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Such a man could not long remain a humble individual: his great talents \u2014 his noble heart \u2014 his fine qualities were certain to elevate him above the sphere in which he was born.\"", "start_byte": 1183977, "end_byte": 1184253, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 263.6000061035156, "end_time": 284.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 263.9150061035156, "cut_end_time": 283.46006860351565, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"And now will the name of Markham go down to posterity,", "start_byte": 1184255, "end_byte": 1184310, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 284.32000732421875, "end_time": 289.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 285.07500732421875, "cut_end_time": 288.64006982421876, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "proudly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"and the glory which Richard has thrown around it, will be to some degree shared by all who bear it. Oh! this was prophesied to me but a little while ago; \u2014 and yet, then how far was I from suspecting that the realisation of the prediction was so near at hand, especially too, as that prediction was not uttered with any reference to Richard \u2014 but to another, \u2014 that other alluding to himself!\"", "start_byte": 1184333, "end_byte": 1184727, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 290.8399963378906, "end_time": 319.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 291.13499633789064, "cut_end_time": 319.37005883789067, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"But I was speaking of matters which are yet unknown \u2014 yet strange to you. Think no more of my observations on that topic. There are times when the soul is lost and bewildered in the contemplation of the world's strange events and marvellous vicissitudes; and such has often been the case with me during the last few days. It was on the 16th of January that we received the letter which imparted us the tidings of Richard's first exploit \u2014 the capture of Estella. Oh! how sincerely I prayed for his success \u2014 and yet I trembled for him! My father, too, had some misgivings; but we endeavoured to reassure each other, mutually concealing our fears. Two or three days afterwards we received the news of his triumphant entry into Villabella; \u2014 another interval of a few days, and we had a letter from him, giving us a brief account of the Battle of Piacere. Our fears were almost entirely dissipated by the tidings of this glorious achievement; and if any doubts yet lingered, they were completely dispelled by the news of the great victory of Abrantani. Oh! how well has he earned that coronet which now adorns his brow! \u2014 how well does that proud title of Marquis become the great, the generous, and the good!\"", "start_byte": 1184894, "end_byte": 1186103, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 331.8399963378906, "end_time": 423.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 332.23499633789066, "cut_end_time": 422.16012133789064, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Would that his struggles were over, and that the civil war was put an end to in Castelcicala!", "start_byte": 1186105, "end_byte": 1186199, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 423.0400085449219, "end_time": 429.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 423.54500854492187, "cut_end_time": 429.4800085449219, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I have no fears for the result,", "start_byte": 1186318, "end_byte": 1186350, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 438.6400146484375, "end_time": 441.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 439.04501464843753, "cut_end_time": 440.9300146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"a conqueror has he hitherto been \u2014 and a conqueror will he remain! Heaven itself prospers him in this undertaking: the wise dispensations of Providence are apparent throughout his career in the Grand Duchy. Had the first expedition, which landed at Ossore, succeeded, there were great chiefs \u2014 Grachia and Morosino \u2014 who would have taken the lead in the State. But the enterprise failed \u2014 and those patriots were numbered with the slain. The idea of releasing from their captivity his companions in that fatal affair, led Richard to the attack of Estella. He succeeded \u2014 and he stood alone at the head of the movement. There was not a chief amongst the patriots to dispute his title to that elevated situation.\"", "start_byte": 1186364, "end_byte": 1187076, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 442.239990234375, "end_time": 496.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 442.51499023437503, "cut_end_time": 494.64005273437505, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Yes \u2014 the finger of heaven was assuredly visible in all those circumstances which led to my benefactor's greatness,", "start_byte": 1187078, "end_byte": 1187194, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 496.3999938964844, "end_time": 505.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 496.4349938964844, "cut_end_time": 504.5800563964844, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Oh! you wrong our noble-hearted friend \u2014 our mutual benefactor,", "start_byte": 1187469, "end_byte": 1187533, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 526.6400146484375, "end_time": 532.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 527.1350146484375, "cut_end_time": 532.0900771484376, "narrative_prediction": {"interrupted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Rank and distinction \u2014 wealth and glory cannot change his heart: he will only esteem them as the elements of an influence and of a power to do much good.\"", "start_byte": 1187554, "end_byte": 1187709, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 534.0399780273438, "end_time": 545.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 534.2149780273438, "cut_end_time": 544.6200405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"interrupted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Is this the way, young ladies, to Farmer Bennet's?", "start_byte": 1188170, "end_byte": 1188221, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 578.3200073242188, "end_time": 581.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 578.7950073242188, "cut_end_time": 581.3700073242188, "narrative_prediction": {"demanded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"It is,", "start_byte": 1188312, "end_byte": 1188319, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 586.0800170898438, "end_time": 587.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 586.4150170898438, "cut_end_time": 587.1600795898438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You may see the roof appearing from the other side of yonder eminence. Mr. Bennet is not, however, within at this moment: he has gone to a neighbouring village on business, and will not return till two o'clock.\"", "start_byte": 1188335, "end_byte": 1188547, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 588.719970703125, "end_time": 604.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 589.0249707031251, "cut_end_time": 603.070095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Then you know Farmer Bennet?", "start_byte": 1188549, "end_byte": 1188578, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 604.4400024414062, "end_time": 606.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 604.8550024414063, "cut_end_time": 606.3900649414063, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Well, Miss \u2014 do I have the pleasure of meeting you once more?", "start_byte": 1188844, "end_byte": 1188906, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 625.4400024414062, "end_time": 630.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 626.0750024414062, "cut_end_time": 629.7600024414063, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Ah! Miss Wilmot!\"", "start_byte": 1189128, "end_byte": 1189146, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 645.9600219726562, "end_time": 648.0, "cut_start_time": 646.0650219726563, "cut_end_time": 647.3500219726562, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Is this Miss Wilmot?", "start_byte": 1189148, "end_byte": 1189169, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 648.0, "end_time": 650.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 648.385, "cut_end_time": 650.0900625, "narrative_prediction": {"demanded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"My name is Wilmot,", "start_byte": 1189297, "end_byte": 1189316, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 658.7999877929688, "end_time": 660.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 659.2449877929688, "cut_end_time": 660.6400502929688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "soft": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "somewhat": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}, "timid": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Was it for me that your visit to the farm was intended?\"", "start_byte": 1189366, "end_byte": 1189423, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 664.6400146484375, "end_time": 669.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 665.0550146484376, "cut_end_time": 667.8700146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "soft": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "somewhat": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}, "timid": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Neither more nor less, Miss,", "start_byte": 1189425, "end_byte": 1189454, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 669.1199951171875, "end_time": 671.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 669.7449951171875, "cut_end_time": 671.2800576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"This person,", "start_byte": 1189487, "end_byte": 1189500, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 673.719970703125, "end_time": 675.0, "cut_start_time": 674.004970703125, "cut_end_time": 675.050033203125, "narrative_prediction": {"continued": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"has something important to say to you.\"", "start_byte": 1189551, "end_byte": 1189591, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 678.4400024414062, "end_time": 681.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 678.6050024414063, "cut_end_time": 680.6700649414063, "narrative_prediction": {"continued": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Yes \u2014 and we must speak alone, too,", "start_byte": 1189593, "end_byte": 1189629, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 681.280029296875, "end_time": 684.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 681.625029296875, "cut_end_time": 684.310029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"No!", "start_byte": 1189646, "end_byte": 1189650, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 686.47998046875, "end_time": 687.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 686.72498046875, "cut_end_time": 687.38010546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"that may not be. I am Miss Wilmot's friend \u2014 the friend, too, of one in whom she places great confidence; and whatever you may have to communicate to her cannot be a secret in respect to me.\"", "start_byte": 1189690, "end_byte": 1189882, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 690.5599975585938, "end_time": 705.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 690.5949975585937, "cut_end_time": 704.4500600585937, "narrative_prediction": {"ejaculated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "hastily": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}, "firmly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Yes,", "start_byte": 1189968, "end_byte": 1189973, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 712.3200073242188, "end_time": 713.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 712.9850073242188, "cut_end_time": 713.5400698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"yes \u2014 whatever you may wish to communicate to me must be told in the presence of my friend.\"", "start_byte": 1190116, "end_byte": 1190209, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 722.6400146484375, "end_time": 729.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 722.7050146484376, "cut_end_time": 728.5500771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"But the business is a most delicate one,", "start_byte": 1190211, "end_byte": 1190252, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 729.3200073242188, "end_time": 732.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 730.0650073242188, "cut_end_time": 732.1800073242188, "narrative_prediction": {"cried": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Oh! I have no doubt of that,", "start_byte": 1190283, "end_byte": 1190312, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 734.9199829101562, "end_time": 737.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 735.3149829101562, "cut_end_time": 737.4801079101562, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "contemptuous": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Do you know this young lady?", "start_byte": 1190392, "end_byte": 1190421, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 743.3599853515625, "end_time": 745.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 743.7649853515625, "cut_end_time": 745.2301103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "under": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "tone": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"I know that young lady well,", "start_byte": 1190522, "end_byte": 1190551, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 752.239990234375, "end_time": 754.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 752.554990234375, "cut_end_time": 754.410115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "aloud": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}, "meaning": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"I know you well, \u2014 do I not, Miss Monroe?\"", "start_byte": 1190600, "end_byte": 1190643, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 758.0800170898438, "end_time": 761.