS BUGGY INTO THE ROAD WITH THREE MORTAL WOUNDS + MISS WASHINGTON WELLS AND HER SON SAMUEL ON THE ROAD HOME FROM KANSAS CITY TO LEE'S SUMMIT RECOGNIZED THE BODY AS THAT OF MY FATHER + MISS WELL STATE TO GUARD THE REMAINS WHILE HER SON CARRIED THE NEWS OF THE MURDER TO COLONEL PEABODY OF THE FEDERAL COMMAND WHO WAS THEN IN CAMP AT KANSAS CITY + MISS MC CORKLE JUMPED FROM THE WINDOW OF THE HOUSE AND ESCAPED + AS THE RAIDERS LEFT ONE OF THEM SHOUTED + NOW LADY CALL ON YOUR PROTECTORS WHY DON'T YOU CALL ON CO YOUNGER NOW + EVERY NIGHT REPRESENTED A HUMAN LIFE + BUT SHE FAILED TO FIND THE COMFORT SHE SOUGHT FOR A NOISE AS CONTINUED IN A MORE AGGRAVATED FORM + TWO MONTHS AFTER THIS INCIDENT THE SAME PERSECUTORS AGAIN ENTERED OUR HOME IN THE DAY OF THE NIGHT AND AT THE POINT OF A PISTOL TRIED TO FORCE MY MOTHER TO SET FIRE TO HER OWN HOME + I HAVE ALWAYS FELT THAT THE EXPOSURE TO WHICH SHE WAS SUBJECTED ON THIS CRUEL JOURNEY TOO HARD EVEN FOR A MAN TO TAKE WAS A DIRECT CAUSE OF HER DEATH + FROM HARRISON BILL SHE WENT TO WAVERLEY WHERE SHE WAS HOUNDED CONTINUALLY + ONE OF THE CONDITIONS UPON WHICH HER LIFE WAS SPARED WAS THAT SHE WOULD REPORT AT WASHINGTON WEAKLY + ONE OF MY OLD SCHOOL TEACHER WHOM I HAVE NEVER SEEN SINCE THE SPRINGER SUMMER OF EIGHTEEN SIXTY TWO IS STEPHEN B ELKINS SENATOR FROM WEST VIRGINIA + WHEN I WAS TAKEN PRISONER I EXPECTED TO BE SHOT WITHOUT CEREMONY + WE TOOK THE OATH PERHAPS THREE HUNDRED OF US DOWN ON LUTHER MASON'S FARM A FEW MILES FROM WHERE I NOW RIGHT WHERE COLONEL HAYES HAD ENCAMPED AFTER INDEPENDENCE + BOOM YOU AND MYSELF MAKE COFFEE IN THE REST BELOW ROSE HILL ON GRAND RIVER + ACCORDINGLY I WAS SHORTLY AWAKENED TO ACCOMPANY HIM THE LONG JACK WHERE HE WOULD PERSONALLY MAKE KNOWN THE SITUATION TO THE OTHER COLONELS + FOSTER HAD NEARLY ONE THOUSAND CAVERN AND TWO PIECES OF RABS INDIANA BATTERY THAT HAD ALREADY MADE FOR ITSELF A NAME FOR HARD FIGHTING + COME INTERNAL HAZE EXCLAIMED COLONEL COCKEREL + I THINK HE'LL BE RATHER TO HAVE MEAT FOR BREAKFAST I REPLIED HE MIGHT BE ALL RIGHT FOR DINNER + JACKAM WITH A PARTY OF THIRTY SEASONED MEN CHARGED THE INDIANA GUNS AND CAPTURED THEM BUT MAJOR FOSTER LIT A GALLANT CHARGE AGAINST THE INVADERS AND RECAPTURED THE PIECES + WE WERE OUT OF AMMUNITION AND MORE HELPLESS HAD THE FIGHT MEN PRESSED + THEY DID MARK MY CLOTHES IN ONE OR TWO PLACES HOWEVER + MAJOR FOSTER IN A LETTER TO JUDGE GEORGIE INVENTED A MINNEAPOLIS SAID + I WAS TOLD BY SOME OF OUR MEN FROM THE WESTERN BORDER OF THE STATE THAT THEY RECOGNIZED A DARING YOUNG RADIOEST CO YOUNGER + ABOUT NANT'HM I WAS SHOT DOWN + THE WOUNDED OF BOTH FORCES WERE GATHERED UP AND WERE PLACED IN HOUSES + ALTHOUGH EVERY BOOK REPORTING TO NARRATE THE LIVES OF THE YOUNGER BROTHERS AS TOLD OF THE LIBERTY ROBBERY AND IMPLIED THAT WE HAD A PART IN IT THE YOUNGERS WERE NOT SUSPECTED AT THAT TIME NOR PROLONGED TIME AFTERWARD + IT WAS CLAIMED BY PEOPLE OF LIBERTY THAT THEY POSITIVELY RECOGNIZED AMONG THE ROBBERS ALL SHEPHERD REDMOCKERS AND BUDPENCE WHO HAD SEEN SERVICE WITH QUANTRELL + THIS RAY WAS A COMPANY BUBBLE CHID JUDGE MC CLEAN THE BANKER BEING SHOT THOUGH NOT FATALLY + NO WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR THE YOUNGERS BUT SUBSEQUENT HISTORIANS HAVE INFERENTIALLY AT LEAST ACCUSED US OF TAKING PART BUT AS I SAID BEFORE THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE ACCUSATION + JUNE THIRD EIGHTEEN SEVENTY ONE OBLICOTT BROTHER'S BANK AT CROYDON WAS ROBBED OF FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS BY SEVEN MEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT + IT WAS CHARGED THAT ARTHUR MAC COY OR A SECOI AND MYSELF HAD BEEN PARTICIPANTS IN THE GAD'S HILL AFFAIR AND THE TWO STAGE ROBBERIES + THE PARTS OF THIS LETTER NOW RELEVANT OUR AS FOLLOWS + YOU MAY USE THIS LETTER IN YOUR OWN WAY + I WILL GIVE YOU THIS OUTLINE AND SKETCH OF MY WHEREABOUTS AND ACTIONS AT THE TIME OF CERTAIN ROBBERIES WITH WHICH I AM CHARGED + AT THE TIME OF THE GALLTON BANK ROBBERY I WAS GATHERING CATTLE IN ELLA'S COUNTY TEXAS KETTLE AT A BOUGHT FROM PLACE TAILOR AND RECTOR + THIS CAN BE PROVED BY BOTH OF THEM ALSO LESS HERE PARKLY AND FIFTY OTHER RESPECTABLE MEN OF THAT COUNTY + I BROUGHT THE KETTLE TO KANSAS THAT FALL AND REMAINED IN SAINT CLAIR COUNTY UNTIL FEBRUARY + I THEN WENT TO ARKANSAS AND RETURNED TO SAINT CLAIR COUNTY ABOUT THE FIRST OF MAY + I WENT TO KANSAS WHERE OUR CATTLE WERE IN WOODS AND COUNTY ETERNAL RIDGES + DURING THE SUMMER I WAS EITHER IN SAINT CLAIR JACKSON OR KANSAS BUT AS THERE WAS NO ROBBERY COMMITTED THAT SUMMER IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHERE I WAS + I WENT THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND FROM THERE OR TWO ACHED WHIPS + THERE I TOOK DINNER AND THEN WENT TO DOCTOR OLD WYMANS + OUR BUSINESS THERE WAS TO SEE E P EST HE WAS NOT AT HOME BUT THE FAMILY WILL REMEMBER THAT WE WERE THERE + WE CROSSED ON THE BRIDGE STAYED IN THE CITY ALL NIGHT AND THE NEXT MORNING WE RODE UP THROUGH THE CITY + I MET SEVERAL OF MY FRIENDS AMONG THEM WAS BOB HUDSMITH + WE WERE NOT ON GOOD TERMS AT THE TIME NOR HAVE WE BEEN FOR SEVERAL YEARS + POOR JOHN HE HAS BEEN HUNTED DOWN AND SHOT LIKE A WILD BEAST AND NEVER WAS A BOY MORE INNOCENT + DOCTOR L'HOTE WAS HIS PHYSICIAN + THERE WERE FIFTY OR A HUNDRED PERSONS THERE WHO WILL TESTIFY IN ANY COURT THAT JOHN AND I WERE THERE + HELVIN FICKLE AND WIFE OF GREENTON VALLEY WERE ATTENDING THE SPRINGS AT THAT TIME AND EITHER OF THEM WILL TESTIFY TO THE ABOVE FOR JOHN AND I SET IN FRONT OF MISTER SMITH WHILE HE WAS PREACHING AND WAS IN HIS COMPANY FOR A FEW MOMENTS TOGETHER WITH HIS WIFE AND MISTER MISS FICKLE AFTER THE SERVICE + ABOUT THE LAST OF DECEMBER EIGHTEEN SEVENTY THREE I ARRIVED