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+# LibriSpeech-Long (audio and ground-truth transcripts)
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+This directory contains the audio and ground-truth transcripts of LibriSpeech-Long, organized as `${split}/${speaker_id}/${chapter_id}/*.flac`. To aid filtering in specific evaluation settings, we provide audio durations in decreasing order in `${split}/durations.tsv`.  For other details and components of the LibriSpeech-Long dataset, see https://github.com/google-deepmind/librispeech-long.
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+**This is v0.1 (preprint release) of this dataset.**
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+## License and disclaimer
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+Copyright 2024 DeepMind Technologies Limited
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+The materials contain adapted material from the LibriSpeech dataset. LibriSpeech is also licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY). You may obtain a copy of the CC-BY license at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. LibriSpeech is available at https://www.openslr.org/12 and created by Vassil Panayotov, Guoguo Chen, Daniel Povey and Sanjeev Khudanpur, pursuant to the paper “LibriSpeech: an ASR corpus based on public domain audio books", ICASSP 2015 (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7178964).
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+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, all software and materials distributed here under the CC-BY licenses are distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the licenses for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under those licenses.
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+This is not an official Google product.
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+THUS YOU KNOW IN YOUR STUDY OF SCULPTURE WE SAW THAT THE ESSENTIAL AIM OF THE GREEK ART WAS TRANQUIL ACTION THE CHIEF AIM OF GOTHIC ART WAS PASSIONATE REST A PEACE AN ETERNITY OF INTENSE SENTIMENT. YOU WILL FIND ME CONTINUALLY SPEAKING OF FOUR MEN TITIAN HOLBEIN TURNER AND TINTORET IN ALMOST THE SAME TERMS. THEY UNITE EVERY QUALITY AND SOMETIMES YOU WILL FIND ME REFERRING TO THEM AS COLORISTS SOMETIMES AS CHIAROSCURISTS. BY BEING STUDIOUS OF COLOR THEY ARE STUDIOUS OF DIVISION AND WHILE THE CHIAROSCURIST DEVOTES HIMSELF TO THE REPRESENTATION OF DEGREES OF FORCE IN ONE THING UNSEPARATED LIGHT THE COLORISTS HAVE FOR THEIR FUNCTION THE ATTAINMENT OF BEAUTY BY ARRANGEMENT OF THE DIVISIONS OF LIGHT. MY FIRST AND PRINCIPAL REASON WAS THAT THEY ENFORCED BEYOND ALL RESISTANCE ON ANY STUDENT WHO MIGHT ATTEMPT TO COPY THEM THIS METHOD OF LAYING PORTIONS OF DISTINCT HUE SIDE BY SIDE. SOME OF THE TOUCHES INDEED WHEN THE TINT HAS BEEN MIXED WITH MUCH WATER HAVE BEEN LAID IN LITTLE DROPS OR PONDS SO THAT THE PIGMENT MIGHT CRYSTALLIZE HARD AT THE EDGE. AND IT FOLLOWS ALSO FROM THIS LAW OF CONSTRUCTION THAT THERE MUST NEVER BE ANY HESITATION OR REPENTANCE IN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR LINES OF LIMIT. IT IS THE HEAD OF A PARROT WITH A LITTLE FLOWER IN HIS BEAK FROM A PICTURE OF CARPACCIO'S ONE OF HIS SERIES OF THE LIFE OF SAINT GEORGE. THEN HE COMES TO THE BEAK OF IT. THE BROWN GROUND BENEATH IS LEFT FOR THE MOST PART ONE TOUCH OF BLACK IS PUT FOR THE HOLLOW TWO DELICATE LINES OF DARK GRAY DEFINE THE OUTER CURVE AND ONE LITTLE QUIVERING TOUCH OF WHITE DRAWS THE INNER EDGE OF THE MANDIBLE. THERE ARE VERY FEW PERSONS IN THE ROOM WHO WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE DRAWING OF THIS BIRD'S BEAK WITHOUT A MAGNIFYING GLASS YET IT IS TEN TO ONE THAT IN ANY MODERN GALLERY SUCH A PICTURE WOULD BE HUNG THIRTY FEET FROM THE GROUND. FOR BELIEVE ME THE FINAL PHILOSOPHY OF ART CAN ONLY RATIFY THEIR OPINION THAT THE BEAUTY OF A COCK ROBIN IS TO BE RED AND OF A GRASS PLOT TO BE GREEN AND THE BEST SKILL OF ART IS IN INSTANTLY SEIZING ON THE MANIFOLD DELICIOUSNESS OF LIGHT WHICH YOU CAN ONLY SEIZE BY PRECISION OF INSTANTANEOUS TOUCH. NOW YOU WILL SEE IN THESE STUDIES THAT THE MOMENT THE WHITE IS INCLOSED PROPERLY AND HARMONIZED WITH THE OTHER HUES IT BECOMES SOMEHOW MORE PRECIOUS AND PEARLY THAN THE WHITE PAPER AND THAT I AM NOT AFRAID TO LEAVE A WHOLE FIELD OF UNTREATED WHITE PAPER ALL ROUND IT BEING SURE THAT EVEN THE LITTLE DIAMONDS IN THE ROUND WINDOW WILL TELL AS JEWELS IF THEY ARE GRADATED JUSTLY. AGAIN THERE IS NOT A TOUCH OF BLACK IN ANY SHADOW HOWEVER DEEP OF THESE TWO STUDIES SO THAT IF I CHOSE TO PUT A PIECE OF BLACK NEAR THEM IT WOULD BE CONSPICUOUS WITH A VENGEANCE. BUT IN THIS VIGNETTE COPIED FROM TURNER YOU HAVE THE TWO PRINCIPLES BROUGHT OUT PERFECTLY. THEY ARE BEYOND ALL OTHER WORKS THAT I KNOW EXISTING DEPENDENT FOR THEIR EFFECT ON LOW SUBDUED TONES THEIR FAVORITE CHOICE IN TIME OF DAY BEING EITHER DAWN OR TWILIGHT AND EVEN THEIR BRIGHTEST SUNSETS PRODUCED CHIEFLY OUT OF GRAY PAPER. IT MAY BE THAT A GREAT COLORIST WILL USE HIS UTMOST FORCE OF COLOR AS A SINGER HIS FULL POWER OF VOICE BUT LOUD OR LOW THE VIRTUE IS IN BOTH CASES ALWAYS IN REFINEMENT NEVER IN LOUDNESS. IT MUST REMEMBER BE ONE OR THE OTHER. BUT THERE IS NO REASON WHY YOUR SYSTEM OF STUDY SHOULD BE A COMPLETE ONE IF IT BE RIGHT AND PROFITABLE THOUGH INCOMPLETE. DO NOT THEREFORE THINK THAT THE GOTHIC SCHOOL IS AN EASY ONE

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+THE LAW OF THAT SCHOOL IS THAT EVERYTHING SHALL BE SEEN CLEARLY OR AT LEAST ONLY IN SUCH MIST OR FAINTNESS AS SHALL BE DELIGHTFUL AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE BEST INTRODUCTION TO IT WOULD BE THE ELEMENTARY PRACTICE OF PAINTING EVERY STUDY ON A GOLDEN GROUND. THIS AT ONCE COMPELS YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORK IS TO BE IMAGINATIVE AND DECORATIVE THAT IT REPRESENTS BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN THE CLEAREST WAY BUT NOT UNDER EXISTING CONDITIONS AND THAT IN FACT YOU ARE PRODUCING JEWELER'S WORK RATHER THAN PICTURES. IT MAKES US OBSERVE THE VITAL POINTS IN WHICH CHARACTER CONSISTS AND EDUCATES THE EYE AND MIND IN THE HABIT OF FASTENING AND LIMITING THEMSELVES TO ESSENTIALS. THAT A STYLE IS RESTRAINED OR SEVERE DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS ALSO ERRONEOUS. OUR UNEDUCATED MEN WORK TOO BLUNTLY TO BE EVER IN THE RIGHT BUT THE GERMANS DRAW FINELY AND RESOLUTELY WRONG. IN ALL EARLY GOTHIC ART INDEED YOU WILL FIND FAILURE OF THIS KIND ESPECIALLY DISTORTION AND RIGIDITY WHICH ARE IN MANY RESPECTS PAINFULLY TO BE COMPARED WITH THE SPLENDID REPOSE OF CLASSIC ART. THE LARGE LETTER CONTAINS INDEED ENTIRELY FEEBLE AND ILL DRAWN FIGURES THAT IS MERELY CHILDISH AND FAILING WORK OF AN INFERIOR HAND IT IS NOT CHARACTERISTIC OF GOTHIC OR ANY OTHER SCHOOL. BUT OBSERVE YOU CAN ONLY DO THIS ON ONE CONDITION THAT OF STRIVING ALSO TO CREATE IN REALITY THE BEAUTY WHICH YOU SEEK IN IMAGINATION. IT WILL BE WHOLLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO RETAIN THE TRANQUILLITY OF TEMPER AND FELICITY OF FAITH NECESSARY FOR NOBLE PURIST PAINTING UNLESS YOU ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN PROMOTING THE FELICITY AND PEACE OF PRACTICAL LIFE. BUT IF YOU GO ON INTO THE VERACITIES OF THE SCHOOL OF CLAY YOU WILL FIND THERE IS SOMETHING AT THE ROOTS OF ALMOND AND APPLE TREES WHICH IS THIS. YOU MUST LOOK AT HIM IN THE FACE FIGHT HIM CONQUER HIM WITH WHAT SCATHE YOU MAY YOU NEED NOT THINK TO KEEP OUT OF THE WAY OF HIM. THE COLORIST SAYS FIRST OF ALL AS MY DELICIOUS PAROQUET WAS RUBY SO THIS NASTY VIPER SHALL BE BLACK AND THEN IS THE QUESTION CAN I ROUND HIM OFF EVEN THOUGH HE IS BLACK AND MAKE HIM SLIMY AND YET SPRINGY AND CLOSE DOWN CLOTTED LIKE A POOL OF BLACK BLOOD ON THE EARTH ALL THE SAME. LOOK AT HIM BESIDE MICHAEL ANGELO'S AND THEN TELL ME THE VENETIANS CAN'T DRAW. NOTHING WILL BE MORE PRECIOUS TO YOU I THINK IN THE PRACTICAL STUDY OF ART THAN THE CONVICTION WHICH WILL FORCE ITSELF ON YOU MORE AND MORE EVERY HOUR OF THE WAY ALL THINGS ARE BOUND TOGETHER LITTLE AND GREAT IN SPIRIT AND IN MATTER. SO THAT IF YOU GET ONCE THE RIGHT CLUE TO ANY GROUP OF THEM IT WILL GRASP THE SIMPLEST YET REACH TO THE HIGHEST TRUTHS. YOU KNOW I HAVE JUST BEEN TELLING YOU HOW THIS SCHOOL OF MATERIALISM AND CLAY INVOLVED ITSELF AT LAST IN CLOUD AND FIRE. HERE IS AN EQUALLY TYPICAL GREEK SCHOOL LANDSCAPE BY WILSON LOST WHOLLY IN GOLDEN MIST THE TREES SO SLIGHTLY DRAWN THAT YOU DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE TREES OR TOWERS AND NO CARE FOR COLOR WHATEVER PERFECTLY DECEPTIVE AND MARVELOUS EFFECT OF SUNSHINE THROUGH THE MIST APOLLO AND THE PYTHON. NOW HERE IS RAPHAEL EXACTLY BETWEEN THE TWO TREES STILL DRAWN LEAF BY LEAF WHOLLY FORMAL BUT BEAUTIFUL MIST COMING GRADUALLY INTO THE DISTANCE. WELL THEN LAST HERE IS TURNER'S GREEK SCHOOL OF THE HIGHEST CLASS AND YOU DEFINE HIS ART ABSOLUTELY AS FIRST THE DISPLAYING INTENSELY AND WITH THE STERNEST INTELLECT OF NATURAL FORM AS IT IS AND THEN THE ENVELOPMENT OF IT WITH CLOUD AND FIRE. ONLY THERE ARE TWO SORTS OF CLOUD AND FIRE. HE KNOWS THEM BOTH

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+SOMETHING THAT GIVES UP WATER. A GOOD SYNONYM FOR DIPSOMANIAC. HYPOCRITE A HORSE DEALER. ONE WHO BEATS YOU ON A HORSE TRADE

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+THOSE PRETTY WRONGS THAT LIBERTY COMMITS WHEN I AM SOMETIME ABSENT FROM THY HEART THY BEAUTY AND THY YEARS FULL WELL BEFITS FOR STILL TEMPTATION FOLLOWS WHERE THOU ART. GENTLE THOU ART AND THEREFORE TO BE WON BEAUTEOUS THOU ART THEREFORE TO BE ASSAIL'D AND WHEN A WOMAN WOOS WHAT WOMAN'S SON WILL SOURLY LEAVE HER TILL HE HAVE PREVAIL'D. AY ME. BUT YET THOU MIGHTST MY SEAT FORBEAR AND CHIDE THY BEAUTY AND THY STRAYING YOUTH WHO LEAD THEE IN THEIR RIOT EVEN THERE WHERE THOU ART FORCED TO BREAK A TWOFOLD TRUTH HERS BY THY BEAUTY TEMPTING HER TO THEE THINE BY THY BEAUTY BEING FALSE TO ME. LOVING OFFENDERS THUS I WILL EXCUSE YE THOU DOST LOVE HER BECAUSE THOU KNOW'ST I LOVE HER AND FOR MY SAKE EVEN SO DOTH SHE ABUSE ME SUFFERING MY FRIEND FOR MY SAKE TO APPROVE HER. THEN THOU WHOSE SHADOW SHADOWS DOTH MAKE BRIGHT HOW WOULD THY SHADOW'S FORM FORM HAPPY SHOW TO THE CLEAR DAY WITH THY MUCH CLEARER LIGHT WHEN TO UNSEEING EYES THY SHADE SHINES SO. ALL DAYS ARE NIGHTS TO SEE TILL I SEE THEE AND NIGHTS BRIGHT DAYS WHEN DREAMS DO SHOW THEE ME. NO MATTER THEN ALTHOUGH MY FOOT DID STAND UPON THE FARTHEST EARTH REMOV'D FROM THEE FOR NIMBLE THOUGHT CAN JUMP BOTH SEA AND LAND AS SOON AS THINK THE PLACE WHERE HE WOULD BE BUT AH. THOUGHT KILLS ME THAT I AM NOT THOUGHT TO LEAP LARGE LENGTHS OF MILES WHEN THOU ART GONE BUT THAT SO MUCH OF EARTH AND WATER WROUGHT I MUST ATTEND TIME'S LEISURE WITH MY MOAN RECEIVING NOUGHT BY ELEMENTS SO SLOW BUT HEAVY TEARS BADGES OF EITHER'S WOE. MY HEART DOTH PLEAD THAT THOU IN HIM DOST LIE A CLOSET NEVER PIERC'D WITH CRYSTAL EYES BUT THE DEFENDANT DOTH THAT PLEA DENY AND SAYS IN HIM THY FAIR APPEARANCE LIES. BUT THOU TO WHOM MY JEWELS TRIFLES ARE MOST WORTHY COMFORT NOW MY GREATEST GRIEF THOU BEST OF DEAREST AND MINE ONLY CARE ART LEFT THE PREY OF EVERY VULGAR THIEF. THEE HAVE I NOT LOCK'D UP IN ANY CHEST SAVE WHERE THOU ART NOT THOUGH I FEEL THOU ART WITHIN THE GENTLE CLOSURE OF MY BREAST FROM WHENCE AT PLEASURE THOU MAYST COME AND PART AND EVEN THENCE THOU WILT BE STOL'N I FEAR FOR TRUTH PROVES THIEVISH FOR A PRIZE SO DEAR

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+PITY ME THEN DEAR FRIEND AND I ASSURE YE EVEN THAT YOUR PITY IS ENOUGH TO CURE ME. YOU ARE MY ALL THE WORLD AND I MUST STRIVE TO KNOW MY SHAMES AND PRAISES FROM YOUR TONGUE NONE ELSE TO ME NOR I TO NONE ALIVE THAT MY STEEL'D SENSE OR CHANGES RIGHT OR WRONG. MARK HOW WITH MY NEGLECT I DO DISPENSE YOU ARE SO STRONGLY IN MY PURPOSE BRED THAT ALL THE WORLD BESIDES METHINKS ARE DEAD. O TIS THE FIRST TIS FLATTERY IN MY SEEING AND MY GREAT MIND MOST KINGLY DRINKS IT UP MINE EYE WELL KNOWS WHAT WITH HIS GUST IS GREEING AND TO HIS PALATE DOTH PREPARE THE CUP IF IT BE POISON'D TIS THE LESSER SIN THAT MINE EYE LOVES IT AND DOTH FIRST BEGIN. BUT RECKONING TIME WHOSE MILLION'D ACCIDENTS CREEP IN TWIXT VOWS AND CHANGE DECREES OF KINGS TAN SACRED BEAUTY BLUNT THE SHARP'ST INTENTS DIVERT STRONG MINDS TO THE COURSE OF ALTERING THINGS ALAS WHY FEARING OF TIME'S TYRANNY MIGHT I NOT THEN SAY NOW I LOVE YOU BEST WHEN I WAS CERTAIN O'ER INCERTAINTY CROWNING THE PRESENT DOUBTING OF THE REST. LOVE IS A BABE THEN MIGHT I NOT SAY SO TO GIVE FULL GROWTH TO THAT WHICH STILL DOTH GROW. LOVE IS NOT LOVE WHICH ALTERS WHEN IT ALTERATION FINDS OR BENDS WITH THE REMOVER TO REMOVE O NO. IT IS AN EVER FIXED MARK THAT LOOKS ON TEMPESTS AND IS NEVER SHAKEN IT IS THE STAR TO EVERY WANDERING BARK WHOSE WORTH'S UNKNOWN ALTHOUGH HIS HEIGHT BE TAKEN. HOW HAVE MINE EYES OUT OF THEIR SPHERES BEEN FITTED IN THE DISTRACTION OF THIS MADDING FEVER O BENEFIT OF ILL. SO I RETURN REBUK'D TO MY CONTENT AND GAIN BY ILL THRICE MORE THAN I HAVE SPENT. FOR IF YOU WERE BY MY UNKINDNESS SHAKEN AS I BY YOURS YOU'VE PASS'D A HELL OF TIME AND I A TYRANT HAVE NO LEISURE TAKEN TO WEIGH HOW ONCE I SUFFER'D IN YOUR CRIME

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+THE CASE I MAY MENTION WAS THAT OF AN APPARITION IN JUST SUCH AN OLD HOUSE AS HAD GATHERED US FOR THE OCCASION AN APPEARANCE OF A DREADFUL KIND TO A LITTLE BOY SLEEPING IN THE ROOM WITH HIS MOTHER AND WAKING HER UP IN THE TERROR OF IT WAKING HER NOT TO DISSIPATE HIS DREAD AND SOOTHE HIM TO SLEEP AGAIN BUT TO ENCOUNTER ALSO HERSELF BEFORE SHE HAD SUCCEEDED IN DOING SO THE SAME SIGHT THAT HAD SHAKEN HIM. IT WAS THIS OBSERVATION THAT DREW FROM DOUGLAS NOT IMMEDIATELY BUT LATER IN THE EVENING A REPLY THAT HAD THE INTERESTING CONSEQUENCE TO WHICH I CALL ATTENTION. SOMEONE ELSE TOLD A STORY NOT PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE WHICH I SAW HE WAS NOT FOLLOWING. WE WAITED IN FACT TILL TWO NIGHTS LATER BUT THAT SAME EVENING BEFORE WE SCATTERED HE BROUGHT OUT WHAT WAS IN HIS MIND. I QUITE AGREE IN REGARD TO GRIFFIN'S GHOST OR WHATEVER IT WAS THAT ITS APPEARING FIRST TO THE LITTLE BOY AT SO TENDER AN AGE ADDS A PARTICULAR TOUCH BUT IT'S NOT THE FIRST OCCURRENCE OF ITS CHARMING KIND THAT I KNOW TO HAVE INVOLVED A CHILD. WE SAY OF COURSE SOMEBODY EXCLAIMED THAT THEY GIVE TWO TURNS. ALSO THAT WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THEM. I CAN SEE DOUGLAS THERE BEFORE THE FIRE TO WHICH HE HAD GOT UP TO PRESENT HIS BACK LOOKING DOWN AT HIS INTERLOCUTOR WITH HIS HANDS IN HIS POCKETS. NOBODY BUT ME TILL NOW HAS EVER HEARD IT'S QUITE TOO HORRIBLE. THIS NATURALLY WAS DECLARED BY SEVERAL VOICES TO GIVE THE THING THE UTMOST PRICE AND OUR FRIEND WITH QUIET ART PREPARED HIS TRIUMPH BY TURNING HIS EYES OVER THE REST OF US AND GOING ON IT'S BEYOND EVERYTHING NOTHING AT ALL THAT I KNOW TOUCHES IT FOR SHEER TERROR. I REMEMBER ASKING HE SEEMED TO SAY IT WAS NOT SO SIMPLE AS THAT TO BE REALLY AT A LOSS HOW TO QUALIFY IT. HE PASSED HIS HAND OVER HIS EYES MADE A LITTLE WINCING GRIMACE. FOR DREADFUL DREADFULNESS OH HOW DELICIOUS. CRIED ONE OF THE WOMEN HE TOOK NO NOTICE OF HER HE LOOKED AT ME BUT AS IF INSTEAD OF ME HE SAW WHAT HE SPOKE OF. FOR GENERAL UNCANNY UGLINESS AND HORROR AND PAIN. WELL THEN I SAID JUST SIT RIGHT DOWN AND BEGIN. HE TURNED ROUND TO THE FIRE GAVE A KICK TO A LOG WATCHED IT AN INSTANT. THEN AS HE FACED US AGAIN I CAN'T BEGIN I SHALL HAVE TO SEND TO TOWN. THERE WAS A UNANIMOUS GROAN AT THIS AND MUCH REPROACH AFTER WHICH IN HIS PREOCCUPIED WAY HE EXPLAINED. THE STORY'S WRITTEN. I COULD WRITE TO MY MAN AND ENCLOSE THE KEY HE COULD SEND DOWN THE PACKET AS HE FINDS IT. IT WAS TO ME IN PARTICULAR THAT HE APPEARED TO PROPOUND THIS APPEARED ALMOST TO APPEAL FOR AID NOT TO HESITATE. HE HAD BROKEN A THICKNESS OF ICE THE FORMATION OF MANY A WINTER HAD HAD HIS REASONS FOR A LONG SILENCE. THE OTHERS RESENTED POSTPONEMENT BUT IT WAS JUST HIS SCRUPLES THAT CHARMED ME. TO THIS HIS ANSWER WAS PROMPT OH THANK GOD NO AND IS THE RECORD YOURS. YOU TOOK THE THING DOWN NOTHING BUT THE IMPRESSION. I TOOK THAT HERE HE TAPPED HIS HEART. I'VE NEVER LOST IT. THEN YOUR MANUSCRIPT. IS IN OLD FADED INK AND IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HAND. HE HUNG FIRE AGAIN A WOMAN'S. SHE HAS BEEN DEAD THESE TWENTY YEARS. SHE SENT ME THE PAGES IN QUESTION BEFORE SHE DIED. THEY WERE ALL LISTENING NOW AND OF COURSE THERE WAS SOMEBODY TO BE ARCH OR AT ANY RATE TO DRAW THE INFERENCE. BUT IF HE PUT THE INFERENCE BY WITHOUT A SMILE IT WAS ALSO WITHOUT IRRITATION. SHE WAS A MOST CHARMING PERSON BUT SHE WAS TEN YEARS OLDER THAN I. SHE WAS MY SISTER'S GOVERNESS HE QUIETLY SAID