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 758.3950170898438, "cut_end_time": 761.0900795898438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I am not disposed to deny the fact,", "start_byte": 1190645, "end_byte": 1190681, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 761.4400024414062, "end_time": 764.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 762.1150024414063, "cut_end_time": 764.4700649414062, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "coolly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"and I can assure you that my disposition is as resolute and determined as you have always found it to be. Therefore, if you have aught to communicate to Miss Wilmot, say it quickly \u2014 or come with us to the farm, where you will be more at your ease: but, remember, I do not quit this young lady while you are with her.\"", "start_byte": 1190706, "end_byte": 1191025, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 766.719970703125, "end_time": 789.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 767.0149707031251, "cut_end_time": 787.7800332031251, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You will repent of this obstinacy, Miss \u2014 you will repent of this obstinacy,", "start_byte": 1191027, "end_byte": 1191104, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 789.1199951171875, "end_time": 794.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 789.4849951171875, "cut_end_time": 794.2501201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"muttered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"It may be so,", "start_byte": 1191125, "end_byte": 1191139, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 796.0, "end_time": 798.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 796.785, "cut_end_time": 797.9800625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"nevertheless, menaces will not deter me from my purpose.\"", "start_byte": 1191153, "end_byte": 1191211, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 799.1599731445312, "end_time": 803.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 799.3649731445313, "cut_end_time": 803.1000356445313, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"If you thwart me, I can proclaim matters that you would wish unrevealed,", "start_byte": 1191213, "end_byte": 1191286, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 803.3599853515625, "end_time": 808.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 803.6249853515625, "cut_end_time": 808.3100478515626, "narrative_prediction": {"retorted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "whisper": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"Act as you please,", "start_byte": 1191340, "end_byte": 1191359, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 813.6799926757812, "end_time": 815.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 813.8749926757813, "cut_end_time": 815.1201176757812, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "aloud": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}, "superb": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "glance": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}, "contemptuous": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "defiance": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Your impertinence only convinces me the more profoundly of the prudence of my resolution to remain with Miss Wilmot.\"", "start_byte": 1191445, "end_byte": 1191563, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 821.1199951171875, "end_time": 829.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 821.3649951171875, "cut_end_time": 828.5301201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Miss Monroe,", "start_byte": 1191846, "end_byte": 1191859, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 847.52001953125, "end_time": 849.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 848.33501953125, "cut_end_time": 849.2000820312501, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"for such, I learn, is your name, \u2014 I beg of you to allow my companion a few moments' conversation with your young friend. They need not retire a dozen yards from this spot; and your eye can remain upon them.\"", "start_byte": 1191872, "end_byte": 1192081, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 849.9199829101562, "end_time": 864.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 850.1449829101563, "cut_end_time": 862.7101079101562, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"No,", "start_byte": 1192083, "end_byte": 1192087, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 864.2000122070312, "end_time": 865.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 864.4250122070313, "cut_end_time": 864.9400747070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"your companion shall have no private conference with Miss Wilmot. Miss Wilmot's affairs are no secret to me; \u2014 she has voluntarily made me acquainted with her past history and her present condition \u2014 and she cannot now wish me to remain a stranger to the object of your visit, however delicate be the nature of that business.\"", "start_byte": 1192117, "end_byte": 1192444, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 867.6799926757812, "end_time": 889.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 867.8949926757813, "cut_end_time": 888.5700551757812, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I am desirous that Miss Monroe should hear your communications,", "start_byte": 1192446, "end_byte": 1192510, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 889.5999755859375, "end_time": 894.0, "cut_start_time": 890.0149755859376, "cut_end_time": 893.7100380859375, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I will not speak to Miss Wilmot in the presence of witnesses,", "start_byte": 1192525, "end_byte": 1192587, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 896.0, "end_time": 900.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 896.615, "cut_end_time": 899.99, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Then we have nothing farther to prevent us from returning to the farm immediately,", "start_byte": 1192608, "end_byte": 1192691, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 902.6400146484375, "end_time": 907.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 903.3350146484376, "cut_end_time": 907.3900146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Neither need we remain here any longer, Mr. Tidkins,", "start_byte": 1192796, "end_byte": 1192849, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 914.5599975585938, "end_time": 918.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 914.9149975585938, "cut_end_time": 918.1800600585938, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Tidkins!", "start_byte": 1192866, "end_byte": 1192875, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 920.7999877929688, "end_time": 922.0, "cut_start_time": 920.7949877929688, "cut_end_time": 922.0400502929688, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "convulsive": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "shudder": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"Tidkins!", "start_byte": 1192998, "end_byte": 1193007, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 930.0800170898438, "end_time": 931.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 930.0550170898438, "cut_end_time": 931.2200795898437, "narrative_prediction": {"murmured": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"my God! what new plot can now be contemplated?\"", "start_byte": 1193060, "end_byte": 1193108, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 934.9600219726562, "end_time": 939.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 935.0650219726563, "cut_end_time": 938.8200844726563, "narrative_prediction": {"murmured": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Do you know those people?", "start_byte": 1193190, "end_byte": 1193216, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 944.719970703125, "end_time": 946.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 944.934970703125, "cut_end_time": 946.090095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Unfortunately,", "start_byte": 1193282, "end_byte": 1193297, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 951.6400146484375, "end_time": 953.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 951.8550146484375, "cut_end_time": 953.1100771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "low": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "rapid": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"unfortunately I can attest that the woman whom we have just met, is the vilest of the vile; and the mention of that man's name has revealed to me the presence of a wretch capable of every atrocity \u2014 a villain whose crimes are of the blackest dye \u2014 an assassin whose enmity to our benefactor Richard is as furious as it is unwearied. Come, Katharine \u2014 come: hasten your steps; \u2014 we shall not be in safety until we reach the farm.\"", "start_byte": 1193357, "end_byte": 1193787, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 957.1599731445312, "end_time": 987.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 957.1849731445312, "cut_end_time": 986.6100981445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "It was nine o'clock, when the door of the farm-house opened, and two young females came forth to enjoy the fresh air of a charming day.", "start_byte": 1181078, "end_byte": 1181213, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 49.400001525878906, "end_time": 59.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 49.91500152587891, "cut_end_time": 58.81006402587891}, {"text": "These were Ellen Monroe \u2014 (for by her maiden name must we continue to call her, as she herself maintained it for the present) \u2014 and Katherine Wilmot.", "start_byte": 1181215, "end_byte": 1181364, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 59.36000061035156, "end_time": 70.87999725341797, "cut_start_time": 59.81500061035156, "cut_end_time": 70.00000061035156}, {"text": "Never had Ellen appeared more beautiful; nor Katherine more sweetly interesting.", "start_byte": 1181366, "end_byte": 1181446, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 70.87999725341797, "end_time": 76.87999725341797, "cut_start_time": 71.41499725341797, "cut_end_time": 76.29005975341796}, {"text": "They had evidently been conversing on a subject which gave them pleasure; and they were both intent on continuing the same delightful topic during their walk.", "start_byte": 1181448, "end_byte": 1181606, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 76.87999725341797, "end_time": 87.19999694824219, "cut_start_time": 77.43499725341796, "cut_end_time": 86.39005975341796}, {"text": "The subject of that discourse had inspired Ellen with emotions of pride, as well as of joy. She walked with a dignity and yet an elegance of motion which denoted the vigour of that vital system which was so highly developed in her voluptuous style of beauty. The generous and noble feelings of the heart shone in the light of her deep blue eyes, and in the animation of that countenance where the fair and red were so exquisitely blended. They were indicated, too, by the expression of that short and somewhat haughty upper lip which belonged to the classic regularity of her features, and in the dilation of the rose-tinted nostrils.", "start_byte": 1181608, "end_byte": 1182242, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 87.19999694824219, "end_time": 134.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 88.04499694824219, "cut_end_time": 132.7100594482422}, {"text": "Ellen was a finer and far lovelier creature than Katherine; \u2014 but the latter was characterised by more of that tender sensibility and touching interest which physiologists deem the development of the intellectual system. The eyes were intensely expressive; and over her features a soft, pale, and modest light seemed to be shed. Her figure was delicate and slight, and contrasted strongly with that luxuriant expansion which constituted the fine and not less symmetrical proportions of Ellen.", "start_byte": 1182244, "end_byte": 1182736, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 134.1199951171875, "end_time": 171.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 134.4049951171875, "cut_end_time": 169.6600576171875}, {"text": " observed Ellen, as they entered a hard and dry pathway leading through the fields;", "start_byte": 1182823, "end_byte": 1182906, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 177.67999267578125, "end_time": 183.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 177.99499267578125, "cut_end_time": 183.47011767578124}, {"text": " returned Katherine. \"But you will not leave me to-day? Consider \u2014 you have only been here a few hours \u2014 \u2014 \"", "start_byte": 1183053, "end_byte": 1183161, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 196.32000732421875, "end_time": 204.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 196.49500732421873, "cut_end_time": 203.52006982421875}, {"text": " exclaimed Ellen, with a smile;", "start_byte": 1183189, "end_byte": 1183220, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 206.27999877929688, "end_time": 208.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 206.44499877929687, "cut_end_time": 208.37012377929688}, {"text": " said Katherine warmly. \"It was so kind of you to come and find me out in my seclusion \u2014 so considerate to make me acquainted with all those wonderful events which have occurred to my benefactor \u2014 \u2014 \"", "start_byte": 1183322, "end_byte": 1183522, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 216.39999389648438, "end_time": 230.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 216.86499389648438, "cut_end_time": 229.44005639648438}, {"text": " again interrupted Ellen.", "start_byte": 1183561, "end_byte": 1183586, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 233.72000122070312, "end_time": 235.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 233.77500122070313, "cut_end_time": 235.73000122070312}, {"text": " exclaimed Katherine, with grateful enthusiasm.", "start_byte": 1183929, "end_byte": 1183976, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 260.0799865722656, "end_time": 263.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 260.2049865722656, "cut_end_time": 263.6801115722657}, {"text": " said Ellen, proudly:", "start_byte": 1184311, "end_byte": 1184332, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 289.0400085449219, "end_time": 290.