diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170138/170138_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170138/170138_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a4a0d417363538a9bd4cfb69a5f493f6a1bc895 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170138/170138_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ON THE NIGHT OF HIS ARRIVAL IN LONDON ALEXANDER WENT IMMEDIATELY TO THE HOTEL ON THE EMBANKMENT AT WHICH HE ALWAYS STOPPED AND IN THE LOBBY HE WAS ACCOSTED BY AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE MAURICE MAINHALL WHO FELL UPON HIM WITH EFFUSIVE CORDIALITY AND INDICATED A WILLINGNESS TO DINE WITH HIM. BARTLEY NEVER DINED ALONE IF HE COULD HELP IT AND MAINHALL WAS A GOOD GOSSIP WHO ALWAYS KNEW WHAT HAD BEEN GOING ON IN TOWN ESPECIALLY HE KNEW EVERYTHING THAT WAS NOT PRINTED IN THE NEWSPAPERS. THE NEPHEW OF ONE OF THE STANDARD VICTORIAN NOVELISTS MAINHALL BOBBED ABOUT AMONG THE VARIOUS LITERARY CLIQUES OF LONDON AND ITS OUTLYING SUBURBS CAREFUL TO LOSE TOUCH WITH NONE OF THEM. HE HAD WRITTEN A NUMBER OF BOOKS HIMSELF AMONG THEM A HISTORY OF DANCING A HISTORY OF COSTUME A KEY TO SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS A STUDY OF THE POETRY OF ERNEST DOWSON ET CETERA. ALTHOUGH MAINHALL'S ENTHUSIASM WAS OFTEN TIRESOME AND ALTHOUGH HE WAS OFTEN UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN FACTS AND VIVID FIGMENTS OF HIS IMAGINATION HIS IMPERTURBABLE GOOD NATURE OVERCAME EVEN THE PEOPLE WHOM HE BORED MOST SO THAT THEY ENDED BY BECOMING IN A RELUCTANT MANNER HIS FRIENDS. HE SPOKE WITH AN EXTREME OXFORD ACCENT AND WHEN HE WAS TALKING WELL HIS FACE SOMETIMES WORE THE RAPT EXPRESSION OF A VERY EMOTIONAL MAN LISTENING TO MUSIC. MAINHALL LIKED ALEXANDER BECAUSE HE WAS AN ENGINEER. HE HAD PRECONCEIVED IDEAS ABOUT EVERYTHING AND HIS IDEA ABOUT AMERICANS WAS THAT THEY SHOULD BE ENGINEERS OR MECHANICS. HE HATED THEM WHEN THEY PRESUMED TO BE ANYTHING ELSE. WHILE THEY SAT AT DINNER MAINHALL ACQUAINTED BARTLEY WITH THE FORTUNES OF HIS OLD FRIENDS IN LONDON AND AS THEY LEFT THE TABLE HE PROPOSED THAT THEY SHOULD GO TO SEE HUGH MAC CONNELL'S NEW COMEDY BOG LIGHTS. IT'S REALLY QUITE THE BEST THING MAC CONNELL'S DONE HE EXPLAINED AS THEY GOT INTO A HANSOM. IT'S TREMENDOUSLY WELL PUT ON TOO. FLORENCE MERRILL AND CYRIL HENDERSON. BUT HILDA BURGOYNE'S THE HIT OF THE PIECE. HUGH'S WRITTEN A DELIGHTFUL PART FOR HER AND SHE'S QUITE INEXPRESSIBLE. I HAPPEN TO HAVE MAC CONNELL'S BOX FOR TONIGHT OR THERE'D BE NO CHANCE OF OUR GETTING PLACES. THERE'S EVERYTHING IN SEEING HILDA WHILE SHE'S FRESH IN A PART. SHE'S APT TO GROW A BIT STALE AFTER A TIME THE ONES WHO HAVE ANY IMAGINATION DO. HILDA BURGOYNE. ALEXANDER EXCLAIMED MILDLY. WHY I HAVEN'T HEARD OF HER FOR YEARS. MAINHALL LAUGHED. THEN YOU CAN'T HAVE HEARD MUCH AT ALL MY DEAR ALEXANDER. IT'S ONLY LATELY SINCE MAC CONNELL AND HIS SET HAVE GOT HOLD OF HER THAT SHE'S COME UP. MYSELF I ALWAYS KNEW SHE HAD IT IN HER. IF WE HAD ONE REAL CRITIC IN LONDON BUT WHAT CAN ONE EXPECT. DO YOU KNOW ALEXANDER MAINHALL LOOKED WITH PERPLEXITY UP INTO THE TOP OF THE HANSOM AND RUBBED HIS PINK CHEEK WITH HIS GLOVED FINGER DO YOU KNOW I SOMETIMES THINK OF TAKING TO CRITICISM SERIOUSLY MYSELF. IN A WAY IT WOULD BE A SACRIFICE BUT DEAR ME WE DO NEED SOME ONE. JUST THEN THEY DROVE UP TO THE DUKE OF YORK'S SO ALEXANDER DID NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT FOLLOWED MAINHALL INTO THE THEATRE. WHEN THEY ENTERED THE STAGE BOX ON THE LEFT THE FIRST ACT WAS WELL UNDER WAY THE SCENE BEING THE INTERIOR OF A CABIN IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. AS THEY SAT DOWN A BURST OF APPLAUSE DREW ALEXANDER'S ATTENTION TO THE STAGE. MISS BURGOYNE AND HER DONKEY WERE THRUSTING THEIR HEADS IN AT THE HALF DOOR. AFTER ALL HE REFLECTED THERE'S SMALL PROBABILITY OF HER RECOGNIZING ME. SHE DOUBTLESS HASN'T THOUGHT OF ME FOR YEARS. HE FELT THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE HOUSE AT ONCE AND IN A FEW MOMENTS HE WAS CAUGHT UP BY THE CURRENT OF MAC CONNELL'S IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170138/170138_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170138/170138_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b7d228b8d43a048bc4abe80f2fb3fd14c58f292c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170138/170138_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE AUDIENCE HAD COME FOREWARNED EVIDENTLY AND WHENEVER THE RAGGED SLIP OF A DONKEY GIRL RAN UPON THE STAGE THERE WAS A DEEP MURMUR OF APPROBATION EVERY ONE SMILED AND GLOWED AND MAINHALL HITCHED HIS HEAVY CHAIR A LITTLE NEARER THE BRASS RAILING. YOU SEE HE MURMURED IN ALEXANDER'S EAR AS THE CURTAIN FELL ON THE FIRST ACT ONE ALMOST NEVER SEES A PART LIKE THAT DONE WITHOUT SMARTNESS OR MAWKISHNESS. OF COURSE HILDA IS IRISH THE BURGOYNES HAVE BEEN STAGE PEOPLE FOR GENERATIONS AND SHE HAS THE IRISH VOICE. IT'S DELIGHTFUL TO HEAR IT IN A LONDON THEATRE. THAT LAUGH NOW WHEN SHE DOUBLES OVER AT THE HIPS WHO EVER HEARD IT OUT OF GALWAY SHE SAVES HER HAND TOO. SHE'S AT HER BEST IN THE SECOND ACT. SHE'S REALLY MAC CONNELL'S POETIC MOTIF YOU SEE MAKES THE WHOLE THING A FAIRY TALE. ALEXANDER ANNOYED BY MAINHALL'S SIGHS AND EXCLAMATIONS WATCHED HER WITH KEEN HALF SKEPTICAL INTEREST. AS MAINHALL HAD SAID SHE WAS THE SECOND ACT THE PLOT AND FEELING ALIKE DEPENDED UPON HER LIGHTNESS OF FOOT HER LIGHTNESS OF TOUCH UPON THE SHREWDNESS AND DEFT FANCIFULNESS THAT PLAYED ALTERNATELY AND SOMETIMES TOGETHER IN HER MIRTHFUL BROWN EYES. WHEN SHE BEGAN TO DANCE BY WAY OF SHOWING THE GOSSOONS WHAT SHE HAD SEEN IN THE FAIRY RINGS AT NIGHT THE HOUSE BROKE INTO A PROLONGED UPROAR. AFTER HER DANCE SHE WITHDREW FROM THE DIALOGUE AND RETREATED TO THE DITCH WALL BACK OF PHILLY'S BURROW WHERE SHE SAT SINGING THE RISING OF THE MOON AND MAKING A WREATH OF PRIMROSES FOR HER DONKEY. WHEN THE ACT WAS OVER ALEXANDER AND MAINHALL STROLLED OUT INTO THE CORRIDOR. THEY MET A GOOD MANY ACQUAINTANCES MAINHALL INDEED KNEW ALMOST EVERY ONE AND HE BABBLED ON INCONTINENTLY SCREWING HIS SMALL HEAD ABOUT OVER HIS HIGH COLLAR. MAC CONNELL LET ME INTRODUCE MISTER BARTLEY ALEXANDER. I SAY IT'S GOING FAMOUSLY TO NIGHT MAC AND WHAT AN AUDIENCE. YOU'LL NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN MARK ME. A MAN WRITES TO THE TOP OF HIS BENT ONLY ONCE. THE PLAYWRIGHT GAVE MAINHALL A CURIOUS LOOK OUT OF HIS DEEP SET FADED EYES AND MADE A WRY FACE. AND YOU'LL NEVER BRING HILDA OUT LIKE THIS AGAIN. DEAR ME MAC THE GIRL COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE BETTER YOU KNOW MAC CONNELL GRUNTED. HE NODDED CURTLY AND MADE FOR THE DOOR DODGING ACQUAINTANCES AS HE WENT. POOR OLD HUGH MAINHALL MURMURED HE'S HIT TERRIBLY HARD. HE'S BEEN WANTING TO MARRY HILDA THESE THREE YEARS AND MORE. SHE DOESN'T TAKE UP WITH ANYBODY YOU KNOW. ONE OF YOUR COUNTRYMEN ALEXANDER BY THE WAY AN AMERICAN STUDENT WHOM SHE MET IN PARIS I BELIEVE. I DARE SAY IT'S QUITE TRUE THAT THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANY ONE ELSE. MAINHALL VOUCHED FOR HER CONSTANCY WITH A LOFTINESS THAT MADE ALEXANDER SMILE EVEN WHILE A KIND OF RAPID EXCITEMENT WAS TINGLING THROUGH HIM. BLINKING UP AT THE LIGHTS MAINHALL ADDED IN HIS LUXURIOUS WORLDLY WAY SHE'S AN ELEGANT LITTLE PERSON AND QUITE CAPABLE OF AN EXTRAVAGANT BIT OF SENTIMENT LIKE THAT. HERE COMES SIR HARRY TOWNE. HE'S ANOTHER WHO'S AWFULLY KEEN ABOUT HER LET ME INTRODUCE YOU. SIR HARRY TOWNE MISTER BARTLEY ALEXANDER THE AMERICAN ENGINEER. SIR HARRY TOWNE BOWED AND SAID THAT HE HAD MET MISTER ALEXANDER AND HIS WIFE IN TOKYO. MAINHALL CUT IN IMPATIENTLY. I SAY SIR HARRY THE LITTLE GIRL'S GOING FAMOUSLY TO NIGHT ISN'T SHE. SIR HARRY WRINKLED HIS BROWS JUDICIOUSLY. THE FACT IS SHE'S FEELING RATHER SEEDY POOR CHILD. A LITTLE ATTACK OF NERVES POSSIBLY. HE BOWED AS THE WARNING BELL RANG AND MAINHALL WHISPERED YOU KNOW LORD WESTMERE OF COURSE THE STOOPED MAN WITH THE LONG GRAY MUSTACHE TALKING TO LADY DOWLE. LADY WESTMERE IS VERY FOND OF HILDA. WHEN THEY REACHED THEIR BOX THE HOUSE WAS DARKENED AND THE ORCHESTRA WAS PLAYING THE CLOAK OF OLD GAUL. IN A MOMENT PEGGY WAS ON THE STAGE AGAIN AND ALEXANDER APPLAUDED VIGOROUSLY WITH THE REST. FOR SOME REASON HE FELT PLEASED AND FLATTERED BY THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE AUDIENCE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170138/170138_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170138/170138_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..41713235172f72121345d045400e7709a9a2f3f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170138/170138_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IN THE HALF LIGHT HE LOOKED ABOUT AT THE STALLS AND BOXES AND SMILED A LITTLE CONSCIOUSLY RECALLING WITH AMUSEMENT SIR HARRY'S JUDICIAL FROWN. HE WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL A KEEN INTEREST IN THE SLENDER BAREFOOT DONKEY GIRL WHO SLIPPED IN AND OUT OF THE PLAY SINGING LIKE SOME ONE WINDING THROUGH A HILLY FIELD. HE LEANED FORWARD AND BEAMED FELICITATIONS AS WARMLY AS MAINHALL HIMSELF WHEN AT THE END OF THE PLAY SHE CAME AGAIN AND AGAIN BEFORE THE CURTAIN PANTING A LITTLE AND FLUSHED HER EYES DANCING AND HER EAGER NERVOUS LITTLE MOUTH TREMULOUS WITH EXCITEMENT. HE HAD NOT THOUGHT OF HILDA BURGOYNE FOR YEARS INDEED HE HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN HER. HE HAD LAST WRITTEN TO HER FROM CANADA AFTER HE FIRST MET WINIFRED TELLING HER THAT EVERYTHING WAS CHANGED WITH HIM THAT HE HAD MET A WOMAN WHOM HE WOULD MARRY IF HE COULD IF HE COULD NOT THEN ALL THE MORE WAS EVERYTHING CHANGED FOR HIM. HILDA HAD NEVER REPLIED TO HIS LETTER. WHEN HE WROTE HER THAT EVERYTHING WAS CHANGED FOR HIM HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH. AFTER HE MET WINIFRED PEMBERTON HE SEEMED TO HIMSELF LIKE A DIFFERENT MAN. YOU SEE ONE CAN'T BE JEALOUS ABOUT THINGS IN GENERAL BUT ABOUT PARTICULAR DEFINITE PERSONAL THINGS HERE SHE HAD THROWN HER HANDS UP TO HIS SHOULDERS WITH A QUICK IMPULSIVE GESTURE OH ABOUT THOSE I SHOULD BE VERY JEALOUS. I SHOULD TORTURE MYSELF I COULDN'T HELP IT. AFTER THAT IT WAS EASY TO FORGET ACTUALLY TO FORGET. HE HAD BEEN IN LONDON MORE OR LESS BUT HE HAD NEVER HAPPENED TO HEAR OF HER. ALL THE SAME HE LIFTED HIS GLASS HERE'S TO YOU LITTLE HILDA. YOU'VE MADE THINGS COME YOUR WAY AND I NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D DO IT. BUT I NEVER THOUGHT SHE'D DO ANYTHING. SHE HADN'T MUCH AMBITION THEN AND SHE WAS TOO FOND OF TRIFLES. SHE MUST CARE ABOUT THE THEATRE A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN SHE USED TO. PERHAPS SHE HAS ME TO THANK FOR SOMETHING AFTER ALL. SOMETIMES A LITTLE JOLT LIKE THAT DOES ONE GOOD. I'M GLAD SHE'S HELD HER OWN SINCE. AFTER ALL WE WERE AWFULLY YOUNG. IT WAS YOUTH AND POVERTY AND PROXIMITY AND EVERYTHING WAS YOUNG AND KINDLY. I SHOULDN'T WONDER IF SHE COULD LAUGH ABOUT IT WITH ME NOW. I SHOULDN'T WONDER BUT THEY'VE PROBABLY SPOILED HER SO THAT SHE'D BE TIRESOME IF ONE MET HER AGAIN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170142/170142_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170142/170142_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca283b0bc7f7a39cd5a0d800f60887deadb6353e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170142/170142_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE LAST TWO DAYS OF THE VOYAGE BARTLEY FOUND ALMOST INTOLERABLE. THE STOP AT QUEENSTOWN THE TEDIOUS PASSAGE UP THE MERSEY WERE THINGS THAT HE NOTED DIMLY THROUGH HIS GROWING IMPATIENCE. HE HAD PLANNED TO STOP IN LIVERPOOL BUT INSTEAD HE TOOK THE BOAT TRAIN FOR LONDON. EMERGING AT EUSTON AT HALF PAST THREE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON ALEXANDER HAD HIS LUGGAGE SENT TO THE SAVOY AND DROVE AT ONCE TO BEDFORD SQUARE. WHEN MARIE MET HIM AT THE DOOR EVEN HER STRONG SENSE OF THE PROPRIETIES COULD NOT RESTRAIN HER SURPRISE AND DELIGHT. SHE BLUSHED AND SMILED AND FUMBLED HIS CARD IN HER CONFUSION BEFORE SHE RAN UPSTAIRS. ALEXANDER PACED UP AND DOWN THE HALLWAY BUTTONING AND UNBUTTONING HIS OVERCOAT UNTIL SHE RETURNED AND TOOK HIM UP TO HILDA'S LIVING ROOM. THE ROOM WAS EMPTY WHEN HE ENTERED. A COAL FIRE WAS CRACKLING IN THE GRATE AND THE LAMPS WERE LIT FOR IT WAS ALREADY BEGINNING TO GROW DARK OUTSIDE. ALEXANDER DID NOT SIT DOWN. HE STOOD HIS GROUND OVER BY THE WINDOWS UNTIL HILDA CAME IN. SHE CALLED HIS NAME ON THE THRESHOLD BUT IN HER SWIFT FLIGHT ACROSS THE ROOM SHE FELT A CHANGE IN HIM AND CAUGHT HERSELF UP SO DEFTLY THAT HE COULD NOT TELL JUST WHEN SHE DID IT. SHE MERELY BRUSHED HIS CHEEK WITH HER LIPS AND PUT A HAND LIGHTLY AND JOYOUSLY ON EITHER SHOULDER. OH WHAT A GRAND THING TO HAPPEN ON A RAW DAY. I FELT IT IN MY BONES WHEN I WOKE THIS MORNING THAT SOMETHING SPLENDID WAS GOING TO TURN UP. I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE SISTER KATE OR COUSIN MIKE WOULD BE HAPPENING ALONG. I NEVER DREAMED IT WOULD BE YOU BARTLEY. BUT WHY DO YOU LET ME CHATTER ON LIKE THIS. COME OVER TO THE FIRE YOU'RE CHILLED THROUGH. WHEN DID YOU COME BARTLEY AND HOW DID IT HAPPEN YOU HAVEN'T SPOKEN A WORD. I GOT IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES AGO. I LANDED AT LIVERPOOL THIS MORNING AND CAME DOWN ON THE BOAT TRAIN. ALEXANDER LEANED FORWARD AND WARMED HIS HANDS BEFORE THE BLAZE. HILDA WATCHED HIM WITH PERPLEXITY. THERE'S SOMETHING TROUBLING YOU BARTLEY WHAT IS IT. BARTLEY BENT LOWER OVER THE FIRE. IT'S THE WHOLE THING THAT TROUBLES ME HILDA YOU AND I. HILDA TOOK A QUICK SOFT BREATH. SHE LOOKED AT HIS HEAVY SHOULDERS AND BIG DETERMINED HEAD THRUST FORWARD LIKE A CATAPULT IN LEASH. WHAT ABOUT US BARTLEY. SHE ASKED IN A THIN VOICE. HE LOCKED AND UNLOCKED HIS HANDS OVER THE GRATE AND SPREAD HIS FINGERS CLOSE TO THE BLUISH FLAME WHILE THE COALS CRACKLED AND THE CLOCK TICKED AND A STREET VENDOR BEGAN TO CALL UNDER THE WINDOW. AT LAST ALEXANDER BROUGHT OUT ONE WORD EVERYTHING. HILDA WAS PALE BY THIS TIME AND HER EYES WERE WIDE WITH FRIGHT. SHE LOOKED ABOUT DESPERATELY FROM BARTLEY TO THE DOOR THEN TO THE WINDOWS AND BACK AGAIN TO BARTLEY. I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU WISH ME TO BARTLEY SHE SAID TREMULOUSLY. I CAN'T STAND SEEING YOU MISERABLE. I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF ANY LONGER HE ANSWERED ROUGHLY. HE ROSE AND PUSHED THE CHAIR BEHIND HIM AND BEGAN TO WALK MISERABLY ABOUT THE ROOM SEEMING TO FIND IT TOO SMALL FOR HIM. HE PULLED UP A WINDOW AS IF THE AIR WERE HEAVY. HILDA WATCHED HIM FROM HER CORNER TREMBLING AND SCARCELY BREATHING DARK SHADOWS GROWING ABOUT HER EYES. IT IT HASN'T ALWAYS MADE YOU MISERABLE HAS IT. HER EYELIDS FELL AND HER LIPS QUIVERED. ALWAYS BUT IT'S WORSE NOW. IT'S UNBEARABLE IT TORTURES ME EVERY MINUTE. BUT WHY NOW SHE ASKED PITEOUSLY WRINGING HER HANDS. HE IGNORED HER QUESTION. I AM NOT A MAN WHO CAN LIVE TWO LIVES HE WENT ON FEVERISHLY EACH LIFE SPOILS THE OTHER. I GET NOTHING BUT MISERY OUT OF EITHER. THE WORLD IS ALL THERE JUST AS IT USED TO BE BUT I CAN'T GET AT IT ANY MORE. THERE IS THIS DECEPTION BETWEEN ME AND EVERYTHING \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170142/170142_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170142/170142_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b137670a950515f60ded1db6d8f9114a4fd71890 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170142/170142_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AT THAT WORD DECEPTION SPOKEN WITH SUCH SELF CONTEMPT THE COLOR FLASHED BACK INTO HILDA'S FACE AS SUDDENLY AS IF SHE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY A WHIPLASH. SHE BIT HER LIP AND LOOKED DOWN AT HER HANDS WHICH WERE CLASPED TIGHTLY IN FRONT OF HER. COULD YOU COULD YOU SIT DOWN AND TALK ABOUT IT QUIETLY BARTLEY AS IF I WERE A FRIEND AND NOT SOME ONE WHO HAD TO BE DEFIED. HE DROPPED BACK HEAVILY INTO HIS CHAIR BY THE FIRE. IT WAS MYSELF I WAS DEFYING HILDA. I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT UNTIL I AM WORN OUT. HE LOOKED AT HER AND HIS HAGGARD FACE SOFTENED. HE PUT OUT HIS HAND TOWARD HER AS HE LOOKED AWAY AGAIN INTO THE FIRE. SHE CREPT ACROSS TO HIM DRAWING HER STOOL AFTER HER. WHEN DID YOU FIRST BEGIN TO FEEL LIKE THIS BARTLEY. AFTER THE VERY FIRST. THE FIRST WAS SORT OF IN PLAY WASN'T IT. HILDA'S FACE QUIVERED BUT SHE WHISPERED YES I THINK IT MUST HAVE BEEN. BUT WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME WHEN YOU WERE HERE IN THE SUMMER. ALEXANDER GROANED. I MEANT TO BUT SOMEHOW I COULDN'T. WE HAD ONLY A FEW DAYS AND YOUR NEW PLAY WAS JUST ON AND YOU WERE SO HAPPY. YES I WAS HAPPY WASN'T I. SHE PRESSED HIS HAND GENTLY IN GRATITUDE WEREN'T YOU HAPPY THEN AT ALL. SHE CLOSED HER EYES AND TOOK A DEEP BREATH AS IF TO DRAW IN AGAIN THE FRAGRANCE OF THOSE DAYS. SOMETHING OF THEIR TROUBLING SWEETNESS CAME BACK TO ALEXANDER TOO. HE MOVED UNEASILY AND HIS CHAIR CREAKED. YES I WAS THEN YOU KNOW BUT AFTERWARD. YES YES SHE HURRIED PULLING HER HAND GENTLY AWAY FROM HIM. PRESENTLY IT STOLE BACK TO HIS COAT SLEEVE. PLEASE TELL ME ONE THING BARTLEY. AT LEAST TELL ME THAT YOU BELIEVE I THOUGHT I WAS MAKING YOU HAPPY. HIS HAND SHUT DOWN QUICKLY OVER THE QUESTIONING FINGERS ON HIS SLEEVES. YES HILDA I KNOW THAT HE SAID SIMPLY. SHE LEANED HER HEAD AGAINST HIS ARM AND SPOKE SOFTLY. YOU SEE MY MISTAKE WAS IN WANTING YOU TO HAVE EVERYTHING. I WANTED YOU TO EAT ALL THE CAKES AND HAVE THEM TOO. I SOMEHOW BELIEVED THAT I COULD TAKE ALL THE BAD CONSEQUENCES FOR YOU. I WANTED YOU ALWAYS TO BE HAPPY AND HANDSOME AND SUCCESSFUL TO HAVE ALL THE THINGS THAT A GREAT MAN OUGHT TO HAVE AND ONCE IN A WAY THE CARELESS HOLIDAYS THAT GREAT MEN ARE NOT PERMITTED. BARTLEY GAVE A BITTER LITTLE LAUGH AND HILDA LOOKED UP AND READ IN THE DEEPENING LINES OF HIS FACE THAT YOUTH AND BARTLEY WOULD NOT MUCH LONGER STRUGGLE TOGETHER. I UNDERSTAND BARTLEY I WAS WRONG. BUT I DIDN'T KNOW YOU'VE ONLY TO TELL ME NOW. WHAT MUST I DO THAT I'VE NOT DONE OR WHAT MUST I NOT DO. SHE LISTENED INTENTLY BUT SHE HEARD NOTHING BUT THE CREAKING OF HIS CHAIR. YOU WANT ME TO SAY IT SHE WHISPERED. YOU WANT TO TELL ME THAT YOU CAN ONLY SEE ME LIKE THIS AS OLD FRIENDS DO OR OUT IN THE WORLD AMONG PEOPLE I CAN DO THAT. I CAN'T HE SAID HEAVILY. HILDA SHIVERED AND SAT STILL. BARTLEY LEANED HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS AND SPOKE THROUGH HIS TEETH. IT'S GOT TO BE A CLEAN BREAK HILDA. I CAN'T SEE YOU AT ALL ANYWHERE. WHAT I MEAN IS THAT I WANT YOU TO PROMISE NEVER TO SEE ME AGAIN NO MATTER HOW OFTEN I COME NO MATTER HOW HARD I BEG. HILDA SPRANG UP LIKE A FLAME. SHE STOOD OVER HIM WITH HER HANDS CLENCHED AT HER SIDE HER BODY RIGID. NO SHE GASPED. IT'S TOO LATE TO ASK THAT DO YOU HEAR ME BARTLEY. IT'S TOO LATE I WON'T PROMISE. IT'S ABOMINABLE OF YOU TO ASK ME. BUT IF YOU COME TO ME I'LL DO AS I SEE FIT. THE SHAMEFULNESS OF YOUR ASKING ME TO DO THAT. ALEXANDER ROSE AND SHOOK HIMSELF ANGRILY. YES I KNOW I'M COWARDLY. I'M AFRAID OF MYSELF I DON'T TRUST MYSELF ANY MORE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170142/170142_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170142/170142_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85abb0a82c41c22120254e2308354d461684b72f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170142/170142_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I CARRIED IT ALL LIGHTLY ENOUGH AT FIRST BUT NOW I DON'T DARE TRIFLE WITH IT IT'S GETTING THE BETTER OF ME. IT'S DIFFERENT NOW I'M GROWING OLDER AND YOU'VE GOT MY YOUNG SELF HERE WITH YOU. IT'S THROUGH HIM THAT I'VE COME TO WISH FOR YOU ALL AND ALL THE TIME. HE TOOK HER ROUGHLY IN HIS ARMS DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. HILDA HELD HER FACE BACK FROM HIM AND BEGAN TO CRY BITTERLY. OH BARTLEY WHAT AM I TO DO. YOU ASK ME TO STAY AWAY FROM YOU BECAUSE YOU WANT ME. AND I'VE GOT NOBODY BUT YOU. I WILL DO ANYTHING YOU SAY BUT THAT. I WILL ASK THE LEAST IMAGINABLE BUT I MUST HAVE SOMETHING. BARTLEY TURNED AWAY AND SANK DOWN IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN. HILDA SAT ON THE ARM OF IT AND PUT HER HANDS LIGHTLY ON HIS SHOULDERS. JUST SOMETHING BARTLEY. I MUST HAVE YOU TO THINK OF THROUGH THE MONTHS AND MONTHS OF LONELINESS. I MUST SEE YOU I MUST KNOW ABOUT YOU. THE SIGHT OF YOU BARTLEY TO SEE YOU LIVING AND HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL CAN I NEVER MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS TO ME. SHE PRESSED HIS SHOULDERS GENTLY. YOU SEE LOVING SOME ONE AS I LOVE YOU MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD DIFFERENT. IF I'D MET YOU LATER IF I HADN'T LOVED YOU SO WELL BUT THAT'S ALL OVER LONG AGO. THEN CAME ALL THOSE YEARS WITHOUT YOU LONELY AND HURT AND DISCOURAGED THOSE DECENT YOUNG FELLOWS AND POOR MAC AND ME NEVER HEEDING HARD AS A STEEL SPRING. AND THEN YOU CAME BACK NOT CARING VERY MUCH BUT IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE. SHE SLID TO THE FLOOR BESIDE HIM AS IF SHE WERE TOO TIRED TO SIT UP ANY LONGER. BARTLEY BENT OVER AND TOOK HER IN HIS ARMS KISSING HER MOUTH AND HER WET TIRED EYES. DON'T CRY DON'T CRY HE WHISPERED. WE'VE TORTURED EACH OTHER ENOUGH FOR TONIGHT. FORGET EVERYTHING EXCEPT THAT I AM HERE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170145/170145_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170145/170145_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4cf423d7736396783d313a8d2e91ace3b82e01b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170145/170145_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ON THE LAST SATURDAY IN APRIL THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED AN ACCOUNT OF THE STRIKE COMPLICATIONS WHICH WERE DELAYING ALEXANDER'S NEW JERSEY BRIDGE AND STATED THAT THE ENGINEER HIMSELF WAS IN TOWN AND AT HIS OFFICE ON WEST TENTH STREET. ON SUNDAY THE DAY AFTER THIS NOTICE APPEARED ALEXANDER WORKED ALL DAY AT HIS TENTH STREET ROOMS. HIS BUSINESS OFTEN CALLED HIM TO NEW YORK AND HE HAD KEPT AN APARTMENT THERE FOR YEARS SUBLETTING IT WHEN HE WENT ABROAD FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME. BESIDES HIS SLEEPING ROOM AND BATH THERE WAS A LARGE ROOM FORMERLY A PAINTER'S STUDIO WHICH HE USED AS A STUDY AND OFFICE. IT WAS FURNISHED WITH THE CAST OFF POSSESSIONS OF HIS BACHELOR DAYS AND WITH ODD THINGS WHICH HE SHELTERED FOR FRIENDS OF HIS WHO FOLLOWED ITINERANT AND MORE OR LESS ARTISTIC CALLINGS. OVER THE FIREPLACE THERE WAS A LARGE OLD FASHIONED GILT MIRROR. ALEXANDER'S BIG WORK TABLE STOOD IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE THREE WINDOWS AND ABOVE THE COUCH HUNG THE ONE PICTURE IN THE ROOM A BIG CANVAS OF CHARMING COLOR AND SPIRIT A STUDY OF THE LUXEMBOURG GARDENS IN EARLY SPRING PAINTED IN HIS YOUTH BY A MAN WHO HAD SINCE BECOME A PORTRAIT PAINTER OF INTERNATIONAL RENOWN. HE HAD DONE IT FOR ALEXANDER WHEN THEY WERE STUDENTS TOGETHER IN PARIS. SUNDAY WAS A COLD RAW DAY AND A FINE RAIN FELL CONTINUOUSLY. WHEN ALEXANDER CAME BACK FROM DINNER HE PUT MORE WOOD ON HIS FIRE MADE HIMSELF COMFORTABLE AND SETTLED DOWN AT HIS DESK WHERE HE BEGAN CHECKING OVER ESTIMATE SHEETS. IT WAS AFTER NINE O'CLOCK AND HE WAS LIGHTING A SECOND PIPE WHEN HE THOUGHT HE HEARD A SOUND AT HIS DOOR. HE STARTED AND LISTENED HOLDING THE BURNING MATCH IN HIS HAND AGAIN HE HEARD THE SAME SOUND LIKE A FIRM LIGHT TAP. HE ROSE AND CROSSED THE ROOM QUICKLY. WHEN HE THREW OPEN THE DOOR HE RECOGNIZED THE FIGURE THAT SHRANK BACK INTO THE BARE DIMLY LIT HALLWAY. HE STOOD FOR A MOMENT IN AWKWARD CONSTRAINT HIS PIPE IN HIS HAND. COME IN HE SAID TO HILDA AT LAST AND CLOSED THE DOOR BEHIND HER. HE POINTED TO A CHAIR BY THE FIRE AND WENT BACK TO HIS WORKTABLE WON'T YOU SIT DOWN. HE WAS STANDING BEHIND THE TABLE TURNING OVER A PILE OF BLUEPRINTS NERVOUSLY. THE YELLOW LIGHT FROM THE STUDENT'S LAMP FELL ON HIS HANDS AND THE PURPLE SLEEVES OF HIS VELVET SMOKING JACKET BUT HIS FLUSHED FACE AND BIG HARD HEAD WERE IN THE SHADOW. THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT HIM THAT MADE HILDA WISH HERSELF AT HER HOTEL AGAIN IN THE STREET BELOW ANYWHERE BUT WHERE SHE WAS. OF COURSE I KNOW BARTLEY SHE SAID AT LAST THAT AFTER THIS YOU WON'T OWE ME THE LEAST CONSIDERATION BUT WE SAIL ON TUESDAY. I SAW THAT INTERVIEW IN THE PAPER YESTERDAY TELLING WHERE YOU WERE AND I THOUGHT I HAD TO SEE YOU THAT'S ALL GOOD NIGHT I'M GOING NOW. SHE TURNED AND HER HAND CLOSED ON THE DOOR KNOB. ALEXANDER HURRIED TOWARD HER AND TOOK HER GENTLY BY THE ARM. SIT DOWN HILDA YOU'RE WET THROUGH. LET ME TAKE OFF YOUR COAT AND YOUR BOOTS THEY'RE OOZING WATER. HE KNELT DOWN AND BEGAN TO UNLACE HER SHOES WHILE HILDA SHRANK INTO THE CHAIR. HERE PUT YOUR FEET ON THIS STOOL. YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAY YOU WALKED DOWN AND WITHOUT OVERSHOES. HILDA HID HER FACE IN HER HANDS. I WAS AFRAID TO TAKE A CAB. CAN'T YOU SEE BARTLEY THAT I'M TERRIBLY FRIGHTENED. I'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS A HUNDRED TIMES TO DAY. DON'T BE ANY MORE ANGRY THAN YOU CAN HELP. I WAS ALL RIGHT UNTIL I KNEW YOU WERE IN TOWN. IF YOU'D SENT ME A NOTE OR TELEPHONED ME OR ANYTHING. BUT YOU WON'T LET ME WRITE TO YOU AND I HAD TO SEE YOU AFTER THAT LETTER THAT TERRIBLE LETTER YOU WROTE ME WHEN YOU GOT HOME. IS THIS THE WAY YOU MEAN TO ANSWER IT HILDA HE ASKED UNSTEADILY. I CAME TO TELL YOU THAT I'M WILLING TO DO AS YOU ASKED ME \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170145/170145_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170145/170145_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fe9de40c3551e36fc72b8a6b3c75dd375b3d7d68 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/1462/170145/170145_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AND HE THREW IT BACK AT ME A SECOND TIME. SHE FELT THE STRENGTH LEAP IN THE ARMS THAT HELD HER SO LIGHTLY. TRY HIM AGAIN HILDA TRY HIM ONCE AGAIN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149874/149874_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149874/149874_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8311bf05c51565c04f576fed310fdabb604a16c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149874/149874_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IF HANSON SAT EVERY EVENING IN THE FRONT ROOM AND READ HIS PAPER IF HE WENT TO BED AT NINE AND MINNIE A LITTLE LATER WHAT WOULD THEY EXPECT OF HER. SHE SAW THAT SHE WOULD FIRST NEED TO GET WORK AND ESTABLISH HERSELF ON A PAYING BASIS BEFORE SHE COULD THINK OF HAVING COMPANY OF ANY SORT. HER LITTLE FLIRTATION WITH DROUET SEEMED NOW AN EXTRAORDINARY THING. NO SHE SAID TO HERSELF HE CAN'T COME HERE. SHE ASKED MINNIE FOR INK AND PAPER WHICH WERE UPON THE MANTEL IN THE DINING ROOM AND WHEN THE LATTER HAD GONE TO BED AT TEN GOT OUT DROUET'S CARD AND WROTE HIM. I CANNOT HAVE YOU CALL ON ME HERE YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR FROM ME AGAIN. MY SISTER'S PLACE IS SO SMALL. SHE TROUBLED HERSELF OVER WHAT ELSE TO PUT IN THE LETTER. SHE WANTED TO MAKE SOME REFERENCE TO THEIR RELATIONS UPON THE TRAIN BUT WAS TOO TIMID. SHE CONCLUDED BY THANKING HIM FOR HIS KINDNESS IN A CRUDE WAY THEN PUZZLED OVER THE FORMALITY OF SIGNING HER NAME AND FINALLY DECIDED UPON THE SEVERE WINDING UP WITH A VERY TRULY WHICH SHE SUBSEQUENTLY CHANGED TO SINCERELY. SHE SEALED AND ADDRESSED THE LETTER AND GOING IN THE FRONT ROOM THE ALCOVE OF WHICH CONTAINED HER BED DREW THE ONE SMALL ROCKING CHAIR UP TO THE OPEN WINDOW AND SAT LOOKING OUT UPON THE NIGHT AND STREETS IN SILENT WONDER. FINALLY WEARIED BY HER OWN REFLECTIONS SHE BEGAN TO GROW DULL IN HER CHAIR AND FEELING THE NEED OF SLEEP ARRANGED HER CLOTHING FOR THE NIGHT AND WENT TO BED. WHEN SHE AWOKE AT EIGHT THE NEXT MORNING HANSON HAD GONE. HER SISTER WAS BUSY IN THE DINING ROOM WHICH WAS ALSO THE SITTING ROOM SEWING. SHE WORKED AFTER DRESSING TO ARRANGE A LITTLE BREAKFAST FOR HERSELF AND THEN ADVISED WITH MINNIE AS TO WHICH WAY TO LOOK. THE LATTER HAD CHANGED CONSIDERABLY SINCE CARRIE HAD SEEN HER. SHE WAS NOW A THIN THOUGH RUGGED WOMAN OF TWENTY SEVEN WITH IDEAS OF LIFE COLOURED BY HER HUSBAND'S AND FAST HARDENING INTO NARROWER CONCEPTIONS OF PLEASURE AND DUTY THAN HAD EVER BEEN HERS IN A THOROUGHLY CIRCUMSCRIBED YOUTH. SHE HAD INVITED CARRIE NOT BECAUSE SHE LONGED FOR HER PRESENCE BUT BECAUSE THE LATTER WAS DISSATISFIED AT HOME AND COULD PROBABLY GET WORK AND PAY HER BOARD HERE. SHE WAS PLEASED TO SEE HER IN A WAY BUT REFLECTED HER HUSBAND'S POINT OF VIEW IN THE MATTER OF WORK. ANYTHING WAS GOOD ENOUGH SO LONG AS IT PAID SAY FIVE DOLLARS A WEEK TO BEGIN WITH. A SHOP GIRL WAS THE DESTINY PREFIGURED FOR THE NEWCOMER. SHE WOULD GET IN ONE OF THE GREAT SHOPS AND DO WELL ENOUGH UNTIL WELL UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENED NEITHER OF THEM KNEW EXACTLY WHAT. THEY DID NOT FIGURE ON PROMOTION. THEY DID NOT EXACTLY COUNT ON MARRIAGE. THINGS WOULD GO ON THOUGH IN A DIM KIND OF WAY UNTIL THE BETTER THING WOULD EVENTUATE AND CARRIE WOULD BE REWARDED FOR COMING AND TOILING IN THE CITY. IT WAS UNDER SUCH AUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES THAT SHE STARTED OUT THIS MORNING TO LOOK FOR WORK. BEFORE FOLLOWING HER IN HER ROUND OF SEEKING LET US LOOK AT THE SPHERE IN WHICH HER FUTURE WAS TO LIE. IN EIGHTEEN EIGHTY NINE CHICAGO HAD THE PECULIAR QUALIFICATIONS OF GROWTH WHICH MADE SUCH ADVENTURESOME PILGRIMAGES EVEN ON THE PART OF YOUNG GIRLS PLAUSIBLE. ITS MANY AND GROWING COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES GAVE IT WIDESPREAD FAME WHICH MADE OF IT A GIANT MAGNET DRAWING TO ITSELF FROM ALL QUARTERS THE HOPEFUL AND THE HOPELESS THOSE WHO HAD THEIR FORTUNE YET TO MAKE AND THOSE WHOSE FORTUNES AND AFFAIRS HAD REACHED A DISASTROUS CLIMAX ELSEWHERE. IT WAS A CITY OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND WITH THE AMBITION THE DARING THE ACTIVITY OF A METROPOLIS OF A MILLION. ITS STREETS AND HOUSES WERE ALREADY SCATTERED OVER AN AREA OF SEVENTY FIVE SQUARE MILES. ITS POPULATION WAS NOT SO MUCH THRIVING UPON ESTABLISHED COMMERCE AS UPON THE INDUSTRIES WHICH PREPARED FOR THE ARRIVAL OF OTHERS. THE SOUND OF THE HAMMER ENGAGED UPON THE ERECTION OF NEW STRUCTURES WAS EVERYWHERE HEARD. GREAT INDUSTRIES WERE MOVING IN. THE HUGE RAILROAD CORPORATIONS WHICH HAD LONG BEFORE RECOGNISED THE PROSPECTS OF THE PLACE HAD SEIZED UPON VAST TRACTS OF LAND FOR TRANSFER AND SHIPPING PURPOSES. STREET CAR LINES HAD BEEN EXTENDED FAR OUT INTO THE OPEN COUNTRY IN ANTICIPATION OF RAPID GROWTH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149874/149874_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149874/149874_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..21b0d5365ed25c051f2ce96eaa88ee6e623ef4db --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149874/149874_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE CITY HAD LAID MILES AND MILES OF STREETS AND SEWERS THROUGH REGIONS WHERE PERHAPS ONE SOLITARY HOUSE STOOD OUT ALONE A PIONEER OF THE POPULOUS WAYS TO BE. THERE WERE REGIONS OPEN TO THE SWEEPING WINDS AND RAIN WHICH WERE YET LIGHTED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT WITH LONG BLINKING LINES OF GAS LAMPS FLUTTERING IN THE WIND. NARROW BOARD WALKS EXTENDED OUT PASSING HERE A HOUSE AND THERE A STORE AT FAR INTERVALS EVENTUALLY ENDING ON THE OPEN PRAIRIE. IN THE CENTRAL PORTION WAS THE VAST WHOLESALE AND SHOPPING DISTRICT TO WHICH THE UNINFORMED SEEKER FOR WORK USUALLY DRIFTED. IT WAS A CHARACTERISTIC OF CHICAGO THEN AND ONE NOT GENERALLY SHARED BY OTHER CITIES THAT INDIVIDUAL FIRMS OF ANY PRETENSION OCCUPIED INDIVIDUAL BUILDINGS. THE PRESENCE OF AMPLE GROUND MADE THIS POSSIBLE. IT GAVE AN IMPOSING APPEARANCE TO MOST OF THE WHOLESALE HOUSES WHOSE OFFICES WERE UPON THE GROUND FLOOR AND IN PLAIN VIEW OF THE STREET. THE CASUAL WANDERER COULD SEE AS HE PASSED A POLISHED ARRAY OF OFFICE FIXTURES MUCH FROSTED GLASS CLERKS HARD AT WORK AND GENTEEL BUSINESS MEN IN NOBBY SUITS AND CLEAN LINEN LOUNGING ABOUT OR SITTING IN GROUPS. POLISHED BRASS OR NICKEL SIGNS AT THE SQUARE STONE ENTRANCES ANNOUNCED THE FIRM AND THE NATURE OF THE BUSINESS IN RATHER NEAT AND RESERVED TERMS. THE ENTIRE METROPOLITAN CENTRE POSSESSED A HIGH AND MIGHTY AIR CALCULATED TO OVERAWE AND ABASH THE COMMON APPLICANT AND TO MAKE THE GULF BETWEEN POVERTY AND SUCCESS SEEM BOTH WIDE AND DEEP. INTO THIS IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL REGION THE TIMID CARRIE WENT. SHE WALKED EAST ALONG VAN BUREN STREET THROUGH A REGION OF LESSENING IMPORTANCE UNTIL IT DETERIORATED INTO A MASS OF SHANTIES AND COAL YARDS AND FINALLY VERGED UPON THE RIVER. SHE WALKED BRAVELY FORWARD LED BY AN HONEST DESIRE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT AND DELAYED AT EVERY STEP BY THE INTEREST OF THE UNFOLDING SCENE AND A SENSE OF HELPLESSNESS AMID SO MUCH EVIDENCE OF POWER AND FORCE WHICH SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND. THESE VAST BUILDINGS WHAT WERE THEY. THESE STRANGE ENERGIES AND HUGE INTERESTS FOR WHAT PURPOSES WERE THEY THERE. SHE COULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF A LITTLE STONE CUTTER'S YARD AT COLUMBIA CITY CARVING LITTLE PIECES OF MARBLE FOR INDIVIDUAL USE BUT WHEN THE YARDS OF SOME HUGE STONE CORPORATION CAME INTO VIEW FILLED WITH SPUR TRACKS AND FLAT CARS TRANSPIERCED BY DOCKS FROM THE RIVER AND TRAVERSED OVERHEAD BY IMMENSE TRUNDLING CRANES OF WOOD AND STEEL IT LOST ALL SIGNIFICANCE IN HER LITTLE WORLD. IT WAS SO WITH THE VAST RAILROAD YARDS WITH THE CROWDED ARRAY OF VESSELS SHE SAW AT THE RIVER AND THE HUGE FACTORIES OVER THE WAY LINING THE WATER'S EDGE. THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOWS SHE COULD SEE THE FIGURES OF MEN AND WOMEN IN WORKING APRONS MOVING BUSILY ABOUT. THE GREAT STREETS WERE WALL LINED MYSTERIES TO HER THE VAST OFFICES STRANGE MAZES WHICH CONCERNED FAR OFF INDIVIDUALS OF IMPORTANCE. SHE COULD ONLY THINK OF PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH THEM AS COUNTING MONEY DRESSING MAGNIFICENTLY AND RIDING IN CARRIAGES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149896/149896_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149896/149896_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e6c614a4ed1d0a838edc9a7cc9bc43b62a3ef4fc --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149896/149896_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THAT NIGHT HURSTWOOD REMAINED DOWN TOWN ENTIRELY GOING TO THE PALMER HOUSE FOR A BED AFTER HIS WORK WAS THROUGH. HE WAS IN A FEVERED STATE OF MIND OWING TO THE BLIGHT HIS WIFE'S ACTION THREATENED TO CAST UPON HIS ENTIRE FUTURE. WHILE HE WAS NOT SURE HOW MUCH SIGNIFICANCE MIGHT BE ATTACHED TO THE THREAT SHE HAD MADE HE WAS SURE THAT HER ATTITUDE IF LONG CONTINUED WOULD CAUSE HIM NO END OF TROUBLE. SHE WAS DETERMINED AND HAD WORSTED HIM IN A VERY IMPORTANT CONTEST. HOW WOULD IT BE FROM NOW ON. HE WALKED THE FLOOR OF HIS LITTLE OFFICE AND LATER THAT OF HIS ROOM PUTTING ONE THING AND ANOTHER TOGETHER TO NO AVAIL. MISSUS HURSTWOOD ON THE CONTRARY HAD DECIDED NOT TO LOSE HER ADVANTAGE BY INACTION. NOW THAT SHE HAD PRACTICALLY COWED HIM SHE WOULD FOLLOW UP HER WORK WITH DEMANDS THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF WHICH WOULD MAKE HER WORD LAW IN THE FUTURE. HE WOULD HAVE TO PAY HER THE MONEY WHICH SHE WOULD NOW REGULARLY DEMAND OR THERE WOULD BE TROUBLE IT DID NOT MATTER WHAT HE DID. SHE REALLY DID NOT CARE WHETHER HE CAME HOME ANY MORE OR NOT. THE HOUSEHOLD WOULD MOVE ALONG MUCH MORE PLEASANTLY WITHOUT HIM AND SHE COULD DO AS SHE WISHED WITHOUT CONSULTING ANY ONE. NOW SHE PROPOSED TO CONSULT A LAWYER AND HIRE A DETECTIVE. SHE WOULD FIND OUT AT ONCE JUST WHAT ADVANTAGES SHE COULD GAIN. HURSTWOOD WALKED THE FLOOR MENTALLY ARRANGING THE CHIEF POINTS OF HIS SITUATION. SHE HAS THAT PROPERTY IN HER NAME HE KEPT SAYING TO HIMSELF. WHAT A FOOL TRICK THAT WAS CURSE IT WHAT A FOOL MOVE THAT WAS. HE ALSO THOUGHT OF HIS MANAGERIAL POSITION. IF SHE RAISES A ROW NOW I'LL LOSE THIS THING. THEY WON'T HAVE ME AROUND IF MY NAME GETS IN THE PAPERS MY FRIENDS TOO. HE GREW MORE ANGRY AS HE THOUGHT OF THE TALK ANY ACTION ON HER PART WOULD CREATE. HOW WOULD THE PAPERS TALK ABOUT IT. EVERY MAN HE KNEW WOULD BE WONDERING. HE WOULD HAVE TO EXPLAIN AND DENY AND MAKE A GENERAL MARK OF HIMSELF. THEN MOY WOULD COME AND CONFER WITH HIM AND THERE WOULD BE THE DEVIL TO PAY. MANY LITTLE WRINKLES GATHERED BETWEEN HIS EYES AS HE CONTEMPLATED THIS AND HIS BROW MOISTENED. HE SAW NO SOLUTION OF ANYTHING NOT A LOOPHOLE LEFT. THROUGH ALL THIS THOUGHTS OF CARRIE FLASHED UPON HIM AND THE APPROACHING AFFAIR OF SATURDAY. TANGLED AS ALL HIS MATTERS WERE HE DID NOT WORRY OVER THAT. IT WAS THE ONE PLEASING THING IN THIS WHOLE ROUT OF TROUBLE. HE COULD ARRANGE THAT SATISFACTORILY FOR CARRIE WOULD BE GLAD TO WAIT IF NECESSARY. HE WOULD SEE HOW THINGS TURNED OUT TO MORROW AND THEN HE WOULD TALK TO HER THEY WERE GOING TO MEET AS USUAL. HE SAW ONLY HER PRETTY FACE AND NEAT FIGURE AND WONDERED WHY LIFE WAS NOT ARRANGED SO THAT SUCH JOY AS HE FOUND WITH HER COULD BE STEADILY MAINTAINED. HOW MUCH MORE PLEASANT IT WOULD BE. THEN HE WOULD TAKE UP HIS WIFE'S THREAT AGAIN AND THE WRINKLES AND MOISTURE WOULD RETURN. IN THE MORNING HE CAME OVER FROM THE HOTEL AND OPENED HIS MAIL BUT THERE WAS NOTHING IN IT OUTSIDE THE ORDINARY RUN. FOR SOME REASON HE FELT AS IF SOMETHING MIGHT COME THAT WAY AND WAS RELIEVED WHEN ALL THE ENVELOPES HAD BEEN SCANNED AND NOTHING SUSPICIOUS NOTICED. HE BEGAN TO FEEL THE APPETITE THAT HAD BEEN WANTING BEFORE HE HAD REACHED THE OFFICE AND DECIDED BEFORE GOING OUT TO THE PARK TO MEET CARRIE TO DROP IN AT THE GRAND PACIFIC AND HAVE A POT OF COFFEE AND SOME ROLLS. WHILE THE DANGER HAD NOT LESSENED IT HAD NOT AS YET MATERIALISED AND WITH HIM NO NEWS WAS GOOD NEWS. IF HE COULD ONLY GET PLENTY OF TIME TO THINK PERHAPS SOMETHING WOULD TURN UP. SURELY SURELY THIS THING WOULD NOT DRIFT ALONG TO CATASTROPHE AND HE NOT FIND A WAY OUT. HIS SPIRITS FELL HOWEVER WHEN UPON REACHING THE PARK HE WAITED AND WAITED AND CARRIE DID NOT COME. COULD SOMETHING HAVE HAPPENED OUT THERE TO KEEP HER AWAY. COULD SHE HAVE BEEN REACHED BY HIS WIFE SURELY NOT. SO LITTLE DID HE CONSIDER DROUET THAT IT NEVER ONCE OCCURRED TO HIM TO WORRY ABOUT HIS FINDING OUT. HE GREW RESTLESS AS HE RUMINATED AND THEN DECIDED THAT PERHAPS IT WAS NOTHING. SHE HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET AWAY THIS MORNING. THAT WAS WHY NO LETTER NOTIFYING HIM HAD COME. HE WOULD GET ONE TO DAY IT WOULD PROBABLY BE ON HIS DESK WHEN HE GOT BACK HE WOULD LOOK FOR IT AT ONCE. AFTER A TIME HE GAVE UP WAITING AND DREARILY HEADED FOR THE MADISON CAR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149896/149896_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149896/149896_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b0427255f38847e42036d194de51c81480da14e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149896/149896_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +TO ADD TO HIS DISTRESS THE BRIGHT BLUE SKY BECAME OVERCAST WITH LITTLE FLEECY CLOUDS WHICH SHUT OUT THE SUN. THE WIND VEERED TO THE EAST AND BY THE TIME HE REACHED HIS OFFICE IT WAS THREATENING TO DRIZZLE ALL AFTERNOON. HE WENT IN AND EXAMINED HIS LETTERS BUT THERE WAS NOTHING FROM CARRIE. FORTUNATELY THERE WAS NOTHING FROM HIS WIFE EITHER. HE THANKED HIS STARS THAT HE DID NOT HAVE TO CONFRONT THAT PROPOSITION JUST NOW WHEN HE NEEDED TO THINK SO MUCH. HE WALKED THE FLOOR AGAIN PRETENDING TO BE IN AN ORDINARY MOOD BUT SECRETLY TROUBLED BEYOND THE EXPRESSION OF WORDS. AT ONE THIRTY HE WENT TO RECTOR'S FOR LUNCH AND WHEN HE RETURNED A MESSENGER WAS WAITING FOR HIM. HE LOOKED AT THE LITTLE CHAP WITH A FEELING OF DOUBT. I'M TO BRING AN ANSWER SAID THE BOY. HURSTWOOD RECOGNISED HIS WIFE'S WRITING. HE TORE IT OPEN AND READ WITHOUT A SHOW OF FEELING. IT BEGAN IN THE MOST FORMAL MANNER AND WAS SHARPLY AND COLDLY WORDED THROUGHOUT. I WANT YOU TO SEND THE MONEY I ASKED FOR AT ONCE I NEED IT TO CARRY OUT MY PLANS. WHEN HE HAD FINISHED IT HE STOOD HOLDING IT IN HIS HANDS. THE AUDACITY OF THE THING TOOK HIS BREATH IT ROUSED HIS IRE ALSO THE DEEPEST ELEMENT OF REVOLT IN HIM. HIS FIRST IMPULSE WAS TO WRITE BUT FOUR WORDS IN REPLY GO TO THE DEVIL. BUT HE COMPROMISED BY TELLING THE BOY THAT THERE WOULD BE NO REPLY. THEN HE SAT DOWN IN HIS CHAIR AND GAZED WITHOUT SEEING CONTEMPLATING THE RESULT OF HIS WORK. WHAT WOULD SHE DO ABOUT THAT THE CONFOUNDED WRETCH. WAS SHE GOING TO TRY TO BULLDOZE HIM INTO SUBMISSION. HE WOULD GO UP THERE AND HAVE IT OUT WITH HER THAT'S WHAT HE WOULD DO. SHE WAS CARRYING THINGS WITH TOO HIGH A HAND THESE WERE HIS FIRST THOUGHTS. LATER HOWEVER HIS OLD DISCRETION ASSERTED ITSELF. SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE A CLIMAX WAS NEAR AND SHE WOULD NOT SIT IDLE. HE KNEW HER WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT WHEN SHE HAD DECIDED UPON A PLAN SHE WOULD FOLLOW IT UP. POSSIBLY MATTERS WOULD GO INTO A LAWYER'S HANDS AT ONCE. DAMN HER HE SAID SOFTLY WITH HIS TEETH FIRMLY SET I'LL MAKE IT HOT FOR HER IF SHE CAUSES ME TROUBLE. I'LL MAKE HER CHANGE HER TONE IF I HAVE TO USE FORCE TO DO IT. HE AROSE FROM HIS CHAIR AND WENT AND LOOKED OUT INTO THE STREET. THE LONG DRIZZLE HAD BEGUN PEDESTRIANS HAD TURNED UP COLLARS AND TROUSERS AT THE BOTTOM. HANDS WERE HIDDEN IN THE POCKETS OF THE UMBRELLALESS UMBRELLAS WERE UP. THE STREET LOOKED LIKE A SEA OF ROUND BLACK CLOTH ROOFS TWISTING BOBBING MOVING. TRUCKS AND VANS WERE RATTLING IN A NOISY LINE AND EVERYWHERE MEN WERE SHIELDING THEMSELVES AS BEST THEY COULD. HE SCARCELY NOTICED THE PICTURE. HE WAS FOREVER CONFRONTING HIS WIFE DEMANDING OF HER TO CHANGE HER ATTITUDE TOWARD HIM BEFORE HE WORKED HER BODILY HARM. AT FOUR O'CLOCK ANOTHER NOTE CAME WHICH SIMPLY SAID THAT IF THE MONEY WAS NOT FORTHCOMING THAT EVENING THE MATTER WOULD BE LAID BEFORE FITZGERALD AND MOY ON THE MORROW AND OTHER STEPS WOULD BE TAKEN TO GET IT. HURSTWOOD ALMOST EXCLAIMED OUT LOUD AT THE INSISTENCY OF THIS THING. YES HE WOULD SEND HER THE MONEY HE'D TAKE IT TO HER HE WOULD GO UP THERE AND HAVE A TALK WITH HER AND THAT AT ONCE. HE PUT ON HIS HAT AND LOOKED AROUND FOR HIS UMBRELLA. HE WOULD HAVE SOME ARRANGEMENT OF THIS THING. HE CALLED A CAB AND WAS DRIVEN THROUGH THE DREARY RAIN TO THE NORTH SIDE. ON THE WAY HIS TEMPER COOLED AS HE THOUGHT OF THE DETAILS OF THE CASE. WHAT DID SHE KNOW WHAT HAD SHE DONE. PERHAPS SHE REALLY HAD EVIDENCE AND WAS PREPARED TO FELL HIM AS A MAN DOES ANOTHER FROM SECRET AMBUSH SHE WAS SHREWD. WHY SHOULD SHE TAUNT HIM THIS WAY UNLESS SHE HAD GOOD GROUNDS. HE BEGAN TO WISH THAT HE HAD COMPROMISED IN SOME WAY OR OTHER THAT HE HAD SENT THE MONEY PERHAPS HE COULD DO IT UP HERE. HE WOULD GO IN AND SEE ANYHOW HE WOULD HAVE NO ROW. BY THE TIME HE REACHED HIS OWN STREET HE WAS KEENLY ALIVE TO THE DIFFICULTIES OF HIS SITUATION AND WISHED OVER AND OVER THAT SOME SOLUTION WOULD OFFER ITSELF THAT HE COULD SEE HIS WAY OUT. HE ALIGHTED AND WENT UP THE STEPS TO THE FRONT DOOR BUT IT WAS WITH A NERVOUS PALPITATION OF THE HEART. HE PULLED OUT HIS KEY AND TRIED TO INSERT IT BUT ANOTHER KEY WAS ON THE INSIDE. HE SHOOK AT THE KNOB BUT THE DOOR WAS LOCKED. THEN HE RANG THE BELL NO ANSWER. HE RANG AGAIN THIS TIME HARDER STILL NO ANSWER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149896/149896_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149896/149896_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d44c016813bae5791e6b29c92d51cdf71fd12a18 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149896/149896_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE JANGLED IT FIERCELY SEVERAL TIMES IN SUCCESSION BUT WITHOUT AVAIL THEN HE WENT BELOW. THERE WAS A DOOR WHICH OPENED UNDER THE STEPS INTO THE KITCHEN PROTECTED BY AN IRON GRATING INTENDED AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINST BURGLARS. HE RANG THE BELL AND THEN WAITED. FINALLY SEEING THAT NO ONE WAS COMING HE TURNED AND WENT BACK TO HIS CAB. I GUESS THEY'VE GONE OUT HE SAID APOLOGETICALLY TO THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS HIDING HIS RED FACE IN A LOOSE TARPAULIN RAIN COAT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149897/149897_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149897/149897_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c22d9dcd11f93edab5e44114ccefd6879767e18 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149897/149897_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ASHES OF TINDER THE LOOSING OF STAYS. WHEN HURSTWOOD GOT BACK TO HIS OFFICE AGAIN HE WAS IN A GREATER QUANDARY THAN EVER. LORD LORD HE THOUGHT WHAT HAD HE GOT INTO. HOW COULD THINGS HAVE TAKEN SUCH A VIOLENT TURN AND SO QUICKLY. HE COULD HARDLY REALISE HOW IT HAD ALL COME ABOUT. IT SEEMED A MONSTROUS UNNATURAL UNWARRANTED CONDITION WHICH HAD SUDDENLY DESCENDED UPON HIM WITHOUT HIS LET OR HINDRANCE. MEANWHILE HE GAVE A THOUGHT NOW AND THEN TO CARRIE. WHAT COULD BE THE TROUBLE IN THAT QUARTER. NO LETTER HAD COME NO WORD OF ANY KIND AND YET HERE IT WAS LATE IN THE EVENING AND SHE HAD AGREED TO MEET HIM THAT MORNING. TO MORROW THEY WERE TO HAVE MET AND GONE OFF WHERE. HE SAW THAT IN THE EXCITEMENT OF RECENT EVENTS HE HAD NOT FORMULATED A PLAN UPON THAT SCORE. HE WAS DESPERATELY IN LOVE AND WOULD HAVE TAKEN GREAT CHANCES TO WIN HER UNDER ORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES BUT NOW NOW WHAT. SUPPOSING SHE HAD FOUND OUT SOMETHING. IT WOULD BE JUST LIKE THIS TO HAPPEN AS THINGS WERE GOING NOW. MEANWHILE HE HAD NOT SENT THE MONEY. HE STROLLED UP AND DOWN THE POLISHED FLOOR OF THE RESORT HIS HANDS IN HIS POCKETS HIS BROW WRINKLED HIS MOUTH SET. HE WAS GETTING SOME VAGUE COMFORT OUT OF A GOOD CIGAR BUT IT WAS NO PANACEA FOR THE ILL WHICH AFFECTED HIM. HIS WHOLE NATURE WAS VIGOROUSLY AND POWERFULLY SHAKEN UP AND HE WAS FINDING WHAT LIMITS THE MIND HAS TO ENDURANCE. HE DRANK MORE BRANDY AND SODA THAN HE HAD ANY EVENING IN MONTHS. HE WAS ALTOGETHER A FINE EXAMPLE OF GREAT MENTAL PERTURBATION. FOR ALL HIS STUDY NOTHING CAME OF THE EVENING EXCEPT THIS HE SENT THE MONEY. IT WAS WITH GREAT OPPOSITION AFTER TWO OR THREE HOURS OF THE MOST URGENT MENTAL AFFIRMATION AND DENIAL THAT AT LAST HE GOT AN ENVELOPE PLACED IN IT THE REQUESTED AMOUNT AND SLOWLY SEALED IT UP. THEN HE CALLED HARRY THE BOY OF ALL WORK AROUND THE PLACE. YOU TAKE THIS TO THIS ADDRESS HE SAID HANDING HIM THE ENVELOPE AND GIVE IT TO MISSUS HURSTWOOD YES SIR SAID THE BOY. IF SHE ISN'T THERE BRING IT BACK YES SIR. YOU'VE SEEN MY WIFE. HE ASKED AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE AS THE BOY TURNED TO GO. OH YES SIR I KNOW HER. ALL RIGHT NOW HURRY RIGHT BACK. ANY ANSWER I GUESS NOT. THE BOY HASTENED AWAY AND THE MANAGER FELL TO HIS MUSINGS. NOW HE HAD DONE IT THERE WAS NO USE SPECULATING OVER THAT. HE WAS BEATEN FOR TO NIGHT AND HE MIGHT JUST AS WELL MAKE THE BEST OF IT. BUT OH THE WRETCHEDNESS OF BEING FORCED THIS WAY. HE COULD SEE HER MEETING THE BOY AT THE DOOR AND SMILING SARDONICALLY. SHE WOULD TAKE THE ENVELOPE AND KNOW THAT SHE HAD TRIUMPHED. IF HE ONLY HAD THAT LETTER BACK HE WOULDN'T SEND IT. HE BREATHED HEAVILY AND WIPED THE MOISTURE FROM HIS FACE. FOR RELIEF HE AROSE AND JOINED IN CONVERSATION WITH A FEW FRIENDS WHO WERE DRINKING. HE TRIED TO GET THE INTEREST OF THINGS ABOUT HIM BUT IT WAS NOT TO BE. ALL THE TIME HIS THOUGHTS WOULD RUN OUT TO HIS HOME AND SEE THE SCENE BEING THEREIN ENACTED. ALL THE TIME HE WAS WONDERING WHAT SHE WOULD SAY WHEN THE BOY HANDED HER THE ENVELOPE. IN ABOUT AN HOUR AND THREE QUARTERS THE BOY RETURNED. WELL SAID HURSTWOOD. I GAVE IT TO HER MY WIFE. YES SIR ANY ANSWER. SHE SAID IT WAS HIGH TIME. HURSTWOOD SCOWLED FIERCELY. THERE WAS NO MORE TO BE DONE UPON THAT SCORE THAT NIGHT. HE WENT ON BROODING OVER HIS SITUATION UNTIL MIDNIGHT WHEN HE REPAIRED AGAIN TO THE PALMER HOUSE. HE WONDERED WHAT THE MORNING WOULD BRING FORTH AND SLEPT ANYTHING BUT SOUNDLY UPON IT. NEXT DAY HE WENT AGAIN TO THE OFFICE AND OPENED HIS MAIL SUSPICIOUS AND HOPEFUL OF ITS CONTENTS NO WORD FROM CARRIE. NOTHING FROM HIS WIFE WHICH WAS PLEASANT THE FACT THAT HE HAD SENT THE MONEY AND THAT SHE HAD RECEIVED IT WORKED TO THE EASE OF HIS MIND FOR AS THE THOUGHT THAT HE HAD DONE IT RECEDED HIS CHAGRIN AT IT GREW LESS AND HIS HOPE OF PEACE MORE. HE FANCIED AS HE SAT AT HIS DESK THAT NOTHING WOULD BE DONE FOR A WEEK OR TWO MEANWHILE HE WOULD HAVE TIME TO THINK. HOW ABOUT THAT NOW HIS PAIN AT HER FAILURE TO MEET OR WRITE HIM RAPIDLY INCREASED AS HE DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THIS SUBJECT. HE DECIDED TO WRITE HER CARE OF THE WEST SIDE POST OFFICE AND ASK FOR AN EXPLANATION AS WELL AS TO HAVE HER MEET HIM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149897/149897_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149897/149897_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..faf4bdd8d06555ea8ffc8c242ab0203b30de07f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149897/149897_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE THOUGHT THAT THIS LETTER WOULD PROBABLY NOT REACH HER UNTIL MONDAY CHAFED HIM EXCEEDINGLY. HE MUST GET SOME SPEEDIER METHOD BUT HOW. HE THOUGHT UPON IT FOR A HALF HOUR NOT CONTEMPLATING A MESSENGER OR A CAB DIRECT TO THE HOUSE OWING TO THE EXPOSURE OF IT BUT FINDING THAT TIME WAS SLIPPING AWAY TO NO PURPOSE HE WROTE THE LETTER AND THEN BEGAN TO THINK AGAIN. THE HOURS SLIPPED BY AND WITH THEM THE POSSIBILITY OF THE UNION HE HAD CONTEMPLATED. HE HAD THOUGHT TO BE JOYOUSLY AIDING CARRIE BY NOW IN THE TASK OF JOINING HER INTERESTS TO HIS AND HERE IT WAS AFTERNOON AND NOTHING DONE. THREE O'CLOCK CAME FOUR FIVE SIX AND NO LETTER. THE HELPLESS MANAGER PACED THE FLOOR AND GRIMLY ENDURED THE GLOOM OF DEFEAT. HE SAW A BUSY SATURDAY USHERED OUT THE SABBATH IN AND NOTHING DONE. ALL DAY THE BAR BEING CLOSED HE BROODED ALONE SHUT OUT FROM HOME FROM THE EXCITEMENT OF HIS RESORT FROM CARRIE AND WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO ALTER HIS CONDITION ONE IOTA. IT WAS THE WORST SUNDAY HE HAD SPENT IN HIS LIFE. IN MONDAY'S SECOND MAIL HE ENCOUNTERED A VERY LEGAL LOOKING LETTER WHICH HELD HIS INTEREST FOR SOME TIME. HE READ IT THROUGH CAREFULLY SEVERAL TIMES AND THEN MERELY SHOOK HIS HEAD. IT SEEMED AS IF HIS FAMILY TROUBLES WERE JUST BEGINNING. WELL HE SAID AFTER A TIME QUITE AUDIBLY I DON'T KNOW. THEN HE FOLDED IT UP AND PUT IT IN HIS POCKET. TO ADD TO HIS MISERY THERE WAS NO WORD FROM CARRIE. HE WAS QUITE CERTAIN NOW THAT SHE KNEW HE WAS MARRIED AND WAS ANGERED AT HIS PERFIDY. HIS LOSS SEEMED ALL THE MORE BITTER NOW THAT HE NEEDED HER MOST. HE THOUGHT HE WOULD GO OUT AND INSIST ON SEEING HER IF SHE DID NOT SEND HIM WORD OF SOME SORT SOON. HE WAS REALLY AFFECTED MOST MISERABLY OF ALL BY THIS DESERTION. HE HAD LOVED HER EARNESTLY ENOUGH BUT NOW THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF LOSING HER STARED HIM IN THE FACE SHE SEEMED MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE. HE REALLY PINED FOR A WORD AND LOOKED OUT UPON HER WITH HIS MIND'S EYE IN THE MOST WISTFUL MANNER. HE DID NOT PROPOSE TO LOSE HER WHATEVER SHE MIGHT THINK. COME WHAT MIGHT HE WOULD ADJUST THIS MATTER AND SOON. HE WOULD GO TO HER AND TELL HER ALL HIS FAMILY COMPLICATIONS. HE WOULD EXPLAIN TO HER JUST WHERE HE STOOD AND HOW MUCH HE NEEDED HER. SURELY SHE COULDN'T GO BACK ON HIM NOW IT WASN'T POSSIBLE. HE WOULD PLEAD UNTIL HER ANGER WOULD MELT UNTIL SHE WOULD FORGIVE HIM. SUDDENLY HE THOUGHT SUPPOSING SHE ISN'T OUT THERE SUPPOSE SHE HAS GONE HE WAS FORCED TO TAKE HIS FEET. IT WAS TOO MUCH TO THINK OF AND SIT STILL. NEVERTHELESS HIS ROUSING AVAILED HIM NOTHING. ON TUESDAY IT WAS THE SAME WAY. HE DID MANAGE TO BRING HIMSELF INTO THE MOOD TO GO OUT TO CARRIE BUT WHEN HE GOT IN OGDEN PLACE HE THOUGHT HE SAW A MAN WATCHING HIM AND WENT AWAY. HE DID NOT GO WITHIN A BLOCK OF THE HOUSE. ONE OF THE GALLING INCIDENTS OF THIS VISIT WAS THAT HE CAME BACK ON A RANDOLPH STREET CAR AND WITHOUT NOTICING ARRIVED ALMOST OPPOSITE THE BUILDING OF THE CONCERN WITH WHICH HIS SON WAS CONNECTED THIS SENT A PANG THROUGH HIS HEART. HE HAD CALLED ON HIS BOY THERE SEVERAL TIMES. NOW THE LAD HAD NOT SENT HIM A WORD. HIS ABSENCE DID NOT SEEM TO BE NOTICED BY EITHER OF HIS CHILDREN. WELL WELL FORTUNE PLAYS A MAN QUEER TRICKS. HE GOT BACK TO HIS OFFICE AND JOINED IN A CONVERSATION WITH FRIENDS. IT WAS AS IF IDLE CHATTER DEADENED THE SENSE OF MISERY. THAT NIGHT HE DINED AT RECTOR'S AND RETURNED AT ONCE TO HIS OFFICE. IN THE BUSTLE AND SHOW OF THE LATTER WAS HIS ONLY RELIEF. HE TROUBLED OVER MANY LITTLE DETAILS AND TALKED PERFUNCTORILY TO EVERYBODY. HE STAYED AT HIS DESK LONG AFTER ALL OTHERS HAD GONE AND ONLY QUITTED IT WHEN THE NIGHT WATCHMAN ON HIS ROUND PULLED AT THE FRONT DOOR TO SEE IF IT WAS SAFELY LOCKED. ON WEDNESDAY HE RECEIVED ANOTHER POLITE NOTE FROM MC GREGOR JAMES AND HAY IT READ. DEAR SIR WE BEG TO INFORM YOU THAT WE ARE INSTRUCTED TO WAIT UNTIL TO MORROW THURSDAY AT ONE O'CLOCK BEFORE FILING SUIT AGAINST YOU ON BEHALF OF MISSUS JULIA HURSTWOOD FOR DIVORCE AND ALIMONY. IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU BEFORE THAT TIME WE SHALL CONSIDER THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO COMPROMISE THE MATTER IN ANY WAY AND ACT ACCORDINGLY. VERY TRULY YOURS ET CETERA COMPROMISE. EXCLAIMED HURSTWOOD BITTERLY COMPROMISE AGAIN HE SHOOK HIS HEAD \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149897/149897_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149897/149897_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..df9086f473438349ade010fcde76f75cdb3a4108 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149897/149897_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SO HERE IT WAS SPREAD OUT CLEAR BEFORE HIM AND NOW HE KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT. IF HE DIDN'T GO AND SEE THEM THEY WOULD SUE HIM PROMPTLY. IF HE DID HE WOULD BE OFFERED TERMS THAT WOULD MAKE HIS BLOOD BOIL. HE FOLDED THE LETTER AND PUT IT WITH THE OTHER ONE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4943/4943_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4943/4943_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4cfa2d5e75268cfab3c7a13fd342b8efd1702352 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4943/4943_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE COMMANDANT'S BUTLER. RUFUS DAWES HAD BEEN A FORTNIGHT AT THE SETTLEMENT WHEN A NEW COMER APPEARED ON THE CHAIN GANG. THIS WAS A YOUNG MAN OF ABOUT TWENTY YEARS OF AGE THIN FAIR AND DELICATE. HIS NAME WAS KIRKLAND AND HE BELONGED TO WHAT WERE KNOWN AS THE EDUCATED PRISONERS. HE HAD BEEN A CLERK IN A BANKING HOUSE AND WAS TRANSPORTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT THOUGH BY SOME GRAVE DOUBTS AS TO HIS GUILT WERE ENTERTAINED. SO DOUBTLESS IT WAS AND MIGHT HAVE BEEN HAD NOT AN UNTOWARD ACCIDENT OCCURRED. CAPTAIN BURGESS WHO WAS A BACHELOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL CONFESSED TO AN AMIABLE WEAKNESS FOR BLASPHEMY AND WAS GIVEN TO CONDEMNING THE CONVICTS EYES AND LIMBS WITH INDISCRIMINATE VIOLENCE. KIRKLAND BELONGED TO A METHODIST FAMILY AND OWNED A PIETY UTTERLY OUT OF PLACE IN THAT REGION. MY BLANK CRIED BURGESS. YOU BLANK BLANK IS THAT YOUR BLANK GAME. I'LL BLANK SOON CURE YOU OF THAT. AND FORTHWITH ORDERED HIM TO THE CHAIN GANG FOR INSUBORDINATION. HE WAS RECEIVED WITH SUSPICION BY THE GANG WHO DID NOT LIKE WHITE HANDED PRISONERS. TROKE BY WAY OF EXPERIMENT IN HUMAN NATURE PERHAPS PLACED HIM NEXT TO GABBETT. THE DAY WAS GOT THROUGH IN THE USUAL WAY AND KIRKLAND FELT HIS HEART REVIVE THE TOIL WAS SEVERE AND THE COMPANIONSHIP UNCOUTH BUT DESPITE HIS BLISTERED HANDS AND ACHING BACK HE HAD NOT EXPERIENCED ANYTHING SO VERY TERRIBLE AFTER ALL. WHEN THE MUSTER BELL RANG AND THE GANG BROKE UP RUFUS DAWES ON HIS SILENT WAY TO HIS SEPARATE CELL OBSERVED A NOTABLE CHANGE OF CUSTOM IN THE DISPOSITION OF THE NEW CONVICT. INSTEAD OF PLACING HIM IN A CELL BY HIMSELF TROKE WAS TURNING HIM INTO THE YARD WITH THE OTHERS. I'M NOT TO GO IN THERE SAYS THE EX BANK CLERK DRAWING BACK IN DISMAY FROM THE CLOUD OF FOUL FACES WHICH LOWERED UPON HIM. THE GOVERNOR SAYS A NIGHT IN THERE'LL TAKE THE STARCH OUT OF YE. COME IN YER GO BUT MISTER TROKE. STOW YOUR GAFF SAYS TROKE WITH ANOTHER OATH AND IMPATIENTLY STRIKING THE LAD WITH HIS THONG I CAN'T ARGUE HERE ALL NIGHT GET IN. SO KIRKLAND AGED TWENTY TWO AND THE SON OF METHODIST PARENTS WENT IN. RUFUS DAWES AMONG WHOSE SINISTER MEMORIES THIS YARD WAS NUMBERED SIGHED. SO FIERCE WAS THE GLAMOUR OF THE PLACE HOWEVER THAT WHEN LOCKED INTO HIS CELL HE FELT ASHAMED FOR THAT SIGH AND STROVE TO ERASE THE MEMORY OF IT. WHAT IS HE MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE SAID THE WRETCHED MAN TO HIMSELF AS HE HUGGED HIS MISERY CLOSE. ABOUT DAWN THE NEXT MORNING MISTER NORTH WHO AMONGST OTHER VAGARIES NOT APPROVED OF BY HIS BISHOP HAD A HABIT OF PROWLING ABOUT THE PRISON AT UNOFFICIAL HOURS WAS ATTRACTED BY A DISPUTE AT THE DOOR OF THE DORMITORY. WHAT'S THE MATTER HERE HE ASKED. A PRISONER REFRACTORY YOUR REVERENCE SAID THE WATCHMAN. WANTS TO COME OUT MISTER NORTH. MISTER NORTH CRIED A VOICE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET ME OUT OF THIS PLACE. KIRKLAND GHASTLY PALE BLEEDING WITH HIS WOOLLEN SHIRT TORN AND HIS BLUE EYES WIDE OPEN WITH TERROR WAS CLINGING TO THE BARS. OH MISTER NORTH MISTER NORTH OH MISTER NORTH. OH FOR GOD'S SAKE MISTER NORTH. WHAT KIRKLAND CRIED NORTH WHO WAS IGNORANT OF THE VENGEANCE OF THE COMMANDANT. WHAT DO YOU DO HERE BUT KIRKLAND COULD DO NOTHING BUT CRY OH MISTER NORTH FOR GOD'S SAKE MISTER NORTH. AND BEAT ON THE BARS WITH WHITE AND SWEATING HANDS. LET HIM OUT WATCHMAN SAID NORTH. CAN'T SIR WITHOUT AN ORDER FROM THE COMMANDANT. I ORDER YOU SIR NORTH CRIED INDIGNANT. VERY SORRY YOUR REVERENCE BUT YOUR REVERENCE KNOWS THAT I DAREN'T DO SUCH A THING. WOULD YOU SEE ME PERISH BODY AND SOUL IN THIS PLACE MISTER NORTH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4943/4943_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4943/4943_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e97be115d2a0f53aafd6c23ba0c3a55894d40343 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4943/4943_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +OH YOU MINISTERS OF CHRIST WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING YOU SHALL BE JUDGED FOR THIS. LET HIM OUT CRIED NORTH AGAIN STAMPING HIS FOOT. IT'S NO GOOD RETURNED THE GAOLER. I CAN'T IF HE WAS DYING I CAN'T. NORTH RUSHED AWAY TO THE COMMANDANT AND THE INSTANT HIS BACK WAS TURNED HAILES THE WATCHMAN FLUNG OPEN THE DOOR AND DARTED INTO THE DORMITORY. TAKE THAT HE CRIED DEALING KIRKLAND A BLOW ON THE HEAD WITH HIS KEYS THAT STRETCHED HIM SENSELESS. THERE'S MORE TROUBLE WITH YOU BLOODY ARISTOCRATS THAN ENOUGH LIE QUIET. THE COMMANDANT ROUSED FROM SLUMBER TOLD MISTER NORTH THAT KIRKLAND MIGHT STOP WHERE HE WAS AND THAT HE'D THANK THE CHAPLAIN NOT TO WAKE HIM UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT BECAUSE A BLANK PRISONER SET UP A BLANK HOWLING. BUT MY GOOD SIR PROTESTED NORTH RESTRAINING HIS IMPULSE TO OVERSTEP THE BOUNDS OF MODESTY IN HIS LANGUAGE TO HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER YOU KNOW THE CHARACTER OF THE MEN IN THAT WARD. YOU CAN GUESS WHAT THAT UNHAPPY BOY HAS SUFFERED. IMPERTINENT YOUNG BEGGAR SAID BURGESS. DO HIM GOOD CURSE HIM. MISTER NORTH I'M SORRY YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD THE TROUBLE TO COME HERE BUT WILL YOU LET ME GO TO SLEEP. NORTH RETURNED TO THE PRISON DISCONSOLATELY FOUND THE DUTIFUL HAILES AT HIS POST AND ALL QUIET. WHAT'S BECOME OF KIRKLAND HE ASKED. FRETTED HISSELF TO SLEEP YER REVERENCE SAID HAILES IN ACCENTS OF PARENTAL CONCERN POOR YOUNG CHAP. IT'S HARD FOR SUCH YOUNG UNS. IN THE MORNING RUFUS DAWES COMING TO HIS PLACE ON THE CHAIN GANG WAS STRUCK BY THE ALTERED APPEARANCE OF KIRKLAND. IT'S NO GOOD BEING IN THE MOPES YOU KNOW. WHAT DO THEY DO IF YOU TRY TO BOLT WHISPERED KIRKLAND. KILL YOU RETURNED DAWES IN A TONE OF SURPRISE AT SO PREPOSTEROUS A QUESTION. THANK GOD SAID KIRKLAND. NOW THEN MISS NANCY SAID ONE OF THE MEN WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU. KIRKLAND SHUDDERED AND HIS PALE FACE GREW CRIMSON. OH HE SAID THAT SUCH A WRETCH AS I SHOULD LIVE SILENCE CRIED TROKE. THE WORK OF THE GANG THAT AFTERNOON WAS THE CARRYING OF SOME HEAVY LOGS TO THE WATER SIDE AND RUFUS DAWES OBSERVED THAT KIRKLAND WAS EXHAUSTED LONG BEFORE THE TASK WAS ACCOMPLISHED. THEY'LL KILL YOU YOU LITTLE BEGGAR SAID HE NOT UNKINDLY. WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING TO GET INTO THIS SCRAPE. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN THAT THAT PLACE I WAS IN LAST NIGHT ASKED KIRKLAND. RUFUS DAWES NODDED. DOES THE COMMANDANT KNOW WHAT GOES ON THERE I SUPPOSE SO. WHAT DOES HE CARE CARE. MAN DO YOU BELIEVE IN A GOD. NO SAID DAWES NOT HERE HOLD UP MY LAD. IF YOU FALL WE MUST FALL OVER YOU AND THEN YOU'RE DONE FOR. HE HAD HARDLY UTTERED THE WORDS WHEN THE BOY FLUNG HIMSELF BENEATH THE LOG. IN ANOTHER INSTANT THE TRAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN SCRAMBLING OVER HIS CRUSHED BODY HAD NOT GABBETT STRETCHED OUT AN IRON HAND AND PLUCKED THE WOULD BE SUICIDE FROM DEATH. HOLD ON TO ME MISS NANCY SAID THE GIANT I'M BIG ENOUGH TO CARRY DOUBLE. SOMETHING IN THE TONE OR MANNER OF THE SPEAKER AFFECTED KIRKLAND TO DISGUST FOR SPURNING THE OFFERED HAND HE UTTERED A CRY AND THEN HOLDING UP HIS IRONS WITH HIS HANDS HE STARTED TO RUN FOR THE WATER. HALT YOU YOUNG FOOL ROARED TROKE RAISING HIS CARBINE. BUT KIRKLAND KEPT STEADILY ON FOR THE RIVER. JUST AS HE REACHED IT HOWEVER THE FIGURE OF MISTER NORTH ROSE FROM BEHIND A PILE OF STONES. KIRKLAND JUMPED FOR THE JETTY MISSED HIS FOOTING AND FELL INTO THE ARMS OF THE CHAPLAIN. YOU YOUNG VERMIN YOU SHALL PAY FOR THIS CRIES TROKE. YOU'LL SEE IF YOU WON'T REMEMBER THIS DAY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4943/4943_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4943/4943_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6bb74b8ea072355f60de47b29d4418fcc550ce8d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4943/4943_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +OH MISTER NORTH SAYS KIRKLAND WHY DID YOU STOP ME. YOU'LL GET IT MY LAD SAID GABBETT WHEN THE RUNAWAY WAS BROUGHT BACK. KIRKLAND ONLY BREATHED HARDER AND LOOKED ROUND FOR MISTER NORTH BUT MISTER NORTH HAD GONE. THE NEW CHAPLAIN WAS TO ARRIVE THAT AFTERNOON AND IT WAS INCUMBENT ON HIM TO BE AT THE RECEPTION. TROKE REPORTED THE EX BANK CLERK THAT NIGHT TO BURGESS AND BURGESS WHO WAS ABOUT TO GO TO DINNER WITH THE NEW CHAPLAIN DISPOSED OF HIS CASE OUT OF HAND. MUST STOP THAT FIFTY LASHES TROKE. TELL MACKLEWAIN TO BE READY OR STAY I'LL TELL HIM MYSELF I'LL BREAK THE YOUNG DEVIL'S SPIRIT BLANK HIM. YES SIR SAID TROKE GOOD EVENING SIR. TROKE PICK OUT SOME LIKELY MAN WILL YOU. THAT LAST FELLOW YOU HAD OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN TIED UP HIMSELF. HIS FLOGGING WOULDN'T HAVE KILLED A FLEA. YOU CAN'T GET EM TO WARM ONE ANOTHER YOUR HONOUR SAYS TROKE THEY WON'T DO IT. OH YES THEY WILL THOUGH SAYS BURGESS OR I'LL KNOW THE REASON WHY. I WON'T HAVE MY MEN KNOCKED UP WITH FLOGGING THESE RASCALS. IF THE SCOURGER WON'T DO HIS DUTY TIE HIM UP AND GIVE HIM FIVE AND TWENTY FOR HIMSELF. I'LL BE DOWN IN THE MORNING MYSELF IF I CAN. VERY GOOD YOUR HONOUR SAYS TROKE. KIRKLAND WAS PUT INTO A SEPARATE CELL THAT NIGHT AND TROKE BY WAY OF ASSURING HIM A GOOD NIGHT'S REST TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS TO HAVE FIFTY IN THE MORNING. AND DAWES'LL LAY IT ON HE ADDED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..464a07993921916675ecb8fe3fb1395f09742cc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I THOUGHT IT WAS A LITTLE PARADISE SAID MEEKIN. CAPTAIN FRERE SAYS THAT THE SCENERY IS DELIGHTFUL. POOR ABANDONED WRETCHES SAYS MEEKIN I SUPPOSE NOT. HOW SWEET THE MOONLIGHT SLEEPS UPON THAT BANK. ABANDONED INDEED BY GOD AND MAN ALMOST. MISTER NORTH PROVIDENCE NEVER ABANDONS THE MOST UNWORTHY OF HIS SERVANTS. NEVER HAVE I SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN NOR HIS SEED BEGGING THEIR BREAD. IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH HE IS WITH US. HIS STAFF YOU KNOW MISTER NORTH REALLY THE COMMANDANT'S HOUSE IS CHARMINGLY SITUATED. MISTER NORTH SIGHED AGAIN. YOU HAVE NOT BEEN LONG IN THE COLONY MISTER MEEKIN. I DOUBT FORGIVE ME FOR EXPRESSING MYSELF SO FREELY IF YOU QUITE KNOW OF OUR CONVICT SYSTEM. AN ADMIRABLE ONE A MOST ADMIRABLE ONE SAID MEEKIN. THERE WERE A FEW MATTERS I NOTICED IN HOBART TOWN THAT DID NOT QUITE PLEASE ME THE FREQUENT USE OF PROFANE LANGUAGE FOR INSTANCE BUT ON THE WHOLE I WAS DELIGHTED WITH THE SCHEME IT IS SO COMPLETE. NORTH PURSED UP HIS LIPS. YES IT IS VERY COMPLETE HE SAID ALMOST TOO COMPLETE. BUT I AM ALWAYS IN A MINORITY WHEN I DISCUSS THE QUESTION SO WE WILL DROP IT IF YOU PLEASE. IF YOU PLEASE SAID MEEKIN GRAVELY. HE HAD HEARD FROM THE BISHOP THAT MISTER NORTH WAS AN ILL CONDITIONED SORT OF PERSON WHO SMOKED CLAY PIPES HAD BEEN DETECTED IN DRINKING BEER OUT OF A PEWTER POT AND HAD BEEN HEARD TO STATE THAT WHITE NECK CLOTHS WERE OF NO CONSEQUENCE. THE DINNER WENT OFF SUCCESSFULLY. BURGESS DESIROUS PERHAPS OF FAVOURABLY IMPRESSING THE CHAPLAIN WHOM THE BISHOP DELIGHTED TO HONOUR SHUT OFF HIS BLASPHEMY FOR A WHILE AND WAS URBANE ENOUGH. YOU'LL FIND US ROUGH MISTER MEEKIN HE SAID BUT YOU'LL FIND US ALL THERE WHEN WE'RE WANTED. THIS IS A LITTLE KINGDOM IN ITSELF. CAPTAIN BURGESS HAD NEVER HEARD OF BERANGER BUT HE SMILED AS IF HE HAD LEARNT HIS WORDS BY HEART. OR LIKE SANCHO PANZA'S ISLAND SAID NORTH. YOU REMEMBER HOW JUSTICE WAS ADMINISTERED THERE. NOT AT THIS MOMENT SIR SAID BURGESS WITH DIGNITY. HE HAD BEEN OFTEN OPPRESSED BY THE NOTION THAT THE REVEREND MISTER NORTH CHAFFED HIM. PRAY HELP YOURSELF TO WINE. THANK YOU NONE SAID NORTH FILLING A TUMBLER WITH WATER I HAVE A HEADACHE. HIS MANNER OF SPEECH AND ACTION WAS SO AWKWARD THAT A SILENCE FELL UPON THE PARTY CAUSED BY EACH ONE WONDERING WHY MISTER NORTH SHOULD GROW CONFUSED AND DRUM HIS FINGERS ON THE TABLE AND STARE EVERYWHERE BUT AT THE DECANTER. MEEKIN EVER SOFTLY AT HIS EASE WAS THE FIRST TO SPEAK. HAVE YOU MANY VISITORS CAPTAIN BURGESS VERY FEW. SOMETIMES A PARTY COMES OVER WITH A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE GOVERNOR AND I SHOW THEM OVER THE PLACE BUT AS A RULE WE SEE NO ONE BUT OURSELVES. I ASKED SAID MEEKIN BECAUSE SOME FRIENDS OF MINE WERE THINKING OF COMING AND WHO MAY THEY BE. DO YOU KNOW CAPTAIN FRERE. I WAS QUARTERED WITH HIM AT SARAH ISLAND. SO HE'S A FRIEND OF YOURS EH. I HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING HIM IN SOCIETY. HE IS JUST MARRIED YOU KNOW IS HE SAID BURGESS. THE DEVIL HE IS I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT IT TOO. MISS VICKERS A CHARMING YOUNG PERSON. CAPTAIN FRERE TAKES A DEEP INTEREST IN ALL RELATING TO CONVICT DISCIPLINE WENT ON MEEKIN UNHEEDING THE INTERRUPTION AND IS ANXIOUS THAT MISSUS FRERE SHOULD SEE THIS PLACE. YES ONE OUGHTN'T TO LEAVE THE COLONY WITHOUT SEEING IT SAYS BURGESS IT'S WORTH SEEING. SO CAPTAIN FRERE THINKS. A ROMANTIC STORY CAPTAIN BURGESS HE SAVED HER LIFE YOU KNOW. AH THAT WAS A QUEER THING THAT MUTINY SAID BURGESS. WE'VE GOT THE FELLOWS HERE YOU KNOW. I SAW THEM TRIED AT HOBART TOWN SAID MEEKIN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b1a81e8188396e76f0101ec1468e099fa5e2a18 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IN FACT THE RINGLEADER JOHN REX GAVE ME HIS CONFESSION AND I SENT IT TO THE BISHOP. A GREAT RASCAL PUT IN NORTH. A DANGEROUS SCHEMING COLD BLOODED VILLAIN. WELL NOW SAID MEEKIN WITH ASPERITY I DON'T AGREE WITH YOU. EVERYBODY SEEMS TO BE AGAINST THAT POOR FELLOW CAPTAIN FRERE TRIED TO MAKE ME THINK THAT HIS LETTERS CONTAINED A HIDDEN MEANING BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THEY DID. HE SEEMS TO ME TO BE TRULY PENITENT FOR HIS OFFENCES A MISGUIDED BUT NOT A HYPOCRITICAL MAN IF MY KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE GOES FOR ANYTHING I HOPE HE IS SAID NORTH. I WOULDN'T TRUST HIM OH. THERE'S NO FEAR OF HIM SAID BURGESS CHEERILY IF HE GROWS UPROARIOUS WE'LL SOON GIVE HIM A TOUCH OF THE CAT. I SUPPOSE SEVERITY IS NECESSARY RETURNED MEEKIN THOUGH TO MY EARS A FLOGGING SOUNDS A LITTLE DISTASTEFUL. IT IS A BRUTAL PUNISHMENT. IT'S A PUNISHMENT FOR BRUTES SAID BURGESS AND LAUGHED PLEASED WITH THE NEAREST APPROACH TO AN EPIGRAM HE EVER MADE IN HIS LIFE. HERE ATTENTION WAS CALLED BY THE STRANGE BEHAVIOUR OF MISTER NORTH. HE HAD RISEN AND WITHOUT APOLOGY FLUNG WIDE THE WINDOW AS THOUGH HE GASPED FOR AIR. HULLO NORTH WHAT'S THE MATTER. NOTHING SAID NORTH RECOVERING HIMSELF WITH AN EFFORT A SPASM. I HAVE THESE ATTACKS AT TIMES. HAVE SOME BRANDY SAID BURGESS. NO NO IT WILL PASS NO I SAY. AND SEIZING THE TUMBLER OFFERED TO HIM HE HALF FILLED IT WITH RAW SPIRIT AND SWALLOWED THE FIERY DRAUGHT AT A GULP. THE REVEREND MEEKIN EYED HIS CLERICAL BROTHER WITH HORROR THE REVEREND MEEKIN WAS NOT ACCUSTOMED TO CLERGYMEN WHO WORE BLACK NECKTIES SMOKED CLAY PIPES CHEWED TOBACCO AND DRANK NEAT BRANDY OUT OF TUMBLERS. HA SAID NORTH LOOKING WILDLY ROUND UPON THEM THAT'S BETTER. LET US GO ON TO THE VERANDAH SAID BURGESS IT'S COOLER THAN IN THE HOUSE. SO THEY WENT ON TO THE VERANDAH AND LOOKED DOWN UPON THE LIGHTS OF THE PRISON AND LISTENED TO THE SEA LAPPING THE SHORE. THE REVEREND MISTER NORTH IN THIS COOL ATMOSPHERE SEEMED TO RECOVER HIMSELF AND CONVERSATION PROGRESSED WITH SOME SPRIGHTLINESS. BY AND BY A SHORT FIGURE SMOKING A CHEROOT CAME UP OUT OF THE DARK AND PROVED TO BE DOCTOR MACKLEWAIN WHO HAD BEEN PREVENTED FROM ATTENDING THE DINNER BY REASON OF AN ACCIDENT TO A CONSTABLE AT NORFOLK BAY WHICH HAD CLAIMED HIS PROFESSIONAL ATTENTION. WELL HOW'S FORREST CRIED BURGESS. MISTER MEEKIN DOCTOR MACKLEWAIN. DEAD SAID DOCTOR MACKLEWAIN. DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU MISTER MEEKIN. CONFOUND IT ANOTHER OF MY BEST MEN GRUMBLED BURGESS. MACKLEWAIN HAVE A GLASS OF WINE. BUT MACKLEWAIN WAS TIRED AND WANTED TO GET HOME. COME ON THEN SAID NORTH. OUR ROADS LIE TOGETHER DOCTOR. YOU WON'T HAVE A NIP OF BRANDY BEFORE YOU START ASKED BURGESS NO. THEN I SHALL SEND ROUND FOR YOU IN THE MORNING MISTER MEEKIN GOOD NIGHT. MACKLEWAIN I WANT TO SPEAK WITH YOU A MOMENT. BEFORE THE TWO CLERGYMEN HAD GOT HALF WAY DOWN THE STEEP PATH THAT LED FROM THE COMMANDANT'S HOUSE TO THE FLAT ON WHICH THE COTTAGES OF THE DOCTOR AND CHAPLAIN WERE BUILT MACKLEWAIN REJOINED THEM. ANOTHER FLOGGING TO MORROW SAID HE GRUMBLINGLY. UP AT DAYLIGHT I SUPPOSE AGAIN. WHOM IS HE GOING TO FLOG NOW. THAT YOUNG BUTLER FELLOW OF HIS. WHAT KIRKLAND CRIED NORTH. YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAY HE'S GOING TO FLOG KIRKLAND. INSUBORDINATION SAYS MACKLEWAIN FIFTY LASHES. OH THIS MUST BE STOPPED CRIED NORTH IN GREAT ALARM HE CAN'T STAND IT. I TELL YOU HE'LL DIE MACKLEWAIN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bfa5fcb339ee91874fdfb790eb554fcfb9a23c5d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +PERHAPS YOU'LL HAVE THE GOODNESS TO ALLOW ME TO BE THE BEST JUDGE OF THAT RETURNED MACKLEWAIN DRAWING UP HIS LITTLE BODY TO ITS LEAST INSIGNIFICANT STATURE. MY DEAR SIR REPLIED NORTH ALIVE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF CONCILIATING THE SURGEON YOU HAVEN'T SEEN HIM LATELY. HE TRIED TO DROWN HIMSELF THIS MORNING. MISTER MEEKIN EXPRESSED SOME ALARM BUT DOCTOR MACKLEWAIN RE ASSURED HIM. THAT SORT OF NONSENSE MUST BE STOPPED SAID HE A NICE EXAMPLE TO SET. I WONDER BURGESS DIDN'T GIVE HIM A HUNDRED. HE WAS PUT INTO THE LONG DORMITORY SAID NORTH YOU KNOW WHAT SORT OF A PLACE THAT IS. I DECLARE TO HEAVEN HIS AGONY AND SHAME TERRIFIED ME. WELL HE'LL BE PUT INTO THE HOSPITAL FOR A WEEK OR SO TO MORROW SAID MACKLEWAIN AND THAT'LL GIVE HIM A SPELL. IF BURGESS FLOGS HIM I'LL REPORT IT TO THE GOVERNOR CRIES NORTH IN GREAT HEAT. THE CONDITION OF THOSE DORMITORIES IS INFAMOUS. IF THE BOY HAS ANYTHING TO COMPLAIN OF WHY DON'T HE COMPLAIN. WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT EVIDENCE COMPLAIN. WOULD HIS LIFE BE SAFE IF HE DID. BESIDES HE'S NOT THE SORT OF CREATURE TO COMPLAIN HE'D RATHER KILL HIMSELF. THAT'S ALL NONSENSE SAYS MACKLEWAIN. WE CAN'T FLOG A WHOLE DORMITORY ON SUSPICION I CAN'T HELP IT. THE BOY'S MADE HIS BED AND HE MUST LIE ON IT. I'LL GO BACK AND SEE BURGESS SAID NORTH. MISTER MEEKIN HERE'S THE GATE AND YOUR ROOM IS ON THE RIGHT HAND I'LL BE BACK SHORTLY. PRAY DON'T HURRY SAID MEEKIN POLITELY. YOU ARE ON AN ERRAND OF MERCY YOU KNOW EVERYTHING MUST GIVE WAY TO THAT. I SHALL FIND MY PORTMANTEAU IN MY ROOM YOU SAID YES YES. CALL THE SERVANT IF YOU WANT ANYTHING. HE SLEEPS AT THE BACK AND NORTH HURRIED OFF. AN IMPULSIVE GENTLEMAN SAID MEEKIN TO MACKLEWAIN AS THE SOUND OF MISTER NORTH'S FOOTSTEPS DIED AWAY IN THE DISTANCE. MACKLEWAIN SHOOK HIS HEAD SERIOUSLY. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT HIM BUT I CAN'T MAKE OUT WHAT IT IS. HE HAS THE STRANGEST FITS AT TIMES. UNLESS IT'S A CANCER IN THE STOMACH I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT CAN BE CANCER IN THE STOMACH. DEAR ME HOW DREADFUL SAYS MEEKIN AH. DOCTOR WE ALL HAVE OUR CROSSES HAVE WE NOT. HOW DELIGHTFUL THE GRASS SMELLS. THIS SEEMS A VERY PLEASANT PLACE AND I THINK I SHALL ENJOY MYSELF VERY MUCH GOOD NIGHT. GOOD NIGHT SIR I HOPE YOU WILL BE COMFORTABLE. AND LET US HOPE POOR MISTER NORTH WILL SUCCEED IN HIS LABOUR OF LOVE SAID MEEKIN SHUTTING THE LITTLE GATE AND SAVE THE UNFORTUNATE KIRKLAND GOOD NIGHT ONCE MORE. CAPTAIN BURGESS WAS SHUTTING HIS VERANDAH WINDOW WHEN NORTH HURRIED UP. CAPTAIN BURGESS MACKLEWAIN TELLS ME YOU ARE GOING TO FLOG KIRKLAND. WELL SIR WHAT OF THAT SAID BURGESS. I HAVE COME TO BEG YOU NOT TO DO SO SIR. THE LAD HAS BEEN CRUELLY PUNISHED ALREADY. HE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TO DAY UNHAPPY CREATURE. WELL THAT'S JUST WHAT I'M FLOGGING HIM FOR. I'LL TEACH MY PRISONERS TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE. BUT HE CAN'T STAND IT SIR HE'S TOO WEAK. THAT'S MACKLEWAIN'S BUSINESS. CAPTAIN BURGESS PROTESTED NORTH I ASSURE YOU THAT HE DOES NOT DESERVE PUNISHMENT. I HAVE SEEN HIM AND HIS CONDITION OF MIND IS PITIABLE. LOOK HERE MISTER NORTH I DON'T INTERFERE WITH WHAT YOU DO TO THE PRISONER'S SOULS DON'T YOU INTERFERE WITH WHAT I DO TO THEIR BODIES. CAPTAIN BURGESS YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO MOCK AT MY OFFICE. THEN DON'T YOU INTERFERE WITH ME SIR. DO YOU PERSIST IN HAVING THIS BOY FLOGGED. I'VE GIVEN MY ORDERS SIR. THEN CAPTAIN BURGESS CRIED NORTH HIS PALE FACE FLUSHING I TELL YOU THE BOY'S BLOOD WILL BE ON YOUR HEAD. I AM A MINISTER OF GOD SIR AND I FORBID YOU TO COMMIT THIS CRIME. DAMN YOUR IMPERTINENCE SIR BURST OUT BURGESS. YOU'RE A DISMISSED OFFICER OF THE GOVERNMENT SIR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26bfc196587b5bd2eaf86c1864c27d4e3461a9a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +YOU'VE NO AUTHORITY HERE IN ANY WAY AND BY GOD SIR IF YOU INTERFERE WITH MY DISCIPLINE SIR I'LL HAVE YOU PUT IN IRONS UNTIL YOU'RE SHIPPED OUT OF THE ISLAND. THIS OF COURSE WAS MERE BRAVADO ON THE PART OF THE COMMANDANT. NORTH KNEW WELL THAT HE WOULD NEVER DARE TO ATTEMPT ANY SUCH ACT OF VIOLENCE BUT THE INSULT STUNG HIM LIKE THE CUT OF A WHIP. HE MADE A STRIDE TOWARDS THE COMMANDANT AS THOUGH TO SEIZE HIM BY THE THROAT BUT CHECKING HIMSELF IN TIME STOOD STILL WITH CLENCHED HANDS FLASHING EYES AND BEARD THAT BRISTLED. THE TWO MEN LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND PRESENTLY BURGESS'S EYES FELL BEFORE THOSE OF THE CHAPLAIN. BURGESS WHITE WITH RAGE RANG THE BELL THAT SUMMONED HIS CONVICT SERVANT. SHOW MISTER NORTH OUT HE SAID AND GO DOWN TO THE BARRACKS AND TELL TROKE THAT KIRKLAND IS TO HAVE A HUNDRED LASHES TO MORROW. I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S MASTER HERE MY GOOD SIR. I'LL REPORT THIS TO THE GOVERNMENT SAID NORTH AGHAST. THIS IS MURDEROUS. THE GOVERNMENT MAY GO TO AND YOU TOO ROARED BURGESS GET OUT. AND GOD'S VICEREGENT AT PORT ARTHUR SLAMMED THE DOOR. NORTH RETURNED HOME IN GREAT AGITATION. THEY SHALL NOT FLOG THAT BOY HE SAID. I'LL SHIELD HIM WITH MY OWN BODY IF NECESSARY. I'LL REPORT THIS TO THE GOVERNMENT. I'LL SEE SIR JOHN FRANKLIN MYSELF. I'LL HAVE THE LIGHT OF DAY LET INTO THIS DEN OF HORRORS. NORTH TOOK DOWN A BOOK FROM THE SHELF AND TRIED TO READ BUT THE LETTERS RAN TOGETHER. I WISH I HADN'T TAKEN THAT BRANDY HE SAID FOOL THAT I AM. THEN HE BEGAN TO WALK UP AND DOWN TO FLING HIMSELF ON THE SOFA TO READ TO PRAY. OH GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH AID ME HELP ME. I STRUGGLE BUT I AM WEAK. O LORD LOOK DOWN UPON ME. TO SEE HIM ROLLING ON THE SOFA IN AGONY TO SEE HIS WHITE FACE HIS PARCHED LIPS AND HIS CONTRACTED BROW TO HEAR HIS MOANS AND MUTTERED PRAYERS ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HIM SUFFERING FROM THE PANGS OF SOME TERRIBLE DISEASE. HE OPENED THE BOOK AGAIN AND FORCED HIMSELF TO READ BUT HIS EYES WANDERED TO THE CUPBOARD. THERE LURKED SOMETHING THAT FASCINATED HIM. HE GOT UP AT LENGTH WENT INTO THE KITCHEN AND FOUND A PACKET OF RED PEPPER. HE MIXED A TEASPOONFUL OF THIS IN A PANNIKIN OF WATER AND DRANK IT. IT RELIEVED HIM FOR A WHILE. I MUST KEEP MY WITS FOR TO MORROW. MEEKIN TOO WILL SUSPECT I WILL LIE DOWN. HE WENT INTO HIS BEDROOM AND FLUNG HIMSELF ON THE BED BUT ONLY TO TOSS FROM SIDE TO SIDE. SLEEP WOULD NOT COME TO HIM. IT WAS AS THOUGH HE HAD REACHED THE CRISIS OF A DISEASE WHICH HAD BEEN FOR DAYS GATHERING FORCE. I MUST HAVE A TEASPOONFUL HE SAID TO ALLAY THE CRAVING. TWICE HE PAUSED ON THE WAY TO THE SITTING ROOM AND TWICE WAS HE DRIVEN ON BY A POWER STRONGER THAN HIS WILL. HE REACHED IT AT LENGTH AND OPENING THE CUPBOARD PULLED OUT WHAT HE SOUGHT A BOTTLE OF BRANDY. WITH THIS IN HIS HAND ALL MODERATION VANISHED. HE RAISED IT TO HIS LIPS AND EAGERLY DRANK. THEN ASHAMED OF WHAT HE HAD DONE HE THRUST THE BOTTLE BACK AND MADE FOR HIS ROOM STILL HE COULD NOT SLEEP. THE TASTE OF THE LIQUOR MADDENED HIM FOR MORE. HE SAW IN THE DARKNESS THE BRANDY BOTTLE VULGAR AND TERRIBLE APPARITION. HE SAW ITS AMBER FLUID SPARKLE. HE HEARD IT GURGLE AS HE POURED IT OUT. HE SMELT THE NUTTY AROMA OF THE SPIRIT. HE PICTURED IT STANDING IN THE CORNER OF THE CUPBOARD AND IMAGINED HIMSELF SEIZING IT AND QUENCHING THE FIRE THAT BURNED WITHIN HIM. HE WEPT HE PRAYED HE FOUGHT WITH HIS DESIRE AS WITH A MADNESS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0004.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c11789f9b202c23f3ef7ba1757c7a60abe8dcbdf --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3752/4944/4944_0004.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THAT AT ALL TIMES DEBASING AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME IT WAS INFAMOUS THAT A VICE UNWORTHY OF ANY MAN WAS DOUBLY SINFUL IN A MAN OF EDUCATION AND A MINISTER OF GOD IN VAIN. IN THE MIDST OF HIS ARGUMENTS HE FOUND HIMSELF AT THE CUPBOARD WITH THE BOTTLE AT HIS LIPS IN AN ATTITUDE THAT WAS AT ONCE LUDICROUS AND HORRIBLE. HE HAD NO CANCER. HIS DISEASE WAS A MORE TERRIBLE ONE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3853/163249/163249_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3853/163249/163249_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17be9cefa01cb53615e7c323d8b1ea4eb41801d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3853/163249/163249_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +YOU SEE HOW MISTAKEN WE WERE AND GOD ONLY KNOWS WHEN THE END WILL COME. THE BOYS BLESS THEIR BRAVE HEARTS HAVE DONE NOBLY BUT OLDER MEN ARE NEEDED NOW WE CANNOT SACRIFICE ALL THE GALLANT LADS AND WE WHO HAVE MORE TO LOSE THAN THEY MUST TAKE OUR TURN AND TRY TO DO AS WELL. YOU OWN THIS I SEE IT IN YOUR FACES THEN DON'T HOLD ME BACK WHEN THE TIME COMES FOR ME TO GO. I MUST DO MY PART HOWEVER SMALL IT IS OR I SHALL NEVER FEEL AS IF I DESERVED THE LOVE YOU GIVE ME. YOU WILL LET ME GO I AM SURE AND NOT REGRET THAT I DID WHAT SEEMED TO ME A SOLEMN DUTY LEAVING THE CONSEQUENCES TO THE LORD. YES DAVID SISTER AND SWEETHEART ANSWERED BRAVELY FORGETTING IN THE FERVOR OF THE MOMENT WHAT HEAVY CONSEQUENCES GOD MIGHT SEE FIT TO SEND GOOD. I KNEW MY SPARTANS WOULD BE READY AND I WON'T DISGRACE THEM. BENNET WILL TAKE THE GARDEN AND GREEN HOUSE OFF MY HANDS THIS AUTUMN FOR A YEAR OR LONGER IF I LIKE. HE'S A KIND NEIGHBORLY MAN AND HIS BOY WILL TAKE MY PLACE ABOUT THE HOUSE AND PROTECT YOU FAITHFULLY. ONLY ONE DAUGHTER NEAR HER DAVID I SHALL ENLIST WHEN YOU DO SAID CHRISTIE RESOLUTELY YOU MEAN IT. I MEAN IT AS HONESTLY AS YOU DO. I KNEW YOU WOULD GO I SAW YOU GETTING READY AND I MADE UP MY MIND TO FOLLOW. I TOO HAVE PREPARED FOR IT AND EVEN SPOKEN TO MISSUS AMORY. SHE HAS GONE AS MATRON OF A HOSPITAL AND PROMISED TO FIND A PLACE FOR ME WHEN I WAS READY. DEAR OUGHT I TO LET YOU DO IT. YOU WILL LET ME DO IT AND IN RETURN I WILL MARRY YOU WHENEVER YOU ASK ME ANSWERED CHRISTIE SEALING THE PROMISE WITH A KISS THAT SILENCED HIM. HE HAD BEEN ANXIOUS TO BE MARRIED LONG AGO BUT WHEN HE ASKED MISTER POWER TO MAKE HIM HAPPY A MONTH AFTER HIS ENGAGEMENT THAT WISE FRIEND SAID TO THEM I DON'T ADVISE IT YET. YOU HAVE TRIED AND PROVED ONE ANOTHER AS FRIENDS NOW TRY AND PROVE ONE ANOTHER AS LOVERS THEN IF YOU FEEL THAT ALL IS SAFE AND HAPPY YOU WILL BE READY FOR THE GREATEST OF THE THREE EXPERIMENTS AND THEN IN GOD'S NAME MARRY. WE WILL THEY SAID AND FOR A YEAR HAD BEEN CONTENT STUDYING ONE ANOTHER FINDING MUCH TO LOVE AND SOMETHING TO LEARN IN THE ART OF BEARING AND FORBEARING. SHE NEVER HAD YET AND NOW RESOLVED TO ASK NOTHING BUT TO EARN HER BLESSING BY DOING HER SHARE IN THE GREAT WORK. I SHALL REMEMBER THAT WAS ALL DAVID ANSWERED TO THAT LAST PROMISE OF HERS AND THREE MONTHS LATER HE TOOK HER AT HER WORD. FOR A WEEK OR TWO THEY WENT ON IN THE OLD WAY CHRISTIE DID HER HOUSEWORK WITH HER HEAD FULL OF NEW PLANS READ BOOKS ON NURSING MADE GRUEL PLASTERS AND POULTICES TILL MISSUS STERLING PRONOUNCED HER PERFECT AND DREAMED DREAMS OF A HAPPY TIME TO COME WHEN PEACE HAD RETURNED AND DAVID WAS SAFE AT HOME WITH ALL THE STARS AND BARS A MAN COULD WIN WITHOUT DYING FOR THEM. ONE SEPTEMBER DAY HE WENT SLOWLY HOME AND SEEING CHRISTIE IN THE GARDEN JOINED HER HELPED HER FINISH MATTING UP SOME DELICATE SHRUBS PUT BY THE TOOLS AND WHEN ALL WAS DONE SAID WITH UNUSUAL GENTLENESS. COME AND WALK A LITTLE IN THE LANE. SHE PUT HER ARM IN HIS AND ANSWERED QUICKLY. YOU'VE SOMETHING TO TELL ME I SEE IT IN YOUR FACE DEAR I MUST GO. YES DAVID AND YOU. I GO TOO YES CHRISTIE. THAT WAS ALL SHE DID NOT OFFER TO DETAIN HIM NOW HE DID NOT DENY HER RIGHT TO FOLLOW. THEY LOOKED EACH OTHER BRAVELY IN THE FACE A MOMENT SEEING ACKNOWLEDGING THE DUTY AND THE DANGER YET READY TO DO THE ONE AND DARE THE OTHER SINCE THEY WENT TOGETHER. THEN SHOULDER TO SHOULDER AS IF ALREADY MUSTERED IN THESE FAITHFUL COMRADES MARCHED TO AND FRO PLANNING THEIR CAMPAIGN. NEXT EVENING AS MISSUS STERLING SAT ALONE IN THE TWILIGHT A TALL MAN IN ARMY BLUE ENTERED QUIETLY STOOD WATCHING THE TRANQUIL FIGURE FOR A MOMENT THEN WENT AND KNELT DOWN BESIDE IT SAYING WITH A MOST UNSOLDIERLY CHOKE IN THE VOICE. I'VE DONE IT MOTHER TELL ME YOU'RE NOT SORRY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3853/163249/163249_0004.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3853/163249/163249_0004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..60749b00e3070eabb80b7e89d5e600030f774eda --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3853/163249/163249_0004.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ANYWAY I SHALL STINT THE FAMILY AND SEND THEM DEAR BRAVE FELLERS EVERY CENT I CAN GIT WITHOUT STARVIN THE CHILDREN. NOW CYNTHY DON'T BE FERCE. HE SAID NO MORE BUT FELL A THINKING. HE WAS NOT AS UNMOVED AS HE SEEMED BY THE GENERAL EXCITEMENT AND HAD FELT SUNDRY MANLY IMPULSES TO UP AND AT EM WHEN HIS COMRADES IN THE SHOP DISCUSSED THE CRISIS WITH IREFUL BRANDISHING OF AWLS AND VENGEFUL POUNDING OF SOLE LEATHER AS IF THE REBELS WERE UNDER THE HAMMER. NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM AND WHEN FOOD FELL SHORT PATRIOTISM HAD A CHANCE TO FILL THE ACHING VOID. AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARED HOWEVER AND THE GOOD WOMAN TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT TO STRIKE ONE LAST BLOW. LISHA SAT EATING A LATE BREAKFAST ONE MORNING WITH A SMALL SON AT EITHER ELBOW WAITING FOR STRAY MOUTHFULS AND COMMITTING PETTY LARCENIES RIGHT AND LEFT FOR PA WAS IN A BROWN STUDY. MISSUS WILKINS WAS FRYING FLAP JACKS AND THOUGH THIS IS NOT CONSIDERED AN HEROICAL EMPLOYMENT SHE MADE IT SO THAT DAY. THIS WAS A FAVORITE DISH OF LISHA'S AND SHE HAD PREPARED IT AS A BAIT FOR THIS CAUTIOUS FISH. TO SAY THAT THE FISH ROSE AT ONCE AND SWALLOWED THE BAIT HOOK AND ALL BUT FEEBLY EXPRESSES THE JUSTICE DONE TO THE CAKES BY THAT LONG SUFFERING MAN. WAITING TILL HE HAD A TEMPTING PILE OF THE LIGHTEST BROWNEST FLAPJACKS EVER SEEN UPON HIS PLATE AND WAS WATCHING AN EXTRA BIG BIT OF BUTTER MELT LUXURIOUSLY INTO THE WARM BOSOM OF THE UPPER ONE WITH A FACE AS BENIGN AS IF SOME OF THE MOLASSES HE WAS TRICKLING OVER THEM HAD BEEN ABSORBED INTO HIS NATURE MISSUS WILKINS SEIZED THE PROPITIOUS MOMENT TO SAY IMPRESSIVELY. DAVID STERLIN HAS ENLISTED. WELL HE AIN'T GOT A FAMILY YOU SEE. EVERY ONE GIVES SOMETHIN I'VE ONLY GOT YOU AND I WANT TO DO MY SHARE AND DO IT HEARTY. IMAGINE HER DISMAY WHEN HAVING CONSUMED THE BAIT HER FISH GAVE SIGNS OF BREAKING THE LINE AND ESCAPING AFTER ALL FOR MISTER WILKINS PUSHED BACK HIS CHAIR AND SAID SLOWLY AS HE FILLED HIS PIPE. I'M BLEST EF I CAN SEE THE SENSE OF A LOT OF DECENT MEN GOING OFF TO BE FROZE AND STARVED AND BLOWED UP JEST FOR THEM CONFOUNDED NIGGERS. CAN YOU REMEMBER WHAT HEPSEY TOLD US AND CALL THEM POOR LONG SUFFERIN CREETERS NAMES. LISHA WILKINS LOOK AT THAT AND SAY NO EF YOU DARST. ONLY HEPSEY SITTING BY A BED WHERE LAY WHAT LOOKED MORE LIKE A SHRIVELLED MUMMY THAN A WOMAN. AH BUT IT WAS THAT OLD MOTHER WORKED AND WAITED FOR SO LONG BLIND NOW AND DEAF CHILDISH AND HALF DEAD WITH MANY HARDSHIPS BUT SAFE AND FREE AT LAST AND HEPSEY'S BLACK FACE WAS FULL OF A PRIDE A PEACE AND HAPPINESS MORE ELOQUENT AND TOUCHING THAN ANY SPEECH OR SERMON EVER UTTERED. HE'S A COMIN MA CALLED GUSTY PRESENTLY. NO HE AIN'T IT'S A TRAINER ADDED ANN LIZY. BEFORE MISSUS WILKINS COULD REPLY TO THESE CONFLICTING RUMORS HER HUSBAND WALKED IN LOOKING AS MARTIAL AS HIS HOLLOW CHEST AND THIN LEGS PERMITTED AND TURNING HIS CAP NERVOUSLY IN HIS HANDS SAID HALF PROUDLY HALF REPROACHFULLY. NOW CYNTHY BE YOU SATISFIED. OH MY LISHA I BE I BE. AND THE INCONSISTENT WOMAN FELL UPON HIS BUTTONY BREAST WEEPING COPIOUSLY. IF EVER A MAN WAS PRAISED AND PETTED ADMIRED AND CARESSED IT WAS ELISHA WILKINS THAT DAY. HIS WIFE FED HIM WITH THE FAT OF THE LAND REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES HIS CHILDREN REVOLVED ABOUT HIM WITH TIRELESS CURIOSITY AND WONDER HIS NEIGHBORS FLOCKED IN TO APPLAUD ADVISE AND ADMIRE EVERY ONE TREATED HIM WITH A RESPECT MOST GRATEFUL TO HIS FEELINGS HE WAS AN OBJECT OF INTEREST AND WITH EVERY HOUR HIS IMPORTANCE INCREASED SO THAT BY NIGHT HE FELT LIKE A COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND BORE HIMSELF ACCORDINGLY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3853/163249/163249_0007.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3853/163249/163249_0007.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b54e52c4df5611d34ec7f14e9bed5dea7a84f26 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/3853/163249/163249_0007.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +DAVID AND CHRISTIE WENT SMILING AWAY TOGETHER AND IF THEY SHED ANY TEARS OVER THE BRIEF HAPPINESS NO ONE SAW THEM BUT THE FLOWERS AND THEY LOYALLY KEPT THE SECRET FOLDED UP IN THEIR TENDER HEARTS. MISTER POWER CHEERED THE OLD LADY WHILE LETTY ALWAYS GLAD TO SERVE MADE READY THE LAST MEAL DAVID MIGHT EVER TAKE AT HOME. A VERY SIMPLE LITTLE MARRIAGE FEAST BUT MORE LOVE GOOD WILL AND TENDER WISHES ADORNED THE PLAIN TABLE THAN IS OFTEN FOUND AT WEDDING BREAKFASTS AND BETTER THAN ANY SPEECH OR SONG WAS LETTY'S BROKEN WHISPER AS SHE FOLDED HER ARMS ROUND DAVID'S EMPTY CHAIR WHEN NO ONE SAW HER HEAVEN BLESS AND KEEP AND BRING HIM BACK TO US. HOW TIME WENT THAT DAY THE INEXORABLE CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWELVE SO SOON AND THEN THE MINUTES FLEW TILL ONE WAS AT HAND AND THE LAST WORDS WERE STILL HALF SAID THE LAST GOOD BYES STILL UNUTTERED. I MUST GO CRIED DAVID WITH A SORT OF DESPERATION AS LETTY CLUNG TO ONE ARM CHRISTIE TO THE OTHER. GIVE THE LAST KISS TO MOTHER ADDED LETTY FOLLOWING HER EXAMPLE AND IN ANOTHER MINUTE DAVID WAS GONE. AT THE TURN OF THE LANE HE LOOKED BACK AND SWUNG HIS CAP ALL WAVED THEIR HANDS TO HIM AND THEN HE MARCHED AWAY TO THE GREAT WORK BEFORE HIM LEAVING THOSE LOVING HEARTS TO ASK THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION HOW WILL HE COME HOME. CHRISTIE WAS GOING TO TOWN TO SEE THE REGIMENT OFF AND SOON FOLLOWED WITH MISTER POWER. THEY WENT EARLY TO A CERTAIN FAVORABLE SPOT AND THERE FOUND MISSUS WILKINS WITH HER ENTIRE FAMILY PERCHED UPON A FENCE ON THE SPIKES OF WHICH THEY IMPALED THEMSELVES AT INTERVALS AND HAD TO BE PLUCKED OFF BY THE STOUT GIRL ENGAGED TO ASSIST IN THIS MEMORABLE EXPEDITION. I HEAR DRUMS THEY'RE COMIN CRIED WASH AFTER A LONG HALF HOUR'S WAITING HAD NEARLY DRIVEN HIM FRANTIC. THE TWO YOUNGER BOYS IMMEDIATELY TUMBLED OFF THE FENCE AND WERE WITH DIFFICULTY RESTORED TO THEIR PERCHES. HOLD ON TO ME BEHIND SOMEBODY FOR I MUST SEE EF I DO PITCH INTO THE GUTTER CRIED MISSUS WILKINS WITH A GASP AS SHE WIPED HER EYES ON HER SHAWL CLUTCHED THE RAILING AND STOOD READY TO CHEER BRAVELY WHEN HER CONQUERING HERO CAME. WASH HAD HEARD DRUMS EVERY FIVE MINUTES SINCE HE ARRIVED BUT THIS TIME HE WAS RIGHT AND BEGAN TO CHEER THE INSTANT A RED COCKADE APPEARED AT THE OTHER END OF THE LONG STREET. IT WAS A DIFFERENT SCENE NOW THAN IN THE FIRST ENTHUSIASTIC HOPEFUL DAYS. YOUNG MEN AND ARDENT BOYS FILLED THE RANKS THEN BRAVE BY INSTINCT BURNING WITH LOYAL ZEAL AND BLISSFULLY IGNORANT OF ALL THAT LAY BEFORE THEM. LITTLE OF THE GLAMOUR OF ROMANCE ABOUT THE WAR NOW THEY SAW WHAT IT WAS A LONG HARD TASK AND HERE WERE THE MEN TO DO IT WELL EVEN THE LOOKERS ON WERE DIFFERENT. ONCE ALL WAS WILD ENTHUSIASM AND GLAD UPROAR NOW MEN'S LIPS WERE SET AND WOMEN'S SMILELESS EVEN AS THEY CHEERED FEWER HANDKERCHIEFS WHITENED THE AIR FOR WET EYES NEEDED THEM AND SUDDEN LULLS ALMOST SOLEMN IN THEIR STILLNESS FOLLOWED THE ACCLAMATIONS OF THE CROWD. ALL WATCHED WITH QUICKENED BREATH AND PROUD SOULS THAT LIVING WAVE BLUE BELOW AND BRIGHT WITH A STEELY GLITTER ABOVE AS IT FLOWED DOWN THE STREET AND AWAY TO JOIN THE SEA OF DAUNTLESS HEARTS THAT FOR MONTHS HAD ROLLED UP AGAINST THE SOUTH AND EBBED BACK REDDENED WITH THE BLOOD OF MEN LIKE THESE. AS THE INSPIRING MUSIC THE GRAND TRAMP DREW NEAR CHRISTIE FELT THE OLD THRILL AND LONGED TO FALL IN AND FOLLOW THE FLAG ANYWHERE. THEN SHE SAW DAVID AND THE REGIMENT BECAME ONE MAN TO HER. HE WAS PALE BUT HIS EYES SHONE AND HIS WHOLE FACE EXPRESSED THAT TWO OF THE BEST AND BRAVEST EMOTIONS OF A MAN LOVE AND LOYALTY WERE AT THEIR HEIGHT AS HE GAVE HIS NEW MADE WIFE A LONG LINGERING LOOK THAT SEEMED TO SAY. I COULD NOT LOVE THEE DEAR SO MUCH LOVED I NOT HONOR MORE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/275224/275224_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/275224/275224_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c00cd38d78e832e7e2845647a69829f919a82e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/275224/275224_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SHE CAME BOUNDING TOWARDS THE WELL KNOWN SPOT WITH A SONG OF JOYOUS DELIGHT BUT ON REACHING IT SUDDENLY STOPPED SHORT AND IN A MINUTE AFTER BURST INTO A FLOOD OF TEARS. PRESENTLY WITH SORROWING STEPS SHE BENT HER WAY ROUND THE FLOWER BEDS WEEPING AFRESH AT EVERY ONE SHE LOOKED AT AND THEN SHE SAT DOWN UPON THE LAWN AND HID HER FACE IN HER HANDS. IN THIS POSITION SHE REMAINED UNTIL A GENTLE HAND WAS LAID UPON HER SHOULDER. THIS IS A SAD SIGHT INDEED MY DARLING SAID HER MOTHER'S VOICE. I AM NOT THINKING ABOUT THE GARDEN MAMMA REPLIED THE YOUNG GIRL WITHOUT LIFTING UP HER FACE WE CAN PLANT NEW FLOWERS AND TIE UP EVEN SOME OF THESE AFRESH. I AM THINKING THAT NOW AT LAST I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT THE NECESSITY OF TRAINING AND RESTRAINT AND CULTURE FOR US AS WELL AS FOR FLOWERS. THE WIND HAS TORN AWAY THESE POOR THINGS FROM THEIR FASTENINGS AND THEY ARE GROWING WILD WHICHEVER WAY THEY PLEASE AND I MIGHT PERHAPS ONCE HAVE ARGUED THAT IF IT WERE THEIR NATURAL WAY OF GROWING IT MUST THEREFORE BE THE BEST. BUT I CANNOT SAY SO NOW I SEE THE RESULT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/57405/57405_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/57405/57405_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..27425ab93e7555eabdbac0fcbd440e2270f9aa75 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/57405/57405_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IN THOSE VERY EARLY TIMES THERE WAS A MAN NAMED DEUCALION AND HE WAS THE SON OF PROMETHEUS. HE WAS ONLY A COMMON MAN AND NOT A TITAN LIKE HIS GREAT FATHER AND YET HE WAS KNOWN FAR AND WIDE FOR HIS GOOD DEEDS AND THE UPRIGHTNESS OF HIS LIFE. HIS WIFE'S NAME WAS PYRRHA AND SHE WAS ONE OF THE FAIREST OF THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN. AFTER JUPITER HAD BOUND PROMETHEUS ON MOUNT CAUCASUS AND HAD SENT DISEASES AND CARES INTO THE WORLD MEN BECAME VERY VERY WICKED. THEY NO LONGER BUILT HOUSES AND TENDED THEIR FLOCKS AND LIVED TOGETHER IN PEACE BUT EVERY MAN WAS AT WAR WITH HIS NEIGHBOR AND THERE WAS NO LAW NOR SAFETY IN ALL THE LAND. THINGS WERE IN MUCH WORSE CASE NOW THAN THEY HAD BEEN BEFORE PROMETHEUS HAD COME AMONG MEN AND THAT WAS JUST WHAT JUPITER WANTED. BUT AS THE WORLD BECAME WICKEDER AND WICKEDER EVERY DAY HE BEGAN TO GROW WEARY OF SEEING SO MUCH BLOODSHED AND OF HEARING THE CRIES OF THE OPPRESSED AND THE POOR. THESE MEN HE SAID TO HIS MIGHTY COMPANY ARE NOTHING BUT A SOURCE OF TROUBLE. WHEN THEY WERE GOOD AND HAPPY WE FELT AFRAID LEST THEY SHOULD BECOME GREATER THAN OURSELVES AND NOW THEY ARE SO TERRIBLY WICKED THAT WE ARE IN WORSE DANGER THAN BEFORE. THERE IS ONLY ONE THING TO BE DONE WITH THEM AND THAT IS TO DESTROY THEM EVERY ONE. SO HE SENT A GREAT RAIN STORM UPON THE EARTH AND IT RAINED DAY AND NIGHT FOR A LONG TIME AND THE SEA WAS FILLED TO THE BRIM AND THE WATER RAN OVER THE LAND AND COVERED FIRST THE PLAINS AND THEN THE FORESTS AND THEN THE HILLS. BUT MEN KEPT ON FIGHTING AND ROBBING EVEN WHILE THE RAIN WAS POURING DOWN AND THE SEA WAS COMING UP OVER THE LAND. NO ONE BUT DEUCALION THE SON OF PROMETHEUS WAS READY FOR SUCH A STORM. HE HAD NEVER JOINED IN ANY OF THE WRONG DOINGS OF THOSE AROUND HIM AND HAD OFTEN TOLD THEM THAT UNLESS THEY LEFT OFF THEIR EVIL WAYS THERE WOULD BE A DAY OF RECKONING IN THE END. ONCE EVERY YEAR HE HAD GONE TO THE LAND OF THE CAUCASUS TO TALK WITH HIS FATHER WHO WAS HANGING CHAINED TO THE MOUNTAIN PEAK. THE DAY IS COMING SAID PROMETHEUS WHEN JUPITER WILL SEND A FLOOD TO DESTROY MANKIND FROM THE EARTH. BE SURE THAT YOU ARE READY FOR IT MY SON. AND SO WHEN THE RAIN BEGAN TO FALL DEUCALION DREW FROM ITS SHELTER A BOAT WHICH HE HAD BUILT FOR JUST SUCH A TIME. HE CALLED FAIR PYRRHA HIS WIFE AND THE TWO SAT IN THE BOAT AND WERE FLOATED SAFELY ON THE RISING WATERS. DAY AND NIGHT DAY AND NIGHT I CANNOT TELL HOW LONG THE BOAT DRIFTED HITHER AND THITHER. THE TOPS OF THE TREES WERE HIDDEN BY THE FLOOD AND THEN THE HILLS AND THEN THE MOUNTAINS AND DEUCALION AND PYRRHA COULD SEE NOTHING ANYWHERE BUT WATER WATER WATER AND THEY KNEW THAT ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE LAND HAD BEEN DROWNED. AFTER A WHILE THE RAIN STOPPED FALLING AND THE CLOUDS CLEARED AWAY AND THE BLUE SKY AND THE GOLDEN SUN CAME OUT OVERHEAD. THEN THE WATER BEGAN TO SINK VERY FAST AND TO RUN OFF THE LAND TOWARDS THE SEA AND EARLY THE VERY NEXT DAY THE BOAT WAS DRIFTED HIGH UPON A MOUNTAIN CALLED PARNASSUS AND DEUCALION AND PYRRHA STEPPED OUT UPON THE DRY LAND. AFTER THAT IT WAS ONLY A SHORT TIME UNTIL THE WHOLE COUNTRY WAS LAID BARE AND THE TREES SHOOK THEIR LEAFY BRANCHES IN THE WIND AND THE FIELDS WERE CARPETED WITH GRASS AND FLOWERS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE FLOOD \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/64726/64726_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/64726/64726_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b82c1418532b8202a404ec46a30f5bd81e7ab31b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/64726/64726_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A KING AND A QUEEN WHO GRIEVED SORELY THAT THEY HAD NO CHILDREN. WHEN AT LAST THE QUEEN GAVE BIRTH TO A DAUGHTER THE KING WAS SO OVERJOYED THAT HE GAVE A GREAT CHRISTENING FEAST THE LIKE OF WHICH HAD NEVER BEFORE BEEN KNOWN. HE ASKED ALL THE FAIRIES IN THE LAND THERE WERE SEVEN ALL TOLD TO STAND GODMOTHERS TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS HOPING THAT EACH MIGHT GIVE HER A GIFT AND SO SHE SHOULD HAVE ALL IMAGINABLE PERFECTIONS. BEFORE EACH WAS SET A MAGNIFICENT PLATE WITH A GOLD KNIFE AND A GOLD FORK STUDDED WITH DIAMONDS AND RUBIES. JUST AS THEY WERE SEATING THEMSELVES HOWEVER THERE ENTERED AN OLD FAIRY WHO HAD NOT BEEN INVITED BECAUSE MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS AGO SHE HAD SHUT HERSELF UP IN A TOWER AND IT WAS SUPPOSED THAT SHE WAS EITHER DEAD OR ENCHANTED. THE KING ORDERED A COVER TO BE LAID FOR HER BUT IT COULD NOT BE A MASSIVE GOLD ONE LIKE THE OTHERS FOR ONLY SEVEN HAD BEEN ORDERED MADE. THE OLD FAIRY THOUGHT HERSELF ILL USED AND MUTTERED BETWEEN HER TEETH. ONE OF THE YOUNG FAIRIES OVERHEARING HER AND FANCYING SHE MIGHT WORK SOME MISCHIEF TO THE LITTLE BABY WENT AND HID HERSELF BEHIND THE HANGINGS IN THE HALL SO AS TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE LAST WORD AND UNDO ANY HARM THE OLD FAIRY MIGHT WISH TO WORK. THE FAIRIES NOW BEGAN TO ENDOW THE PRINCESS. THE YOUNGEST FOR HER GIFT DECREED THAT SHE SHOULD BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PERSON IN THE WORLD THE NEXT THAT SHE SHOULD HAVE THE MIND OF AN ANGEL THE THIRD THAT SHE SHOULD BE PERFECTLY GRACEFUL THE FOURTH THAT SHE SHOULD DANCE ADMIRABLY WELL THE FIFTH THAT SHE SHOULD SING LIKE A NIGHTINGALE THE SIXTH THAT SHE SHOULD PLAY CHARMINGLY UPON EVERY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. THE TURN OF THE OLD FAIRY HAD NOW COME AND SHE DECLARED WHILE HER HEAD SHOOK WITH MALICE THAT THE PRINCESS SHOULD PIERCE HER HAND WITH A SPINDLE AND DIE OF THE WOUND. THIS DREADFUL FATE THREW ALL THE COMPANY INTO TEARS OF DISMAY WHEN THE YOUNG FAIRY WHO HAD HIDDEN HERSELF CAME FORWARD AND SAID. BE OF GOOD CHEER KING AND QUEEN YOUR DAUGHTER SHALL NOT SO DIE. IT IS TRUE I CANNOT ENTIRELY UNDO WHAT MY ELDER HAS DONE. THE PRINCESS WILL PIERCE HER HAND WITH A SPINDLE BUT INSTEAD OF DYING SHE WILL ONLY FALL INTO A DEEP SLEEP. THE SLEEP WILL LAST A HUNDRED YEARS AND AT THE END OF THAT TIME A KING'S SON WILL COME TO WAKE HER. THE KING IN HOPES OF PREVENTING WHAT THE OLD FAIRY HAD FORETOLD IMMEDIATELY ISSUED AN EDICT BY WHICH HE FORBADE ALL PERSONS IN HIS DOMINION FROM SPINNING OR EVEN HAVING SPINDLES IN THEIR HOUSES UNDER PAIN OF INSTANT DEATH. NOW FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PRINCESS WAS BORN SHE WAS WITH THE KING AND QUEEN AT ONE OF THEIR CASTLES AND AS SHE WAS RUNNING ABOUT BY HERSELF SHE CAME TO A LITTLE CHAMBER AT THE TOP OF A TOWER AND THERE SAT AN HONEST OLD WOMAN SPINNING FOR SHE HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE KING'S EDICT. WHAT ARE YOU DOING ASKED THE PRINCESS. I AM SPINNING MY FAIR CHILD SAID THE OLD WOMAN WHO DID NOT KNOW HER. HOW PRETTY IT IS. EXCLAIMED THE PRINCESS HOW DO YOU DO IT. GIVE IT TO ME THAT I MAY SEE IF I CAN DO IT. SHE HAD NO SOONER TAKEN UP THE SPINDLE THAN BEING HASTY AND CARELESS SHE PIERCED HER HAND WITH THE POINT OF IT AND FAINTED AWAY. THE OLD WOMAN IN GREAT ALARM CALLED FOR HELP. PEOPLE CAME RUNNING IN FROM ALL SIDES THEY THREW WATER IN THE PRINCESS'S FACE AND DID ALL THEY COULD TO RESTORE HER BUT NOTHING WOULD BRING HER TO \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/64726/64726_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/64726/64726_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6d89230882e56db59162c6d49e35cc8949d8c83e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/6319/64726/64726_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE KING WHO HAD HEARD THE NOISE AND CONFUSION CAME UP ALSO AND REMEMBERING WHAT THE FAIRY HAD SAID HE HAD THE PRINCESS CARRIED TO THE FINEST APARTMENT AND LAID UPON A RICHLY EMBROIDERED BED. SHE LAY THERE IN ALL HER LOVELINESS FOR THE SWOON HAD NOT MADE HER PALE HER LIPS WERE CHERRY RIPE AND HER CHEEKS RUDDY AND FAIR HER EYES WERE CLOSED BUT THEY COULD HEAR HER BREATHING QUIETLY SHE COULD NOT BE DEAD. THE KING LOOKED SORROWFULLY UPON HER. HE KNEW THAT SHE WOULD NOT AWAKE FOR A HUNDRED YEARS. THE GOOD FAIRY WHO HAD SAVED HER LIFE AND TURNED HER DEATH INTO SLEEP WAS IN THE KINGDOM OF MATAQUIN TWELVE THOUSAND LEAGUES AWAY WHEN THIS HAPPENED BUT SHE LEARNED OF IT FROM A DWARF WHO HAD A PAIR OF SEVEN LEAGUE BOOTS AND INSTANTLY SET OUT FOR THE CASTLE WHERE SHE ARRIVED IN AN HOUR DRAWN BY DRAGONS IN A FIERY CHARIOT. THE KING CAME FORWARD TO RECEIVE HER AND SHOWED HIS GRIEF. THE GOOD FAIRY WAS VERY WISE AND SAW THAT THE PRINCESS WHEN SHE WOKE WOULD FIND HERSELF ALL ALONE IN THAT GREAT CASTLE AND EVERYTHING ABOUT HER WOULD BE STRANGE. SO THIS IS WHAT SHE DID. SHE TOUCHED WITH HER WAND EVERYBODY THAT WAS IN THE CASTLE EXCEPT THE KING AND QUEEN. SHE TOUCHED THE GOVERNESSES MAIDS OF HONOUR WOMEN OF THE BEDCHAMBER GENTLEMEN OFFICERS STEWARDS COOKS SCULLIONS BOYS GUARDS PORTERS PAGES FOOTMEN SHE TOUCHED THE HORSES IN THE STABLE WITH THEIR GROOMS THE GREAT MASTIFFS IN THE COURT YARD AND EVEN LITTLE POUSTE THE TINY LAP DOG OF THE PRINCESS THAT WAS ON THE BED BESIDE HER. EVEN THE SPITS BEFORE THE FIRE LADEN WITH PARTRIDGES AND PHEASANTS WENT TO SLEEP AND THE FIRE ITSELF WENT TO SLEEP ALSO. IT WAS THE WORK OF A MOMENT. THE KING AND QUEEN KISSED THEIR DAUGHTER FAREWELL AND LEFT THE CASTLE ISSUING A PROCLAMATION THAT NO PERSON WHATSOEVER WAS TO APPROACH IT. THAT WAS NEEDLESS FOR IN A QUARTER OF AN HOUR THERE HAD GROWN UP ABOUT IT A WOOD SO THICK AND FILLED WITH THORNS THAT NOTHING COULD GET AT THE CASTLE AND THE CASTLE TOP ITSELF COULD ONLY BE SEEN FROM A GREAT DISTANCE. A HUNDRED YEARS WENT BY AND THE KINGDOM WAS IN THE HANDS OF ANOTHER ROYAL FAMILY. THE SON OF THE KING WAS HUNTING ONE DAY WHEN HE DISCOVERED THE TOWERS OF THE CASTLE ABOVE THE TOPS OF THE TREES AND ASKED WHAT CASTLE THAT WAS. ALL MANNER OF ANSWERS WERE GIVEN TO HIM. ONE SAID IT WAS AN ENCHANTED CASTLE ANOTHER THAT WITCHES LIVED THERE BUT MOST BELIEVED THAT IT WAS OCCUPIED BY A GREAT OGRE WHICH CARRIED THITHER ALL THE CHILDREN HE COULD CATCH AND ATE THEM UP ONE AT A TIME FOR NOBODY COULD GET AT HIM THROUGH THE WOOD. THE PRINCE DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE WHEN FINALLY AN OLD PEASANT SAID. PRINCE IT IS MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS SINCE I HEARD MY FATHER SAY THAT THERE WAS IN THAT CASTLE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS THAT EVER WAS SEEN THAT SHE WAS TO SLEEP FOR A HUNDRED YEARS AND TO BE AWAKENED AT LAST BY THE KING'S SON WHO WAS TO MARRY HER. THE YOUNG PRINCE AT THESE WORDS FELT HIMSELF ON FIRE. HE HAD NOT A MOMENT'S DOUBT THAT HE WAS DESTINED TO THIS GREAT ADVENTURE AND FULL OF ARDOUR HE DETERMINED AT ONCE TO SET OUT FOR THE CASTLE. SCARCELY HAD HE COME TO THE WOOD WHEN ALL THE TREES AND THORNS WHICH HAD MADE SUCH AN IMPENETRABLE THICKET OPENED ON ONE SIDE AND THE OTHER TO OFFER HIM A PATH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/8842/302196/302196_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/8842/302196/302196_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6e223f61540ad6f58ed66719922b592b3ff1a65c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/8842/302196/302196_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BOCCACCIO IN HIS LIFE OF DANTE TELLS US THAT THE GREAT POET IN LATER LIFE WAS ASHAMED OF THIS WORK OF HIS YOUTH. NOR IS THIS PERHAPS ITS LEAST PRAISE. A WORD SHOULD BE SAID HERE OF THE TITLE OF DANTE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. THE ADJECTIVE NUOVO NUOVA OR NOVELLO NOVELLA LITERALLY NEW IS OFTEN USED BY DANTE AND OTHER EARLY WRITERS IN THE SENSE OF YOUNG. THIS HAS INDUCED SOME EDITORS OF THE VITA NUOVA TO EXPLAIN THE TITLE AS MEANING EARLY LIFE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/8842/302203/302203_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/8842/302203/302203_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..494526a33d86946ac3caae0b74e3d87a07a1fb34 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/8842/302203/302203_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AND I BECAME SO HUMBLE IN MY GRIEF SEEING IN HER SUCH DEEP HUMILITY THAT I SAID DEATH I HOLD THEE PASSING GOOD HENCEFORTH AND A MOST GENTLE SWEET RELIEF SINCE MY DEAR LOVE HAS CHOSEN TO DWELL WITH THEE PITY NOT HATE IS THINE WELL UNDERSTOOD. LO I DO SO DESIRE TO SEE THY FACE THAT I AM LIKE AS ONE WHO NEARS THE TOMB MY SOUL ENTREATS THEE COME. THEN I DEPARTED HAVING MADE MY MOAN AND WHEN I WAS ALONE I SAID AND CAST MY EYES TO THE HIGH PLACE BLESSED IS HE FAIR SOUL WHO MEETS THY GLANCE. JUST THEN YOU WOKE ME OF YOUR COMPLAISAUNCE. THIS POEM HAS TWO PARTS IN THE FIRST SPEAKING TO A PERSON UNDEFINED I TELL HOW I WAS AROUSED FROM A VAIN PHANTASY BY CERTAIN LADIES AND HOW I PROMISED THEM TO TELL WHAT IT WAS. IN THE SECOND I SAY HOW I TOLD THEM. THE SECOND PART BEGINS HERE I WAS A THINKING THE FIRST PART DIVIDES INTO TWO. THEN WHEN I SAY I WAS A THINKING I SAY HOW I TOLD THEM THIS MY IMAGINATION AND CONCERNING THIS I HAVE TWO PARTS. IN THE FIRST I TELL IN ORDER THIS IMAGINATION. IN THE SECOND SAYING AT WHAT TIME THEY CALLED ME I COVERTLY THANK THEM AND THIS PART BEGINS HERE JUST THEN YOU WOKE ME. AFTER THIS EMPTY IMAGINING IT HAPPENED ON A DAY AS I SAT THOUGHTFUL THAT I WAS TAKEN WITH SUCH A STRONG TREMBLING AT THE HEART THAT IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE IN THE PRESENCE OF MY LADY. AND WITH THAT MY HEART WAS SO FULL OF GLADNESS THAT I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE IT TO BE OF VERY TRUTH MINE OWN HEART AND NOT ANOTHER. A SHORT WHILE AFTER THESE WORDS WHICH MY HEART SPOKE TO ME WITH THE TONGUE OF LOVE I SAW COMING TOWARDS ME A CERTAIN LADY WHO WAS VERY FAMOUS FOR HER BEAUTY AND OF WHOM THAT FRIEND WHOM I HAVE ALREADY CALLED THE FIRST AMONG MY FRIENDS HAD LONG BEEN ENAMOURED. THIS LADY'S RIGHT NAME WAS JOAN BUT BECAUSE OF HER COMELINESS OR AT LEAST IT WAS SO IMAGINED SHE WAS CALLED OF MANY PRIMAVERA SPRING AND WENT BY THAT NAME AMONG THEM. AND IN HIS SPEECH HE LAUGH'D AND LAUGH'D AGAIN THEN WHILE IT WAS HIS PLEASURE TO REMAIN I CHANCED TO LOOK THE WAY HE HAD DRAWN NEAR AND SAW THE LADIES JOAN AND BEATRICE APPROACH ME THIS THE OTHER FOLLOWING ONE AND A SECOND MARVEL INSTANTLY. THIS SONNET HAS MANY PARTS WHEREOF THE FIRST TELLS HOW I FELT AWAKENED WITHIN MY HEART THE ACCUSTOMED TREMOR AND HOW IT SEEMED THAT LOVE APPEARED TO ME JOYFUL FROM AFAR. THE SECOND SAYS HOW IT APPEARED TO ME THAT LOVE SPAKE WITHIN MY HEART AND WHAT WAS HIS ASPECT THE THIRD TELLS HOW AFTER HE HAD IN SUCH WISE BEEN WITH ME A SPACE I SAW AND HEARD CERTAIN THINGS. THE SECOND PART BEGINS HERE SAYING BE NOW THE THIRD HERE THEN WHILE IT WAS HIS PLEASURE. THE THIRD PART DIVIDES INTO TWO IN THE FIRST I SAY WHAT I SAW \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/8842/304647/304647_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/8842/304647/304647_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95039b4ff555a115bb08e776132fade374439107 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/8842/304647/304647_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT IF OUR WILL DO NOT RESENT THE BLOW WE HAVE NOT SINNED. THAT PENANCE HATH NO BLAME WHICH MAGDALEN FOUND SWEET PURGING OUR SHAME SELF PUNISHMENT IS VIRTUE ALL MEN KNOW. ORGAN OF RUT NOT REASON IS THE LORD WHO FROM THE BODY POLITIC DOTH DRAIN LUST FOR HIMSELF INSTEAD OF TOIL AND PAIN LEAVING US LEAN AS CRICKETS ON DRY SWARD. WELL TOO IF HE LIKE LOVE WOULD FILCH OUR HOARD WITH PLEASURE TO OURSELVES SLUICING OUR VEIN AND VIGOUR TO PERPETUATE THE STRAIN OF LIFE BY SPILTH OF LIFE WITHIN US STORED. LOVE'S CHEAT YIELDS JOY AND PROFIT KINGS LESS KIND HARM THOSE THEY HOODWINK SOW BARE ROCK WITH SEED NOR USE OUR WASTE TO PROPAGATE THE BREED. HEAVEN HELP THAT BODY WHICH A LITTLE MIND HOUSED IN A HEAD LACKING EARS TONGUE AND EYES AND SENSELESS BUT FOR SMELL CAN TYRANNISE. HERE STILL BY DISCORD AND FOUL SERVITUDE UNTAINTED THOU A HERO BROOD DOST RAISE POWERFUL AND PRUDENT. DUE TO THEE THEIR PRAISE OF MAIDEN PURE OF TEEMING MOTHERHOOD. THOU WONDER OF THE WORLD ROME'S LOYAL HEIR THOU PRIDE AND STRONG SUPPORT OF ITALY DIAL OF PRINCES SCHOOL OF ALL THINGS WISE. 