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+SHE WAS THE MOST AGREEABLE WOMAN I'VE EVER KNOWN IN HER POSITION SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN WORTHY OF ANY WHATEVER. IT WAS LONG AGO AND THIS EPISODE WAS LONG BEFORE. IT WASN'T SIMPLY THAT SHE SAID SO BUT THAT I KNEW SHE HADN'T I WAS SURE I COULD SEE. YOU'LL EASILY JUDGE WHY WHEN YOU HEAR BECAUSE THE THING HAD BEEN SUCH A SCARE HE CONTINUED TO FIX ME. YOU'LL EASILY JUDGE HE REPEATED YOU WILL. I FIXED HIM TOO I SEE. SHE WAS IN LOVE HE LAUGHED FOR THE FIRST TIME. YOU ARE ACUTE. YES SHE WAS IN LOVE. THAT IS SHE HAD BEEN. I SAW IT AND SHE SAW I SAW IT BUT NEITHER OF US SPOKE OF IT. I REMEMBER THE TIME AND THE PLACE THE CORNER OF THE LAWN THE SHADE OF THE GREAT BEECHES AND THE LONG HOT SUMMER AFTERNOON. IT WASN'T A SCENE FOR A SHUDDER BUT OH. HE QUITTED THE FIRE AND DROPPED BACK INTO HIS CHAIR. YOU'LL RECEIVE THE PACKET THURSDAY MORNING I INQUIRED. PROBABLY NOT TILL THE SECOND POST. WELL THEN AFTER DINNER YOU'LL ALL MEET ME HERE. HE LOOKED US ROUND AGAIN ISN'T ANYBODY GOING. IT WAS ALMOST THE TONE OF HOPE EVERYBODY WILL STAY. I WILL AND I WILL. CRIED THE LADIES WHOSE DEPARTURE HAD BEEN FIXED. MISSUS GRIFFIN HOWEVER EXPRESSED THE NEED FOR A LITTLE MORE LIGHT. WHO WAS IT SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH THE STORY WILL TELL I TOOK UPON MYSELF TO REPLY OH I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE STORY THE STORY WON'T TELL SAID DOUGLAS NOT IN ANY LITERAL VULGAR WAY MORE'S THE PITY THEN. WON'T YOU TELL DOUGLAS. SOMEBODY ELSE INQUIRED HE SPRANG TO HIS FEET AGAIN YES TOMORROW NOW I MUST GO TO BED GOOD NIGHT AND QUICKLY CATCHING UP A CANDLESTICK HE LEFT US SLIGHTLY BEWILDERED FROM OUR END OF THE GREAT BROWN HALL WE HEARD HIS STEP ON THE STAIR WHEREUPON MISSUS GRIFFIN SPOKE. WELL IF I DON'T KNOW WHO SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH I KNOW WHO HE WAS. I KNEW THE NEXT DAY THAT A LETTER CONTAINING THE KEY HAD BY THE FIRST POST GONE OFF TO HIS LONDON APARTMENTS BUT IN SPITE OF OR PERHAPS JUST ON ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTUAL DIFFUSION OF THIS KNOWLEDGE WE QUITE LET HIM ALONE TILL AFTER DINNER TILL SUCH AN HOUR OF THE EVENING IN FACT AS MIGHT BEST ACCORD WITH THE KIND OF EMOTION ON WHICH OUR HOPES WERE FIXED. THEN HE BECAME AS COMMUNICATIVE AS WE COULD DESIRE AND INDEED GAVE US HIS BEST REASON FOR BEING SO. WE HAD IT FROM HIM AGAIN BEFORE THE FIRE IN THE HALL AS WE HAD HAD OUR MILD WONDERS OF THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. IT APPEARED THAT THE NARRATIVE HE HAD PROMISED TO READ US REALLY REQUIRED FOR A PROPER INTELLIGENCE A FEW WORDS OF PROLOGUE. LET ME SAY HERE DISTINCTLY TO HAVE DONE WITH IT THAT THIS NARRATIVE FROM AN EXACT TRANSCRIPT OF MY OWN MADE MUCH LATER IS WHAT I SHALL PRESENTLY GIVE. POOR DOUGLAS BEFORE HIS DEATH WHEN IT WAS IN SIGHT COMMITTED TO ME THE MANUSCRIPT THAT REACHED HIM ON THE THIRD OF THESE DAYS AND THAT ON THE SAME SPOT WITH IMMENSE EFFECT HE BEGAN TO READ TO OUR HUSHED LITTLE CIRCLE ON THE NIGHT OF THE FOURTH. THE DEPARTING LADIES WHO HAD SAID THEY WOULD STAY DIDN'T OF COURSE THANK HEAVEN STAY THEY DEPARTED IN CONSEQUENCE OF ARRANGEMENTS MADE IN A RAGE OF CURIOSITY AS THEY PROFESSED PRODUCED BY THE TOUCHES WITH WHICH HE HAD ALREADY WORKED US UP. BUT THAT ONLY MADE HIS LITTLE FINAL AUDITORY MORE COMPACT AND SELECT KEPT IT ROUND THE HEARTH SUBJECT TO A COMMON THRILL. THE FIRST OF THESE TOUCHES CONVEYED THAT THE WRITTEN STATEMENT TOOK UP THE TALE AT A POINT AFTER IT HAD IN A MANNER BEGUN

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+THE FACT TO BE IN POSSESSION OF WAS THEREFORE THAT HIS OLD FRIEND THE YOUNGEST OF SEVERAL DAUGHTERS OF A POOR COUNTRY PARSON HAD AT THE AGE OF TWENTY ON TAKING SERVICE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE SCHOOLROOM COME UP TO LONDON IN TREPIDATION TO ANSWER IN PERSON AN ADVERTISEMENT THAT HAD ALREADY PLACED HER IN BRIEF CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE ADVERTISER. THIS PERSON PROVED ON HER PRESENTING HERSELF FOR JUDGMENT AT A HOUSE IN HARLEY STREET THAT IMPRESSED HER AS VAST AND IMPOSING THIS PROSPECTIVE PATRON PROVED A GENTLEMAN A BACHELOR IN THE PRIME OF LIFE SUCH A FIGURE AS HAD NEVER RISEN SAVE IN A DREAM OR AN OLD NOVEL BEFORE A FLUTTERED ANXIOUS GIRL OUT OF A HAMPSHIRE VICARAGE. ONE COULD EASILY FIX HIS TYPE IT NEVER HAPPILY DIES OUT. HE WAS HANDSOME AND BOLD AND PLEASANT OFFHAND AND GAY AND KIND. HE STRUCK HER INEVITABLY AS GALLANT AND SPLENDID BUT WHAT TOOK HER MOST OF ALL AND GAVE HER THE COURAGE SHE AFTERWARD SHOWED WAS THAT HE PUT THE WHOLE THING TO HER AS A KIND OF FAVOR AN OBLIGATION HE SHOULD GRATEFULLY INCUR. SHE CONCEIVED HIM AS RICH BUT AS FEARFULLY EXTRAVAGANT SAW HIM ALL IN A GLOW OF HIGH FASHION OF GOOD LOOKS OF EXPENSIVE HABITS OF CHARMING WAYS WITH WOMEN. HE HAD FOR HIS OWN TOWN RESIDENCE A BIG HOUSE FILLED WITH THE SPOILS OF TRAVEL AND THE TROPHIES OF THE CHASE BUT IT WAS TO HIS COUNTRY HOME AN OLD FAMILY PLACE IN ESSEX THAT HE WISHED HER IMMEDIATELY TO PROCEED. HE HAD BEEN LEFT BY THE DEATH OF THEIR PARENTS IN INDIA GUARDIAN TO A SMALL NEPHEW AND A SMALL NIECE CHILDREN OF A YOUNGER A MILITARY BROTHER WHOM HE HAD LOST TWO YEARS BEFORE. THESE CHILDREN WERE BY THE STRANGEST OF CHANCES FOR A MAN IN HIS POSITION A LONE MAN WITHOUT THE RIGHT SORT OF EXPERIENCE OR A GRAIN OF PATIENCE VERY HEAVILY ON HIS HANDS. IT HAD ALL BEEN A GREAT WORRY AND ON HIS OWN PART DOUBTLESS A SERIES OF BLUNDERS BUT HE IMMENSELY PITIED THE POOR CHICKS AND HAD DONE ALL HE COULD HAD IN PARTICULAR SENT THEM DOWN TO HIS OTHER HOUSE THE PROPER PLACE FOR THEM BEING OF COURSE THE COUNTRY AND KEPT THEM THERE FROM THE FIRST WITH THE BEST PEOPLE HE COULD FIND TO LOOK AFTER THEM PARTING EVEN WITH HIS OWN SERVANTS TO WAIT ON THEM AND GOING DOWN HIMSELF WHENEVER HE MIGHT TO SEE HOW THEY WERE DOING. THE AWKWARD THING WAS THAT THEY HAD PRACTICALLY NO OTHER RELATIONS AND THAT HIS OWN AFFAIRS TOOK UP ALL HIS TIME. HE HAD PUT THEM IN POSSESSION OF BLY WHICH WAS HEALTHY AND SECURE AND HAD PLACED AT THE HEAD OF THEIR LITTLE ESTABLISHMENT BUT BELOW STAIRS ONLY AN EXCELLENT WOMAN MISSUS GROSE WHOM HE WAS SURE HIS VISITOR WOULD LIKE AND WHO HAD FORMERLY BEEN MAID TO HIS MOTHER. SHE WAS NOW HOUSEKEEPER AND WAS ALSO ACTING FOR THE TIME AS SUPERINTENDENT TO THE LITTLE GIRL OF WHOM WITHOUT CHILDREN OF HER OWN SHE WAS BY GOOD LUCK EXTREMELY FOND. THERE WERE PLENTY OF PEOPLE TO HELP BUT OF COURSE THE YOUNG LADY WHO SHOULD GO DOWN AS GOVERNESS WOULD BE IN SUPREME AUTHORITY. THERE HAD BEEN FOR THE TWO CHILDREN AT FIRST A YOUNG LADY WHOM THEY HAD HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO LOSE. SHE HAD DONE FOR THEM QUITE BEAUTIFULLY SHE WAS A MOST RESPECTABLE PERSON TILL HER DEATH THE GREAT AWKWARDNESS OF WHICH HAD PRECISELY LEFT NO ALTERNATIVE BUT THE SCHOOL FOR LITTLE MILES. MISSUS GROSE SINCE THEN IN THE WAY OF MANNERS AND THINGS HAD DONE AS SHE COULD FOR FLORA AND THERE WERE FURTHER A COOK A HOUSEMAID A DAIRYWOMAN AN OLD PONY AN OLD GROOM AND AN OLD GARDENER ALL LIKEWISE THOROUGHLY RESPECTABLE

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+SO FAR HAD DOUGLAS PRESENTED HIS PICTURE WHEN SOMEONE PUT A QUESTION AND WHAT DID THE FORMER GOVERNESS DIE OF OF SO MUCH RESPECTABILITY OUR FRIEND'S ANSWER WAS PROMPT. THAT WILL COME OUT. I DON'T ANTICIPATE. EXCUSE ME I THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN HER SUCCESSOR'S PLACE I SUGGESTED I SHOULD HAVE WISHED TO LEARN IF THE OFFICE BROUGHT WITH IT NECESSARY DANGER TO LIFE DOUGLAS COMPLETED MY THOUGHT. SHE DID WISH TO LEARN AND SHE DID LEARN. YOU SHALL HEAR TOMORROW WHAT SHE LEARNED. MEANWHILE OF COURSE THE PROSPECT STRUCK HER AS SLIGHTLY GRIM. SHE WAS YOUNG UNTRIED NERVOUS IT WAS A VISION OF SERIOUS DUTIES AND LITTLE COMPANY OF REALLY GREAT LONELINESS. SHE HESITATED TOOK A COUPLE OF DAYS TO CONSULT AND CONSIDER. BUT THE SALARY OFFERED MUCH EXCEEDED HER MODEST MEASURE AND ON A SECOND INTERVIEW SHE FACED THE MUSIC SHE ENGAGED. AND DOUGLAS WITH THIS MADE A PAUSE THAT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY MOVED ME TO THROW IN. THE MORAL OF WHICH WAS OF COURSE THE SEDUCTION EXERCISED BY THE SPLENDID YOUNG MAN SHE SUCCUMBED TO IT. SHE SAW HIM ONLY TWICE. YES BUT THAT'S JUST THE BEAUTY OF HER PASSION. A LITTLE TO MY SURPRISE ON THIS DOUGLAS TURNED ROUND TO ME. IT WAS THE BEAUTY OF IT. THERE WERE OTHERS HE WENT ON WHO HADN'T SUCCUMBED. HE TOLD HER FRANKLY ALL HIS DIFFICULTY THAT FOR SEVERAL APPLICANTS THE CONDITIONS HAD BEEN PROHIBITIVE. THEY WERE SOMEHOW SIMPLY AFRAID. IT SOUNDED DULL IT SOUNDED STRANGE AND ALL THE MORE SO BECAUSE OF HIS MAIN CONDITION WHICH WAS. THAT SHE SHOULD NEVER TROUBLE HIM BUT NEVER NEVER NEITHER APPEAL NOR COMPLAIN NOR WRITE ABOUT ANYTHING ONLY MEET ALL QUESTIONS HERSELF RECEIVE ALL MONEYS FROM HIS SOLICITOR TAKE THE WHOLE THING OVER AND LET HIM ALONE. SHE PROMISED TO DO THIS AND SHE MENTIONED TO ME THAT WHEN FOR A MOMENT DISBURDENED DELIGHTED HE HELD HER HAND THANKING HER FOR THE SACRIFICE SHE ALREADY FELT REWARDED. BUT WAS THAT ALL HER REWARD ONE OF THE LADIES ASKED. SHE NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN OH. SAID THE LADY WHICH AS OUR FRIEND IMMEDIATELY LEFT US AGAIN WAS THE ONLY OTHER WORD OF IMPORTANCE CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUBJECT TILL THE NEXT NIGHT BY THE CORNER OF THE HEARTH IN THE BEST CHAIR HE OPENED THE FADED RED COVER OF A THIN OLD FASHIONED GILT EDGED ALBUM

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+IN GIVING HER EXISTENCE A GREAT LAW HAD BEEN BROKEN AND THE RESULT WAS A BEING WHOSE ELEMENTS WERE PERHAPS BEAUTIFUL AND BRILLIANT BUT ALL IN DISORDER OR WITH AN ORDER PECULIAR TO THEMSELVES AMIDST WHICH THE POINT OF VARIETY AND ARRANGEMENT WAS DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE TO BE DISCOVERED. HESTER COULD ONLY ACCOUNT FOR THE CHILD'S CHARACTER AND EVEN THEN MOST VAGUELY AND IMPERFECTLY BY RECALLING WHAT SHE HERSELF HAD BEEN DURING THAT MOMENTOUS PERIOD WHILE PEARL WAS IMBIBING HER SOUL FROM THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND HER BODILY FRAME FROM ITS MATERIAL OF EARTH. ABOVE ALL THE WARFARE OF HESTER'S SPIRIT AT THAT EPOCH WAS PERPETUATED IN PEARL. SHE COULD RECOGNIZE HER WILD DESPERATE DEFIANT MOOD THE FLIGHTINESS OF HER TEMPER AND EVEN SOME OF THE VERY CLOUD SHAPES OF GLOOM AND DESPONDENCY THAT HAD BROODED IN HER HEART. THEY WERE NOW ILLUMINATED BY THE MORNING RADIANCE OF A YOUNG CHILD'S DISPOSITION BUT LATER IN THE DAY OF EARTHLY EXISTENCE MIGHT BE PROLIFIC OF THE STORM AND WHIRLWIND. THE DISCIPLINE OF THE FAMILY IN THOSE DAYS WAS OF A FAR MORE RIGID KIND THAN NOW. THE FROWN THE HARSH REBUKE THE FREQUENT APPLICATION OF THE ROD ENJOINED BY SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY WERE USED NOT MERELY IN THE WAY OF PUNISHMENT FOR ACTUAL OFFENCES BUT AS A WHOLESOME REGIMEN FOR THE GROWTH AND PROMOTION OF ALL CHILDISH VIRTUES. HESTER PRYNNE NEVERTHELESS THE LOVING MOTHER OF THIS ONE CHILD RAN LITTLE RISK OF ERRING ON THE SIDE OF UNDUE SEVERITY. MINDFUL HOWEVER OF HER OWN ERRORS AND MISFORTUNES SHE EARLY SOUGHT TO IMPOSE A TENDER BUT STRICT CONTROL OVER THE INFANT IMMORTALITY THAT WAS COMMITTED TO HER CHARGE. BUT THE TASK WAS BEYOND HER SKILL. AFTER TESTING BOTH SMILES AND FROWNS AND PROVING THAT NEITHER MODE OF TREATMENT POSSESSED ANY CALCULABLE INFLUENCE HESTER WAS ULTIMATELY COMPELLED TO STAND ASIDE AND PERMIT THE CHILD TO BE SWAYED BY HER OWN IMPULSES. PHYSICAL COMPULSION OR RESTRAINT WAS EFFECTUAL OF COURSE WHILE IT LASTED. AS TO ANY OTHER KIND OF DISCIPLINE WHETHER ADDRESSED TO HER MIND OR HEART LITTLE PEARL MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT BE WITHIN ITS REACH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CAPRICE THAT RULED THE MOMENT. HER MOTHER WHILE PEARL WAS YET AN INFANT GREW ACQUAINTED WITH A CERTAIN PECULIAR LOOK THAT WARNED HER WHEN IT WOULD BE LABOUR THROWN AWAY TO INSIST PERSUADE OR PLEAD. IT WAS A LOOK SO INTELLIGENT YET INEXPLICABLE PERVERSE SOMETIMES SO MALICIOUS BUT GENERALLY ACCOMPANIED BY A WILD FLOW OF SPIRITS THAT HESTER COULD NOT HELP QUESTIONING AT SUCH MOMENTS WHETHER PEARL WAS A HUMAN CHILD. SHE SEEMED RATHER AN AIRY SPRITE WHICH AFTER PLAYING ITS FANTASTIC SPORTS FOR A LITTLE WHILE UPON THE COTTAGE FLOOR WOULD FLIT AWAY WITH A MOCKING SMILE. WHENEVER THAT LOOK APPEARED IN HER WILD BRIGHT DEEPLY BLACK EYES IT INVESTED HER WITH A STRANGE REMOTENESS AND INTANGIBILITY IT WAS AS IF SHE WERE HOVERING IN THE AIR AND MIGHT VANISH LIKE A GLIMMERING LIGHT THAT COMES WE KNOW NOT WHENCE AND GOES WE KNOW NOT WHITHER. BEHOLDING IT HESTER WAS CONSTRAINED TO RUSH TOWARDS THE CHILD TO PURSUE THE LITTLE ELF IN THE FLIGHT WHICH SHE INVARIABLY BEGAN TO SNATCH HER TO HER BOSOM WITH A CLOSE PRESSURE AND EARNEST KISSES NOT SO MUCH FROM OVERFLOWING LOVE AS TO ASSURE HERSELF THAT PEARL WAS FLESH AND BLOOD AND NOT UTTERLY DELUSIVE. BUT PEARL'S LAUGH WHEN SHE WAS CAUGHT THOUGH FULL OF MERRIMENT AND MUSIC MADE HER MOTHER MORE DOUBTFUL THAN BEFORE. HEART SMITTEN AT THIS BEWILDERING AND BAFFLING SPELL THAT SO OFTEN CAME BETWEEN HERSELF AND HER SOLE TREASURE WHOM SHE HAD BOUGHT SO DEAR AND WHO WAS ALL HER WORLD HESTER SOMETIMES BURST INTO PASSIONATE TEARS

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+THEN PERHAPS FOR THERE WAS NO FORESEEING HOW IT MIGHT AFFECT HER PEARL WOULD FROWN AND CLENCH HER LITTLE FIST AND HARDEN HER SMALL FEATURES INTO A STERN UNSYMPATHISING LOOK OF DISCONTENT. NOT SELDOM SHE WOULD LAUGH ANEW AND LOUDER THAN BEFORE LIKE A THING INCAPABLE AND UNINTELLIGENT OF HUMAN SORROW. OR BUT THIS MORE RARELY HAPPENED SHE WOULD BE CONVULSED WITH RAGE OF GRIEF AND SOB OUT HER LOVE FOR HER MOTHER IN BROKEN WORDS AND SEEM INTENT ON PROVING THAT SHE HAD A HEART BY BREAKING IT. YET HESTER WAS HARDLY SAFE IN CONFIDING HERSELF TO THAT GUSTY TENDERNESS IT PASSED AS SUDDENLY AS IT CAME. BROODING OVER ALL THESE MATTERS THE MOTHER FELT LIKE ONE WHO HAS EVOKED A SPIRIT BUT BY SOME IRREGULARITY IN THE PROCESS OF CONJURATION HAS FAILED TO WIN THE MASTER WORD THAT SHOULD CONTROL THIS NEW AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE INTELLIGENCE. HER ONLY REAL COMFORT WAS WHEN THE CHILD LAY IN THE PLACIDITY OF SLEEP. THEN SHE WAS SURE OF HER AND TASTED HOURS OF QUIET SAD DELICIOUS HAPPINESS UNTIL PERHAPS WITH THAT PERVERSE EXPRESSION GLIMMERING FROM BENEATH HER OPENING LIDS LITTLE PEARL AWOKE. AND THEN WHAT A HAPPINESS WOULD IT HAVE BEEN COULD HESTER PRYNNE HAVE HEARD HER CLEAR BIRD LIKE VOICE MINGLING WITH THE UPROAR OF OTHER CHILDISH VOICES AND HAVE DISTINGUISHED AND UNRAVELLED HER OWN DARLING'S TONES AMID ALL THE ENTANGLED OUTCRY OF A GROUP OF SPORTIVE CHILDREN. BUT THIS COULD NEVER BE. PEARL WAS A BORN OUTCAST OF THE INFANTILE WORLD. AN IMP OF EVIL EMBLEM AND PRODUCT OF SIN SHE HAD NO RIGHT AMONG CHRISTENED INFANTS. NOTHING WAS MORE REMARKABLE THAN THE INSTINCT AS IT SEEMED WITH WHICH THE CHILD COMPREHENDED HER LONELINESS THE DESTINY THAT HAD DRAWN AN INVIOLABLE CIRCLE ROUND ABOUT HER THE WHOLE PECULIARITY IN SHORT OF HER POSITION IN RESPECT TO OTHER CHILDREN. IN ALL HER WALKS ABOUT THE TOWN PEARL TOO WAS THERE FIRST AS THE BABE IN ARMS AND AFTERWARDS AS THE LITTLE GIRL SMALL COMPANION OF HER MOTHER HOLDING A FOREFINGER WITH HER WHOLE GRASP AND TRIPPING ALONG AT THE RATE OF THREE OR FOUR FOOTSTEPS TO ONE OF HESTER'S. SHE SAW THE CHILDREN OF THE SETTLEMENT ON THE GRASSY MARGIN OF THE STREET OR AT THE DOMESTIC THRESHOLDS DISPORTING THEMSELVES IN SUCH GRIM FASHIONS AS THE PURITANIC NURTURE WOULD PERMIT PLAYING AT GOING TO CHURCH PERCHANCE OR AT SCOURGING QUAKERS OR TAKING SCALPS IN A SHAM FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS OR SCARING ONE ANOTHER WITH FREAKS OF IMITATIVE WITCHCRAFT. PEARL SAW AND GAZED INTENTLY BUT NEVER SOUGHT TO MAKE ACQUAINTANCE. IF SPOKEN TO SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK AGAIN

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+HESTER PRYNNE WENT ONE DAY TO THE MANSION OF GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM WITH A PAIR OF GLOVES WHICH SHE HAD FRINGED AND EMBROIDERED TO HIS ORDER AND WHICH WERE TO BE WORN ON SOME GREAT OCCASION OF STATE FOR THOUGH THE CHANCES OF A POPULAR ELECTION HAD CAUSED THIS FORMER RULER TO DESCEND A STEP OR TWO FROM THE HIGHEST RANK HE STILL HELD AN HONOURABLE AND INFLUENTIAL PLACE AMONG THE COLONIAL MAGISTRACY. ANOTHER AND FAR MORE IMPORTANT REASON THAN THE DELIVERY OF A PAIR OF EMBROIDERED GLOVES IMPELLED HESTER AT THIS TIME TO SEEK AN INTERVIEW WITH A PERSONAGE OF SO MUCH POWER AND ACTIVITY IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE SETTLEMENT. IT HAD REACHED HER EARS THAT THERE WAS A DESIGN ON THE PART OF SOME OF THE LEADING INHABITANTS CHERISHING THE MORE RIGID ORDER OF PRINCIPLES IN RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT TO DEPRIVE HER OF HER CHILD. ON THE SUPPOSITION THAT PEARL AS ALREADY HINTED WAS OF DEMON ORIGIN THESE GOOD PEOPLE NOT UNREASONABLY ARGUED THAT A CHRISTIAN INTEREST IN THE MOTHER'S SOUL REQUIRED THEM TO REMOVE SUCH A STUMBLING BLOCK FROM HER PATH. AMONG THOSE WHO PROMOTED THE DESIGN GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM WAS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE MOST BUSY. IT MAY APPEAR SINGULAR AND INDEED NOT A LITTLE LUDICROUS THAT AN AFFAIR OF THIS KIND WHICH IN LATER DAYS WOULD HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO NO HIGHER JURISDICTION THAN THAT OF THE SELECT MEN OF THE TOWN SHOULD THEN HAVE BEEN A QUESTION PUBLICLY DISCUSSED AND ON WHICH STATESMEN OF EMINENCE TOOK SIDES. AT THAT EPOCH OF PRISTINE SIMPLICITY HOWEVER MATTERS OF EVEN SLIGHTER PUBLIC INTEREST AND OF FAR LESS INTRINSIC WEIGHT THAN THE WELFARE OF HESTER AND HER CHILD WERE STRANGELY MIXED UP WITH THE DELIBERATIONS OF LEGISLATORS AND ACTS OF STATE. THE PERIOD WAS HARDLY IF AT ALL EARLIER THAN THAT OF OUR STORY WHEN A DISPUTE CONCERNING THE RIGHT OF PROPERTY IN A PIG NOT ONLY CAUSED A FIERCE AND BITTER CONTEST IN THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF THE COLONY BUT RESULTED IN AN IMPORTANT MODIFICATION OF THE FRAMEWORK ITSELF OF THE LEGISLATURE. LITTLE PEARL OF COURSE WAS HER COMPANION. OFTEN NEVERTHELESS MORE FROM CAPRICE THAN NECESSITY SHE DEMANDED TO BE TAKEN UP IN ARMS BUT WAS SOON AS IMPERIOUS TO BE LET DOWN AGAIN AND FRISKED ONWARD BEFORE HESTER ON THE GRASSY PATHWAY WITH MANY A HARMLESS TRIP AND TUMBLE. WE HAVE SPOKEN OF PEARL'S RICH AND LUXURIANT BEAUTY A BEAUTY THAT SHONE WITH DEEP AND VIVID TINTS A BRIGHT COMPLEXION EYES POSSESSING INTENSITY BOTH OF DEPTH AND GLOW AND HAIR ALREADY OF A DEEP GLOSSY BROWN AND WHICH IN AFTER YEARS WOULD BE NEARLY AKIN TO BLACK. THERE WAS FIRE IN HER AND THROUGHOUT HER SHE SEEMED THE UNPREMEDITATED OFFSHOOT OF A PASSIONATE MOMENT. HER MOTHER IN CONTRIVING THE CHILD'S GARB HAD ALLOWED THE GORGEOUS TENDENCIES OF HER IMAGINATION THEIR FULL PLAY ARRAYING HER IN A CRIMSON VELVET TUNIC OF A PECULIAR CUT ABUNDANTLY EMBROIDERED IN FANTASIES AND FLOURISHES OF GOLD THREAD. BUT IT WAS A REMARKABLE ATTRIBUTE OF THIS GARB AND INDEED OF THE CHILD'S WHOLE APPEARANCE THAT IT IRRESISTIBLY AND INEVITABLY REMINDED THE BEHOLDER OF THE TOKEN WHICH HESTER PRYNNE WAS DOOMED TO WEAR UPON HER BOSOM. IT WAS THE SCARLET LETTER IN ANOTHER FORM THE SCARLET LETTER ENDOWED WITH LIFE. THE MOTHER HERSELF AS IF THE RED IGNOMINY WERE SO DEEPLY SCORCHED INTO HER BRAIN THAT ALL HER CONCEPTIONS ASSUMED ITS FORM HAD CAREFULLY WROUGHT OUT THE SIMILITUDE LAVISHING MANY HOURS OF MORBID INGENUITY TO CREATE AN ANALOGY BETWEEN THE OBJECT OF HER AFFECTION AND THE EMBLEM OF HER GUILT AND TORTURE