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 289.1250085449219, "cut_end_time": 290.7700085449219}, {"text": "Katherine cast a glance of surprise towards her companion, whose last words were unintelligible to her; and Ellen, apparently recollecting herself, hastened to add,", "start_byte": 1184729, "end_byte": 1184893, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 319.8399963378906, "end_time": 331.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 320.17499633789066, "cut_end_time": 331.53005883789064}, {"text": " exclaimed Miss Wilmot \u2014 for the news of the great victory beneath the walls of Montoni were yet unknown in England.", "start_byte": 1186200, "end_byte": 1186316, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 429.9599914550781, "end_time": 438.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 430.38499145507814, "cut_end_time": 438.0501164550781}, {"text": " said Ellen:", "start_byte": 1186351, "end_byte": 1186363, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 441.0799865722656, "end_time": 442.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 441.15498657226567, "cut_end_time": 441.96004907226563}, {"text": " remarked Katherine. \"Methinks that when I see him again, I shall be strangely embarrassed in his presence: \u2014 instead of addressing him by the familiar name of Mr. Markham, my lips must tutor themselves to breathe the formal words 'My Lord,' and 'Your Lordship;' and \u2014 \u2014 \"", "start_byte": 1187195, "end_byte": 1187467, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 505.0799865722656, "end_time": 526.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 505.36498657226565, "cut_end_time": 525.8801115722656}, {"text": " interrupted Ellen.", "start_byte": 1187534, "end_byte": 1187553, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 532.4400024414062, "end_time": 534.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 532.4750024414062, "cut_end_time": 534.0800024414062}, {"text": "The young ladies paused in their conversation, because two persons were approaching along the pathway.", "start_byte": 1187711, "end_byte": 1187813, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 545.1199951171875, "end_time": 552.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 545.7949951171876, "cut_end_time": 552.3300576171875}, {"text": "A man muffled in a large cloak, and with a countenance of cadaverous repulsiveness scowling above the collar, advanced first; and behind him walked a female whose bowed form denoted the decrepitude of old age. There was an interval of perhaps a dozen yards between them; for the woman was unable to keep pace with the more impatient progress of the man.", "start_byte": 1187815, "end_byte": 1188168, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 552.6799926757812, "end_time": 578.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 553.1949926757812, "cut_end_time": 577.9301176757813}, {"text": " demanded the foremost individual, when he was within a few feet of Ellen and Katherine.", "start_byte": 1188222, "end_byte": 1188310, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 581.3599853515625, "end_time": 586.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 581.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 585.3501103515625}, {"text": " replied Kate.", "start_byte": 1188320, "end_byte": 1188334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 587.3200073242188, "end_time": 588.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 587.3150073242188, "cut_end_time": 588.5500073242188}, {"text": " exclaimed the Resurrection Man \u2014 for he was the individual who had addressed the young ladies.", "start_byte": 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But I still don't know exactly what the job is.\"", "start_byte": 8213, "end_byte": 8368, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 604.0800170898438, "end_time": 615.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 604.4550170898438, "cut_end_time": 614.7000795898438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I'm afraid I can't tell you much more than you must already have guessed,", "start_byte": 8396, "end_byte": 8470, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 617.3200073242188, "end_time": 622.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 617.8250073242187, "cut_end_time": 621.9700698242187, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"They just can't unite against us, can't unite at all. Conru, you know how we've tried to educate them. It's worked, too, to some extent. But you can't educate three billion people who have a whole cultural pattern behind them.\"", "start_byte": 8976, "end_byte": 9204, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 661.6799926757812, "end_time": 678.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 662.0049926757813, "cut_end_time": 678.0100551757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Three billion?\"", "start_byte": 9216, "end_byte": 9232, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 680.1199951171875, "end_time": 682.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 680.2549951171875, "cut_end_time": 681.6200576171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Certainly. Earth is a rich planet, Conru, and a fairly crowded one at the same time. Bickering is inevitable. It's a part of their culture, as much as cooperation has been a part of ours.\"", "start_byte": 9234, "end_byte": 9423, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 682.1599731445312, "end_time": 696.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 682.3649731445313, "cut_end_time": 696.0200981445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"We learned the hard way. The old Valgol was a poor planet and we had to unite to conquer space or we could not have survived.\"", "start_byte": 9435, "end_byte": 9562, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 698.3200073242188, "end_time": 707.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 698.6750073242188, "cut_end_time": 707.0500698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Of course. And we're trying to help these people unite. They don't have to make the same mistakes we did, long ago. They don't have to at all. Get them to hate us enough, get them to hate us until all their own clannish hatreds don't count at all.... Well, you know what happened on Samtrak.\"", "start_byte": 9613, "end_byte": 9906, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 711.4400024414062, "end_time": 733.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 711.7250024414062, "cut_end_time": 732.3100649414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The problem of Earth is not quite that simple.", "start_byte": 10448, "end_byte": 10495, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 776.9600219726562, "end_time": 780.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 777.2150219726562, "cut_end_time": 780.1300844726562, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Do you know precisely what a provocateur job is, Conru?\"", "start_byte": 10573, "end_byte": 10630, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 785.4400024414062, "end_time": 790.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 785.6450024414063, "cut_end_time": 789.7700024414063, "narrative_prediction": {"peered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Well, that's just the starter, Conru. It's a lot more complex than that. Each planet has its own special problems. The Samtraks, for example, had a whole background of cutthroat competition. That was easy: we eliminated that by showing them what real cutthroat competition could be like. But Earth is different. Look at it this way. They fight among themselves. Because of their mythical distinctions, not realizing that there are no inferior races, only more or less advanced ones, and that individuals must be judged as individuals, not as members of groups, nations or races. A planet like Earth can be immensely valuable to the Empire, but not if it has to be garrisoned. Its contribution must be voluntary and whole-hearted.\"", "start_byte": 10914, "end_byte": 11645, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 810.6400146484375, "end_time": 868.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 811.0150146484375, "cut_end_time": 867.9400146484376, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"A difficult problem,", "start_byte": 11647, "end_byte": 11668, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 868.5999755859375, "end_time": 870.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 868.8949755859376, "cut_end_time": 870.5001005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"My opinion is that we should treat all exactly alike -- force them to abandon their unrealistic differences.\"", "start_byte": 11678, "end_byte": 11788, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 871.4000244140625, "end_time": 880.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 871.7250244140625, "cut_end_time": 879.7900244140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Exactly!", "start_byte": 11790, "end_byte": 11799, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 880.47998046875, "end_time": 881.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 880.46498046875, "cut_end_time": 882.02004296875, "narrative_prediction": {"told": {"id": "2", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"We're never too rough on the eager lads who come here from Valgol and kick the natives around a bit. We even encourage it when the spirit of rebelliousness dies down.\"", "start_byte": 11882, "end_byte": 12050, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 887.52001953125, "end_time": 898.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 887.9550195312501, "cut_end_time": 898.41008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"seemed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\"Irritating, wasn't it, Conru? Humiliating. Of course, these lads will be reconditioned to civilization when they finish their military service and prepare for more specialized work. Yes, treating all Earthlings alike is the solution. We put restrictions on these colonials; they can't hold top jobs, and so on. And we encourage wild stories about brutality on our part. Not enough to make everybody mad at us, or even a majority -- the rumored tyranny has always happened to someone else. But there's a certain class of beings who'll get fighting mad, and that's the class we want.\"", "start_byte": 12079, "end_byte": 12662, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 901.52001953125, "end_time": 947.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 901.62501953125, "cut_end_time": 946.49008203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The leaders,", "start_byte": 12664, "end_byte": 12677, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 947.2000122070312, "end_time": 948.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 947.8350122070312, "cut_end_time": 948.8200122070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The idealists. Brave, intelligent, patriotic. The kind who probably wouldn't be a part of this racial bickering, anyway.\"", "start_byte": 12692, "end_byte": 12814, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 950.0399780273438, "end_time": 959.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 950.1349780273438, "cut_end_time": 958.8501030273437, "narrative_prediction": {"chimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Right,", "start_byte": 12816, "end_byte": 12823, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 959.52001953125, "end_time": 960.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 959.6950195312501, "cut_end_time": 960.23001953125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"We'll give them the ammunition for their propaganda. We've been doing it. Result: the leaders get mad. Races, religions, nationalities, they hate us worse than they hate each other.\"", "start_byte": 12847, "end_byte": 13030, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 961.8800048828125, "end_time": 976.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 962.1250048828125, "cut_end_time": 975.3400048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Ideally, that would be the situation, Conru. Only it doesn't work that way.", "start_byte": 13112, "end_byte": 13188, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 981.9199829101562, "end_time": 988.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 982.0449829101562, "cut_end_time": 987.7400454101563, "narrative_prediction": {"told": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Can't use Luron here. Technologies are entirely too similar. It might shatter both planets, and we wouldn't want that.\"", "start_byte": 14166, "end_byte": 14286, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1065.43994140625, "end_time": 1074.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1065.57494140625, "cut_end_time": 1073.5800039062499, "narrative_prediction": {"shook": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"So what do we use?\"", "start_byte": 14288, "end_byte": 14308, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1074.3599853515625, "end_time": 1077.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1074.7749853515625, "cut_end_time": 1076.2201103515624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I see,", "start_byte": 14409, "end_byte": 14416, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1086.1600341796875, "end_time": 1087.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1086.4350341796874, "cut_end_time": 1087.2200341796874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Nothing of the sort. They must fight. And they must be defeated, again and again, if necessary, until they are ready to succeed. That will be, of course, when they are totally against us.\"", "start_byte": 14570, "end_byte": 14759, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1097.8399658203125, "end_time": 1114.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1097.8249658203124, "cut_end_time": 1113.8500283203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I understand.\"", "start_byte": 14773, "end_byte": 14788, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1116.719970703125, "end_time": 1118.