IN CAROL PARISH LOUISIANA + I STAYED THERE UNTIL THE EIGHTH OF FEBRUARY EIGHTEEN SEVENTY FOUR + I HAD NOT HEARD OF THAT WHEN I WROTE THE LETTER OF EIGHTEEN SEVENTY FOUR AND TO CORRECT ANY MISAPPREHENSION THAT MIGHT BE CREATED BY OMITTING IT I WILL SAY THAT AT THE TIME I WAS AT NEOCHEAL KANSAS WITH A DROVE OF CATTLE WHICH I SOLD TO MAJOR RAY + IT WAS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE ROCKYLON ROBBERY AT EIGHT AIRIA THAT THEIR FIRST APPEARED A DELIBERATE ENLISTMENT OF SOME LOCAL PAPERS IN MISSOURI TO CONNECT US WITH THIS ROBBERY + I URGED THEM THE BOYS AT WHATEVER HAPPENED WE SHOULD NOT SHOOT A NEW ONE + WHEN MILLER AND I CROSSED THE BRIDGE THE THREE WERE ON SOME DRY GOOD BOXES AT THE CORNER NEAR THE BANK AND AS SOON AS THEY SAW US WENT RIGHT INTO THE BANK INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR US TO GET THERE + WHEN WE CAME UP BY TWO MILLERS WHO SHUT THE BANK DOOR WHICH THEY HAD LEFT OPEN IN THEIR HURRY + J S ALLAN WHOSE HARDWARE STORE WAS NEAR TRYING TO GO INTO THE BANK BUT MILLER ORDERED HIM AWAY AND HE RAN AROUND THE CORNER SHOUTING + GET YOUR GUNS BOYS THEY'RE ROBBING THE BANK + AND I CALLED TO HIM TO GET INSIDE AT THE SAME TIME FIRING A PISTOL SHOT IN THE AIR AS THE SIGNALS OF THE THREE BOYS AT THE BRIDGE THAT WE HAD BEEN DISCOVERED + ALMOST AT THIS INSTANT I HEARD A PISTOL SHOT IN THE BANK + CHADWELL WOODS AND JIM RODE UP IN JOINDERS SHOUTING TO THE PEOPLE IN THE STREET TO GET INSIDE AND FIRING THEIR PISTOLS TO EMPHASIZE THEIR COMMANDS + IF ANY OF OUR PARTY SHOT HIM IT MUST HAVE BEEN WOODS + MEANTIME THE STREET WAS GETTING UNCOMFORTABLY HOT + EVERY TIME I SAW ANY ONE WITH A BEAD ON ME I WOULD DROP OFF MY HORSE AND TROTTED DRIVE THE SHOOTER INSIDE BUT I COULD NOT SEE IN EVERY DIRECTION + DOCTOR WHEELER WHO HAD GONE UPSTAIRS IN THE HOTEL SHOT MILLER AND HE LAY DYING IN THE STREET + CHANGING HIS PISTOL TO HIS LEFT HAND BOB RAN OUT AND MOUNTED MILLARD'S MAYOR + WHAT KEPT YOU SO LONG AS PETS + AS TO THE REST OF THE AFFAIR INSIDE THE BANK I TAKE THE ACCOUNT OF A NORTHFIELD NARRATOR + WHERE'S THE MONEY OUTSIDE THE SAFE BOB ASKED + THE SHUTTERS WERE CLOSED AND THIS CAUSED BUNKER AN INSTANT'S DELAY THAT WAS ALMOST FATAL FITZ CHASTE HIM WITH A BULLET + THE FIRST ONE MISSED HIM BUT THE SECOND WENT THROUGH HIS RIGHT SHOULDER + THAT NIGHT IT STARTED TO REIN AND WE WORE OUT OUR HORSES + FRIDAY WE MOVED TOWARD WATERVILLE AND FRIDAY NIGHT WE CAMPED BETWEEN ELYSIAN AND GERMAN LAKE + BOB SHATTERED ALE BOWL WAS REQUIRING FREQUENT ATTENTION AND THAT NIGHT WE MADE ONLY NINE MILES AND MONDAY NIGHT IN TUESDAY WE SPENT IN A DESERTED FARMHOUSE CLOSE TO MANKA + THAT DAY A MAN NAMED DUNNING DISCOVERED US AND WE TOOK HIM PRISONER + FINALLY WE ADMINISTERED TO HIM AN OATH NOT TO BETRAY OUR WHEREABOUTS UNTIL WE HAD TIME TO MAKE OUR ESCAPE AND HE AGREED NOT TO + NO SOONER HOWEVER WAS HE RELEASED THAN HE MADE POST TASTE INTO MANCATO TO ANNOUNCE OUR PRESENCE AND IN A FEW MINUTES ANOTHER POSSE WAS LOOKING FOR US + THE WHISTLE ON THE OLD MILL BLEW AND WE FEARED THAT IT WAS A SIGNAL THAT HAD BEEN AGREED UPON TO ALARM THE TOWN IN CASE WE WERE OBSERVED BUT WE WERE NOT MOLESTED + HE HAD TO SLEEP WITH IT PILLOW ON MY BREAST JIM BEING ALSO CRIPPLE WITH A WOUND IN HIS SHOULDER AND WE COULD NOT GET MUCH SLEEP + BUT THEY SOON AFTER GOT CLOSE ENOUGH SO THAT ONE OF THEM BROKE MY WALKING STEAK WITH A SHOT + WE WERE IN SIGHT OF OUR LONG SAWED HORSES WHEN THEY CUT US OFF FROM THE ANIMALS AND OUR LAST HOPE WAS GONE + SIX STEPS TO THE FRONT SHERIFF CLISTIN COLONEL T O VAULT B M RICE G A BRADFORD C A POMEROY AND S JVERSON + FORMING IN LINE FOUR PACES APART HE ORDERED THEM TO ADVANCE RAPIDLY AND CONCENTRATE THE FIRE OF THE WHOLE LINE THE INSTANT THE ROBBERS WERE DISCOVERED + MAKE FOR THE HORSES I SAID EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF + THERE'S NO USE STOPPING TO PICK UP A COMRADE HERE FOR WE CAN'T GET HIM THROUGH THE LINE JUST SHORES THEM AND MAKE IT IF WE CAN + I GOT UP AS A SIGNAL FOR THE CHARGE AND WE FIRED ONE BODY + ONE OF THE FELLOWS IN THE OUTER LINE NOT BRAVE ENOUGH HIMSELF TO JOIN THE VOLUNTEERS WHO HAD COME IN TO BEAT US OUT WAS NOT DISPOSED TO BELIEVE IN THE SURRENDER AND HAD HIS GUN LEVELLED ON BOB IN SPITE OF THE HANDKERCHIEF WHICH WAS WAVING AS A FLAG OF TRUCE + SHERIFF CLISPIN OF WATER ONE COUNTY WHO WAS TAKING BOB'S PISTOL FROM HIM WAS ALSO SHOUTING TO THE FELLOW + INCLUDING THOSE RECEIVED IN AND ON THE WAY FROM NORTHFIELD I HAD ELEVEN WOUNDS + IN CHAIR OF LISPIN'S ORDER NOT TO SHOOT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE PROTECTORATE THAT MINNESOTA PEOPLE ESTABLISHED OVER US + CAPTAIN MURDOCK + BUT MARSPORT HAD FLOURISHED ENOUGH TO KILL IT OFF + SOME OF MARS LAWS DATED FROM THE TIME WHEN LAWN FORCEMENT HAD BEEN HAMMERED BY LACK OF MEN RATHER THAN BY THE TYPE OF MEN + THE STONE WALL GANG NUMBERED PERHAPS FIVE HUNDRED + EVEN DARRELAXEN FAILURES HAD TO EAT THERE WERE STORIES AND SHOPS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT WHICH EKED OUT SOME KIND OF A MARGINAL LIVING + THEY WERE SAFE FROM PROTECTION RACKETEERS THERE NONE BOTHERED TO COME SO FAR OUT + THE SHOPKEEPERS AND SOME OF THE LESS UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE THERE HAD PROTESTED LOUD ENOUGH TO REACH CLEAR BACK TO EARTH + CAPTAIN MURDOCK WAS AN UNKNOWN FACTOR AND NOW WAS ASKING FOR MORE MEN + THE PRESSURE WAS ENOUGH TO GET THEM FOR HIM + GORDON REPORTED FOR WORK WITH A SENSE OF THE BOTTOM FALLING OUT MIXED WITH A VAGUE RELIEF + I'VE GOT A FREE HAND AND WE'RE GOING TO RUN THIS THE WAY WE WOULD ON EARTH + YOUR JOB IS TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS HERE AND THAT MEANS EVERY ONE NOT BREAKING THE LAWS WHETHER YOU FEEL LIKE IT OR NOT NO GRAFT + THE FIRST MAN MAKING A SHAKEDOWN WILL GET THE SAME TREATMENT WE'RE GOING TO USE ON THE STONE WALL BOYS YOU'LL GET DOUBLE PAY HERE AND YOU CAN LIVE ON IT + HE PICKED OUT FIVE OF THE MEN INCLUDING GORDON YOU FIVE WILL COME WITH ME + THE REST OF YOU CAN TEEM UP ANY WAY YOU WANT TO NIGHT PICK ANY ROUND THAT'S OPEN OH CAME MEN LET'S GO + BRUCE GORDON GRINNED SLOWLY AS HE SWUNG THE STICK AND MURDOCH'S EYES FELL ON HIM EARTHCOP + TWO YEARS GORDON ADMITTED + FOR A SECOND GORDON CURSED HIMSELF + HE BEGAN WONDERING ABOUT SECURITY THEN + NOBODY HAD TRIED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM + THERE WAS A CRUDE LIGHTING SYSTEM HERE PUT UP BY THE CITIZENS AT THE FRONT OF EACH BUILDING A DIM PHOSPHORE BULB GLOWED WHEN DARKNESS FELL THEY WOULD HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SEE BY + MOVING IN TWO GROUPS OF THREES AT OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE STREET THEY BEGAN THEIR BEAT + THERE WAS NO CHANCE TO SAVE THE CITIZEN WHO WAS DYING FROM LACK OF AIR + GORDON FELT THE SOLID PLEASURE OF THE FINELY TURNED CLUB IN HIS HANDS + CORN'S EYES POPPED AT THAT + HE SWALLOWED THE SENTIMENT HIS OWN CLUB WAS MOVING NOW + THE OTHER FOUR COPSE HAD COME IN RELUCTANTLY + HE BROUGHT HIM TO THE GROUND WITH A SINGLE BLOW ACROSS THE KIDNEYS + THEY ROUNDED UP THE MEN OF THE GANG AND ONE OF THE CUPS STARTED OFF + TO FIND A PHONE AND CALL THE WAGON + WE'RE NOT USING WAGONS MURDOCK TOLD HIM LINE THEM UP + IF THEY TRIED TO RUN THEY WERE HIT FROM BEHIND IF THEY STOOD STILL THEY WERE CLUBBED CAREFULLY + MURDOCK INDICATED ONE WHO STOOD WITH HIS SHOULDER SHAKING AND TEARS RUNNING DOWN HIS CHEEKS + THE CAPTAIN'S FACE WAS AS SICK AS GORDONS FELT + I WANT THE NAME OF EVERY MAN IN THE GANG YOU CAN REMEMBER HE TOLD THE MAN + COLONEL THEY'D KILL ME I DON'T KNOW + MURDOCK TOOK HIS NOD AS EVIDENCE ENOUGH AND TURNED TO THE WRETCHED TUFTS + IF HE SHOULD TURN UP DEAD I'LL KNOW YOU BOYS ARE RESPONSIBLE AND I'LL FIND YOU + TROUBLE BEGAN BREWING SHORTLY AFTER THOUGH + MURDOCK SENT ONE OF THE MEN TO PICK UP A SECOND SQUAD OF SIX AND THEN A THIRD + AND THE THIRD ONE BRUCE GORDON SPOTTED ONE OF THE MEN WHO HAD BEEN BEATEN BEFORE + GET A STRETCHER AND TAKE HIM WHEREVER HE BELONGS HE ORDERED + BUT THE CAPTAIN STIRRED FINALLY SIGHING + NO THE COPSE ARE GIVING ME WE'RE COVERED GORDON + BUT THE STERN WALL GANG IS BACKING WANE + BUT IT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH ON THEM + BRUCE GORDON GRIMACED I'VE GOT A YELLOW TICKET FROM SECURITY + MARDOCK BLINKED HE DROPPED HIS EYES SLOWLY + WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WAIN WILL BE RE ELECTED + NOBODY WANTS HIM EXCEPT A GANG OF CROOKS AND THOSE IN POWER + EVER SEE A MARTIAN ELECTION + NO YOU ARE FIRST HER HE CAN'T LOSE + AND THEN HELL IS GOING TO POP AND THIS WHOLE PLANET MAY BE BLOWN WIDE OPEN + IT FITTED WITH THE DIAP PREDICTIONS OF SECURITY AND WITH A SPYING GORDON WAS GOING TO DO ACCORDING TO THEM + HE WAS GETTING EVEN FATTER NOW THAT HE WAS EATING BETTER FOOD FROM THE FAIR RESTAURANT AROUND THE CORNER + COST EM MORE BUT THEY'D BE RESPECTABLE + BECAUSE IS HE IS ALWAYS HONEST ACCORDING TO HOW HE SEES IT + BUT YOU GOT EARTH IDEAS OF THE STUFF LIKE I HAD ONCE + THE GROUPS GREW MORE EXPERIENCED AND MURDOCK WAS TRAINING A NEW SQUAD EVERY NIGHT + IT WASN'T EXACTLY LEGAL BUT NOTHING WAS HERE + THIS COULD LEAD TO ABUSES AS HE'D SEEN ON EARTH + BUT THERE PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE TIME FOR IT IF MAYOR WANE WAS RE ELECTED + IT WAS NIGHT OUTSIDE AND THE PHOSPHOBS OF THE CORNERS GLOWED DIMLY GIVING HIM BARELY ENOUGH LIGHT BY WHICH TO LOCATE THE WAY TO THE EXTEMPORISED PRECINCT HOUSE + IT HAD PROBABLY BEEN YEARS SINCE ANY HAD DARED RISK IT AFTER THE SUN WENT DOWN + AND THE SLOW DOUBTFUL RESPECT ON THE FACES OF THE CITIZENS AS THEY NODDED TO HIM WAS EVEN MORE PROOF THAT HAYLEY'S SYSTEM WAS WORKING + GORDON HIT THE SIGNAL SWITCH AND THE MAR SPEAKER LET OUT A SHRILL WHISTLE + GUN SUDDENLY SEEMED TO BE FLOURISHING EVERYWHERE + YOU CAN'T DO IT TO ME + I'M REFORMED I'M GOING STRAIGHT + YOU DAMNED COPPS CAN'T OGNELL WAS BLUBBERING + ONE LOOK WAS ENOUGH THE WORK PAPERS HAD THE TELL TALE OVER THICKENING OF THE SIGNATURE THEY HAD SHOWED UP ON OTHER PAPERS OBVIOUSLY FORGERIES + SOME TURNED AWAY AS GORDON AND THE OTHER COP WENT TO WORK BUT MOST OF THEM WEREN'T SQUEAMISH + WHEN IT WAS OVER THE TWO PICKED UP THEIR WHIMPERING CAPTIVE + JENKINS THE OTHER COP HAD BEEN HOLDING THE WALLET + MUST HAVE BEEN MAKING A BIG CONTACT IN SOMETHING FIFTY FIFTY + THERE MUST HAVE BEEN OVER TWO THOUSAND CREDITS IN THE WALLET + WHEN GORDON AND JENKINS CAME BACK MARDOCK TOSSED THE MONEY TO THEM SPLIT IT + WHATEVER COMES TO HAN GOVERNOR + LIKE THIS SOCIAL CALL A GORDON ASKED HIM + THE LITTLE MAN SHOOK HIS HEAD HIS ANCIENT EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD FACE TURNING SOBER NOTE + YOU OMIT SOME BILLS GOVERNOR + ELEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY CREDITS + YOU DIDN'T PAY UP YOUR PLEDGE TO THE CAPTAIN FUND SO I HAD A FILLIN + A THOUSAND INTEREST AT TEN PER CENT A WEEK STANDARD RIGHT + GORDON HAD HEARD OF THE FRIENDLY INTEREST CHARGE ON THE SIDE HERE BUT HE SHOOK HIS HEAD WRONG AS HE + HA AS HE TURNED IT OVER AND SHOOK HIS HEAD + NOW SHOW ME WHERE I SIGNED ANY AGREEMENT SAYING I'D PAY YOU BACK + FOR A SECOND IZZIE'S FACE WENT BLANK THEN HE CHUCKLED + HE PULLED OUT THE BILLS AND HANDED THEM OVER + THANKS IS HE THANKS YOURSELF + THE KID POCKETED THE MONEY CHEERFULLY NODDING + THE LITTLE GUY KNEW MARS AS FEW OTHERS DID APPARENTLY FROM ALL SIDES + AND IF ANY OF THE OTHER COPSE HAD PRIVATE RACKETS OF THEIR OWN IS HE WAS UNDOUBTEDLY THE MAN TO FIND IT OUT AND USE THE INFORMATION WITH A BEAT SUCH AS