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+BUT IN TRUTH PEARL WAS THE ONE AS WELL AS THE OTHER AND ONLY IN CONSEQUENCE OF THAT IDENTITY HAD HESTER CONTRIVED SO PERFECTLY TO REPRESENT THE SCARLET LETTER IN HER APPEARANCE. AS THE TWO WAYFARERS CAME WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE TOWN THE CHILDREN OF THE PURITANS LOOKED UP FROM THEIR PLAY OR WHAT PASSED FOR PLAY WITH THOSE SOMBRE LITTLE URCHINS AND SPOKE GRAVELY ONE TO ANOTHER. BEHOLD VERILY THERE IS THE WOMAN OF THE SCARLET LETTER AND OF A TRUTH MOREOVER THERE IS THE LIKENESS OF THE SCARLET LETTER RUNNING ALONG BY HER SIDE. COME THEREFORE AND LET US FLING MUD AT THEM. BUT PEARL WHO WAS A DAUNTLESS CHILD AFTER FROWNING STAMPING HER FOOT AND SHAKING HER LITTLE HAND WITH A VARIETY OF THREATENING GESTURES SUDDENLY MADE A RUSH AT THE KNOT OF HER ENEMIES AND PUT THEM ALL TO FLIGHT. SHE RESEMBLED IN HER FIERCE PURSUIT OF THEM AN INFANT PESTILENCE THE SCARLET FEVER OR SOME SUCH HALF FLEDGED ANGEL OF JUDGMENT WHOSE MISSION WAS TO PUNISH THE SINS OF THE RISING GENERATION. SHE SCREAMED AND SHOUTED TOO WITH A TERRIFIC VOLUME OF SOUND WHICH DOUBTLESS CAUSED THE HEARTS OF THE FUGITIVES TO QUAKE WITHIN THEM. THE VICTORY ACCOMPLISHED PEARL RETURNED QUIETLY TO HER MOTHER AND LOOKED UP SMILING INTO HER FACE. WITHOUT FURTHER ADVENTURE THEY REACHED THE DWELLING OF GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM. THIS WAS A LARGE WOODEN HOUSE BUILT IN A FASHION OF WHICH THERE ARE SPECIMENS STILL EXTANT IN THE STREETS OF OUR OLDER TOWNS NOW MOSS GROWN CRUMBLING TO DECAY AND MELANCHOLY AT HEART WITH THE MANY SORROWFUL OR JOYFUL OCCURRENCES REMEMBERED OR FORGOTTEN THAT HAVE HAPPENED AND PASSED AWAY WITHIN THEIR DUSKY CHAMBERS. THEN HOWEVER THERE WAS THE FRESHNESS OF THE PASSING YEAR ON ITS EXTERIOR AND THE CHEERFULNESS GLEAMING FORTH FROM THE SUNNY WINDOWS OF A HUMAN HABITATION INTO WHICH DEATH HAD NEVER ENTERED. IT HAD INDEED A VERY CHEERY ASPECT THE WALLS BEING OVERSPREAD WITH A KIND OF STUCCO IN WHICH FRAGMENTS OF BROKEN GLASS WERE PLENTIFULLY INTERMIXED SO THAT WHEN THE SUNSHINE FELL ASLANT WISE OVER THE FRONT OF THE EDIFICE IT GLITTERED AND SPARKLED AS IF DIAMONDS HAD BEEN FLUNG AGAINST IT BY THE DOUBLE HANDFUL. IT WAS FURTHER DECORATED WITH STRANGE AND SEEMINGLY CABALISTIC FIGURES AND DIAGRAMS SUITABLE TO THE QUAINT TASTE OF THE AGE WHICH HAD BEEN DRAWN IN THE STUCCO WHEN NEWLY LAID ON AND HAD NOW GROWN HARD AND DURABLE FOR THE ADMIRATION OF AFTER TIMES. PEARL LOOKING AT THIS BRIGHT WONDER OF A HOUSE BEGAN TO CAPER AND DANCE AND IMPERATIVELY REQUIRED THAT THE WHOLE BREADTH OF SUNSHINE SHOULD BE STRIPPED OFF ITS FRONT AND GIVEN HER TO PLAY WITH. NO MY LITTLE PEARL SAID HER MOTHER THOU MUST GATHER THINE OWN SUNSHINE I HAVE NONE TO GIVE THEE. THEY APPROACHED THE DOOR WHICH WAS OF AN ARCHED FORM AND FLANKED ON EACH SIDE BY A NARROW TOWER OR PROJECTION OF THE EDIFICE IN BOTH OF WHICH WERE LATTICE WINDOWS THE WOODEN SHUTTERS TO CLOSE OVER THEM AT NEED. LIFTING THE IRON HAMMER THAT HUNG AT THE PORTAL HESTER PRYNNE GAVE A SUMMONS WHICH WAS ANSWERED BY ONE OF THE GOVERNOR'S BOND SERVANT A FREE BORN ENGLISHMAN BUT NOW A SEVEN YEARS SLAVE. DURING THAT TERM HE WAS TO BE THE PROPERTY OF HIS MASTER AND AS MUCH A COMMODITY OF BARGAIN AND SALE AS AN OX OR A JOINT STOOL. THE SERF WORE THE CUSTOMARY GARB OF SERVING MEN AT THAT PERIOD AND LONG BEFORE IN THE OLD HEREDITARY HALLS OF ENGLAND. IS THE WORSHIPFUL GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM WITHIN INQUIRED HESTER. YEA FORSOOTH REPLIED THE BOND SERVANT STARING WITH WIDE OPEN EYES AT THE SCARLET LETTER WHICH BEING A NEW COMER IN THE COUNTRY HE HAD NEVER BEFORE SEEN. YEA HIS HONOURABLE WORSHIP IS WITHIN BUT HE HATH A GODLY MINISTER OR TWO WITH HIM AND LIKEWISE A LEECH. YE MAY NOT SEE HIS WORSHIP NOW

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+NEVERTHELESS I WILL ENTER ANSWERED HESTER PRYNNE AND THE BOND SERVANT PERHAPS JUDGING FROM THE DECISION OF HER AIR AND THE GLITTERING SYMBOL IN HER BOSOM THAT SHE WAS A GREAT LADY IN THE LAND OFFERED NO OPPOSITION. SO THE MOTHER AND LITTLE PEARL WERE ADMITTED INTO THE HALL OF ENTRANCE. WITH MANY VARIATIONS SUGGESTED BY THE NATURE OF HIS BUILDING MATERIALS DIVERSITY OF CLIMATE AND A DIFFERENT MODE OF SOCIAL LIFE GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM HAD PLANNED HIS NEW HABITATION AFTER THE RESIDENCES OF GENTLEMEN OF FAIR ESTATE IN HIS NATIVE LAND. HERE THEN WAS A WIDE AND REASONABLY LOFTY HALL EXTENDING THROUGH THE WHOLE DEPTH OF THE HOUSE AND FORMING A MEDIUM OF GENERAL COMMUNICATION MORE OR LESS DIRECTLY WITH ALL THE OTHER APARTMENTS. AT ONE EXTREMITY THIS SPACIOUS ROOM WAS LIGHTED BY THE WINDOWS OF THE TWO TOWERS WHICH FORMED A SMALL RECESS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE PORTAL. AT THE OTHER END THOUGH PARTLY MUFFLED BY A CURTAIN IT WAS MORE POWERFULLY ILLUMINATED BY ONE OF THOSE EMBOWED HALL WINDOWS WHICH WE READ OF IN OLD BOOKS AND WHICH WAS PROVIDED WITH A DEEP AND CUSHIONED SEAT. HERE ON THE CUSHION LAY A FOLIO TOME PROBABLY OF THE CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND OR OTHER SUCH SUBSTANTIAL LITERATURE EVEN AS IN OUR OWN DAYS WE SCATTER GILDED VOLUMES ON THE CENTRE TABLE TO BE TURNED OVER BY THE CASUAL GUEST. THE FURNITURE OF THE HALL CONSISTED OF SOME PONDEROUS CHAIRS THE BACKS OF WHICH WERE ELABORATELY CARVED WITH WREATHS OF OAKEN FLOWERS AND LIKEWISE A TABLE IN THE SAME TASTE THE WHOLE BEING OF THE ELIZABETHAN AGE OR PERHAPS EARLIER AND HEIRLOOMS TRANSFERRED HITHER FROM THE GOVERNOR'S PATERNAL HOME. ON THE TABLE IN TOKEN THAT THE SENTIMENT OF OLD ENGLISH HOSPITALITY HAD NOT BEEN LEFT BEHIND STOOD A LARGE PEWTER TANKARD AT THE BOTTOM OF WHICH HAD HESTER OR PEARL PEEPED INTO IT THEY MIGHT HAVE SEEN THE FROTHY REMNANT OF A RECENT DRAUGHT OF ALE. ON THE WALL HUNG A ROW OF PORTRAITS REPRESENTING THE FOREFATHERS OF THE BELLINGHAM LINEAGE SOME WITH ARMOUR ON THEIR BREASTS AND OTHERS WITH STATELY RUFFS AND ROBES OF PEACE. ALL WERE CHARACTERISED BY THE STERNNESS AND SEVERITY WHICH OLD PORTRAITS SO INVARIABLY PUT ON AS IF THEY WERE THE GHOSTS RATHER THAN THE PICTURES OF DEPARTED WORTHIES AND WERE GAZING WITH HARSH AND INTOLERANT CRITICISM AT THE PURSUITS AND ENJOYMENTS OF LIVING MEN. AT ABOUT THE CENTRE OF THE OAKEN PANELS THAT LINED THE HALL WAS SUSPENDED A SUIT OF MAIL NOT LIKE THE PICTURES AN ANCESTRAL RELIC BUT OF THE MOST MODERN DATE FOR IT HAD BEEN MANUFACTURED BY A SKILFUL ARMOURER IN LONDON THE SAME YEAR IN WHICH GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM CAME OVER TO NEW ENGLAND. LITTLE PEARL WHO WAS AS GREATLY PLEASED WITH THE GLEAMING ARMOUR AS SHE HAD BEEN WITH THE GLITTERING FRONTISPIECE OF THE HOUSE SPENT SOME TIME LOOKING INTO THE POLISHED MIRROR OF THE BREASTPLATE. MOTHER CRIED SHE I SEE YOU HERE LOOK LOOK. HESTER LOOKED BY WAY OF HUMOURING THE CHILD AND SHE SAW THAT OWING TO THE PECULIAR EFFECT OF THIS CONVEX MIRROR THE SCARLET LETTER WAS REPRESENTED IN EXAGGERATED AND GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS SO AS TO BE GREATLY THE MOST PROMINENT FEATURE OF HER APPEARANCE. IN TRUTH SHE SEEMED ABSOLUTELY HIDDEN BEHIND IT. THAT LOOK OF NAUGHTY MERRIMENT WAS LIKEWISE REFLECTED IN THE MIRROR WITH SO MUCH BREADTH AND INTENSITY OF EFFECT THAT IT MADE HESTER PRYNNE FEEL AS IF IT COULD NOT BE THE IMAGE OF HER OWN CHILD BUT OF AN IMP WHO WAS SEEKING TO MOULD ITSELF INTO PEARL'S SHAPE. COME ALONG PEARL SAID SHE DRAWING HER AWAY COME AND LOOK INTO THIS FAIR GARDEN IT MAY BE WE SHALL SEE FLOWERS THERE MORE BEAUTIFUL ONES THAN WE FIND IN THE WOODS

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+PEARL ACCORDINGLY RAN TO THE BOW WINDOW AT THE FURTHER END OF THE HALL AND LOOKED ALONG THE VISTA OF A GARDEN WALK CARPETED WITH CLOSELY SHAVEN GRASS AND BORDERED WITH SOME RUDE AND IMMATURE ATTEMPT AT SHRUBBERY. BUT THE PROPRIETOR APPEARED ALREADY TO HAVE RELINQUISHED AS HOPELESS THE EFFORT TO PERPETUATE ON THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC IN A HARD SOIL AND AMID THE CLOSE STRUGGLE FOR SUBSISTENCE THE NATIVE ENGLISH TASTE FOR ORNAMENTAL GARDENING. CABBAGES GREW IN PLAIN SIGHT AND A PUMPKIN VINE ROOTED AT SOME DISTANCE HAD RUN ACROSS THE INTERVENING SPACE AND DEPOSITED ONE OF ITS GIGANTIC PRODUCTS DIRECTLY BENEATH THE HALL WINDOW AS IF TO WARN THE GOVERNOR THAT THIS GREAT LUMP OF VEGETABLE GOLD WAS AS RICH AN ORNAMENT AS NEW ENGLAND EARTH WOULD OFFER HIM. THERE WERE A FEW ROSE BUSHES HOWEVER AND A NUMBER OF APPLE TREES PROBABLY THE DESCENDANTS OF THOSE PLANTED BY THE REVEREND MISTER BLACKSTONE THE FIRST SETTLER OF THE PENINSULA THAT HALF MYTHOLOGICAL PERSONAGE WHO RIDES THROUGH OUR EARLY ANNALS SEATED ON THE BACK OF A BULL. PEARL SEEING THE ROSE BUSHES BEGAN TO CRY FOR A RED ROSE AND WOULD NOT BE PACIFIED. HUSH CHILD HUSH SAID HER MOTHER EARNESTLY DO NOT CRY DEAR LITTLE PEARL I HEAR VOICES IN THE GARDEN. THE GOVERNOR IS COMING AND GENTLEMEN ALONG WITH HIM. IN FACT ADOWN THE VISTA OF THE GARDEN AVENUE A NUMBER OF PERSONS WERE SEEN APPROACHING TOWARDS THE HOUSE

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+OJO EXAMINED THIS CURIOUS CONTRIVANCE WITH WONDER. THE PATCHWORK GIRL WAS TALLER THAN HE WHEN SHE STOOD UPRIGHT AND HER BODY WAS PLUMP AND ROUNDED BECAUSE IT HAD BEEN SO NEATLY STUFFED WITH COTTON. MARGOLOTTE HAD FIRST MADE THE GIRL'S FORM FROM THE PATCHWORK QUILT AND THEN SHE HAD DRESSED IT WITH A PATCHWORK SKIRT AND AN APRON WITH POCKETS IN IT USING THE SAME GAY MATERIAL THROUGHOUT. UPON THE FEET SHE HAD SEWN A PAIR OF RED LEATHER SHOES WITH POINTED TOES. ALL THE FINGERS AND THUMBS OF THE GIRL'S HANDS HAD BEEN CAREFULLY FORMED AND STUFFED AND STITCHED AT THE EDGES WITH GOLD PLATES AT THE ENDS TO SERVE AS FINGER NAILS. SHE WILL HAVE TO WORK WHEN SHE COMES TO LIFE SAID MARGOLOTTE. THE HEAD OF THE PATCHWORK GIRL WAS THE MOST CURIOUS PART OF HER. WHILE SHE WAITED FOR HER HUSBAND TO FINISH MAKING HIS POWDER OF LIFE THE WOMAN HAD FOUND AMPLE TIME TO COMPLETE THE HEAD AS HER FANCY DICTATED AND SHE REALIZED THAT A GOOD SERVANT'S HEAD MUST BE PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED. THE HAIR WAS OF BROWN YARN AND HUNG DOWN ON HER NECK IN SEVERAL NEAT BRAIDS. HER EYES WERE TWO SILVER SUSPENDER BUTTONS CUT FROM A PAIR OF THE MAGICIAN'S OLD TROUSERS AND THEY WERE SEWED ON WITH BLACK THREADS WHICH FORMED THE PUPILS OF THE EYES. MARGOLOTTE HAD PUZZLED OVER THE EARS FOR SOME TIME FOR THESE WERE IMPORTANT IF THE SERVANT WAS TO HEAR DISTINCTLY BUT FINALLY SHE HAD MADE THEM OUT OF THIN PLATES OF GOLD AND ATTACHED THEM IN PLACE BY MEANS OF STITCHES THROUGH TINY HOLES BORED IN THE METAL. GOLD IS THE MOST COMMON METAL IN THE LAND OF OZ AND IS USED FOR MANY PURPOSES BECAUSE IT IS SOFT AND PLIABLE. THE WOMAN HAD CUT A SLIT FOR THE PATCHWORK GIRL'S MOUTH AND SEWN TWO ROWS OF WHITE PEARLS IN IT FOR TEETH USING A STRIP OF SCARLET PLUSH FOR A TONGUE. THIS MOUTH OJO CONSIDERED VERY ARTISTIC AND LIFELIKE AND MARGOLOTTE WAS PLEASED WHEN THE BOY PRAISED IT. THERE WERE ALMOST TOO MANY PATCHES ON THE FACE OF THE GIRL FOR HER TO BE CONSIDERED STRICTLY BEAUTIFUL FOR ONE CHEEK WAS YELLOW AND THE OTHER RED HER CHIN BLUE HER FOREHEAD PURPLE AND THE CENTER WHERE HER NOSE HAD BEEN FORMED AND PADDED A BRIGHT YELLOW. YOU OUGHT TO HAVE HAD HER FACE ALL PINK SUGGESTED THE BOY. I SUPPOSE SO BUT I HAD NO PINK CLOTH REPLIED THE WOMAN. STILL I CANNOT SEE AS IT MATTERS MUCH FOR I WISH MY PATCHWORK GIRL TO BE USEFUL RATHER THAN ORNAMENTAL. IF I GET TIRED LOOKING AT HER PATCHED FACE I CAN WHITEWASH IT. HAS SHE ANY BRAINS ASKED OJO. NO I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THE BRAINS EXCLAIMED THE WOMAN. I AM GLAD YOU REMINDED ME OF THEM FOR IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO SUPPLY THEM BY ANY MEANS. UNTIL SHE IS BROUGHT TO LIFE I CAN DO ANYTHING I PLEASE WITH THIS GIRL. BUT I MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO GIVE HER TOO MUCH BRAINS AND THOSE SHE HAS MUST BE SUCH AS ARE FITTED TO THE STATION SHE IS TO OCCUPY IN LIFE. IN OTHER WORDS HER BRAINS MUSTN'T BE VERY GOOD. WRONG SAID UNC NUNKIE. NO I AM SURE I AM RIGHT ABOUT THAT RETURNED THE WOMAN. WELL THAT MAY BE TRUE AGREED MARGOLOTTE BUT ON THE CONTRARY A SERVANT WITH TOO MUCH BRAINS IS SURE TO BECOME INDEPENDENT AND HIGH AND MIGHTY AND FEEL ABOVE HER WORK. I WANT HER TO KNOW JUST ENOUGH BUT NOT TOO MUCH. WITH THIS SHE WENT TO ANOTHER CUPBOARD WHICH WAS FILLED WITH SHELVES. ALL THE SHELVES WERE LINED WITH BLUE GLASS BOTTLES NEATLY LABELED BY THE MAGICIAN TO SHOW WHAT THEY CONTAINED. ONE WHOLE SHELF WAS MARKED BRAIN FURNITURE AND THE BOTTLES ON THIS SHELF WERE LABELED AS FOLLOWS OBEDIENCE CLEVERNESS JUDGMENT COURAGE INGENUITY AMIABILITY LEARNING TRUTH POESY SELF RELIANCE. LET ME SEE SAID MARGOLOTTE OF THOSE QUALITIES SHE MUST HAVE OBEDIENCE FIRST OF ALL AND SHE TOOK DOWN THE BOTTLE BEARING THAT LABEL AND POURED FROM IT UPON A DISH SEVERAL GRAINS OF THE CONTENTS

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+WHEN HE SAT DOWN UPON A CROOKED CHAIR THAT HAD BEEN MADE TO FIT HIM ONE KNEE WAS UNDER HIS CHIN AND THE OTHER NEAR THE SMALL OF HIS BACK BUT HE WAS A CHEERFUL MAN AND HIS FACE BORE A PLEASANT AND AGREEABLE EXPRESSION. I AM NOT ALLOWED TO PERFORM MAGIC EXCEPT FOR MY OWN AMUSEMENT HE TOLD HIS VISITORS AS HE LIGHTED A PIPE WITH A CROOKED STEM AND BEGAN TO SMOKE. TOO MANY PEOPLE WERE WORKING MAGIC IN THE LAND OF OZ AND SO OUR LOVELY PRINCESS OZMA PUT A STOP TO IT I THINK SHE WAS QUITE RIGHT. THERE WERE SEVERAL WICKED WITCHES WHO CAUSED A LOT OF TROUBLE BUT NOW THEY ARE ALL OUT OF BUSINESS AND ONLY THE GREAT SORCERESS GLINDA THE GOOD IS PERMITTED TO PRACTICE HER ARTS WHICH NEVER HARM ANYBODY. THE WIZARD OF OZ WHO USED TO BE A HUMBUG AND KNEW NO MAGIC AT ALL HAS BEEN TAKING LESSONS OF GLINDA AND I'M TOLD HE IS GETTING TO BE A PRETTY GOOD WIZARD BUT HE IS MERELY THE ASSISTANT OF THE GREAT SORCERESS. MAGIC MUST BE A VERY INTERESTING STUDY SAID OJO. IT TRULY IS ASSERTED THE MAGICIAN. IN MY TIME I'VE PERFORMED SOME MAGICAL FEATS THAT WERE WORTHY OF THE SKILL OF GLINDA THE GOOD. FOR INSTANCE THERE'S THE POWDER OF LIFE AND MY LIQUID OF PETRIFACTION WHICH IS CONTAINED IN THAT BOTTLE ON THE SHELF YONDER OVER THE WINDOW. WHAT DOES THE LIQUID OF PETRIFACTION DO INQUIRED THE BOY. TURNS EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES TO SOLID MARBLE. IT'S AN INVENTION OF MY OWN AND I FIND IT VERY USEFUL. I NOW USE THEM AS ORNAMENTAL STATUARY IN MY GARDEN. THIS TABLE LOOKS TO YOU LIKE WOOD AND ONCE IT REALLY WAS WOOD BUT I SPRINKLED A FEW DROPS OF THE LIQUID OF PETRIFACTION ON IT AND NOW IT IS MARBLE. IT WILL NEVER BREAK NOR WEAR OUT FINE. SAID UNC NUNKIE WAGGING HIS HEAD AND STROKING HIS LONG GRAY BEARD. DEAR ME WHAT A CHATTERBOX YOU'RE GETTING TO BE UNC REMARKED THE MAGICIAN WHO WAS PLEASED WITH THE COMPLIMENT. BUT JUST THEN THERE CAME A SCRATCHING AT THE BACK DOOR AND A SHRILL VOICE CRIED. MARGOLOTTE GOT UP AND WENT TO THE DOOR. ASK LIKE A GOOD CAT THEN SHE SAID. ASKED THE VOICE IN SCORNFUL ACCENTS