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1117.2649707031248, "cut_end_time": 1118.250095703125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"You'll be lucky to understand it by the time you're finished with this assignment and transferred to another ... that is, if you come out of this one alive.\"", "start_byte": 14823, "end_byte": 14981, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1121.239990234375, "end_time": 1130.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1121.674990234375, "cut_end_time": 1130.2401152343748, "narrative_prediction": {"waved": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"We have some influence in the underground movement, as you might logically expect. The leader is a man we worked very hard to have elected.\"", "start_byte": 15036, "end_byte": 15177, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1135.47998046875, "end_time": 1144.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1136.0349804687498, "cut_end_time": 1144.4201054687499, "narrative_prediction": {"told": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"A member of one of the despised races?", "start_byte": 15179, "end_byte": 15218, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1144.9200439453125, "end_time": 1147.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1145.2350439453123, "cut_end_time": 1147.7801064453124, "narrative_prediction": {"guessed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"The best we could do at this point was to help elect someone from a minority sub-group of the dominant white race. The leader's name is Levinsohn. He is of the white sub-group known as Jews.\"", "start_byte": 15232, "end_byte": 15424, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1148.9599609375, "end_time": 1162.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1149.5649609375, "cut_end_time": 1161.9700859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"How well is this Levinsohn accepted by the movement?\"", "start_byte": 15437, "end_byte": 15491, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1162.6400146484375, "end_time": 1167.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1163.0150146484375, "cut_end_time": 1166.4500771484375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Considerable resistance and hostility,", "start_byte": 15493, "end_byte": 15532, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1167.0400390625, "end_time": 1169.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1167.2350390625, "cut_end_time": 1169.6401015625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"That's to be expected. However, we've made sure that there is no other organization the minority-haters can join, so they have to follow him or quit. He's able, all right; one of the most able men they have, which helps our aims. Even those who discriminate against Jews reluctantly admire him. He's moved the headquarters of the movement out into space, and the man's so brilliant that we don't even know where. We'll find out, mainly through you, I hope, but that isn't the important thing.\"", "start_byte": 15556, "end_byte": 16050, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1171.280029296875, "end_time": 1206.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1171.275029296875, "cut_end_time": 1205.570091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"What is?", "start_byte": 16052, "end_byte": 16061, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1206.56005859375, "end_time": 1207.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1206.6050585937498, "cut_end_time": 1207.54005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"To report on the unification of Earth. It's possible that the anarch movement can achieve it under Levinsohn. In that case, we'll make sure they win, or think they win, and will gladly sign a treaty giving Earth equal planetary status in the Empire.\"", "start_byte": 16082, "end_byte": 16333, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1209.43994140625, "end_time": 1229.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1209.54494140625, "cut_end_time": 1228.77006640625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"And if unity hasn't been achieved?\"", "start_byte": 16335, "end_byte": 16371, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1229.280029296875, "end_time": 1232.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1229.5550292968749, "cut_end_time": 1231.820029296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"We simply crush this rebellion and make them start all over again. They'll have learned some degree of unity from this revolt and so the next one will be more successful.", "start_byte": 16373, "end_byte": 16544, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1232.1199951171875, "end_time": 1242.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1232.4649951171873, "cut_end_time": 1242.4700576171874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"That's for the future, though. We'll work out our plans from the results of this campaign.\"", "start_byte": 16597, "end_byte": 16689, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1246.0400390625, "end_time": 1252.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1246.2150390625, "cut_end_time": 1251.7901015625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"But isn't there a lot of danger in the policy of fomenting rebellion against us?", "start_byte": 16691, "end_byte": 16772, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1252.1600341796875, "end_time": 1257.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1252.4450341796874, "cut_end_time": 1257.2800966796874, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Evolution is always painful, forced evolution even more so. Yes, there are great dangers, but advance information from you and other agents can reduce the risk. It's a chance we must take, Conru.\"", "start_byte": 16809, "end_byte": 17006, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1260.47998046875, "end_time": 1276.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1260.65498046875, "cut_end_time": 1275.57010546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Conrad,", "start_byte": 17008, "end_byte": 17016, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1276.1600341796875, "end_time": 1277.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1276.2550341796873, "cut_end_time": 1277.3000341796874, "narrative_prediction": {"corrected": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "I", "start_byte": 444, "end_byte": 445, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 23.559999465942383, "end_time": 23.559999465942383, "cut_start_time": 23.534999465942384, "cut_end_time": 23.660061965942383}, {"text": "The biotechnicians had been very thorough. I was already a little undersized, which meant that my height and build were suitable -- I could pass for a big Earthling. And of course my face and hands and so on were all right, the Earthlings being a remarkably humanoid race. But the technicians had had to remodel my ears, blunting the tips and grafting on lobes and cutting the muscles that move them. My crest had to go and a scalp covered with revolting hair was now on the top of my skull.", "start_byte": 447, "end_byte": 938, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 23.559999465942383, "end_time": 60.08000183105469, "cut_start_time": 23.944999465942384, "cut_end_time": 59.790124465942384}, {"text": "Finally, and most difficult, there had been the matter of skin color. It just wasn't possible to eliminate my natural coppery pigmentation. So they had injected a substance akin to melanin, together with a virus which would manufacture it in my body, the result being a leathery brown. 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But my black crest had been replaced with a shock of blond hair, my ears were small and immobile, my skin a dull bronze, and several of Earth's languages were hypnotically implanted in my brain -- together with a set of habits and reflexes making up a pseudo-personality which should be immune to any tests that the rebels could think of.", "start_byte": 1338, "end_byte": 1853, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 90.27999877929688, "end_time": 128.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 90.64499877929687, "cut_end_time": 127.64012377929687}, {"text": "I was Earthling! And the disguise was self-perpetuating: the hair grew and the skin color was kept permanent by the artificial", "start_byte": 1855, "end_byte": 1981, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 128.32000732421875, "end_time": 137.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 128.81500732421875, "cut_end_time": 138.02000732421874}, {"text": " The biotechnicians had told me that if I kept the disguise long enough, till I began to age -- say, in a century or so -- the hair would actually thin and turn white as it did with the natives.", "start_byte": 1992, "end_byte": 2186, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 138.9600067138672, "end_time": 151.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 139.22500671386717, "cut_end_time": 151.37000671386718}, {"text": "It was reassuring to think that once my job was over, I could be restored to normal. It would need another series of operations and as much time as the original transformation, but it would be as complete and scarless. I'd be human again.", "start_byte": 2188, "end_byte": 2426, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 151.83999633789062, "end_time": 168.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 152.15499633789062, "cut_end_time": 168.14005883789062}, {"text": "I put on the clothes they had furnished me, typical Earthly garments -- rough trousers and shirt of bleached plant fibers, jacket and heavy shoes of animal skin, a battered old hat of matted fur known as felt. There were objects in my pockets, the usual money and papers, a claspknife, the pipe and tobacco I had trained myself to smoke and even to like. 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On either side loomed the great warehouses, military barracks, officers' apartments, civilian concessions, filled with the vigorous life of the starways. Behind the monstrous wall, a mile to my right, was the spaceport, and I knew that a troopship had just lately dropped gravs from Valgolia herself.", "start_byte": 2990, "end_byte": 3448, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 208.24000549316406, "end_time": 242.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 208.53500549316405, "cut_end_time": 242.25006799316407}, {"text": "The Center swarmed with young recruits off duty, gaping at the sights, swaggering in their new uniforms. Their skins shone like polished copper in the blistering sunlight, and their crests were beginning to wilt a little. All Earth is not the tropical jungle most Valgolians think it is -- northern Europe is very pleasant, and Greenland is even a little on the cold side -- but it gets hot enough at North America Center in midsummer to fry a shilast.", "start_byte": 3450, "end_byte": 3902, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 242.72000122070312, "end_time": 275.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 243.0850012207031, "cut_end_time": 274.8300637207031}, {"text": "A cosmopolitan throng filled the walkways. Soldiers predominated -- huge, shy Dacors, little slant-eyed Yangtusans, brawling Gorrads, all the manhood of Valgolia. Then there were other races, blue-skinned Vegans, furry Proximans, completely non-humanoid Sirians and Antarians. 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I could have pulled rank on him. Not only was I an officer, but such treatment must be used with intellectual deliberation. The occasional young garrison trooper who comes here with the idea that the natives are an inferior breed to be kicked around misses the whole point of Empire. If, indeed, Earth's millions were an inferior breed, I wouldn't have been here at all. Valgol needs an economic empire, but if all we had in mind was serfdom we'd be perfectly content with the plodding animal life of Deneb VII or a hundred other worlds.", "start_byte": 4541, "end_byte": 5331, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 328.8800048828125, "end_time": 386.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 329.32500488281255, "cut_end_time": 386.0600673828125}, {"text": "I cringed appropriately, as if I didn't understand Valgolian Universal, and slunk past him. But it griped me to be taken for a Terrie. 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+ [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction April 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
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+ Obviously, no conqueror wants his subjects to revolt against his rule. Obviously? This one would go to any lengths to start a rebellion!
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+ The biotechnicians had been very thorough. I was already a little undersized, which meant that my height and build were suitable -- I could pass for a big Earthling. And of course my face and hands and so on were all right, the Earthlings being a remarkably humanoid race. But the technicians had had to remodel my ears, blunting the tips and grafting on lobes and cutting the muscles that move them. My crest had to go and a scalp covered with revolting hair was now on the top of my skull.
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+ Finally, and most difficult, there had been the matter of skin color. It just wasn't possible to eliminate my natural coppery pigmentation. So they had injected a substance akin to melanin, together with a virus which would manufacture it in my body, the result being a leathery brown. I could pass for a member of the so-called "white" subspecies, one who had spent most of his life in the open.
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+ The mimicry was perfect. I hardly recognized the creature that looked out of the mirror. My lean, square, blunt-nosed face, gray eyes, and big hands were the same or nearly so. But my black crest had been replaced with a shock of blond hair, my ears were small and immobile, my skin a dull bronze, and several of Earth's languages were hypnotically implanted in my brain -- together with a set of habits and reflexes making up a pseudo-personality which should be immune to any tests that the rebels could think of.