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LOOKING ABOUT ME I SAW A GENTLEMAN IN A NEAT BLACK DRESS SMILING AND HIS HAND EXTENDED TO ME WITH GREAT CORDIALITY. HE MUST HAVE REALIZED I WAS A STRANGER AND WISHED TO TENDER HIS HOSPITALITY TO ME I ACCEPTED IT GRATEFULLY I CLASPED HIS HAND HE PRESSED MINE. WE GAZED FOR A MOMENT SILENTLY INTO EACH OTHER'S EYES. HE UNDERSTOOD MY BEWILDERMENT AMID MY NOVEL SURROUNDINGS AND OFFERED TO ENLIGHTEN ME. OF COURSE YOU ARE GOING THERE TOO I SAID TO MY FRIENDLY GUIDE. YES HE ANSWERED I CONDUCT THE WORSHIP I AM A PRIEST. A PRIEST OF APOLLO. I INTERROGATED NO NO HE REPLIED RAISING HIS HAND TO COMMAND SILENCE APOLLO IS NOT A GOD HE WAS ONLY AN IDOL. AN IDOL I WHISPERED TAKEN BY SURPRISE. THEY WORSHIPPED GODS THAT DID NOT EXIST. BUT THE GREEKS LOVED THEIR GODS I PROTESTED MY HEART CLAMORING IN MY BREAST. WHEN YOU CANNOT PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF YOUR GOD WHEN YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM NOR HEARD HIS VOICE NOR TOUCHED HIM WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING PROVABLE ABOUT HIM HE IS AN IDOL HAVE YOU SEEN APOLLO. HAVE YOU HEARD HIM HAVE YOU TOUCHED HIM. NO I SAID IN A LOW VOICE. DO YOU KNOW OF ANY ONE WHO HAS. I HAD TO ADMIT THAT I DID NOT. HE WAS AN IDOL THEN AND NOT A GOD. YOU IMAGINE YOU HAVE RETURNED MY GUIDE. IF HE WERE REALLY DIVINE HE WOULD BE LIVING TO THIS DAY. IS HE THEN DEAD I ASKED. IT MADE THE GREEKS A NATION OF POETS ORATORS ARTISTS WARRIORS THINKERS. IT MADE ATHENS A CITY OF LIGHT IT CREATED THE BEAUTIFUL THE TRUE THE GOOD YES OUR RELIGION WAS DIVINE. IT HAD ONLY ONE FAULT INTERRUPTED MY GUIDE WHAT WAS THAT. I INQUIRED WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT HIS ANSWER WOULD BE IT WAS NOT TRUE. BUT I STILL BELIEVE IN APOLLO I EXCLAIMED HE IS NOT DEAD I KNOW HE IS ALIVE. PRODUCE APOLLO AND HE SHALL BE OUR GOD. PRODUCE HIM. I WHISPERED TO MYSELF WHAT BLASPHEMY. THEN TAKING HEART I TOLD MY GUIDE HOW MORE THAN ONCE I HAD FELT APOLLO'S RADIANT PRESENCE IN MY HEART AND TOLD HIM OF THE IMMORTAL LINES OF HOMER CONCERNING THE DIVINE APOLLO. DO YOU DOUBT HOMER. I SAID TO HIM HOMER THE INSPIRED BARD. HOMER WHOSE INKWELL WAS AS BIG AS THE SEA WHOSE IMPERISHABLE PAGE WAS TIME. HOMER WHOSE EVERY WORD WAS A DROP OF LIGHT. THEN I PROCEEDED TO QUOTE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD THE GREEK BIBLE WORSHIPPED BY ALL THE HELLENES AS THE RAREST MANUSCRIPT BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH. THEN I RECITED THE LINES WHICH PICTURE APOLLO BURSTING HIS BANDS LEAPING FORTH FROM HIS CRADLE AND SPREADING HIS WINGS LIKE A SWAN SOARING SUNWARD DECLARING THAT HE HAD COME TO ANNOUNCE TO MORTALS THE WILL OF GOD. IS IT POSSIBLE I ASKED THAT ALL THIS IS PURE FABRICATION A FANTASY OF THE BRAIN AS UNSUBSTANTIAL AS THE AIR. NO NO APOLLO IS NOT AN IDOL. HE IS A GOD AND THE SON OF A GOD. THE WHOLE GREEK WORLD WILL BEAR ME WITNESS THAT I AM TELLING THE TRUTH. IT SEEMED AS IF HE WISHED TO SAY TO ME YOU POOR DELUDED PAGAN. THERE WERE BESIDES PICTURES ALTARS AND IMAGES ALL AROUND ME. THE AIR WAS HEAVY WITH INCENSE A NUMBER OF MEN IN GORGEOUS VESTMENTS WERE PASSING TO AND FRO BOWING AND KNEELING BEFORE THE VARIOUS LIGHTS AND IMAGES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288045/288045_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288045/288045_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..783c80a3500f626adbf054cd348433faed1c254d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288045/288045_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE AUDIENCE WAS UPON ITS KNEES ENVELOPED IN SILENCE A SILENCE SO SOLEMN THAT IT AWED ME. OBSERVING MY ANXIETY TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF ALL THIS MY GUIDE TOOK ME ASIDE AND IN A WHISPER TOLD ME THAT THE PEOPLE WERE CELEBRATING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTHDAY OF THEIR BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR JESUS THE SON OF GOD. FORGET APOLLO HE SAID WITH A SUGGESTION OF SEVERITY IN HIS VOICE. THERE IS NO SUCH PERSON HE WAS ONLY AN IDOL. IF YOU WERE TO SEARCH FOR APOLLO IN ALL THE UNIVERSE YOU WOULD NEVER FIND ANY ONE ANSWERING TO HIS NAME OR DESCRIPTION. JESUS HE RESUMED IS THE SON OF GOD HE CAME TO OUR EARTH AND WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN. AGAIN I WAS TEMPTED TO TELL MY GUIDE THAT THAT WAS HOW APOLLO BECAME INCARNATE BUT I RESTRAINED MYSELF. I WANT TO SEE JESUS I HASTENED TURNING TOWARD HIM. WILL HE NOT BE HERE THIS MORNING. WILL HE NOT SPEAK TO HIS WORSHIPPERS I ASKED AGAIN. WILL HE NOT PERMIT THEM TO TOUCH HIM TO CARESS HIS HAND TO CLASP HIS DIVINE FEET TO INHALE THE AMBROSIAL FRAGRANCE OF HIS BREATH TO BASK IN THE GOLDEN LIGHT OF HIS EYES TO HEAR THE MUSIC OF HIS IMMACULATE ACCENTS. LET ME TOO SEE JESUS I PLEADED. HE DOES NOT SHOW HIMSELF ANY MORE. I WAS TOO MUCH SURPRISED AT THIS TO MAKE ANY IMMEDIATE REPLY. FOR THE LAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS MY GUIDE CONTINUED IT HAS NOT PLEASED JESUS TO SHOW HIMSELF TO ANY ONE NEITHER HAS HE BEEN HEARD FROM FOR THE SAME NUMBER OF YEARS. FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS NO ONE HAS EITHER SEEN OR HEARD JESUS. I ASKED MY EYES FILLED WITH WONDER AND MY VOICE QUIVERING WITH EXCITEMENT. NO HE ANSWERED. WOULD NOT THAT THEN I VENTURED TO ASK IMPATIENTLY MAKE JESUS AS MUCH OF AN IDOL AS APOLLO. AND IF FAITH THAT JESUS IS A GOD PROVES HIM A GOD WHY WILL NOT FAITH IN APOLLO MAKE HIM A GOD \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288046/288046_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288046/288046_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..922aae636c7708b5f33f23fc6214611fbbda0b24 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288046/288046_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AND IF FOR PRUDENTIAL REASONS I SHOULD SOMETIMES HOLD BACK THE TRUTH HOW WOULD YOU KNOW WHEN I AM TELLING WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE THE TRUTH AND WHEN I AM HOLDING IT BACK FOR REASONS OF POLICY. THE TRUTH HOWEVER UNWELCOME IS NOT INJURIOUS IT IS ERROR WHICH RAISES FALSE HOPES WHICH DESTROYS DEGRADES AND POLLUTES AND WHICH SOONER OR LATER MUST BE ABANDONED. WAS IT NOT SPENCER WHOM DARWIN CALLED OUR GREAT PHILOSOPHER WHO SAID REPULSIVE AS IS ITS ASPECT THE HARD FACT WHICH DISSIPATES A CHERISHED ILLUSION IS PRESENTLY FOUND TO CONTAIN THE GERM OF A MORE SALUTARY BELIEF. HOLY WATER AND SAINTED BONES CAN GIVE A NATION ILLUSIONS AND DREAMS BUT NEVER STRENGTH. POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY WERE DISCOVERED THROUGH PERIL AND STRUGGLE. THE WORLD OWES ITS EMANCIPATION TO HUMAN DARING. HAD COLUMBUS FEARED DANGER AMERICA MIGHT HAVE SLEPT FOR ANOTHER THOUSAND YEARS. I HAVE A DIFFICULT SUBJECT IN HAND IT IS ALSO A DELICATE ONE. BUT I AM DETERMINED NOT ONLY TO KNOW IF IT IS POSSIBLE THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT JESUS BUT ALSO TO COMMUNICATE THAT TRUTH TO OTHERS. I CANNOT I MUST SHARE MY INTELLECTUAL LIFE WITH THE WORLD. IF I LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS AGO I MIGHT HAVE COLLAPSED AT THE SIGHT OF THE BURNING STAKE BUT I FEEL SURE I WOULD HAVE DESERVED THE STAKE. PEOPLE SAY TO ME SOMETIMES WHY DO YOU NOT CONFINE YOURSELF TO MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EXHORTATION SUCH AS BE KIND DO GOOD LOVE ONE ANOTHER ET CETERA. BUT THERE IS MORE OF A MORAL TONIC IN THE OPEN AND CANDID DISCUSSION OF A SUBJECT LIKE THE ONE IN HAND THAN IN A MULTITUDE OF PLATITUDES. I NEVER DELIVER A LECTURE IN WHICH I DO NOT EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY GIVE FULL AND FREE EXPRESSION TO MY FAITH IN EVERYTHING THAT IS WORTHY OF FAITH. IF I DO NOT BELIEVE IN DOGMA IT IS BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN FREEDOM. IF I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ONE INSPIRED BOOK IT IS BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT ALL TRUTH AND ONLY TRUTH IS INSPIRED. OH HE TEARS DOWN BUT DOES NOT BUILD UP IS ANOTHER CRITICISM ABOUT MY WORK IT IS NOT TRUE. NO PREACHER OR PRIEST IS MORE CONSTRUCTIVE. CLAPPING TRUTH INTO JAIL GAGGING THE MOUTH OF THE STUDENT IS THAT BUILDING UP OR TEARING DOWN. WHEN BRUNO LIGHTED A NEW TORCH TO INCREASE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD WHAT WAS HIS REWARD THE STAKE. DURING ALL THE AGES THAT THE CHURCH HAD THE POWER TO POLICE THE WORLD EVERY TIME A THINKER RAISED HIS HEAD HE WAS CLUBBED TO DEATH. COUNT YOUR RIGHTS POLITICAL RELIGIOUS SOCIAL INTELLECTUAL AND TELL ME WHICH OF THEM WAS CONQUERED FOR YOU BY THE PRIEST. I WISH TO TELL YOU SOMETHING. BUT FIRST LET US BE IMPERSONAL THE EPITHETS IRREVERENT BLASPHEMER ATHEIST AND INFIDEL ARE FLUNG AT A MAN NOT FROM PITY BUT FROM ENVY. NOT HAVING THE COURAGE OR THE INDUSTRY OF OUR NEIGHBOR WHO WORKS LIKE A BUSY BEE IN THE WORLD OF MEN AND BOOKS SEARCHING WITH THE SWEAT OF HIS BROW FOR THE REAL BREAD OF LIFE WETTING THE OPEN PAGE BEFORE HIM WITH HIS TEARS PUSHING INTO THE WEE HOURS OF THE NIGHT HIS QUEST ANIMATED BY THE FAIREST OF ALL LOVES THE LOVE OF TRUTH WE EASE OUR OWN INDOLENT CONSCIENCE BY CALLING HIM NAMES. TO EXCUSE OUR OWN MEDIOCRITY WE CALL THE MAN WHO TRIES TO GET OUT OF THE RUT A BLASPHEMER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288047/288047_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288047/288047_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9e4ab5203018fd5c9eea89f4d6250a7d1067b5a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288047/288047_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A MYTH IS A FANCIFUL EXPLANATION OF A GIVEN PHENOMENON. OBSERVING THE SUN THE MOON AND THE STARS OVERHEAD THE PRIMITIVE MAN WISHED TO ACCOUNT FOR THEM THIS WAS NATURAL. THE MIND CRAVES FOR KNOWLEDGE THE CHILD ASKS QUESTIONS BECAUSE OF AN INBORN DESIRE TO KNOW. A MYTH THEN IS A GUESS A STORY A SPECULATION OR A FANCIFUL EXPLANATION OF A PHENOMENON IN THE ABSENCE OF ACCURATE INFORMATION. MANY ARE THE MYTHS ABOUT THE HEAVENLY BODIES WHICH WHILE WE CALL THEM MYTHS BECAUSE WE KNOW BETTER WERE TO THE ANCIENTS TRUTHS. NOW AND THEN THEY CAME CLOSE ENOUGH TO SNAP AT EACH OTHER. WITH THIS MYTHUS THE PRIMITIVE MAN WAS SATISFIED UNTIL HIS DEVELOPING INTELLIGENCE REALIZED ITS INADEQUACY SCIENCE WAS BORN OF THAT REALIZATION. THIS WAS IMAGINARY KNOWLEDGE WHICH TRAVEL AND RESEARCH HAVE CORRECTED. THE MYTH OF A ONE EYED PEOPLE LIVING IN INDIA HAS BEEN REPLACED BY ACCURATE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE HINDOOS. IT WILL BE SEEN FROM THESE EXAMPLES THAT THERE IS NO HARM IN MYTH MAKING IF THE MYTH IS CALLED A MYTH. AND THIS IS PRECISELY THE USE TO WHICH MYTHS HAVE BEEN PUT. IS JESUS A MYTH. THERE IS IN MAN A FACULTY FOR FICTION. BEFORE HISTORY WAS BORN THERE WAS MYTH BEFORE MEN COULD THINK THEY DREAMED. IT WAS WITH THE HUMAN RACE IN ITS INFANCY AS IT IS WITH THE CHILD. THE CHILD'S IMAGINATION IS MORE ACTIVE THAN ITS REASON. IT IS EASIER FOR IT TO FANCY EVEN THAN TO SEE. IT THINKS LESS THAN IT GUESSES. THIS WILD FLIGHT OF FANCY IS CHECKED ONLY BY EXPERIENCE. IT IS REFLECTION WHICH INTRODUCES A BIT INTO THE MOUTH OF IMAGINATION CURBING ITS PACE AND SUBDUING ITS RESTLESS SPIRIT. IN CHILDHOOD WE NEED PLAYTHINGS AND THE MORE FANTASTIC AND BIZARRE THEY ARE THE BETTER WE ARE PLEASED WITH THEM. WE DREAM FOR INSTANCE OF CASTLES IN THE AIR GORGEOUS AND CLOTHED WITH THE AZURE HUE OF THE SKIES. WE FILL THE SPACE ABOUT AND OVER US WITH SPIRITS FAIRIES GODS AND OTHER INVISIBLE AND AIRY BEINGS. WE COVET THE RAINBOW WE REACH OUT FOR THE MOON. OUR FEET DO NOT REALLY BEGIN TO TOUCH THE FIRM GROUND UNTIL WE HAVE REACHED THE YEARS OF DISCRETION. I KNOW THERE ARE THOSE WHO WISH THEY COULD ALWAYS REMAIN CHILDREN LIVING IN DREAMLAND. BUT EVEN IF THIS WERE DESIRABLE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. SCIENCE WAS NOT BORN UNTIL MAN HAD MATURED. CHILDREN MAKE RELIGIONS. GROWN UP PEOPLE CREATE SCIENCE. THE CRADLE IS THE WOMB OF ALL THE FAIRIES AND FAITHS OF MANKIND. THE SCHOOL IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF SCIENCE. RELIGION IS THE SCIENCE OF THE CHILD. IN THE DISCUSSION OF THIS SUBJECT I APPEAL TO THE MATURE NOT TO THE CHILD MIND. THE MULTITUDE IS EVER JOINED TO ITS IDOLS LET THEM ALONE. HE IS GOD'S MOUTHPIECE AND NO ONE MAY DISAGREE WITH HIM. THE ONLY WAY I MAY COMMAND YOUR RESPECT IS TO BE REASONABLE. IN ALL PROBABILITY THEY ARGUE THERE WAS A MAN CALLED JESUS WHO SAID MANY HELPFUL THINGS AND LED AN EXEMPLARY LIFE AND ALL THE MIRACLES AND WONDERS REPRESENT THE ACCRETIONS OF FOND AND PIOUS AGES. LET US PLACE OURSELVES ENTIRELY IN THE HANDS OF THE EVIDENCE. AS INTELLIGENT BEINGS WE DESIRE TO KNOW WHETHER THIS JESUS WHOSE WORSHIP IS NOT ONLY COSTING THE WORLD MILLIONS OF THE PEOPLE'S MONEY BUT WHICH IS ALSO DRAWING TO HIS SERVICE THE TIME THE ENERGIES THE AFFECTION THE DEVOTION AND THE LABOR OF HUMANITY IS A MYTH OR A REALITY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288048/288048_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288048/288048_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d976a47961d607754f86cea0a56567bb218891a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288048/288048_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A MAN MUST HAVE A BIRTHPLACE AND A BIRTHDAY. THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE CONFUSION AND CONTRADICTION ABOUT IT IT CANNOT BE PROVED THAT THE TWENTY FIFTH OF DECEMBER IS HIS BIRTHDAY. A NUMBER OF OTHER DATES WERE OBSERVED BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT VARIOUS TIMES AS THE BIRTHDAY OF JESUS THE GOSPELS GIVE NO DATE AND APPEAR TO BE QUITE UNCERTAIN REALLY IGNORANT ABOUT IT. THAT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH HIS DEATH AND SUPPOSED RESURRECTION IS NOT VERIFIABLE IS GENERALLY ADMITTED. YET THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS BORN ON THAT DAY. WHY THIS DISCREPANCY IN A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT INSPIRATION. AGAIN MATTHEW SAYS THAT TO ESCAPE THE EVIL DESIGNS OF HEROD MARY AND JOSEPH WITH THE INFANT JESUS FLED INTO EGYPT LUKE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THIS HURRIED FLIGHT NOR OF HEROD'S INTENTION TO KILL THE INFANT MESSIAH. WHEN WE COME TO THE MORE IMPORTANT CHAPTERS ABOUT JESUS WE MEET WITH GREATER DIFFICULTIES. IT IS EVIDENT THAT NOBODY KNOWS AND NOBODY EVER KNEW THE DATE ON WHICH THE CRUCIFIXION TOOK PLACE IF IT EVER TOOK PLACE. WHILE IT IS ALWAYS ON A FRIDAY THAT THE CRUCIFIXION IS COMMEMORATED THE WEEK IN WHICH THE DAY OCCURS VARIES FROM YEAR TO YEAR. GOOD FRIDAY FALLS NOT BEFORE THE SPRING EQUINOX BUT AS SOON AFTER THE SPRING EQUINOX AS THE FULL MOON ALLOWS THUS MAKING THE CALCULATION TO DEPEND UPON THE POSITION OF THE SUN IN THE ZODIAC AND THE PHASES OF THE MOON. THE PAGAN OESTERA HAS BECOME THE CHRISTIAN EASTER. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT THAT WE REFER OUR READERS TO ORIGIN'S OWN WORDS ON THE SUBJECT. BUT IN THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE ORIGIN OFFERS THE FOLLOWING METAPHYSICAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE SCEPTICAL CELSUS ONE. IF JESUS IS NOT REAL SAYS ORIGIN THEN APOLLO WAS NOT REAL AND THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES HAVE NOT BEEN FULFILLED. IF WE ARE TO HAVE ANY MYTHOLOGY AT ALL HE SEEMS TO ARGUE WHY OBJECT TO ADDING TO IT THE MYTHUS OF JESUS. THERE COULD NOT BE A MORE DAMAGING ADMISSION THAN THIS FROM ONE OF THE MOST CONSPICUOUS DEFENDERS OF JESUS STORY AGAINST EARLY CRITICISM. ALL HE SEEMS TO ASK FOR IS THAT JESUS BE GIVEN A HIGHER PLACE AMONG THE DIVINITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. TO HELP THEIR CAUSE THE CHRISTIAN APOLOGISTS NOT INFREQUENTLY ALSO CHANGED THE SENSE OF CERTAIN OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGES TO MAKE THEM SUPPORT THE MIRACULOUS STORIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. AND WHEN IT IS REMEMBERED THAT THESE FOLLIES WERE DEEMED NECESSARY TO PROVE THE REALITY OF WHAT HAS BEEN CLAIMED AS THE MOST STUPENDOUS EVENT IN ALL HISTORY ONE CAN READILY SEE UPON HOW FRAGILE A FOUNDATION IS BUILT THE STORY OF THE CHRISTIAN GOD MAN. LET US CONTINUE ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S ASSOCIATES AND CONTEMPORARIES ARE ALL KNOWN TO HISTORY. THE IMMEDIATE COMPANIONS OF JESUS APPEAR TO BE ON THE OTHER HAND AS MYTHICAL AS HE IS HIMSELF. WHO WAS MATTHEW WHO WAS MARK. WHO WERE JOHN PETER JUDAS AND MARY. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE THAT THEY EVER EXISTED. THEY ARE NOT MENTIONED EXCEPT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS WHICH AS WE SHALL SEE ARE SUPPOSED COPIES OF SUPPOSED ORIGINALS. IF PETER EVER WENT TO ROME WITH A NEW DOCTRINE HOW IS IT THAT NO HISTORIAN HAS TAKEN NOTE OF HIM. JACOB HAD TWELVE SONS THERE WERE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL TWELVE MONTHS IN THE YEAR TWELVE GATES OR PILLARS OF HEAVEN ET CETERA. HERE AGAIN WE SEE THE PRESENCE OF A MYTH. SEVENTY WISE MEN ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE TRANSLATED THE OLD TESTAMENT SITTING IN SEVENTY DIFFERENT CELLS. HE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW THEM. PETER PAUL JOHN JAMES JUDAS OCCUPY THE STAGE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY. THEY WRITE HISTORY NOT STORIES. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THE CONTEMPORARIES OF JESUS THE AUTHORS AND HISTORIANS OF HIS TIME DO NOT TAKE NOTICE OF HIM. COULD THEY HAVE BEEN IN A CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIM. HOW ELSE IS THIS UNANIMOUS SILENCE TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288048/288048_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288048/288048_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..380dc4254e41db085a1488e1d5dff48a037df1d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288048/288048_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SHOULD THE STUDENT LOOKING INTO ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S HISTORY DISCOVER THAT NO ONE OF HIS BIOGRAPHERS KNEW POSITIVELY JUST WHEN HE LIVED OR WHERE HE WAS BORN HE WOULD HAVE REASON TO CONCLUDE THAT BECAUSE OF THIS UNCERTAINTY ON THE PART OF THE BIOGRAPHERS HE MUST BE MORE EXACTING THAN HE OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN. THAT IS PRECISELY OUR POSITION. OF COURSE THERE ARE IN HISTORY GREAT MEN OF WHOSE BIRTHPLACES OR BIRTHDAYS WE ARE EQUALLY UNCERTAIN. IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE STRONG ENOUGH TO PROVE THE HISTORICITY OF JESUS IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT NOT EVEN HIS SUPPOSED COMPANIONS WRITING DURING THE LIFETIME OF JESUS MOTHER HAVE ANY DEFINITE INFORMATION TO GIVE BUT LET US CONTINUE. THAT LINCOLN WAS PRESIDENT OF THESE UNITED STATES THAT HE SIGNED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND THAT HE WAS ASSASSINATED CAN BE READILY AUTHENTICATED. HOW THEN ARE WE TO DECIDE WHICH OF THE NUMEROUS CANDIDATES FOR DIVINE HONORS SHOULD BE GIVEN OUR VOTES. AND CAN WE BY VOTING FOR JESUS MAKE HIM A GOD. AND SUCH A FAITH IS NEVER FREE IT IS ALWAYS MAINTAINED BY THE SWORD NOW AND BY HELL FIRE HEREAFTER. YET THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE UTTERANCES ARE PUT IN JESUS MOUTH. HE IS MADE TO SAY WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK IN MY NAME THAT WILL I DO. HAS JESUS KEPT HIS PROMISE DOES HE GIVE HIS PEOPLE EVERYTHING OR WHATSOEVER THEY ASK OF HIM. BUT IT IS ANSWERED JESUS ONLY MEANT TO SAY THAT HE WOULD GIVE WHATEVER HE HIMSELF CONSIDERED GOOD FOR HIS FRIENDS TO HAVE INDEED. COULD HE NOT HAVE SAID JUST WHAT HE MEANT IN THE FIRST PLACE. BETTER TO PROMISE A LITTLE AND DO MORE THAN TO PROMISE EVERYTHING AND DO NOTHING. SUCH A CHARACTER IS TOO WILD TO BE REAL. ONLY A MYTHICAL JESUS COULD VIRTUALLY HAND OVER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSE TO COURTIERS WHO HAVE PETITIONS TO PRESS UPON HIS ATTENTION. MOREOVER IF JESUS COULD KEEP HIS PROMISE THERE WOULD BE TODAY NO MISERY IN THE WORLD NO ORPHANS NO CHILDLESS MOTHERS NO SHIPWRECKS NO FLOODS NO FAMINES NO DISEASE NO CRIPPLED CHILDREN NO INSANITY NO WARS NO CRIME NO WRONG. HAVE NOT A THOUSAND THOUSAND PRAYERS BEEN OFFERED IN JESUS NAME AGAINST EVERY EVIL WHICH HAS PLOUGHED THE FACE OF OUR EARTH. HAVE THESE PRAYERS BEEN ANSWERED. THEN WHY IS THERE DISCONTENT IN THE WORLD. HOW MANY SELF DELUDED PROPHETS THESE EXTRAVAGANT CLAIMS HAVE PRODUCED. AND WHO CAN NUMBER THE BITTER DISAPPOINTMENTS CAUSED BY SUCH IMPOSSIBLE PROMISES. GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE OF ENGLAND TELLS HOW IN THE DAYS OF UTTER POVERTY HIS BELIEVING MOTHER ASKED THE LORD AGAIN AND AGAIN ON HER KNEES WITH TEARS STREAMING FROM HER EYES AND WITH ABSOLUTE FAITH IN JESUS ABILITY TO KEEP HIS PROMISE TO GIVE HER STARVING CHILDREN THEIR DAILY BREAD. BUT THE MORE FERVENTLY SHE PRAYED THE HEAVIER GREW THE BURDEN OF HER LIFE. A STONE OR WOODEN IDOL COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE INDIFFERENT TO A MOTHER'S TEARS. IT NEVER STRUCK ME CONTINUES MISTER HOLYOAKE THAT THE PREACHER'S THREADBARE DRESS HIS HALF FAMISHED LOOK AND NECESSITY OF TAKING UP A COLLECTION THE PREVIOUS NIGHT TO PAY EXPENSES SHOWED THAT FAITH WAS NOT A SOURCE OF INCOME TO HIM. IT NEVER STRUCK ME THAT IF HELP COULD BE OBTAINED BY PRAYER NO CHURCH WOULD BE NEEDY NO BELIEVER WOULD BE POOR. THE SAME WHICH THE PREACHERS OF TODAY GIVE HE PARRIED HIS ANSWER WITH MANY WORDS AND AT LENGTH SAID THAT THE PROMISE WAS TO BE TAKEN WITH THE PROVISION THAT WHAT WE ASKED FOR WOULD BE GIVEN IF GOD THOUGHT IT FOR OUR GOOD. WHY THEN DID NOT JESUS EXPLAIN THAT IMPORTANT PROVISO WHEN HE MADE THE PROMISE. WAS JESUS ONLY MAKING A HALF STATEMENT THE OTHER HALF OF WHICH HE WOULD REVEAL LATER TO PROTECT HIMSELF AGAINST DISAPPOINTED PETITIONERS. BUT HE SAID IF YE ASK ANYTHING IN MY NAME I WILL DO IT AND IF IT WERE NOT SO I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. DID HE NOT MEAN JUST WHAT HE SAID \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288048/288048_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288048/288048_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15d66efed3743b9c2654affc9950b1f300b11390 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/116/288048/288048_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE TRUTH IS THAT NO HISTORICAL PERSON IN HIS SENSES EVER MADE SUCH EXTRAORDINARY SUCH IMPOSSIBLE PROMISES AND THE REPORT THAT JESUS MADE THEM ONLY GOES TO CONFIRM THAT THEIR AUTHOR IS ONLY A LEGENDARY BEING. WHEN THIS TRUTH DAWNED UPON MISTER HOLYOAKE HE CEASED TO PETITION HEAVEN WHICH WAS LIKE DROPPING A BUCKET INTO AN EMPTY WELL AND BEGAN TO LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR HELP. SELF EFFORT AND NOT PRAYER IS THE REMEDY AGAINST IGNORANCE SLAVERY POVERTY AND MORAL DEGRADATION. FORTUNATELY BY HOLDING UP BEFORE US AN IMPOSSIBLE JESUS WITH HIS IMPOSSIBLE PROMISES THE CHURCHES HAVE SUCCEEDED ONLY IN POSTPONING BUT NOT IN PREVENTING THE PROGRESS OF MAN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/138279/138279_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/138279/138279_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d136fbc3b147c4989ddc4fdfdb9a06cba5bc80d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/138279/138279_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS SNOW A MEETING. IT WAS A NIGHT WHEN SORROW MAY COME TO THE BRIGHTEST WITHOUT CAUSING ANY GREAT SENSE OF INCONGRUITY WHEN WITH IMPRESSIBLE PERSONS LOVE BECOMES SOLICITOUSNESS HOPE SINKS TO MISGIVING AND FAITH TO HOPE WHEN THE EXERCISE OF MEMORY DOES NOT STIR FEELINGS OF REGRET AT OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMBITION THAT HAVE BEEN PASSED BY AND ANTICIPATION DOES NOT PROMPT TO ENTERPRISE. THE SCENE WAS A PUBLIC PATH BORDERED ON THE LEFT HAND BY A RIVER BEHIND WHICH ROSE A HIGH WALL. STILL TO A CLOSE OBSERVER THEY ARE JUST AS PERCEPTIBLE THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT THEIR MEDIA OF MANIFESTATION ARE LESS TRITE AND FAMILIAR THAN SUCH WELL KNOWN ONES AS THE BURSTING OF THE BUDS OR THE FALL OF THE LEAF. THE VAST ARCH OF CLOUD ABOVE WAS STRANGELY LOW AND FORMED AS IT WERE THE ROOF OF A LARGE DARK CAVERN GRADUALLY SINKING IN UPON ITS FLOOR FOR THE INSTINCTIVE THOUGHT WAS THAT THE SNOW LINING THE HEAVENS AND THAT ENCRUSTING THE EARTH WOULD SOON UNITE INTO ONE MASS WITHOUT ANY INTERVENING STRATUM OF AIR AT ALL. THESE FEATURES MADE UP THE MASS. IF ANYTHING COULD BE DARKER THAN THE SKY IT WAS THE WALL AND IF ANY THING COULD BE GLOOMIER THAN THE WALL IT WAS THE RIVER BENEATH. THE INDISTINCT SUMMIT OF THE FACADE WAS NOTCHED AND PRONGED BY CHIMNEYS HERE AND THERE AND UPON ITS FACE WERE FAINTLY SIGNIFIED THE OBLONG SHAPES OF WINDOWS THOUGH ONLY IN THE UPPER PART. BELOW DOWN TO THE WATER'S EDGE THE FLAT WAS UNBROKEN BY HOLE OR PROJECTION. AN INDESCRIBABLE SUCCESSION OF DULL BLOWS PERPLEXING IN THEIR REGULARITY SENT THEIR SOUND WITH DIFFICULTY THROUGH THE FLUFFY ATMOSPHERE. IT WAS A NEIGHBOURING CLOCK STRIKING TEN. THE BELL WAS IN THE OPEN AIR AND BEING OVERLAID WITH SEVERAL INCHES OF MUFFLING SNOW HAD LOST ITS VOICE FOR THE TIME. ABOUT THIS HOUR THE SNOW ABATED TEN FLAKES FELL WHERE TWENTY HAD FALLEN THEN ONE HAD THE ROOM OF TEN. NOT LONG AFTER A FORM MOVED BY THE BRINK OF THE RIVER. BY ITS OUTLINE UPON THE COLOURLESS BACKGROUND A CLOSE OBSERVER MIGHT HAVE SEEN THAT IT WAS SMALL. THIS WAS ALL THAT WAS POSITIVELY DISCOVERABLE THOUGH IT SEEMED HUMAN. THE SHAPE WENT SLOWLY ALONG BUT WITHOUT MUCH EXERTION FOR THE SNOW THOUGH SUDDEN WAS NOT AS YET MORE THAN TWO INCHES DEEP. AT THIS TIME SOME WORDS WERE SPOKEN ALOUD ONE. TWO THREE. FOUR FIVE. BETWEEN EACH UTTERANCE THE LITTLE SHAPE ADVANCED ABOUT HALF A DOZEN YARDS. IT WAS EVIDENT NOW THAT THE WINDOWS HIGH IN THE WALL WERE BEING COUNTED. THE WORD FIVE REPRESENTED THE FIFTH WINDOW FROM THE END OF THE WALL. HERE THE SPOT STOPPED AND DWINDLED SMALLER. THE FIGURE WAS STOOPING. THEN A MORSEL OF SNOW FLEW ACROSS THE RIVER TOWARDS THE FIFTH WINDOW. IT SMACKED AGAINST THE WALL AT A POINT SEVERAL YARDS FROM ITS MARK. THE THROW WAS THE IDEA OF A MAN CONJOINED WITH THE EXECUTION OF A WOMAN. NO MAN WHO HAD EVER SEEN BIRD RABBIT OR SQUIRREL IN HIS CHILDHOOD COULD POSSIBLY HAVE THROWN WITH SUCH UTTER IMBECILITY AS WAS SHOWN HERE. AT LAST ONE FRAGMENT STRUCK THE FIFTH WINDOW \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/138279/138279_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/138279/138279_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..edb104bfc28f5d8b3baf6a59ea85a6dfe3fcbb75 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/138279/138279_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE RIVER WOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN BY DAY TO BE OF THAT DEEP SMOOTH SORT WHICH RACES MIDDLE AND SIDES WITH THE SAME GLIDING PRECISION ANY IRREGULARITIES OF SPEED BEING IMMEDIATELY CORRECTED BY A SMALL WHIRLPOOL. THE WINDOW WAS STRUCK AGAIN IN THE SAME MANNER. THEN A NOISE WAS HEARD APPARENTLY PRODUCED BY THE OPENING OF THE WINDOW. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A VOICE FROM THE SAME QUARTER. WHO'S THERE. THE TONES WERE MASCULINE AND NOT THOSE OF SURPRISE. IS IT SERGEANT TROY. SAID THE BLURRED SPOT IN THE SNOW TREMULOUSLY. YES CAME SUSPICIOUSLY FROM THE SHADOW. OH FRANK DON'T YOU KNOW ME SAID THE SPOT. YOUR WIFE FANNY ROBIN FANNY. SAID THE WALL IN UTTER ASTONISHMENT. THE DIALOGUE WENT ON. HOW DID YOU COME HERE. I ASKED WHICH WAS YOUR WINDOW FORGIVE ME. YOU SAID I WAS TO COME. WELL I SAID THAT YOU MIGHT. YES I MEAN THAT I MIGHT. YOU ARE GLAD TO SEE ME FRANK. OH YES OF COURSE. CAN YOU COME TO ME. THEN I SHAN'T SEE YOU TILL THEN. HOW DID YOU GET HERE FROM WEATHERBURY. I AM SURPRISED. YES SO AM I AND FRANK WHEN WILL IT BE. WHAT THAT YOU PROMISED. I DON'T QUITE RECOLLECT. NEVER MIND SAY IT. O MUST I IT IS WHEN SHALL WE BE MARRIED FRANK. I HAVE MONEY. WILL IT BE BY BANNS OR LICENSE. AND WE LIVE IN TWO PARISHES DO WE WHAT THEN. MY LODGINGS ARE IN SAINT MARY'S AND THIS IS NOT. SO THEY WILL HAVE TO BE PUBLISHED IN BOTH. IS THAT THE LAW. YES O FRANK YOU THINK ME FORWARD I AM AFRAID. DON'T DEAR FRANK WILL YOU FOR I LOVE YOU SO. DON'T CRY NOW IT IS FOOLISH. IF I SAID SO OF COURSE I WILL. AND SHALL I PUT UP THE BANNS IN MY PARISH AND WILL YOU IN YOURS. YES TO MORROW. NOT TO MORROW WE'LL SETTLE IN A FEW DAYS. YOU HAVE THE PERMISSION OF THE OFFICERS. NO NOT YET O HOW IS IT. YOU SAID YOU ALMOST HAD BEFORE YOU LEFT CASTERBRIDGE. THE FACT IS I FORGOT TO ASK. YOUR COMING LIKE THIS IS SO SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED. YES YES IT IS. THERE ARE BAD WOMEN ABOUT AND THEY THINK ME ONE. GOOD NIGHT FRANK GOOD NIGHT. AND THE NOISE WAS AGAIN HEARD OF A WINDOW CLOSING. THE LITTLE SPOT MOVED AWAY. WHEN SHE PASSED THE CORNER A SUBDUED EXCLAMATION WAS HEARD INSIDE THE WALL. HO HO SERGEANT HO HO \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/74899/74899_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/74899/74899_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6af51ec878a877bcc1e629201189658c32933a8a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/74899/74899_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THINGS ARRANGE THEMSELVES. BUT THE COUNTESS NEVER GAVE WAY AN INCH. THE FOLLOWING WAS THE ANSWER WHICH SHE RETURNED TO THE NOTE WRITTEN TO HER BY AUNT JULIA. THE COUNTESS LOVEL PRESENTS HER COMPLIMENTS TO MISS LOVEL. BY HEAVENS SHE IS THE BEST LOVEL OF US ALL SAID THE RECTOR WHEN HE READ THE LETTER. THIS REPLY WAS RECEIVED AT YOXHAM THREE DAYS BEFORE ANY ANSWER CAME EITHER FROM LADY ANNA OR FROM THE TAILOR. IT ALMOST TAKES MY BREATH AWAY SAID THE TAILOR TO HIS SWEETHEART LAUGHING. THEY ARE COUSINS YOU KNOW SAID LADY ANNA. NO ONE SHOULD UNLESS I BE MEAN AND DESPICABLE BUT THEY DO YOU MAY BE SURE. IT IS ONLY HUMAN NATURE THAT THEY SHOULD. WE ARE MADE OF DIFFERENT FABRIC THOUGH THE STUFF WAS ORIGINALLY THE SAME. I SHOULD BE HALF AFRAID OF THEIR GILT AND THEIR GINGERBREAD AND SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF MYSELF BECAUSE I WAS SO. I SHOULD NOT KNOW HOW TO DRINK WINE WITH THEM AND SHOULD DO A HUNDRED THINGS WHICH WOULD MAKE THEM THINK ME A BEAST. I DON'T SEE WHY YOU SHOULDN'T HOLD UP YOUR HEAD WITH ANY MAN IN ENGLAND SAID LADY ANNA. AND SO I OUGHT BUT I SHOULDN'T. I SHOULD BE AWED BY THOSE WHOM I FEEL TO BE MY INFERIORS I HAD RATHER NOT. BUT THE GIRL BEGGED FOR SOME DELAY. IT WAS A MATTER THAT REQUIRED TO BE CONSIDERED. IF IT WERE NECESSARY FOR HER TO QUARREL WITH ALL HER COUSINS FOR THE SAKE OF HER HUSBAND WITH THE BRIGHT FAINEANT YOUNG EARL WITH AUNTS JANE AND JULIA WITH HER DARLING MINNIE SHE WOULD DO SO. THE HUSBAND SHOULD BE TO HER IN ALL RESPECTS THE FIRST AND FOREMOST. BUT IF THE COUSINS WERE WILLING TO ACCEPT HER HUSBAND WHY SHOULD HE NOT BE WILLING TO BE ACCEPTED. PRIDE IN HIM MIGHT BE AS WEAK AS PRIDE IN THEM. IF THEY WOULD PUT OUT THEIR HANDS TO HIM WHY SHOULD HE REFUSE TO PUT OUT HIS OWN. GIVE ME A DAY DANIEL TO THINK ABOUT IT. OUR TAILOR RECEIVED HIM COURTEOUSLY HAVING LEARNED TO LIKE THE MAN UNDERSTANDING THAT HE HAD BEHAVED WITH HONESTY AND WISDOM IN REGARD TO HIS CLIENT AND RESPECTING HIM AS ONE OF THE WORKERS OF THE DAY BUT HE DECLARED THAT FOR THE LOVEL FAMILY AS A FAMILY HE DID NOT CARE FOR THEM PARTICULARLY. THEY ARE POLES ASUNDER FROM ME HE SAID. NOT SO REPLIED SIR WILLIAM THEY WERE POLES ASUNDER IF YOU WILL. BUT BY YOUR GOOD FORTUNE AND MERIT IF YOU WILL ALLOW ME TO SAY SO YOU HAVE TRAVELLED FROM THE ONE POLE VERY FAR TOWARDS THE OTHER. I AM AN OLDER MAN THAN YOU MISTER THWAITE AND ALLOW ME TO ASSURE YOU THAT YOU ARE WRONG. WHY SHOULD THE CHILDREN OF LORDS BE SUCH TO THE TENTH AND TWENTIETH GENERATION. IT IS A FAIR SUBJECT FOR ARGUMENT. AT PRESENT I THINK THAT THE SENSE OF THE COUNTRY IS IN FAVOUR OF AN ARISTOCRACY OF BIRTH. IT IS NOT MY AMBITION PARDON ME. WHEN YOU WERE A WORKMAN AMONG WORKMEN DID YOU NOT WISH TO BE THEIR LEADER. WHEN YOU WERE FOREMOST AMONG THEM DID YOU NOT WISH TO BE THEIR MASTER. IF YOU WERE A MASTER TRADESMAN WOULD YOU NOT WISH TO LEAD AND GUIDE YOUR BROTHER TRADESMEN. WOULD YOU NOT DESIRE WEALTH IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT BE ASSISTED BY IT IN YOUR VIEWS OF AMBITION. THE THEORY OF EQUALITY IS VERY GRAND. THE GRANDEST THING IN THE WORLD SIR WILLIAM. IT IS ONE TO WHICH ALL LEGISLATIVE AND ALL HUMAN EFFORTS SHOULD AND MUST TEND. THE ENERGETIC THE TALENTED THE HONEST AND THE UNSELFISH WILL ALWAYS BE MOVING TOWARDS AN ARISTOCRATIC SIDE OF SOCIETY BECAUSE THEIR VIRTUES WILL BEGET ESTEEM AND ESTEEM WILL BEGET WEALTH AND WEALTH GIVES POWER FOR GOOD OFFICES. AS WHEN ONE MAN THROWS AWAY FORTY THOUSAND A YEAR ON RACE COURSES. WHEN YOU MAKE MUCH WATER BOIL MISTER THWAITE SOME OF IT WILL PROBABLY BOIL OVER. THE SUBJECT IS SO LARGE THAT I SHOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS IT WITH YOU WHEN WE HAVE MORE TIME. IT WILL SHOW A HIGHER MANLINESS IN YOU TO GO AMONG THEM AND ACCEPT AMONG THEM THE POSITION WHICH YOUR WIFE'S WEALTH AND YOUR OWN ACQUIREMENTS WILL GIVE YOU THAN TO STAND ALOOF MOODILY BECAUSE THEY ARE ARISTOCRATS. YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF UNDERSTOOD WHEN YOU SPEAK SIR WILLIAM. I CANNOT AND SO YOU HAVE THE BEST OF ME \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/74899/74899_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/74899/74899_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6b7984ff55a31ae374ef1ce0c99e553cf779830c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/74899/74899_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE ME LIKE A LORD OR THINK THAT A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO WEAR A SILK GOWN. I QUITE AGREE WITH YOU THAT THE SILK GOWNS SHOULD BE KEPT FOR THEIR ELDERS AND SO THE CONVERSATION WAS ENDED. ON THE FOLLOWING DAY LADY ANNA WAS WITH HIM AS USUAL FOR THE PRETEXT OF HIS WOUND STILL AFFORDED TO HER THE MEANS OF PAYING TO HIM THOSE DAILY VISITS WHICH IN HAPPIER CIRCUMSTANCES HE WOULD NATURALLY HAVE PAID TO HER. WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO YOXHAM HE SAID. SHE LOOKED WISTFULLY UP INTO HIS FACE. WITH HER THERE WAS A REAL WISH THAT THE POLES MIGHT BE JOINED TOGETHER BY HER FUTURE HUSBAND. IF YOU REALLY WISH IT YOU SHALL GO HE SAID. BUT YOU MUST GO ALSO. YES FOR ONE DAY. AND I MUST HAVE A PAIR OF GLOVES AND A BLACK COAT. AND A BLUE ONE TO BE MARRIED IN ALAS ME. MUST I HAVE A PINK SILK GOWN TO WALK ABOUT IN EARLY IN THE MORNING. YOU SHALL IF YOU LIKE AND I'LL MAKE IT FOR YOU. I'D SOONER SEE YOU DARNING MY WORSTED STOCKINGS SWEETHEART. I CAN DO THAT TOO. THE TAILOR MUST BEHAVE HIMSELF PROPERLY SAID LADY ANNA. THAT'S JUST WHAT HE WON'T DO AND CAN'T DO. I WON'T BE ASHAMED OF YOU I WILL NEVER BE ASHAMED OF YOU. I WILL BE ASHAMED OF THEM IF THEY ARE NOT GOOD TO YOU. WHAT DOES IT ALL SIGNIFY IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY. I WILL GO SAID HE. AND NOW I'LL SIT DOWN AND WRITE A LETTER TO MY LORD. TWO LETTERS WERE WRITTEN ACCEPTING THE INVITATION. AS THAT FROM THE TAILOR TO THE LORD WAS SHORT AND CHARACTERISTIC IT SHALL BE GIVEN. LADY ANNA'S REPLY TO AUNT JULIA WAS LONGER AND LESS SENTENTIOUS BUT IT SIGNIFIED HER INTENTION OF GOING DOWN TO YOXHAM A WEEK BEFORE THE DAY SETTLED FOR THE MARRIAGE WHICH WAS NOW THE TENTH OF JULY. SHE WAS MUCH OBLIGED SHE SAID TO THE RECTOR FOR HIS GOODNESS IN PROMISING TO MARRY THEM AND AS SHE HAD NO FRIENDS OF HER OWN SHE HOPED THAT MINNIE LOVEL WOULD BE HER BRIDESMAID \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90407/90407_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90407/90407_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..58c5661d3497c1ea5b4211b734925f8acc7acbf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90407/90407_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEY CROUCHED SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER THAT HE COULD FEEL HER FURS AGAINST HIM. NEITHER HAD SPOKEN SINCE THEY LEFT THE ROADWAY TILL SHE SAID WITH ATTEMPTED UNCONCERN THIS IS UNFORTUNATE. IT IS MORE UNFORTUNATE FOR YOU PERHAPS THAN FOR ME HE SAID AND I AM VERY SORRY THAT IT SHOULD BE SO. SHE REPLIED NOTHING TO THIS AND HE ADDED THAT IT WAS RATHER A DESOLATE PLACE FOR A WOMAN ALONE AND AFOOT. HE HOPED NOTHING SERIOUS HAD HAPPENED TO DRAG HER OUT AT SUCH AN UNTOWARD TIME. BUT AS THE RAIN GAVE NOT THE LEAST SIGN OF CESSATION HE OBSERVED I THINK WE SHALL HAVE TO GO BACK NEVER. WHY NOT HE INQUIRED. THERE ARE GOOD REASONS. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW YOU SHOULD KNOW ME WHILE I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. OH BUT YOU KNOW ME ABOUT ME AT LEAST. INDEED I DON'T HOW SHOULD I YOU ARE A KIMBERLIN. I SHOULD THINK SO. HE'S MY FATHER INDEED. AFTER MAKING OVER HIS LARGE BUSINESS TO THE COMPANY HE RETIRED I BELIEVE TO LONDON. YES. OUR HOUSE OR RATHER HIS NOT MINE IS AT SOUTH KENSINGTON WE HAVE LIVED THERE FOR YEARS. BUT WE HAVE BEEN TENANTS OF SYLVANIA CASTLE ON THE ISLAND HERE THIS SEASON. THEN I HAVE BEEN STAYING QUITE NEAR YOU MISS BENCOMB. MY FATHER'S IS A COMPARATIVELY HUMBLE RESIDENCE HARD BY. BUT HE COULD AFFORD A MUCH BIGGER ONE IF HE CHOSE. YOU HAVE HEARD SO. I DON'T KNOW HE DOESN'T TELL ME MUCH OF HIS AFFAIRS. MY FATHER SHE BURST OUT SUDDENLY IS ALWAYS SCOLDING ME FOR MY EXTRAVAGANCE. WAS THAT THIS EVENING. I HAVE LEFT MY FATHER FOR EVER. NOW I SHALL TAKE THE TRAIN AS SOON AS I REACH THE MAINLAND. I MUST SIT HERE TILL IT STOPS. AND THERE ON THE NETS THEY SAT. JOCELYN THOUGHT IT STRANGE THAT HE SHOULD BE THROWN BY FATE INTO A POSITION TO PLAY THE SON OF THE MONTAGUES TO THIS DAUGHTER OF THE CAPULETS. AS THEY TALKED THERE WAS A MUTUAL INSTINCT TO DROP THEIR VOICES AND ON THIS ACCOUNT THE ROAR OF THE STORM NECESSITATED THEIR DRAWING QUITE CLOSE TOGETHER. SOMETHING TENDER CAME INTO THEIR TONES AS QUARTER HOUR AFTER QUARTER HOUR WENT ON AND THEY FORGOT THE LAPSE OF TIME. IT WAS QUITE LATE WHEN SHE STARTED UP ALARMED AT HER POSITION. RAIN OR NO RAIN I CAN STAY NO LONGER SHE SAID. DO COME BACK SAID HE TAKING HER HAND. I'LL RETURN WITH YOU MY TRAIN HAS GONE. NO I SHALL GO ON AND GET A LODGING IN BUDMOUTH TOWN IF EVER I REACH IT. IT IS SO LATE THAT THERE WILL BE NO HOUSE OPEN EXCEPT A LITTLE PLACE NEAR THE STATION WHERE YOU WON'T CARE TO STAY. I CANNOT LEAVE YOU IT WOULD BE TOO AWKWARD FOR YOU TO GO THERE ALONE. THE SEA ROLLED AND ROSE SO HIGH ON THEIR LEFT AND WAS SO NEAR THEM ON THEIR RIGHT THAT IT SEEMED AS IF THEY WERE TRAVERSING ITS BOTTOM LIKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. NOTHING BUT THE FRAIL BANK OF PEBBLES DIVIDED THEM FROM THE RAGING GULF WITHOUT AND AT EVERY BANG OF THE TIDE AGAINST IT THE GROUND SHOOK THE SHINGLE CLASHED THE SPRAY ROSE VERTICALLY AND WAS BLOWN OVER THEIR HEADS. QUANTITIES OF SEA WATER TRICKLED THROUGH THE PEBBLE WALL AND RAN IN RIVULETS ACROSS THEIR PATH TO JOIN THE SEA WITHIN. THE ISLAND WAS AN ISLAND STILL. THEY HAD NOT REALIZED THE FORCE OF THE ELEMENTS TILL NOW. THE ETHEREAL SUBSTANCE CLOSED NOT LONG DIVISIBLE. HER CLOTHING OFFERED MORE RESISTANCE TO THE WIND THAN HIS AND SHE WAS CONSEQUENTLY IN THE GREATER DANGER. FIRST HE GAVE HIS ARM BUT THE WIND TORE THEM APART AS EASILY AS COUPLED CHERRIES. HE STEADIED HER BODILY BY ENCIRCLING HER WAIST WITH HIS ARM AND SHE MADE NO OBJECTION. IT MEANT A POSSIBLE MIGRATION OF THE WELL BELOVED. AS SOON AS THEY HAD CROSSED THE FERRY BRIDGE THERE WAS A LITTLE MORE SHELTER BUT HE DID NOT RELINQUISH HIS HOLD TILL SHE REQUESTED HIM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90407/90407_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90407/90407_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4db197fb3cb2c4eed16eb0eff6ad6c79d38d602d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90407/90407_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEY PASSED THE RUINED CASTLE AND HAVING LEFT THE ISLAND FAR BEHIND THEM TROD MILE AFTER MILE TILL THEY DREW NEAR TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE NEIGHBOURING WATERING PLACE. INTO IT THEY PLODDED WITHOUT PAUSE CROSSING THE HARBOUR BRIDGE ABOUT MIDNIGHT WET TO THE SKIN. HE PITIED HER AND WHILE HE WONDERED AT IT ADMIRED HER DETERMINATION. THE HOUSES FACING THE BAY NOW SHELTERED THEM COMPLETELY AND THEY REACHED THE VICINITY OF THE NEW RAILWAY TERMINUS WHICH THE STATION WAS AT THIS DATE WITHOUT DIFFICULTY. THEIR APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION LED TO THE WITHDRAWAL OF A BOLT AND THEY STOOD WITHIN THE GASLIGHT OF THE PASSAGE. HE COULD SEE NOW THAT THOUGH SHE WAS SUCH A FINE FIGURE QUITE AS TALL AS HIMSELF SHE WAS BUT IN THE BLOOM OF YOUNG WOMANHOOD. HER FACE WAS CERTAINLY STRIKING THOUGH RATHER BY ITS IMPERIOUSNESS THAN ITS BEAUTY AND THE BEATING OF THE WIND AND RAIN AND SPRAY HAD INFLAMED HER CHEEKS TO PEONY HUES. SHE PERSISTED IN THE DETERMINATION TO GO ON TO LONDON BY AN EARLY MORNING TRAIN AND HE THEREFORE OFFERED ADVICE ON LESSER MATTERS ONLY. I WILL TELL THE SERVANT TO DO THIS AND SEND YOU UP SOMETHING TO EAT. HE FELT RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY HIMSELF AND SET ABOUT DRYING HIS CLOTHES AS WELL AS HE COULD AND EATING AT THE SAME TIME. AT FIRST HE WAS IN DOUBT WHAT TO DO BUT SOON DECIDED TO STAY WHERE HE WAS TILL THE MORROW. BY THE AID OF SOME TEMPORARY WRAPS AND SOME SLIPPERS FROM THE CUPBOARD HE WAS CONTRIVING TO MAKE HIMSELF COMFORTABLE WHEN THE MAID SERVANT CAME DOWNSTAIRS WITH A DAMP ARMFUL OF WOMAN'S RAIMENT. PIERSTON WITHDREW FROM THE FIRE. THE MAID SERVANT KNELT DOWN BEFORE THE BLAZE AND HELD UP WITH EXTENDED ARMS ONE OF THE HABILIMENTS OF THE JUNO UPSTAIRS FROM WHICH A CLOUD OF STEAM BEGAN TO RISE. AS SHE KNELT THE GIRL NODDED FORWARD RECOVERED HERSELF AND NODDED AGAIN. YOU ARE SLEEPY MY GIRL SAID PIERSTON. THEN I'LL RELIEVE YOU OF THAT GO AND LIE DOWN IN THE OTHER ROOM JUST AS IF WE WERE NOT HERE. I'LL DRY THE CLOTHING AND PUT THE ARTICLES HERE IN A HEAP WHICH YOU CAN TAKE UP TO THE YOUNG LADY IN THE MORNING. THE NIGHT PORTER THANKED HIM AND LEFT THE ROOM AND HE SOON HEARD HER SNORING FROM THE ADJOINING APARTMENT. THEN JOCELYN OPENED PROCEEDINGS OVERHAULING THE ROBES AND EXTENDING THEM ONE BY ONE. HE AGAIN BECAME CONSCIOUS OF THE CHANGE WHICH HAD BEEN INITIATED DURING THE WALK. THE WELL BELOVED WAS MOVING HOUSE HAD GONE OVER TO THE WEARER OF THIS ATTIRE. IN THE COURSE OF TEN MINUTES HE ADORED HER. AND HOW ABOUT LITTLE AVICE CARO. HE DID NOT THINK OF HER AS BEFORE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90413/90413_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90413/90413_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7422fb05c15c10fef3a283d08bc8a9aba9c08a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90413/90413_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SHE DRAWS CLOSE AND SATISFIES. HE COULD NOT FORGET MISSUS PINE AVON'S EYES THOUGH HE REMEMBERED NOTHING OF HER OTHER FACIAL DETAILS. THEY WERE ROUND INQUIRING LUMINOUS. NOW THE QUESTION WAS OUGHT HE TO SEE HER AGAIN HE HAD HIS DOUBTS. AT THE DINNER HE TOOK DOWN MISSUS PINE AVON UPON HIS ARM AND TALKED TO NOBODY ELSE DURING THE MEAL. AFTERWARDS THEY KEPT APART AWHILE IN THE DRAWING ROOM FOR FORM'S SAKE BUT EVENTUALLY GRAVITATED TOGETHER AGAIN AND FINISHED THE EVENING IN EACH OTHER'S COMPANY. WHEN SHORTLY AFTER ELEVEN HE CAME AWAY HE FELT ALMOST CERTAIN THAT WITHIN THOSE LUMINOUS GREY EYES THE ONE OF HIS ETERNAL FIDELITY HAD VERILY TAKEN LODGINGS AND FOR A LONG LEASE. BUT THIS WAS NOT ALL. AT PARTING HE HAD ALMOST INVOLUNTARILY GIVEN HER HAND A PRESSURE OF A PECULIAR AND INDESCRIBABLE KIND A LITTLE RESPONSE FROM HER LIKE A MERE PULSATION OF THE SAME SORT TOLD HIM THAT THE IMPRESSION SHE HAD MADE UPON HIM WAS RECIPROCATED. SHE WAS IN A WORD WILLING TO GO ON. BUT WAS HE ABLE. HE WAS NOW OVER FORTY SHE WAS PROBABLY THIRTY AND HE DARED NOT MAKE UNMEANING LOVE WITH THE CARELESS SELFISHNESS OF A YOUNGER MAN. IT WAS UNFAIR TO GO FURTHER WITHOUT TELLING HER EVEN THOUGH HITHERTO SUCH EXPLICITNESS HAD NOT BEEN ABSOLUTELY DEMANDED. HE DETERMINED TO CALL IMMEDIATELY ON THE NEW INCARNATION. SHE LIVED NOT FAR FROM THE LONG FASHIONABLE HAMPTONSHIRE SQUARE AND HE WENT THITHER WITH EXPECTATIONS OF HAVING A HIGHLY EMOTIONAL TIME AT LEAST. BUT SOMEHOW THE VERY BELL PULL SEEMED COLD ALTHOUGH SHE HAD SO EARNESTLY ASKED HIM TO COME. AS THE HOUSE SPOKE SO SPOKE THE OCCUPANT MUCH TO THE ASTONISHMENT OF THE SCULPTOR. TO BE SURE IT WAS MISSUS NICHOLA PINE AVON BUT FROSTED OVER INDESCRIBABLY. RAISING HER EYES IN A SLIGHTLY INQUIRING MANNER FROM THE BOOK SHE WAS READING SHE LEANT BACK IN THE CHAIR AS IF SOAKING HERSELF IN LUXURIOUS SENSATIONS WHICH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM AND REPLIED TO HIS GREETING WITH A FEW COMMONPLACE WORDS. THE UNFORTUNATE JOCELYN THOUGH RECUPERATIVE TO A DEGREE WAS AT FIRST TERRIBLY UPSET BY THIS RECEPTION. HE HAD DISTINCTLY BEGUN TO LOVE NICHOLA AND HE FELT SICK AND ALMOST RESENTFUL. BUT HAPPILY HIS AFFECTION WAS INCIPIENT AS YET AND A SUDDEN SENSE OF THE RIDICULOUS IN HIS OWN POSITION CARRIED HIM TO THE VERGE OF RISIBILITY DURING THE SCENE. SHE SIGNIFIED A CHAIR AND BEGAN THE CRITICAL STUDY OF SOME RINGS SHE WORE. THEY TALKED OVER THE DAY'S NEWS AND THEN AN ORGAN BEGAN TO GRIND OUTSIDE. NO I DON'T SHE REPLIED. NOW I'LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT SAID HE GRAVELY. IT IS BASED ON A SOUND OLD MELODY CALLED THE JILT'S HORNPIPE. JUST AS THEY TURN MADEIRA INTO PORT IN THE SPACE OF A SINGLE NIGHT SO THIS OLD AIR HAS BEEN TAKEN AND DOCTORED AND TWISTED ABOUT AND BROUGHT OUT AS A NEW POPULAR DITTY INDEED. YOU WOULD FIND THIS IS OFTEN DONE WITH EXCELLENT EFFECT. SHE THAWED A LITTLE AND THEN THEY WENT ON TO TALK ABOUT HER HOUSE WHICH HAD BEEN NEWLY PAINTED AND DECORATED WITH GREENISH BLUE SATIN UP TO THE HEIGHT OF A PERSON'S HEAD AN ARRANGEMENT THAT SOMEWHAT IMPROVED HER SLIGHTLY FADED THOUGH STILL PRETTY FACE AND WAS HELPED BY THE AWNINGS OVER THE WINDOWS. YES I HAVE HAD MY HOUSE SOME YEARS SHE OBSERVED COMPLACENTLY AND I LIKE IT BETTER EVERY YEAR. DON'T YOU FEEL LONELY IN IT SOMETIMES O NEVER. SHE ASKED HIM TO COME AGAIN AND HE THOUGHT HE WOULD TELL THE TRUTH. NO I SHALL NOT CARE TO COME AGAIN HE ANSWERED IN A TONE INAUDIBLE TO THE YOUNG LADIES. SHE FOLLOWED HIM TO THE DOOR. WHAT AN UNCIVIL THING TO SAY SHE MURMURED IN SURPRISE. IT IS RATHER UNCIVIL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90413/90413_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90413/90413_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91a7875724023b7dcf17a67c15f6e291b07a7e71 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1255/90413/90413_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +GOOD BYE SAID PIERSTON. AS A PUNISHMENT SHE DID NOT RING THE BELL BUT LEFT HIM TO FIND HIS WAY OUT AS HE COULD. NOW WHAT THE DEVIL THIS MEANS I CANNOT TELL HE SAID TO HIMSELF REFLECTING STOCK STILL FOR A MOMENT ON THE STAIRS. AND YET THE MEANING WAS STARING HIM IN THE FACE. MEANWHILE ONE OF THE THREE YOUNG LADIES HAD SAID WHAT INTERESTING MAN WAS THAT WITH HIS LOVELY HEAD OF HAIR. I SAW HIM AT LADY CHANNELCLIFFE'S THE OTHER NIGHT. JOCELYN PIERSTON. O NICHOLA THAT IS TOO BAD. O DIDN'T HE MARRY HER. SAID MISSUS PINE AVON WITH A START. WHY I HEARD ONLY YESTERDAY THAT HE DID THOUGH THEY HAVE LIVED APART EVER SINCE. QUITE A MISTAKE SAID THE YOUNG LADY HOW I WISH I COULD RUN AFTER HIM. BUT JOCELYN WAS RECEDING FROM THE PRETTY WIDOW'S HOUSE WITH LONG STRIDES. BY SOME ACCIDENT HE ARRIVED RATHER EARLY. LADY IRIS HAD LEFT THE DRAWING ROOM FOR A MOMENT TO SEE THAT ALL WAS RIGHT IN THE DINING ROOM AND WHEN HE WAS SHOWN IN THERE STOOD ALONE IN THE LAMPLIGHT NICHOLA PINE AVON. SHE HAD BEEN THE FIRST ARRIVAL. SHE HAD JUST COME OUT OF THE CLOAK ROOM AND WAS SO TENDER AND EVEN APOLOGETIC THAT HE HAD NOT THE HEART TO BE OTHER THAN FRIENDLY. AS THE OTHER GUESTS DROPPED IN THE PAIR RETREATED INTO A SHADY CORNER AND SHE TALKED BESIDE HIM TILL ALL MOVED OFF FOR THE EATING AND DRINKING. HE HAD NOT BEEN APPOINTED TO TAKE HER ACROSS TO THE DINING ROOM BUT AT THE TABLE FOUND HER EXACTLY OPPOSITE. ANYHOW HE WAS NOT DISPOSED TO RESENT AN INEXPLICABILITY IN WOMANKIND HAVING FOUND THAT IT USUALLY AROSE INDEPENDENTLY OF FACT REASON PROBABILITY OR HIS OWN DESERTS. SO HE DINED ON CATCHING HER EYES AND THE FEW PRETTY WORDS SHE MADE OPPORTUNITY TO PROJECT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM NOW AND THEN. PIERSTON DREW IT SUFFICIENTLY FORTH TO OBSERVE BY THE POST MARK THAT IT CAME FROM HIS NATAL ISLE. HAVING HARDLY A CORRESPONDENT IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD NOW HE BEGAN TO CONJECTURE ON THE POSSIBLE SENDER. THE SPRING IN THE PRESENT CASE WAS THE ARTISTIC COMMENDATION SHE DESERVED AND CRAVED. THE LADY ON JOCELYN'S LEFT WIFE OF A LORD JUSTICE OF APPEAL WAS IN LIKE MANNER TALKING TO HER COMPANION ON THE OUTER SIDE SO THAT FOR THE TIME HE WAS LEFT TO HIMSELF. HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY DREW OUT HIS LETTER AND READ IT AS IT LAY UPON HIS NAPKIN NOBODY OBSERVING HIM SO FAR AS HE WAS AWARE. IT CAME FROM THE WIFE OF ONE OF HIS FATHER'S FORMER WORKMEN AND WAS CONCERNING HER SON WHOM SHE BEGGED JOCELYN TO RECOMMEND AS CANDIDATE FOR SOME POST IN TOWN THAT SHE WISHED HIM TO FILL. BUT THE END OF THE LETTER WAS WHAT ARRESTED HIM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/131718/131718_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/131718/131718_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e45f275adc0245d1de47628ff704ae531065748 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/131718/131718_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +INTRODUCTION OF THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT. WHAT IS NECESSARY TO THE COMPLETENESS OF THE STORY AT THIS STAGE IS NOT TO RECAPITULATE BUT TO TAKE UP SOME OF THE LOOSE ENDS OF THREADS WOVEN IN AND FOLLOW THEM THROUGH UNTIL THE CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF EVENTS CAN BE SEEN. THE WAY OF THE INVENTOR IS HARD. HE CAN SOMETIMES RAISE CAPITAL TO HELP HIM IN WORKING OUT HIS CRUDE CONCEPTIONS BUT EVEN THEN IT IS FREQUENTLY DONE AT A DISTRESSFUL COST OF PERSONAL SURRENDER. WHEN THE RESULT IS ACHIEVED THE INVENTION MAKES ITS APPEAL ON THE SCORE OF ECONOMY OF MATERIAL OR OF EFFORT AND THEN LABOR OFTEN AWAITS WITH CRUSHING AND TYRANNICAL SPIRIT TO SMASH THE APPARATUS OR FORBID ITS VERY USE. POSSIBLY OUR NATIONAL OPTIMISM AS REVEALED IN INVENTION THE SEEKING A HIGHER GOOD NEEDS SOME CHECK. POSSIBLY THE LEADERS WOULD TRAVEL TOO FAST AND TOO FAR ON THE ROAD TO PERFECTION IF CONSERVATISM DID NOT ALSO PLAY ITS SALUTARY PART IN INSISTING THAT THE PROCESSION MOVE FORWARD AS A WHOLE. ON THE CONTRARY THE CONDITIONS FOR ITS ACCEPTANCE HAD BEEN RIPENING FAST. YET THE VERY VOGUE OF THE ELECTRIC ARC LIGHT MADE HARDER THE ARRIVAL OF THE INCANDESCENT. A NUMBER OF PARENT ARC LIGHTING COMPANIES WERE IN EXISTENCE AND A GREAT MANY LOCAL COMPANIES HAD BEEN CALLED INTO BEING UNDER FRANCHISES FOR COMMERCIAL BUSINESS AND TO EXECUTE REGULAR CITY CONTRACTS FOR STREET LIGHTING. THUS IN A CURIOUS MANNER THE MODERN ART OF ELECTRIC LIGHTING WAS IN A VERY TRUE SENSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF WITH INTENSE RIVALRIES AND JEALOUSIES WHICH WERE NONE THE LESS REAL BECAUSE THEY WERE BUT TEMPORARY AND OCCURRED IN A FIELD WHERE ULTIMATE UNION OF FORCES WAS INEVITABLE. HENCE TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE FIRST EDISON STATIONS WERE ESTABLISHED THE METHODS THEY INVOLVED COULD BE FAIRLY CREDITED WITH NO LESS THAN SIXTY SEVEN PER CENT. IT WILL BE READILY UNDERSTOOD THAT UNDER THESE CONDITIONS THE MODERN LIGHTING COMPANY SUPPLIES TO ITS CUSTOMERS BOTH INCANDESCENT AND ARC LIGHTING FREQUENTLY FROM THE SAME DYNAMO ELECTRIC MACHINERY AS A SOURCE OF CURRENT AND THAT THE OLD FEUD AS BETWEEN THE RIVAL SYSTEMS HAS DIED OUT. IN FACT FOR SOME YEARS PAST THE PRESIDENTS OF THE NATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATION HAVE BEEN CHOSEN ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY FROM AMONG THE MANAGERS OF THE GREAT EDISON LIGHTING COMPANIES IN THE LEADING CITIES. THE OTHER STRONG OPPOSITION TO THE INCANDESCENT LIGHT CAME FROM THE GAS INDUSTRY. THERE ALSO THE MOST BITTER FEELING WAS SHOWN. THE GAS MANAGER DID NOT LIKE THE ARC LIGHT BUT IT INTERFERED ONLY WITH HIS STREET SERVICE WHICH WAS NOT HIS LARGEST SOURCE OF INCOME BY ANY MEANS. HERE AGAIN WAS GIVEN A MOST CONVINCING DEMONSTRATION OF THE TRUTH THAT SUCH AN ADDITION TO THE RESOURCES OF MANKIND ALWAYS CARRIES WITH IT UNSUSPECTED BENEFITS EVEN FOR ITS ENEMIES. THIS WAS NOT LONG NOR UNIVERSALLY THE SPIRIT SHOWN AND TO DAY IN HUNDREDS OF CITIES THE ELECTRIC AND GAS PROPERTIES ARE UNITED UNDER THE ONE MANAGEMENT WHICH DOES NOT FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PUSH IN A FRIENDLY AND PROGRESSIVE WAY THE USE OF BOTH ILLUMINANTS. THE MOST CONSPICUOUS EXAMPLE OF THIS IDENTITY OF INTEREST IS GIVEN IN NEW YORK ITSELF. SO MUCH FOR THE EARLY OPPOSITION OF WHICH THERE WAS PLENTY. BUT IT MAY BE QUESTIONED WHETHER INERTIA IS NOT EQUALLY TO BE DREADED WITH ACTIVE ILL WILL. OF COURSE A GREAT MANY ACCOUNTS WERE WRITTEN AND READ BUT WHILE GENUINE INTEREST WAS AROUSED IT WAS NECESSARILY APATHETIC \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/131718/131718_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/131718/131718_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6f8bb025373769d5708b3f050cbc5542bef4a86 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/131718/131718_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +PLANS TO THAT END WERE NOW RAPIDLY MATURING BUT THERE WOULD BE NEEDED AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS EVERY ONE OF THEM NEW AND NOVEL DYNAMOS SWITCHBOARDS REGULATORS PRESSURE AND CURRENT INDICATORS FIXTURES IN GREAT VARIETY INCANDESCENT LAMPS METERS SOCKETS SMALL SWITCHES UNDERGROUND CONDUCTORS JUNCTION BOXES SERVICE BOXES MANHOLE BOXES CONNECTORS AND EVEN SPECIALLY MADE WIRE. WE GOT IT AT A GREAT BARGAIN AND ONLY PAID A SMALL SUM DOWN AND THE BALANCE ON MORTGAGE. WE MOVED THE LAMP WORKS FROM MENLO PARK TO HARRISON. WE SOLD THEM FOR FORTY CENTS BUT THERE WERE ONLY ABOUT TWENTY OR THIRTY THOUSAND OF THEM. THE FOURTH YEAR I GOT IT DOWN TO THIRTY SEVEN CENTS AND I MADE ALL THE MONEY UP IN ONE YEAR THAT I HAD LOST PREVIOUSLY. I FINALLY GOT IT DOWN TO TWENTY TWO CENTS AND SOLD THEM FOR FORTY CENTS AND THEY WERE MADE BY THE MILLION. ONE OF THE INCIDENTS WHICH CAUSED A VERY GREAT CHEAPENING WAS THAT WHEN WE STARTED ONE OF THE IMPORTANT PROCESSES HAD TO BE DONE BY EXPERTS. HE WAS DISCHARGED WHEREUPON THE UNION NOTIFIED US THAT UNLESS THE BOY WAS TAKEN BACK THE WHOLE BODY WOULD GO OUT. AFTER FEELING AROUND FOR SOME DAYS I GOT A CLEW HOW TO DO IT. I THEN MADE ANOTHER MACHINE WHICH DID THE WORK NICELY. INCIDENTALLY IT MAY BE NOTED AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PROBLEMS BROUGHT TO EDISON THAT WHILE HE HAD THE FACTORY AT HARRISON AN IMPORTER IN THE CHINESE TRADE WENT TO HIM AND WANTED A DYNAMO TO BE RUN BY HAND POWER. THE IMPORTER EXPLAINED THAT IN CHINA HUMAN LABOR WAS CHEAPER THAN STEAM POWER. FOR MAKING THE DYNAMOS EDISON SECURED AS NOTED IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER THE ROACH IRON WORKS ON GOERCK STREET NEW YORK AND THIS WAS ALSO EQUIPPED. TO SIGMUND BERGMANN WHO HAD WORKED PREVIOUSLY WITH EDISON ON TELEPHONE APPARATUS AND PHONOGRAPHS AND WAS ALREADY MAKING EDISON SPECIALTIES IN A SMALL WAY IN A LOFT ON WOOSTER STREET NEW YORK WAS ASSIGNED THE TASK OF CONSTRUCTING SOCKETS FIXTURES METERS SAFETY FUSES AND NUMEROUS OTHER DETAILS. IN THE EARLY PART OF EIGHTEEN EIGHTY ONE THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY LEASED THE OLD BISHOP MANSION AT SIXTY FIVE FIFTH AVENUE CLOSE TO FOURTEENTH STREET FOR ITS HEADQUARTERS AND SHOW ROOMS. THIS WAS ONE OF THE FINEST HOMES IN THE CITY OF THAT PERIOD AND ITS ACQUISITION WAS A PREMONITORY SIGN OF THE SURRENDER OF THE FAMOUS RESIDENTIAL AVENUE TO COMMERCE. THE EXPERIENCE WITH THE LITTLE GAS ENGINE WAS RATHER STARTLING. ONE DAY IT WAS NOT GOING VERY WELL AND I WENT DOWN TO THE MAN IN CHARGE AND GOT EXPLORING AROUND. FOR THE NEXT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS SIXTY FIVE WAS A VERITABLE BEEHIVE DAY AND NIGHT. THE ROUTINE WAS VERY MUCH THE SAME AS THAT AT THE LABORATORY IN ITS UTTER NEGLECT OF THE CLOCK. DURING THE DAY BUSINESS WAS CARRIED ON UNDER GREAT STRESS AND MISTER INSULL HAS DESCRIBED HOW EDISON WAS TO BE FOUND THERE TRYING TO LEAD THE LIFE OF A MAN OF AFFAIRS IN THE CONVENTIONAL GARB OF POLITE SOCIETY INSTEAD OF PURSUING INVENTIONS AND RESEARCHES IN HIS LABORATORY. I WAS TELLING A GENTLEMAN ONE DAY THAT I COULD NOT KEEP A CIGAR EVEN IF I LOCKED THEM UP IN MY DESK THEY WOULD BREAK IT OPEN. HE SUGGESTED TO ME THAT HE HAD A FRIEND OVER ON EIGHTH AVENUE WHO MADE A SUPERIOR GRADE OF CIGARS AND WHO WOULD SHOW THEM A TRICK. HE SAID HE WOULD HAVE SOME OF THEM MADE UP WITH HAIR AND OLD PAPER AND I COULD PUT THEM IN WITHOUT A WORD AND SEE THE RESULT. I THOUGHT NO MORE ABOUT THE MATTER. I DIDN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT IT. ON COMING TO INVESTIGATE IT APPEARED THAT THE BOX OF CIGARS HAD BEEN DELIVERED AND HAD BEEN PUT IN MY DESK AND I HAD SMOKED THEM ALL. I WAS TOO BUSY ON OTHER THINGS TO NOTICE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/131718/131718_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/131718/131718_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99207f6934840d1914a990a632426493f1c6825d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/131718/131718_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SPEAKING OF THOSE DAYS OR NIGHTS EDISON SAYS YEARS AGO ONE OF THE GREAT VIOLINISTS WAS REMENYI. HE WAS HIGHLY EDUCATED AND HAD GREAT MENTAL CAPACITY. HE WOULD TALK WITH ME BUT I NEVER ASKED HIM TO BRING HIS VIOLIN. ONE NIGHT HE CAME WITH HIS VIOLIN ABOUT TWELVE O'CLOCK. AFTER THAT EVERY TIME HE CAME TO NEW YORK HE USED TO CALL AT SIXTY FIVE LATE AT NIGHT WITH HIS VIOLIN. I WOULD TALK FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS MUSIC. ANOTHER VISITOR WHO USED TO GIVE US A GOOD DEAL OF AMUSEMENT AND PLEASURE WAS CAPTAIN SHAW THE HEAD OF THE LONDON FIRE BRIGADE. HE WAS GOOD COMPANY. HE WOULD GO OUT AMONG THE FIRE LADDIES AND HAVE A GREAT TIME. THEY WERE INTERESTED IN THE CHICAGO EDISON COMPANY NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST OF THE SYSTEMS IN THE WORLD. SPEAKING OF TELLING STORIES I ONCE GOT TELLING A MAN STORIES AT THE HARRISON LAMP FACTORY IN THE YARD AS HE WAS LEAVING. IT WAS WINTER AND HE WAS ALL IN FURS. I HAD NOTHING ON TO PROTECT ME AGAINST THE COLD. I TOLD HIM ONE STORY AFTER THE OTHER SIX OF THEM. THEN I GOT PLEURISY AND HAD TO BE SHIPPED TO FLORIDA FOR CURE. IT HAD MERELY ENJOYED THE DELIGHTS OF ANXIOUS ANTICIPATION AND THE PERILOUS PLEASURE OF BACKING EDISON'S EXPERIMENTS. NOW ACTIVE EXPLOITATION WAS REQUIRED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/157660/157660_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/157660/157660_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..33b2c2f34c3eaf72c415a4539ee1dba8c8951b49 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1585/157660/157660_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +LONDON ITS GUILT AND GLORY. THEY SAY BEST MEN ARE MOLDED OUT OF FAULTS AND FOR THE MOST BECOME MUCH MORE THE BETTER FOR BEING A LITTLE BAD. STANDING ON A BROKEN COLUMN OF THE OLD STEEPLE THREE HUNDRED FEET ABOVE PRIMROSE HILL WILLIAM STRUCK AN ATTITUDE OF THEATRICAL FASHION AND UTTERED THE FOLLOWING ORATORICAL FLIGHT. GLORIOUS LONDON. SAD HOW SAD TO THINK THAT THE DAY WILL COME WHEN NOT A VESTIGE OF THIS WONDERFUL MASS OF HUMAN ENERGY SHALL REMAIN WHERE THE CRY OF THE WOLF BAT AND BITTERN SHALL ONLY BE HEARD AND NATURE AGAIN RESUME HER RUSTIC SPLENDID DESOLATION. THE DEVIL'S TAVERN WAS A RESORT FOR ACTORS AUTHORS BOHEMIANS LORDS AND LADIES WHO DID NOT RETIRE EARLY TO THEIR DOWNY COUCHES. WILLIAM AND MYSELF SOON FOUND REST IN DEEP SLUMBER AND WAFTED AWAY INTO A DREAMLESS REALM OUR TIRED BODIES LAY IN THE ENFOLDING ARMS OF MORPHEUS UNTIL THE PORTER KNOCKED AT OUR DOOR THE NEXT MORNING AS THE CLOCK OF THE TOWER STRUCK THE HOUR OF NINE. OUR FIRST SIGHT OF SUNRISE IN LONDON GAVE US GREAT EXPECTATIONS OF FAME AND FORTUNE FOR SURELY ALL WE HAD WAS GLOWING EXPECTATIONS. OFT EXPECTATION FAILS AND MOST OFT THERE WHERE MOST IT PROMISES AND OFT IT HITS WHERE HOPE IS COLDEST AND DESPAIR MOST FITS. DEUCES WON DOUBLE AND SIXES TREBLE COIN. WILLIAM TO THE GREAT AMAZEMENT OF THE DEALER FLUNG A GUINEA IN THE CENTER POT WHICH WAS IMMEDIATELY TAPPED BY JACK WHILE THE OTHERS LOOKED ON IN SILENT EXPECTATION. THE POLITE JACK REPLIED ALL RIGHT SIR TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT. WILLIAM FRANTICALLY SAID. I HAVE SET MY LIFE UPON A CAST AND WILL STAND THE HAZARD OF THE DIE. I IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED IN HIS FOOTSTEPS AND FOUND HIM JOKING WITH THE LANDLADY ABOUT A COUPLE OF INFANT BULL PUPS SHE WAS FONDLING IN HER CAPACIOUS LAP. IF HE HAD DROPPED OUT OF THE CLOUDS WILLIAM COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE PLEASED OR SURPRISED AND THE FEELING WAS RECIPROCAL. THE PRINTING SHOP OF FIELD WAS ONLY A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE DEVIL'S TAVERN AND WE WERE INVITED TO VISIT THE ESTABLISHMENT. JAMES BURBAGE GAZED FOR A MOMENT ON THE MANLY FORM OF WILLIAM AND BLURTED OUT IN HIS BLUFF MANNER WHAT DO YOU KNOW \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/102884/102884_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/102884/102884_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20ee3f0415162e3c36558e9164dbceb0565ffa2c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/102884/102884_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A LETTER FROM NEW YORK TO THE AUTHOR'S OWN COUNTRYMEN. IN MY RECENT TRAVELS IN THE WEST I HAVE FELT THAT OUT THERE FREEDOM AS AN IDEA HAS BECOME FEEBLE AND INEFFECTUAL. CONSEQUENTLY A SPIRIT OF REPRESSION AND COERCION IS FAST SPREADING IN THE POLITICS AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE PEOPLE. IN THE AGE OF MONARCHY THE KING LIVED SURROUNDED BY A MIASMA OF INTRIGUE. AT COURT THERE WAS AN ENDLESS WHISPERING OF LIES AND CALUMNY AND MUCH PLOTTING AND PLANNING AMONG THE CONSPIRING COURTIERS TO MANIPULATE THE KING AS THE INSTRUMENT OF THEIR OWN PURPOSES. IN THE OLD ORDER THE KING WAS GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE WAS THE FREEST INDIVIDUAL IN THE WORLD. A GREATER SEMBLANCE OF EXTERNAL FREEDOM NO DOUBT HE HAD THAN OTHER INDIVIDUALS. BUT THEY BUILT FOR HIM A GORGEOUS PRISON OF UNREALITY. THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING NOW WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE WEST. THEY ARE FLATTERED INTO BELIEVING THAT THEY ARE FREE AND THEY HAVE THE SOVEREIGN POWER IN THEIR HANDS. THE MOB MIND IS ALLOWED THE ENJOYMENT OF AN APPARENT LIBERTY WHILE ITS TRUE FREEDOM IS CURTAILED ON EVERY SIDE. IN FACT THE PEOPLE HAVE BECOME THE STOREHOUSE OF A POWER THAT ATTRACTS ROUND IT A SWARM OF ADVENTURERS WHO ARE SECRETLY INVESTING ITS WALLS TO EXPLOIT IT FOR THEIR OWN DEVICES. THUS IT HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE EVIDENT TO ME THAT THE IDEAL OF FREEDOM HAS GROWN TENUOUS IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE WEST. THE MENTALITY IS THAT OF A SLAVE OWNING COMMUNITY WITH A MUTILATED MULTITUDE OF MEN TIED TO ITS COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL TREADMILL. IT IS THE MENTALITY OF MUTUAL DISTRUST AND FEAR. NO CRUELTY CAN BE UGLIER IN ITS FEROCITY THAN THE CRUELTY OF THE COWARD. A PERPETUAL ANXIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THEIR GAINS AT ANY COST STRIKES AT THE LOVE OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE UNTIL AT LENGTH THEY ARE READY TO FORGO LIBERTY FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR OTHERS. MY EXPERIENCE IN THE WEST WHERE I HAVE REALISED THE IMMENSE POWER OF MONEY AND OF ORGANISED PROPAGANDA WORKING EVERYWHERE BEHIND SCREENS OF CAMOUFLAGE CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE OF DISTRUST TIMIDITY AND ANTIPATHY HAS IMPRESSED ME DEEPLY WITH THE TRUTH THAT REAL FREEDOM IS OF THE MIND AND SPIRIT IT CAN NEVER COME TO US FROM OUTSIDE. HE ONLY HAS FREEDOM WHO IDEALLY LOVES FREEDOM HIMSELF AND IS GLAD TO EXTEND IT TO OTHERS. HE WHO CARES TO HAVE SLAVES MUST CHAIN HIMSELF TO THEM HE WHO BUILDS WALLS TO CREATE EXCLUSION FOR OTHERS BUILDS WALLS ACROSS HIS OWN FREEDOM HE WHO DISTRUSTS FREEDOM IN OTHERS LOSES HIS MORAL RIGHT TO IT. IS IT MERELY A TRANSFERABLE COMMODITY. HAVE THEY ACQUIRED A TRUE LOVE OF FREEDOM. HAVE THEY FAITH IN IT. HAVE WE NOT MADE ELABORATELY PERMANENT THE WALLS OF OUR SOCIAL COMPARTMENTS. WE BOAST THAT IN THIS WORLD NO OTHER SOCIETY BUT OUR OWN HAS COME TO FINALITY IN THE CLASSIFYING OF ITS LIVING MEMBERS. YET IN OUR POLITICAL AGITATIONS WE CONVENIENTLY FORGET THAT ANY UNNATURALNESS IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF GOVERNORS AND GOVERNED WHICH HUMILIATES US BECOMES AN OUTRAGE WHEN IT IS ARTIFICIALLY FIXED UNDER THE THREAT OF MILITARY PERSECUTION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/102884/102884_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/102884/102884_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..649ef3ca489414712671b03cee40a785e88e0f90 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/102884/102884_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE GREAT EPIC OF THE SOUL OF OUR PEOPLE THE MAHABHARATA GIVES US A WONDERFUL VISION OF AN OVERFLOWING LIFE FULL OF THE FREEDOM OF INQUIRY AND EXPERIMENT. WHEN THE AGE OF THE BUDDHA CAME HUMANITY WAS STIRRED IN OUR COUNTRY TO ITS UTTERMOST DEPTH. IT HARDENED INTO AN AGE OF INERT CONSTRUCTION. THE ORGANIC UNITY OF A VARIED AND ELASTIC SOCIETY GAVE WAY TO A CONVENTIONAL ORDER WHICH PROVED ITS ARTIFICIAL CHARACTER BY ITS INEXORABLE LAW OF EXCLUSION. LIFE HAS ITS INEQUALITIES I ADMIT BUT THEY ARE NATURAL AND ARE IN HARMONY WITH OUR VITAL FUNCTIONS. THE HEAD KEEPS ITS PLACE APART FROM THE FEET NOT THROUGH SOME EXTERNAL ARRANGEMENT OR ANY CONSPIRACY OF COERCION. IF THE BODY IS COMPELLED TO TURN SOMERSAULTS FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD THE HEAD NEVER EXCHANGES ITS RELATIVE FUNCTION FOR THAT OF THE FEET. BUT HAVE OUR SOCIAL DIVISIONS THE SAME INEVITABLENESS OF ORGANIC LAW. BY SQUEEZING HUMAN BEINGS IN THE GRIP OF AN INELASTIC SYSTEM AND FORCIBLY HOLDING THEM FIXED WE HAVE IGNORED THE LAWS OF LIFE AND GROWTH. WE HAVE FORCED LIVING SOULS INTO A PERMANENT PASSIVITY MAKING THEM INCAPABLE OF MOULDING CIRCUMSTANCE TO THEIR OWN INTRINSIC DESIGN AND OF MASTERING THEIR OWN DESTINY. WE HAVE SET UP AN ELABORATE CEREMONIAL OF CAGE WORSHIP AND PLUCKED ALL THE FEATHERS FROM THE WINGS OF THE LIVING SPIRIT OF OUR PEOPLE. OUR STUPEFACTION HAS BECOME SO ABSOLUTE THAT WE DO NOT EVEN REALISE THAT THIS PERSISTENT MISFORTUNE DOGGING OUR STEPS FOR AGES CANNOT BE A MERE ACCIDENT OF HISTORY REMOVABLE ONLY BY ANOTHER ACCIDENT FROM OUTSIDE. UNLESS WE HAVE TRUE FAITH IN FREEDOM KNOWING IT TO BE CREATIVE MANFULLY TAKING ALL ITS RISKS NOT ONLY DO WE LOSE THE RIGHT TO CLAIM FREEDOM IN POLITICS BUT WE ALSO LACK THE POWER TO MAINTAIN IT WITH ALL OUR STRENGTH. AND MEN WHO CONTEMPTUOUSLY TREAT THEIR OWN BROTHERS AND SISTERS AS ETERNAL BABIES NEVER TO BE TRUSTED IN THE MOST TRIVIAL DETAILS OF THEIR PERSONAL LIFE COERCING THEM AT EVERY STEP BY THE CRUEL THREAT OF PERSECUTION INTO FOLLOWING A BLIND LANE LEADING TO NOWHERE DRIVING A NUMBER OF THEM INTO HYPOCRISY AND INTO MORAL INERTIA WILL FAIL OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO RISE TO THE HEIGHT OF THEIR TRUE AND SEVERE RESPONSIBILITY. THEY WILL BE INCAPABLE OF HOLDING A JUST FREEDOM IN POLITICS AND OF FIGHTING IN FREEDOM'S CAUSE. THE CIVILISATION OF THE WEST HAS IN IT THE SPIRIT OF THE MACHINE WHICH MUST MOVE AND TO THAT BLIND MOVEMENT HUMAN LIVES ARE OFFERED AS FUEL KEEPING UP THE STEAM POWER. IT REPRESENTS THE ACTIVE ASPECT OF INERTIA WHICH HAS THE APPEARANCE OF FREEDOM BUT NOT ITS TRUTH AND THEREFORE GIVES RISE TO SLAVERY BOTH WITHIN ITS BOUNDARIES AND OUTSIDE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/141772/141772_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/141772/141772_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8b519a18fd4328bf7057a2b1c01a3127d58ea06 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/141772/141772_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS WHERE HE HAD FALLEN WITH THE FLAGSTAFF IN HIS HAND LAY PRINCE ANDREW BOLKONSKI BLEEDING PROFUSELY AND UNCONSCIOUSLY UTTERING A GENTLE PITEOUS AND CHILDLIKE MOAN. TOWARD EVENING HE CEASED MOANING AND BECAME QUITE STILL. HE DID NOT KNOW HOW LONG HIS UNCONSCIOUSNESS LASTED. SUDDENLY HE AGAIN FELT THAT HE WAS ALIVE AND SUFFERING FROM A BURNING LACERATING PAIN IN HIS HEAD. WAS HIS FIRST THOUGHT. YES I DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING ANYTHING AT ALL TILL NOW. HE LISTENED AND HEARD THE SOUND OF APPROACHING HORSES AND VOICES SPEAKING FRENCH. HE OPENED HIS EYES ABOVE HIM AGAIN WAS THE SAME LOFTY SKY WITH CLOUDS THAT HAD RISEN AND WERE FLOATING STILL HIGHER AND BETWEEN THEM GLEAMED BLUE INFINITY. HE DID NOT TURN HIS HEAD AND DID NOT SEE THOSE WHO JUDGING BY THE SOUND OF HOOFS AND VOICES HAD RIDDEN UP AND STOPPED NEAR HIM. THAT'S A FINE DEATH SAID NAPOLEON AS HE GAZED AT BOLKONSKI. HE HEARD THE SPEAKER ADDRESSED AS SIRE. BUT HE HEARD THE WORDS AS HE MIGHT HAVE HEARD THE BUZZING OF A FLY. NOT ONLY DID THEY NOT INTEREST HIM BUT HE TOOK NO NOTICE OF THEM AND AT ONCE FORGOT THEM. HE KNEW IT WAS NAPOLEON HIS HERO BUT AT THAT MOMENT NAPOLEON SEEMED TO HIM SUCH A SMALL INSIGNIFICANT CREATURE COMPARED WITH WHAT WAS PASSING NOW BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THAT LOFTY INFINITE SKY WITH THE CLOUDS FLYING OVER IT. HE COLLECTED ALL HIS STRENGTH TO STIR AND UTTER A SOUND. HE FEEBLY MOVED HIS LEG AND UTTERED A WEAK SICKLY GROAN WHICH AROUSED HIS OWN PITY. AH HE IS ALIVE SAID NAPOLEON. LIFT THIS YOUNG MAN UP AND CARRY HIM TO THE DRESSING STATION. PRINCE ANDREW REMEMBERED NOTHING MORE HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE TERRIBLE PAIN OF BEING LIFTED ONTO THE STRETCHER THE JOLTING WHILE BEING MOVED AND THE PROBING OF HIS WOUND AT THE DRESSING STATION. DURING THIS TRANSFER HE FELT A LITTLE STRONGER AND WAS ABLE TO LOOK ABOUT HIM AND EVEN SPEAK. THERE ARE SO MANY PRISONERS TODAY NEARLY THE WHOLE RUSSIAN ARMY THAT HE IS PROBABLY TIRED OF THEM SAID ANOTHER OFFICER ALL THE SAME. BOLKONSKI RECOGNIZED PRINCE REPNIN WHOM HE HAD MET IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY. BESIDE HIM STOOD A LAD OF NINETEEN ALSO A WOUNDED OFFICER OF THE HORSE GUARDS. BONAPARTE HAVING COME UP AT A GALLOP STOPPED HIS HORSE. HE ASKED ON SEEING THE PRISONERS. THEY NAMED THE COLONEL PRINCE REPNIN. YOU ARE THE COMMANDER OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER'S REGIMENT OF HORSE GUARDS ASKED NAPOLEON. I COMMANDED A SQUADRON REPLIED REPNIN. YOUR REGIMENT FULFILLED ITS DUTY HONORABLY SAID NAPOLEON. THE PRAISE OF A GREAT COMMANDER IS A SOLDIER'S HIGHEST REWARD SAID REPNIN. I BESTOW IT WITH PLEASURE SAID NAPOLEON. AND WHO IS THAT YOUNG MAN BESIDE YOU. PRINCE REPNIN NAMED LIEUTENANT SUKHTELEN. AFTER LOOKING AT HIM NAPOLEON SMILED. HE'S VERY YOUNG TO COME TO MEDDLE WITH US. YOUTH IS NO HINDRANCE TO COURAGE MUTTERED SUKHTELEN IN A FAILING VOICE. A SPLENDID REPLY SAID NAPOLEON. YOUNG MAN YOU WILL GO FAR. PRINCE ANDREW WHO HAD ALSO BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD BEFORE THE EMPEROR'S EYES TO COMPLETE THE SHOW OF PRISONERS COULD NOT FAIL TO ATTRACT HIS ATTENTION. NAPOLEON APPARENTLY REMEMBERED SEEING HIM ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND ADDRESSING HIM AGAIN USED THE EPITHET YOUNG MAN THAT WAS CONNECTED IN HIS MEMORY WITH PRINCE ANDREW \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/141772/141772_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/141772/141772_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..67e3fe657e7d2083028a16b7297ab1d6fbc6727c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/141772/141772_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HOW DO YOU FEEL MON BRAVE. SO INSIGNIFICANT AT THAT MOMENT SEEMED TO HIM ALL THE INTERESTS THAT ENGROSSED NAPOLEON SO MEAN DID HIS HERO HIMSELF WITH HIS PALTRY VANITY AND JOY IN VICTORY APPEAR COMPARED TO THE LOFTY EQUITABLE AND KINDLY SKY WHICH HE HAD SEEN AND UNDERSTOOD THAT HE COULD NOT ANSWER HIM. EVERYTHING SEEMED SO FUTILE AND INSIGNIFICANT IN COMPARISON WITH THE STERN AND SOLEMN TRAIN OF THOUGHT THAT WEAKNESS FROM LOSS OF BLOOD SUFFERING AND THE NEARNESS OF DEATH AROUSED IN HIM. AU REVOIR PRINCE REPNIN. AND HE SPURRED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED AWAY. HIS FACE SHONE WITH SELF SATISFACTION AND PLEASURE. THE SOLDIERS WHO HAD CARRIED PRINCE ANDREW HAD NOTICED AND TAKEN THE LITTLE GOLD ICON PRINCESS MARY HAD HUNG ROUND HER BROTHER'S NECK BUT SEEING THE FAVOR THE EMPEROR SHOWED THE PRISONERS THEY NOW HASTENED TO RETURN THE HOLY IMAGE. PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT SEE HOW AND BY WHOM IT WAS REPLACED BUT THE LITTLE ICON WITH ITS THIN GOLD CHAIN SUDDENLY APPEARED UPON HIS CHEST OUTSIDE HIS UNIFORM. HOW GOOD IT WOULD BE TO KNOW WHERE TO SEEK FOR HELP IN THIS LIFE AND WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER IT BEYOND THE GRAVE. HOW HAPPY AND CALM I SHOULD BE IF I COULD NOW SAY LORD HAVE MERCY ON ME. BUT TO WHOM SHOULD I SAY THAT. EITHER TO A POWER INDEFINABLE INCOMPREHENSIBLE WHICH I NOT ONLY CANNOT ADDRESS BUT WHICH I CANNOT EVEN EXPRESS IN WORDS THE GREAT ALL OR NOTHING SAID HE TO HIMSELF OR TO THAT GOD WHO HAS BEEN SEWN INTO THIS AMULET BY MARY. THERE IS NOTHING CERTAIN NOTHING AT ALL EXCEPT THE UNIMPORTANCE OF EVERYTHING I UNDERSTAND AND THE GREATNESS OF SOMETHING INCOMPREHENSIBLE BUT ALL IMPORTANT. THE STRETCHERS MOVED ON. THE QUIET HOME LIFE AND PEACEFUL HAPPINESS OF BALD HILLS PRESENTED ITSELF TO HIM. HE WAS ALREADY ENJOYING THAT HAPPINESS WHEN THAT LITTLE NAPOLEON HAD SUDDENLY APPEARED WITH HIS UNSYMPATHIZING LOOK OF SHORTSIGHTED DELIGHT AT THE MISERY OF OTHERS AND DOUBTS AND TORMENTS HAD FOLLOWED AND ONLY THE HEAVENS PROMISED PEACE. HE IS A NERVOUS BILIOUS SUBJECT SAID LARREY AND WILL NOT RECOVER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/73710/73710_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/73710/73710_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91eac0a37fa8f855cc334bd836f4624713d23ad7 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/73710/73710_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHICH CONTAINS A LOVE LETTER. LET US PAUSE. WHATEVER BE THE LOT OF MAN HOWEVER UNFORTUNATE HOWEVER OPPRESSED IF HE ONLY LOVE AND BE LOVED HE MUST STRIKE A BALANCE IN FAVOUR OF EXISTENCE FOR LOVE CAN ILLUMINE THE DARK ROOF OF POVERTY AND CAN LIGHTEN THE FETTERS OF THE SLAVE. IT IS AT THE FOOT OF WOMAN THAT WE LAY THE LAURELS THAT WITHOUT HER SMILE WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN GAINED IT IS HER IMAGE THAT STRINGS THE LYRE OF THE POET THAT ANIMATES OUR VOICE IN THE BLAZE OF ELOQUENT FACTION AND GUIDES OUR BRAIN IN THE AUGUST TOILS OF STATELY COUNCILS. BUT THIS PASSION SO CHARMING IN ITS NATURE SO EQUAL IN ITS DISPENSATION SO UNIVERSAL IN ITS INFLUENCE NEVER ASSUMES A POWER SO VAST OR EXERTS AN AUTHORITY SO CAPTIVATING AS WHEN IT IS EXPERIENCED FOR THE FIRST TIME. IS THERE NO HOPE FOR THEM SO FULL OF HOPE. NO PITY FOR THEM SO ABOUNDING WITH LOVE. IT MAKES THE HEART ACHE BUT TO PICTURE SUCH VICISSITUDES TO THE IMAGINATION. THEY ARE IMAGES FULL OF DISTRESS AND MISERY AND GLOOM. THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SUCH CHANGES CAN OCCUR FLITS OVER THE MIND LIKE THE THOUGHT OF DEATH OBSCURING ALL OUR GAY FANCIES WITH ITS BAT LIKE WING AND TAINTING THE HEALTHY ATMOSPHERE OF OUR HAPPINESS WITH ITS VENOMOUS EXPIRATIONS. THE MORNING WHICH BROKE SWEET AND SOFT AND CLEAR BROUGHT FERDINAND WITH ITS FIRST GLIMMER A LETTER FROM HENRIETTA. HENRIETTA TO FERDINAND. MINE OWN. I HAVE NOT LAIN DOWN THE WHOLE NIGHT. WHAT A TERRIBLE WHAT AN AWFUL NIGHT. WHAT DID WHAT COULD YOU DO. HOW I LONGED TO BE WITH YOU. UNTIL MY MESSENGER RETURN I CAN IMAGINE ONLY EVIL. I BEAT ABOUT MY CHAMBER LIKE A SILLY BIRD IN A CAGE. TELL ME THE TRUTH MY FERDINAND CONCEAL NOTHING. DO NOT THINK OF MOVING TO DAY. DO NOT KEEP THE MESSENGER AN INSTANT. HE IS ON MY PONY. HE PROMISES TO RETURN IN A VERY VERY SHORT TIME. GOD BLESS YOU MY FERDINAND. WRITE ONLY ONE WORD TO YOUR OWN HENRIETTA. FERDINAND TO HENRIETTA. I AM QUITE WELL AND LOVE YOU IF THAT COULD BE MORE THAN EVER. DARLING TO SEND TO SEE AFTER HER FERDINAND. A WET JACKET AND I EXPERIENCED NO GREATER EVIL DOES NOT FRIGHTEN ME. THE STORM WAS MAGNIFICENT I WOULD NOT HAVE MISSED IT FOR THE WORLD. SWEETEST LOVE LET ME COME ON TO YOU. YOUR PAGE IS INEXORABLE. HE WILL NOT LET ME WRITE ANOTHER LINE. GOD BLESS YOU MY HENRIETTA MY BELOVED MY MATCHLESS HENRIETTA. WORDS CANNOT TELL YOU HOW I LOVE YOU HOW I DOTE UPON YOU MY DARLING. THY FERDINAND. HENRIETTA TO FERDINAND. NO YOU MUST NOT COME HERE. IT WOULD BE UNWISE IT WOULD BE SILLY. WHAT HAS THAT SEPARATION NOT COST ME. PANGS THAT I COULD NOT CONCEIVE ANY HUMAN MISERY COULD OCCASION. AND YET I OUGHT TO BE GRATEFUL THAT HE WAS UNINJURED LAST NIGHT. I DARED NOT CONFESS TO YOU BEFORE WHAT EVILS I ANTICIPATED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/73710/73710_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/73710/73710_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eaf4ef5cc87633b8ea37c714acc68fb11b1f1f39 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/73710/73710_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I DARE NOT NOW OWN HOW FOOLISH I WAS. GOD BE PRAISED THAT HE IS WELL. BUT IS HE SURE THAT HE IS QUITE WELL. IF YOU HAVE THE SLIGHTEST COLD DEAREST DO NOT MOVE. POSTPONE THAT JOURNEY ON WHICH ALL OUR HOPES ARE FIXED COLDS BRING FEVER. BUT YOU LAUGH AT ME YOU ARE A MAN AND A SOLDIER YOU LAUGH AT A WOMAN'S CAUTION. DO NOT BE ANGRY WITH YOUR HENRIETTA BUT I AM NERVOUS ABOUT CONCEALING OUR ENGAGEMENT FROM PAPA. I KNOW IT MUST BE MORE THAN A WEEK I KNOW THAT THAT PROSPECT WAS ONLY HELD OUT BY YOUR AFFECTION. DAYS MUST ELAPSE BEFORE YOU CAN REACH BATH AND I KNOW FERDINAND I KNOW YOUR OFFICE IS MORE DIFFICULT THAN YOU WILL CONFESS. BUT COME BACK MY OWN AS SOON AS YOU CAN AND WRITE TO ME AT THE POST OFFICE AS YOU SETTLED. THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT YOU ARE SO NEAR MAKES ME RESTLESS. I WISH TO MEET HIM WITH AS MUCH CALMNESS AS I CAN COMMAND. MY TEARS ARE TOO EVIDENT. SEE THEY FALL UPON THE PAGE. THINK OF ME ALWAYS. NEVER LET YOUR HENRIETTA BE ABSENT FROM YOUR THOUGHTS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1651/136854/136854_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1651/136854/136854_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..84813e38fd6d480c57247936a31cb33706dbabea --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1651/136854/136854_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IN SEVENTEEN FIFTY HE CAME FORTH IN THE CHARACTER FOR WHICH HE WAS EMINENTLY QUALIFIED A MAJESTICK TEACHER OF MORAL AND RELIGIOUS WISDOM. THE VEHICLE WHICH HE CHOSE WAS THAT OF A PERIODICAL PAPER WHICH HE KNEW HAD BEEN UPON FORMER OCCASIONS EMPLOYED WITH GREAT SUCCESS. WHEN I WAS TO BEGIN PUBLISHING THAT PAPER I WAS AT A LOSS HOW TO NAME IT. I SAT DOWN AT NIGHT UPON MY BEDSIDE AND RESOLVED THAT I WOULD NOT GO TO SLEEP TILL I HAD FIXED ITS TITLE. ADDISON'S NOTE WAS A FICTION IN WHICH UNCONNECTED FRAGMENTS OF HIS LUCUBRATIONS WERE PURPOSELY JUMBLED TOGETHER IN AS ODD A MANNER AS HE COULD IN ORDER TO PRODUCE A LAUGHABLE EFFECT. WHEREAS JOHNSON'S ABBREVIATIONS ARE ALL DISTINCT AND APPLICABLE TO EACH SUBJECT OF WHICH THE HEAD IS MENTIONED. FOR INSTANCE THERE IS THE FOLLOWING SPECIMEN. PUBLICK CALAMITIES NO SENSE OF THE PREVALENCE OF BAD HABITS NEGLIGENT OF TIME READY TO UNDERTAKE CARELESS TO PURSUE ALL CHANGED BY TIME. CONFIDENT OF OTHERS UNSUSPECTING AS UNEXPERIENCED IMAGINING HIMSELF SECURE AGAINST NEGLECT NEVER IMAGINES THEY WILL VENTURE TO TREAT HIM ILL READY TO TRUST EXPECTING TO BE TRUSTED. YOUTH AMBITIOUS AS THINKING HONOURS EASY TO BE HAD. DIFFERENT KINDS OF PRAISE PURSUED AT DIFFERENT PERIODS. OF THE FANCY IN MANHOOD. BRUY. SCHOLAR'S FRIENDSHIP LIKE LADIES. DRAWN TO MAN BY WORDS REPELLED BY PASSIONS. COMMON DANGER UNITES BY CRUSHING OTHER PASSIONS BUT THEY RETURN. EQUALITY HINDERS COMPLIANCE. SUPERIORITY PRODUCES INSOLENCE AND ENVY. TOO MUCH REGARD IN EACH TO PRIVATE INTEREST TOO LITTLE. OF CONFEDERACY WITH SUPERIOURS EVERY ONE KNOWS THE INCONVENIENCE. WITH EQUALS NO AUTHORITY EVERY MAN HIS OWN OPINION HIS OWN INTEREST. MAN AND WIFE HARDLY UNITED SCARCE EVER WITHOUT CHILDREN. COMPUTATION IF TWO TO ONE AGAINST TWO HOW MANY AGAINST FIVE. IN THIS AS IN MANY OTHER CASES I GO WRONG IN OPPOSITION TO CONVICTION FOR I THINK SCARCE ANY TEMPORAL GOOD EQUALLY TO BE DESIRED WITH THE REGARD AND FAMILIARITY OF WORTHY MEN. I HOPE WE SHALL BE SOME TIME NEARER TO EACH OTHER AND HAVE A MORE READY WAY OF POURING OUT OUR HEARTS. THE GREATEST BENEFIT WHICH ONE FRIEND CAN CONFER UPON ANOTHER IS TO GUARD AND EXCITE AND ELEVATE HIS VIRTUES. THIS YOUR MOTHER WILL STILL PERFORM IF YOU DILIGENTLY PRESERVE THE MEMORY OF HER LIFE AND OF HER DEATH A LIFE SO FAR AS I CAN LEARN USEFUL WISE AND INNOCENT AND A DEATH RESIGNED PEACEFUL AND HOLY. I CANNOT FORBEAR TO MENTION THAT NEITHER REASON NOR REVELATION DENIES YOU TO HOPE THAT YOU MAY INCREASE HER HAPPINESS BY OBEYING HER PRECEPTS AND THAT SHE MAY IN HER PRESENT STATE LOOK WITH PLEASURE UPON EVERY ACT OF VIRTUE TO WHICH HER INSTRUCTIONS OR EXAMPLE HAVE CONTRIBUTED. IF YOU WRITE DOWN MINUTELY WHAT YOU REMEMBER OF HER FROM YOUR EARLIEST YEARS YOU WILL READ IT WITH GREAT PLEASURE AND RECEIVE FROM IT MANY HINTS OF SOOTHING RECOLLECTION WHEN TIME SHALL REMOVE HER YET FARTHER FROM YOU AND YOUR GRIEF SHALL BE MATURED TO VENERATION. NO THIRTY TWO ON PATIENCE EVEN UNDER EXTREME MISERY IS WONDERFULLY LOFTY AND AS MUCH ABOVE THE RANT OF STOICISM AS THE SUN OF REVELATION IS BRIGHTER THAN THE TWILIGHT OF PAGAN PHILOSOPHY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1651/136854/136854_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1651/136854/136854_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cb2e21a907665a6a01fd6594c1d68b33cff74afe --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1651/136854/136854_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT MUST INDEED BE ALLOWED THAT THE STRUCTURE OF HIS SENTENCES IS EXPANDED AND OFTEN HAS SOMEWHAT OF THE INVERSION OF LATIN AND THAT HE DELIGHTED TO EXPRESS FAMILIAR THOUGHTS IN PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE BEING IN THIS THE REVERSE OF SOCRATES WHO IT WAS SAID REDUCED PHILOSOPHY TO THE SIMPLICITY OF COMMON LIFE. THIS IDLE CHARGE HAS BEEN ECHOED FROM ONE BABBLER TO ANOTHER WHO HAVE CONFOUNDED JOHNSON'S ESSAYS WITH JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY AND BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT RIGHT IN A LEXICON OF OUR LANGUAGE TO COLLECT MANY WORDS WHICH HAD FALLEN INTO DISUSE BUT WERE SUPPORTED BY GREAT AUTHORITIES IT HAS BEEN IMAGINED THAT ALL OF THESE HAVE BEEN INTERWOVEN INTO HIS OWN COMPOSITIONS. THEIR STYLES DIFFER AS PLAIN CLOTH AND BROCADE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..798321944f481a6629c91c06abb41d3516937f08 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE WAS GONE. THE HOUSE WAS SHUT UP FOR THE EVENING. NO MORE DEEP BLUE SKIES OR CRIMSON AND AMBER TINTS. MARGARET WENT UP TO DRESS FOR THE EARLY TEA FINDING DIXON IN A PRETTY TEMPER FROM THE INTERRUPTION WHICH A VISITOR HAD NATURALLY OCCASIONED ON A BUSY DAY. SHE SHOWED IT BY BRUSHING AWAY VICIOUSLY AT MARGARET'S HAIR UNDER PRETENCE OF BEING IN A GREAT HURRY TO GO TO MISSUS HALE. YET AFTER ALL MARGARET HAD TO WAIT A LONG TIME IN THE DRAWING ROOM BEFORE HER MOTHER CAME DOWN. SHE SAT BY HERSELF AT THE FIRE WITH UNLIGHTED CANDLES ON THE TABLE BEHIND HER THINKING OVER THE DAY THE HAPPY WALK HAPPY SKETCHING CHEERFUL PLEASANT DINNER AND THE UNCOMFORTABLE MISERABLE WALK IN THE GARDEN. HOW DIFFERENT MEN WERE TO WOMEN. HERE WAS SHE DISTURBED AND UNHAPPY BECAUSE HER INSTINCT HAD MADE ANYTHING BUT A REFUSAL IMPOSSIBLE WHILE HE NOT MANY MINUTES AFTER HE HAD MET WITH A REJECTION OF WHAT OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN THE DEEPEST HOLIEST PROPOSAL OF HIS LIFE COULD SPEAK AS IF BRIEFS SUCCESS AND ALL ITS SUPERFICIAL CONSEQUENCES OF A GOOD HOUSE CLEVER AND AGREEABLE SOCIETY WERE THE SOLE AVOWED OBJECTS OF HIS DESIRES OH DEAR. THEN SHE TOOK IT INTO HER HEAD THAT AFTER ALL HIS LIGHTNESS MIGHT BE BUT ASSUMED TO COVER A BITTERNESS OF DISAPPOINTMENT WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN STAMPED ON HER OWN HEART IF SHE HAD LOVED AND BEEN REJECTED. HER MOTHER CAME INTO THE ROOM BEFORE THIS WHIRL OF THOUGHTS WAS ADJUSTED INTO ANYTHING LIKE ORDER. MARGARET HAD TO SHAKE OFF THE RECOLLECTIONS OF WHAT HAD BEEN DONE AND SAID THROUGH THE DAY AND TURN A SYMPATHISING LISTENER TO THE ACCOUNT OF HOW DIXON HAD COMPLAINED THAT THE IRONING BLANKET HAD BEEN BURNT AGAIN AND HOW SUSAN LIGHTFOOT HAD BEEN SEEN WITH ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS IN HER BONNET THEREBY GIVING EVIDENCE OF A VAIN AND GIDDY CHARACTER. MISTER HALE SIPPED HIS TEA IN ABSTRACTED SILENCE MARGARET HAD THE RESPONSES ALL TO HERSELF. SHE FORGOT THAT HE HAD NOT MADE THEM AN OFFER. AFTER TEA MISTER HALE GOT UP AND STOOD WITH HIS ELBOW ON THE CHIMNEY PIECE LEANING HIS HEAD ON HIS HAND MUSING OVER SOMETHING AND FROM TIME TO TIME SIGHING DEEPLY. MISSUS HALE WENT OUT TO CONSULT WITH DIXON ABOUT SOME WINTER CLOTHING FOR THE POOR. MARGARET WAS PREPARING HER MOTHER'S WORSTED WORK AND RATHER SHRINKING FROM THE THOUGHT OF THE LONG EVENING AND WISHING BED TIME WERE COME THAT SHE MIGHT GO OVER THE EVENTS OF THE DAY AGAIN. MARGARET. SAID MISTER HALE AT LAST IN A SORT OF SUDDEN DESPERATE WAY THAT MADE HER START. IS THAT TAPESTRY THING OF IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCE I MEAN CAN YOU LEAVE IT AND COME INTO MY STUDY. I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING VERY SERIOUS TO US ALL. VERY SERIOUS TO US ALL. MISTER LENNOX HAD NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF HAVING ANY PRIVATE CONVERSATION WITH HER FATHER AFTER HER REFUSAL OR ELSE THAT WOULD INDEED BE A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR. BUT SHE SOON FELT IT WAS NOT ABOUT ANYTHING WHICH HAVING ONLY LATELY AND SUDDENLY OCCURRED COULD HAVE GIVEN RISE TO ANY COMPLICATED THOUGHTS THAT HER FATHER WISHED TO SPEAK TO HER. HE MADE HER TAKE A CHAIR BY HIM HE STIRRED THE FIRE SNUFFED THE CANDLES AND SIGHED ONCE OR TWICE BEFORE HE COULD MAKE UP HIS MIND TO SAY AND IT CAME OUT WITH A JERK AFTER ALL. MISTER HALE DID NOT ANSWER FOR A MINUTE OR TWO. HE PLAYED WITH SOME PAPERS ON THE TABLE IN A NERVOUS AND CONFUSED MANNER OPENING HIS LIPS TO SPEAK SEVERAL TIMES BUT CLOSING THEM AGAIN WITHOUT HAVING THE COURAGE TO UTTER A WORD. MARGARET COULD NOT BEAR THE SIGHT OF THE SUSPENSE WHICH WAS EVEN MORE DISTRESSING TO HER FATHER THAN TO HERSELF. BUT WHY DEAR PAPA DO TELL ME. BECAUSE I MUST NO LONGER BE A MINISTER IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. THEY WERE GRAND AND IMPOSING PLACES BUT IF TO GO THERE IT WAS NECESSARY TO LEAVE HELSTONE AS A HOME FOR EVER THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SAD LONG LINGERING PAIN. BUT NOTHING TO THE SHOCK SHE RECEIVED FROM MISTER HALE'S LAST SPEECH WHAT COULD HE MEAN. IT WAS ALL THE WORSE FOR BEING SO MYSTERIOUS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01731457251e45452e055506ec97340d79a543d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +COULD HE HAVE BECOME IMPLICATED IN ANYTHING FREDERICK HAD DONE. FREDERICK WAS AN OUTLAW. OH WHAT IS IT DO SPEAK PAPA TELL ME ALL. WHY CAN YOU NO LONGER BE A CLERGYMAN. SURELY IF THE BISHOP WERE TOLD ALL WE KNOW ABOUT FREDERICK AND THE HARD UNJUST. IT IS NOTHING ABOUT FREDERICK THE BISHOP WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT IT IS ALL MYSELF. MARGARET I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT IT. I WILL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THIS ONCE BUT AFTER TO NIGHT LET US NEVER SPEAK OF IT AGAIN. I CAN MEET THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY PAINFUL MISERABLE DOUBTS BUT IT IS AN EFFORT BEYOND ME TO SPEAK OF WHAT HAS CAUSED ME SO MUCH SUFFERING. DOUBTS PAPA DOUBTS AS TO RELIGION. NO NOT DOUBTS AS TO RELIGION NOT THE SLIGHTEST INJURY TO THAT HE PAUSED. MARGARET SIGHED AS IF STANDING ON THE VERGE OF SOME NEW HORROR. HE BEGAN AGAIN SPEAKING RAPIDLY AS IF TO GET OVER A SET TASK. YOU COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IT ALL IF I TOLD YOU MY ANXIETY FOR YEARS PAST TO KNOW WHETHER I HAD ANY RIGHT TO HOLD MY LIVING MY EFFORTS TO QUENCH MY SMOULDERING DOUBTS BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH OH. MARGARET HOW I LOVE THE HOLY CHURCH FROM WHICH I AM TO BE SHUT OUT. HE COULD NOT GO ON FOR A MOMENT OR TWO. MARGARET COULD NOT TELL WHAT TO SAY IT SEEMED TO HER AS TERRIBLY MYSTERIOUS AS IF HER FATHER WERE ABOUT TO TURN MAHOMETAN. IT SEEMS SO TERRIBLE SO SHOCKING SAID MARGARET SUDDENLY BURSTING INTO TEARS. THE ONE STAID FOUNDATION OF HER HOME OF HER IDEA OF HER BELOVED FATHER SEEMED REELING AND ROCKING. WHAT COULD SHE SAY WHAT WAS TO BE DONE. HE SWALLOWED DOWN THE DRY CHOKING SOBS WHICH HAD BEEN HEAVING UP FROM HIS HEART HITHERTO AND GOING TO HIS BOOKCASE HE TOOK DOWN A VOLUME WHICH HE HAD OFTEN BEEN READING LATELY AND FROM WHICH HE THOUGHT HE HAD DERIVED STRENGTH TO ENTER UPON THE COURSE IN WHICH HE WAS NOW EMBARKED. LISTEN DEAR MARGARET SAID HE PUTTING ONE ARM ROUND HER WAIST. SHE TOOK HIS HAND IN HERS AND GRASPED IT TIGHT BUT SHE COULD NOT LIFT UP HER HEAD NOR INDEED COULD SHE ATTEND TO WHAT HE READ SO GREAT WAS HER INTERNAL AGITATION. THIS IS THE SOLILOQUY OF ONE WHO WAS ONCE A CLERGYMAN IN A COUNTRY PARISH LIKE ME IT WAS WRITTEN BY A MISTER OLDFIELD MINISTER OF CARSINGTON IN DERBYSHIRE A HUNDRED AND SIXTY YEARS AGO OR MORE. HIS TRIALS ARE OVER HE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. THESE LAST TWO SENTENCES HE SPOKE LOW AS IF TO HIMSELF. THEN HE READ ALOUD. WHEN GOD WILL NOT USE THEE IN ONE KIND YET HE WILL IN ANOTHER. A SOUL THAT DESIRES TO SERVE AND HONOUR HIM SHALL NEVER WANT OPPORTUNITY TO DO IT NOR MUST THOU SO LIMIT THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL AS TO THINK HE HATH BUT ONE WAY IN WHICH HE CAN GLORIFY HIMSELF BY THEE. IT IS NOT PRETENCE OF DOING GOD THE GREATEST SERVICE OR PERFORMING THE WEIGHTIEST DUTY THAT WILL EXCUSE THE LEAST SIN THOUGH THAT SIN CAPACITATED OR GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY FOR DOING THAT DUTY. THOU WILT HAVE LITTLE THANKS O MY SOUL. IF WHEN THOU ART CHARGED WITH CORRUPTING GOD'S WORSHIP FALSIFYING THY VOWS THOU PRETENDEST A NECESSITY FOR IT IN ORDER TO A CONTINUANCE IN THE MINISTRY. AS HE READ THIS AND GLANCED AT MUCH MORE WHICH HE DID NOT READ HE GAINED RESOLUTION FOR HIMSELF AND FELT AS IF HE TOO COULD BE BRAVE AND FIRM IN DOING WHAT HE BELIEVED TO BE RIGHT BUT AS HE CEASED HE HEARD MARGARET'S LOW CONVULSIVE SOB AND HIS COURAGE SANK DOWN UNDER THE KEEN SENSE OF SUFFERING. MARGARET DEAR. I SUFFER FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE MY CHILD SAID HE WITH A DIGNITY THAT WAS ONLY TREMULOUS FROM THE ACUTE SENSITIVENESS OF HIS CHARACTER I MUST DO WHAT MY CONSCIENCE BIDS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dffb30b6600376664c0782b0a601060ede357d12 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I HAVE BORNE LONG WITH SELF REPROACH THAT WOULD HAVE ROUSED ANY MIND LESS TORPID AND COWARDLY THAN MINE. HE SHOOK HIS HEAD AS HE WENT ON. IT IS NOT A MONTH SINCE THE BISHOP OFFERED ME ANOTHER LIVING IF I HAD ACCEPTED IT I SHOULD HAVE HAD TO MAKE A FRESH DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY TO THE LITURGY AT MY INSTITUTION. MARGARET I TRIED TO DO IT I TRIED TO CONTENT MYSELF WITH SIMPLY REFUSING THE ADDITIONAL PREFERMENT AND STOPPING QUIETLY HERE STRANGLING MY CONSCIENCE NOW AS I HAD STRAINED IT BEFORE. GOD FORGIVE ME. HE ROSE AND WALKED UP AND DOWN THE ROOM SPEAKING LOW WORDS OF SELF REPROACH AND HUMILIATION OF WHICH MARGARET WAS THANKFUL TO HEAR BUT FEW. AT LAST HE SAID. MARGARET I RETURN TO THE OLD SAD BURDEN WE MUST LEAVE HELSTONE. YES. I SEE BUT WHEN. I HAVE WRITTEN TO THE BISHOP I DARE SAY I HAVE TOLD YOU SO BUT I FORGET THINGS JUST NOW SAID MISTER HALE COLLAPSING INTO HIS DEPRESSED MANNER AS SOON AS HE CAME TO TALK OF HARD MATTER OF FACT DETAILS INFORMING HIM OF MY INTENTION TO RESIGN THIS VICARAGE. HE HAS BEEN MOST KIND HE HAS USED ARGUMENTS AND EXPOSTULATIONS ALL IN VAIN IN VAIN. THEY ARE BUT WHAT I HAVE TRIED UPON MYSELF WITHOUT AVAIL. THAT WILL BE A TRIAL BUT WORSE FAR WORSE WILL BE THE PARTING FROM MY DEAR PEOPLE. THERE IS A CURATE APPOINTED TO READ PRAYERS A MISTER BROWN. HE WILL COME TO STAY WITH US TO MORROW. NEXT SUNDAY I PREACH MY FAREWELL SERMON. WAS IT TO BE SO SUDDEN THEN. THOUGHT MARGARET AND YET PERHAPS IT WAS AS WELL. WHAT DOES MAMMA SAY. ASKED SHE WITH A DEEP SIGH. TO HER SURPRISE HER FATHER BEGAN TO WALK ABOUT AGAIN BEFORE HE ANSWERED. AT LENGTH HE STOPPED AND REPLIED. MARGARET I AM A POOR COWARD AFTER ALL I CANNOT BEAR TO GIVE PAIN. MARGARET WAS ALMOST OVERPOWERED WITH THE IDEA THAT HER MOTHER KNEW NOTHING OF IT ALL AND YET THE AFFAIR WAS SO FAR ADVANCED. YES INDEED SHE MUST SAID MARGARET. PERHAPS AFTER ALL SHE MAY NOT OH YES. SHE WILL SHE MUST BE SHOCKED' AS THE FORCE OF THE BLOW RETURNED UPON HERSELF IN TRYING TO REALISE HOW ANOTHER WOULD TAKE IT. WHERE ARE WE TO GO TO. TO MILTON NORTHERN HE ANSWERED WITH A DULL INDIFFERENCE FOR HE HAD PERCEIVED THAT ALTHOUGH HIS DAUGHTER'S LOVE HAD MADE HER CLING TO HIM AND FOR A MOMENT STRIVE TO SOOTHE HIM WITH HER LOVE YET THE KEENNESS OF THE PAIN WAS AS FRESH AS EVER IN HER MIND. MILTON NORTHERN. THE MANUFACTURING TOWN IN DARKSHIRE. YES SAID HE IN THE SAME DESPONDENT INDIFFERENT WAY. WHY THERE PAPA ASKED SHE. BECAUSE THERE I CAN EARN BREAD FOR MY FAMILY. BUT HE WITH HIS QUICK INTUITIVE SYMPATHY READ IN HER FACE AS IN A MIRROR THE REFLECTIONS OF HIS OWN MOODY DEPRESSION AND TURNED IT OFF WITH AN EFFORT. YOU SHALL BE TOLD ALL MARGARET. ONLY HELP ME TO TELL YOUR MOTHER. I THINK I COULD DO ANYTHING BUT THAT THE IDEA OF HER DISTRESS TURNS ME SICK WITH DREAD. IF I TELL YOU ALL PERHAPS YOU COULD BREAK IT TO HER TO MORROW. I AM GOING OUT FOR THE DAY TO BID FARMER DOBSON AND THE POOR PEOPLE ON BRACY COMMON GOOD BYE. WOULD YOU DISLIKE BREAKING IT TO HER VERY MUCH MARGARET. MARGARET DID DISLIKE IT DID SHRINK FROM IT MORE THAN FROM ANYTHING SHE HAD EVER HAD TO DO IN HER LIFE BEFORE. SHE COULD NOT SPEAK ALL AT ONCE. HER FATHER SAID YOU DISLIKE IT VERY MUCH DON'T YOU MARGARET. YOU MUST HAVE MANY PAINFUL THINGS TO DO. MISTER HALE SHOOK HIS HEAD DESPONDINGLY HE PRESSED HER HAND IN TOKEN OF GRATITUDE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..14ef61ddb545fecbfb8db6f6cb70da0b93e2a6d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MARGARET WAS NEARLY UPSET AGAIN INTO A BURST OF CRYING. TO TURN HER THOUGHTS SHE SAID NOW TELL ME PAPA WHAT OUR PLANS ARE. YOU AND MAMMA HAVE SOME MONEY INDEPENDENT OF THE INCOME FROM THE LIVING HAVE NOT YOU AUNT SHAW HAS I KNOW. YES I SUPPOSE WE HAVE ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY POUNDS A YEAR OF OUR OWN. SEVENTY OF THAT HAS ALWAYS GONE TO FREDERICK SINCE HE HAS BEEN ABROAD. I DON'T KNOW IF HE WANTS IT ALL HE CONTINUED IN A HESITATING MANNER. HE MUST HAVE SOME PAY FOR SERVING WITH THE SPANISH ARMY. FREDERICK MUST NOT SUFFER SAID MARGARET DECIDEDLY IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY SO UNJUSTLY TREATED BY HIS OWN A HUNDRED IS LEFT. COULD NOT YOU AND I AND MAMMA LIVE ON A HUNDRED A YEAR IN SOME VERY CHEAP VERY QUIET PART OF ENGLAND. OH I THINK WE COULD. NO. SAID MISTER HALE THAT WOULD NOT ANSWER I MUST DO SOMETHING. I MUST MAKE MYSELF BUSY TO KEEP OFF MORBID THOUGHTS. BESIDES IN A COUNTRY PARISH I SHOULD BE SO PAINFULLY REMINDED OF HELSTONE AND MY DUTIES HERE. I COULD NOT BEAR IT MARGARET. AND A HUNDRED A YEAR WOULD GO A VERY LITTLE WAY AFTER THE NECESSARY WANTS OF HOUSEKEEPING ARE MET TOWARDS PROVIDING YOUR MOTHER WITH ALL THE COMFORTS SHE HAS BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO AND OUGHT TO HAVE. NO WE MUST GO TO MILTON THAT IS SETTLED. I CAN ALWAYS DECIDE BETTER BY MYSELF AND NOT INFLUENCED BY THOSE WHOM I LOVE SAID HE AS A HALF APOLOGY FOR HAVING ARRANGED SO MUCH BEFORE HE HAD TOLD ANY ONE OF HIS FAMILY OF HIS INTENTIONS. I CANNOT STAND OBJECTIONS. THEY MAKE ME SO UNDECIDED. MARGARET RESOLVED TO KEEP SILENCE. AFTER ALL WHAT DID IT SIGNIFY WHERE THEY WENT COMPARED TO THE ONE TERRIBLE CHANGE. MISTER HALE CONTINUED A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN MY MISERY OF DOUBT BECAME MORE THAN I COULD BEAR WITHOUT SPEAKING I WROTE TO MISTER BELL YOU REMEMBER MISTER BELL MARGARET. NO I NEVER SAW HIM I THINK. BUT I KNOW WHO HE IS. FREDERICK'S GODFATHER YOUR OLD TUTOR AT OXFORD DON'T YOU MEAN YES. HE IS A FELLOW OF PLYMOUTH COLLEGE THERE. HE IS A NATIVE OF MILTON NORTHERN I BELIEVE. AT ANY RATE HE HAS PROPERTY THERE WHICH HAS VERY MUCH INCREASED IN VALUE SINCE MILTON HAS BECOME SUCH A LARGE MANUFACTURING TOWN. WELL I HAD REASON TO SUSPECT TO IMAGINE I HAD BETTER SAY NOTHING ABOUT IT HOWEVER. BUT I FELT SURE OF SYMPATHY FROM MISTER BELL. I DON'T KNOW THAT HE GAVE ME MUCH STRENGTH. HE HAS LIVED AN EASY LIFE IN HIS COLLEGE ALL HIS DAYS. AND IT IS OWING TO HIM WE ARE GOING TO MILTON HOW. WHY HE HAS TENANTS AND HOUSES AND MILLS THERE SO THOUGH HE DISLIKES THE PLACE TOO BUSTLING FOR ONE OF HIS HABITS HE IS OBLIGED TO KEEP UP SOME SORT OF CONNECTION AND HE TELLS ME THAT HE HEARS THERE IS A GOOD OPENING FOR A PRIVATE TUTOR THERE. A PRIVATE TUTOR. SAID MARGARET LOOKING SCORNFUL WHAT IN THE WORLD DO MANUFACTURERS WANT WITH THE CLASSICS OR LITERATURE OR THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF A GENTLEMAN. OH SAID HER FATHER SOME OF THEM REALLY SEEM TO BE FINE FELLOWS CONSCIOUS OF THEIR OWN DEFICIENCIES WHICH IS MORE THAN MANY A MAN AT OXFORD IS. SOME WANT THEIR CHILDREN TO BE BETTER INSTRUCTED THAN THEY THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN. AT ANY RATE THERE IS AN OPENING AS I HAVE SAID FOR A PRIVATE TUTOR. AND IN MILTON MARGARET I SHALL FIND A BUSY LIFE IF NOT A HAPPY ONE AND PEOPLE AND SCENES SO DIFFERENT THAT I SHALL NEVER BE REMINDED OF HELSTONE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0004.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee1520841da4202abc6cec00979fb9200be7113a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1686/142278/142278_0004.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THERE WAS THE SECRET MOTIVE AS MARGARET KNEW FROM HER OWN FEELINGS IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT. DISCORDANT AS IT WAS WITH ALMOST A DETESTATION FOR ALL SHE HAD EVER HEARD OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND THE MANUFACTURERS THE PEOPLE THE WILD AND BLEAK COUNTRY THERE WAS THIS ONE RECOMMENDATION IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT FROM HELSTONE AND COULD NEVER REMIND THEM OF THAT BELOVED PLACE. WHEN DO WE GO. I DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY. I WANTED TO TALK IT OVER WITH YOU. YOU SEE YOUR MOTHER KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT IT YET BUT I THINK IN A FORTNIGHT AFTER MY DEED OF RESIGNATION IS SENT IN I SHALL HAVE NO RIGHT TO REMAIN. MARGARET WAS ALMOST STUNNED. NOTHING IS FIXED SAID HER FATHER WITH ANXIOUS HESITATION AS HE NOTICED THE FILMY SORROW THAT CAME OVER HER EYES AND THE SUDDEN CHANGE IN HER COMPLEXION. BUT SHE RECOVERED HERSELF IMMEDIATELY. YES PAPA IT HAD BETTER BE FIXED SOON AND DECIDEDLY AS YOU SAY. ONLY MAMMA TO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT. IT IS THAT THAT IS THE GREAT PERPLEXITY. POOR MARIA. REPLIED MISTER HALE TENDERLY. POOR POOR MARIA. OH IF I WERE NOT MARRIED IF I WERE BUT MYSELF IN THE WORLD HOW EASY IT WOULD BE. AS IT IS MARGARET I DARE NOT TELL HER. NO SAID MARGARET SADLY I WILL DO IT. MISTER HALE SAT IN RIGID STILLNESS WHILE SHE SPOKE. YOU MUST NOT DECEIVE YOURSELF INTO DOUBTING THE REALITY OF MY WORDS MY FIXED INTENTION AND RESOLVE. HE LOOKED AT HER IN THE SAME STEADY STONY MANNER FOR SOME MOMENTS AFTER HE HAD DONE SPEAKING. SHE TOO GAZED BACK WITH PLEADING EYES BEFORE SHE WOULD BELIEVE THAT IT WAS IRREVOCABLE. THEN SHE AROSE AND WENT WITHOUT ANOTHER WORD OR LOOK TOWARDS THE DOOR. AS HER FINGERS WERE ON THE HANDLE HE CALLED HER BACK. HE WAS STANDING BY THE FIREPLACE SHRUNK AND STOOPING BUT AS SHE CAME NEAR HE DREW HIMSELF UP TO HIS FULL HEIGHT AND PLACING HIS HANDS ON HER HEAD HE SAID SOLEMNLY. THE BLESSING OF GOD BE UPON THEE MY CHILD. THE NEXT MOMENT SHE FEARED LEST THIS ANSWER TO HIS BLESSING MIGHT BE IRREVERENT WRONG MIGHT HURT HIM AS COMING FROM HIS DAUGHTER AND SHE THREW HER ARMS ROUND HIS NECK. HE HELD HER TO HIM FOR A MINUTE OR TWO. SHE HEARD HIM MURMUR TO HIMSELF THE MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS HAD EVEN MORE PAIN TO BEAR I WILL NOT SHRINK. THEY WERE STARTLED BY HEARING MISSUS HALE INQUIRING FOR HER DAUGHTER. THEY STARTED ASUNDER IN THE FULL CONSCIOUSNESS OF ALL THAT WAS BEFORE THEM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141759/141759_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141759/141759_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..218a14b7e16758c65ac25bed7d0efe1dc43f911d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141759/141759_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT WAS LONG SINCE THE ROSTOVS HAD NEWS OF NICHOLAS. NOT TILL MIDWINTER WAS THE COUNT AT LAST HANDED A LETTER ADDRESSED IN HIS SON'S HANDWRITING. ON RECEIVING IT HE RAN ON TIPTOE TO HIS STUDY IN ALARM AND HASTE TRYING TO ESCAPE NOTICE CLOSED THE DOOR AND BEGAN TO READ THE LETTER. ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA THOUGH HER CIRCUMSTANCES HAD IMPROVED WAS STILL LIVING WITH THE ROSTOVS. MY DEAR FRIEND SAID SHE IN A TONE OF PATHETIC INQUIRY PREPARED TO SYMPATHIZE IN ANY WAY. THE COUNT SOBBED YET MORE. NIKOLENKA A LETTER WA A S WOUNDED MY DARLING BOY THE COUNTESS PROMOTED TO BE AN OFFICER THANK GOD HOW TELL THE LITTLE COUNTESS. EACH TIME THAT THESE HINTS BEGAN TO MAKE THE COUNTESS ANXIOUS AND SHE GLANCED UNEASILY AT THE COUNT AND AT ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA THE LATTER VERY ADROITLY TURNED THE CONVERSATION TO INSIGNIFICANT MATTERS. AFTER DINNER SHE RUSHED HEAD LONG AFTER ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA AND DASHING AT HER FLUNG HERSELF ON HER NECK AS SOON AS SHE OVERTOOK HER IN THE SITTING ROOM. AUNTIE DARLING DO TELL ME WHAT IT IS NOTHING MY DEAR. NO DEAREST SWEET ONE HONEY I WON'T GIVE UP I KNOW YOU KNOW SOMETHING. ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA SHOOK HER HEAD. YOU ARE A LITTLE SLYBOOTS SHE SAID. A LETTER FROM NIKOLENKA I'M SURE OF IT. EXCLAIMED NATASHA READING CONFIRMATION IN ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA'S FACE. BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE BE CAREFUL YOU KNOW HOW IT MAY AFFECT YOUR MAMMA. I WILL I WILL ONLY TELL ME. YOU WON'T THEN I WILL GO AND TELL AT ONCE. NO ON MY TRUE WORD OF HONOR SAID NATASHA CROSSING HERSELF I WON'T TELL ANYONE. AND SHE RAN OFF AT ONCE TO SONYA. NICHOLAS WAS ALL SONYA SAID INSTANTLY TURNING WHITE. SHE RUSHED TO SONYA HUGGED HER AND BEGAN TO CRY. IT'S TRUE THAT ALL YOU WOMEN ARE CRYBABIES REMARKED PETYA PACING THE ROOM WITH LARGE RESOLUTE STRIDES. NOW I'M VERY GLAD VERY GLAD INDEED THAT MY BROTHER HAS DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF SO. YOU ARE ALL BLUBBERERS AND UNDERSTAND NOTHING. NATASHA SMILED THROUGH HER TEARS. YOU HAVEN'T READ THE LETTER ASKED SONYA. THANK GOD SAID SONYA CROSSING HERSELF. BUT PERHAPS SHE DECEIVED YOU LET US GO TO MAMMA. PETYA PACED THE ROOM IN SILENCE FOR A TIME. WHAT NASTY BRUTES THEY ARE. HOLD YOUR TONGUE PETYA WHAT A GOOSE YOU ARE. I'M NOT A GOOSE BUT THEY ARE WHO CRY ABOUT TRIFLES SAID PETYA. DO YOU REMEMBER HIM NATASHA SUDDENLY ASKED AFTER A MOMENT'S SILENCE. SONYA SMILED DO I REMEMBER NICHOLAS. NO SONYA BUT DO YOU REMEMBER SO THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM PERFECTLY REMEMBER EVERYTHING SAID NATASHA WITH AN EXPRESSIVE GESTURE EVIDENTLY WISHING TO GIVE HER WORDS A VERY DEFINITE MEANING. I REMEMBER NIKOLENKA TOO I REMEMBER HIM WELL SHE SAID. BUT I DON'T REMEMBER BORIS I DON'T REMEMBER HIM A BIT. WHAT YOU DON'T REMEMBER BORIS ASKED SONYA IN SURPRISE. HIM I JUST SHUT MY EYES AND REMEMBER BUT BORIS. NO SHE SHUT HER EYES. OH NATASHA. NATASHA LOOKED AT SONYA WITH WONDERING AND INQUISITIVE EYES AND SAID NOTHING. SHE FELT THAT SONYA WAS SPEAKING THE TRUTH THAT THERE WAS SUCH LOVE AS SONYA WAS SPEAKING OF. BUT NATASHA HAD NOT YET FELT ANYTHING LIKE IT. SHE BELIEVED IT COULD BE BUT DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT. SHALL YOU WRITE TO HIM SHE ASKED. SONYA BECAME THOUGHTFUL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141759/141759_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141759/141759_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e088d6b440b5592d9c0e754d8cd943865b3543a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141759/141759_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE QUESTION OF HOW TO WRITE TO NICHOLAS AND WHETHER SHE OUGHT TO WRITE TORMENTED HER. NOW THAT HE WAS ALREADY AN OFFICER AND A WOUNDED HERO WOULD IT BE RIGHT TO REMIND HIM OF HERSELF AND AS IT MIGHT SEEM OF THE OBLIGATIONS TO HER HE HAD TAKEN ON HIMSELF. I DON'T KNOW. I THINK IF HE WRITES I WILL WRITE TOO SHE SAID BLUSHING. AND YOU WON'T FEEL ASHAMED TO WRITE TO HIM. SONYA SMILED NO. AND I SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO WRITE TO BORIS I'M NOT GOING TO. WHY SHOULD YOU BE ASHAMED WELL I DON'T KNOW. IT'S AWKWARD AND WOULD MAKE ME ASHAMED. AND I KNOW WHY SHE'D BE ASHAMED SAID PETYA OFFENDED BY NATASHA'S PREVIOUS REMARK. IT'S BECAUSE SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH THAT FAT ONE IN SPECTACLES THAT WAS HOW PETYA DESCRIBED HIS NAMESAKE THE NEW COUNT BEZUKHOV AND NOW SHE'S IN LOVE WITH THAT SINGER HE MEANT NATASHA'S ITALIAN SINGING MASTER THAT'S WHY SHE'S ASHAMED. PETYA YOU'RE A STUPID SAID NATASHA. NOT MORE STUPID THAN YOU MADAM SAID THE NINE YEAR OLD PETYA WITH THE AIR OF AN OLD BRIGADIER. THE COUNTESS HAD BEEN PREPARED BY ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA'S HINTS AT DINNER. ON RETIRING TO HER OWN ROOM SHE SAT IN AN ARMCHAIR HER EYES FIXED ON A MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF HER SON ON THE LID OF A SNUFFBOX WHILE THE TEARS KEPT COMING INTO HER EYES. DON'T COME IN SHE SAID TO THE OLD COUNT WHO WAS FOLLOWING HER COME LATER. AND SHE WENT IN CLOSING THE DOOR BEHIND HER. THE COUNT PUT HIS EAR TO THE KEYHOLE AND LISTENED. AT FIRST HE HEARD THE SOUND OF INDIFFERENT VOICES THEN ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA'S VOICE ALONE IN A LONG SPEECH THEN A CRY THEN SILENCE THEN BOTH VOICES TOGETHER WITH GLAD INTONATIONS AND THEN FOOTSTEPS. ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA OPENED THE DOOR. IT IS DONE SHE SAID TO THE COUNT POINTING TRIUMPHANTLY TO THE COUNTESS WHO SAT HOLDING IN ONE HAND THE SNUFFBOX WITH ITS PORTRAIT AND IN THE OTHER THE LETTER AND PRESSING THEM ALTERNATELY TO HER LIPS. WHEN SHE SAW THE COUNT SHE STRETCHED OUT HER ARMS TO HIM EMBRACED HIS BALD HEAD OVER WHICH SHE AGAIN LOOKED AT THE LETTER AND THE PORTRAIT AND IN ORDER TO PRESS THEM AGAIN TO HER LIPS SHE SLIGHTLY PUSHED AWAY THE BALD HEAD. WHEN SHE HEARD THIS SONYA BLUSHED SO THAT TEARS CAME INTO HER EYES AND UNABLE TO BEAR THE LOOKS TURNED UPON HER RAN AWAY INTO THE DANCING HALL WHIRLED ROUND IT AT FULL SPEED WITH HER DRESS PUFFED OUT LIKE A BALLOON AND FLUSHED AND SMILING PLUMPED DOWN ON THE FLOOR. THE COUNTESS WAS CRYING. WHY ARE YOU CRYING MAMMA. FROM ALL HE SAYS ONE SHOULD BE GLAD AND NOT CRY. THIS WAS QUITE TRUE BUT THE COUNT THE COUNTESS AND NATASHA LOOKED AT HER REPROACHFULLY. AND WHO IS IT SHE TAKES AFTER THOUGHT THE COUNTESS. HOW STRANGE HOW EXTRAORDINARY HOW JOYFUL IT SEEMED THAT HER SON THE SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE MOTION OF WHOSE TINY LIMBS SHE HAD FELT TWENTY YEARS AGO WITHIN HER THAT SON ABOUT WHOM SHE USED TO HAVE QUARRELS WITH THE TOO INDULGENT COUNT THAT SON WHO HAD FIRST LEARNED TO SAY PEAR AND THEN GRANNY THAT THIS SON SHOULD NOW BE AWAY IN A FOREIGN LAND AMID STRANGE SURROUNDINGS A MANLY WARRIOR DOING SOME KIND OF MAN'S WORK OF HIS OWN WITHOUT HELP OR GUIDANCE. THE UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE OF AGES SHOWING THAT CHILDREN DO GROW IMPERCEPTIBLY FROM THE CRADLE TO MANHOOD DID NOT EXIST FOR THE COUNTESS. HOW CHARMINGLY HE DESCRIBES SAID SHE READING THE DESCRIPTIVE PART OF THE LETTER AND WHAT A SOUL. NOT A WORD ABOUT HIMSELF NOT A WORD. HE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT HIS SUFFERINGS WHAT A HEART \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141759/141759_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141759/141759_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1b8c44c540bce8484167b5d99788564cffdb5f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141759/141759_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I ALWAYS SAID WHEN HE WAS ONLY SO HIGH I ALWAYS SAID. ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA PRACTICAL WOMAN THAT SHE WAS HAD EVEN MANAGED BY FAVOR WITH ARMY AUTHORITIES TO SECURE ADVANTAGEOUS MEANS OF COMMUNICATION FOR HERSELF AND HER SON. SHE HAD OPPORTUNITIES OF SENDING HER LETTERS TO THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE PAVLOVICH WHO COMMANDED THE GUARDS. AND SO IT WAS DECIDED TO SEND THE LETTERS AND MONEY BY THE GRAND DUKE'S COURIER TO BORIS AND BORIS WAS TO FORWARD THEM TO NICHOLAS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf1889e8bbdcbd8c1e454f388d491334b9a54ae9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE GUARDS JUST ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA SPENT THE NIGHT TEN MILES FROM OLMUTZ AND NEXT MORNING WERE TO COME STRAIGHT TO THE REVIEW REACHING THE FIELD AT OLMUTZ BY TEN O'CLOCK. THE PAVLOGRADS HELD FEAST AFTER FEAST CELEBRATING AWARDS THEY HAD RECEIVED FOR THE CAMPAIGN AND MADE EXPEDITIONS TO OLMUTZ TO VISIT A CERTAIN CAROLINE THE HUNGARIAN WHO HAD RECENTLY OPENED A RESTAURANT THERE WITH GIRLS AS WAITRESSES. ROSTOV WHO HAD JUST CELEBRATED HIS PROMOTION TO A CORNETCY AND BOUGHT DENISOV'S HORSE BEDOUIN WAS IN DEBT ALL ROUND TO HIS COMRADES AND THE SUTLERS. ROSTOV HAD NOT YET HAD TIME TO GET HIS UNIFORM. AS HE RODE UP TO THE CAMP HE THOUGHT HOW HE WOULD IMPRESS BORIS AND ALL HIS COMRADES OF THE GUARDS BY HIS APPEARANCE THAT OF A FIGHTING HUSSAR WHO HAD BEEN UNDER FIRE. THE GUARDS HAD MADE THEIR WHOLE MARCH AS IF ON A PLEASURE TRIP PARADING THEIR CLEANLINESS AND DISCIPLINE. THEY HAD COME BY EASY STAGES THEIR KNAPSACKS CONVEYED ON CARTS AND THE AUSTRIAN AUTHORITIES HAD PROVIDED EXCELLENT DINNERS FOR THE OFFICERS AT EVERY HALTING PLACE. THE REGIMENTS HAD ENTERED AND LEFT THE TOWN WITH THEIR BANDS PLAYING AND BY THE GRAND DUKE'S ORDERS THE MEN HAD MARCHED ALL THE WAY IN STEP A PRACTICE ON WHICH THE GUARDS PRIDED THEMSELVES THE OFFICERS ON FOOT AND AT THEIR PROPER POSTS. BORIS HAD BEEN QUARTERED AND HAD MARCHED ALL THE WAY WITH BERG WHO WAS ALREADY IN COMMAND OF A COMPANY. BORIS DURING THE CAMPAIGN HAD MADE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF MANY PERSONS WHO MIGHT PROVE USEFUL TO HIM AND BY A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION HE HAD BROUGHT FROM PIERRE HAD BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH PRINCE ANDREW BOLKONSKI THROUGH WHOM HE HOPED TO OBTAIN A POST ON THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF'S STAFF. BERG AND BORIS HAVING RESTED AFTER YESTERDAY'S MARCH WERE SITTING CLEAN AND NEATLY DRESSED AT A ROUND TABLE IN THE CLEAN QUARTERS ALLOTTED TO THEM PLAYING CHESS. BERG HELD A SMOKING PIPE BETWEEN HIS KNEES. BORIS IN THE ACCURATE WAY CHARACTERISTIC OF HIM WAS BUILDING A LITTLE PYRAMID OF CHESSMEN WITH HIS DELICATE WHITE FINGERS WHILE AWAITING BERG'S MOVE AND WATCHED HIS OPPONENT'S FACE EVIDENTLY THINKING ABOUT THE GAME AS HE ALWAYS THOUGHT ONLY OF WHATEVER HE WAS ENGAGED ON. WELL HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET OUT OF THAT HE REMARKED. WE'LL TRY TO REPLIED BERG TOUCHING A PAWN AND THEN REMOVING HIS HAND. AT THAT MOMENT THE DOOR OPENED. AND BERG TOO OH YOU PETISENFANS ALLAY CUSHAY DORMIR HE EXCLAIMED IMITATING HIS RUSSIAN NURSE'S FRENCH AT WHICH HE AND BORIS USED TO LAUGH LONG AGO. DEAR ME HOW YOU HAVE CHANGED. BORIS ROSE TO MEET ROSTOV BUT IN DOING SO DID NOT OMIT TO STEADY AND REPLACE SOME CHESSMEN THAT WERE FALLING. HE WAS ABOUT TO EMBRACE HIS FRIEND BUT NICHOLAS AVOIDED HIM. WITH THAT PECULIAR FEELING OF YOUTH THAT DREAD OF BEATEN TRACKS AND WISH TO EXPRESS ITSELF IN A MANNER DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF ITS ELDERS WHICH IS OFTEN INSINCERE NICHOLAS WISHED TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL ON MEETING HIS FRIEND. HE WANTED TO PINCH HIM PUSH HIM DO ANYTHING BUT KISS HIM A THING EVERYBODY DID. BUT NOTWITHSTANDING THIS BORIS EMBRACED HIM IN A QUIET FRIENDLY WAY AND KISSED HIM THREE TIMES. THEY HAD NOT MET FOR NEARLY HALF A YEAR AND BEING AT THE AGE WHEN YOUNG MEN TAKE THEIR FIRST STEPS ON LIFE'S ROAD EACH SAW IMMENSE CHANGES IN THE OTHER QUITE A NEW REFLECTION OF THE SOCIETY IN WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN THOSE FIRST STEPS. OH YOU DAMNED DANDIES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1081dd46c95cbca3f3911d732d48d1538790dc67 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +CLEAN AND FRESH AS IF YOU'D BEEN TO A FETE NOT LIKE US SINNERS OF THE LINE CRIED ROSTOV WITH MARTIAL SWAGGER AND WITH BARITONE NOTES IN HIS VOICE NEW TO BORIS POINTING TO HIS OWN MUD BESPATTERED BREECHES. THE GERMAN LANDLADY HEARING ROSTOV'S LOUD VOICE POPPED HER HEAD IN AT THE DOOR. WHY DO YOU SHOUT SO YOU'LL FRIGHTEN THEM SAID BORIS. I DID NOT EXPECT YOU TODAY HE ADDED. I ONLY SENT YOU THE NOTE YESTERDAY BY BOLKONSKI AN ADJUTANT OF KUTUZOV'S WHO'S A FRIEND OF MINE. INDEED YES YES SAID BORIS WITH A SMILE. AND WE TOO HAVE HAD A SPLENDID MARCH. YOU KNOW OF COURSE THAT HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS RODE WITH OUR REGIMENT ALL THE TIME SO THAT WE HAD EVERY COMFORT AND EVERY ADVANTAGE. WHAT RECEPTIONS WE HAD IN POLAND. WHAT DINNERS AND BALLS I CAN'T TELL YOU. AND THE TSAREVICH WAS VERY GRACIOUS TO ALL OUR OFFICERS. AND THE TWO FRIENDS TOLD EACH OTHER OF THEIR DOINGS THE ONE OF HIS HUSSAR REVELS AND LIFE IN THE FIGHTING LINE THE OTHER OF THE PLEASURES AND ADVANTAGES OF SERVICE UNDER MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY. OH YOU GUARDS SAID ROSTOV I SAY SEND FOR SOME WINE. BORIS MADE A GRIMACE IF YOU REALLY WANT IT SAID HE. HE WENT TO HIS BED DREW A PURSE FROM UNDER THE CLEAN PILLOW AND SENT FOR WINE. YES AND I HAVE SOME MONEY AND A LETTER TO GIVE YOU HE ADDED. ROSTOV TOOK THE LETTER AND THROWING THE MONEY ON THE SOFA PUT BOTH ARMS ON THE TABLE AND BEGAN TO READ. AS FOR US COUNT WE GET ALONG ON OUR PAY I CAN TELL YOU FOR MYSELF. OH DON'T MENTION IT COUNT I QUITE UNDERSTAND SAID BERG GETTING UP AND SPEAKING IN A MUFFLED AND GUTTURAL VOICE. GO ACROSS TO OUR HOSTS THEY INVITED YOU ADDED BORIS. BERG PUT ON THE CLEANEST OF COATS WITHOUT A SPOT OR SPECK OF DUST STOOD BEFORE A LOOKING GLASS AND BRUSHED THE HAIR ON HIS TEMPLES UPWARDS IN THE WAY AFFECTED BY THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER AND HAVING ASSURED HIMSELF FROM THE WAY ROSTOV LOOKED AT IT THAT HIS COAT HAD BEEN NOTICED LEFT THE ROOM WITH A PLEASANT SMILE. OH DEAR WHAT A BEAST I AM MUTTERED ROSTOV AS HE READ THE LETTER WHY. OH WHAT A PIG I AM HE REPEATED FLUSHING SUDDENLY. WELL HAVE YOU SENT GABRIEL FOR SOME WINE ALL RIGHT LET'S HAVE SOME. IN THE LETTER FROM HIS PARENTS WAS ENCLOSED A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION TO BAGRATION WHICH THE OLD COUNTESS AT ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA'S ADVICE HAD OBTAINED THROUGH AN ACQUAINTANCE AND SENT TO HER SON ASKING HIM TO TAKE IT TO ITS DESTINATION AND MAKE USE OF IT. WHAT NONSENSE MUCH I NEED IT SAID ROSTOV THROWING THE LETTER UNDER THE TABLE. WHY HAVE YOU THROWN THAT AWAY ASKED BORIS. IT IS SOME LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION WHAT THE DEVIL DO I WANT IT FOR. I WANT NOTHING AND I WON'T BE ANYONE'S ADJUTANT. WHY NOT INQUIRED BORIS IT'S A LACKEY'S JOB. AND YOU'RE STILL THE SAME DIPLOMATIST. BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT COME HOW ARE YOU ASKED ROSTOV WELL AS YOU SEE. BECAUSE WHEN ONCE A MAN STARTS ON MILITARY SERVICE HE SHOULD TRY TO MAKE AS SUCCESSFUL A CAREER OF IT AS POSSIBLE. HE LOOKED INTENTLY AND INQUIRINGLY INTO HIS FRIEND'S EYES EVIDENTLY TRYING IN VAIN TO FIND THE ANSWER TO SOME QUESTION. OLD GABRIEL BROUGHT IN THE WINE. WELL SEND FOR HIM AND HOW DO YOU GET ON WITH THAT GERMAN ASKED ROSTOV WITH A CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE. HE IS A VERY VERY NICE HONEST AND PLEASANT FELLOW ANSWERED BORIS. THEY SPOKE OF THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THEIR COMMANDER THE GRAND DUKE AND TOLD STORIES OF HIS KINDNESS AND IRASCIBILITY. WITH A PLEASANT SMILE BERG RELATED HOW THE GRAND DUKE HAD RIDDEN UP TO HIM IN A VIOLENT PASSION SHOUTING ARNAUTS. ARNAUTS WAS THE TSAREVICH'S FAVORITE EXPRESSION WHEN HE WAS IN A RAGE AND CALLED FOR THE COMPANY COMMANDER. WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT COUNT I WAS NOT AT ALL ALARMED BECAUSE I KNEW I WAS RIGHT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7800edde73b785590fa0430631b2efeb7f520ac --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I CAME FORWARD BERG STOOD UP AND SHOWED HOW HE PRESENTED HIMSELF WITH HIS HAND TO HIS CAP AND REALLY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT FOR A FACE TO EXPRESS GREATER RESPECT AND SELF COMPLACENCY THAN HIS DID. WELL HE STORMED AT ME AS THE SAYING IS STORMED AND STORMED AND STORMED. IT WAS NOT A MATTER OF LIFE BUT RATHER OF DEATH AS THE SAYING IS. ALBANIANS AND DEVILS AND TO SIBERIA SAID BERG WITH A SAGACIOUS SMILE. I KNEW I WAS IN THE RIGHT SO I KEPT SILENT WAS NOT THAT BEST COUNT. HEY ARE YOU DUMB HE SHOUTED. STILL I REMAINED SILENT AND WHAT DO YOU THINK COUNT. THE NEXT DAY IT WAS NOT EVEN MENTIONED IN THE ORDERS OF THE DAY. THAT'S WHAT KEEPING ONE'S HEAD MEANS. THAT'S THE WAY COUNT SAID BERG LIGHTING HIS PIPE AND EMITTING RINGS OF SMOKE. YES THAT WAS FINE SAID ROSTOV SMILING. BUT BORIS NOTICED THAT HE WAS PREPARING TO MAKE FUN OF BERG AND SKILLFULLY CHANGED THE SUBJECT. HE ASKED HIM TO TELL THEM HOW AND WHERE HE GOT HIS WOUND. THIS PLEASED ROSTOV AND HE BEGAN TALKING ABOUT IT AND AS HE WENT ON BECAME MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. ROSTOV WAS A TRUTHFUL YOUNG MAN AND WOULD ON NO ACCOUNT HAVE TOLD A DELIBERATE LIE. HE BEGAN HIS STORY MEANING TO TELL EVERYTHING JUST AS IT HAPPENED BUT IMPERCEPTIBLY INVOLUNTARILY AND INEVITABLY HE LAPSED INTO FALSEHOOD. AND SO HE TOLD THEM ALL THAT. IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS STORY JUST AS HE WAS SAYING YOU CANNOT IMAGINE WHAT A STRANGE FRENZY ONE EXPERIENCES DURING AN ATTACK PRINCE ANDREW WHOM BORIS WAS EXPECTING ENTERED THE ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW WHO LIKED TO HELP YOUNG MEN WAS FLATTERED BY BEING ASKED FOR HIS ASSISTANCE AND BEING WELL DISPOSED TOWARD BORIS WHO HAD MANAGED TO PLEASE HIM THE DAY BEFORE HE WISHED TO DO WHAT THE YOUNG MAN WANTED. HAVING BEEN SENT WITH PAPERS FROM KUTUZOV TO THE TSAREVICH HE LOOKED IN ON BORIS HOPING TO FIND HIM ALONE. IN SPITE OF PRINCE ANDREW'S DISAGREEABLE IRONICAL TONE IN SPITE OF THE CONTEMPT WITH WHICH ROSTOV FROM HIS FIGHTING ARMY POINT OF VIEW REGARDED ALL THESE LITTLE ADJUTANTS ON THE STAFF OF WHOM THE NEWCOMER WAS EVIDENTLY ONE ROSTOV FELT CONFUSED BLUSHED AND BECAME SILENT. BORIS INQUIRED WHAT NEWS THERE MIGHT BE ON THE STAFF AND WHAT WITHOUT INDISCRETION ONE MIGHT ASK ABOUT OUR PLANS. WE SHALL PROBABLY ADVANCE REPLIED BOLKONSKI EVIDENTLY RELUCTANT TO SAY MORE IN THE PRESENCE OF A STRANGER. BERG TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK WITH GREAT POLITENESS WHETHER AS WAS RUMORED THE ALLOWANCE OF FORAGE MONEY TO CAPTAINS OF COMPANIES WOULD BE DOUBLED. AS TO YOUR BUSINESS PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED ADDRESSING BORIS WE WILL TALK OF IT LATER AND HE LOOKED ROUND AT ROSTOV. COME TO ME AFTER THE REVIEW AND WE WILL DO WHAT IS POSSIBLE. AND HAVING GLANCED ROUND THE ROOM PRINCE ANDREW TURNED TO ROSTOV WHOSE STATE OF UNCONQUERABLE CHILDISH EMBARRASSMENT NOW CHANGING TO ANGER HE DID NOT CONDESCEND TO NOTICE AND SAID I THINK YOU WERE TALKING OF THE SCHON GRABERN AFFAIR WERE YOU THERE. I WAS THERE SAID ROSTOV ANGRILY AS IF INTENDING TO INSULT THE AIDE DE CAMP. BOLKONSKI NOTICED THE HUSSAR'S STATE OF MIND AND IT AMUSED HIM. WITH A SLIGHTLY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE HE SAID YES THERE ARE MANY STORIES NOW TOLD ABOUT THAT AFFAIR. YES STORIES REPEATED ROSTOV LOUDLY LOOKING WITH EYES SUDDENLY GROWN FURIOUS NOW AT BORIS NOW AT BOLKONSKI YES MANY STORIES. BUT OUR STORIES ARE THE STORIES OF MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER THE ENEMY'S FIRE. OUR STORIES HAVE SOME WEIGHT NOT LIKE THE STORIES OF THOSE FELLOWS ON THE STAFF WHO GET REWARDS WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING. OF WHOM YOU IMAGINE ME TO BE ONE SAID PRINCE ANDREW WITH A QUIET AND PARTICULARLY AMIABLE SMILE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..70ca30b820c784f8868671d2522d9dbffb612830 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1701/141760/141760_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A STRANGE FEELING OF EXASPERATION AND YET OF RESPECT FOR THIS MAN'S SELF POSSESSION MINGLED AT THAT MOMENT IN ROSTOV'S SOUL. HOWEVER HE ADDED RISING YOU KNOW MY NAME AND WHERE TO FIND ME BUT DON'T FORGET THAT I DO NOT REGARD EITHER MYSELF OR YOU AS HAVING BEEN AT ALL INSULTED AND AS A MAN OLDER THAN YOU MY ADVICE IS TO LET THE MATTER DROP. EXCLAIMED PRINCE ANDREW AND WITH A BOW TO THEM BOTH HE WENT OUT. AND HE WAS STILL MORE ANGRY AT HAVING OMITTED TO SAY IT. HE ORDERED HIS HORSE AT ONCE AND COLDLY TAKING LEAVE OF BORIS RODE HOME. SHOULD HE GO TO HEADQUARTERS NEXT DAY AND CHALLENGE THAT AFFECTED ADJUTANT OR REALLY LET THE MATTER DROP WAS THE QUESTION THAT WORRIED HIM ALL THE WAY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/11267/11267_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/11267/11267_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..046dcf1a270f4047e00d564870e110ab32273385 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/11267/11267_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I SEE SHOALS OF THEM DEPART NOT PERHAPS WITHOUT AN INNATE LONGING TOO TO QUIT THE ISLAND ALONG WITH THOSE HAPPY SNOBS. FAREWELL DEAR FRIENDS I SAY YOU LITTLE KNOW THAT THE INDIVIDUAL WHO REGARDS YOU FROM THE BEACH IS YOUR FRIEND AND HISTORIOGRAPHER AND BROTHER. I WENT TO DAY TO SEE OUR EXCELLENT FRIEND SNOOKS ON BOARD THE QUEEN OF THE FRENCH MANY SCORES OF SNOBS WERE THERE ON THE DECK OF THAT FINE SHIP MARCHING FORTH IN THEIR PRIDE AND BRAVERY. THEY WILL BE AT OSTEND IN FOUR HOURS THEY WILL INUNDATE THE CONTINENT NEXT WEEK THEY WILL CARRY INTO FAR LANDS THE FAMOUS IMAGE OF THE BRITISH SNOB. I HAVE SEEN SNOBS IN PINK COATS AND HUNTING BOOTS SCOURING OVER THE CAMPAGNA OF ROME AND HAVE HEARD THEIR OATHS AND THEIR WELL KNOWN SLANG IN THE GALLERIES OF THE VATICAN AND UNDER THE SHADOWY ARCHES OF THE COLOSSEUM. MY LADY MARCHIONESS COMES ON BOARD LOOKS ROUND WITH THAT HAPPY AIR OF MINGLED TERROR AND IMPERTINENCE WHICH DISTINGUISHES HER LADYSHIP AND RUSHES TO HER CARRIAGE FOR IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT SHE SHOULD MINGLE WITH THE OTHER SNOBS ON DECK. THERE SHE SITS AND WILL BE ILL IN PRIVATE. THE STRAWBERRY LEAVES ON HER CHARIOT PANELS ARE ENGRAVED ON HER LADYSHIP'S HEART. AND DAVIS YOU'D BEST TAKE THE PISTOL CASE INTO THE CABIN. LOOK AT HONEST NATHAN HOUNDSDITCH AND HIS LADY AND THEIR LITTLE SON. WHAT A NOBLE AIR OF BLAZING CONTENTMENT ILLUMINATES THE FEATURES OF THOSE SNOBS OF EASTERN RACE. WHAT A TOILETTE HOUNDSDITCH'S IS. HE WILL NEVER SPARE HIMSELF ANY CHEAP ENJOYMENT. I HAVE SAID BEFORE I LIKE TO LOOK AT THE PEOPLES ON THEIR GALA DAYS THEY ARE SO PICTURESQUELY AND OUTRAGEOUSLY SPLENDID AND HAPPY. YONDER COMES CAPTAIN BULL SPICK AND SPAN TIGHT AND TRIM WHO TRAVELS FOR FOUR OR SIX MONTHS EVERY YEAR OF HIS LIFE WHO DOES NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BY LUXURY OF RAIMENT OR INSOLENCE OF DEMEANOUR BUT I THINK IS AS GREAT A SNOB AS ANY MAN ON BOARD. BULL PASSES THE SEASON IN LONDON SPONGING FOR DINNERS AND SLEEPING IN A GARRET NEAR HIS CLUB. SEE HE IS UP TO OLD CARABAS ALREADY I TOLD YOU HE WOULD. THAT BROAD SHOULDERED BUCK WITH THE GREAT WHISKERS AND THE CLEANED WHITE KID GLOVES IS MISTER PHELIM CLANCY OF POLDOODYSTOWN HE CALLS HIMSELF MISTER DE CLANCY HE ENDEAVOURS TO DISGUISE HIS NATIVE BROGUE WITH THE RICHEST SUPERPOSITION OF ENGLISH AND IF YOU PLAY AT BILLIARDS OR ECARTE WITH HIM THE CHANCES ARE THAT YOU WILL WIN THE FIRST GAME AND HE THE SEVEN OR EIGHT GAMES ENSUING. THE NEXT PERSON IS BUT HARK \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/11278/11278_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/11278/11278_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1cce8e22e2f234365bc89221b9656b1d3b7eed44 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/11278/11278_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHEN A GROSS INSTANCE OF SNOBBISHNESS HAPPENS WHY SHOULD NOT THE INDIGNANT JOURNALIST CALL THE PUBLIC ATTENTION TO THAT DELINQUENCY TOO. HOW FOR INSTANCE COULD THAT WONDERFUL CASE OF THE EARL OF MANGELWURZEL AND HIS BROTHER BE EXAMINED IN THE SNOBBISH POINT OF VIEW. ALL WE REQUIRE IS THAT A MAN SHOULD BE RECOMMENDED TO US BY THE EARL OF MANGELWURZELSHIRE. O YOU PRIDE OF ALL SNOBLAND. O YOU CRAWLING TRUCKLING SELF CONFESSED LACKEYS AND PARASITES. IT WAS HER SNOBBISH SENTIMENT THAT MISLED HER AND MADE HER VANITIES A PREY TO THE SWINDLING FORTUNE TELLER. HOW WOULD YOU ACCOUNT FOR THE PRODIGIOUS BENEVOLENCE EXERCISED TOWARDS THE INTERESTING YOUNG FRENCH LADY. THE HONEST BOARDING HOUSE PEOPLE WERE AT HER FEET AT ONCE. GOOD HONEST SIMPLE LORD LOVING CHILDREN OF SNOBLAND. FINALLY THERE WAS THE CASE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MISTER VERNON AT YORK. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WAS THE SON OF A NOBLEMAN AND PRACTISED ON AN OLD LADY. THEN HE CAST HIS NETS OVER A FAMILY OF FATHER MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS ONE OF WHOM HE PROPOSED TO MARRY. ONE DAY THE TRAITOR FLED WITH A TEAPOT AND A BASKETFUL OF COLD VICTUALS. IT WAS THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WHICH BAITED THE HOOK WHICH GORGED ALL THESE GREEDY SIMPLE SNOBS. WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN BY A COMMONER. ALAS AND ALAS WHAT MORTAL MAN THAT SPEAKS THE TRUTH CAN HOPE FOR SUCH A LANDLADY. AND YET ALL THESE INSTANCES OF FOND AND CREDULOUS SNOBBISHNESS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE SAME WEEK'S PAPER WITH WHO KNOWS HOW MANY SCORE MORE. WE ARE THREE SISTERS FROM SEVENTEEN TO TWENTY TWO. WE ARE JUST THE SAME TO PERSONS WITH A HANDLE TO THEIR NAME AS TO THOSE WITHOUT IT. IF YOU DO I CANNOT HELP IT BUT I AM OF A SANGUINE DISPOSITION AND ENTERTAIN A LINGERING HOPE. EXCUSE THIS SCRAWL BUT I ALWAYS WRITE HEADLONG. WE NEVER WRITE ON PERFUMED PAPER IN SHORT I CAN'T HELP THINKING THAT IF YOU KNEW US YOU WOULD NOT THINK US SNOBS. I SHALL HAVE A BLACK CRAPE ROUND MY WHITE HAT AND MY USUAL BAMBOO CANE WITH THE RICHLY GILT KNOB. I AM SORRY THERE WILL BE NO TIME TO GET UP MOUSTACHES BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT WEEK. FROM SEVENTEEN TO TWO AND TWENTY YE GODS WHAT AGES. DEAR YOUNG CREATURES I CAN SEE YOU ALL THREE. SEVENTEEN SUITS ME AS NEAREST MY OWN TIME OF LIFE BUT MIND I DON'T SAY TWO AND TWENTY IS TOO OLD. NO NO AND THAT PRETTY ROGUISH DEMURE MIDDLE ONE. PEACE PEACE THOU SILLY LITTLE FLUTTERING HEART. YOU SNOBS DEAR YOUNG LADIES. I WILL PULL ANY MAN'S NOSE WHO SAYS SO. THERE IS NO HARM IN BEING OF A GOOD FAMILY. YOU CAN'T HELP IT POOR DEARS WHAT'S IN A NAME. THAT VERY CONFIDENCE SAVOURS OF ARROGANCE AND TO BE ARROGANT IS TO BE A SNOB. BUT ARE THERE NO KINDLY NATURES NO TENDER HEARTS NO SOULS HUMBLE SIMPLE AND TRUTH LOVING. PONDER WELL ON THIS QUESTION SWEET YOUNG LADIES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/13150/13150_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/13150/13150_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26742dae61e220cdb493d42efa56cd2d4e9019a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/13150/13150_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +PRAY CAPTAIN QUOTH I AS I WAS GOING DOWN INTO THE CABIN IS A MAN NEVER OVERTAKEN BY DEATH IN THIS PASSAGE. WHY THERE IS NOT TIME FOR A MAN TO BE SICK IN IT REPLIED HE WHAT A CURSED LYAR FOR I AM SICK AS A HORSE QUOTH I ALREADY WHAT A BRAIN UPSIDE DOWN HEY DAY. SICK SICK. SICK SICK. WHEN SHALL WE GET TO LAND. THE WIND CHOPP'D ABOUT. S'DEATH THEN I SHALL MEET HIM FULL IN THE FACE. CAPTAIN QUOTH SHE FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE LET US GET ASHORE. WAS NOT DEMOCRITUS WHO LAUGHED TEN TIMES MORE THAN I TOWN CLERK OF ABDERA. NAY IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME YOU MAY READ THE CHAPTER FOR YOUR PAINS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/169427/169427_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/169427/169427_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b4e6a68094dff4b35cdff3faa7e8a53ddd578f2b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/2506/169427/169427_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +INTEREST HOWEVER STILL RUNS ON IN BOTH CASES THE PERIODICAL OR ACCIDENTAL PAYMENTS OF IT JUST SERVING TO KEEP THE MEMORY OF THE AFFAIR ALIVE TILL AT LENGTH IN SOME EVIL HOUR POP COMES THE CREDITOR UPON EACH AND BY DEMANDING PRINCIPAL UPON THE SPOT TOGETHER WITH FULL INTEREST TO THE VERY DAY MAKES THEM BOTH FEEL THE FULL EXTENT OF THEIR OBLIGATIONS. AS THE READER FOR I HATE YOUR IFS HAS A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE I NEED NOT SAY MORE TO SATISFY HIM THAT MY HERO COULD NOT GO ON AT THIS RATE WITHOUT SOME SLIGHT EXPERIENCE OF THESE INCIDENTAL MEMENTOS. TO SPEAK THE TRUTH HE HAD WANTONLY INVOLVED HIMSELF IN A MULTITUDE OF SMALL BOOK DEBTS OF THIS STAMP WHICH NOTWITHSTANDING EUGENIUS'S FREQUENT ADVICE HE TOO MUCH DISREGARDED THINKING THAT AS NOT ONE OF THEM WAS CONTRACTED THRO ANY MALIGNANCY BUT ON THE CONTRARY FROM AN HONESTY OF MIND AND A MERE JOCUNDITY OF HUMOUR THEY WOULD ALL OF THEM BE CROSS'D OUT IN COURSE. EUGENIUS WOULD NEVER ADMIT THIS AND WOULD OFTEN TELL HIM THAT ONE DAY OR OTHER HE WOULD CERTAINLY BE RECKONED WITH AND HE WOULD OFTEN ADD IN AN ACCENT OF SORROWFUL APPREHENSION TO THE UTTERMOST MITE. WHAT INCLINED EUGENIUS TO THE SAME OPINION WAS AS FOLLOWS. YORICK FOLLOWED EUGENIUS WITH HIS EYES TO THE DOOR HE THEN CLOSED THEM AND NEVER OPENED THEM MORE. ALAS POOR YORICK \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172182/172182_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172182/172182_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..754354683e6eaac58334ed4a2f6f54540e91d115 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172182/172182_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NOW THIS IS HOW ARTHUR HUNTED THE STAG. AND THE LAST DOG THAT WAS LET LOOSE WAS THE FAVORITE DOG OF ARTHUR CAVALL WAS HIS NAME. THEN THEY SOUNDED THE DEATH HORN FOR SLAYING AND THEY ALL GATHERED ROUND. THEY CAME KADYRIATH TO ARTHUR AND SPOKE TO HIM. THEN THEY ALL SET FORTH HOLDING CONVERSE TOGETHER CONCERNING THE HEAD OF THE STAG TO WHOM IT SHOULD BE GIVEN. ONE WISHED THAT IT SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE LADY BEST BELOVED BY HIM AND ANOTHER TO THE LADY WHOM HE LOVED BEST. RIGHT GLADLY SHALL IT BE SO SAID ARTHUR. AND AFTER MIDDAY THEY BEHELD AN UNSHAPELY LITTLE MAN UPON A HORSE AND AFTER HIM A DAME OR A DAMSEL ALSO ON HORSEBACK AND AFTER HER A KNIGHT OF LARGE STATURE BOWED DOWN AND HANGING HIS HEAD LOW AND SORROWFULLY AND CLAD IN BROKEN AND WORTHLESS ARMOR. I KNOW NOT WHO THEY ARE SAID HE BUT I KNOW SAID GUENEVER THIS IS THE KNIGHT WHOM GERAINT PURSUED AND METHINKS THAT HE COMES NOT HERE BY HIS OWN FREE WILL. BUT GERAINT HAS OVERTAKEN HIM AND AVENGED THE INSULT TO THE MAIDEN TO THE UTTERMOST. LADY SAID HE AT THE GATE THERE IS A KNIGHT AND I SAW NEVER A MAN OF SO PITIFUL AN ASPECT TO LOOK UPON AS HE. MISERABLE AND BROKEN IS THE ARMOR THAT HE WEARS AND THE HUE OF BLOOD IS MORE CONSPICUOUS UPON IT THAN ITS OWN COLOR. KNOWEST THOU HIS NAME SAID SHE. I DO SAID HE HE TELLS ME THAT HE IS EDEYRN THE SON OF NUDD. THEN SHE REPLIED I KNOW HIM NOT. SO GUENEVER WENT TO THE GATE TO MEET HIM AND HE ENTERED. DID HE MEET WITH THEE SHE ASKED. YES SAID HE AND IT WAS NOT TO MY ADVANTAGE AND THAT WAS NOT HIS FAULT BUT MINE LADY. AND GERAINT GREETS THEE WELL AND IN GREETING THEE HE COMPELLED ME TO COME HITHER TO DO THY PLEASURE FOR THE INSULT WHICH THY MAIDEN RECEIVED FROM THE DWARF NOW WHERE DID HE OVERTAKE THEE. AND THEREUPON WE ENCOUNTERED EACH OTHER AND HE LEFT ME LADY AS THOU SEEST. SIR SAID SHE WHEN THINKEST THOU THAT GERAINT WILL BE HERE. TO MORROW LADY I THINK HE WILL BE HERE WITH THE MAIDEN. THEN ARTHUR CAME TO THEM. AND HE SALUTED ARTHUR AND ARTHUR GAZED A LONG TIME UPON HIM AND WAS AMAZED TO SEE HIM THUS. I AM LORD SAID HE AND I HAVE MET WITH MUCH TROUBLE AND RECEIVED WOUNDS UNSUPPORTABLE. THEN HE TOLD ARTHUR ALL HIS ADVENTURE. WELL SAID ARTHUR FROM WHAT I HEAR IT BEHOOVES GUENEVER TO BE MERCIFUL TOWARDS THEE. THE MERCY WHICH THOU DESIREST LORD SAID SHE WILL I GRANT TO HIM SINCE IT IS AS INSULTING TO THEE THAT AN INSULT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO ME AS TO THYSELF. THUS WILL IT BE BEST TO DO SAID ARTHUR LET THIS MAN HAVE MEDICAL CARE UNTIL IT BE KNOWN WHETHER HE MAY LIVE. AND IF HE LIVE HE SHALL DO SUCH SATISFACTION AS SHALL BE JUDGED BEST BY THE MEN OF THE COURT. AND IF HE DIE TOO MUCH WILL BE THE DEATH OF SUCH A YOUTH AS EDEYRN FOR AN INSULT TO A MAIDEN. I WILL DO SO GLADLY LORD SAID MORGAN TUD. THEN SAID THE STEWARD OF THE HOUSEHOLD WHITHER IS IT RIGHT LORD TO ORDER THE MAIDEN. TO GUENEVER AND HER HANDMAIDENS SAID HE. AND THE STEWARD OF THE HOUSEHOLD SO ORDERED HER. AND BEING YOUNG HE CHANGED HIMSELF AND GREW TO HATE THE SIN THAT SEEM'D SO LIKE HIS OWN OF MODRED ARTHUR'S NEPHEW AND FELL AT LAST IN THE GREAT BATTLE FIGHTING FOR THE KING. LADY SAID HE METHINKS THAT I SEE GERAINT AND A MAIDEN WITH HIM. AND GUENEVER WENT TO MEET GERAINT AND THE MAIDEN. AND WHEN GERAINT CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE GUENEVER WAS HE SALUTED HER. HEAVEN PROSPER THEE SAID SHE AND WELCOME TO THEE. LADY SAID HE I EARNESTLY DESIRED TO OBTAIN THEE SATISFACTION ACCORDING TO THY WILL AND BEHOLD HERE IS THE MAIDEN THROUGH WHOM THOU HADST THY REVENGE. THEN THEY WENT IN AND DISMOUNTED. AND GERAINT CAME TO WHERE ARTHUR WAS AND SALUTED HIM. HEAVEN PROTECT THEE SAID ARTHUR AND THE WELCOME OF HEAVEN BE UNTO THEE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172182/172182_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172182/172182_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b22ec064b0ddf63821f4d8d22e9e73a9a21ba59 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172182/172182_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AND INASMUCH AS THOU HAST VANQUISHED EDEYRN THE SON OF NUDD THOU HAST HAD A PROSPEROUS CAREER. NOW SAID ARTHUR WHERE IS THE MAIDEN FOR WHOM I HEARD THOU DIDST GIVE CHALLENGE. THEN WENT ARTHUR TO SEE THE MAIDEN. AND ARTHUR GAVE AWAY THE MAIDEN TO GERAINT. AND THAT DAY AND THE NIGHT WERE SPENT IN ABUNDANCE OF MINSTRELSY AND AMPLE GIFTS OF LIQUOR AND A MULTIUDE OF GAMES. AND WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR THEM TO GO TO SLEEP THEY WENT. AND FROM THAT TIME SHE BECAME HIS WIFE. AND THE NEXT DAY ARTHUR SATISFIED ALL THE CLAIMANTS UPON GERAINT WITH BOUNTIFUL GIFTS. AND THE MAIDEN TOOK UP HER ABODE IN THE PALACE AND SHE HAD MANY COMPANIONS BOTH MEN AND WOMEN AND THERE WAS NO MAIDEN MORE ESTEEMED THAN SHE IN THE ISLAND OF BRITAIN. AND THE HEAD OF THE STAG WAS GIVEN TO ENID. AND A YEAR AND A SECOND AND A THIRD HE PROCEEDED THUS UNTIL HIS FAME HAD FLOWN OVER THE FACE OF THE KINGDOM. AND ONCE UPON A TIME ARTHUR WAS HOLDING HIS COURT AT CAERLEON UPON USK AND BEHOLD THERE CAME TO HIM AMBASSADORS WISE AND PRUDENT FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND ELOQUENT OF SPEECH AND THEY SALUTED ARTHUR HEAVEN PROSPER YOU. SAID ARTHUR AND WHENCE DO YOU COME. AND HE GREETS THEE WELL AS AN UNCLE SHOULD GREET HIS NEPHEW AND AS A VASSAL SHOULD GREET HIS LORD. AND HE REPRESENTS UNTO THEE THAT HE WAXES HEAVY AND FEEBLE AND IS ADVANCING IN YEARS. AND THE NEIGHBORING CHIEFS KNOWING THIS GROW INSOLENT TOWARDS HIM AND COVET HIS LAND AND POSSESSIONS. AND ARTHUR CONSIDERED THAT IT WOULD GO HARD WITH HIM TO LET GERAINT DEPART FROM HIM AND FROM HIS COURT NEITHER DID HE THINK IT FAIR THAT HIS COUSIN SHOULD BE RESTRAINED FROM GOING TO PROTECT HIS DOMINIONS AND HIS BOUNDARIES SEEING THAT HIS FATHER WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. AND ARTHUR TOLD GERAINT THE CAUSE OF THE MISSION AND OF THE COMING OF THE AMBASSADORS TO HIM OUT OF CORNWALL TRULY SAID GERAINT BE IT TO MY ADVANTAGE OR DISADVANTAGE LORD I WILL DO ACCORDING TO THY WILL CONCERNING THIS EMBASSY. HEAVEN REWARD THEE AND THIS WILL I DO SAID GERAINT. WHAT DISCOURSE SAID GUENEVER DO I HEAR BETWEEN YOU. IT IS SAID ARTHUR. SAID GERAINT I THINK I SHALL HAVE ENOUGH OF KNIGHTHOOD WITH ME AND THEY SET FORTH. AND NEVER WAS THERE SEEN A FAIRER HOST JOURNEYING TOWARDS THE SEVERN. AND THERE WAS GREAT REJOICING AND GLADNESS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE COURT AND THROUGH ALL THE COUNTRY CONCERNING GERAINT BECAUSE OF THE GREATNESS OF THEIR LOVE TO HIM AND OF THE GREATNESS OF THE FAME WHICH HE HAD GAINED SINCE HE WENT FROM AMONGST THEM AND BECAUSE HE WAS COME TO TAKE POSSESSION OF HIS DOMINIONS AND TO PRESERVE HIS BOUNDARIES AND THEY CAME TO THE COURT. AND HE SAID TO GERAINT I AM A FEEBLE AND AN AGED MAN AND WHILST I WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE DOMINION FOR THEE AND FOR MYSELF I DID SO. HENCEFORTH DO THOU PRESERVE THY POSSESSIONS. TRULY SAID GERAINT WITH MY CONSENT THOU SHALT NOT GIVE THE POWER OVER THY DOMINIONS AT THIS TIME INTO MY HANDS AND THOU SHALT NOT TAKE ME FROM ARTHUR'S COURT. INTO THY HANDS WILL I GIVE THEM SAID ERBIN AND THIS DAY ALSO SHALT THOU RECEIVE THE HOMAGE OF THY SUBJECTS. AND EVERY ONE ASKED THAT WHICH HE DESIRED. AND THEY WERE NOT LONG IN GIVING SO EAGER WAS EVERY ONE TO BESTOW GIFTS AND OF THOSE WHO CAME TO ASK GIFTS NONE DEPARTED UNSATISFIED. AND THAT DAY AND THAT NIGHT WERE SPENT IN THE UTMOST ENJOYMENT. THEN GERAINT SENT AMBASSADORS TO THE MEN OF CORNWALL TO ASK THEM THIS. AND THEY ALL SAID THAT IT WOULD BE THE FULNESS OF JOY AND HONOR TO THEM FOR GERAINT TO COME AND RECEIVE THEIR HOMAGE. SO HE RECEIVED THE HOMAGE OF SUCH AS WERE THERE. AND THE DAY AFTER THE FOLLOWERS OF ARTHUR INTENDED TO GO AWAY. AND THEY REMAINED WITH HIM UNTIL HE HAD DONE SO. THEN THEY SET FORTH TOWARDS THE COURT OF ARTHUR. AND ONDYAW THE SON OF THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY SAID TO GERAINT GO NOW AND VISIT THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THY DOMINIONS AND SEE WELL TO THE BOUNDARIES OF THY TERRITORIES AND IF THOU HAST ANY TROUBLE RESPECTING THEM SEND UNTO THY COMPANIONS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172183/172183_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172183/172183_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c91629dc3bb5908619f435cb60f301df7db4705 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172183/172183_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +GERAINT AS HE HAD BEEN USED TO DO WHEN HE WAS AT ARTHUR'S COURT FREQUENTED TOURNAMENTS. AND HE BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH VALIANT AND MIGHTY MEN UNTIL HE HAD GAINED AS MUCH FAME THERE AS HE HAD FORMERLY DONE ELSEWHERE. BEFORE GERAINT THE SCOURGE OF THE ENEMY I SAW STEEDS WHITE WITH FOAM AND AFTER THE SHOUT OF BATTLE A FEARFUL TORRENT. WHEN HE KNEW THAT IT WAS THUS HE BEGAN TO LOVE EASE AND PLEASURE FOR THERE WAS NO ONE WHO WAS WORTH HIS OPPOSING. AND THERE WAS MURMURING AND SCOFFING CONCERNING HIM AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE PALACE ON ACCOUNT OF HIS RELINQUISHING SO COMPLETELY THEIR COMPANIONSHIP FOR THE LOVE OF HIS WIFE. THESE TIDINGS CAME TO ERBIN. NOT I BY MY CONFESSION UNTO HEAVEN SAID SHE THERE IS NOTHING MORE HATEFUL UNTO ME THAN THIS. AND AM I THE CAUSE THAT THESE ARMS AND THIS BREAST HAVE LOST THEIR GLORY AND THE WARLIKE FAME WHICH THEY ONCE SO RICHLY ENJOYED. AND THE TEARS SHE SHED AND THE WORDS SHE HAD SPOKEN AWOKE HIM. AND EVIL BETIDE ME SAID HE IF THOU RETURNEST HERE UNTIL THOU KNOWEST WHETHER I HAVE LOST MY STRENGTH SO COMPLETELY AS THOU DIDST SAY. SO SHE AROSE AND CLOTHED HERSELF IN HER MEANEST GARMENTS. I KNOW NOTHING LORD SAID SHE OF THY MEANING. NEITHER WILT THOU KNOW AT THIS TIME SAID HE. THEN GERAINT WENT TO SEE ERBIN. SIR SAID HE I AM GOING UPON A QUEST AND I AM NOT CERTAIN WHEN I MAY COME BACK. TAKE HEED THEREFORE UNTO THY POSSESSIONS UNTIL MY RETURN. AND WHO WILL PROCEED WITH THEE SINCE THOU ART NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO TRAVERSE THE LAND OF LOEGYR ALONE. BUT ONE PERSON ONLY WILL GO WITH ME. HEAVEN COUNSEL THEE MY SON SAID ERBIN AND MAY MANY ATTACH THEMSELVES TO THEE IN LOEGYR. AND HE DESIRED ENID TO MOUNT HER HORSE AND TO RIDE FORWARD AND TO KEEP A LONG WAY BEFORE HIM. AND UNLESS I SPEAK UNTO THEE SAY NOT THOU ONE WORD EITHER. HERE IS A GOOD OCCASION FOR US TO CAPTURE TWO HORSES AND ARMOR AND A LADY LIKEWISE FOR THIS WE SHALL HAVE NO DIFFICULTY IN DOING AGAINST YONDER SINGLE KNIGHT WHO HANGS HIS HEAD SO PENSIVELY AND HEAVILY. THE VENGEANCE OF HEAVEN BE UPON ME SAID SHE IF I WOULD NOT RATHER RECEIVE MY DEATH FROM HIS HAND THAN FROM THE HAND OF ANY OTHER AND THOUGH HE SHOULD SLAY ME YET WILL I SPEAK TO HIM LEST I SHOULD HAVE THE MISERY TO WITNESS HIS DEATH. SO SHE WAITED FOR GERAINT UNTIL HE CAME NEAR TO HER. THEN HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND LOOKED AT HER ANGRILY. THOU HADST ONLY SAID HE TO HOLD THY PEACE AS I BADE THEE. I WISH BUT FOR SILENCE AND NOT FOR WARNING. AND THOUGH THOU SHOULDST DESIRE TO SEE MY DEFEAT AND MY DEATH BY THE HANDS OF THOSE MEN YET DO I FEEL NO DREAD. AND HE RECEIVED HIM AND THAT NOT FEEBLY. THEN THE SECOND HORSEMAN ATTACKED HIM FURIOUSLY BEING WROTH AT THE DEATH OF HIS COMPANION. BUT WITH ONE THRUST GERAINT OVERTHREW HIM ALSO AND KILLED HIM AS HE HAD DONE THE OTHER. AND THUS ALSO HE SLEW THE FOURTH. SAD AND SORROWFUL WAS THE MAIDEN AS SHE SAW ALL THIS. BEHOLD WHAT THOU MUST DO SAID HE TAKE THE FOUR HORSES AND DRIVE THEM BEFORE THEE AND PROCEED FORWARD AS I BADE THEE JUST NOW. AND SAY NOT ONE WORD UNTO ME UNLESS I SPEAK FIRST UNTO THEE. I WILL DO AS FAR AS I CAN LORD SAID SHE ACCORDING TO THY DESIRE. AH MAIDEN SAID HE IT IS VAIN TO ATTEMPT PROCEEDING FORWARD. WELL LORD SAID SHE WHATEVER THOU WISHEST WE WILL DO. THAT WE WILL GLADLY SAID SHE AND THEY DID SO. I CANNOT BY ANY MEANS REFRAIN FROM SLEEP THROUGH WEARINESS SAID HE DO THOU THEREFORE WATCH THE HORSES AND SLEEP NOT. I WILL LORD SAID SHE. THEN HE WENT TO SLEEP IN HIS ARMOR AND THUS PASSED THE NIGHT WHICH WAS NOT LONG AT THAT SEASON. AND WHEN SHE SAW THE DAWN OF DAY APPEAR SHE LOOKED AROUND HER TO SEE IF HE WERE WAKING AND THEREUPON HE WOKE. THEN HE AROSE AND SAID UNTO HER TAKE THE HORSES AND RIDE ON AND KEEP STRAIGHT ON AS THOU DIDST YESTERDAY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172183/172183_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172183/172183_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c49de5b69debefbaf837c8569db06857e0c4589 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/172183/172183_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AND THEY LEFT THE WOOD AND THEY CAME TO AN OPEN COUNTRY WITH MEADOWS ON ONE HAND AND MOWERS MOWING THE MEADOWS. AND THERE WAS A RIVER BEFORE THEM AND THE HORSES BENT DOWN AND DRANK OF THE WATER. AND THEY WENT UP OUT OF THE RIVER BY A LOFTY STEEP AND THERE THEY MET A SLENDER STRIPLING WITH A SATCHEL ABOUT HIS NECK AND THEY SAW THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE SATCHEL BUT THEY KNEW NOT WHAT IT WAS. AND THE YOUTH SALUTED GERAINT. HEAVEN PROSPER THEE SAID GERAINT AND WHENCE DOST THOU COME. MY LORD HE ADDED WILL IT BE DISPLEASING TO THEE IF I ASK WHENCE THOU COMEST ALSO. BY NO MEANS THROUGH YONDER WOOD DID I COME. THOU CAMEST NOT THROUGH THE WOOD TO DAY. NO BY MY FAITH SAID HE. WILT THOU FOLLOW MY COUNSEL SAID THE YOUTH AND TAKE THY MEAL FROM ME. WHAT SORT OF MEAL HE INQUIRED. I WILL SAID HE AND HEAVEN REWARD THEE FOR IT. THEN THEY WASHED AND TOOK THEIR REPAST. HEAVEN REWARD THEE LORD SAID THE YOUTH AND THIS WOULD BE AMPLE TO REPAY SERVICES MUCH GREATER THAN THOSE I HAVE RENDERED UNTO THEE. I GO NOW LORD SAID HE TO MEET THE KNIGHT AND TO CONDUCT HIM TO HIS LODGING. GO GLADLY SAID THE EARL AND RIGHT JOYFULLY SHALL HE BE RECEIVED HERE IF HE SO COME. AND HE HAD A GOODLY CHAMBER IN WHICH WAS PLENTY OF STRAW AND DRAPERY AND A SPACIOUS AND COMMODIOUS PLACE HE HAD FOR THE HORSES AND THE YOUTH PREPARED FOR THEM PLENTY OF PROVENDER. AFTER THEY HAD DISARRAYED THEMSELVES GERAINT SPOKE THUS TO ENID GO SAID HE TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CHAMBER AND COME NOT TO THIS SIDE OF THE HOUSE AND THOU MAYST CALL TO THEE THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE IF THOU WILT. I WILL DO LORD SAID SHE AS THOU SAYEST. THEREUPON THE MAN OF THE HOUSE CAME TO GERAINT AND WELCOMED HIM. AND AFTER THEY HAD EATEN AND DRANK GERAINT WENT TO SLEEP AND SO DID ENID ALSO \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/6517/6517_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/6517/6517_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..305c2241747534afb5f0c044ed041a54f73c260a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/6517/6517_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE FINAL PREPARATIONS IN NEW ZEALAND. THE DATES SEEM UNIMPORTANT BUT THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE SHIP HAVE BEEN UNREMITTINGLY BUSY. BOWERS ATTACKED THE SHIP'S STORES SURVEYED RELISTED AND RESTOWED THEM SAVING VERY MUCH SPACE BY UNSTOWING NUMEROUS CASES AND STOWING THE CONTENTS IN THE LAZARETTE. MEANWHILE OUR GOOD FRIEND MILLER ATTACKED THE LEAK AND TRACED IT TO THE STERN. THE STREAM WHICH WAS VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE INSIDE THE STERN HAS BEEN ENTIRELY STOPPED. WITHOUT STEAM THE LEAK CAN NOW BE KEPT UNDER WITH THE HAND PUMP BY TWO DAILY EFFORTS OF A QUARTER OF AN HOUR TO TWENTY MINUTES. AS THE SHIP WAS AND IN HER PRESENT HEAVILY LADEN CONDITION IT WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE TAKEN THREE TO FOUR HOURS EACH DAY. THE LARGE GREEN TENT WAS PUT UP AND PROPER SUPPORTS MADE FOR IT. WHEN THE SHIP CAME OUT OF DOCK SHE PRESENTED A SCENE OF GREAT INDUSTRY. OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE SHIP WITH A PARTY OF STEVEDORES WERE BUSY STORING THE HOLDS. MILLER'S MEN WERE BUILDING HORSE STALLS CAULKING THE DECKS RESECURING THE DECKHOUSES PUTTING IN BOLTS AND VARIOUS SMALL FITTINGS. THE ENGINE ROOM STAFF AND ANDERSON'S PEOPLE ON THE ENGINES SCIENTISTS WERE STOWING THEIR LABORATORIES THE COOK REFITTING HIS GALLEY AND SO FORTH NOT A SINGLE SPOT BUT HAD ITS BAND OF WORKERS. THE MEN'S SPACE SUCH AS IT IS THEREFORE EXTENDS FROM THE FORE HATCH TO THE STEM ON THE MAIN DECK. UNDER THE FORECASTLE ARE STALLS FOR FIFTEEN PONIES THE MAXIMUM THE SPACE WOULD HOLD THE NARROW IRREGULAR SPACE IN FRONT IS PACKED TIGHT WITH FODDER. IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE FORECASTLE BULKHEAD IS THE SMALL BOOBY HATCH THE ONLY ENTRANCE TO THE MEN'S MESS DECK IN BAD WEATHER. ABAFT THE FORE HATCH IS THE ICE HOUSE. WE MANAGED TO GET THREE TONS OF ICE ONE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO CARCASES OF MUTTON AND THREE CARCASES OF BEEF BESIDES SOME BOXES OF SWEETBREADS AND KIDNEYS INTO THIS SPACE. THE CARCASES ARE STOWED IN TIERS WITH WOODEN BATTENS BETWEEN THE TIERS IT LOOKS A TRIUMPH OF ORDERLY STOWAGE AND I HAVE GREAT HOPE THAT IT WILL ENSURE FRESH MUTTON THROUGHOUT OUR WINTER. ON EITHER SIDE OF THE MAIN HATCH AND CLOSE UP TO THE ICE HOUSE ARE TWO OUT OF OUR THREE MOTOR SLEDGES THE THIRD RESTS ACROSS THE BREAK OF THE POOP IN A SPACE FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY A WINCH. THE SACKS CONTAINING THIS LAST ADDED TO THE GOODS ALREADY MENTIONED MAKE A REALLY HEAVY DECK CARGO AND ONE IS NATURALLY ANXIOUS CONCERNING IT BUT EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE BY LASHING AND SECURING HAS BEEN DONE. FORAGE I ORIGINALLY ORDERED THIRTY TONS OF COMPRESSED OATEN HAY FROM MELBOURNE. OATES HAS GRADUALLY PERSUADED US THAT THIS IS INSUFFICIENT AND OUR PONY FOOD WEIGHT HAS GONE UP TO FORTY FIVE TONS BESIDES THREE OR FOUR TONS FOR IMMEDIATE USE. WE STAYED WITH THE KINSEYS AT THEIR HOUSE TE HAN AT CLIFTON. FAR AWAY BEYOND THE PLAINS ARE THE MOUNTAINS EVER CHANGING THEIR ASPECT AND YET FARTHER IN OVER THIS NORTHERN SWEEP OF SEA CAN BE SEEN IN CLEAR WEATHER THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW CAPPED PEAKS OF THE KAIKOURAS. THE SCENE IS WHOLLY ENCHANTING AND SUCH A VIEW FROM SOME SHELTERED SUNNY CORNER IN A GARDEN WHICH BLAZES WITH MASSES OF RED AND GOLDEN FLOWERS TENDS TO FEELINGS OF INEXPRESSIBLE SATISFACTION WITH ALL THINGS. HIS KINDNESS TO US WAS BEYOND WORDS THE VOYAGE OUT. A GREAT MASS OF PEOPLE ASSEMBLED. K AND I LUNCHED WITH A PARTY IN THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY'S SHIP RUAPEHU. WE CAME HOME IN THE HARBOUR TUG TWO OTHER TUGS FOLLOWED THE SHIP OUT AND INNUMERABLE SMALL BOATS. PONTING BUSY WITH CINEMATOGRAPH WE WALKED OVER THE HILLS TO SUMNER. RHODES MET US TIMARU. TELEGRAM TO SAY TERRA NOVA HAD ARRIVED SUNDAY NIGHT. TO TOWN HALL TO SEE MAYOR FOUND ALL WELL ON BOARD. IF ANYTHING MORE CRAFT FOLLOWING US THAN AT LYTTELTON MISSUS WILSON MISSUS EVANS AND K LEFT AT HEADS AND BACK IN HARBOUR TUG. SHIP PITCHING WITH SOUTH WESTERLY SWELL. ALL IN GOOD SPIRITS EXCEPT ONE OR TWO SICK. DURING THE NIGHT THE WIND INCREASED WE WORKED UP TO EIGHT TO NINE AND TO NINE POINT FIVE KNOTS. THE SHIP A QUEER AND NOT ALTOGETHER CHEERFUL SIGHT UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/6517/6517_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/6517/6517_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2d24e13552ee0a237f3e150e632beae960586dd --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3660/6517/6517_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BELOW ONE KNOWS ALL SPACE IS PACKED AS TIGHT AS HUMAN SKILL CAN DEVISE AND ON DECK. EVEN OUR POOR ANIMALS WILL GET REST AND SLEEP IN SPITE OF THE VIOLENT MOTION. THERE ARE FOUR PONIES OUTSIDE THE FORECASTLE AND TO LEEWARD OF THE FORE HATCH AND ON THE WHOLE PERHAPS WITH SHIELDING TARPAULINS THEY HAVE A RATHER BETTER TIME THAN THEIR COMRADES. A THIRD SLEDGE STANDS ACROSS THE BREAK OF THE POOP IN THE SPACE HITHERTO OCCUPIED BY THE AFTER WINCH. ALL THESE CASES ARE COVERED WITH STOUT TARPAULIN AND LASHED WITH HEAVY CHAIN AND ROPE LASHINGS SO THAT THEY MAY BE ABSOLUTELY SECURE. THE QUANTITY IS TWO AND A HALF TONS AND THE SPACE OCCUPIED CONSIDERABLE. ROUND AND ABOUT THESE PACKING CASES STRETCHING FROM THE GALLEY FORWARD TO THE WHEEL AFT THE DECK IS STACKED WITH COAL BAGS FORMING OUR DECK CARGO OF COAL NOW RAPIDLY DIMINISHING. THE SHIP WAS OVER TWO FEET BY THE STERN BUT THIS WILL SOON BE REMEDIED. UPON THE COAL SACKS UPON AND BETWEEN THE MOTOR SLEDGES AND UPON THE ICE HOUSE ARE GROUPED THE DOGS THIRTY THREE IN ALL. THEY MUST PERFORCE BE CHAINED UP AND THEY ARE GIVEN WHAT SHELTER IS AFFORDED ON DECK BUT THEIR POSITION IS NOT ENVIABLE. THE DOGS SIT WITH THEIR TAILS TO THIS INVADING WATER THEIR COATS WET AND DRIPPING. IT IS A PATHETIC ATTITUDE DEEPLY SIGNIFICANT OF COLD AND MISERY OCCASIONALLY SOME POOR BEAST EMITS A LONG PATHETIC WHINE. THERE ARE GENERALLY ONE OR TWO ON WATCH WHICH EASES MATTERS BUT IT IS A SQUASH. LATER IN THE DAY THE WIND HAS VEERED TO THE WESTWARD HEADING US SLIGHTLY. OATES AND ATKINSON WITH INTERMITTENT ASSISTANCE FROM OTHERS WERE BUSY KEEPING THE PONIES ON THEIR LEGS. THERE WAS NOTHING FOR IT BUT TO GRAPPLE WITH THE EVIL AND NEARLY ALL HANDS WERE LABOURING FOR HOURS IN THE WAIST OF THE SHIP HEAVING COAL SACKS OVERBOARD AND RE LASHING THE PETROL CASES ET CETERA IN THE BEST MANNER POSSIBLE UNDER SUCH DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS CIRCUMSTANCES. NO SOONER WAS SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORDER RESTORED THAN SOME EXCEPTIONALLY HEAVY WAVE WOULD TEAR AWAY THE LASHING AND THE WORK HAD TO BE DONE ALL OVER AGAIN. TALES OF PONIES DOWN CAME FREQUENTLY FROM FORWARD WHERE OATES AND ATKINSON LABOURED THROUGH THE ENTIRE NIGHT. FROM THIS MOMENT ABOUT FOUR A M THE ENGINE ROOM BECAME THE CENTRE OF INTEREST. THE WATER GAINED IN SPITE OF EVERY EFFORT. LASHLEY TO HIS NECK IN RUSHING WATER STUCK GAMELY TO THE WORK OF CLEARING SUCTIONS. FOR A TIME WITH DONKEY ENGINE AND BILGE PUMP SUCKING IT LOOKED AS THOUGH THE WATER WOULD BE GOT UNDER BUT THE HOPE WAS SHORT LIVED FIVE MINUTES OF PUMPING INVARIABLY LED TO THE SAME RESULT A GENERAL CHOKING OF THE PUMPS. THE OUTLOOK APPEARED GRIM. THE AMOUNT OF WATER WHICH WAS BEING MADE WITH THE SHIP SO ROUGHLY HANDLED WAS MOST UNCERTAIN. WILLIAMS HAD TO CONFESS HE WAS BEATEN AND MUST DRAW FIRES WHAT WAS TO BE DONE. THINGS FOR THE MOMENT APPEARED VERY BLACK. THE BILGE PUMP IS DEPENDENT ON THE MAIN ENGINE. ON ONE OCCASION I WAS WAIST DEEP WHEN STANDING ON THE RAIL OF THE POOP. THE AFTERGUARD WERE ORGANISED IN TWO PARTIES BY EVANS TO WORK BUCKETS THE MEN WERE KEPT STEADILY GOING ON THE CHOKED HAND PUMPS THIS SEEMED ALL THAT COULD BE DONE FOR THE MOMENT AND WHAT A MEASURE TO COUNT AS THE SOLE SAFEGUARD OF THE SHIP FROM SINKING PRACTICALLY AN ATTEMPT TO BALE HER OUT. WITH SO MUCH WATER COMING ON BOARD IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO OPEN THE HATCH OVER THE SHAFT. OCCASIONALLY A HEAVY SEA WOULD BEAR ONE OF THEM AWAY AND HE WAS ONLY SAVED BY HIS CHAIN. MEARES WITH SOME HELPERS HAD CONSTANTLY TO BE RESCUING THESE WRETCHED CREATURES FROM HANGING AND TRYING TO FIND THEM BETTER SHELTER AN ALMOST HOPELESS TASK. ANOTHER DOG HAS JUST BEEN WASHED OVERBOARD ALAS. THANK GOD THE GALE IS ABATING \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172005/172005_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172005/172005_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d351b621ad38c5a3bcaf18a454b6f57d610e0b94 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172005/172005_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE FAWN HAD TAKEN HIS MORNING MEAL AND NOW LAY CURLED UP ON A BED OF MOSS. WHENEVER THE FAWN CAUGHT UP HE WAS QUITE CONTENT TO FRISK ABOUT. THE DANGER WAS CERTAIN NOW IT WAS NEAR. THE FAWN LAY DOWN CONTENTEDLY AND THE DOE LICKED HIM FOR A MOMENT. THE HOUNDS HAD STRUCK HER TRAIL WHERE SHE TURNED AND THE FAWN WAS SAFE. HAD SHE STRENGTH TO SWIM IT. ONE WAS ROWING THE OTHER HAD A GUN IN HIS HAND WHAT SHOULD SHE DO. HER TIRED LEGS COULD NOT PROPEL THE TIRED BODY RAPIDLY. THE DOE SAW THE BOAT NEARING HER. THE BRAVE PRETTY CREATURE WAS QUITE EXHAUSTED NOW. IN A MOMENT MORE THE BOAT WAS ON HER AND THE MAN AT THE OARS HAD LEANED OVER AND CAUGHT HER. THE GENTLEMAN WAS A GENTLEMAN WITH A KIND FACE. HE TOOK THE PADDLE IN HIS HAND JUST THEN THE DOE TURNED HER HEAD AND LOOKED AT HIM WITH HER GREAT APPEALING EYES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03f337130348576c4f02051c42bc3e14e5fa551a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I WAS TORMENTED BY THIRST BUT HAD ABSTAINED FROM DRINKING FOR MANY DAYS ACCORDING TO THE DOCTORS ORDERS. THAT OLD MAN CEASED TO GIVE SO MUCH ANNOYANCE YET SOMETIMES HE APPEARED TO ME IN DREAMS. FELICE HAD GIVEN THEM ORDERS NOT TO SPEAK TO ME OF THIS. SHE RAN AT ONCE AND BROUGHT IT TO ME FULL I TOLD HER TO PUT IT TO MY LIPS ADDING THAT IF SHE LET ME TAKE A DRAUGHT ACCORDING TO MY HEARTS CONTENT I WOULD GIVE HER A NEW GOWN. THIS MAID HAD STOLEN FROM ME CERTAIN LITTLE THINGS OF SOME IMPORTANCE AND IN HER FEAR OF BEING DETECTED SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY GLAD IF I HAD DIED. ACCORDINGLY SHE ALLOWED ME TWICE TO TAKE AS MUCH AS I COULD OF THE WATER SO THAT IN GOOD EARNEST I SWALLOWED MORE THAN A FLASK FULL ONE I THEN COVERED MYSELF AND BEGAN TO SWEAT AND FELL INTO A DEEP SLEEP. HE ANSWERED I DO NOT KNOW. I DONT KNOW NOW WHETHER HE IS ALIVE OR DEAD. THEY SAY THAT MY POOR FRIEND WAS ON THE POINT OF FALLING TO THE GROUND SO GRIEVED WAS HE TO HEAR THIS. AFTERWARDS HE TOOK AN UGLY STICK AND BEGAN TO BEAT THE SERVING GIRL WITH ALL HIS MIGHT SHOUTING OUT AH TRAITRESS YOU HAVE KILLED HIM FOR ME THEN. THIS WOKE ME UP AND I CALLED OUT LEAVE HER ALONE PERHAPS WHEN SHE MEANT TO DO ME HARM SHE DID ME MORE GOOD THAN YOU WERE ABLE TO DO WITH ALL YOUR EFFORTS. SHE MAY INDEED HAVE SAVED MY LIFE SO LEND ME A HELPING HAND FOR I HAVE SWEATED AND BE QUICK ABOUT IT. FELICE RECOVERED HIS SPIRITS DRIED AND MADE ME COMFORTABLE AND I BEING CONSCIOUS OF A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN MY STATE BEGAN TO RECKON ON RECOVERY. JUST THEN THE OTHER DOCTOR BERNARDINO PUT IN HIS APPEARANCE WHO AT THE BEGINNING OF MY ILLNESS HAD REFUSED TO BLEED ME. MAESTRO FRANCESCO THAT MOST ABLE MAN EXCLAIMED OH POWER OF NATURE. SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE REQUIRES AND THE PHYSICIANS KNOW NOTHING. THAT SIMPLETON MAESTRO BERNARDINO MADE ANSWER SAYING IF HE HAD DRUNK ANOTHER BOTTLE HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CURED UPON THE SPOT. AFTERWARDS HE TURNED TO ME AND ASKED IF I COULD HAVE DRUNK MORE WATER. I ANSWERED NO BECAUSE I HAD ENTIRELY QUENCHED MY THIRST. THEN HE TURNED TO MAESTRO BERNARDINO AND SAID LOOK YOU HOW NATURE HAS TAKEN PRECISELY WHAT SHE WANTED NEITHER MORE NOR LESS. IN LIKE MANNER SHE WAS ASKING FOR WHAT SHE WANTED WHEN THE POOR YOUNG MAN BEGGED YOU TO BLEED HIM. IF YOU KNEW THAT HIS RECOVERY DEPENDED UPON HIS DRINKING TWO FLASKS OF WATER WHY DID YOU NOT SAY SO BEFORE. YOU MIGHT THEN HAVE BOASTED OF HIS CURE. AT THESE WORDS THE WRETCHED QUACK SULKILY DEPARTED AND NEVER SHOWED HIS FACE AGAIN. CARDINAL CORNARO WHEN HE HEARD OF MY IMPROVEMENT HAD ME TRANSPORTED TO A PLACE OF HIS ON MONTE CAVALLO. THE VERY EVENING I WAS TAKEN WITH GREAT PRECAUTIONS IN A CHAIR WELL WRAPPED UP AND PROTECTED FROM THE COLD. DO NOT PERMIT HIM ANY IRREGULARITIES FOR THOUGH HE HAS ESCAPED THIS TIME ANOTHER DISORDER NOW WOULD BE THE DEATH OF HIM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af0e511d1e54260473dfb204d199cf647d498601 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +YOU SEE HIS MALADY HAS BEEN SO GRAVE THAT IF WE HAD BROUGHT HIM THE EXTREME UNCTION WE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN IN TIME. THEN HE TURNED TO ME AND SAID MY BENVENUTO BE PRUDENT COMMIT NO EXCESSES AND WHEN YOU ARE QUITE RECOVERED I BEG YOU TO MAKE ME A MADONNA WITH YOUR OWN HAND AND I WILL ALWAYS PAY MY DEVOTIONS TO IT FOR YOUR SAKE. SO I MADE MY MIND UP AND PREPARED TO TRAVEL. THAT DAY MANY FRIENDS CAME TO SEE ME AMONG OTHERS PIER LANDI WHO WAS THE BEST AND DEAREST FRIEND I EVER HAD. NEXT DAY THERE CAME A CERTAIN NICCOLO DA MONTE AGUTO WHO WAS ALSO A VERY GREAT FRIEND OF MINE. ACCORDINGLY WHEN NICCOLO ARRIVED HE SAID TO ME IN DESPERATION ALAS MY DEAR BENVENUTO WHAT HAVE YOU COME TO DO HERE. DID YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO DISPLEASE THE DUKE. I HAVE HEARD HIM SWEAR THAT YOU WERE THRUSTING YOUR HEAD INTO A HALTER. I HAD HARBOURED HIM IN ROME AND PROVIDED FOR HIS COSTS WHILE HE HAD TURNED MY WHOLE HOUSE UPSIDE DOWN FOR THE MAN WAS SUBJECT TO A SPECIES OF DRY SCAB WHICH HE WAS ALWAYS IN THE HABIT OF SCRATCHING WITH HIS HANDS. MEANWHILE THAT ABLE PHYSICIAN FRANCESCO DA MONTE VARCHI ATTENDED TO MY CURE WITH GREAT SKILL. THERE THEY SEATED ME TO WAIT UNTIL THE DUKE WENT BY. MANY OF MY FRIENDS AT COURT CAME UP TO GREET ME AND EXPRESSED SURPRISE THAT I HAD UNDERGONE THE INCONVENIENCE OF BEING CARRIED IN THAT WAY WHILE SO SHATTERED BY ILLNESS THEY SAID THAT I OUGHT TO HAVE WAITED TILL I WAS WELL AND THEN TO HAVE VISITED THE DUKE. A CROWD OF THEM COLLECTED ALL LOOKING AT ME AS A SORT OF MIRACLE NOT MERELY BECAUSE THEY HAD HEARD THAT I WAS DEAD BUT FAR MORE BECAUSE I HAD THE LOOK OF A DEAD MAN. AT THESE WORDS A LARGE NUMBER OF THOSE GENTLEMEN CAME ROUND EXPRESSING GREAT COMPASSION FOR ME ONE SAID ONE THING ONE ANOTHER AND I TOLD THEM I WOULD NEVER GO THENCE BEFORE I KNEW WHO HAD ACCUSED ME. AT THESE WORDS MAESTRO AGOSTINO THE DUKES TAILOR MADE HIS WAY THROUGH ALL THOSE GENTLEMEN AND SAID IF THAT IS ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW YOU SHALL KNOW IT AT THIS VERY MOMENT. GIORGIO THE PAINTER WHOM I HAVE MENTIONED HAPPENED JUST THEN TO PASS AND MAESTRO AGOSTINO EXCLAIMED THERE IS THE MAN WHO ACCUSED YOU NOW YOU KNOW YOURSELF IF IT BE TRUE OR NOT. AS FIERCELY AS I COULD NOT BEING ABLE TO LEAVE MY SEAT I ASKED GIORGIO IF IT WAS TRUE THAT HE HAD ACCUSED ME. HE DENIED THAT IT WAS SO AND THAT HE HAD EVER SAID ANYTHING OF THE SORT. MAESTRO AGOSTINO RETORTED YOU GALLOWS BIRD. DONT YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW IT FOR MOST CERTAIN. GIORGIO MADE OFF AS QUICKLY AS HE COULD REPEATING THAT HE HAD NOT ACCUSED ME. THEN AFTER A SHORT WHILE THE DUKE CAME BY WHEREUPON I HAD MYSELF RAISED UP BEFORE HIS EXCELLENCY AND HE HALTED. THE DUKE GAZED AT ME AND MARVELLED I WAS STILL ALIVE AFTERWARDS HE BADE ME TAKE HEED TO BE AN HONEST MAN AND REGAIN MY HEALTH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cb1d00193b0c287e47fbe830095e7823c176315b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHEN I REACHED HOME NICCOLO DA MONTE AGUTO CAME TO VISIT ME AND TOLD ME THAT I HAD ESCAPED ONE OF THE MOST DREADFUL PERILS IN THE WORLD QUITE CONTRARY TO ALL HIS EXPECTATIONS FOR HE HAD SEEN MY RUIN WRITTEN WITH INDELIBLE INK NOW I MUST MAKE HASTE TO GET WELL AND AFTERWARDS TAKE FRENCH LEAVE BECAUSE MY JEOPARDY CAME FROM A QUARTER AND A MAN WHO WAS ABLE TO DESTROY ME. HE THEN SAID BEWARE AND ADDED WHAT DISPLEASURE HAVE YOU GIVEN TO THAT RASCAL OTTAVIANO DE MEDICI. I ANSWERED THAT I HAD DONE NOTHING TO DISPLEASE HIM BUT THAT HE HAD INJURED ME AND TOLD HIM ALL THE AFFAIR ABOUT THE MINT. HE REPEATED GET HENCE AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN AND BE OF GOOD COURAGE FOR YOU WILL SEE YOUR VENGEANCE EXECUTED SOONER THAN YOU EXPECT. I THE BEST ATTENTION TO MY HEALTH GAVE PIETRO PAGOLO ADVICE ABOUT STAMPING THE COINS AND THEN WENT OFF UPON MY WAY TO ROME WITHOUT SAYING A WORD TO THE DUKE OR ANYBODY ELSE. YOU WANT THEM TO IMMORTALISE THAT FEROCIOUS TYRANT. YOU HAVE NEVER MADE ANYTHING SO EXQUISITE WHICH PROVES YOU OUR INVETERATE FOE AND THEIR DEVOTED FRIEND AND YET THE POPE AND HE HAVE HAD IT TWICE IN MIND TO HANG YOU WITHOUT ANY FAULT OF YOURS. THAT WAS THE FATHER AND THE SON NOW BEWARE OF THE HOLY GHOST. IT WAS FIRMLY BELIEVED THAT DUKE ALESSANDRO WAS THE SON OF POPE CLEMENT. MESSER FRANCESCO USED ALSO TO SAY AND SWEAR BY ALL HIS SAINTS THAT IF HE COULD HE WOULD HAVE ROBBED ME OF THE DIES FOR THAT MEDAL. I RESPONDED THAT HE HAD DONE WELL TO TELL ME SO AND THAT I WOULD TAKE SUCH CARE OF THEM THAT HE SHOULD NEVER SEE THEM MORE. I NOW SENT TO FLORENCE TO REQUEST LORENZINO THAT HE WOULD SEND ME THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL. NICCOLO DA MONTE AGUTO TO WHOM I HAD WRITTEN WROTE BACK SAYING THAT HE HAD SPOKEN TO THAT MAD MELANCHOLY PHILOSOPHER LORENZINO FOR IT HE HAD REPLIED THAT HE WAS THINKING NIGHT AND DAY OF NOTHING ELSE AND THAT HE WOULD FINISH IT AS SOON AS HE WAS ABLE. NEVERTHELESS I WAS NOT TO SET MY HOPES UPON HIS REVERSE BUT I HAD BETTER INVENT ONE OUT OF MY OWN HEAD AND WHEN I HAD FINISHED IT I MIGHT BRING IT WITHOUT HESITATION TO THE DUKE FOR THIS WOULD BE TO MY ADVANTAGE. I COMPOSED THE DESIGN OF A REVERSE WHICH SEEMED TO ME APPROPRIATE AND PRESSED THE WORK FORWARD TO MY BEST ABILITY. THIS MAN HAD NO SKILL IN MY ART BUT SINCE WE WERE PERPETUALLY DAY AND NIGHT TOGETHER EVERYBODY THOUGHT HE WAS A FIRST RATE CRAFTSMAN. THIS BEING SO AS HE WAS A FELLOW OF MUCH HUMOUR WE USED OFTEN TO LAUGH TOGETHER ABOUT THE GREAT CREDIT HE HAD GAINED. I THEREFORE DISMOUNTED AT ONCE GOT MY FOWLING PIECE READY AND AT A VERY LONG RANGE BROUGHT TWO OF THEM DOWN WITH A SINGLE BALL. I NEVER USED TO SHOOT WITH MORE THAN ONE BALL AND WAS USUALLY ABLE TO HIT MY MARK AT TWO HUNDRED CUBITS WHICH CANNOT BE DONE BY OTHER WAYS OF LOADING. OF THE TWO GEESE ONE WAS ALMOST DEAD AND THE OTHER THOUGH BADLY WOUNDED WAS FLYING LAMELY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1459019298badf5d043c6c2748391ffce56f7f41 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3663/172528/172528_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +TRUSTING TO MY BOOTS WHICH CAME HIGH UP THE LEG I PUT ONE FOOT FORWARD IT SANK IN THE OOZY GROUND AND SO ALTHOUGH I GOT THE GOOSE THE BOOT OF MY RIGHT LEG WAS FULL OF WATER. I LIFTED MY FOOT AND LET THE WATER RUN OUT THEN WHEN I HAD MOUNTED WE MADE HASTE FOR ROME. I MEANWHILE WAS WAITING AND PUT MY HANDS AMONG THE BREAST FEATHERS OF THE GEESE AND FELT THEM VERY WARM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/57461/57461_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/57461/57461_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4d50d416e6a46845330f38ab33d91ccf25a8e57 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/57461/57461_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WE HAVE SUCCEEDED IN AMASSING TWO HUNDRED OUNCES OF SILVER ENOUGH I TRUST TO ERECT A HANDSOME BRONZE FIGURE. WHAT SAYS THE PROVERB HE WHO BEARS A JEWEL IN HIS BOSOM BEARS POISON. TO BE SURE IT SEEMS A SHAME YET IF I COULD STEAL THE MONEY THIS PRIEST IS BOASTING ABOUT I COULD LIVE AT EASE FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS AND SO HE BEGAN CASTING ABOUT HOW BEST HE MIGHT COMPASS HIS PURPOSE. BUT THE PRIEST FAR FROM GUESSING THE DRIFT OF HIS COMRADE'S THOUGHTS JOURNEYED CHEERFULLY ON TILL THEY REACHED THE TOWN OF KUANA. HERE THERE IS AN ARM OF THE SEA WHICH IS CROSSED IN FERRY BOATS THAT START AS SOON AS SOME TWENTY OR THIRTY PASSENGERS ARE GATHERED TOGETHER AND IN ONE OF THESE BOATS THE TWO TRAVELLERS EMBARKED. WHEN THE BOATMEN AND PASSENGERS HEARD THE SPLASH AND SAW THE PRIEST STRUGGLING IN THE WATER THEY WERE AFRAID AND MADE EVERY EFFORT TO SAVE HIM BUT THE WIND WAS FAIR AND THE BOAT RUNNING SWIFTLY UNDER THE BELLYING SAILS SO THEY WERE SOON A FEW HUNDRED YARDS OFF FROM THE DROWNING MAN WHO SANK BEFORE THE BOAT COULD BE TURNED TO RESCUE HIM. WHEN HE SAW THIS THE RONIN FEIGNED THE UTMOST GRIEF AND DISMAY AND SAID TO HIS FELLOW PASSENGERS THIS PRIEST WHOM WE HAVE JUST LOST WAS MY COUSIN HE WAS GOING TO KIYOTO TO VISIT THE SHRINE OF HIS PATRON AND AS I HAPPENED TO HAVE BUSINESS THERE AS WELL WE SETTLED TO TRAVEL TOGETHER. NOW ALAS BY THIS MISFORTUNE MY COUSIN IS DEAD AND I AM LEFT ALONE. HE SPOKE SO FEELINGLY AND WEPT SO FREELY THAT THE PASSENGERS BELIEVED HIS STORY AND PITIED AND TRIED TO COMFORT HIM. THEN THE RONIN SAID TO THE BOATMEN. WHAT THINK YOU GENTLEMEN ADDED HE TURNING TO THE OTHER TRAVELLERS. THEY OF COURSE WERE ONLY TOO GLAD TO AVOID ANY HINDRANCE TO THEIR ONWARD JOURNEY AND ALL WITH ONE VOICE AGREED TO WHAT THE RONIN HAD PROPOSED AND SO THE MATTER WAS SETTLED. WHEN AT LENGTH THEY REACHED THE SHORE THEY LEFT THE BOAT AND EVERY MAN WENT HIS WAY BUT THE RONIN OVERJOYED IN HIS HEART TOOK THE WANDERING PRIEST'S LUGGAGE AND PUTTING IT WITH HIS OWN PURSUED HIS JOURNEY TO KIYOTO. FORTUNE FAVOURING HIS SPECULATIONS HE BEGAN TO AMASS GREAT WEALTH AND LIVED AT HIS EASE DENYING HIMSELF NOTHING AND IN COURSE OF TIME HE MARRIED A WIFE WHO BORE HIM A CHILD. THUS THE DAYS AND MONTHS WORE ON TILL ONE FINE SUMMER'S NIGHT SOME THREE YEARS AFTER THE PRIEST'S DEATH TOKUBEI STEPPED OUT ON TO THE VERANDAH OF HIS HOUSE TO ENJOY THE COOL AIR AND THE BEAUTY OF THE MOONLIGHT. SINCE THEN ALL HAS GONE WELL WITH ME YET HAD I NOT BEEN POOR I HAD NEVER TURNED ASSASSIN NOR THIEF. WOE BETIDE ME WHAT A PITY IT WAS. WHILE HIS CONSCIENCE THUS SMOTE HIM HE SUDDENLY TO HIS UTTER AMAZEMENT BEHELD THE FAINT OUTLINE OF A MAN STANDING NEAR A FIR TREE IN THE GARDEN ON LOOKING MORE ATTENTIVELY HE PERCEIVED THAT THE MAN'S WHOLE BODY WAS THIN AND WORN AND THE EYES SUNKEN AND DIM AND IN THE POOR GHOST THAT WAS BEFORE HIM HE RECOGNIZED THE VERY PRIEST WHOM HE HAD THROWN INTO THE SEA AT KUANA. CHILLED WITH HORROR HE LOOKED AGAIN AND SAW THAT THE PRIEST WAS SMILING IN SCORN. HE WOULD HAVE FLED INTO THE HOUSE BUT THE GHOST STRETCHED FORTH ITS WITHERED ARM AND CLUTCHING THE BACK OF HIS NECK SCOWLED AT HIM WITH A VINDICTIVE GLARE AND A HIDEOUS GHASTLINESS OF MIEN SO UNSPEAKABLY AWFUL THAT ANY ORDINARY MAN WOULD HAVE SWOONED WITH FEAR. AT LENGTH UNDONE BY SUCH CEASELESS VEXATION TOKUBEI FELL ILL AND KEPT MUTTERING OH MISERY MISERY THE WANDERING PRIEST IS COMING TO TORTURE ME. NOW IT CHANCED THAT THE STORY REACHED THE EARS OF A CERTAIN WANDERING PRIEST WHO LODGED IN THE NEXT STREET. AND HIDING HIS HEAD UNDER THE COVERLET HE LAY QUIVERING ALL OVER. THREE YEARS AGO AT THE KUANA FERRY YOU FLUNG ME INTO THE WATER AND WELL YOU REMEMBER IT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/57461/57461_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/57461/57461_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a9028faac4de1784694cbeeea40982d3e7473c9e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/57461/57461_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HAPPILY CONTINUED THE PRIEST I HAD LEARNED TO SWIM AND TO DIVE AS A BOY SO I REACHED THE SHORE AND AFTER WANDERING THROUGH MANY PROVINCES SUCCEEDED IN SETTING UP A BRONZE FIGURE TO BUDDHA THUS FULFILLING THE WISH OF MY HEART. ON MY JOURNEY HOMEWARDS I TOOK A LODGING IN THE NEXT STREET AND THERE HEARD OF YOUR MARVELLOUS AILMENT. THINKING I COULD DIVINE ITS CAUSE I CAME TO SEE YOU AND AM GLAD TO FIND I WAS NOT MISTAKEN. AND WOULD IT NOT ILL BECOME ME TO BEAR MALICE. REPENT THEREFORE AND ABANDON YOUR EVIL WAYS. TO SEE YOU DO SO I SHOULD ESTEEM THE HEIGHT OF HAPPINESS. BE OF GOOD CHEER NOW AND LOOK ME IN THE FACE AND YOU WILL SEE THAT I AM REALLY A LIVING MAN AND NO VENGEFUL GOBLIN COME TO TORMENT YOU. IN A FIT OF MADNESS I WAS TEMPTED TO KILL AND ROB YOU. FORTUNE BEFRIENDED ME EVER AFTER BUT THE RICHER I GREW THE MORE KEENLY I FELT HOW WICKED I HAD BEEN AND THE MORE I FORESAW THAT MY VICTIM'S VENGEANCE WOULD SOME DAY OVERTAKE ME. HAUNTED BY THIS THOUGHT I LOST MY NERVE TILL ONE NIGHT I BEHELD YOUR SPIRIT AND FROM THAT TIME FORTH FELL ILL. BUT HOW YOU MANAGED TO ESCAPE AND ARE STILL ALIVE IS MORE THAN I CAN UNDERSTAND. A GUILTY MAN SAID THE PRIEST WITH A SMILE SHUDDERS AT THE RUSTLING OF THE WIND OR THE CHATTERING OF A STORK'S BEAK A MURDERER'S CONSCIENCE PREYS UPON HIS MIND TILL HE SEES WHAT IS NOT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/98647/98647_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/98647/98647_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9a7e0270a8d52b028640200450a2b4342c2a529e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/98647/98647_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +EVERY WELL ORDERED JAPANESE HOME OF THE OLD FASHIONED KIND HAS ITS LITTLE SHRINE WHICH IS THE CENTRE OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE HOUSE. THESE RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES MUST BE ATTENDED TO BY THE MOTHER OR WIFE. SHE IT IS WHO SETS THE RICE AND WINE BEFORE THE ANCESTRAL TABLETS WHO LIGHTS THE LITTLE LAMP EACH NIGHT AND WHO SEES THAT AT EACH FEAST DAY AND ANNIVERSARY SEASON THE PROPER FOOD IS PREPARED AND SET OUT FOR THE HOUSEHOLD GODS. THESE MUST BE KEPT CAREFULLY BY THE MOTHER AS A SAFEGUARD AGAINST THE MANY EVILS THAT BESET CHILD LIFE. VISITS TO NOTED TEMPLES BY RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OFTEN RESULT IN ADDITIONS TO THE CHILD'S COLLECTION. ALL THESE ARE PUT TOGETHER BY THE CAREFUL MOTHER AND PRESERVED AS JEALOUSLY AS QUEEN ALTHEA KEPT THE CHARRED STICK THAT GOVERNED THE DESTINY OF HER SON. AS THE CHILDREN ARRIVE AT YEARS OF DISCRETION THESE TREASURES PASS OUT OF THE MOTHER'S FAITHFUL KEEPING INTO THE HANDS OF THEIR ACTUAL OWNERS AND THEY ARE USUALLY KEPT STORED AWAY IN SOME LITTLE USED DRAWER OR CABINET UNTIL DEATH REMOVES THE NECESSITY FOR ANY FURTHER SAFEGUARDS OVER LIFE. THESE LITTLE PAPER PACKAGES EACH MARKED WITH THE NAME OF THE CHILD TO WHOM IT BELONGS ARE KEPT BY THE MOTHER. EACH ANIMAL BRINGS ITS OWN KIND OF GOOD OR BAD LUCK INTO THE HOUR DAY OR YEAR OVER WHICH IT PRESIDES AND ONLY A SKILLFUL BALANCER OF PROS AND CONS CAN READ ARIGHT THE COMBINATIONS AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LUCK OF ANY PARTICULAR HOUR IN ANY PARTICULAR DAY OF ANY PARTICULAR YEAR WILL BE. FOR THE GREATER EVENTS OF FAMILY LIFE THE HOME PROPHECIES ARE FELT TO BE TOO UNCERTAIN AND THE SERVICES OF THE FORTUNE TELLER MUST BE CALLED IN. NO WELL MANAGED FAMILY WOULD THINK OF BUILDING A NEW HOUSE WITHOUT FINDING IN WHAT DIRECTION TO FACE THE FRONT DOOR. AFTER THIS MATTER HAS BEEN SETTLED AND THE HOUSE IS FAIRLY BEGUN THERE ARE OCCASIONAL CRISES IN ITS CONSTRUCTION UPON WHICH MUCH DEPENDS. OF THESE THE MOST IMPORTANT IS THE DAY WHEN THE ROOF IS RAISED. THE HOUSE OWNER THEN DECIDES WHETHER THE DAY SET BY THE BUILDER IS A LUCKY ONE FOR HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY. A PRESENT OF MONEY TO EACH WORKMAN IS ALSO IN ORDER AND WILL CONDUCE TO THE RAPID AND FAITHFUL EXECUTION OF THE JOB IN HAND WHEN AT LAST THE HOUSE IS FINISHED AND CARPENTERS AND PLASTERERS ARE READY TO LEAVE IT THE LOCAL FIREMEN WHO HAVE ASSISTED ALL ALONG IN THE BUILDING AS UNSKILLED LABORERS OFTEN ASCEND TO THE ROOF AND FROM THE RIDGE POLE CAST DOWN CAKES FOR WHICH THE CHILDREN OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCRAMBLE JOYFULLY. ALL COME WHO CAN AND THOSE WHO CANNOT COME SEND SERVANTS OR PROVISIONS. ON THE DAY AFTER THE DEATH OFTEN IN THE EVENING THE BODY MUST BE PLACED IN THE CASK SHAPED COFFIN THAT UNTIL RECENTLY WAS THE STYLE COMMONLY IN USE IN JAPAN. NOW AMONG THE WEALTHIER CLASSES THE LONG COFFIN HAS SUPERSEDED THE SMALL SQUARE OR ROUND ONE BUT THE SMALLER EXPENSE CONNECTED WITH BURIAL IN THE OLD WAY MAKES THE SURVIVAL OF THE OLD TYPE A NECESSITY FOR THE MAJORITY OF JAPANESE. AT AN APPOINTED TIME ALL THE RELATIVES ASSEMBLE IN THE DEATH CHAMBER AND PREPARATIONS ARE MADE FOR THE BATHING OF THE CORPSE. THESE UTENSILS MUST HAVE NO METAL OF ANY KIND ABOUT THEM. THERE IS NO OFFICIAL CEREMONIAL MOURNING OF PARENTS FOR THEIR CHILDREN NOR DOES CUSTOM REQUIRE THEM TO PERFORM ANY OF THE LAST RITES OR ATTEND THE FUNERAL. UPON THE YOUNGER BROTHERS AND SISTERS FALLS THE DUTY OF ATTENDING TO ALL THE LAST SAD MINISTRATIONS. WHEN THE BODY HAS BEEN WASHED IT IS DRESSED IN WHITE IN SILK HABUTAI WHENEVER THE FAMILY CAN AFFORD IT. THE DRESS WHICH MUST BE APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON IN THE MAKING OF WHICH ALL THE WOMEN OF THE FAMILY MUST ASSIST IS THE PLAIN STRAIGHT KIMONO BUT MUST BE FOLDED FROM RIGHT TO LEFT INSTEAD OF FROM LEFT TO RIGHT AS IN LIFE. THE BODY TO BE PLACED IN THE COFFIN MUST BE FOLDED INTO A SITTING POSTURE THE CHIN RESTING UPON THE KNEES THE POSITION OF THE MUMMIES FOUND IN MANY ABORIGINAL AMERICAN TOMBS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/98647/98647_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/98647/98647_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dc9b7a1d2722483d3e43433ba5155131f9045e6d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/3915/98647/98647_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THIS DIFFICULT TO US APPARENTLY IMPOSSIBLE FEAT SAFELY ACCOMPLISHED THERE ARE PLACED IN THE COFFIN A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS THAT THE DEAD TAKES WITH HIM TO THE NEXT WORLD. THE SINGLE EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE ABOUT METAL IS THAT SMALL COPPER COINS MAY BE PUT IN TO FEE THE OLD HAG WHO GUARDS THE BANK OF THE RIVER OF DEATH. LAST OF ALL THE VACANT SPACES IN THE COFFIN ARE FILLED IN WITH BAGS OF TEA. SO LONG AS THE COFFIN IS IN THE HOUSE IT MUST BE WATCHED OVER CONTINUALLY. TO AID IN THIS PROTRACTED VIGIL WHICH MUST BE KEPT UP DAY AND NIGHT UNTIL THE BURIAL THE RELATIVES FRIENDS AND RETAINERS OF THE DEAD ASSEMBLE AT THE HOUSE IN LARGE NUMBERS. IN THE CASE OF A PERSON OF WEALTH AND INFLUENCE THERE WILL OFTEN BE A HUNDRED OR MORE OF THESE WATCHERS WHO MUST BE FED AND CARED FOR AND WHO TAKE TURNS IN WATCHING EATING AND SLEEPING. IT IS THEIR DUTY TO SEE THAT THE INCENSE BURNING BEFORE THE COFFIN IS NEVER ALLOWED TO GO OUT WHILE THE FOOD FOR THE DEAD IS RENEWED AT REGULAR INTERVALS BY THE MOURNERS THEMSELVES. THIS SOMEWHAT DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DUTIES TO BE PERFORMED BY THE MEMBERS OF A BEREAVED FAMILY IN THE HOUSE OF MOURNING IS SUFFICIENT TO SHOW THAT THE PRESENCE OF DEATH IN THE HOME IS MADE AS TERRIBLE AS POSSIBLE BY THE PAINFUL CEREMONIES THE CONTINUAL BUSTLE AND EXCITEMENT AND THE STRAIN UPON THE RESOURCES AND EXECUTIVE ABILITY OF THE HOUSEKEEPER AND HER ASSISTANTS. THERE ARE FEW ENLIGHTENED JAPANESE WHO WILL DEFEND THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF CRUELTY TO THE AFFLICTED OR WHO DO NOT LONG FOR SOME CHANGE BUT SO GREAT IS THE FORCE OF CONSERVATISM IN THIS REGARD SO HAUNTING THE FEAR THAT ANY CHANGE MAY INDICATE A LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE DEAD THAT REFORM ADVANCES SLOWLY. INDIVIDUAL INSTANCES OCCUR IN WHICH SOME OF THE WORST FEATURES OF THESE CUSTOMS ARE MODIFIED. A CASE IN POINT IS THAT OF THE LATE MISTER FUKUZAWA A MAN WHOSE LIFE WAS DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIS COUNTRYMEN IN MODERN WAYS AND WHO IN HIS DEATH CONTINUED HIS TEACHING. IN HIS WILL HE PROVIDED THAT HIS BODY WAS TO BE BURIED WITHOUT WASHING IN THE CLOTHING IN WHICH HE DIED. THERE ARE YOUNG AND ENLIGHTENED MOTHERS IN JAPAN TO DAY WHO HAVE FELT IN MINDS AWAKENED TO THOUGHT AND ACTION THE HORRORS OF THE SYSTEM AND WHO WILL NOT ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN TO SUFFER FOR THEM WHAT THEY HAVE SUFFERED IN PAYING RESPECT TO THEIR DEAD PARENTS. THROUGH THIS GROWING FEELING AND THE UNSELFISHNESS OF MATERNAL AFFECTION MAY COME IN TIME THE RELEASE FROM THESE MOURNFUL CEREMONIES. JUST BEFORE THE PROCESSION STARTS A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY IS HELD AT THE HOUSE WHICH IS ATTENDED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE DECEASED AND WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME AS THAT PERFORMED AT THE CEMETERY. ON THE DAY OF THE BURIAL GREAT BUNCHES OF NATURAL FLOWERS ARE SENT TO THE DEAD EACH BUNCH SO LARGE AS TO REQUIRE THE SERVICES OF ONE MAN TO CARRY IT. SOMETIMES WITH THE GIFT A MAN IS SENT TO TAKE PART IN THE PROCESSION BUT IF THE GIVER FEELS TOO POOR TO HIRE A MAN THIS BURDEN TOO FALLS UPON THE BEREAVED HOUSEHOLD FOR ETIQUETTE REQUIRES THAT ALL FLOWERS SENT BE BORNE TO THE GRAVE BY UNIFORMED COOLIES WHO MARCH IN THE FUNERAL TRAIN. ANOTHER FAVORITE PRESENT AT THIS TIME AMONG BUDDHISTS IS A CAGE OF LIVING BIRDS TO BE BORNE TO THE GRAVE AND RELEASED THEREON. A FUNERAL PROCESSION IS AN IMPOSING SPECTACLE AND TO THE UNINSTRUCTED FOREIGNER A CHEERFUL ONE FOR THERE IS NOTHING SAD OR SOMBRE IN THE WHITE OR BRIGHT COLORED ROBES OF THE PRIESTS THE WHITE TINSEL DECORATED BIER THE RED AND WHITE FLAGS BORNE ALOFT THE ENORMOUS BUNCHES OF GAY COLORED FLOWERS THE VERY MOURNERS IN WHITE SILK AND WITH FACES APPARENTLY UNMOVED BY GRIEF BRING NO THOUGHT OF THE OBJECT OF THE PROCESSION TO THE WESTERN MIND. IT SEEMS MORE LIKE A BRIDAL THAN A BURIAL. DURING THIS PERIOD THE SPIRIT OF THE DECEASED IS SUPPOSED TO BE STILL INHABITING THE HOUSE AND A TABLET OR SHRINE IS SET UP IN THE DEATH CHAMBER BEFORE WHICH FOOD AND FLOWERS ARE RENEWED DAILY. FOR A TIME AFTER DEATH HAS COME INTO THE FAMILY THE RELATIVES OF THE DEAD ARE REGARDED AS CEREMONIALLY UNCLEAN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/185072/185072_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/185072/185072_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ece45795d4ebe01b21425e443bd674e8d6d928a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/185072/185072_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THERE AN INDIAN GAVE HIM SOME REFRESHMENT AND A GOOD GUN WITH WHICH HE HASTENED ON TO LITTLE BEARD'S TOWN WHERE HE FOUND HIS SQUAW. NOT DARING TO RISK HIMSELF AT THAT PLACE FOR FEAR OF BEING GIVEN UP HE MADE HER BUT A SHORT VISIT AND CAME IMMEDIATELY TO GARDOW. JUST AS HE GOT TO THE TOP OF THE HILL ABOVE THE GARDOW FLATS HE DISCOVERED A PARTY OF BRITISH SOLDIERS AND INDIANS IN PURSUIT OF HIM AND IN FACT THEY WERE SO NEAR THAT HE WAS SATISFIED THAT THEY SAW HIM AND CONCLUDED THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO ESCAPE. THE LOVE OF LIBERTY HOWEVER ADDED TO HIS NATURAL SWIFTNESS GAVE HIM SUFFICIENT STRENGTH TO MAKE HIS ESCAPE TO HIS FORMER CASTLE OF SAFETY. HIS PURSUERS CAME IMMEDIATELY TO MY HOUSE WHERE THEY EXPECTED TO HAVE FOUND HIM SECRETED AND UNDER MY PROTECTION. THEY TOLD ME WHERE THEY HAD SEEN HIM BUT A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE AND THAT THEY WERE CONFIDENT THAT IT WAS WITHIN MY POWER TO PUT HIM INTO THEIR HANDS. AS I WAS PERFECTLY CLEAR OF HAVING HAD ANY HAND IN HIS ESCAPE I TOLD THEM PLAINLY THAT I HAD NOT SEEN HIM SINCE HE WAS TAKEN TO NIAGARA AND THAT I COULD GIVE THEM NO INFORMATION AT ALL RESPECTING HIM. STILL UNSATISFIED AND DOUBTING MY VERACITY THEY ADVISED MY INDIAN BROTHER TO USE HIS INFLUENCE TO DRAW FROM ME THE SECRET OF HIS CONCEALMENT WHICH THEY HAD AN IDEA THAT I CONSIDERED OF GREAT IMPORTANCE NOT ONLY TO HIM BUT TO MYSELF I PERSISTED IN MY IGNORANCE OF HIS SITUATION AND FINALLY THEY LEFT ME. ALTHOUGH I HAD NOT SEEN ALLEN I KNEW HIS PLACE OF SECURITY AND WAS WELL AWARE THAT IF I TOLD THEM THE PLACE WHERE HE HAD FORMERLY HID HIMSELF THEY WOULD HAVE NO DIFFICULTY IN MAKING HIM A PRISONER. HE CAME TO MY HOUSE IN THE NIGHT AND AWOKE ME WITH THE GREATEST CAUTION FEARING THAT SOME OF HIS ENEMIES MIGHT BE WATCHING TO TAKE HIM AT A TIME WHEN AND IN A PLACE WHERE IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO MAKE HIS ESCAPE. I GOT UP AND ASSURED HIM THAT HE WAS THEN SAFE BUT THAT HIS ENEMIES WOULD RETURN EARLY IN THE MORNING AND SEARCH HIM OUT IF IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE. HAVING GIVEN HIM SOME VICTUALS WHICH HE RECEIVED THANKFULLY I TOLD HIM TO GO BUT TO RETURN THE NEXT NIGHT TO A CERTAIN CORNER OF THE FENCE NEAR MY HOUSE WHERE HE WOULD FIND A QUANTITY OF MEAL THAT I WOULD HAVE WELL PREPARED AND DEPOSITED THERE FOR HIS USE. I WELL KNEW THAT ALLEN CONSIDERED HIS LIFE IN MY HANDS AND ALTHOUGH IT WAS MY INTENTION NOT TO LIE I WAS FULLY DETERMINED TO KEEP HIS SITUATION A PROFOUND SECRET THEY CONTINUED THEIR LABOR AND EXAMINED AS THEY SUPPOSED EVERY CREVICE GULLY TREE AND HOLLOW LOG IN THE NEIGHBORING WOODS AND AT LAST CONCLUDED THAT HE HAD LEFT THE COUNTRY AND GAVE HIM UP FOR LOST AND WENT HOME. AT THAT TIME ALLEN LAY IN A SECRET PLACE IN THE GULPH A SHORT DISTANCE ABOVE MY FLATS IN A HOLE THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY FOUND IN THE ROCK NEAR THE RIVER. AT NIGHT HE CAME AND GOT THE MEAL AT THE CORNER OF THE FENCE AS I HAD DIRECTED HIM AND AFTERWARDS LIVED IN THE GULPH TWO WEEKS. EACH NIGHT HE CAME TO THE PASTURE AND MILKED ONE OF MY COWS WITHOUT ANY OTHER VESSEL IN WHICH TO RECEIVE THE MILK THAN HIS HAT OUT OF WHICH HE DRANK IT. I SUPPLIED HIM WITH MEAL BUT FEARING TO BUILD A FIRE HE WAS OBLIGED TO EAT IT RAW AND WASH IT DOWN WITH THE MILK. NETTLES HAVING LEFT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND ALLEN CONSIDERING HIMSELF SAFE LEFT HIS LITTLE CAVE AND CAME HOME. I GAVE HIM HIS BOX OF MONEY AND TRINKETS AND HE WENT TO HIS OWN HOUSE AT MOUNT MORRIS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186222/186222_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186222/186222_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a9c181f7d5c2d801bdb7addf57a8fb2d9b3c53b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186222/186222_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SOMEHOW SHE FELT THAT SHE WAS BEING LAUGHED AT BY THIS SLENDER GRACEFUL GIRL WHO WAS SCARCELY OLDER THAN HERSELF BUT SHE WAS TOO UNSOPHISTICATED TO KNOW HOW TO RESENT IT. TO BE SURE I SHOULD WANT YOU TO MY DEAR. THE YOUNGER GIRL HAD NO POWER TO RESIST SUCH FASCINATIONS. LOUISE KNEW THE BIG WORLD AND TALKED OF IT WITH CHARMING NAIVETE AND BETH LISTENED RAPTUROUSLY. SUCH A GIRL FRIEND IT HAD NEVER BEEN HER PRIVILEGE TO HAVE BEFORE AND WHEN HER SUSPICIONS WERE FORGOTTEN SHE BECAME FAIRLY RESPONSIVE AND BRIGHTENED WONDERFULLY. THEY DRESSED IN TIME FOR DINNER AND MET AUNT JANE AND SILAS WATSON THE LAWYER IN THE GREAT DRAWING ROOM. THE OLD LADY RETIRED TO HER OWN ROOM SHORTLY AFTER DINNER AND PRESENTLY SENT A SERVANT TO REQUEST MISTER WATSON TO JOIN HER. SILAS SHE SAID WHEN HE ENTERED WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY NIECES. THEY ARE VERY CHARMING GIRLS HE ANSWERED ALTHOUGH THEY ARE AT AN AGE WHEN FEW GIRLS SHOW TO GOOD ADVANTAGE. WHY DID YOU NOT INVITE KENNETH TO DINNER JANE THE BOY. KENNETH IS A BEAR. HE IS CONSTANTLY SAYING DISAGREEABLE THINGS. VERY WELL SAID THE LAWYER QUIETLY WHICH OF MY NIECES DO YOU PREFER. ASKED THE OLD LADY AFTER A PAUSE I CANNOT SAY ON SO SHORT AN ACQUAINTANCE HE ANSWERED WITH GRAVITY WHICH DO YOU PREFER JANE. THEY ARE EQUALLY UNSATISFACTORY SHE ANSWERED. I CANNOT IMAGINE ELMHURST BELONGING TO EITHER SILAS. THEN SHE ADDED WITH AN ABRUPT CHANGE OF MANNER YOU MUST GO TO NEW YORK FOR ME AT ONCE. TONIGHT NO TOMORROW MORNING. I MUST SEE THAT OTHER NIECE THE ONE WHO DEFIES ME AND REFUSES TO ANSWER MY SECOND LETTER. PATRICIA DOYLE. YES FIND HER AND ARGUE WITH HER. MY TIME IS DRAWING NEAR OLD FRIEND SHE REPLIED LESS HARSHLY THAN USUAL AND THIS MATTER OF MY WILL LIES HEAVILY ON MY CONSCIENCE WHAT IF I SHOULD DIE TONIGHT HE DID NOT ANSWER. THERE WOULD BE A DOZEN HEIRS TO FIGHT FOR MY MONEY AND DEAR OLD ELMHURST WOULD BE SOLD TO STRANGERS SHE RESUMED WITH BITTERNESS. BUT I DON'T MEAN TO CROSS OVER JUST YET SILAS EVEN IF ONE LIMB IS DEAD ALREADY. ONE OF THESE IS TOO HARD AND THE OTHER TOO SOFT. I'LL SEE WHAT PATRICIA IS LIKE. SHE MAY PROVE EVEN MORE UNDESIRABLE SAID THE LAWYER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186223/186223_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186223/186223_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..46979f1b25a52f0bb33fcb1e9679079b303e3ce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186223/186223_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MY VALISE WAS TOO HEAVY TO CARRY HE SAID SO I WRAPPED UP A FEW THINGS IN CASE JANE WANTED ME TO STAY OVER NIGHT. AND THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T GET A HORSE AT THE LIVERY YOU KNOW SOMEBODY'D HAVE TO TAKE IT BACK AGAIN. I'M SURE SHE'LL ASK YOU TO STAY SIR. DONALD THAT'S THE COACHMAN IS MY FRIEND AND HE'LL LET ME HAVE THE HORSE IF I ASK HIM. THANK YOU LAD RETURNED THE MAN GRATEFULLY I THOUGHT A LITTLE EXERCISE WOULD DO ME GOOD BUT THIS THREE MILES HAS SEEMED LIKE THIRTY TO ME. I WILL SAID THE MAN. I ALWAYS GO AROUND THE BACK WAY MYSELF I SEE. THE BOY TURNED AWAY BUT IN A MOMENT HALTED AGAIN. HIS INTEREST IN MISS JANE'S BROTHER JOHN WAS EXTRAORDINARY. ANOTHER THING HE SAID HESITATING WELL. SHE HATES ME AS MUCH AS I HATE HER. VERY GOOD MY LAD I'LL KEEP MUM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/61735/61735_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/61735/61735_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fd062ce5833e36b7e985c10943ae3fbdeb3cb20c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/61735/61735_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +FOR A SHORT WHILE HE STOOD GAZING ACROSS THE STREAM WITH A GLANCE THAT TOLD OF SCRUTINY. HE WAS SCANNING THE SHRUBBERY ON THE OTHER SIDE IN THE ENDEAVOUR TO MAKE OUT WHETHER ANY ONE WAS CONCEALED BENEATH ITS SHADOW. BECOMING SATISFIED THAT NO ONE WAS THERE HE RAISED THE LOOP END OF HIS LAZO FOR IT WAS THIS HE CARRIED OVER HIS ARM AND GIVING IT HALF A DOZEN WHIRLS IN THE AIR CAST IT ACROSS THE STREAM. THE NOOSE SETTLED OVER THE CUTWATER OF THE SKIFF AND CLOSING AROUND THE STEM ENABLED HIM TO TOW THE TINY CRAFT TO THE SIDE ON WHICH HE STOOD. STEPPING IN HE TOOK HOLD OF A PAIR OF OARS THAT LAY ALONG THE PLANKING AT THE BOTTOM AND PLACING THEM BETWEEN THE THOLE PINS PULLED THE BOAT BACK TO ITS MOORINGS. THE PHRASES THAT FELL FROM HIS LIPS HOWEVER COULD THEY HAVE BEEN HEARD WOULD HAVE ABSOLVED HIM OF ANY SUCH VILE OR VULGAR INTENTION. IT IS TRUE HE HAD DESIGNS UPON THE HACIENDA BUT THESE DID NOT CONTEMPLATE EITHER ITS CASH PLATE OR JEWELLERY IF WE EXCEPT THE MOST PRECIOUS JEWEL IT CONTAINED THE MISTRESS OF THE MANSION HERSELF \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/18416/18416_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/18416/18416_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dea7836ad6a4a041f642475f055bddf3ff91f771 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/18416/18416_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +PHRONSIE WAS THE FIRST TO REACH CHARLOTTE'S DOOR. CHARLOTTE SHE CALLED SOFTLY THROUGH THE KEYHOLE. THERE WAS NO ANSWER AND AFTER ONE OR TWO INEFFECTUAL ATTEMPTS PHRONSIE TURNED FEARFULLY AWAY. I DO BELIEVE SOMETHING IS IN THE ROOM WITH CHARLOTTE SHE SAID AS POLLY CAME RUNNING UP THE STAIRS. THEN SHE SAT DOWN ON THE TOP STEP AND CLASPED HER HANDS I HEARD IT RAGING UP AND DOWN. I'LL TRY AND SHE LAID A QUICK HAND ON THE KNOB. OH CHARLOTTE DO OPEN THE DOOR YOU ARE WORRYING US ALL SO CALLED POLLY IMPLORINGLY CHARLOTTE FLUNG WIDE THE DOOR. TWO RED SPOTS BURNED ON HER CHEEKS AND HER PALE BLUE EYES SNAPPED. OH I'M SURE I HEARD IT RAGING UP AND DOWN. THAT WAS I SAID CHARLOTTE I WAS THE WILD BEAST PHRONSIE. OH DON'T BEGGED CHARLOTTE LOOKING OVER AT POLLY. COME DOWN TO DINNER CHARLOTTE SAID POLLY QUICKLY. I DON'T WANT ANY DINNER SAID CHARLOTTE DRAWING BACK. INDEED BUT YOU MUST COME DOWN SAID POLLY FIRMLY HOLDING OUT HER HAND. YES INDEED SAID POLLY CHEERILY JUST AS FINE AS CAN BE. THEY HAD JUST FINISHED DINNER WHEN A NOTE WAS HANDED POLLY IT RAN THUS. DO DEAR POLLY RUN OVER TO MORROW MORNING EARLY. I WANT TO CONSULT YOU IN REGARD TO ASKING MISS CHATTERTON TO SING AT MY NEXT AT HOME. ASSUREDLY SAID OLD MISTER KING WITH GREAT SATISFACTION IN POLLY'S PLEASURE AND AT HER SUCCESS IN DRAWING CHARLOTTE OUT. AND THEN HE THOUGHT NO MORE ABOUT IT AND THE BELL RINGING AND MISTER ALSTYNE COMING IN HE WENT OFF INTO THE LIBRARY FOR A QUIET CHAT. AND AFTER THIS THERE WERE NO MORE QUIET DAYS FOR CHARLOTTE CHATTERTON. PHRONSIE LAID DOWN THE NOTE SHE WAS WRITING TO MISSUS FARGO A FORTNIGHT LATER AND SAID TO HERSELF I WOULD BETTER DO IT NOW I THINK AND GOING OUT SHE WENT DELIBERATELY TO OLD MISTER KING'S ROOM AND RAPPED AT THE DOOR. COME IN CALLED THE OLD GENTLEMAN COME IN. OH BLESS ME IT'S YOU PHRONSIE IN PLEASED SURPRISE. YES GRANDPAPA SAID PHRONSIE COMING IN AND SHUTTING THE DOOR CAREFULLY I CAME ON PURPOSE TO SEE YOU ALL ALONE. SO YOU DID DEAR SAID MISTER KING HIGHLY GRATIFIED AND PUSHING AWAY HIS WRITING TABLE HE HELD OUT HIS HAND. OH NO GRANDPAPA CRIED PHRONSIE IN A RAPTURE I COULD NEVER BE TOO BIG FOR THAT SO SHE PERCHED UP AS OF OLD ON HIS KNEE THEN SHE FOLDED HER HANDS AND LOOKED GRAVELY IN HIS FACE. WELL MY DEAR WHAT IS IT. ASKED THE OLD GENTLEMAN PRESENTLY YOU'VE COME TO TELL ME SOMETHING I SUPPOSE. YES GRANDPAPA I HAVE SAID PHRONSIE DECIDEDLY AND IT IS MOST IMPORTANT TOO GRANDPAPA AND OH I DO WISH IT SO MUCH AND SHE CLASPED HER HANDS TIGHTER AND SIGHED. WELL THEN PHRONSIE IF YOU WANT IT I SUPPOSE IT MUST BE SAID MISTER KING QUITE AS A MATTER OF COURSE. GRANDPAPA ASKED PHRONSIE SUDDENLY HOW MUCH MONEY DID MISSUS CHATTERTON SAY I WAS TO HAVE. OH BLESS ME EXCLAIMED MISTER KING WITH A START WHY WHAT MAKES YOU ASK SUCH A QUESTION. OH SHE LEFT YOU EVERYTHING SHE HAD PHRONSIE A COUPLE OF MILLIONS OR SO IT IS WHY. CHARLOTTE POOR REPEATED THE OLD GENTLEMAN. WHY NO NOT EXACTLY HER FATHER ISN'T RICH BUT CHARLOTTE I THINK MAY DO VERY WELL ESPECIALLY AS I INTEND TO KEEP HER HERE FOR A WHILE AND THEN I SHALL NEVER LET HER SUFFER PHRONSIE NEVER INDEED. GRANDPAPA SAID PHRONSIE WASN'T MISSUS CHATTERTON AUNT TO CHARLOTTE. YES THAT IS TO CHARLOTTE'S FATHER CORRECTED MISTER KING. IF MISSUS CHATTERTON WAS AUNT TO CHARLOTTE PERSISTED PHRONSIE SLOWLY IT SEEMS AS IF CHARLOTTE OUGHT TO HAVE SOME OF THE MONEY IT REALLY DOES GRANDPAPA. BUT COUSIN EUNICE DIDN'T THINK SO ELSE SHE'D HAVE LEFT IT TO CHARLOTTE SAID MISTER KING ABRUPTLY AND SHE DID CHOOSE TO LEAVE IT TO YOU. SO THERE'S AN END OF IT PHRONSIE I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO HAVE IT BUT THE THING WAS FIXED AND I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF. AND NEITHER CAN WE DO ANYTHING NOW BUT TAKE MATTERS AS THEY ARE. I DO THINK SAID PHRONSIE WITHOUT TAKING HER EYES FROM HIS FACE THAT MAYBE MISSUS CHATTERTON IS SORRY NOW AND WISHES THAT SHE HAD LEFT SOME MONEY TO CHARLOTTE DON'T YOU SUPPOSE SO GRANDPAPA. AND ONE HAND STOLE UP TO HIS NECK. MAYBE SAID THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH A SHORT LAUGH AND I SHOULDN'T WONDER IF COUSIN EUNICE WAS SORRY OVER A FEW OTHER THINGS TOO PHRONSIE. WOULDN'T IT MAKE HER VERY GLAD IF I GAVE CHARLOTTE SOME OF THE MONEY. FOR ANSWER MISTER KING SET HER DOWN HASTILY ON THE FLOOR AND TOOK TWO OR THREE TURNS UP AND DOWN THE ROOM. PHRONSIE STOOD A MOMENT QUITE STILL WHERE HE LEFT HER THEN SHE RAN UP TO HIM AND SLIPPED HER HAND WITHIN HIS. OH I DO SO WISH I MIGHT SHE SAID THERE'S SO MUCH FOR A LITTLE GIRL LIKE ME \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/55228/55228_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/55228/55228_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8fc948d5559d671274dc0f2c6834725f849d03f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/55228/55228_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BERTRAM TAKES THE REINS. WITH STIFFLY POMPOUS DIGNITY PETE OPENED THE DOOR. THE NEXT MOMENT HE FELL BACK IN AMAZEMENT BEFORE THE IMPETUOUS RUSH OF A STARRY EYED FLUSHED CHEEKED YOUNG WOMAN WHO DEMANDED. WHERE IS HE PETE MISS BILLY GASPED THE OLD MAN. THEN HE SAW AUNT HANNAH AUNT HANNAH WITH HER BONNET ASKEW HER NECK BOW AWRY ONE HAND BARE AND THE OTHER HALF COVERED WITH A GLOVE WRONG SIDE OUT. AUNT HANNAH'S CHEEKS TOO WERE FLUSHED AND HER EYES STARRY BUT WITH DISMAY AND ANGER THE LAST BECAUSE SHE DID NOT LIKE THE WAY PETE HAD SAID MISS BILLY'S NAME. IT WAS ONE MATTER FOR HER TO OBJECT TO THIS THING BILLY WAS DOING BUT QUITE ANOTHER FOR PETE TO DO IT OF COURSE IT'S SHE. RETORTED AUNT HANNAH TESTILY AS IF YOU YOURSELF DIDN'T BRING HER HERE WITH YOUR CRAZY MESSAGES AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT PETE WHERE IS HE. INTERPOSED BILLY TELL MISTER BERTRAM I AM HERE OR WAIT I'LL GO RIGHT IN AND SURPRISE HIM. BILLY THIS TIME IT WAS AUNT HANNAH WHO GASPED HER NAME. PETE HAD RECOVERED HIMSELF BY NOW BUT HE DID NOT EVEN GLANCE TOWARD AUNT HANNAH. HIS FACE WAS BEAMING AND HIS OLD EYES WERE SHINING. MISS BILLY MISS BILLY YOU'RE AN ANGEL STRAIGHT FROM HEAVEN YOU ARE YOU ARE OH I'M SO GLAD YOU CAME. IT'LL BE ALL RIGHT NOW ALL RIGHT HE'S IN THE DEN MISS BILLY. BILLY TURNED EAGERLY BUT BEFORE SHE COULD TAKE SO MUCH AS ONE STEP TOWARD THE DOOR AT THE END OF THE HALL AUNT HANNAH'S INDIGNANT VOICE ARRESTED HER BILLY STOP. PETE GO TELL YOUR MASTER THAT WE ARE HERE AND ASK IF HE WILL RECEIVE US PETE'S LIPS TWITCHED. BUT HIS FACE WAS PRETERNATURALLY GRAVE WHEN HE SPOKE. MISTER BERTRAM IS UP AND DRESSED MA'AM HE'S IN THE DEN I'LL SPEAK TO HIM. PETE ONCE AGAIN THE PUNCTILIOUS BUTLER STALKED TO THE DOOR OF BERTRAM'S DEN AND THREW IT WIDE OPEN. OPPOSITE THE DOOR ON A LOW COUCH LAY BERTRAM HIS HEAD BANDAGED AND HIS RIGHT ARM IN A SLING. HIS FACE WAS TURNED TOWARD THE DOOR BUT HIS EYES WERE CLOSED. HE LOOKED VERY WHITE AND HIS FEATURES WERE PITIFULLY DRAWN WITH SUFFERING. MISTER BERTRAM BEGAN PETE BUT HE GOT NO FURTHER. A FLYING FIGURE BRUSHED BY HIM AND FELL ON ITS KNEES BY THE COUCH WITH A LOW CRY BERTRAM'S EYES FLEW OPEN. ACROSS HIS FACE SWEPT SUCH A RADIANT LOOK OF UNEARTHLY JOY THAT PETE SOBBED AUDIBLY AND FLED TO THE KITCHEN. DONG LING FOUND HIM THERE A MINUTE LATER POLISHING A SILVER TEASPOON WITH A FRINGED NAPKIN THAT HAD BEEN SPREAD OVER BERTRAM'S TRAY. IN THE HALL ABOVE AUNT HANNAH WAS CRYING INTO WILLIAM'S GRAY LINEN DUSTER THAT HUNG ON THE HALL RACK AUNT HANNAH'S HANDKERCHIEF WAS ON THE FLOOR BACK AT HILLSIDE. IN THE DEN NEITHER BILLY NOR BERTRAM KNEW OR CARED WHAT HAD BECOME OF AUNT HANNAH AND PETE. THEN VERY GRADUALLY IT DAWNED OVER THEM THAT THERE WAS AFTER ALL SOMETHING STRANGE AND UNEXPLAINED IN IT ALL. AS IF TO MAKE SURE THAT SHE WAS HERE LIKE THIS HE DREW HER EVEN CLOSER BERTRAM WAS SO THANKFUL THAT HE DID HAVE ONE ARM THAT WAS USABLE. YOU DARLING THAT WAS BERTRAM STOPPED SUDDENLY. WELL BERTRAM'S VOICE WAS A LITTLE STRAINED. WHY OF OF COURSE STAMMERED BILLY I COULDN'T HELP THINKING THAT MAYBE YOU HAD FOUND OUT YOU DIDN'T WANT ME. DIDN'T WANT YOU GROANED BERTRAM HIS TENSE MUSCLES RELAXING. MAY I ASK WHY BILLY BLUSHED. I WASN'T QUITE SURE WHY SHE FALTERED ONLY OF COURSE I THOUGHT OF OF MISS WINTHROP YOU KNOW OR THAT MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T CARE FOR ANY GIRL ONLY TO PAINT OH OH BERTRAM PETE TOLD US SHE BROKE OFF WILDLY BEGINNING TO SOB. PETE TOLD YOU THAT I DIDN'T CARE FOR ANY GIRL ONLY TO PAINT. DEMANDED BERTRAM ANGRY AND MYSTIFIED. NO NO SOBBED BILLY NOT THAT. PETE TOLD AUNT HANNAH ABOUT THE ACCIDENT YOU KNOW AND HE SAID HE SAID OH BERTRAM I CAN'T SAY IT. THERE THERE DEAR COMFORTED BERTRAM PATTING THE BRONZE GOLD HEAD ON HIS BREAST. I HAVEN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT EXCEPT THE LAST BUT I KNOW THERE CAN'T BE ANYTHING THAT OUGHT TO MAKE YOU CRY LIKE THAT. AS FOR MY NOT PAINTING AGAIN YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND PETE DEARIE. THAT WAS WHAT THEY WERE AFRAID OF AT FIRST THAT I'D LOSE MY ARM BUT THAT DANGER IS ALL PAST NOW I'M LOADS BETTER. OF COURSE I'M GOING TO PAINT AGAIN AND BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE NOW BILLY LIFTED HER HEAD. A LOOK THAT WAS ALMOST TERROR CAME TO HER EYES. SHE PULLED HERSELF HALF AWAY FROM BERTRAM'S ENCIRCLING ARM. BILLY DREW A QUIVERING SIGH. WELL TO BEGIN WITH KATE SAID \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/102353/102353_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/102353/102353_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8235cb3f5a0c450b8c59c4b88844443c5f31d0c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/102353/102353_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ALTHOUGH WARMLY ATTACHED TO MISTER PIERCE PERSONALLY AND ENTERTAINING THE HIGHEST ESTIMATE OF HIS CHARACTER AND POLITICAL PRINCIPLES PRIVATE AND PERSONAL REASONS LED ME TO DECLINE THE OFFER. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY AN INVITATION TO ATTEND THE CEREMONY OF HIS INAUGURATION WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE FOURTH OF MARCH EIGHTEEN FIFTY THREE. THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THAT PERIOD WILL BEST SHOW HOW THE DUTIES OF THAT OFFICE WERE PERFORMED. WE HAD THEN BUT LITTLE OF THAT MINUTE AND ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTINENT WHICH WAS REQUISITE FOR A DETERMINATION OF THE PROBLEM. SEVERAL DIFFERENT PARTIES WERE THEREFORE ORGANIZED TO EXAMINE THE VARIOUS ROUTES SUPPOSED TO BE PRACTICABLE WITHIN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN LIMITS OF THE UNITED STATES. THE ONLY DISCRIMINATION MADE WAS IN THE MORE PROMPT AND THOROUGH EQUIPMENT OF THE PARTIES FOR THE EXTREME NORTHERN LINE AND THIS WAS ONLY BECAUSE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE MOST DIFFICULT OF EXECUTION OF ALL THE SURVEYS. DURING MY ADMINISTRATION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT MATERIAL CHANGES WERE MADE IN THE MODELS OF ARMS. IRON GUN CARRIAGES WERE INTRODUCED AND EXPERIMENTS WERE MADE WHICH LED TO THE CASTING OF HEAVY GUNS HOLLOW INSTEAD OF BORING THEM AFTER CASTING. INQUIRIES WERE MADE WITH REGARD TO GUNPOWDER WHICH SUBSEQUENTLY LED TO THE USE OF A COARSER GRAIN FOR ARTILLERY. DURING THE SAME PERIOD THE ARMY WAS INCREASED BY THE ADDITION OF TWO REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY AND TWO OF CAVALRY. THE OFFICERS OF THESE REGIMENTS WERE CHOSEN PARTLY BY SELECTION FROM THOSE ALREADY IN SERVICE IN THE REGULAR ARMY AND PARTLY BY APPOINTMENT FROM CIVIL LIFE. THIS WAS THAT THE OFFICERS SELECTED PURELY ON THEIR MILITARY RECORD DID NOT CONSTITUTE A ROSTER CONFORMING TO THAT DISTRIBUTION AMONG THE DIFFERENT STATES WHICH FOR POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS IT WAS THOUGHT DESIRABLE TO OBSERVE THAT IS TO SAY THE NUMBER OF SUCH OFFICERS OF SOUTHERN BIRTH WAS FOUND TO BE DISPROPORTIONATELY GREAT. UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE PRESIDENT THE LIST WAS THEREFORE REVISED AND MODIFIED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS NEW ELEMENT OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. A DAY OR TWO AFTERWARD CERTAIN DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CALLED ON ME AND POLITELY INQUIRED WHETHER IT WAS TRUE THAT I HAD APPOINTED A WHIG TO A POSITION IN THE WAR OFFICE CERTAINLY NOT I ANSWERED. AFTER LISTENING PATIENTLY TO THIS STATEMENT I ANSWERED THAT IT WAS THEY WHO WERE DECEIVED NOT I I HAD APPOINTED A CLERK. HE HAD BEEN APPOINTED NEITHER AS A WHIG NOR AS A DEMOCRAT BUT MERELY AS THE FITTEST CANDIDATE FOR THE PLACE IN THE ESTIMATION OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU TO WHICH IT BELONGED. I FURTHER GAVE THEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE SAME PRINCIPLE OF SELECTION WOULD BE FOLLOWED IN SIMILAR CASES SO FAR AS MY AUTHORITY EXTENDED. AFTER SOME FURTHER DISCUSSION OF THE QUESTION THE VISITORS WITHDREW DISSATISFIED WITH THE RESULT OF THE INTERVIEW. THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL ON HEARING OF THIS CONVERSATION HASTENED TO INFORM ME THAT IT WAS ALL A MISTAKE THAT THE APPOINTEE TO THE OFFICE HAD BEEN CONFOUNDED WITH HIS FATHER WHO WAS A WELL KNOWN WHIG BUT THAT HE THE SON WAS A DEMOCRAT. I ASSURED THE GENERAL THAT THIS WAS ALTOGETHER IMMATERIAL ADDING THAT IT WAS A VERY PRETTY QUARREL AS IT STOOD AND THAT I HAD NO DESIRE TO EFFECT A SETTLEMENT OF IT ON ANY INFERIOR ISSUE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/14911/14911_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/14911/14911_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2db311815256c4aa4843ca0f299d39fe9f555ed2 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/14911/14911_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NEVERTHELESS IN GENERAL APPEARANCE THE HARRIER AND THE FOXHOUND ARE VERY MUCH ALIKE THE ONE OBVIOUS DISTINCTION BEING THAT OF SIZE. IF YOU WANT TO HUNT YOUR HARRIERS ON FOOT SIXTEEN INCHES IS QUITE BIG ENOUGH ALMOST TOO BIG TO RUN WITH BUT IF YOU ARE RIDING TO THEM TWENTY INCHES IS A USEFUL HEIGHT OR EVEN NINETEEN INCHES. EITHER IS A GOOD WORKABLE SIZE AND SUCH HOUNDS SHOULD BE ABLE TO SLIP ALONG FAST ENOUGH FOR MOST PEOPLE. SUCH A MAKE AND SHAPE SHOULD SEE MANY SEASONS THROUGH AND ALLOW YOU TO BE CERTAIN OF PACE AND ENDURANCE IN YOUR PACK. IT IS USELESS TO LAY DOWN ANY HARD AND FAST RULE AS TO COLOUR IT IS SO MUCH A MATTER OF INDIVIDUAL TASTE. SOME MASTERS HAVE A GREAT FANCY FOR THE DARK COLOURING OF THE OLD SOUTHERN HOUND BUT NOTHING COULD LOOK MUCH SMARTER THAN A GOOD COMBINATION OF BELVOIR TAN WITH BLACK AND WHITE. AS IN THE CASE OF THE FOXHOUND THE HARRIER IS VERY SELDOM KEPT AS A COMPANION APART FROM THE PACK. BUT PUPPIES ARE USUALLY SENT OUT TO WALK AND MAY EASILY BE PROCURED TO BE KEPT AND REARED UNTIL THEY ARE OLD ENOUGH TO BE ENTERED TO THEIR WORK. THERE IS NOTHING TO SURPASS THE BEAUTY OF THE BEAGLE EITHER TO SEE HIM ON THE FLAGS OF HIS KENNEL OR IN UNRAVELLING A DIFFICULTY ON THE LINE OF A DODGING HARE IN NEATNESS HE IS REALLY THE LITTLE MODEL OF A FOXHOUND. HE IS OF COURSE FINER BUT WITH THE LENGTH OF NECK SO PERFECT IN THE BIGGER HOUND THE LITTLE SHOULDERS OF THE SAME PATTERN AND THE TYPICAL QUARTERS AND SECOND THIGHS. AND WHEN HE IS FAIRLY ON A LINE OF COURSE HE STICKS TO IT AS THE SAYING IS LIKE A BEAGLE. IN THE HEREDITARY HUNTING ESTABLISHMENTS THEY HAVE BEEN FREQUENTLY FOUND AS THE MEDIUM OF AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION IN HUNTING FOR THE JUVENILE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND THERE CAN BE NOTHING MORE LIKELY TO INSTIL THE RIGHT PRINCIPLES OF VENERY INTO THE YOUTHFUL MIND THAN TO FOLLOW ALL THE WAYS OF THESE LITTLE HOUNDS. IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THEREFORE THAT THE BEAGLE WAS CROSSED WITH THE WELSH SOUTHERN OR OTTERHOUND TO GET MORE SIZE AND POWER AS THERE CERTAINLY WAS A WELSH ROUGH COATED BEAGLE OF GOOD EIGHTEEN INCHES AND AN ALMOST IDENTICAL CONTEMPORARY THAT WAS CALLED THE ESSEX BEAGLE. SIXTY YEARS AGO SUCH HOUNDS WERE COMMON ENOUGH BUT POSSIBLY THROUGH THE ADOPTION OF THE MORE PREVALENT PLAN OF BEATING COVERTS AND SPANIELS BEING IN MORE GENERAL USE THE VOCATION OF THE BEAGLE IN THIS PARTICULAR DIRECTION DIED OUT AND A BIG ROUGH COATED BEAGLE IS NOW VERY RARELY SEEN. THAT A GREAT MANY OF THE TRUE ORDER WERE BRED BECAME VERY MANIFEST AS SOON AS THE HARRIER AND BEAGLE ASSOCIATION WAS FORMED AND MORE PARTICULARLY WHEN A SECTION OF THE PETERBOROUGH HOUND SHOW WAS RESERVED FOR THEM. THEN THEY SEEMED TO SPRING FROM EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY. IN EIGHTEEN NINETY SIX ONE BECAME WELL ACQUAINTED WITH MANY PACKS THAT HAD APPARENTLY HELD ALOOF FROM THE DOG SHOWS. ONE HEARS NOW OF THE CHAUSTON THE HALSTEAD PLACE VERY NOTED INDEED THE HULTON THE LEIGH PARK THE STOKE PLACE THE EDINBURGH THE SURBITON THE TRINITY FOOT THE WOODDALE MISSUS G W HILLIARD'S MISSUS PRICE'S AND MISSUS TURNER'S \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/24733/24733_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/24733/24733_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c67cbdcfc64239846698e848bb7a8241e75c4eb --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/24733/24733_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ALL THINGS WHICH FOLLOW FROM THE ABSOLUTE NATURE OF ANY ATTRIBUTE OF GOD MUST ALWAYS EXIST AND BE INFINITE OR IN OTHER WORDS ARE ETERNAL AND INFINITE THROUGH THE SAID ATTRIBUTE. PROOF CONCEIVE IF IT BE POSSIBLE SUPPOSING THE PROPOSITION TO BE DENIED THAT SOMETHING IN SOME ATTRIBUTE OF GOD CAN FOLLOW FROM THE ABSOLUTE NATURE OF THE SAID ATTRIBUTE AND THAT AT THE SAME TIME IT IS FINITE AND HAS A CONDITIONED EXISTENCE OR DURATION FOR INSTANCE THE IDEA OF GOD EXPRESSED IN THE ATTRIBUTE THOUGHT. IN ITS NATURE INFINITE. BUT IN SO FAR AS IT POSSESSES THE IDEA OF GOD IT IS SUPPOSED FINITE. MUST NECESSARILY EXIST. WE HAVE NOW GRANTED THEREFORE THOUGHT NOT CONSTITUTING THE IDEA OF GOD AND ACCORDINGLY THE IDEA OF GOD DOES NOT NATURALLY FOLLOW FROM ITS NATURE IN SO FAR AS IT IS ABSOLUTE THOUGHT FOR IT IS CONCEIVED AS CONSTITUTING AND ALSO AS NOT CONSTITUTING THE IDEA OF GOD WHICH IS AGAINST OUR HYPOTHESIS. FURTHERMORE A THING WHICH THUS FOLLOWS FROM THE NECESSITY OF THE NATURE OF ANY ATTRIBUTE CANNOT HAVE A LIMITED DURATION. FOR IF IT CAN SUPPOSE A THING WHICH FOLLOWS FROM THE NECESSITY OF THE NATURE OF SOME ATTRIBUTE TO EXIST IN SOME ATTRIBUTE OF GOD FOR INSTANCE THE IDEA OF GOD EXPRESSED IN THE ATTRIBUTE THOUGHT AND LET IT BE SUPPOSED AT SOME TIME NOT TO HAVE EXISTED OR TO BE ABOUT NOT TO EXIST. AND BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THE DURATION OF THE IDEA OF GOD SUPPOSING THE LATTER AT SOME TIME NOT TO HAVE EXISTED OR NOT TO BE GOING TO EXIST THOUGHT WOULD PERFORCE HAVE EXISTED WITHOUT THE IDEA OF GOD WHICH IS CONTRARY TO OUR HYPOTHESIS FOR WE SUPPOSED THAT THOUGHT BEING GIVEN THE IDEA OF GOD NECESSARILY FLOWED THEREFROM. THEREFORE THE IDEA OF GOD EXPRESSED IN THOUGHT OR ANYTHING WHICH NECESSARILY FOLLOWS FROM THE ABSOLUTE NATURE OF SOME ATTRIBUTE OF GOD CANNOT HAVE A LIMITED DURATION BUT THROUGH THE SAID ATTRIBUTE IS ETERNAL WHICH IS OUR SECOND POINT. BEAR IN MIND THAT THE SAME PROPOSITION MAY BE AFFIRMED OF ANYTHING WHICH IN ANY ATTRIBUTE NECESSARILY FOLLOWS FROM GOD'S ABSOLUTE NATURE. PROOF THE PROOF OF THIS PROPOSITION IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE PRECEDING ONE. ETERNITY THAT IS IN SO FAR AS IT IS CONSIDERED ABSOLUTELY. COROLLARY HENCE IT FOLLOWS THAT GOD IS NOT ONLY THE CAUSE OF THINGS COMING INTO EXISTENCE BUT ALSO OF THEIR CONTINUING IN EXISTENCE THAT IS IN SCHOLASTIC PHRASEOLOGY GOD IS CAUSE OF THE BEING OF THINGS ESSENDI RERUM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/24733/24733_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/24733/24733_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8159593d14ecc96d1c2e69cbed01d777d815924 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/24733/24733_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +FOR WHETHER THINGS EXIST OR DO NOT EXIST WHENEVER WE CONTEMPLATE THEIR ESSENCE WE SEE THAT IT INVOLVES NEITHER EXISTENCE NOR DURATION CONSEQUENTLY IT CANNOT BE THE CAUSE OF EITHER THE ONE OR THE OTHER. GOD MUST BE THE SOLE CAUSE INASMUCH AS TO HIM ALONE DOES EXISTENCE APPERTAIN. BE CONCEIVED WITHOUT GOD. THEREFORE GOD IS THE CAUSE OF THE ESSENCE OF THINGS. FOR IT IS EVIDENT THEREBY THAT GIVEN THE DIVINE NATURE THE ESSENCE OF THINGS MUST BE INFERRED FROM IT NO LESS THAN THEIR EXISTENCE IN A WORD GOD MUST BE CALLED THE CAUSE OF ALL THINGS IN THE SAME SENSE AS HE IS CALLED THE CAUSE OF HIMSELF. THIS WILL BE MADE STILL CLEARER BY THE FOLLOWING COROLLARY. COROLLARY INDIVIDUAL THINGS ARE NOTHING BUT MODIFICATIONS OF THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD OR MODES BY WHICH THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD ARE EXPRESSED IN A FIXED AND DEFINITE MANNER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/56594/56594_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/56594/56594_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c3e90abde375ebc0f43fd1e28977e24a85085c93 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/56594/56594_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I NEVER ENJOYED TRAVELING SO WELL AS IN THE SLOW COACHES. WHEN I PASSED OVER FROM CLEVELAND TO CINCINNATI THE LAST TIME IN A STAGE I MET A QUEER CROWD. SUCH A CORPS SUCH A TIME YOU NEVER DID SEE. I NEVER WAS BETTER AMUSED IN MY LIFE. WELL THERE WAS NINE INSIDERS AND I DON'T BELIEVE THERE EVER WAS A STAGE FULL OF CHRISTIANS EVER STARTED BEFORE SO CHUCK FULL OF MUSIC. NOBODY SEEMED INCLINED TO OPEN. INDIANY HE STUCK HIS MUG OUT OF THE WINDOW AND CRITICIZED THE CATTLE WE NOW AND THEN PASSED. I WAS WISHING SOMEBODY WOULD GIVE THE CONVERSATION A START WHEN INDIANY MADE A BREAK. THIS AIN'T NO GREAT STOCK COUNTRY SAYS HE TO THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE CANE. NO SIR SAYS THE OLD GENTLEMAN. THERE'S VERY LITTLE GRAZING HERE AND THE RANGE IS PRETTY MUCH WORE OUT. THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE CANE DIDN'T SAY NOTHING AND THE PREACHER GAVE A LONG GROAN. THE YOUNG LADY SMILED THROUGH HER VEIL AND THE OLD LADY SNAPPED HER EYES AND LOOKED SIDEWAYS AT THE SPEAKER. DON'T MAKE MUCH BEEF HERE I RECKON SAYS THE HOOSIER. NO SAYS THE GENTLEMAN. YOURS IS A GREAT BEEF COUNTRY I BELIEVE SAYS THE OLD GENTLEMAN. WELL SIR IT AIN'T ANYTHING ELSE. A MAN THAT'S GOT SENSE ENUFF TO FOLLER HIS OWN COW BELL WITH US AIN'T IN NO DANGER OF STARVIN. I'M GWINE DOWN TO ORLEANS TO SEE IF I CAN'T GIT A CONTRACT OUT OF UNCLE SAM TO FEED THE BOYS WHAT'S BEEN LICKIN THEM INFERNAL MEXICANS SO BAD. I'VE READ SOME ACCOUNTS OF THE BATTLE SAYS THE OLD GENTLEMAN THAT DIDN'T GIVE A VERY FLATTERING ACCOUNT OF THE CONDUCT OF SOME OF OUR TROOPS. THE OLD PREACHER LISTENED TO HIM WITH EVIDENT SIGNS OF DISPLEASURE TWISTIN AND GROANIN TILL HE COULDN'T STAND IT NO LONGER. HE SHUT HIS MOUTH RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF WHAT HE WAS SAYIN AND LOOKED AT THE PREACHER WHILE HIS FACE GOT AS RED AS FIRE. SWEARIN SAYS THE OLD PREACHER IS A TERRIBLE BAD PRACTICE AND THERE AIN'T NO USE IN IT NOHOW. UMPHS BUT INDIANY KEPT SHADY HE APPEARED TO BE COWED DOWN. I KNOW SAYS THE PREACHER THAT A GREAT MANY PEOPLE SWEAR WITHOUT THINKIN AND SOME PEOPLE DON'T B'LIEVE THE BIBLE. THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE CANE TOOK A PART IN THE CONVERSATION AND THE HOOSIER LISTENED WITHOUT EVER OPENING HIS HEAD. I'VE JUST HEARD OF A GENTLEMAN SAYS THE PREACHER THAT'S BEEN TO THE HOLY LAND AND WENT OVER THE BIBLE COUNTRY. IT'S ASTONISHIN TO HEAR WHAT WONDERFUL THINGS HE HAS SEEN. HE WAS AT SODOM AND GOMORROW AND SEEN THE PLACE WHAR LOT'S WIFE FELL AH. SAYS THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE CANE. YES SAYS THE PREACHER HE WENT TO THE VERY SPOT AND WHAT'S THE REMARKABLEST THING OF ALL HE SEEN THE PILLAR OF SALT WHAT SHE WAS TURNED INTO. IS IT POSSIBLE SAYS THE OLD GENTLEMAN. YES SIR HE SEEN THE SALT STANDIN THAR TO THIS DAY. WHAT SAYS THE HOOSIER REAL GENEWINE GOOD SALT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/56594/56594_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/56594/56594_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..961c982a3606c35533f031ba631e310abf97d8fa --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/56594/56594_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +YES SIR A PILLAR OF SALT JEST AS IT WAS WHEN THAT WICKED WOMAN WAS PUNISHED FOR HER DISOBEDIENCE. ALL BUT THE GAMBLER WHO WAS SNOOZING IN THE CORNER OF THE COACH LOOKED AT THE PREACHER THE HOOSIER WITH AN EXPRESSION OF COUNTENANCE THAT PLAINLY TOLD US THAT HIS MIND WAS POWERFULLY CONVICTED OF AN IMPORTANT FACT. RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN AIR HE ASKED. WELL SIR SAYS INDIANY ALL I'VE GOT TO SAY IS IF SHE'D DROPPED IN OUR PARTS THE CATTLE WOULD HAVE LICKED HER UP AFORE SUNDOWN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/112375/112375_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/112375/112375_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ba302c72ea25bb0bd6b9e208ab799f5bac1eba0 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/112375/112375_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SUGRIVA STARTED FROM HIS REST WITH DOUBT AND TERROR IN HIS BREAST. HE HEARD THE PRINCE'S FURIOUS TREAD HE SAW HIS EYES GLOW FIERCELY RED. SWIFT SPRANG THE MONARCH TO HIS FEET UPSTARTING FROM HIS GOLDEN SEAT. HEAR WHAT HE CRIED IN ANGRY MOOD BEWAILING MAN'S INGRATITUDE FOR DRAUGHTS OF WINE FOR SLAUGHTERED COWS FOR TREACHEROUS THEFT FOR BROKEN VOWS A PARDON IS ORDAINED BUT NONE FOR THANKLESS SCORN OF SERVICE DONE. UNGRATEFUL VANAR KING ART THOU AND FAITHLESS TO THY PLIGHTED VOW. NOW IF THY PRIDE DISOWN WHAT HE HIGH THOUGHTED PRINCE HAS DONE FOR THEE STRUCK BY HIS ARROWS SHALT THOU FALL AND BALI MEET IN YAMA'S HALL. STILL OPEN TO THE GLOOMY GOD LIES THE SAD PATH THY BROTHER TROD. THEN TO THY PLIGHTED WORD BE TRUE NOR LET THY STEPS THAT PATH PURSUE. HE CEASED AND TARA STARRY EYED THUS TO THE ANGRY PRINCE REPLIED NOT TO MY LORD SHOULDST THOU ADDRESS A SPEECH SO FRAUGHT WITH BITTERNESS NOT THUS REPROACHED MY LORD SHOULD BE AND LEAST OF ALL O PRINCE BY THEE. FROM PATHS OF TRUTH HE NEVER STRAYS NOR WANDERS IN FORBIDDEN WAYS. NE'ER WILL SUGRIVA'S HEART FORGET BY RAMA SAVED THE LASTING DEBT. RESTORED TO FAME BY RAMA'S GRACE TO EMPIRE O'ER THE VANAR RACE FROM CEASELESS DREAD AND TOIL SET FREE RESTORED TO RUMA AND TO ME BY GRIEF AND CARE AND EXILE TRIED NEW TO THE BLISS SO LONG DENIED LIKE VISVAMITRA ONCE ALAS HE MARKS NOT HOW THE SEASONS PASS. THE MATRONS OF THE VANAR RACE SEE MARKS OF FURY IN THY FACE THEY SEE THINE EYES LIKE BLOOD ARE RED AND WILL NOT YET BE COMFORTED. SHE CEASED AND LAKSHMAN GAVE ASSENT WON BY HER GENTLE ARGUMENT. SO TARA'S PLEADING JUST AND MILD HIS SOFTENING HEART HAD RECONCILED. THE HERO'S SIDE I WILL NOT LEAVE BUT HE THE CONQUEST SHALL ACHIEVE. SO STRONG ART THOU SO BRAVE AND BOLD SO PURE IN THOUGHT SO HUMBLE SOULED THAT THOU DESERVEST WELL TO REIGN AND ALL A MONARCH'S BLISS TO GAIN. LEND THOU MY BROTHER AID AND ALL HIS FOES BENEATH HIS ARM WILL FALL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/112381/112381_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/112381/112381_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b3e0c72a7f26fccb9cf1615eaeb910b17cc63578 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/112381/112381_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ON COMRADES TO THE CAVE I CRIED AND ALL WITHIN THE PORTAL HIED. HERE THOU WITH HOSPITABLE CARE HAST FED US WITH THE NOBLEST FARE PRESERVING US ABOUT TO DIE WITH THIS THY PLENTIFUL SUPPLY. BUT HOW O PIOUS LADY SAY MAY WE THY GRACIOUS BOON REPAY. HE CEASED THE ASCETIC DAME REPLIED WELL VANARS AM I SATISFIED. A LIFE OF HOLY WORKS I LEAD AND FROM YOUR HANDS NO SERVICE NEED. THEN SPAKE AGAIN THE VANAR CHIEF WE CAME TO THEE AND FOUND RELIEF. NOW LISTEN TO A NEW DISTRESS AND AID US HOLY VOTARESS. OUR WANDERINGS IN THIS VASTY CAVE EXHAUST THE TIME SUGRIVA GAVE. ONCE MORE THEN LADY GRANT RELEASE AND LET THY SUPPLIANTS GO IN PEACE AGAIN UPON THEIR ERRAND SPED FOR KING SUGRIVA'S IRE WE DREAD. AND THE GREAT TASK OUR SOVEREIGN SET ALAS IS UNACCOMPLISHED YET. THEY LOOKED UPON THE BOUNDLESS MAIN THE AWFUL SEAT OF VARUN'S REIGN. AND HEARD HIS WATERS ROAR AND RAVE TERRIFIC WITH EACH CRESTED WAVE. THE MONTH IS LOST IN TOIL AND PAIN AND NOW MY FRIENDS WHAT HOPES REMAIN. YOUR HEARTS WITH STRONG AFFECTION FRAUGHT HIS WEAL IN EVERY LABOUR SOUGHT AND THE TRUE VALOUR OF YOUR BAND WAS BLAZONED WIDE IN EVERY LAND. COME LET US ALL FROM FOOD ABSTAIN AND PERISH THUS SINCE HOPE IS VAIN. FAR BETTER THUS TO END OUR LIVES AND LEAVE OUR WEALTH OUR HOMES AND WIVES LEAVE OUR DEAR LITTLE ONES AND ALL THAN BY HIS VENGEFUL HAND TO FALL. NO HERE O CHIEFTAINS WILL I LIE BY OCEAN'S MARGE AND FAST AND DIE. OUR FORFEIT LIVES WILL SURELY PAY FOR IDLE SEARCH AND LONG DELAY AND OUR FIERCE KING WILL BID US DIE THE FAVOUR OF HIS FRIEND TO BUY. THEN TARA SOFTLY SPAKE TO CHEER THE VANARS HEARTS OPPRESSED BY FEAR DESPAIR NO MORE YOUR DOUBTS DISPEL COME IN THIS AMPLE CAVERN DWELL. THOU FONDLY HOPEST IN THIS CAVE THE VENGEANCE OF THE FOE TO BRAVE. BUT LAKSHMAN'S ARM A SHOWER WILL SEND OF DEADLY SHAFTS THOSE WALLS TO REND. THY LOVING KINSMAN TRUE AND WISE LOOKS ON THEE STILL WITH FAVOURING EYES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/112383/112383_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/112383/112383_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e6fa58890778eddfe86b60d0307dc7f78ba00094 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/112383/112383_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE CEASED. WHERE WHERE IS SITA. WHO WOULD THE LIGHTNING FLIGHT WITHSTAND BY LAKSHMAN'S HAND. SCORCHED BY THE FIERY GOD OF DAY HIGH ON THIS MIGHTY HILL I LAY. EACH MORN AND EVE HE BROUGHT ME FOOD AND FILIAL CARE MY LIFE RENEWED. SWIFT TO THE SOUTH HIS COURSE HE BENT AND CLEFT THE YIELDING ELEMENT. THE HOLY SPIRITS OF THE AIR CAME ROUND ME AS I MARVELLED THERE AND CRIED AS THEIR BRIGHT LEGIONS MET O SAY IS SITA LIVING YET. THUS CRIED THE SAINTS AND TOLD THE NAME OF HIM WHO HELD THE STRUGGLING DAME. THEN FROM THE FLOOD SAMPATI PAID DUE OFFERINGS TO HIS BROTHER'S SHADE. SEVEN NIGHTS IN DEADLY SWOON I PASSED BUT STRUGGLING LIFE RETURNED AT LAST. AROUND I BENT MY WONDERING VIEW BUT EVERY SPOT WAS STRANGE AND NEW. I WITH MY MISERY WORN AND FAINT WAS EAGER TO BEHOLD THE SAINT FOR OFTEN WITH JATAYUS I HAD SOUGHT HIS HOME IN DAYS GONE BY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/64670/64670_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/64670/64670_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7189895ab5f48e1ff4be34e11c2b2ea5d5bd7ff9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/64670/64670_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT THIS THY HOST SO WIDE DISPREAD WAKES IN MY HEART ONE DOUBT AND DREAD LEST THREATENING RAMA GOOD AND GREAT ILL THOUGHTS THY JOURNEY STIMULATE. HE IS MY ELDEST BROTHER HE IS LIKE A FATHER DEAR TO ME. I GO TO LEAD MY BROTHER THENCE WHO MAKES THE WOOD HIS RESIDENCE. NO THOUGHT BUT THIS THY HEART SHOULD FRAME THIS SIMPLE TRUTH MY LIPS PROCLAIM. AS GUHA THUS AND BHARAT EACH TO OTHER SPOKE IN FRIENDLY SPEECH THE DAY GOD SANK WITH GLORY DEAD AND NIGHT O'ER ALL THE SKY WAS SPREAD. SOON AS KING GUHA'S THOUGHTFUL CARE HAD QUARTERED ALL THE ARMY THERE WELL HONOURED BHARAT LAID HIS HEAD BESIDE SATRUGHNA ON A BED. FROM HEAT OF BURNING ANGUISH SPRUNG THE SWEAT UPON HIS BODY HUNG AS WHEN THE SUN WITH FERVID GLOW ON HIGH HIMALAYA MELTS THE SNOW. THUS SIGHING AND DISTRESSED IN MISERY AND BITTER GRIEF WITH FEVERED HEART THAT MOCKED RELIEF DISTRACTED IN HIS MIND THE CHIEF STILL MOURNED AND FOUND NO REST. REST DUTEOUS MINDED I WILL KEEP MY WATCH WHILE RAMA LIES ASLEEP FOR IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD IS NONE DEARER TO ME THAN RAGHU'S SON. HARBOUR NO DOUBT OR JEALOUS FEAR I SPEAK THE TRUTH WITH HEART SINCERE FOR FROM THE GRACE WHICH HE HAS SHOWN WILL GLORY ON MY NAME BE THROWN GREAT STORE OF MERIT SHALL I GAIN AND DUTEOUS FORM NO WISH IN VAIN. LET ME ENFORCED BY MANY A ROW OF FOLLOWERS ARMED WITH SHAFT AND BOW FOR WELL LOVED RAMA'S WEAL PROVIDE WHO LIES ASLEEP BY SITA'S SIDE. WITH WORDS LIKE THESE I SPOKE DESIGNED TO MOVE THE HIGH SOULED BHARAT'S MIND BUT HE UPON HIS DUTY BENT PLIED HIS PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT O HOW CAN SLUMBER CLOSE MINE EYES WHEN LOWLY COUCHED WITH SITA LIES THE ROYAL RAMA. HE WHOM NO MIGHTY DEMON NO NOR HEAVENLY GOD CAN OVERTHROW SEE GUHA HOW HE LIES ALAS WITH SITA COUCHED ON GATHERED GRASS. NOW AS HIS SON IS FORCED TO FLY THE KING ERE LONG WILL SURELY DIE REFT OF HIS GUARDIAN HAND FORLORN IN WIDOWED GRIEF THIS LAND WILL MOURN. BUT AH FOR SAD KAUSALYA HOW FARE SHE AND MINE OWN MOTHER NOW HOW FARES THE KING. WITH HOPES UPON SATRUGHNA SET MY MOTHER MAY SURVIVE AS YET BUT THE SAD QUEEN WILL DIE WHO BORE THE HERO FOR HER GRIEF IS SORE. TOO LATE THE KING WILL CRY AND CONQUERED BY HIS MISERY DIE. WHEN FATE