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+THE WIND HAS RISEN AND HAS RAPIDLY CARRIED US AWAY FROM AXEL ISLAND. THE ROARINGS BECOME LOST IN THE DISTANCE. THE WEATHER IF WE MAY USE THAT TERM WILL CHANGE BEFORE LONG. THE ATMOSPHERE IS CHARGED WITH VAPOURS PERVADED WITH THE ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY THE EVAPORATION OF SALINE WATERS. THE CLOUDS ARE SINKING LOWER AND ASSUME AN OLIVE HUE. THE ELECTRIC LIGHT CAN SCARCELY PENETRATE THROUGH THE DENSE CURTAIN WHICH HAS DROPPED OVER THE THEATRE ON WHICH THE BATTLE OF THE ELEMENTS IS ABOUT TO BE WAGED. I FEEL PECULIAR SENSATIONS LIKE MANY CREATURES ON EARTH AT THE APPROACH OF VIOLENT ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES. THE HEAVILY VOLUTED CUMULUS CLOUDS LOWER GLOOMILY AND THREATENINGLY THEY WEAR THAT IMPLACABLE LOOK WHICH I HAVE SOMETIMES NOTICED AT THE OUTBREAK OF A GREAT STORM. THE AIR IS HEAVY THE SEA IS CALM. IN THE DISTANCE THE CLOUDS RESEMBLE GREAT BALES OF COTTON PILED UP IN PICTURESQUE DISORDER. BY DEGREES THEY DILATE AND GAIN IN HUGE SIZE WHAT THEY LOSE IN NUMBER. SUCH IS THEIR PONDEROUS WEIGHT THAT THEY CANNOT RISE FROM THE HORIZON BUT OBEYING AN IMPULSE FROM HIGHER CURRENTS THEIR DENSE CONSISTENCY SLOWLY YIELDS. THE GLOOM UPON THEM DEEPENS AND THEY SOON PRESENT TO OUR VIEW A PONDEROUS MASS OF ALMOST LEVEL SURFACE. FROM TIME TO TIME A FLEECY TUFT OF MIST WITH YET SOME GLEAMING LIGHT LEFT UPON IT DROPS DOWN UPON THE DENSE FLOOR OF GREY AND LOSES ITSELF IN THE OPAQUE AND IMPENETRABLE MASS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS EVIDENTLY CHARGED AND SURCHARGED WITH ELECTRICITY. MY WHOLE BODY IS SATURATED MY HAIR BRISTLES JUST AS WHEN YOU STAND UPON AN INSULATED STOOL UNDER THE ACTION OF AN ELECTRICAL MACHINE. IT SEEMS TO ME AS IF MY COMPANIONS THE MOMENT THEY TOUCHED ME WOULD RECEIVE A SEVERE SHOCK LIKE THAT FROM AN ELECTRIC EEL. AT TEN IN THE MORNING THE SYMPTOMS OF STORM BECOME AGGRAVATED. THE WIND NEVER LULLS BUT TO ACQUIRE INCREASED STRENGTH THE VAST BANK OF HEAVY CLOUDS IS A HUGE RESERVOIR OF FEARFUL WINDY GUSTS AND RUSHING STORMS. HERE'S SOME VERY BAD WEATHER COMING ON. THE PROFESSOR MADE NO ANSWER. HIS TEMPER IS AWFUL TO JUDGE FROM THE WORKING OF HIS FEATURES AS HE SEES THIS VAST LENGTH OF OCEAN UNROLLING BEFORE HIM TO AN INDEFINITE EXTENT. HE CAN ONLY SPARE TIME TO SHRUG HIS SHOULDERS VICIOUSLY. THERE'S A HEAVY STORM COMING ON I CRIED POINTING TOWARDS THE HORIZON. THOSE CLOUDS SEEM AS IF THEY WERE GOING TO CRUSH THE SEA. A DEEP SILENCE FALLS ON ALL AROUND. THE LATELY ROARING WINDS ARE HUSHED INTO A DEAD CALM NATURE SEEMS TO BREATHE NO MORE AND TO BE SINKING INTO THE STILLNESS OF DEATH. ON THE MAST ALREADY I SEE THE LIGHT PLAY OF A LAMBENT SAINT ELMO'S FIRE THE OUTSTRETCHED SAIL CATCHES NOT A BREATH OF WIND AND HANGS LIKE A SHEET OF LEAD. THE RUDDER STANDS MOTIONLESS IN A SLUGGISH WAVELESS SEA. BUT IF WE HAVE NOW CEASED TO ADVANCE WHY DO WE YET LEAVE THAT SAIL LOOSE WHICH AT THE FIRST SHOCK OF THE TEMPEST MAY CAPSIZE US IN A MOMENT. THAT WILL BE SAFEST NO NO NEVER. SHOUTED MY IMPETUOUS UNCLE NEVER. LET THE WIND CATCH US IF IT WILL. THE WORDS WERE HARDLY OUT OF HIS MOUTH WHEN A SUDDEN CHANGE TOOK PLACE IN THE SOUTHERN SKY. THE PILED UP VAPOURS CONDENSE INTO WATER AND THE AIR PUT INTO VIOLENT ACTION TO SUPPLY THE VACUUM LEFT BY THE CONDENSATION OF THE MISTS ROUSES ITSELF INTO A WHIRLWIND. IT RUSHES ON FROM THE FARTHEST RECESSES OF THE VAST CAVERN. THE DARKNESS DEEPENS SCARCELY CAN I JOT DOWN A FEW HURRIED NOTES. THE HELM MAKES A BOUND MY UNCLE FALLS FULL LENGTH I CREEP CLOSE TO HIM

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+HE HAS LAID A FIRM HOLD UPON A ROPE AND APPEARS TO WATCH WITH GRIM SATISFACTION THIS AWFUL DISPLAY OF ELEMENTAL STRIFE. HANS STIRS NOT. BUT BEFORE IT HAS REACHED US THE RAIN CLOUD PARTS ASUNDER THE SEA BOILS AND THE ELECTRIC FIRES ARE BROUGHT INTO VIOLENT ACTION BY A MIGHTY CHEMICAL POWER THAT DESCENDS FROM THE HIGHER REGIONS. THE MOST VIVID FLASHES OF LIGHTNING ARE MINGLED WITH THE VIOLENT CRASH OF CONTINUOUS THUNDER. THE HEAVING WAVES RESEMBLE FIERY VOLCANIC HILLS EACH BELCHING FORTH ITS OWN INTERIOR FLAMES AND EVERY CREST IS PLUMED WITH DANCING FIRE. MY EYES FAIL UNDER THE DAZZLING LIGHT MY EARS ARE STUNNED WITH THE INCESSANT CRASH OF THUNDER. I MUST BE BOUND TO THE MAST WHICH BOWS LIKE A REED BEFORE THE MIGHTY STRENGTH OF THE STORM. BUT THEIR VERY BREVITY AND THEIR OBSCURITY REVEAL THE INTENSITY OF THE EXCITEMENT WHICH DOMINATED ME AND DESCRIBE THE ACTUAL POSITION EVEN BETTER THAN MY MEMORY COULD DO. THE NIGHT WAS FEARFUL NO ABATEMENT OF THE STORM. THE DIN AND UPROAR ARE INCESSANT OUR EARS ARE BLEEDING TO EXCHANGE A WORD IS IMPOSSIBLE. THE LIGHTNING FLASHES WITH INTENSE BRILLIANCY AND NEVER SEEMS TO CEASE FOR A MOMENT. ZIGZAG STREAMS OF BLUISH WHITE FIRE DASH DOWN UPON THE SEA AND REBOUND AND THEN TAKE AN UPWARD FLIGHT TILL THEY STRIKE THE GRANITE VAULT THAT OVERARCHES OUR HEADS. SUPPOSE THAT SOLID ROOF SHOULD CRUMBLE DOWN UPON OUR HEADS. OTHER FLASHES WITH INCESSANT PLAY CROSS THEIR VIVID FIRES WHILE OTHERS AGAIN ROLL THEMSELVES INTO BALLS OF LIVING FIRE WHICH EXPLODE LIKE BOMBSHELLS BUT THE MUSIC OF WHICH SCARCELY ADDS TO THE DIN OF THE BATTLE STRIFE THAT ALMOST DEPRIVES US OF OUR SENSES OF HEARING AND SIGHT THE LIMIT OF INTENSE LOUDNESS HAS BEEN PASSED WITHIN WHICH THE HUMAN EAR CAN DISTINGUISH ONE SOUND FROM ANOTHER. IF ALL THE POWDER MAGAZINES IN THE WORLD WERE TO EXPLODE AT ONCE WE SHOULD HEAR NO MORE THAN WE DO NOW. FROM THE UNDER SURFACE OF THE CLOUDS THERE ARE CONTINUAL EMISSIONS OF LURID LIGHT ELECTRIC MATTER IS IN CONTINUAL EVOLUTION FROM THEIR COMPONENT MOLECULES THE GASEOUS ELEMENTS OF THE AIR NEED TO BE SLAKED WITH MOISTURE FOR INNUMERABLE COLUMNS OF WATER RUSH UPWARDS INTO THE AIR AND FALL BACK AGAIN IN WHITE FOAM. WHITHER ARE WE FLYING. MY UNCLE LIES FULL LENGTH ACROSS THE RAFT THE HEAT INCREASES. I REFER TO THE THERMOMETER IT INDICATES THE FIGURE IS OBLITERATED. IS THE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITION HAVING ONCE REACHED THIS DENSITY TO BECOME FINAL. WE ARE PROSTRATED AND WORN OUT WITH FATIGUE BUT HANS IS AS USUAL. THE RAFT BEARS ON STILL TO THE SOUTH EAST. WE HAVE MADE TWO HUNDRED LEAGUES SINCE WE LEFT AXEL ISLAND. AT NOON THE VIOLENCE OF THE STORM REDOUBLES. WE ARE OBLIGED TO SECURE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE EVERY ARTICLE THAT BELONGS TO OUR CARGO. EACH OF US IS LASHED TO SOME PART OF THE RAFT. THE WAVES RISE ABOVE OUR HEADS. FOR THREE DAYS WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO MAKE EACH OTHER HEAR A WORD. OUR MOUTHS OPEN OUR LIPS MOVE BUT NOT A WORD CAN BE HEARD. WE CANNOT EVEN MAKE OURSELVES HEARD BY APPROACHING OUR MOUTH CLOSE TO THE EAR. MY UNCLE HAS DRAWN NEARER TO ME HE HAS UTTERED A FEW WORDS. THEY SEEM TO BE WE ARE LOST BUT I AM NOT SURE. AT LAST I WRITE DOWN THE WORDS LET US LOWER THE SAIL. HE NODS HIS CONSENT. SCARCELY HAS HE LIFTED HIS HEAD AGAIN BEFORE A BALL OF FIRE HAS BOUNDED OVER THE WAVES AND LIGHTED ON BOARD OUR RAFT. WE LAY THERE OUR BLOOD RUNNING COLD WITH UNSPEAKABLE TERROR

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+OH MY POOR LITTLE FEET I WONDER WHO WILL PUT ON YOUR SHOES AND STOCKINGS FOR YOU NOW DEARS. AND HOW ODD THE DIRECTIONS WILL LOOK. HEARTHRUG NEAR THE FENDER WITH ALICE'S LOVE. OH DEAR WHAT NONSENSE I'M TALKING. JUST THEN HER HEAD STRUCK AGAINST THE ROOF OF THE HALL IN FACT SHE WAS NOW MORE THAN NINE FEET HIGH AND SHE AT ONCE TOOK UP THE LITTLE GOLDEN KEY AND HURRIED OFF TO THE GARDEN DOOR. POOR ALICE. IT WAS AS MUCH AS SHE COULD DO LYING DOWN ON ONE SIDE TO LOOK THROUGH INTO THE GARDEN WITH ONE EYE BUT TO GET THROUGH WAS MORE HOPELESS THAN EVER SHE SAT DOWN AND BEGAN TO CRY AGAIN. YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF SAID ALICE A GREAT GIRL LIKE YOU SHE MIGHT WELL SAY THIS TO GO ON CRYING IN THIS WAY STOP THIS MOMENT I TELL YOU. BUT SHE WENT ON ALL THE SAME SHEDDING GALLONS OF TEARS UNTIL THERE WAS A LARGE POOL ALL ROUND HER ABOUT FOUR INCHES DEEP AND REACHING HALF DOWN THE HALL. AFTER A TIME SHE HEARD A LITTLE PATTERING OF FEET IN THE DISTANCE AND SHE HASTILY DRIED HER EYES TO SEE WHAT WAS COMING. IT WAS THE WHITE RABBIT RETURNING SPLENDIDLY DRESSED WITH A PAIR OF WHITE KID GLOVES IN ONE HAND AND A LARGE FAN IN THE OTHER HE CAME TROTTING ALONG IN A GREAT HURRY MUTTERING TO HIMSELF AS HE CAME OH THE DUCHESS THE DUCHESS. OH WON'T SHE BE SAVAGE IF I'VE KEPT HER WAITING. ALICE FELT SO DESPERATE THAT SHE WAS READY TO ASK HELP OF ANY ONE SO WHEN THE RABBIT CAME NEAR HER SHE BEGAN IN A LOW TIMID VOICE IF YOU PLEASE SIR THE RABBIT STARTED VIOLENTLY DROPPED THE WHITE KID GLOVES AND THE FAN AND SKURRIED AWAY INTO THE DARKNESS AS HARD AS HE COULD GO. ALICE TOOK UP THE FAN AND GLOVES AND AS THE HALL WAS VERY HOT SHE KEPT FANNING HERSELF ALL THE TIME SHE WENT ON TALKING DEAR DEAR HOW QUEER EVERYTHING IS TO DAY. AND YESTERDAY THINGS WENT ON JUST AS USUAL. I WONDER IF I'VE BEEN CHANGED IN THE NIGHT. LET ME THINK WAS I THE SAME WHEN I GOT UP THIS MORNING. I ALMOST THINK I CAN REMEMBER FEELING A LITTLE DIFFERENT. BUT IF I'M NOT THE SAME THE NEXT QUESTION IS WHO IN THE WORLD AM I. AH THAT'S THE GREAT PUZZLE. I'M SURE I'M NOT ADA SHE SAID FOR HER HAIR GOES IN SUCH LONG RINGLETS AND MINE DOESN'T GO IN RINGLETS AT ALL AND I'M SURE I CAN'T BE MABEL FOR I KNOW ALL SORTS OF THINGS AND SHE OH SHE KNOWS SUCH A VERY LITTLE. BESIDES SHE'S SHE AND I'M I AND OH DEAR HOW PUZZLING IT ALL IS. I'LL TRY IF I KNOW ALL THE THINGS I USED TO KNOW. I SHALL NEVER GET TO TWENTY AT THAT RATE. HOWEVER THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE DOESN'T SIGNIFY LET'S TRY GEOGRAPHY. LONDON IS THE CAPITAL OF PARIS AND PARIS IS THE CAPITAL OF ROME AND ROME NO THAT'S ALL WRONG I'M CERTAIN. I MUST HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOR MABEL. HOW CHEERFULLY HE SEEMS TO GRIN HOW NEATLY SPREAD HIS CLAWS AND WELCOME LITTLE FISHES IN WITH GENTLY SMILING JAWS. I'M SURE THOSE ARE NOT THE RIGHT WORDS SAID POOR ALICE AND HER EYES FILLED WITH TEARS AGAIN AS SHE WENT ON I MUST BE MABEL AFTER ALL AND I SHALL HAVE TO GO AND LIVE IN THAT POKY LITTLE HOUSE AND HAVE NEXT TO NO TOYS TO PLAY WITH AND OH. EVER SO MANY LESSONS TO LEARN. NO I'VE MADE UP MY MIND ABOUT IT IF I'M MABEL I'LL STAY DOWN HERE. IT'LL BE NO USE THEIR PUTTING THEIR HEADS DOWN AND SAYING COME UP AGAIN DEAR. TELL ME THAT FIRST AND THEN IF I LIKE BEING THAT PERSON I'LL COME UP IF NOT I'LL STAY DOWN HERE TILL I'M SOMEBODY ELSE BUT OH DEAR CRIED ALICE WITH A SUDDEN BURST OF TEARS I DO WISH THEY WOULD PUT THEIR HEADS DOWN. I AM SO VERY TIRED OF BEING ALL ALONE HERE

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+WE WANT YOU TO HELP US PUBLISH SOME LEADING WORK OF LUTHER'S FOR THE GENERAL AMERICAN MARKET WILL YOU DO IT. I WILL ON ONE CONDITION AND WHAT IS THAT. THE CONDITION IS THAT I WILL BE PERMITTED TO MAKE LUTHER TALK AMERICAN STREAMLINE HIM SO TO SPEAK BECAUSE YOU WILL NEVER GET PEOPLE WHETHER IN OR OUTSIDE THE LUTHERAN CHURCH ACTUALLY TO READ LUTHER UNLESS WE MAKE HIM TALK AS HE WOULD TALK TODAY TO AMERICANS. AND WHAT BOOK WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE. THERE IS ONE BOOK THAT LUTHER HIMSELF LIKES BETTER THAN ANY OTHER. LET US BEGIN WITH THAT HIS COMMENTARY ON GALATIANS. THE UNDERTAKING WHICH SEEMED SO ATTRACTIVE WHEN VIEWED AS A LITERARY TASK PROVED A MOST DIFFICULT ONE AND AT TIMES BECAME OPPRESSIVE. THE LETTER TO THE GALATIANS CONSISTS OF SIX SHORT CHAPTERS. IT WAS WRITTEN IN LATIN. IT WOULD HAVE RUN TO MORE THAN FIFTEEN HUNDRED PAGES ORDINARY OCTAVO LIKE THIS SINCE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO USE THE COMPRESSED STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES WHICH IS CHARACTERISTIC OF LATIN AND PARTICULARLY OF LUTHER'S LATIN. THE WORK HAD TO BE CONDENSED. GERMAN AND ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS ARE AVAILABLE BUT THE MOST ACCEPTABLE ENGLISH VERSION BESIDES LABORING UNDER THE HANDICAPS OF AN ARCHAIC STYLE HAD TO BE CONDENSED INTO HALF ITS VOLUME IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THE STREAMLINING OF THE BOOK. A WORD SHOULD NOW BE SAID ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF LUTHER'S COMMENTARY ON GALATIANS. THE REFORMER HAD LECTURED ON THIS EPISTLE OF SAINT PAUL'S IN FIFTEEN NINETEEN AND AGAIN IN FIFTEEN TWENTY THREE. IT WAS HIS FAVORITE AMONG ALL THE BIBLICAL BOOKS. IN HIS TABLE TALKS THE SAYING IS RECORDED THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS IS MY EPISTLE. TO IT I AM AS IT WERE IN WEDLOCK IT IS MY KATHERINE. MUCH LATER WHEN A FRIEND OF HIS WAS PREPARING AN EDITION OF ALL HIS LATIN WORKS HE REMARKED TO HIS HOME CIRCLE IF I HAD MY WAY ABOUT IT THEY WOULD REPUBLISH ONLY THOSE OF MY BOOKS WHICH HAVE DOCTRINE MY GALATIANS FOR INSTANCE. THE LECTURES WHICH ARE PRESERVED IN THE WORKS HEREWITH SUBMITTED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WERE DELIVERED IN FIFTEEN THIRTY ONE. THEY WERE TAKEN DOWN BY GEORGE ROERER WHO HELD SOMETHING OF A DEANSHIP AT WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY AND WHO WAS ONE OF LUTHER'S AIDS IN THE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE. IN OTHER WORDS THESE THREE MEN TOOK DOWN THE LECTURES WHICH LUTHER ADDRESSED TO HIS STUDENTS IN THE COURSE OF GALATIANS AND ROERER PREPARED THE MANUSCRIPT FOR THE PRINTER. A GERMAN TRANSLATION BY JUSTUS MENIUS APPEARED IN THE WITTENBERG EDITION OF LUTHER'S WRITINGS PUBLISHED IN FIFTEEN THIRTY NINE. IT PRESENTS LIKE NO OTHER OF LUTHER'S WRITINGS THE CENTRAL THOUGHT OF CHRISTIANITY THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE SINNER FOR THE SAKE OF CHRIST'S MERITS ALONE. WE HAVE PERMITTED IN THE FINAL REVISION OF THE MANUSCRIPT MANY A PASSAGE TO STAND WHICH SEEMED WEAK AND INEFFECTUAL WHEN COMPARED WITH THE TRUMPET TONES OF THE LATIN ORIGINAL. BUT THE ESSENCE OF LUTHER'S LECTURES IS THERE. MAY THE READER ACCEPT WITH INDULGENCE WHERE IN THIS TRANSLATION WE HAVE GONE TOO FAR IN MODERNIZING LUTHER'S EXPRESSION MAKING HIM TALK AMERICAN. THE LORD WHO HAS GIVEN US POWER TO TEACH AND TO HEAR LET HIM ALSO GIVE US THE POWER TO SERVE AND TO DO LUKE TWO. GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST AND ON EARTH PEACE GOOD WILL TO MEN. ISAIAH FORTY. THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER

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+THE WORLD BEARS THE GOSPEL A GRUDGE BECAUSE THE GOSPEL CONDEMNS THE RELIGIOUS WISDOM OF THE WORLD. JEALOUS FOR ITS OWN RELIGIOUS VIEWS THE WORLD IN TURN CHARGES THE GOSPEL WITH BEING A SUBVERSIVE AND LICENTIOUS DOCTRINE OFFENSIVE TO GOD AND MAN A DOCTRINE TO BE PERSECUTED AS THE WORST PLAGUE ON EARTH. AS A RESULT WE HAVE THIS PARADOXICAL SITUATION THE GOSPEL SUPPLIES THE WORLD WITH THE SALVATION OF JESUS CHRIST PEACE OF CONSCIENCE AND EVERY BLESSING. JUST FOR THAT THE WORLD ABHORS THE GOSPEL. IN EVERY WAY THEY SOUGHT TO UNDERMINE THE AUTHORITY OF SAINT PAUL. THEY SAID TO THE GALATIANS YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO THINK HIGHLY OF PAUL. HE WAS THE LAST TO TURN TO CHRIST. BUT WE HAVE SEEN CHRIST WE HEARD HIM PREACH. PAUL CAME LATER AND IS BENEATH US. IT IS POSSIBLE FOR US TO BE IN ERROR WE WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST PAUL STANDS ALONE. HE HAS NOT SEEN CHRIST NOR HAS HE HAD MUCH CONTACT WITH THE OTHER APOSTLES. INDEED HE PERSECUTED THE CHURCH OF CHRIST FOR A LONG TIME. WHEN MEN CLAIMING SUCH CREDENTIALS COME ALONG THEY DECEIVE NOT ONLY THE NAIVE BUT ALSO THOSE WHO SEEMINGLY ARE WELL ESTABLISHED IN THE FAITH. THIS SAME ARGUMENT IS USED BY THE PAPACY. DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT GOD FOR THE SAKE OF A FEW LUTHERAN HERETICS WOULD DISOWN HIS ENTIRE CHURCH. OR DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT GOD WOULD HAVE LEFT HIS CHURCH FLOUNDERING IN ERROR ALL THESE CENTURIES. THE GALATIANS WERE TAKEN IN BY SUCH ARGUMENTS WITH THE RESULT THAT PAUL'S AUTHORITY AND DOCTRINE WERE DRAWN IN QUESTION. AGAINST THESE BOASTING FALSE APOSTLES PAUL BOLDLY DEFENDS HIS APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY AND MINISTRY. HUMBLE MAN THAT HE WAS HE WILL NOT NOW TAKE A BACK SEAT. THE CERTAINTY OF OUR CALLING. AS THE AMBASSADOR OF A GOVERNMENT IS HONORED FOR HIS OFFICE AND NOT FOR HIS PRIVATE PERSON SO THE MINISTER OF CHRIST SHOULD EXALT HIS OFFICE IN ORDER TO GAIN AUTHORITY AMONG MEN. THIS IS NOT VAIN GLORY BUT NEEDFUL GLORYING. PAUL TAKES PRIDE IN HIS MINISTRY NOT TO HIS OWN PRAISE BUT TO THE PRAISE OF GOD. PAUL EXALTS HIS MINISTRY OUT OF THE DESIRE TO MAKE KNOWN THE NAME THE GRACE AND THE MERCY OF GOD VERSE ONE. PAUL AN APOSTLE NOT OF MEN ET CETERA. PAUL LOSES NO TIME IN DEFENDING HIMSELF AGAINST THE CHARGE THAT HE HAD THRUST HIMSELF INTO THE MINISTRY. HE SAYS TO THE GALATIANS MY CALL MAY SEEM INFERIOR TO YOU. WHEN PAUL SPEAKS OF THOSE CALLED BY MEN I TAKE IT HE MEANS THOSE WHOM NEITHER GOD NOR MAN SENT BUT WHO GO WHEREVER THEY LIKE AND SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. WHEN PAUL SPEAKS OF THOSE CALLED BY MAN I TAKE IT HE MEANS THOSE WHO HAVE A DIVINE CALL EXTENDED TO THEM THROUGH OTHER PERSONS. GOD CALLS IN TWO WAYS. EITHER HE CALLS MINISTERS THROUGH THE AGENCY OF MEN OR HE CALLS THEM DIRECTLY AS HE CALLED THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES. PAUL DECLARES THAT THE FALSE APOSTLES WERE CALLED OR SENT NEITHER BY MEN NOR BY MAN. THE MOST THEY COULD CLAIM IS THAT THEY WERE SENT BY OTHERS. BUT AS FOR ME I WAS CALLED NEITHER OF MEN NOR BY MAN BUT DIRECTLY BY JESUS CHRIST. MY CALL IS IN EVERY RESPECT LIKE THE CALL OF THE APOSTLES. IN FACT I AM AN APOSTLE. HE MENTIONS THE APOSTLES FIRST BECAUSE THEY WERE APPOINTED DIRECTLY BY GOD. MATTHIAS WAS CALLED IN THIS MANNER. THE APOSTLES CHOSE TWO CANDIDATES AND THEN CAST LOTS PRAYING THAT GOD WOULD INDICATE WHICH ONE HE WOULD HAVE. TO BE AN APOSTLE HE HAD TO HAVE HIS APPOINTMENT FROM GOD. IN THE SAME MANNER PAUL WAS CALLED AS THE APOSTLE OF THE GENTILES. THE CALL IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. FOR A PERSON TO POSSESS KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ENOUGH. HE MUST BE SURE THAT HE IS PROPERLY CALLED. THIS IS OUR COMFORT IN THE MINISTRY THAT OURS IS A DIVINE OFFICE TO WHICH WE HAVE BEEN DIVINELY CALLED. REVERSELY WHAT AN AWFUL THING IT MUST BE FOR THE CONSCIENCE IF ONE IS NOT PROPERLY CALLED. IT SPOILS ONE'S BEST WORK. WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN I THOUGHT PAUL WAS MAKING TOO MUCH OF HIS CALL. I DID NOT UNDERSTAND HIS PURPOSE. I DID NOT THEN REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MINISTRY