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+ I was Earthling! And the disguise was self-perpetuating: the hair grew and the skin color was kept permanent by the artificial "disease." The biotechnicians had told me that if I kept the disguise long enough, till I began to age -- say, in a century or so -- the hair would actually thin and turn white as it did with the natives.
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+ It was reassuring to think that once my job was over, I could be restored to normal. It would need another series of operations and as much time as the original transformation, but it would be as complete and scarless. I'd be human again.
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+ I put on the clothes they had furnished me, typical Earthly garments -- rough trousers and shirt of bleached plant fibers, jacket and heavy shoes of animal skin, a battered old hat of matted fur known as felt. There were objects in my pockets, the usual money and papers, a claspknife, the pipe and tobacco I had trained myself to smoke and even to like. It all fitted into my character of a wandering, outdoors sort of man, an educated atavist.
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+ I went out of the hospital with the long swinging stride of one accustomed to walking great distances.
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+ The Center was busy around me. Behind me, the hospital and laboratories occupied a fairly small building, some eighty stories of stone and steel and plastic. On either side loomed the great warehouses, military barracks, officers' apartments, civilian concessions, filled with the vigorous life of the starways. Behind the monstrous wall, a mile to my right, was the spaceport, and I knew that a troopship had just lately dropped gravs from Valgolia herself.
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+ The Center swarmed with young recruits off duty, gaping at the sights, swaggering in their new uniforms. Their skins shone like polished copper in the blistering sunlight, and their crests were beginning to wilt a little. All Earth is not the tropical jungle most Valgolians think it is -- northern Europe is very pleasant, and Greenland is even a little on the cold side -- but it gets hot enough at North America Center in midsummer to fry a shilast.
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+ A cosmopolitan throng filled the walkways. Soldiers predominated -- huge, shy Dacors, little slant-eyed Yangtusans, brawling Gorrads, all the manhood of Valgolia. Then there were other races, blue-skinned Vegans, furry Proximans, completely non-humanoid Sirians and Antarians. They were here as traders, observers, tourists, whatever else of a non-military nature one can imagine.
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+ I made an absent-minded way through the crowds. A sudden crack on the side of my head, nearly bowling me over, brought me to awareness. I looked up into the arrogant face of one of the new recruits and heard him rasp, "Watch where you're going, Terrie!"
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+ The young blood in the Valgolian military is deliberately trained to harshness, even brutality, for our militarism must impress such backward colonies as Earth. It goes against our grain, but it is necessary. At another time this might have annoyed me. I could have pulled rank on him. Not only was I an officer, but such treatment must be used with intellectual deliberation. The occasional young garrison trooper who comes here with the idea that the natives are an inferior breed to be kicked around misses the whole point of Empire. If, indeed, Earth's millions were an inferior breed, I wouldn't have been here at all. Valgol needs an economic empire, but if all we had in mind was serfdom we'd be perfectly content with the plodding animal life of Deneb VII or a hundred other worlds.
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+ There were plenty of Terries -- Terrestrials -- around, of course, moving with their odd combination of slavish deference toward Valgolians and arrogant superiority toward mere Earthlings. They have adopted the habits and customs of civilization, entered the Imperial service, speak Valgolian even with their families. Many of them shave their heads save for a scalp lock, in imitation of the crest, and wear white robes suggesting those of civil functionaries at home.
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+ I've always felt a little sorry for the class. They work, and study, and toady to us, and try so hard to be like us. It's frustrating, because that's exactly what we don't want. Valgolians are Valgolians and Earthlings are men of Earth. Well, Terries are important to the ultimate aims of the Empire, but not in the way they think they are. They serve as another symbol of Valgolian conquest for Earth to hate.
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+ I entered the Administration Building. They expected me there and took me at once to the office of General Vorka, who's a general only as far as this solar system is concerned. Had there been any Earthlings around, I would have saluted to conform to the show of militarism, but General Vorka sat alone behind his desk, and I merely said, "Hello, Coordinator."
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+ The sleeves of his tunic rolled up, the heat of North America beading his forehead with sweat, the big man looked up at me. "Ah, yes. I'm glad you're finally prepared. The sooner we get this thing started -- " He extended a silver galla-dust box. "Sniff? Have a seat, Conru."
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+ I inhaled gratefully and relaxed. The Coordinator picked up a sheaf of papers on his desk and leafed through them. "Umm-mm, only fifty-two years old and a captain already. Remarkably able, a young man like you. And your work hitherto has been outstanding. That Vegan business...."
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+ I said yes, I knew, but could he please get down to business. You couldn't blame me for being a bit anxious to begin. Disguised as I was as an Earthman, I felt uncomfortable, embarrassed, almost, at being with my ex-countrymen.
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+ The Coordinator shrugged. "Well, if you can carry this business off -- fine. If you fail, you may die quite unpleasantly. That's their trouble, Conru: you wouldn't be regarded as an individual, but as a Valgolian. Did you know that they even make such distinctions among themselves? I mean races and sub-races and social castes and the like; it's keeping them divided and impotent, Conru. It's also keeping them out of the Empire. A shame."
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+ I knew all that, of course, but I merely nodded. Coordinator Vorka was a wonderful man in his field, and if he tended to be on the garrulous side, what could I do? I said, "I know that, sir. I also know I was picked for a dangerous job because you thought I could fill the role. But I still don't know exactly what the job is."
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+ Coordinator Vorka smiled. "I'm afraid I can't tell you much more than you must already have guessed," he said. "The anarch movement here -- the rebels, that is -- is getting no place, primarily because of internal difficulties. When members of the same group spit epithets at each other referring to what they consider racial or national distinctions which determine superiority or inferiority, the group is bound to be an insecure one. Such insecurity just does not make for a strong rebellion, Conru. They try, and we goad them -- but dissention splits them constantly and their revolutions fizzle out.
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+ "They just can't unite against us, can't unite at all. Conru, you know how we've tried to educate them. It's worked, too, to some extent. But you can't educate three billion people who have a whole cultural pattern behind them."
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+ I nodded. "We learned the hard way. The old Valgol was a poor planet and we had to unite to conquer space or we could not have survived."
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+ The Coordinator sniffed again at his silver box. "Of course. And we're trying to help these people unite. They don't have to make the same mistakes we did, long ago. They don't have to at all. Get them to hate us enough, get them to hate us until all their own clannish hatreds don't count at all.... Well, you know what happened on Samtrak."
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+ I knew. The Samtraks are now the entrepreneurs of the Empire, really ingenious traders, but within the memory of some of our older men they were a sore-spot. They didn't understand the meaning of Empire any more than Earth does, and they never did understand it until we goaded them into open rebellion. The very reverse of divide and rule, you might say, and it worked. We withdrew trading privileges one by one, until they revolted successfully, thus educating themselves sociologically in only a few generations.
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+ Vorka said, "The problem of Earth is not quite that simple." He leaned back, made a bridge of his fingers, and peered across them at me. "Do you know precisely what a provocateur job is, Conru?"
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+ The Coordinator smiled. "Well, that's just the starter, Conru. It's a lot more complex than that. Each planet has its own special problems. The Samtraks, for example, had a whole background of cutthroat competition. That was easy: we eliminated that by showing them what real cutthroat competition could be like. But Earth is different. Look at it this way. They fight among themselves. Because of their mythical distinctions, not realizing that there are no inferior races, only more or less advanced ones, and that individuals must be judged as individuals, not as members of groups, nations or races. A planet like Earth can be immensely valuable to the Empire, but not if it has to be garrisoned. Its contribution must be voluntary and whole-hearted."
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+ "A difficult problem," I said. "My opinion is that we should treat all exactly alike -- force them to abandon their unrealistic differences."
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+ "Exactly!" The Coordinator seemed pleased, but, actually, this was pretty elementary stuff. "We're never too rough on the eager lads who come here from Valgol and kick the natives around a bit. We even encourage it when the spirit of rebelliousness dies down."
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+ "Irritating, wasn't it, Conru? Humiliating. Of course, these lads will be reconditioned to civilization when they finish their military service and prepare for more specialized work. Yes, treating all Earthlings alike is the solution. We put restrictions on these colonials; they can't hold top jobs, and so on. And we encourage wild stories about brutality on our part. Not enough to make everybody mad at us, or even a majority -- the rumored tyranny has always happened to someone else. But there's a certain class of beings who'll get fighting mad, and that's the class we want."
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+ "The leaders," I chimed in. "The idealists. Brave, intelligent, patriotic. The kind who probably wouldn't be a part of this racial bickering, anyway."
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+ The way he painted it, I was hardly needed at all. I told him that.
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+ "Ideally, that would be the situation, Conru. Only it doesn't work that way." He took out a soft cloth and wiped his forehead. "Even the leaders are too involved in this myth of differences and they can't concentrate all their efforts. Luron, of course, would be the other alternative -- "
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+ That was a very logical statement, but sometimes logic has a way of making you laugh, and I was laughing now. Luron considered itself our arch-enemy. With a few dozen allies on a path of conquest, Luron thought it could wrest Empire from our hands. Well, we let them play. And each time Luron swooped down on one of the more primitive planets, we let them, for Luron would serve as well as ourselves in goading backward peoples to unite and advance. Perhaps Luron, as a social entity, grew wiser each time. Certainly the primitive colonials did. Luron had started a chain reaction which threatened to overthrow the tyranny of superstition on a hundred planets. Good old Luron, our arch-enemy, would see the light itself some day.
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+ "You, Conru. You get in with the revolutionaries, you make sure that they want to fight, you -- "
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+ "I see," I told him. "Then I try to stop it at the last minute. Not so soon that the rebellion doesn't help at all -- "
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+ The Coordinator put his hand down flat. "Nothing of the sort. They must fight. And they must be defeated, again and again, if necessary, until they are ready to succeed. That will be, of course, when they are totally against us."
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+ I stood up. "I understand."