HAS BROUGHT THE MOURNFUL DAY WHICH SEES MY FATHER PASS AWAY HOW HAPPY IN THEIR LIVES ARE THEY ALLOWED HIS FUNERAL RITES TO PAY. THUS BHARAT STOOD WITH MANY A SIGH LAMENTING AND THE NIGHT WENT BY. WHEN GUHA SAW THE LONG ARMED CHIEF WHOSE EYE WAS LIKE A LOTUS LEAF WITH LION SHOULDERS STRONG AND FAIR HIGH METTLED PROSTRATE IN DESPAIR PALE BITTERLY AFFLICTED HE REELED AS IN EARTHQUAKE REELS A TREE. THEN BHARAT'S MOTHERS CAME FORLORN OF THEIR DEAR KING WITH FASTING WORN AND STOOD WITH WEEPING EYES AROUND THE HERO PROSTRATE ON THE GROUND. KAUSALYA BY HER WOE OPPRESSED THE SENSELESS BHARAT'S LIMBS CARESSED AS A FOND COW IN LOVE AND FEAR CARESSES OFT HER YOUNGLING DEAR THEN YIELDING TO HER WOE SHE SAID WEEPING AND SORE DISQUIETED WHAT TORMENTS O MY SON ARE THESE OF SUDDEN PAIN OR SWIFT DISEASE. THE LIVES OF US AND ALL THE LINE DEPEND DEAR CHILD ON ONLY THINE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/64670/64670_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/64670/64670_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..40bc54e096a4e3e1fb34d0d9bbe38e75a348afbb --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4572/64670/64670_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +RAMA AND LAKSHMAN FORCED TO FLEE I LIVE BY NAUGHT BUT SEEING THEE FOR AS THE KING HAS PAST AWAY THOU ART MY ONLY HELP TO DAY. SHOW ME THE COUCH WHEREON HE LAY TELL ME THE FOOD HE ATE I PRAY. THEN CALM AND STILL ABSORBED IN THOUGHT HE DRANK THE WATER LAKSHMAN BROUGHT AND THEN OBEDIENT TO HIS VOWS HE FASTED WITH HIS GENTLE SPOUSE. HERE STANDS THE TREE WHICH LENT THEM SHADE HERE IS THE GRASS BENEATH IT LAID WHERE RAMA AND HIS CONSORT SPENT THE NIGHT TOGETHER ERE THEY WENT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/18525/18525_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/18525/18525_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b60539dfba95002904f7aca369cf9f2ceb3dbc90 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/18525/18525_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NEVER MIND POLLY SAID JASPER THERE'S ALL NEXT SUMMER AND AFTER OUR WINTER IN DRESDEN AND ALL OUR HARD WORK OVER MUSIC WON'T IT BE FINE THOUGH TO JAUNT ROUND AGAIN AND HIS EYES GLISTENED. DRESDEN ECHOED POLLY SITTING QUITE STRAIGHT WITH VERY RED CHEEKS OH JASPER. AND WON'T I STUDY THOUGH EXCLAIMED POLLY TO HERSELF AND MAKE THE PROFESSOR THAT HERR BAURICKE HAS ENGAGED FOR ME GLAD THAT HE TEACHES ME OH WON'T I. WELL I'M SORRY THE SUMMER IS GOING SAID ADELA BECAUSE THEN I'VE GOT TO LEAVE YOU AT PARIS AND GO INTO SCHOOL. YES I DO SAID ADELA AND I'VE GOT SOME SKETCHES TO TAKE BACK AND MADEMOISELLE WILL BE GLAD OF THAT. AND YOU'LL GO ON DRAWING AND PAINTING UNTIL YOU GET TO BE A GREAT ARTIST RAN ON POLLY ENTHUSIASTICALLY AND THEN WE'LL SEE SOMETHING YOU'VE DONE IN THE LOUVRE MAYBE THE LOUVRE CRIED ADELA O DEAR ME POLLY PEPPER. TOM SELWYN HAD BEEN VERY SOBER DURING ALL THIS MERRY CHATTER AND NOW IN HIS SEAT ACROSS THE NARROW AISLE HE DRUMMED HIS HEELS IMPATIENTLY ON THE FLOOR. HIS MOTHER LOOKED OVER AT HIM AND SLIPPING OUT OF HER SEAT WENT OVER TO HIM ANY ROOM HERE TOM FOR MOTHER SHE SAID. NOW THIS IS COMFY OBSERVED MISSUS SELWYN AS THE TRAIN SPED ON TOM SEE HERE. WHAT'S UP LITTLE MOTHER ASKED TOM IN SURPRISE AT HER UNUSUAL MANNER IT'S JUST THIS TOM. YOU KNOW WE ARE GOING TO CHAMONIX AND UP THE MER DE GLACE WITH MISTER KING'S PARTY TOM BOBBED HIS HEAD NOT ALLOWING HIMSELF TO EXCLAIM BUT THAT WILL BE ONLY A SHORT JOURNEY NOW AND WE MUST SOON SAY GOOD BY. THEN YOU CAN OVERCOME YOUR DISLIKE TO PARIS ENOUGH TO GO THERE ASKED HIS MOTHER WITH A LITTLE TWINKLE IN HER EYE. WHY I JUST LOVE PARIS HE FINISHED IN AN AWFUL WHISPER CLOSE TO THE PLAIN BLACK BONNET. WHEN THE NEWS WAS CIRCULATED AS IT WAS PRETTY SOON THAT THE PARTY WAS NOT TO BE BROKEN INTO AT ALL TILL PARIS WAS A COMPLETED STORY THE JUBILATION WAS SUCH AS TO SATISFY EVEN TOM. AND AS THIS PARTICULAR PARTY HAD THE CAR ENTIRELY TO THEMSELVES IT WASN'T SO VERY DREADFUL AS IT SEEMS AND THE ELDER MEMBERS ALLOWED INDULGENT SMILES AT IT ALL. THAT NIGHT IN THE MARKET PLACE AT MARTIGNY JASPER WHO WAS AHEAD WITH HIS FATHER RAN BACK TO POLLY AND THE OTHERS LINGERING BEHIND. OH DO HURRY HE BEGGED IT'S THE PRETTIEST SIGHT. THERE IN THE CENTRE OF THE MARKET PLACE WAS A RING OF LITTLE GIRLS HAND IN HAND SINGING A LITTLE FRENCH SONG AND GOING ROUND AND ROUND IN A CIRCLE. THIS BIG SISTER STOPPED THE RING GAME EVERY NOW AND THEN TO KISS THE ROUND FACE BY THE SIDE OF HER GOWN AN EXAMPLE THAT WAS FOLLOWED BY SO MANY OF THE OTHER GIRLS THAT THE GAME SEEMED TO BE NEVER QUITE FINISHED. OH ISN'T IT OATS PEAS BEANS AND BARLEY GROW CRIED POLLY AS THEY WATCHED THEM INTENTLY. EVER SO MUCH LIKE IT SAID TOM. SEE THOSE BOYS NOW THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE TROUBLE. OH THEY SHA'N'T DECLARED POLLY O DEAR ME. SO POLLY AND THE OTHERS BREATHED FREELY AGAIN. BUT UP CAME ANOTHER BOY O DEAR ME CRIED POLLY AGHAST. THEY'RE JEALOUS CHAPS CRIED TOM AND ARE VEXED BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET INTO THE GAME HEAR THEM JEER. AND HIS LONG ARM WENT OUT AND PICKED A JACKET END OF AN URCHIN WHO INCAUTIOUSLY REGARDING SUCH QUIET TRAVELLERS AS NOT WORTH MINDING HAD HOVERED TOO NEAR WHILE TRYING TO TEASE THE GIRLS. HERE YOU SIR CRIED TOM WITH A BIT OF A SHAKE AND A TORRENT OF REMARKABLY GOOD FRENCH NOT TO BE DISREGARDED THEN HE BURST INTO A LAUGH AND THE URCHIN LAUGHED TOO THINKING THIS MUCH BETTER FUN TO TUSSLE WITH THE TALL LAD THAN TO HANG AROUND A PARCEL OF GIRLS. AND PRESENTLY A WOMAN CAME AND TOOK LITTLE BLUE PINAFORE OFF AND THEN THE REST OF THE GIRLS UNCLASPED THEIR HANDS AND THE RING MELTED AWAY AND THE GAME WAS OVER. I'M GLAD THE GIRLS OVER HERE HAVE FUN SAID POLLY AS GRANDPAPA AND HIS PARTY MOVED OFF ISN'T IT NICE TO THINK THEY DO. TWO OR THREE DAYS OF REST AT MARTIGNY PUT EVERYBODY IN GOOD SHAPE AND GAVE THEM ALL A BIT OF TIME TO PICK UP ON MANY LITTLE THINGS THAT WERE BEHINDHAND. THAT'S MY THIRD LETTER POLLY ANNOUNCED JASPER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLE NOW I AM GOING TO BEGIN ON JOEL'S. ONE TWO SAID POLLY COUNTING WHY I THOUGHT I'D WRITTEN THREE WELL THIS ONE IS MOST FINISHED JASPER. YES SAID JASPER GLANCING OVER AT HER IS THAT YOUR LAST PAGE POLLY YES SAID POLLY HURRYING AWAY. THEN SHE THOUGHT OF WHAT MAMSIE HAD SAID AND SLACKENED HER SPEED. POLLY LOOKED UP QUICKLY HER PEN DROPPING FROM HER FINGERS AND JASPER DESERTED HIS FOURTH LETTER AND STARED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/18525/18525_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/18525/18525_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d441711be1eab10d7b227ce8a1c8282ed3cd351 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/18525/18525_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHY SAID POLLY FINDING HER TONGUE WE WOULDN'T DARE TOM SELWYN. DARE SAID TOM DELIGHTED TO THINK THAT NO TERRIBLE RESULT HAD REALLY ENSUED FROM HIS WORDS THAT AFTER THEY WERE OUT HAD SCARED HIM MIGHTILY. OH IF YOU KNEW GRANDDADDY AND HE SANK INTO A CHAIR BY THE TABLE AND PLAYED WITH THE HEAP OF PICTURE POSTAL CARDS THAT POLLY WAS GOING TO ADDRESS NEXT. SO WE COULD CRIED JASPER HOW WOULD THAT DO TOM. THE VERY THING EXCLAIMED TOM STRIKING HIS HAND SO HEAVILY ON THE TABLE THAT FOR A MINUTE IT LOOKED AS IF THE INK BOTTLE HOPPED. IF YOU THINK THERE'S A SHADOW OF DOUBT ON THAT SCORE I'D BEST RUN AND ASK HER NOW. MY MOTHER SAYS THANK POLLY FOR THINKING OF IT IT WILL DO FATHER MORE GOOD THAN ANYTHING ELSE COULD POSSIBLY DO. WELL YOU SPOKE OF THE LETTER FIRST SAID POLLY UNWILLING TO TAKE THE CREDIT FOR ALL THE COMFORT GOING TO THE LITTLE OLD EARL AND I SHALL TELL YOUR MOTHER SO TOM. BUT I DIDN'T SAY ROUND ROBIN PERSISTED TOM WASN'T SMART ENOUGH TO THINK OF IT. AND LET'S GET TO WORK CRIED JASPER HUDDLING UP HIS THREE LETTERS. I'LL POST YOURS TOO POLLY GIVE THEM HERE. O DEAR MY STAMPS ARE ALL GONE SAID POLLY PEERING INTO THE LITTLE BOX IN ONE CORNER OF HER WRITING CASE I'VE PLENTY SAID JASPER HURRYING OFF I'LL STICK ON TWO FOR YOU. OH NO JASPER CRIED POLLY AFTER HIM YOU KNOW MAMSIE WOULD NOT ALLOW ME TO BORROW. IT ISN'T BORROWING SAID JASPER TURNING BACK SLOWLY I'LL GIVE THEM TO YOU POLLY. YES SHE DID SAID JASPER UNCOMFORTABLY. THEN HIS FACE BRIGHTENED AND HE SAID AND SHE'S RIGHT POLLY WHILE POLLY FISHED A FRANC OUT OF JOEL'S LITTLE MONEY BAG THAT HUNG AT HER BELT. DO GET THE STAMPS PLEASE JASPER AND PUT THEM ON AS HE TOOK UP HER TWO LETTERS AND SHE GAVE THE BAG A LITTLE PAT FOR JOEL'S SAKE WISHING IT WAS HIS STUBBY BLACK HAIR THAT HER FINGERS COULD TOUCH. TOM'S BLUE EYES FLASHED DANGEROUSLY THEN HE CLEARED HIS THROAT WHISTLED AND WALKED TO THE WINDOW. I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING TO GET NICE WHITE PAPER FOR OUR ROUND ROBIN SAID POLLY LEANING HER ELBOWS ON THE TABLE AND HER CHIN IN HER HANDS I KNOW EJACULATED TOM WHIRLING ON HIS HEEL AND DASHING OUT. IN HE CAME SWINGING THREE OR FOUR GOODLY SHEETS FILCHED EM OUT OF THE OLD WOMAN'S ROOM HE SAID OH TOM BEGAN POLLY. NEVER YOU FEAR BUT WHAT THEY'LL BE IN OUR BILLS POLLY SAID TOM WHO COULDN'T BELIEVE BY THIS TIME THAT HE HADN'T ALWAYS KNOWN POLLY PEPPER. I'M GLAD WE HAVE ANY HUMMED POLLY HAPPILY. THANK YOUR STARS YOU HAVE SAID TOM AS GAILY. AND JASPER RUNNING IN THE TABLE WAS SOON SURROUNDED BY THE MAKERS OF THE ROUND ROBIN ADELA DESERTING HER SKETCH BOOK AND PULLING UP A CHAIR. AND PHRONSIE MUST COME SAID POLLY SNIPPING AWAY TO GET THE PAPER THE RIGHT WIDTH. O DEAR ME I CAN'T CUT IT STRAIGHT DO YOU PLEASE FINISH IT JASPER THAT'S ALL RIGHT SAID JASPER SQUINTING AT IT CRITICALLY ONLY JUST THIS EDGE WANTS A LITTLE BIT OF TRIMMING POLLY AND HE SNIPPED OFF THE OFFENDING POINTS. I'LL FETCH PHRONSIE CRIED TOM SPRINGING OFF. AND HURRY CRIED POLLY AND JASPER TOGETHER AFTER HIM. NOW PHRONSIE I THINK YOU WOULD BETTER BEGIN FOR YOU ARE THE LITTLEST AND SHE FLAPPED THE LONG STRIP DOWN IN FRONT OF HER. OH POLLY YOU BEGIN BEGGED TOM. NO I THINK PHRONSIE OUGHT TO SAID POLLY SHAKING HER HEAD. I WANT POLLY TO SAID PHRONSIE WRIGGLING AWAY FROM THE PEN THAT POLLY HELD OUT ALLURINGLY. BUT POLLY WANTS YOU TO SAID JASPER I REALLY WOULD PHRONSIE DEAR TO PLEASE HER. PHRONSIE WHO HADN'T HEARD WHAT POLLY SAID HER SMALL HEAD BEING FULL OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BEGINNING THE IMPORTANT LETTER AND CONSIDERING SINCE IT WAS TO BE DONE IT WAS BEST TO HAVE IT OVER WITH AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FELL TO SCRIBBLING THE LETTERS AS FAST AS SHE COULD ALL OF THEM RUNNING DOWN HILL. WELL I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT WE HAVEN'T MADE ANY MISTAKE CRIED POLLY TURNING BACK IN RELIEF OH PHRONSIE YOU HAVEN'T BEGUN. SHE SPOKE SO SHARPLY THAT PHRONSIE STARTED AND A LITTLE DROP OF INK TREMBLING ON THE POINT OF HER PEN CONCLUDED TO HOP OFF. OH SEE WHAT SHE'S WRITTEN CRIED POLLY QUITE AGHAST AND TUMBLING INTO HER CHAIR SHE POINTED AT THE TOP DEER MISTER ERL SCRAWLED CLEAR ACROSS THE TOP I DIDN'T MEAN OH YOU SAID DO IT POLLY PHRONSIE THREW HERSELF OUT OF HER CHAIR AND OVER INTO POLLY'S LAP BURROWING AND WAILING PITEOUSLY. IT'S ALL RIGHT GRANDDADDY'LL LIKE IT HE SAID. OH TOM SELWYN GASPED POLLY LOOKING UP OVER PHRONSIE'S HEAD YOU DON'T SUPPOSE WE'D LET THAT LETTER GO. I WOULD SAID TOM COOLLY RUNNING HIS HANDS IN HIS POCKETS. I TELL YOU YOU DON'T KNOW MY GRANDDADDY HE'S GOT LOTS OF FUN IN HIM HE ADDED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/18525/18525_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/18525/18525_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f37b8fa431da2910c66d2c511abc2e3d720bf401 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/18525/18525_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +PHRONSIE LIFTED HER HEAD WHERE SHE HAD BURROWED IT UNDER POLLY'S ARM. WHEN SHE SAW THAT POLLY'S ROUND CHEEKS WERE REALLY QUITE PALE SHE STOPPED CRYING AT ONCE. ARE YOU SICK POLLY SHE ASKED IN GREAT CONCERN. I SHA'N'T BE SAID POLLY IF YOU WON'T CRY ANY MORE PHRONSIE. I WON'T CRY ANY MORE DECLARED PHRONSIE WIPING OFF THE LAST TEAR TRAILING DOWN HER NOSE. THEN I SHALL BE ALL AS WELL AS EVER SAID POLLY KISSING THE WET LITTLE FACE. WHEN THEY GOT READY TO BEGIN ON THE LETTER AGAIN IT WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND AND TOM HAD DISAPPEARED AS WELL. HE TOOK IT OUT SAID ADELA FOR THE FIRST TIME FINDING HER TONGUE. I SAW HIM WHILE YOU WERE ALL TALKING. MY MOTHER SAYS HE ANNOUNCED IN TRIUMPH THAT FATHER WILL GET NO END OF FUN OVER THAT IF YOU LET IT GO IT WILL CHEER HIM UP. SO THAT ENDED THE MATTER ALTHOUGH POLLY WHO DEARLY LOVED TO BE ELEGANT HAD MANY A TWINGE WHENEVER HER EYE FELL ON THE LETTER AT WHICH PHRONSIE WAS NOW LABOURING AFRESH. WE MUST PUT IN LITTLE PICTURES SAID POLLY TRYING TO MAKE HERSELF CHEERY AS THE WORK WENT BUSILY ON. POLLY YOU ALWAYS DO THINK OF THE BEST THINGS EXCLAIMED JASPER BEAMING AT HER WHICH MADE HER TRY HARDER THAN EVER TO SMILE. I WOULDN'T FEEL SO BADLY POLLY HE MANAGED TO WHISPER WHEN PHRONSIE WAS ABSORBED WITH HER WORK HE'LL LIKE IT PROBABLY JUST AS FATHER DID THE GINGERBREAD BOY. BUT THAT WAS DIFFERENT GROANED POLLY. HE SEEMS TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING EVERY TIME HE GOES OBSERVED JASPER DRILY HALLOO JUST LOOK AT HIM NOW. IN CAME TOM WITH A RUSH AND TURNED A SMALL BOX HE HELD IN HIS HAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE TABLE. O DEAR ME EXCLAIMED ADELA AS HER SCISSORS SLIPPED NOW YOU'VE JOGGLED THE TABLE AGAIN THEN SHE CAUGHT POLLY'S EYE. AREN'T THOSE PICTURES PRETTY SHE BURST OUT AWKWARDLY. I BEGAN BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE KIDS AT HOME MIGHT LIKE EM AND THEN IT STRUCK ME I'D MAKE A BOOK LIKE YOURS. WELL DO SAVE THEM NOW SAID JASPER AND WE'LL GIVE SOME OF OUR PICTURES THOUGH THE PRETTIEST ONES ARE IN OUR BOOKS HE ADDED REGRETFULLY. RATHER NOT MUCH OBLIGED TOM BOBBED HIS THANKS. I WANT TO DONATE SOMETHING TO GRANDDADDY AND I TELL YOU I'M SOMETHING AWFUL AT A LETTER. ALL RIGHT SEEING YOU WISH IT SO SAID JASPER WITH A KEEN LOOK AT HIM AND THESE ARE BEAUTIES AND NO MISTAKE WE COULDN'T BEGIN TO EQUAL THEM. WHEN THE LETTER WAS FINALLY UNROLLED AND READ TO GRANDPAPA WHO STRAYED INTO THE READING ROOM TO SEE WHAT PHRONSIE WAS DOING IT CERTAINLY WAS A BEAUTY. PICTURE AFTER PICTURE CUT FROM RAILROAD GUIDE BOOKS ILLUSTRATED PAPERS AND IT SEEMED TO JASPER GATHERED AS IF BY MAGIC WITH CUNNING LITTLE PHOTOGRAPHS BROKE UP THE LETTER AND WOUND IN AND OUT WITH FUNNY AND CHARMING DETAIL OF SOME OF THEIR JOURNEY. O DEAR ME EXCLAIMED POLLY SOFTLY FOR SHE COULDN'T EVEN YET GET OVER THAT DREADFUL BEGINNING. THE REST OF IT IS NICE WHISPERED JASPER AND I VENTURE TO SAY HE'LL LIKE THAT THE BEST OF ALL. MISTER KING THOUGHT SO TOO AND HE BEAMED AT PHRONSIE SO YOU DID HE CRIED NOW THAT'S FINE I WISH YOU'D WRITE ME A LETTER SOMETIME. I'M GOING TO WRITE YOU ONE NOW DECLARED PHRONSIE SINCE GRANDPAPA WANTED ANYTHING IT WAS NEVER TOO SOON TO BEGIN WORK ON IT. DO CRIED OLD MISTER KING IN GREAT SATISFACTION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c1102627d72c1cce9838746826ac00e1719857e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SHE WAS NOT THINKING OF HER OLD SHOES NOR THE EMPTY CLOSET NOR THE BOYS RAGGED CLOTHES JUST THEN NO SHE HAD A FINE PLAN IN HER GOOD LITTLE HEAD AND WAS TRYING TO DISCOVER HOW SHE COULD CARRY IT OUT. YOU SEE CHRISTMAS WAS COMING IN A WEEK AND SHE HAD SET HER HEART ON PUTTING SOMETHING IN THE CHILDREN'S STOCKINGS AS THE MOTHER USED TO DO FOR WHILE SHE LIVED THINGS WERE COMFORTABLE. NOW TESSA HAD NOT A PENNY IN THE WORLD AND DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GET ONE FOR ALL THE FATHER'S EARNINGS HAD TO GO FOR FOOD FIRE AND RENT. BUT WHAT CAN I DO SO SMALL AND STUPID AND SHY AS I AM. I MUST FIND SOME WAY TO GIVE THE LITTLE ONES A NICE CHRISTMAS. I'LL DO IT I'LL DO IT IF FATHER WILL LET ME SHE SAID TO HERSELF SMILING AND NODDING AT THE FIRE. TOMMO WILL LIKE TO HAVE ME GO WITH HIM AND SING WHILE HE PLAYS HIS HARP IN THE STREETS. I KNOW MANY SONGS AND MAY GET MONEY IF I AM NOT FRIGHTENED FOR PEOPLE THROW PENNIES TO OTHER LITTLE GIRLS WHO ONLY PLAY THE TAMBOURINE. YES I WILL TRY AND THEN IF I DO WELL THE LITTLE ONES SHALL HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS. SO FULL OF HER PLAN WAS TESSA THAT SHE RAN UPSTAIRS AT ONCE AND ASKED TOMMO IF HE WOULD TAKE HER WITH HIM ON THE MORROW. BUT SEE THEN IT IS COLD IN THE STREETS THE WIND BITES AND THE SNOW FREEZES ONE'S FINGERS. THE DAY IS VERY LONG PEOPLE ARE CROSS AND AT NIGHT ONE IS READY TO DIE WITH WEARINESS. THOU ART SO SMALL TESSA I AM AFRAID IT WILL GO BADLY WITH THEE SAID TOMMO WHO WAS A MERRY BLACK EYED BOY OF FOURTEEN WITH THE KINDEST HEART IN THE WORLD UNDER HIS OLD JACKET. I DO NOT MIND COLD AND WET AND CROSS PEOPLE IF I CAN GET THE PENNIES ANSWERED TESSA FEELING VERY BRAVE WITH SUCH A FRIEND TO HELP HER. SHE THANKED TOMMO AND RAN AWAY TO GET READY FOR SHE FELT SURE HER FATHER WOULD NOT REFUSE HER ANYTHING. SHE SEWED UP THE HOLES IN HER SHOES AS WELL AS SHE COULD FOR SHE HAD MUCH OF THAT SORT OF COBBLING TO DO SHE MENDED HER ONLY GOWN AND LAID READY THE OLD HOOD AND SHAWL WHICH HAD BEEN HER MOTHER'S. THEN SHE WASHED OUT LITTLE RANZA'S FROCK AND PUT IT TO DRY BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO IT THE NEXT DAY. SHE SET THE TABLE AND GOT THINGS READY FOR BREAKFAST FOR TOMMO WENT OUT EARLY AND MUST NOT BE KEPT WAITING FOR HER. SHE LONGED TO MAKE THE BEDS AND DRESS THE CHILDREN OVER NIGHT SHE WAS IN SUCH A HURRY TO HAVE ALL IN ORDER BUT AS THAT COULD NOT BE SHE SAT DOWN AGAIN AND TRIED OVER ALL THE SONGS SHE KNEW. WHEN SHE HAD TOLD HER PLAN PETER BENARI SHOOK HIS HEAD AND THOUGHT IT WOULD NEVER DO BUT TESSA BEGGED SO HARD HE CONSENTED AT LAST THAT SHE SHOULD TRY IT FOR ONE WEEK AND SENT HER TO BED THE HAPPIEST LITTLE GIRL IN NEW YORK. NEXT MORNING THE SUN SHONE BUT THE COLD WIND BLEW AND THE SNOW LAY THICK IN THE STREETS. AS SOON AS HER FATHER WAS GONE TESSA FLEW ABOUT AND PUT EVERYTHING IN NICE ORDER TELLING THE CHILDREN SHE WAS GOING OUT FOR THE DAY AND THEY WERE TO MIND TOMMO'S MOTHER WHO WOULD SEE ABOUT THE FIRE AND THE DINNER FOR THE GOOD WOMAN LOVED TESSA AND ENTERED INTO HER LITTLE PLANS WITH ALL HER HEART. NONO AND GIUSEPPE OR SEP AS THEY CALLED HIM WONDERED WHAT SHE WAS GOING AWAY FOR AND LITTLE RANZA CRIED AT BEING LEFT BUT TESSA TOLD THEM THEY WOULD KNOW ALL ABOUT IT IN A WEEK AND HAVE A FINE TIME IF THEY WERE GOOD SO THEY KISSED HER ALL ROUND AND LET HER GO. POOR TESSA'S HEART BEAT FAST AS SHE TRUDGED AWAY WITH TOMMO WHO SLUNG HIS HARP OVER HIS SHOULDER AND GAVE HER HIS HAND. IT WAS RATHER A DIRTY HAND BUT SO KIND THAT TESSA CLUNG TO IT AND KEPT LOOKING UP AT THE FRIENDLY BROWN FACE FOR ENCOURAGEMENT. THEY LIKE MY MUSIC AND OFTEN GIVE ME SIPS OF HOT COFFEE WHICH I LIKE MUCH. YOU TOO SHALL HAVE THE SIPS AND PERHAPS THE PENNIES FOR THESE PEOPLE ARE GREATLY KIND SAID TOMMO LEADING HER INTO A LARGE SMOKY PLACE WHERE MANY PEOPLE SAT AT LITTLE TABLES EATING AND DRINKING. SEE NOW HAVE NO FEAR GIVE THEM BELLA MONICA THAT IS MERRY AND WILL MAKE THE LAUGH WHISPERED TOMMO TUNING HIS HARP. ONE FAT OLD FRENCHMAN NODDED TO HER AND IT SEEMED TO HELP HER VERY MUCH FOR SHE BEGAN TO SING BEFORE SHE THOUGHT AND THAT WAS THE HARDEST PART OF IT. HER VOICE TREMBLED AND HER CHEEKS GREW REDDER AND REDDER AS SHE WENT ON BUT SHE KEPT HER EYES FIXED ON HER OLD SHOES AND SO GOT THROUGH WITHOUT BREAKING DOWN WHICH WAS VERY NICE. THE PEOPLE LAUGHED FOR THE SONG WAS MERRY AND THE FAT MAN SMILED AND NODDED AGAIN. THIS GAVE HER COURAGE TO TRY ANOTHER AND SHE SUNG BETTER AND BETTER EACH TIME FOR TOMMO PLAYED HIS BEST AND KEPT WHISPERING TO HER YES WE GO WELL THIS IS FINE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f900645eb75469361a6ba3d140b09e15fdbe6ee --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEY WILL GIVE THE MONEY AND THE BLESSED COFFEE. SO THEY DID FOR WHEN THE LITTLE CONCERT WAS OVER SEVERAL MEN PUT PENNIES IN THE CAP TESSA OFFERED AND THE FAT MAN TOOK HER ON HIS KNEE AND ORDERED A MUG OF COFFEE AND SOME BREAD AND BUTTER FOR THEM BOTH. THIS QUITE WON HER HEART AND WHEN THEY LEFT THE CAFE SHE KISSED HER HAND TO THE OLD FRENCHMAN AND SAID TO HER FRIEND HOW KIND THEY ARE I LIKE THIS VERY MUCH AND NOW IT IS NOT HARD. BUT TOMMO SHOOK HIS CURLY HEAD AND ANSWERED SOBERLY YES I TOOK YOU THERE FIRST FOR THEY LOVE MUSIC AND ARE OF OUR COUNTRY BUT UP AMONG THE GREAT HOUSES WE SHALL NOT ALWAYS DO WELL. HERE TESSA SUNG ALL HER BEST SONGS AND TOMMO PLAYED AS FAST AS HIS FINGERS COULD FLY BUT IT WAS TOO COLD TO HAVE THE WINDOWS OPEN SO THE PRETTY CHILDREN COULD NOT LISTEN LONG AND THE LADIES TOSSED OUT A LITTLE MONEY AND SOON WENT BACK TO THEIR OWN AFFAIRS. ALL THE AFTERNOON THE TWO FRIENDS WANDERED ABOUT SINGING AND PLAYING AND GATHERING UP THEIR SMALL HARVEST. BUT SHE HAD MADE HALF A DOLLAR FOR TOMMO DIVIDED THE MONEY FAIRLY AND SHE FELT RICH WITH HER SHARE. SHE TIED A BRIGHT SCARLET HANDKERCHIEF OVER THE OLD HOOD AND THE BRILLIANT COLOR SET OFF HER BROWN CHEEKS AND BRIGHT EYES AS WELL AS THE PRETTY BLACK BRAIDS OF HER HAIR. TOMMO'S MOTHER LENT HER A PAIR OF BOOTS SO BIG THAT THEY TURNED UP AT THE TOES BUT THERE WERE NO HOLES IN THEM AND TESSA FELT QUITE ELEGANT IN WHOLE BOOTS. HER HANDS WERE COVERED WITH CHILBLAINS FOR SHE HAD NO MITTENS BUT SHE PUT THEM UNDER HER SHAWL AND SCUFFLED MERRILY AWAY IN HER BIG BOOTS FEELING SO GLAD THAT THE WEEK WAS OVER AND NEARLY THREE DOLLARS SAFE IN HER POCKET. HOW GAY THE STREETS WERE THAT DAY. HOW BRISK EVERY ONE WAS AND HOW BRIGHT THE FACES LOOKED AS PEOPLE TROTTED ABOUT WITH BIG BASKETS HOLLY WREATHS AND YOUNG EVERGREENS GOING TO BLOSSOM INTO SPLENDID CHRISTMAS TREES. IF I COULD HAVE A TREE FOR THE CHILDREN I'D NEVER WANT ANYTHING AGAIN. BUT I CAN'T SO I'LL FILL THE SOCKS ALL FULL AND BE HAPPY SAID TESSA AS SHE LOOKED WISTFULLY INTO THE GAY STORES AND SAW THE HEAVY BASKETS GO BY. WHO KNOWS WHAT MAY HAPPEN IF WE DO WELL RETURNED TOMMO NODDING WISELY FOR HE HAD A PLAN AS WELL AS TESSA AND KEPT CHUCKLING OVER IT AS HE TRUDGED THROUGH THE MUD. EVEN TOMMO LOOKED SOBER AND DIDN'T WHISTLE AS HE WALKED FOR HE ALSO WAS DISAPPOINTED AND HIS PLAN LOOKED RATHER DOUBTFUL THE PENNIES CAME IN SO SLOWLY. WE'LL TRY ONE MORE STREET AND THEN GO HOME THOU ART SO TIRED LITTLE ONE. AT THE FIRST HOUSE A CROSS OLD GENTLEMAN FLAPPED HIS NEWSPAPER AT THEM AT THE SECOND A YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY WERE SO BUSY TALKING THAT THEY NEVER TURNED THEIR HEADS AND AT THE THIRD A SERVANT CAME OUT AND TOLD THEM TO GO AWAY BECAUSE SOME ONE WAS SICK. AT THE FOURTH SOME PEOPLE LET THEM SING ALL THEIR SONGS AND GAVE NOTHING. THE NEXT THREE HOUSES WERE EMPTY AND THE LAST OF ALL SHOWED NOT A SINGLE FACE AS THEY LOOKED UP ANXIOUSLY. THEY WERE JUST GOING TO TURN AWAY BUT THEY DIDN'T FOR THAT ANGRY THUMP HAPPENED TO BE THE BEST THING THEY COULD HAVE DONE. ALL OF A SUDDEN A LITTLE HEAD APPEARED AT THE WINDOW AS IF THE SOUND HAD BROUGHT IT THEN ANOTHER AND ANOTHER TILL THERE WERE FIVE OF ALL HEIGHTS AND COLORS AND FIVE EAGER FACES PEEPED OUT SMILING AND NODDING TO THE TWO BELOW. SING TESSA SING QUICK QUICK CRIED TOMMO TWANGING AWAY WITH ALL HIS MIGHT AND SHOWING HIS WHITE TEETH AS HE SMILED BACK AT THE LITTLE GENTLE FOLK. BLESS US HOW TESSA DID TUNE UP AT THAT. THE CHILDREN LAUGHED AND CLAPPED THEIR HANDS AND CRIED MORE MORE SING ANOTHER LITTLE GIRL PLEASE DO. MAMMA SAYS COME TO THE DOOR IT'S TOO MUDDY TO THROW THE MONEY INTO THE STREET CRIED OUT A KINDLY CHILD'S VOICE AS TESSA HELD UP THE OLD CAP WITH BESEECHING EYES. TESSA FELT SO GRATEFUL THAT WITHOUT WAITING FOR TOMMO SHE SANG HER SWEETEST LITTLE SONG ALL ALONE. YOU HAVE A CHARMING VOICE CHILD WHO TAUGHT YOU TO SING ASKED THE YOUNG LADY KINDLY. I WISH SHE COULD SING AT OUR TREE SINCE BELLA IS ILL CRIED ONE OF THE CHILDREN PEEPING THROUGH THE BANISTERS. SIT DOWN AND WARM YOURSELF AND TELL ME ABOUT RANZA SAID THE KIND ELDER SISTER WHO LIKED THE CONFIDING LITTLE GIRL IN SPITE OF HER SHABBY CLOTHES SO TESSA SAT DOWN AND DRIED THE BIG BOOTS OVER THE FURNACE AND TOLD HER STORY WHILE TOMMO STOOD MODESTLY IN THE BACKGROUND AND THE CHILDREN LISTENED WITH FACES FULL OF INTEREST \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d4e50ff18f0666447033d09516b6c9ccbcc470c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +O ROSE LET US SEE THE LITTLE GIRL AND IF SHE WILL DO LET US HAVE HER AND TESSA CAN LEARN OUR SONG AND IT WILL BE SPLENDID CRIED THE BIGGEST BOY WHO SAT ASTRIDE OF A CHAIR AND STARED AT THE HARP WITH ROUND EYES. I'LL ASK MAMMA SAID ROSE AND AWAY SHE WENT INTO THE DINING ROOM CLOSE BY. AS THE DOOR OPENED TESSA SAW WHAT LOOKED TO HER LIKE A FAIRY FEAST ALL SILVER MUGS AND FLOWERY PLATES AND ORANGES AND NUTS AND ROSY WINE IN TALL GLASS PITCHERS AND SMOKING DISHES THAT SMELT SO DELICIOUSLY SHE COULD NOT RESTRAIN A LITTLE SNIFF OF SATISFACTION. ARE YOU HUNGRY ASKED THE BOY IN A GRAND TONE. YES SIR MEEKLY ANSWERED TESSA. I SAY MAMMA SHE WANTS SOMETHING TO EAT CAN I GIVE HER AN ORANGE CALLED THE BOY PRANCING AWAY INTO THE SPLENDID ROOM QUITE LIKE A FAIRY PRINCE TESSA THOUGHT. A PLUMP MOTHERLY LADY CAME OUT AND LOOKED AT TESSA ASKED A FEW QUESTIONS AND THEN TOLD HER TO COME TO MORROW WITH RANZA AND THEY WOULD SEE WHAT COULD BE DONE. TESSA CLAPPED HER HANDS FOR JOY SHE DIDN'T MIND THE CHILBLAINS NOW AND TOMMO PLAYED A LIVELY MARCH HE WAS SO PLEASED. WILL YOU COME TOO AND BRING YOUR HARP. YOU SHALL BE PAID AND SHALL HAVE SOMETHING FROM THE TREE LIKEWISE SAID THE MOTHERLY LADY WHO LIKED WHAT TESSA GRATEFULLY TOLD ABOUT HIS KINDNESS TO HER. AH YES I SHALL COME WITH MUCH GLADNESS AND PLAY AS NEVER IN MY LIFE BEFORE CRIED TOMMO WITH A FLOURISH OF THE OLD CAP THAT MADE THE CHILDREN LAUGH. GIVE THESE TO YOUR BROTHERS SAID THE FAIRY PRINCE STUFFING NUTS AND ORANGES INTO TESSA'S HANDS. AND THESE TO THE LITTLE GIRL ADDED ONE OF THE YOUNG PRINCESSES FLYING OUT OF THE DINING ROOM WITH CAKES AND ROSY APPLES FOR RANZA. FREDDY BRING ME YOUR MITTENS THESE POOR HANDS MUST BE COVERED. ALICE GET YOUR PLAY HOOD THIS HANDKERCHIEF IS ALL WET AND MAUD BRING THE OLD CHINCHILLA TIPPET. AH SO KIND SO VERY KIND I HAVE NO WAY TO SAY THANK YOU BUT RANZA SHALL BE FOR YOU A HEAVENLY ANGEL AND I WILL SING MY HEART OUT FOR YOUR TREE CRIED TESSA FOLDING THE MITTENS AS IF SHE WOULD SAY A PRAYER OF THANKFULNESS IF SHE KNEW HOW. THEN THEY WENT AWAY AND THE PRETTY CHILDREN CALLED AFTER THEM COME AGAIN TESSA COME AGAIN TOMMO. ALL THE GOODIES WERE DIVIDED EVENLY INTO THREE PARTS AND STOWED AWAY IN FATHER'S THREE BIG SOCKS WHICH HUNG AGAINST THE CURTAIN. THE LITTLE MOTHER KEPT NOTHING FOR HERSELF BUT THE PLEASURE OF GIVING EVERYTHING AWAY YET I THINK SHE WAS BOTH RICHER AND HAPPIER THAN IF SHE HAD KEPT THEM ALL. MAY THE SAINTS BLESS AND KEEP THEE ALWAYS SAID PETER BENARI TENDERLY AS HE HELD HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER CLOSE AND GAVE HER THE GOOD NIGHT KISS. SHE DREAMED WONDERFUL DREAMS THAT NIGHT AND WOKE IN THE MORNING TO FIND REAL WONDERS BEFORE HER EYES. SHE GOT UP EARLY TO SEE IF THE SOCKS WERE ALL RIGHT AND THERE SHE FOUND THE MOST ASTONISHING SIGHT. FOUR SOCKS INSTEAD OF THREE AND BY THE FOURTH PINNED OUT QUITE ELEGANTLY WAS A LITTLE DRESS EVIDENTLY MEANT FOR HER A WARM WOOLLEN DRESS ALL MADE AND ACTUALLY WITH BRIGHT BUTTONS ON IT. IT NEARLY TOOK HER BREATH AWAY SO DID THE NEW BOOTS ON THE FLOOR AND THE FUNNY LONG STOCKING LIKE A GREY SAUSAGE WITH A WOODEN DOLL STARING OUT AT THE TOP AS IF SHE SAID POLITELY A MERRY CHRISTMAS MA'AM. TESSA SCREAMED AND DANCED IN HER DELIGHT AND UP TUMBLED ALL THE CHILDREN TO SCREAM AND DANCE WITH HER MAKING A REGULAR CARNIVAL ON A SMALL SCALE. RANZA SKIPPED TO AND FRO AIRILY DRESSED IN HER WHITE SOCKS AND THE RED HOOD THE BOYS PROMENADED IN THEIR LITTLE SHIRTS ONE WITH HIS CREAKING NEW SHOES AND MITTENS THE OTHER IN HIS GAY CAP AND FINE TIPPET AND TESSA PUT HER DRESS STRAIGHT ON FEELING THAT HER FATHER'S GOLD GOWN WAS NOT ALL A JOKE. IN HER LONG STOCKING SHE FOUND ALL SORTS OF TREASURES FOR TOMMO HAD STUFFED IT FULL OF QUEER THINGS AND HIS MOTHER HAD MADE GINGERBREAD INTO EVERY IMAGINABLE SHAPE FROM FAT PIGS TO FULL OMNIBUSES. DEAR ME WHAT HAPPY LITTLE SOULS THEY WERE THAT MORNING AND WHEN THEY WERE QUIET AGAIN HOW LIKE A FAIRY TALE DID TESSA'S STORY SOUND TO THEM. RANZA WAS QUITE READY TO BE AN ANGEL AND THE BOYS PROMISED TO BE MARVELLOUSLY GOOD IF THEY WERE ONLY ALLOWED TO SEE THE TREE AT THE PALACE AS THEY CALLED THE GREAT HOUSE. LITTLE RANZA WAS ACCEPTED WITH DELIGHT BY THE KIND LADY AND HER CHILDREN AND TESSA LEARNED THE SONG QUITE EASILY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..674d6aeb3e4b8e4c3cbbc02b6e150402d064a662 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/25894/25894_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE BOYS WERE ASKED AND AFTER A HAPPY DAY THE YOUNG ITALIANS ALL RETURNED TO PLAY THEIR PARTS AT THE FINE CHRISTMAS PARTY. MAMMA AND MISS ROSE DRILLED THEM ALL AND WHEN THE FOLDING DOORS FLEW OPEN ONE RAPTUROUS OH. AROSE FROM THE CROWD OF CHILDREN GATHERED TO THE FESTIVAL. I ASSURE YOU IT WAS SPLENDID THE GREAT TREE GLITTERING WITH LIGHTS AND GIFTS AND ON HER INVISIBLE PERCH UP AMONG THE GREEN BOUGHS SAT THE LITTLE GOLDEN HAIRED ANGEL ALL IN WHITE WITH DOWNY WINGS A SHINING CROWN ON HER HEAD AND THE MOST SERENE SATISFACTION IN HER BLUE EYES AS SHE STRETCHED HER CHUBBY ARMS TO THOSE BELOW AND SMILED HER BABY SMILE AT THEM. BEFORE ANY ONE COULD SPEAK A VOICE AS FRESH AND SWEET AS A LARK'S SANG THE CHRISTMAS CAROL SO BLITHELY THAT EVERY ONE STOOD STILL TO HEAR AND THEN CLAPPED TILL THE LITTLE ANGEL SHOOK ON HER PERCH AND CRIED OUT BE TILL OR ME'LL FALL. HOW THEY LAUGHED AT THAT AND WHAT FUN THEY HAD TALKING TO RANZA WHILE MISS ROSE STRIPPED THE TREE FOR THE ANGEL COULD NOT RESIST TEMPTATION AND AMUSED HERSELF BY EATING ALL THE BONBONS SHE COULD REACH TILL SHE WAS TAKEN DOWN TO DANCE ABOUT LIKE A FAIRY IN A WHITE FROCK AND RED SHOES. IT WAS A HAPPY NIGHT AND ALL THEIR LIVES THEY REMEMBERED IT AS SOMETHING TOO BEAUTIFUL AND BRIGHT TO BE QUITE TRUE. BEFORE THEY WENT HOME THE KIND MAMMA TOLD TESSA SHE SHOULD BE HER FRIEND AND GAVE HER A MOTHERLY KISS WHICH WARMED THE CHILD'S HEART AND SEEMED TO SET A SEAL UPON THAT PROMISE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/29134/29134_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/29134/29134_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8357284e304ee8c64abcc1facd2071f1d540cc67 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/29134/29134_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE FURTHER SAID THAT IF THIS NOBLE WERE A PURE MAN AND MERELY MISGUIDED HE COULD BEAR IT BUT THAT HE SHOULD SUCCEED IN HIS WICKED DESIGNS THROUGH A BASE USE OF MONEY WOULD LEAVE A BLOT UPON HIS STATE WHICH WOULD WORK UNTOLD EVIL TO THE MORALS OF THE PEOPLE AND THAT HE WOULD NOT SUFFER THE PUBLIC MORALS MUST NOT BE CONTAMINATED. HE WOULD SEEK THIS MAN NOBLE HE WOULD ARGUE HE WOULD PERSUADE HE WOULD APPEAL TO HIS HONOR. NOBLE WAS WORKING HARD TOO BUT MATTERS WERE AGAINST HIM HE WAS NOT MAKING MUCH PROGRESS. MISTER DILWORTHY TOOK AN EARLY OPPORTUNITY TO SEND FOR MISTER NOBLE HE HAD A MIDNIGHT INTERVIEW WITH HIM AND URGED HIM TO FORSAKE HIS EVIL WAYS HE BEGGED HIM TO COME AGAIN AND AGAIN WHICH HE DID. I FEEL A GOOD DEAL RELIEVED NOW A GREAT DEAL RELIEVED. THE SENATOR NOW TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO MATTERS TOUCHING THE SOULS OF HIS PEOPLE. THE SENATOR WROUGHT IN BIBLE CLASSES AND NOTHING COULD KEEP HIM AWAY FROM THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS NEITHER SICKNESS NOR STORMS NOR WEARINESS. HE EVEN TRAVELED A TEDIOUS THIRTY MILES IN A POOR LITTLE RICKETY STAGECOACH TO COMPLY WITH THE DESIRE OF THE MISERABLE HAMLET OF CATTLEVILLE THAT HE WOULD LET ITS SUNDAY SCHOOL LOOK UPON HIM. TO THEM A UNITED STATES SENATOR WAS A VAST VAGUE COLOSSUS AN AWE INSPIRING UNREALITY. BOYS NUDGED EACH OTHER AND SAID HI JOHNNY HERE HE IS THERE THAT'S HIM WITH THE PEELED HEAD. THE SENATOR TOOK HIS SEAT IN THE PULPIT WITH THE MINISTER ON ONE SIDE OF HIM AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ON THE OTHER. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN OCCUPIED TEN OF THE FRONT BENCHES DRESSED IN THEIR BEST AND MOST UNCOMFORTABLE CLOTHES AND WITH HAIR COMBED AND FACES TOO CLEAN TO FEEL NATURAL. SO AWED WERE THEY BY THE PRESENCE OF A LIVING UNITED STATES SENATOR THAT DURING THREE MINUTES NOT A SPIT BALL WAS THROWN. AFTER THAT THEY BEGAN TO COME TO THEMSELVES BY DEGREES AND PRESENTLY THE SPELL WAS WHOLLY GONE AND THEY WERE RECITING VERSES AND PULLING HAIR. THE USUAL SUNDAY SCHOOL EXERCISES WERE HURRIED THROUGH AND THEN THE MINISTER GOT UP AND BORED THE HOUSE WITH A SPEECH BUILT ON THE CUSTOMARY SUNDAY SCHOOL PLAN THEN THE SUPERINTENDENT PUT IN HIS OAR THEN THE TOWN DIGNITARIES HAD THEIR SAY. THEY ALL MADE COMPLIMENTARY REFERENCE TO THEIR FRIEND THE SENATOR AND TOLD WHAT A GREAT AND ILLUSTRIOUS MAN HE WAS AND WHAT HE HAD DONE FOR HIS COUNTRY AND FOR RELIGION AND TEMPERANCE AND EXHORTED THE LITTLE BOYS TO BE GOOD AND DILIGENT AND TRY TO BECOME LIKE HIM SOME DAY. THE SPEAKERS WON THE DEATHLESS HATRED OF THE HOUSE BY THESE DELAYS BUT AT LAST THERE WAS AN END AND HOPE REVIVED INSPIRATION WAS ABOUT TO FIND UTTERANCE. SENATOR DILWORTHY ROSE AND BEAMED UPON THE ASSEMBLAGE FOR A FULL MINUTE IN SILENCE. THEN HE SMILED WITH AN ACCESS OF SWEETNESS UPON THE CHILDREN AND BEGAN. I HAVE BEEN ASKING MYSELF AS I SAT HERE WHERE AM I. AM I IN SOME FAR OFF MONARCHY LOOKING UPON LITTLE PRINCES AND PRINCESSES NO. AM I IN SOME POPULOUS CENTRE OF MY OWN COUNTRY WHERE THE CHOICEST CHILDREN OF THE LAND HAVE BEEN SELECTED AND BROUGHT TOGETHER AS AT A FAIR FOR A PRIZE NO. AM I IN SOME STRANGE FOREIGN CLIME WHERE THE CHILDREN ARE MARVELS THAT WE KNOW NOT OF NO. THEN WHERE AM I YES WHERE AM I. I AM IN A SIMPLE REMOTE UNPRETENDING SETTLEMENT OF MY OWN DEAR STATE AND THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE NOBLE AND VIRTUOUS MEN WHO HAVE MADE ME WHAT I AM. MY SOUL IS LOST IN WONDER AT THE THOUGHT. AND I HUMBLY THANK HIM TO WHOM WE ARE BUT AS WORMS OF THE DUST THAT HE HAS BEEN PLEASED TO CALL ME TO SERVE SUCH MEN. EARTH HAS NO HIGHER NO GRANDER POSITION FOR ME. LET KINGS AND EMPERORS KEEP THEIR TINSEL CROWNS I WANT THEM NOT MY HEART IS HERE. AGAIN I THOUGHT IS THIS A THEATRE NO. IS IT A CONCERT OR A GILDED OPERA NO. THEN WHAT IS IT WHAT DID MY CONSCIOUSNESS REPLY. I ASK YOU MY LITTLE FRIENDS WHAT DID MY CONSCIOUSNESS REPLY. IT REPLIED IT IS THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD. AH THINK OF THAT NOW I COULD HARDLY KEEP THE TEARS BACK I WAS SO GRATEFUL. CHILDREN HONOR YOUR PARENTS AND BE GRATEFUL TO THEM FOR PROVIDING FOR YOU THE PRECIOUS PRIVILEGES OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/29134/29134_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/29134/29134_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..694a1dfeaa31d41315c4ead9ca144f92970ad2ba --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4831/29134/29134_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NOW MY DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS SIT UP STRAIGHT AND PRETTY THERE THAT'S IT AND GIVE ME YOUR ATTENTION AND LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT A POOR LITTLE SUNDAY SCHOOL SCHOLAR I ONCE KNEW HE LIVED IN THE FAR WEST AND HIS PARENTS WERE POOR. THEY COULD NOT GIVE HIM A COSTLY EDUCATION BUT THEY WERE GOOD AND WISE AND THEY SENT HIM TO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL HE LOVED THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. I HOPE YOU LOVE YOUR SUNDAY SCHOOL AH I SEE BY YOUR FACES THAT YOU DO THAT IS RIGHT. WELL THIS POOR LITTLE BOY WAS ALWAYS IN HIS PLACE WHEN THE BELL RANG AND HE ALWAYS KNEW HIS LESSON FOR HIS TEACHERS WANTED HIM TO LEARN AND HE LOVED HIS TEACHERS DEARLY. ALWAYS LOVE YOUR TEACHERS MY CHILDREN FOR THEY LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN KNOW NOW. HE WOULD NOT LET BAD BOYS PERSUADE HIM TO GO TO PLAY ON SUNDAY THERE WAS ONE LITTLE BAD BOY WHO WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO PERSUADE HIM BUT HE NEVER COULD. TEMPTATIONS LAY ALL ABOUT HIM AND SOMETIMES HE WAS ABOUT TO YIELD BUT HE WOULD THINK OF SOME PRECIOUS LESSON HE LEARNED IN HIS SUNDAY SCHOOL A LONG TIME AGO AND THAT WOULD SAVE HIM. BY AND BY HE WAS ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE THEN HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS HE GOT LAWS PASSED FOR THEM HE GOT SUNDAY SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED WHEREVER HE COULD. AND BY AND BY THE PEOPLE MADE HIM GOVERNOR AND HE SAID IT WAS ALL OWING TO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. WELL AT LAST WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED. WHY THE PEOPLE GAVE HIM A TOWERING ILLUSTRIOUS POSITION A GRAND IMPOSING POSITION. AND WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WAS. WHAT SHOULD YOU SAY IT WAS CHILDREN. IT WAS SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES. THAT POOR LITTLE BOY THAT LOVED HIS SUNDAY SCHOOL BECAME THAT MAN THAT MAN STANDS BEFORE YOU. ABOVE ALL THINGS MY CHILDREN BE HONEST. ABOVE ALL THINGS BE PURE MINDED AS THE SNOW LET US JOIN IN PRAYER. WHEN SENATOR DILWORTHY DEPARTED FROM CATTLEVILLE HE LEFT THREE DOZEN BOYS BEHIND HIM ARRANGING A CAMPAIGN OF LIFE WHOSE OBJECTIVE POINT WAS THE UNITED STATES SENATE. I'VE WORKED HARD AND I'VE GOT THEM AT LAST. BY SUPPER TIME TO MORROW YOU'LL BE RE ELECTED YOU CAN GO TO BED AND SLEEP EASY ON THAT. AFTER MISTER NOBLE WAS GONE THE SENATOR SAID \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24967bdeed5f47894fe10260cd5612e06bfdaf8f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +LELECHKA'S SWEET VOICE CHARMED HER MOTHER. LELECHKA WAS A DELIGHTFUL CHILD. THERE WAS NO OTHER SUCH CHILD THERE NEVER HAD BEEN AND THERE NEVER WOULD BE. LELECHKA'S MOTHER SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA WAS SURE OF THAT. LELECHKA'S EYES WERE DARK AND LARGE HER CHEEKS WERE ROSY HER LIPS WERE MADE FOR KISSES AND FOR LAUGHTER. BUT IT WAS NOT THESE CHARMS IN LELECHKA THAT GAVE HER MOTHER THE KEENEST JOY. LELECHKA WAS HER MOTHER'S ONLY CHILD. TO TELL THE TRUTH SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA FELT HAPPY ONLY IN THE NURSERY. SHE FELT COLD WITH HER HUSBAND. PERHAPS IT WAS BECAUSE HE HIMSELF LOVED THE COLD HE LOVED TO DRINK COLD WATER AND TO BREATHE COLD AIR. HE WAS ALWAYS FRESH AND COOL WITH A FRIGID SMILE AND WHEREVER HE PASSED COLD CURRENTS SEEMED TO MOVE IN THE AIR. THE NESLETYEVS SERGEY MODESTOVICH AND SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA HAD MARRIED WITHOUT LOVE OR CALCULATION BECAUSE IT WAS THE ACCEPTED THING. IT EVEN SEEMED TO SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA THAT SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH HER FUTURE HUSBAND AND THIS MADE HER HAPPY. THE BRIDE WAS ALSO GOOD LOOKING SHE WAS A TALL DARK EYED DARK HAIRED GIRL SOMEWHAT TIMID BUT VERY TACTFUL. HE WAS NOT AFTER HER DOWRY THOUGH IT PLEASED HIM TO KNOW THAT SHE HAD SOMETHING. HE HAD CONNEXIONS AND HIS WIFE CAME OF GOOD INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE. THIS MIGHT AT THE PROPER OPPORTUNITY PROVE USEFUL. ALWAYS IRREPROACHABLE AND TACTFUL NESLETYEV GOT ON IN HIS POSITION NOT SO FAST THAT ANY ONE SHOULD ENVY HIM NOR YET SO SLOW THAT HE SHOULD ENVY ANY ONE ELSE EVERYTHING CAME IN THE PROPER MEASURE AND AT THE PROPER TIME. AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE MANNER OF SERGEY MODESTOVICH TO SUGGEST ANYTHING WRONG TO HIS WIFE. LATER HOWEVER WHEN HIS WIFE WAS ABOUT TO HAVE A CHILD SERGEY MODESTOVICH ESTABLISHED CONNEXIONS ELSEWHERE OF A LIGHT AND TEMPORARY NATURE. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA FOUND THIS OUT AND TO HER OWN ASTONISHMENT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY HURT SHE AWAITED HER INFANT WITH A RESTLESS ANTICIPATION THAT SWALLOWED EVERY OTHER FEELING. BUT SHE SOON FOUND THAT HE LISTENED TO HER WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST INTEREST AND ONLY FROM THE HABIT OF POLITENESS. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA DRIFTED FARTHER AND FARTHER AWAY FROM HIM. SHE LOVED HER LITTLE GIRL WITH THE UNGRATIFIED PASSION THAT OTHER WOMEN DECEIVED IN THEIR HUSBANDS SHOW THEIR CHANCE YOUNG LOVERS. THIS CHARMING INABILITY TO SPEAK ALWAYS MADE SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA SMILE WITH TENDER RAPTURE. LELECHKA THEN RAN AWAY STAMPING WITH HER PLUMP LITTLE LEGS OVER THE CARPETS AND HID HERSELF BEHIND THE CURTAINS NEAR HER BED. WHERE IS MY BABY GIRL THE MOTHER ASKED AS SHE LOOKED FOR LELECHKA AND MADE BELIEVE THAT SHE DID NOT SEE HER. THEN SHE CAME OUT A LITTLE FARTHER AND HER MOTHER AS THOUGH SHE HAD ONLY JUST CAUGHT SIGHT OF HER SEIZED HER BY HER LITTLE SHOULDERS AND EXCLAIMED JOYOUSLY HERE SHE IS MY LELECHKA. LELECHKA LAUGHED LONG AND MERRILY HER HEAD CLOSE TO HER MOTHER'S KNEES AND ALL OF HER CUDDLED UP BETWEEN HER MOTHER'S WHITE HANDS. HER MOTHER'S EYES GLOWED WITH PASSIONATE EMOTION. HER MOTHER WENT TO HIDE. LELECHKA TURNED AWAY AS THOUGH NOT TO SEE BUT WATCHED HER MAMOCHKA STEALTHILY ALL THE TIME. LELECHKA RAN ROUND THE ROOM AND LOOKED INTO ALL THE CORNERS MAKING BELIEVE AS HER MOTHER HAD DONE BEFORE THAT SHE WAS SEEKING THOUGH SHE REALLY KNEW ALL THE TIME WHERE HER MAMOCHKA WAS STANDING. WHERE'S MY MAMOCHKA ASKED LELECHKA. HER MOTHER STOOD WITH SUPPRESSED BREATHING HER HEAD PRESSED AGAINST THE WALL HER HAIR SOMEWHAT DISARRANGED. A SMILE OF ABSOLUTE BLISS PLAYED ON HER RED LIPS. THE NURSE FEDOSYA A GOOD NATURED AND FINE LOOKING IF SOMEWHAT STUPID WOMAN SMILED AS SHE LOOKED AT HER MISTRESS WITH HER CHARACTERISTIC EXPRESSION WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT IT WAS NOT FOR HER TO OBJECT TO GENTLEWOMEN'S CAPRICES. SHE THOUGHT TO HERSELF THE MOTHER IS LIKE A LITTLE CHILD HERSELF LOOK HOW EXCITED SHE IS. LELECHKA WAS GETTING NEARER HER MOTHER'S CORNER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82e28566f574a76a1b0f902e2d803985684f2ae7 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HER MOTHER WAS GROWING MORE ABSORBED EVERY MOMENT BY HER INTEREST IN THE GAME HER HEART BEAT WITH SHORT QUICK STROKES AND SHE PRESSED EVEN CLOSER TO THE WALL DISARRANGING HER HAIR STILL MORE. LELECHKA SUDDENLY GLANCED TOWARD HER MOTHER'S CORNER AND SCREAMED WITH JOY. I'VE FOUND OO SHE CRIED OUT LOUDLY AND JOYOUSLY MISPRONOUNCING HER WORDS IN A WAY THAT AGAIN MADE HER MOTHER HAPPY. SERGEY MODESTOVICH WAS COMING AT THIS MOMENT TOWARD THE NURSERY. THROUGH THE HALF CLOSED DOORS HE HEARD THE LAUGHTER THE JOYOUS OUTCRIES THE SOUND OF ROMPING. HE ENTERED THE NURSERY SMILING HIS GENIAL COLD SMILE HE WAS IRREPROACHABLY DRESSED AND HE LOOKED FRESH AND ERECT AND HE SPREAD ROUND HIM AN ATMOSPHERE OF CLEANLINESS FRESHNESS AND COLDNESS. HE ENTERED IN THE MIDST OF THE LIVELY GAME AND HE CONFUSED THEM ALL BY HIS RADIANT COLDNESS. EVEN FEDOSYA FELT ABASHED NOW FOR HER MISTRESS NOW FOR HERSELF. SERGEY MODESTOVICH GAVE A SWIFT GLANCE ROUND THE ROOM. HE LIKED COMING HERE WHERE EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFULLY ARRANGED THIS WAS DONE BY SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA WHO WISHED TO SURROUND HER LITTLE GIRL FROM HER VERY INFANCY ONLY WITH THE LOVELIEST THINGS. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA DRESSED HERSELF TASTEFULLY THIS TOO SHE DID FOR LELECHKA WITH THE SAME END IN VIEW. ONE THING SERGEY MODESTOVICH HAD NOT BECOME RECONCILED TO AND THIS WAS HIS WIFE'S ALMOST CONTINUOUS PRESENCE IN THE NURSERY. IT'S JUST AS I THOUGHT I KNEW THAT I'D FIND YOU HERE HE SAID WITH A DERISIVE AND CONDESCENDING SMILE. THEY LEFT THE NURSERY TOGETHER. MERELY YOU SEE THAT THE CHILD SHOULD FEEL ITS OWN INDIVIDUALITY HE EXPLAINED IN ANSWER TO SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA'S PUZZLED GLANCE. SHE'S STILL SO LITTLE SAID SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA. IN ANY CASE THIS IS BUT MY HUMBLE OPINION. I DON'T INSIST IT'S YOUR KINGDOM THERE. I'LL THINK IT OVER HIS WIFE ANSWERED SMILING AS HE DID COLDLY BUT GENIALLY. THEN THEY BEGAN TO TALK OF SOMETHING ELSE. AND THE MISTRESS HERSELF IS LIKE A LITTLE ONE ADDED FEDOSYA SMILING. AGATHYA LISTENED AND SHOOK HER HEAD OMINOUSLY WHILE HER FACE BECAME GRAVE AND REPROACHFUL. THAT THE MISTRESS DOES IT WELL THAT'S ONE THING BUT THAT THE YOUNG LADY DOES IT THAT'S BAD. WHY ASKED FEDOSYA WITH CURIOSITY. THIS EXPRESSION OF CURIOSITY GAVE HER FACE THE LOOK OF A WOODEN ROUGHLY PAINTED DOLL. YES THAT'S BAD REPEATED AGATHYA WITH CONVICTION TERRIBLY BAD WELL. SHE'LL HIDE AND HIDE AND HIDE AWAY SAID AGATHYA IN A MYSTERIOUS WHISPER AS SHE LOOKED CAUTIOUSLY TOWARD THE DOOR. IT'S THE TRUTH I'M SAYING REMEMBER MY WORDS AGATHYA WENT ON WITH THE SAME ASSURANCE AND SECRECY. IT'S THE SUREST SIGN. THE OLD WOMAN HAD INVENTED THIS SIGN QUITE SUDDENLY HERSELF AND SHE WAS EVIDENTLY VERY PROUD OF IT. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA DID NOT EVEN NOTICE THAT FEDOSYA CAME UP TO HER AND PAUSED BEFORE HER. FEDOSYA HAD A WORRIED FRIGHTENED LOOK. MADAM MADAM SHE SAID QUIETLY IN A TREMBLING VOICE. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA GAVE A START. FEDOSYA'S FACE MADE HER ANXIOUS. WHAT IS IT FEDOSYA SHE ASKED WITH GREAT CONCERN IS THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH LELECHKA. NO MADAM SAID FEDOSYA AS SHE GESTICULATED WITH HER HANDS TO REASSURE HER MISTRESS AND TO MAKE HER SIT DOWN. LELECHKA IS ASLEEP MAY GOD BE WITH HER. ONLY I'D LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING YOU SEE LELECHKA IS ALWAYS HIDING HERSELF THAT'S NOT GOOD. FEDOSYA LOOKED AT HER MISTRESS WITH FIXED EYES WHICH HAD GROWN ROUND FROM FRIGHT. WHY NOT GOOD ASKED SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA WITH VEXATION SUCCUMBING INVOLUNTARILY TO VAGUE FEARS. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW BAD IT IS SAID FEDOSYA AND HER FACE EXPRESSED THE MOST DECIDED CONFIDENCE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ed6ecbbe6a8e3aac03f82b7e1bd49a65f70d90d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +PLEASE SPEAK IN A SENSIBLE WAY OBSERVED SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA DRYLY. I UNDERSTAND NOTHING OF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. YOU SEE MADAM IT'S A KIND OF OMEN EXPLAINED FEDOSYA ABRUPTLY IN A SHAMEFACED WAY. NONSENSE SAID SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA. WHO TOLD YOU ALL THIS ASKED SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA IN AN AUSTERE LOW VOICE. AGATHYA SAYS SO MADAM ANSWERED FEDOSYA IT'S SHE THAT KNOWS. KNOWS EXCLAIMED SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA IN IRRITATION AS THOUGH SHE WISHED TO PROTECT HERSELF SOMEHOW FROM THIS SUDDEN ANXIETY. FEDOSYA DEJECTED HER FEELINGS HURT LEFT HER MISTRESS. WHAT NONSENSE AS THOUGH LELECHKA COULD DIE. SHE SAW CLEARLY THAT THERE COULD BE NO POSSIBLE CONNEXION BETWEEN A CHILD'S QUITE ORDINARY DIVERSION AND THE CONTINUATION OF THE CHILD'S LIFE. SHE MADE A SPECIAL EFFORT THAT EVENING TO OCCUPY HER MIND WITH OTHER MATTERS BUT HER THOUGHTS RETURNED INVOLUNTARILY TO THE FACT THAT LELECHKA LOVED TO HIDE HERSELF. WHEN LELECHKA WAS STILL QUITE SMALL AND HAD LEARNED TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN HER MOTHER AND HER NURSE SHE SOMETIMES SITTING IN HER NURSE'S ARMS MADE A SUDDEN ROGUISH GRIMACE AND HID HER LAUGHING FACE IN THE NURSE'S SHOULDER. THEN SHE WOULD LOOK OUT WITH A SLY GLANCE. THOUGH SHE REPROACHED HERSELF AT ONCE FOR THIS UNFOUNDED SUPERSTITIOUS DREAD NEVERTHELESS SHE COULD NOT ENTER WHOLEHEARTEDLY INTO THE SPIRIT OF LELECHKA'S FAVOURITE GAME AND SHE TRIED TO DIVERT LELECHKA'S ATTENTION TO SOMETHING ELSE. SHE EAGERLY COMPLIED WITH HER MOTHER'S NEW WISHES. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA TRIED DESPERATELY TO AMUSE LELECHKA. THIS WAS NOT SO EASY BECAUSE RESTLESS THREATENING THOUGHTS OBTRUDED THEMSELVES CONSTANTLY. PERHAPS THOUGHT SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA SHE IS NOT AS STRONGLY DRAWN TO THE WORLD AS OTHER CHILDREN WHO ARE ATTRACTED BY MANY THINGS. IF THIS IS SO IS IT NOT A SIGN OF ORGANIC WEAKNESS. IS IT NOT A GERM OF THE UNCONSCIOUS NON DESIRE TO LIVE. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA WAS TORMENTED BY PRESENTIMENTS. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA HERSELF BEGAN THE GAME ONCE OR TWICE THOUGH SHE PLAYED IT WITH A HEAVY HEART. SHE SUFFERED AS THOUGH COMMITTING AN EVIL DEED WITH FULL CONSCIOUSNESS. IT WAS A SAD DAY FOR SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA. NO SOONER HAD SHE CLIMBED INTO HER LITTLE BED PROTECTED BY A NETWORK ON ALL SIDES THAN HER EYES BEGAN TO CLOSE FROM FATIGUE. HER MOTHER COVERED HER WITH A BLUE BLANKET. LELECHKA DREW HER SWEET LITTLE HANDS FROM UNDER THE BLANKET AND STRETCHED THEM OUT TO EMBRACE HER MOTHER HER MOTHER BENT DOWN. LELECHKA WITH A TENDER EXPRESSION ON HER SLEEPY FACE KISSED HER MOTHER AND LET HER HEAD FALL ON THE PILLOW. SHE SEEMED SO SMALL AND SO FRAIL UNDER THE BLANKET THAT COVERED HER. HER MOTHER LOOKED AT HER WITH SAD EYES. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA REMAINED STANDING OVER LELECHKA'S BED A LONG WHILE AND SHE KEPT LOOKING AT LELECHKA WITH TENDERNESS AND FEAR. I'M A MOTHER IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO PROTECT HER SHE THOUGHT AS SHE IMAGINED THE VARIOUS ILLS THAT MIGHT BEFALL LELECHKA. SHE PRAYED LONG THAT NIGHT BUT THE PRAYER DID NOT RELIEVE HER SADNESS. SEVERAL DAYS PASSED LELECHKA CAUGHT COLD. THE FEVER CAME UPON HER AT NIGHT. WHEN SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA AWAKENED BY FEDOSYA CAME TO LELECHKA AND SAW HER LOOKING SO HOT SO RESTLESS AND SO TORMENTED SHE INSTANTLY RECALLED THE EVIL OMEN AND A HOPELESS DESPAIR TOOK POSSESSION OF HER FROM THE FIRST MOMENTS. A DOCTOR WAS CALLED AND EVERYTHING WAS DONE THAT IS USUAL ON SUCH OCCASIONS BUT THE INEVITABLE HAPPENED. AND LELECHKA GREW FEEBLER FROM HOUR TO HOUR. NOTHING MADE HER SO UNHAPPY AS THE REITERATIONS OF FEDOSYA UTTERED BETWEEN SOBS SHE HID HERSELF AND HID HERSELF OUR LELECHKA \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2404fe71397c21f391f7dcd82fa75c85d98ab1b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5543/27761/27761_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT THE THOUGHTS OF SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA WERE CONFUSED AND SHE COULD NOT QUITE GRASP WHAT WAS HAPPENING. FEVER WAS CONSUMING LELECHKA AND THERE WERE TIMES WHEN SHE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS AND SPOKE IN DELIRIUM. BUT WHEN SHE RETURNED TO HERSELF SHE BORE HER PAIN AND HER FATIGUE WITH GENTLE GOOD NATURE SHE SMILED FEEBLY AT HER MAMOCHKA SO THAT HER MAMOCHKA SHOULD NOT SEE HOW MUCH SHE SUFFERED. THREE DAYS PASSED TORTURING LIKE A NIGHTMARE. LELECHKA GREW QUITE FEEBLE. SHE DID NOT KNOW THAT SHE WAS DYING. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA HID HER FACE BEHIND THE CURTAINS NEAR LELECHKA'S BED HOW TRAGIC. A WHITE MAMOCHKA WHISPERED LELECHKA. MAMOCHKA'S WHITE FACE BECAME BLURRED AND EVERYTHING GREW DARK BEFORE LELECHKA. SHE MET HER HUSBAND. SERGEY MODESTOVICH LOOKED ANXIOUSLY AT HER PALE FACE. SERAFIMA AICKSANDROVNA WAS STANDING BY THE COFFIN AND LOOKING DULLY AT HER DEAD CHILD. SERGEY MODESTOVICH WENT TO HIS WIFE AND CONSOLING HER WITH COLD EMPTY WORDS TRIED TO DRAW HER AWAY FROM THE COFFIN. GO AWAY SHE SAID QUIETLY LELECHKA IS PLAYING SHE'LL BE UP IN A MINUTE. SIMA MY DEAR DON'T AGITATE YOURSELF SAID SERGEY MODESTOVICH IN A WHISPER. YOU MUST RESIGN YOURSELF TO YOUR FATE. SHE'LL BE UP IN A MINUTE PERSISTED SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA HER EYES FIXED ON THE DEAD LITTLE GIRL. SERGEY MODESTOVICH LOOKED ROUND HIM CAUTIOUSLY HE WAS AFRAID OF THE UNSEEMLY AND OF THE RIDICULOUS. SIMA DON'T AGITATE YOURSELF HE REPEATED. THIS WOULD BE A MIRACLE AND MIRACLES DO NOT HAPPEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. NO SOONER HAD HE SAID THESE WORDS THAN SERGEY MODESTOVICH FELT THEIR IRRELEVANCE TO WHAT HAD HAPPENED. HE WAS CONFUSED AND ANNOYED. HE TOOK HIS WIFE BY THE ARM AND CAUTIOUSLY LED HER AWAY FROM THE COFFIN SHE DID NOT OPPOSE HIM. HER FACE SEEMED TRANQUIL AND HER EYES WERE DRY. SHE WENT INTO THE NURSERY AND BEGAN TO WALK ROUND THE ROOM LOOKING INTO THOSE PLACES WHERE LELECHKA USED TO HIDE HERSELF. SHE WALKED ALL ABOUT THE ROOM AND BENT NOW AND THEN TO LOOK UNDER THE TABLE OR UNDER THE BED AND KEPT ON REPEATING CHEERFULLY WHERE IS MY LITTLE ONE WHERE IS MY LELECHKA. AFTER SHE HAD WALKED ROUND THE ROOM ONCE SHE BEGAN TO MAKE HER QUEST ANEW. FEDOSYA MOTIONLESS WITH DEJECTED FACE SAT IN A CORNER AND LOOKED FRIGHTENED AT HER MISTRESS THEN SHE SUDDENLY BURST OUT SOBBING AND SHE WAILED LOUDLY. SHE HID HERSELF AND HID HERSELF OUR LELECHKA OUR ANGELIC LITTLE SOUL. NEXT MORNING SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA DRESSED WITH PARTICULAR CARE FOR LELECHKA. WHEN SHE ENTERED THE PARLOUR THERE WERE SEVERAL PEOPLE BETWEEN HER AND LELECHKA. THE PRIEST AND DEACON PACED UP AND DOWN THE ROOM CLOUDS OF BLUE SMOKE DRIFTED IN THE AIR AND THERE WAS A SMELL OF INCENSE. THERE WAS AN OPPRESSIVE FEELING OF HEAVINESS IN SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA'S HEAD AS SHE APPROACHED LELECHKA. LELECHKA LAY THERE STILL AND PALE AND SMILED PATHETICALLY. THE LITTLE ONE DID NOT REPLY. THEN THERE WAS SOME KIND OF STIR AND CONFUSION AROUND SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA STRANGE UNNECESSARY FACES BENT OVER HER SOME ONE HELD HER AND LELECHKA WAS CARRIED AWAY SOMEWHERE. SERAFIMA ALEKSANDROVNA STOOD UP ERECT SIGHED IN A LOST WAY SMILED AND CALLED LOUDLY LELECHKA. LELECHKA WAS BEING CARRIED OUT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50873/50873_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50873/50873_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ce70469314b87f63524643d53666bfd3db9f474 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50873/50873_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AS EARLY AS SIXTEEN SEVENTY FIVE HE WENT TO THE MOUTH OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER WITH A SMALL NAVAL FORCE TO ASSERT HIS AUTHORITY. CAPTAIN BULL THE COMMANDER OF A SMALL GARRISON AT SAYBROOK PERMITTED HIM TO LAND BUT WHEN THE GOVERNOR BEGAN TO READ HIS COMMISSION BULL ORDERED HIM TO BE SILENT. ANDROS WAS COMPELLED TO YIELD TO THE BOLD SPIRIT AND SUPERIOR MILITARY POWER OF CAPTAIN BULL AND IN A TOWERING PASSION HE RETURNED TO NEW YORK FLINGING CURSES AND THREATS BEHIND HIM AT THE PEOPLE OF CONNECTICUT IN GENERAL AND CAPTAIN BULL IN PARTICULAR. AT THE END OF THAT PERIOD A MOST EXCITING INCIDENT OCCURRED AT HARTFORD DURING THE VISIT OF CHARLES STEVENS TO THAT CITY. THIS HISTORICAL INCIDENT HAS ABOUT IT ALL THE ROSY HUES OF ROMANCE ON THE VERY DAY OF THE ARRIVAL OF CHARLES STEVENS AT HARTFORD WHILE HE WAS TALKING WITH CAPTAIN WADSWORTH HIS AUNT'S HUSBAND A MEMBER OF THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLY SUDDENLY ENTERED THE HOUSE HIS FACE FLUSHED WITH EXCITEMENT. WHAT HAS HAPPENED MISTER PRINCE WADSWORTH ASKED FOR HE COULD SEE THAT THE MAN WAS GREATLY EXCITED GOVERNOR ANDROS HAS COME AGAIN GASPED MISTER PRINCE WHY SHOULD THAT ALARM US THE FELLOW THOUGH GIVEN TO BOASTING IS NOT DANGEROUS OR LIABLE TO PUT HIS THREATS INTO EXECUTION BUT HE HAS GROWN DANGEROUS DECLARED MISTER PRINCE THE LIBERTIES OF THE COLONY ARE INVOLVED. CAPTAIN WADSWORTH BECAME A LITTLE UNEASY THOUGH HE WAS STILL INCLINED TO TREAT THE MATTER LIGHTLY. I REMEMBER SUCH AN ORDER AND FURTHERMORE THAT ALL THE COLONIES COMPLIED WITH HIS INFAMOUS DEMAND SAVE CONNECTICUT. WE HAVE STUBBORNLY REFUSED TO YIELD OUR CHARTER VOLUNTARILY FOR IT IS THE GUARDIAN OF OUR POLITICAL RIGHTS. THAT IS TRUE CAPTAIN WADSWORTH CONTINUED MISTER PRINCE AND TO SUBDUE OUR STUBBORNNESS THIS VICEROY HAS COME TO HARTFORD WITH SIXTY ARMED MEN TO DEMAND THE SURRENDER OF THE CHARTER IN PERSON. CAPTAIN WADSWORTH BOUNDED TO HIS FEET IN A RAGE AND PLACING HIS HAND ON THE HILT OF HIS SWORD DECLARED HE SHALL NOT HAVE IT. ARRIVING AT HARTFORD ON THE THIRTY FIRST OF OCTOBER SIXTEEN EIGHTY SEVEN ANDROS FOUND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN SESSION IN THE MEETING HOUSE. THE MEMBERS RECEIVED HIM WITH THE COURTESY DUE TO HIS RANK. BEFORE THAT BODY WITH ARMED MEN AT HIS BACK HE DEMANDED A FORMAL SURRENDER OF THE PRECIOUS CHARTER INTO HIS HANDS. THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY WERE ALARMED AND AMAZED AT HIS REQUEST. THE DAY WAS WELL NIGH SPENT WHEN HE ARRIVED AND THE MEMBERS WERE ENGAGED IN A HEATED DEBATE ON A SUBJECT OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE. I HAVE COME FOR THE CHARTER AND I WILL HAVE IT SAID ANDROS IN HIS HAUGHTY IMPERIOUS MANNER. HE CONSENTED HOWEVER TO AWAIT THE DISCUSSION BUT AS SOON AS IT WAS ENDED HE DECLARED THAT HE WOULD HAVE THE CHARTER. AFTER THE CAPTAIN HAD TAKEN TWO OR THREE TURNS ACROSS THE ROOM HE PAUSED AND ASKED. WHAT IS THE ASSEMBLY DOING ENGAGED IN A DEBATE. AND WILL HE WAIT UNTIL IT HAS ENDED HE HAS PROMISED TO DO SO. HASTEN BACK MISTER PRINCE AND WHISPER IN THE EARS OF EVERY MEMBER TO PROLONG THE DEBATE IT WILL GIVE US TIME. MISTER PRINCE FIXED HIS AMAZED EYES ON THE CAPTAIN'S FACE AND READ THERE A DESPERATE DETERMINATION CAPTAIN HE BEGAN. I HOPE YOU WILL NOT ENDANGER YOUR OWN LIFE. MISTER PRINCE OUR LIBERTIES ARE IN DANGER AND THERE IS NO TIME TO THINK OF LIFE HASTEN BACK TO THE ASSEMBLY AND I WILL FOLLOW IN A FEW MOMENTS. MISTER PRINCE BOWED AND HASTILY RETURNED TO THE HOUSE WHERE THE ASSEMBLY WAS IN SESSION. AS SOON AS HE WAS GONE CHARLES STEVENS SAID. UNCLE SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN I KNOW FROM YOUR LOOK AND WORDS WON'T YOU LET ME GO WITH YOU. YES CHARLES YOU WILL ANSWER WHAT DO YOU MEAN UNCLE. ARE YOU WILLING TO HELP US I AM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50873/50873_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50873/50873_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6824bd59117922378abe2f0ba5c06be029e5fe89 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50873/50873_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEN YOU CAN PUT OUT THE LIGHTS WHAT LIGHTS. HE FOUND THE DEBATERS CUDGELLING THEIR BRAINS FOR SOMETHING TO SAY TO THE POINT OR AGAINST IT. NEVER DID DEBATERS TAKE GREATER INTEREST IN A MINOR SUBJECT. CHARLES YOU SEE THE SOLDIERS OF GOVERNOR ANDROS AT THE STATE HOUSE YES. THEY ARE SENT TO TAKE OUR LIBERTIES MY TRAIN BANDS HAVE THEIR EYES ON THEM. WHAT DO YOU INTEND DOING UNCLE WILL YOU FIGHT THEM. WE HAVE NO WISH TO SHED THEIR BLOOD. CAN YOU DO IT NOTHING IS EASIER. REMEMBER THE WORK MUST BE DONE RIGHT AT THE TIME NOT TOO SOON NOR TOO LATE. I WILL DO IT AT THE EXACT MOMENT UNCLE HAVE NO FEAR ON THAT SCORE. THE SUN WAS SETTING AND THE CAPTAIN SAID. COME CHARLES LET US HASTEN TO THE ASSEMBLY. LOOK WELL AT THE SETTING SUN YOU MAY NOT LIVE TO SEE IT RISE. CHARLES STEVENS SMILED AND ANSWERED. BY NO MEANS BUT I WANT YOU TO BE FULLY IMPRESSED WITH THE SERIOUSNESS OF YOUR MISSION. THE DEBATE WAS AT A WHITE HEAT. TAKE YOUR PLACE CHARLES AND BE PREPARED TO DO YOUR PART WHISPERED CAPTAIN WADSWORTH. CHARLES GOT AS CLOSE TO THE LONG TABLE USED BY THE SECRETARIES AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT ATTRACTING SPECIAL ATTENTION. THE DISCUSSION WENT ON DARKNESS CAME AND FOUR LIGHTED CANDLES WERE PLACED ON THE TABLE AND TWO SET ON A SHELF ON THE WALL. THOSE TWO CANDLES ON THE WALL WERE A GREAT ANNOYANCE TO CHARLES UNTIL HE SAW A MAN STATIONED NEAR THEM. THOUGH THE LIGHTS WERE EXTINGUISHED THROUGH THE WINDOWS THE FAINT STARLIGHT DIMLY ILLUMINATED THE SCENE. CHARLES STEVENS SAW THE OUTLINE OF HIS UNCLE WHO SEIZED THE BOX AND HURRIED WITH IT FROM THE MEETING HOUSE. HE FOLLOWED HIM AS RAPIDLY AS HE COULD. A TERRIBLE UPROAR AND CONFUSION INSIDE ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF EVERYBODY SO CAPTAIN WADSWORTH ESCAPED WITHOUT BEING NOTICED WITH THE PRECIOUS DOCUMENT UNDER HIS ARM. THE YOUTH WAS CLOSE BEHIND HIM AND WHEN THEY WERE OUTSIDE SEIZED HIS ARM. BOY HAVE A CARE HOW YOU APPROACH ME. WHY I WAS ABOUT TO RUN YOU THROUGH HAVE YOU GOT IT. WHIST CHARLES THE GOVERNOR'S SOLDIERS ARE NEAR. THE SOLDIERS BEGAN TO CROWD ABOUT THE HOUSE WHEN AT A SIGNAL FROM CAPTAIN WADSWORTH THE TRAIN BANDS CAME ON THE SCENE AND PREPARED TO GRAPPLE WITH THE SOLDIERS. LIGHT THE CANDLES HE CRIED AND WE WILL HAVE PEACE WHEN THE CANDLES WERE RELIGHTED THE MEMBERS WERE SEEN SEATED ABOUT THE TABLE IN PERFECT ORDER BUT THE CHARTER COULD NOWHERE BE SEEN. FOR A FEW MOMENTS THE OUTWITTED GOVERNOR STOOD GLARING AT FIRST ONE AND THEN THE OTHER OF THE ASSEMBLY HIS PASSION CHOKED HIM TO SILENCE AT FIRST BUT AS SOON AS HE PARTIALLY RECOVERED HIS SELF POSSESSION HE DEMANDED. WHERE IS THE CHARTER. NO ONE ANSWERED AND WITH BOSOM SWELLING WITH INDIGNATION AT BEING CHEATED BY A DEVICE OF THE SHREWD MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY HE THREATENED TO HAVE THEM ARRESTED. GOVERNOR ANDROS WE DISPUTE YOUR AUTHORITY HERE AND HAVE DISPUTED IT BEFORE SAID A MEMBER OF THE ASSEMBLY. YOU HAVE YOUR SOLDIERS AT THE DOOR AND WE HAVE THE TRAIN BANDS OF CONNECTICUT READY TO DEFEND US AGAINST VIOLENCE. WHO OF YOU HAS THE CHARTER. I HAVE NOT ANSWERED ONE NOR I. IT WAS THE BOY CRIED THE ENRAGED GOVERNOR. EVERY MEMBER OF THE ASSEMBLY SHOOK THEIR HEADS. WE DO NOT KNOW HIM HE DOES NOT LIVE IN CONNECTICUT WHERE DOES HE LIVE. HE IS FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND BEYOND EVEN THE CLAIMED BOUNDS OF YOUR JURISDICTION. WE RESENT YOUR INSULT CRIED AN OFFICER OF THE ASSEMBLY THE IMPUTATION IS FALSE. MEANWHILE CAPTAIN WADSWORTH AND HIS WIFE'S NEPHEW HAVING THE CHARTER HURRIED THROUGH THE CROWD WHICH OPENED FOR THEM TO PASS AND CLOSED BEHIND THEM. LITTLE DID THE CAPTAIN OR HIS YOUTHFUL ASSISTANT DREAM THAT THEIR SIMPLE ACT WOULD MAKE THE OLD TREE HISTORIC \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50873/50873_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50873/50873_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..612da65cad005dd280451865ff3ec78fc0cba565 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50873/50873_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AS LONG AS AMERICAN STUDENTS SHALL STUDY THE HISTORY OF THEIR COUNTRY WILL THE CHARTER OAK BE FAMOUS. THAT SAME NIGHT CHARLES STEVENS FEARING THE WRATH OF GOVERNOR ANDROS SET OUT FOR HIS HOME AT SALEM. THE TREE IN WHICH THE DOCUMENT WAS HIDDEN WAS EVER AFTERWARD KNOWN AS THE CHARTER OAK. IT REMAINED VIGOROUS BEARING FRUIT EVERY YEAR UNTIL A LITTLE AFTER MIDNIGHT AUGUST EIGHTEEN FIFTY SIX WHEN IT WAS PROSTRATED BY A HEAVY STORM OF WIND. IT STOOD IN A VACANT LOT ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHARTER STREET A FEW RODS FROM MAIN STREET IN THE CITY OF HARTFORD. WHEN IN SIXTEEN EIGHTY SEVEN ANDROS DEMANDED THE SURRENDER OF THE COLONIAL CHARTERS THE INHABITANTS OF RHODE ISLAND INSTANTLY YIELDED. WHEN THE ORDER FOR THE SEIZURE OF THE CHARTERS WAS FIRST MADE KNOWN THE ASSEMBLY OF RHODE ISLAND SENT A MOST LOYAL ADDRESS TO THE KING SAYING. HE FORMALLY DISSOLVED THE ASSEMBLY BROKE THE SEAL OF THE COLONY WHICH BORE THE FIGURE OF AN ANCHOR AND THE WORD HOPE ADMITTED FIVE OF THE INHABITANTS INTO HIS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND ASSUMED THE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNOR BUT HE DID NOT TAKE AWAY THE PARCHMENT ON WHICH THE CHARTER WAS WRITTEN. FROM THAT TIME UNTIL THE ENFORCED UNION OF THE COLONIES FOR MUTUAL DEFENCE AT THE BREAKING OUT OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR THE INHABITANTS OF RHODE ISLAND BORE THEIR SHARE IN THE DEFENSIVE EFFORTS ESPECIALLY WHEN THE HOSTILE SAVAGES HUNG ALONG THE FRONTIERS OF NEW YORK LIKE AN ILL OMENED CLOUD. THE HISTORY OF THAT COMMONWEALTH IS IDENTIFIED WITH THAT OF ALL NEW ENGLAND FROM THE BEGINNING OF KING WILLIAM'S WAR SOON AFTER TO THE EXPULSION OF ANDROS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50962/50962_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50962/50962_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..665a1fa1d4ad05fb71d74c235355e090b14ccc9f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50962/50962_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MISSUS MC LAUGHLIN AND HER LITTLE DAUGHTER STRAINED THEIR EYES TO SEE IF POSSIBLE WHAT MIGHT BE GOING ON DOWN AT THE BEACH. CALLED BERT WHO HAD HEARD HIS UNCLE GETTING READY TO RUN DOWN TO THE WATER'S EDGE. YES COME ALONG ANSWERED MISTER MINTURN AND AS DAY BEGAN TO PEEP THROUGH THE HEAVY CLOUDS THE TWO HURRIED DOWN TO THE SPOT WHERE THE LIFE GUARDS WERE BURNING THEIR RED LIGHT TO TELL THE SAILORS THEIR SIGNAL HAD BEEN SEEN. THERE'S THE VESSEL EXCLAIMED BERT AS A ROCKET FLEW UP FROM THE WATER. YES THAT'S THE DISTRESS SIGNAL REPLIED THE UNCLE. IT IS LUCKY THAT DAYLIGHT IS ALMOST HERE. NUMBERS OF OTHER COTTAGERS WERE HURRYING TO THE SCENE NOW MISTER BINGHAM AND HAL BEING AMONG THE FIRST TO REACH THE SPOT. IT'S A SCHOONER SAID MISTER BINGHAM TO MISTER MINTURN AND SHE HAS A VERY HEAVY CARGO. THEY ARE GOING TO SHOOT THE LINE OUT NOW EXPLAINED HAL TO BERT AS THE TWO WHEEL CAR WITH THE MORTAR OR CANNON WAS DRAGGED DOWN TO THE OCEAN'S EDGE. INSTANTLY THERE SHOT OUT TO SEA A BALL OF THIN CORD. TO THIS CORD WAS FASTENED A HEAVY ROPE OR CABLE. WHAT'S THAT BOARD FOR ASKED BERT AS HE SAW A BOARD FOLLOWING THE CABLE. THAT'S THE DIRECTIONS SAID HAL. THEY ARE PRINTED IN A NUMBER OF LANGUAGES AND THEY TELL THE CREW TO CARRY THE END OF THE CABLE HIGH UP THE MAST AND FASTEN IT STRONGLY THERE. OH I SEE SAID BERT THE LINE WILL STRETCH THEN AND THE BREECHES BUOY WILL GO OUT ON A PULLEY. THAT'S IT REPLIED HAL. SEE THERE GOES THE BUOY AND THEN THE QUEER LOOKING LIFE PRESERVER MADE OF CORK AND SHAPED LIKE BREECHES SWUNG OUT OVER THE WAVES. IT WAS CLEAR DAY NOW AND MUCH OF THE WICKED STORM HAD PASSED. ITS EFFECT UPON THE SEA WAS HOWEVER MORE FURIOUS EVERY HOUR FOR WHILE THE STORM HAD LEFT THE LAND IT WAS RAGING SOMEWHERE ELSE AND THE SENSITIVE SEA FELT EVERY THROB OF THE EXCITED ELEMENTS. WITH THE DAYLIGHT CAME GIRLS AND WOMEN TO THE BEACH. MISSUS BOBBSEY MISSUS MINTURN NELLIE AND HER MOTHER BESIDES DOROTHY AND NAN WERE ALL THERE FLOSSIE AND FREDDIE BEING OBLIGED TO STAY HOME WITH DINAH AND SUSAN. OF COURSE THE GIRLS ASKED ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS AND BERT AND HAL TRIED TO ANSWER THEM AS BEST THEY COULD. IT SEEMED A LONG TIME BEFORE ANY MOVEMENT OF THE CABLE SHOWED THAT THE BUOY WAS RETURNING. HERE SHE COMES HERE SHE COMES CALLED THE CROWD PRESENTLY AS THE BLACK SPECK FAR OUT AND THE STRAIN ON THE CORD SHOWED THE BUOY WAS COMING BACK. NEARER AND NEARER IT CAME UNTIL NOW A MAN'S HEAD COULD BE SEEN. THERE'S A MAN IN IT EXCLAIMED THE BOYS ALL EXCITEMENT WHILE THE LIFE GUARDS PULLED THE CORD STEADILY DRAGGING IN THEIR HUMAN FREIGHT. THE GIRLS AND WOMEN WERE TOO FRIGHTENED TO TALK AND NELLIE CLUNG CLOSE TO HER MOTHER. A BIG ROLLER DASHING IN FINISHED THE WORK FOR THE LIFE GUARDS AND A MAN IN THE CORK BELT BOUNDED UPON SHORE. HE WAS QUITE BREATHLESS WHEN THE GUARDS REACHED HIM BUT INSISTED ON WALKING UP INSTEAD OF BEING CARRIED. EVERYBODY GATHERED AROUND AND NELLIE WITH A STRANGE FACE AND A STRANGER HOPE BROKE THROUGH THE CROWD TO SEE THE RESCUED MAN. OH IT IS MY FATHER SHE SCREAMED FALLING RIGHT INTO THE ARMS OF THE DRENCHED MAN. BE CAREFUL CALLED MISTER MINTURN FEARING THE CHILD MIGHT BE MISTAKEN OR MISSUS MC LAUGHLIN MIGHT RECEIVE TOO SEVERE A SHOCK FROM THE SURPRISE. BUT THE HALF DROWNED MAN RUBBED HIS EYES AS IF HE COULD NOT BELIEVE THEM THEN THE NEXT MINUTE HE PRESSED HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER TO HIS HEART UNABLE TO SPEAK A WORD. WHAT A WONDERFUL SCENE IT WAS. THE CHILD ALMOST UNCONSCIOUS IN HER FATHER'S ARMS HE ALMOST DEAD FROM EXHAUSTION AND THE WIFE AND MOTHER TOO OVERCOME TO TRUST HERSELF TO BELIEVE IT COULD BE TRUE. MISSUS BOBBSEY HAD BEEN HOLDING MISSUS MC LAUGHLIN BACK BUT NOW THE SAILOR WAS QUITE RECOVERED SO THEY ALLOWED HER TO SPEAK TO HIM. MISTER BINGHAM AND HAL HAD BEEN WATCHING IT ALL ANXIOUSLY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50962/50962_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50962/50962_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1c966f95c8e2ba087bad9ed79ef3f2465bae81f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50962/50962_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ARE YOU MC LAUGHLIN SUDDENLY ASKED MISTER BINGHAM I AM REPLIED THE SAILOR. AND IS GEORGE BINGHAM OUT THERE ANXIOUSLY ASKED THE BROTHER. SAFE AND WELL CAME THE WELCOME ANSWER. JUST WAITING FOR HIS TURN TO COME IN OH. SCREAMED DOROTHY HAL'S UNCLE IS SAVED TOO. I GUESS OUR PRAYERS WERE HEARD LAST NIGHT. HERE COMES ANOTHER MAN EXCLAIMED THE PEOPLE AS THIS TIME A BIG MAN DASHED ON THE SANDS. HELLO THERE CALLED MISTER BINGHAM WELL IF THIS ISN'T LUCK GEORGE BINGHAM. SURE ENOUGH IT WAS HAL'S UNCLE GEORGE AND HAL WAS HUGGING THE BIG WET MAN WHILE THE MAN WAS JOLLY AND LAUGHING AS IF THE WHOLE THING WERE A GOOD JOKE INSTEAD OF THE LIFE AND DEATH MATTER IT HAD BEEN. I ONLY CAME IN TO TELL YOU BEGAN GEORGE BINGHAM THAT WE ARE ALL RIGHT AND THE BOAT IS LIFTING OFF THE SAND BAR WE STUCK ON. BUT I'M GLAD I CAME IN TO THE RECEPTION HE SAID LAUGHING. SO YOU'VE FOUND FRIENDS MC LAUGHLIN HE ADDED SEEING THE LITTLE FAMILY UNITED. WHY HOW DO YOU DO MISSUS MC LAUGHLIN. HE WENT ON OFFERING HER HIS HAND AND LITTLE NELLIE. WELL I DECLARE WE DID LAND ON A FRIENDLY SHORE. JUST AS MISTER BINGHAM SAID THE LIFE SAVING WORK TURNED OUT TO BE A SOCIAL AFFAIR FOR THERE WAS A GREAT TIME GREETING NELLIE'S FATHER AND HAL'S UNCLE. WASN'T IT PERFECTLY SPLENDID THAT NELLIE AND HER MOTHER WERE HERE DECLARED DOROTHY. AND HAL AND HIS FATHER TOO PUT IN NAN. BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO LOOK FOR THE PICTURES CHIMED IN BERT WHO WAS GREATLY INTERESTED IN THE SAILORS AS WELL AS IN THE WORK OF THE LIFE SAVING CORPS. AS MISTER BINGHAM TOLD THE GUARDS IT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY TO HAUL ANY MORE MEN IN AND AS THE SEA WAS CALM ENOUGH NOW TO LAUNCH A LIFE BOAT BOTH NELLIE'S FATHER AND HAL'S UNCLE INSISTED ON GOING BACK TO THE VESSEL TO THE OTHER MEN. NELLIE WAS DREADFULLY AFRAID TO HAVE HER FATHER GO OUT ON THE OCEAN AGAIN BUT HE ONLY LAUGHED AT HER FEARS AND SAID HE WOULD SOON BE IN TO PORT TO GO HOME WITH HER AND NEVER GO ON THE BIG WILD OCEAN AGAIN. WHAT A MORNING THAT WAS AT SUNSET BEACH. I'M SO GLAD WE PRAYED SAID LITTLE FLOSSIE TO FREDDIE WHEN SHE HEARD THE GOOD NEWS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50963/50963_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50963/50963_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e07bf89279eb670ed0043b149c17505c4fca158f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50963/50963_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A BEAUTIFUL DAY HAD GROWN OUT OF THE DREADFUL STORM. THE SUN SEEMED STRONGER EACH TIME IT MADE ITS WAY OUT FROM BEHIND A CLOUD JUST AS LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS GROW STRONG IN BODY BY EXERCISE AND STRONG IN CHARACTER BY EFFORTS TO DO RIGHT. AND EVERYBODY WAS SO HAPPY. THE NEPTUNE THE VESSEL THAT HAD STRUCK ON THE SAND BAR WAS NOW SAFELY ANCHORED NEAR SHORE AND THE SAILORS CAME IN AND OUT IN ROW BOATS BACK AND FORTH TO LAND JUST AS THEY WISHED. OF COURSE CAPTAIN BINGHAM HAL'S UNCLE WAS AT THE BINGHAM COTTAGE AND THE FIRST MATE NELLIE'S FATHER WAS AT MINTURN'S. BUT THAT EVENING THERE WAS A REGULAR PARTY ON MINTURN'S VERANDA. THERE IS NOT MUCH TO TELL BEGAN THE CAPTAIN. OF COURSE I KNEW WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TROUBLE GETTING THAT MAHOGANY. TWO VESSELS HAD BEEN WRECKED TRYING TO GET IT SO WHEN WE GOT TO THE WEST INDIES I DECIDED TO TRY CANOES AND NOT RISK SAILS WHERE THE WIND ALWAYS BLEW SUCH A GALE IT DRAGGED ANY ANCHOR THAT COULD BE DROPPED. WELL IT WAS A LONG SLOW JOB TO DRAG THOSE HEAVY LOGS AROUND THAT POINT AND JUST WHEN WE WERE MAKING HEADWAY ALONG COMES A STORM THAT DROVE THE SCHOONER AND CANOES OUT OF BUSINESS. HERE MATE MC LAUGHLIN TOLD ABOUT THE BIG STORM AND HOW LONG IT TOOK THE SMALL CREW TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE TO THE SAILS. THEN WE HAD TO GO BACK TO WORK AT THE LOGS WENT ON THE CAPTAIN AND THEN ONE OF OUR CREW TOOK A FEVER. WELL THEN WE WERE QUARANTINED COULDN'T GET THINGS TO EAT WITHOUT A LOT OF TROUBLE AND COULDN'T GO ON WITH THE CARTING UNTIL THE AUTHORITIES DECIDED THE FEVER WAS NOT SERIOUS. THAT WAS WHAT DELAYED US SO. FINALLY WE HAD EVERY LOG LOADED ON THE SCHOONER AND WE STARTED OFF. BUT I NEVER COULD BELIEVE ANY MATERIAL WOULD BE AS HEAVY AS THAT MAHOGANY WHY WE JUST HAD TO CREEP ALONG AND THE LEAST CONTRARY WIND LEFT US MOTIONLESS ON THE SEA. WE COUNTED ON GETTING HOME LAST WEEK WHEN THIS LAST STORM STRUCK US AND DROVE US OUT OF OUR COURSE. BUT WE ARE NOT SORRY FOR OUR DELAY NOW SINCE WE HAVE COME BACK TO OUR OWN. ABOUT THE VALUE ASKED MISTER BOBBSEY WHO WAS DOWN FROM THE CITY. THE VALUE REPEATED THE CAPTAIN ASIDE SO THAT THE STRANGERS MIGHT NOT HEAR. WELL I'M A RICH MAN NOW AND SO IS MY MATE MC LAUGHLIN FOR THAT WOOD WAS CONTRACTED FOR BY THE LARGEST AND RICHEST PIANO FIRM IN THIS COUNTRY AND NOW IT IS ALL BUT DELIVERED TO THEM AND THE MONEY IN OUR HANDS. THEN IT WAS WELL WORTH ALL YOUR SACRIFICE SAID MISTER MINTURN. YES INDEED IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN US A LIFETIME TO ACCUMULATE AS MUCH MONEY AS WE HAVE EARNED IN THIS YEAR. OH ISN'T IT PERFECTLY SPLENDID DECLARED NAN AND DOROTHY HUGGING NELLIE. YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN HAVE TO GO BACK TO THAT HORRID STORE THAT MADE YOU SO PALE AND YOUR MOTHER WILL HAVE A LOVELY TIME AND NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT ALL REPLIED THEIR LITTLE FRIEND. BUT ALL THE SAME SIGHED DOROTHY I JUST KNOW YOU WILL ALL BE GOING HOME BEFORE WE LEAVE FOR THE CITY AND I SHALL JUST DIE OF LONELINESS. BUT WE HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL SAID NAN AND WE HAVE ONLY A FEW DAYS MORE. MAYBE AUNT EMILY WILL TAKE YOU DOWN TO THE CITY ON HER SHOPPING TOUR SUGGESTED NAN. INDEED I DO NOT LIKE SHOPPING ANSWERED THE COUSIN. EVERY TIME I GO IN A STORE THAT IS CROWDED WITH STUFF ON THE COUNTERS UNDER PEOPLE'S ELBOWS I FEEL LIKE KNOCKING THE THINGS ALL OVER. I BROKE TEN AND INJURED MORE THAN I WANTED TO COUNT. AND AUNT EMILY HAD TO PAY FOR THEM SAID NAN. NO SHE DIDN'T EITHER CORRECTED DOROTHY. THE MANAGER CAME UP AND SAID THE THINGS SHOULD NOT BE PUT OUT IN PEOPLE'S WAY. HE MADE THE CLERKS REMOVE ALL THE TRUCK FROM THE AISLES AND I GUESS EVERYBODY WAS GLAD THE ARMY FELL DOWN. I HOPE YOU CAN COME TO LAKEPORT FOR THANKSGIVING SAID NAN. OH I'LL COME IF YOU MAKE IT JOLLY ANSWERED DOROTHY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50963/50963_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50963/50963_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..51fb34270233423d03aa3044be3ee9891a57557e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50963/50963_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IF THERE IS ONE THING IN THIS WORLD WORTH WHILE IT IS FUN AND SHE TOSSED HER YELLOW HEAD ABOUT LIKE A BUTTERCUP THAT HAS NO OTHER WAY OF LAUGHING. THE LARGEST HOTEL AT SUNSET BEACH WAS THROWN OPEN TO THE SAILORS THAT NIGHT AND HERE CAPTAIN BINGHAM AND MATE MC LAUGHLIN TOGETHER WITH THE REST OF THE CREW TOOK UP COMFORTABLE LODGINGS. NEVER HAD THEY DANCED TO SUCH FINE MUSIC BEFORE FOR THE HOTEL ORCHESTRA PLAYED THE FAMILIAR TUNE AND THE SAILORS DANCED IT NIMBLY HITCHING UP FIRST ONE SIDE THEN THE OTHER CROSSING FIRST ONE LEG THEN THE OTHER AND WHEELING AROUND IN THAT JOLLY FASHION. HOW RUGGED AND HANDSOME THE MEN LOOKED. THE ROUGH OCEAN WINDS HAD TANNED THEM LIKE BRONZE AND THEIR MUSCLES WERE AS FIRM AND STRONG ALMOST AS THE CABLES THAT SWING OUT WITH THE BUOYS. THE WONDERFUL FRESH AIR THAT THESE MEN LIVED IN NIGHT AND DAY HAD BRIGHTENED THEIR EYES TOO SO THAT EVEN THE PLAINEST FACE AND THE MOST AWKWARD MAN AMONG THEM WAS AS NIMBLE AS AN ATHLETE FROM HIS PERFECT EXERCISE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50964/50964_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50964/50964_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f24cebdfebf9a49f436c3ae4675d477afd9fc39 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/5849/50964/50964_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +CHAPTER TWENTY ONE GOOD BY. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY GOOD BY TO YOU NELLIE TOLD DOROTHY AND NAN NEXT MORNING. NOW FATHER IS HOME AGAIN I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT. MOTHER TOLD ME LAST NIGHT SHE WAS GOING TO PUT BACK WHAT MONEY SHE HAD TO USE OUT OF MY PRIZE THE FIFTY DOLLARS YOU KNOW AND I AM TO MAKE IT A GIFT TO THE FRESH AIR FUND. OH THAT WILL BE SPLENDID DECLARED NAN. PERHAPS THEY WILL BUY ANOTHER TENT WITH IT FOR THEY NEED MORE ROOM OUT AT MEADOW BROOK. YOU ARE QUITE RICH NOW AREN'T YOU REMARKED DOROTHY. AND DOROTHY WENT UP AND DOWN THE ROOM LIKE THE PICTURES OF CINDERELLA'S PROUD SISTERS. BUT I HOPE WE WILL HAVE A NICE HOME FOR MOTHER DESERVES IT BESIDES I AM JUST PROUD ENOUGH TO WANT TO ENTERTAIN A FEW YOUNG LADIES AMONG THEM MISS NAN BOBBSEY AND MISS DOROTHY MINTURN. AND WE WILL BE ON HAND THANK YOU REPLIED THE JOKING DOROTHY. BE SURE TO HAVE ICE CREAM AND CHOCOLATES I WANT SOME GOOD FRESH CHOCOLATES. THOSE WE GET DOWN HERE ALWAYS SEEM SOFT AND SALTY LIKE THE SPRAY. COME NELLIE CALLED MISSUS MC LAUGHLIN I AM READY WHERE IS YOUR HAT. OH YES MOTHER I'M COMING REPLIED NELLIE. BERT HAD THE DONKEY CART HITCHED AND THERE WAS NOW NO TIME TO SPARE. WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO MANAGE THAT TOO NELLIE TOLD HIM. MY UNCLE IS A FIREMAN AND HE CAN TAKE US THROUGH HIS ENGINE HOUSE. NAN WENT TO THE STATION WITH HER FRIENDS AND WHEN THE LAST GOOD BYS WERE SAID AND THE TRAIN STEAMED OUT THE TWINS TURNED BACK AGAIN TO THE MINTURN COTTAGE. YES IT SEEMS IT IS NOTHING BUT GOING AND COMING ALL THE TIME. I WONDER IF ALL THE OTHER GIRLS WILL BE HOME AT LAKEPORT IN TIME FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL SAID NAN. MOST OF THEM I GUESS ANSWERED BERT. WELL WE HAVE HAD A GOOD VACATION AND I AM WILLING TO GO TO WORK AGAIN. SO AM I DECLARED NAN VACATION WAS JUST LONG ENOUGH I THINK. MISTER BOBBSEY WAS DOWN FROM THE CITY OF COURSE TO TAKE THE FAMILY HOME AND NOW ALL HANDS EVEN FREDDIE AND FLOSSIE WERE BUSY PACKING UP. THERE WERE THE SHELLS TO BE LOOKED AFTER THE FISH NETS BESIDES DOWNY THE DUCK AND SNOOP THE CAT. AND JUST TO ADD ONE MORE ANIMAL TO YOUR MENAGERIE SAID UNCLE WILLIAM I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A LITTLE GOLDFINCH. THE DAY PASSED VERY QUICKLY WITH ALL THAT WAS CROWDED INTO IT THE LAST OCEAN BATH TAKING UP THE BEST PART OF TWO HOURS WHILE A SAIL IN HAL'S CANOE DID AWAY WITH ALMOST AS MUCH MORE TIME. DOROTHY GAVE NAN A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GOLD LOCKET WITH HER PICTURE IN IT AND FLOSSIE RECEIVED THE DEAREST LITTLE REAL SHELL POCKETBOOK EVER SEEN. HAL BINGHAM GAVE BERT A MAGNIFYING GLASS TO USE AT SCHOOL IN CHEMISTRY OR PHYSICS SO THAT EVERY ONE OF THE BOBBSEYS RECEIVED A SUITABLE SOUVENIR OF SUNSET BEACH. YOU UNS MUST BE TO BED EARLY AND NOT GO SLEEP IN DE TRAIN INSISTED DINAH WHEN FREDDIE AND FLOSSIE PLEADED FOR A LITTLE MORE TIME ON THE VERANDA THAT EVENING. AND SO OUR LITTLE FRIENDS HAD SPENT ALL THEIR VACATION. THE LAST NIGHT AT THE SEASHORE WAS PASSED AND THE EARLY MORNING FOUND THEM ONCE MORE TRAVELING AWAY THIS TIME FOR DEAR OLD HOME SWEET HOME. IF WE ONLY DIDN'T HAVE TO LEAVE OUR FRIENDS COMPLAINED NAN BRUSHING BACK A TEAR AS THE VERY LAST GLINT OF COUSIN DOROTHY'S YELLOW HEAD PASSED BY THE TRAIN WINDOW. I HOPE WE WILL MEET THEM ALL SOON AGAIN SAID NAN'S MOTHER. IT IS NOT LONG UNTIL THANKSGIVING. THEN PERHAPS WE CAN GIVE A REAL HARVEST PARTY OUT AT LAKEPORT AND TRY TO REPAY OUR FRIENDS FOR SOME OF THEIR HOSPITALITY TO US \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8cc39f4aea1cf3d7a59ce101e4c94f2e2d0d484e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE AFTERWARDS APOLOGIZED FOR THE EPIGRAM BUT HE INSISTED THAT ALL THE SAME THERE IS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TRUTH IN IT AND SO THERE IS. DOSTOEVSKY'S VISIBLE WORLD WAS A WORLD OF SENSATIONALISM. HE MAY IN THE LAST ANALYSIS BE A GREAT MYSTIC OR A GREAT PSYCHOLOGIST BUT HE ALMOST ALWAYS REVEALS HIS GENIUS ON A STAGE CROWDED WITH PEOPLE WHO BEHAVE LIKE THE MEN AND WOMEN ONE READS ABOUT IN THE POLICE NEWS. THERE ARE MORE MURDERS AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS IN HIS BOOKS THAN IN THOSE OF ANY OTHER GREAT NOVELIST. HIS PEOPLE MORE NEARLY RESEMBLE MADMEN AND WILD BEASTS THAN NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS. HE RELEASES THEM FROM MOST OF THE ORDINARY INHIBITIONS. HE IS FASCINATED BY THE LOSS OF SELF CONTROL BY THE DISTURBANCE AND EXCITEMENT WHICH THIS PRODUCES OFTEN IN THE MOST RESPECTABLE CIRCLES. HE IS BEYOND ALL HIS RIVALS THE NOVELIST OF SCENES. HIS CHARACTERS GET DRUNK OR GO MAD WITH JEALOUSY OR FALL IN EPILEPTIC FITS OR RAVE HYSTERICALLY. IF DOSTOEVSKY HAD HAD LESS VISION HE WOULD HAVE BEEN STRINDBERG. IF HIS VISION HAD BEEN AESTHETIC AND SENSUAL HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN D'ANNUNZIO. LIKE THEM HE IS A NOVELIST OF TORTURE. TURGENEV FOUND IN HIS WORK SOMETHING SADISTIC BECAUSE OF THE INTENSITY WITH WHICH HE DWELLS ON CRUELTY AND PAIN. CERTAINLY THE LUST OF CRUELTY THE LUST OF DESTRUCTION FOR DESTRUCTION'S SAKE IS THE MOST CONSPICUOUS OF THE DEADLY SINS IN DOSTOEVSKY'S MEN AND WOMEN. HE MAY NOT BE A CRUEL AUTHOR. MISTER J MIDDLETON MURRY IN HIS VERY ABLE CRITICAL STUDY DOSTOEVSKY DENIES THE CHARGE INDIGNANTLY. BUT IT IS THE SENSATIONAL DRAMA OF A CRUEL WORLD THAT MOST PERSISTENTLY HAUNTS HIS IMAGINATION. LOVE ITSELF IS WITH HIM AS WITH STRINDBERG AND D'ANNUNZIO FOR THE MOST PART ONLY A SORT OF REARRANGEMENT OF HATRED. OR RATHER BOTH HATRED AND LOVE ARE VOLCANIC OUTBURSTS OF THE SAME PASSION. HE SOMETIMES EVEN PORTRAYS THE TWO KINDS OF LOVE IN THE SAME PERSON. BUT THEY ARE NEVER IN BALANCE THEY ARE ALWAYS IN DEMONIACAL CONFLICT. THEIR UPS AND DOWNS ARE LIKE THE UPS AND DOWNS IN A FIGHT BETWEEN CAT AND DOG. EVEN THE LUST IS NEVER OR HARDLY EVER THE LUST OF A MORE OR LESS SANE MAN. IT IS ALWAYS LUST WITH A KNIFE. DOSTOEVSKY COULD NOT HAVE DESCRIBED THE SIN OF NEKHLUDOV IN RESURRECTION. HIS PASSIONS ARE SUCH AS COME BEFORE THE CRIMINAL RATHER THAN THE CIVIL COURTS. HIS PEOPLE ARE POSSESSED WITH DEVILS AS THE PEOPLE IN ALL BUT RELIGIOUS FICTION HAVE LONG CEASED TO BE. THIS IS A MADHOUSE CRIES SOME ONE IN THE IDIOT. THE CRY IS I FANCY REPEATED IN OTHERS OF DOSTOEVSKY'S NOVELS HIS WORLD IS AN INFERNO. ONE RESULT OF THIS IS A MULTIPLICITY OF ACTION. THERE WAS NEVER SO MUCH TALK IN ANY OTHER NOVELS AND THERE WAS NEVER SO MUCH ACTION. EVEN THE TALK IS OF ACTIONS MORE THAN OF IDEAS. DOSTOEVSKY'S CHARACTERS DESCRIBE THE EXECUTION OF A CRIMINAL THE WHIPPING OF AN ASS THE TORTURE OF A CHILD. HE SOWS VIOLENT DEEDS NOT WITH THE HAND BUT WITH THE SACK. EVEN PRINCE MYSHKIN THE CHRIST LIKE SUFFERER IN THE IDIOT NARRATES ATROCITIES THOUGH HE PERPETRATES NONE. HERE FOR EXAMPLE IS A CHARACTERISTIC DOSTOEVSKY STORY PUT IN THE PRINCE'S MOUTH. BUT ONE HAD NOTICED DURING THOSE LAST TWO DAYS THAT THE OTHER WAS WEARING A SILVER WATCH ON A YELLOW BEAD CHAIN WHICH HE SEEMS NOT TO HAVE SEEN ON HIM BEFORE. THE MAN WAS NOT A THIEF HE WAS AN HONEST MAN IN FACT AND BY A PEASANT'S STANDARD BY NO MEANS POOR. BUT HE WAS SO TAKEN WITH THAT WATCH AND SO FASCINATED BY IT THAT AT LAST HE COULD NOT RESTRAIN HIMSELF. HE TOOK A KNIFE AND WHEN HIS FRIEND HAD TURNED AWAY HE APPROACHED HIM CAUTIOUSLY FROM BEHIND TOOK AIM TURNED HIS EYES HEAVENWARDS CROSSED HIMSELF AND PRAYING FERVENTLY GOD FORGIVE ME FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. HE CUT HIS FRIEND'S THROAT AT ONE STROKE LIKE A SHEEP AND TOOK HIS WATCH. ONE WOULD NOT ACCEPT THAT INCIDENT FROM ANY WESTERN AUTHOR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c7131b9400070626805adaf5bbdafbe0c7e31a04 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ONE WOULD NOT EVEN ACCEPT IT FROM TOLSTOI OR TURGENEV IT IS TOO ABNORMAL TOO OBVIOUSLY TAINTED WITH MADNESS. YET TO DOSTOEVSKY SUCH ABERRATIONS OF CONDUCT MAKE A CONTINUOUS AND OVERWHELMING APPEAL. THE CRIMES IN HIS BOOKS SEEM TO SPRING NOT FROM MORE OR LESS RATIONAL CAUSES BUT FROM SOME SEED OF LUNACY. HE NEVER PAINTS EVERYMAN HE ALWAYS PROJECTS DOSTOEVSKY OR A NIGHTMARE OF DOSTOEVSKY. THAT IS WHY CRIME AND PUNISHMENT BELONGS TO A LOWER RANGE OF FICTION THAN ANNA KARENINA OR FATHERS AND SONS. RASKOLNIKOV'S CRIME IS THE COLD BLOODED CRIME OF A DISEASED MIND. IT INTERESTS US LIKE A STORY FROM SUETONIUS OR LIKE BLUEBEARD. BUT THERE IS NO COMMUNICABLE PASSION IN IT SUCH AS WE FIND IN AGAMEMNON OR OTHELLO. WE SYMPATHIZE INDEED WITH THE FEARS THE BRAVADO THE DESPAIR THAT SUCCEED THE CRIME. BUT WHEN ALL IS SAID THE CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE BOOK IS BORN OUT OF FANTASY. HE IS A GROTESQUE MADE ALIVE BY SHEER IMAGINATIVE INTENSITY AND PASSION. HE IS AS DISTANTLY RELATED TO THE HUMANITY WE KNOW IN LIFE AND THE HUMANITY WE KNOW IN LITERATURE AS THE SOBER PEASANT WHO CUT HIS FRIEND'S THROAT SAYING GOD FORGIVE ME FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. ONE DOES NOT GRUDGE AN ARTIST AN ABNORMAL CHARACTER OR TWO. DOSTOEVSKY HOWEVER HAS CREATED A WHOLE FLOCK OF THESE ABNORMAL CHARACTERS AND WATCHES OVER THEM AS A HEN OVER HER CHICKENS. HE INVENTS VICIOUS GROTESQUES AS DICKENS INVENTS COMIC GROTESQUES. IN THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV HE REVEALS THE MALIGNANCE OF SMERDYAKOV BY TELLING US THAT HE WAS ONE WHO IN HIS CHILDHOOD. WAS VERY FOND OF HANGING CATS AND BURYING THEM WITH GREAT CEREMONY. HE USED TO DRESS UP IN A SHEET AS THOUGH IT WERE A SURPLICE AND SANG AND WAVED SOME OBJECT OVER THE DEAD CAT AS THOUGH IT WERE A CENSER. AS FOR THE KARAMAZOVS THEMSELVES HE PORTRAYS THE OLD FATHER AND THE ELDEST OF HIS SONS HATING EACH OTHER AND FIGHTING LIKE BRUTAL MANIACS. HE KICKED HIM TWO OR THREE TIMES WITH HIS HEEL IN THE FACE. THE OLD MAN MOANED SHRILLY. IVAN THOUGH NOT SO STRONG AS DMITRI THREW HIS ARMS ROUND HIM AND WITH ALL HIS MIGHT PULLED HIM AWAY. ALYOSHA HELPED HIM WITH HIS SLENDER STRENGTH HOLDING DMITRI IN FRONT. MADMAN YOU'VE KILLED HIM CRIED IVAN. SERVE HIM RIGHT SHOUTED DMITRI BREATHLESSLY. IF I HAVEN'T KILLED HIM I'LL COME AGAIN AND KILL HIM. IT IS EASY TO SEE WHY DOSTOEVSKY HAS BECOME A POPULAR AUTHOR. INCIDENT FOLLOWS BREATHLESSLY UPON INCIDENT. NO MELODRAMATIST EVER POURED OUT INCIDENT UPON THE STAGE FROM SUCH A HORN OF PLENTY. HIS PEOPLE ARE ENERGETIC AND UNTAMED LIKE COWBOYS OR RUNAWAY HORSES. THEY MIGHT BE DESCRIBED AS RUNAWAY HUMAN BEINGS. AND DOSTOEVSKY KNOWS HOW TO CROWD HIS STAGE AS ONLY THE INVETERATE MELODRAMATISTS KNOW. A DOZEN MEN HAVE BROKEN IN A MAID ANNOUNCES IN ONE PLACE IN THE IDIOT AND THEY ARE ALL DRUNK. SHOW THEM ALL IN AT ONCE SHE IS BIDDEN. DOSTOEVSKY IS ALWAYS READY TO SHOW THEM ALL IN AT ONCE. IT IS ONE OF THE TRIUMPHS OF HIS GENIUS THAT HOWEVER MANY PERSONS HE INTRODUCES HE NEVER ALLOWS THEM TO BE CONFUSED INTO A HOPELESS CHAOS. HIS STORY FINDS ITS WAY UNIMPEDED THROUGH THE MOB. ON TWO OPPOSITE PAGES OF THE IDIOT ONE FINDS THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS BROUGHT IN BY NAME GENERAL EPANCHIN PRINCE S ADELAIDA IVANOVNA LIZAVETA PROKOFYEVNA YEVGENY PAVLOVITCH RADOMSKY PRINCESS BYELOKONSKY AGLAIA PRINCE MYSHKIN KOLYA IVOLGIN IPPOLIT VARYA FERDYSHCHENKO NASTASYA FILIPPOVNA NINA ALEXANDROVNA GANYA PTITSYN AND GENERAL IVOLGIN. AND YET PRACTICALLY ALL OF THEM REMAIN SEPARATE AND CREATED BEINGS. THAT IS CHARACTERISTIC AT ONCE OF DOSTOEVSKY'S MASTERY AND HIS MONSTROUS PROFUSION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ec1dd2e54448bc5ee5686cd1860907ec3d53e24d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE FOREHEAD WAS LARGE AND LUMPY THE TEMPLES WERE HOLLOW AS IF HAMMERED IN. HIS DRAWN TWITCHING FEATURES SEEMED TO PRESS DOWN ON HIS SAD LOOKING MOUTH EYELIDS LIPS AND EVERY MUSCLE OF HIS FACE TWITCHED NERVOUSLY THE WHOLE TIME. WHEN HE BECAME EXCITED ON A CERTAIN POINT ONE COULD HAVE SWORN THAT ONE HAD SEEN HIM BEFORE SEATED ON A BENCH IN A POLICE COURT AWAITING TRIAL OR AMONG VAGABONDS WHO PASSED THEIR TIME BEGGING BEFORE THE PRISON DOORS. AT ALL OTHER TIMES HE CARRIED THAT LOOK OF SAD AND GENTLE MEEKNESS SEEN ON THE IMAGES OF OLD SLAVONIC SAINTS. THAT IS THE PORTRAIT OF THE MAN ONE SEES BEHIND DOSTOEVSKY'S NOVELS A PORTRAIT ONE MIGHT ALMOST HAVE INFERRED FROM THE NOVELS. IT IS A FIGURE THAT AT ONCE FASCINATES AND REPELS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5485577e5daeb0e1ce303fdd594964a83b39642d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THERE THEY SEEM BROODING ON THEIR PAIN AND WILL WHILE SUCH A LANE REMAIN. AND DEATH IS NO KINDER THAN LIFE TO LOVERS. I SHALL ROT HERE WITH THOSE WHOM IN THEIR DAY YOU NEVER KNEW. AND ALIEN ONES WHO ERE THEY CHILLED TO CLAY MET NOT MY VIEW WILL IN YON DISTANT GRAVE PLACE EVER NEIGHBOUR YOU. NO SHADE OF PINNACLE OR TREE OR TOWER WHILE EARTH ENDURES WILL FALL ON MY MOUND AND WITHIN THE HOUR STEAL ON TO YOURS ONE ROBIN NEVER HAUNT OUR TWO GREEN COVERTURES. MISTER HARDY FORTUNATELY HAS THE GENIUS TO EXPRESS THE BURDEN AND THE MYSTERY EVEN OF A WORLD GREY WITH RAIN AND COMMONPLACE IN ACHIEVEMENT. THERE IS A BEAUTY OF SORROW IN THESE POEMS IN WHICH LIFE WITH THE SAD SEARED FACE MIRRORS ITSELF WITHOUT DISGUISE. THEY BRING US FACE TO FACE WITH AN EXPERIENCE INTENSER THAN OUR OWN. THERE IS NOTHING COMMON IN THE TRAGIC IMAGE OF DULLNESS IN A COMMON PLACE DAY. THE DAY IS TURNING GHOST AND SCUTTLES FROM THE KALENDAR IN FITS AND FURTIVELY TO JOIN THE ANONYMOUS HOST OF THOSE THAT THRONG OBLIVION CEDING HIS PLACE MAYBE TO ONE OF LIKE DEGREE. NOTHING OF TINIEST WORTH HAVE I WROUGHT PONDERED PLANNED NO ONE THING ASKING BLAME OR PRAISE SINCE THE PALE CORPSE LIKE BIRTH OF THIS DIURNAL UNIT BEARING BLANKS IN ALL ITS RAYS DULLEST OF DULL HUED DAYS. WANLY UPON THE PANES THE RAIN SLIDES AS HAVE SLID SINCE MORN MY COLOURLESS THOUGHTS AND YET HERE WHILE DAY'S PRESENCE WANES AND OVER HIM THE SEPULCHRE LID IS SLOWLY LOWERED AND SET HE WAKENS MY REGRET \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6455/67803/67803_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6455/67803/67803_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1da47743c1628600eef441a239d75041974643dd --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6455/67803/67803_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +CHAPTER TWENTY THREE MAY I GO. THE VERY DAY AFTER THIS OCTAVIA OPENED THE FOURTH TRUNK. EVIDENTLY SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED OCTAVIA SHE SAID MISTER DUGALD BINNIE IS AT OLDCLOUGH WHO IS HE. HE IS MY GRAND UNCLE EXPLAINED LUCIA TREMULOUSLY HE HAS A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY. I DO NOT QUITE UNDERSTAND GRANDMAMMA OCTAVIA SHE SAID. LAST NIGHT SHE CAME TO MY ROOM TO TALK TO ME AND THIS MORNING SHE CAME AGAIN AND OH. SHE BROKE OUT INDIGNANTLY HOW COULD SHE SPEAK TO ME IN SUCH A MANNER. WHAT DID YOU UNDERSTAND. I AM TO RUN AFTER A MAN WHO DOES NOT CARE FOR ME AND MAKE MYSELF ATTRACTIVE IN THE HOPE THAT HE WILL CONDESCEND TO MARRY ME BECAUSE MISTER BINNIE MAY LEAVE ME HIS MONEY. DO YOU WONDER THAT IT TOOK EVEN LADY THEOBALD A LONG TIME TO SAY THAT. WELL REMARKED OCTAVIA YOU WON'T DO IT I SUPPOSE I WOULDN'T WORRY. OH I ALWAYS KNEW IT I DIDN'T GUESS. AND SHE SMILED EVER SO FAINTLY. THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY SHE LOATHES ME SO SHE ADDED. LUCIA THOUGHT DEEPLY FOR A MOMENT SHE RECOGNIZED ALL AT ONCE SEVERAL THINGS SHE HAD BEEN MYSTIFIED BY BEFORE. OCTAVIA SMILED A LITTLE AGAIN. LUCIA SAT THINKING HER HANDS CLASPED TIGHTLY. I AM GLAD I CAME HERE SHE SAID AT LENGTH. I THINK I SHALL NEVER BE AFRAID OF HER ANY MORE. HER DELICATE NOSTRILS WERE DILATED SHE HELD HER HEAD UP HER BREATH CAME FAST THERE WAS A HINT OF EXULTATION IN HER TONE. SHE WALKED VERY FAST AFTER SHE LEFT THE HOUSE. BUT IT WAS NOT AGAINST HIM THAT LUCIA'S INDIGNATION WAS AROUSED. SHE WONDERED IF HE HAD HEARD HER LAST WORDS SHE FANCIED HE HAD. HE TOOK HOLD OF HER SHAKING LITTLE HAND AND LOOKED DOWN AT HER EXCITED FACE. I AM ANGRY SHE SAID YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN ME ANGRY BEFORE. I AM ON MY WAY TO MY TO LADY THEOBALD. HE HELD HER HAND AS CALMLY AS BEFORE. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY TO HER HE ASKED SHE LAUGHED AGAIN. HE HELD HER HAND RATHER CLOSER. SHE HAS MADE YOU VERY ANGRY HE SAID. AND THEN ALMOST BEFORE SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WAS DOING SHE WAS POURING FORTH THE WHOLE OF HER STORY EVEN MORE OF IT THAN SHE HAD TOLD OCTAVIA. LUCIA HE SAID I WISH YOU WOULD LET ME GO AND TALK WITH LADY THEOBALD YOU SHE SAID WITH A LITTLE START. YES HE ANSWERED LET ME GO TO HER. IF YOU WILL SAY YES TO THAT I THINK I CAN PROMISE THAT YOU NEED NEVER BE AFRAID OF HER ANY MORE. THE FIERCE COLOR DIED OUT OF HER CHEEKS AND THE TEARS RUSHED TO HER EYES. SHE RAISED HER FACE WITH A PATHETIC LOOK. I AM DESPERATELY IN LOVE WITH YOU HE ANSWERED IN HIS QUIETEST WAY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/56885/56885_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/56885/56885_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba20f794cfa2f498b0535cd51c7a815ad0f9f868 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/56885/56885_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WITH A SIGH OF INTENSE RELIEF AS OF ESCAPE FROM CALAMITY HE LOOKED ONCE MORE INTO THE FACE OF HIS BRIDE. THEN CAME THE TRUE AUSPICIOUS VISION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/94831/94831_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/94831/94831_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c15447695454700c1d3d52584d5e31e72eb5f343 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/94831/94831_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +YES BOYS BACK AT LAST. PELEG SNUGGERS THE GENERAL UTILITY MAN OF THE HALL HAD JUST BROUGHT THE BOYS UP FROM CEDARVILLE TO WHICH PLACE THEY HAD JOURNEYED FROM ITHACA ON THE REGULAR AFTERNOON BOAT RUNNING UP CAYUGA LAKE. WITH THE ROVERS HAD COME FRED GARRISON LARRY COLBY AND SEVERAL OTHERS OF THEIR OLD SCHOOL CHUMS. HE SHOOK HANDS ALL AROUND DID YOU HAVE A NICE TRIP. SPLENDID SIR SAID TOM. OH HOW DO YOU DO MISTER STRONG. AND HE RAN TO MEET THE HEAD TEACHER. WELL THOMAS I HOPE YOU HAVE LEFT ALL YOUR PRANKS BEHIND OBSERVED GEORGE STRONG. HOW ABOUT IT AND HIS EYES TWINKLED. OH I'M GOING IN FOR STUDY THIS SESSION ANSWERED TOM DEMURELY. HULLO ALECK. CRIED TOM RUSHING UP AND GRABBING THE COLORED MAN BY THE HAND HOW ARE YOU PRETTY WELL. I'M FIRST RATE NEVER WAS BETTER IN MY LIFE. AND HE GAVE THE HAND A HARD SQUEEZE. STOP WOT YO UP TO MASSAH ROBER. ROARED THE WAITER LEAPING OFF HIS FEET. WOT YO GOT IN YO HAND. WHY NOTHING ALECK MY BOY. YES I'M FEELING FINE. I'VE GAINED FIFTEEN POUNDS AND. YO LEMME GO SAH YO IS STICKIN PINS IN MY HAND HOWLED POP. HE MOANED AS TOM RAN OFF THROWING AWAY SEVERAL TINY TACKS AS HE DID SO. SO YOU'VE COME BACK HAVE YOU. OBSERVED MISSUS GREEN AS TOM STOPPED AT THE KITCHEN DOOR. WELL JUST YOU MIND YOUR P'S AND Q OR THERE WILL BE TROUBLE I CAN TELL YOU THAT TOM ROVER. OH DEAR YOU NEVER DID ANYTHING NEVER. ASKED TOM AND THEN HIS FACE FELL. OH DEAR YOU ALWAYS DID PUT ME DOWN AS THE WORST BOY IN THE SCHOOL WHEN I I DO MY VERY BEST AND ALMOST SOBBING TOM PUT HIS FACE UP AGAINST HIS COAT SLEEVE. MISSUS GREEN WAS VERY TENDER HEARTED IN SPITE OF HER SOMEWHAT FREE TONGUE AND SHE WAS ALL SYMPATHY IMMEDIATELY. THERE THERE TOM I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT YOUR FEELINGS SHE SAID SOOTHINGLY. IT'S JUST OUT OF THE OVEN. I I DON'T KNOW SOBBED TOM. I DIDN'T MEAN IT REALLY I DIDN'T. COME SIT DOWN AND HAVE THE PIE THAT'S A GOOD BOY. IT'S REALLY LIKE HOME HE MURMURED PRESENTLY. MISSUS GREEN WHEN YOU DIE THEY OUGHT TO ERECT AN AWFULLY BIG MONUMENT OVER YOUR GRAVE. INDEED DIDN'T YOU HATE TO LEAVE HER. NOT AT ALL SHE DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND IT. WHAT WAS HER TROUBLE TOM CONSUMPTION. AND YET WITH IT ALL SHE COULDN'T HELP BUT LIKE THE BOY. DON'T YOUNG GENTS DON'T. HE WOULD PLEAD OH MY. AN TO THINK THE TERM'S JUST BEGUN. AND HE MOPPED HIS BROW WITH HIS RED BANDANNA HANDKERCHIEF. IT'S A WONDER YOU DON'T GO INTO THE BEAUTY SHOW IN NEW YORK. WOT KIND OF A JOKE IS THAT MASTER ROVER. OH IT'S NO JOKE YOU ARE HANDSOME. WON'T YOU LET ME TAKE YOUR PHOTOGRAPH. HAVE YOU GOT A CAMERA TO BE SURE HERE IT IS. SAM DREW A TINY BOX FROM HIS POCKET. NOW STAND STILL AND I'LL TAKE A SNAP SHOT. NOW STAND STRAIGHT AND LOOK HAPPY. CRIED SAM AS A CROWD COLLECTED AROUND. RAISE YOU RIGHT HAND TO YOUR BREAST JUST AS ALL STATESMEN DO. UP WITH YOUR CHIN DON'T DROP YOUR LEFT EYE CLOSE YOUR MOUTH. NOW THEN DON'T BUDGE ON YOUR LIFE. PELEG SNUGGERS STOOD LIKE A STATUE HIS CHIN WELL UP IN THE AIR AND HIS EYES SET INTO A STEADY STARE. THERE YOU ARE SAID SAM AT LAST. NOW WAIT A MINUTE AND THE PICTURE WILL BE FINISHED. DON'T YOU HAVE TO PRINT EM IN THE SUN ASKED SNUGGERS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/97061/97061_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/97061/97061_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..330c9d5827faa2ba1e89d1335b58588e6e5bf674 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/97061/97061_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ONE NIGHT WHEN BOTH WERE SLEEPING THE PRINCE HAD A REMARKABLE DREAM. HE SEEMED TO SEE AN OLD SWAN WHOSE LEGS WERE TIED TOGETHER WITH LOTUS FIBRE APPROACH THE BEDSIDE AT THAT MOMENT HE AWOKE WITH A FEELING OF PRESSURE ON HIS FEET AND FOUND HIMSELF BOUND WITH A SLENDER SILVER CHAIN BRIGHT AS THE RAYS OF THE MOON. THE ATTENDANTS IN THE ADJOINING APARTMENTS HEARING THE SCREAM THOUGHT SOMETHING DREADFUL MUST HAVE HAPPENED. THEY RUSHED INTO THE ROOM ADDED THEIR CRIES TO HERS AND FORGETTING ALL THEIR FORMER PRECAUTIONS LEFT THE DOORS OPEN SO THAT THE GUARDS OUTSIDE HEARING THE CLAMOUR ENTERED AND SAW THE PRINCE. LOOKING AT THE PRINCE WITH EYES BURNING WITH THE FIRE OF ANGER HE BEGAN TO RECOLLECT HIM AND SAID SO. THIS IS THAT CONCEITED BRAHMAN WHO HAS BEEN DECEIVING THE PEOPLE MAKING THEM BELIEVE THAT HE IS WONDERFULLY CLEVER THE FRIEND OF THAT FELLOW THE HUSBAND OF THE WICKED BALACHANDRIKA THE CAUSE OF MY BROTHER'S DEATH. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE PRINCESS SHOULD HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SUCH A PALTRY WRETCH OVERLOOKING A MAN LIKE ME. SHE IS A DISGRACE TO HER FAMILY AND SHALL SOON SEE HER HUSBAND IMPALED ON A STAKE. THEN WITH HIS FOREHEAD DISFIGURED BY A FEARFUL FROWN HE CONTINUED TO ABUSE THE PRINCE AND HAVING TIED HIS HANDS BEHIND HIM DRAGGED HIM FROM THE ROOM. TREATED THUS LIKE SOME WILD BEAST ROUGHLY SHAKEN AND NEGLECTED RAJAVAHANA WOULD HAVE SUFFERED GREATLY HAD HE NOT BEEN PROTECTED BY THE MAGIC JEWEL GIVEN TO HIM IN PATALA AND WHICH HE HAD CONTRIVED TO CONCEAL IN HIS HAIR. CHANDAVARMA HAD SOME TIME BEFORE THIS ASKED IN MARRIAGE AMBALIKA THE DAUGHTER OF SINHAVARMA KING OF ANGA AND INDIGNANT AT A REFUSAL WAS NOW MARCHING AGAINST HIM TO TAKE VENGEANCE FOR THE INSULT AND GET POSSESSION OF THE PRINCESS. ADVANCING THEREFORE WITH A LARGE ARMY HE PREPARED TO BESIEGE CHAMPA THE CAPITAL CITY. SINHAVARMA BEING OF A VERY IMPATIENT AND IMPETUOUS DISPOSITION WOULD NOT WAIT FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE ALLIES WHO HAD BEEN SUMMONED TO HIS ASSISTANCE AND WERE THEN ON THE MARCH BUT THROWING OPEN THE GATES WENT FORTH TO MEET THE ENEMY. A TERRIBLE BATTLE ENSUED IN WHICH BOTH KINGS PERFORMED PRODIGIES OF VALOUR. AT LAST SINHAVARMA WAS TAKEN PRISONER AND HIS ARMY SO COMPLETELY DEFEATED THAT THE CONQUEROR ENTERED AND TOOK POSSESSION OF THE CITY WITHOUT OPPOSITION. SHOULD THERE BE ANY PITY FOR THE VIOLATOR OF THE HAREM. IF THE OLD KING MY FATHER NOW IN HIS DOTAGE WAS FOOLISH ENOUGH TO FAVOUR THE CRIMINAL FOR THE SAKE OF HIS WORTHLESS DAUGHTER YOU HAD NO NEED OF HIS PERMISSION AND OUGHT NOT TO HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY HIM. LET THAT VILE SEDUCER BE IMMEDIATELY PUT TO DEATH BY TORTURE AND HIS PARAMOUR BE SHUT UP IN PRISON TILL I COME. CHANDAVARMA WHO HAD INTENDED TO MARCH AGAINST THE ALLIES ADVANCING FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS CAPTIVE ON RECEIVING THESE COMMANDS GAVE ORDERS TO HIS ATTENDANTS SAYING TO MORROW MORNING TAKE THAT VILE WRETCH FROM HIS CAGE AND SET HIM AT THE PALACE GATE. HAVE READY ALSO A FIERCE ELEPHANT SUITABLY EQUIPPED WHICH I SHALL MOUNT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE WEDDING TO OVERTAKE MY ARMY IN MARCH AGAINST THE ENEMY AND AS I SET OUT I WILL MAKE THE ELEPHANT TRAMPLE THE LIFE OUT OF THAT CRIMINAL. ACCORDINGLY THE NEXT MORNING THE PRINCE WAS BROUGHT BY THE GUARDS TO THE GATE OF THE PALACE AND THE ELEPHANT PLACED NEAR HIM. WHILE HE STOOD THERE CALMLY AWAITING DEATH WHICH NOW SEEMED INEVITABLE HE SUDDENLY FELT HIS FEET FREE AND A BEAUTIFUL LADY APPEARED BEFORE HIM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6599/38590/38590_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6599/38590/38590_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c8d4d1f19847704c453026f26216e38b35365a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6599/38590/38590_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHATEVER HAND IT WAS THAT SHOT DOWN BOURBON ROME AFTER HIS DEATH WAS PLUNDERED DEVASTATED AND RAVAGED BY A BRUTAL GREEDY LICENTIOUS AND FANATICAL SOLDIERY. WHEREFORE FOR THE FUTURE WRITE US NOTHING AT ALL BUT APPOINT US THE TIME AND PLACE OF MEETING AND WE WILL BRING OUR SWORD FOR YOU TO CROSS PROTESTING THAT THE SHAME OF ANY DELAY IN FIGHTING SHALL BE YOURS SEEING THAT WHEN IT COMES TO AN ENCOUNTER THERE IS AN END OF ALL WRITING. SIR ANSWERED THE SPANIARD PERMIT ME TO DO MY OFFICE AND SAY WHAT THE EMPEROR HAS CHARGED ME TO SAY. NAY I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THEE SAID FRANCIS IF THOU DO NOT FIRST GIVE ME A PATENT SIGNED BY THY MASTER CONTAINING AN APPOINTMENT OF TIME AND PLACE SIR I HAVE ORDERS TO READ YOU THE CARTEL AND GIVE IT YOU AFTERWARDS. BURGUNDY WITHOUT BEING PUT OUT BEGAN AGAIN SIR. NAY SAID FRANCIS I WILL NOT SUFFER HIM TO SPEAK TO ME BEFORE HE HAS GIVEN ME APPOINTMENT OF TIME AND PLACE. GIVE IT ME OR RETURN AS THOU HAST COME. I AM QUITE WILLING SAID THE KING LET HIM HAVE IT. THE PEACE OF CAMBRAI WAS CALLED THE LADIES PEACE IN HONOR OF THE TWO PRINCESSES WHO HAD NEGOTIATED IT THOUGH MORALLY DIFFERENT AND OF VERY UNEQUAL WORTH THEY BOTH HAD MINDS OF A RARE ORDER AND TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE POLITICAL NECESSITIES AND NOT TO ATTEMPT ANY BUT POSSIBLE SUCCESSES. ALL THE GREAT POLITICAL ACTORS SEEMED HURRYING AWAY FROM THE STAGE AS IF THE DRAMA WERE APPROACHING ITS END \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6599/38591/38591_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6599/38591/38591_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..97e0be9c09d57f631839d8829c50ff8dd8803c08 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6599/38591/38591_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IN FIFTEEN SIXTY TWO AT THE BATTLE OF DREUX HE WAS AGED AND SO ILL THAT NONE EXPECTED TO SEE HIM ON HORSEBACK. HE FULLY ARMED SAVE ONLY HIS HEAD ANSWERED HIM RIGHT WELL SIR THIS IS THE REAL MEDICINE THAT HATH CURED ME FOR THE BATTLE WHICH IS TOWARD AND A PREPARING FOR THE HONOR OF GOD AND OUR KING. THE LADIES PEACE CONCLUDED AT CAMBRAI IN FIFTEEN TWENTY NINE LASTED UP TO FIFTEEN THIRTY SIX INCESSANTLY TROUBLED HOWEVER BY FAR FROM PACIFIC SYMPTOMS PROCEEDINGS AND PREPARATIONS. AT LAST HE DECIDED UPON RETREATING. IT WAS GARCILASO DE LA VEGA THE PRINCE OF SPANISH POESY THE SPANISH PETRARCH ACCORDING TO HIS FELLOW COUNTRYMEN. MONTMORENCY SIGNED A SIMILAR ONE FOR PIEDMONT. THEY ALL REPAIRED TOGETHER TO THE HOUSE PREPARED FOR THEIR RECEPTION AND AFTER DINNER THE EMPEROR BEING TIRED LAY DOWN TO REST ON A COUCH QUEEN ELEANOR BEFORE LONG WENT AND TAPPED AT HIS DOOR AND SENT WORD TO THE KING THAT THE EMPEROR WAS AWAKE. FRANCIS WITH THE CARDINAL DE LORRAINE AND THE CONSTABLE DE MONTMORENCY SOON ARRIVED. ON ENTERING THE CHAMBER HE FOUND THE EMPEROR STILL LYING DOWN AND CHATTING WITH HIS SISTER THE QUEEN WHO WAS SEATED BESIDE HIM ON A CHAIR. YES SAID CHARLES I HAD MADE SUCH CHEER THAT I WAS OBLIGED TO SLEEP IT OFF. FRANCIS DID THE CONVERSE WITH HIS OWN COLLAR. ONLY SEVEN OF THE ATTENDANTS REMAINED IN THE EMPEROR'S CHAMBER AND THERE THE TWO SOVEREIGNS CONVERSED FOR AN HOUR AFTER WHICH THEY MOVED TO THE HALL WHERE A SPLENDID SUPPER AWAITED THEM. THE GHENTESE PLEADED THEIR PRIVILEGE OF NOT BEING LIABLE TO BE TAXED WITHOUT THEIR OWN CONSENT. ORDERS HAD BEEN SENT EVERYWHERE TO RECEIVE HIM AS KINGS OF FRANCE ARE RECEIVED ON THEIR JOYOUS ACCESSION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88291/88291_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88291/88291_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2d06c42561cfc0d98faa8ab358d33863d7e7bdb --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88291/88291_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NO DREAMS VISITED US BUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE IMMEMORIAL HABIT OF THOSE WHO LIVE OUT WHETHER IN THE WOODS ON THE PLAINS AMONG THE MOUNTAINS OR AT SEA ONCE DURING THE NIGHT EACH OF US ROSE ON HIS ELBOW LOOKED ABOUT HIM AND DROPPED BACK TO SLEEP. BUT SINCE THERE EXISTED FOR US NO RESPONSIBILITY WE EACH REPORTED DUTIFULLY AT THE ROLL CALL OF HABIT AND DROPPED BACK INTO OUR BLANKETS WITH A GRATEFUL SIGH. I REMEMBER THE MOON SAILING A GOOD GAIT AMONG APPARENTLY STATIONARY CLOUDLETS I RECALL A DEEP BLACK SHADOW LYING BEFORE DISTANT SILVERY MOUNTAINS I GLANCED OVER THE STARK MOTIONLESS CANVASES EACH OF WHICH CONCEALED A MAN THE AIR TREMBLED WITH THE BELLOWING OF CATTLE IN THE CORRALS. SEEMINGLY BUT A MOMENT LATER THE COOK'S HOWL BROUGHT ME TO CONSCIOUSNESS AGAIN. BEFORE IT MOVED SILHOUETTES OF MEN ALREADY EATING. I PILED OUT AND JOINED THE GROUP. HOMER WAS BUSY DISTRIBUTING HIS MEN FOR THE DAY. THREE WERE TO CARE FOR THE REMUDA FIVE WERE TO MOVE THE STRAY HERD FROM THE CORRALS TO GOOD FEED THREE BRANDING CREWS WERE TOLD TO BRAND THE CALVES WE HAD COLLECTED IN THE CUT OF THE AFTERNOON BEFORE THAT TOOK UP ABOUT HALF THE MEN. THE REST WERE TO MAKE A SHORT DRIVE IN THE SALT GRASS. I JOINED THE CATTLEMAN AND TOGETHER WE MADE OUR WAY AFOOT TO THE BRANDING PEN. WE WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO DID GO AFOOT HOWEVER ALTHOUGH THE CORRALS WERE NOT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED YARDS DISTANT. WHEN WE ARRIVED WE FOUND THE STRING OF PONIES STANDING AROUND OUTSIDE. BETWEEN THE UPRIGHT BARS OF GREASEWOOD WE COULD SEE THE CATTLE AND NEAR THE OPPOSITE SIDE THE MEN BUILDING A FIRE NEXT THE FENCE. WE PUSHED OPEN THE WIDE GATE AND ENTERED. ONE STOOD WAITING FOR THEM TO FINISH A SHEAF OF LONG J H STAMPING IRONS IN HIS HAND. ALL THE REST SQUATTED ON THEIR HEELS ALONG THE FENCE SMOKING CIGARETTES AND CHATTING TOGETHER. THE FIRST RAYS OF THE SUN SLANTED ACROSS IN ONE GREAT SWEEP FROM THE REMOTE MOUNTAINS. IN TEN MINUTES CHARLEY PRONOUNCED THE IRONS READY. HOMER WOODEN AND OLD CALIFORNIA JOHN RODE IN AMONG THE CATTLE. THE CATTLEMAN AND I CLIMBED TO THE TOP BAR OF THE GATE WHERE WE ROOSTED HE WITH HIS TALLY BOOK ON HIS KNEE. IN A MOMENT HOMER LEANED FORWARD AND THREW. AS THE LOOP SETTLED HE JERKED SHARPLY UPWARD EXACTLY AS ONE WOULD STRIKE TO HOOK A BIG FISH. THIS TIGHTENED THE LOOP AND PREVENTED IT FROM SLIPPING OFF. HOMER WRAPPED THE ROPE TWICE OR THRICE ABOUT THE HORN AND SAT OVER IN ONE STIRRUP TO AVOID THE TIGHTENED LINE AND TO PRESERVE THE BALANCE. NOBODY PAID ANY ATTENTION TO THE CALF. BEHIND HIM FOLLOWED HIS ANXIOUS MOTHER HER HEAD SWINGING FROM SIDE TO SIDE NEAR THE FIRE THE HORSE STOPPED. THE TWO BULL DOGGERS IMMEDIATELY POUNCED UPON THE VICTIM. IT WAS PROMPTLY FLOPPED OVER ON ITS RIGHT SIDE. THUS THE CALF WAS UNABLE TO STRUGGLE. WHEN ONCE YOU HAVE HAD THE WIND KNOCKED OUT OF YOU OR A RIB OR TWO BROKEN YOU CEASE TO THINK THIS UNNECESSARILY ROUGH. THEN ONE OR THE OTHER THREW OFF THE ROPE. HOT IRON YELLED ONE OF THE BULL DOGGERS. MARKER YELLED THE OTHER. IMMEDIATELY TWO MEN RAN FORWARD. THE BRANDER PRESSED THE IRON SMOOTHLY AGAINST THE FLANK. A SMOKE AND THE SMELL OF SCORCHING HAIR AROSE. PERHAPS THE CALF BLATTED A LITTLE AS THE HEAT SCORCHED. THE BRAND SHOWED CHERRY WHICH IS THE PROPER COLOUR TO INDICATE DUE PEELING AND A SUCCESSFUL MARK. FIRST WITH A SHARP KNIFE HE CUT OFF SLANTING THE UPPER QUARTER OF ONE EAR. THEN HE NICKED OUT A SWALLOW TAIL IN THE OTHER. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT A GREAT DEAL OF UNNECESSARY TWADDLE IS ABROAD AS TO THE EXTREME CRUELTY OF BRANDING. UNDOUBTEDLY IT IS TO SOME EXTENT PAINFUL AND COULD SOME OTHER METHOD OF READY IDENTIFICATION BE DEVISED IT MIGHT BE AS WELL TO ADOPT IT IN PREFERENCE. BUT IN THE CIRCUMSTANCE OF A FREE RANGE THOUSANDS OF CATTLE AND HUNDREDS OF OWNERS ANY OTHER METHOD IS OUT OF THE QUESTION. INEXTINGUISHABLE LAUGHTER FOLLOWED THE SPREAD OF THIS DOCTRINE THROUGH ARIZONA. IMAGINE A PUNCHER DESCENDING TO EXAMINE POLITELY THE EAR TAGS OF WILD CATTLE ON THE OPEN RANGE OR IN A ROUND UP. BUT AS I HAVE INTIMATED EVEN THE INEVITABLE BRANDING AND EAR MARKING ARE NOT SO PAINFUL AS ONE MIGHT SUPPOSE. THE SCORCHING HARDLY PENETRATES BELOW THE OUTER TOUGH SKIN ONLY ENOUGH TO KILL THE ROOTS OF THE HAIR BESIDES WHICH IT MUST BE REMEMBERED THAT CATTLE ARE NOT SO SENSITIVE AS THE HIGHER NERVOUS ORGANISMS. A CALF USUALLY BELLOWS WHEN THE IRON BITES BUT AS SOON AS RELEASED HE ALMOST INVARIABLY GOES TO FEEDING OR TO LOOKING IDLY ABOUT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88291/88291_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88291/88291_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0bb131f932e19efbf10a8ed87355aad405bf4f77 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88291/88291_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +INDEED I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE EVEN TAKE THE TROUBLE TO LICK HIS WOUNDS WHICH IS CERTAINLY NOT TRUE IN THE CASE OF THE INJURIES THEY INFLICT ON EACH OTHER IN FIGHTING. BESIDES WHICH IT HAPPENS BUT ONCE IN A LIFETIME AND IS OVER IN TEN SECONDS A COMFORT DENIED TO THOSE OF US WHO HAVE OUR TEETH FILLED. ONE OF THE LITTLE ANIMALS WAS BUT A FEW MONTHS OLD SO THE RIDER DID NOT BOTHER WITH ITS HIND LEGS BUT TOSSED HIS LOOP OVER ITS NECK. NATURALLY WHEN THINGS TIGHTENED UP MISTER CALF ENTERED HIS OBJECTIONS WHICH TOOK THE FORM OF MOST VIGOROUS BAWLINGS AND THE MOST COMICAL BUCKING PITCHING CAVORTING AND BOUNDING IN THE AIR. MISTER FROST'S BULL CALF ALONE IN PICTORIAL HISTORY SHOWS THE ATTITUDES. AND THEN OF COURSE THERE WAS THE GORGEOUS CONTRAST BETWEEN ALL THIS FRANTIC AND UNCOMPREHENDING EXCITEMENT AND THE ABSOLUTE MATTER OF FACT IMPERTURBABILITY OF HORSE AND RIDER. ONCE AT THE FIRE ONE OF THE MEN SEIZED THE TIGHTENED ROPE IN ONE HAND REACHED WELL OVER THE ANIMAL'S BACK TO GET A SLACK OF THE LOOSE HIDE NEXT THE BELLY LIFTED STRONGLY AND TRIPPED THIS IS CALLED BULL DOGGING. AS HE KNEW HIS BUSINESS AND AS THE CALF WAS A SMALL ONE THE LITTLE BEAST WENT OVER PROMPTLY BIT THE GROUND WITH A WHACK AND WAS POUNCED UPON AND HELD. SUCH GOOD LUCK DID NOT ALWAYS FOLLOW HOWEVER. HE WOULD CATCH HIMSELF ON ONE FOOT SCRAMBLE VIGOROUSLY AND END BY STRUGGLING BACK TO THE UPRIGHT. THEN TEN TO ONE HE MADE A DASH TO GET AWAY. YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. THIS IS PRODUCTIVE OF SOME FUN IF IT FAILS. BY NOW THE BRANDING WAS IN FULL SWING. WHEN THE NOOSES FELL THEY TURNED AND WALKED TOWARD THE FIRE AS A MATTER OF COURSE RARELY DID THE CAST FAIL. MEN RAN TO AND FRO BUSY AND INTENT. SOMETIMES THREE OR FOUR CALVES WERE ON THE GROUND AT ONCE. CRIES AROSE IN A CONFUSION MARKER HOT IRON TALLY ONE. DUST EDDIED AND DISSIPATED. BEHIND ALL WERE CLEAR SUNLIGHT AND THE ORGAN ROLL OF THE CATTLE BELLOWING. TOWARD THE MIDDLE OF THE MORNING THE BULL DOGGERS BEGAN TO GET A LITTLE TIRED. NO MORE NECKED CALVES THEY ANNOUNCED. THE BULL DOGGERS FLATLY REFUSED TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT. YOU FELLOWS DRIVE ME PLUMB WEARY REMARKED THE RIDER SLOWLY DISMOUNTING. A LITTLE BIT OF A CALF LIKE THAT. WHAT YOU ALL NEED IS A NIGGER TO CUT UP YOUR FOOD FOR YOU. THEN HE WOULD SPIT ON HIS HANDS AND GO AT IT ALONE. IF LUCK ATTENDED HIS FIRST EFFORT HIS SARCASM WAS PROFOUND THERE'S YORE LITTLE CALF SAID HE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE ME TOTE IT TO YOU OR DO YOU RECKON YOU COULD TODDLE THIS FAR WITH YORE LITTLE OLD IRON. BUT IF THE CALF GAVE MUCH TROUBLE THEN ALL WORK CEASED WHILE THE UNFORTUNATE PUNCHER WRESTLED IT DOWN. TOWARD NOON THE WORK SLACKED. UNBRANDED CALVES WERE SCARCE. SOMETIMES THE MEN RODE HERE AND THERE FOR A MINUTE OR SO BEFORE THEIR EYES FELL ON A PAIR OF UNCROPPED EARS. FINALLY HOMER RODE OVER TO THE CATTLEMAN AND REPORTED THE BRANDING FINISHED. THE LATTER COUNTED THE MARKS IN HIS TALLY BOOK. ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX HE ANNOUNCED. THE MARKERS SQUATTED ON THEIR HEELS TOLD OVER THE BITS OF EARS THEY HAD SAVED. THE TOTAL AMOUNTED TO BUT AN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE. EVERYBODY WENT TO SEARCHING FOR THE MISSING BIT IT WAS NOT FORTH COMING. FINALLY WOODEN DISCOVERED IT IN HIS HIP POCKET. FELT HER THAR ALL THE TIME SAID HE BUT THOUGHT IT MUST SHORELY BE A CHAW OF TOBACCO. THIS MATTER SATISFACTORILY ADJUSTED THE MEN ALL RAN FOR THEIR PONIES. THEY HAD BEEN DOING A WRESTLER'S HEAVY WORK ALL THE MORNING BUT DID NOT SEEM TO BE TIRED. I SAW ONCE IN SOME CRANK PHYSICAL CULTURE PERIODICAL THAT A COWBOY'S LIFE WAS PHYSICALLY ILL BALANCED LIKE AN OARSMAN'S IN THAT IT EXERCISED ONLY CERTAIN MUSCLES OF THE BODY. THE WRITER SHOULD BE TURNED LOOSE IN A BRANDING CORRAL. THROUGH THE WIDE GATES THE CATTLE WERE URGED OUT TO THE OPEN PLAIN. THERE THEY WERE HELD FOR OVER AN HOUR WHILE THE COWS WANDERED ABOUT LOOKING FOR THEIR LOST PROGENY. A COW KNOWS HER CALF BY SCENT AND SOUND NOT BY SIGHT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88294/88294_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88294/88294_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f6fe56885027ea4ab34a1b1e1b66506cb9d6f54e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88294/88294_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AT THIS MOMENT THE HEAVY BEAT OF THE STORM ON THE ROOF CEASED WITH MIRACULOUS SUDDENNESS LEAVING THE OUTSIDE WORLD EMPTY OF SOUND SAVE FOR THE DRIP DRIP DRIP OF EAVES. WE HAD EVERY SORT OF PEOPLE WITH US OFF AND ON AND AS I WAS LOOKOUT AT A POPULAR GAME I SAW THEM ALL. AT THE SAME INSTANT I HEARD THE RIP OF STEEL THROUGH CLOTH AND FELT A SHARP STAB IN MY LEFT LEG. THEN I SCOUTED TO SEE WHAT HAD CUT ME AND FOUND THAT THE FELLOW HAD LOST A HAND. IN PLACE OF IT HE WORE A SHARP STEEL HOOK. THIS I HAD TANGLED UP WITH AND GOTTEN WELL PRICKED. HE WAS A SLIM BUILT YOUNG FELLOW WITH STRAIGHT BLACK HAIR LONG AND LANK AND OILY A LEAN FACE AND BIG HOOKED NOSE. ACROSS HIS FOREHEAD RAN A LONG GASH CUTTING HIS LEFT EYEBROW SQUARE IN TWO. THERE WAS NO DOUBT OF HIS BEING ALIVE FOR HE WAS BREATHING HARD LIKE A MAN DOES WHEN HE GETS HIT OVER THE HEAD IT DIDN'T SOUND GOOD. WHEN A MAN BREATHES THAT WAY HE'S MOSTLY ALL GONE. MEN GOT BATTED OVER THE HEAD OFTEN ENOUGH IN THOSE DAYS. SOUR WINE IS FINE TO PUT A WOUND IN SHAPE TO HEAL BUT IT'S NO SOOTHING SYRUP. IT WAS ANOTHER ONE FURTHER ALONG THAT WENT LIKE THIS. THEIR COFFIN WAS THEIR SHIP AND THEIR GRAVE IT WAS THE SEA BLOW HIGH BLOW LOW WHAT CARE WE AND THE QUARTER THAT WE GAVE THEM WAS TO SINK THEM IN THE SEA DOWN ON THE COAST OF THE HIGH BARBAREE. IT FAIR MADE MY HAIR RISE TO HEAR HIM WITH THE BIG STILL SOLEMN DESERT OUTSIDE AND THE QUIET MOONLIGHT AND THE SHADOWS AND HIM SITTING UP STRAIGHT AND GAUNT HIS EYES BLAZING EACH SIDE HIS BIG EAGLE NOSE AND HIS SNAKY HAIR HANGING OVER THE RAW CUT ACROSS HIS HEAD. HOWEVER I MADE OUT TO GET HIM BANDAGED UP AND IN SHAPE AND PRETTY SOON HE SORT OF WENT TO SLEEP. THEN AGAIN HE'D SING THAT BARBAREE SONG UNTIL I'D GO OUT AND LOOK AT THE OLD COLORADO FLOWING BY JUST TO BE SURE I HADN'T DIED AND GONE BELOW OR ELSE HE'D JUST TALK. HE BEGAN WHEN HE WAS A KID AND HE GAVE HIS SIDE OF CONVERSATIONS PAUSING FOR REPLIES. I USED TO LISTEN BY THE HOUR BUT I NEVER MADE OUT ANYTHING REALLY IMPORTANT AS TO WHO THE MAN WAS OR WHERE HE'D COME FROM OR WHAT HE'D DONE. I DIDN'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO HIM FOR HE WAS QUIET. USUALLY I DIDN'T BOTHER WITH HIS TALK FOR IT DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING BUT SOMETHING IN HIS VOICE MADE ME TURN. HE WAS LYING ON HIS SIDE THOSE BLACK EYES OF HIS BLAZING AT ME BUT NOW BOTH OF THEM SAW THE SAME DISTANCE. WHERE ARE MY CLOTHES HE ASKED VERY INTENSE. I HADN'T ANY MORE THAN GOT THE WORDS OUT OF MY MOUTH BEFORE HE WAS ATOP ME HIS METHOD WAS A WINNER. ONE LITTLE SQUEEZE TALK ABOUT YOUR DEADLY WEAPONS. BUT HE'D BEEN TOO SICK AND TOO LONG ABED. HE TURNED DIZZY AND KEELED OVER AND I DUMPED HIM BACK ON THE BUNK THEN I PUT MY SIX SHOOTER ON. IN A MINUTE OR SO HE CAME TO. NOW YOU'RE A NICE SWEET PROPOSITION SAID I AS SOON AS I WAS SURE HE COULD UNDERSTAND ME. WHERE'S MY CLOTHES HE DEMANDED AGAIN VERY FIERCE. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE I YELLED AT HIM WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU AND YOUR OLD CLOTHES. THEY'RE SAFE ENOUGH LET ME HAVE THEM HE BEGGED. NOW LOOK HERE SAID I YOU CAN'T GET UP TO DAY YOU AIN'T FIT. I KNOW HE PLEADED BUT LET ME SEE THEM. JUST TO SATISFY HIM I PASSED OVER HIS OLD DUDS. I'VE BEEN ROBBED HE CRIED. WHERE'S MY COAT HE ASKED. YOU HAD NO COAT WHEN I PICKED YOU UP I REPLIED. HE LOOKED AT ME MIGHTY SUSPICIOUS BUT DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING MORE HE WOULDN'T EVEN ANSWER WHEN I SPOKE TO HIM. AFTER HE'D EATEN A FAIR MEAL HE FELL ASLEEP. WHEN I CAME BACK THAT EVENING THE BUNK WAS EMPTY AND HE WAS GONE. I DIDN'T SEE HIM AGAIN FOR TWO DAYS. THEN I CAUGHT SIGHT OF HIM QUITE A WAYS OFF. GUESS HE SUSPICIONS I STOLE THAT OLD COAT OF HIS THINKS I AND AFTERWARDS I FOUND THAT MY SURMISE HAD BEEN CORRECT. HOWEVER HE DIDN'T STAY LONG IN THAT FRAME OF MIND. I RAN UP PULLING MY GUN. THE MEX WAS FLAT ON HIS FACE HIS ARMS STRETCHED OUT. ON THE MIDDLE OF HIS BACK KNELT MY ONE ARMED FRIEND. AND THAT SHARP HOOK WAS CAUGHT NEATLY UNDER THE POINT OF THE MEXICAN'S JAW YOU BET HE LAY STILL. ANYWAY I THRUST THE MUZZLE OF MY COLT'S INTO THE SAILOR'S FACE WHAT'S THIS I ASKED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88294/88294_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88294/88294_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d0eb93b17ade04656caf173fb9b0686e0b6d6a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6841/88294/88294_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE SAILOR LOOKED UP AT ME WITHOUT CHANGING HIS POSITION HE WAS NOT THE LEAST BIT AFRAID. WHERE'D YOU GET THE COAT I ASKED THE MEX. I WEEN HEEM AT MONTE OFF ANTONIO CURVEZ SAID HE. MAYBE GROWLED THE SAILOR. IN THE HALF LIGHT I COULD SEE HIS FACE CHANGE. THE GLEAM DIED FROM HIS EYE THE SNARL LEFT HIS LIPS. WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY HE AROSE TO HIS FEET. GET UP AND GIVE IT HERE. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER HE'D REALLY WON THE COAT AT MONTE OR NOT. IN ANY CASE HE FLEW POCO PRONTO LEAVING ME AND MY FRIEND TOGETHER. THE MAN WITH THE HOOK FELT THE LEFT SHOULDER OF THE COAT AGAIN LOOKED UP MET MY EYE MUTTERED SOMETHING INTENDED TO BE PLEASANT AND WALKED AWAY THIS WAS IN DECEMBER. DURING THE NEXT TWO MONTHS HE WAS A GOOD DEAL ABOUT TOWN MOSTLY DOING ODD JOBS I SAW HIM OFF AND ON. HE ALWAYS SPOKE TO ME AS PLEASANTLY AS HE KNEW HOW AND ONCE MADE SOME SORT OF A BLUFF ABOUT PAYING ME BACK FOR MY TROUBLE IN BRINGING HIM AROUND. HOWEVER I DIDN'T PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO THAT BEING AT THE TIME ALMIGHTY BUSY HOLDING DOWN MY CARD GAMES. THAT'S ALL RIGHT SAID I BUT YOU BETTER STAY RIGHT THERE. I WANT TO MAKE UP TO YOU FOR YOUR TROUBLE SAID HE. WHAT KIND OF A GOOD THING I ASKED TREASURE SAID HE. HE LOOKED ALL RIGHT ENOUGH NEITHER DRUNK NOR LOCO. SIT DOWN SAID I OVER THERE THE OTHER SIDE THE TABLE. HE DID SO NOW FIRE AWAY SAID I. AND IT'S A BIG THING SAID HANDY SOLOMON TO ME FOR THEY'S NOT ONLY GOLD BUT ALTAR JEWELS AND DIAMONDS. IT WILL MAKE US RICH AND A DOZEN LIKE US AND YOU CAN KISS THE BOOK ON THAT. THAT MAY ALL BE TRUE SAID I BUT WHY DO YOU TELL ME. WHY DON'T YOU GET YOUR TREASURE WITHOUT THE NEED OF DIVIDING IT. WHY MATE HE ANSWERED IT'S JUST PLAIN GRATITUDE. DIDN'T YOU SAVE MY LIFE AND NUSS ME AND TAKE CARE OF ME WHEN I WAS NIGH KILLED. LOOK HERE ANDERSON OR HANDY SOLOMON OR WHATEVER YOU PLEASE TO CALL YOURSELF I REJOINED TO THIS IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO BUSINESS WITH ME AND I DO NOT UNDERSTAND YET JUST WHAT IT IS YOU WANT OF ME YOU'LL HAVE TO TALK STRAIGHT. IT'S ALL VERY WELL TO SAY GRATITUDE BUT THAT DON'T GO WITH ME. YOU'VE BEEN AROUND HERE THREE MONTHS AND BARRING A HALF DOZEN CIVIL WORDS AND TWICE AS MANY OF THE OTHER KIND I'VE FAILED TO SEE ANY INDICATIONS OF YOUR GRATITUDE BEFORE. IT'S A QUALITY WITH A HELL OF A HANG FIRE TO IT. THE DEVIL'S A PREACHER IF YOU AIN'T LOST YOUR PINFEATHERS SAID HE. WELL IT'S THIS THEN I GOT TO HAVE A BOAT TO GET THERE AND SHE MUST BE STOCKED. AND I GOT TO HAVE HELP WITH THE TREASURE IF IT'S LIKE THIS FELLOW SAID IT WAS. IT'S MONEY I GOT TO HAVE AND IT'S MONEY I HAVEN'T GOT AND CAN'T GET UNLESS I LET SOMEBODY IN AS PARDNER. WHY ME I ASKED WHY NOT HE RETORTED. WE TALKED THE MATTER OVER AT LENGTH. I HAD TO FORCE HIM TO EACH POINT FOR SUSPICION WAS STRONG IN HIM. I STOOD OUT FOR A LARGER PARTY. HE STRONGLY OPPOSED THIS AS DEPRECIATING THE SHARES BUT I HAD NO INTENTION OF GOING ALONE INTO WHAT WAS THEN CONSIDERED A WILD AND DANGEROUS COUNTRY FINALLY WE COMPROMISED. A THIRD OF THE TREASURE WAS TO GO TO HIM A THIRD TO ME AND THE REST WAS TO BE DIVIDED AMONG THE MEN WHOM I SHOULD SELECT THIS SCHEME DID NOT APPEAL TO HIM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122866/122866_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122866/122866_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4a339a36e5073a67c380b3cd03d964133a88888 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122866/122866_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE STORY CLUB IS FORMED. JUNIOR AVONLEA FOUND IT HARD TO SETTLE DOWN TO HUMDRUM EXISTENCE AGAIN. AT FIRST AS SHE TOLD DIANA SHE DID NOT REALLY THINK SHE COULD. PERHAPS AFTER A WHILE I'LL GET USED TO IT BUT I'M AFRAID CONCERTS SPOIL PEOPLE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE. I SUPPOSE THAT IS WHY MARILLA DISAPPROVES OF THEM. MARILLA IS SUCH A SENSIBLE WOMAN. MISSUS LYNDE SAYS THERE IS NO DANGER OF MY EVER BEING ONE BUT YOU CAN NEVER TELL. I FEEL JUST NOW THAT I MAY GROW UP TO BE SENSIBLE YET. BUT PERHAPS THAT IS ONLY BECAUSE I'M TIRED I SIMPLY COULDN'T SLEEP LAST NIGHT FOR EVER SO LONG. I JUST LAY AWAKE AND IMAGINED THE CONCERT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THAT'S ONE SPLENDID THING ABOUT SUCH AFFAIRS IT'S SO LOVELY TO LOOK BACK TO THEM. EVENTUALLY HOWEVER AVONLEA SCHOOL SLIPPED BACK INTO ITS OLD GROOVE AND TOOK UP ITS OLD INTERESTS. TO BE SURE THE CONCERT LEFT TRACES. NONE OF THE SLOANES WOULD HAVE ANY DEALINGS WITH THE BELLS BECAUSE THE BELLS HAD DECLARED THAT THE SLOANES HAD TOO MUCH TO DO IN THE PROGRAM AND THE SLOANES HAD RETORTED THAT THE BELLS WERE NOT CAPABLE OF DOING THE LITTLE THEY HAD TO DO PROPERLY. FINALLY CHARLIE SLOANE FOUGHT MOODY SPURGEON MAC PHERSON BECAUSE MOODY SPURGEON HAD SAID THAT ANNE SHIRLEY PUT ON AIRS ABOUT HER RECITATIONS AND MOODY SPURGEON WAS LICKED CONSEQUENTLY MOODY SPURGEON'S SISTER ELLA MAY WOULD NOT SPEAK TO ANNE SHIRLEY ALL THE REST OF THE WINTER. THE WINTER WEEKS SLIPPED BY. IT WAS AN UNUSUALLY MILD WINTER WITH SO LITTLE SNOW THAT ANNE AND DIANA COULD GO TO SCHOOL NEARLY EVERY DAY BY WAY OF THE BIRCH PATH. ON ANNE'S BIRTHDAY THEY WERE TRIPPING LIGHTLY DOWN IT KEEPING EYES AND EARS ALERT AMID ALL THEIR CHATTER FOR MISS STACY HAD TOLD THEM THAT THEY MUST SOON WRITE A COMPOSITION ON A WINTER'S WALK IN THE WOODS AND IT BEHOOVED THEM TO BE OBSERVANT. JUST THINK DIANA I'M THIRTEEN YEARS OLD TODAY REMARKED ANNE IN AN AWED VOICE. I CAN SCARCELY REALIZE THAT I'M IN MY TEENS. IT MAKES LIFE SEEM SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING. IT'S A GREAT COMFORT TO THINK THAT I'LL BE ABLE TO USE BIG WORDS THEN WITHOUT BEING LAUGHED AT. RUBY GILLIS THINKS OF NOTHING BUT BEAUS SAID ANNE DISDAINFULLY. SHE'S ACTUALLY DELIGHTED WHEN ANYONE WRITES HER NAME UP IN A TAKE NOTICE FOR ALL SHE PRETENDS TO BE SO MAD. MISSUS ALLAN SAYS WE SHOULD NEVER MAKE UNCHARITABLE SPEECHES BUT THEY DO SLIP OUT SO OFTEN BEFORE YOU THINK DON'T THEY. I'M TRYING TO BE AS MUCH LIKE MISSUS ALLAN AS I POSSIBLY CAN FOR I THINK SHE'S PERFECT. MISTER ALLAN THINKS SO TOO. BUT THEN DIANA EVEN MINISTERS ARE HUMAN AND HAVE THEIR BESETTING SINS JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. I HAD SUCH AN INTERESTING TALK WITH MISSUS ALLAN ABOUT BESETTING SINS LAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON. MY BESETTING SIN IS IMAGINING TOO MUCH AND FORGETTING MY DUTIES. ALICE BELL IS ONLY SIXTEEN AND SHE IS WEARING HERS UP BUT I THINK THAT'S RIDICULOUS I SHALL WAIT UNTIL I'M SEVENTEEN. IF I HAD ALICE BELL'S CROOKED NOSE SAID ANNE DECIDEDLY I WOULDN'T BUT THERE. BESIDES I WAS COMPARING IT WITH MY OWN NOSE AND THAT'S VANITY. I'M AFRAID I THINK TOO MUCH ABOUT MY NOSE EVER SINCE I HEARD THAT COMPLIMENT ABOUT IT LONG AGO. IT REALLY IS A GREAT COMFORT TO ME. OH DIANA LOOK THERE'S A RABBIT. THAT'S SOMETHING TO REMEMBER FOR OUR WOODS COMPOSITION. THEY'RE SO WHITE AND STILL AS IF THEY WERE ASLEEP AND DREAMING PRETTY DREAMS. I WON'T MIND WRITING THAT COMPOSITION WHEN ITS TIME COMES SIGHED DIANA. I SUPPOSE YOU HAVE YOUR COMPOSITION ALL DONE. ANNE NODDED TRYING HARD NOT TO LOOK VIRTUOUSLY COMPLACENT AND FAILING MISERABLY. I WROTE IT LAST MONDAY EVENING. IT'S CALLED THE JEALOUS RIVAL OR IN DEATH NOT DIVIDED. I READ IT TO MARILLA AND SHE SAID IT WAS STUFF AND NONSENSE. IT'S A SAD SWEET STORY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122866/122866_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122866/122866_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3cdd7cce51be604cc33892b5214b4a18d97b0931 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122866/122866_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +CORDELIA WAS A REGAL BRUNETTE WITH A CORONET OF MIDNIGHT HAIR AND DUSKLY FLASHING EYES. GERALDINE HAD AN ALABASTER BROW TOO. YOU KNOW SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU DID WHEN YOU WERE ONLY TWELVE. WELL WHAT BECAME OF CORDELIA AND GERALDINE ASKED DIANA WHO WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL RATHER INTERESTED IN THEIR FATE. THEY GREW IN BEAUTY SIDE BY SIDE UNTIL THEY WERE SIXTEEN. I ASKED RUBY GILLIS IF SHE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW MEN PROPOSED BECAUSE I THOUGHT SHE'D LIKELY BE AN AUTHORITY ON THE SUBJECT HAVING SO MANY SISTERS MARRIED. I MADE IT VERY FLOWERY AND POETICAL AND BERTRAM WENT ON HIS KNEES ALTHOUGH RUBY GILLIS SAYS IT ISN'T DONE NOWADAYS. BUT SHE PRETENDED TO BE GERALDINE'S FRIEND THE SAME AS EVER. THEIR BODIES WERE WASHED ASHORE SOON AFTERWARDS. AS FOR CORDELIA SHE WENT INSANE WITH REMORSE AND WAS SHUT UP IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM. HOW PERFECTLY LOVELY SIGHED DIANA WHO BELONGED TO MATTHEW'S SCHOOL OF CRITICS. I DON'T SEE HOW YOU CAN MAKE UP SUCH THRILLING THINGS OUT OF YOUR OWN HEAD ANNE. I WISH MY IMAGINATION WAS AS GOOD AS YOURS. IT WOULD BE IF YOU'D ONLY CULTIVATE IT SAID ANNE CHEERINGLY I'VE JUST THOUGHT OF A PLAN DIANA. LET YOU AND ME HAVE A STORY CLUB ALL OUR OWN AND WRITE STORIES FOR PRACTICE. I'LL HELP YOU ALONG UNTIL YOU CAN DO THEM BY YOURSELF. YOU OUGHT TO CULTIVATE YOUR IMAGINATION YOU KNOW MISS STACY SAYS SO. ONLY WE MUST TAKE THE RIGHT WAY. THIS WAS HOW THE STORY CLUB CAME INTO EXISTENCE. IT WAS LIMITED TO DIANA AND ANNE AT FIRST BUT SOON IT WAS EXTENDED TO INCLUDE JANE ANDREWS AND RUBY GILLIS AND ONE OR TWO OTHERS WHO FELT THAT THEIR IMAGINATIONS NEEDED CULTIVATING. NO BOYS WERE ALLOWED IN IT ALTHOUGH RUBY GILLIS OPINED THAT THEIR ADMISSION WOULD MAKE IT MORE EXCITING AND EACH MEMBER HAD TO PRODUCE ONE STORY A WEEK. IT'S EXTREMELY INTERESTING ANNE TOLD MARILLA. EACH GIRL HAS TO READ HER STORY OUT LOUD AND THEN WE TALK IT OVER. MINE IS ROSAMOND MONTMORENCY ALL THE GIRLS DO PRETTY WELL. RUBY GILLIS IS RATHER SENTIMENTAL. I MOSTLY ALWAYS HAVE TO TELL THEM WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT BUT THAT ISN'T HARD FOR I'VE MILLIONS OF IDEAS. I THINK THIS STORY WRITING BUSINESS IS THE FOOLISHEST YET SCOFFED MARILLA. YOU'LL GET A PACK OF NONSENSE INTO YOUR HEADS AND WASTE TIME THAT SHOULD BE PUT ON YOUR LESSONS. READING STORIES IS BAD ENOUGH BUT WRITING THEM IS WORSE. BUT WE'RE SO CAREFUL TO PUT A MORAL INTO THEM ALL MARILLA EXPLAINED ANNE I INSIST UPON THAT. I'M SURE THAT MUST HAVE A WHOLESOME EFFECT. THE MORAL IS THE GREAT THING MISTER ALLAN SAYS SO. I READ ONE OF MY STORIES TO HIM AND MISSUS ALLAN AND THEY BOTH AGREED THAT THE MORAL WAS EXCELLENT. JANE AND RUBY ALMOST ALWAYS CRY WHEN I COME TO THE PATHETIC PARTS. DIANA WROTE HER AUNT JOSEPHINE ABOUT OUR CLUB AND HER AUNT JOSEPHINE WROTE BACK THAT WE WERE TO SEND HER SOME OF OUR STORIES. MISS JOSEPHINE BARRY WROTE BACK THAT SHE HAD NEVER READ ANYTHING SO AMUSING IN HER LIFE. IT SHOWS OUR CLUB IS DOING SOME GOOD IN THE WORLD. MISSUS ALLAN SAYS THAT OUGHT TO BE OUR OBJECT IN EVERYTHING. I DO REALLY TRY TO MAKE IT MY OBJECT BUT I FORGET SO OFTEN WHEN I'M HAVING FUN. I SHOULDN'T SAY THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL WAS MARILLA'S ENCOURAGING ANSWER. I'M SURE MISSUS ALLAN WAS NEVER SUCH A SILLY FORGETFUL LITTLE GIRL AS YOU ARE. NO BUT SHE WASN'T ALWAYS SO GOOD AS SHE IS NOW EITHER SAID ANNE SERIOUSLY. I FELT SO ENCOURAGED WHEN I HEARD THAT. MISSUS LYNDE SAYS IT IS. MISSUS LYNDE SAYS SHE ALWAYS FEELS SHOCKED WHEN SHE HEARS OF ANYONE EVER HAVING BEEN NAUGHTY NO MATTER HOW SMALL THEY WERE. NOW I WOULDN'T HAVE FELT THAT WAY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122867/122867_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122867/122867_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..be51e75a20ddee38da560f4958339a66c7e1ba26 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122867/122867_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT. THE SPRING WAS ABROAD IN THE LAND AND MARILLA'S SOBER MIDDLE AGED STEP WAS LIGHTER AND SWIFTER BECAUSE OF ITS DEEP PRIMAL GLADNESS. HER EYES DWELT AFFECTIONATELY ON GREEN GABLES PEERING THROUGH ITS NETWORK OF TREES AND REFLECTING THE SUNLIGHT BACK FROM ITS WINDOWS IN SEVERAL LITTLE CORUSCATIONS OF GLORY. MARILLA AS SHE PICKED HER STEPS ALONG THE DAMP LANE THOUGHT THAT IT WAS REALLY A SATISFACTION TO KNOW THAT SHE WAS GOING HOME TO A BRISKLY SNAPPING WOOD FIRE AND A TABLE NICELY SPREAD FOR TEA INSTEAD OF TO THE COLD COMFORT OF OLD AID MEETING EVENINGS BEFORE ANNE HAD COME TO GREEN GABLES. CONSEQUENTLY WHEN MARILLA ENTERED HER KITCHEN AND FOUND THE FIRE BLACK OUT WITH NO SIGN OF ANNE ANYWHERE SHE FELT JUSTLY DISAPPOINTED AND IRRITATED. I'LL SETTLE MISS ANNE WHEN SHE COMES HOME SAID MARILLA GRIMLY AS SHE SHAVED UP KINDLINGS WITH A CARVING KNIFE AND WITH MORE VIM THAN WAS STRICTLY NECESSARY. I DON'T CARE IF MISSUS ALLAN DOES SAY SHE'S THE BRIGHTEST AND SWEETEST CHILD SHE EVER KNEW. SHE MAY BE BRIGHT AND SWEET ENOUGH BUT HER HEAD IS FULL OF NONSENSE AND THERE'S NEVER ANY KNOWING WHAT SHAPE IT'LL BREAK OUT IN NEXT. HERE I AM SAYING THE VERY THING I WAS SO RILED WITH RACHEL LYNDE FOR SAYING AT THE AID TODAY. ANNE'S GOT PLENTY OF FAULTS GOODNESS KNOWS AND FAR BE IT FROM ME TO DENY IT. BUT I'M BRINGING HER UP AND NOT RACHEL LYNDE WHO'D PICK FAULTS IN THE ANGEL GABRIEL HIMSELF IF HE LIVED IN AVONLEA. I MUST SAY WITH ALL HER FAULTS I NEVER FOUND HER DISOBEDIENT OR UNTRUSTWORTHY BEFORE AND I'M REAL SORRY TO FIND HER SO NOW. PERHAPS YOU'RE JUDGING HER TOO HASTY MARILLA. I RECKON SHE'LL FIND IT HARD TO EXPLAIN THAT TO MY SATISFACTION. OF COURSE I KNEW YOU'D TAKE HER PART MATTHEW BUT I'M BRINGING HER UP NOT YOU. MARILLA WASHED AND PUT AWAY THE DISHES GRIMLY. LIGHTING IT SHE TURNED AROUND TO SEE ANNE HERSELF LYING ON THE BED FACE DOWNWARD AMONG THE PILLOWS. MERCY ON US SAID ASTONISHED MARILLA HAVE YOU BEEN ASLEEP ANNE. NO WAS THE MUFFLED REPLY ARE YOU SICK THEN. DEMANDED MARILLA ANXIOUSLY GOING OVER TO THE BED. ANNE COWERED DEEPER INTO HER PILLOWS AS IF DESIROUS OF HIDING HERSELF FOREVER FROM MORTAL EYES NO. BUT PLEASE MARILLA GO AWAY AND DON'T LOOK AT ME. PLEASE MARILLA GO AWAY AND DON'T LOOK AT ME. DID ANYONE EVER HEAR THE LIKE THE MYSTIFIED MARILLA WANTED TO KNOW. ANNE SHIRLEY WHATEVER IS THE MATTER WITH YOU. GET RIGHT UP THIS MINUTE AND TELL ME. THIS MINUTE I SAY THERE NOW WHAT IS IT. ANNE HAD SLID TO THE FLOOR IN DESPAIRING OBEDIENCE. LOOK AT MY HAIR MARILLA SHE WHISPERED. ACCORDINGLY MARILLA LIFTED HER CANDLE AND LOOKED SCRUTINIZINGLY AT ANNE'S HAIR FLOWING IN HEAVY MASSES DOWN HER BACK. IT CERTAINLY HAD A VERY STRANGE APPEARANCE. WHY IT'S GREEN. NEVER IN ALL HER LIFE HAD MARILLA SEEN ANYTHING SO GROTESQUE AS ANNE'S HAIR AT THAT MOMENT. YES IT'S GREEN MOANED ANNE. I THOUGHT NOTHING COULD BE AS BAD AS RED HAIR. BUT NOW I KNOW IT'S TEN TIMES WORSE TO HAVE GREEN HAIR. OH MARILLA YOU LITTLE KNOW HOW UTTERLY WRETCHED I AM. I LITTLE KNOW HOW YOU GOT INTO THIS FIX BUT I MEAN TO FIND OUT SAID MARILLA. COME RIGHT DOWN TO THE KITCHEN IT'S TOO COLD UP HERE AND TELL ME JUST WHAT YOU'VE DONE. YOU HAVEN'T GOT INTO ANY SCRAPE FOR OVER TWO MONTHS AND I WAS SURE ANOTHER ONE WAS DUE. NOW THEN WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR HAIR. I DYED IT. DYED IT DYED YOUR HAIR. ANNE SHIRLEY DIDN'T YOU KNOW IT WAS A WICKED THING TO DO. YES I KNEW IT WAS A LITTLE WICKED ADMITTED ANNE. BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH WHILE TO BE A LITTLE WICKED TO GET RID OF RED HAIR. I COUNTED THE COST MARILLA \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122867/122867_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122867/122867_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f50af0785a10942bd0a3c459cc3285e56fcebc0b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122867/122867_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BESIDES I MEANT TO BE EXTRA GOOD IN OTHER WAYS TO MAKE UP FOR IT. IF I WAS WICKED I MEANT TO BE WICKED TO SOME PURPOSE. HE SAID IT WOULD TURN MY HAIR A BEAUTIFUL RAVEN BLACK HE POSITIVELY ASSURED ME THAT IT WOULD. HOW COULD I DOUBT HIS WORD MARILLA. I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO HAVE YOUR WORD DOUBTED. AND MISSUS ALLAN SAYS WE SHOULD NEVER SUSPECT ANYONE OF NOT TELLING US THE TRUTH UNLESS WE HAVE PROOF THAT THEY'RE NOT. I HAVE PROOF NOW GREEN HAIR IS PROOF ENOUGH FOR ANYBODY. BUT I HADN'T THEN AND I BELIEVED EVERY WORD HE SAID IMPLICITLY. WHO SAID WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. THE PEDDLER THAT WAS HERE THIS AFTERNOON I BOUGHT THE DYE FROM HIM. ANNE SHIRLEY HOW OFTEN HAVE I TOLD YOU NEVER TO LET ONE OF THOSE ITALIANS IN THE HOUSE. OH I DIDN'T LET HIM IN THE HOUSE. I REMEMBERED WHAT YOU TOLD ME AND I WENT OUT CAREFULLY SHUT THE DOOR AND LOOKED AT HIS THINGS ON THE STEP. BESIDES HE WASN'T AN ITALIAN HE WAS A GERMAN JEW. HE SPOKE SO FEELINGLY ABOUT THEM THAT IT TOUCHED MY HEART. THEN ALL AT ONCE I SAW THE BOTTLE OF HAIR DYE. THE PEDDLER SAID IT WAS WARRANTED TO DYE ANY HAIR A BEAUTIFUL RAVEN BLACK AND WOULDN'T WASH OFF. IN A TRICE I SAW MYSELF WITH BEAUTIFUL RAVEN BLACK HAIR AND THE TEMPTATION WAS IRRESISTIBLE. I THINK THE PEDDLER HAD A VERY KIND HEART FOR HE SAID THAT SEEING IT WAS ME HE'D SELL IT FOR FIFTY CENTS AND THAT WAS JUST GIVING IT AWAY. WELL I HOPE YOU'LL REPENT TO GOOD PURPOSE SAID MARILLA SEVERELY AND THAT YOU'VE GOT YOUR EYES OPENED TO WHERE YOUR VANITY HAS LED YOU ANNE GOODNESS KNOWS WHAT'S TO BE DONE. OH MARILLA WHAT SHALL I DO QUESTIONED ANNE IN TEARS. I CAN NEVER LIVE THIS DOWN. BUT THEY'LL NEVER FORGET THIS. OH MARILLA WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE. THAT IS POETRY BUT IT IS TRUE. AND OH HOW JOSIE PYE WILL LAUGH. MARILLA I CANNOT FACE JOSIE PYE. I AM THE UNHAPPIEST GIRL IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. ANNE'S UNHAPPINESS CONTINUED FOR A WEEK. DURING THAT TIME SHE WENT NOWHERE AND SHAMPOOED HER HAIR EVERY DAY. DIANA ALONE OF OUTSIDERS KNEW THE FATAL SECRET BUT SHE PROMISED SOLEMNLY NEVER TO TELL AND IT MAY BE STATED HERE AND NOW THAT SHE KEPT HER WORD. AT THE END OF THE WEEK MARILLA SAID DECIDEDLY IT'S NO USE ANNE. YOUR HAIR MUST BE CUT OFF THERE IS NO OTHER WAY YOU CAN'T GO OUT WITH IT LOOKING LIKE THAT. ANNE'S LIPS QUIVERED BUT SHE REALIZED THE BITTER TRUTH OF MARILLA'S REMARKS. WITH A DISMAL SIGH SHE WENT FOR THE SCISSORS. PLEASE CUT IT OFF AT ONCE MARILLA AND HAVE IT OVER. BUT THERE IS NOTHING COMFORTING IN HAVING YOUR HAIR CUT OFF BECAUSE YOU'VE DYED IT A DREADFUL COLOR IS THERE. I'M GOING TO WEEP ALL THE TIME YOU'RE CUTTING IT OFF IF IT WON'T INTERFERE. IT SEEMS SUCH A TRAGIC THING. ANNE WEPT THEN BUT LATER ON WHEN SHE WENT UPSTAIRS AND LOOKED IN THE GLASS SHE WAS CALM WITH DESPAIR. MARILLA HAD DONE HER WORK THOROUGHLY AND IT HAD BEEN NECESSARY TO SHINGLE THE HAIR AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE. THE RESULT WAS NOT BECOMING TO STATE THE CASE AS MILDLY AS MAY BE. ANNE PROMPTLY TURNED HER GLASS TO THE WALL. I'LL NEVER NEVER LOOK AT MYSELF AGAIN UNTIL MY HAIR GROWS SHE EXCLAIMED PASSIONATELY. YES I WILL TOO. I'D DO PENANCE FOR BEING WICKED THAT WAY. AND I WON'T TRY TO IMAGINE IT AWAY EITHER. I NEVER THOUGHT I WAS VAIN ABOUT MY HAIR OF ALL THINGS BUT NOW I KNOW I WAS IN SPITE OF ITS BEING RED BECAUSE IT WAS SO LONG AND THICK AND CURLY. I EXPECT SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN TO MY NOSE NEXT. ANNE'S CLIPPED HEAD MADE A SENSATION IN SCHOOL ON THE FOLLOWING MONDAY BUT TO HER RELIEF NOBODY GUESSED THE REAL REASON FOR IT NOT EVEN JOSIE PYE WHO HOWEVER DID NOT FAIL TO INFORM ANNE THAT SHE LOOKED LIKE A PERFECT SCARECROW. IT'S HARD TO BE TOLD YOU LOOK LIKE A SCARECROW AND I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING BACK BUT I DIDN'T \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122867/122867_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122867/122867_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8adf8ae4ee43840ac98468dc87a33e4b67e6efc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122867/122867_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT MAKES YOU FEEL VERY VIRTUOUS WHEN YOU FORGIVE PEOPLE DOESN'T IT. I MEAN TO DEVOTE ALL MY ENERGIES TO BEING GOOD AFTER THIS AND I SHALL NEVER TRY TO BE BEAUTIFUL AGAIN. OF COURSE IT'S BETTER TO BE GOOD. I DO REALLY WANT TO BE GOOD MARILLA LIKE YOU AND MISSUS ALLAN AND MISS STACY AND GROW UP TO BE A CREDIT TO YOU. DIANA SAYS WHEN MY HAIR BEGINS TO GROW TO TIE A BLACK VELVET RIBBON AROUND MY HEAD WITH A BOW AT ONE SIDE. I WILL CALL IT A SNOOD THAT SOUNDS SO ROMANTIC. BUT AM I TALKING TOO MUCH MARILLA DOES IT HURT YOUR HEAD. MY HEAD IS BETTER NOW. IT WAS TERRIBLE BAD THIS AFTERNOON THOUGH. THESE HEADACHES OF MINE ARE GETTING WORSE AND WORSE I'LL HAVE TO SEE A DOCTOR ABOUT THEM. AS FOR YOUR CHATTER I DON'T KNOW THAT I MIND IT I'VE GOT SO USED TO IT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122868/122868_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122868/122868_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db4b01ce8431b282ca032ff72bcef5c180bd6053 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122868/122868_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +OF COURSE YOU MUST BE ELAINE ANNE SAID DIANA. I COULD NEVER HAVE THE COURAGE TO FLOAT DOWN THERE. NOR I SAID RUBY GILLIS WITH A SHIVER. OF COURSE IT WOULD BE ROMANTIC CONCEDED JANE ANDREWS BUT I KNOW I COULDN'T KEEP STILL. I'D BE POPPING UP EVERY MINUTE OR SO TO SEE WHERE I WAS AND IF I WASN'T DRIFTING TOO FAR OUT. BUT IT'S SO RIDICULOUS TO HAVE A REDHEADED ELAINE MOURNED ANNE. I'M NOT AFRAID TO FLOAT DOWN AND I'D LOVE TO BE ELAINE. AND ELAINE WAS THE LILY MAID. NOW A RED HAIRED PERSON CANNOT BE A LILY MAID. YOUR COMPLEXION IS JUST AS FAIR AS RUBY'S SAID DIANA EARNESTLY AND YOUR HAIR IS EVER SO MUCH DARKER THAN IT USED TO BE BEFORE YOU CUT IT. OH DO YOU REALLY THINK SO. YES AND I THINK IT IS REAL PRETTY SAID DIANA LOOKING ADMIRINGLY AT THE SHORT SILKY CURLS THAT CLUSTERED OVER ANNE'S HEAD AND WERE HELD IN PLACE BY A VERY JAUNTY BLACK VELVET RIBBON AND BOW. RUBY AND JANE WERE SPENDING THE MIDSUMMER AFTERNOON WITH DIANA AND ANNE HAD COME OVER TO PLAY WITH THEM. ANNE AND DIANA HAD SPENT MOST OF THEIR PLAYTIME THAT SUMMER ON AND ABOUT THE POND. IDLEWILD WAS A THING OF THE PAST MISTER BELL HAVING RUTHLESSLY CUT DOWN THE LITTLE CIRCLE OF TREES IN HIS BACK PASTURE IN THE SPRING. IT WAS SPLENDID TO FISH FOR TROUT OVER THE BRIDGE AND THE TWO GIRLS LEARNED TO ROW THEMSELVES ABOUT IN THE LITTLE FLAT BOTTOMED DORY MISTER BARRY KEPT FOR DUCK SHOOTING. IT WAS ANNE'S IDEA THAT THEY DRAMATIZE ELAINE. THOSE DAYS SHE SAID WERE SO MUCH MORE ROMANTIC THAN THE PRESENT. ANNE'S PLAN WAS HAILED WITH ENTHUSIASM. THEY HAD OFTEN GONE DOWN LIKE THIS AND NOTHING COULD BE MORE CONVENIENT FOR PLAYING ELAINE. WELL I'LL BE ELAINE SAID ANNE YIELDING RELUCTANTLY FOR ALTHOUGH SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN DELIGHTED TO PLAY THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTER YET HER ARTISTIC SENSE DEMANDED FITNESS FOR IT AND THIS SHE FELT HER LIMITATIONS MADE IMPOSSIBLE. RUBY YOU MUST BE KING ARTHUR AND JANE WILL BE GUINEVERE AND DIANA MUST BE LANCELOT. BUT FIRST YOU MUST BE THE BROTHERS AND THE FATHER. WE CAN'T HAVE THE OLD DUMB SERVITOR BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ROOM FOR TWO IN THE FLAT WHEN ONE IS LYING DOWN. THE BLACK SHAWL HAVING BEEN PROCURED ANNE SPREAD IT OVER THE FLAT AND THEN LAY DOWN ON THE BOTTOM WITH CLOSED EYES AND HANDS FOLDED OVER HER BREAST. MISSUS LYNDE SAYS THAT ALL PLAY ACTING IS ABOMINABLY WICKED. RUBY YOU SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT MISSUS LYNDE SAID ANNE SEVERELY. IT SPOILS THE EFFECT BECAUSE THIS IS HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE MISSUS LYNDE WAS BORN. JANE YOU ARRANGE THIS. IT'S SILLY FOR ELAINE TO BE TALKING WHEN SHE'S DEAD. JANE ROSE TO THE OCCASION. CLOTH OF GOLD FOR COVERLET THERE WAS NONE BUT AN OLD PIANO SCARF OF YELLOW JAPANESE CREPE WAS AN EXCELLENT SUBSTITUTE. A WHITE LILY WAS NOT OBTAINABLE JUST THEN BUT THE EFFECT OF A TALL BLUE IRIS PLACED IN ONE OF ANNE'S FOLDED HANDS WAS ALL THAT COULD BE DESIRED. WE MUST KISS HER QUIET BROWS AND DIANA YOU SAY SISTER FAREWELL FOREVER AND RUBY YOU SAY FAREWELL SWEET SISTER BOTH OF YOU AS SORROWFULLY AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN. ANNE FOR GOODNESS SAKE SMILE A LITTLE. YOU KNOW ELAINE LAY AS THOUGH SHE SMILED. THAT'S BETTER NOW PUSH THE FLAT OFF. AT THIS RATE THE FLAT WOULD FILL AND SINK LONG BEFORE IT COULD DRIFT TO THE LOWER HEADLAND WHERE WERE THE OARS. LEFT BEHIND AT THE LANDING. ANNE GAVE ONE GASPING LITTLE SCREAM WHICH NOBODY EVER HEARD SHE WAS WHITE TO THE LIPS BUT SHE DID NOT LOSE HER SELF POSSESSION. THERE WAS ONE CHANCE JUST ONE. I PRAYED MISSUS ALLAN MOST EARNESTLY BUT I DIDN'T SHUT MY EYES TO PRAY FOR I KNEW THE ONLY WAY GOD COULD SAVE ME WAS TO LET THE FLAT FLOAT CLOSE ENOUGH TO ONE OF THE BRIDGE PILES FOR ME TO CLIMB UP ON IT. IT WAS PROPER TO PRAY BUT I HAD TO DO MY PART BY WATCHING OUT AND RIGHT WELL I KNEW IT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122868/122868_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122868/122868_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6bf0f4cb960413719d8a9be1253e2046838618ba --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122868/122868_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES YOU DON'T THINK MUCH ABOUT MAKING A FLOWERY PRAYER. AND THERE I WAS MISSUS ALLAN CLINGING TO THAT SLIPPERY OLD PILE WITH NO WAY OF GETTING UP OR DOWN. I SAID A GRATEFUL PRAYER AT ONCE AND THEN I GAVE ALL MY ATTENTION TO HOLDING ON TIGHT FOR I KNEW I SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO DEPEND ON HUMAN AID TO GET BACK TO DRY LAND. THE FLAT DRIFTED UNDER THE BRIDGE AND THEN PROMPTLY SANK IN MIDSTREAM. RUBY JANE AND DIANA ALREADY AWAITING IT ON THE LOWER HEADLAND SAW IT DISAPPEAR BEFORE THEIR VERY EYES AND HAD NOT A DOUBT BUT THAT ANNE HAD GONE DOWN WITH IT. FOR A MOMENT THEY STOOD STILL WHITE AS SHEETS FROZEN WITH HORROR AT THE TRAGEDY THEN SHRIEKING AT THE TOPS OF THEIR VOICES THEY STARTED ON A FRANTIC RUN UP THROUGH THE WOODS NEVER PAUSING AS THEY CROSSED THE MAIN ROAD TO GLANCE THE WAY OF THE BRIDGE. ANNE CLINGING DESPERATELY TO HER PRECARIOUS FOOTHOLD SAW THEIR FLYING FORMS AND HEARD THEIR SHRIEKS. HELP WOULD SOON COME BUT MEANWHILE HER POSITION WAS A VERY UNCOMFORTABLE ONE. THE MINUTES PASSED BY EACH SEEMING AN HOUR TO THE UNFORTUNATE LILY MAID. WHY DIDN'T SOMEBODY COME WHERE HAD THE GIRLS GONE. SUPPOSE THEY HAD FAINTED ONE AND ALL SUPPOSE NOBODY EVER CAME. ANNE LOOKED AT THE WICKED GREEN DEPTHS BELOW HER WAVERING WITH LONG OILY SHADOWS AND SHIVERED. HER IMAGINATION BEGAN TO SUGGEST ALL MANNER OF GRUESOME POSSIBILITIES TO HER. ANNE SHIRLEY. HOW ON EARTH DID YOU GET THERE HE EXCLAIMED. WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER HE PULLED CLOSE TO THE PILE AND EXTENDED HIS HAND. IT WAS CERTAINLY EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO BE DIGNIFIED UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES. WHAT HAS HAPPENED ANNE. ASKED GILBERT TAKING UP HIS OARS. WE WERE PLAYING ELAINE EXPLAINED ANNE FRIGIDLY WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING AT HER RESCUER AND I HAD TO DRIFT DOWN TO CAMELOT IN THE BARGE I MEAN THE FLAT. I'M VERY MUCH OBLIGED TO YOU SHE SAID HAUGHTILY AS SHE TURNED AWAY. ANNE HE SAID HURRIEDLY LOOK HERE CAN'T WE BE GOOD FRIENDS. I DIDN'T MEAN TO VEX YOU AND I ONLY MEANT IT FOR A JOKE. FOR A MOMENT ANNE HESITATED. SHE HAD AN ODD NEWLY AWAKENED CONSCIOUSNESS UNDER ALL HER OUTRAGED DIGNITY THAT THE HALF SHY HALF EAGER EXPRESSION IN GILBERT'S HAZEL EYES WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY GOOD TO SEE. HER HEART GAVE A QUICK QUEER LITTLE BEAT. BUT THE BITTERNESS OF HER OLD GRIEVANCE PROMPTLY STIFFENED UP HER WAVERING DETERMINATION. THAT SCENE OF TWO YEARS BEFORE FLASHED BACK INTO HER RECOLLECTION AS VIVIDLY AS IF IT HAD TAKEN PLACE YESTERDAY. HER RESENTMENT WHICH TO OTHER AND OLDER PEOPLE MIGHT BE AS LAUGHABLE AS ITS CAUSE WAS IN NO WHIT ALLAYED AND SOFTENED BY TIME SEEMINGLY. SHE HATED GILBERT BLYTHE SHE WOULD NEVER FORGIVE HIM. NO SHE SAID COLDLY I SHALL NEVER BE FRIENDS WITH YOU GILBERT BLYTHE AND I DON'T WANT TO BE. ALL RIGHT. I'LL NEVER ASK YOU TO BE FRIENDS AGAIN ANNE SHIRLEY AND I DON'T CARE EITHER. HE PULLED AWAY WITH SWIFT DEFIANT STROKES AND ANNE WENT UP THE STEEP FERNY LITTLE PATH UNDER THE MAPLES. SHE HELD HER HEAD VERY HIGH BUT SHE WAS CONSCIOUS OF AN ODD FEELING OF REGRET. OF COURSE HE HAD INSULTED HER TERRIBLY BUT STILL. SHE WAS REALLY QUITE UNSTRUNG FOR THE REACTION FROM HER FRIGHT AND CRAMPED CLINGING WAS MAKING ITSELF FELT. HERE RUBY GILLIS HAD SUCCUMBED TO HYSTERICS AND WAS LEFT TO RECOVER FROM THEM AS BEST SHE MIGHT WHILE JANE AND DIANA FLEW THROUGH THE HAUNTED WOOD AND ACROSS THE BROOK TO GREEN GABLES. OH ANNE HOW SPLENDID OF HIM. WHY IT'S SO ROMANTIC SAID JANE FINDING BREATH ENOUGH FOR UTTERANCE AT LAST. OF COURSE I WON'T FLASHED ANNE WITH A MOMENTARY RETURN OF HER OLD SPIRIT. I'M AWFULLY SORRY YOU WERE SO FRIGHTENED GIRLS IT IS ALL MY FAULT. EVERYTHING I DO GETS ME OR MY DEAREST FRIENDS INTO A SCRAPE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122868/122868_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122868/122868_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..76ea640b2dde5f7f6c84b5fb51d54692f2040f5a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/700/122868/122868_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ANNE'S PRESENTIMENT PROVED MORE TRUSTWORTHY THAN PRESENTIMENTS ARE APT TO DO. GREAT WAS THE CONSTERNATION IN THE BARRY AND CUTHBERT HOUSEHOLDS WHEN THE EVENTS OF THE AFTERNOON BECAME KNOWN. WILL YOU EVER HAVE ANY SENSE ANNE GROANED MARILLA. OH YES I THINK I WILL MARILLA RETURNED ANNE OPTIMISTICALLY. A GOOD CRY INDULGED IN THE GRATEFUL SOLITUDE OF THE EAST GABLE HAD SOOTHED HER NERVES AND RESTORED HER TO HER WONTED CHEERFULNESS. I DON'T SEE HOW SAID MARILLA. WELL EXPLAINED ANNE I'VE LEARNED A NEW AND VALUABLE LESSON TODAY. EVER SINCE I CAME TO GREEN GABLES I'VE BEEN MAKING MISTAKES AND EACH MISTAKE HAS HELPED TO CURE ME OF SOME GREAT SHORTCOMING. THE AFFAIR OF THE AMETHYST BROOCH CURED ME OF MEDDLING WITH THINGS THAT DIDN'T BELONG TO ME. THE HAUNTED WOOD MISTAKE CURED ME OF LETTING MY IMAGINATION RUN AWAY WITH ME. I NEVER THINK ABOUT MY HAIR AND NOSE NOW AT LEAST VERY SELDOM. AND TODAY'S MISTAKE IS GOING TO CURE ME OF BEING TOO ROMANTIC. IT WAS PROBABLY EASY ENOUGH IN TOWERED CAMELOT HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO BUT ROMANCE IS NOT APPRECIATED NOW. I FEEL QUITE SURE THAT YOU WILL SOON SEE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN ME IN THIS RESPECT MARILLA. I'M SURE I HOPE SO SAID MARILLA SKEPTICALLY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/101619/101619_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/101619/101619_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24864d8c74b2b084b0433d37798a6592cf0e7898 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/101619/101619_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THAT WE TASTE NOTHING PURE. OUR EXTREMEST PLEASURE HAS SOME SORT OF GROANING AND COMPLAINING IN IT WOULD YOU NOT SAY THAT IT IS DYING OF PAIN. NAY WHEN WE FRAME THE IMAGE OF IT IN ITS FULL EXCELLENCE WE STUFF IT WITH SICKLY AND PAINFUL EPITHETS AND QUALITIES LANGUOR SOFTNESS FEEBLENESS FAINTNESS MORBIDEZZA A GREAT TESTIMONY OF THEIR CONSANGUINITY AND CONSUBSTANTIALITY THE MOST PROFOUND JOY HAS MORE OF SEVERITY THAN GAIETY IN IT. THE HIGHEST AND FULLEST CONTENTMENT OFFERS MORE OF THE GRAVE THAN OF THE MERRY IPSA FELICITAS SE NISI TEMPERAT PREMIT EVEN FELICITY UNLESS IT MODERATE ITSELF OPPRESSES. LABOUR AND PLEASURE VERY UNLIKE IN NATURE ASSOCIATE NEVERTHELESS BY I KNOW NOT WHAT NATURAL CONJUNCTION. SOCRATES SAYS THAT SOME GOD TRIED TO MIX IN ONE MASS AND TO CONFOUND PAIN AND PLEASURE BUT NOT BEING ABLE TO DO IT HE BETHOUGHT HIM AT LEAST TO COUPLE THEM BY THE TAIL METRODORUS SAID THAT IN SORROW THERE IS SOME MIXTURE OF PLEASURE. NATURE DISCOVERS THIS CONFUSION TO US PAINTERS HOLD THAT THE SAME MOTIONS AND GRIMACES OF THE FACE THAT SERVE FOR WEEPING SERVE FOR LAUGHTER TOO AND INDEED BEFORE THE ONE OR THE OTHER BE FINISHED DO BUT OBSERVE THE PAINTER'S MANNER OF HANDLING AND YOU WILL BE IN DOUBT TO WHICH OF THE TWO THE DESIGN TENDS AND THE EXTREME OF LAUGHTER DOES AT LAST BRING TEARS. AND THEREFORE COMMON AND LESS SPECULATIVE SOULS ARE FOUND TO BE MORE PROPER FOR AND MORE SUCCESSFUL IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AFFAIRS AND THE ELEVATED AND EXQUISITE OPINIONS OF PHILOSOPHY UNFIT FOR BUSINESS THIS SHARP VIVACITY OF SOUL AND THE SUPPLE AND RESTLESS VOLUBILITY ATTENDING IT DISTURB OUR NEGOTIATIONS. TO ANSWER WHICH HE HAD HAD MANY DAYS FOR THOUGHT SEVERAL SHARP AND SUBTLE CONSIDERATIONS WHILST HE DOUBTED WHICH WAS THE MOST LIKELY HE TOTALLY DESPAIRED OF THE TRUTH. HE WHO DIVES INTO AND IN HIS INQUISITION COMPREHENDS ALL CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONSEQUENCES HINDERS HIS ELECTION A LITTLE ENGINE WELL HANDLED IS SUFFICIENT FOR EXECUTIONS WHETHER OF LESS OR GREATER WEIGHT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/101622/101622_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/101622/101622_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68615548414fda924527b68a4b51b44d3dbd0c56 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/101622/101622_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS OF OUR BODIES ARE IN LIKE MANNER MANIFEST IN STATES AND GOVERNMENTS KINGDOMS AND REPUBLICS ARE FOUNDED FLOURISH AND DECAY WITH AGE AS WE DO. STATES ARE VERY OFTEN SICK OF THE LIKE REPLETION AND VARIOUS SORTS OF PURGATIONS HAVE COMMONLY BEEN APPLIED. SOME TIMES A GREAT MULTITUDE OF FAMILIES ARE TURNED OUT TO CLEAR THE COUNTRY WHO SEEK OUT NEW ABODES ELSEWHERE AND ENCROACH UPON OTHERS. THE ROMANS BY THIS MEANS ERECTED THEIR COLONIES FOR PERCEIVING THEIR CITY TO GROW IMMEASURABLY POPULOUS THEY EASED IT OF THE MOST UNNECESSARY PEOPLE AND SENT THEM TO INHABIT AND CULTIVATE THE LANDS CONQUERED BY THEM SOMETIMES ALSO THEY PURPOSELY MAINTAINED WARS WITH SOME OF THEIR ENEMIES NOT ONLY TO KEEP THEIR OWN MEN IN ACTION FOR FEAR LEST IDLENESS THE MOTHER OF CORRUPTION SHOULD BRING UPON THEM SOME WORSE INCONVENIENCE. AND WE SUFFER THE ILLS OF A LONG PEACE LUXURY IS MORE PERNICIOUS THAN WAR. BUT ALSO TO SERVE FOR A BLOOD LETTING TO THEIR REPUBLIC AND A LITTLE TO EVAPORATE THE TOO VEHEMENT HEAT OF THEIR YOUTH TO PRUNE AND CLEAR THE BRANCHES FROM THE STOCK TOO LUXURIANT IN WOOD AND TO THIS END IT WAS THAT THEY MAINTAINED SO LONG A WAR WITH CARTHAGE. AND THIS ALSO WAS ONE REASON WHY OUR KING PHILIP CONSENTED TO SEND HIS SON JOHN UPON A FOREIGN EXPEDITION THAT HE MIGHT TAKE ALONG WITH HIM A GREAT NUMBER OF HOT YOUNG MEN WHO WERE THEN IN HIS PAY. WHAT OTHER END DOES THE IMPIOUS ART OF THE GLADIATORS PROPOSE TO ITSELF WHAT THE SLAUGHTER OF YOUNG MEN WHAT PLEASURE FED WITH BLOOD. PRINCE TAKE THE HONOURS DELAYED FOR THY REIGN AND BE SUCCESSOR TO THY FATHERS HENCEFORTH LET NONE AT ROME BE SLAIN FOR SPORT. LET BEASTS BLOOD STAIN THE INFAMOUS ARENA AND NO MORE HOMICIDES BE THERE ACTED. IT WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR THEM TO FIGHT AND TO DIE BRAVELY BUT CHEERFULLY TOO INSOMUCH THAT THEY WERE HISSED AND CURSED IF THEY MADE ANY HESITATION ABOUT RECEIVING THEIR DEATH. THE VERY GIRLS THEMSELVES SET THEM ON. AMIDST THESE TUMULTS AND NEW SPORTS THE TENDER SEX UNSKILLED IN ARMS IMMODESTLY ENGAGED IN MANLY FIGHTS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/175351/175351_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/175351/175351_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b037e0070639353618c91f25dcc1b0fe5eedd868 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/175351/175351_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BEGINNING OF REVOLT. AT THIS UNEXPECTED COMMAND THE SURPRISE WAS GREAT ON BOARD THE FORWARD. LIGHT THE FIRES EXCLAIMED SOME. WHAT WITH ASKED OTHERS. WHEN WE'VE ONLY TWO MONTHS COAL IN THE HOLD SAID PEN. WE SHALL BE OBLIGED TO BURN THE BRIG DOWN TO HER WATER LINE ANSWERED GRIPPER. AND STUFF THE STOVE WITH THE MASTS ADDED WARREN. SHANDON LOOKED AT WALL. THE STUPEFIED ENGINEERS HESITATED TO GO DOWN TO THE MACHINE ROOM. DID YOU HEAR ME. CRIED THE CAPTAIN IN AN IRRITATED TONE. BRUNTON MADE FOR THE HATCHWAY BUT BEFORE GOING DOWN HE STOPPED. DON'T GO BRUNTON CALLED OUT A VOICE. WHO SPOKE CRIED HATTERAS. I DID SAID PEN ADVANCING TOWARDS THE CAPTAIN. AND WHAT DID YOU SAY ASKED HATTERAS. I SAY ANSWERED PEN WITH AN OATH I SAY WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF IT AND WE WON'T GO ANY FURTHER. YOU SHAN'T KILL US WITH HUNGER AND WORK IN THE WINTER AND THEY SHAN'T LIGHT THE FIRES. MISTER SHANDON ANSWERED HATTERAS CALMLY HAVE THAT MAN PUT IN IRONS. IF YOU REPEAT WHAT THE MAN SAYS ANSWERED HATTERAS I'LL HAVE YOU SHUT UP IN YOUR CABIN AND GUARDED. SEIZE THAT MAN DO YOU HEAR JOHNSON BELL AND SIMPSON ADVANCED TOWARDS THE SAILOR WHO WAS IN A TERRIBLE PASSION. THE FIRST WHO TOUCHES ME HE SAID BRANDISHING A HANDSPIKE. HATTERAS APPROACHED HIM. SO SPEAKING HE COCKED A PISTOL AND AIMED IT AT THE SAILOR. A MURMUR WAS HEARD. NOT A WORD MEN SAID HATTERAS OR THAT MAN FALLS DEAD. JOHNSON AND BELL DISARMED PEN WHO NO LONGER MADE ANY RESISTANCE AND PLACED HIM IN THE HOLD. GO BRUNTON SAID HATTERAS. THE ENGINEER FOLLOWED BY PLOVER AND WARREN WENT DOWN TO HIS POST. HATTERAS RETURNED TO THE POOP. THAT PEN IS A WRETCHED FELLOW SAID THE DOCTOR. NO MAN HAS EVER BEEN NEARER DEATH ANSWERED THE CAPTAIN SIMPLY. THE STEAM WAS SOON GOT UP THE ANCHORS WERE WEIGHED AND THE FORWARD VEERED AWAY EAST CUTTING THE YOUNG ICE WITH HER STEEL PROW. BETWEEN BARING ISLAND AND BEECHER POINT THERE ARE A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF ISLANDS IN THE MIDST OF ICE FIELDS THE STREAMS CROWD TOGETHER IN THE LITTLE CHANNELS WHICH CUT UP THIS PART OF THE SEA THEY HAD A TENDENCY TO AGGLOMERATE UNDER THE RELATIVELY LOW TEMPERATURE HUMMOCKS WERE FORMED HERE AND THERE AND THESE MASSES ALREADY MORE COMPACT DENSER AND CLOSER TOGETHER WOULD SOON FORM AN IMPENETRABLE MASS. THE FORWARD MADE ITS WAY WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY AMIDST THE SNOWSTORMS. HOWEVER WITH THE MOBILITY THAT CHARACTERISES THE CLIMATE OF THESE REGIONS THE SUN APPEARED FROM TIME TO TIME THE TEMPERATURE WENT UP SEVERAL DEGREES OBSTACLES MELTED AS IF BY MAGIC AND A FINE SHEET OF WATER LAY WHERE ICEBERGS BRISTLED ALL THE PASSES. THE HORIZON GLOWED WITH THOSE MAGNIFICENT ORANGE SHADES WHICH REST THE EYE TIRED WITH THE ETERNAL WHITE OF THE SNOW. THE UNINTERRUPTED CRACKING OF THE ICE ADDED TO THE NOISE OF THE STEAMER WAS LIKE SIGHS OR GROANS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/175351/175351_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/175351/175351_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c74418e67ca65ec39a755129dc73e699bf7cd29e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/175351/175351_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AT LAST THE BRIG FOUND A CHANNEL AND ADVANCED PAINFULLY ALONG IT OFTEN AN ENORMOUS ICEBERG HINDERED HER COURSE FOR HOURS THE FOG HINDERED THE PILOT'S LOOK OUT AS LONG AS HE CAN SEE FOR A MILE IN FRONT OF HIM HE CAN EASILY AVOID OBSTACLES BUT IN THE MIDST OF THE FOG IT WAS OFTEN IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE A CABLE'S LENGTH AND THE SWELL WAS VERY STRONG. SOMETIMES THE CLOUDS LOOKED SMOOTH AND WHITE AS THOUGH THEY WERE REFLECTIONS OF THE ICE BANKS BUT THERE WERE ENTIRE DAYS WHEN THE YELLOW RAYS OF THE SUN COULD NOT PIERCE THE TENACIOUS FOG. BIRDS WERE STILL VERY NUMEROUS AND THEIR CRIES WERE DEAFENING SEALS LYING IDLE ON THE FLOATING ICE RAISED THEIR HEADS VERY LITTLE FRIGHTENED AND MOVED THEIR LONG NECKS AS THE BRIG PASSED. PIECES FROM THE SHIP'S SHEATHING WERE OFTEN RUBBED OFF IN HER CONTACT WITH THE ICE. AT LAST AFTER SIX DAYS OF SLOW NAVIGATION POINT BEECHER WAS SIGHTED TO THE NORTH ON THE FIRST OF AUGUST. HATTERAS PASSED THE LAST FEW HOURS AT HIS MASTHEAD THE OPEN SEA THAT STEWART HAD PERCEIVED ON MAY THIRTIETH EIGHTEEN FIFTY ONE ABOUT LATITUDE SEVENTY SIX DEGREES TWENTY MINUTES COULD NOT BE FAR OFF BUT AS FAR AS THE EYE COULD REACH HATTERAS SAW NO INDICATION OF IT. HE CAME DOWN WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. DO YOU BELIEVE IN AN OPEN SEA. ASKED SHANDON OF THE LIEUTENANT. I AM BEGINNING NOT TO ANSWERED WALL. WASN'T I RIGHT TO SAY THE PRETENDED DISCOVERY WAS PURELY IMAGINATION. BUT THEY WOULD NOT BELIEVE ME AND EVEN YOU WERE AGAINST ME WALL. WE SHALL BELIEVE IN YOU FOR THE FUTURE SHANDON. YES SAID HE WHEN IT'S TOO LATE AND SO SAYING HE WENT BACK TO HIS CABIN WHERE HE HAD STOPPED ALMOST EVER SINCE HIS DISPUTE WITH THE CAPTAIN. THE FORWARD HAD ONLY MADE THIRTY MILES IN TEN DAYS. THERE THE WIND TURNED NORTH AGAIN AND THE SCREW WAS SET TO WORK. HATTERAS STILL HOPED TO FIND AN OPEN SEA BEYOND THE SEVENTY SEVENTH PARALLEL AS SIR EDWARD BELCHER HAD DONE. OUGHT HE TO TREAT THESE ACCOUNTS AS APOCRYPHAL. OR HAD THE WINTER COME UPON HIM EARLIER. ON THE FIFTEENTH OF AUGUST MOUNT PERCY RAISED ITS PEAK COVERED WITH ETERNAL SNOW THROUGH THE MIST. THE NEXT DAY THE SUN SET FOR THE FIRST TIME ENDING THUS THE LONG SERIES OF DAYS WITH TWENTY FOUR HOURS IN THEM. THE MEN HAD ENDED BY GETTING ACCUSTOMED TO THE CONTINUAL DAYLIGHT BUT IT HAD NEVER MADE ANY DIFFERENCE TO THE ANIMALS THE GREENLAND DOGS WENT TO THEIR REST AT THEIR ACCUSTOMED HOUR AND DICK SLEPT AS REGULARLY EVERY EVENING AS THOUGH DARKNESS HAD COVERED THE SKY. STILL DURING THE NIGHTS WHICH FOLLOWED THE FIFTEENTH OF AUGUST DARKNESS WAS NEVER PROFOUND ALTHOUGH THE SUN SET HE STILL GAVE SUFFICIENT LIGHT BY REFRACTION. THE DOCTOR BY FOLLOWING JOHNSON'S ADVICE ACCUSTOMED HIMSELF TO SUPPORT THE LOW TEMPERATURE HE ALMOST ALWAYS STAYED ON DECK BRAVING THE COLD THE WIND AND THE SNOW. HE GOT RATHER THINNER BUT HIS CONSTITUTION DID NOT SUFFER. BESIDES HE EXPECTED TO BE MUCH WORSE OFF AND JOYFULLY PREPARED FOR THE APPROACHING WINTER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/175351/175351_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/175351/175351_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3686abdfc858f6415197cd37a2dda853b050d0cc --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/175351/175351_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +LOOK AT THOSE BIRDS HE SAID TO JOHNSON ONE DAY THEY ARE EMIGRATING SOUTH IN FLOCKS. THEY ARE SHRIEKING OUT THEIR GOOD BYES. YES MISTER CLAWBONNY SOME INSTINCT TELLS THEM THEY MUST GO AND THEY SET OUT. THERE'S MORE THAN ONE AMONGST US WHO WOULD LIKE TO IMITATE THEM I THINK. THEY ARE COWARDS MISTER CLAWBONNY THOSE ANIMALS HAVE NO PROVISIONS AS WE HAVE AND ARE OBLIGED TO SEEK THEIR FOOD WHERE IT IS TO BE FOUND. BUT SAILORS WITH A GOOD SHIP UNDER THEIR FEET OUGHT TO GO TO THE WORLD'S END. YOU HOPE THAT HATTERAS WILL SUCCEED THEN. HE CERTAINLY WILL MISTER CLAWBONNY. I AM OF THE SAME OPINION AS YOU JOHNSON AND IF HE ONLY WANTED ONE FAITHFUL COMPANION HE'LL HAVE TWO. YES JOHNSON ANSWERED THE DOCTOR SHAKING HANDS WITH THE BRAVE SAILOR. PRINCE ALBERT LAND WHICH THE FORWARD WAS THEN COASTING BEARS ALSO THE NAME OF GRINNELL LAND AND THOUGH HATTERAS FROM HIS HATRED TO THE YANKEES WOULD NEVER CALL IT BY ITS AMERICAN NAME IT IS THE ONE IT GENERALLY GOES BY. IT OWES ITS DOUBLE APPELLATION TO THE FOLLOWING CIRCUMSTANCES AT THE SAME TIME THAT PENNY AN ENGLISHMAN GAVE IT THE NAME OF PRINCE ALBERT LIEUTENANT HAVEN COMMANDER OF THE RESCUE CALLED IT GRINNELL LAND IN HONOUR OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANT WHO HAD FITTED OUT THE EXPEDITION FROM NEW YORK AT HIS OWN EXPENSE. ON THE EIGHTEENTH OF AUGUST THEY SIGHTED BRITANNIA MOUNTAIN SCARCELY VISIBLE THROUGH THE MIST AND THE FORWARD WEIGHED ANCHOR THE NEXT DAY IN NORTHUMBERLAND BAY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/291468/291468_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/291468/291468_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..60e7a1c78c3e064b40c6f27e4a17b8ffd8c95368 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/291468/291468_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHEN THE LOFTY THUCYDIDES IS ABOUT TO ENTER UPON HIS DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAGUE THAT DESOLATED ATHENS ONE OF HIS MODERN COMMENTATORS ASSURES THE READER THAT THE HISTORY IS NOW GOING TO BE EXCEEDINGLY SOLEMN SERIOUS AND PATHETIC AND HINTS WITH THAT AIR OF CHUCKLING GRATULATION WITH WHICH A GOOD DAME DRAWS FORTH A CHOICE MORSEL FROM A CUPBOARD TO REGALE A FAVORITE THAT THIS PLAGUE WILL GIVE HIS HISTORY A MOST AGREEABLE VARIETY. IN LIKE MANNER DID MY HEART LEAP WITHIN ME WHEN I CAME TO THE DOLOROUS DILEMMA OF FORT GOOD HOPE WHICH I AT ONCE PERCEIVED TO BE THE FORERUNNER OF A SERIES OF GREAT EVENTS AND ENTERTAINING DISASTERS. SUCH ARE THE TRUE SUBJECTS FOR THE HISTORIC PEN. FOR WHAT IS HISTORY IN FACT BUT A KIND OF NEWGATE CALENDAR A REGISTER OF THE CRIMES AND MISERIES THAT MAN HAS INFLICTED ON HIS FELLOW MEN. IT IS A HUGE LIBEL ON HUMAN NATURE TO WHICH WE INDUSTRIOUSLY ADD PAGE AFTER PAGE VOLUME AFTER VOLUME AS IF WE WERE BUILDING UP A MONUMENT TO THE HONOR RATHER THAN THE INFAMY OF OUR SPECIES. IF WE TURN OVER THE PAGES OF THESE CHRONICLES THAT MAN HAS WRITTEN OF HIMSELF WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERS DIGNIFIED BY THE APPELLATION OF GREAT AND HELD UP TO THE ADMIRATION OF POSTERITY. TYRANTS ROBBERS CONQUERORS RENOWNED ONLY FOR THE MAGNITUDE OF THEIR MISDEEDS AND THE STUPENDOUS WRONGS AND MISERIES THEY HAVE INFLICTED ON MANKIND WARRIORS WHO HAVE HIRED THEMSELVES TO THE TRADE OF BLOOD NOT FROM MOTIVES OF VIRTUOUS PATRIOTISM OR TO PROTECT THE INJURED AND DEFENSELESS BUT MERELY TO GAIN THE VAUNTED GLORY OF BEING ADROIT AND SUCCESSFUL IN MASSACRING THEIR FELLOW BEINGS. WHAT ARE THE GREAT EVENTS THAT CONSTITUTE A GLORIOUS ERA. THE FALL OF EMPIRES THE DESOLATION OF HAPPY COUNTRIES SPLENDID CITIES SMOKING IN THEIR RUINS THE PROUDEST WORKS OF ART TUMBLED IN THE DUST THE SHRIEKS AND GROANS OF WHOLE NATIONS ASCENDING UNTO HEAVEN. IT IS THUS THE HISTORIANS MAY BE SAID TO THRIVE ON THE MISERIES OF MANKIND LIKE BIRDS OF PREY WHICH HOVER OVER THE FIELD OF BATTLE TO FATTEN ON THE MIGHTY DEAD. IT WAS OBSERVED BY A GREAT PROJECTOR OF INLAND LOCK NAVIGATION THAT RIVERS LAKES AND OCEANS WERE ONLY FORMED TO FEED CANALS. IN LIKE MANNER I AM TEMPTED TO BELIEVE THAT PLOTS CONSPIRACIES WARS VICTORIES AND MASSACRES ARE ORDAINED BY PROVIDENCE ONLY AS FOOD FOR THE HISTORIAN. IT IS A SOURCE OF GREAT DELIGHT TO THE PHILOSOPHERS IN STUDYING THE WONDERFUL ECONOMY OF NATURE TO TRACE THE MUTUAL DEPENDENCIES OF THINGS HOW THEY ARE CREATED RECIPROCALLY FOR EACH OTHER AND HOW THE MOST NOXIOUS AND APPARENTLY UNNECESSARY ANIMAL HAS ITS USES. THUS THOSE SWARMS OF FLIES WHICH ARE SO OFTEN EXECRATED AS USELESS VERMIN ARE CREATED FOR THE SUSTENANCE OF SPIDERS AND SPIDERS ON THE OTHER HAND ARE EVIDENTLY MADE TO DEVOUR FLIES. SO THOSE HEROES WHO HAVE BEEN SUCH SCOURGES TO THE WORLD WERE BOUNTEOUSLY PROVIDED AS THEMES FOR THE POET AND HISTORIAN WHILE THE POET AND THE HISTORIAN WERE DESTINED TO RECORD THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HEROES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/291468/291468_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/291468/291468_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aaeba047bbfecb8d844242f826097330e3a0123c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/291468/291468_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THESE AND MANY SIMILAR REFLECTIONS NATURALLY AROSE IN MY MIND AS I TOOK UP MY PEN TO COMMENCE THE REIGN OF WILLIAM KIEFT FOR NOW THE STREAM OF OUR HISTORY WHICH HITHERTO HAS ROLLED IN A TRANQUIL CURRENT IS ABOUT TO DEPART FOR EVER FROM ITS PEACEFUL HAUNTS AND BRAWL THROUGH MANY A TURBULENT AND RUGGED SCENE. THE READER WILL NOW WITNESS THE MANNER IN WHICH A PEACEFUL COMMUNITY ADVANCES TOWARDS A STATE OF WAR WHICH IS APT TO BE LIKE THE APPROACH OF A HORSE TO A DRUM WITH MUCH PRANCING AND LITTLE PROGRESS AND TOO OFTEN WITH THE WRONG END FOREMOST. HIS APPEARANCE ANSWERED TO HIS NAME. HIS FACE WAS BROAD BUT HIS FEATURES WERE SHARP HIS CHEEKS WERE SCORCHED INTO A DUSKY RED BY TWO FIERY LITTLE GRAY EYES HIS NOSE TURNED UP AND THE CORNERS OF HIS MOUTH TURNED DOWN PRETTY MUCH LIKE THE MUZZLE OF AN IRRITABLE PUG DOG. I HAVE HEARD IT OBSERVED BY A PROFOUND ADEPT IN HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY THAT IF A WOMAN WAXES FAT WITH THE PROGRESS OF YEARS HER TENURE OF LIFE IS SOMEWHAT PRECARIOUS BUT IF HAPLY SHE WITHERS AS SHE GROWS OLD SHE LIVES FOR EVER. SUCH PROMISED TO BE THE CASE WITH WILLIAM THE TESTY WHO GREW TOUGH IN PROPORTION AS HE DRIED. HE HAD WITHERED IN FACT NOT THROUGH THE PROCESS OF YEARS BUT THROUGH THE TROPICAL FERVOR OF HIS SOUL WHICH BURNT LIKE A VEHEMENT RUSHLIGHT IN HIS BOSOM INCITING HIM TO INCESSANT BROILS AND BICKERINGS. ANCIENT TRADITIONS SPEAK MUCH OF HIS LEARNING AND OF THE GALLANT INROADS HE HAD MADE INTO THE DEAD LANGUAGES IN WHICH HE HAD MADE CAPTIVE A HOST OF GREEK NOUNS AND LATIN VERBS AND BROUGHT OFF RICH BOOTY IN ANCIENT SAWS AND APOPHTHEGMS WHICH HE WAS WONT TO PARADE IN HIS PUBLIC HARANGUES AS A TRIUMPHANT GENERAL OF YORE HIS SPOLIA OPIMA. OF METAPHYSICS HE KNEW ENOUGH TO CONFOUND ALL HEARERS AND HIMSELF INTO THE BARGAIN. IN LOGIC HE KNEW THE WHOLE FAMILY OF SYLLOGISMS AND DILEMMAS AND WAS SO PROUD OF HIS SKILL THAT HE NEVER SUFFERED EVEN A SELF EVIDENT FACT TO PASS UNARGUED. IT WAS OBSERVED HOWEVER THAT HE SELDOM GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT GETTING INTO A PERPLEXITY AND THEN INTO A PASSION WITH HIS ADVERSARY FOR NOT BEING CONVINCED GRATIS. HE HAD MOREOVER SKIRMISHED SMARTLY ON THE FRONTIERS OF SEVERAL OF THE SCIENCES WAS FOND OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND PRIDED HIMSELF UPON INVENTIONS OF ALL KINDS. HIS ABODE WHICH HE HAD FIXED AT A BOWERY OR COUNTRY SEAT AT A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE CITY JUST AT WHAT IS NOW CALLED DUTCH STREET SOON ABOUNDED WITH PROOFS OF HIS INGENUITY PATENT SMOKE JACKS THAT REQUIRED A HORSE TO WORK THEM DUTCH OVENS THAT ROASTED MEAT WITHOUT FIRE CARTS THAT WENT BEFORE THE HORSES WEATHERCOCKS THAT TURNED AGAINST THE WIND AND OTHER WRONG HEADED CONTRIVANCES THAT ASTONISHED AND CONFOUNDED ALL BEHOLDERS. THE HOUSE TOO WAS BESET WITH PARALYTIC CATS AND DOGS THE SUBJECTS OF HIS EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE YELLING AND YELPING OF THE LATTER UNHAPPY VICTIMS OF SCIENCE WHILE AIDING IN THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE SOON GAINED FOR THE PLACE THE NAME OF DOG'S MISERY BY WHICH IT CONTINUES TO BE KNOWN EVEN AT THE PRESENT DAY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/291468/291468_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/291468/291468_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed639efd2cb67503d8ed2358932350916f581de2 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7601/291468/291468_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT IS IN KNOWLEDGE AS IN SWIMMING HE WHO FLOUNDERS AND SPLASHES ON THE SURFACE MAKES MORE NOISE AND ATTRACTS MORE ATTENTION THAN THE PEARL DIVER WHO QUIETLY DIVES IN QUEST OF TREASURES TO THE BOTTOM. I HAVE KNOWN IN MY TIME MANY A GENIUS OF THIS STAMP BUT TO SPEAK MY MIND FREELY I NEVER KNEW ONE WHO FOR THE ORDINARY PURPOSES OF LIFE WAS WORTH HIS WEIGHT IN STRAW. IN THIS RESPECT A LITTLE SOUND JUDGMENT AND PLAIN COMMON SENSE IS WORTH ALL THE SPARKLING GENIUS THAT EVER WROTE POETRY OR INVENTED THEORIES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96252/96252_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96252/96252_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9bd342b5f384935bbcb53e54ac5be784eb6b3c81 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96252/96252_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF THIS JUSTICE OF DISPOSITION WHICH IS HOWEVER ALWAYS UNITED WITH GOODNESS PROPER WHOSE CHARACTER IS NO LONGER MERELY NEGATIVE EXTENDS SO FAR THAT A MAN DOUBTS HIS RIGHT TO INHERITED PROPERTY WISHES TO SUPPORT HIS BODY ONLY BY HIS OWN POWERS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL FEELS EVERY SERVICE OF OTHERS AND EVERY LUXURY A REPROACH AND FINALLY EMBRACES VOLUNTARY POVERTY. THIS PENETRATION MAY EXIST NOT ONLY IN THE DEGREE WHICH IS REQUIRED FOR JUSTICE BUT ALSO IN THE HIGHER DEGREE WHICH LEADS TO BENEVOLENCE AND WELL DOING TO LOVE OF MANKIND. KNOWLEDGE CAN ALWAYS COUNTERBALANCE IT IN HIM TEACH HIM TO RESIST THE TENDENCY TO WRONG AND EVEN PRODUCE IN HIM EVERY DEGREE OF GOODNESS AND INDEED OF RESIGNATION. HE SEES THAT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN HIMSELF AND OTHERS WHICH TO THE BAD MAN IS SO GREAT A GULF ONLY BELONGS TO A FLEETING AND ILLUSIVE PHENOMENON. HE RECOGNISES HIMSELF HIS WILL IN EVERY BEING AND CONSEQUENTLY ALSO IN THE SUFFERER. BUT THE LATTER IS THE NECESSARY AND INEVITABLE SYMPTOM OF THAT KNOWLEDGE. THE OPPOSITE OF THE STING OF CONSCIENCE THE ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF WHICH IS EXPLAINED ABOVE IS THE GOOD CONSCIENCE THE SATISFACTION WHICH WE EXPERIENCE AFTER EVERY DISINTERESTED DEED. THE EGOIST FEELS HIMSELF SURROUNDED BY STRANGE AND HOSTILE INDIVIDUALS AND ALL HIS HOPE IS CENTRED IN HIS OWN GOOD. THE GOOD MAN LIVES IN A WORLD OF FRIENDLY INDIVIDUALS THE WELL BEING OF ANY OF WHOM HE REGARDS AS HIS OWN. THEREFORE ALTHOUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LOT OF MANKIND GENERALLY DOES NOT MAKE HIS DISPOSITION A JOYFUL ONE YET THE PERMANENT KNOWLEDGE OF HIS OWN NATURE IN ALL LIVING BEINGS GIVES HIM A CERTAIN EVENNESS AND EVEN SERENITY OF DISPOSITION. FOR THE INTEREST WHICH IS EXTENDED TO INNUMERABLE MANIFESTATIONS CANNOT CAUSE SUCH ANXIETY AS THAT WHICH IS CONCENTRATED UPON ONE. THE ACCIDENTS WHICH CONCERN INDIVIDUALS COLLECTIVELY EQUALISE THEMSELVES WHILE THOSE WHICH HAPPEN TO THE PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUTE GOOD OR BAD FORTUNE. THUS THOUGH OTHERS HAVE SET UP MORAL PRINCIPLES WHICH THEY GIVE OUT AS PRESCRIPTIONS FOR VIRTUE AND LAWS WHICH IT WAS NECESSARY TO FOLLOW I AS HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID CANNOT DO THIS BECAUSE I HAVE NO OUGHT OR LAW TO PRESCRIBE TO THE ETERNALLY FREE WILL. WHEN NOW THE LATTER BECOMES PERFECT IT PLACES OTHER INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FATE COMPLETELY ON A LEVEL WITH ITSELF AND ITS OWN FATE. FURTHER THAN THIS IT CANNOT GO FOR THERE EXISTS NO REASON FOR PREFERRING THE INDIVIDUALITY OF ANOTHER TO ITS OWN. YET THE NUMBER OF OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHOSE WHOLE HAPPINESS OR LIFE IS IN DANGER MAY OUTWEIGH THE REGARD FOR ONE'S OWN PARTICULAR WELL BEING. IN SUCH A CASE THE CHARACTER THAT HAS ATTAINED TO THE HIGHEST GOODNESS AND PERFECT NOBILITY WILL ENTIRELY SACRIFICE ITS OWN WELL BEING AND EVEN ITS LIFE FOR THE WELL BEING OF MANY OTHERS. SO DIED CODRUS AND LEONIDAS AND REGULUS AND DECIUS MUS AND ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED SO DIES EVERY ONE WHO VOLUNTARILY AND CONSCIOUSLY FACES CERTAIN DEATH FOR HIS FRIENDS OR HIS COUNTRY. SO DIED SOCRATES AND GIORDANO BRUNO AND SO MANY A HERO OF THE TRUTH SUFFERED DEATH AT THE STAKE AT THE HANDS OF THE PRIESTS. WEEPING IS ACCORDINGLY SYMPATHY WITH OUR OWN SELVES OR SYMPATHY DIRECTED BACK ON ITS SOURCE. IT IS THEREFORE CONDITIONAL UPON THE CAPACITY FOR LOVE AND SYMPATHY AND ALSO UPON IMAGINATION. THE DESCRIPTION WHICH PETRARCH GIVES OF THE RISING OF HIS OWN TEARS NAIVELY AND TRULY EXPRESSING HIS FEELING ENTIRELY AGREES WITH THE EXPLANATION WE HAVE GIVEN. WHEN WE ARE MOVED TO TEARS NOT THROUGH OUR OWN SUFFERING BUT THROUGH THAT OF ANOTHER THIS HAPPENS AS FOLLOWS. EITHER WE VIVIDLY PUT OURSELVES IN THE PLACE OF THE SUFFERER BY IMAGINATION OR SEE IN HIS FATE THE LOT OF HUMANITY AS A WHOLE AND CONSEQUENTLY FIRST OF ALL OUR OWN LOT AND THUS IN A VERY ROUNDABOUT WAY IT IS YET ALWAYS ABOUT OURSELVES THAT WE WEEP SYMPATHY WITH OURSELVES WHICH WE FEEL THIS SEEMS TO BE THE PRINCIPAL REASON OF THE UNIVERSAL AND THUS NATURAL WEEPING IN THE CASE OF DEATH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96252/96252_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96252/96252_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..97956a97a1dafb988dc077fac13ff16250fcf29c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96252/96252_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE MOURNER DOES NOT WEEP FOR HIS LOSS HE WOULD BE ASHAMED OF SUCH EGOTISTICAL TEARS INSTEAD OF WHICH HE IS SOMETIMES ASHAMED OF NOT WEEPING. FIRST OF ALL HE CERTAINLY WEEPS FOR THE FATE OF THE DEAD BUT HE ALSO WEEPS WHEN AFTER LONG HEAVY AND INCURABLE SUFFERING DEATH WAS TO THIS MAN A WISHED FOR DELIVERANCE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96670/96670_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96670/96670_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..79196e1c4be3cf6d097a023c38fe017b195960f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96670/96670_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEY WERE IN THE LAND THIS PEOPLE SAID BEFORE THE MOON HAD COME INTO THE SKY. THAT WAS WHEN EGYPT WAS CALLED THE MORNING LAND. AND MANY OF THE MAGICIANS OF EGYPT WHO HAD COME WITH KING SESOSTRIS STAYED IN THAT CITY OF AEA AND THEY TAUGHT PEOPLE SPELLS THAT COULD STAY THE MOON IN HER GOING AND COMING IN HER RISING AND SETTING. MEDEA TOO HIS WISE DAUGHTER KNEW THE SECRETS TAUGHT BY THOSE WHO COULD SWAY THE MOON. THAT MORNING THE ARGONAUTS WHO HAD PASSED THE NIGHT IN THE BACKWATER OF THE RIVER HAD TWO YOUTHS COME TO THEM. THEY WERE IN A BROKEN SHIP AND THEY HAD ONE OAR ONLY. AND THE YOUTHS PHRONTIS AND MELAS WERE AS AMAZED AS WAS JASON WHEN THEY FOUND OUT WHOSE SHIP THEY HAD COME ABOARD. FOR JASON WAS THE GRANDSON OF CRETHEUS AND CRETHEUS WAS THE BROTHER OF ATHAMAS THEIR GRANDFATHER. BUT THEY HAD BEEN WRECKED AT A PLACE NOT FAR FROM THE MOUTH OF THE PHASIS AND WITH GREAT PAIN AND STRUGGLE THEY HAD MADE THEIR WAY BACK. JASON TOOK PELEUS AND TELAMON WITH HIM. AS THEY CAME TO THE CITY A MIST FELL AND JASON AND HIS COMRADES WITH THE SONS OF PHRIXUS WENT THROUGH THE CITY WITHOUT BEING SEEN. THEN PHRONTIS AND MELAS WERE SOME WAY BEHIND. THE MIST LIFTED AND BEFORE THE HEROES WAS THE WONDER OF THE PALACE IN THE BRIGHT LIGHT OF THE MORNING. THEY GUSHED OUT INTO GOLDEN SILVER BRONZE AND IRON BASINS. AND ONE FOUNTAIN GUSHED OUT CLEAR WATER AND ANOTHER GUSHED OUT MILK ANOTHER GUSHED OUT WINE AND ANOTHER OIL. ON EACH SIDE OF THE COURTYARD WERE THE PALACE BUILDINGS IN ONE KING A EETES LIVED WITH APSYRTUS HIS SON AND IN THE OTHER CHALCIOPE AND MEDEA LIVED WITH THEIR HANDMAIDENS. MEDEA WAS PASSING FROM HER FATHER'S HOUSE. THE MIST LIFTED SUDDENLY AND SHE SAW THREE STRANGERS IN THE PALACE COURTYARD. ONE HAD A CRIMSON MANTLE ON HIS SHOULDERS WERE SUCH AS TO MAKE HIM SEEM A MAN THAT A WHOLE WORLD COULD NOT OVERTHROW AND HIS EYES HAD ALL THE SUN'S LIGHT IN THEM. AND THEN A DOVE FLEW TOWARD HER IT WAS BEING CHASED BY A HAWK AND MEDEA SAW THE HAWK'S EYES AND BEAK. AS THE DOVE LIGHTED UPON HER SHOULDER SHE THREW HER VEIL AROUND IT AND THE HAWK DASHED ITSELF AGAINST A COLUMN. AND AS MEDEA TREMBLING LEANED AGAINST THE COLUMN SHE HEARD A CRY FROM HER SISTER WHO WAS WITHIN. ALL THE SERVANTS RUSHED OUT. SONS OF PHRIXUS OF THAT MAN WHOM I HONORED ABOVE ALL MEN WHO CAME TO MY HALLS SPEAK NOW AND TELL ME HOW IT IS THAT YOU HAVE COME BACK TO AEA SO SOON AND WHO THEY ARE THESE MEN WHO COME WITH YOU. PHRONTIS LOOKED AT THE KING AND SAID. THAT WAS ON A MURKY NIGHT AND IN THE MORNING THE BIRDS OF ARES SHOT THEIR SHARP FEATHERS UPON US. WE PULLED AWAY FROM THAT PLACE AND THEREAFTER WE WERE DRIVEN BY THE WINDS BACK TO THE MOUTH OF THE PHASIS. HE CAME HERE UPON A SHIP THAT WAS MADE BY THE COMMAND OF HERA THE WIFE OF ZEUS A SHIP MORE WONDERFUL THAN MORTALS EVER SAILED IN BEFORE. WITH HIM THERE CAME THE MIGHTIEST OF THE HEROES OF GREECE. HE IS JASON THE GRANDSON OF CRETHEUS AND HE HAS COME TO BEG THAT YOU WILL GRANT HIM FREELY THE FAMOUS FLEECE OF GOLD THAT PHRIXUS BROUGHT TO AEA. ALREADY HE HAS HEARD OF YOUR BITTER FOES THE SAUROMATAE. HE WITH HIS COMRADES WOULD SUBDUE THEM FOR YOU. AND IF YOU WOULD ASK OF THE NAMES AND THE LINEAGE OF THE HEROES WHO ARE WITH JASON I SHALL TELL YOU. SO PHRONTIS SAID BUT THE KING WAS NOT PLACATED BY WHAT HE SAID. A EETES'S HEART WAS FILLED WITH WRATH AS HE LOOKED UPON THEM AND HIS EYES SHONE AS A LEOPARD'S EYES. BEGONE FROM MY SIGHT HE CRIED ROBBERS THAT YE ARE TRICKSTERS. AND THEN SPEAKING TO THE KING IN A QUIET VOICE JASON SAID. BEAR WITH US KING A EETES I PRAY YOU. WE HAVE NOT COME WITH SUCH EVIL INTENT AS YOU THINK. AH IT WAS THE EVIL COMMAND OF AN EVIL KING THAT SENT ME FORTH WITH THESE COMPANIONS OF MINE ACROSS DANGEROUS GULFS OF THE SEA AND TO FACE YOUR WRATH AND THE ARMED MEN YOU CAN BRING AGAINST US. HIS HEART WAS DIVIDED AS TO WHETHER HE SHOULD SUMMON HIS ARMED MEN AND HAVE THEM SLAIN UPON THE SPOT OR WHETHER HE SHOULD PUT THEM INTO DANGER BY THE TRIAL HE WOULD MAKE OF THEM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96670/96670_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96670/96670_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d6f926f18bfcbc2403c2677a7ccf58407cf4d956 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96670/96670_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AND THEN HE SPOKE TO JASON SAYING. STRANGERS TO COLCHIS IT MAY BE TRUE WHAT MY NEPHEWS HAVE SAID. IT MAY BE THAT YE ARE TRULY OF THE SEED OF THE IMMORTALS. AND IT MAY BE THAT I SHALL GIVE YOU THE GOLDEN FLEECE TO BEAR AWAY AFTER I HAVE MADE TRIAL OF YOU. SHE ENTERED SOFTLY AND SHE STOOD AWAY FROM HER FATHER AND THE FOUR WHO WERE SPEAKING WITH HIM. SHE HAD A DARK FACE THAT WAS MADE VERY STRANGE BY HER CROWN OF GOLDEN HAIR. HER EYES LIKE HER FATHER'S WERE WIDE AND FULL OF LIGHT AND HER LIPS WERE SO FULL AND RED THAT THEY MADE HER MOUTH LIKE AN OPENING ROSE. BUT HER BROWS WERE ALWAYS KNIT AS IF THERE WAS SOME SECRET ANGER WITHIN HER. BUT THE TRIAL THAT I WOULD MAKE OF YOU IS HARD FOR A GREAT HERO EVEN. KNOW THAT ON THE PLAIN OF ARES YONDER I HAVE TWO FIRE BREATHING BULLS WITH FEET OF BRASS. THESE BULLS WERE ONCE CONQUERED BY ME I YOKED THEM TO A PLOW OF ADAMANT AND WITH THEM I PLOWED THE FIELD OF ARES FOR FOUR PLOW GATES. THEN I SOWED THE FURROWS NOT WITH THE SEED THAT DEMETER GIVES BUT WITH TEETH OF A DRAGON. I SLEW THEM WITH MY SPEAR AS THEY ROSE AROUND ME TO SLAY ME. IF YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS THAT I ACCOMPLISHED IN DAYS GONE BY I SHALL SUBMIT TO YOU AND GIVE YOU THE GOLDEN FLEECE. BUT IF YOU CANNOT ACCOMPLISH WHAT I ONCE ACCOMPLISHED YOU SHALL GO FROM MY CITY EMPTY HANDED FOR IT IS NOT RIGHT THAT A BRAVE MAN SHOULD YIELD AUGHT TO ONE WHO CANNOT SHOW HIMSELF AS BRAVE. THEN JASON UTTERLY CONFOUNDED CAST HIS EYES UPON THE GROUND. HE RAISED THEM TO SPEAK TO THE KING AND AS HE DID HE FOUND THE STRANGE EYES OF MEDEA UPON HIM. WITH ALL THE COURAGE THAT WAS IN HIM HE SPOKE. I WILL DARE THIS CONTEST MONSTROUS AS IT IS. AS HE SAID THIS HE SAW THE EYES OF MEDEA GROW WIDE AS WITH FEAR. JASON WITH PELEUS AND TELAMON LEFT THE CHAMBER AND THE KING SMILED GRIMLY AS HE SAW THEM GO. PHRONTIS AND MELAS WENT TO WHERE THEIR MOTHER WAS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96684/96684_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96684/96684_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..539466695333a6a5d8db01065df3c4da1d5f7a68 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96684/96684_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT HAPPENED ONCE THAT ZEUS WOULD PUNISH APOLLO HIS SON. THEN HE BANISHED HIM FROM OLYMPUS AND HE MADE HIM PUT OFF HIS DIVINITY AND APPEAR AS A MORTAL MAN. AND AS A MORTAL APOLLO SOUGHT TO EARN HIS BREAD AMONGST MEN. HE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF KING ADMETUS AND TOOK SERVICE WITH HIM AS HIS HERDSMAN. ADMETUS DID NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS ONE OF THE IMMORTAL GODS WHO WAS IN HIS HOUSE AND IN HIS FIELDS. BUT HE TREATED HIM IN FRIENDLY WISE AND APOLLO WAS HAPPY WHILST SERVING ADMETUS. AFTERWARD PEOPLE WONDERED AT ADMETUS'S EVER SMILING FACE AND EVER RADIANT BEING. THAT WAS BEFORE ADMETUS SAILED ON THE ARGO WITH JASON AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE QUEST. THE COMPANIONSHIP OF ADMETUS BROUGHT HAPPINESS TO MANY ON THE VOYAGE BUT THE HERO TO WHOM IT GAVE THE MOST HAPPINESS WAS HERACLES. THERE HE WED THAT FAIR AND LOVING WOMAN ALCESTIS. WITH APOLLO'S AID HE ACCOMPLISHED IT. THEREAFTER ADMETUS HAVING THE LOVE OF ALCESTIS WAS EVEN MORE HAPPY THAN HE HAD BEEN BEFORE. ONE DAY AS HE WALKED BY FOLD AND THROUGH PASTURE FIELD HE SAW A FIGURE STANDING BESIDE HIS HERD OF BLACK CATTLE. A RADIANT FIGURE IT WAS AND ADMETUS KNEW THAT THIS WAS APOLLO COME TO HIM AGAIN. HE WENT TOWARD THE GOD AND HE MADE REVERENCE AND BEGAN TO SPEAK TO HIM. BUT APOLLO TURNED TO ADMETUS A FACE THAT WAS WITHOUT JOY. WHAT YEARS OF HAPPINESS HAVE BEEN MINE O APOLLO THROUGH YOUR FRIENDSHIP FOR ME SAID ADMETUS. AH AS I WALKED MY PASTURE LAND TODAY IT CAME INTO MY MIND HOW MUCH I LOVED THIS GREEN EARTH AND THE BLUE SKY. AND ALL THAT I KNOW OF LOVE AND HAPPINESS HAS COME TO ME THROUGH YOU. BUT STILL APOLLO STOOD BEFORE HIM WITH A FACE THAT WAS WITHOUT JOY. HE SPOKE AND HIS VOICE WAS NOT THAT CLEAR AND VIBRANT VOICE THAT HE HAD ONCE IN SPEAKING TO ADMETUS. ADMETUS ADMETUS HE SAID IT IS FOR ME TO TELL YOU THAT YOU MAY NO MORE LOOK ON THE BLUE SKY NOR WALK UPON THE GREEN EARTH. IT IS FOR ME TO TELL YOU THAT THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD WILL HAVE YOU COME TO HIM ADMETUS ADMETUS KNOW THAT EVEN NOW THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD IS SENDING DEATH FOR YOU. THEN THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD WENT OUT FOR ADMETUS AND HE HEARD HIMSELF SPEAKING TO APOLLO IN A SHAKING VOICE O APOLLO APOLLO THOU ART A GOD AND SURELY THOU CANST SAVE ME. SAVE ME NOW FROM THIS DEATH THAT THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD IS SENDING FOR ME. BUT APOLLO SAID LONG AGO ADMETUS I MADE A BARGAIN WITH THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD ON THY BEHALF. THOU HAST BEEN GIVEN A CHANCE MORE THAN ANY MORTAL MAN. IF ONE WILL GO WILLINGLY IN THY PLACE WITH DEATH THOU CANST STILL LIVE ON GO ADMETUS. SO ADMETUS THOUGHT AS HE WENT TOWARD THE PALACE. AND THEN HE CAME UPON AN ANCIENT WOMAN WHO SAT UPON STONES IN THE COURTYARD GRINDING CORN BETWEEN TWO STONES. LONG HAD SHE BEEN DOING THAT WEARISOME LABOR. ADMETUS HAD KNOWN HER FROM THE FIRST TIME HE HAD COME INTO THAT COURTYARD AS A LITTLE CHILD AND HE HAD NEVER SEEN AUGHT IN HER FACE BUT A HEAVY MISERY. THERE SHE WAS SITTING AS HE HAD FIRST KNOWN HER WITH HER EYES BLEARED AND HER KNEES SHAKING AND WITH THE DUST OF THE COURTYARD AND THE HUSKS OF THE CORN IN HER MATTED HAIR. HE WENT TO HER AND SPOKE TO HER AND HE ASKED HER TO TAKE THE PLACE OF THE KING AND GO WITH DEATH. BUT WHEN SHE HEARD THE NAME OF DEATH HORROR CAME INTO THE FACE OF THE ANCIENT WOMAN AND SHE CRIED OUT THAT SHE WOULD NOT LET DEATH COME NEAR HER. ADMETUS TOOK THE MAN'S SHRIVELED HAND AND HE ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD NOT TAKE THE KING'S PLACE AND GO WITH DEATH THAT WAS COMING FOR HIM. THE SIGHTLESS MAN WITH HOWLS AND SHRIEKS SAID HE WOULD NOT GO. THEN ADMETUS WENT INTO THE PALACE AND INTO THE CHAMBER WHERE HIS BED WAS AND HE LAY DOWN UPON THE BED AND HE LAMENTED THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO GO WITH DEATH THAT WAS COMING FOR HIM FROM THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD AND HE LAMENTED THAT NONE OF THE WRETCHED ONES AROUND THE PALACE WOULD TAKE HIS PLACE. A HAND WAS LAID UPON HIM. ALCESTIS SPOKE TO HIM SLOWLY AND GRAVELY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96684/96684_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96684/96684_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b9bfeb87396cf1c2aac47dc4fd1c1383d9c48764 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96684/96684_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I HAVE HEARD WHAT YOU HAVE SAID O MY HUSBAND SAID SHE. ONE SHOULD GO IN YOUR PLACE FOR YOU ARE THE KING AND HAVE MANY GREAT AFFAIRS TO ATTEND TO. AND IF NONE OTHER WILL GO I ALCESTIS WILL GO IN YOUR PLACE ADMETUS. NOW THE FOOTSTEPS SEEMED TO STOP. IT WAS NOT SO TERRIBLE FOR HIM AS BEFORE. I WILL GO WITH DEATH IN YOUR PLACE ADMETUS ALCESTIS SAID. THEN EVEN AS ADMETUS LOOKED INTO HER FACE HE SAW A PALLOR COME UPON HER HER BODY WEAKENED AND SHE SANK DOWN UPON THE BED. AND THE WORDS HE HAD SPOKEN HE WOULD HAVE TAKEN BACK THE WORDS THAT HAD BROUGHT HER CONSENT TO GO WITH DEATH IN HIS PLACE. DEATH WOULD SOON BE HERE FOR HER. NO NOT HERE FOR HE WOULD NOT HAVE DEATH COME INTO THE PALACE. HE LIFTED ALCESTIS FROM THE BED AND HE CARRIED HER FROM THE PALACE. HE CARRIED HER TO THE TEMPLE OF THE GODS. NO MORE SPEECH CAME FROM HER. HE KNEW HIM BY HIS LION'S SKIN AND HIS GREAT HEIGHT. AND YET HERACLES MIGHT BE ON HIS WAY FROM THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF SOME GREAT LABOR AND IT WOULD NOT BE RIGHT TO SAY A WORD THAT MIGHT TURN HIM AWAY FROM HIS DOORWAY HE MIGHT HAVE MUCH NEED OF REST AND REFRESHMENT. HIS MIND WAS UPON A GREAT SACRIFICE HE SAID AND SO HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO FEAST WITH HIM. AND AS FOR ADMETUS HE WENT WITHIN THE CHAMBER AND KNELT BESIDE THE BED ON WHICH ALCESTIS HAD LAIN AND THOUGHT OF HIS TERRIBLE LOSS. HE PUT A WREATH UPON HIS HEAD AND SAT DOWN TO THE FEAST. IT WAS A PITY HE THOUGHT THAT ADMETUS WAS NOT FEASTING WITH HIM. BUT THIS WAS ONLY THE FIRST OF MANY FEASTS. TO WHAT GOD IS THAT SACRIFICE DUE. AND THEN HERACLES FELT THAT ANOTHER LABOR WAS BEFORE HIM. I HAVE DRAGGED UP FROM THE UNDERWORLD HE THOUGHT THE HOUND THAT GUARDS THOSE WHOM DEATH BRINGS DOWN INTO THE REALM OF THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD. WHY SHOULD I NOT STRIVE WITH DEATH. AND WHAT A NOBLE THING IT WOULD BE TO BRING BACK THIS FAITHFUL WOMAN TO HER HOUSE AND TO HER HUSBAND. THIS IS A LABOR THAT HAS NOT BEEN LAID UPON ME AND IT IS A LABOR I WILL UNDERTAKE. HE LEFT THE PALACE OF ADMETUS AND HE WENT TO THE TEMPLE OF THE GODS. HE LOOKED UPON THE QUEEN. DEATH HAD NOT TOUCHED HER YET ALTHOUGH SHE LAY SO STILL AND SO SILENT. HERACLES WATCHED AND DEATH CAME. DEATH HAD NEVER BEEN GRIPPED BY MORTAL HANDS AND HE STRODE ON AS IF THAT GRIP MEANT NOTHING TO HIM. IN DEATH'S GRIP THERE WAS A STRENGTH BEYOND STRENGTH. YOU ARE HELD BY ME DEATH AND YOU WILL NOT BE LET GO UNLESS YOU PROMISE TO GO FORTH FROM THIS TEMPLE WITHOUT BRINGING ONE WITH YOU. AND DEATH KNOWING THAT HERACLES COULD HOLD HIM THERE AND THAT THE BUSINESS OF THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD WOULD BE LEFT UNDONE IF HE WERE HELD PROMISED THAT HE WOULD LEAVE THE TEMPLE WITHOUT BRINGING ONE WITH HIM. SHE WAS VEILED AND ADMETUS COULD NOT SEE HER FEATURES. HERE IS A WOMAN WHOM I AM BRINGING BACK TO HER HUSBAND I WON HER FROM AN ENEMY. FOR MY SAKE TAKE HER INTO YOUR HOUSE SAID HERACLES. COME NOW ADMETUS TAKE THIS WOMAN BY THE HAND. HE THOUGHT THAT HE COULD NOT BEAR TO TAKE HER HAND. HARDLY COULD ADMETUS BEAR TO DO THIS HARDLY COULD HE BEAR TO THINK OF A STRANGE WOMAN BEING IN HIS HOUSE AND HIS OWN WIFE GONE WITH DEATH. THIS I CANNOT DO SAID ADMETUS I HAVE HAD PANGS ENOUGH. HOW CAN I LOOK UPON A WOMAN'S FACE AND REMIND MYSELF THAT I CANNOT LOOK UPON ALCESTIS'S FACE EVER AGAIN. THEN ADMETUS RAISED THE VEIL OF THE WOMAN HE HAD TAKEN ACROSS THE THRESHOLD OF HIS HOUSE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/8173/294714/294714_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8173/294714/294714_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f4ce25ce19c6cf0d9e9a18b88cc90ef40c830948 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8173/294714/294714_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT MISTER VAN BRANDT IS IN PRISON FOR DEBT I SAID. AND I SAW FOR MYSELF LAST NIGHT THAT HE HAD LEFT YOU HELPLESS. HE LEFT ME THE LITTLE MONEY HE HAD WITH HIM WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED SHE REJOINED SADLY. HIS CRUEL CREDITORS ARE MORE TO BLAME THAN HE IS FOR THE POVERTY THAT HAS FALLEN ON US. EVEN THIS NEGATIVE DEFENSE OF VAN BRANDT STUNG ME TO THE QUICK I OUGHT TO HAVE SPOKEN MORE GUARDEDLY OF HIM I SAID BITTERLY. I OUGHT TO HAVE REMEMBERED THAT A WOMAN CAN FORGIVE ALMOST ANY WRONG THAT A MAN CAN INFLICT ON HER WHEN HE IS THE MAN WHOM SHE LOVES. SHE PUT HER HAND ON MY MOUTH AND STOPPED ME BEFORE I COULD SAY ANY MORE. HOW CAN YOU SPEAK SO CRUELLY TO ME SHE ASKED. YOU KNOW TO MY SHAME I CONFESSED IT TO YOU THE LAST TIME WE MET YOU KNOW THAT MY HEART IN SECRET IS ALL YOURS. WHAT WRONG ARE YOU TALKING OF. IS IT THE WRONG I SUFFERED WHEN VAN BRANDT MARRIED ME WITH A WIFE LIVING AT THE TIME AND LIVING STILL. DO YOU THINK I CAN EVER FORGET THE GREAT MISFORTUNE OF MY LIFE THE MISFORTUNE THAT HAS MADE ME UNWORTHY OF YOU. IT IS NO FAULT OF MINE GOD KNOWS BUT IT IS NOT THE LESS TRUE THAT I AM NOT MARRIED AND THAT THE LITTLE DARLING WHO IS PLAYING OUT THERE WITH HER DOLL IS MY CHILD. AND YOU TALK OF MY BEING YOUR WIFE KNOWING THAT THE CHILD ACCEPTS ME AS HER SECOND FATHER I SAID. IT WOULD BE BETTER AND HAPPIER FOR US BOTH IF YOU HAD AS LITTLE PRIDE AS THE CHILD PRIDE SHE REPEATED. IN SUCH A POSITION AS MINE. A HELPLESS WOMAN WITH A MOCK HUSBAND IN PRISON FOR DEBT. AM I TO MARRY YOU FOR MY FOOD AND SHELTER. AM I TO MARRY YOU BECAUSE THERE IS NO LAWFUL TIE THAT BINDS ME TO THE FATHER OF MY CHILD. BAD AS HE IS HE HAS NOT FORSAKEN ME HE HAS BEEN FORCED AWAY. MY ONLY FRIEND IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU THINK ME UNGRATEFUL ENOUGH TO CONSENT TO BE YOUR WIFE. THE WOMAN IN MY SITUATION MUST BE HEARTLESS INDEED WHO COULD DESTROY YOUR PLACE IN THE ESTIMATION OF THE WORLD AND THE REGARD OF YOUR FRIENDS. THE WRETCHEDEST CREATURE THAT WALKS THE STREETS WOULD SHRINK FROM TREATING YOU IN THAT WAY. OH WHAT ARE MEN MADE OF. HOW CAN YOU HOW CAN YOU SPEAK OF IT. I YIELDED AND SPOKE OF IT NO MORE. EVERY WORD SHE UTTERED ONLY INCREASED MY ADMIRATION OF THE NOBLE CREATURE WHOM I HAD LOVED AND LOST. BITTERLY AS I HATED THE MAN WHO HAD PARTED US I LOVED HER DEARLY ENOUGH TO BE EVEN CAPABLE OF HELPING HIM FOR HER SAKE HOPELESS INFATUATION. I DON'T DENY IT I DON'T EXCUSE IT HOPELESS INFATUATION YOU HAVE FORGIVEN ME I SAID. LET ME DESERVE TO BE FORGIVEN. IT IS SOMETHING TO BE YOUR ONLY FRIEND. YOU MUST HAVE PLANS FOR THE FUTURE TELL ME UNRESERVEDLY HOW I CAN HELP YOU. COMPLETE THE GOOD WORK THAT YOU HAVE BEGUN SHE ANSWERED GRATEFULLY HELP ME BACK TO HEALTH. MAKE ME STRONG ENOUGH TO SUBMIT TO A DOCTOR'S ESTIMATE OF MY CHANCES OF LIVING FOR SOME YEARS YET. A DOCTOR'S ESTIMATE OF YOUR CHANCES OF LIVING I REPEATED WHAT DO YOU MEAN. I HARDLY KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU SHE SAID WITHOUT SPEAKING AGAIN OF MISTER VAN BRANDT. DOES SPEAKING OF HIM AGAIN MEAN SPEAKING OF HIS DEBTS I ASKED. WHY NEED YOU HESITATE. YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS NOTHING I WILL NOT DO TO RELIEVE YOUR ANXIETIES. NEVER LET ME TELL YOU THE PLAIN TRUTH. THERE IS A SERIOUS NECESSITY FOR HIS GETTING OUT OF PRISON. YES THIS IS HIS POSITION IN TWO WORDS A LITTLE WHILE SINCE HE OBTAINED AN EXCELLENT OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT ABROAD FROM A RICH RELATIVE OF HIS AND HE HAD MADE ALL HIS ARRANGEMENTS TO ACCEPT IT. UNHAPPILY HE RETURNED TO TELL ME OF HIS GOOD FORTUNE AND THE SAME DAY HE WAS ARRESTED FOR DEBT. THE SNARE THAT HAD BEEN SET FOR HER WAS PLAINLY REVEALED IN THOSE FOUR WORDS. IN THE EYE OF THE LAW SHE WAS OF COURSE A SINGLE WOMAN SHE WAS OF AGE SHE WAS TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES HER OWN MISTRESS. WHAT WAS THERE TO PREVENT HER FROM INSURING HER LIFE IF SHE PLEASED AND FROM SO DISPOSING OF THE INSURANCE AS TO GIVE VAN BRANDT A DIRECT INTEREST IN HER DEATH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/115543/115543_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/115543/115543_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f9d6cafa885a544b6d090dafd217dd3007f49186 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/115543/115543_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE CHILDREN TRAVEL IN THE BIG OX WAGON. THE NEXT DAY EVERYBODY IN THE HOUSE BEGAN TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR THE JOURNEY. EVERYTHING WAS DONE VERY LEISURELY THOUGH THERE WAS A LOT OF TALKING AND DISPUTING AND THE GIVING OF CONTRARY ORDERS. THE OLD PORTER WAS THERE DIRECTING AND SCOLDING THE SERVANTS AS THEY PILED THE RUGS AND BLANKETS AND BAGS OF FOOD AND POTS AND PANS AND DISHES INTO THE WAGON. THERE WAS QUITE A PROCESSION WHEN AT LAST THE BIG WAGON RUMBLED OUT THROUGH THE GATEWAY. BEHIND IT CAME THE GRANDMOTHER IN HER DHOOLIE DAK A SORT OF A LITTER OR EASY CHAIR SWUNG BETWEEN TWO LONG POLES. THIS WAS CARRIED BY TWO MEN ONE IN FRONT AND ONE BEHIND WHO RESTED THE END OF THE POLES ON THEIR SHOULDERS. BESIDES THE FAMILY THERE WERE MANY SERVANTS AND SEVERAL OTHERS WALKED BESIDE THE SLOW MOVING WAGON. THE COOK TOO WENT WITH THEM. GOOD BYE SHOUTED LITTLE NAO FROM HIS GARDEN WALL AS THEY WENT BY GOOD BYE. THE BOYS WERE PERFECTLY HAPPY TO THINK OF ALL THE NEW STRANGE SIGHTS THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ALONG THE ROAD. THEY SHOUTED GREETINGS TO THEIR FRIEND THE POTTER AS THEY PASSED HIM AND ALSO TO THE OLD FAKIR SMEARED ALL OVER WITH ASHES WHO SAT IN A LITTLE BRICK HUT BY THE BRIDGE AND PRETENDED TO MAKE WONDERFUL CURES. THIS IS MORE FUN THAN GOING TO SCHOOL SAID CHOLA AS THE OXEN PLODDED ALONG THROUGH CLOUDS OF DUST. THESE LOVELY BIRDS ARE FOUND NEARLY EVERYWHERE IN INDIA AND IN SOME PARTS RUN QUITE WILD. HIS LONG MATTED HAIR HUNG ON HIS SHOULDERS AND HE WAS SAYING HIS PRAYERS WITH THE HELP OF A ROSARY OF BEADS WHICH HE CONTINUALLY PASSED THROUGH HIS HANDS. AS THE WAGON CAME UP A YOUNG MAN WHO ACCOMPANIED THE HOLY MAN RAN UP AND HELD OUT A BEGGING BOWL SAYING GIVE OH CHARITABLE PEOPLE TO THIS HOLY ONE. NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HAS SO MANY BEGGARS AS INDIA. MANY OF THEM ARE CALLED HOLY MEN BECAUSE THEY DO NOTHING BUT MAKE PILGRIMAGES FROM ONE SACRED PLACE TO ANOTHER LIVING SOLELY ON THE ALMS THAT ARE GIVEN TO THEM. WHEN THEY HAD EATEN THEIR LUNCH THE YOUNG PEOPLE WENT TO EXPLORE THE GARDEN NEAR THEM. PERHAPS THERE ARE DOGS SAID MAHALA A LITTLE FEARFULLY BUT THEY FORGOT ABOUT DOGS WHEN THEY SAW A THICKET OF SUGAR CANE DOWN BY A STREAM. PERHAPS WE CAN BUY SOME FROM THE MAN THERE HE IS NOW PLOUGHING BY THE STREAM SAID CHOLA. IT IS LOOKING FOR WATER SAID THE FARMER AS HE TOOK A LONG STALK OF CANE AND GENTLY GUIDED IT DOWN TO THE STREAM. THE SNAKE IS ANOTHER SACRED ANIMAL OF THE HINDUS AND THEY WOULD NOT KILL OR INJURE ONE FOR ANYTHING. AS THEY WERE ABOUT TO MOVE ON AGAIN THEY SAW A GREAT CLOUD OF DUST DOWN THE ROAD. A GREAT RULER DOUBTLESS SAID ANOTHER AS THERE CAME INTO SIGHT A MAN ON HORSEBACK CARRYING A SILK BANNER OR FLAG. IT TURNED OUT THAT IT WAS A GREAT AND POWERFUL RAJAH GOING IN STATE ON A JOURNEY TO VISIT ANOTHER RAJAH OR RULER OF ONE OF THE SMALL KINGDOMS OR STATES OF WHICH MODERN INDIA WAS FORMERLY MADE UP. FIRST THERE CAME A BIG ELEPHANT ALL DECORATED WITH SILK AND GOLD AND SILVER. ON THE ELEPHANT'S BACK WAS A HOWDAH WHICH IS LIKE A BIG CHAIR WITH A CANOPY OVER IT AND IN THIS SITTING CROSS LEGGED WAS THE RAJAH A BIG FAT FELLOW DRESSED IN COLOURED SILKS AND JEWELS WITH A GREAT DIAMOND SET PLUME IN HIS TURBAN. BEHIND THE HOWDAH STOOD A SERVANT HOLDING A BIG UMBRELLA OF FINE FEATHERS OVER THE RAJAH'S HEAD. THE DRIVER SAT ON THE NECK OF THE ELEPHANT AND GUIDED THE BIG BEAST BY PRODDING HIM ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER WITH AN IRON SHOD STICK OR GOAD. ISN'T IT FINE TO RIDE LIKE THAT ON A BIG ELEPHANT. AND ALL THE REST OF THE DAY THE LITTLE FOLK TALKED OF NOTHING BUT THE GREAT RAJAH AND HIS ESCORT. OUR PARTY CAME TO A HALT AMONG MANY OTHER BULLOCK CARTS THE OWNERS OF WHICH WERE ALREADY SITTING AROUND ON THE GROUND COOKING THEIR SUPPERS OR BARGAINING FOR FOOD AT THE LITTLE BOOTHS. THESE THEY USED FOR PLATES HEAPING THEM UP WITH THEIR BOILED RICE AND CURRY AND FISH AND ALL SORTS OF PUDDINGS AND SWEETS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/84205/84205_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/84205/84205_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f94faad9a36735f20d286f74411e26a3e296d395 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/84205/84205_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +CHAPTER FORTY NINE GRIGGS IS STUBBORN. THE DAYS GLIDED BY WITH THE STIFFNESS IN CHRIS LEE'S LIMBS GROWING LESS PAINFUL AND THE PONY RECOVERING FAST FOR THE CLEAR MOUNTAIN AIR SEEMED TO ACT LIKE A CURE FOR WOUNDS. EVERY DAY THAT CAME SHOWED THE INJURED ANIMAL IN BETTER CONDITION. ITS EFFORTS TO MOVE NO LONGER MADE CHRIS WINCE AND FORGET HIS OWN PAINS IN THOSE HE FELT AT SEEING THE MUSTANG SUFFER. EVERY ONE WAS BUSY FOR THE KEEPING WATCH REGULARLY TOOK UP A GOOD DEAL OF TIME. IT'S ALL NONSENSE NED CRIED CHRIS FOR THEM TO THINK THEY ARE STAYING ON ACCOUNT OF US HULLO GRIGGS WERE YOU LISTENING. HOW DID YOUR PONY GO THIS MORNING SPLENDID. JUST HALTED A LITTLE ON THE BAD LEG BUT IT'S BETTER THAN IT WAS YESTERDAY. DID YOU CANTER THIS MORNING CANTER. WE WENT AT A GOOD SWINGING GALLOP AND WHAT ABOUT YOU. OH I'M ONLY A LITTLE STIFF STILL. HERE I WANT FOR US TO BE OFF. WE SHALL GET STRONG MORE QUICKLY JOURNEYING OVER THE PLAINS OR CLIMBING IN AND OUT AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. I DON'T LIKE TO BOTHER MY FATHER ANY MORE BUT WHAT DOES HE SAY. HE SAYS WE'RE TO START TO MORROW AT DAYBREAK. HURRAH CRIED CHRIS. BUT WE SHAN'T MY LAD WHY NOT. BECAUSE I'VE SEEN INDIANS AGAIN. OH YOU'RE ALWAYS SEEING INDIANS AGAIN. WELL THEY SHOWED THEMSELVES TO ME I DIDN'T WANT THEM SAID GRIGGS DRYLY. THEY'RE AN ARTFUL LOT NEVER BEEN AWAY AT ALL I BELIEVE. WE COULDN'T SEE EM BUT IF WE'D MADE A START THEY'D HAVE BEEN CLOSE UPON OUR HEELS DIRECTLY. AH YOU'LL HAVE TO TRAP THEM CHRIS SAID NED MALICIOUSLY. LOOK HERE IF YOU SAY THAT AGAIN WE SHALL QUARREL HEAR THAT GRIGGS. OH YES I HEAR SERVE YOU RIGHT. IF YOU CAN'T SHOW US A BETTER WAY YOU HAD BETTER HOLD YOUR TONGUE. VERY WELL I CAN DO THAT SAID NED HAUGHTILY. THERE THAT'S ENOUGH CRIED CHRIS DON'T BE SO PETTY NED. WE'VE GOT SOMETHING ELSE TO THINK ABOUT BESIDES TEASING AND BANTERING. THAT'S RIGHT CRIED GRIGGS. LOOK HERE LADS I'VE JUST BEEN TRYING THAT PLACE AGAIN. ANY TIME THE DOCTOR LIKES. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THEM HITTING ME MY LAD SAID GRIGGS CONFIDENTLY. BEING SHOT AT BY FELLOWS WITH BOWS AND ARROWS SOUNDS BAD ENOUGH BUT THERE'S NOT MUCH RISK HERE. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT SAID CHRIS ANXIOUSLY. DON'T YOU WELL I DO. I SHOULD BE RUNNING FAST AND DODGING IN AND OUT AMONG THE ROCKS AND TREES. YES OF COURSE SAID CHRIS WITH A DUBIOUS LOOK ALL THE SAME. BUT THE ENEMY WON'T BE STANDING STILL CONTINUED GRIGGS. WHAT'S MORE THEY CAN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT WITH THEIR PONIES CANTERING. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S A BIT OF RISK FOR ME I SHALL BE ALL RIGHT. IF THEY DO HEAR ANYTHING WE'RE DONE. BUT OUR ANIMALS WILL BE WELL BACK IN THAT HOLLOW SAID CHRIS. YES MY LAD BUT I WANT THEM TO BE PLANTED FARTHER BACK STILL. I'M AFRAID FATHER WILL SAY THAT THE PONIES OUGHT TO BE CLOSE AT HAND. YES THAT'S RIGHT IF IT CAN BE DONE BUT IT WOULD GO HARD WITH US ALL IF THE INDIANS GAVE UP THE BAIT OF THE TRAP AND TURNED UPON THOSE WHO SET IT. WELL YOU MUST TALK IT OVER WITH FATHER SAID CHRIS. LET'S SEE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER LOOK AT THE PLACE THIS AFTERNOON AREN'T WE. TOO MANY REDSKINS ABOUT AS I TOLD YOU. THERE ARE ALWAYS TOO MANY REDSKINS ABOUT CRIED CHRIS IMPATIENTLY. I WISH WE COULD CHARGE THEM BOLDLY AND SEND THEM FLYING OVER THE PLAINS. NEVER TO COME BACK AGAIN SAID NED SHARPLY. NOT QUITE MY LADS DON'T YOU SEE THAT WE'RE PLAYING A VERY TICKLISH GAME. JUST THEN THE DOCTOR CAME INTO THE SHELTER WHERE THE BOYS HAD BEEN TALKING BRINGING WITH HIM WILTON WHO HAD BEEN SHOOTING OR RATHER TRYING TO SHOOT FOR HE HAD HAD NO SUCCESS AND THEY TOO WERE TALKING EARNESTLY ABOUT WAYS AND MEANS. OH HERE YOU ARE GRIGGS CRIED THE DOCTOR. HAD A GOOD TURN AT SCOUTING YES SIR. THE INDIANS HAVE SHIFTED THEIR QUARTERS AND THEY'RE IN ABOUT AS AWKWARD A POSITION AS THEY COULD CONTRIVE FOR OUR PURPOSE. WE MUST GET AWAY FROM HERE TO SOME GOOD HUNTING GROUND. DO THE INDIANS SEEM TO BE CAMPING OR ONLY ON THE MOVE. THEY SEEM TO ME TO BE HATCHING UP SOME DODGE OR ANOTHER REPLIED GRIGGS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/8288/274150/274150_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8288/274150/274150_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a5385a8fc4dc86e4537928c1376b202baffd8bb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8288/274150/274150_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AND AGAIN WHEN THE ARTIST FOLLOWING MALICORNE'S ADVICE WAS A LITTLE LATE IN ARRIVING AND WHEN SAINT AIGNAN HAD BEEN OBLIGED TO BE ABSENT FOR SOME TIME IT WAS INTERESTING TO OBSERVE THOUGH NO ONE WITNESSED THEM THOSE MOMENTS OF SILENCE FULL OF DEEP EXPRESSION WHICH UNITED IN ONE SIGH TWO SOULS MOST DISPOSED TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND WHO BY NO MEANS OBJECTED TO THE QUIET MEDITATION THEY ENJOYED TOGETHER. IN A WORD MALICORNE PHILOSOPHER THAT HE WAS THOUGH HE KNEW IT NOT HAD LEARNED HOW TO INSPIRE THE KING WITH AN APPETITE IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY AND WITH DESIRE IN THE ASSURANCE OF POSSESSION. IN THIS MANNER THEREFORE WITHOUT LEAVING HER ROOM AND HAVING NO CONFIDANTE SHE WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO HER APARTMENT THUS REMOVING BY HER APPEARANCE A LITTLE TARDY PERHAPS THE SUSPICIONS OF THE MOST DETERMINED SKEPTICS. BUT THE DOOR REMAINED CLOSED AND NEITHER SAINT AIGNAN NOR THE PAINTER APPEARED NOR DID THE HANGINGS EVEN MOVE. GO THEN DEAREST LOVE SAID THE KING BUT RETURN QUICKLY. NO NO NOT TO DAY SIRE. I KNEW BUT TOO WELL THAT YOU HAD NOT CEASED TO LOVE ME. LA VALLIERE WITH A GESTURE PARTLY OF EXTREME TERROR AND PARTLY AS IF INVOKING A BLESSING ATTEMPTED TO SPEAK BUT COULD NOT ARTICULATE ONE WORD. AT THE MOMENT HOWEVER WHEN THE KING THREW HIMSELF ON HIS KNEES A CRY OF UTTER DESPAIR RANG THROUGH THE CORRIDOR ACCOMPANIED BY THE SOUND OF RETREATING FOOTSTEPS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/8288/274162/274162_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8288/274162/274162_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5312309af097a04062deb88a888befb2aececc24 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8288/274162/274162_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE CAPTAIN SITTING BURIED IN HIS LEATHERN ARMCHAIR HIS SPURS FIXED IN THE FLOOR HIS SWORD BETWEEN HIS LEGS WAS READING A NUMBER OF LETTERS AS HE TWISTED HIS MUSTACHE. D'ARTAGNAN UTTERED A WELCOME FULL OF PLEASURE WHEN HE PERCEIVED HIS FRIEND'S SON. RAOUL MY BOY HE SAID BY WHAT LUCKY ACCIDENT DOES IT HAPPEN THAT THE KING HAS RECALLED YOU. THESE WORDS DID NOT SOUND AGREEABLY IN THE YOUNG MAN'S EARS WHO AS HE SEATED HIMSELF REPLIED UPON MY WORD I CANNOT TELL YOU ALL THAT I KNOW IS I HAVE COME BACK HUM. THAT THE KING HAS NOT RECALLED YOU AND YOU HAVE RETURNED. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT AT ALL. RAOUL WAS ALREADY PALE ENOUGH AND HE NOW BEGAN TO TURN HIS HAT ROUND AND ROUND IN HIS HAND. WHAT THE DEUCE IS THE MATTER THAT YOU LOOK AS YOU DO AND WHAT MAKES YOU SO DUMB. SAID THE CAPTAIN DO PEOPLE NOWADAYS ASSUME THAT SORT OF AIRS IN ENGLAND. I HAVE BEEN IN ENGLAND AND CAME HERE AGAIN AS LIVELY AS A CHAFFINCH. WILL YOU NOT SAY SOMETHING. I HAVE TOO MUCH TO SAY. AH HOW IS YOUR FATHER. FORGIVE ME MY DEAR FRIEND I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU THAT. D'ARTAGNAN INCREASED THE SHARPNESS OF HIS PENETRATING GAZE WHICH NO SECRET WAS CAPABLE OF RESISTING. YOU ARE UNHAPPY ABOUT SOMETHING HE SAID. I AM INDEED AND YOU KNOW THE REASON VERY WELL MONSIEUR D'ARTAGNAN. NAY DO NOT PRETEND TO BE ASTONISHED. I AM NOT PRETENDING TO BE ASTONISHED MY FRIEND. I HAVE NEITHER HEAD NOR ARM DO NOT DESPISE BUT HELP ME IN TWO WORDS I AM THE MOST WRETCHED OF LIVING BEINGS OH OH. SHE IS DECEIVING YOU SAID D'ARTAGNAN NOT A MUSCLE OF WHOSE FACE HAD MOVED THOSE ARE BIG WORDS WHO MAKES USE OF THEM. EVERY ONE AH. IF EVERY ONE SAYS SO THERE MUST BE SOME TRUTH IN IT. NOT FOR A FRIEND FOR A SON. THE DEUCE TAKE IT YOU ARE REALLY ILL FROM CURIOSITY. NO IT IS NOT FROM CURIOSITY IT IS FROM LOVE. GOOD ANOTHER BIG WORD. I TELL YOU I LOVE LOUISE TO DISTRACTION. WELL SUPPOSE IT WERE ONLY THAT. NO SENSIBLE MAN EVER SUCCEEDED IN MAKING MUCH OF A BRAIN WHEN THE HEAD WAS TURNED. I HAVE COMPLETELY LOST MY SENSES IN THE SAME WAY A HUNDRED TIMES IN MY LIFE. YOU WOULD HEAR BUT YOU WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND ME YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND BUT YOU WOULD NOT OBEY ME. OH TRY TRY. I GO FAR EVEN IF I WERE UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO KNOW SOMETHING AND FOOLISH ENOUGH TO COMMUNICATE IT TO YOU YOU ARE MY FRIEND YOU SAY INDEED YES. VERY GOOD I SHOULD QUARREL WITH YOU. I NEVER COMPLAIN AS YOU KNOW BUT AS HEAVEN AND MY FATHER WOULD NEVER FORGIVE ME FOR BLOWING OUT MY BRAINS I WILL GO AND GET THE FIRST PERSON I MEET TO GIVE ME THE INFORMATION WHICH YOU WITHHOLD I WILL TELL HIM HE LIES AND AND YOU WOULD KILL HIM. AND A FINE AFFAIR THAT WOULD BE SO MUCH THE BETTER WHAT SHOULD I CARE. YOU NOW ASSUME A DIFFERENT TONE INSTEAD OF KILLING YOU WILL GET KILLED YOURSELF I SUPPOSE YOU MEAN VERY FINE INDEED. HOW MUCH I SHOULD REGRET YOU. OF COURSE I SHOULD GO ABOUT ALL DAY SAYING AH. WHAT A FINE STUPID FELLOW THAT BRAGELONNE WAS. AS GREAT A STUPID AS I EVER MET WITH. GO THEN RAOUL GO AND GET YOURSELF DISPOSED OF IF YOU LIKE. I HARDLY KNOW WHO CAN HAVE TAUGHT YOU LOGIC BUT DEUCE TAKE ME IF YOUR FATHER HAS NOT BEEN REGULARLY ROBBED OF HIS MONEY. RAOUL BURIED HIS FACE IN HIS HANDS MURMURING NO NO I HAVE NOT A SINGLE FRIEND IN THE WORLD. IDLE FANCIES MONSIEUR I DO NOT LAUGH AT YOU ALTHOUGH I AM A GASCON. A CARPENTER WHAT DO YOU MEAN. 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YOU ARE MISTAKEN MONSIEUR REPLIED RAOUL THE WOMAN I MEAN WILL TELL ME ALL THE EVIL SHE POSSIBLY CAN. WELL I ADMIT IT. AND IN POINT OF FACT WHY SHOULD I PLAY WITH YOU AS A CAT DOES WITH A POOR MOUSE. YOU DISTRESS ME YOU DO INDEED. WAIT IF YOU CAN. I CANNOT SO MUCH THE WORSE. AH SAID RAOUL SNATCHING EAGERLY AT THE PEN WHICH THE CAPTAIN HELD OUT TO HIM. HOW VERY FORTUNATE THAT IS HE WAS LOOKING FOR YOU TOO. 