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+I KNEW NOTHING OF THE DOCTRINE OF FAITH BECAUSE WE WERE TAUGHT SOPHISTRY INSTEAD OF CERTAINTY AND NOBODY UNDERSTOOD SPIRITUAL BOASTING. WE EXALT OUR CALLING NOT TO GAIN GLORY AMONG MEN OR MONEY OR SATISFACTION OR FAVOR BUT BECAUSE PEOPLE NEED TO BE ASSURED THAT THE WORDS WE SPEAK ARE THE WORDS OF GOD. THIS IS NO SINFUL PRIDE IT IS HOLY PRIDE. VERSE ONE. AND GOD THE FATHER WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. THE CLAUSE SEEMS SUPERFLUOUS ON FIRST SIGHT. YET PAUL HAD A GOOD REASON FOR ADDING IT. THESE PERVERTERS OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST RESIST THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE WORKS OF THEM BOTH. IN THIS WHOLE EPISTLE PAUL TREATS OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST. BY HIS RESURRECTION CHRIST WON THE VICTORY OVER LAW SIN FLESH WORLD DEVIL DEATH HELL AND EVERY EVIL. AND THIS HIS VICTORY HE DONATED UNTO US. THESE MANY TYRANTS AND ENEMIES OF OURS MAY ACCUSE AND FRIGHTEN US BUT THEY DARE NOT CONDEMN US FOR CHRIST WHOM GOD THE FATHER HAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OUR VICTORY. DO YOU NOTICE HOW WELL SUITED TO HIS PURPOSE PAUL WRITES. HE DOES NOT SAY BY GOD WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH WHO IS LORD OF THE ANGELS BUT PAUL HAS IN MIND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST AND SPEAKS TO THE POINT SAYING I AM AN APOSTLE NOT OF MEN NEITHER BY MAN BUT BY JESUS CHRIST AND GOD THE FATHER WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. VERSE TWO. AND ALL THE BRETHREN WHICH ARE WITH ME. THIS SHOULD GO FAR IN SHUTTING THE MOUTHS OF THE FALSE APOSTLES. PAUL'S INTENTION IS TO EXALT HIS OWN MINISTRY WHILE DISCREDITING THEIRS. HE ADDS FOR GOOD MEASURE THE ARGUMENT THAT HE DOES NOT STAND ALONE BUT THAT ALL THE BRETHREN WITH HIM ATTEST TO THE FACT THAT HIS DOCTRINE IS DIVINELY TRUE. ALTHOUGH THE BRETHREN WITH ME ARE NOT APOSTLES LIKE MYSELF YET THEY ARE ALL OF ONE MIND WITH ME THINK WRITE AND TEACH AS I DO. VERSE TWO. THE ANABAPTISTS IN OUR TIME IMITATE THE FALSE APOSTLES. THEY DO NOT GO WHERE THE ENEMIES OF THE GOSPEL PREDOMINATE THEY GO WHERE THE CHRISTIANS ARE. WHY DO THEY NOT INVADE THE CATHOLIC PROVINCES AND PREACH THEIR DOCTRINE TO GODLESS PRINCES BISHOPS AND DOCTORS AS WE HAVE DONE BY THE HELP OF GOD. THESE SOFT MARTYRS TAKE NO CHANCES. IT IS THE LOT OF GOD'S MINISTERS NOT ONLY TO SUFFER OPPOSITION AT THE HAND OF A WICKED WORLD BUT ALSO TO SEE THE PATIENT INDOCTRINATION OF MANY YEARS QUICKLY UNDONE BY SUCH RELIGIOUS FANATICS. THIS HURTS MORE THAN THE PERSECUTION OF TYRANTS. WE ARE TREATED SHABBILY ON THE OUTSIDE BY TYRANTS ON THE INSIDE BY THOSE WHOM WE HAVE RESTORED TO THE LIBERTY OF THE GOSPEL AND ALSO BY FALSE BRETHREN. BUT THIS IS OUR COMFORT AND OUR GLORY THAT BEING CALLED OF GOD WE HAVE THE PROMISE OF EVERLASTING LIFE. WE LOOK FOR THAT REWARD WHICH EYE HATH NOT SEEN NOR EAR HEARD NEITHER HATH ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN. JEROME RAISES THE QUESTION WHY PAUL CALLED THEM CHURCHES THAT WERE NO CHURCHES INASMUCH AS THE GALATIANS HAD FORSAKEN THE GRACE OF CHRIST FOR THE LAW OF MOSES. THE PROPER ANSWER IS ALTHOUGH THE GALATIANS HAD FALLEN AWAY FROM THE DOCTRINE OF PAUL BAPTISM THE GOSPEL AND THE NAME OF CHRIST CONTINUED AMONG THEM. NOT ALL THE GALATIANS HAD BECOME PERVERTED. THESE MEANS CANNOT BE CONTAMINATED. THEY REMAIN DIVINE REGARDLESS OF MEN'S OPINION. WHEREVER THE MEANS OF GRACE ARE FOUND THERE IS THE HOLY CHURCH EVEN THOUGH ANTICHRIST REIGNS THERE. SO MUCH FOR THE TITLE OF THE EPISTLE NOW FOLLOWS THE GREETING OF THE APOSTLE VERSE THREE. GRACE BE TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER AND FROM OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE TERMS OF GRACE AND PEACE ARE COMMON TERMS WITH PAUL AND ARE NOW PRETTY WELL UNDERSTOOD. THE ARTICLE OF JUSTIFICATION MUST BE SOUNDED IN OUR EARS INCESSANTLY BECAUSE THE FRAILTY OF OUR FLESH WILL NOT PERMIT US TO TAKE HOLD OF IT PERFECTLY AND TO BELIEVE IT WITH ALL OUR HEART. THE GREETING OF THE APOSTLE IS REFRESHING

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+GRACE REMITS SIN AND PEACE QUIETS THE CONSCIENCE. ONLY CHRISTIANS POSSESS THIS VICTORIOUS KNOWLEDGE GIVEN FROM ABOVE. THESE TWO TERMS GRACE AND PEACE CONSTITUTE CHRISTIANITY. GRACE INVOLVES THE REMISSION OF SINS PEACE AND A HAPPY CONSCIENCE. SIN IS NOT CANCELED BY LAWFUL LIVING FOR NO PERSON IS ABLE TO LIVE UP TO THE LAW. THE LAW REVEALS GUILT FILLS THE CONSCIENCE WITH TERROR AND DRIVES MEN TO DESPAIR. THE FACT IS THE MORE A PERSON SEEKS CREDIT FOR HIMSELF BY HIS OWN EFFORTS THE DEEPER HE GOES INTO DEBT. NOTHING CAN TAKE AWAY SIN EXCEPT THE GRACE OF GOD. IN ACTUAL LIVING HOWEVER IT IS NOT SO EASY TO PERSUADE ONESELF THAT BY GRACE ALONE IN OPPOSITION TO EVERY OTHER MEANS WE OBTAIN THE FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS AND PEACE WITH GOD. THE WORLD BRANDS THIS A PERNICIOUS DOCTRINE. THE WORLD ADVANCES FREE WILL THE RATIONAL AND NATURAL APPROACH OF GOOD WORKS AS THE MEANS OF OBTAINING THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN. BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GAIN PEACE OF CONSCIENCE BY THE METHODS AND MEANS OF THE WORLD. EXPERIENCE PROVES THIS. HE WISHES THEM HEAVENLY PEACE THE KIND OF WHICH JESUS SPOKE WHEN HE SAID PEACE I LEAVE UNTO YOU MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU. WORLDLY PEACE PROVIDES QUIET ENJOYMENT OF LIFE AND POSSESSIONS. BUT IN AFFLICTION PARTICULARLY IN THE HOUR OF DEATH THE GRACE AND PEACE OF THE WORLD WILL NOT DELIVER US. HOWEVER THE GRACE AND PEACE OF GOD WILL. MEN SHOULD NOT SPECULATE ABOUT THE NATURE OF GOD. THE APOSTLE ADDS TO THE SALUTATION THE WORDS AND FROM OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. WAS IT NOT ENOUGH TO SAY FROM GOD THE FATHER. IT IS A PRINCIPLE OF THE BIBLE THAT WE ARE NOT TO INQUIRE CURIOUSLY INTO THE NATURE OF GOD. ALL WHO TRUST IN THEIR OWN MERITS TO SAVE THEM DISREGARD THIS PRINCIPLE AND LOSE SIGHT OF THE MEDIATOR JESUS CHRIST. TRUE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY DOES NOT INQUIRE INTO THE NATURE OF GOD BUT INTO GOD'S PURPOSE AND WILL IN CHRIST WHOM GOD INCORPORATED IN OUR FLESH TO LIVE AND TO DIE FOR OUR SINS. THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN TO SPECULATE ABOUT THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE POWER WISDOM AND MAJESTY OF GOD WHEN THE CONSCIENCE IS IN TURMOIL OVER SIN. TO DO SO IS TO LOSE GOD ALTOGETHER BECAUSE GOD BECOMES INTOLERABLE WHEN WE SEEK TO MEASURE AND TO COMPREHEND HIS INFINITE MAJESTY. BEGIN WITH CHRIST. HE CAME DOWN TO EARTH LIVED AMONG MEN SUFFERED WAS CRUCIFIED AND THEN HE DIED STANDING CLEARLY BEFORE US SO THAT OUR HEARTS AND EYES MAY FASTEN UPON HIM. THUS WE SHALL BE KEPT FROM CLIMBING INTO HEAVEN IN A CURIOUS AND FUTILE SEARCH AFTER THE NATURE OF GOD. IF YOU ASK HOW GOD MAY BE FOUND WHO JUSTIFIES SINNERS KNOW THAT THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BESIDES THIS MAN CHRIST JESUS. EMBRACE HIM AND FORGET ABOUT THE NATURE OF GOD. BUT THESE FANATICS WHO EXCLUDE OUR MEDIATOR IN THEIR DEALINGS WITH GOD DO NOT BELIEVE ME. DID NOT CHRIST HIMSELF SAY I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE NO MAN COMETH UNTO THE FATHER BUT BY ME. WITHOUT CHRIST THERE IS NO ACCESS TO THE FATHER BUT FUTILE RAMBLING NO TRUTH BUT HYPOCRISY NO LIFE BUT ETERNAL DEATH. WHEN YOU ARGUE ABOUT THE NATURE OF GOD APART FROM THE QUESTION OF JUSTIFICATION YOU MAY BE AS PROFOUND AS YOU LIKE. BUT WHEN YOU DEAL WITH CONSCIENCE AND WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS OVER AGAINST THE LAW SIN DEATH AND THE DEVIL YOU MUST CLOSE YOUR MIND TO ALL INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF GOD AND CONCENTRATE UPON JESUS CHRIST WHO SAYS COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. PAUL IN WISHING GRACE AND PEACE NOT ALONE FROM GOD THE FATHER BUT ALSO FROM JESUS CHRIST WANTS TO WARN US AGAINST THE CURIOUS INCURSIONS INTO THE NATURE OF GOD. WE ARE TO HEAR CHRIST WHO HAS BEEN APPOINTED BY THE FATHER AS OUR DIVINE TEACHER. CHRIST IS GOD BY NATURE. AT THE SAME TIME PAUL CONFIRMS OUR CREED THAT CHRIST IS VERY GOD

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+WE NEED SUCH FREQUENT CONFIRMATION OF OUR FAITH FOR SATAN WILL NOT FAIL TO ATTACK IT HE HATES OUR FAITH. HE KNOWS THAT IT IS THE VICTORY WHICH OVERCOMETH HIM AND THE WORLD. THAT CHRIST IS VERY GOD IS APPARENT IN THAT PAUL ASCRIBES TO HIM DIVINE POWERS EQUALLY WITH THE FATHER AS FOR INSTANCE THE POWER TO DISPENSE GRACE AND PEACE. THIS JESUS COULD NOT DO UNLESS HE WERE GOD. TO BESTOW PEACE AND GRACE LIES IN THE PROVINCE OF GOD WHO ALONE CAN CREATE THESE BLESSINGS THE ANGELS CANNOT. THE APOSTLES COULD ONLY DISTRIBUTE THESE BLESSINGS BY THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL. IN ATTRIBUTING TO CHRIST THE DIVINE POWER OF CREATING AND GIVING GRACE PEACE EVERLASTING LIFE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS THE CONCLUSION IS INEVITABLE THAT CHRIST IS TRULY GOD. OTHERWISE PAUL SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN GRACE FROM GOD THE FATHER AND PEACE FROM OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE ARIANS WERE SHARP FELLOWS. ADMITTING THAT CHRIST HAD TWO NATURES AND THAT HE IS CALLED VERY GOD OF VERY GOD THEY WERE YET ABLE TO DENY HIS DIVINITY. THE ARIANS TOOK CHRIST FOR A NOBLE AND PERFECT CREATURE SUPERIOR EVEN TO THE ANGELS BECAUSE BY HIM GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH. MOHAMMED ALSO SPEAKS HIGHLY OF CHRIST. BUT ALL THEIR PRAISE IS MERE PALAVER TO DECEIVE MEN PAUL'S LANGUAGE IS DIFFERENT. TO PARAPHRASE HIM YOU ARE ESTABLISHED IN THIS BELIEF THAT CHRIST IS VERY GOD BECAUSE HE GIVES GRACE AND PEACE GIFTS WHICH ONLY GOD CAN CREATE AND BESTOW. VERSE FOUR WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR OUR SINS. PAUL STICKS TO HIS THEME. HE NEVER LOSES SIGHT OF THE PURPOSE OF HIS EPISTLE. HE DOES NOT SAY WHO RECEIVED OUR WORKS BUT WHO GAVE GAVE WHAT. NOT GOLD OR SILVER OR PASCHAL LAMBS OR AN ANGEL BUT HIMSELF WHAT FOR. NOT FOR A CROWN OR A KINGDOM OR OUR GOODNESS BUT FOR OUR SINS. THESE WORDS ARE LIKE SO MANY THUNDERCLAPS OF PROTEST FROM HEAVEN AGAINST EVERY KIND AND TYPE OF SELF MERIT. UNDERSCORE THESE WORDS FOR THEY ARE FULL OF COMFORT FOR SORE CONSCIENCES. HOW MAY WE OBTAIN REMISSION OF OUR SINS. PAUL ANSWERS THE MAN WHO IS NAMED JESUS CHRIST AND THE SON OF GOD GAVE HIMSELF FOR OUR SINS. THE HEAVY ARTILLERY OF THESE WORDS EXPLODES PAPACY WORKS MERITS SUPERSTITIONS. FOR IF OUR SINS COULD BE REMOVED BY OUR OWN EFFORTS WHAT NEED WAS THERE FOR THE SON OF GOD TO BE GIVEN FOR THEM. SINCE CHRIST WAS GIVEN FOR OUR SINS IT STANDS TO REASON THAT THEY CANNOT BE PUT AWAY BY OUR OWN EFFORTS. THIS SENTENCE ALSO DEFINES OUR SINS AS GREAT SO GREAT IN FACT THAT THE WHOLE WORLD COULD NOT MAKE AMENDS FOR A SINGLE SIN. THE GREATNESS OF THE RANSOM CHRIST THE SON OF GOD INDICATES THIS. THE VICIOUS CHARACTER OF SIN IS BROUGHT OUT BY THE WORDS WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR OUR SINS. SO VICIOUS IS SIN THAT ONLY THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST COULD ATONE FOR SIN. WHEN WE REFLECT THAT THE ONE LITTLE WORD SIN EMBRACES THE WHOLE KINGDOM OF SATAN AND THAT IT INCLUDES EVERYTHING THAT IS HORRIBLE WE HAVE REASON TO TREMBLE. BUT WE ARE CARELESS WE MAKE LIGHT OF SIN. WE THINK THAT BY SOME LITTLE WORK OR MERIT WE CAN DISMISS SIN. THIS PASSAGE THEN BEARS OUT THE FACT THAT ALL MEN ARE SOLD UNDER SIN. SIN IS AN EXACTING DESPOT WHO CAN BE VANQUISHED BY NO CREATED POWER BUT BY THE SOVEREIGN POWER OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. ALL THIS IS OF WONDERFUL COMFORT TO A CONSCIENCE TROUBLED BY THE ENORMITY OF SIN. SIN CANNOT HARM THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN CHRIST BECAUSE HE HAS OVERCOME SIN BY HIS DEATH. NOTE ESPECIALLY THE PRONOUN OUR AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE. BUT FEELING LOW YOU FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT CHRIST GAVE HIMSELF FOR YOUR SINS

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+THIS ATTITUDE SPRINGS FROM A FALSE CONCEPTION OF SIN THE CONCEPTION THAT SIN IS A SMALL MATTER EASILY TAKEN CARE OF BY GOOD WORKS THAT WE MUST PRESENT OURSELVES UNTO GOD WITH A GOOD CONSCIENCE THAT WE MUST FEEL NO SIN BEFORE WE MAY FEEL THAT CHRIST WAS GIVEN FOR OUR SINS. THIS ATTITUDE IS UNIVERSAL AND PARTICULARLY DEVELOPED IN THOSE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES BETTER THAN OTHERS. MEANTIME THEY PRETEND GREAT HUMILITY AND ACKNOWLEDGE A CERTAIN DEGREE OF SINFULNESS FOR WHICH THEY SOULFULLY JOIN IN THE PUBLICAN'S PRAYER GOD BE MERCIFUL TO ME A SINNER. BUT THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE AND COMFORT OF THE WORDS FOR OUR SINS IS LOST UPON THEM. THE GENIUS OF CHRISTIANITY TAKES THE WORDS OF PAUL WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR OUR SINS AS TRUE AND EFFICACIOUS. WE ARE NOT TO LOOK UPON OUR SINS AS INSIGNIFICANT TRIFLES. ON THE OTHER HAND WE ARE NOT TO REGARD THEM AS SO TERRIBLE THAT WE MUST DESPAIR. LEARN TO BELIEVE THAT CHRIST WAS GIVEN NOT FOR PICAYUNE AND IMAGINARY TRANSGRESSIONS BUT FOR MOUNTAINOUS SINS NOT FOR ONE OR TWO BUT FOR ALL NOT FOR SINS THAT CAN BE DISCARDED BUT FOR SINS THAT ARE STUBBORNLY INGRAINED. PRACTICE THIS KNOWLEDGE AND FORTIFY YOURSELF AGAINST DESPAIR PARTICULARLY IN THE LAST HOUR WHEN THE MEMORY OF PAST SINS ASSAILS THE CONSCIENCE

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+THE OBSCURITY ARISES IN THE INFANCY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE OUT OF THE CONFUSION OF THEOLOGICAL MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL NOTIONS OUT OF THE DESIRE TO CONCEIVE THE WHOLE OF NATURE WITHOUT ANY ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PARTS AND FROM A GREATER PERCEPTION OF SIMILARITIES WHICH LIE ON THE SURFACE THAN OF DIFFERENCES WHICH ARE HIDDEN FROM VIEW. TO BRING SENSE UNDER THE CONTROL OF REASON TO FIND SOME WAY THROUGH THE MIST OR LABYRINTH OF APPEARANCES EITHER THE HIGHWAY OF MATHEMATICS OR MORE DEVIOUS PATHS SUGGESTED BY THE ANALOGY OF MAN WITH THE WORLD AND OF THE WORLD WITH MAN TO SEE THAT ALL THINGS HAVE A CAUSE AND ARE TENDING TOWARDS AN END THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF THE ANCIENT PHYSICAL PHILOSOPHER. HE HAS NO NOTION OF TRYING AN EXPERIMENT AND IS HARDLY CAPABLE OF OBSERVING THE CURIOSITIES OF NATURE WHICH ARE TUMBLING OUT AT HIS FEET OR OF INTERPRETING EVEN THE MOST OBVIOUS OF THEM. HE IS DRIVEN BACK FROM THE NEARER TO THE MORE DISTANT FROM PARTICULARS TO GENERALITIES FROM THE EARTH TO THE STARS. HE LIFTS UP HIS EYES TO THE HEAVENS AND SEEKS TO GUIDE BY THEIR MOTIONS HIS ERRING FOOTSTEPS. BUT WE NEITHER APPRECIATE THE CONDITIONS OF KNOWLEDGE TO WHICH HE WAS SUBJECTED NOR HAVE THE IDEAS WHICH FASTENED UPON HIS IMAGINATION THE SAME HOLD UPON US. FOR HE IS HANGING BETWEEN MATTER AND MIND HE IS UNDER THE DOMINION AT THE SAME TIME BOTH OF SENSE AND OF ABSTRACTIONS HIS IMPRESSIONS ARE TAKEN ALMOST AT RANDOM FROM THE OUTSIDE OF NATURE HE SEES THE LIGHT BUT NOT THE OBJECTS WHICH ARE REVEALED BY THE LIGHT AND HE BRINGS INTO JUXTAPOSITION THINGS WHICH TO US APPEAR WIDE AS THE POLES ASUNDER BECAUSE HE FINDS NOTHING BETWEEN THEM. HE PASSES ABRUPTLY FROM PERSONS TO IDEAS AND NUMBERS AND FROM IDEAS AND NUMBERS TO PERSONS FROM THE HEAVENS TO MAN FROM ASTRONOMY TO PHYSIOLOGY HE CONFUSES OR RATHER DOES NOT DISTINGUISH SUBJECT AND OBJECT FIRST AND FINAL CAUSES AND IS DREAMING OF GEOMETRICAL FIGURES LOST IN A FLUX OF SENSE. HE HAS NO IMPLEMENTS OF OBSERVATION SUCH AS THE TELESCOPE OR MICROSCOPE THE GREAT SCIENCE OF CHEMISTRY IS A BLANK TO HIM. IT IS ONLY BY AN EFFORT THAT THE MODERN THINKER CAN BREATHE THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER OR UNDERSTAND HOW UNDER SUCH UNEQUAL CONDITIONS HE SEEMS IN MANY INSTANCES BY A SORT OF INSPIRATION TO HAVE ANTICIPATED THE TRUTH. THE INFLUENCE WITH THE TIMAEUS HAS EXERCISED UPON POSTERITY IS DUE PARTLY TO A MISUNDERSTANDING. IN THE SUPPOSED DEPTHS OF THIS DIALOGUE THE NEO PLATONISTS FOUND HIDDEN MEANINGS AND CONNECTIONS WITH THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES AND OUT OF THEM THEY ELICITED DOCTRINES QUITE AT VARIANCE WITH THE SPIRIT OF PLATO. BELIEVING THAT HE WAS INSPIRED BY THE HOLY GHOST OR HAD RECEIVED HIS WISDOM FROM MOSES THEY SEEMED TO FIND IN HIS WRITINGS THE CHRISTIAN TRINITY THE WORD THE CHURCH THE CREATION OF THE WORLD IN A JEWISH SENSE AS THEY REALLY FOUND THE PERSONALITY OF GOD OR OF MIND AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

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+ALL RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES MET AND MINGLED IN THE SCHOOLS OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE NEO PLATONISTS HAD A METHOD OF INTERPRETATION WHICH COULD ELICIT ANY MEANING OUT OF ANY WORDS. THEY WERE REALLY INCAPABLE OF DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THE OPINIONS OF ONE PHILOSOPHER AND ANOTHER BETWEEN ARISTOTLE AND PLATO OR BETWEEN THE SERIOUS THOUGHTS OF PLATO AND HIS PASSING FANCIES. THEY WERE ABSORBED IN HIS THEOLOGY AND WERE UNDER THE DOMINION OF HIS NAME WHILE THAT WHICH WAS TRULY GREAT AND TRULY CHARACTERISTIC IN HIM HIS EFFORT TO REALIZE AND CONNECT ABSTRACTIONS WAS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY THEM AT ALL. YET THE GENIUS OF PLATO AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY REACTED UPON THE EAST AND A GREEK ELEMENT OF THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE OVERLAID AND PARTLY REDUCED TO ORDER THE CHAOS OF ORIENTALISM. THERE IS NO DANGER OF THE MODERN COMMENTATORS ON THE TIMAEUS FALLING INTO THE ABSURDITIES OF THE NEO PLATONISTS. IN THE PRESENT DAY WE ARE WELL AWARE THAT AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER IS TO BE INTERPRETED FROM HIMSELF AND BY THE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF THOUGHT. WE KNOW THAT MYSTICISM IS NOT CRITICISM. THE FANCIES OF THE NEO PLATONISTS ARE ONLY INTERESTING TO US BECAUSE THEY EXHIBIT A PHASE OF THE HUMAN MIND WHICH PREVAILED WIDELY IN THE FIRST CENTURIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA AND IS NOT WHOLLY EXTINCT IN OUR OWN DAY. BUT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERPRETATION OF PLATO AND IN SPIRIT THEY ARE OPPOSED TO HIM. THEY ARE THE FEEBLE EXPRESSION OF AN AGE WHICH HAS LOST THE POWER NOT ONLY OF CREATING GREAT WORKS BUT OF UNDERSTANDING THEM. WHEREAS THE SO CALLED MYSTICISM OF PLATO IS PURELY GREEK ARISING OUT OF HIS IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE AND HIGH ASPIRATIONS AND IS THE GROWTH OF AN AGE IN WHICH PHILOSOPHY IS NOT WHOLLY SEPARATED FROM POETRY AND MYTHOLOGY. A GREATER DANGER WITH MODERN INTERPRETERS OF PLATO IS THE TENDENCY TO REGARD THE TIMAEUS AS THE CENTRE OF HIS SYSTEM. WE DO NOT KNOW HOW PLATO WOULD HAVE ARRANGED HIS OWN DIALOGUES OR WHETHER THE THOUGHT OF ARRANGING ANY OF THEM BESIDES THE TWO TRILOGIES WHICH HE HAS EXPRESSLY CONNECTED WAS EVER PRESENT TO HIS MIND. BUT IF HE HAD ARRANGED THEM THERE ARE MANY INDICATIONS THAT THIS IS NOT THE PLACE WHICH HE WOULD HAVE ASSIGNED TO THE TIMAEUS. WE OBSERVE FIRST OF ALL THAT THE DIALOGUE IS PUT INTO THE MOUTH OF A PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHER AND NOT OF SOCRATES. AND THIS IS REQUIRED BY DRAMATIC PROPRIETY FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF NATURE WAS EXPRESSLY RENOUNCED BY SOCRATES IN THE PHAEDO. THE DIALOGUE IS PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH THE ANIMAL CREATION INCLUDING UNDER THIS TERM THE HEAVENLY BODIES AND WITH MAN ONLY AS ONE AMONG THE ANIMALS. THERE ARE NO SPECULATIONS ON PHYSICS IN THE OTHER DIALOGUES OF PLATO AND HE HIMSELF REGARDS THE CONSIDERATION OF THEM AS A RATIONAL PASTIME ONLY. HE IS BEGINNING TO FEEL THE NEED OF FURTHER DIVISIONS OF KNOWLEDGE AND IS BECOMING AWARE THAT BESIDES DIALECTIC MATHEMATICS AND THE ARTS THERE IS ANOTHER FIELD WHICH HAS BEEN HITHERTO UNEXPLORED BY HIM