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+ He waved me back into the chair. "You'll be lucky to understand it by the time you're finished with this assignment and transferred to another ... that is, if you come out of this one alive."
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+ "We have some influence in the underground movement, as you might logically expect. The leader is a man we worked very hard to have elected."
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+ "To report on the unification of Earth. It's possible that the anarch movement can achieve it under Levinsohn. In that case, we'll make sure they win, or think they win, and will gladly sign a treaty giving Earth equal planetary status in the Empire."
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+ "Conrad," I corrected him, smiling. "Plain Mr. Conrad Haugen ... of Earth."
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+ A few days later, I left North America Center, and in spite of the ominous need to hurry, my eastward journey was a ramble. The anarchs would be sure to check my movements as far back as they could, and my story had better ring true. For the present, I must be my role, a vagabond.
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+ The city was soon behind me. It was far from other settlement -- it is good policy to keep the Centers rather isolated, and we could always contact our garrisons in native towns quickly enough. Before long I was alone in the mountains.
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+ I liked that part of the trip. The Rockies are huge and serene, a fresh cold wind blows from their peaks and roars in the pines, brawling rivers foam through their dales and canyons -- it is a big landscape, clean and strong and lonely. It speaks with silence.
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+ I hitched a ride for some hundreds of miles with one of the great truck-trains that dominate the western highways. The driver was Earthling, and though he complained much about the Valgolian tyranny he looked well-fed, healthy, secure. I thought of the wars which had been laying the planet waste, the social ruin and economic collapse which the Empire had mended, and wondered if Terra would ever be fit to rule itself.
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+ I came out of the enormous mountainlands into the sage plains of Nevada. For a few days I worked at a native ranch, listening to the talk and keeping my mouth shut. Yes, there was discontent!
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+ "Their taxes are killing me," said the owner. "What the hell incentive do I have to produce if they take it away from me?" I nodded, but thought: Your kind was paying more taxes in the old days, and had less to show for it. Here you get your money back in public works and universal security. No one on Earth is cold or hungry. Can you only produce for your own private gain, Earthling?
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+ "I want another kid," said the female cook. "Two ain't really enough. They're good boys, but I want a girl too. Only the Eridanian law says if I go over my quota, if I have one more, they'll sterilize me! And they'd do it, the meddling devils."
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+ Then he's a moron, or carries hemophilia, or has some other hereditary taint, I thought. Can't they see we're doing it for their own good? It costs us fantastically in money and trouble, but the goal is a level of health and sanity such as this race never in its history dreamed possible.
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+ Anyone in the Empire may worship as he chooses, but should permission be granted to preach demonstrable falsehoods, archaic superstitions, or antisocial nonsense? The old "free" Earth was not noted for liberalism.
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+ Free? Free for what? To loose the thousand Earthly races and creeds and nationalisms on each other -- and on the Galaxy -- to wallow in barbarism and slaughter and misery as before we came? To let our works and culture be thrown in the dust, the labor of a century be demolished, not because it is good or bad but simply because it is Valgolian? Epsilon Eridanian!
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+ I couldn't get much specific information, but then I hadn't expected to. I collected my pay and drifted on eastward, talking to people of all classes -- farmers, mechanics, shopowners, tramps, and such data as I gathered tallied with those of Intelligence.
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+ The remaining twenty-five per cent was bitter, waiting its chance, muttering of a day of revenge -- and some portion of this segment was spreading propaganda, secretly manufacturing and distributing weapons, engaging in clandestine military drill, and maintaining contact with the shadowy Legion of Freedom.
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+ Childish, melodramatic name! But it had been well chosen to appeal to a certain type of mind. The real, organized core of the anarch movement was highly efficient. In those months I spent wandering and waiting, its activities mounted almost daily.
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+ The illegal radio carried unending programs, propaganda, fabricated stories of Valgolian brutality. I knew from personal experience that some were false, and I knew the whole Imperial system well enough to spot most of the rest at least partly invented. I realized we couldn't trace such a well-organized setup of mobile and coordinated units, and jamming would have been poor tactics, but even so --
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+ I stuck to my role. When autumn came, I drifted into one of the native cities, New Chicago, a warren of buildings near the remains of the old settlement, the same gigantic slum that its predecessor had been. I got a room in a cheap hotel and a job in a steel mill.
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+ I was Conrad Haugen, Norwegian-American, assigned to a spaceship by the labor draft and liking it well enough to re-enlist when my term was up. I had wandered through much of the Empire and had had a great deal of contact with Eridanians, but was most emphatically not a Terrie. In fact, I thought it would be well if the redskin yoke could be thrown off, both because of liberty and the good pickings to be had in the Galaxy if the Empire should collapse. I had risen to second mate on an interstellar tramp, but could get no further because of the law that the two highest officers must be Valgolian. That had embittered me and I returned to Earth, foot-loose and looking for trouble.
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+ I found it. With officer's training and the strength due to a home planet with a gravity half again that of Earth, I had no difficulty at all becoming a foreman. There was a big fellow named Mike Riley who thought he was entitled to the job. We settled it behind a shed, with the workmen looking on, and I beat him unconscious as fast as possible. The raw, sweating savagery of it made me feel ill inside. They'd let this loose among the stars!
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+ After that I was one of the boys and Riley was my best friend. We went out together, wenching and drinking, raising hell in the cold dirty canyons of steel and stone which the natives called streets. Valgolia, Valgolia, the clean bare windswept heights of your mountains, soughing trees and thunderous waters and Maara waiting for me to come home! Riley often proposed that we find an Eridanian and beat him to death, and I would agree, hiccupping, because I knew they didn't go alone into native quarters any more. I sat in the smoky reek of the bars, half deafened by the clatter and raucousness called music, trying not to think of a certain low-ceilinged, quiet tavern amid the gardens of Kalariho, and sobbed the bitterness of Conrad Haugen into my beer.
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+ "Dirty redskins," I muttered. "Dirty, stinking, bald-headed, sons of bitches. Them and their god-damn Empire. Why, y'know, if 't hadn' been f' their laws I'd be skipper o' my own ship now. I knew more'n that slob o' a captain. But he was born Eridanian -- God, to get my hands on his throat!"
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+ I bided my time, not too obviously anxious to contact the Legion. I just thought they were swell fellows, the only brave men left in the rotten, stinking Empire; I'd sure be on their side when the day came. I worked in the mill, and when out with the boys lamented the fact that we were really producing for the damned Eridanians, we couldn't even keep the products of our own sweat. I wasn't obtrusive about it, of course. Most of the time we were just boozing. But when the talk came to the Empire, I made it clear just where I stood.
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+ The winter went. I continued the dreary round of days, wondering how long it would take, wondering how much time was left. If the Legion was at all interested, they would be checking my background right now. Let them. There wouldn't be much to check, but what there was had been carefully manufactured by the experts of the Intelligence Service.
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+ Riley came into my room one evening. His face was tight, and he plunged to business. "Con, do you really mean all you've said about the Empire?"
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+ "Why, of course. I -- " I glanced out the window, as if expecting to see a spy. If there were any, I knew he would be native. The Empire just doesn't have enough men for a secret police, even if we wanted to indulge in that sort of historically ineffective control.
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+ "You'd like to fight them? Like really to help the Legion of Freedom when they strike?"
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+ "You bet your obscenity life!" I snarled. "When they land on Earth, I'll get a gun somewhere and be right there in the middle of the battle with them!"
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+ "Yeah." Riley puffed a cigaret for a while. Then he said, "Look, I can't tell you much. I'm taking a chance just telling you this. It could mean my life if you passed it on to the Eridanians."
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+ "Quit talking like a B-class stereo," I bristled. "If you've got something to tell me, let's have it. Otherwise get out."
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+ "Yeah, sure. We checked up on you, Con, and we think you're as good a prospect as we ever came across. If you want to fight the Eridanians now -- join the Legion now -- here's your chance."
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+ "I can't tell you a thing. But if you really want to join, memorize this." Riley gave me a small card on which was written a name and address. "Destroy it, thoroughly. Then quit at the mill and drift to this other place, as if you'd gotten tired of your work and wanted to hit the road again. Take your time, don't make a beeline for it. When you do arrive, they'll take care of you."
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+ "Just my job." He smiled, relaxing, and pulled a flask from his overcoat. "Okay, Con, that's that. We'd better not go out to drink, after this, but nothing's to stop us from getting stinko here."
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+ Spring had come and almost gone when I wandered into the little Maine town which was my destination. It lay out of the way, with forested hills behind it and the sea at its foot. Most of the houses were old, solidly built, almost like parts of the land, and the inhabitants were slow-spoken, steady folk, fishermen and artisans and the like, settled here and at home with the darkling woods and the restless sea and the high windy sky. I walked down a narrow street with a cool salt breeze ruffling my hair and decided that I liked Portsboro. It reminded me of my own home, twenty light-years away on the wide beaches of Kealvigh.
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+ I made my way to Nat Hawkins' store and asked for work like any drifter. But when we were alone in the back room, I told him, "I'm Conrad Haugen. Mike Riley said you'd be looking for me."
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+ He nodded calmly. "I've been expecting you. You can work here a few days, sleep at my house, and we'll run the tests after dark."
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+ He was old for an Earthling, well over sixty, with white hair and lined leathery face. But his blue eyes were as keen and steady, his gnarled hands as strong and sure as those of any young man. He spoke softly and steadily, around the pipe which rarely left his mouth, and there was a serenity in him which I could hardly associate with anarch fanaticism. But the first night he led me into his cellar, and through a well-hidden trapdoor to a room below, and there he had a complete psychological laboratory.
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+ "It came piece by piece, much of it from Epsilon Eridani itself," he smiled. "There is, after all, no ban on humans owning such material. But to play safe, we spread the purchases over several years, and made them in the names of many people."