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SHE PAUSED A MOMENT AND NODDED TO THE TWO BOYS AT WORK IN A YOUNG COTTON FIELD. COTTON SHE PAUSED. SHE REMEMBERED WITH WHAT INTEREST SHE HAD ALWAYS READ OF THIS LITTLE THREAD OF THE WORLD. SHE HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN THAT IT WAS HERE WITHIN TOUCH AND SIGHT. THE GLIMMERING SEA OF DELICATE LEAVES WHISPERED AND MURMURED BEFORE HER STRETCHING AWAY TO THE NORTHWARD. SHE REMEMBERED THAT BEYOND THIS LITTLE WORLD IT STRETCHED ON AND ON HOW FAR SHE DID NOT KNOW BUT ON AND ON IN A GREAT TREMBLING SEA AND THE FOAM OF ITS MIGHTY WATERS WOULD ONE TIME FLOOD THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. SHE GLIMPSED ALL THIS WITH PARTED LIPS AND THEN SIGHED IMPATIENTLY. THERE MIGHT BE A BIT OF POETRY HERE AND THERE BUT MOST OF THIS PLACE WAS SUCH DESPERATE PROSE. SHE GLANCED ABSENTLY AT THE BOYS. ONE WAS BLES ALWYN A TALL BLACK LAD. BLES SHE MUSED NOW WHO WOULD THINK OF NAMING A BOY BLESSED SAVE THESE INCOMPREHENSIBLE CREATURES. HER REGARD SHIFTED TO THE GREEN STALKS AND LEAVES AGAIN AND SHE STARTED TO MOVE AWAY. THEN HER NEW ENGLAND CONSCIENCE STEPPED IN. SHE OUGHT NOT TO PASS THESE STUDENTS WITHOUT A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT OR INSTRUCTION. COTTON IS A WONDERFUL THING IS IT NOT BOYS SHE SAID RATHER PRIMLY. THE BOYS TOUCHED THEIR HATS AND MURMURED SOMETHING INDISTINCTLY. MISS TAYLOR DID NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT COTTON BUT AT LEAST ONE MORE REMARK SEEMED CALLED FOR. HOW LONG BEFORE THE STALKS WILL BE READY TO CUT SHE ASKED CARELESSLY. OH THESE PEOPLE WERE SO SLOW NOW A NEW ENGLAND BOY WOULD HAVE ANSWERED AND ASKED A HALF DOZEN QUESTIONS IN THE TIME. I I DON'T KNOW HE FALTERED. DON'T KNOW WELL OF ALL THINGS INWARDLY COMMENTED MISS TAYLOR LITERALLY BORN IN COTTON AND OH WELL AS MUCH AS TO ASK WHAT'S THE USE SHE TURNED AGAIN TO GO. WHAT IS PLANTED OVER THERE SHE ASKED ALTHOUGH SHE REALLY DIDN'T CARE. GOOBERS UNCOMPREHENDINGLY. PEANUTS BLES SPECIFIED. OH MURMURED MISS TAYLOR. I SUPPOSE THOUGH IT'S TOO EARLY FOR THEM THEN CAME THE EXPLOSION. THE SMALLER BOY JUST SNORTED WITH IRREPRESSIBLE LAUGHTER AND BOLTED ACROSS THE FIELDS. GOOBERS DON'T GROW ON THE TOPS OF VINES BUT UNDERGROUND ON THE ROOTS LIKE YAMS IS THAT SO. HIS EYES LIGHTED FOR COTTON WAS TO HIM A VERY REAL AND BEAUTIFUL THING AND A LIFE LONG COMPANION YET NOT ONE WHOSE FRIENDSHIP HAD BEEN COARSENED AND KILLED BY HEAVY TOIL. HE LEANED AGAINST HIS HOE AND TALKED HALF DREAMILY WHERE HAD HE LEARNED SO WELL THAT DREAM TALK WE TURN UP THE EARTH AND SOW IT SOON AFTER CHRISTMAS. THEN STALKS SHOOT UP WITH THREE OR FOUR LEAVES. THAT'S THE WAY IT IS NOW SEE. BUT IT'S PRETTIEST WHEN THE BOLLS COME AND SWELL AND BURST AND THE COTTON COVERS THE FIELD LIKE FOAM ALL MISTY. SHE BENT WONDERING OVER THE PALE PLANTS. THE POETRY OF THE THING BEGAN TO SING WITHIN HER AWAKENING HER UNPOETIC IMAGINATION AND SHE MURMURED. THE GOLDEN FLEECE IT'S THE SILVER FLEECE HE HARKENED. WHAT'S THAT HE ASKED. NO MA'AM HE SAID EAGERLY THEN GLANCING UP TOWARD THE CRESSWELL FIELDS HE SAW TWO WHITE MEN WATCHING THEM. HE GRASPED HIS HOE AND STARTED BRISKLY TO WORK. SOME TIME YOU'LL TELL ME PLEASE WON'T YOU. SHE BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT IN THIS PLEASANT LITTLE CHAT THE FACT OF THE BOY'S COLOR HAD QUITE ESCAPED HER AND WHAT ESPECIALLY PUZZLED HER WAS THAT THIS HAD NOT HAPPENED BEFORE. SHE HAD BEEN HERE FOUR MONTHS AND YET EVERY MOMENT UP TO NOW SHE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN VIVIDLY ALMOST PAINFULLY CONSCIOUS THAT SHE WAS A WHITE WOMAN TALKING TO BLACK FOLK \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/2094/142345/142345_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2094/142345/142345_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5d97566e23b64965d7e1f9ba7486ac4e857af3f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2094/142345/142345_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT IS A VERY FINE OLD PLACE OF RED BRICK SOFTENED BY A PALE POWDERY LICHEN WHICH HAS DISPERSED ITSELF WITH HAPPY IRREGULARITY SO AS TO BRING THE RED BRICK INTO TERMS OF FRIENDLY COMPANIONSHIP WITH THE LIMESTONE ORNAMENTS SURROUNDING THE THREE GABLES THE WINDOWS AND THE DOOR PLACE. BUT THE WINDOWS ARE PATCHED WITH WOODEN PANES AND THE DOOR I THINK IS LIKE THE GATE IT IS NEVER OPENED. FOR IT IS A SOLID HEAVY HANDSOME DOOR AND MUST ONCE HAVE BEEN IN THE HABIT OF SHUTTING WITH A SONOROUS BANG BEHIND A LIVERIED LACKEY WHO HAD JUST SEEN HIS MASTER AND MISTRESS OFF THE GROUNDS IN A CARRIAGE AND PAIR. AND NOW THE HALF WEANED CALVES THAT HAVE BEEN SHELTERING THEMSELVES IN A GORSE BUILT HOVEL AGAINST THE LEFT HAND WALL COME OUT AND SET UP A SILLY ANSWER TO THAT TERRIBLE BARK DOUBTLESS SUPPOSING THAT IT HAS REFERENCE TO BUCKETS OF MILK. A LARGE OPEN FIREPLACE WITH RUSTY DOGS IN IT AND A BARE BOARDED FLOOR AT THE FAR END FLEECES OF WOOL STACKED UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR SOME EMPTY CORN BAGS. THAT IS THE FURNITURE OF THE DINING ROOM. AND WHAT THROUGH THE LEFT HAND WINDOW. SEVERAL CLOTHES HORSES A PILLION A SPINNING WHEEL AND AN OLD BOX WIDE OPEN AND STUFFED FULL OF COLOURED RAGS. AT THE EDGE OF THIS BOX THERE LIES A GREAT WOODEN DOLL WHICH SO FAR AS MUTILATION IS CONCERNED BEARS A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO THE FINEST GREEK SCULPTURE AND ESPECIALLY IN THE TOTAL LOSS OF ITS NOSE. NEAR IT THERE IS A LITTLE CHAIR AND THE BUTT END OF A BOY'S LEATHER LONG LASHED WHIP. THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE IS PLAIN NOW. IT WAS ONCE THE RESIDENCE OF A COUNTRY SQUIRE WHOSE FAMILY PROBABLY DWINDLING DOWN TO MERE SPINSTERHOOD GOT MERGED IN THE MORE TERRITORIAL NAME OF DONNITHORNE. BUT THERE IS ALWAYS A STRONGER SENSE OF LIFE WHEN THE SUN IS BRILLIANT AFTER RAIN AND NOW HE IS POURING DOWN HIS BEAMS AND MAKING SPARKLES AMONG THE WET STRAW AND LIGHTING UP EVERY PATCH OF VIVID GREEN MOSS ON THE RED TILES OF THE COW SHED AND TURNING EVEN THE MUDDY WATER THAT IS HURRYING ALONG THE CHANNEL TO THE DRAIN INTO A MIRROR FOR THE YELLOW BILLED DUCKS WHO ARE SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY OF GETTING A DRINK WITH AS MUCH BODY IN IT AS POSSIBLE. FOR THE GREAT BARN DOORS ARE THROWN WIDE OPEN AND MEN ARE BUSY THERE MENDING THE HARNESS UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF MISTER GOBY THE WHITTAW OTHERWISE SADDLER WHO ENTERTAINS THEM WITH THE LATEST TREDDLESTON GOSSIP. HETTY SORREL OFTEN TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY WHEN HER AUNT'S BACK WAS TURNED OF LOOKING AT THE PLEASING REFLECTION OF HERSELF IN THOSE POLISHED SURFACES FOR THE OAK TABLE WAS USUALLY TURNED UP LIKE A SCREEN AND WAS MORE FOR ORNAMENT THAN FOR USE AND SHE COULD SEE HERSELF SOMETIMES IN THE GREAT ROUND PEWTER DISHES THAT WERE RANGED ON THE SHELVES ABOVE THE LONG DEAL DINNER TABLE OR IN THE HOBS OF THE GRATE WHICH ALWAYS SHONE LIKE JASPER. DO NOT SUPPOSE HOWEVER THAT MISSUS POYSER WAS ELDERLY OR SHREWISH IN HER APPEARANCE SHE WAS A GOOD LOOKING WOMAN NOT MORE THAN EIGHT AND THIRTY OF FAIR COMPLEXION AND SANDY HAIR WELL SHAPEN LIGHT FOOTED. THE FAMILY LIKENESS BETWEEN HER AND HER NIECE DINAH MORRIS WITH THE CONTRAST BETWEEN HER KEENNESS AND DINAH'S SERAPHIC GENTLENESS OF EXPRESSION MIGHT HAVE SERVED A PAINTER AS AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION FOR A MARTHA AND MARY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/2094/142345/142345_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2094/142345/142345_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bd3ce5909110bc2772e86e2e3be36358535f8f3f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2094/142345/142345_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HER TONGUE WAS NOT LESS KEEN THAN HER EYE AND WHENEVER A DAMSEL CAME WITHIN EARSHOT SEEMED TO TAKE UP AN UNFINISHED LECTURE AS A BARREL ORGAN TAKES UP A TUNE PRECISELY AT THE POINT WHERE IT HAD LEFT OFF. THE FACT THAT IT WAS CHURNING DAY WAS ANOTHER REASON WHY IT WAS INCONVENIENT TO HAVE THE WHITTAWS AND WHY CONSEQUENTLY MISSUS POYSER SHOULD SCOLD MOLLY THE HOUSEMAID WITH UNUSUAL SEVERITY. TO ALL APPEARANCE MOLLY HAD GOT THROUGH HER AFTER DINNER WORK IN AN EXEMPLARY MANNER HAD CLEANED HERSELF WITH GREAT DISPATCH AND NOW CAME TO ASK SUBMISSIVELY IF SHE SHOULD SIT DOWN TO HER SPINNING TILL MILKING TIME. BUT THIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT ACCORDING TO MISSUS POYSER SHROUDED A SECRET INDULGENCE OF UNBECOMING WISHES WHICH SHE NOW DRAGGED FORTH AND HELD UP TO MOLLY'S VIEW WITH CUTTING ELOQUENCE. SPINNING INDEED. I NEVER KNEW YOUR EQUALS FOR GALLOWSNESS. WHO TAUGHT YOU TO SCRUB A FLOOR I SHOULD LIKE TO KNOW. AND AS FOR SPINNING WHY YOU'VE WASTED AS MUCH AS YOUR WAGE THE FLAX YOU'VE SPOILED LEARNING TO SPIN. COMB THE WOOL FOR THE WHITTAWS INDEED. THAT'S WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO BE DOING IS IT. THAT'S THE WAY WITH YOU THAT'S THE ROAD YOU'D ALL LIKE TO GO HEADLONGS TO RUIN. MISTER OTTLEY'S INDEED. IT'S FINE TALKING O WHAT YOU DID AT MISTER OTTLEY'S. YOU'RE A RARE UN FOR SITTING DOWN TO YOUR WORK A LITTLE WHILE AFTER IT'S TIME TO PUT BY. MUNNY MY IRON'S TWITE TOLD PEASE PUT IT DOWN TO WARM. THE SMALL CHIRRUPING VOICE THAT UTTERED THIS REQUEST CAME FROM A LITTLE SUNNY HAIRED GIRL BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR WHO SEATED ON A HIGH CHAIR AT THE END OF THE IRONING TABLE WAS ARDUOUSLY CLUTCHING THE HANDLE OF A MINIATURE IRON WITH HER TINY FAT FIST AND IRONING RAGS WITH AN ASSIDUITY THAT REQUIRED HER TO PUT HER LITTLE RED TONGUE OUT AS FAR AS ANATOMY WOULD ALLOW. COLD IS IT MY DARLING BLESS YOUR SWEET FACE. SAID MISSUS POYSER WHO WAS REMARKABLE FOR THE FACILITY WITH WHICH SHE COULD RELAPSE FROM HER OFFICIAL OBJURGATORY TO ONE OF FONDNESS OR OF FRIENDLY CONVERSE. NEVER MIND MOTHER'S DONE HER IRONING NOW. SHE'S GOING TO PUT THE IRONING THINGS AWAY. MUNNY I TOULD IKE TO DO INTO DE BARN TO TOMMY TO SEE DE WHITTAWD. NO NO NO TOTTY UD GET HER FEET WET SAID MISSUS POYSER CARRYING AWAY HER IRON. DID EVER ANYBODY SEE THE LIKE SCREAMED MISSUS POYSER RUNNING TOWARDS THE TABLE WHEN HER EYE HAD FALLEN ON THE BLUE STREAM. WHAT SHALL I DO TO YOU YOU NAUGHTY NAUGHTY GELL. TOTTY HOWEVER HAD DESCENDED FROM HER CHAIR WITH GREAT SWIFTNESS AND WAS ALREADY IN RETREAT TOWARDS THE DAIRY WITH A SORT OF WADDLING RUN AND AN AMOUNT OF FAT ON THE NAPE OF HER NECK WHICH MADE HER LOOK LIKE THE METAMORPHOSIS OF A WHITE SUCKLING PIG. AH YOUR MOTHER LITTLE THOUGHT AS SHE'D HAVE A DAUGHTER JUST CUT OUT AFTER THE VERY PATTERN O JUDITH AND LEAVE HER AN ORPHAN TOO FOR JUDITH TO TAKE CARE ON AND BRING UP WITH A SPOON WHEN SHE WAS IN THE GRAVEYARD AT STONITON. SHE WAS A BLESSED WOMAN SAID DINAH GOD HAD GIVEN HER A LOVING SELF FORGETTING NATURE AND HE PERFECTED IT BY GRACE. AND SHE WAS VERY FOND OF YOU TOO AUNT RACHEL. I OFTEN HEARD HER TALK OF YOU IN THE SAME SORT OF WAY. WHEN SHE HAD THAT BAD ILLNESS AND I WAS ONLY ELEVEN YEARS OLD SHE USED TO SAY YOU'LL HAVE A FRIEND ON EARTH IN YOUR AUNT RACHEL IF I'M TAKEN FROM YOU FOR SHE HAS A KIND HEART AND I'M SURE I'VE FOUND IT SO. AND THERE'S LINEN IN THE HOUSE AS I COULD WELL SPARE YOU FOR I'VE GOT LOTS O SHEETING AND TABLE CLOTHING AND TOWELLING AS ISN'T MADE UP. BUT NOT MORE THAN WHAT'S IN THE BIBLE AUNT SAID DINAH. IT STANDS TO SENSE AS THAT CAN'T BE THE RIGHT RELIGION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/2094/142345/142345_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2094/142345/142345_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e747bfec194643a6bee53910117586a23c0684c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2094/142345/142345_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NAY DEAR AUNT YOU NEVER HEARD ME SAY THAT ALL PEOPLE ARE CALLED TO FORSAKE THEIR WORK AND THEIR FAMILIES. WE CAN ALL BE SERVANTS OF GOD WHEREVER OUR LOT IS CAST BUT HE GIVES US DIFFERENT SORTS OF WORK ACCORDING AS HE FITS US FOR IT AND CALLS US TO IT. I CAN NO MORE HELP SPENDING MY LIFE IN TRYING TO DO WHAT I CAN FOR THE SOULS OF OTHERS THAN YOU COULD HELP RUNNING IF YOU HEARD LITTLE TOTTY CRYING AT THE OTHER END OF THE HOUSE THE VOICE WOULD GO TO YOUR HEART YOU WOULD THINK THE DEAR CHILD WAS IN TROUBLE OR IN DANGER AND YOU COULDN'T REST WITHOUT RUNNING TO HELP HER AND COMFORT HER. THE CAUSEWAY OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN DOOR WAS DRY ENOUGH NOW FOR MISSUS POYSER TO STAND THERE QUITE PLEASANTLY AND SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE YARD THE GREY WORSTED STOCKING MAKING A STEADY PROGRESS IN HER HANDS ALL THE WHILE. I'VE STRONG ASSURANCE THAT NO EVIL WILL HAPPEN TO YOU AND MY UNCLE AND THE CHILDREN FROM ANYTHING I'VE DONE. I DIDN'T PREACH WITHOUT DIRECTION. DIRECTION. I HANNA COMMON PATIENCE WITH YOU. BY THIS TIME THE TWO GENTLEMEN HAD REACHED THE PALINGS AND HAD GOT DOWN FROM THEIR HORSES IT WAS PLAIN THEY MEANT TO COME IN. WELL MISSUS POYSER HOW ARE YOU AFTER THIS STORMY MORNING. SAID MISTER IRWINE WITH HIS STATELY CORDIALITY. OUR FEET ARE QUITE DRY WE SHALL NOT SOIL YOUR BEAUTIFUL FLOOR. OH SIR DON'T MENTION IT SAID MISSUS POYSER. I DELIGHT IN YOUR KITCHEN. I SHOULD LIKE EVERY FARMER'S WIFE TO COME AND LOOK AT IT FOR A PATTERN. OH YOU'RE PLEASED TO SAY SO SIR. POYSER IS NOT AT HOME IS HE. SAID CAPTAIN DONNITHORNE SEATING HIMSELF WHERE HE COULD SEE ALONG THE SHORT PASSAGE TO THE OPEN DAIRY DOOR. NO SIR HE ISN'T HE'S GONE TO ROSSETER TO SEE MISTER WEST THE FACTOR ABOUT THE WOOL. BUT THERE'S FATHER THE BARN SIR IF HE'D BE OF ANY USE. NO THANK YOU I'LL JUST LOOK AT THE WHELPS AND LEAVE A MESSAGE ABOUT THEM WITH YOUR SHEPHERD. I MUST COME ANOTHER DAY AND SEE YOUR HUSBAND I WANT TO HAVE A CONSULTATION WITH HIM ABOUT HORSES. DO YOU KNOW WHEN HE'S LIKELY TO BE AT LIBERTY. FOR IF HE'S ANYWHERE ON THE FARM WE CAN SEND FOR HIM IN A MINUTE. THINGS ALLAYS HAPPEN SO CONTRAIRY IF THEY'VE A CHANCE AND IT'S AN UNNAT'RAL THING TO HAVE ONE BIT O YOUR FARM IN ONE COUNTY AND ALL THE REST IN ANOTHER. OH SIR SAID MISSUS POYSER RATHER ALARMED YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT AT ALL. BUT YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT THAN I DO SIR. WHY THAT'S A TERRIBLE PICTURE MISSUS POYSER. I THINK I SHOULD BE DOING YOU A SERVICE TO TURN YOU OUT OF SUCH A PLACE. BUT THERE'S NO CHANCE OF THAT. I'M NOT LIKELY TO SETTLE FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS TILL I'M A STOUT GENTLEMAN OF FORTY AND MY GRANDFATHER WOULD NEVER CONSENT TO PART WITH SUCH GOOD TENANTS AS YOU. THE CONFIDENCE SHE FELT IN HER OWN POWERS OF EXPOSITION WAS A MOTIVE FORCE THAT OVERCAME ALL RESISTANCE. I KNOW HIS FARM IS IN BETTER ORDER THAN ANY OTHER WITHIN TEN MILES OF US AND AS FOR THE KITCHEN HE ADDED SMILING I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ONE IN THE KINGDOM TO BEAT IT. BY THE BY I'VE NEVER SEEN YOUR DAIRY I MUST SEE YOUR DAIRY MISSUS POYSER. THIS MISSUS POYSER SAID BLUSHING AND BELIEVING THAT THE CAPTAIN WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN HER MILK PANS AND WOULD ADJUST HIS OPINION OF HER TO THE APPEARANCE OF HER DAIRY. OH I'VE NO DOUBT IT'S IN CAPITAL ORDER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2271/2271_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2271/2271_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..342a3f8b16293ff370c860eb436151be62affdac --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2271/2271_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE NEPHEW OF ONE OF THE STANDARD VICTORIAN NOVELISTS MAINHALL BOBBED ABOUT AMONG THE VARIOUS LITERARY CLIQUES OF LONDON AND ITS OUTLYING SUBURBS CAREFUL TO LOSE TOUCH WITH NONE OF THEM. HE HAD WRITTEN A NUMBER OF BOOKS HIMSELF AMONG THEM A HISTORY OF DANCING A HISTORY OF COSTUME A KEY TO SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS A STUDY OF THE POETRY OF ERNEST DOWSON ET CETERA. ALTHOUGH MAINHALL'S ENTHUSIASM WAS OFTEN TIRESOME AND ALTHOUGH HE WAS OFTEN UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN FACTS AND VIVID FIGMENTS OF HIS IMAGINATION HIS IMPERTURBABLE GOOD NATURE OVERCAME EVEN THE PEOPLE WHOM HE BORED MOST SO THAT THEY ENDED BY BECOMING IN A RELUCTANT MANNER HIS FRIENDS. IN APPEARANCE MAINHALL WAS ASTONISHINGLY LIKE THE CONVENTIONAL STAGE ENGLISHMAN OF AMERICAN DRAMA TALL AND THIN WITH HIGH HITCHING SHOULDERS AND A SMALL HEAD GLISTENING WITH CLOSELY BRUSHED YELLOW HAIR. MAINHALL LIKED ALEXANDER BECAUSE HE WAS AN ENGINEER. HE HAD PRECONCEIVED IDEAS ABOUT EVERYTHING AND HIS IDEA ABOUT AMERICANS WAS THAT THEY SHOULD BE ENGINEERS OR MECHANICS. HE HATED THEM WHEN THEY PRESUMED TO BE ANYTHING ELSE. IT'S TREMENDOUSLY WELL PUT ON TOO. FLORENCE MERRILL AND CYRIL HENDERSON. BUT HILDA BURGOYNE'S THE HIT OF THE PIECE. HUGH'S WRITTEN A DELIGHTFUL PART FOR HER AND SHE'S QUITE INEXPRESSIBLE. IT'S BEEN ON ONLY TWO WEEKS AND I'VE BEEN HALF A DOZEN TIMES ALREADY. I HAPPEN TO HAVE MAC CONNELL'S BOX FOR TONIGHT OR THERE'D BE NO CHANCE OF OUR GETTING PLACES. THERE'S EVERYTHING IN SEEING HILDA WHILE SHE'S FRESH IN A PART. SHE'S APT TO GROW A BIT STALE AFTER A TIME. THE ONES WHO HAVE ANY IMAGINATION DO. HILDA BURGOYNE ALEXANDER EXCLAIMED MILDLY. WHY I HAVEN'T HEARD OF HER FOR YEARS MAINHALL LAUGHED. IT'S ONLY LATELY SINCE MAC CONNELL AND HIS SET HAVE GOT HOLD OF HER THAT SHE'S COME UP. MYSELF I ALWAYS KNEW SHE HAD IT IN HER. IF WE HAD ONE REAL CRITIC IN LONDON BUT WHAT CAN ONE EXPECT. DO YOU KNOW ALEXANDER MAINHALL LOOKED WITH PERPLEXITY UP INTO THE TOP OF THE HANSOM AND RUBBED HIS PINK CHEEK WITH HIS GLOVED FINGER DO YOU KNOW I SOMETIMES THINK OF TAKING TO CRITICISM SERIOUSLY MYSELF. IN A WAY IT WOULD BE A SACRIFICE BUT DEAR ME WE DO NEED SOME ONE. JUST THEN THEY DROVE UP TO THE DUKE OF YORK'S SO ALEXANDER DID NOT COMMIT HIMSELF BUT FOLLOWED MAINHALL INTO THE THEATRE. WHEN THEY ENTERED THE STAGE BOX ON THE LEFT THE FIRST ACT WAS WELL UNDER WAY THE SCENE BEING THE INTERIOR OF A CABIN IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. AS THEY SAT DOWN A BURST OF APPLAUSE DREW ALEXANDER'S ATTENTION TO THE STAGE. MISS BURGOYNE AND HER DONKEY WERE THRUSTING THEIR HEADS IN AT THE HALF DOOR. AFTER ALL HE REFLECTED THERE'S SMALL PROBABILITY OF HER RECOGNIZING ME. SHE DOUBTLESS HASN'T THOUGHT OF ME FOR YEARS. THE AUDIENCE HAD COME FOREWARNED EVIDENTLY AND WHENEVER THE RAGGED SLIP OF A DONKEY GIRL RAN UPON THE STAGE THERE WAS A DEEP MURMUR OF APPROBATION EVERY ONE SMILED AND GLOWED AND MAINHALL HITCHED HIS HEAVY CHAIR A LITTLE NEARER THE BRASS RAILING. YOU SEE HE MURMURED IN ALEXANDER'S EAR AS THE CURTAIN FELL ON THE FIRST ACT ONE ALMOST NEVER SEES A PART LIKE THAT DONE WITHOUT SMARTNESS OR MAWKISHNESS. OF COURSE HILDA IS IRISH THE BURGOYNES HAVE BEEN STAGE PEOPLE FOR GENERATIONS AND SHE HAS THE IRISH VOICE. IT'S DELIGHTFUL TO HEAR IT IN A LONDON THEATRE. SHE SAVES HER HAND TOO SHE'S AT HER BEST IN THE SECOND ACT. SHE'S REALLY MAC CONNELL'S POETIC MOTIF YOU SEE MAKES THE WHOLE THING A FAIRY TALE. THE SECOND ACT OPENED BEFORE PHILLY DOYLE'S UNDERGROUND STILL WITH PEGGY AND HER BATTERED DONKEY COME IN TO SMUGGLE A LOAD OF POTHEEN ACROSS THE BOG AND TO BRING PHILLY WORD OF WHAT WAS DOING IN THE WORLD WITHOUT AND OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING ALONG THE ROADSIDES AND DITCHES WITH THE FIRST GLEAM OF FINE WEATHER. ALEXANDER ANNOYED BY MAINHALL'S SIGHS AND EXCLAMATIONS WATCHED HER WITH KEEN HALF SKEPTICAL INTEREST. AS MAINHALL HAD SAID SHE WAS THE SECOND ACT THE PLOT AND FEELING ALIKE DEPENDED UPON HER LIGHTNESS OF FOOT HER LIGHTNESS OF TOUCH UPON THE SHREWDNESS AND DEFT FANCIFULNESS THAT PLAYED ALTERNATELY AND SOMETIMES TOGETHER IN HER MIRTHFUL BROWN EYES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2271/2271_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2271/2271_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0049322f06053837167c880adc36406f604798a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2271/2271_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHEN SHE BEGAN TO DANCE BY WAY OF SHOWING THE GOSSOONS WHAT SHE HAD SEEN IN THE FAIRY RINGS AT NIGHT THE HOUSE BROKE INTO A PROLONGED UPROAR. THEY MET A GOOD MANY ACQUAINTANCES MAINHALL INDEED KNEW ALMOST EVERY ONE AND HE BABBLED ON INCONTINENTLY SCREWING HIS SMALL HEAD ABOUT OVER HIS HIGH COLLAR. PRESENTLY HE HAILED A TALL BEARDED MAN GRIM BROWED AND RATHER BATTERED LOOKING WHO HAD HIS OPERA CLOAK ON HIS ARM AND HIS HAT IN HIS HAND AND WHO SEEMED TO BE ON THE POINT OF LEAVING THE THEATRE. MAC CONNELL LET ME INTRODUCE MISTER BARTLEY ALEXANDER. I SAY IT'S GOING FAMOUSLY TO NIGHT MAC AND WHAT AN AUDIENCE. YOU'LL NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN MARK ME. A MAN WRITES TO THE TOP OF HIS BENT ONLY ONCE. THE PLAYWRIGHT GAVE MAINHALL A CURIOUS LOOK OUT OF HIS DEEP SET FADED EYES AND MADE A WRY FACE. AND HAVE I DONE ANYTHING SO FOOL AS THAT NOW HE ASKED. THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING MAINHALL LOUNGED A LITTLE NEARER AND DROPPED INTO A TONE EVEN MORE CONSPICUOUSLY CONFIDENTIAL. AND YOU'LL NEVER BRING HILDA OUT LIKE THIS AGAIN. SHE'LL DO WELL ENOUGH IF SHE KEEPS HER PACE AND DOESN'T GO OFF ON US IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEASON AS SHE'S MORE THAN LIKE TO DO. HE'S BEEN WANTING TO MARRY HILDA THESE THREE YEARS AND MORE. SHE DOESN'T TAKE UP WITH ANYBODY YOU KNOW. IRENE BURGOYNE ONE OF HER FAMILY TOLD ME IN CONFIDENCE THAT THERE WAS A ROMANCE SOMEWHERE BACK IN THE BEGINNING. ONE OF YOUR COUNTRYMEN ALEXANDER BY THE WAY AN AMERICAN STUDENT WHOM SHE MET IN PARIS I BELIEVE. I DARE SAY IT'S QUITE TRUE THAT THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANY ONE ELSE. MAINHALL VOUCHED FOR HER CONSTANCY WITH A LOFTINESS THAT MADE ALEXANDER SMILE EVEN WHILE A KIND OF RAPID EXCITEMENT WAS TINGLING THROUGH HIM. HE'S ANOTHER WHO'S AWFULLY KEEN ABOUT HER LET ME INTRODUCE YOU. SIR HARRY TOWNE MISTER BARTLEY ALEXANDER THE AMERICAN ENGINEER. MAINHALL CUT IN IMPATIENTLY. I SAY SIR HARRY THE LITTLE GIRL'S GOING FAMOUSLY TO NIGHT ISN'T SHE. SIR HARRY WRINKLED HIS BROWS JUDICIOUSLY. DO YOU KNOW I THOUGHT THE DANCE A BIT CONSCIOUS TO NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE FACT IS SHE'S FEELING RATHER SEEDY POOR CHILD. WESTMERE AND I WERE BACK AFTER THE FIRST ACT AND WE THOUGHT SHE SEEMED QUITE UNCERTAIN OF HERSELF. A LITTLE ATTACK OF NERVES POSSIBLY. HE BOWED AS THE WARNING BELL RANG AND MAINHALL WHISPERED YOU KNOW LORD WESTMERE OF COURSE THE STOOPED MAN WITH THE LONG GRAY MUSTACHE TALKING TO LADY DOWLE. IN A MOMENT PEGGY WAS ON THE STAGE AGAIN AND ALEXANDER APPLAUDED VIGOROUSLY WITH THE REST. HE EVEN LEANED FORWARD OVER THE RAIL A LITTLE. FOR SOME REASON HE FELT PLEASED AND FLATTERED BY THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE AUDIENCE. HE WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL A KEEN INTEREST IN THE SLENDER BAREFOOT DONKEY GIRL WHO SLIPPED IN AND OUT OF THE PLAY SINGING LIKE SOME ONE WINDING THROUGH A HILLY FIELD. HILDA HAD NEVER REPLIED TO HIS LETTER. HE FELT GUILTY AND UNHAPPY ABOUT HER FOR A TIME BUT AFTER WINIFRED PROMISED TO MARRY HIM HE REALLY FORGOT HILDA ALTOGETHER. WHEN HE WROTE HER THAT EVERYTHING WAS CHANGED FOR HIM HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH. AFTER HE MET WINIFRED PEMBERTON HE SEEMED TO HIMSELF LIKE A DIFFERENT MAN. ONE NIGHT WHEN HE AND WINIFRED WERE SITTING TOGETHER ON THE BRIDGE HE TOLD HER THAT THINGS HAD HAPPENED WHILE HE WAS STUDYING ABROAD THAT HE WAS SORRY FOR ONE THING IN PARTICULAR AND HE ASKED HER WHETHER SHE THOUGHT SHE OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT THEM. SHE CONSIDERED A MOMENT AND THEN SAID NO I THINK NOT THOUGH I AM GLAD YOU ASK ME. I SHOULD TORTURE MYSELF I COULDN'T HELP IT. AFTER THAT IT WAS EASY TO FORGET ACTUALLY TO FORGET. HE HAD BEEN IN LONDON MORE OR LESS BUT HE HAD NEVER HAPPENED TO HEAR OF HER. ALL THE SAME HE LIFTED HIS GLASS HERE'S TO YOU LITTLE HILDA. OF COURSE HE REFLECTED SHE ALWAYS HAD THAT COMBINATION OF SOMETHING HOMELY AND SENSIBLE AND SOMETHING UTTERLY WILD AND DAFT. BUT I NEVER THOUGHT SHE'D DO ANYTHING. SHE HADN'T MUCH AMBITION THEN AND SHE WAS TOO FOND OF TRIFLES. SHE MUST CARE ABOUT THE THEATRE A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN SHE USED TO. PERHAPS SHE HAS ME TO THANK FOR SOMETHING AFTER ALL. SOMETIMES A LITTLE JOLT LIKE THAT DOES ONE GOOD. SHE WAS A DAFT GENEROUS LITTLE THING. I'M GLAD SHE'S HELD HER OWN SINCE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2271/2271_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2271/2271_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7428e946703553d39c9b322bd5238e1a2ae7258d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2271/2271_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AFTER ALL WE WERE AWFULLY YOUNG. IT WAS YOUTH AND POVERTY AND PROXIMITY AND EVERYTHING WAS YOUNG AND KINDLY. I SHOULDN'T WONDER IF SHE COULD LAUGH ABOUT IT WITH ME NOW \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2273/2273_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2273/2273_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..801703f2c21839e26167a327400705b72109f481 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2273/2273_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON ALEXANDER REMEMBERED MISS BURGOYNE'S INVITATION AND CALLED AT HER APARTMENT. HE FOUND IT A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE PLACE AND HE MET CHARMING PEOPLE THERE. HILDA LIVED ALONE ATTENDED BY A VERY PRETTY AND COMPETENT FRENCH SERVANT WHO ANSWERED THE DOOR AND BROUGHT IN THE TEA. ALEXANDER ARRIVED EARLY AND SOME TWENTY ODD PEOPLE DROPPED IN DURING THE COURSE OF THE AFTERNOON. HUGH MAC CONNELL CAME WITH HIS SISTER AND STOOD ABOUT MANAGING HIS TEA CUP AWKWARDLY AND WATCHING EVERY ONE OUT OF HIS DEEP SET FADED EYES. HE WAS NEVER SO WITTY OR SO SHARP HERE AS ELSEWHERE AND ALEXANDER THOUGHT HE BEHAVED AS IF HE WERE AN ELDERLY RELATIVE COME IN TO A YOUNG GIRL'S PARTY. THE EDITOR OF A MONTHLY REVIEW CAME WITH HIS WIFE AND LADY KILDARE THE IRISH PHILANTHROPIST BROUGHT HER YOUNG NEPHEW ROBERT OWEN WHO HAD COME UP FROM OXFORD AND WHO WAS VISIBLY EXCITED AND GRATIFIED BY HIS FIRST INTRODUCTION TO MISS BURGOYNE. HILDA WAS VERY NICE TO HIM AND HE SAT ON THE EDGE OF HIS CHAIR FLUSHED WITH HIS CONVERSATIONAL EFFORTS AND MOVING HIS CHIN ABOUT NERVOUSLY OVER HIS HIGH COLLAR. SARAH FROST THE NOVELIST CAME WITH HER HUSBAND A VERY GENIAL AND PLACID OLD SCHOLAR WHO HAD BECOME SLIGHTLY DERANGED UPON THE SUBJECT OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION. ON OTHER MATTERS HE WAS PERFECTLY RATIONAL AND HE WAS EASY AND PLEASING IN CONVERSATION. HILDA SEEMED PARTICULARLY FOND OF THIS QUAINT COUPLE AND BARTLEY HIMSELF WAS SO PLEASED WITH THEIR MILD AND THOUGHTFUL CONVERSE THAT HE TOOK HIS LEAVE WHEN THEY DID AND WALKED WITH THEM OVER TO OXFORD STREET WHERE THEY WAITED FOR THEIR BUS. THEY ASKED HIM TO COME TO SEE THEM IN CHELSEA AND THEY SPOKE VERY TENDERLY OF HILDA. AMERICAN TOURS HAVE SPOILED THEM I'M AFRAID. THEY HAVE ALL GROWN VERY SMART. LAMB WOULDN'T CARE A GREAT DEAL ABOUT MANY OF THEM I FANCY. ALEXANDER WENT BACK TO BEDFORD SQUARE A SECOND SUNDAY AFTERNOON. HE HAD A LONG TALK WITH MAC CONNELL BUT HE GOT NO WORD WITH HILDA ALONE AND HE LEFT IN A DISCONTENTED STATE OF MIND. FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK HE WAS NERVOUS AND UNSETTLED AND KEPT RUSHING HIS WORK AS IF HE WERE PREPARING FOR IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE. ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON HE CUT SHORT A COMMITTEE MEETING JUMPED INTO A HANSOM AND DROVE TO BEDFORD SQUARE. WHEN BARTLEY ARRIVED AT BEDFORD SQUARE ON SUNDAY EVENING MARIE THE PRETTY LITTLE FRENCH GIRL MET HIM AT THE DOOR AND CONDUCTED HIM UPSTAIRS. HILDA WAS WRITING IN HER LIVING ROOM UNDER THE LIGHT OF A TALL DESK LAMP. EVERY ONE AT LADY WALFORD'S WAS LOOKING AT IT. HILDA CURTSIED IS THAT WHY YOU THINK IT PRETTY. I'VE NO NEED FOR FINE CLOTHES IN MAC'S PLAY THIS TIME SO I CAN AFFORD A FEW DUDDIES FOR MYSELF. IT'S OWING TO THAT SAME CHANCE BY THE WAY THAT I AM ABLE TO ASK YOU TO DINNER. I DON'T NEED MARIE TO DRESS ME THIS SEASON SO SHE KEEPS HOUSE FOR ME AND MY LITTLE GALWAY GIRL HAS GONE HOME FOR A VISIT. I SHOULD NEVER HAVE ASKED YOU IF MOLLY HAD BEEN HERE FOR I REMEMBER YOU DON'T LIKE ENGLISH COOKERY. ALEXANDER WALKED ABOUT THE ROOM LOOKING AT EVERYTHING. I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE YET TO TELL YOU WHAT A JOLLY LITTLE PLACE I THINK THIS IS. WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE ETCHINGS THEY'RE QUITE UNUSUAL AREN'T THEY. LADY WESTMERE SENT THEM TO ME FROM ROME LAST CHRISTMAS. SHE IS VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN THE AMERICAN ARTIST WHO DID THEM. THEY ARE ALL SKETCHES MADE ABOUT THE VILLA D'ESTE YOU SEE. HE PAINTED THAT GROUP OF CYPRESSES FOR THE SALON AND IT WAS BOUGHT FOR THE LUXEMBOURG. ALEXANDER WALKED OVER TO THE BOOKCASES IT'S THE AIR OF THE WHOLE PLACE HERE THAT I LIKE. YOU HAVEN'T GOT ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T BELONG. ROOMS ALWAYS LOOK BETTER BY LAMPLIGHT IN LONDON AT LEAST. THOUGH MARIE IS CLEAN REALLY CLEAN AS THE FRENCH ARE. MARIE GOT THEM ALL FRESH IN COVENT GARDEN MARKET YESTERDAY MORNING. I'M GLAD SAID ALEXANDER SIMPLY. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW GLAD I AM TO HAVE YOU SO PRETTY AND COMFORTABLE HERE AND TO HEAR EVERY ONE SAYING SUCH NICE THINGS ABOUT YOU. YOU'VE GOT AWFULLY NICE FRIENDS HE ADDED HUMBLY PICKING UP A LITTLE JADE ELEPHANT FROM HER DESK. THOSE FELLOWS ARE ALL VERY LOYAL EVEN MAINHALL. THEY DON'T TALK OF ANY ONE ELSE AS THEY DO OF YOU. HILDA SAT DOWN ON THE COUCH AND SAID SERIOUSLY I'VE A NEAT LITTLE SUM IN THE BANK TOO NOW AND I OWN A MITE OF A HUT IN GALWAY IT'S NOT WORTH MUCH BUT I LOVE IT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2273/2273_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2273/2273_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..df8dd9bcd62b1e986fdc011b134dabf80b73b1ed --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2273/2273_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I'VE MANAGED TO SAVE SOMETHING EVERY YEAR AND THAT WITH HELPING MY THREE SISTERS NOW AND THEN AND TIDING POOR COUSIN MIKE OVER BAD SEASONS. HE'S THAT GIFTED YOU KNOW BUT HE WILL DRINK AND LOSES MORE GOOD ENGAGEMENTS THAN OTHER FELLOWS EVER GET AND I'VE TRAVELED A BIT TOO. MARIE OPENED THE DOOR AND SMILINGLY ANNOUNCED THAT DINNER WAS SERVED. MY DINING ROOM HILDA EXPLAINED AS SHE LED THE WAY IS THE TINIEST PLACE YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. IT WAS A TINY ROOM HUNG ALL ROUND WITH FRENCH PRINTS ABOVE WHICH RAN A SHELF FULL OF CHINA. HILDA SAW ALEXANDER LOOK UP AT IT. IT'S NOT PARTICULARLY RARE SHE SAID BUT SOME OF IT WAS MY MOTHER'S. HEAVEN KNOWS HOW SHE MANAGED TO KEEP IT WHOLE THROUGH ALL OUR WANDERINGS OR IN WHAT BASKETS AND BUNDLES AND THEATRE TRUNKS IT HASN'T BEEN STOWED AWAY. WE ALWAYS HAD OUR TEA OUT OF THOSE BLUE CUPS WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL SOMETIMES IN THE QUEEREST LODGINGS AND SOMETIMES ON A TRUNK AT THE THEATRE QUEER THEATRES FOR THAT MATTER. IT WAS A WONDERFUL LITTLE DINNER. THERE WAS WATERCRESS SOUP AND SOLE AND A DELIGHTFUL OMELETTE STUFFED WITH MUSHROOMS AND TRUFFLES AND TWO SMALL RARE DUCKLINGS AND ARTICHOKES AND A DRY YELLOW RHONE WINE OF WHICH BARTLEY HAD ALWAYS BEEN VERY FOND. HE DRANK IT APPRECIATIVELY AND REMARKED THAT THERE WAS STILL NO OTHER HE LIKED SO WELL. I HAVE SOME CHAMPAGNE FOR YOU TOO. I DON'T DRINK IT MYSELF BUT I LIKE TO SEE IT BEHAVE WHEN IT'S POURED. THERE IS NOTHING ELSE THAT LOOKS SO JOLLY. THANK YOU BUT I DON'T LIKE IT SO WELL AS THIS. BARTLEY HELD THE YELLOW WINE AGAINST THE LIGHT AND SQUINTED INTO IT AS HE TURNED THE GLASS SLOWLY ABOUT. HAVE YOU BEEN IN PARIS MUCH THESE LATE YEARS. HILDA LOWERED ONE OF THE CANDLE SHADES CAREFULLY OH YES I GO OVER TO PARIS OFTEN. THERE ARE FEW CHANGES IN THE OLD QUARTER. DON'T I THOUGH I'M SO SORRY TO HEAR IT HOW DID HER SON TURN OUT. I REMEMBER HOW SHE SAVED AND SCRAPED FOR HIM AND HOW HE ALWAYS LAY ABED TILL TEN O'CLOCK. WELL HE IS STILL CLEVER AND LAZY. THEY SAY HE IS A GOOD ARCHITECT WHEN HE WILL WORK. SHE DID MY BLOUSES BEAUTIFULLY THE LAST TIME I WAS THERE AND WAS SO DELIGHTED TO SEE ME AGAIN. I GAVE HER ALL MY OLD CLOTHES EVEN MY OLD HATS THOUGH SHE ALWAYS WEARS HER BRETON HEADDRESS. HER HAIR IS STILL LIKE FLAX AND HER BLUE EYES ARE JUST LIKE A BABY'S AND SHE HAS THE SAME THREE FRECKLES ON HER LITTLE NOSE AND TALKS ABOUT GOING BACK TO HER BAINS DE MER. BARTLEY LOOKED AT HILDA ACROSS THE YELLOW LIGHT OF THE CANDLES AND BROKE INTO A LOW HAPPY LAUGH. HOW JOLLY IT WAS BEING YOUNG HILDA. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT FIRST WALK WE TOOK TOGETHER IN PARIS. COME WE'LL HAVE OUR COFFEE IN THE OTHER ROOM AND YOU CAN SMOKE. WE WALKED ON DOWN BY THE RIVER DIDN'T WE. HILDA LAUGHED AND LOOKED AT HIM QUESTIONINGLY. I THINK WE DID SHE ANSWERED DEMURELY. I GAVE HER A SPRAY OF LILAC I REMEMBER AND YOU GAVE HER A FRANC I WAS FRIGHTENED AT YOUR PRODIGALITY. I EXPECT IT WAS THE LAST FRANC I HAD. WHAT A STRONG BROWN FACE SHE HAD AND VERY TRAGIC. SHE LOOKED AT US WITH SUCH DESPAIR AND LONGING OUT FROM UNDER HER BLACK SHAWL. WHAT SHE WANTED FROM US WAS NEITHER OUR FLOWERS NOR OUR FRANCS BUT JUST OUR YOUTH. I REMEMBER IT TOUCHED ME SO I WOULD HAVE GIVEN HER SOME OF MINE OFF MY BACK IF I COULD. THEY WERE BOTH REMEMBERING WHAT THE WOMAN HAD SAID WHEN SHE TOOK THE MONEY GOD GIVE YOU A HAPPY LOVE. IT WAS NOT IN THE INGRATIATING TONE OF THE HABITUAL BEGGAR IT HAD COME OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF THE POOR CREATURE'S SORROW VIBRATING WITH PITY FOR THEIR YOUTH AND DESPAIR AT THE TERRIBLENESS OF HUMAN LIFE IT HAD THE ANGUISH OF A VOICE OF PROPHECY. UNTIL SHE SPOKE BARTLEY HAD NOT REALIZED THAT HE WAS IN LOVE. THE STRANGE WOMAN AND HER PASSIONATE SENTENCE THAT RANG OUT SO SHARPLY HAD FRIGHTENED THEM BOTH. THEY WENT HOME SADLY WITH THE LILACS BACK TO THE RUE SAINT JACQUES WALKING VERY SLOWLY ARM IN ARM. WHEN THEY REACHED THE HOUSE WHERE HILDA LODGED BARTLEY WENT ACROSS THE COURT WITH HER AND UP THE DARK OLD STAIRS TO THE THIRD LANDING AND THERE HE HAD KISSED HER FOR THE FIRST TIME. BARTLEY STARTED WHEN HILDA RANG THE LITTLE BELL BESIDE HER DEAR ME WHY DID YOU DO THAT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2275/2275_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2275/2275_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9fce9bfb048705b051fa8b3e5d52a167359cc81b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2275/2275_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE STOP AT QUEENSTOWN THE TEDIOUS PASSAGE UP THE MERSEY WERE THINGS THAT HE NOTED DIMLY THROUGH HIS GROWING IMPATIENCE. EMERGING AT EUSTON AT HALF PAST THREE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON ALEXANDER HAD HIS LUGGAGE SENT TO THE SAVOY AND DROVE AT ONCE TO BEDFORD SQUARE. SHE BLUSHED AND SMILED AND FUMBLED HIS CARD IN HER CONFUSION BEFORE SHE RAN UPSTAIRS. ALEXANDER PACED UP AND DOWN THE HALLWAY BUTTONING AND UNBUTTONING HIS OVERCOAT UNTIL SHE RETURNED AND TOOK HIM UP TO HILDA'S LIVING ROOM. THE ROOM WAS EMPTY WHEN HE ENTERED. A COAL FIRE WAS CRACKLING IN THE GRATE AND THE LAMPS WERE LIT FOR IT WAS ALREADY BEGINNING TO GROW DARK OUTSIDE. ALEXANDER DID NOT SIT DOWN. HE STOOD HIS GROUND OVER BY THE WINDOWS UNTIL HILDA CAME IN. SHE CALLED HIS NAME ON THE THRESHOLD BUT IN HER SWIFT FLIGHT ACROSS THE ROOM SHE FELT A CHANGE IN HIM AND CAUGHT HERSELF UP SO DEFTLY THAT HE COULD NOT TELL JUST WHEN SHE DID IT. SHE MERELY BRUSHED HIS CHEEK WITH HER LIPS AND PUT A HAND LIGHTLY AND JOYOUSLY ON EITHER SHOULDER. OH WHAT A GRAND THING TO HAPPEN ON A RAW DAY. I FELT IT IN MY BONES WHEN I WOKE THIS MORNING THAT SOMETHING SPLENDID WAS GOING TO TURN UP. I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE SISTER KATE OR COUSIN MIKE WOULD BE HAPPENING ALONG. I NEVER DREAMED IT WOULD BE YOU BARTLEY. BUT WHY DO YOU LET ME CHATTER ON LIKE THIS. COME OVER TO THE FIRE YOU'RE CHILLED THROUGH. SHE PUSHED HIM TOWARD THE BIG CHAIR BY THE FIRE AND SAT DOWN ON A STOOL AT THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE HEARTH HER KNEES DRAWN UP TO HER CHIN LAUGHING LIKE A HAPPY LITTLE GIRL. WHEN DID YOU COME BARTLEY AND HOW DID IT HAPPEN YOU HAVEN'T SPOKEN A WORD. I GOT IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES AGO. I LANDED AT LIVERPOOL THIS MORNING AND CAME DOWN ON THE BOAT TRAIN. ALEXANDER LEANED FORWARD AND WARMED HIS HANDS BEFORE THE BLAZE. HILDA WATCHED HIM WITH PERPLEXITY. THERE'S SOMETHING TROUBLING YOU BARTLEY WHAT IS IT. BARTLEY BENT LOWER OVER THE FIRE. IT'S THE WHOLE THING THAT TROUBLES ME HILDA YOU AND I. HILDA TOOK A QUICK SOFT BREATH. SHE LOOKED AT HIS HEAVY SHOULDERS AND BIG DETERMINED HEAD THRUST FORWARD LIKE A CATAPULT IN LEASH. WHAT ABOUT US BARTLEY SHE ASKED IN A THIN VOICE. HE LOCKED AND UNLOCKED HIS HANDS OVER THE GRATE AND SPREAD HIS FINGERS CLOSE TO THE BLUISH FLAME WHILE THE COALS CRACKLED AND THE CLOCK TICKED AND A STREET VENDOR BEGAN TO CALL UNDER THE WINDOW. AT LAST ALEXANDER BROUGHT OUT ONE WORD EVERYTHING. HILDA WAS PALE BY THIS TIME AND HER EYES WERE WIDE WITH FRIGHT. SHE LOOKED ABOUT DESPERATELY FROM BARTLEY TO THE DOOR THEN TO THE WINDOWS AND BACK AGAIN TO BARTLEY. SHE ROSE UNCERTAINLY TOUCHED HIS HAIR WITH HER HAND THEN SANK BACK UPON HER STOOL. I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU WISH ME TO BARTLEY SHE SAID TREMULOUSLY. I CAN'T STAND SEEING YOU MISERABLE. I CAN'T LIVE WITH MYSELF ANY LONGER HE ANSWERED ROUGHLY. HE ROSE AND PUSHED THE CHAIR BEHIND HIM AND BEGAN TO WALK MISERABLY ABOUT THE ROOM SEEMING TO FIND IT TOO SMALL FOR HIM. HE PULLED UP A WINDOW AS IF THE AIR WERE HEAVY. HILDA WATCHED HIM FROM HER CORNER TREMBLING AND SCARCELY BREATHING DARK SHADOWS GROWING ABOUT HER EYES IT. IT HASN'T ALWAYS MADE YOU MISERABLE HAS IT. HER EYELIDS FELL AND HER LIPS QUIVERED ALWAYS. BUT IT'S WORSE NOW IT'S UNBEARABLE. IT TORTURES ME EVERY MINUTE. I AM NOT A MAN WHO CAN LIVE TWO LIVES HE WENT ON FEVERISHLY EACH LIFE SPOILS THE OTHER. I GET NOTHING BUT MISERY OUT OF EITHER. THE WORLD IS ALL THERE JUST AS IT USED TO BE BUT I CAN'T GET AT IT ANY MORE. THERE IS THIS DECEPTION BETWEEN ME AND EVERYTHING. AT THAT WORD DECEPTION SPOKEN WITH SUCH SELF CONTEMPT THE COLOR FLASHED BACK INTO HILDA'S FACE AS SUDDENLY AS IF SHE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY A WHIPLASH. SHE BIT HER LIP AND LOOKED DOWN AT HER HANDS WHICH WERE CLASPED TIGHTLY IN FRONT OF HER. COULD YOU COULD YOU SIT DOWN AND TALK ABOUT IT QUIETLY BARTLEY AS IF I WERE A FRIEND AND NOT SOME ONE WHO HAD TO BE DEFIED. IT WAS MYSELF I WAS DEFYING HILDA. I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT UNTIL I AM WORN OUT. HE LOOKED AT HER AND HIS HAGGARD FACE SOFTENED. HE PUT OUT HIS HAND TOWARD HER AS HE LOOKED AWAY AGAIN INTO THE FIRE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2275/2275_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2275/2275_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..05e4b4ebdba3715f32c8384ca9379e8e8457c359 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2275/2275_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SHE CREPT ACROSS TO HIM DRAWING HER STOOL AFTER HER. AFTER THE VERY FIRST. THE FIRST WAS SORT OF IN PLAY WASN'T IT. HILDA'S FACE QUIVERED BUT SHE WHISPERED YES I THINK IT MUST HAVE BEEN. BUT WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME WHEN YOU WERE HERE IN THE SUMMER. ALEXANDER GROANED I MEANT TO BUT SOMEHOW I COULDN'T. WE HAD ONLY A FEW DAYS AND YOUR NEW PLAY WAS JUST ON AND YOU WERE SO HAPPY. YES I WAS HAPPY WASN'T I. SHE PRESSED HIS HAND GENTLY IN GRATITUDE. WEREN'T YOU HAPPY THEN AT ALL. SHE CLOSED HER EYES AND TOOK A DEEP BREATH AS IF TO DRAW IN AGAIN THE FRAGRANCE OF THOSE DAYS. SOMETHING OF THEIR TROUBLING SWEETNESS CAME BACK TO ALEXANDER TOO. HE MOVED UNEASILY AND HIS CHAIR CREAKED. YES I WAS THEN YOU KNOW BUT AFTERWARD. YES YES SHE HURRIED PULLING HER HAND GENTLY AWAY FROM HIM. PRESENTLY IT STOLE BACK TO HIS COAT SLEEVE. PLEASE TELL ME ONE THING BARTLEY AT LEAST TELL ME THAT YOU BELIEVE I THOUGHT I WAS MAKING YOU HAPPY. HIS HAND SHUT DOWN QUICKLY OVER THE QUESTIONING FINGERS ON HIS SLEEVES. YES HILDA I KNOW THAT HE SAID SIMPLY. SHE LEANED HER HEAD AGAINST HIS ARM AND SPOKE SOFTLY. YOU SEE MY MISTAKE WAS IN WANTING YOU TO HAVE EVERYTHING. I WANTED YOU TO EAT ALL THE CAKES AND HAVE THEM TOO. I SOMEHOW BELIEVED THAT I COULD TAKE ALL THE BAD CONSEQUENCES FOR YOU. I WANTED YOU ALWAYS TO BE HAPPY AND HANDSOME AND SUCCESSFUL TO HAVE ALL THE THINGS THAT A GREAT MAN OUGHT TO HAVE AND ONCE IN A WAY THE CARELESS HOLIDAYS THAT GREAT MEN ARE NOT PERMITTED. BARTLEY GAVE A BITTER LITTLE LAUGH AND HILDA LOOKED UP AND READ IN THE DEEPENING LINES OF HIS FACE THAT YOUTH AND BARTLEY WOULD NOT MUCH LONGER STRUGGLE TOGETHER. I UNDERSTAND BARTLEY I WAS WRONG. BUT I DIDN'T KNOW YOU'VE ONLY TO TELL ME NOW. WHAT MUST I DO THAT I'VE NOT DONE OR WHAT MUST I NOT DO. SHE LISTENED INTENTLY BUT SHE HEARD NOTHING BUT THE CREAKING OF HIS CHAIR. YOU WANT ME TO SAY IT SHE WHISPERED. I CAN'T HE SAID HEAVILY. HILDA SHIVERED AND SAT STILL. BARTLEY LEANED HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS AND SPOKE THROUGH HIS TEETH. IT'S GOT TO BE A CLEAN BREAK HILDA. WHAT I MEAN IS THAT I WANT YOU TO PROMISE NEVER TO SEE ME AGAIN NO MATTER HOW OFTEN I COME NO MATTER HOW HARD I BEG. HILDA SPRANG UP LIKE A FLAME. SHE STOOD OVER HIM WITH HER HANDS CLENCHED AT HER SIDE HER BODY RIGID. NO SHE GASPED IT'S TOO LATE TO ASK THAT. IT'S ABOMINABLE OF YOU TO ASK ME. KEEP AWAY IF YOU WISH WHEN HAVE I EVER FOLLOWED YOU. THE SHAMEFULNESS OF YOUR ASKING ME TO DO THAT. IF YOU COME TO ME I'LL DO AS I SEE FIT. ALEXANDER ROSE AND SHOOK HIMSELF ANGRILY YES I KNOW I'M COWARDLY. I'M AFRAID OF MYSELF I DON'T TRUST MYSELF ANY MORE. I CARRIED IT ALL LIGHTLY ENOUGH AT FIRST BUT NOW I DON'T DARE TRIFLE WITH IT. IT'S GETTING THE BETTER OF ME IT'S DIFFERENT NOW. I'M GROWING OLDER AND YOU'VE GOT MY YOUNG SELF HERE WITH YOU. IT'S THROUGH HIM THAT I'VE COME TO WISH FOR YOU ALL AND ALL THE TIME. HE TOOK HER ROUGHLY IN HIS ARMS DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. OH BARTLEY WHAT AM I TO DO. WHY DIDN'T YOU LET ME BE ANGRY WITH YOU. AND I'VE GOT NOBODY BUT YOU. I WILL DO ANYTHING YOU SAY BUT THAT. I WILL ASK THE LEAST IMAGINABLE BUT I MUST HAVE SOMETHING. BARTLEY TURNED AWAY AND SANK DOWN IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN. HILDA SAT ON THE ARM OF IT AND PUT HER HANDS LIGHTLY ON HIS SHOULDERS. JUST SOMETHING BARTLEY. I MUST HAVE YOU TO THINK OF THROUGH THE MONTHS AND MONTHS OF LONELINESS I MUST SEE YOU. I MUST KNOW ABOUT YOU. THE SIGHT OF YOU BARTLEY TO SEE YOU LIVING AND HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL CAN I NEVER MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS TO ME. SHE PRESSED HIS SHOULDERS GENTLY. YOU SEE LOVING SOME ONE AS I LOVE YOU MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD DIFFERENT. IF I'D MET YOU LATER IF I HADN'T LOVED YOU SO WELL BUT THAT'S ALL OVER LONG AGO \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2275/2275_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2275/2275_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bfb4988134478520bfccaee41fc0ec99fa49bbdf --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2275/2275_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEN CAME ALL THOSE YEARS WITHOUT YOU LONELY AND HURT AND DISCOURAGED THOSE DECENT YOUNG FELLOWS AND POOR MAC AND ME NEVER HEEDING HARD AS A STEEL SPRING. AND THEN YOU CAME BACK NOT CARING VERY MUCH BUT IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE. SHE SLID TO THE FLOOR BESIDE HIM AS IF SHE WERE TOO TIRED TO SIT UP ANY LONGER. BARTLEY BENT OVER AND TOOK HER IN HIS ARMS KISSING HER MOUTH AND HER WET TIRED EYES. DON'T CRY DON'T CRY HE WHISPERED. WE'VE TORTURED EACH OTHER ENOUGH FOR TONIGHT. FORGET EVERYTHING EXCEPT THAT I AM HERE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ee7ba5fde37b8e127af53cb89c960dba7ce92f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I WOULD FAIN KNOW IF I AM DESTINED FOR SO GLORIOUS A CAREER CRIED THE TREE REJOICING. THAT IS STILL BETTER THAN TO CROSS THE SEA. WHAT A LONGING DO I SUFFER. WERE CHRISTMAS BUT COME. I AM NOW TALL AND MY BRANCHES SPREAD LIKE THE OTHERS THAT WERE CARRIED OFF LAST YEAR OH. WERE I BUT ALREADY ON THE CART. WERE I IN THE WARM ROOM WITH ALL THE SPLENDOR AND MAGNIFICENCE. YES THEN SOMETHING BETTER SOMETHING STILL GRANDER WILL SURELY FOLLOW OR WHEREFORE SHOULD THEY THUS ORNAMENT ME. SOMETHING BETTER SOMETHING STILL GRANDER MUST FOLLOW BUT WHAT. OH HOW I LONG HOW I SUFFER. I DO NOT KNOW MYSELF WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME. REJOICE IN OUR PRESENCE SAID THE AIR AND THE SUNLIGHT. REJOICE IN THY OWN FRESH YOUTH. BUT THE TREE DID NOT REJOICE AT ALL HE GREW AND GREW AND WAS GREEN BOTH WINTER AND SUMMER. PEOPLE THAT SAW HIM SAID WHAT A FINE TREE. AND TOWARDS CHRISTMAS HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THAT WAS CUT DOWN. THE AXE STRUCK DEEP INTO THE VERY PITH THE TREE FELL TO THE EARTH WITH A SIGH HE FELT A PANG IT WAS LIKE A SWOON HE COULD NOT THINK OF HAPPINESS FOR HE WAS SORROWFUL AT BEING SEPARATED FROM HIS HOME FROM THE PLACE WHERE HE HAD SPRUNG UP. HE WELL KNEW THAT HE SHOULD NEVER SEE HIS DEAR OLD COMRADES THE LITTLE BUSHES AND FLOWERS AROUND HIM ANYMORE PERHAPS NOT EVEN THE BIRDS. THE DEPARTURE WAS NOT AT ALL AGREEABLE. THE TREE ONLY CAME TO HIMSELF WHEN HE WAS UNLOADED IN A COURT YARD WITH THE OTHER TREES AND HEARD A MAN SAY THAT ONE IS SPLENDID WE DON'T WANT THE OTHERS. THEN TWO SERVANTS CAME IN RICH LIVERY AND CARRIED THE FIR TREE INTO A LARGE AND SPLENDID DRAWING ROOM. THERE TOO WERE LARGE EASY CHAIRS SILKEN SOFAS LARGE TABLES FULL OF PICTURE BOOKS AND FULL OF TOYS WORTH HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF CROWNS AT LEAST THE CHILDREN SAID SO. HOW THE TREE QUIVERED WHAT WAS TO HAPPEN. THE SERVANTS AS WELL AS THE YOUNG LADIES DECORATED IT. ON ONE BRANCH THERE HUNG LITTLE NETS CUT OUT OF COLORED PAPER AND EACH NET WAS FILLED WITH SUGARPLUMS AND AMONG THE OTHER BOUGHS GILDED APPLES AND WALNUTS WERE SUSPENDED LOOKING AS THOUGH THEY HAD GROWN THERE AND LITTLE BLUE AND WHITE TAPERS WERE PLACED AMONG THE LEAVES. IT WAS REALLY SPLENDID BEYOND DESCRIPTION SPLENDID. THIS EVENING THEY ALL SAID. HOW IT WILL SHINE THIS EVENING. IF THE EVENING WERE BUT COME. IF THE TAPERS WERE BUT LIGHTED. PERHAPS THE OTHER TREES FROM THE FOREST WILL COME TO LOOK AT ME. I WONDER IF I SHALL TAKE ROOT HERE AND WINTER AND SUMMER STAND COVERED WITH ORNAMENTS. THE CANDLES WERE NOW LIGHTED WHAT BRIGHTNESS WHAT SPLENDOR. THE TREE TREMBLED SO IN EVERY BOUGH THAT ONE OF THE TAPERS SET FIRE TO THE FOLIAGE. IT BLAZED UP FAMOUSLY HELP HELP. CRIED THE YOUNG LADIES AND THEY QUICKLY PUT OUT THE FIRE. NOW THE TREE DID NOT EVEN DARE TREMBLE. THE OLDER PERSONS FOLLOWED QUIETLY THE LITTLE ONES STOOD QUITE STILL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c57c306a80898086449a7087b40eeb1de7aa57ff --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AND THEN HE TOLD ALL ABOUT HIS YOUTH AND THE LITTLE MICE HAD NEVER HEARD THE LIKE BEFORE AND THEY LISTENED AND SAID. I. SAID THE FIR TREE THINKING OVER WHAT HE HAD HIMSELF RELATED. YES IN REALITY THOSE WERE HAPPY TIMES. I AM BY NO MEANS OLD SAID HE. BUT THEY MAY STILL COME THEY MAY STILL COME. HUMPY DUMPY FELL DOWNSTAIRS AND YET HE GOT A PRINCESS. WHO IS HUMPY DUMPY ASKED THE MICE. SO THEN THE FIR TREE TOLD THE WHOLE FAIRY TALE FOR HE COULD REMEMBER EVERY SINGLE WORD OF IT AND THE LITTLE MICE JUMPED FOR JOY UP TO THE VERY TOP OF THE TREE. ONLY THAT ONE ANSWERED THE TREE. I HEARD IT ON MY HAPPIEST EVENING BUT I DID NOT THEN KNOW HOW HAPPY I WAS. IT IS A VERY STUPID STORY. DON'T YOU KNOW ONE ABOUT BACON AND TALLOW CANDLES CAN'T YOU TELL ANY LARDER STORIES. NO SAID THE TREE. THEN GOOD BYE SAID THE RATS AND THEY WENT HOME. AT LAST THE LITTLE MICE STAYED AWAY ALSO AND THE TREE SIGHED AFTER ALL IT WAS VERY PLEASANT WHEN THE SLEEK LITTLE MICE SAT ROUND ME AND LISTENED TO WHAT I TOLD THEM. NOW THAT TOO IS OVER. BUT I WILL TAKE GOOD CARE TO ENJOY MYSELF WHEN I AM BROUGHT OUT AGAIN. BUT WHEN WAS THAT TO BE. WHY ONE MORNING THERE CAME A QUANTITY OF PEOPLE AND SET TO WORK IN THE LOFT. THE TRUNKS WERE MOVED THE TREE WAS PULLED OUT AND THROWN RATHER HARD IT IS TRUE DOWN ON THE FLOOR BUT A MAN DREW HIM TOWARDS THE STAIRS WHERE THE DAYLIGHT SHONE. HE FELT THE FRESH AIR THE FIRST SUNBEAM AND NOW HE WAS OUT IN THE COURTYARD. ALL PASSED SO QUICKLY THERE WAS SO MUCH GOING ON AROUND HIM THE TREE QUITE FORGOT TO LOOK TO HIMSELF. BUT IT WAS NOT THE FIR TREE THAT THEY MEANT. IT WAS IN A CORNER THAT HE LAY AMONG WEEDS AND NETTLES. THE GOLDEN STAR OF TINSEL WAS STILL ON THE TOP OF THE TREE AND GLITTERED IN THE SUNSHINE. IN THE COURT YARD SOME OF THE MERRY CHILDREN WERE PLAYING WHO HAD DANCED AT CHRISTMAS ROUND THE FIR TREE AND WERE SO GLAD AT THE SIGHT OF HIM. ONE OF THE YOUNGEST RAN AND TORE OFF THE GOLDEN STAR. ONLY LOOK WHAT IS STILL ON THE UGLY OLD CHRISTMAS TREE SAID HE TRAMPLING ON THE BRANCHES SO THAT THEY ALL CRACKED BENEATH HIS FEET. AND THE TREE BEHELD ALL THE BEAUTY OF THE FLOWERS AND THE FRESHNESS IN THE GARDEN HE BEHELD HIMSELF AND WISHED HE HAD REMAINED IN HIS DARK CORNER IN THE LOFT HE THOUGHT OF HIS FIRST YOUTH IN THE WOOD OF THE MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE AND OF THE LITTLE MICE WHO HAD LISTENED WITH SO MUCH PLEASURE TO THE STORY OF HUMPY DUMPY. HAD I BUT REJOICED WHEN I HAD REASON TO DO SO. BUT NOW TIS PAST TIS PAST. AND THE GARDENER'S BOY CHOPPED THE TREE INTO SMALL PIECES THERE WAS A WHOLE HEAP LYING THERE. THE WOOD FLAMED UP SPLENDIDLY UNDER THE LARGE BREWING COPPER AND IT SIGHED SO DEEPLY. EACH SIGH WAS LIKE A SHOT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0004.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e38ca524dd8ae82da3223fcec53d2b6e3f3e4824 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0004.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE BOYS PLAYED ABOUT IN THE COURT AND THE YOUNGEST WORE THE GOLD STAR ON HIS BREAST WHICH THE TREE HAD HAD ON THE HAPPIEST EVENING OF HIS LIFE. HOWEVER THAT WAS OVER NOW THE TREE GONE THE STORY AT AN END \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68769/68769_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68769/68769_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5dfc70d7175723b675f97d75245ddbd33f50c471 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68769/68769_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +KENNETH AND BETH REFRAINED FROM TELLING THE OTHER GIRLS OR UNCLE JOHN OF OLD WILL ROGERS'S VISIT BUT THEY GOT MISTER WATSON IN THE LIBRARY AND QUESTIONED HIM CLOSELY ABOUT THE PENALTY FOR FORGING A CHECK. IT WAS A SERIOUS CRIME INDEED MISTER WATSON TOLD THEM AND TOM GATES BADE FAIR TO SERVE A LENGTHY TERM IN STATE'S PRISON AS A CONSEQUENCE OF HIS RASH ACT. BUT IT WAS A GENEROUS ACT TOO SAID BETH. I CAN'T SEE IT IN THAT LIGHT SAID THE OLD LAWYER. IT WAS A DELIBERATE THEFT FROM HIS EMPLOYERS TO PROTECT A GIRL HE LOVED. I DO NOT DOUBT THE GIRL WAS UNJUSTLY ACCUSED. THE SQUIERSES ARE A SELFISH HARD FISTED LOT AND THE OLD LADY ESPECIALLY IS A WELL KNOWN VIRAGO. BUT THEY COULD NOT HAVE PROVEN A CASE AGAINST LUCY IF SHE WAS INNOCENT AND ALL THEIR THREATS OF ARRESTING HER WERE PROBABLY MERE BLUFF. SO THIS BOY WAS DOUBLY FOOLISH IN RUINING HIMSELF TO GET SIXTY DOLLARS TO PAY AN UNJUST DEMAND. HE WAS SOFT HEARTED AND IMPETUOUS SAID BETH AND BEING IN LOVE HE DIDN'T STOP TO COUNT THE COST. INDEED THERE IS NEVER AN EXCUSE FOR CRIME. THE YOUNG MAN IS GUILTY AND HE MUST SUFFER THE PENALTY. IS THERE NO WAY TO SAVE HIM ASKED KENNETH. IF THE PROSECUTION WERE WITHDRAWN AND THE CASE SETTLED WITH THE VICTIM OF THE FORGED CHECK THEN THE YOUNG MAN WOULD BE ALLOWED HIS FREEDOM. BUT UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES I DOUBT IF SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT COULD BE MADE. WE'RE GOING TO TRY IT ANYHOW WAS THE PROMPT DECISION. SO AS SOON AS BREAKFAST WAS OVER THE NEXT MORNING BETH AND KENNETH TOOK ONE OF THE AUTOMOBILES THE BOY CONSENTING UNWILLINGLY TO THIS SORT OF LOCOMOTION BECAUSE IT WOULD SAVE MUCH TIME. FAIRVIEW WAS TWELVE MILES AWAY BUT BY TEN O'CLOCK THEY DREW UP AT THE COUNTY JAIL. THEY WERE RECEIVED IN THE LITTLE OFFICE BY A MAN NAMED MARKHAM WHO WAS THE JAILER. HE WAS A ROUND FACED RESPECTABLE APPEARING FELLOW BUT HIS MOOD WAS DISTINCTLY UNSOCIABLE. WE WISH TO TALK WITH HIM ANSWERED KENNETH TALK. WHAT'S THE GOOD YOU'RE NO FRIEND OF TOM GATES. I AM KENNETH FORBES OF ELMHURST. I'M RUNNING FOR REPRESENTATIVE ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET SAID KENNETH QUIETLY. OH SAY THAT'S DIFFERENT OBSERVED MARKHAM ALTERING HIS DEMEANOR. YOU MUSTN'T MIND MY BEING GRUFF AND GRUMPY MISTER FORBES. I'VE JUST STOPPED SMOKING A FEW DAYS AGO AND IT'S GOT ON MY NERVES SOMETHING AWFUL. MAY WE SEE GATES AT ONCE ASKED KENNETH. SURE LY I'LL TAKE YOU TO HIS CELL MYSELF. IT'S JUST SHOCKING HOW SUCH A LITTLE THING AS STOPPIN SMOKING WILL RILE UP A FELLOW COME THIS WAY PLEASE. THEY FOLLOWED THE JAILER ALONG A SUCCESSION OF PASSAGES. SOMETIMES I'M THAT YEARNING FOR A SMOKE I'M NEARLY CRAZY AN I DUNNO WHICH IS WORST DYIN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. HE UNLOCKED THE DOOR AND CALLED HERE'S VISITORS TOM. THANK YOU MISTER MARKHAM REPLIED A QUIET VOICE AS A YOUNG MAN CAME FORWARD FROM THE DIM INTERIOR OF THE CELL HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY. WORSE TOM WORSE N EVER REPLIED THE JAILER GLOOMILY. WELL STICK IT OUT OLD MAN DON'T GIVE IN. I WON'T TOM SMOKIN LL KILL ME SURE AN THERE'S A FAINT HOPE O LIVIN THROUGH THIS STRUGGLE TO GIVE IT UP. THIS VISITOR IS MISTER FORBES OF ELMHURST AN THE YOUNG LADY IS. MISS DE GRAF SAID KENNETH NOTICING THE BOY'S FACE CRITICALLY AS HE STOOD WHERE THE LIGHT FROM THE PASSAGE FELL UPON IT. WILL YOU LEAVE US ALONE PLEASE MISTER MARKHAM. SORRY WE HAVEN'T ANY RECEPTION ROOM IN THE JAIL. ALL VISITS HAS TO BE MADE IN THE CELLS. THEN HE DELIBERATELY LOCKED KENNETH AND BETH IN WITH THE FORGER AND RETREATED ALONG THE PASSAGE. SIT DOWN PLEASE SAID GATES IN A CHEERFUL AND PLEASANT VOICE THERE'S A BENCH HERE. WHY DID YOU DO IT ASKED BETH. HE WAS SILENT AND TURNED HIS FACE AWAY. A FRESH WHOLESOME LOOKING BOY WAS TOM GATES WITH STEADY GRAY EYES AN INTELLIGENT FOREHEAD BUT A SENSITIVE RATHER WEAK MOUTH. HE WAS OF STURDY ATHLETIC BUILD AND DRESSED NEATLY IN A SUIT THAT WAS OF COARSE MATERIAL BUT WELL BRUSHED AND CARED FOR. BETH THOUGHT HIS APPEARANCE PLEASING AND MANLY. WE HAVE HEARD SOMETHING OF YOUR STORY SAID KENNETH AND ARE INTERESTED IN IT. DO YOU KNOW LUCY SIR ASKED THE YOUNG MAN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68769/68769_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68769/68769_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..81798135bcc45094061cd54ed0da732bbc93940f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68769/68769_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NO LUCY IS VERY PROUD. I DIDN'T STOP TO THINK WHETHER IT WAS FOOLISH OR NOT I DID IT AND I'M GLAD I DID. YES SHE'LL WORRY ABOUT ME I KNOW. I'M DISGRACED FOR LIFE BUT I'VE SAVED LUCY FROM ANY DISGRACE AND SHE'S YOUNG. WOULD YOU LIKE THAT ASKED BETH. NO INDEED HE REPLIED FRANKLY BUT IT WILL BE BEST THAT WAY. I HAD TO STAND BY LUCY SHE'S SO SWEET AND GENTLE AND SO SENSITIVE. I DON'T SAY I DID RIGHT I ONLY SAY I'D DO THE SAME THING AGAIN. COULDN'T HER PARENTS HAVE HELPED HER. INQUIRED KENNETH NO. OLD WILL IS A FINE FELLOW BUT POOR AND HELPLESS SINCE MISSUS ROGERS HAD HER ACCIDENT. OH DID SHE HAVE AN ACCIDENT ASKED BETH. YES DIDN'T YOU KNOW SHE'S BLIND. HER HUSBAND DIDN'T TELL US THAT SAID THE GIRL. HE WAS FAIRLY PROSPEROUS BEFORE THAT FOR MISSUS ROGERS WAS AN ENERGETIC AND SENSIBLE WOMAN AND KEPT OLD WILL HARD AT WORK. ONE MORNING SHE TRIED TO LIGHT THE FIRE WITH KEROSENE AND LOST HER SIGHT. THEN ROGERS WOULDN'T DO ANYTHING BUT LEAD HER AROUND AND WAIT UPON HER AND THE PLACE WENT TO RACK AND RUIN. I UNDERSTAND NOW SAID BETH LUCY COULD HAVE LOOKED AFTER HER MOTHER SAID YOUNG BATES BUT OLD WILL WAS STUBBORN AND WOULDN'T LET HER. SO THE GIRL SAW SOMETHING MUST BE DONE AND WENT TO WORK. THAT'S HOW ALL THE TROUBLE CAME ABOUT. HE SPOKE SIMPLY BUT PACED UP AND DOWN THE NARROW CELL IN FRONT OF THEM. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HIS FEELINGS WERE DEEPER THAN HE CARED TO MAKE EVIDENT. WHOSE NAME DID YOU SIGN TO THE CHECK ASKED KENNETH. HE IS SUPPOSED TO SIGN ALL THE CHECKS OF THE CONCERN. IT'S A STOCK COMPANY AND RICH. I WAS BOOKKEEPER SO IT WAS EASY TO GET A BLANK CHECK AND FORGE THE SIGNATURE. AS REGARDS MY ROBBING THE COMPANY I'LL SAY THAT I SAVED THEM A HEAVY LOSS ONE DAY. I DISCOVERED AND PUT OUT A FIRE THAT WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THE WHOLE PLANT BUT MARSHALL NEVER EVEN THANKED ME. HE ONLY DISCHARGED THE MAN WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FIRE. HOW LONG AGO WERE YOU ARRESTED ASKED BETH IT'S NEARLY TWO WEEKS NOW. BUT I'LL HAVE A TRIAL IN A FEW DAYS THEY SAY. MY CRIME IS SO SERIOUS THAT THE CIRCUIT JUDGE HAS TO SIT ON THE CASE. DO YOU KNOW WHERE LUCY IS. SHE'S AT HOME I SUPPOSE. I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM HER SINCE THE DAY SHE CAME HERE TO SEE ME RIGHT AFTER MY ARREST. IT WAS BETTER FOR HIM TO THINK THE GIRL UNFEELING THAN TO KNOW THE TRUTH. I'M GOING TO SEE MISTER MARSHALL SAID KENNETH AND DISCOVER WHAT I CAN DO TO ASSIST YOU THANK YOU SIR. IT WON'T BE MUCH BUT I'M GRATEFUL TO FIND A FRIEND. I'M GUILTY YOU KNOW AND THERE'S NO ONE TO BLAME BUT MYSELF. THEY LEFT HIM THEN FOR THE JAILER ARRIVED TO UNLOCK THE DOOR AND ESCORT THEM TO THE OFFICE. TOM'S A VERY DECENT LAD REMARKED THE JAILER ON THE WAY. I'VE SEEN LOTS OF THAT KIND IN MY DAY. YOU DON'T SMOKE DO YOU MISTER FORBES NO MISTER MARKHAM. AND IT RUINS A MAN'S DISPOSITION. THE MILL WAS AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE TOWN. IT WAS A BUSY PLACE PERHAPS THE BUSIEST IN THE WHOLE OF THE EIGHTH DISTRICT AND IN IT WERE EMPLOYED A LARGE NUMBER OF MEN. THE OFFICE WAS A SMALL BRICK EDIFICE SEPARATED FROM THE MAIN BUILDINGS IN WHICH THE NOISE OF MACHINERY WAS SO GREAT THAT ONE SPEAKING COULD SCARCELY BE HEARD. THE MANAGER WAS IN KENNETH AND BETH LEARNED BUT COULD NOT SEE THEM UNTIL HE HAD SIGNED THE LETTERS HE HAD DICTATED FOR THE NOON MAIL. HE LOOKED UP RATHER UNGRACIOUSLY BUT MOTIONED THEM TO BE SEATED. MISTER FORBES OF ELMHURST HE ASKED GLANCING AT THE CARD KENNETH HAD SENT IN YES SIR. I'VE BEEN BOTHERED ALREADY OVER YOUR ELECTION CAMPAIGN RESUMED THE MANAGER ARRANGING HIS PAPERS IN A BORED MANNER. SOME GIRL HAS BEEN HERE TWICE TO INTERVIEW MY MEN AND I HAVE REFUSED TO ADMIT HER. YOU MAY AS WELL UNDERSTAND SIR THAT I STAND FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE AND HAVE NO SYMPATHY WITH YOUR SIDE. THAT DOESN'T INTEREST ME ESPECIALLY SIR ANSWERED KENNETH SMILING. I'M NOT ELECTIONEERING JUST NOW. I'VE COME TO TALK WITH YOU ABOUT YOUNG GATES. OH WELL SIR WHAT ABOUT HIM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68769/68769_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68769/68769_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..433bf2511718e9bd316d68c77505a006d6abf2bc --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68769/68769_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE'S A FORGER MISTER FORBES A DELIBERATE CRIMINAL I ADMIT THAT. BUT HE'S VERY YOUNG AND HIS YOUTH IS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS FOLLY HE STOLE MY MONEY. IT IS TRUE MISTER MARSHALL. AND HE DESERVES A TERM IN STATE'S PRISON. NEVERTHELESS I SHOULD LIKE TO SAVE HIM SAID KENNETH. HIS TRIAL HAS NOT YET TAKEN PLACE AND INSTEAD OF YOUR DEVOTING CONSIDERABLE OF YOUR VALUABLE TIME APPEARING AGAINST HIM IT WOULD BE MUCH SIMPLER TO SETTLE THE MATTER RIGHT HERE AND NOW. I'LL MAKE YOUR MONEY LOSS GOOD. IT HAS COST ME TWICE SIXTY DOLLARS IN ANNOYANCE. I'LL PAY TWICE SIXTY DOLLARS FOR THE DELIVERY TO ME OF THE FORGED CHECK AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE PROSECUTION AND THE COSTS. I'LL PAY ALL THE COSTS BESIDES. YOU'RE FOOLISH WHY SHOULD YOU DO ALL THIS. I HAVE MY OWN REASONS MISTER MARSHALL. PLEASE LOOK AT THE MATTER FROM A BUSINESS STANDPOINT. BY COMPROMISING WITH ME YOU CAN RECOVER YOUR LOSS AND ARE PAID FOR YOUR ANNOYANCE YOU'RE RIGHT. GIVE ME A CHECK FOR A HUNDRED AND FIFTY AND I'LL TURN OVER TO YOU THE FORGED CHECK AND QUASH FURTHER PROCEEDINGS. KENNETH HESITATED A MOMENT. HE DETESTED THE GRASPING DISPOSITION THAT WOULD ENDEAVOR TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS EVIDENT DESIRE TO HELP YOUNG GATES. BETH UNEASY AT HIS SILENCE NUDGED HIM. PAY IT KEN SHE WHISPERED. HE ALSO WROTE A NOTE TO HIS LAWYER DIRECTING HIM TO WITHDRAW THE PROSECUTION. KENNETH AND BETH WENT AWAY QUITE HAPPY WITH THEIR SUCCESS AND THE MANAGER STOOD IN HIS LITTLE WINDOW AND WATCHED THEM DEPART. THERE WAS A GRIM SMILE OF AMUSEMENT ON HIS SHREWD FACE. OF ALL THE EASY MARKS I EVER ENCOUNTERED MUTTERED MISTER MARSHALL THIS YOUNG FORBES IS THE EASIEST. WHY HE'S A FOOL THAT'S WHAT HE IS. HE MIGHT HAVE HAD THAT FORGED CHECK FOR THE FACE OF IT IF HE'D BEEN SHARP. I'M SO GLAD KEN SO GLAD. AND TO THINK WE CAN SAVE ALL THAT MISERY AND DESPAIR BY THE PAYMENT OF A HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS. AND NOW WE MUST FIND THE GIRL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68771/68771_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68771/68771_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d4e06865067cecba5920e0c1bbec79e7e1c5b15 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68771/68771_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +CHAPTER TWELVE BETH MEETS A REBUFF. THE CAMPAIGN WAS NOW GROWING WARM. MISTER HOPKINS HAD COME TO REALIZE THAT HE HAD THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE ON HIS HANDS AND THAT DEFEAT MEANT HIS POLITICAL RUIN. SO TO THE SURPRISE OF THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE AND ALL HIS FRIENDS MISTER HOPKINS ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULD OPPOSE FORBES'S AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN WITH AN EQUAL AGGRESSIVENESS AND SPEND AS MANY DOLLARS IN DOING SO AS MIGHT BE NECESSARY. HE DID NOT LAUGH AT HIS OPPONENTS ANY LONGER. TO HIMSELF HE ADMITTED THEIR SHREWDNESS AND ACTIVITY AND ACKNOWLEDGED THAT AN EXPERIENCED HEAD WAS MANAGING THEIR AFFAIRS. ONE OF MISTER HOPKINS'S FIRST TASKS AFTER CALLING HIS FAITHFUL HENCHMEN AROUND HIM WAS TO MAKE A CAREFUL CANVASS OF THE VOTERS OF HIS DISTRICT TO SEE WHAT WAS STILL TO BE ACCOMPLISHED. THIS CANVASS WAS QUITE SATISFACTORY FOR FINAL REPORT SHOWED ONLY ABOUT A HUNDRED MAJORITY FOR FORBES. BUT TO OFFSET THIS CHEERING CONDITION THE DEMOCRATIC AGENTS WHO MADE THE CANVASS REPORTED THAT THERE WAS AN AIR OF UNCERTAINTY THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AND THAT MANY OF THOSE WHO DECLARED FOR HOPKINS WERE LUKEWARM AND FAINT HEARTED AND MIGHT EASILY BE INDUCED TO CHANGE THEIR VOTES. THIS WAS WHAT MUST BE PREVENTED. THE WEAK KNEED CONTINGENCY MUST BE STRENGTHENED AND FORTIFIED AND A COUPLE OF HUNDRED VOTES IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER SECURED FROM THE OPPOSITION. THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE FIGURED OUT A WAY TO DO THIS. MONROE COUNTY WHERE BOTH FORBES AND HOPKINS RESIDED WAS ONE OF THE DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLDS OF THE STATE. THE PORTIONS OF WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE EIGHTH DISTRICT WERE AS STRONGLY REPUBLICAN AND BEING MORE POPULOUS GAVE TO THE DISTRICT ITS NATURAL REPUBLICAN MAJORITY. ON THE SAME TICKET THAT WAS TO ELECT A REPRESENTATIVE TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE WAS THE CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF OF MONROE COUNTY. A MAN NAMED CUMMINGS WAS THE REPUBLICAN AND SETH REYNOLDS THE LIVERYMAN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. UNDER ORDINARY CONDITIONS REYNOLDS WAS SURE TO BE ELECTED BUT THE COMMITTEE PROPOSED TO SACRIFICE HIM IN ORDER TO ELECT HOPKINS. THIS TRADING VOTES WHICH WAS OFTEN DONE WAS CONSIDERED BY THE POLITICIANS QUITE LEGITIMATE. THE ONLY THING NECESSARY WAS TO FIX SETH REYNOLDS AND THIS HOPKINS ARRANGED PERSONALLY. REYNOLDS SAW THE POLITICAL NECESSITY OF THIS SACRIFICE AND CONSENTED READILY TO THE ARRANGEMENT. MISTER CUMMINGS WHO WAS TO PROFIT BY THE DEAL WAS CALLED TO A PRIVATE CONSULTATION AND AGREED TO SLAUGHTER KENNETH FORBES TO SECURE VOTES FOR HIMSELF. BUT THE HONORABLE ERASTUS HAD NO INTENTION OF TAKING CHANCES OR MONKEYING WITH FATE AS HE TERSELY EXPRESSED IT. EVERY SCHEME KNOWN TO POLITICIANS MUST BE WORKED AND NONE KNEW THE INTRICATE GAME BETTER THAN HOPKINS. THIS WAS WHY HE HELD SEVERAL LONG CONFERENCES WITH HIS FRIEND MARSHALL THE MANAGER AT THE MILL. AND THIS WAS WHY KENNETH AND BETH DISCOVERED HIM CONVERSING WITH THE YOUNG WOMAN IN THE BUGGY. MISTER HOPKINS HAD PICKED HER UP FROM THE PATH LEADING FROM THE REAR GATE OF THE ELMHURST GROUNDS AND SHE HAD GIVEN HIM ACCURATE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE MOVEMENTS OF THE GIRL CAMPAIGNERS. THE DESCRIPTION SHE GAVE OF THE COMING RECEPTION TO THE WOMAN'S POLITICAL LEAGUE WAS SO HUMOROUS AND DIVERTING THAT THEY WERE BOTH LAUGHING HEARTILY OVER THE THING WHEN THE YOUNG PEOPLE PASSED THEM AND THUS MISTER HOPKINS FAILED TO NOTICE WHO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE OTHER VEHICLE WERE. LOUISE WAS MAKING GREAT PREPARATIONS TO ENTERTAIN THE WOMAN'S POLITICAL LEAGUE AN ORGANIZATION SHE HAD HERSELF FOUNDED THE MEMBERS OF WHICH WERE WIVES OF FARMERS IN THE DISTRICT. THESE WOMEN WERE FLATTERED BY THE ATTENTION OF THE YOUNG LADY AND HAD PROMISED TO ASSIST IN ELECTING MISTER FORBES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68771/68771_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68771/68771_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..16d8640dd3cba6345d8efddf844ce420631d2e82 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68771/68771_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +LOUISE HOPED FOR EXCELLENT RESULTS FROM THIS ORGANIZATION AND WISHED THE ENTERTAINMENT TO BE SO EFFECTIVE IN WINNING THEIR GOOD WILL THAT THEY WOULD WORK EARNESTLY FOR THE CAUSE IN WHICH THEY WERE ENLISTED. THE FAIRVIEW BAND WAS ENGAGED TO DISCOURSE AS MUCH HARMONY AS IT COULD PRODUCE AND THE RESOURCES OF THE GREAT HOUSE WERE TAXED TO ENTERTAIN THE GUESTS. TABLES WERE SPREAD ON THE LAWN AND A DAINTY BUT SUBSTANTIAL REPAST WAS TO BE SERVED. THE DAY OF THE ENTERTAINMENT WAS AS SUNNY AND MILD AS HEART COULD DESIRE. BY TEN O'CLOCK THE FARM WAGONS BEGAN TO DRIVE UP LOADED WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN FOR ALL WERE INVITED EXCEPT THE GROWN MEN. THIS WAS THE FIRST OCCASION WITHIN A GENERATION WHEN SUCH AN ENTERTAINMENT HAD BEEN GIVEN AT ELMHURST AND THE ONLY ONE WITHIN THE MEMORY OF MAN WHERE THE NEIGHBORS AND COUNTRY PEOPLE HAD BEEN INVITED GUESTS. THE GARDENS AND GROUNDS WERE GAILY DECORATED WITH CHINESE AND JAPANESE LANTERNS STREAMERS AND FORBES BANNERS. THERE WERE GREAT TANKS OF LEMONADE AND TABLES COVERED WITH CANDIES AND FRUITS FOR THE CHILDREN AND MAIDS AND OTHER SERVANTS DISTRIBUTED THE THINGS AND LOOKED AFTER THE COMFORT OF THE GUESTS. THE BAND PLAYED BRISKLY AND BEFORE NOON THE SCENE WAS ONE OF GREAT ANIMATION. A SPEAKERS STAND PROFUSELY DECORATED HAD BEEN ERECTED ON THE LAWN AND HUNDREDS OF FOLDING CHAIRS PROVIDED FOR SEATS. THE ATTENDANCE WAS UNEXPECTEDLY LARGE AND THE GIRLS WERE DELIGHTED FORESEEING GREAT SUCCESS FOR THEIR FETE. WE OUGHT TO HAVE MORE ATTENDANTS BETH SAID LOUISE APPROACHING HER COUSIN. WON'T YOU RUN INTO THE HOUSE AND SEE IF MARTHA CAN'T SPARE ONE OR TWO MORE MAIDS. SHE WAS VERY FOND OF THE YOUNG LADIES WHOM SHE HAD KNOWN WHEN AUNT JANE WAS THE MISTRESS HERE AND BETH WAS HER ESPECIAL FAVORITE. SO SHE GREETED THE GIRL CORDIALLY AND SAID. I COUNTED ON ELIZA PARSONS THE NEW GIRL I HIRED FOR THE LINEN ROOM AND TO DO MENDING BUT ELIZA SAID SHE HAD A HEADACHE THIS MORNING AND COULDN'T STAND THE SUN SO I LET HER OFF BUT SHE DIDN'T SEEM VERY SICK TO ME. PERHAPS SHE IS BETTER AND WILL HELP US UNTIL AFTER THE LUNCHEON IS SERVED SAID BETH. WHERE IS SHE MARTHA I'LL GO AND ASK HER. I'D BETTER SHOW YOU THE WAY MISS SHE'S IN HER OWN ROOM. THE HOUSEKEEPER LED THE WAY AND BETH FOLLOWED. THE GIRL ENTERED AND GAVE AN INVOLUNTARY CRY OF SURPRISE. STANDING BEFORE HER WAS THE YOUNG GIRL SHE HAD SEEN RIDING WITH MISTER HOPKINS THE GIRL SHE HAD DECLARED TO BE THE MISSING DAUGHTER OF MISSUS ROGERS. FOR A MOMENT BETH STOOD STARING WHILE THE NEW MAID REGARDED HER WITH COMPOSURE AND A SLIGHT SMILE UPON HER BEAUTIFUL FACE. SHE WAS DRESSED IN THE REGULATION COSTUME OF THE MAIDS AT ELMHURST A PLAIN BLACK GOWN WITH WHITE APRON AND CAP. I I BEG YOUR PARDON SAID BETH WITH A SLIGHT GASP FOR THE LIKENESS TO MISSUS ROGERS WAS SOMETHING AMAZING. AREN'T YOU LUCY ROGERS. THE MAID RAISED HER EYEBROWS WITH A GESTURE OF GENUINE SURPRISE. THEN SHE GAVE A LITTLE LAUGH AND REPLIED NO MISS BETH I'M ELIZABETH PARSONS. BUT IT CAN'T BE PROTESTED THE GIRL. I OBTAINED THE SITUATION ONLY A FEW DAYS AGO. I ATTEND TO THE HOUSEHOLD MENDING YOU KNOW AND CARE FOR THE LINEN. YOU SPEAK LIKE AN EDUCATED PERSON SAID BETH WONDERINGLY WHERE IS YOUR HOME. FOR THE FIRST TIME THE MAID SEEMED A LITTLE CONFUSED AND HER GAZE WANDERED FROM THE FACE OF HER VISITOR. WILL YOU EXCUSE MY ANSWERING THAT QUESTION. SHE SAT DOWN IN A ROCKING CHAIR AND CLASPING HER HANDS IN HER LAP ROCKED SLOWLY BACK AND FORTH I'M SORRY SAID BETH. I HOPED YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO ASSIST ME ON THE LAWN THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT WE CAN'T GIVE THEM PROPER ATTENTION. ELIZA PARSONS SHOOK HER HEAD. THEY THEY EXCITE ME IN SOME WAY AND I I CAN'T BEAR THEM YOU MUST EXCUSE ME. BETH LOOKED AT THE STRANGE GIRL WITHOUT TAKING THE HINT TO RETIRE. SHE EVEN SEEMED MILDLY AMUSED AT THE ATTENTION SHE ATTRACTED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68771/68771_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68771/68771_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cdab1b4edcbbda56835ae1d0f762efd0bc5ba965 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/6829/68771/68771_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BETH WAS A BEAUTIFUL GIRL THE HANDSOMEST OF THE THREE COUSINS BY FAR YET ELIZA SURPASSED HER IN NATURAL CHARM AND SEEMED WELL AWARE OF THE FACT. HER MANNER WAS NEITHER INDEPENDENT NOR ASSERTIVE BUT RATHER ONE OF WELL BRED COMPOSURE AND CALM RELIANCE. BETH FELT THAT SHE WAS INTRUDING AND KNEW THAT SHE OUGHT TO GO YET SOME FASCINATION HELD HER TO THE SPOT. HER EYES WANDERED TO THE MAID'S HANDS. HOWEVER HER FEATURES AND FORM MIGHT REPRESS ANY EVIDENCE OF NERVOUSNESS THESE HANDS TOLD A DIFFERENT STORY. THE THIN FINGERS CLASPED AND UNCLASPED IN LITTLE SPASMODIC JERKS AND BELIED THE QUIET SMILE UPON THE FACE ABOVE THEM. I WISH SAID BETH SLOWLY I KNEW YOU. A SUDDEN WAVE OF SCARLET SWEPT OVER ELIZA'S FACE. SHE ROSE QUICKLY TO HER FEET WITH AN IMPETUOUS GESTURE THAT MADE HER VISITOR CATCH HER BREATH. I WISH I KNEW MYSELF SHE CRIED FIERCELY. WILL YOU LEAVE ME ALONE IN MY OWN ROOM OR MUST I GO AWAY TO ESCAPE YOU. I WILL GO SAID BETH A LITTLE FRIGHTENED AT THE PASSIONATE APPEAL. ELIZA CLOSED THE DOOR BEHIND HER WITH A DECIDED SLAM AND A KEY CLICKED IN THE LOCK \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/287645/287645_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/287645/287645_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e30103335218d1cf71d1ef948d32b381e2cff1b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/287645/287645_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHILE THIS PARTY WAS VERY RESPECTABLE IN REGARD TO NUMBERS AND ENLISTED MUCH SYMPATHY STILL THEY HAD NO WOUNDS OR BRUISES TO EXHIBIT OR VERY HARD REPORTS TO MAKE RELATIVE TO THEIR BONDAGE THE TREATMENT THAT HAD BEEN METED OUT TO THEM WAS ABOUT AS TOLERANT AS SLAVERY COULD WELL AFFORD AND THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE PASSENGERS BORE EVIDENCE THAT THEY HAD BEEN USED TO SOMETHING BETTER THAN HERRING AND CORN CAKE FOR A DIET. JULIUS WHO WAS SUCCESSFUL ENOUGH TO BRING HIS WIFE AND BOY WITH HIM WAS A WONDERFUL SPECIMEN OF MUSCULAR PROPORTIONS. NOR WAS HE ALL MUSCLE BY A GREAT DEAL HE WAS WELL BALANCED AS TO MOTHER WIT AND SHREWDNESS. IN LOOKING BACK INTO THE PIT FROM WHENCE HE HAD BEEN DELIVERED HE COULD TELL A VERY INTERESTING STORY OF WHAT HE HAD EXPERIENCED FROM WHICH IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE HAD NOT BEEN AN IDLE OBSERVER OF WHAT HAD PASSED RELATIVE TO THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION ESPECIALLY WAS IT VERY CERTAIN THAT HE HAD NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LOVELY OR OF GOOD REPORT BELONGING TO THE SYSTEM. JULIUS HAD BEEN KEPT IN THE DARK IN MARYLAND BUT ON FREE SOIL THE LIGHT RUSHED IN UPON HIS ASTONISHED VISION TO A DEGREE ALMOST BEWILDERING. THAT HIS MASTER WAS A MAN OF MEANS AND PRETTY HIGH STANDING JULIUS THOUGHT WAS NOT MUCH TO HIS CREDIT SINCE THEY WERE OBTAINED FROM UNPAID LABOR. IN HIS REVIEW ALLUSION WAS MADE NOT ONLY TO HIS MASTER BUT ALSO TO HIS MISTRESS IN WHICH HE SAID THAT SHE WAS A QUARRELSOME AND CRABBED WOMAN MIDDLING STOUT. THIS WAS WHAT DID THE MISCHIEF SO FAR AS THE RUNNING AWAY WAS CONCERNED. HIS WIFE AND BOY SHARED FULLY IN HIS AFFECTIONS AND SEEMED WELL PLEASED TO HAVE THEIR FACES TURNED CANADA WARD. IT IS HARDLY NECESSARY TO SAY MORE OF THEM HERE. HENRY WAS ABOUT TWENTY THREE YEARS OF AGE OF AN ACTIVE TURN BROWN SKIN AND HAD GIVEN THE QUESTION OF FREEDOM HIS MOST SERIOUS ATTENTION AS HIS ACTIONS PROVED WHILE HE COULD NEITHER READ NOR WRITE HE COULD THINK. FROM THE MANNER IN WHICH HE EXPRESSED HIMSELF WITH REGARD TO ROBERT HOLLAN NO MAN IN THE WHOLE RANGE OF HIS RECOLLECTIONS WILL BE LONGER REMEMBERED THAN HE HIS ENTHRALMENT WHILE UNDER HOLLAN WILL HARDLY EVER BE FORGOTTEN. OF THIS PARTY EDWARD A BOY OF SEVENTEEN CALLED FORTH MUCH SYMPATHY HE TOO WAS CLAIMED BY HOLLAN. HE WAS OF A GOOD PHYSICAL MAKE UP AND SEEMED TO VALUE HIGHLY THE GREAT END HE HAD IN VIEW NAMELY A RESIDENCE IN CANADA. ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND EIGHTEEN FIFTY EIGHT. JOHN WESLEY COMBASH JACOB TAYLOR AND THOMAS EDWARD SKINNER. THE REVELATIONS MADE BY THESE PASSENGERS WERE PAINFUL TO LISTEN TO AND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CREDITED IF ANY ROOM HAD EXISTED FOR DOUBT. JOHN WESLEY WAS THIRTY TWO YEARS OF AGE OF A LIVELY TURN PLEASANT COUNTENANCE DARK COLOR AND ORDINARY SIZE. IN UNBURDENING HIS MIND TO THE COMMITTEE THE ALL ABSORBING THEME RELATED TO THE MANNER IN WHICH HE HAD BEEN TREATED AS A SLAVE AND THE CHARACTER OF THOSE WHO HAD OPPRESSED HIM. HE STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN THE VICTIM OF A MAN OR PARTY NAMED JOHNSON IN WHOSE FAMILY JOHN HAD BEEN A WITNESS TO SOME OF THE MOST HIGH HANDED PHASES OF BARBARISM SAID HE THESE JOHNSONS WERE NOTORIOUS FOR ABUSING THEIR SERVANTS. A FEW YEARS BACK ONE OF THEIR SLAVES A COACHMAN WAS KEPT ON THE COACH BOX ONE COLD NIGHT WHEN THEY WERE OUT AT A BALL UNTIL HE BECAME ALMOST FROZEN TO DEATH IN FACT HE DID DIE IN THE INFIRMARY FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE FROST ABOUT ONE WEEK AFTERWARDS. ANOTHER CASE WAS THAT OF A SLAVE WOMAN IN A VERY DELICATE STATE WHO WAS ONE DAY KNOCKED DOWN STAIRS BY MISSUS JOHNSON HERSELF AND IN A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE POOR WOMAN DIED FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE INJURY THUS RECEIVED. THE DOCTOR WHO ATTENDED THE INJURED CREATURE IN THIS CASE WAS SIMPLY TOLD THAT SHE SLIPPED AND FELL DOWN STAIRS AS SHE WAS COMING DOWN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/294828/294828_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/294828/294828_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5a1ece83c7eaacb5171a3ab0476607b49b4c473 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/294828/294828_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT COMMANDER FARRAGUT DIDN'T WANT TO WASTE A SINGLE DAY OR EVEN A SINGLE HOUR IN MAKING FOR THOSE SEAS WHERE THE ANIMAL HAD JUST BEEN SIGHTED HE SUMMONED HIS ENGINEER. ARE WE UP TO PRESSURE HE ASKED THE MAN. AYE SIR THE ENGINEER REPLIED. GO AHEAD THEN COMMANDER FARRAGUT CALLED. AT THIS ORDER WHICH WAS RELAYED TO THE ENGINE BY MEANS OF A COMPRESSED AIR DEVICE THE MECHANICS ACTIVATED THE START UP WHEEL. STEAM RUSHED WHISTLING INTO THE GAPING VALVES. LONG HORIZONTAL PISTONS GROANED AND PUSHED THE TIE RODS OF THE DRIVE SHAFT. THE BLADES OF THE PROPELLER CHURNED THE WAVES WITH INCREASING SPEED AND THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN MOVED OUT MAJESTICALLY AMID A SPECTATOR LADEN ESCORT OF SOME ONE HUNDRED FERRIES AND TENDERS. AUTHOR'S NOTE TENDERS ARE SMALL STEAMBOATS THAT ASSIST THE BIG LINERS. THE WHARVES OF BROOKLYN AND EVERY PART OF NEW YORK BORDERING THE EAST RIVER WERE CROWDED WITH CURIOSITY SEEKERS. DEPARTING FROM FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND THROATS THREE CHEERS BURST FORTH IN SUCCESSION. THOUSANDS OF HANDKERCHIEFS WERE WAVING ABOVE THESE TIGHTLY PACKED MASSES HAILING THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN UNTIL IT REACHED THE WATERS OF THE HUDSON RIVER AT THE TIP OF THE LONG PENINSULA THAT FORMS NEW YORK CITY. THE FRIGATE THEN WENT ALONG THE NEW JERSEY COAST THE WONDERFUL RIGHT BANK OF THIS RIVER ALL LOADED DOWN WITH COUNTRY HOMES AND PASSED BY THE FORTS TO SALUTES FROM THEIR BIGGEST CANNONS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284447/284447_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284447/284447_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3992301f3fd2af7013caed3f01129c886d2efc57 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284447/284447_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE FOUND THE CORD STILL TIED TO HIS BIG TOE AND AT FIRST IMAGINED HIS PRISONER WAS SAFE IN THE DRESSING ROOM. WHILE HE PUT ON HIS CLOTHES THE KING OCCASIONALLY GAVE THE CORD A SUDDEN PULL HOPING TO HURT CAP'N BILL'S BIG TOE AND MAKE HIM YELL BUT AS NO RESPONSE CAME TO THIS MEAN ACTION THE BOOLOOROO FINALLY LOOKED INTO THE ROOM ONLY TO FIND HE HAD BEEN PULLING ON A LEG OF THE COUCH AND THAT HIS PRISONER HAD ESCAPED. THEN HE FLEW INTO A MIGHTY RAGE AND RUNNING OUT INTO THE HALL HE AIMED A BLOW AT THE UNFAITHFUL GUARD KNOCKING THE FELLOW OFF HIS FEET. THEN HE RUSHED DOWN STAIRS INTO THE COURTYARD SHOUTING LOUDLY FOR HIS SOLDIERS AND THREATENING TO PATCH EVERYBODY IN HIS DOMINIONS IF THE SAILORMAN WAS NOT RECAPTURED. WHILE THE BOOLOOROO STORMED AND RAGED A BAND OF SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS CAME MARCHING IN SURROUNDING CAP'N BILL WHO WAS AGAIN FIRMLY BOUND. SO HO. NO ONE CAN RESIST THE MIGHTY BOOLOOROO OF THE BLUES SO IT IS FOLLY FOR YOU TO REBEL AGAINST MY COMMANDS. HOLD HIM FAST MY MEN AND AS SOON AS I'VE HAD MY COFFEE AND OATMEAL I'LL TAKE HIM TO THE ROOM OF THE GREAT KNIFE AND PATCH HIM. I WOULDN'T MIND A CUP O COFFEE MYSELF SAID CAP'N BILL I'VE HAD CONSID'BLE EXERCISE THIS MORNIN AND I'M ALL READY FOR BREAKFAS. VERY WELL REPLIED THE BOOLOOROO YOU SHALL EAT WITH ME FOR THEN I CAN KEEP AN EYE ON YOU MY GUARDS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED AND I DON'T MEAN TO LET YOU OUT OF MY SIGHT AGAIN UNTIL YOU ARE PATCHED. SO CAP'N BILL AND THE BOOLOOROO HAD BREAKFAST TOGETHER SIX BLUESKINS STANDING IN A ROW BACK OF THE SAILORMAN TO GRAB HIM IF HE ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE. BUT CAP'N BILL MADE NO SUCH ATTEMPT KNOWING IT WOULD BE USELESS. TROT WAS IN THE ROOM TOO STANDING IN A CORNER AND LISTENING TO ALL THAT WAS SAID WHILE SHE RACKED HER LITTLE BRAIN FOR AN IDEA THAT WOULD ENABLE HER TO SAVE CAP'N BILL FROM BEING PATCHED. NO ONE COULD SEE HER SO NO ONE NOT EVEN CAP'N BILL KNEW SHE WAS THERE. AFTER BREAKFAST WAS OVER A PROCESSION WAS FORMED HEADED BY THE BOOLOOROO AND THEY MARCHED THE PRISONER THROUGH THE PALACE UNTIL THEY CAME TO THE ROOM OF THE GREAT KNIFE. INVISIBLE TROT FOLLOWED SOBERLY AFTER THEM STILL WONDERING WHAT SHE COULD DO TO SAVE HER FRIEND. AS SOON AS THEY ENTERED THE ROOM OF THE GREAT KNIFE THE BOOLOOROO GAVE A YELL OF DISAPPOINTMENT. THE FRIGHTENED SOLDIERS HURRIED AWAY TO FIND TIGGLE AND TROT WAS WELL PLEASED BECAUSE SHE KNEW TIGGLE WAS BY THIS TIME SAFELY HIDDEN. THE BOOLOOROO STAMPED UP AND DOWN THE ROOM MUTTERING THREATS AND DECLARING CAP'N BILL SHOULD BE PATCHED WHETHER TIGGLE WAS FOUND OR NOT AND WHILE THEY WAITED TROT TOOK TIME TO MAKE AN INSPECTION OF THE PLACE WHICH SHE NOW SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. THE ROOM OF THE GREAT KNIFE WAS HIGH AND BIG AND AROUND IT RAN ROWS OF BENCHES FOR THE SPECTATORS TO SIT UPON. IN ONE PLACE AT THE HEAD OF THE ROOM WAS A RAISED PLATFORM FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY WITH ELEGANT THRONE CHAIRS FOR THE KING AND QUEEN AND SIX SMALLER BUT RICHLY UPHOLSTERED CHAIRS FOR THE SNUBNOSED PRINCESSES. THE POOR QUEEN BY THE WAY WAS SELDOM SEEN AS SHE PASSED ALL HER TIME PLAYING SOLITAIRE WITH A DECK THAT WAS ONE CARD SHORT HOPING THAT BEFORE SHE HAD LIVED HER ENTIRE SIX HUNDRED YEARS SHE WOULD WIN THE GAME. THEREFORE HER MAJESTY PAID NO ATTENTION TO ANYONE AND NO ONE PAID ANY ATTENTION TO HER. IN THE CENTER OF THE ROOM STOOD THE TERRIBLE KNIFE THAT GAVE THE PLACE ITS NAME A NAME DREADED BY EVERY INHABITANT OF THE BLUE CITY. THE KNIFE WAS BUILT INTO A HUGE FRAMEWORK LIKE A DERRICK THAT REACHED TO THE CEILING AND IT WAS SO ARRANGED THAT WHEN THE BOOLOOROO PULLED A CORD THE GREAT BLADE WOULD DROP DOWN IN ITS FRAME AND NEATLY CUT IN TWO THE PERSON WHO STOOD UNDER IT. AND IN ORDER THAT THE SLICING WOULD BE ACCURATE THERE WAS ANOTHER FRAME TO WHICH THE PRISONER WAS TIED SO THAT HE COULDN'T WIGGLE EITHER WAY. THIS FRAME WAS ON ROLLERS SO THAT IT COULD BE PLACED DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH THE KNIFE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284447/284447_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284447/284447_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c359a5b5f1b30f6d1606a2e3124bff4412075920 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284447/284447_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHILE TROT WAS OBSERVING THIS DREADFUL MACHINE THE DOOR OPENED AND IN WALKED THE SIX SNUBNOSED PRINCESSES ALL IN A ROW AND WITH THEIR CHINS UP AS IF THEY DISDAINED EVERYONE BUT THEMSELVES. THEY WERE MAGNIFICENTLY DRESSED AND THEIR BLUE HAIR WAS CAREFULLY ARRANGED IN HUGE TOWERS UPON THEIR HEADS WITH BLUE PLUMES STUCK INTO THE TOPS. THESE PLUMES WAVED GRACEFULLY IN THE AIR WITH EVERY MINCING STEP THE PRINCESSES TOOK. RICH JEWELS OF BLUE STONES GLITTERED UPON THEIR PERSONS AND THE ROYAL LADIES WERE FULLY AS GORGEOUS AS THEY WERE HAUGHTY AND OVERBEARING. THEY MARCHED TO THEIR CHAIRS AND SEATED THEMSELVES TO ENJOY THE CRUEL SCENE THEIR FATHER WAS ABOUT TO ENACT AND CAP'N BILL BOWED TO THEM POLITELY AND SAID. MORNIN GIRLS HOPE YE FEEL AS WELL AS YE LOOK. IT IS AN INSULT TO BE SPOKEN TO BY ONE ABOUT TO BE PATCHED. CONTROL YOURSELVES MY DEARS REPLIED THE BOOLOOROO THE WORST PUNISHMENT I KNOW HOW TO INFLICT ON ANYONE THIS PRISONER IS ABOUT TO SUFFER YOU'LL SEE A VERY PRETTY PATCHING MY ROYAL DAUGHTERS. INQUIRED COBALT WHEN. AS SOON AS THE SOLDIERS RETURN WITH TIGGLE SAID HE. BUT JUST THEN IN CAME THE SOLDIERS TO SAY THAT TIGGLE COULD NOT BE FOUND ANYWHERE IN THE CITY HE HAD DISAPPEARED AS MYSTERIOUSLY AS HAD GHIP GHISIZZLE. HE SHOUTED GO OUT AND ARREST THE FIRST LIVING THING YOU MEET AND WHOEVER IT PROVES TO BE WILL BE INSTANTLY PATCHED TO CAP'N BILL. THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS HESITATED TO OBEY THIS ORDER. SUPPOSE IT'S A FRIEND. TELL ME SIR DO YOU KNOW OF ANYONE WHO IS MY FRIEND. THE CAPTAIN SHOOK HIS HEAD. OF COURSE NOT SAID THE BOOLOOROO. EVERYONE HATES ME AND I DON'T OBJECT TO THAT BECAUSE I HATE EVERYBODY. BUT I'M THE RULER HERE AND I'LL DO AS I PLEASE. GO AND CAPTURE THE FIRST LIVING CREATURE YOU SEE AND BRING HIM HERE TO BE PATCHED TO CAP'N BILL. SO THE CAPTAIN TOOK A FILE OF SOLDIERS AND WENT AWAY VERY SORROWFUL FOR HE DID NOT KNOW WHO WOULD BE THE VICTIM AND IF THE BOOLOOROO HAD NO FRIENDS THE CAPTAIN HAD PLENTY AND DID NOT WISH TO SEE THEM PATCHED. MEANTIME TROT BEING INVISIBLE TO ALL WAS ROAMING AROUND THE ROOM AND BEHIND A BENCH SHE FOUND A SMALL COIL OF ROPE WHICH SHE PICKED UP. THEN SHE SEATED HERSELF IN AN OUT OF THE WAY PLACE AND QUIETLY WAITED. SUDDENLY THERE WAS A NOISE IN THE CORRIDOR AND EVIDENCE OF SCUFFLING AND STRUGGLING. THEN THE DOOR FLEW OPEN AND IN CAME THE SOLDIERS DRAGGING A GREAT BLUE BILLYGOAT WHICH WAS DESPERATELY STRIVING TO GET FREE VILLAINS. WHY YOU SAID TO FETCH THE FIRST LIVING CREATURE WE MET AND THAT WAS THIS BILLYGOAT REPLIED THE CAPTAIN PANTING HARD AS HE HELD FAST TO ONE OF THE GOAT'S HORNS. THE BOOLOOROO STARED A MOMENT AND THEN HE FELL BACK IN HIS THRONE LAUGHING BOISTEROUSLY. THE IDEA OF PATCHING CAP'N BILL TO A GOAT WAS VASTLY AMUSING TO HIM AND THE MORE HE THOUGHT OF IT THE MORE HE ROARED WITH LAUGHTER. SOME OF THE SOLDIERS LAUGHED TOO BEING TICKLED WITH THE ABSURD NOTION AND THE SIX SNUBNOSED PRINCESSES ALL SAT UP STRAIGHT AND PERMITTED THEMSELVES TO SMILE CONTEMPTUOUSLY. THIS WOULD INDEED BE A SEVERE PUNISHMENT THEREFORE THE PRINCESSES WERE PLEASED AT THE THOUGHT OF CAP'N BILL'S BECOMING HALF A BILLYGOAT AND THE BILLYGOAT'S BEING HALF CAP'N BILL. THEY LOOK SOMETHING ALIKE YOU KNOW SUGGESTED THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS LOOKING FROM ONE TO THE OTHER DOUBTFULLY AND THEY'RE NEARLY THE SAME SIZE IF YOU STAND THE GOAT ON HIS HIND LEGS THEY'VE BOTH GOT THE SAME STYLE OF WHISKERS AND THEY'RE BOTH OF EM OBSTINATE AND DANGEROUS SO THEY OUGHT TO MAKE A GOOD PATCH SPLENDID. FINE GLORIOUS. CAP'N BILL REGARDED THE BILLYGOAT WITH DISTINCT DISFAVOR AND THE BILLYGOAT GLARED EVILLY UPON CAP'N BILL. TROT WAS HORRIFIED AND WRUNG HER LITTLE HANDS IN SORE PERPLEXITY FOR THIS WAS A MOST HORRIBLE FATE THAT AWAITED HER DEAR OLD FRIEND \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284449/284449_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284449/284449_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..88502d6ce163f4d4aaa7b27ecb4b1b1c6203693a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284449/284449_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SO THEY WERE QUITE WILLING TO OBEY THE ORDERS OF THEIR GIRL QUEEN AND IN A SHORT TIME THE BLASTS OF TRUMPETS AND ROLL OF DRUMS AND CLASHING OF CYMBALS TOLD TROT AND CAP'N BILL THAT THE BLUE BANDS HAD ASSEMBLED BEFORE THE PALACE. IN THIS ORDER THEY PROCEEDED TO THE MAIN GATE WHICH TROT ORDERED THE GUARDS TO THROW WIDE OPEN. THEN THEY ALL MARCHED OUT A LITTLE WAY INTO THE FIELDS AND FOUND THAT THE ARMY OF PINKIES HAD ALREADY FORMED AND WAS ADVANCING STEADILY TOWARD THEM. AT THE HEAD OF THE PINKIES WERE GHIP GHISIZZLE AND BUTTON BRIGHT WHO HAD THE PARROT ON HIS SHOULDER AND THEY WERE SUPPORTED BY CAPTAIN CORALIE AND CAPTAIN TINTINT AND ROSALIE THE WITCH. THEY HAD DECIDED TO CAPTURE THE BLUE CITY AT ALL HAZARDS THAT THEY MIGHT RESCUE TROT AND CAP'N BILL AND CONQUER THE BOOLOOROO SO WHEN FROM A DISTANCE THEY SAW THE BLUESKINS MARCH FROM THE GATE WITH BANNERS FLYING AND BANDS PLAYING THEY SUPPOSED A MOST TERRIBLE FIGHT WAS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE. HOWEVER AS THE TWO FORCES CAME NEARER TOGETHER BUTTON BRIGHT SPIED TROT AND CAP'N BILL STANDING BEFORE THE ENEMY AND THE SIGHT ASTONISHED HIM CONSIDERABLY. WELCOME FRIENDS. SHOUTED CAP'N BILL IN A LOUD VOICE AND WELCOME. CRIED TROT AND WELCOME. ROARED THE BLUE SOLDIERS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE BLUE CITY. HOORAY YELLED THE PARROT. AND THEN HE FLAPPED HIS WINGS AND BARKED LIKE A DOG WITH PURE DELIGHT AND ADDED AS FAST AS HIS BIRD'S TONGUE COULD SPEAK. SAID BUTTON BRIGHT I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK THE PINKIES WERE AMAZED AT THE STRANGE RECEPTION OF THE BLUES AND HESITATED TO ADVANCE BUT TROT NOW RAN UP IN FRONT OF THEM AND MADE A LITTLE SPEECH. PINKIES SAID SHE YOUR QUEEN HAS CONQUERED THE BOOLOOROO AND IS NOW THE QUEEN OF THE BLUES. ALL OF SKY ISLAND EXCEPT THE FOG BANK IS NOW MY KINGDOM SO I WELCOME MY FAITHFUL PINKIES TO MY BLUE CITY WHERE YOU ARE TO BE ROYALLY ENTERTAINED AND HAVE A GOOD TIME. THE WAR IS OVER AN EVER'BODY MUST BE SOCIABLE AN HAPPY OR I'LL KNOW THE REASON WHY. NOW INDEED THE PINKIES RAISED A GREAT SHOUT OF JOY AND THE BLUES RESPONDED WITH ANOTHER JOYFUL SHOUT AND ROSALIE KISSED THE LITTLE GIRL AND SAID SHE HAD PERFORMED WONDERS AND EVERYBODY SHOOK HANDS WITH CAP'N BILL AND CONGRATULATED HIM UPON HIS ESCAPE AND THE PARROT FLEW TO TROT'S SHOULDER AND SCREECHED. WHEN THE BLUESKINS SAW GHIP GHISIZZLE THEY RAISED ANOTHER GREAT SHOUT FOR HE WAS THE FAVORITE OF THE SOLDIERS AND VERY POPULAR WITH ALL THE PEOPLE. BUT GHIP GHISIZZLE DID NOT HEED THE SHOUTING. HE WAS LOOKING DOWNCAST AND SAD AND IT WAS EASY TO SEE HE WAS DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE HE HAD NOT CONQUERED THE BOOLOOROO HIMSELF. BUT THE PEOPLE CALLED UPON HIM FOR A SPEECH SO HE FACED THE BLUESKINS AND SAID. I ESCAPED FROM THE CITY BECAUSE THE BOOLOOROO TRIED TO PATCH ME AS YOU ALL KNOW AND THE SIX SNUBNOSED PRINCESSES TRIED TO MARRY ME WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN A FAR GREATER MISFORTUNE. SINCE LAST THURSDAY I GHIP GHISIZZLE HAVE BEEN THE LAWFUL BOOLOOROO OF THE BLUE COUNTRY BUT NOW THAT YOU ARE CONQUERED BY QUEEN TROT I SUPPOSE I AM CONQUERED TOO AND YOU HAVE NO BOOLOOROO AT ALL. HOORAY CRIED THE PARROT. WHEN HE FINISHED SHE SAID CHEERFULLY. DON'T WORRY SIZZLE DEAR IT'LL ALL COME RIGHT PRETTY SOON. NOW THEN LET'S ENTER THE CITY AN ENJOY THE GRAND FEAST THAT'S BEING COOKED I'M NEARLY STARVED MYSELF FOR THIS CONQUERIN KINGDOMS IS HARD WORK. SO THE PINKIES AND THE BLUES MARCHED SIDE BY SIDE INTO THE CITY AND THERE WAS GREAT REJOICING AND MUSIC AND DANCING AND FEASTING AND GAMES AND MERRYMAKING THAT LASTED FOR THREE FULL DAYS. THE PARROT PERCHED UPON THE BACK OF QUEEN TROT'S CHAIR AND THE GIRL FED IT HERSELF BEING GLAD TO HAVE THE JOLLY BIRD WITH HER AGAIN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284449/284449_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284449/284449_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..74f1229d7100f237be248f093866808fe86c12d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284449/284449_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AFTER THEY HAD EATEN ALL THEY COULD AND THE SERVANTS HAD BEEN SENT AWAY TROT RELATED HER ADVENTURES TELLING HOW WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE BILLYGOAT SHE HAD TURNED THE TABLES ON THE WICKED BOOLOOROO. THEN SHE GAVE ROSALIE BACK HER MAGIC RING THANKING THE KIND WITCH FOR ALL SHE HAD DONE FOR THEM. I'LL ALWAYS BE QUEEN OF SKY ISLAND BUT THE PINK AND BLUE COUNTRIES MUST EACH HAVE A RULER. I THINK I'LL MAKE SIZZLE THE BOOLOOROO OF THE BLUES BUT I WANT YOU TO PROMISE ME GHIP THAT YOU'LL DESTROY THE GREAT KNIFE AND ITS FRAME AND CLEAN UP THE ROOM AND TURN IT INTO A SKATING RINK AN NEVER PATCH ANYONE AS LONG AS YOU RULE THE BLUESKINS GHIP GHISIZZLE WAS OVERJOYED AT THE PROSPECT OF BEING BOOLOOROO OF THE BLUES BUT HE LOOKED SOLEMN AT THE PROMISE TROT EXACTED. BUT BEFORE I DO THAT I WANT THE PRIVILEGE OF PATCHING THE SNUBNOSED PRINCESSES TO EACH OTHER MIXING THE SIX AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND THEN I WANT TO PATCH THE FORMER BOOLOOROO TO THE BILLYGOAT WHICH IS THE SAME PUNISHMENT HE WAS GOING TO INFLICT UPON CAP'N BILL. NO SAID TROT POSITIVELY THERE'S BEEN ENOUGH PATCHING IN THIS COUNTRY AND I WON'T HAVE ANY MORE OF IT. THE OLD BOOLOOROO AND THE SIX STUCK UP PRINCESSES WILL BE PUNISHED ENOUGH BY BEING PUT OUT OF THE PALACE. THE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE EM A BIT SO THEY'LL BE OUTCASTS AND WANDERERS AND THAT WILL MAKE EM SORRY THEY WERE SO WICKED AN CRUEL WHEN THEY WERE POWERFUL AM I RIGHT CAP'N BILL. YOU ARE MATE REPLIED THE SAILOR. IT WILL BE SUCH A SATISFACTION. THE GUARDS HAD A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE WITH THE GOAT WHICH WAS LOOSE IN THE ROOM AND STILL WANTED TO FIGHT BUT FINALLY THEY SUBDUED THE ANIMAL AND THEN THEY TOOK THE BOOLOOROO OUT OF THE FRAME HE WAS TIED IN AND BROUGHT BOTH HIM AND THE GOAT BEFORE QUEEN TROT WHO AWAITED THEM IN THE THRONE ROOM OF THE PALACE. WHEN THE COURTIERS AND THE PEOPLE ASSEMBLED SAW THE GOAT THEY GAVE A GREAT CHEER FOR THE BEAST HAD HELPED TO DETHRONE THEIR WICKED RULER. WHAT'S GOIN TO HAPPEN TO THIS TOUGH OL WARRIOR TROT ASKED CAP'N BILL. I'LL GLADLY DO THAT PROMISED THE NEW BOOLOOROO AND I'LL FEED THE HONORABLE GOAT ALL THE SHAVINGS AND LEATHER AND TIN CANS HE CAN EAT BESIDES THE GRASS. SCUSE ME SAID TROT I NEGLECTED TO TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE NOT THE BOOLOOROO ANY MORE. WE'VE GOT THE ROYAL RECORD BOOK AN IT PROVES YOU'VE ALREADY RULED THIS COUNTRY LONGER THAN YOU HAD ANY RIGHT TO. SO THINGS ARE RUN AS I SAY AN I'VE MADE GHIP GHISIZZLE BOOLOOROO IN YOUR PLACE. HE'LL LOOK AFTER THIS END OF THE ISLAND HEREAFTER AN UNLESS I'M MUCH MISTAKEN HE'LL DO IT A HEAP BETTER THAN YOU DID. THE FORMER BOOLOOROO GROANED. AM I TO BE PATCHED OR WHAT YOU WON'T BE HURT ANSWERED THE GIRL BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND SOME OTHER PLACE TO STAY BESIDES THIS PALACE AN PERHAPS YOU'LL ENJOY WORKIN FOR A LIVIN BY WAY OF VARIETY CAN'T I TAKE ANY OF THE TREASURE WITH ME HE PLEADED. NOT EVEN A BIRD CAGE SAID SHE. EVER'THING IN THE PALACE NOW BELONGS TO GHIP GHISIZZLE. ISN'T THERE SOME HOUSE IN THE CITY THEY CAN ALL LIVE IN GHIP. I'LL NOT BE WICKED ANY MORE SIGHED THE OLD BOOLOOROO I'LL REFORM. AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN I SHALL BE A MODEL OF DEPORTMENT BECAUSE IT WOULD BE DANGEROUS TO BE OTHERWISE. TROT NOW SENT FOR THE PRINCESSES WHO HAD BEEN WEEPING AND WAILING AND FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES EVER SINCE THEY LEARNED THAT THEIR FATHER HAD BEEN CONQUERED. WHEN FIRST THEY ENTERED THE THRONE ROOM THEY TRIED TO BE AS HAUGHTY AND SCORNFUL AS EVER BUT THE BLUES WHO WERE ASSEMBLED THERE ALL LAUGHED AT THEM AND JEERED THEM FOR THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE PERSON IN ALL THE BLUE COUNTRY WHO LOVED THE PRINCESSES THE LEAST LITTLE BIT. TROT TOLD THE GIRLS THAT THEY MUST GO WITH THEIR FATHER TO LIVE IN GHIP GHISIZZLE'S LITTLE OLD CABIN AND WHEN THEY HEARD THIS DREADFUL DECREE THE SIX SNUBNOSED ONES BEGAN TO SCREAM AND HAVE HYSTERICS AND BETWEEN THEM THEY MANAGED TO MAKE SO MUCH NOISE THAT NO ONE COULD HEAR ANYTHING ELSE. SO GHIP GHISIZZLE ORDERED THE CAPTAIN TO TAKE A FILE OF SOLDIERS AND ESCORT THE RAVING BEAUTIES TO THEIR NEW HOME \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284449/284449_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284449/284449_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b53f2df6943cecdea1dc3419e85f5a1827bc34f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284449/284449_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THIS WAS DONE THE ONCE ROYAL FAMILY DEPARTING FROM THE PALACE WITH SHAMED AND DOWNCAST LOOKS. THEN THE ROOM OF THE GREAT KNIFE WAS CLEARED OF ITS AWFUL FURNITURE. THE FRAMES WERE SPLIT INTO SMALL PIECES OF BLUEWOOD AND THE BENCHES CHOPPED INTO KINDLING AND THE IMMENSE SHARP KNIFE BROKEN INTO BITS. ALL THE RUBBISH WAS PILED IN THE SQUARE BEFORE THE PALACE AND A BONFIRE MADE OF IT WHILE THE BLUE PEOPLE CLUSTERED AROUND AND DANCED AND SANG WITH JOY AS THE BLUE FLAMES DEVOURED THE DREADFUL INSTRUMENT THAT HAD ONCE CAUSED THEM SO MUCH UNHAPPINESS. THAT EVENING TROT GAVE A GRAND BALL IN THE PALACE TO WHICH THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE PINKIES AND THE BLUESKINS WERE INVITED. THE COMBINED BANDS OF BOTH THE COUNTRIES PLAYED THE MUSIC AND A FINE SUPPER WAS SERVED. THE PINKIES WOULD NOT DANCE WITH THE BLUES HOWEVER NOR WOULD THE BLUES DANCE WITH THE PINKIES. THE TWO NATIONS WERE SO DIFFERENT IN ALL WAYS THAT THEY WERE UNABLE TO AGREE AT ALL AND SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE EVENING QUARRELS AROSE AND THERE WAS FIGHTING BETWEEN THEM WHICH TROT PROMPTLY CHECKED I THINK IT WILL BE BEST FOR US TO GO BACK TO OUR OWN COUNTRY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SUGGESTED ROSALIE THE WITCH FOR IF WE STAY HERE VERY LONG THE BLUESKINS MAY RISE AGAINST US AND CAUSE THE PINKIES MUCH TROUBLE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/292519/292519_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/292519/292519_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d766e81a60dee0dfbba681e750b8618b81f13c48 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/292519/292519_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BRIGHTER THAN EARLY DAWN'S MOST BRILLIANT DYE ARE BLOWN CLEAR BANDS OF COLOR THROUGH THE SKY THAT SWIRL AND SWEEP AND MEET TO BREAK AND FOAM LIKE RAINBOW VEILS UPON A BUBBLE'S DOME. YOURS ARE THE SONGS THAT BURST ABOUT MY EARS OR BLOW AWAY AS MANY COLORED SPHERES. YOU ARE THE STAR THAT MADE THE SKIES ALL BRIGHT YET TORE ITSELF AWAY IN FLAMING FLIGHT YOU ARE THE TREE THAT SUDDENLY AWOKE YOU ARE THE ROSE THAT CAME TO LIFE AND SPOKE. GUIDED BY YOU HOW WE MIGHT STROLL TOWARDS DEATH OUR ONLY MUSIC ONE ANOTHER'S BREATH THROUGH GARDENS INTIMATE WITH HOLLYHOCKS WHERE SILENT POPPIES BURN BETWEEN THE ROCKS BY POOLS WHERE BIRCHES BEND TO CONFIDANTS ABOVE GREEN WATERS SCUMMED WITH LILY PLANTS. THERE WE MIGHT WANDER YOU AND I ALONE THROUGH GARDENS FILLED WITH MARBLE SEATS MOSS GROWN AND FOUNTAINS WATER THREADS THAT WINDS DISPERSE WHILE IN THE SPRAY THE BIRDS SIT AND CONVERSE. AND WHEN THE FIREFLIES MIX THEIR CIRCLING GLOW THROUGH THE DARK PLANTS THEN GENTLY MIGHT I KNOW YOUR LIPS LIGHT AS THE WINGS OF THE DRAGON FLIES MERELY DREAMS FLUTTERING IN MY EYES YOU THOUGHT I HAD FORGOTTEN. YOU THOUGHT I HAD FORGOTTEN WELL I HAD. ALTHOUGH I NEVER GUESSED I COULD FORGET THOSE FEW GREAT MOMENTS WHEN WE BOTH WENT MAD. IT WAS SOME TRICK THE WAY YOUR EYEBROWS RAISE. YOUR HANDS SOME VIVID TRIFLE. WITH A START THEN I REMEMBERED HOW I LIVED ALONE WRITING BAD POEMS AND EATING OUT MY HEART ALL FOR YOUR BEAUTY HOW THE TIME HAS FLOWN. VENICE. IN A SUNSET GLOWING OF CRIMSON AND GOLD SHE LIES THE GLORY OF THE WORLD A BEACHED KING'S GALLEY WHOSE SAILS ARE FURLED WHO IS HUNG WITH TAPESTRIES RICH AND OLD. SHE IS A GODDESS LEFT FOR US VEILED WITH THE SOFTENING VEILS OF TIME HER BLUE VEINED BREASTS ARE NOW SUBLIME HER MOULDED TORSO GLORIOUS. THE PITY THAT WE MUST COME AND GO. WHILE THE OLD GOLD AND THE MARBLE STAYS FOREVER GLEAMING ITS SOFT STRONG BLAZE CALM IN THE EARLY EVENING GLOW. AND STILL THE SENSITIVE SILHOUETTES OF THE GONDOLAS PASS AND LEAVE NO TRACK LIGHT ON THE TIDES AS LILIES AND BLACK IN THE RIPPLING WATERS OF LONG SUNSETS. THE NEW MACABER. THE PLEASANT GRAVEYARD OF MY SOUL WITH SENTIMENTAL CYPRESS TREES AND FLOWERS IS FILLED THAT I MAY STROLL IN MEDITATION AT MY EASE. AND WHILE NIGHT RUSTLES THROUGH THE TREES DRAGGING THE STARS ALONG I KNOW THE MOON IS RISING ON THE BREEZE QUIVERING AS IN A RIVER'S FLOW. AND AH. THAT MOON OF SILVER SHEEN. IT IS MY HEART HUNG IN THE SKY AND NO CLOUDS EVER FLOAT BETWEEN THE GRAVE FLOWERS AND MY HEART ON HIGH. I DO NOT READ UPON EACH STONE THE NAME THAT ONCE WAS CARVEN THERE I MERELY NOTE NEW BLOSSOMS BLOWN AND BREATHE THE PERFUME OF THE AIR. THUS WALK I THROUGH MY WONDERLAND WHILE ALL THE EVENING IS ATUNE BENEATH THE CYPRESS TREES THAT STAND LIKE CANDLES TO THE BARREN MOON. TO WAR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/292519/292519_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/292519/292519_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..80a726f92be59fc24f3fce68d81585cd2a952c33 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/292519/292519_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +OVER THE TRACK LINED CITY STREET THE YOUNG MEN THE GRINNING MEN PASS. LAST NIGHT THEY DANCED TO THAT VERY TUNE TODAY THEY MARCH AWAY TOMORROW PERHAPS NO BAND AT ALL OR THE BAND BESIDE THE GRAVE. ABOVE IN THE LONG BLUE STRIP OF SKY THE WHIRLING PIGEONS THE THOUGHTLESS PIGEONS PASS. ANOTHER BAND BEATS DOWN THE STREET CONTENDING RHYTHMS CLASH NEW MELODIES WIN PLACE THEN FADE AND THE FLASHING LEGS MOVE PAST. DOWN THE CHEERING GREY PAVED STREET THE FRINGED FLAGS THE ERECT FLAGS PASS. CALM DAY WITH ROLLERS. ALWAYS THE SHIPS THAT MOVE IN MYSTERY ON THE DIM HORIZON SHADOW FILLED SAILS OF DREAMS SLIDING OVER THE BLUE GREY OCEAN FAR FROM THE ROCK EDGED SHORE WHERE WILLOW GREEN WAVES ARE RUSHING AND WHITE FOAM PEOPLE LEAP TO STAND ERECT FOR THE MOMENT. HO YE SAILS THAT SEEM TO WANDER IN DREAM FILLED MEADOWS SAY IS THE SHORE WHERE I STAND THE ONLY FIELD OF STRUGGLE OR ARE YE HIT AND BATTERED OUT THERE BY WAVES AND WIND GUSTS AS YE TACK OVER A CLASHING SEA OF WATERY ECHOES. PHONOGRAPH TANGO. OLD DANCES ARE SIMPLIFIED OF THEIR YEARNING BLEACHED BY TIME. YET FROM ONE BLACK DISC WE TASTED AGAIN THE BITE OF CRUDE SPANISH PASSION. HE HAD GOT INTO HER COURTYARD. SHE WAS ALONE THAT NIGHT. THROUGH THE BLACK NIGHT RAIN HE SANG TO HER WINDOW BARS. LOVE ME LOVE AH LOVE ME IF YOU WILL NOT I CAN FOLLOW INTO THE HIGHEST OF MOUNTAINS AND THERE IN THE WOODEN CABIN I WILL STRANGLE YOU FOR YOUR LOVER. THAT WAS BUT RUSTLING OF DRIPPING PLANTS IN THE DARK. MORE TIGHTLY UNDER HIS CLOAK HE CLASPED HIS GUITAR. SHE WAS ALONE THAT NIGHT. HE HAD BROKEN INTO HER COURTYARD. ABOVE THE GURGLING GUTTERS HE HEARD SURELY A DOOR UNCHAINED. DECORATION. A LITTLE PAGAN CHILD GOD PLAYS BEYOND THE FAR HORIZON HAZE AND UNDERNEATH THE TWILIGHT TREES HE BLOWS A BUBBLE TO THE BREEZE WHICH IS BORNE UPWARD IN THE NIGHT AND MAKES THE HEAVENS SHINE WITH LIGHT. BUT SOON IT SINKS TO EARTH AGAIN AND HITTING HILLS IT BURSTS. AND THEN WITH FOAM THE SKIES ARE SPLASHED AND SPRAYED AND THAT'S HOW ALL THE STARS ARE MADE. THRENODY. SHE IS LAIN WITH HIGH THINGS AND WITH LOW. SHE LIES WITH SHUT EYES ROCKED IN THE ETERNAL FLOW OF SILENCE EVERMORE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1007792/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_1007792/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a6779f618a8c5113ee66de3f8cbfa6935ba07fd --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1007792/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May,1907. Her mother, Maria Carson, had been a schoolteacher. She also loved nature. She showed Rachel the beauty of nature. She also taught Rachel a deep love for books. As a quiet child, Rachel liked to read and write stories. At a very early age, she decided she wanted to be a writer some day. Her story first appeared in a children's magazine when she was ten years old. +Her first books, Under the Sea Wind came out in 1941. In 1948, Miss Carson began working on another book, The Sea Around Us. She always remembered carefully when she wrote. She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us. When the book came out in 1951, it won the National Book Award. It was No. 1 on the best-seller list for more than a year. The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous. +Rachel Carson's most famous book, Silent Spring came out in 1962. In this book, she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline because it would kill them as well. Finally, in November 1969, the United Sates government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years. +Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist and writer. 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The best way for you to stand out in a crowd of applicants to top law schools is to write an exceptional(,) personal statement. This book puts you in the admissions office's seat. It gives you the intimate detailstest scores, GPAs (grade point average), demographic information, and personal statementsof 34 law school hopefuls, then shows you why they got into the colleges they applied to, and why some didn't. It's invaluable information that will help students evaluate their own chances of admission to the most selective law schools in the United States. +Business School Essays that Made a Difference +Price: US $ 13.95 +Paperback 304 pages +The Princeton Review +ISBN: 0375763511 +What makes business school applications so brutal ? For most applicants, it's the number, length, and complexity of the essays they have to write when applying for a course. Most top schools require multiple essays and this book is your best bet for succeeding with them. It contains: 1. Forty-four real-life essays critiqued by admissions officers from schools like Tuck, Chicago, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2. Eight case studies of business school applicants saying what worked for them and what did not. 3. Translations of essay questions telling you what they are really asking. +College Essays that Made a Difference +Price: US $ 13.95 +Paperback 384 pages +The Princeton Review +ISBN: 0375763449 +This book helps students get into the college they want by showing them what essays helped actual students achieve their dreams. The book tells you what colleges want to see using interviews with actual admissions officers. The book has sections on the basics of essay writing--grammar and punctuation (> as well as the sections looking at what topics you should write about and how you should communicate your personality in your work. It finishes by looking at the work of a great many successful applicants to America's top colleges, and some unsuccessful students to tell you what to avoid. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1313901/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_1313901/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b5b9b9a6ffd5015a557199da644cb555230acdbe --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1313901/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 1313901, + "audio_file": "test/article_1313901/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 150.15, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 2298, + "question": "With the three books, the Princeton Review aims at _ .", + "options": [ + "offering students guides in making a difference in their jobs after university graduation", + "offering guides on the writing of application essays for American universities", + "showing students how to pass LSA T in the US", + "showing college graduates what helped actual students achieve their dreams" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 2299, + "question": "LSAT is most probably _ .", + "options": [ + "an admission test given by a law school", + "a test for admitted law students", + "information on business and college", + "information on GPA" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 2300, + "question": "What's the purpose of writing the three texts?", + "options": [ + "To sell the books.", + "To make the books easier to read.", + "To show the importance of the schools.", + "To introduce new authors" + ], + "answer": "A" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1313901/q_2298/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_1313901/q_2298/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c817656e9c69f34548287d9defa57bde6aee6c11 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1313901/q_2298/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2298, + "question": "With the three books, the Princeton Review aims at _ .", + "options": [ + "offering students guides in making a difference in their jobs after university graduation", + "offering guides on the writing of application essays for American universities", + "showing students how to pass LSA T in the US", + "showing college graduates what helped actual students achieve their dreams" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1313901/q_2299/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_1313901/q_2299/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e7f67812607b90351ff95ce58e4434447dfd50a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1313901/q_2299/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2299, + "question": "LSAT is most probably _ .", + "options": [ + "an admission test given by a law school", + "a test for admitted law students", + "information on business and college", + "information on GPA" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1313901/q_2300/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_1313901/q_2300/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e677c3053da1b4f58c1888db8fa13dd94378a1dd --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1313901/q_2300/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2300, + "question": "What's the purpose of writing the three texts?", + "options": [ + "To sell the books.", + "To make the books easier to read.", + "To show the importance of the schools.", + "To introduce new authors" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1353735/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_1353735/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..53fb883fd472f9d07659ffc8c2d8b8f4fc39556d --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1353735/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +A father with Parkinson's disease was arrested as he watched the Olympic cycling road race because he failed to smile or look as if he was enjoying himself. +Mark Worsfold, a martial arts trainer and former soldier, claims that he was thrown to the floor and handcuffed just as cyclists passed by. His worried wife Nicola only found out he was being held after she reported him missing when he did not turn up for their daughter's ninth birthday party. The 54-year-old man had his fingerprints, DNA and _ taken before being questioned about why he did not appear to be enjoying the event on July 28. Police said Mr. Worsfold, who was held for over five hours, was arrested because of his manner, his state of dress and his being too near to the course. A spokesman added that the arrest was necessary to avoid a breach of the peace because he was standing near a group of protesters . +But Mr. Worsfold, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2010, said that one of the symptoms of the disease is muscle rigidity, which can cause his face to become expressionless. "I was sitting minding my own business", he told a local newspaper. "Before I knew anything the police grabbed me off this seven-foot wall, threw me to the floor and handcuffed me, so all I saw of the cycle race was between the feet of people from the pavement. It could have been done better. I was arrested for not smiling. I have Parkinson's disease. " +Mr. Worsfold has since asked for a letter of not being guilty from police. The officers who made the arrest have apologized to him. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1412347/q_4458/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_1412347/q_4458/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c400ecdabfdcdb85681651631140ae4a92e1fea --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1412347/q_4458/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4458, + "question": "John's parents are _ .", + "options": [ + "workers", + "teachers", + "doctors", + "farmers" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1412347/q_4462/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_1412347/q_4462/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..75f5dbd2911b61b2b139c40a4033e0d3846cc3dc --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1412347/q_4462/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4462, + "question": "John's dog is very _ .", + "options": [ + "lazy", + "well", + "funny", + "boring" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1611567/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_1611567/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aea2d1338838212835690f04f197a213b29d5dd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1611567/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Being young is great. Most of the parts of your body still work great, you have a full head of hair, you're energetic, and you have a world of opportunity in front of you. However, there's going to come a time when you start to get older. And as you get older, you'll have new responsibilities, complete independence, and perhaps most importantly, less time to recover from mistakes. +You see, we all make mistakes in life. Maybe you spent more money than you should have on a car, you passed up on a great job opportunity, or you didn't try as hard as you could have in school. It's a part of life and we learn from it. But there are certain mistakes that are much better made while you're still young and have plenty of time to recover. +I'm definitely not telling you that you should purposely go out and make these mistakes (because they're a pain to recover from). But these are all mistakes that are much better made when you're younger so that you can learn from them and not have them ruin your entire life. +Starting the wrong career +Wouldn't you hate to be 45 years old and discover that you absolutely hate what you do for a living? It's a reality that a lot of people face and it can be difficult to fix. You see, when you're 23 and find out you don't like the career path you've chosen, you can easily explore new career options. +We no longer live in an age when people are expected to stay with one company until they retire. You can bounce around a little bit and find out what you want to do. When you get older, just switching careers whenever you want isn't as simple. +You have to consider your family, retirement, the difficulties you might run into with starting from the bottom in a new industry, and plenty of other issues that someone in their early 20's just doesn't have to deal with. +Dating the wrong person +The divorce rate in the U.S is extremely high. Other parts of the world aren't doing too much better either. While everyone gets divorced for their own reasons, I think we can all agree that it's better to find out that the person you're with is wrong for you sooner rather than later. +Hopefully you find out whether or not the person you're with is right for you before you tie the knot, because around 50% of first marriages end in divorce. +Messing up your credit +Ruining your credit is never a good idea. Even if you ruin it while you're young, it could affect you in the future. The upside of having bad credit while you're young instead of older is that you have time to build it back up. +It can take 7-10 years to rebuild your credit if you have a history of late payments, loan defaults, foreclosures, or bankruptcy. During those 7-10 years, you'll have a hard time financing anything unless you have a cosigner or put down a substantial down payment. +Most people tend to make most of the bigger purchases in life when they get older such as a house or their dream car. If you have bad credit, you can kiss all of that goodbye. +Making bad investments +If you're investing money for your retirement, making bad decisions can mean you'll be working your entire life. Whether you choose to pay someone to do the investing for you or handle it all yourself, it's a lot better to take risks when you're younger. +If you invest in stock or even real estate while you're young and the market takes a hit, you're not ruined. Investing is a long-term venture, so the younger you start, the more fluctuation you can withstand and still come out with a positive return. +Blowing your money +What would you do if you went broke at 60 years old? You would be working your behind off when you really should be relaxing and getting ready to retire soon. +But if you're 25 and broke, you still have plenty of time to earn more money. Also, nobody will judge you because it's not unusual for people in their 20's to not have money these days. You might have blown your money on a nice car or have an obsession with all the newest gadgets. +When you get older, you'll be able to look back and realize how dumb you were for spending $20,000 on a brand new car when you were only 20 years old. 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as a house when they get older", + "if you don't take risks when young, your youth will be dumb" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1798557/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_1798557/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3996948493da0f1ce08895e9daeaae53b8c3cdfc --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1798557/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Dear Mr. King, +Your grocery store is outstanding in many ways. I enjoy the selection of produce and fresh bakery items. I have been a long time Supermart shopper and hope to continue for many years. I have found, however, that I must make a separate shopping trip to one of your competitors because there are many items your store does not carry. This becomes inconvenient for me, as my time is valuable, and I do not like to make two trips. Your low prices and excellent customer service keep me coming back to Supermart, but I would be a more satisfied customer if I could find all the items I need in one place. +Specifically, I have never been able to purchase nacho cheese soup at your store. I can find other flavors of soup, but your store does not carry nacho cheese soup, a common ingredient in many of my recipes. In addition, I can only find large wonton wrappers, while many other stores carry both large and small and offer a more varied selection for their customers. Another example is Regent Brand Chili Seasoning. Though it is not a leading brand, it is still common on the shelves of other grocery stores in this area and is superior in flavor to its competitors. +I sincerely hope to continue a relationship with your store, and I hope that you will consider the possibility of expanding your goods to be more competitive. +Yours truly, +Bob Watson \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1798557/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_1798557/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e39fcad9b2dea72ffaaf1263e80790ab19042db --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1798557/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +{ + "article_id": 1798557, + "audio_file": "test/article_1798557/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 2, + "audio_length_sec": 83.275, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 1705, + "question": "According to Bob, the grocery store _ .", + "options": [ + "meets all his needs", + "is outstanding in every way", + "offers good customer service", + "lacks convenient transportation" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1706, + "question": "From the letter, we can learn that the author is _ .", + "options": [ + "a very picky reporter", + "a competitor of the store", + "a responsible nutritionist", + "a regular customer of the store" + ], + "answer": "D" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1798557/q_1705/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_1798557/q_1705/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..07cee7520ec0eb2c83d15a4ea203fdd727da5770 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1798557/q_1705/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1705, + "question": "According to Bob, the grocery store _ .", + "options": [ + "meets all his needs", + "is outstanding in every way", + "offers good customer service", + "lacks convenient transportation" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_1798557/q_1706/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_1798557/q_1706/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb5902f4d3a5ad4a31bb06f94a694ff2cac55e72 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_1798557/q_1706/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1706, + "question": "From the letter, we can learn that the author is _ .", + "options": [ + "a very picky reporter", + "a competitor of the store", + "a responsible nutritionist", + "a regular customer of the store" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_187041/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_187041/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..592512c7948586b26d7fc85a6ece67d1b48c3e70 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_187041/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +People bury treasure to stop other people from taking it. They choose a quiet place, dig a deep hole and bury the treasure in it. Then they make a map of where the treasure is or write down other clues that will help them or someone else to find it again. +In Britain a few years ago, a writer wrote about some treasure that he had buried. He put clues in the story to help readers find it. Thousands of people hunted for the treasure. They dug holes all over Britain, hoping to find it. +One of the most popular adventure stories ever written is Robert Louis Stephenson's "Treasured Island", an exciting story about a young boy, Jim Hawkins, who is captured by pirates and later finds some buried treasure. +Then there is the true story about a man who had to travel overseas for a year. He did not trust banks, so he buried his life savings in a park. Then he went away. On his return, he went straight to the park. But the park was no longer there. In its place there was a huge building. +And then there was the man who buried his savings, all in bank notes, in a waterproof bag. When he dug it up years later, there was nothing left. Worms and insects had eaten the bag and everything in it. +And of course, these are stories about people who bury things and either forget where they have buried them or lose the map. +Although it is true that people sometimes lose their money because a bank fails, banks are still the safest place to keep our savings and treasures. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_187041/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_187041/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71cf62c90b252aab6e21b4d73a872510443f104a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_187041/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +{ + "article_id": 187041, + "audio_file": "test/article_187041/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 5, + "audio_length_sec": 80.1, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3004, + "question": "People who bury treasure usually _ .", + "options": [ + "do not trust banks", + "have a little money .", + "want to live in a quiet place.", + "expect to 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+++ b/race_audio/test/article_187041/q_3008/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3008, + "question": "From these stories we understand that _ .", + "options": [ + "we cannot trust banks.", + "we should not trust anyone.", + "a waterproof bag is not proof against worms and insects.", + "insects eat anything." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2038312/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_2038312/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..57c04302b1ecc83b863a0e5ca52a0c969588b331 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2038312/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +0ur village carpenter ,John Hill, came one day and made a dining table for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the space between the two window. When I got home that evening, John was drinking a cup of tea and writing out his bill( ) for his job. +My wife said to me quietly, "That's his ninth cup of tea today. "But she said in a loud voice, "It's a beautiful table, dear, isn't it?" "I'll decide about that when I see the bill," I said. John laughed and gave me his bill for the work. I read: +One dining table 10thNovember, 2011 +Cost of wood $ 17:00 +Paint $1. 50 +Work, 8 hours($1 an hour) $8. 00 +Total $36. 50 +When I was looking at the bill, John said," It's been a fine day, hasn't it? Quite sunny. " +"Yes," I said. "I'm glad it's only the 10thof November. " +"Me, too," said John, "you wait--it will be a lot colder by the end of the month. " +"Yes, colder--and more expensive! Dining table will be $20 more expensive on November 30th, won't they, John?" +John looked hard at me for half a minute. Was there a little smile in his two blue eyes? 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"options": [ + "he felt lucky to get the money for his work", + "he got paid a lot more than usual for his work", + "he got as much money as he had expected", + "he didn't have to add up the costs any more" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2038312/q_4180/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2038312/q_4180/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b21d6c0c57179ab62f805eb0d72fe39bb89fd1a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2038312/q_4180/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4180, + "question": "Which word can best describe John?", + "options": [ + "Clever", + "Silly", + "Dishonest", + "Humorous" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2038312/q_4181/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2038312/q_4181/question.json new file mode 100644 index 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its chemistry to kill the insect", + "release a chemical vapor to \"ask\" other plants for help", + "give off nice chemicals to attract friendly insects killing the pest" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_246697/q_1955/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_246697/q_1955/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..18dcfff86b9d6647a1267b2bba0d0d1b40bde3af --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_246697/q_1955/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1955, + "question": "Which would be the best title for the passage?", + "options": [ + "Communication between Plants", + "A Chemical \"Language\"", + "Plants Can Talk", + "How Plants Protect Themselves" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2527128/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_2527128/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 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Yet research seems to show that some training can improve such skills. A recently published study also appears to demonstrate that the good effects of training can last for many years after that training has ended. +Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland wanted to learn how long memory and thinking skills would last in older people who trained to keep them. The people were part of the ten-year research project. They were taught methods meant to improve their memory, thinking and ability to perform everyday tasks. +More than 2,800 volunteered for the study called ACTIVE - short for Advanced (Cognitive) Training for Independent and Vital Elderly. Most studied when they were more than 70 years old. +The volunteers took one of several short training classes meant to help them keep their mental abilities. One class trained participants in skills including how to remember word lists. Another group trained in reasoning. A third group received help with speed-of-processing - speed of receiving and understanding information. A fourth group - the control group did not get any training. +Earlier results had established that the training helped the participants for up to five years. Now, lead study writer George Rebok says, the research showed most of the training remained effective a full ten years later. +Professor Rebok and his team found that the people trained in reasoning and speed-of-processing did better on tests than the control group. +"We are wondering whether those effects which endured over time would still be there ten years following the training, and in fact, that's exactly what we found." +The effect on memory, however, seemed not to last as long. Still, the old people in any of the three classes generally reported less difficulty in performing daily activities than the control group. 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--- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2612705/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"Thanks for coming," Everett said, shaking hands with Mr. Hanson, the town councilor . + "I'm curious about the ideas in your letter." Mr. Hanson nodded toward the parking lot near where they stood. "Please tell me more." + Everett took a deep breath. "Ever since the school closed two years ago, this area has become worse. But if we clean up the litter and repair the fence, it will be a great place for a skateboard park." Mr. Hanson scanned the broken concrete, nodding. "The old school is being adapted to a community arts centre. This area could become a vital part of the neighbourhood again." + "Here's a picture of a skateboard park in another town. Look how busy it is." Everett was relieved that the community representative seemed receptive to the idea. Mr. Hanson studied the photograph, and then asked, "If town council provides the money, how will you and your friends contribute?" Everett felt optimistic now. "We'll help design and build the ramps . More experienced boarders could give lessons to raise money!" Everett's voice was enthusiastic. + However, Mr. Hanson said, "We'll still need parking spaces, and the neighbours will not like late-night noise. They might worry about the crime of deliberately damaging public property and...." + "The skateboard park would use only the back corner, which isn't near any houses. Since young people already hang out here, why not give them something fun and physically active to do in their free time?" The lines over Mr. Hanson's forehead unwrinkled , and Everett's hopes rose again. 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started to track down her long-lost half brother, even asking customers at the shop where she worked.But despite checking on Internet sites such as Friends Reunited and MySpace, it wasn't until the pair started working together at Loop Customer Management where she went on asking everyone if they knew a Stephen Philips that she tracked him down in March, 2007. + She couldn't believe it when she was told someone by that name worked there.After she checked on the Internet database, it suggested he wasn't her brother as his name Steven instead of Stephen.Then a friend came up to her and said Steven's surely her brother.They checked parents' names and it turned out they were related.She wanted to scream but they were at work so they just hugged and chatted. + Mr.Philips, a father of four children, said he was delighted, adding: "I never thought we would meet again.I can't wait to get to know my sister.We have so much to know." \ No newline at end of file diff --git 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@@ +Dear John, +My name is Amber and I want to share my story with you because what you've shared about life and positive energy has changed my life. This past year has been one of the hardest for me. I felt I was stuck in a position that had nothing to do with what I wanted to do with my life. In January, after two years of being together, my boyfriend left me. +I read your blog every morning as I drink my coffee at work, but it wasn't until this March that I told myself "no more negativity" as you taught readers in your blog. +Since then I've got into new habits at work to keep my energy positive. When people walk in the front door, I'm the first face they see, so I smile big when I say "good morning" to them, especially on Mondays. Instead of waiting for someone to ask me for help, I offer it with an open mind. The CEO noticed my change and offered me the executive assistant position that I wanted. +One of the biggest things I've taken to heart from your blog is changing my opinions on my job. Yes, it was not an important position, but when I was passionate about it, I could make my life fulfilling. +All in all, I have to thank you somehow for having the passion to help others because it truly is inspiring to me. So thank you so much, John. My life has changed because your words pointed me in the right direction, Take care! +Sincerely , +Amber \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2683015/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26df6488b545684f598924a4e7cabb76691d9ee8 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "article_id": 2683015, + "audio_file": "test/article_2683015/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 4, + "audio_length_sec": 78.5, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 685, + "question": "Amber wrote the letter mainly to _", + "options": [ + "introduce herself to John", + "talk about her bad year", + "ask for some advice", + "express her thanks" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 686, + "question": "We can infer from the passage that Amber _", + "options": [ + "didn't like her boyfriend", + "spent a lot of time online", + "wasn't satisfied with her job", + "received very good education" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 687, + "question": "What is implied about John in the letter?", + "options": [ + "He is a very famous writer.", + "He used to live a very negative life.", + "He doesn't like sharing his life stories.", + "He likes helping others through writing positive blogs." + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 688, + "question": "What does Amber's change tell us?", + "options": [ + "Practice makes perfect.", + "Bad luck doesn't exist long.", + "A positive attitude is rewarding.", + "A friend in need is a friend indeed." + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_685/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_685/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f807a41aacea5905a1b282615281a02750ec46b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_685/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 685, + "question": "Amber wrote the letter mainly to _", + "options": [ + "introduce herself to John", + "talk about her bad year", + "ask for some advice", + "express her thanks" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_686/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_686/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..903bf853fec56f1584a512739dc64c7371ca7788 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_686/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 686, + "question": "We can infer from the passage that Amber _", + "options": [ + "didn't like her boyfriend", + "spent a lot of time online", + "wasn't satisfied with her job", + "received very good education" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_687/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_687/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..be54dd97dd5bf750ca48118d879fe37e5b7b77a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_687/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 687, + "question": "What is implied about John in the letter?", + "options": [ + "He is a very famous writer.", + "He used to live a very negative life.", + "He doesn't like sharing his life stories.", + "He likes helping others through writing positive blogs." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_688/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_688/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4fef88b826267f1bcd074cd8d1dd0624bcab450b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2683015/q_688/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 688, + "question": "What does Amber's change tell us?", + "options": [ + "Practice makes perfect.", + "Bad luck doesn't exist long.", + "A positive attitude is rewarding.", + "A friend in need is a friend indeed." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2771111/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73d291e758308674fb8b216040d0b49c87a4df05 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Many families do not eat very healthy food now . If you do not eat good food ., then you are not healthy . Doctor Smith from the hospital says that people need to eat a lot of healthy food in this order : +Rice and noodles . +Fruit , such as oranges and apples , and vegetables , such as carrots , tomatoes and potatoes . +Meat , such as pork , chicken , beef and fish . +Doctor Smith says that people should not eat unhealthy food like hamburgers , candy chocolate or ice cream , or have some drink such as cola . And they should drink milk , juice or water . +So , to stay healthy and away from hospital , eat only healthy food ! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2771111/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2974ebe7fd97d19cdd50be1571550d1128215f10 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "article_id": 2771111, + "audio_file": "test/article_2771111/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 4, + "audio_length_sec": 38.25, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 4720, + "question": "Which of the following you should eat first ?", + "options": [ + "beef", + "fish", + "rice", + "chicken" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4721, + "question": "What does Doctor Smith advise people to do in the passage ?", + "options": [ + "To eat more meat .", + "To be away from hospital .", + "To drink less cola .", + "To eat only healthy food ." + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4722, + "question": "To stay healthy , people should eat _ .", + "options": [ + "rice , fruit , meat and fish", + "hamburgers and candy", + "noodles and ice cream", + "Carrots and chocolate" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4723, + "question": "Which is right ?", + "options": [ + "People can stay healthy if they eat healthy food .", + "Now many families eat very healthy food .", + "People need to eat more fish than noodles", + "People can have some cola and hamburgers ." + ], + "answer": "A" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4720/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4720/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99dae834c2c9dd7182590492406ba520798578e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4720/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4720, + "question": "Which of the following you should eat first ?", + "options": [ + "beef", + "fish", + "rice", + "chicken" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4721/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4721/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..721e6d92d86a12833fe6abcc28bde6ef89eb68dd --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4721/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4721, + "question": "What does Doctor Smith advise people to do in the passage ?", + "options": [ + "To eat more meat .", + "To be away from hospital .", + "To drink less cola .", + "To eat only healthy food ." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4722/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4722/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..993e84c3854a04d0cc6ef98aa480aaedd805050d --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4722/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4722, + "question": "To stay healthy , people should eat _ .", + "options": [ + "rice , fruit , meat and fish", + "hamburgers and candy", + "noodles and ice cream", + "Carrots and chocolate" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4723/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4723/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..18ea7b650ebf4cbda3835cc314a81e849b1e4405 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2771111/q_4723/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4723, + "question": "Which is right ?", + "options": [ + "People can stay healthy if they eat healthy food .", + "Now many families eat very healthy food .", + "People need to eat more fish than noodles", + "People can have some cola and hamburgers ." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_2848436/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_2848436/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b45d662fd2e23339ac009d955f605ce017912acf --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_2848436/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Little Mike's grandma died weeks ago. He missed her very much. One afternoon Mike went to the city park. There he saw an old lady. She looked very kind. She was sitting there, watching pigeons . Little Mike went up and sat next to her. He took out his food and drinks and gave some to her. She smiled at him and seemed to like him. Her smile was so sweet, just like Mike's grandma's. Mike was very happy. +They sat there all the afternoon, eating and talking. When it's getting dark, Mike had to go home. Before he left, he hugged the old lady and she gave him her sweetest smile. +When Mike got home, he said to his mother, "I met a granny in the park. Her smile was like grandma's." +The old lady also went back to her home happily. She told her son that she had food and drinks with a little boy. "He was so lovely just like Brittany." she said. Her son was surprised, because he never saw her so happy after Brittany, her grandson, died weeks ago. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3054946/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3054946/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf31474e1df62fc73323876a75d4d7d4c0091f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3054946/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The findings of a new survey have American professors talking about the good old days--when A's were a lot tougher to earn. +Sites like Rate My Professors.com make it easy for students to find a class taught by a professor who is known as an "easy grader".A recent survey by Kaplan Test Prep found that 46 percent of the more than 1,200 students polled admitted to using the site for just such a purpose. +"Our research shows that many of today's college students are looking at multiple factors when picking out courses: overall teacher quality that will result in a good learning experience, but also instructors who don't like to award a lot of C's and D's," said Jeff Olson, vice president of research at Kaplan Test Prep. +"While it makes sense that students would choose kinder graders, it also helps explain the recent popularity of grade inflation ." +Grade inflation is seen by many professors as poisoning the learning environment.Some, like former Duke University professor Stuart Rojstaczer, are righting it head-on. +On his website, Gradelnflation.com, he releases an annual list of schools where grade inflation is the worst. +This year, he decided to name the schools where grades were inflated the least.He praised, for example, Princeton University, as well as Purdue University, where the average GPA has remained around 2.8 for over 30 years. +"Purdue doesn't even seem to know that grade inflation exists in the US," Rojstaczer says."Ignorance is bliss ." \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3054946/metadata.json 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To create means to bring into being,to cause to exist something each of us does daily. We are creative whenever we look at or think about something in a new way. +First,this includes an awareness of our surroundings. It means using all of our senses to become aware of our world. This may be as simple as being aware of color1 and texture ,as well as taste, when we plan a meal. Above all,it is the ability to notice things that others might miss. +A second part of creativity is an ability to see relationships among things. If we believe the expression,there is nothing new under the sun,the creativity is remaking or recombining the old in new ways. For example,we might do this by finding a more effective way to study or a better way to arrange our furniture,or we might make a new combination of camera lenses and filters to create an unusual photograph. +A third part of creativity is the courage and drive to make use of our new ideas,to ask for them to achieve some new results. 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the basis of earliest things", + "a new thing is only a tale", + "we can seldom create new things", + "we can hardly see really new things in the world" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3181720/q_2586/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3181720/q_2586/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54305b88c56d755d963152dbb7cc2a7e4690c39f --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3181720/q_2586/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2586, + "question": "What does the author think about the relationship between a new thought and its being put into practice?", + "options": [ + "It's more difficult to create a new thought than to use it in practice.", + "To find a new thought will clearly lead to the production of a new thing.", + "A man with an excellent ability of practice can easily become an inventor.", + "One may come up with a new thought,but can not put it into practice." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3238881/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3238881/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37bfe934d845497f36d53a6eb15e777593ddd210 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3238881/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +It is true that the first Olympic Games of the modern times in 1896 were not open to women.Baron Pierre de Coubertin,who gave new life to the Games,was very much a man of his time.He didn't like women showing up for the Games.But since this time,things have changed.History shows that the number of women participating in the Olympic Games has been increasing over the years,since their first participation in the 1900 Olympic Games and especially in the last 30 years.This development is of social,political and cultural significance . +The progress is the result of the cooperation of the entire Olympic Movement and of proper measures that the International Olympic Committee(IOC),International Sports Federations(IFs),and National Olympic Committees(NOCs)have taken.Especially in the last 20 years,the IOC has enlarged the women's programme at the Olympic Games,in cooperation with IFs and the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games(OCOGs).This development was further strengthened by the IOC's decision that all sports must have women's events.The IOC also started to work on increasing the number of women at leadership level in sport in 1981.Former President Juan Antonio Samaranch,who wanted to have women as IOC members made a great contribution . +Many sports volunteers have worked to increase the number of women joining in the Olympic Games.This progress has been made also thanks to the strong determination of women from different countries of the world who have worked to make sure women are fully represented in all sports. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3238881/metadata.json 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Naturally. I then began to wonder about the perfect wedding dress, hoping that it would fit me. Even at the age of 23, I had gone through my share of dieting. +I am an emotional eater and I knew that at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 180 pounds, I wasn't at my healthiest. My mother had been doing Weight Watchers for some time and was rapidly seeing results without starving herself. She shared her books with me and explained the program: estimate your daily target based on your weight and other factors, write down everything you eat and move! The longer I stuck to it the more I noticed a difference in the way I enjoyed food. I soon began to like eating fruits and vegetables for snacks instead of chocolate bars and chips. My mother and I went on walks together and kept each other in check. Unsurprisingly, I lost twenty pounds soon and looked amazing in my wedding dress. +I buy healthy foods, replace ice cream and faithfully keep a food journal. I exercised and take evening walks. Because I have a hard time reaching for something healthy by myself, I bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and use it to prepare our meals. I use small plates and bowls to trick myself into believing there is more food than the serving size. +It's been hard to discipline myself not to eat badly. But when I find myself having a desire for strawberries instead of chocolate, I know it's all worthwhile. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3243778/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3243778/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..673ec776eaa33616ef80e427170e58e4815f99b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3243778/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3243778, + "audio_file": "test/article_3243778/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 1, + "audio_length_sec": 82.475, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 1070, + "question": "The author successfully lost twenty pounds _ .", + "options": [ + "by walking and eating less every day", + "by only eating fruits and vegetables", + "under her doctor's direction", + "with the help of her mother" + ], + "answer": "D" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3243778/q_1070/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3243778/q_1070/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cdc4d0a346bc64dd812f919d8d98a5842dd8258d --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3243778/q_1070/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1070, + "question": "The author successfully lost twenty pounds _ .", + "options": [ + "by walking and eating less every day", + "by only eating fruits and vegetables", + "under her doctor's direction", + "with the help of her mother" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3292365/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae51a724dd27904d1f16211b3b87eb6aa8a159f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Harry potter and The Hunger Games haven't been big hits for nothing. Lots of teens still read quite a lot. But a study shows a clear decrease over time. Nearly half of 17-year-olds say they read for pleasure no more than one or two times a year. That's way down from ten years ago. +The digital revolution means there are more platforms than ever to read on. Jim Steyer has been studying the effect of technology on children. He has four kids and has seen the trend most with his 16-year-old. "I start to see it in our 10-year-old as well, because he is reading less and less, and more and more attracted to some of the digital media platforms that he has access to, and that he didn't have access to when he was 6 or 7 years old," he says. +The studies don't say that kids are reading less because they're spending more time online. But Steyer is convinced that's at least part of the answer. +"First of all, most children now have access to e-readers, or other smart electronic devices like phones and tablets ," he says. " And they're spending time on that. Many reports show the increasing use of new technology platforms by kids. It just strikes me as extremely logical that that's a big reason. +Researchers want to know more about how teens are spending their time in the digital age. But Kathryn Zickuhr of the Pew Research Center says it's tricky. If a kid is looking at a book, you may think he or she is reading. But when it comes to looking at a smartphone or tablet, who knows? +"We've heard from middle and high school teachers that sometimes the Internet is wonderful for enthusiastic students to do deep research," says Zickuhr. "But on the other side, obviously there are many distractions on the Internet." +However, Jim Steyer says, "Kids with parents who read, who buy or take books out of the library for their kids, and who then set time aside in their kids' daily schedule for reading, tend to read the most -- whether it's on a book, an e-book or some other devices." \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3292365/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..97550cabfc88d7dacb69c040e3493855e65f945a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3292365, + "audio_file": "test/article_3292365/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 115.2, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3138, + "question": "What did Jim Steyer see in his four kids?", + "options": [ + "They tend to read more on electronic devices.", + "They created their own digital media platform.", + "They improved their reading on electronic devices.", + "They have become more addicted to digital media." + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3139, + "question": "What statement may Kathryn Zickuhr agree to?", + "options": [ + "Kids are easily distracted on the Internet.", + "Most kids pretend to be doing online reading.", + "Most kids like to read on a smartphone or tablet.", + "Kids rarely use the Internet to do serious research." + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3140, + "question": "What is the main idea of the text?", + "options": [ + "What books do teens like to read the most?", + "Why aren't teens reading like they used to?", + "How can teens read on electronic platforms?", + "When will teens turn to books for fun again?" + ], + "answer": "B" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3292365/q_3138/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/q_3138/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..471a8a4dc632bed80587e6172bb25c0b7a410e5b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/q_3138/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3138, + "question": "What did Jim Steyer see in his four kids?", + "options": [ + "They tend to read more on electronic devices.", + "They created their own digital media platform.", + "They improved their reading on electronic devices.", + "They have become more addicted to digital media." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3292365/q_3139/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/q_3139/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a128fcbb0c829520be685f61592833570b254691 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/q_3139/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3139, + "question": "What statement may Kathryn Zickuhr agree to?", + "options": [ + "Kids are easily distracted on the Internet.", + "Most kids pretend to be doing online reading.", + "Most kids like to read on a smartphone or tablet.", + "Kids rarely use the Internet to do serious research." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3292365/q_3140/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/q_3140/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7450f155036ecb2061c1d2e945638d300adeedce --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3292365/q_3140/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3140, + "question": "What is the main idea of the text?", + "options": [ + "What books do teens like to read the most?", + "Why aren't teens reading like they used to?", + "How can teens read on electronic platforms?", + "When will teens turn to books for fun again?" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3320725/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3320725/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e7f82e65fefa67d7ca54118ad980f5e43bb685a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3320725/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Lindsay Morgan Lohan was born on July 2, 1986. She was such a natural beauty that she began modeling at the age of 3, and because of her natural talent, she played parts in over 60 TV commercials for companies such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Wendy's, the Gap, Pizza Hut, Calvin Klein, and Jell-O, in which she shared the screen with Bill Cosby. +When she was 7, Lohan was required to dress up as garbage for a Halloween short play on the Late Show with David Letterman called "Things You Find on the Bottom of the Subway." It was her first real acting job. In 1996, Lohan got her second big _ when she was given a role on the long-running NBC soap opera "Another World." For only one season, she became the third actress to act the part Alexandra Alli Fowler. +Shortly after, she hit the highway to fame when Disney sought to remake the hugely successful family comedy "The Parent Trap" (1998). In addition, she also got a three-picture deal with Disney thanks to this movie. Her next move was to appear in the Wonderful World of Disney production of "Life-Size" (2000), a comedy also featuring supermodel Tyra Banks. +In 2003, along with Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan performed in Freaky Friday and played one of the early roles that made Jodie Foster a household name. +In September 2002, Lohan also got a contract with music heavyweight Emilio Estefan Jr who is of great influence in music. She signed a five-album deal with Estefan Enterprises. In 2005, she released her first album, "Speak," followed by "A Little More Personal" the next year. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3320725/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3320725/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ec4f2ec057e05d3047670b757bf646c5e59ec193 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3320725/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3320725, + "audio_file": "test/article_3320725/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 2, + "audio_length_sec": 99.175, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3115, + "question": "Which of the following is NOT the job that Lohan has done until now?", + "options": [ + "A singer.", + "An actress.", + "A model.", + "A dancer." + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3116, + "question": "Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?", + "options": [ + "Lohan has played three films produced by Disney.", + "Lohan played the part Bill Cosby in a TV show.", + "Lohan has released two albums since 2005.", + "Lohan was greatly influenced by Emilio Estefan Jr." + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3320725/q_3115/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3320725/q_3115/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0afbf49c4b316f844fd20f08519b3aef31b356d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3320725/q_3115/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3115, + "question": "Which of the following is NOT the job that Lohan has done until now?", + "options": [ + "A singer.", + "An actress.", + "A model.", + "A dancer." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3320725/q_3116/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3320725/q_3116/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..701824721b62c72f28f87066e9639e14ddb1b2a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3320725/q_3116/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3116, + "question": "Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?", + "options": [ + "Lohan has played three films produced by Disney.", + "Lohan played the part Bill Cosby in a TV show.", + "Lohan has released two albums since 2005.", + "Lohan was greatly influenced by Emilio Estefan Jr." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3346728/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3346728/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..86cca161c92ffc95a9609a5fd8565da939f7b5eb --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3346728/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +I have only once been in trouble with the law.The whole process of being arrested and taken to court was a rather unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now. What makes it rather disturbing was the arbitrary circumstances both of my arrest and my subsequent fate in court. +It happened in February about twelve years ago.I had left school a couple of months before that and was not due to go to university until the following October.I was still living at home at the time. +One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived.I was looking for a temporary job so that I could save up some money to go traveling.As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry, I was taking my time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stopping and looking around me.It must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall. +It was about half past eleven when it happened.I was just walking out of the local library, having unsuccessfully sought employment there, when I saw a man walking across the road with the obvious intention of talking to me.I thought he was going to ask me the time.Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me.At first I thought it was some kind of joke +But then another policeman appeared, this time in uniform, and I was left in no doubt. +'But what for?" I asked +'Wandering with intent to commit an arrestable offence,' he said. +'What offence?' I asked +'Theft,' he said +'Theft of what?'I asked +'Milk bottles,' he said, and with a perfectly straight face too! +'Oh,' I said. +It turned out there had been a lot of petty thefts in the area, particularly that of stealing milk bottles from doorsteps. +Then I made my big mistake.At the time I was nineteen, had long untidy hair, and regarded myself as pan of the sixties' 'youth counterculture'.As a result, I wanted to appear cool and unconcerned with the incident, so I said, 'How long have you been following me? in the most casual and conversational tone I could manage.I thus appeared to them to be quite familiar with this sort of situation, and it confirmed them in their belief that I was a thoroughly disreputable character. +A few minutes later a police car arrived. +'Get in the back,' they said.'Put your hands on the back of the front seat and don't move them.' +They got in on either side of me.It wasn't funny any more. +At the police station they questioned me for several hours.I continued to try to look worldly and familiar with the situation.When they asked me what I had been doing, I told them I'd been looking for a job.'Aha,' I could see them thinking, 'unemployed'. +Eventually, I was officially charged and told to report to Richmond Magistrates' Court the following Monday.Then they let me go. +I wanted to conduct my own defense in court, but as soon as my father found out what had happened, he hired a very good solicitor .We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesses, including my English teacher from school as a character witness.But he was never called on to give evidence.My 'trial' didn't get that far.The magistrate dismissed the case after fifteen minutes.1 was free.The poor police had never stood a chance.The solicitor even succeeded in getting costs awarded against the police. +And so I do not have a criminal record.But what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on.I had the 'right' accent, respectable middle-class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good solicitor.Given the obscure nature of the charge.I feel sure that if I had come from a different background, and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty.While asking for costs to be awarded, my solicitor's case quite obviously revolved around the fact that I had a 'brilliant academic record'. +Meanwhile, just outside the courtroom, one of the policemen who had arrested me was gloomily complaining to my mother that another youngster had been turned against the police. 'You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,' he said to me reproachfully . +What did he mean? Probably that I should have looked outraged and said something like, 'Look here, do you know who you're talking to? I am a highly successful student with a brilliant academic record.How dare you arrest me!' Then they, probably, would have apologized perhaps even taken off their caps, and let me on my way. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3346728/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3346728/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca3a3510fb9e3077f0cbbce8a014775aae04f698 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3346728/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3346728, + "audio_file": "test/article_3346728/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 5, + "audio_length_sec": 253.125, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 1462, + "question": "The first man who came up to him was _ .", + "options": [ + "a uniformed policeman", + "a policeman in plainclothes", + "not a policeman", + "a good joker" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1463, + "question": "The court never asked the author's English teacher to give evidence because _ .", + "options": [ + "the time for the trial was limited to fifteen minutes only", + "the author wanted to conduct his own defense in court", + "the case was dismissed before the trial reached that stage", + "he was found to be unqualified as a character witness" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1464, + "question": "The author believes that he would most probably have been declared guilty if _ .", + "options": [ + "the magistrate had been less gentle", + "he had really been out of work", + "he had been born in a lower--class family", + "both B and C" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1465, + "question": "In the opinion of one of the policeman who had arrested the author, the whole thing might not have occurred if _ .", + "options": [ + "he had protested strongly at the time", + "he had begged to be allowed to go home", + "he hadn't wandered aimlessly", + "he had tried to look cool" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1466, + "question": "We can see from the passage that the author _ .", + "options": [ + "has broken the law only once", + "has never broken the law", + "has broken the law on more than one occasion", + "once broke the law without knowing it" + ], + "answer": "B" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3346728/q_1462/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3346728/q_1462/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03ec84936b0133ac58363baa6243b74806514daf --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3346728/q_1462/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1462, + "question": "The first man who came up to him was _ .", + "options": [ + "a uniformed policeman", + "a policeman in plainclothes", + "not a policeman", + "a good joker" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3346728/q_1463/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3346728/q_1463/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea8a7c7a4683c279e5b6c6a9000d578b8a83233a 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magistrate had been less gentle", + "he had really been out of work", + "he had been born in a lower--class family", + "both B and C" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3346728/q_1465/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3346728/q_1465/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ccc15cf588faab87ecae8e68496029556beba607 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3346728/q_1465/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1465, + "question": "In the opinion of one of the policeman who had arrested the author, the whole thing might not have occurred if _ .", + "options": [ + "he had protested strongly at the time", + "he had begged to be allowed to go home", + "he hadn't wandered aimlessly", + "he had tried to look cool" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3346728/q_1466/question.json 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+ "Practical", + "Passive", + "Disappointed", + "Positive" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3369435/q_330/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3369435/q_330/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1557d6e3ec06f17a9ca163f94eee0226767a0ca0 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3369435/q_330/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 330, + "question": "What can we infer from the passage?", + "options": [ + "Life is easier in the US.", + "Life in China is not easy.", + "There is always somewhere in the world where you can enjoy life.", + "More Americans will move to China." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3407776/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3407776/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d2537f9cbe2499fd76dbff2ba3b10939bacd7f0d --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3407776/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Zoe, Damacela, 19, didn't have nice clothes when she was young. It wasn't easy for Zoe's hard-working single mother to make ends meet. They moved in and out of homeless shelters. +Everything changed for Zoe in grade nine. At that time, she heard about a sewing class at her school. She signed up and couldn't wait to turn her designs into clothes. The color of the first dress she made was white-black strips. Soon the clothes she wore were all made by her. Other girls at school loved her designs too. They asked her if they could buy dresses from her. Zoe sold her first dress for $13. Unfortunately, it cost her $25 to make the dress. "I had the creativity in designs," says Zoe. "But I really had no idea about business." +Zoe kept selling the clothes she designed. Her business was booming, and even the girls who had ever teased her became her customers. In the eleventh grade, Zoe took a business class. She learned how to price her clothes so that she could be sure to make a fair profit. +Her business teacher suggested she take part in a contest for teenaged entrepreneurs . The contest was for teens from all over the United States. Zoe sent in her business plan, which explained how she planned to make her company grow. She won the second prize in the end. Zoe 's success became a news item. Supermodel Tyra Banks heard about it and she invited Zoe to take part in her TV show. "Being recognized I felt really unreal,"says Zoe. Zoe has advice for teens who want to start their own business. "If you really work hard on it, you will be able to make it happen," she says. 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Must be able to swim. +Apply to: Recruitment office, Southern Airlines, Heathrow Airport West. HR 37 KK. +Teachers Needed +For private language school. +Having college education. +Teaching experience unnecessary. +Apply to: The Director of Studies, Instant Languages Ltd. 279 Canal Street, Royston. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3452526/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3452526/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e921a3c8436457acad79bed4bc6a5dbaa1384ebf --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3452526/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3452526, + "audio_file": "test/article_3452526/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 44.075, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 2354, + "question": "What prevents Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxi?", + "options": [ + "Fond of beer and wine.", + "Punished for speeding and wrong parking.", + "Unable to speak a foreign language.", + "Not having college education." + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 2355, + "question": "What prevents Mary, aged 25, becoming an air hostess?", + "options": [ + "She once broke a traffic law and was fined", + "She can't speak Japanese very well.", + "She has never worked as an air hostess before.", + "She doesn't feel like working long hours flying abroad." + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 2356, + "question": "Which of the following is not mentioned in the three advertisements?", + "options": [ + "Marriage.", + "Male or female.", + "Education.", + "Working experience." + ], + "answer": "A" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3452526/q_2354/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3452526/q_2354/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47124d4c6e38958345ae7a756cf3c9df9d741522 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3452526/q_2354/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2354, + "question": "What prevents Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxi?", + "options": [ + "Fond of beer and wine.", + "Punished for speeding and wrong parking.", + "Unable to speak a foreign language.", + "Not having college education." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3452526/q_2355/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3452526/q_2355/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4d401aed4549bf769590920a9a01c5cdf7cf400f --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3452526/q_2355/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2355, + "question": "What prevents Mary, aged 25, becoming an air hostess?", + "options": [ + "She once broke a traffic law and was fined", + "She can't speak Japanese very well.", + "She has never worked as an air hostess before.", + "She doesn't feel like working long hours flying abroad." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3452526/q_2356/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3452526/q_2356/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a6107ecf7cb2491cd7aa3cd7d0bc292471dd954 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3452526/q_2356/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2356, + "question": "Which of the following is not mentioned in the three advertisements?", + "options": [ + "Marriage.", + "Male or female.", + "Education.", + "Working experience." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_347959/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_347959/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1b7d7f65829419d7bd8f14359513f19595ead5f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_347959/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +I am so worried about global warming. We need stop cutting down all of the trees so that they can absorb the carbon dioxide. I think the Kyoto Protocol to stop pollution is a great idea ,and I hope our country will decide to follow it, too.[: http://wx.jtyjy.com/] +-- Eli S.,10,Texa +People should do all they can to help stop pollution, even if it is something as little as recycling your soda can. Every little thing helps. Maybe schools can put recycling bins in classrooms. Students can bring in all of their cans and bottles and see how many the school can collect. +-- Lindsey A.,11, Massachusett[: http://wx.jtyjy.com/.Com] +The United States should take action to help stop pollution. Since we are one of the richest countries, we should at least spend a little money to help. +-- Aaron z,11,Massachusett +It is not good that the United States is not following the Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. is one of the most pollutionemitting countries in the world. Even if the rest of the world agrees to follow those rules, without the U. S. and its big businesses agreeing, global warming will still be a big problem. +--Augustine S.,11,Ohio +The world needs to learn more about global warming problems. If we do not do something soon then some of Earth's coolest animals will become extinct. People should use solar power instead of things that pollute the atmosphere! +-- Jillian J.,10,Pennsylvania +Global warming is very dangerous, and it must be prevented. Even if people think that it cannot be stopped ,we should at least try. Stopping global warming is more important than keeping our businesses going. What about thepenguins and the polar bears? We can't just let them become extinct. +--Samantha R.,11,Illinois \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_347959/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_347959/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bffecbfee37a42d6c7637709420ef36cbd8afaaf --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_347959/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "article_id": 347959, + "audio_file": "test/article_347959/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 4, + "audio_length_sec": 103.55, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 506, + "question": "Why does Lindsey suggest schools put recycling bins in classrooms?", + "options": [ + "To keep the classroom clean", + "To help protect wild animals.", + "To help protect our earth.", + "To collect waste in classroom." + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 507, + "question": "Augustine worries that global warming problems will be difficult to solve because _ .", + "options": [ + "many people think that global warming cannot be stopped", + "more and more trees are being cut down", + "American government spends little money stopping pollution", + "the U.S. refuses to follow the Kyoto Protocol" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 508, + "question": "Jillian and Samantha believe that _ .", + "options": [ + "solar power is earth-friendly energy", + "global warming threatens animals' survival", + "America is the richest country in the world", + "the penguins and the polar bears are dying out" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 509, + "question": "What do the six children mainly talk about?", + "options": [ + "Environmental problems.", + "The Kyoto Protocol.", + "Animal protection.", + "The climate change." + ], + "answer": "A" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_506/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_506/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee5fc48c359b892ac6b643d7ead521f842a8f7ad --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_506/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 506, + "question": "Why does Lindsey suggest schools put recycling bins in classrooms?", + "options": [ + "To keep the classroom clean", + "To help protect wild animals.", + "To help protect our earth.", + "To collect waste in classroom." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_507/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_507/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94830d0c6d71c5fc55c40f243e064d8ad7d867b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_507/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 507, + "question": "Augustine worries that global warming problems will be difficult to solve because _ .", + "options": [ + "many people think that global warming cannot be stopped", + "more and more trees are being cut down", + "American government spends little money stopping pollution", + "the U.S. refuses to follow the Kyoto Protocol" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_508/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_508/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24c692a64631aa9b3ace513b5b8e0720de436100 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_508/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 508, + "question": "Jillian and Samantha believe that _ .", + "options": [ + "solar power is earth-friendly energy", + "global warming threatens animals' survival", + "America is the richest country in the world", + "the penguins and the polar bears are dying out" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_509/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_509/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..deaf57bda87f14c4c157c6172c759e29ceab1354 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_347959/q_509/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 509, + "question": "What do the six children mainly talk about?", + "options": [ + "Environmental problems.", + "The Kyoto Protocol.", + "Animal protection.", + "The climate change." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3513091/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3513091/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a54f43805dd03d425ee43b4fcaa260e7de3a702 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3513091/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Last Sunday afternoon, I was having dinner in a restaurant when my friend Poor came in. Poor is working in a bank and is quite rich, but he is always borrowing money from his friends and never pays it back. Poor saw me and came to sit at my table. He had never borrowed any money from me. When he was eating, I asked him to lend me two dollars. To my surprise, he gave me the money at once."I have never borrowed any money from you,"Poor said,"So you can pay for my dinner." +Read the passage and choose the best answers.(,. ) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3513091/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3513091/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e43b3bd4c939710b86ab33cb97ac16010992c777 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3513091/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3513091, + "audio_file": "test/article_3513091/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 5, + "audio_length_sec": 28.325, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3624, + "question": "The story happened _ .", + "options": [ + "at home", + "in a restaurant", + "in a bank", + "in an office" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3625, + "question": "Poor is the name of a man and the writer _ .", + "options": [ + "knows him well", + "doesn't know him", + "often lends him 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stall is called YuanJin Vegetables.", + "She is a famous philanthropist in China.", + "She cares about what clothes she wears very much.", + "Many people are surprised by Chen's donation." + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3548066/q_2620/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3548066/q_2620/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..29af47e21338d36e234ddbb7245e4cba832b4f35 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3548066/q_2620/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2620, + "question": "From the text,we can learn that Chen is _ .", + "options": [ + "confident and kindhearted", + "wealthy and simple", + "hardworking and selfless", + "proud and serious" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3605382/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 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Our class meets at seven thirty a.m. at the school gate. We take a bus to Haian Park. The price of the ticket for each adult is eighteen yuan, but for each student is half. The park is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. First we play games in the park. And then we have dinner at noon. After that we sit and chat under the trees. At half past three, we go to the Swimming Club. We come back home at about six o'clock in the afternoon because it is time for all of us to have supper. We are tired but we are very happy. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3605382/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9437d8fc4d85743190712029f5301dad2c437c10 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3605382, + "audio_file": "test/article_3605382/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 5, + "audio_length_sec": 30.525, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3599, + "question": "We meet _", + "options": [ + "at the school gate.", + "in the park", + "in the bus", + "in the Swimming Club" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3600, + "question": "The price of the ticket for each student is _ yuan.", + "options": [ + "nineteen", + "thirty--six", + "nine", + "eighteen" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3601, + "question": "The park is open for _ hours a day.", + "options": [ + "eight", + "nine", + "ten", + "eleven" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3602, + "question": "After dinner we sit and chat _", + "options": [ + "at home", + "near the club", + "on the sofa", + "under the trees" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3603, + "question": "Why do the students go home at about six p.m.?", + "options": [ + "Because they are happy", + "Because they are tired", + "Because they go home for supper", + "Because they have some homework to do" + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3599/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3599/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..426148eb46aeb5a3c7ac3ed5df4b5426809276f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3599/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3599, + "question": "We meet _", + "options": [ + "at the school gate.", + "in the park", + "in the bus", + "in the Swimming Club" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3600/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3600/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20f87d221c3dc85677538eb9c22fac63e8878f8c --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3600/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3600, + "question": "The price of the ticket for each student is _ yuan.", + "options": [ + "nineteen", + "thirty--six", + "nine", + "eighteen" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3601/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3601/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..06aeb900da2d488a83bdec2d03f24954017e1fad --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3601/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3601, + "question": "The park is open for _ hours a day.", + "options": [ + "eight", + "nine", + "ten", + "eleven" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3602/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3602/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54f713b27d45cd55808f96e0fea34efe1821c778 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3602/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3602, + "question": "After dinner we sit and chat _", + "options": [ + "at home", + "near the club", + "on the sofa", + "under the trees" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3603/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3603/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..88217862b354638d758b3a696a05d144e3b9f43c --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3605382/q_3603/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3603, + "question": "Why do the students go home at about six p.m.?", + "options": [ + "Because they are happy", + "Because they are tired", + "Because they go home for supper", + "Because they have some homework to do" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_373015/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_373015/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..daff54ff4abd344729161f5a99c480ec812089b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_373015/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +College is a fresh start, and a chance to make new friends. These friends may become your lifelong friends, or the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. Whether you are going to a nearby college or the university far away from home, you are likely to meet new people wherever you are. Here are some advice to help you make friends at college. +Clearly, your classmates are all possible friends! Get to class early on the first day, and if you get there early enough, you will be in the room, or waiting outside it, with one other person, or a small group. A good casual opener would be to ask if you're in the right classroom, then introduce yourself, and explain that you're new, and a _ . Do this at all of your classes, and you will have a group of friends that you can make study groups with, take notes for you when you're absent or sick. +If you live in a dormitory, your hall will most likely have many fun activities to take part in. Take advantage ofthem, and go to as many as you can. Knowing your friends living in the same hall will also come in convenience because they will be the ones hosting and inviting you to parties that you will be missing out. Joining as many organizations as possible will also help you make new friends quickly. Parties are there to help students form close relationship with each other. Doing a team sport is another great idea. The best part of joining an organization is that you'll find people who share your interests, and with whom you'll therefore have a lot to talk about. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_373015/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_373015/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3db6c57c039d7cc88218dbd512bd4d585ef79698 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_373015/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 373015, + "audio_file": "test/article_373015/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 85.15, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 206, + "question": "Getting to class early will _ .", + "options": [ + "give you more information about the teacher", + "let you concentrate more on your class", + "give you a good chance to make friends", + "leave a good impression on others" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 207, + "question": "According to the text, the friends you get to know in class may _ .", + "options": [ + "share your interests", + "invite you to parties", + "help you to become a good player", + "take notes for you" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 208, + "question": "Which piece of advice is NOT given by the author?", + "options": [ + "Make friends with your classmates.", + "Take part in dorm activities.", + "Do the same team sports as your classmates.", + "Join as many organizations as possible." + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_373015/q_206/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_373015/q_206/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d76c3ac61f199a65ee57e324f55265d7f188ed06 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_373015/q_206/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 206, + "question": "Getting to class early will _ .", + "options": [ + "give you more information about the teacher", + "let you concentrate more on your class", + "give you a good chance to make friends", + "leave a good impression on others" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_373015/q_207/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_373015/q_207/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..376a716c8834905404241a6ee42e34163dc49b92 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_373015/q_207/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 207, + "question": "According to the text, the friends you get to know in class may _ .", + "options": [ + "share your interests", + "invite you to parties", + "help you to become a good player", + "take notes for you" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_373015/q_208/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_373015/q_208/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..279760a962326c0e6d9de962da214ac99671a212 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_373015/q_208/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 208, + "question": "Which piece of advice is NOT given by the author?", + "options": [ + "Make friends with your classmates.", + "Take part in dorm activities.", + "Do the same team sports as your classmates.", + "Join as many organizations as possible." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3784766/q_2375/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3784766/q_2375/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d97d92e27d4ea2eb645203c0e716681089220ace --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3784766/q_2375/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2375, + "question": "According to the passage, children are more likely to obey the rules when _ .", + "options": [ + "their parents listen to them totally", + "they believe in and accept their parents", + "their parents are sensitive to their needs", + "their parents demand and control their behaviors" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3822470/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3822470/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..75569bec5dde64e5c43c13e3fd90452aeda3c340 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3822470/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3822470, + "audio_file": "test/article_3822470/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 4, + "audio_length_sec": 53.375, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3729, + "question": "After the heavy rain, the mother dog swam to the island _ .", + "options": [ + "to look for food", + "to feed her babies", + "to move some people", + "to carry things to her owner" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3730, + "question": "The scientist found chimpanzees _ .", + "options": [ + "cared for the hurt or lost ones", + "often left for a far place", + "always stayed in the same place", + "didn't care about each other" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3731, + "question": "The two birds rushed down and took the little one away because _ .", + "options": [ + "they didn't like their baby", + "they were not kind enough", + "they wanted to teach their baby", + "they wanted to save their baby" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3732, + "question": "From the passage we know _ .", + "options": [ + "dogs like to swim across the river in a heavy rain.", + "mother birds don't want to save their children", + "animal parents love their children a lot", + "all animals want to move people very much" + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3921513/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3921513/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26140647a3b37beb45eea7a52ff36cfd203ab744 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3921513/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Did the iPod kill music ? +DID Steve Jobs kill the music industry? That's the question on many people's lips since rock star Jon Bon Jovi accused the apple boss of personally destroying the music industry. +Bon Jovi centers his criticism on how he believes music downloading has robbed young people of what he calls the "beauty of buying on album", "Kids today have missed the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the _ , not knowing what the record sounded like," he said. +But far from killing the industry, many young people today think Jobs has been a blessing , offering you instant, and selective access to a whole world of music. +Keith Staskiewicz at Entertainment Weekly speaks for the feelings of many music lovers. He believes listening to Mp3s rather than records or CDs "just saves them money" and doesn't "eliminate the sense of discovery they get from new music", Staskiewicz also argues that it's wrong to blame Jobs and Apple for destroying anything."Change is just part of the business," Staskiewicz said. "No doubt in 50 years, Justin Bieber will complain in his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech about how kids don't listen to iPods any more." +For now, though, it appears that music downloading is set to continue for the near future. According to Summer Redstone, chairman of media company Viacom, iTunes has "resurrected the music industry by creating a legal, affordable purchasing system for fans". +But recent surveys suggested that, despite the "legalizing" of music downloading via sites like iTunes, young people are still choosing to download music illegally.A report by Jupiter Research suggested that illegal downloading sites are used three times as much as legal ones. +The problem, according to its analyst Mark Mulligan, is how today's youth grow up viewing music as something they can get for free. "Unless the music industry can shift these consumers while they are young away from free consumption to paid music formats ,they may never develop music purchasing behavior," warned Mulligan " recording industry could suffer long-term harm." \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3921513/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3921513/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a390c54b3e693508fa12fa10288b472a6fce8885 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3921513/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3921513, + "audio_file": "test/article_3921513/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 4, + "audio_length_sec": 129.175, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 1022, + "question": "Jon Bon Jovi thinks Steve Jobs has destroyed the music industry because _ .", + "options": [ + "Apple encourages illegal music downloading", + "children today prefer music downloading to buying albums", + "children today do not like to 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1025, + "question": "What is the main point of the article?", + "options": [ + "How Steve Jobs and Apple changed people's music tastes.", + "Opinions on effects of music downloading.", + "How to fight illegal music downloading.", + "Criticism of free downloading of music by young people." + ], + "answer": "B" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3921513/q_1022/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3921513/q_1022/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a23f6b1fc2f79911059269d052275e0772c6007a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3921513/q_1022/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1022, + "question": "Jon Bon Jovi thinks Steve Jobs has destroyed the music industry because _ .", + "options": [ + "Apple encourages illegal music downloading", + "children today prefer music downloading to buying albums", + "children today do not like to discover new music", + "children don't care what a record sounds like" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3921513/q_1023/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3921513/q_1023/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..051cd74f0415cb708b6375111bbc046c52901870 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3921513/q_1023/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1023, + "question": "Which of the following statements might Keith Staskiewicz agree with according to the article?", + "options": [ + "Records or CDs shouldn't be sold in stores any more.", + "Steve Jobs and Apple are partly to blame for destroying the music industry.", + "There are surely more ways to enjoy music than on iPods.", + "Music downloading has its advantages and is a change that should be accepted." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3921513/q_1024/question.json 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b/race_audio/test/article_3921513/q_1025/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1025, + "question": "What is the main point of the article?", + "options": [ + "How Steve Jobs and Apple changed people's music tastes.", + "Opinions on effects of music downloading.", + "How to fight illegal music downloading.", + "Criticism of free downloading of music by young people." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3954716/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e463a82b420b5e6c67688c275031aa677f2218d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +We have twenty minutes' break time after the second class in the morning. Look! Most of us are playing during the break time. Some students are on the playground . They are playing basketball. Oh! A boy is running with the ball. And another is stopping him. They look so cool. And there are some girls watching the game. Some students are in the classroom. They are talking. A few of them are reading and doing homework. Look! A girl is looking at the birds in the tree in front of the classroom. She must be thinking of something interesting because she is smiling . +What are the teachers doing? Some of them are working in the office. And some are talking with students. Everyone is doing his or her things, busy but happy! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3954716/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17ecec7afd06b6f8a5bcb8f47305b37374c152cc --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +{ + "article_id": 3954716, + "audio_file": "test/article_3954716/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 5, + "audio_length_sec": 38.725, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3562, + "question": "Where are the students playing basketball?", + "options": [ + "In front of the tree.", + "In front of the classroom.", + "On the playground.", + "In the tree." + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3563, + "question": "A girl is looking at the birds. 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She is _ .", + "options": [ + "happy", + "cool", + "interesting", + "exciting" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3954716/q_3564/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/q_3564/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c42e8c9f211324509d7d5fa9827badba10351e96 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/q_3564/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3564, + "question": "What are the teachers doing?", + "options": [ + "Working or talking with students.", + "Having a basketball game.", + "Playing with the students.", + "Looking at the birds." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3954716/q_3565/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/q_3565/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4d3807c8344a1e012174d1fc213981197d7fca2f --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/q_3565/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3565, + "question": "There are _ students in the classroom.", + "options": [ + "no", + "some", + "few", + "many" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_3954716/q_3566/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/q_3566/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7676998ea38df1722b67391351be99e34afe8b8a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_3954716/q_3566/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3566, + "question": "The passage is mainly about _ .", + "options": [ + "students", + "a basketball game", + "break time activities", + "teachers" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4238133/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_4238133/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c498e956d5bd19ca11647e6bd305dca015a5c12 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4238133/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +When I left my bag on a train, I lost my most precious possession, a small framed photograph of my great grandparents, Emily and Gordon Baker. The frame was made of silver, with an elegant flower design in one corner. The photograph was taken in March 1939 on their wedding day. Emily looked very happy, and Gordon looked rather alarmed. A few months later, he was killed in action in North Africa. I received the photograph when my aunt Mabel died. + I'm a student at Edinburgh University and I live in an old Edwardian house. At the end of last term, I packed a large bag and a small bag and set off for London, where I was planning to catch the Eurostar train to Paris. Minutes after getting off the train at Kings Cross Station, I realized that I'd left the small bag in the overhead luggage rack. I ran back to the train, but it had already left the platform. + This all happened several months ago, and I had become resigned to the loss of my most precious possession. Then last week, something extraordinary happened. I logged onto the site Bay and looked for a silver photo frame and I found it ! The photo of my great grandparents was on Bay ! + I called the person who was advertising it. He was a little suspicious at first, and told me that he had bought it from a stall at an antique market. After we talked for a while, he asked if there was any way I could prove it was mine. All I could think of was that the photo was taken in March 1939. He opened the frame and made sure that this date was written by hand on the back of the photograph. + "It ' s definitely yours. " he said. "Come and get it ! " +5(11) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4238133/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_4238133/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4168fdd4a6feb210e8f50e84df764109bef68e27 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4238133/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "article_id": 4238133, + "audio_file": "test/article_4238133/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 4, + "audio_length_sec": 97.125, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 1536, + "question": "The author's most precious possession was _ .", + "options": [ + "A wedding photo in a silver frame taken in North Africa", + "A pretty family portrait in a silver frame taken in 1939", + "A special photo of his great grandparents in a silver frame", + "A common photograph of his grandparents taken by Mabel" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1537, + "question": "Which of the statement about the author is not wrong?", + "options": [ + "He left the photo 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different kinds of shapes and sizes.", + "It is designed for large families.", + "It is able to clean itself.", + "It is easy to take out." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4390408/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1b6afed6ba55db0ae2646b5154bad1214ee63636 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +No one knows for certain why people dream, but some dreams misht be connected to the mental processes that help us learn. In a recent study, scientists found a connection between nap-time dreams and better memory in people who were learning a new skill. +"I was astonished by this finding," Robert Stickgold told Science News. He is a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who worked on the study of-how the brain and nervous system work, and cognitive studies look at how people learn and reason. So a cognitive neuroscientist may study the brain processes that help people learn. +In the study, 99 college students between the ages of 18 and 30 each spent an hour on a computer, trying to get through a virtual maze . The maze was difficult, and the study participants had to start in a different place each time they tried - making it even more difficult. They were also told to find a particular picture of a tree and remember where it was. +For the first 90 minutes of a five-hour break, half of the particularity stayed awake and half were told to take a short nap. Participants who stayed awake were asked to describe their thoughts. Participants who took a nap were asked about their dreams before sleep and after steep - and they were awakened within a minute of sleep to describe their dreams. +About a dozen of the 50 people who slept said their dreams were connected to the maze. Some dreamed about the music that had been playing when they were working; others said they dreamed about seeing people in the maze. When these people tried the computer maze again, they were generally able to find the tree faster than before their naps. However, people who had other dreams, or people who didn't take a nap, didn't show the same improvement. +Stickgold suggests the dream itself doesn't help a person learn - it's the other way around. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4390408/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..48db58108e71518d04ec08aa09fedfbeeabe64dd --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 4390408, + "audio_file": "test/article_4390408/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 108.25, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 2506, + "question": "It is a cognitive scientists job to study _ .", + "options": [ + "how people dream and learn", + "the structure of the nervous system", + "whether someone is reasonable", + "the process of understanding" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 2507, + "question": "The purpose of the study attended by 99 college students is to _ .", + "options": [ + "find the hidden tree in the maze", + "test the design of a difficult virtual maze", + "train people's memory", + "see how dreams and learning are connected" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 2508, + "question": "The better performance in working out the maze is connected with _ .", + "options": [ + "how people dream", + "what people dream", + "when people dream", + "where people dream" + ], + "answer": "B" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4390408/q_2506/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/q_2506/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d2a95ec7f4873a28afad00f1aab4fe20c9540b83 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/q_2506/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2506, + "question": "It is a cognitive scientists job to study _ .", + "options": [ + "how people dream and learn", + "the structure of the nervous system", + "whether someone is reasonable", + "the process of understanding" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4390408/q_2507/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/q_2507/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..769a98a503d86735a6079115636be497b344988e --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/q_2507/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2507, + "question": "The purpose of the study attended by 99 college students is to _ .", + "options": [ + "find the hidden tree in the maze", + "test the design of a difficult virtual maze", + "train people's memory", + "see how dreams and learning are connected" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4390408/q_2508/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/q_2508/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f9b984463f7de40110cbde2bd340a5a5b79ac7c --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4390408/q_2508/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2508, + "question": "The better performance in working out the maze is connected with _ .", + "options": [ + "how people dream", + "what people dream", + "when people dream", + "where people dream" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4446897/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8550f6910a68fded04caaba6e7323238cdd7b99b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Scholarship Application Tips in 2014 for college students +*Before you apply +1. Work hard to get good grades. Don't sweat about one bad grade, but always strive to do your best. +2. Get involved, and stay involved, in extracurricular activities. Sports, clubs, drama, bands and orchestras-these often count toward a student's overall scholarship application evaluation. The same goes for paid (or unpaid) work experience. +3. Begin your scholarship research early-by your sophomore or junior year of high school, if possible. Make special note of application deadlines, as they can vary from late summer to late spring. +4. Apply for as many scholarships as you are eligible for-several smaller scholarships can add up to a lot of money. +*During the application process +1. Read the supplementary materials that come with scholarship application forms to better understand the program's focus (community service, subject interest). Try to answer the questions with the focus area in mind. +2. Answer questions as they are asked. Don't go off the topic. +3. If there is a financial component to the application, make sure you get accurate and complete information from all appropriate sources to ensure your eligibility. +4. Take your time. Write down everything you can think of for each question, then set the application aside for a day so you can look everything over again before you send it off. +5. Don't wait until the last minute to complete your application, especially if you are applying online. Computer systems can get clogged with the large volume of applicants hoping to submit their qualifications during the last few days and hours before a deadline. +6. If a third party has to complete part of your application, such as providing a letter of recommendation, make sure you ask them early on and remind them as often as necessary to ensure they provide you with the necessary materials. +7. Last but not least, review your application with your parents to make sure you haven't left out any important details. +Good luck to the students applying for the 2014 scholarship programs! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4446897/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..181a4c113b2f9d387863cc4ecc76b9e547579187 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 4446897, + "audio_file": "test/article_4446897/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 127.6, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 836, + "question": "Before you apply for a scholarship, it's best to _ .", + "options": [ + "pay more attention to grades than to extracurricular activities", + "focus on only one scholarship application", + "get as much work experience as possible", + "begin your preparation as early as possible" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 837, + "question": "When answering questions on the application form, you should _ .", + "options": [ + "focus on the subject you are interested in", + "answer to the point", + "list your advantages", + "prove your abilities" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 838, + "question": "The author suggests that applicants should _ .", + "options": [ + "submit the application in the few days", + "double-check their application with their parents", + "complete and submit the application in one day", + "avoid submitting the application online" + ], + "answer": "B" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4446897/q_836/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/q_836/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d1983a853101d1c79594fc3573309d05c7759ce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/q_836/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 836, + "question": "Before you apply for a scholarship, it's best to _ .", + "options": [ + "pay more attention to grades than to extracurricular activities", + "focus on only one scholarship application", + "get as much work experience as possible", + "begin your preparation as early as possible" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4446897/q_837/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/q_837/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15f06cf266842f8530b8aa0d9b3285ef5e1af0cc --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/q_837/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 837, + "question": "When answering questions on the application form, you should _ .", + "options": [ + "focus on the subject you are interested in", + "answer to the point", + "list your advantages", + "prove your abilities" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4446897/q_838/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/q_838/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f25a91fc03d1e62c5cda0aec3f51d506dca97fae --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4446897/q_838/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 838, + "question": "The author suggests that applicants should _ .", + "options": [ + "submit the application in the few days", + "double-check their application with their parents", + "complete and submit the application in one day", + "avoid submitting the application online" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4470271/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_4470271/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a50903abaaa916cb8e9fbfb03398822093b0136 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4470271/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +College visits are important.Before you commit years of your life and money to a school, be sure you're choosing a place," that is a good match for your personality and interests.You can't get the "feel' of a school from any guidebook, so be sure to visit the campus.Below are a few tips for getting the most out of your college visit. +1.Explore on your own +Of course you should take the official campus tour, but be sure to allow time to hang around on your own. The trained tour guides will show you a school's selling points.But the 1dest and prettiest buildings don't give you the entire picture of a college.Try to walk the extra mile and get the complete picture of the campus. +2.Read the Bulletin Boards +When you visit the student center, academic buildings and residence hall, take a few minutes to read the bulletin boards.They provide an easy way to see what's happening on campus.The ads for lectures, clubs and plays can tell you what's going on outside the classrooms. +3.Eat in the Dining Hall +You can get a good feel for student life by eating in the dining hall.Try to sit with students if you can.Do the students seem happy or stressed? Also, is the food good? Are there adequate healthy options? Many admission offices will give prospective students coupons for free meals in the dining halls. +4.Visit a Class in Your Major +If you know what you want to study, a class visit makes a lot of sense.You'll get to observe other students in your field and see how involved they are in classroom discussion.Try to stay after class for a few minutes and chat with the students to get their impressions of their professors and major.Be sure to call in advance to schedule a classroom visit--most colleges don't allow visitors to drop in on class unannounced. +5.Talk to Lots of Students +Your campus tour guide has been trained to market the sch001.Try to talk to students who aren't getting paid to impress you.These important conversations can often provide you with information about co1lege life that isn't part of the admission script.Few university officials wi11 tell you if their students spend all weekend drinking or studying, but a group of random(,) students might. +For more tips,please go 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"options": [ + "A news report", + "A tourist poster.", + "An educational journal.", + "A geographical magazine." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4498738/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_4498738/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3de9a6d780fc0733e7c512e7d5fb7222df8f9b7a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4498738/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The United States is full of cars. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a necessary part of life. +Cars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies. +Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile away from the school. When the children are too young to walk too far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays taking her own children and the neighbors' as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesday, and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work. +More car pools should be formed in order to put fewer cars on the road and use less gas. Too many cars are being driven. 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Those who speak with an accent that "often impedes" comprehension will not pass. These rules take effect in January 2016. +China's 56 ethnic groups speak more than 80 languages and dialects. Even native Mandarin speakers can have trouble communicating with each other depending on the strength of their accents, which can be mutually unintelligible . +One flight trainer illustrated the scope for linguistic confusion, especially when common English aviation terms are used. Asked if there is a problem on board, a Chinese pilot might answer in the negative with the words mei you, or "there isn't. But someone speaking with a heavy Sichuan accent would pronounce mei you as "May day" - unconsciously parroting the universally recognized distress call . +Like their international counterparts , Chinese aviators have developed codes to avoid confusion resulting from homonyms or near-homonyms. They use the terms yao for one and guai for seven, which are otherwise pronounced yi and qi respectively and easily confused. +The new rule could affect all pilots, who must renew their license every six years, and adds to a growing list of burdens for the profession. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4533741/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_4533741/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a5347ef8f2bfc4f813fdf529b1f6d0eb3fc75086 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4533741/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +{ + "article_id": 4533741, + "audio_file": "test/article_4533741/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 2, + "audio_length_sec": 82.475, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 906, + "question": "Which of the following is true according to the passage?", + "options": [ + "Sichuan dialect has the contrary meaning to Mandarin.", + "Native Mandarin speakers can understand each other well.", + "It isn't necessary for a pilot to pass the test before January 2016.", + "\"May day\" is a distress call in our everyday life." + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 907, + "question": "What is the best title for the passage?", + "options": [ + "Chinese Pilots Told to Get Rid of Regional Accents.", + "Chinese Pilots.", + "Rich Chinese Languages.", + "Hard to Be a Chinese Pilot." + ], + "answer": "A" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4533741/q_906/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4533741/q_906/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd466aa521b784c430b339d5689aa1b35b652b2d --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4533741/q_906/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 906, + "question": "Which of the following is true according to the passage?", + "options": [ + "Sichuan dialect has the contrary meaning to Mandarin.", + "Native Mandarin speakers can understand each other well.", + "It isn't necessary for a pilot to pass the test before January 2016.", + "\"May day\" is a distress call in our everyday life." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4533741/q_907/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4533741/q_907/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bdd317a5f6a0dcd1729f7570541348eb58131626 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4533741/q_907/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 907, + "question": "What is the best title for the passage?", + "options": [ + "Chinese Pilots Told to Get Rid of Regional Accents.", + "Chinese Pilots.", + "Rich Chinese Languages.", + "Hard to Be a Chinese Pilot." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4638459/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_4638459/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..75af42ee481af6748b4765eeb0393d70509a78c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4638459/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Mo, who was born in 1955 from a farmer's family in Gaomi county in Shandong Province, is the first person in China to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his early years, life was not easy and he experienced hunger. These things have influence Mo Yan's later writings. +Park Geun-hue is 64 years old this year. She was selected the new President of South Korea in December, 2012. She is the country's first female head of state and her term will last five years from 2013. "I will become a president who puts people's living before anything else," she told the cheering people in central Seoul as she accepted her win. "I will keep my promises." +Barack Obama (born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961), who was elected the 44th President of the United States in 2008, has been elected again to a second term. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. His father was from Kenya. 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He walked quickly to the front counter . Ernie jumped out to greet Kyle. He was the shop's first shopper of the day. +"Good morning, sir!" Ernie said. "What can I do for you?" +"Well, I...," Kyle started to say. +"Wait, don't tell me," Ernie stopped him. "You're looking for a ... a little dog... for your daughter 's birthday. Right?" +"Not really, l just..." +Ernie didn't let him finish."Ah, I've got it, You just moved into a new house, and you want some fish for it. I have some very nice fish over here." +"In fact, I..." Kyle was starting to look very nervous . His face had a strange expression on it. +"No fish? Ah, a cat! You look like a cat person. At Ernie's Pet World, we have the best kinds. Look at this Persian -- long, white hair, and look at that cute expression. She's looking at you. She's thinking, 'Take me home. Take me home.' Would you like some cat food and toys as well?" +"No, thank you," Kyle said. By this time, he was walking up and down. He had a pained look on his face. "Really, I'm not interested in cats or fish or little dogs." +"What do you want, then?" Ernie asked. +Kyle looked like he was going to cry. 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China will _ 30 million electricity-driven bikes in 2020, compared to 9 million bikes last year, according to a report from the Development Research Center under the State Council and other ministries such as the National Development and Reform Commission. +The central government wants to reduce the amount of energy consumption by as much as 20 percent within the next five years. That would be achieved through the introduction of new sources of energy and encouraging people to save energy, China Daily reported. +The smoke from car exhausts is a major cause of pollution darkening the sky in Chinese cities, especially Beijing. On Monday, industrial experts called on the government to come up with more preferential measures to spread the use of electric bikes in China. +Electric bike production in China accounts for about 90 percent of the world's total, making China the world's biggest producer, consumer and exporter of the energy-efficient vehicle, the report said. The country last year sold about 3 million electric bikes to foreign countries, a figure expected to double in five years. 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Regular adventures with his friends and enemies in the jungles improve this child's strength and cleverness and stir every reader's imagination. +Price: $ 7.79 +ISBN-13: 978-1613820742 +Average Customer Review: +A Stolen Life +The first work of its kind--Jaycee Dugard's personal life story, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991. When Jaycee was eleven years old, she was kidnapped from a school bus stop. She was missing for more than eighteen years, and gave birth to two daughters during her imprisonment . +Price: $ 19.79 +ISBN-13: 978-1442344983 +Average Customer Review: +While We're Far Apart +Five-time Christy Award winner Lynn Austin is called as "one of the style's best historical fiction novelists". Set in Brooklyn, New York, during World War I,while a motherless girl longs for her daddy and a young lady hopes for a second chance at love, this tale explores the uncertainty that stays in people. +Price:$ 6.00 +ISBN-10: 0764204971 +Average Customer Review: +The Fashion Police +The Fashion Police was in the second place in the Chapter One Promotions Novel Competition 2010 and nominated Best Novel with Romantic Elements 2010 by The Romance Reviews. It is a strange comedy-mystery, combining murder and with romance. +Price: $ 12.73 +ISBN-13: 978-1451555653 +Average Customer Review: \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4867226/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_4867226/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9830adec7ab8bb192004dc3dec47013bdf4c8efd --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4867226/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 4867226, + "audio_file": "test/article_4867226/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 113.025, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 955, + "question": "If you are interested in personal life stories, then you can choose the book _ .", + "options": [ + "A Stolen Life", + "The Jungle Book", + "The Fashion Police", + "While We're Far Apart" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 956, + "question": "The ISBN of the book that is most popular among the readers is _ .", + "options": [ + "ISBN-13: 978-1613820742", + "ISBN-13: 978-1442344983", + "ISBN-10: 0764204971", + "ISBN-13: 978-1451555653" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 957, + "question": "What makes the book The Fashion Police distinguish itself from others?", + "options": [ + "It wins the award Christy Award five times.", + "It is a great book on violence and family education.", + "It is nominated Best Novel with Romantic Elements 2010.", + "It has many elements borrowed from stories of true policemen." + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4867226/q_955/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4867226/q_955/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..428418952f9da0f6836959c283dd3b04ceca01b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4867226/q_955/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 955, + "question": "If you are interested in personal life stories, then you can choose the book _ .", + "options": [ + "A Stolen Life", + "The Jungle Book", + "The Fashion Police", + "While We're Far Apart" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4867226/q_956/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4867226/q_956/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a92e65147701d0114603c0d937011399d25fb2c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4867226/q_956/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 956, + "question": "The ISBN of the book that is most popular among the readers is _ .", + "options": [ + "ISBN-13: 978-1613820742", + "ISBN-13: 978-1442344983", + "ISBN-10: 0764204971", + "ISBN-13: 978-1451555653" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4867226/q_957/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4867226/q_957/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f626d8ae85f4442fe720164bb835cce10da10632 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4867226/q_957/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 957, + "question": "What makes the book The Fashion Police distinguish itself from others?", + "options": [ + "It wins the award Christy Award five times.", + "It is a great book on violence and family education.", + "It is nominated Best Novel with Romantic Elements 2010.", + "It has many elements borrowed from stories of true policemen." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_491235/q_1796/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_491235/q_1796/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cc29c40feed8b5cd9b8814be505f282a0ae89a27 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_491235/q_1796/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1796, + "question": "What should children do when their clothing catches on fire?", + "options": [ + "Stop, drop and roll without delay", + "Run around quickly to put out the flames.", + "Call the firefighter for help at once.", + "Feel confident and don't be afraid of fire." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4998302/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_4998302/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6ddd4bfb0e7f75fba95b57a2829399b812a7a373 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4998302/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +In the 1960s, people asked about your astrological sign . In the 1990s, they wanted to know your website. These days, having a web address is almost as important as a street address. Your website is an electronic meeting place for your family, friends and potentially, millions of people around the world. Best of all, you may not have to spend a cent. The Web is filled with all kinds of free services and all it takes is some time and creativity. + Think of your home page as the starting point of your website. Like the table of contents of a book or a magazine, the home page is the front door. Your site can have one or more pages, depending on how you design it. + While web pages vary greatly in their design and content, most use a traditional magazine layout. At the top of the page is a banner GRAPHIC. Next comes a greeting and a short description of the site. Pictures, texts, and links to other websites follow. + Before you start building your site, do some planning. Think about whom the site is for and what you want to say. Next, gather up the material that you want to put on the site. Draw a rough layout on a sheet of paper. + While there are no rules you have to follow, there are a few things to keep in mind: + Start simply. If you are too ambitious at the beginning, you may never get the site off the ground. You can always add to your site. +Less is better. Most people don't like to read a lot of text online. Break it into small pieces. + Smaller is better. Most people connect to the Internet with a modem. Since it can take a long time to download large image files, keep the file sizes small. + Have the rights. Don't put any material on your site unless you are sure you can do it legally. Learn the Net's Copyright Article for more about this. + Now it's time to roll up your sleeves and start building. Learning the Net Communities provides tools to help you build your site. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4998302/q_3108/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4998302/q_3108/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ad421f8e51a5cb4ed55759f06232c9696caf462 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4998302/q_3108/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3108, + "question": "The main purpose of the passage is to tell you _ .", + "options": [ + "what a website is like", + "how to build your own website", + "how to meet people online", + "what a website is made up of" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4998302/q_3110/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4998302/q_3110/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5de186d5a0f5987cecc0cbd03e99aded8eba62b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4998302/q_3110/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3110, + "question": "The purpose of the home page of your website is _ .", + "options": [ + "to give a list of all the contents of your website", + "to make it look like a front door", + "to direct people to more of your pages", + "to design the cover of a book or magazine" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_4998302/q_3111/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_4998302/q_3111/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..41b2f252bfd82e27d6c25a514f62670d5fcbc286 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_4998302/q_3111/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3111, + "question": "The writer thinks that if you are too ambitious at the beginning, _ .", + "options": [ + "your website may leave no space for adding new things", + "you may never have your website working", + "you may have no idea how to build your website", + "you may tire yourself out" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5195197/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_5195197/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e71651e60533503d461a4316dbfd03e3538d8bbf --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5195197/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Summer school is something a kid will never forget.For some, it's a way to advance past their classmates.For most, summer school is' a requirement in order to graduate with their classmates I can remember being forced into taking a summer school course.It was not the school that forced me into this awkward situation it was my mother. +I was a 16-year-old kid in a new school; My school did not offer summer courses so I had to take my course at an alternative school in the city.It was an experience I will never forget.I was not concerned with making friends.I was there to get credit for a course that I should have received credit for the previous semester.It was.my doing that landed me in the situation and it was important that I understood this. +The fees were lowest but the experience was amazing.I enjoyed I didn't miss the day. The course was from Monday to Friday for an entire month.I passed the course with an A.I was thrown into an awkward situation and actually enjoyed it.My friends didn't even know I took the course.Most of them were still sleeping by the time my course ended each day. +Awkward situations are so important for personal growth.This situation made me feel more independent.I made friends.I finally understood what sacrifice and hard work were all about.While attending college, I remembered how much I enjoyed summer school and I chose to take summer school in my first three years of college.Some kids get pushed too much but some don't get pushed enough.I was never pushed enough. +Enable your children to struggle for success.If your child needs summer school you explain to them why it's important.Some parents are surprised by the situation and may want to be more involved in their children's education.Follow through and follow up. \ No newline at end of file diff --git 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"question": "Which of the following was NOT the benefit got by the author through attending summer school?", + "options": [ + "It helped him get rid of bad habits.", + "It helped him make new friends.", + "It helped him understand what sacrifice and hard work were.", + "It increased his independence." + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 2175, + "question": "What does the author think of summer school?", + "options": [ + "He thinks it is awkward.", + "He thinks it is significant.", + "He doesn't think it is suitable.", + "He thinks nothing of it." + ], + "answer": "B" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5195197/q_2172/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_5195197/q_2172/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b1d381b53c518162bbbc3e8b57db4df090402de --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5195197/q_2172/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2172, + "question": "Most students go to the summer school in order to _ .", + "options": [ + "find good jobs graduation", + "become top students in their class", + "have a chance to make more friends", + "graduate successfully on time" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5195197/q_2173/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_5195197/q_2173/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b7baa9d7a98992d910ac3922023782f8e137be7b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5195197/q_2173/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2173, + "question": "What made the author go to summer school for the first time?", + "options": [ + "What he had done.", + "His mother's wish.", + "His own requirement.", + "Study competition." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5269666/q_817/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_5269666/q_817/question.json new file mode 100644 index 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rights?", + "options": [ + "Moving against software pirates", + "creating and enforcing laws", + "increasing Microsoft's investment in China", + "requiring Chinese computer makers to load legal software on their machines" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5645613/q_813/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_5645613/q_813/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..05c95b74c25a619f4a1ffd5a5cfd390df78e59a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5645613/q_813/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 813, + "question": "What didn't Tesco do in response to the scandal?", + "options": [ + "It withdrew the beefburgers.", + "It made an apology to the public.", + "It investigated and found out the cause and effect of the scandal.", + "It returned money to customers who bought the beefburgers." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git 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b/race_audio/test/article_5931164/q_3041/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3041, + "question": "If a couple and their l0-year-old son visit the Gold Coast Wax Museum, they may pay _ .", + "options": [ + "$87", + "$80", + "$68", + "$58" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5955018/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9432aeda66bfb4fbf9feb08a46d1740028a40b06 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +"I'm so sorry. It was all my fault, with no excuse and no reason," said the 23-year-old Taiwan actor, Kai Ko or Ko Chen-tung , bowing to the press conference . Ko apologized publically for taking drugs with friends at his house in Beijing"It was my personal behavior, selfish and stupid. I cannot go back in time to undo what I did, but there is willingness to correct a mistake. I want to correct my mistake, because I don't want to see the sad faces of those who love me and those who I love. I am really sorry to them."Ko said. +Ko became very famous and popular after starring in the film called You Are the Apple of My Eye in 2011. His clean and youthful image won him many fans. For those fans, they are willing to trust Ko. By the end of the 10-minute press conference, 3,207 users of Sina Weibo supported Ko and hoped he would be a better person in the future. +However, there were other voices. Wang Zhuo, a user of Sina Weibo said, " It doesn't matter whether he apologizes or not, because nobody cares. Showbiz and the arts industry will not use anyone like him from now on anyway." Another user said, "After 14 days of detention , Ko's acting skills grew a lot!" +When asked what his plans are after he regained freedom, Ko said he would continue to cooperate with the police on further investigations after returning to Taiwan. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5955018/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..90a21499205a58dfa801a2a62c9010c4b5cd26a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +{ + "article_id": 5955018, + "audio_file": "test/article_5955018/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 5, + "audio_length_sec": 83.25, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3527, + "question": "Ko Cheng-tung apologized publically because he _ .", + "options": [ + "took drugs", + "hit his fans", + "did badly in his film", + "said something bad" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3528, + "question": "What made Ko 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+ ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3527/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3527/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fe8afecc237a064514aa37e6aa1a5d5232b729e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3527/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3527, + "question": "Ko Cheng-tung apologized publically because he _ .", + "options": [ + "took drugs", + "hit his fans", + "did badly in his film", + "said something bad" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3528/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3528/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a0f0ada34e733af97a36ba7902aee675990b1f5b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3528/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3528, + "question": "What made Ko become famous?", + "options": [ + "The song called You Are the Apple of My Eye.", + "The film You Are the Apple of My Eye.", + "His good looking.", + "His background." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3529/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3529/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d1475d1f2cbb763a6121bbafc0c18d86717f097a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3529/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3529, + "question": "How long did the press conference last?", + "options": [ + "We don't know.", + "1 hour.", + "Half an hour.", + "10 minutes" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3530/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3530/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa09b6720aa35ee38fa91a8474a2df59e030eb88 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3530/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3530, + "question": "What does the user mean by saying \"After 14 days of detention, Ko's acting skills grew a lot\"?", + "options": [ + "He thinks Ko is still a good actor.", + "He supports Ko no matter what happened.", + "He doesn't trust what Ko said.", + "He thinks Ko has trained hard and improved his acting skills." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3531/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3531/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..922c8d5abc3475ece46973bb6cf884e85632bf7b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_5955018/q_3531/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3531, + "question": "The best title for the passage is \" _ \".", + "options": [ + "Drugs are dangerous", + "A famous Taiwan actor", + "Apologizing for taking drugs", + "At the press conference" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6047214/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_6047214/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2f3c05696b6265fbc8be251630ff55dbe01bd2e --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6047214/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +First, welcome to West Lake! I am glad to serve all of you. +Today you come here, you are sure to be attracted by its beauty. Hangzhou is famous for West Lake which is a famous fresh water lake, It lies in central Hangzhou, in Zhejiang Province of eastern China. +Traditionally, there are ten best-known spots on the West Lake. They are called Ten Scenes of West Lake by Qianlong Emperor. The West Lake is divided by three causeways called Su Di, Bai Di, and Yanggong Di. First I want to tell you the history of Bai Di. +In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Zhen yuan era(785-804), poet Bai Juyi came to Hangzhou as a governor(,). He realized that the farmland nearby depended on the water of West Lake, but the old dyke had collapsed , the water of West Lake had dried out, and the local farmers suffered drought. He ordered the construction of a causeway of a stronger and taller dyke to solve the drought problem. The lives of local people improved over the following years. Then Bai Juyi had more free time to enjoy the beauty of West Lake. He visited West Lake almost every day. This causeway was later named after Bai Di in Bai Juyi's honor. +Next is Su Di. Spring Dawn on the Su Causeway is considered as the first of ten scenes. It was built by Su Dongpo, the great poet, during the Noah Song Dynasty. It is very beautiful in spring. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6047214/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_6047214/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ddf2ae98967e838a46bf59787ce036471b79a4da --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6047214/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "article_id": 6047214, + "audio_file": "test/article_6047214/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 4, + "audio_length_sec": 80.425, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3832, + "question": "West Lake lies _ .", + "options": [ + "in central Hangzhou", + "in eastern Hangzhou", + "in northern Hangzhou", + "in western Hangzhou" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3833, + "question": "The West Lake has _ causeways.", + "options": [ + "two", + "three", + "five", + "ten" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3834, + "question": "Spring Dawn on the Su Causeway is listed as the _ of Ten Scenes of West Lake.", + "options": [ + "first", + "second", + "third", + "fourth" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3835, + "question": "The above words are probably for _ .", + "options": [ + "students", + "teachers", + "singers", + "tourists" + ], + "answer": "D" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6047214/q_3832/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6047214/q_3832/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a63a7cad7e4d8ab9012141ea1b314ac21db61147 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6047214/q_3832/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3832, + "question": "West Lake lies _ .", + "options": [ + "in central Hangzhou", + "in eastern Hangzhou", + "in northern Hangzhou", + "in western Hangzhou" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6047214/q_3833/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6047214/q_3833/question.json new file mode 100644 index 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"how to talk to others politely", + "how to ask questions", + "how to solve our problems", + "how to make others happy" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3554, + "question": "Which is a polite way to talk to others?", + "options": [ + "Stop it!", + "Go away!", + "Excuse me", + "Shut up" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3555, + "question": "If you don't want to go to your friend's birthday party, you may say,\" _ \".", + "options": [ + "I'm busy", + "No, I don't.", + "I have no interest.", + "I'm afraid I can't." + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3556, + "question": "If you don't like what someone is doing, what can you say?", + "options": [ + "Would you mind not stopping your car here?", + "Don't stop your car here.", + "Move out of the way.", + "Stop smoking here" + ], + "answer": "A" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6305919/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_6305919/article.txt new file mode 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One summer they went to the country for their holiday. They enjoyed it very much because it was a quiet, clean place. +One day they went for a walk early in the morning and met an old man. He lived on a farm, and he was sitting in the warm sun in front of his house. Mr. Green asked him, "Do you like to live in this quiet place?" +The old man said, "Yes, I do." +Mr. Green then asked, "What are the good things about it?" +The old man answered, "Well, the people here know each other. They often come and visit me, and I often go and visit them. And there are also many children here." Mr. Green said, "That's interesting, and what are the bad things?" +The old man thought for a moment and then said, "Well, the same things, really." \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6305919/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_6305919/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0642e4812bb7379b4c1350fb9347e55cc60b1b45 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6305919/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +{ + "article_id": 6305919, + "audio_file": "test/article_6305919/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 5, + "audio_length_sec": 43.15, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3872, + "question": "Mr. and Mrs. Green went to the country _ .", + "options": [ + "to see the old man", + "to spend their holiday", + "to see the quiet place", + "to have a walk" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3873, + "question": "Mr. and Mrs. Green enjoyed the country because _ .", + "options": [ + "there were many children", + "there was an old man", + "it was far from the city", + "it was quiet and clean" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3874, + "question": "Mr. and Mrs. Green took a walk _ .", + "options": [ + "in the afternoon", + "early in the morning", + "after breakfast", + "in the evening" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3875, + "question": "The old mall said, \"Yes, I do.\" \"I do\" here means _ .", + "options": [ + "I like to live in this place", + "I like the people here", + "I like to sit in the warm sun", + "I like to go out for a walk" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3876, + "question": "The old man sometimes liked the people to _ , but sometimes he didn't.", + "options": [ + "ask him questions", + "keep the place quiet and clean", + "come and visit him", + "make interesting things" + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6305919/q_3872/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6305919/q_3872/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a3a65a15c241a0c51821dfea2c32c1b4dcef8363 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6305919/q_3872/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3872, + "question": "Mr. and Mrs. Green went to the country _ .", + "options": [ + "to see the old man", + "to spend their holiday", + "to see the quiet place", + "to have a walk" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6305919/q_3874/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6305919/q_3874/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..63372d0e0d545840e8c5c9e05b6aa27ff416a753 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6305919/q_3874/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3874, + "question": "Mr. and Mrs. Green took a walk _ .", + "options": [ + "in the afternoon", + "early in the morning", + "after breakfast", + "in the evening" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6305919/q_3875/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6305919/q_3875/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17472d18d848ab26321e76c9a6da972159509af4 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6305919/q_3875/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3875, + "question": "The old mall said, \"Yes, I do.\" \"I do\" here means _ .", + "options": [ + "I like to live in this place", + "I like the people here", + "I like to sit in the warm sun", + "I like to go out for a walk" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6327785/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_6327785/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e36b19d4fc12032832c36563552dcfe46ffae73b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6327785/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Train-spotting +Many people around the world have seen Danny Boyle's movie Train spotting starring Ewan McGregor, but how many of us really know what train-spotting is all about? Now this is not considered cool in town and the word "train-spotter" in Britain is related to "geek" or "nerd" (someone who seems very ridiculous). But is this reputation really deserved? +First of all, let's see what train-spotting is. It is said that there are some 100,000 train spotters in the UK. Exactly as the title suggests, they spot trains, that is, they stand in train stations, look at the number of each train that leaves and arrives and write it down. The eventual aim is to have seen every train in the country. +Being crazy about railways and trains is not modern and it dates back to 1804. As the number of trains grew and they got faster and faster, so did the interest in them grow? Is this any stranger than people who love cars? +So, what do you need to be a train-spotter? Well, all you really need is a pen or pencil and a notebook to write down the train numbers. Other equipment includes hot tea in a thermos, a camera and some sandwiches for those long afternoons spent on train platforms when you don't want to risk the delights of railway station food. +It's interesting to note that despite the "bad name" of train-spotting, there have been famous railway lovers in history, such as Alfred Hitchcock, who filmed them regularly, especially The 39 Steps. There is evidence, too, that being a train-spotter is not necessarily a strange phenomenon in Britain. +One glance at the US train stations should be enough to convince you that train-spotters there are alive and well. In America, they try to call rail lovers "train-fans" and talk of "train-fanning". Don't let this fool you--these people are train spotters and there are a lot of them. Each month, two million pages are visited on the website TrainWeb.org. +340words \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6327785/q_4272/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6327785/q_4272/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f37f0837957880c64b27e0074aee9fac3af7fe33 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6327785/q_4272/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4272, + "question": "What do we learn from the passage?", + "options": [ + "Train-spotters in the UK want to fool people.", + "Train-spotting is more acceptable in America.", + "Train-spotters are much stranger than car lovers.", + "Train-spotting relates to(...)a dangerous lifestyle." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_641401/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_641401/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7393472cf385c88e120b223b56bab47357ded375 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_641401/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Traditionally, women have fallen behind men in adoption of Internet technologies, but a study released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that women under age 65 now get ahead of men in Internet usage, though only by a few percentage points. But the survey also noted that the _ between women and men on the Web is even greater among the 18-to-29 age group and African Americans. +The report, "How Women and Men Use the Internet", examined use by both sexes, looking at what men and women are doing online as well as their rate of adopting new Web-based technologies. +The report found that 86 percent of women aged 18 to 29 were online, compared with 80 percent of men in the same age group. Among African Americans, 60 percent of women are online, compared with 50 percent of men. +In other age groups, the disparity is only slight, with women outpacing men by 3 percentage points. However, among the older group, those age 65 and older, 34 percent of men are online, compared with 21 percent of women. +Men tend (......) to use the Web for information and entertainment, getting sports scores and stock quotes and downloading music, while women tend to be heavier users of mapping and direction services, and communication services such as e-mail. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_641401/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_641401/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1cbb4fedfd9dd324d74634546e8eae520ee92e2e --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_641401/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 641401, + "audio_file": "test/article_641401/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 79.5, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 988, + "question": "Among African Americans, _ .", + "options": [ + "women equal men in the use of the Internet", + "women use the Internet less than men", + "women use the Internet more than men", + "women use the Internet better than men" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 989, + "question": "In which age group do women fall behind men in the use of the Internet?", + "options": [ + "18 to 29.", + "Over 30.", + "65 and older.", + "Under 20." + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 990, + "question": "What does the passage mainly tell us?", + "options": [ + "Women are catching up in the use of the Internet.", + "Men and women use the Internet for different purposes.", + "How people use the Internet in different age groups", + "Why women fall behind in the adoption of Internet technologies." + ], + "answer": "A" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_641401/q_988/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_641401/q_988/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15f911c86eda149614af410f4cb388c24fc47e1a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_641401/q_988/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 988, + "question": "Among African Americans, _ .", + "options": [ + "women equal men in the use of the Internet", + "women use the Internet less than men", + "women use the Internet more than men", + "women use the Internet better than men" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_641401/q_989/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_641401/q_989/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1acaf2772191eb33754c2216081ee58e8fa77c6a --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_641401/q_989/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 989, + "question": "In which age group do women fall behind men in the use of the Internet?", + "options": [ + "18 to 29.", + "Over 30.", + "65 and older.", + "Under 20." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_641401/q_990/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_641401/q_990/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..355683b7982c43b39f282d0b0ec2bbd09a30f0e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_641401/q_990/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 990, + "question": "What does the passage mainly tell us?", + "options": [ + "Women are catching up in the use of the Internet.", + "Men and women use the Internet for different purposes.", + "How people use the Internet in different age groups", + "Why women fall behind in the adoption of Internet technologies." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6439227/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_6439227/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a502a6b622181b8910c4533af3be34b046e3bf27 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6439227/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +It's killed at least two dozen people, damaged hundreds of homes, cost some 22 billion Yuan in direct economic losses so far and has left thousands of family-bound travelers stranded. The massive snow and ice storm that has swept through the southern part of China has put this country into full disaster management mode. Tens of thousands of soldiers have been activated and the government has already provided 126 million Yuan in aide to six provinces in the south slammed by the unexpected winter blast. But is enough being done? And what else can be done to ensure that the effects of natural disasters like the one in southern China are minimized in the future? +"Ni hao, you're listening to People In the Know, your window into the world around you, online at www.crienglish.com here on China Radio International. In this edition of the show, we'll be talking about the southern China snow and ice storm. So let's get started. +First, let's get a Chinese perspective of how well the ice and snow storm in southern China is being handled from a logistical point of view. For this we're joined on the line by Professor Peng Xizhe, Dean of the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University in Shanghai. +(Dialogue with Peng) +And after a short break, we'll talk about the broader view of disaster management." +"Ni hao, you're listening to People In the Know, your window into the world around you, online at www.crienglish.com here on China Radio International. I'm Paul James in Beijing. In this edition of the show, we're talking about the massive winter storm that has ravaged southern China. For a broader look at disaster management, we're joined on the line now by Mr. Aloysius Rego and Ms. Jiang Lingling, both with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Thailand. +(Dialogue with Jiang and Rego) +And with that we close out this edition of People In the Know, online at www.crienglish.com here on China Radio International. Though it may seem small consolation now for the thousands who remain stranded because of the storm, it's important to remember that as long as patience prevails, you will get home. Questions or comments for us can be sent to crieng@crifm.com. For Executive Director Wang Lei and Producers Yang Jingjie and Xu Yang, I'm Paul James in Beijing. Take care." \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6439227/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_6439227/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef82312e2c1f25eea6594a499514b8bfdece4749 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6439227/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +{ + "article_id": 6439227, + "audio_file": "test/article_6439227/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 2, + "audio_length_sec": 142.5, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 518, + "question": "What's the main idea of this article?", + "options": [ + "Tell the stories about the snow storm in the southern part of China", + "Tell us some facts about the people in the disaster.", + "What have been done or will be done to rescue the people in the disaster.", + "Let's know the measures about the disaster." + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 519, + "question": "How many people died from the snow disaster before this report?", + "options": [ + "more than 30", + "more than 24", + "many", + "50" + ], + "answer": "B" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6439227/q_518/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6439227/q_518/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a68867374302f68356a16f50ff8601b78028d4df --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6439227/q_518/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 518, + "question": "What's the main idea of this article?", + "options": [ + "Tell the stories about the snow storm in the southern part of China", + "Tell us some facts about the people in the disaster.", + "What have been done or will be done to rescue the people in the disaster.", + "Let's know the measures about the disaster." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6439227/q_519/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6439227/q_519/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47079913c28951f0d9b7e1413f12425d1b0d1523 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6439227/q_519/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 519, + "question": "How many people died from the snow disaster before this report?", + "options": [ + "more than 30", + "more than 24", + "many", + "50" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6512812/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_6512812/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e591874ad5da2b0b4387f4248f4a649bfb57bb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6512812/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +One day about 30 years ago, a 2 year-old Chinese boy in Shenyang was watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon on TV. Tom the cat began to play the piano. The music was to beautiful that the boy fell in love with it at once. This little boy was Lang Lang - one of today's great pianists. +Lang Lang began to play the piano at 3. By the age of 5, the had won fist place in Shenyang's piano competition and performed his first public recital . People were shocked by his perfect performance and thought he was a real talent. From that time on, playing on the global stage became the dream of Lang Lang and his parents. +To help him much closer to his dream, when Lang was 9, his father quit his job and went with Lang to Beijing to help his son study piano. There, Lang did not receive the praise that he had received at home, and he experienced the hardest time of his life. "I was kicked out of the class by my piano teacher six months later. It totally destroyed my piano dream," Lang said in an interview. Hearing of his son's failure, Lang's father was so angry and upset that told Lang Lang to go back to Shenyang. Feeling hopeless and in pain, Lang tried to damage his fingers. He hated piano! +Luckily, another teacher noticed Lang's sadness and encouraged him. Success came soon. 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That is, except in the small town of Piobbico, the self-declared World Capital of Ugly People. The road sign at the edge of the town even warns visitors that they are entering the ugly zone. People who consider themselves ugly have been gathering in Piobbico since the 1960s. That's when Ugly Club president Telesforo Lacobelli established a dating agency for women who believed they were too ugly to attract husbands. Lacobelli believes that he is ugly himself because he has a short nose in a country where long or large noses have always been considered beautiful. +People from around the world travel to Piobbico to tell their sad stories of ugliness. During the annual Festival of the Ugly, which occurs on the first Sunday of every September, hundreds of people gather in Piobbico's town square to elect the president of the Ugly Club. Lacobelli wins the election every year. The Ugly Club has over 20, 000 members. They carry ID cards that grade their ugliness from bearable to extreme. A prize is awarded to Ugly Club members who qualify as extremely ugly. +The Ugly Club president insists that ugliness is a virtue. Since beautiful people get a lot of attention for their beauty alone, they have to work hard to prove their other virtues. Ugly people, on the other hand, are genuine and do not have to prove anything to anybody, according to Lacobelli. +Lacobelli is a spokesperson for ugly people everywhere. He believes that the uglier one is, the better life can be. Though the club enjoys making fun of beauty, especially beauty contests, Lacobelli has a serious side as well. He believes that too many people suffer from financial and emotional pressures because they don't meet society's standards of beauty. 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+ "options": [ + "Because he is the ugliest person in the whole world.", + "Because his ugliness is always graded as bearable.", + "Because he is a spokesperson for ugly people everywhere.", + "Because he has won the members' trust and admiration." + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3247, + "question": "Which of the following is true according to the passage?", + "options": [ + "Ugly people are most respected in Italy.", + "The Festival of the Ugly is held every two years.", + "Ugly people are unfairly treated in society.", + "The uglier one is, the better life he or she lives." + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3248, + "question": "Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?", + "options": [ + "The Ugly Capital of the World", + "The Ugliest Person of the World", + "Festival of the Ugly", + "Beauty Contests Should be Banned" + ], + "answer": "A" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git 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every year?", + "options": [ + "Because he is the ugliest person in the whole world.", + "Because his ugliness is always graded as bearable.", + "Because he is a spokesperson for ugly people everywhere.", + "Because he has won the members' trust and admiration." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6661639/q_3247/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6661639/q_3247/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d91986b5528269bfed4117c07a01e04a8c0f15c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6661639/q_3247/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3247, + "question": "Which of the following is true according to the passage?", + "options": [ + "Ugly people are most respected in Italy.", + "The Festival of the Ugly is held every two years.", + "Ugly people are unfairly treated in society.", + "The uglier one is, the better life he or she lives." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at 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"question": "Mom let Mark inside our house because she _ .", + "options": [ + "was hospitable to anyone", + "was ready to help others", + "wanted to educate me", + "felt sorry for him" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6705704/q_1840/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6705704/q_1840/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2aba929cf534b3418e42a4d505c6c0fb2692391b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6705704/q_1840/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1840, + "question": "Why did Mark cry when he tightly held the coin ?", + "options": [ + "Because he realized he was not abandoned by the world .", + "Because he was worried about whether he could pay it back .", + "Because he finally got money when he was in great need of it .", + "Because he felt ashamed that he should get money from a child ." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git 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I post to my blog six days a week. I take notes every day. I write in my one-sentence journal every day. Many people have told me that they find it easier to exercise when they exercise every day. If I try to do something just four days a week, I spend a lot of time arguing with myself: Is today the day, or is it tomorrow, or the next day? Does the week start on Sunday or Monday? +If you do something every day, you tend to fall into a routine. Routine has a bad reputation for lacking excitement. It's true that novelty and challenge bring happiness and that people who break their routines, try new things, and go to new places are happier, but I think that some routine activities also bring happiness. The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. By repeating, you can find happiness in activities like doing dishes or sweeping the floor as well as in your beloved morning coffee-and-news routines. +Two geniuses whom I know of also wrote about the power of doing something every day. Andy Warhol wrote, "Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more." Gertrude Stein made a similar point, "Anything one does every day is important and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful." +So if there's something that you wish you did more regularly, try doing it every day; if you do something every day, take great pleasure in it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6860091/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_6860091/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3d30a3b77a9a06fbcaa468d4082911e15458c83 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6860091/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 6860091, + "audio_file": "test/article_6860091/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 95.175, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 2419, + "question": "People usually tend to break their routines because they _ .", + "options": [ + "hope to have a better reputation", + "would like to get rid of the old habit", + "want to have fun and excitement", + "are willing to face new challenges" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 2420, + "question": "Which of the following statements does Andy Warhol probably agree to?", + "options": [ + "Doing something that is exciting.", + "Doing something almost every day.", + "Doing something every day, not only once.", + "Doing something every day or only once." + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 2421, + "question": "Which can be the best title of the passage?", + "options": [ + "A Way To Form A Habit", + "Do Anything Every Day", + "Repeat Regularly", + "Power Of Everyday Repetition" + ], + "answer": "D" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6860091/q_2419/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6860091/q_2419/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f434000b1aa1f6179aa0fca6cc19a91d903fa196 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6860091/q_2419/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2419, + "question": "People usually tend to break their routines because they _ .", + "options": [ + "hope to have a better reputation", + "would like to get rid of the old habit", + "want to have fun and excitement", + "are willing to face new challenges" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6860091/q_2420/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6860091/q_2420/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62b1df4e13f28156e2471e9dab779cf3b64619e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6860091/q_2420/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2420, + "question": "Which of the following statements does Andy Warhol probably agree to?", + "options": [ + "Doing something that is exciting.", + "Doing something almost every day.", + "Doing something every day, not only once.", + "Doing something every day or only once." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6860091/q_2421/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6860091/q_2421/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f04aadd0f09e020815bb1ff9707ce0ed8a7e6bdb --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6860091/q_2421/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 2421, + "question": "Which can be the best title of the passage?", + "options": [ + "A Way To Form A Habit", + "Do Anything Every Day", + "Repeat Regularly", + "Power Of Everyday Repetition" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6888911/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24cbc0b390e45740e3ff5fc4195f0842821da996 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Hi, dear boys and girls! Do you know how to be a healthy kid? Here are some rules you should follow. +First, eat different foods, especially fruit and vegetables. You may have a favourite food, but you'd better eat something different, if you eat different foods, you will probably get more nutrients your body needs. +Second, drink water and milk as often as possible. When you're really thirsty, cold water is the No. 1 choice. Milk is a great drink that can give you more calcium your body needs to grow strong bones. +Third, listen to your body. How do you feel when you are full? When you are eating, notice how your body feels and when your stomach feels comfortably full. Eating too much will not make you feel comfortable and make you fat. +Fourth, limit screen times. Screen time is the time you watch TV, DVDs and videos, or using computers. It is good to take more exercise, such as basketball, bike riding and swimming. You can't watch TV for more than two hours a day. +Fifth, be active. One thing you'd like to do as a kid is to find out which activity you like best. Find ways to be active every day. +Follow these rules and you can be a healthy kid. +, , . \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6888911/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f87a811bfc5cc0ac8c5d6bb7308ad735b795f30 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +{ + "article_id": 6888911, + "audio_file": "test/article_6888911/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 5, + "audio_length_sec": 66.25, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 4325, + "question": "You should eat different foods especially _ .", + "options": [ + "meat", + "junk food", + "hamburgers", + "fruit and vegetable" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4326, + "question": "Which kind of drinks can give you more calcium?", + "options": [ + "Milk.", + "Juice.", + "Cold water.", + "Cola." + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4327, + "question": "According to the passage, you should follow _ rules if you want to be healthy.", + "options": [ + "three", + "four", + "five", + "six" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4328, + "question": "Which of the following isNOT True?", + "options": [ + "We should try to live in an active way in our life.", + "You can eat your favourite food as much as possible.", + "When you're eating, you don't have to notice how your body feels.", + "Don't limit screen times." + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4329, + "question": "Which is the best title of the passage?", + "options": [ + "How to be active", + "How to make yourself important", + "How to make your parents healthy", + "How to be a healthy kid" + ], + "answer": "D" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6888911/q_4326/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/q_4326/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62ff51264ac35fe343fd364f7053a37f1fd60387 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/q_4326/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4326, + "question": "Which kind of drinks can give you more calcium?", + "options": [ + "Milk.", + "Juice.", + "Cold water.", + "Cola." + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6888911/q_4327/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/q_4327/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..39fd6a777c48897a26ca9f80b232ce6df53eb03b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/q_4327/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4327, + "question": "According to the passage, you should follow _ rules if you want to be healthy.", + "options": [ + "three", + "four", + "five", + "six" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6888911/q_4328/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/q_4328/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..220d8a4312827d77611b1d6283e8054f28a4639f --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6888911/q_4328/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4328, + "question": "Which of the following isNOT True?", + "options": [ + "We should try to live in an active way in our life.", + "You can eat your favourite food as much as possible.", + "When you're eating, you don't have to notice how your body feels.", + "Don't limit screen times." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_6970033/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_6970033/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d3bdc69eb728e7fc3265dc01c8a0eaa21140abe --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_6970033/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Picture Show +There are 12,000 pictures on show here. You can see the whole Chinese history! +Place: City Museum +Price: ~30 +Time: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday +Films at the Museum +There are two European films on Saturday afternoon at the Museum Theatre. See Broken Window at 2:30. The Workers is at 4:45. For more information, call 84987898. +International Picnic +Are you tired of eating the same food every day? Come to Central Park on Saturday and enjoy food from all over the world. Delicious and not expensive. Noon to 5:00 p.m. +Do You Want to Hear "The Zoo"? +"The Zoo", a popular rock group from Australia, Will give their first US concert this Saturday night, at 8 at Rose Hall, City College. +The Music Shop's Sale +Sale on every record and tape in the shop, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Disco, Folk. 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"options": [ + "In the Museum Theatre.", + "In the City College.", + "In the City Museum.", + "In the Music Shop." + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4089, + "question": "What is \"The Zoo\" in the ads?", + "options": [ + "It's a zoo with many animals in it.", + "It's the first US concert.", + "It gives a concert on Sunday night.", + "It's an Australian music group." + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4090, + "question": "If Lucy would like to buy some cheap records, she cannot go to the Music Shop on _ .", + "options": [ + "Tuesday", + "Wednesday", + "Thursday", + "Saturday" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4091, + "question": "Which of the followings is True according to the ads?", + "options": [ + "People can see the whole European history in the City Museum.", + "People can call 84987898 to find more information about food and music.", + "People can eat different kinds of food in Central Park.", + "People can go to the zoo this Saturday 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of the followings is True according to the ads?", + "options": [ + "People can see the whole European history in the City Museum.", + "People can call 84987898 to find more information about food and music.", + "People can eat different kinds of food in Central Park.", + "People can go to the zoo this Saturday night." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7020425/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_7020425/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02a01b964d698b4577d72c2e5867786f95f9afd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7020425/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +How much do you know about Albert Einstein? +Albert Einstein, born on March 14, 1579 in Germany, was a great scientist in the world. He was strange because he hated haircuts and new clothes. He believed in peace. All his life, he hated war. However, his most famous idea, E=mc2, helped create the world's most dangerous weapon . Many people think he was the smartest person in the world. But Einstein said that _ +What did he like? +Einstein liked learning sailing . He sailed in small boats all his life. He once joked, "Sailing is the sport that takes the least energy!" +When Einstein was a child, his mother made him take violin lessons. At first, he didn't like the violin. But then he learned to love music and became a good violinist. Later, he said, "Love is the best teacher." +Why is the sky blue? +In 1910, Einstein asked a question which many children often ask, "Why is the sky blue?" After his careful research, he answered the question like this: "It's because light is made up of many colors including blue. When light travels to Earth, gas particles spread the blue light all over the sky." His answer is true in physics. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7020425/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_7020425/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26633081145c08ab21d254f2d4f076b285c57cd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7020425/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +{ + "article_id": 7020425, + "audio_file": "test/article_7020425/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 2, + "audio_length_sec": 68.4, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3915, + "question": "Einstein _ learning sailing and playing the violin.", + "options": [ + "was interested in", + "looked forward to", + "was known for", + "had no interest in" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3916, + "question": "Einstein offered a _ explanation for the question why the sky is blue.", + "options": [ + "magic", + "scientific", + "careful", + "Natural" + ], + "answer": "B" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7020425/q_3915/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_7020425/q_3915/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8041af6c276642554e96d5a9e32cc7413dde51fa --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7020425/q_3915/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3915, + "question": "Einstein _ learning sailing and playing the violin.", + "options": [ + "was interested in", + "looked forward to", + "was known for", + "had no interest in" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7020425/q_3916/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_7020425/q_3916/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dec88e77e5d71f3fe9df9732cc443f8d626e0633 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7020425/q_3916/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3916, + "question": "Einstein offered a _ explanation for the question why the sky is blue.", + "options": [ + "magic", + "scientific", + "careful", + "Natural" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7081871/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7f1d7975b22eb9c9f28e293fb65fb208fa0921a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Most people believe they don't have imagination. They are wrong. Everyone has imagination, but most of us,once we became adults, forget how to access it. Creativity isn't always connected with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time routinely think of creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve,a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you. +This technique involves taking unrelated ideas and trying to find links between them. First,think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image,word,idea or object,for example,a candle. Write down all the ideas/words associated with candles:light,fire,matches, wax,night,silence,etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the ideas to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original present; you could buy him tickets to a match or take him out for the night. +Imagine that normal limitations don't exist. You have as much time/space/money,etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new possibilities. If,for example,your goal is to learn to ski, you can now practice skiing every day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now adapt this to reality. Maybe you can practice skiing every day in December,or every Monday in January. +Look at the situation from a different point of view. Good negotiators use this technique in business,and so do writers. Fiction writers often imagine they are the characters in their books. They ask questions: what does this character want? Why can't she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? What does she dream about? If your goal involves other people, put yourself "in their shoes". The best fishermen think like fish! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7081871/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ce057b98f03471cc5ffe18ff34ba6e9b7cffaee --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 7081871, + "audio_file": "test/article_7081871/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 106.75, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 1929, + "question": "According to the passage, when we become adults, _ .", + "options": [ + "most of us are no longer creative", + "we can still learn to be more creative", + "we are not as imaginative as children", + "we are unwilling to be creative" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1930, + "question": "The second technique suggests that you just imagine", + "options": [ + "setting a goal is as simple as skiing", + "new possibilities will soon appear", + "December and January are the best months for skiing.", + "you have every resource to achieve your goal" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1931, + "question": "We learn from the third technique that a good salesman should ask himself \" _ ?\".", + "options": [ + "what do I usually do", + "what did my boss tell me to do", + "what are my customers' needs", + "how should I sell my products" + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7081871/q_1929/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/q_1929/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5b0c40ffedbf991089d80f914236f8dcbdbe46b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/q_1929/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1929, + "question": "According to the passage, when we become adults, _ .", + "options": [ + "most of us are no longer creative", + "we can still learn to be more creative", + "we are not as imaginative as children", + "we are unwilling to be creative" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7081871/q_1930/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/q_1930/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98595b6656a5a9e58b036e9c23ab9f7609f0115e --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/q_1930/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1930, + "question": "The second technique suggests that you just imagine", + "options": [ + "setting a goal is as simple as skiing", + "new possibilities will soon appear", + "December and January are the best months for skiing.", + "you have every resource to achieve your goal" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7081871/q_1931/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/q_1931/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0506e8b4f7098b1a45608f38192e497f4e5c41d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7081871/q_1931/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 1931, + "question": "We learn from the third technique that a good salesman should ask himself \" _ ?\".", + "options": [ + "what do I usually do", + "what did my boss tell me to do", + "what are my customers' needs", + "how should I sell my products" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7133213/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_7133213/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa703e013b7cf75ca81e7f9b56006ee7858a0336 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7133213/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +High school announcements +Do you have a high school announcement to make? Are you hosting a high school sports event or tournament? Are you looking for a coach? Let us know, and we'll share it with "Tribune" readers. +August 21---- Sacred Heart is looking for two assistant baseball coaches immediately. Practices and games are held after school at 3:30 pm. Some experience in playing or coaching is preferred. If interested, e-mail Ron Schwartz at ramsad1@aol.com. +August 7 ----- Loyola Academy will host its 12th Rambler Baseball Winter Workshop for students in fourth through eighth grades on Aug. 26. the early registration fee is $70 and registration at the door is $85. contact Loyola coach Bill San Hamel at 847-920-2523 to register early. +July 17 ----- St. Patrick will host a Youth Holiday Baseball Camp for boys in grades three through eight Aug. 26 through Aug. 28 from 6:30 pm to 9 pm in St. Pat's gym. The registration fee is $90. for more information, visit www. stpatrick.orgor contact Coach Kusinski at (773) 282-8844 ext. 242 or dkusinski@stpatrick.org. +June 12 ----- The Marist Girls' basketball team is looking for a game for the new season. The team can play all levels. If interested, please contact Mary Pat Connolly at (773) 881-5318, or e-mail +connolly.marypat@marist.net. +June 1 ----- Bartlett is hosing a high school football camp June 13-30 and July 11-28 from 8-11 am. The registration fee is $180. to register go to www.athletic2000.com/bartlett. Contact coach Tom Meaney with questions at 630-372-4700 ext. 8105. +May 27 ----Hinsdale is hosting youth wrestling camps June 20-23 and June 27-30. There is no minimum age required. Even wrestlers in kindergarten are eligible to participate. The cost of registration is $80 per person. Contact head wrestling coach Jason Hayes at 815-762-1568 or e-mail jhayes@hinsdale86.org for more information. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7133213/q_460/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_7133213/q_460/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47390e724644c9b8fc755e286a3f39fff46a6248 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7133213/q_460/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 460, + "question": "Which of the following high schools wants to have a match?", + "options": [ + "Sacred Heart.", + "The Marist.", + "Bartlett.", + "hinsdale." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7133213/q_461/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_7133213/q_461/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d81c4fb12b0fa5c4b697cf202664717c68726cd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7133213/q_461/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 461, + "question": "If one wants to choose a relatively cheap sports camp, he may _ .", + "options": [ + "phone 847-920-2523 to register early", + "e-mail connolly.marypat@marist.net", + "visit www.athletics2000.com/bartlett", + "contact head wrestling coach Jason Hayes" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7225881/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_7225881/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7f6ee6cdfe95ec26dc6644bffd5d64427f235f5e --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7225881/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +{ + "article_id": 7225881, + "audio_file": "test/article_7225881/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 2, + "audio_length_sec": 122.325, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3358, + "question": "The article is intended to _ .", + "options": [ + "warn people of the possible risks in using mobile phones", + "inform readers of the history and benefits of mobile phones", + "convince people of the uses of mobile phones", + "predict the applications of mobile phones" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3359, + "question": "The last sentence of the whole passage ''That's gr8! 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Scientists think that there are also two kinds of people: people who prefer warm colours and people who prefer cool colours. The warm colours are red , orange and yellow. Where there are warm colours and a lot of lights , people usually want to be active. People think that red , for example , is exciting . Sociable people , those who like to be with others , like red . Scientists also find that warm colours can produce a comfortable feeling and that time seems to pass quickly in a room with warm colours than with cool colours . So a warm colour , such as red or orange , is a good choice for a living room or restaurant. +The cool colours are green , blue and violet . These colours , unlike warm colours , are relaxing . Where there are cool colours , people are usually quiet . People who like to spend time alone often prefer blue . 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who are working can be more relaxed and calm." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7470181/q_4925/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_7470181/q_4925/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..edbe56745b08f4e7249ff3460a9fc63e3c601a85 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7470181/q_4925/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4925, + "question": "The best title for this passage should be '_'.", + "options": [ + "Warm colours and cool colours", + "People and colours", + "Sociable people like warm colours", + "Places and colours" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_7604528/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_7604528/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83e54789a1867715621a50795ec8964ff544a68f --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_7604528/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Martha had been working for Miller Laboratories for two years, but she was not happy there. Nothing significant had happened in the way of promotions or salary increases. Martha felt that her supervisor, a younger and less experienced person than she, did not like her. In fact, the supervisor often said unpleasant things to her. +One day, while talking with her friend Maria, she mentioned how discouraged she was. Maria gave her the name of a cousin of hers who was director of Human Resources Department for a large chemical company. Martha called him the next day and set up an interview on her lunch hour. +During the interview, Mr. Petri said, "You're just the kind of person we need here. You're being wasted in your other job. Give me a call in a day or two. I'm sure we can find a place for you in our organization." Martha was so happy she almost danced out of the building. +That afternoon, Ruth Kenny, her supervisor, saw that Martha had come in ten minutes late from her lunch hour and she said, "Oh, so you finally decided to come back to work today?" +This was +. She could not take another insult. Besides, Mr. Petri was right: she was being wasted in this job. +"Look," she said angrily, "if you don't like the way I work, I don't need to stay here. I'll go where I'm appreciated! Good-bye!" She took up her things and stormed out of the office. +That night she called Maria and told her what had happened and then asked Maria, "What do you think?" +"Well," said Maria carefully, "are you sure about the other job?" +"Well, not exactly, but..." +Maria continued, "Will you be able to get a recommendation from Mrs. Kenny if you need one?" +"A recommendation?...from Mrs. Kenny?" hesitated Martha, in a worried tone. +"Martha, I hope you didn't burn your bridges." Maria said. 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"My message on Chinglish is: It should be conserved . It shouldn't be treated as a cheap joke for foreign tourists to laugh at but as a cultural treasure," said the 32-year-old multimedia designer, who frequently visited China for almost a decade before moving to Beijing in 2007. +"I'm trying to challenge the idea that there is only one type of standard English -- the English that's spoken in America or in the British Isles -- which is shortsighted, because Chinglish is already being used by millions of people to communicate with one another." +So, since 2005, he has collected more than 5,000 examples of "the wonderful results of an English dictionary meeting Chinese grammar" on his website www.chinglish.de and has published two books on the subject. +"The two books are unique in that they talk about the academic value of Chinglish, the creative combination of English and Chinese, and why we should keep it," Radtke said. +Patricia Schetelig, who works for the German Embassy in Beijing and regularly contributes to www.chinglish.de, said she appreciates Radtke's approach to Chinglish. +"What's important to me is that he's not making fun of the way things are translated," said she. "There are other websites doing similar things, but they're making fun of Chinglish or saying it shouldn't be done this way." +Part of his mission, Radtke said, is to conserve rapidly disappearing Chinglish examples. +He was disappointed while watching the government replace Chinglish signs with standard English ones in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. "That was a sad day for me and a sad day for Chinglish," Radtke said. +But American David Tool, who has been closely involved in cleaning up Chinglish in Beijing since 2001, disagreed. +"Chinglish takes away from the aesthetic , educational and cultural value we want these signs to provide," said Tool, "We get distracted when we're trying to explain something. 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sharing treats, Jeremy hated the very idea of the gathering. +Afraid to raise the pressure too high, I decided to contribute something that was easy to purchase on the walk to school. +Off we went the day of the party, approaching his school as if nothing was planned. I reminded him of our need to make a purchase, entered his favorite shop, and asked him to select the ripest bunch of grapes. He shot me an anxious look and insisted none of his classmates ever be able to notice he had something to bring to the party. My _ of a successful parenting method, resulting in delivering a sociable child to his school, diverted sharply from reality. +Back on route, I did my best to hide the sinking feeling of fear. How could I possibly drop him off and then walk into my own classroom to teach a successful class? +My next move was born in the heat of the moment. I said a quick goodbye at the front gate and rushed to his classroom through the emergency exit. I managed to inform his teacher about the grapes in the backpack and be out of the classroom before I could be spied by my son. +So, what happened on that June day? His teacher, a caring educator, worked wonders. My son and I still laugh about the way Mr. B started the day with an unusual question, "Does anyone have any grapes?" While Jeremy admits feeling a bit uncomfortable, the words encouraged him to takeout the fruit. 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They have a strong need to make decisions, manage their environment, and lead rather than follow. Stephen Jackson, a Year One student, "operates under the theory of what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine," says his mother. "The other day I bought two new Star Wars light sabers . Later, I saw Stephen with the two new ones while his brother was using the beat-up ones. " +"Examine the extended family, and you'll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every generation. It's an inheritable trait," says Russell Barkley, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other children who may not be particularly bossy can gradually gain dominance when they sense their parents are weak, hesitant, or in disagreement with each other. +Whether it's inborn nature or developed character at work, too much control in the hands of the young isn't healthy for children or the family, Fear is at the root of a lot of bossy behavior, says family psychologist John Taylor. Children, he says in his book From Defiance to Cooperation, "have secret feelings of weakness" and "a desire to feel safe. " It's the parents' role to provide that protection. +When a "boss child" doesn't learn limits at home, the stage is set for a host of troubles outside the family. The overly willful and unbending child may have trouble obeying teachers or coaches, for example, or trouble keeping friends. It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways. +"I see more and more parents giving up their power," says Barkley, who has studied bossy behavior for more than 30 years. "They bend too far because they don't want to be as strict as their own parents were. But they also feel less confident about their parenting skills. Their kids, in turn, feel more anxious. " \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8075803/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_8075803/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24649886da7de078d35d92d6809b5de789f74816 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_8075803/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 8075803, + "audio_file": "test/article_8075803/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 109.575, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 1412, + "question": "Bossy children like Stephen Jackson _ .", + "options": [ + "make good decisions", + "show self-centeredness", + "lack care from others", + "have little sense of fear" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1413, + "question": "The study on bossy behavior implies that parents _ .", + "options": [ + "should give more power to their children", + "should be strict with their children", + "should not be so anxious about their children", + "should not set limits for their children" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 1414, + "question": "What is the passage mainly about?", + "options": [ + "How bossy behavior can be controlled.", + "How we can get along with bossy children.", + "What leads to children's bossy behavior.", + "What effect bossy behavior brings about." + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_826493/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_826493/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..762efe7c5f0ce81fd450056c9317aabc50c55cad --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_826493/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Here are some ideas for learning English well. +You are like a new baby. +Babies learn their language slowly, First they learn to listen .Then they learn to talk .Finally , they can read and talk. +Listen to English every day +Listen to English radio , watch English TV, go to see English movies or use online lessons. +Practise the conversations +Make up conversations and practise the conversations .You'd better use beginner textbooks. +Reading English stories +Start with children's storybooks .Try to read stories for ESL readers , Read ads and so on ,Try English Club.com for young learners. +Write down new words +Start a new word notebook.Write words in _ (A...B...C)Make some sentences.Try to use an English-English dictionary. +Keep an English diary +Start with one sentence.Like how do you feel? What did you do today?Write another sentence tomorrow. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_826493/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_826493/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..710e9f935080e473eaa405547bb63dafdfe4dc80 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_826493/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 826493, + "audio_file": "test/article_826493/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 50.825, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3777, + "question": "How do babies learn their languages?", + "options": [ + "Slowly", + "Quickly", + "Loudly", + "Quietly" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3778, + "question": "The writer gave us _ ideas for learning English faster.", + "options": [ + "four", + "five", + "six", + "seven" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3779, + "question": "What kind of books do we start to read when learning English?", + "options": [ + "Children'storybooks", + "Children's textbooks", + "Children's picture books", + "Children's music books" + ], + "answer": "A" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_826493/q_3777/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_826493/q_3777/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c70f64f52d46fa603c5628c62aad59a8328b0b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_826493/q_3777/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3777, + "question": "How do babies learn their languages?", + "options": [ + "Slowly", + "Quickly", + "Loudly", + "Quietly" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_826493/q_3778/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_826493/q_3778/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ea2e56c5d08ab6732a587d4eb8fec2f2eaaab03 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_826493/q_3778/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3778, + "question": "The writer gave us _ ideas for learning English faster.", + "options": [ + "four", + "five", + "six", + "seven" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_826493/q_3779/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_826493/q_3779/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb540d87175f93fd8569c23c006b076a5d14a1b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_826493/q_3779/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3779, + "question": "What kind of books do we start to read when learning English?", + "options": [ + "Children'storybooks", + "Children's textbooks", + "Children's picture books", + "Children's music books" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8350573/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09966698ed5a6ac9c2d40558c8330d4511d4423b --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +One evening , my dad asked me to buy some bread for dinner . It was dark and cold outside . I rode a bike to a shop near my school . When I left the shop ,it got even darker , so I got on my bike right away. Then I found a woman in a white dress riding a motorcycle after me . She followed me for a long time . I rode very fast and started to cry for help, but no one was there . I was too scared and too tired to ride any faster . At last , I gave up . The woman stopped in front of me and said , " Why were you riding so fast , Ken ?It's dangerous !" I looked at the woman . " Oh , It's you, mum !You really scared me . Dad said you wouldn't be back for dinner tonight !" \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8350573/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fcf51d46b7cb987bc2b6e3ac15ea25f9bfa262d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 8350573, + "audio_file": "test/article_8350573/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 37.5, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 4111, + "question": "Why did Ken go out that night ?", + "options": [ + "To ride a bike", + "To buy some food", + "To go to cram school", + "To look for his mother" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4112, + "question": "Why was Ken riding fast on his way home ?", + "options": [ + "He was hungry", + "Someone was following him", + "It was getting darker and colder", + "His father asked him to go home soon" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4113, + "question": "Who was the motorcyclist ?", + "options": [ + "A stranger", + "A policeman", + "Ken's father", + "Ken's mother" + ], + "answer": "D" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8350573/q_4111/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/q_4111/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cad1d42e97a77fa9a7c9c7d0c72ecb40406c6eba --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/q_4111/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4111, + "question": "Why did Ken go out that night ?", + "options": [ + "To ride a bike", + "To buy some food", + "To go to cram school", + "To look for his mother" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8350573/q_4112/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/q_4112/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..717888244ca927710b6a8b34df918e8dfa8828ec --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/q_4112/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4112, + "question": "Why was Ken riding fast on his way home ?", + "options": [ + "He was hungry", + "Someone was following him", + "It was getting darker and colder", + "His father asked him to go home soon" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8350573/q_4113/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/q_4113/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..90405352521fbd8637aeeadf770ebbcfde82f6f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_8350573/q_4113/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4113, + "question": "Who was the motorcyclist ?", + "options": [ + "A stranger", + "A policeman", + "Ken's father", + "Ken's mother" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8711755/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_8711755/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5a6ec2b9c07c3def514aa5bb95f22b3d40c12845 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_8711755/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Welcome to Coteborg University +Coteborg University is one of Sweden's largest and most popular universities. +We are very proud of this and believe that there are several reasons for our popularity. The principal reasons we believe to be the high quality of our education and research and the broad range of courses that we offer. In addition to this, Coteborg University provides an attractive and exceptionally high-standard study environment. Most parts of the university are situated in the city centre and this enriches city life as well as student life. +Coteborg has a lot to offer its students: it has a rich and varied cultural life with many theatres, concerts and festivals. For those looking for outdoor life, forests and vast recreation areas are not far away from the city centre; the sea and the archipelago are also within easy reach. Industry and commerce are expanding, and have a joint interest with the University in meeting the ever-changing and growing demands of society. +Coteborg University strives to be an attractive choice for students from all over the world. +We look forward to welcoming you to Coteborg University. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8711755/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_8711755/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..702e7c330e4441574b9f21b351bc020476c0bd54 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_8711755/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "article_id": 8711755, + "audio_file": "test/article_8711755/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 3, + "audio_length_sec": 68.95, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 110, + "question": "The main reasons for Coteborg University's popularity according to the passage is _ .", + "options": [ + "the high quality education and research and the wide range of courses", + "the 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University." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8804559/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_8804559/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6f8507cb8eff864f5c93ad1e79bdd172943cbef --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_8804559/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +HK's Family Affair +The 32nd Hong Kong Art Festival, to be held early next year, will be based on the theme of "family". +The art festival, considered to be Asia's best, began in 1973. +"We hope that people from Beijing and from all over the world will go to Hong Kong to enjoy the multiple performances in our art festival,"Douglas Gautier, the festival's management director, said in a press conference in the capital. +In the 29 days of the festival, which runs from February 8 to March 7, 2004, the audience can choose from 111 performances of 51 programmes staged by 700 foreign performers, 450 local artists and 160 actors from the mainland. +Programmes vary from classical music, jazz, world music, Western and Peking opera, drama and dance to outdoor spectaculars. +The programmes include Beethoven's only opera Fidelio, Shakespeare's drama Rromeo and Juliet, the ballet Mozartina and African dances, to name just a few. +The lineup includes the English Touring Theatre, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Zurich Ballet, The Spanish National Dance Troupe, as well as Europe Galante, the Petersen Quartet, pianists Angela Hewitt and Marc-Andre Hamelin, and saxophonist Jan Garbarek. +In an effort to increase attendance, hotels and airlines are offering _ along with art festival ticket sales, most of which are at 20% and 30% discounts. +For more information, please check: + _ \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_8804559/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_8804559/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..41fa435f2bb4e4a5842baaacbc37b11ee34475cb --- /dev/null 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They came to present their ideas for using technology to solve world problems. +Microsoft education director Suzi Levine says the nine-year-old program began mainly as a competition to create technology. +SUZI LEVINE: "When we realized that students really actually want to have a purpose for what they're creating, we introduced the idea of inspiring them with the UN Millennium Development Goals and suggesting that they use those for their muse . "This past year we also rolled out something called the Imagine Cup Solve This library , where IGOs, NGOs and nonprofits can submit some of the technical challenges that they would like students to consider for their solutions." +Microsoft says over 350,000 high school and college students registered for this year's competition. Judges chose more than four hundred of them to attend the finals. +SUZI LEVINE: "One from Thailand was called NewKrean, where they created a Windows Phone 7 application that allows you to broadcast your location to your social network of friends so that you can be more easily rescued." They named their application Terra. +Suzi Levine says there were also ideas from Egypt inspired by the revolution that _ president Hosni Mubarak in February. +SUZI LEVINE: "One was to use Bluetooth as sort of a Twitter equivalent so that if the government shuts down the Internet, you actually can still have a massive social distribution." +Students competed in nine categories. For example, in software design the top prize of twenty-five thousand dollars went to Team Hermes from Ireland. The students developed a device for cars to collect information on road conditions, driving behavior and traffic incidents. +A team from Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University won first place in the embedded development category. They developed a network of wireless devices to help plot the safest escape routes during a fire. +Next year's awards ceremony will take place in Australia. Registration for Imagine Cup twenty-twelve opened Friday. 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Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble. One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies attacking a castle. +That no longer happens. But we still get in hot water. When we are in hot water, we are in trouble. It can be any kind of trouble--serious or not so serious. A person who breaks a law can be in hot water with the police. A young boy can be in hot water with his mother, if he walks in the house with dirty shoes. +Beingin deep wateris almost the same as being in hot water. When you are in deep water, you are in a difficult position. +To keep your head above wateris a colorful expression that means staying out of debt. A company seeks to keep its head above water during economic hard times. A man who loses his job tries to keep his head above water until he finds a new job. +Water over the dam is another expression about a past event. It is something that is finished. It cannot be changed. The expression comes from the idea that water that has flowed over a dam cannot be brought back again. +Another common expression to hold water, is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about. It probably comes from a way of testing the condition of a container.; If it can hold water, it is strong and has no holes in it. If your argument can hold water, it is strong and does not have any holes. +Throwing cold water also is an expression that deals with ideas or suggestions. It means to not like an idea. For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems. 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Have you ever dreamed something that came true later? Maybe you have ESP . +ESP stands for Extra Sensory Perception. It may be called a sixth sense. It seems to let people know about events before they happen, or events that are happening some distance away. +Here's an example. A woman was ironing clothes. Suddenly she screamed, "My father is dead! I saw him sitting in the chair!" Just then, a telegram came. The woman's father died of a heart attack. He died sitting in a chair. +There are thousands of stories like this one on record. Scientists are studying them to find out what's behind these strange mental messages. Here's another example--one of hundreds of dreams that have come true: +A man dreamed he was walking along a road when a horse and carriage came by. The driver said, "There's room for one more." The man felt the driver seemed dead, so he ran away. The next day, when the man was getting on a crowded bus, the bus driver said, "There's room for one more." +Then the man saw that the driver's face was the same face he had seen in the dream. He wouldn't get on the bus. As the bus drove off, it crashed and burst into flames. Everyone was killed! +Some people say stories like these are _ . Others, including some scientists, say that ESP is real. 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In 1996, a rocket broke into about 300,000 small pieces. So far, scientists have found over 10,000 man-made pieces flying around in space. Only 6-7%of them are satellites and space probes . Astronauts also lose small things while working in space. In 1965, during the first American spacewalk , astronaut Edward White lost a glove .For a month, the glove stayed in space, travelling at a speed of 28,000 kilometers per hour .It became the most dangerous piece of clothing for the Earth in history it flew away. Things move very fast in space. If they hit one another, it can be dangerous .A little piece of paint from a satellite once made a hole in a spacecraft window. Last year two US spacecraft dropped some bolts , and scientists on the Earth worried a lot. Luckily the bolts floated away into space. They couldn't hit the spacecraft. +,. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9559695/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..12887be0907bdddbf3faa98ae331c50a6447d0d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +{ + "article_id": 9559695, + "audio_file": "test/article_9559695/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 5, + "audio_length_sec": 55.85, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 3867, + "question": "Some junk in space is from _ .", + "options": [ + "space", + "rockets", + "scientists", + "earth" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3868, + "question": "American astronaut Edward White once lost _ in space in 1965.", + "options": [ + "a rocket", + "some bolts", + "a glove", + "a little piece of paint" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3869, + "question": "The glove in space may travel at a speed of _ kilometers per hour.", + "options": [ + "300,000", + "28,000", + "10,000", + "21,000" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3870, + "question": "In space all the things move very _ .", + "options": [ + "fast", + "slow", + "hard", + "high" + ], + "answer": "A" + }, + { + "question_idx": 3871, + "question": "If the junk in space hits one another, it can be _ .", + "options": [ + "great", + "interesting", + "safe", + "dangerous" + ], + "answer": "D" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3867/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3867/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac3cbf1a7403395c0a8c02b78d25644746717963 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3867/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3867, + "question": "Some junk in space is from _ .", + "options": [ + "space", + "rockets", + "scientists", + "earth" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3868/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3868/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..382da0cce5794b8e7674e330badd0f0cb3706eb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3868/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3868, + "question": "American astronaut Edward White once lost _ in space in 1965.", + "options": [ + "a rocket", + "some bolts", + "a glove", + "a little piece of paint" + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3869/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3869/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea28609698f3e5419e28ef706c7e3ca9a2efbc06 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3869/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3869, + "question": "The glove in space may travel at a speed of _ kilometers per hour.", + "options": [ + "300,000", + "28,000", + "10,000", + "21,000" + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3870/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3870/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ac3d933271531b50cca5a1d9a20fcd36913a217 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3870/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3870, + "question": "In space all the things move very _ .", + "options": [ + "fast", + "slow", + "hard", + "high" + ], + "answer": "A" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3871/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3871/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..42822e4a75d096b0e48302b956f0978795dec0df --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9559695/q_3871/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3871, + "question": "If the junk in space hits one another, it can be _ .", + "options": [ + "great", + "interesting", + "safe", + "dangerous" + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9650007/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa782992c7aa2687310ae9380deb2e66c80208d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Have you ever heard someone use the phrase "once in a blue moon"? People use this expression to describe something that they do not do very often. For example, someone might say that he tries to avoid eating sweets because they are unhealthy, but will eat chocolate "once in a blue moon". Or someone who does not usually like to go to the beach might say "I visit the shore once in a moon." While many people use this phrase, not everyone knows the meaning behind it. +The first thing to know is that the moon itself is never really blue. This is just an expression. In fact, the phrase "blue moon" has to do with the shape of the moon, not the color. +As the moon travels around the earth, it appears to change shape. We associate names with certain shapes of the moon. For example, when we can see a small part of the moon, it is called a crescent moon. A crescent is a shape that looks like the tip of a fingernail. When we cannot see the moon at all, it is called a new moon. When we can see the whole moon, it is called a full moon. Usually, there is only one full moon every month. Sometimes, however, there will be two full moons in one month. When this happens, the second full moon is called a "blue moon". +Over the next 20 years, there will only be 15 blue moons. As you can see, a blue moon is a very rare event. _ has led people to use the expression "once in a blue moon" to other very rare events in their lives. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3636/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3636/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..977c89fb913bbb44af28bb9d1772e707a51e4ad6 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3636/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3636, + "question": "Which of the following would be a good example of using the phrase \"once in a blue moon\"?", + "options": [ + "Simon often tells jokes. Simon tells jokes once in a blue moon.", + "Tom rarely remembers to do exercise. Tom does exercise once in a blue moon.", + "Mary likes to go shopping every weekend. Mary goes shopping once in a blue moon.", + "Cindy hates to stay up, but she stays up every day. Cindy stays up once in a blue moon." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3637/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3637/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..274c0ada936f08adb8fe4890bf7bb8e4fbb6a108 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3637/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3637, + "question": "When does a blue moon happen in nature?", + "options": [ + "When the moon has a blue moon.", + "When we cannot see the moon at all.", + "When there are two full moons in one month.", + "When we can only see a small part of the moon." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3638/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3638/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e9b7347de3ae0ce7e2dadaf67b838aacaf025b52 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3638/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3638, + "question": "Which of the following is another example of something that has a crescent shape?", + "options": [ + "The letter \"O\".", + "The letter \"M\".", + "The letter \"H\".", + "The letter \"C\"." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3639/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3639/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d80b6dc0fb40d914dd4806cbb580d395d5188544 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9650007/q_3639/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 3639, + "question": "How often will a blue moon happen over the next twenty years?", + "options": [ + "Once a year.", + "Less than once a year.", + "More than once a year.", + "At least twice a year." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_974332/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_974332/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d6be67b5b314e94e0f9edbd3a4c0d0dbb235dbd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_974332/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Are you carrying too much on your back at school? You're not alone. Back experts in the USA are worried about that young students are having back and neck problems because they are carrying too much in their backpacks . +"It hurts my back when I run," said Ebelin Reyes, a student in Virginia. "It's hard to get up the stairs with my backpack because it's too heavy." Students have to carry heavy backpacks on their backs for a whole week's study. Ebelin is one of them. They have regular backpacks with two straps to carry them, but a number of students with heavy loads have _ rolling backpacks. The backpacks have wheels and can roll on the ground. Shirley Park's backpack weighs 10 kilos, and she said, "I'll change to a rolling backpack because I am starting to have back pain." +How much is too much? Experts say that students should carry no more than 10% to 15% of their own body weight. A few students have had a good idea to lighten the load: less homework. +Doctor's suggestions: +Lighten the load. Take home only the books the students need that day. +(2) Wide straps are better. They can send out weight over your shoulders and be sure to wear backpacks with two straps. +(3) The heaviest things should be packed closest to the back. +(4) Bend both knees when you pick up the pack, don't just bend over the waist . \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_974332/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_974332/metadata.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a19a4745809f65f5a41fb340a6935a0963183ab --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_974332/metadata.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "article_id": 974332, + "audio_file": "test/article_974332/audio.wav", + "questions_count": 4, + "audio_length_sec": 72.175, + "questions": [ + { + "question_idx": 4860, + "question": "The main idea of the passage is about _ .", + "options": [ + "the problems made by rolling backpacks", + "the advantage of backpacks", + "the best backpacks for students", + "how to lighten students' backpacks" + ], + "answer": "D" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4861, + "question": "From what Ebelin Reyes and Shirley Park said, we know _ .", + "options": [ + "students like to carry heavy backpacks", + "students have to do a lot of homework", + "backpacks with wheels are bad for students", + "students have no time to play because of heavy backpacks" + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4862, + "question": "According to the experts, it's better for a student of 40 kilos to carry a backpack of _ at most.", + "options": [ + "10 kilos", + "8 kilos", + "6 kilos", + "7 kilos" + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4863, + "question": "If students follow the doctor's suggestions, they _ .", + "options": [ + "may do less homework", + "may feel their backpacks are lighter", + "can learn how to enjoy themselves", + "will know why to wear heavy backpacks" + ], + "answer": "B" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9994690/article.txt b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0330ec3cbe90f14ddd02df586564753b97d5efe1 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Having friends, and finding new friendships is an important developmental task for preteens and teens. While they have learned to play well with others during their childhood, developing independent friendships is a different thing. Preteens and teens will be allowed to use their own resources to decide whether to be someone's friend or not, instead of being taught by their parents. Parents must give their teenagers some freedom in choosing who they want to hang out with. +You can help your teens to choose their friends, although it's your teenagers who make the final decision. You can use teachable moments to talk about what makes a good friend. Here are some points to remember when you talk about friendships with your teenagers: +1) You are allowed to have many friends; +2) Honesty is important in a friendship; +3) Friends sometimes hurt each other, but they can say sorry and forgive ; +4) Friends can influence each other, sometimes they will help you but sometimes they will hurt you, too. +5) Who you choose to be your friend is important, so choose wisely; +6) It takes many learned skills to make and keep a friendship, and it also takes many skills to end a friendship; +7) It is okay and even helpful to make friends with the opposite gender ; +8) It takes time to make a good friend, but it is worth the effort; +9) Spending time together will help you get to know your friends well and you will feel comfortable sharing feelings; +10) A good friendship will make you feel good about yourself. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9994690/metadata.json b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/metadata.json new 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"Lies.", + "Skills." + ], + "answer": "C" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4604, + "question": "Who is the passage mainly written for?", + "options": [ + "Teachers.", + "Parents.", + "Preteens.", + "Teens." + ], + "answer": "B" + }, + { + "question_idx": 4605, + "question": "Which of the following statement is true?", + "options": [ + "Friends never hurt each other.", + "There is no need to forgive friends.", + "Teenagers are allowed to have many friends.", + "Girls should never make friends with boys." + ], + "answer": "C" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4601/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4601/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..570fe6abe6363ff27177bfc98d412f17b2731b43 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4601/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4601, + "question": "What should their parents do when teenagers make friends?", + "options": [ + "Do nothing but give them all the freedom.", + "Talk with them and give some help.", + "Decide and choose friends for them.", + "Stop them from making friends with opposite gender." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4602/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4602/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d5ba855fa0a1529190a6a4382ea3b2d8908ed9a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4602/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4602, + "question": "Which point is about how to end a friendship?", + "options": [ + "Point 3.", + "Point 4.", + "Point 5.", + "Point 6." + ], + "answer": "D" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4603/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4603/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6300541257ee2afd523b10da0cd2cd2eaa10f2db --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4603/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4603, + "question": "Which of the following is NOT needed in making friends?", + "options": [ + "Honesty.", + "Effort.", + "Lies.", + "Skills." + ], + "answer": "C" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4604/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4604/question.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..33376230606ffd6bcc4682d3a8cdd93e64d8d4fd --- /dev/null +++ b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4604/question.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "question_idx": 4604, + "question": "Who is the passage mainly written for?", + "options": [ + "Teachers.", + "Parents.", + "Preteens.", + "Teens." + ], + "answer": "B" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4605/question.json b/race_audio/test/article_9994690/q_4605/question.json new file mode 100644 index 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