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+CHAPTER ONE ORIGIN. PIGRITIA IS A TERRIBLE WORD. IT ENGENDERS A WHOLE WORLD LA PEGRE FOR WHICH READ THEFT AND A HELL LA PEGRENNE FOR WHICH READ HUNGER. THUS IDLENESS IS THE MOTHER. SHE HAS A SON THEFT AND A DAUGHTER HUNGER. WHERE ARE WE AT THIS MOMENT IN THE LAND OF SLANG. WHAT IS SLANG. IT IS AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME A NATION AND A DIALECT IT IS THEFT IN ITS TWO KINDS PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE. IT IS THE LANGUAGE OF PRISONS GALLEYS CONVICTS OF EVERYTHING THAT IS MOST ABOMINABLE IN SOCIETY. WE HAVE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THIS SORT OF OBJECTIONS. SINCE THAT TIME TWO POWERFUL ROMANCERS ONE OF WHOM IS A PROFOUND OBSERVER OF THE HUMAN HEART THE OTHER AN INTREPID FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE BALZAC AND EUGENE SUE HAVING REPRESENTED THEIR RUFFIANS AS TALKING THEIR NATURAL LANGUAGE AS THE AUTHOR OF THE LAST DAY OF A CONDEMNED MAN DID IN EIGHTEEN TWENTY EIGHT THE SAME OBJECTIONS HAVE BEEN RAISED. PEOPLE REPEATED WHAT DO AUTHORS MEAN BY THAT REVOLTING DIALECT. SLANG IS ODIOUS. SLANG MAKES ONE SHUDDER. WHO DENIES THAT OF COURSE IT DOES. WHEN IT IS A QUESTION OF PROBING A WOUND A GULF A SOCIETY SINCE WHEN HAS IT BEEN CONSIDERED WRONG TO GO TOO FAR TO GO TO THE BOTTOM. WE HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT IT WAS SOMETIMES A COURAGEOUS ACT AND AT LEAST A SIMPLE AND USEFUL DEED WORTHY OF THE SYMPATHETIC ATTENTION WHICH DUTY ACCEPTED AND FULFILLED MERITS. WHY SHOULD ONE NOT EXPLORE EVERYTHING AND STUDY EVERYTHING. WHY SHOULD ONE HALT ON THE WAY. THE HALT IS A MATTER DEPENDING ON THE SOUNDING LINE AND NOT ON THE LEADSMAN. NOTHING IS MORE LUGUBRIOUS THAN THE CONTEMPLATION THUS IN ITS NUDITY IN THE BROAD LIGHT OF THOUGHT OF THE HORRIBLE SWARMING OF SLANG. IT SEEMS IN FACT TO BE A SORT OF HORRIBLE BEAST MADE FOR THE NIGHT WHICH HAS JUST BEEN TORN FROM ITS CESSPOOL. ONE THINKS ONE BEHOLDS A FRIGHTFUL LIVING AND BRISTLING THICKET WHICH QUIVERS RUSTLES WAVERS RETURNS TO SHADOW THREATENS AND GLARES. ONE WORD RESEMBLES A CLAW ANOTHER AN EXTINGUISHED AND BLEEDING EYE SUCH AND SUCH A PHRASE SEEMS TO MOVE LIKE THE CLAW OF A CRAB. NOW WHEN HAS HORROR EVER EXCLUDED STUDY. SINCE WHEN HAS MALADY BANISHED MEDICINE. CAN ONE IMAGINE A NATURALIST REFUSING TO STUDY THE VIPER THE BAT THE SCORPION THE CENTIPEDE THE TARANTULA AND ONE WHO WOULD CAST THEM BACK INTO THEIR DARKNESS SAYING OH HOW UGLY THAT IS. HE WOULD BE LIKE A PHILOLOGIST REFUSING TO EXAMINE A FACT IN LANGUAGE A PHILOSOPHER HESITATING TO SCRUTINIZE A FACT IN HUMANITY. WHAT IS SLANG PROPERLY SPEAKING. IT IS THE LANGUAGE OF WRETCHEDNESS

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+WE MAY BE STOPPED THE FACT MAY BE PUT TO US IN GENERAL TERMS WHICH IS ONE WAY OF ATTENUATING IT WE MAY BE TOLD THAT ALL TRADES PROFESSIONS IT MAY BE ADDED ALL THE ACCIDENTS OF THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY AND ALL FORMS OF INTELLIGENCE HAVE THEIR OWN SLANG. THE PAINTER WHO SAYS MY GRINDER THE NOTARY WHO SAYS MY SKIP THE GUTTER THE HAIRDRESSER WHO SAYS MY MEALYBACK THE COBBLER WHO SAYS MY CUB TALKS SLANG. THERE IS THE SLANG OF THE AFFECTED LADY AS WELL AS OF THE PRECIEUSES. THE SUGAR MANUFACTURER WHO SAYS LOAF CLARIFIED LUMPS BASTARD COMMON BURNT THIS HONEST MANUFACTURER TALKS SLANG. A CERTAIN SCHOOL OF CRITICISM TWENTY YEARS AGO WHICH USED TO SAY HALF OF THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE CONSISTS OF PLAYS UPON WORDS AND PUNS TALKED SLANG. ALGEBRA MEDICINE BOTANY HAVE EACH THEIR SLANG. TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THIS CONFLICT WRETCHEDNESS HAS INVENTED A LANGUAGE OF COMBAT WHICH IS SLANG. TO KEEP AFLOAT AND TO RESCUE FROM OBLIVION TO HOLD ABOVE THE GULF WERE IT BUT A FRAGMENT OF SOME LANGUAGE WHICH MAN HAS SPOKEN AND WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE BE LOST THAT IS TO SAY ONE OF THE ELEMENTS GOOD OR BAD OF WHICH CIVILIZATION IS COMPOSED OR BY WHICH IT IS COMPLICATED TO EXTEND THE RECORDS OF SOCIAL OBSERVATION IS TO SERVE CIVILIZATION ITSELF. HERE OBJECTIONS SPRING UP AFRESH. PHOENICIAN VERY GOOD. EVEN DIALECT LET THAT PASS. THEY ARE TONGUES WHICH HAVE BELONGED TO NATIONS OR PROVINCES BUT SLANG. WHAT IS THE USE OF PRESERVING SLANG. WHAT IS THE GOOD OF ASSISTING SLANG TO SURVIVE. TO THIS WE REPLY IN ONE WORD ONLY. ASSUREDLY IF THE TONGUE WHICH A NATION OR A PROVINCE HAS SPOKEN IS WORTHY OF INTEREST THE LANGUAGE WHICH HAS BEEN SPOKEN BY A MISERY IS STILL MORE WORTHY OF ATTENTION AND STUDY. IT IS THE LANGUAGE WHICH HAS BEEN SPOKEN IN FRANCE FOR EXAMPLE FOR MORE THAN FOUR CENTURIES NOT ONLY BY A MISERY BUT BY EVERY POSSIBLE HUMAN MISERY. AND THEN WE INSIST UPON IT THE STUDY OF SOCIAL DEFORMITIES AND INFIRMITIES AND THE TASK OF POINTING THEM OUT WITH A VIEW TO REMEDY IS NOT A BUSINESS IN WHICH CHOICE IS PERMITTED. THE HISTORIAN OF MANNERS AND IDEAS HAS NO LESS AUSTERE A MISSION THAN THE HISTORIAN OF EVENTS. HE MUST DESCEND WITH HIS HEART FULL OF CHARITY AND SEVERITY AT THE SAME TIME AS A BROTHER AND AS A JUDGE TO THOSE IMPENETRABLE CASEMATES WHERE CRAWL PELL MELL THOSE WHO BLEED AND THOSE WHO DEAL THE BLOW THOSE WHO WEEP AND THOSE WHO CURSE THOSE WHO FAST AND THOSE WHO DEVOUR THOSE WHO ENDURE EVIL AND THOSE WHO INFLICT IT. DOES ANY ONE THINK THAT ALIGHIERI HAS ANY FEWER THINGS TO SAY THAN MACHIAVELLI. IS THE UNDER SIDE OF CIVILIZATION ANY LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE UPPER SIDE MERELY BECAUSE IT IS DEEPER AND MORE SOMBRE

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+DO WE REALLY KNOW THE MOUNTAIN WELL WHEN WE ARE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE CAVERN. LET US SAY MOREOVER PARENTHETICALLY THAT FROM A FEW WORDS OF WHAT PRECEDES A MARKED SEPARATION MIGHT BE INFERRED BETWEEN THE TWO CLASSES OF HISTORIANS WHICH DOES NOT EXIST IN OUR MIND. THE HISTORY OF MANNERS AND IDEAS PERMEATES THE HISTORY OF EVENTS AND THIS IS TRUE RECIPROCALLY. THEY CONSTITUTE TWO DIFFERENT ORDERS OF FACTS WHICH CORRESPOND TO EACH OTHER WHICH ARE ALWAYS INTERLACED AND WHICH OFTEN BRING FORTH RESULTS. ALL THE LINEAMENTS WHICH PROVIDENCE TRACES ON THE SURFACE OF A NATION HAVE THEIR PARALLELS SOMBRE BUT DISTINCT IN THEIR DEPTHS AND ALL CONVULSIONS OF THE DEPTHS PRODUCE EBULLITIONS ON THE SURFACE. TRUE HISTORY BEING A MIXTURE OF ALL THINGS THE TRUE HISTORIAN MINGLES IN EVERYTHING. MAN IS NOT A CIRCLE WITH A SINGLE CENTRE HE IS AN ELLIPSE WITH A DOUBLE FOCUS. FACTS FORM ONE OF THESE AND IDEAS THE OTHER. SLANG IS NOTHING BUT A DRESSING ROOM WHERE THE TONGUE HAVING SOME BAD ACTION TO PERFORM DISGUISES ITSELF. THERE IT CLOTHES ITSELF IN WORD MASKS IN METAPHOR RAGS. IN THIS GUISE IT BECOMES HORRIBLE. ONE FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE. IS IT REALLY THE FRENCH TONGUE THE GREAT HUMAN TONGUE. BEHOLD IT READY TO STEP UPON THE STAGE AND TO RETORT UPON CRIME AND PREPARED FOR ALL THE EMPLOYMENTS OF THE REPERTORY OF EVIL. WHEN ONE LISTENS BY THE SIDE OF HONEST MEN AT THE PORTALS OF SOCIETY ONE OVERHEARS THE DIALOGUES OF THOSE WHO ARE ON THE OUTSIDE. ONE DISTINGUISHES QUESTIONS AND REPLIES. ONE PERCEIVES WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING IT A HIDEOUS MURMUR SOUNDING ALMOST LIKE HUMAN ACCENTS BUT MORE NEARLY RESEMBLING A HOWL THAN AN ARTICULATE WORD. IT IS SLANG. ONE THINKS ONE HEARS HYDRAS TALKING. IT IS UNINTELLIGIBLE IN THE DARK. IT GNASHES AND WHISPERS COMPLETING THE GLOOM WITH MYSTERY. IT IS BLACK IN MISFORTUNE IT IS BLACKER STILL IN CRIME THESE TWO BLACKNESSES AMALGAMATED COMPOSE SLANG. OBSCURITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE OBSCURITY IN ACTS OBSCURITY IN VOICES. THE EARTH IS NOT DEVOID OF RESEMBLANCE TO A JAIL. WHO KNOWS WHETHER MAN IS NOT A RECAPTURED OFFENDER AGAINST DIVINE JUSTICE. LOOK CLOSELY AT LIFE. IT IS SO MADE THAT EVERYWHERE WE FEEL THE SENSE OF PUNISHMENT. ARE YOU WHAT IS CALLED A HAPPY MAN WELL. YOU ARE SAD EVERY DAY. EACH DAY HAS ITS OWN GREAT GRIEF OR ITS LITTLE CARE. YESTERDAY YOU WERE TREMBLING FOR A HEALTH THAT IS DEAR TO YOU TO DAY YOU FEAR FOR YOUR OWN TO MORROW IT WILL BE ANXIETY ABOUT MONEY THE DAY AFTER TO MORROW THE DIATRIBE OF A SLANDERER THE DAY AFTER THAT THE MISFORTUNE OF SOME FRIEND THEN THE PREVAILING WEATHER THEN SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN BROKEN OR LOST THEN A PLEASURE WITH WHICH YOUR CONSCIENCE AND YOUR VERTEBRAL COLUMN REPROACH YOU AGAIN THE COURSE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

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+THIS WITHOUT RECKONING IN THE PAINS OF THE HEART AND SO IT GOES ON. ONE CLOUD IS DISPELLED ANOTHER FORMS. THERE IS HARDLY ONE DAY OUT OF A HUNDRED WHICH IS WHOLLY JOYOUS AND SUNNY. AND YOU BELONG TO THAT SMALL CLASS WHO ARE HAPPY. AS FOR THE REST OF MANKIND STAGNATING NIGHT RESTS UPON THEM. THOUGHTFUL MINDS MAKE BUT LITTLE USE OF THE PHRASE THE FORTUNATE AND THE UNFORTUNATE. IN THIS WORLD EVIDENTLY THE VESTIBULE OF ANOTHER THERE ARE NO FORTUNATE. THE REAL HUMAN DIVISION IS THIS THE LUMINOUS AND THE SHADY. TO DIMINISH THE NUMBER OF THE SHADY TO AUGMENT THE NUMBER OF THE LUMINOUS THAT IS THE OBJECT. THAT IS WHY WE CRY EDUCATION SCIENCE. TO TEACH READING MEANS TO LIGHT THE FIRE EVERY SYLLABLE SPELLED OUT SPARKLES. HOWEVER HE WHO SAYS LIGHT DOES NOT NECESSARILY SAY JOY. PEOPLE SUFFER IN THE LIGHT EXCESS BURNS. THE FLAME IS THE ENEMY OF THE WING. TO BURN WITHOUT CEASING TO FLY THEREIN LIES THE MARVEL OF GENIUS

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+HE ALWAYS SLIPPED UP HIS GLASSES DURING THIS PERFORMANCE AND CLOSED HIS EYES BUT NEITHER GREY HAIRS NOR SPECS COULD DIM THE RADIANT SMILE THAT MADE HIM SEEM ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS OLD AND THE JUNIOR OF BOTH HIS CHILDREN. MISSUS HARMON THOUGHT HE SANG TOO MUCH AND TOLD HER HUSBAND PRIVATELY THAT IF HE WAS A CANARY BIRD SHE SHOULD WANT TO KEEP A TABLE COVER OVER HIS HEAD MOST OF THE TIME BUT HE WAS IMMENSELY POPULAR WITH THE REST OF HIS AUDIENCE. LAST OF ALL THE ENTIRE COMPANY GATHERED ROUND THE OLD FASHIONED PIANO FOR A PARTING HYMN. THE FACE OF THE MAHOGANY SHONE WITH DELIGHT AND WHY NOT WHEN IT WAS DOING EVERYTHING ALMOST EVERYTHING WITHIN THE SCOPE OF A PIANO AND YET THE FAMILY HAD ENJOYED WEEKS OF GOOD NOURISHING MEALS ON WHAT HAD BEEN SAVED BY ITS EXERTIONS. ALSO WHAT RATIONAL FAMILY COULD MOURN THE LOSS OF AN IRREGULARLY SHAPED INSTRUMENT STANDING ON THREE LEGS AND PLAYED ON ONE CORNER. THE TALL SILVER CANDLE STICKS GLEAMED IN THE FIRELIGHT THE SILVER DISH OF POLISHED BALDWINS BLUSHED ROSIER IN THE GLOW. MOTHER CAREY PLAYED THE DEAR OLD COMMON METRE TUNE AND THE VOICES RANG OUT IN WHITTIER'S HYMN. THE CAREYS ALL SANG LIKE THRUSHES AND EVEN PETER HOLDING HIS HYMN BOOK UPSIDE DOWN PUT IN LITTLE BIRD NOTES ALWAYS ON THE KEY WHENEVER HE CAUGHT A FAMILIAR STRAIN. WE SHUT OUR EYES THE FLOWERS BLOOM ON WE MURMUR BUT THE CORN EARS FILL WE CHOOSE THE SHADOW BUT THE SUN THAT CASTS IT SHINES BEHIND US STILL

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+CAPTAIN SERVADAC AND HIS ORDERLY. AT THE TIME OF WHICH I WRITE THERE MIGHT BE SEEN IN THE REGISTERS OF THE MINISTER OF WAR THE FOLLOWING ENTRY. PROPERTY TWELVE HUNDRED FRANCS IN RENTES. LENGTH OF SERVICE FOURTEEN YEARS THREE MONTHS AND FIVE DAYS. RANK CAPTAIN ON THE STAFF AT MOSTAGANEM. HECTOR SERVADAC WAS THIRTY YEARS OF AGE AN ORPHAN WITHOUT LINEAGE AND ALMOST WITHOUT MEANS. THIRSTING FOR GLORY RATHER THAN FOR GOLD SLIGHTLY SCATTER BRAINED BUT WARM HEARTED GENEROUS AND BRAVE HE WAS EMINENTLY FORMED TO BE THE PROTEGE OF THE GOD OF BATTLES. FOR THE FIRST YEAR AND A HALF OF HIS EXISTENCE HE HAD BEEN THE FOSTER CHILD OF THE STURDY WIFE OF A VINE DRESSER OF MEDOC A LINEAL DESCENDANT OF THE HEROES OF ANCIENT PROWESS IN A WORD HE WAS ONE OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHOM NATURE SEEMS TO HAVE PREDESTINED FOR REMARKABLE THINGS AND AROUND WHOSE CRADLE HAVE HOVERED THE FAIRY GODMOTHERS OF ADVENTURE AND GOOD LUCK. IN APPEARANCE HECTOR SERVADAC WAS QUITE THE TYPE OF AN OFFICER HE WAS RATHER MORE THAN FIVE FEET SIX INCHES HIGH SLIM AND GRACEFUL WITH DARK CURLING HAIR AND MUSTACHES WELL FORMED HANDS AND FEET AND A CLEAR BLUE EYE. HE SEEMED BORN TO PLEASE WITHOUT BEING CONSCIOUS OF THE POWER HE POSSESSED. IT MUST BE OWNED AND NO ONE WAS MORE READY TO CONFESS IT THAN HIMSELF THAT HIS LITERARY ATTAINMENTS WERE BY NO MEANS OF A HIGH ORDER. WE DON'T SPIN TOPS IS A FAVORITE SAYING AMONGST ARTILLERY OFFICERS INDICATING THAT THEY DO NOT SHIRK THEIR DUTY BY FRIVOLOUS PURSUITS BUT IT MUST BE CONFESSED THAT SERVADAC BEING NATURALLY IDLE WAS VERY MUCH GIVEN TO SPINNING TOPS. HIS GOOD ABILITIES HOWEVER AND HIS READY INTELLIGENCE HAD CARRIED HIM SUCCESSFULLY THROUGH THE CURRICULUM OF HIS EARLY CAREER. HE WAS A GOOD DRAUGHTSMAN AN EXCELLENT RIDER HAVING THOROUGHLY MASTERED THE SUCCESSOR TO THE FAMOUS UNCLE TOM AT THE RIDING SCHOOL OF SAINT CYR AND IN THE RECORDS OF HIS MILITARY SERVICE HIS NAME HAD SEVERAL TIMES BEEN INCLUDED IN THE ORDER OF THE DAY. ONCE IN ACTION HE WAS LEADING A DETACHMENT OF INFANTRY THROUGH AN INTRENCHMENT. IN AN INSTANT SERVADAC MOUNTED THE SIDE WORK LAID HIMSELF DOWN IN THE GAP AND THUS FILLING UP THE BREACH BY HIS OWN BODY SHOUTED MARCH ON. AND THROUGH A STORM OF SHOT NOT ONE OF WHICH TOUCHED THE PROSTRATE OFFICER THE TROOP PASSED IN SAFETY. SOMETIMES HE WOULD WANDER ON FOOT UPON THE SANDY SHORE AND SOMETIMES HE WOULD ENJOY A RIDE ALONG THE SUMMIT OF THE CLIFF ALTOGETHER BEING IN NO HURRY AT ALL TO BRING HIS TASK TO AN END. CAPTAIN SERVADAC HAD NOT YET VENTURED TO DECLARE HIS ATTACHMENT OF RIVALS HE WAS WELL AWARE HE HAD NOT A FEW AND AMONGST THESE NOT THE LEAST FORMIDABLE WAS THE RUSSIAN COUNT TIMASCHEFF. AND ALTHOUGH THE YOUNG WIDOW WAS ALL UNCONSCIOUS OF THE SHARE SHE HAD IN THE MATTER IT WAS SHE AND SHE ALONE WHO WAS THE CAUSE OF THE CHALLENGE JUST GIVEN AND ACCEPTED BY HER TWO ARDENT ADMIRERS. DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN THE GOURBI HECTOR SERVADAC'S SOLE COMPANION WAS HIS ORDERLY BEN ZOOF. BEN ZOOF WAS DEVOTED BODY AND SOUL TO HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER. HIS NAME MIGHT SEEM TO IMPLY THAT HE WAS A NATIVE OF ALGERIA BUT SUCH WAS BY NO MEANS THE CASE. IN ALL HIS TRAVELS AND THESE HAD BEEN NOT A FEW HE HAD NEVER BEHELD SCENERY WHICH COULD COMPETE WITH THAT OF HIS NATIVE HOME. NO CATHEDRAL NOT EVEN BURGOS ITSELF COULD VIE WITH THE CHURCH AT MONTMARTRE. ITS RACE COURSE COULD WELL HOLD ITS OWN AGAINST THAT AT PENTELIQUE ITS RESERVOIR WOULD THROW THE MEDITERRANEAN INTO THE SHADE ITS FORESTS HAD FLOURISHED LONG BEFORE THE INVASION OF THE CELTS AND ITS VERY MILL PRODUCED NO ORDINARY FLOUR BUT PROVIDED MATERIAL FOR CAKES OF WORLD WIDE RENOWN

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+TO CROWN ALL MONTMARTRE BOASTED A MOUNTAIN A VERITABLE MOUNTAIN ENVIOUS TONGUES INDEED MIGHT PRONOUNCE IT LITTLE MORE THAN A HILL BUT BEN ZOOF WOULD HAVE ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE HEWN IN PIECES RATHER THAN ADMIT THAT IT WAS ANYTHING LESS THAN FIFTEEN THOUSAND FEET IN HEIGHT. BEN ZOOF'S MOST AMBITIOUS DESIRE WAS TO INDUCE THE CAPTAIN TO GO WITH HIM AND END HIS DAYS IN HIS MUCH LOVED HOME AND SO INCESSANTLY WERE SERVADAC'S EARS BESIEGED WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE UNPARALLELED BEAUTIES AND ADVANTAGES OF THIS EIGHTEENTH ARRONDISSEMENT OF PARIS THAT HE COULD SCARCELY HEAR THE NAME OF MONTMARTRE WITHOUT A CONSCIOUS THRILL OF AVERSION. WHEN A PRIVATE IN THE EIGHTH CAVALRY HE HAD BEEN ON THE POINT OF QUITTING THE ARMY AT TWENTY EIGHT YEARS OF AGE BUT UNEXPECTEDLY HE HAD BEEN APPOINTED ORDERLY TO CAPTAIN SERVADAC. SIDE BY SIDE THEY FOUGHT IN TWO CAMPAIGNS. THE BOND OF UNION THUS EFFECTED COULD NEVER BE SEVERED AND ALTHOUGH BEN ZOOF'S ACHIEVEMENTS HAD FAIRLY EARNED HIM THE RIGHT OF RETIREMENT HE FIRMLY DECLINED ALL HONORS OR ANY PENSION THAT MIGHT PART HIM FROM HIS SUPERIOR OFFICER. TWO STOUT ARMS AN IRON CONSTITUTION A POWERFUL FRAME AND AN INDOMITABLE COURAGE WERE ALL LOYALLY DEVOTED TO HIS MASTER'S SERVICE AND FAIRLY ENTITLED HIM TO HIS SOI DISANT DESIGNATION OF THE RAMPART OF MONTMARTRE. UNLIKE HIS MASTER HE MADE NO PRETENSION TO ANY GIFT OF POETIC POWER BUT HIS INEXHAUSTIBLE MEMORY MADE HIM A LIVING ENCYCLOPAEDIA AND FOR HIS STOCK OF ANECDOTES AND TROOPER'S TALES HE WAS MATCHLESS