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+ He could. He put me through the mill in the next few nights -- intelligence tests, psychometry, encephalography, narcosis, psycho-probing, everything his machines and his skill could cover. He did not find out anything we hadn't meant to be found out. The Service had ways of guarding its agents with counter-blocks. But he got a very thorough picture of Conrad Haugen.
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+ In the end he said, still calmly, "This is amazing. You have an IQ well over the borderline of genius, an astonishing variety of assorted knowledge about the Empire and about technical subjects, and an implacable hatred of Eridanian rule -- based on personal pique and containing self-seeking elements, but no less firm for that. You're out for yourself, but you'll stand by your comrades and your cause. We'd never hoped for more recruits of your caliber."
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+ "When do I start?" I asked impatiently.
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+ "Easy, easy," he smiled. "There's time. We've waited fifty years; we can wait a while longer." He riffled through the dossier. "Actually, the difficulty is where to assign you. A man who knows astrogation, the use of weapons and machines, and the Empire, who is physically strong as a bull, can lead men, and has a dozen other accomplishments, really seems wasted on any single job. I'm not sure, but I think you'll do best as a roving agent, operating between Main Base and the planets where we have cells, and helping with the work at the base when you're there."
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+ My heart fairly leaped into my throat. This was more than I had dared hope for!
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+ "I think," said Nat Hawkins, "you'd better just drop out of sight now. Go to Hood Island and stay there till the spaceship comes next time. You can spend the interval profitably, resting and getting a little fattened up; you look half starved. And Barbara can tell you about the Legion." His leather face smiled itself into a mesh of fine wrinkles. "I think you deserve that, Conrad. And so does Barbara."
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+ Mentally, I shrugged. My stay in New Chicago had pretty well convinced me that all Earthling females were sluts. And what of it?
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+ The following night, Hawkins and I rowed out to Hood Island. It lay about a mile offshore, a wooded, rocky piece of land on which a moon-whitened surf boomed and rattled. The place had belonged to the Hood family since the first settlements here, but Barbara was the last of them.
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+ Hawkins' voice came softly to me above the crash of surf, the surge of waves and windy roar of trees as we neared the dock. "She has more reason than most to hate the Eridanians. The Hoods used to be great people around here. They were just about ruined when the redskins first came a-conquering, space bombardment wiped out their holdings, but they made a new start. Then her grandfather and all his brothers were killed in the revolt. Ten years ago, her father was caught while trying to hijack a jetload of guns, and her mother didn't live long after that. Then her brother was drafted into a road crew and reported killed in an accident. Since then she hasn't lived for much except the Legion."
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+ "I don't blame her," I said. My voice was a little tight, for indeed I didn't. But somebody has to suffer; civilization has a heavy price. I couldn't help adding, "But the Empire's lately begun paying pensions to cases like that."
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+ "I know. She draws hers, too, and uses it for the Legion."
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+ That, of course, was the reason for the pensions.
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+ The boat bumped against the dock. Hawkins threw the painter up to the man who suddenly emerged from the shadow. I saw the cold silver moonlight gleam off the rifle in his hand. "You know me, Eb," said Hawkins. "This here's Con Haugen. I slipped you the word about him."
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+ "Glad to know you, Con." Eb's horny palm clasped mine. I liked his looks, as I did those of most of the higher-up Legionnaires. They were altogether different from the low-caste barbarians who were all the rebels I'd seen before. They had a great load of ignorance to drag with them.
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+ We went up a garden path to a rambling stone house. Inside, it was long and low and filled with the memoirs of more gracious days, art and fine furniture, books lining the walls, a fire crackling ruddily in the living room.
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+ "Barbara Hood -- Conrad Haugen."
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+ Almost, I gaped at her. I had expected some gaunt, dowdy fanatic, a little mad perhaps. But she was -- well, she was tall and supple and clad in a long dark-blue evening gown that shimmered against her white skin. She was not conventionally pretty, her face was too strong for all of its fine lines, but she had huge blue eyes and a wide soft mouth and a stubborn chin. The light glowed gold on the hair that tumbled to her shoulders.
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+ I blurted something out and she smiled, with a curious little twist that somehow caught in me, and said merely, "Hello, Conrad."
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+ "Glad to be here," I mumbled.
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+ "The spaceship should arrive in a month or so," she went on. "I'll teach you as much as I can in that time. And you'd better get your own special knowledge onto a record wire, just in case. I understand you've been in the Vegan System, for instance, which nobody else in the Legion knows very much about."
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+ Her tone was cool and business-like, but with an underlying warmth. It was like the sea wind which blew over the islands, and as reviving. I recovered myself and helped mix some drinks. The rest of the evening passed very pleasantly.
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+ Later a servant showed me to my room, a big one overlooking the water. I lay for a while listening to the waves, thinking drowsily how rebellion, when its motives were honest, drew in the best natives of any world, and presently I fell asleep.
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+ The month passed all too quickly and agreeably. I learned things which Intelligence had spent the last three years trying to find out, and dared not attempt to transmit the information. That was maddening, though I knew there was time. But otherwise --
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+ I puttered about the place. There were only three servants, old family retainers who had also joined the anarchs. They had little modern machinery, and of course Earthlings weren't allowed robots, so there was need for an extra man or two. I cut wood and repaired the roof and painted the boathouse, spaded the garden and cleared out brush and set up a new picket fence. It was good to use my hands and muscles again.
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+ And then Barbara was around to help with most of what I did. In jeans and jersey, the sun ablaze on her hair, laughing at my clumsy jokes or frowning over some tough bit of work, she was another being than the cool, lovely woman who talked books and music and history with me in the evenings, or the crisp bitter anarch who spat facts and figures at me like an angry machine. And yet they were all her. I remembered Ydis, who was dead, and the old pain stirred again. But Barbara was alive.
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+ She was more alive to me than most of Valgolia.
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+ I make no apologies for my feelings. I had been away from anything resembling home for some two years now. But I was careful to remain merely friendly with Barbara.
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+ She didn't know a great deal about the rebel movement -- no one agent on Earth did -- but her knowledge was still considerable. There was a fortified base somewhere out in space, built up over a period of four years with the help of certain unnamed elements or planets outside the Empire. I suspected several rival states of that!
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+ Weapons of all kinds were manufactured there in quantities sufficient to arm the million or so rebels of the "regular" force, the twenty million or so in the Solar System and elsewhere who held secret drills and conducted terrorist activities, and the many millions more who were expected to rise spontaneously when the rebel fleet struck.
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+ There was close coordination and a central command at Main Base for the undergrounds of all dissatisfied planets -- a new and formidable feature which had not been present in the earlier uprisings. There were rumors of a new and terrible weapon being developed.
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+ In any case, the plan was to assault Epsilon Eridani itself simultaneously with the uprisings in the colonies, so that the Imperial fleet would be recalled to defend the mother world. The anarchs hoped to blast Valgolia to ruin in a few swift blows, and expected that the Empire's jealous neighbors would sweep in to complete the wreckage.
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+ This gentle girl spoke of the smashing of worlds, the blasting of helpless humans, and the destruction of a culture as if it were a matter of insect extermination.
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+ "Have you ever thought," I asked casually once, "that the Juranians and the Slighs and our other hypothetical allies may not respect the integrity of Sol any more than the Eridanians do?"
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+ "We can handle them," she answered confidently. "Oh, it won't be easy, that time of transition. But we'll be free."
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+ "And what then?" I went on. "I don't want to be defeatist, Barbara, but you know as well as I do that the Eridanians didn't conquer all mankind at a single swoop. When they invented the interstellar engine and arrived here, man was tearing the Solar System apart in a war between super-nations that was rapidly reducing him to barbarism. The redskins traded for a while, sold arms, some of their adventurers took sides in the conflict, the government stepped in to protect Eridanian citizens and investments -- the side which the Eridanians helped won the war, then found its allies were running things and tried to revolt against the protectorate -- and without really meaning to, the strangers were conquering and ruling Earth.
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+ "But the different factions of man still hate each other's guts. There are still capitalists and communists, blacks, whites and Browns, Hindus and Moslems, Germans and Frenchmen, city people and country people -- a million petty divisions. There'll be civil war as soon as the Eridanians are gone."
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+ "Some, perhaps," she agreed. "But I think it can be handled. If we have to have civil wars, well, let's get them over with and live as free men."
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+ Personally, I could see nothing in the sort of military dictatorship that would inevitably arise which was preferable to an alien, firm, but just rule that insured stability and a reasonable degree of individual liberty.
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+ But I didn't say that aloud.
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+ Another time we talked of the de-industrialization of Earth. Barbara was, of course, venomous about it. "We were rich once," she said. "All Earth was. We have one of the richest planets in the Galaxy. But because their own world is poor, the redskins have to take the natural resources of their conquests. Earth is a granary and a lumberyard for Valgolia, and the iron of Mars and the petrolite of Venus go back to their industry. What few factories they allow us, they take their fat percentage of the product."
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+ "Certainly they've made us economically dependent," I said, "and their standard of living is undoubtedly higher than ours. But ours has, on the whole, gone up since the conquest. We eat better, we're healthier, we aren't burdened with the cost of past and present and future wars. Our natural resources aren't being squandered. The forests and watersheds and farmlands we ruined are coming back under Eridanian supervision."
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+ She gave me an odd look. "I thought you didn't like the Empire."
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+ "I don't," I growled. "I don't want to be held back just because I'm white-skinned. But I've known enough reddies personally so that I try to be fair."
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+ "It's all right with me," she said. "I can see your point, intellectually, though I can't really feel it. But not many of the people will out at Main Base."
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+ "Free men," I muttered sardonically.
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+ We went fishing, and swam in the tumbling surf, and stretched lazily on the beach with the sun pouring over us. Or we might go tramping off into the woods on a picnic, to run laughing back when a sudden rain rushed out of the sky, and afterward sit with beer and cheese sandwiches listening to a wire of Beethoven or Mozart or Tchaikovsky -- the old Earthlings could write music, if they did nothing else! -- and to the rain shouting on the roof. We might have a little highly illegal target practice, or a game of chess, or long conversations which wandered off every which way. I began to have a sneaking hope that the spaceship would be delayed.