THAT EVEN GOING HALVES AND WITH ALL THE GRAFT TO THE UPPER BRACKETS HE'D STILL BE ABLE TO MAKE HIS PILE IN A MATTER OF MONTHS + THE CAPTAIN LOOKED COMPLETELY BEATEN AS HE CAME INTO THE ROOM AND DROPPED INTO THE BENCH + GO ON EXCEPT DAME IT + THERE WAS A MAN COMING FROM EARTH ON A SECOND SHIP WHO WOULD SEE HIM + THE LITTLE PUBLISHER WAS BACK AT THE CRUSADER AGAIN + ONLY GORDON AND SHEILA WERE LEFT + CREDIT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED AGAIN AND THE BUSINESSES WERE OPEN + GORDON CAME TO A ROW OF TEMPORARY BUBBLES INDIVIDUAL DWELLINGS BUILT LIKE THE DOME BUT OPAQUE FOR PRIVACY + THEY HAD BEEN LUCKY + SYLBERG'S VOLUNTEERS WERE OFFICIAL NOW + FAT'S PLACE WAS STILL OPEN THOUGH THE CROOKED TABLES HAD BEEN REMOVED GORDON DROPPED TO A STOOL SLIPPING OFF HIS HELMET + HE REACHED AUTOMATICALLY FOR THE CLASS OF ETHER NEEDLED BEER + THOUGHT YOU'D BE IN THE CHIPS + THAT'S MARS GORDON ECHOED THE OTHER'S COMMENT WHY DON'T YOU PULL OFF THE PLANET FATS YOU COULD GO BACK TO EARTH I'D GUESS THE OTHER NODDED + GUESS A MAN GETS USED TO ANYTHING HELL MAYBE I CAN HIRE SOME BUMS TO SIT AROUND AND WHOOP IT UP WHEN THE SHIPS COME IN AND BILL THIS IS A REAL OLD MARTIAN DEN OF SIN + THERE WAS A GRIN ON THE OTHER'S FACE + FINALLY GOT OUR ORDERS FOR YOU IT'S MERCURY + WE SENT TWENTY OTHERS A SAME WAY AND THEY FAILED + LET'S SAY YOU'VE SHIFTED SOME OF THE MISERY AROUND A BIT AND GIVEN THEM A CHANCE TO DO BETTER + YOU CAN'T STAY HERE + THERE'S A ROCKET WAITING TO TRANSFIP YOU TO THE MOON ON THE WAY TO MERCURY RIGHT NOW GORDON SIGHED + AND I BADE HER THE PAY WILL YE OWE YOU FROM THE TIME YOU BEGIN USING YOUR BADGE SHE'S OUT SHOPPING + BUT HIS OLD EYES WERE GLINTING + DID YOU THINK WE'D LET YOU GO WITHOUT SEEING YOU OFF KABAR HE ASKED + I I OH DRAT IT I'M GETTING OLD IZZIE YOU TELL HIM + HE GRABBED GORDON'S HAND AND WADDLED DOWN THE LANDING PLANK AS HE SHOOK HIS HEAD + ANNIE COLCHESTER HAD BEGUN TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH LESLEY + LEEUSLY DETERMINED TO TRY FOR HONORS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE + HER TASTES ALL LAY IN THIS DIRECTION HER IDEA BEING BY AND BY TO FOLLOW HER MOTHER'S PROFICIENT OF JOURNALISM FOR WHICH SHE ALREADY SHOWED CONSIDERABLE APTITUDE + SHE HAD NO IDEA OF ALLOWING HERSELF TO BREAK DOWN + WHAT DO YOU MEAN REPLIED LESLIE + WHY YOU WILL BE PARTING FROM ME YOU KNOW + I WOULD BE THE CONSTANT WORRY AND PLAGUE OF YOUR LIFE + IT IS THIS IF BY ANY CHANCE YOU DON'T LEAVE SAINT WORDS ANNIE I HOPE YOU WILL ALLOW ME TO BE YOUR ROOMBELLO AGAIN NEXT TERM + SAID ANNIE A FLASH OF LIGHT COMING INTO HER EYES AND IN LEAVING THEM + BUT SHE ADDED ABRUPTLY YOU SPEAK OF SOMETHING WHICH MUST NOT TAKE PLACE + I MUST PART AN HONEST IF I DO IT I SHALL DIE + A FEW MOMENTS LATER THERE CAME A TAP AT THE DOOR + LESLIE OPENED THE DOOR + JANE HARRIET STOOD WITHOUT + THESE LETTERS HAD JUST COME FOR YOU AND ANY COLCHESTERS SHE SAID AND AS I WAS COMING UPSTAIRS I THOUGHT I WOULD LEAVE THEM WITH YOU + LESLIE THANKED HER AND EAGERLY GRASPED THE LITTLE PASSING + HER EYES SHONE WITH PLEASURE AT THE ANTICIPATION OF THE DELIGHTFUL TIME SHE WOULD HAVE RIVELLING IN THE HOME NEWS THE OTHER LETTER WAS DIRECTED TO ANY COLCHESTER + HERE IS A LETTER FOR YOU ANY CRIED LISLIE + HER FACE GREW SUDDENLY WHITE AS DEATH WHAT IS THE DEAR + I HAVE BEEN STARVING OR RATHER I HAVE BEEN THIRSTING + WELL READ IT IN PEACE SAID LINNESLEY I WON'T DISTURB YOU + I AM TRULY GLAD IT HAS COME + LESLIE SEATED HERSELF WITH HER BACK TO HER COMPANION AND OPENED HER ON LETTERS + DON'T NOTICE ME REPLIED ANNIE + I MUST GO INTO THE GROUNDS THE AIR IS STIFLING + BUT THEY ARE JUST SHUTTING UP + I SHALL GO I KNOW AWAY + JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT SHE ROSE WITH A SIGH TO PREPARE FOR BED + SHE LOOKED ROUND THE ROOM + NOW I REMEMBER SHE GOT A LETTER WHICH UPSET HER VERY MUCH AND WENT OUT + LESLIE WENT TO THE WINDOW AND FLUNG IT OPEN SHE PUT HER HEAD OUT AND TRIED TO PARE INTO THE DARKNESS BUT THE MOON HAD ALREADY SAID AND SHE COULD NOT SEE MORE THAN A COUPLE OF YARDS IN FRONT OF HER + SHE IS A VERY QUEER THE RATTIC CREATURE AND THAT LETTER THERE WAS BAD NEWS IN THAT LETTER + WHAT CAN'T SHE BE DOING OUT BY HERSELF + LESLIE LEFT THE ROOM BUT SHE HAD SCARCELY GONE A DOZEN PLACES DOWN THE CORRIDOR BEFORE SHE MET ANY RETURNING + AND HIS EYES WERE VERY BRIGHT HER CHEEKS WERE NO LONGER PALE AND THERE WAS A BRILLIANT COLOR IN THEM + SHE DID NOT TAKE THE LEAST NOTICE OF PLEASING BUT GOING INTO THE ROOM SHUT THE DOOR + DON'T BEGIN SAID ANNIE + DON'T BEGIN WHAT DO YOU MEAN + I MEAN THAT I DON'T WANT YOU TO BEGIN TO ASK QUESTIONS + I WALKED UP AND DOWN AS FAST AS EVER I COULD OUTSIDE IN ORDER TO MAKE MYSELF SLEEPY + DON'T TALK TO ME LESLIE DON'T SAY A SINGLE WORD + I SHALL GO OFF TO SLEEP THAT IS ALL I CARE FOR + DON'T SAID ANNIE + NOW DRINK THIS AT ONCE SHE SAID IN A VOICE OF AUTHORITY IF YOU REALLY WISH TO SLEEP + ANNIE STARED BACK AT ME AT THE KO KO THEN SHE UTTERED A LAUGH + DRINK THAT SHE SAID + DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME DON'T TALK ANY MORE + I AM SLEEPING I SHALL SLEEP + SHE GOT INTO BED AS SHE SPOKE AND WRAPPED THE CLOTHES TIGHTLY ROUND HER + CAN'T YOU MANAGE WITH A CANDLE JUST FOR ONCE + CERTAINLY SAID SERIOUSLY + SHE TURNED OFF THE LIGHT AND LET A CANDLE WHICH SHE PUT BEHIND HER SCREEN THEN PREPARED TO GET AND BEARD + ANNIE'S MANNER WAS VERY MYSTERIOUS + AND HE DID NOT MEAN TO CONFINE IN ANY ONE THAT NIGHT AND THE KINDEST THING WAS TO LEAVE HER ALONE + TIRED OUT LISLIE HERSELF DROPPED ASLEEP + ANNIE IS THAT YOU SHE CALLED OUT + THERE WAS NO REPLY BUT THE SOUND OF HURRYING STEPS CAME QUICKER AND QUICKER NOW AND THEN THEY INTERRUPTED BY A GROAN + OH THIS WILL KILL