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+INQUIRIES UNSATISFIED. FAST AS HIS LEGS COULD CARRY HIM SERVADAC HAD MADE HIS WAY TO THE TOP OF THE CLIFF. IT WAS QUITE TRUE THAT A VESSEL WAS IN SIGHT HARDLY MORE THAN SIX MILES FROM THE SHORE BUT OWING TO THE INCREASE IN THE EARTH'S CONVEXITY AND THE CONSEQUENT LIMITATION OF THE RANGE OF VISION THE RIGGING OF THE TOPMASTS ALONE WAS VISIBLE ABOVE THE WATER. THIS WAS ENOUGH HOWEVER TO INDICATE THAT THE SHIP WAS A SCHOONER AN IMPRESSION THAT WAS CONFIRMED WHEN TWO HOURS LATER SHE CAME ENTIRELY IN SIGHT THE DOBRYNA. EXCLAIMED SERVADAC KEEPING HIS EYE UNMOVED AT HIS TELESCOPE. IMPOSSIBLE SIR REJOINED BEN ZOOF THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF SMOKE THE DOBRYNA. REPEATED THE CAPTAIN POSITIVELY. SHE IS UNDER SAIL BUT SHE IS COUNT TIMASCHEFF'S YACHT HE WAS RIGHT. IF THE COUNT WERE ON BOARD A STRANGE FATALITY WAS BRINGING HIM TO THE PRESENCE OF HIS RIVAL. BUT NO LONGER NOW COULD SERVADAC REGARD HIM IN THE LIGHT OF AN ADVERSARY CIRCUMSTANCES HAD CHANGED AND ALL ANIMOSITY WAS ABSORBED IN THE EAGERNESS WITH WHICH HE HAILED THE PROSPECT OF OBTAINING SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE RECENT STARTLING AND INEXPLICABLE EVENTS. DURING THE TWENTY SEVEN DAYS THAT SHE HAD BEEN ABSENT THE DOBRYNA HE CONJECTURED WOULD HAVE EXPLORED THE MEDITERRANEAN WOULD VERY PROBABLY HAVE VISITED SPAIN FRANCE OR ITALY AND ACCORDINGLY WOULD CONVEY TO GOURBI ISLAND SOME INTELLIGENCE FROM ONE OR OTHER OF THOSE COUNTRIES. HE RECKONED THEREFORE NOT ONLY UPON ASCERTAINING THE EXTENT OF THE LATE CATASTROPHE BUT UPON LEARNING ITS CAUSE. COUNT TIMASCHEFF WAS NO DOUBT MAGNANIMOUSLY COMING TO THE RESCUE OF HIMSELF AND HIS ORDERLY. THE WIND BEING ADVERSE THE DOBRYNA DID NOT MAKE VERY RAPID PROGRESS BUT AS THE WEATHER IN SPITE OF A FEW CLOUDS REMAINED CALM AND THE SEA WAS QUITE SMOOTH SHE WAS ENABLED TO HOLD A STEADY COURSE. IT SEEMED UNACCOUNTABLE THAT SHE SHOULD NOT USE HER ENGINE AS WHOEVER WAS ON BOARD WOULD BE NATURALLY IMPATIENT TO RECONNOITER THE NEW ISLAND WHICH MUST JUST HAVE COME WITHIN THEIR VIEW. THE PROBABILITY THAT SUGGESTED ITSELF WAS THAT THE SCHOONER'S FUEL WAS EXHAUSTED. SERVADAC TOOK IT FOR GRANTED THAT THE DOBRYNA WAS ENDEAVORING TO PUT IN. IT OCCURRED TO HIM HOWEVER THAT THE COUNT ON DISCOVERING AN ISLAND WHERE HE HAD EXPECTED TO FIND THE MAINLAND OF AFRICA WOULD NOT UNLIKELY BE AT A LOSS FOR A PLACE OF ANCHORAGE. ZEPHYR AND GALETTE WERE SOON SADDLED AND IN TWENTY MINUTES HAD CARRIED THEIR RIDERS TO THE WESTERN EXTREMITY OF THE ISLAND WHERE THEY BOTH DISMOUNTED AND BEGAN TO EXPLORE THE COAST. THEY WERE NOT LONG IN ASCERTAINING THAT ON THE FARTHER SIDE OF THE POINT THERE WAS A SMALL WELL SHELTERED CREEK OF SUFFICIENT DEPTH TO ACCOMMODATE A VESSEL OF MODERATE TONNAGE. A NARROW CHANNEL FORMED A PASSAGE THROUGH THE RIDGE OF ROCKS THAT PROTECTED IT FROM THE OPEN SEA AND WHICH EVEN IN THE ROUGHEST WEATHER WOULD ENSURE THE CALMNESS OF ITS WATERS. WHAT HOWEVER SEEMED MOST REMARKABLE WAS THE MANIFEST EVIDENCE THAT EVER SINCE THE HIGHEST FLOOD WHICH WAS CAUSED IN ALL PROBABILITY BY THE PROXIMITY OF THE BODY OF WHICH THE HUGE DISC HAD BEEN SO CONSPICUOUS ON THE NIGHT OF THE THIRTY FIRST OF DECEMBER THE PHENOMENON HAD BEEN GRADUALLY LESSENING AND IN FACT WAS NOW REDUCED TO THE NORMAL LIMITS WHICH HAD CHARACTERIZED IT BEFORE THE CONVULSION. WITHOUT DOING MORE THAN NOTE THE CIRCUMSTANCE SERVADAC TURNED HIS ENTIRE ATTENTION TO THE DOBRYNA WHICH NOW LITTLE MORE THAN A MILE FROM SHORE COULD NOT FAIL TO SEE AND UNDERSTAND HIS SIGNALS. SLIGHTLY CHANGING HER COURSE SHE FIRST STRUCK HER MAINSAIL AND IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE MOVEMENTS OF HER HELMSMAN SOON CARRIED NOTHING BUT HER TWO TOPSAILS BRIGANTINE AND JIB

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+AFTER ROUNDING THE PEAK SHE STEERED DIRECT FOR THE CHANNEL TO WHICH SERVADAC BY HIS GESTURES WAS POINTING HER AND WAS NOT LONG IN ENTERING THE CREEK. AS SOON AS THE ANCHOR IMBEDDED IN THE SANDY BOTTOM HAD MADE GOOD ITS HOLD A BOAT WAS LOWERED. IN A FEW MINUTES MORE COUNT TIMASCHEFF HAD LANDED ON THE ISLAND. CAPTAIN SERVADAC HASTENED TOWARDS HIM. FIRST OF ALL COUNT HE EXCLAIMED IMPETUOUSLY BEFORE WE SPEAK ONE OTHER WORD TELL ME WHAT HAS HAPPENED. I LEFT YOU ON A CONTINENT AND HERE I HAVE THE HONOR OF FINDING YOU ON AN ISLAND. CAPTAIN SERVADAC AND I NOW BEG TO OFFER YOU MY SINCERE APOLOGIES FOR FAILING TO KEEP MY APPOINTMENT WITH YOU. NEVER MIND NOW INTERPOSED THE CAPTAIN WE WILL TALK OF THAT BY AND BY. FIRST TELL ME WHAT HAS HAPPENED. THE VERY QUESTION I WAS ABOUT TO PUT TO YOU CAPTAIN SERVADAC. DO YOU MEAN TO SAY YOU KNOW NOTHING OF THE CAUSE AND CAN TELL ME NOTHING OF THE EXTENT OF THE CATASTROPHE WHICH HAS TRANSFORMED THIS PART OF AFRICA INTO AN ISLAND. NOTHING MORE THAN YOU KNOW YOURSELF. BUT SURELY COUNT TIMASCHEFF YOU CAN INFORM ME WHETHER UPON THE NORTHERN SHORE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. ARE YOU CERTAIN THAT THIS IS THE MEDITERRANEAN. ASKED THE COUNT SIGNIFICANTLY AND ADDED I HAVE DISCOVERED NO SIGN OF LAND. THE CAPTAIN STARED IN SILENT BEWILDERMENT. FOR SOME MOMENTS HE SEEMED PERFECTLY STUPEFIED THEN RECOVERING HIMSELF HE BEGAN TO OVERWHELM THE COUNT WITH A TORRENT OF QUESTIONS. HAD HE NOTICED EVER SINCE THE FIRST OF JANUARY THAT THE SUN HAD RISEN IN THE WEST. HAD HE NOTICED THAT THE DAYS HAD BEEN ONLY SIX HOURS LONG AND THAT THE WEIGHT OF THE ATMOSPHERE WAS SO MUCH DIMINISHED. HAD HE OBSERVED THAT THE MOON HAD QUITE DISAPPEARED AND THAT THE EARTH HAD BEEN IN IMMINENT HAZARD OF RUNNING FOUL OF THE PLANET VENUS. WAS HE AWARE IN SHORT THAT THE ENTIRE MOTIONS OF THE TERRESTRIAL SPHERE HAD UNDERGONE A COMPLETE MODIFICATION. TO ALL THESE INQUIRIES THE COUNT RESPONDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH EVERYTHING THAT HAD TRANSPIRED BUT TO SERVADAC'S INCREASING ASTONISHMENT HE COULD THROW NO LIGHT UPON THE CAUSE OF ANY OF THE PHENOMENA. ON THE NIGHT OF THE THIRTY FIRST OF DECEMBER HE SAID I WAS PROCEEDING BY SEA TO OUR APPOINTED PLACE OF MEETING WHEN MY YACHT WAS SUDDENLY CAUGHT ON THE CREST OF AN ENORMOUS WAVE AND CARRIED TO A HEIGHT WHICH IT IS BEYOND MY POWER TO ESTIMATE. SOME MYSTERIOUS FORCE SEEMED TO HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT A CONVULSION OF THE ELEMENTS. OUR ENGINE WAS DAMAGED NAY DISABLED AND WE DRIFTED ENTIRELY AT THE MERCY OF THE TERRIBLE HURRICANE THAT RAGED DURING THE SUCCEEDING DAYS. THAT THE DOBRYNA ESCAPED AT ALL IS LITTLE LESS THAN A MIRACLE AND I CAN ONLY ATTRIBUTE HER SAFETY TO THE FACT THAT SHE OCCUPIED THE CENTER OF THE VAST CYCLONE AND CONSEQUENTLY DID NOT EXPERIENCE MUCH CHANGE OF POSITION. HE PAUSED AND ADDED YOUR ISLAND IS THE FIRST LAND WE HAVE SEEN. THEN LET US PUT OUT TO SEA AT ONCE AND ASCERTAIN THE EXTENT OF THE DISASTER CRIED THE CAPTAIN EAGERLY. YOU WILL TAKE ME ON BOARD COUNT WILL YOU NOT. MY YACHT IS AT YOUR SERVICE SIR EVEN SHOULD YOU REQUIRE TO MAKE A TOUR ROUND THE WORLD. A TOUR ROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN WILL SUFFICE FOR THE PRESENT I THINK SAID THE CAPTAIN SMILING. THE COUNT SHOOK HIS HEAD. I AM NOT SURE SAID HE BUT WHAT THE TOUR OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WILL PROVE TO BE THE TOUR OF THE WORLD. SERVADAC MADE NO REPLY BUT FOR A TIME REMAINED SILENT AND ABSORBED IN THOUGHT

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+AFTER THE SILENCE WAS BROKEN THEY CONSULTED AS TO WHAT COURSE WAS BEST TO PURSUE AND THE PLAN THEY PROPOSED WAS IN THE FIRST PLACE TO DISCOVER HOW MUCH OF THE AFRICAN COAST STILL REMAINED AND TO CARRY ON THE TIDINGS OF THEIR OWN EXPERIENCES TO ALGIERS OR IN THE EVENT OF THE SOUTHERN SHORE HAVING ACTUALLY DISAPPEARED THEY WOULD MAKE THEIR WAY NORTHWARDS AND PUT THEMSELVES IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE POPULATION ON THE RIVER BANKS OF EUROPE. BEFORE STARTING IT WAS INDISPENSABLE THAT THE ENGINE OF THE DOBRYNA SHOULD BE REPAIRED TO SAIL UNDER CANVAS ONLY WOULD IN CONTRARY WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS BE BOTH TEDIOUS AND DIFFICULT. THE STOCK OF COAL ON BOARD WAS ADEQUATE FOR TWO MONTHS CONSUMPTION BUT AS IT WOULD AT THE EXPIRATION OF THAT TIME BE EXHAUSTED IT WAS OBVIOUSLY THE PART OF PRUDENCE TO EMPLOY IT IN REACHING A PORT WHERE FUEL COULD BE REPLENISHED. THE DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY THE ENGINE PROVED TO BE NOT VERY SERIOUS AND IN THREE DAYS AFTER HER ARRIVAL THE DOBRYNA WAS AGAIN READY TO PUT TO SEA. SERVADAC EMPLOYED THE INTERVAL IN MAKING THE COUNT ACQUAINTED WITH ALL HE KNEW ABOUT HIS SMALL DOMAIN. THEY MADE AN ENTIRE CIRCUIT OF THE ISLAND AND BOTH AGREED THAT IT MUST BE BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THAT CIRCUMSCRIBED TERRITORY THAT THEY MUST SEEK AN EXPLANATION OF WHAT HAD SO STRANGELY TRANSPIRED. IT WAS ON THE LAST DAY OF JANUARY THAT THE REPAIRS OF THE SCHOONER WERE COMPLETED. A SLIGHT DIMINUTION IN THE EXCESSIVELY HIGH TEMPERATURE WHICH HAD PREVAILED FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS WAS THE ONLY APPARENT CHANGE IN THE GENERAL ORDER OF THINGS BUT WHETHER THIS WAS TO BE ATTRIBUTED TO ANY ALTERATION IN THE EARTH'S ORBIT WAS A QUESTION WHICH WOULD STILL REQUIRE SEVERAL DAYS TO DECIDE. THE WEATHER REMAINED FINE AND ALTHOUGH A FEW CLOUDS HAD ACCUMULATED AND MIGHT HAVE CAUSED A TRIFLING FALL OF THE BAROMETER THEY WERE NOT SUFFICIENTLY THREATENING TO DELAY THE DEPARTURE OF THE DOBRYNA. DOUBTS NOW AROSE AND SOME DISCUSSION FOLLOWED WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS DESIRABLE FOR BEN ZOOF TO ACCOMPANY HIS MASTER. THERE WERE VARIOUS REASONS WHY HE SHOULD BE LEFT BEHIND NOT THE LEAST IMPORTANT BEING THAT THE SCHOONER HAD NO ACCOMMODATION FOR HORSES AND THE ORDERLY WOULD HAVE FOUND IT HARD TO PART WITH ZEPHYR AND MUCH MORE WITH HIS OWN FAVORITE GALETTE BESIDES IT WAS ADVISABLE THAT THERE SHOULD BE SOME ONE LEFT TO RECEIVE ANY STRANGERS THAT MIGHT POSSIBLY ARRIVE AS WELL AS TO KEEP AN EYE UPON THE HERDS OF CATTLE WHICH IN THE DUBIOUS PROSPECT BEFORE THEM MIGHT PROVE TO BE THE SOLE RESOURCE OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE CATASTROPHE. ON THE THIRTY FIRST THEN BEN ZOOF WAS INVESTED WITH GOVERNOR'S POWERS AND TOOK AN AFFECTING LEAVE OF HIS MASTER BEGGING HIM IF CHANCE SHOULD CARRY HIM NEAR MONTMARTRE TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER THE BELOVED MOUNTAIN HAD BEEN LEFT UNMOVED

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+THE DOBRYNA A STRONG CRAFT OF TWO HUNDRED TONS BURDEN HAD BEEN BUILT IN THE FAMOUS SHIPBUILDING YARDS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. HER SEA GOING QUALITIES WERE EXCELLENT AND WOULD HAVE AMPLY SUFFICED FOR A CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE. COUNT TIMASCHEFF WAS HIMSELF NO SAILOR BUT HAD THE GREATEST CONFIDENCE IN LEAVING THE COMMAND OF HIS YACHT IN THE HANDS OF LIEUTENANT PROCOPE A MAN OF ABOUT THIRTY YEARS OF AGE AND AN EXCELLENT SEAMAN. BORN ON THE COUNT'S ESTATES THE SON OF A SERF WHO HAD BEEN EMANCIPATED LONG BEFORE THE FAMOUS EDICT OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER PROCOPE WAS SINCERELY ATTACHED BY A TIE OF GRATITUDE AS WELL AS OF DUTY AND AFFECTION TO HIS PATRON'S SERVICE. AFTER AN APPRENTICESHIP ON A MERCHANT SHIP HE HAD ENTERED THE IMPERIAL NAVY AND HAD ALREADY REACHED THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT WHEN THE COUNT APPOINTED HIM TO THE CHARGE OF HIS OWN PRIVATE YACHT IN WHICH HE WAS ACCUSTOMED TO SPEND BY FAR THE GREATER PART OF HIS TIME THROUGHOUT THE WINTER GENERALLY CRUISING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WHILST IN THE SUMMER HE VISITED MORE NORTHERN WATERS. THE SHIP COULD NOT HAVE BEEN IN BETTER HANDS. THE LIEUTENANT WAS WELL INFORMED IN MANY MATTERS OUTSIDE THE PALE OF HIS PROFESSION AND HIS ATTAINMENTS WERE ALIKE CREDITABLE TO HIMSELF AND TO THE LIBERAL FRIEND WHO HAD GIVEN HIM HIS EDUCATION. THESE MEN WITHOUT EXCEPTION WERE ALL SONS OF THE COUNT'S TENANTS AND SO TENACIOUSLY EVEN OUT AT SEA DID THEY CLING TO THEIR OLD TRADITIONS THAT IT MATTERED LITTLE TO THEM WHAT PHYSICAL DISORGANIZATION ENSUED SO LONG AS THEY FELT THEY WERE SHARING THE EXPERIENCES OF THEIR LORD AND MASTER. THE LATE ASTOUNDING EVENTS HOWEVER HAD RENDERED PROCOPE MANIFESTLY UNEASY AND NOT THE LESS SO FROM HIS CONSCIOUSNESS THAT THE COUNT SECRETLY PARTOOK OF HIS OWN ANXIETY. STEAM UP AND CANVAS SPREAD THE SCHOONER STARTED EASTWARDS. WITH A FAVORABLE WIND SHE WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE MADE ELEVEN KNOTS AN HOUR HAD NOT THE HIGH WAVES SOMEWHAT IMPEDED HER PROGRESS. ALTHOUGH ONLY A MODERATE BREEZE WAS BLOWING THE SEA WAS ROUGH A CIRCUMSTANCE TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR ONLY BY THE DIMINUTION IN THE FORCE OF THE EARTH'S ATTRACTION RENDERING THE LIQUID PARTICLES SO BUOYANT THAT BY THE MERE EFFECT OF OSCILLATION THEY WERE CARRIED TO A HEIGHT THAT WAS QUITE UNPRECEDENTED. FOR A FEW MILES SHE FOLLOWED THE LINE HITHERTO PRESUMABLY OCCUPIED BY THE COAST OF ALGERIA BUT NO LAND APPEARED TO THE SOUTH. HAPPILY THE RECENT PHENOMENA HAD NO EFFECT UPON THE COMPASS THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE WHICH IN THESE REGIONS HAD POINTED ABOUT TWENTY TWO DEGREES FROM THE NORTH POLE HAD NEVER DEVIATED IN THE LEAST A PROOF THAT ALTHOUGH EAST AND WEST HAD APPARENTLY CHANGED PLACES NORTH AND SOUTH CONTINUED TO RETAIN THEIR NORMAL POSITION AS CARDINAL POINTS. THE LOG AND THE COMPASS THEREFORE WERE ABLE TO BE CALLED UPON TO DO THE WORK OF THE SEXTANT WHICH HAD BECOME UTTERLY USELESS. ON THE FIRST MORNING OF THE CRUISE LIEUTENANT PROCOPE WHO LIKE MOST RUSSIANS SPOKE FRENCH FLUENTLY WAS EXPLAINING THESE PECULIARITIES TO CAPTAIN SERVADAC THE COUNT WAS PRESENT AND THE CONVERSATION PERPETUALLY RECURRED AS NATURALLY IT WOULD TO THE PHENOMENA WHICH REMAINED SO INEXPLICABLE TO THEM ALL. IT IS VERY EVIDENT SAID THE LIEUTENANT THAT EVER SINCE THE FIRST OF JANUARY THE EARTH HAS BEEN MOVING IN A NEW ORBIT AND FROM SOME UNKNOWN CAUSE HAS DRAWN NEARER TO THE SUN. NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT SAID SERVADAC AND I SUPPOSE THAT HAVING CROSSED THE ORBIT OF VENUS WE HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF RUNNING INTO THE ORBIT OF MERCURY. AND FINISH UP BY A COLLISION WITH THE SUN ADDED THE COUNT. THERE IS NO FEAR OF THAT SIR. THE EARTH HAS UNDOUBTEDLY ENTERED UPON A NEW ORBIT BUT SHE IS NOT INCURRING ANY PROBABLE RISK OF BEING PRECIPITATED ONTO THE SUN. CAN YOU SATISFY US OF THAT ASKED THE COUNT I CAN SIR

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+I CAN GIVE YOU A PROOF WHICH I THINK YOU WILL OWN IS CONCLUSIVE. AND WHAT DEMONSTRATION DO YOU OFFER ASKED SERVADAC EAGERLY THAT IT WILL NOT HAPPEN. SIMPLY THIS CAPTAIN THAT SINCE THE EARTH ENTERED HER NEW ORBIT HALF THE SIXTY FOUR DAYS HAS ALREADY ELAPSED AND YET IT IS ONLY JUST RECENTLY THAT SHE HAS CROSSED THE ORBIT OF VENUS HARDLY ONE THIRD OF THE DISTANCE TO BE TRAVERSED TO REACH THE SUN. THE LIEUTENANT PAUSED TO ALLOW TIME FOR REFLECTION AND ADDED MOREOVER I HAVE EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT WE ARE NOT SO NEAR THE SUN AS WE HAVE BEEN. AT THE SAME TIME WE HAVE THE PROBLEM STILL UNSOLVED THAT THE MEDITERRANEAN HAS EVIDENTLY BEEN TRANSPORTED TO THE EQUATORIAL ZONE. BOTH THE COUNT AND THE CAPTAIN EXPRESSED THEMSELVES REASSURED BY HIS REPRESENTATIONS AND OBSERVED THAT THEY MUST NOW DO ALL IN THEIR POWER TO DISCOVER WHAT HAD BECOME OF THE VAST CONTINENT OF AFRICA OF WHICH THEY WERE HITHERTO FAILING SO COMPLETELY TO FIND A VESTIGE. OCEAN REIGNED SUPREME. BUT ALGIERS LIKE ALL THE OTHER COAST TOWNS HAD APPARENTLY BEEN ABSORBED INTO THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH. CAPTAIN SERVADAC WITH CLENCHED TEETH AND KNITTED BROW STOOD STERNLY ALMOST FIERCELY REGARDING THE BOUNDLESS WASTE OF WATER. HIS PULSE BEAT FAST AS HE RECALLED THE FRIENDS AND COMRADES WITH WHOM HE HAD SPENT THE LAST FEW YEARS IN THAT VANISHED CITY. ALL THE IMAGES OF HIS PAST LIFE FLOATED UPON HIS MEMORY HIS THOUGHTS SPED AWAY TO HIS NATIVE FRANCE ONLY TO RETURN AGAIN TO WONDER WHETHER THE DEPTHS OF OCEAN WOULD REVEAL ANY TRACES OF THE ALGERIAN METROPOLIS. IS IT NOT IMPOSSIBLE HE MURMURED ALOUD THAT ANY CITY SHOULD DISAPPEAR SO COMPLETELY. WOULD NOT THE LOFTIEST EMINENCES OF THE CITY AT LEAST BE VISIBLE. SURELY SOME PORTION OF THE CASBAH MUST STILL RISE ABOVE THE WAVES. THE IMPERIAL FORT TOO WAS BUILT UPON AN ELEVATION OF SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY FEET IT IS INCREDIBLE THAT IT SHOULD BE SO TOTALLY SUBMERGED. UNLESS SOME VESTIGES OF THESE ARE FOUND I SHALL BEGIN TO SUSPECT THAT THE WHOLE OF AFRICA HAS BEEN SWALLOWED IN SOME VAST ABYSS. ANOTHER CIRCUMSTANCE WAS MOST REMARKABLE. NOT A MATERIAL OBJECT OF ANY KIND WAS TO BE NOTICED FLOATING ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER NOT ONE BRANCH OF A TREE HAD BEEN SEEN DRIFTING BY NOR ONE SPAR BELONGING TO ONE OF THE NUMEROUS VESSELS THAT A MONTH PREVIOUSLY HAD BEEN MOORED IN THE MAGNIFICENT BAY WHICH STRETCHED TWELVE MILES ACROSS FROM CAPE MATAFUZ TO POINT PEXADE. PERHAPS THE DEPTHS MIGHT DISCLOSE WHAT THE SURFACE FAILED TO REVEAL AND COUNT TIMASCHEFF ANXIOUS THAT SERVADAC SHOULD HAVE EVERY FACILITY AFFORDED HIM FOR SOLVING HIS DOUBTS CALLED FOR THE SOUNDING LINE. FORTHWITH THE LEAD WAS GREASED AND LOWERED. TO THE SURPRISE OF ALL AND ESPECIALLY OF LIEUTENANT PROCOPE THE LINE INDICATED A BOTTOM AT A NEARLY UNIFORM DEPTH OF FROM FOUR TO FIVE FATHOMS AND ALTHOUGH THE SOUNDING WAS PERSEVERED WITH CONTINUOUSLY FOR MORE THAN TWO HOURS OVER A CONSIDERABLE AREA THE DIFFERENCES OF LEVEL WERE INSIGNIFICANT NOT CORRESPONDING IN ANY DEGREE TO WHAT WOULD BE EXPECTED OVER THE SITE OF A CITY THAT HAD BEEN TERRACED LIKE THE SEATS OF AN AMPHITHEATER. ASTOUNDING AS IT SEEMED WHAT ALTERNATIVE WAS LEFT BUT TO SUPPOSE THAT THE ALGERIAN CAPITAL HAD BEEN COMPLETELY LEVELED BY THE FLOOD. YOU MUST SEE LIEUTENANT I SHOULD THINK THAT WE ARE NOT SO NEAR THE COAST OF ALGERIA AS YOU IMAGINED. THE LIEUTENANT SHOOK HIS HEAD