ME MY HEART WILL BREAK THIS WILL KILL ME + THE GIRL OF SAINT ELIZABETH + IMMEDIATELY AFTER DINNER THAT EVENING LESLIE RAN UP TO HER ROOM TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR HER VISIT TO EAST HALL + I'M NOT COMING SAID ANNIE + EVERY STUDENT IS TO BE AN EAST HALL AT HALF PAST EIGHT + IT DOESN'T MATTER REPLIED ANNIE WHETHER IT IS AN ORDER OR NOT I'M NOT COMING SAY NOTHING ABOUT ME PLEASE + IT BURNED AS IF WITH FEVER + YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A CHILD IT IS FOR ME TO HAVE YOU HERE + I WON'T BE ANNOYED GO + I KNOW YOU DON'T QUITE MEAN WHAT YOU SAY SAID LESLIE BUT OF COURSE IF YOU REALLY WISH ME + YOU FIT ME BEYOND ENDURANCE + WRAPPING A PRETTY BLUE SHAWL AROUND HER HIDDEN SHOULDERS SHE TURNED TO ANNIE + LESLIE WAS JUST CLOSING THE DOOR BEHIND HER WHEN ANNIE CALLED AFTER HER + I TOOK IT ALL SAID LESLIE TOOK IT OUT + HAVE THE GOODNESS TO FIND AND PUT HER BACK + BUT DON'T LOCK ME OUT PLEASE ANY + OH I WON'T LOCK YOU OUT SHE SAID BUT I MUST HAVE THE KEY + JANE HARRIET'S VOICE WAS HEARD IN THE PASSAGE + AS SHE WALKED DOWN THE CORRIDOR SHE HEARD AT BEING TURNED TO THE LOCK + WHAT CAN THIS MEAN SHE SAID TO HERSELF + OH I WON'T PRESS YOU REPLIED JANE + OH I SHALL NEVER DO THAT REPLIED LESLIE + YOU SEE ALL THE GIRLS EXCEPT EILEEN AND MARJORIE LAUGH AT HER AND THAT SEEMS TO ME TO MAKE HER WORSE + SOME DAY JANE YOU MUST SEE HER + IF YOU ARE IN LONDON DURING THE SUMMER YOU MUST COME AND PASS A VISIT WILL YOU + THAT IS IF YOU CARE TO COMPILE IN ME + I BELIEVE POOR ANNIE IS DREADFULLY UNHAPPY + THAT'S JUST IT JANE THAT IS WHAT BRIGHTENS BE SHE REFUSES TO COME + REFUSES TO COME SHE CRIED + SHE'LL GET IN HER AWFUL SCRAPE + I AM SURE SHE IS ILL SHE LOOKS TOO HARD AND SHE AND BUT THERE I DON'T KNOW THAT I OUGHT TO SAY ANY MORE + I'LL WAIT FOR YOU HERE SAID LIZZIE + DO COME ANY DOONE + SCARCELY LIKELY REPLIED LESLIE SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS DETERMINED NOT TO COME TO THE MEETING + BUT MARJORIE AND EADLEEN HAD ALREADY DEPARTED AND LESLIE AND JANE FOUND THEMSELVES AMONG THE LAST JUNES TO ARRIVE AT THE GREAT EAST HALL + MISS LAUDOE WAS STANDING WITH THE OTHER TUTORS AND PRINCIPLES OF THE DIFFERENT HALLS ARE ARRANGED PLATFORM + THEN A RAW CALL WAS GONE THROUGH BY ONE OF THE TUTORS THE ONLY ABSENTEE WAS ANY COLCHESTER + THE PHYSICAL PART OF THE OR TRAINING AND ALSO THE MENTAL PART ARE ABUNDANTLY SUPPLIED IN THIS GREAT HOUSE OF LEARNING SHE CONTINUED BY THIS SPIRITUAL PART IT SEEMS TO ME OUGHT NOW TO BE STRENGTHENED + HAIR HERE AND ONCE AGAIN HARE + SHE UTTERED A STREAM REMARK STANDING UP + MARJORIE AND I LEANED WITH CLOSE TO HER + I WILL TALK WITH YOU BELLOXSON PRESENTLY SHE SAID + THE NAMES OF THE PROPOSED MEMBERS ARE TO BE SUBMITTED TO ME BEFORE THIS DAY WEEK + AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER + YOU ASK SHE CONTINUED + GOD ASKS TO EACH OF YOU YOU ARE + THE WORLD SAYS NO I AM NOT BUT GOD SAYS IF YOU ARE + ALL MEN ARE YOUR BROTHERS + FOR ALL LUCIN ALL WHO SUFFER YOU ARE TO EXERT AN EXTENT RESPONSIBLE + AFTER THE ADDRESS THE GIRLS THEMSELVES WERE ENCOURAGED TO SPEAK AND A VERY ANIMATED DISCUSSION FOLLOWED + IT WAS PASSED TEN O'CLOCK WHEN SHE LEFT THE HALL + JUST AS SHE WAS DOING SO MISS FRERE CAME UP + ANY COLCHIS TO SHER ROOM FELLER IS SHE NOT SHE SAID + I SEE BY YOUR FACE MISS GILROY THAT YOU ARE DISTRESSED ABOUT SOMETHING I KEEPING ANYTHING BACK + I AM AFRAID I AM REPLIED LIZZIE DISTRESSED NOW IN HER TONE + I MUST SEE HER MYSELF EARLY IN THE MORNING AND I AM QUITE SURE THAT NOTHING WILL SATISFY MISS LAURADALE EXCEPT A VERY AMPLE APOLOGY AND A FULL EXPLANATION OF THE REASON WHY SHE ABSENTED HERSELF + EXCUSES MAKE NO DIFFERENCE + THE GIRL WHO BREAKS THE ROLLS HALFS TO BE PUNISHED + I WILL TELL HER + THE COMMONS ALSO VOTED THAT THE NEW CREATED PEERS OUGHT TO HAVE NO VOICE IN THIS TRIAL BECAUSE THE ACCUSATION BEING AGREED TO WHILE THEY WERE COMMONERS THEIR CONSENT TO IT WAS IMPLIED WITH THAT OF ALL THE COMMONS OF ENGLAND + IN THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND HIS ADMINISTRATION HAD BEEN EQUALLY PRIMITIVE OF HIS MASTER'S INTEREST AND THAT OF THE SUBJECTS COMMITTED TO HIS CARE + THE CASE OF LORD MONTGORAS OF ALL THOSE WHICH WERE COLLECTED WITH SO MUCH INDUSTRY IS A MOST FLAGRANT AND THE LEAST EXCUSABLE + THE COURT WHICH CONSISTED OF THE CHEAP OFFICIALS OF THE ARMY FOUND THE CRIME TO BE CAPITAL AND CONDEMNED THAT NOBLEMAN TO LOSE HIS HEAD + WE ARE THE CHOKEN BY WHICH I SHALL DISCOVER IT + IT IS NOW A FULL TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS SINCE TREASONS WERE DEFINED AND SO LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE ANY MAN WAS TOUCHED TO THIS EXTENT UPON THIS CRIME BEFORE MYSELF + LET US NOT TO OUR UNDISTROPTION AWAKE THOSE SLEEPING LIONS BY RATTLING UP A COMPANY OF OLD RECORDS WHICH ARE BLAMED FOR SO MANY AGES BY THE WALL FORGOTTEN AND NEGLECTED + HOW IT THESE GENTLEMEN AT THE BAR SAY THEY SPEAK FOR THE CORNWEALTH AND THEY BELIEVE SO YET UNDER FAVOUR IT IS I WHO IN THIS PARTICULAR SPEAK FOR THE CORNWEALTH + MY LORDS I HAVE NOW TROUBLED YOUR LORDSHIP'S A GREAT DEAL LONGER THAN I SHOULD HAVE DONE + YOUNG VANE FALLING UPON THIS PAPER OF NOTES DEEMED THE MATTER OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE AND IMMEDIATELY COMMUNICATED IT TO PUM WHO NOW PRODUCED THE PAPER BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS + THE KING PROPOSES THIS DIFFICULTY BUT HOW CAN I UNDERTAKE A FANCIFUL IF I HAVE NO MORE MONEY + YOUR MAJESTY HAVING TRIED THE AFFECTIONS OF YOUR PEOPLE YOU ABSOLVED AND LOOSE FROM ALL RULES OR GOVERNMENT AND MAY DO WHAT POWER WILL ADMIT + OLD MISTER DINSMORE HAD ACCEPTED A PRESSING INVITATION FROM HIS GRANDDAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND TO JOIN THE PARTY AND WITH THE ADDITION OF SERVANTS IT WAS A LARGE ONE + AS THEY WERE IN NO HASTE AND THE CONFINEMENT OF A RAILROAD CAR WOULD BE VERY IRKSOME TO THE YOUNGER CHILDREN IT HAD BEEN DECIDED TO MAKE THE JOURNEY BY WATER + THERE WERE NO SAD LEAVE TAKINGS TO MAR THEIR PLEASURE THE CHILDREN WERE IN WILD SPIRITS AND ALL SEEMED CHEERFUL AND HAPPY AS THEY SAT OR STOOD UPON THE DECK WATCHING THE RECEDING SHORE AS THE VESSEL STEAMED OUT OF THE HARBOR + AT LENGTH THE LAND HAD QUITE DISAPPEARED NOTHING COULD BE SEEN BUT THE SKY OVERHEAD AND A VAST EXPANSE OF WATER ALL ROUND AND THE PASSENGERS FOUND LEISURE TO TURN THEIR ATTENTION UPON EACH OTHER + THERE ARE SOME NICE LOOKING PEOPLE ON BOARD REMARKED MISTER TRAVILLA IN AN UNDERTONE TO HIS WIFE + BESIDES OURSELVES ADDED COUSIN RONALD LAUGHING + YES SHE ANSWERED THAT LITTLE GROUP YONDER A YOUNG MINISTER AND HIS WIFE AND CHILD I SUPPOSE + AND WHAT A DEAR LITTLE FELLOW HE IS JUST ABOUT THE AGE OF OUR HERALD I SHOULD JUDGE + DO YOU SON WAS THE SMILING REJOINDER + HE CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE A VERY NICE LITTLE BOY + SUPPOSE YOU AND HE SHAKE HANDS FRANK + I DO INDEED THE PROBABLY COMPARATIVELY ARE AWARE THAT TOBACCO IS THE CAUSE OF THEIR AILMENTS + DOUBTLESS THAT IS THE CASE REMARKED MISTER DINSMORE + WITH ALL MY HEART IF YOU WILL STEP INTO THE GENTLEMAN'S CABIN WHERE THERE IS A LIGHT + HE LED THE WAY THE OTHERS ALL FOLLOWING AND TAKING OUT A SLIP OF PAPER READ FROM IT IN A DISTINCT TONE LOUD ENOUGH TO BE HEARD BY THOSE ALL ABOUT HIM WITHOUT DISTURBING THE OTHER PASSENGERS + ONE DROP OF NICOTINE EXTRACTED TOBACCO PLACED ON THE TONGUE OF THE DOG WILL KILL HIM IN A MINUTE UM THE HUNDREDTH PART OF THE GRAIN PRICKED UNDER THE SKIN OF A MAN'S ARM WILL PRODUCE NAUSEA AND FAINTING + THE HALF DOZEN CIGARS WHICH MOST SMOKERS USE A DAY CONTAIN SIX OR SEVEN GRAINS ENOUGH IF CONCENTRATED AND ABSORBED TO KILL THREE MEN AND A POUND OR TOBACCO ACCORDING TO ITS QUALITY CONTAINS FROM ONE QUARTER TO ONE AND A QUARTER OUNCES + IS IT STRANGE THEN THAT SMOKERS AND CHORES HAVE A THOUSAND AILMENTS + THAT THE FRENCH POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE HAD TO PROHIBIT ITS USE ON ACCOUNT OF ITS EFFECTS UPON THE MIND + NOTICE THE MULTITUDE OF SUDDEN DEBTS AND SEE HOW MANY ARE SMOKERS AND CHEWERS + IN A SMALL COUNTRY TOWN SEVEN OF THESE MYSTERIOUS PROVIDENCES OCCURRED WITH THE CIRCUIT OF A MILE ALL DIRECTLY TRACEABLE TO TOBACCO AND ANY PHYSICIAN ON A FEW MOMENTS REFLECTION CAN MATCH THIS FACT BY HIS OWN OBSERVATION + AND THEN SUCH POWERFUL ASSETS PRODUCE INTENSE IRRITATION AND THIRST THIRST WHICH WATER DOES NOT QUENCH + HENCE A RESORT TO CIDER AND BEER + NO SIR WHAT KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS IN YOU WHICH YE HAVE OF GOD AND YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN + FOR YOU ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT WHICH ARE GODS + WE CERTAINLY HAVE NO RIGHT TO INJURE OUR BODIES EITHER BY NEGLECT OR SELF INDULGENCE + AND AGAIN I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE BRETHREN BY THE MERCIES OF GOD THAT YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE WHOLLY ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE + IT MUST REQUIRE A GOOD DEAL OF RESOLUTION FOR ONE WHO HAS BECOME FOND OF THE INDULGENCE TO GIVE IT UP REMARKED MISTER DALY + NO DOUBT NO DOUBT RETURNED MISTER LILBURN BUT IF THY RIGHT EYE HAVE BEEN THEE PLUCK IT OUT AND CAST IT FROM THEE FOR IT IS PROFITABLE FOR THEE THAT ONE OF THY MEMBERS SHOULD PERISH AND NOT THAT THY WHOLE BODY SHOULD BE CAST INTO HOW + THERE WAS A PAUSE BROKEN BY YOUNG HORSE WHO HAD BEEN WATCHING A GROUP OF MEN GATHERED ABOUT A TABLE AT THE FURTHER END OF THE ROOM + THEY ARE GAMBLING YONDER AND I'M AFRAID THAT YOUNG FELLOW IS BEING BADLY FLEECED BY THE MIDDLE AGED MAN OPPOSITE + THE EYES OF THE WHOLE PARTY WERE AT ONCE TURNS IN THAT DIRECTION + NO SIR HE IS NOT HERE + AT THE DOOR WAS SLAMMED VIOLENTLY TOO + NOW THE VOICE CAME FROM THE SKYLIGHT OVERHEAD APPARENTLY AND WITH A FIERCE IMPRECATION THE EYEWRIGHT GAMESTER RUSHED UPON DECK AND RAN HITHER AND THITHER IN SEARCH OF HIS TORMENTOR + HIS VICTIM WHO HAD BEEN LOOKING ON DURING THE LITTLE SCENE AND LISTENING TO THE MYSTERIOUS VOICE IN SILENT WIDE EYED WONDER AND FEAR NOW ROSE HASTILY HIS FACE DEATHLY PALE WITH TREMBLING HANDS GATHERED AT THE MONEY HE HAD STAKED AND HURRYING TO HIS STATEROOM LOCKED HIMSELF HIM + WHAT DOES IT MEAN CRIED ONE + A VIRTUALLY QUESTIONED BOARD OF COURSE RETURNED ANOTHER LET'S FOLLOW AND SEE THE FUN + I WONDER WHICH OF US IT IS REMARKED THE FIRST LOOKING HARD AT OUR PARTY I DON'T KNOW BUT COME + THAT FELLOW NICKWORT IS A NOTED BLACK LEG IN RUFFIAN HAD HIS NOSE BROKEN IN A FIGHT AND A SENSITIVE ON THE SUBJECT WAS CHEATING OF COURSE + WHO ASKED THE MATE I'VE SEEN NONE UP HERE THOUGH THERE ARE SOME IN THE STEERAGE + THEY HEARD HIM IN SILENCE WITH A COOL PHLEGMATIC INDIFFERENCE MOST EXASPERATING TO ONE IN HIS PRESENT MOOD + A MAN OF GIANT SIZE AND HERCULEAN STRENGTH HAD LAID ASIDE HIS PIPE AND SLOWLY RISING THROUGH HIS FEET SEIZED THE SCOUNDREL IN HIS POWERFUL GRASP + LET ME GO YELLED WARD MAKING A DESPERATE EFFORT TO FREE HIS ARMS + I THINK NO I THINKS I DID YOU FROM MESS'M RETURNED HIS CAPTOR NOT RELAXING HIS GRASP IN THE LEAST + THE GERMAN RELEASED HIS PRISONER AND THE LATTER SLUNK AWAY WITH MUTTERED THREATS AND IMPRECATIONS UPON THE HEAD OF HIS TORMENTOR + MISTER LILBURNHAM MISTER DALY EACH AT A DIFFERENT TIME SOUGHT OUT THE YOUNG MAN WORDS INTENDED VICTIM AND TRIED TO INFLUENCE HIM FOR GOOD + YET THERE WAS GAMBLING AGAIN THE SECOND KNIGHT BETWEEN WARD AND SEVERAL OTHERS OF HIS PROFESSION + THEY KEPT IT UP TILL AFTER MIDNIGHT + THEN