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+AFTER PONDERING AWHILE HE SAID IF WE WERE FARTHER AWAY I SHOULD EXPECT TO FIND A DEPTH OF TWO OR THREE HUNDRED FATHOMS INSTEAD OF FIVE FATHOMS FIVE FATHOMS. I CONFESS I AM PUZZLED. FOR THE NEXT THIRTY SIX HOURS UNTIL THE FOURTH OF FEBRUARY THE SEA WAS EXAMINED AND EXPLORED WITH THE MOST UNFLAGGING PERSEVERANCE. ITS DEPTH REMAINED INVARIABLE STILL FOUR OR AT MOST FIVE FATHOMS AND ALTHOUGH ITS BOTTOM WAS ASSIDUOUSLY DREDGED IT WAS ONLY TO PROVE IT BARREN OF MARINE PRODUCTION OF ANY TYPE. NOTHING WAS TO BE DONE BUT TO PUT ABOUT AND RETURN IN DISAPPOINTMENT TOWARDS THE NORTH

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+AT ANOTHER TIME HARALD ASKED. WHAT IS YOUR COUNTRY OLAF HAVE YOU ALWAYS BEEN A THRALL THE THRALL'S EYES FLASHED. THERE FAR OFF IS MY COUNTRY ACROSS THE WATER. MY FATHER WAS GUDBRAND THE BIG. TWO HUNDRED WARRIORS FEASTED IN HIS HALL AND FOLLOWED HIM TO BATTLE. TEN SONS SAT AT MEAT WITH HIM AND I WAS THE YOUNGEST ONE DAY HE SAID. YOU ARE ALL GROWN TO BE MEN THERE IS NOT ELBOW ROOM HERE FOR SO MANY CHIEFS. THE ELDEST OF YOU SHALL HAVE MY FARM WHEN I DIE. THE REST OF YOU OFF A VIKING HE HAD THREE SHIPS. THESE HE GAVE TO THREE OF MY BROTHERS. BUT I STAYED THAT SPRING AND BUILT ME A BOAT. I MADE HER FOR ONLY TWENTY OARS BECAUSE I THOUGHT FEW MEN WOULD FOLLOW ME FOR I WAS YOUNG FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. I MADE HER IN THE LIKENESS OF A DRAGON. AT THE PROW I CARVED THE HEAD WITH OPEN MOUTH AND FORKED TONGUE THRUST OUT. I PAINTED THE EYES RED FOR ANGER. THERE STAND SO I SAID AND GLARE AND HISS AT MY FOES. IN THE STERN I CURVED THE TAIL UP ALMOST AS HIGH AS THE HEAD. THERE I PUT THE PILOT'S SEAT AND A STRONG TILLER FOR THE RUDDER ON THE BREAST AND SIDES I CARVED THE DRAGON'S SCALES. THERE SHE SAT ON THE ROLLERS AS FAIR A SHIP AS I EVER SAW. THIS IS MY VOW I WILL SAIL TO NORWAY AND I WILL HARRY THE COAST AND FILL MY BOAT WITH RICHES. THEN I WILL GET ME A FARM AND WILL WINTER IN THAT LAND NOW WHO WILL FOLLOW ME. HE IS BUT A BOY THE MEN SAID. THIRTY MEN ONE AFTER ANOTHER RAISED THEIR HORNS AND SAID. ON THE NEXT MORNING WE GOT INTO MY DRAGON AND STARTED I SAT HIGH IN THE PILOT'S SEAT. AS OUR BOAT FLASHED DOWN THE ROLLERS INTO THE WATER I MADE THIS SONG AND SANG IT. THE DRAGON RUNS WHERE WILL SHE STEER WHERE SWORDS WILL SING WHERE SPEARS WILL BITE WHERE I SHALL LAUGH. SO WE HARRIED THE COAST OF NORWAY. WE ATE AT MANY MEN'S TABLES UNINVITED. MANY MEN WE FOUND OVERBURDENED WITH GOLD THEN I SAID. MY DRAGON'S BELLY IS NEVER FULL AND ON BOARD WENT THE GOLD. OH IT IS BETTER TO LIVE ON THE SEA AND LET OTHER MEN RAISE YOUR CROPS AND COOK YOUR MEALS. A HOUSE SMELLS OF SMOKE A SHIP SMELLS OF FROLIC. FROM A HOUSE YOU SEE A SOOTY ROOF FROM A SHIP YOU SEE VALHALLA. UP AND DOWN THE WATER WE WENT TO GET MUCH WEALTH AND MUCH FROLIC. WHAT OF THE FARM OLAF NOT YET I ANSWERED VIKING IS BETTER FOR SUMMER. IT WAS SO DARK THAT I COULD SEE NOTHING BUT A FEW SPARKS ON THE HEARTH. I STOOD WITH MY BACK TO THE WALL FOR I WANTED NO SWORD REACHING OUT OF THE DARK FOR ME. NOW START UP THE FIRE I SAID. COME COME I CALLED WHEN NO ONE OBEYED A FIRE. MY MEN LAUGHED YES A STINGY HOST. HE ACTS AS THOUGH HE HAD NOT EXPECTED US. BUT NOW THE FARMER WAS BLOWING ON THE COALS AND PUTTING ON FRESH WOOD. ON A BENCH IN A FAR CORNER WERE A DOZEN PEOPLE HUDDLED TOGETHER. HO THRALLS I CALLED TO THEM. BRING IN THE TABLE WE ARE HUNGRY. WHAT MAN WANTS TO SPEND THE WINTER WITH NO GUESTS. THE THRALLS WERE BRINGING IN A GREAT POT OF MEAT. THEY SET UP A CRANE OVER THE FIRE AND HUNG THE POT UPON IT AND WE SAT AND WATCHED IT BOIL WHILE WE JOKED AT LAST THE SUPPER BEGAN. THE FARMER SAT GLOOMILY ON THE BENCH AND WOULD NOT EAT AND YOU CANNOT WONDER FOR HE SAW US PUTTING POTFULS OF HIS GOOD BEEF AND BASKET LOADS OF BREAD INTO OUR BIG MOUTHS. YOU WOULD NOT EAT WITH US YOU CANNOT SAY NO TO HALF OF MY ALE I DRINK THIS TO YOUR HEALTH. THEN I DRANK HALF OF THE HORNFUL AND SENT THE REST ACROSS THE FIRE TO THE FARMER HE TOOK IT AND SMILED SAYING. I THOUGHT THAT ALL THIS NIGHT'S WORK WOULD BE MY DEATH OH DO NOT FEAR THAT I LAUGHED FOR A DEAD MAN SETS NO TABLES. SO WE DRANK AND ALL GREW MERRIER AT LAST I STOOD UP AND SAID. COME THEY CRIED THANK HIM FOR THAT FARMER. DID YOU EVER HAVE SUCH A LORDLY GUEST BEFORE I WENT ON. SO I WILL GIVE OUT THIS LAW THAT MY MEN SHALL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE. HAKON THERE SHALL BE YOUR CONSTANT COMPANION FRIEND FARMER. HE SHALL NOT LEAVE YOU DAY OR NIGHT WHETHER YOU ARE WORKING OR PLAYING OR SLEEPING. I NAMED NINE OTHERS AND SAID. AND THESE SHALL FOLLOW YOUR THRALLS IN THE SAME WAY. SO I SET GUARDS OVER EVERY ONE IN THAT HOUSE

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+SO NO TALES GOT OUT TO THE NEIGHBORS BESIDES IT WAS A LONELY PLACE AND BY GOOD LUCK NO ONE CAME THAT WAY. I HEARD A CUCKOO TO DAY IT IS THE CALL TO GO A VIKING I SAID. THEIR EYES DANCED BIG THORLEIF STOOD UP AND STRETCHED HIMSELF. I AM STIFF WITH LONG SITTING HE SAID I ITCH FOR A FIGHT I TURNED TO THE FARMER. THIS IS OUR LAST FEAST WITH YOU I SAID. BY THE BEARD OF ODIN I CRIED YOU HAVE TAKEN OUR JOKE LIKE A MAN. MY MEN POUNDED THE TABLE WITH THEIR FISTS. BY THE HAMMER OF THOR SHOUTED GRIM HERE IS NO STINGY COWARD. HERE FRIEND TAKE IT AND HE THRUST IT INTO THE FARMER'S HAND. MAY YOU DRINK HEART'S EASE FROM IT FOR MANY YEARS. AND WITH IT I LEAVE YOU A NAME SIF THE FRIENDLY I SHALL HOPE TO DRINK WITH YOU SOMETIME IN VALHALLA. THEN ALL MY MEN POURED AROUND THAT FARMER AND CLAPPED HIM ON THE SHOULDER AND PILED THINGS UPON HIM SAYING. HERE IS A RING FOR SIF THE FRIENDLY AND HERE IS A BRACELET A SWORD WOULD NOT BE ASHAMED TO HANG AT YOUR SIDE. I TOOK FIVE GREAT BRACELETS OF GOLD FROM OUR TREASURE CHEST AND GAVE THEM TO HIM. MAY ODIN SEND ME SUCH GUESTS EVERY WINTER HE SAID. EARLY NEXT MORNING WE SHOOK HANDS WITH OUR HOST AND BOARDED THE WAVERUNNER AND SAILED OFF WHERE SHALL WE GO MY MEN ASKED LET THE GODS DECIDE I SAID AND TOSSED UP MY SPEAR. WHEN IT FELL ON THE DECK IT POINTED UP SHORE SO I STEERED IN THAT DIRECTION. THAT IS THE BEST WAY TO DECIDE FOR THE SPEAR WILL ALWAYS POINT SOMEWHERE AND ONE THING IS AS GOOD AS ANOTHER. THAT TIME IT POINTED US INTO YOUR FATHER'S SHIPS. THEY CLOSED IN BATTLE WITH US AND KILLED MY MEN AND SUNK MY SHIP AND DRAGGED ME OFF A PRISONER THEY WERE THREE AGAINST ONE OR THEY MIGHT HAVE TASTED SOMETHING MORE BITTER AT OUR HANDS THEY TOOK ME BEFORE KING HALFDAN. HERE THEY SAID IS A RASCAL WHO HAS BEEN HARRYING OUR COASTS. WE SUNK HIS SHIP AND MEN BUT HIM WE BROUGHT TO YOU. A ROBBER VIKING SAID THE KING AND SCOWLED AT ME. I THREW BACK MY HEAD AND LAUGHED. YES AND WITH ALL YOUR FINGERS IT TOOK YOU A YEAR TO CATCH ME THE KING FROWNED MORE ANGRILY. SAUCY TOO HE SAID WELL THIEVES MUST DIE. TAKE HIM OUT THORKEL AND LET HIM TASTE YOUR SWORD. YOUR MOTHER THE QUEEN WAS STANDING BY. NOW SHE PUT HER HAND ON HIS ARM AND SMILED AND SAID. HE IS ONLY A LAD LET HIM LIVE. AND WOULD HE NOT BE A GOOD GIFT FOR OUR BABY. YOUR FATHER THOUGHT A MOMENT THEN LOOKED AT YOUR MOTHER AND SMILED. SOFT HEART HE SAID GENTLY TO HER THEN TO THORKEL WELL LET HIM GO THORKEL. THEN HE TURNED TO ME AGAIN FROWNING. BUT YOUNG SHARP TONGUE NOW THAT WE HAVE CAUGHT YOU WE WILL PUT YOU INTO A TRAP THAT YOU CANNOT GET OUT OF. WELD AN IRON COLLAR ON HIS NECK. SO I LIVED AND NOW AM YOUR TOOTH THRALL WELL IT IS THE LUCK OF WAR. BUT BY THE CHAIR OF ODIN I KEPT MY VOW

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+AND NEVER BELIEVE A WORD JOHN JAGO SAYS TO YOU ADDED SILAS HE IS THE GREATEST LIAR IN AMERICA LET THE OTHER BE WHOM HE MAY. NAOMI SHOOK HER FOREFINGER REPROACHFULLY AT THEM AS IF THE TWO STURDY YOUNG FARMERS HAD BEEN TWO CHILDREN. SILAS SLUNK AWAY WITHOUT A WORD OF PROTEST AMBROSE STOOD HIS GROUND EVIDENTLY BENT ON MAKING HIS PEACE WITH NAOMI BEFORE HE LEFT HER SEEING THAT I WAS IN THE WAY I WALKED ASIDE TOWARD A GLASS DOOR AT THE LOWER END OF THE ROOM

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+IT IS MANIFEST THAT MAN IS NOW SUBJECT TO MUCH VARIABILITY. SO IT IS WITH THE LOWER ANIMALS. THE VARIABILITY OF MULTIPLE PARTS. BUT THIS SUBJECT WILL BE MORE PROPERLY DISCUSSED WHEN WE TREAT OF THE DIFFERENT RACES OF MANKIND. WITH OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS THERE ARE GROUNDS FOR BELIEVING THAT COLD AND DAMP DIRECTLY AFFECT THE GROWTH OF THE HAIR BUT I HAVE NOT MET WITH ANY EVIDENCE ON THIS HEAD IN THE CASE OF MAN. EFFECTS OF THE INCREASED USE AND DISUSE OF PARTS

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+CHAPTER SEVEN ON THE RACES OF MAN. IN DETERMINING WHETHER TWO OR MORE ALLIED FORMS OUGHT TO BE RANKED AS SPECIES OR VARIETIES NATURALISTS ARE PRACTICALLY GUIDED BY THE FOLLOWING CONSIDERATIONS NAMELY THE AMOUNT OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM AND WHETHER SUCH DIFFERENCES RELATE TO FEW OR MANY POINTS OF STRUCTURE AND WHETHER THEY ARE OF PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE BUT MORE ESPECIALLY WHETHER THEY ARE CONSTANT

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+GOLIATH MAKES ANOTHER DISCOVERY. OH CYNTHIA. GASPED JOY AT LENGTH ISN'T IT TOO COMICAL. WE'RE JUST AS FAR FROM IT ALL AS EVER. AND THEY BOTH FELL TO CHUCKLING AGAIN. THEY WERE CERTAINLY NO NEARER THE SOLUTION OF THEIR PROBLEM. FOR FACING THE ROOM ONCE MORE THE MYSTERIOUS PICTURE LOOKED FORTH THE PORTRAIT OF TWO BABIES. THEY WERE PLUMP PLACID BABIES AGED PROBABLY ABOUT TWO OR THREE YEARS AND THEY APPEARED PRECISELY ALIKE IT TOOK NO GREAT STRETCH OF IMAGINATION TO CONJECTURE WHAT THEY WERE TWINS AND EVIDENTLY BROTHER AND SISTER FOR ONE YOUNGSTER'S DRESS BEING A TRIFLE SEVERE IN STYLE INDICATED THAT IT WAS DOUBTLESS A BOY. THESE TWO CHERUBIC INFANTS HAD BOTH BIG BROWN EYES FAT RED CHEEKS AND ADORABLE FLUFFY GOLDEN CURLS. THEY WERE PICTURED AS SITTING HAND IN HAND ON A GREEN BANK UNDER A HUGE SPREADING TREE AND GAZING SOLEMNLY TOWARD A DISTANT CHURCH STEEPLE. THE POOR LITTLE THINGS CRIED CYNTHIA THINK OF THEM HAVING BEEN TURNED TO THE WALL ALL THESE YEARS. NOW WHAT WAS THE SENSE OF IT TWO INNOCENT BABIES LIKE THAT. BUT JOYCE HAD NOT BEEN LISTENING ALL AT ONCE SHE PUT DOWN HER CANDLE ON THE TABLE AND FACED HER COMPANION. I'VE GOT IT SHE ANNOUNCED IT CAME TO ME ALL OF A SUDDEN OF COURSE THOSE BABIES ARE TWINS BROTHER AND SISTER ANY ONE CAN TELL THAT. WELL DON'T YOU SEE ONE OF THEM THE GIRL WAS OUR LOVELY LADY. THE TWIN BROTHER DID SOMETHING SHE DIDN'T LIKE AND SHE TURNED HIS PICTURE TO THE WALL. HERS HAPPENED TO BE IN THE SAME FRAME TOO BUT SHE EVIDENTLY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THAT. NOW WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY CYNTHIA SPRAGUE. YOU MUST BE RIGHT ADMITTED CYNTHIA. I THOUGHT WE WERE STUMPED AGAIN WHEN I FIRST SAW THAT PICTURE BUT IT'S BEEN OF SOME USE AFTER ALL. DO YOU SUPPOSE THE MINIATURE WAS A COPY OF THE SAME THING. ALL THIS WHILE CYNTHIA HAD BEEN STANDING CANDLE IN ONE HAND AND DUST CLOTH IN THE OTHER. AT THAT POINT SHE PUT THE CANDLESTICK ON THE TABLE AND STOOD GAZING INTENTLY AT THE DUST CLOTH PRESENTLY SHE SPOKE. JOYCE DO YOU THINK THERE WOULD BE ANY HARM IN MY DOING SOMETHING I'VE LONGED TO DO EVER SINCE WE FIRST ENTERED THIS HOUSE. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT QUERIED JOYCE. WHY I WANT TO DUST THIS PLACE AND CLEAR OUT OF THE WAY SOME OF THE DIRT AND COBWEBS. THEY WORRY ME TERRIBLY AND BESIDES I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT THIS LOVELY FURNITURE LOOKS LIKE WITHOUT SUCH QUANTITIES OF DUST ALL OVER IT GOOD SCHEME CYN. CRIED JOYCE INSTANTLY DELIGHTED WITH THE NEW IDEA I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. WE'LL COME IN HERE THIS AFTERNOON WITH OLD CLOTHES ON AND HAVE A REGULAR HOUSE CLEANING. IT CAN'T HURT ANYTHING I'M SURE FOR WE WON'T DISTURB THINGS AT ALL. BUT LET'S GO AND FINISH OUR STUDYING NOW AND GET THAT OUT OF THE WAY. HURRAH FOR HOUSE CLEANING THIS AFTERNOON. FILLED WITH FRESH ENTHUSIASM THE TWO GIRLS RUSHED OUT TO HURRY THROUGH THE NECESSARY STUDIES BEFORE THE ANTICIPATED PICNIC OF THE AFTERNOON. IF THEIR RESPECTIVE MOTHERS HAD REQUESTED THEM TO PERFORM SO ARDUOUS A TASK AS THIS AT HOME THEY WOULD WITHOUT DOUBT HAVE BEEN INSTANTLY PLUNGED INTO DEEP DESPAIR. THIS THOUGHT HOWEVER DID NOT ENTER THE HEADS OF THE ENTHUSIASTIC PAIR. SMUGGLING THE HOUSE CLEANING PARAPHERNALIA INTO THE CELLAR WINDOW UNOBSERVED THAT AFTERNOON PROVED NO EASY TASK FOR CYNTHIA HAD ADDED A WHISK BROOM AND DUST PAN TO THE OUTFIT. BUT A LONG END SOON WORKED OUT AND TRAILED BEHIND HER UNNOTICED TILL GOLIATH BASKING ON THE VERANDA STEPS SPIED IT. THE LURE PROVED TOO MUCH FOR HIM AND HE CAME SPORTING AFTER IT AS FRISKILY AS A YOUNG KITTEN MUCH TO CYNTHIA'S DELIGHT WHEN SHE CAUGHT SIGHT OF HIM. OH LET HIM COME ALONG SHE URGED I DO LOVE TO SEE HIM ABOUT THAT OLD HOUSE. HE MAKES IT SORT OF COZIER. AND SO GOLIATH FOLLOWED INTO THE BOARDED UP HOUSE

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+THEY BEGAN ON THE DRAWING ROOM BEFORE THEY HAD BEEN AT WORK VERY LONG THEY FOUND THAT THEY HAD LET THEMSELVES IN FOR A BIGGER TASK THAN THEY HAD DREAMED. ADDED TO THAT PERFORMING IT BY DIM CANDLE LIGHT DID NOT LESSEN ITS DIFFICULTIES BUT RATHER INCREASED THEM TENFOLD. FIRST THEY TOOK TURNS SWEEPING AS BEST THEY COULD WITH A VERY ANCIENT AND FROWSY BROOM THE THICK MOTH EATEN CARPET. CYNTHIA WAS FOR GOING OVER IT AGAIN. OH NEVER MIND IT SIGHED JOYCE MY ARMS ACHE AND SO DO YOURS. NOW LET'S DUST THE FURNITURE AND PICTURES. HALF AN HOUR LATER EXHAUSTED AND GRIMY THEY DROPPED INTO CHAIRS AND SURVEYED THE RESULTS. IT WAS OF COURSE AS BUT A DROP IN THE BUCKET IN COMPARISON WITH ALL THE SCRUBBING AND CLEANING THAT WAS NEEDED. YET LITTLE AS IT WAS IT HAD ALREADY MADE A VAST DIFFERENCE IN THE ASPECT OF THE ROOM. SURFACE DUST AT LEAST HAD BEEN REMOVED AND THE FINE OLD FURNITURE GAVE A HINT OF ITS REAL ELEGANCE AND POLISH. JOYCE GLANCED AT THE BIG HANGING CANDELABRUM AND SIGHED WITH WEARINESS. THEN SHE SUDDENLY REMARKED. WHY NOT HAVE SOME MORE BURNING. AND MY POCKET MONEY IS GETTING LOW AGAIN AND YOU HAVEN'T ANY LEFT AS USUAL. SO WE'D BETTER ECONOMIZE TILL ALLOWANCE DAY. DON'T YOU JUST LONG TO KNOW WHAT THIS ROOM WOULD LOOK LIKE WITH THAT BIG CANDELABRUM GOING I DO. THEY SAY ILLUMINATION BY CANDLE LIGHT IS THE PRETTIEST IN THE WORLD. OF COURSE I'D LIKE TO SEE IT TOO SO I'LL GO HALVES WITH YOU ON THE EXPENSE. I WONDER THOUGH IF PEOPLE COULD SEE THE LIGHT FROM THE STREET THROUGH ANY CHINKS IN THE BOARDING. OF COURSE NOT SAID JOYCE DON'T YOU SEE HOW ALL THE INSIDE SHUTTERS ARE CLOSED AND THE VELVET CURTAINS DRAWN IT ISN'T POSSIBLE. THEN WE'LL HAVE THE ILLUMINATION FOR A TREAT SOMETIME AND I'LL BEGIN TO SAVE UP FOR IT AND I HOPE BEFORE THAT TIME WE'LL HAVE PUZZLED OUT THIS MYSTERY. I'M AFRAID WE AREN'T VERY GOOD DETECTIVES OR WE'D HAVE DONE IT LONG BEFORE THIS SHERLOCK HOLMES WOULD HAVE. BUT REMEMBER SUGGESTED CYNTHIA THAT THOSE SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES WERE USUALLY SOLVED VERY SOON AFTER THE THING HAPPENED. WHY IT'S GOLIATH AS USUAL THEY BOTH CRIED PEERING IN. ISN'T HE THE GREATEST FOR GETTING INTO ODD CORNERS. HERE'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST DISCOVERIES YET. AND CYNTHIA FOLLOWING HER INDEX FINGER READ ALOUD TUESDAY APRIL SIXTEENTH EIGHTEEN SIXTY ONE. WHICH PROVES ADDED JOYCE THAT WHATEVER HAPPENED HERE DIDN'T TAKE PLACE MUCH EARLIER THAN THIS DATE OR THE PAPER WOULDN'T BE HERE. FORGETTING ALL THEIR WEARINESS THEY SEIZED THEIR CANDLES AND SCURRIED THROUGH THE HOUSE FINDING AN OCCASIONAL PAPER TUCKED AWAY IN SOME ODD CORNER. BUT UPON EXAMINATION THESE ALL PROVED TO BE OF EARLIER DATE THAN THAT OF THEIR FIRST DISCOVERY. AND WHEN IT WAS CLEAR THAT THERE WERE NO MORE TO BE FOUND JOYCE ANNOUNCED. WELL I'M CONVINCED THAT THE BOARDED UP HOUSE MYSTERY HAPPENED NOT EARLIER THAN APRIL SIXTEENTH EIGHTEEN SIXTY ONE AND PROBABLY NOT MUCH LATER

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+YOU GO INTO THE DRAWING ROOM AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED AND I'LL TAKE HIM QUIETLY UP STAIRS TO BED