MISTER LILBURN WAKING FROM HIS FIRST SLEEP IN A STATEROOM NEAR BY THOUGHT HUGH WOULD BREAK IT UP ONCE MORE + AN INTENSE VOICELESS EXCITEMENT POSSESSED THE PLAYERS FOR THE GAME WAS A CLOSE ONE AND THE STAKES WERE VERY HEAVY + THEY BENT EAGERLY OVER THE BOARD EACH WATCHING WITH FEVERISH ANXIETY HIS COMPANION'S MOVEMENTS EACH CASTING NOW AND AGAIN A GLOATING EYE UPON THE HEAP OF GOLD AND GREEN BACKS THAT LAY BETWEEN THEM AND AT TIMES HALF STRETCHING OUT HIS HAND TO CLUTCH IT + A DEEP GROAN STARTLED THEM AND THEY SPRANG TO THEIR FEET PALE AND TREMBLING WITH SUDDEN TERROR EACH HOLDING HIS BREATH AND STRAINING HIS EAR TO CATCH A REPETITION OF THE DREAD SOUND + BUT ALL WAS SILENT AND AFTER A MOMENT OF ANXIOUS WAITING THEY SAT DOWN TO THEIR GAME AGAIN TRYING TO CONCEAL AND SHAKE OFF THEIR FEARS WITH A FORCED UNNATURAL LAUGH + IT CAME FROM UNDER THE TABLE GASPED TOWARD LOOK WHAT'S THERE LOOKED HERSELF + WHAT CAN IT HAVE BEEN THEY ASKED EACH OTHER + OH NONSENSE BUT FOOLS WE ARE + IT WAS THE LAST GAME OF CARDS FOR THAT TRIP + THE CAPTAIN COMING IN SHORTLY AFTER THE SUDDEN FLIGHT OF THE GAMBLERS TOOK CHARGE OF THE MONEY AND THE NEXT DAY RESTORED IT TO THE OWNERS + TO ELSIE'S OBSERVANT EYES IT PRESENTLY BECAME EVIDENT THAT THE DAILIES WERE IN VERY STRAIGHTENED CIRCUMSTANCES + OH HOW KIND HOW VERY KIND MISSUS DALELEY SAID WITH TEARS OF JOY AND GRATITUDE WE HAVE HARDLY KNOWN HOW WE SHOULD MEET THE MOST NECESSARY EXPENSES OF THIS TRIP BUT HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CAST OUR CARE UPON THE LORD ASKING HIM TO PROVIDE + AND HOW WONDERFULLY HE HAS ANSWERED OUR PETITIONS + ELSIE ANSWERED PRESSING HER HAND AFFECTIONATELY AREBEE NOT SISTERS IN CHRIST + YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD BY FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS + HE ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS + WE FEEL MY HUSBAND AND I THAT WE ARE ONLY THE STEWARDS OF HIS BOUNTY AND BECAUSE HE HAS SAID INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN YOU HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME IT IS THE GREATEST PRIVILEGE AND DELIGHT TO DO ANYTHING FOR HIS PEOPLE + WHEN IT WAS THE SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH NIGHT + BUT HE ANSWERED NEEDS MYST THY HALVES THYE NABOES SO NOW CERTAINLY THERE CAME A UP AT THE DOOR AND THE MAID SAID WHO IS AT THE DOOR + THE KNOCKER REPLIED KAMAR DAUGHTERSARIAH THE JEW SAY ME IS ALI OF KARA WITH YOU + REPLIED THE BROKER'S DAUGHTER O THOU DAUGHTER OF A DOG + AND HAVING THUS ISLAMISED SHE ASKED HIM TWO MEN IN THE FAITH OF ALICELAM GAVE MARRIAGE PORTIONS TO WOMEN OR TWO WOMEN OUR MEN + AND SHE THREW DOWN THE JEW'S HEAD BEFORE HIM + NOW THE COURSE OF HER SLAYING HER SIRE WAS AS FOLLOWS + THEN HE SET OUT REJOICING TO RETURN TO THE BARRACK OF FORTY + SO HE ATE AND FELL DOWN SENSELESS FOR THE SWEET MEATS WERE DRUG WITH BANG WHEREUPON THE KAZI BUNDLED HIM INTO THE SACK AND MADE OFF WITH HIM CHARGER AND CHEST AND ALL TO THE BARK OF THE FORTY + PRESENTLY HAS SAN SCHUMANN CAME OUT OF A CLOTH AND SAID TO HIM HOWST THOU GODS AND THE GEAR O'HALI + SO HE TOLD HIM WHAT I'D BEFALLEN HIM AND ADDED IF I KNOW WHITHER THE RASCAL IS GONE AND WHERE TO FIND THE KNAVE I WOULD PAY HIM OUT + KNOWEST THOU WHITHER HE WENT + ANSWERED HAS SON I KNOW WHERE HE IS AND OPENING THE DOOR OF THE CLOSET SHOWED HIM THE SWEETMEAT CELLAR WITHIN DRUGGED AND SENSELESS + SO I WENT ROUND ABOUT THE HIGHWAYS OF THE CITY TILL I MET A SWEETMEAT CELLAR AND BUYING HIS CLOTHES AND STOCKING TRADE AND GEAR FOR TEN IN OURS DID WHAT WAS DONE + QUOTH A RASHID WHOSE HEAD IS THIS + SO I RELATED TO HIM ALL THAT PASSED FROM FIRST LAST AND THE CALIPH SAID I HAD NOT THOUGHT THAT THOU WOULDST KILL HIM FOR THAT HE WAS A SORCERER + HE REPLIED FORTY LADS BUT THEY ARE IN CAIRO + AND LAURA HAD HER OWN PET PLANTS + SHE MEANT TO BE SCRUPULOUSLY CONSCIENTIOUS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF ITALIANS AND SOMETIMES AT CHURCH ON A SUNDAY WHEN THE SAME WAS PARTICULARLY AWAKENING SHE MENTALLY DEBATED A SERIOUS QUESTION AS TO WHETHER NEW BONNETS AND A PAIR OF JUBILANTS GLOVES DAILY WERE NOT SINFUL BUT I THINK SHE DECIDED THAT THE NEW BONNETS AND GLOVES WERE ON THE WHOLE APARTMENTABLE WEAKNESS AS BEING GOOD FOR TRADE + ONE MORNING LAURA TOLD HER HUSBAND WITH A GAY LAUGH THAT SHE WAS GOING TO VICTIMISE HIM BUT HE WAS TO PROMISE TO BE PATIENT AND BEAR WITH HER FOR ONCE IN A WAY + I WANT TO SEE ALL THE PICTURES THE MORE THAN PICTURES ESPECIALLY + I REMEMBER ALL THE REUBEN SAYS AT THE LOUVRE FOR I SAW THEM THREE YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS STAYING IN PARIS WITH GRANDPAPA + SHE RETURNED IN A LITTLE MORE THAN TEN MINUTES IN THE FRESHEST TOILETTE ALL PALE SHIMMERING BLUE LIKE THE SPRING SKY WITH PUR GRAY GLOVES AND BOOTS AND PARASOL AND A BONNET THAT SEEMED MADE OF AZURE BUTTERFLIES + HE WAS DRAWING TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THIS DELIGHTFUL HONEYMOON TORE AND IT WAS A BRIGHT SUNSHINY MORNING EARLY IN FEBRUARY BUT FEBRUARY IN PARIS IS SOMETIMES BETTER THAN APRIL IN LONDON + BUT SHE FIXED UPON A PICTURE WHICH SHE SAID SHE PREFERRED TO ANYTHING SHE HAD SEEN IN THE GALLERY + PHILIP JOSCELYN WAS EXAMINING SOME PICTURES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM WHEN HIS WIFE MADE THE DISCOVERY + HOW I WISH SHE COULD GET ME A COPY OF THAT PICTURE OF PHILIP LAURA SAID ENTREATINGLY + I SHOULD SO LIKE ONE TO HANG IN MY MORNING ROOM A JOSTLING STRUCK + SHE TURNED TO THE FRENCH AUNT THIS PRESENTLY AND ASKED THEM WHERE THE ELDER MISTER KIRSTEN LEFT AND IF THERE WAS ANY POSSIBILITY OF SEEING HIM + THEY HAVE SAID THAT HE IS EVEN A LITTLE LIMBBECILL THAT HE DOES NOT REMEMBER HIMSELF OF THE MOST COMMON EVENTS OF HIS LIFE + BUT THERE ARE SOME OTHERS WHO SAY THAT HIS MEMORY HAS NOT ALTOGETHER FAILED AND THAT HE IS STILL ENOUGH HARSHLY CRITICAL TOWARD THE WORKS OF OTHERS + I DON'T THINK YOU WILL HAVE ANY DIFFICULTY IN FINDING THE HOUSE + YOU WILL BE DOING MISS SUCH A FAVOUR PHILIP IF YOU SAY YES + HIS FOLLOWERS RUSHED FORWARD TO WHERE HE LAY AND THEIR UNITED FORCE COMPELLING THE BLACK NIGHT TO PAUSE THEY DRAGGED THE WOUNDED LEADER WITHIN THE WALLS + IT WAS ON THEIR JOURNEY TO THAT TOWN THAT THEY WERE OVERTAKEN ON THE ROAD BY CEDRIC AND HIS PARTY IN WHOSE COMPANY THEY WERE AFTERWARDS CARRIED CAPTIVE TO THE CASTLE OF TORCOSTONE + AS HE LAY UPON HIS BED WRAPPED WITH PAIN AND MENTAL AGONY AND FILLED WITH A FEAR OF RAPIDLY APPROACHING DEATH HE HEARD A VOICE ADDRESS HIM + WHAT ART THOU HE EXCLAIMED IN CHERA + LEAVE ME AND SEEK THE SAXON WHICH AUREKA WHO WAS MY TEMPTRESS LET HER AS WELL AS I TASTE THE TORTURES WHICH ANTICIPATE HELL + EXCLAIMED THE NORMAN HOW + REMEMBERST THOU THE MAGAZINE OF FUEL THAT IS STOLE BENEATH THESE APARTMENTS WOMAN + THEY ARE FAST RISING AT LEAST SAID NOURKA AND A SIGNAL SHALL SOON WAVE TO OWN THE BESIEGES TO PRESS HARD UPON THOSE WHO WOULD EXTINGUISH THEM + MEANWHILE THE BLACK NIGHT HAD LED HIS FORCES AGAIN TO THE ATTACK AND SO VIGOROUS WAS THEIR ASSAULT THAT BEFORE LONG THE GATE OF THE CASTLE ALONE SEPARATED THEM FROM THOSE WITHIN + THE DEFENDERS FINDING THE CASTLE TO BE ON FIRE NOW DETERMINED TO SELL THEIR LIVES AS DEARLY AS THEY COULD AND HEADED BY THE BRACY THEY THREW OPEN THE GATE AND WERE AT ONCE INVOLVED IN A TERRIFIC CONFLICT WITH THOSE OUTSIDE + THE BLACK KNIGHT WITH PORTENTOUS STRENGTH FORCE HIS WAY INWARD IN DESPITE OF THE BRACEY AND HIS FOLLOWERS + TWO OF THE FOREMOST INSTANTLY FELL AND THE REST GAVE WAY NOTWITHSTANDING ALL THE LEADER'S EFFORTS TO STOP THEM + THE BLACK KNIGHT WAS SOON ENGAGED IN DESPERATE COMBAT WITH THE NORMAN CHIEF AND THE VAULTED ROOF OF THE HALL RUNG WITH THE FURIOUS BLOWS + AT LENGTH DE BRACY FELL + TELL ME THY NAME O WORK THY PLEASURE ON ME + YET FIRST LET ME SAY SAID DE BRACY WHAT IT IMPORTS THEE TO KNOW + EXCLAIMED THE BLACK KNIGHT PRISONER AND PARISH + THE LIFE OF EVERY MAN IN THE CASTLE SHALL ANSWER IT IF A HAIR OF HIS HEAD BE SINGED SHOW ME HIS CHAMBER + RAISING THE WOUNDED MAN WITH THESE THE BLACK KNIGHT RUSHED WITH THEM TO THE POST AND GATE AND HAVING THERE DELIVERED HIS BURDEN TO THE CARE OF TWO YEOMAN HE AGAIN ENTERED THE CASTLE TO ASSIST IN THE RESCUE OF THAT A PRISONERS + BUT IN OTHER PARTS THE BESIEGERS PURSUED THE DEFENDERS OF THE CASTLE FROM CHAMBER TO CHAMBER AND SATIATED IN THE BLOOD THE VENGEANCE WHICH HAD LONG ANIMATED THEM AGAINST THE SOLDIERS OF THE TYRANT FROM THE BOUV + AS THE FIRE COMMENCED TO SPREAD RAPIDLY THROUGH ALL PARTS OF THE CASTLE ULRICA APPEARED ON ONE OF THE TURRETS + BEFORE LONG THE TOWERING FLAMES HAD SURMOUNTED EVERY OBSTRUCTION AND ROSE TO THE EVENING SKIES WHEN HUGE AND BURNING BEACON SEEN FAR AND WIDE THROUGH THE ADJACENT COUNTRY TOWER AFTER TOWER CRASHED DOWN WITH BLAZING ROOF AND RAFTER + AT LENGTH WITH A TERRIFIC CRASH THE WHOLE TART GAVE WAY AND SHE PERISHED IN FLAMES WHICH HAD CONSUMED HER TYRANT + WHEN THE OUTLAWS HAD DIVIDED THE SPALLS WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN FROM THE CASTLE OF TOGGLESTONE CEDRIC PREPARED TO TAKE HIS DEPARTURE + HE LEFT THE GALLANT BAND OF FORESTERS SORROWING DEEPLY FOR HIS LOST FRIEND THE LORD OF CONNINGSBURG AND HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS HAD SCARCE DEPARTED WHEN A PROCESSION MOVED SLOWLY FROM UNDER THE GREENWOOD BRANCHES IN THE DIRECTION WHICH HE HAD TAKEN IN THE CENTER OF WHICH WAS THE CAR IN WHICH THE BODY OF HUDDLESTAIN WAS LAID + DE BRACY BOWED LOW AND IN SILENCE THREW HIMSELF UPON A HORSE AND GALLOPED OFF THROUGH THE WOOD + HERE IS A BUGLE WHICH AN ENGLISH YEOMAN HAS ONCE WORN I PRAY YOU TO KEEP IT AS A MEMORIAL OF YOUR GALLANT BEARING + SO SAYING HE MOUNTED HIS STRONG WAR HORSE AND RODE OFF THROUGH THE FOREST + DURING ALL THIS TIME ISAAC OF YORK SAT MOURNFULLY APART GRIEVING FOR THE LOSS OF HIS DAILY LOVED DAUGHTER REBECCA + AND WITH HIS EPISTLE AND HAPPY OLD MAN SET OUT TO PROCURE HIS DAUGHTER'S LIBERATION + THE TEMPORAR IS FLED SAID THE BRACEY IN ANSWER TO THE PRINCE'S EAGER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOUF YOU WILL NEVER SEE MORE AND HE ADDED IN A LOW AND EMPHATIC TONE RICHARD IS IN ENGLAND I HAVE SEEN HIM AND SPOKEN WITH HIM + HE APPEALED TO THE BRACY TO ASSIST HIM IN HIS PROJECT AND BECAME AT ONCE DEEPLY SUSPICIOUS OF THE KNIGHT'S LOYALTY TOWARDS HIM WHEN HE DECLINED TO LIFT HAND AGAINST THE MAN WHO HAD SPARED HIS OWN LIFE + BEFORE REACHING HIS DESTINATION HE WAS TOLD THAT LUCAS THE BOURMANOIS THE GRAND MASTER OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLARS WAS THEN ON VISIT TO THEIR PRECEPTORY + HE HAD NOT UNTIL THEN BEEN INFORMED OF THE PRESENCE OF THE JEWISH MAIDEN IN THE ABODE OF THE TEMPLARS AND GREAT WAS HIS FURY AND INDIGNATION OR LEARNING THAT SHE WAS AMONGST THEM + POOR ISAAC WAS HURRIED OFF ACCORDINGLY AND EXPELLED FROM THE PRECEPTORY ALL HIS ENTREATIES AND EVEN HIS OFFICE UNHEARD AND DISREGARDED + THE ASSURANCE THAT SHE POSSESSED SOME FRIEND IN HIS SOULFUL ASSEMBLY GAVE A COURAGE TO LOOK ROUND AND TO MARK INTO WHOSE PRESENCE SHE HAD BEEN CONDUCTED + SHE GAZED ACCORDINGLY UPON A SCENE WHICH MIGHT WELL HAVE STRUCK TERROR INTO A BOLDER HEART THAN HERS + AT HIS FEET WAS PLACED AT TABLE OCCUPIED BY TWO SCRIBES WHOSE DUTY WAS TO RECORD THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE DAY + THE PRECEPTORS OF WHOM THERE WERE FOUR PRESENT OCCUPIED SEATS BEHIND THE SUPERIORS AND BEHIND THEM STOOD THE ASQUIRES OF THE ORDER ROBED 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