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+ We went out one day in Barbara's little catboat. The waves danced around us, chuckling against the hull, glittering with sunlight, and the sail was like a snow mountain against the sky. For a while we chatted dreamily, ate our lunch, threw the scraps to the hovering gulls. Then Barbara fell silent.
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+ "What's the matter?" I asked.
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+ "Oh, nothing. Touch of Weltschmerz, maybe." She smiled at me. "You know, Con, you don't really belong in the Legion."
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+ "How so?" I raised my eyebrows.
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+ "You -- well, you're so darned honest, so really decent under that carefully rough surface, so -- reasonable. You'll never make a good fanatic."
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+ Honest! I looked away from her. The bright day seemed suddenly to darken.
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+ Spaceships from Main Base had little trouble coming to Earth with their cargoes of guns, propaganda, instructors, and whatever else the rebels on the planet needed. They would take up an orbit just beyond the atmosphere and send boats to the surface after dark. There was little danger of their being detected if they took the usual precautions; a world is simply too big to blockade completely.
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+ Ours dropped on noiseless gravitic beams into the nighted island woods. We had been watching for it the last few days, and now Eb came running to tell us it was here. The pilot followed after him.
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+ "Harry Kane, Conrad Haugen," Barbara introduced us.
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+ I shook hands, sizing him up. He was tall for an Earthling, almost as big as I, dark-haired, with good-looking young features. He wore some approximation of a uniform, dark-blue tunic and breeches, peaked cap, captain's insignia, which gave him a rather dashing look. It shouldn't have made any difference to me, of course, but I didn't like the way he smiled at Barbara.
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+ She explained my presence, and he nodded eagerly. "Glad to have you, Haugen. We need good men, and badly." Then to her: "Get Hawkins. You and he are recalled to Main Base."
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+ "What? But -- "
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+ A dark exultation lit his face. "The time for action is near -- very near! We're pulling all our best agents off the planets. They can work more effectively with the fleet now."
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+ I tried to look as savagely gleeful as they, but inwardly I groaned. How in all the hells was I going to contact Vorka? If I were stranded out in space when the fleet got under way -- no, they must have an ultrabeam. I'd manage somehow to call on that even if they caught me at it.
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+ We sent Eb in a boat to get Hawkins while Barbara and I packed a few necessities. Kane paced back and forth, spilling out the news from Main Base, word of mighty forces gathering, rumors of help promised from outside, it was like the thunder which mutters just before a gale.
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+ Presently Hawkins arrived. The old man's calm was undisturbed: he puffed his pipe and said quietly, "I called up my housekeeper, told her my sister in California was suddenly taken sick and I was leaving at once for the transcontinental jetport. Just to account for disappearing, you know. There aren't any Eridanians or Terries hereabouts, but we desperate characters -- " he grinned, briefly -- "can't be too careful. Brought my equipment along, of course. I suppose they want me to do psychometry on fleet personnel?"
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+ "Something on that order. I don't know."
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+ We made our way through a fine drizzle of rain to the little torpedo of the spaceboat. I looked around into the misty dark and breathed a deep lungful of the cool wet wind. And I saw that Barbara was doing the same.
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+ She smiled up at me through the night and the thin sad rain. "Earth is a beautiful world, Con," she whispered. "I wonder if we'll ever see it again."
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+ I squeezed her hand, silently, and we crowded into the boat.
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+ Kane made a smooth takeoff. In minutes we were beyond the atmosphere, Earth was a great glowing shield of cloudy blue behind us, and the stars were bitter bright against darkness. We sent a coded call signal and got a directional beam from the ship. Before long we were approaching it.
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+ I studied the lean black cruiser. She seemed to be of about the same design as the old Solarian interplanetary ships, modified somewhat to accommodate the star drive. Apparently, she was one of those built at Main Base. Her bow guns were dark shadows against the clotted cold silver of the Milky Way. I thought of the death and the ruin which could flame from them, I thought of the hell she and her kind bore -- atomic bombs, radiodust bombs, chemical bombs, disease bombs, gravity snatchers, needle beams, disintegrative shells, darkness and doom and the new barbarism -- and felt a stiffening within me. Fostering this murderousness was a frightful risk. The main defense against it was Intelligence, and that depended on agents like myself. Perhaps only myself.
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+ The crew was rather small, no battles being anticipated. But they were well disciplined, uniformed and trained, a new Solarian army built up from the fragments of the old. The captain was a stiff gray German who had been a leader in the earlier revolt and since fled to space, but most of the officers, such as Kane, were young and violent in their eagerness.
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+ We orbited around the planet for another day or so till all the boats had returned. There was tension in the ship -- if the Imperial navy should happen to spot us, we were done. Off duty, we would sit around talking, smoking, playing games with little concentration.
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+ Kane spent most of his free hours with Barbara. They had much to talk about. I swallowed a certain irrational jealousy and wandered around cautiously pumping as many men as I could.
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+ We got under way at last. By this time I had learned that Main Base was a planet, but no more. Only the highest leadership of the Legion knew its location, and they were pledged to swallow the poison they always carried if there seemed to be any danger of capture.
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+ For several days by the clocks we ran outward, roughly toward Draco. Our velocity was not revealed, and the slow shift in the outside view didn't help much. I guess that we had come perhaps ten parsecs, but that was only a guess.
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+ "Approaching Main Base. Stand by."
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+ When the call rang hollowly down the ship's passageways, I could feel the weariness and tautness easing, I could see homecoming in the faces around me. I stole a glance at Barbara. Her eyes were wide and her lips parted, she looked ahead as if to stare through the metal walls. She had never been here either, here where all her dreams came home.
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+ So we landed, we slipped down out of the dark and the cold and the void, and I heard the rattle and groan of metal easing into place. When the ship's interior grav-field was turned off, I felt a sudden heaviness; this world had almost a quarter again the pull of Earth. But people got used to that quickly enough. It was the landscape which was hard to bear.
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+ They had told us that even though Boreas had a breathable atmosphere and a temperature not always fatally low, it was a bleak place. But to one who had never been far from the lovely lands of Earth, its impact was like a blow in the face. Barbara shuddered close to me as we came out of the airlock, and I put an arm about her waist, knowing the sudden feeling of loneliness which rose in her.
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+ Save for the spaceport and other installations, Main Base was underground. There was no city to relieve the grimness of the scene. We were in a narrow valley between sheer, ragged cliffs that soared crazily into a murky sky. The sun was low, a smouldering disc of dull red like curdling blood; its sullen light glimmered on the undying snow and ice and seemed only to make the land darker. Stars glittered here and there in the dusky heavens, hard and bright and cruel, almost, as in space.
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+ Dark sky, dark land, dark world, with the sheer terrible mountains climbing gauntly for the upper gloom, crags and glaciers like fangs against the dizzy cliffs, with the great shadows marching across the bloody snow toward us, with a crazed wind muttering and whining and chewing at our flesh. It was cold. The cold was like a knife. Pain stung with every breath and eyes watered with tears that froze on suddenly numb cheeks. A great shudder ripped through us and we ran toward the entrance to the city. The snow crunched dry and old under our boots, the cold ate up through the soles, and the wind whistled its scorn.
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+ Even when an elevator had taken us a mile down into the warmth and light of the base, we could not forget. It was a city for a million men and other beings and more than a few women and children, a city of long streets and small neat apartments, hydroponic farms and food synthesizers, schools, shops and amusement places, factories, military barracks and arsenals, even an occasional little flower garden. Its people could live here almost indefinitely, working and waiting for their day of rising.
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+ There was little formality in the civilian areas. Everyone who had come this far was trusted. A man came up to us new arrivals from Earth, asked about conditions there, and then said he would show us to our quarters. Later we would be told to whom we should report for duty.
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+ "Let's go, then, Con," said Barbara, and slipped a cool little hand into mine. I could not refrain from casting a smug backward glance at the somewhat chapfallen Kane.
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+ We slipped quickly into the routine of the place. It was a taut-nerved, hard-working daily round. I could feel the savage expectancy building up like a physical force, but intelligent life is adaptable and we got used to it. There was work to do.
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+ Hawkins was second in command of the psychological service, testing and screening and treating personnel, working on training and indoctrination, and with a voice in the general staff where problems of unit coordination and psychological warfare were concerned. Barbara worked under him, secretary and records keeper and general trouble-shooter. Those were high posts, but both were allowed to retain the nominally civilian status which they preferred.
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+ Their influence and my own test scores got me appointed assistant supervisor of the shipyards. That suited me very well -- I was reasonably free from direct orders and discipline, with authority to come and go pretty much as I pleased. They kept me busy; sometimes I worked the clock around, and I did my best to further production of the weapons which might destroy my planet. For whatever I did would make little difference at this late date.
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+ A good deal of my time also went to drill with the armed forces of which, like every able-bodied younger man, I was a reserve member. They put me in an engineer unit and I soon had command of it. I did my best here too, whipping my grim young charges into a sapper group comparable to the Empire's, for I had to be above all suspicion, even of incompetence.
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+ We worked at our learning. We went topside and shivered and manned our guns, set our mines and threw up our bridges, in the racking cold of Boreas. Over ancient snow and ice we trotted, lost in the jumbled wilderness of cruel peaks and railing wind, peeling the skin from our fingers when we touched metal, camped under scornful stars and a lash of drifting ice-dust -- but we learned!
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+ My own, more private education went on apace. I found where we were. It was a forgotten red dwarf star out near the shadowy border of the Empire, listed in the catalogues as having one Class III planet of no interest or value. That was a good choice; no spaceship would ever happen into this system by accident or exploration. The anarchs had built their hopes on the one lonely planet, and had named it Boreas after the god of the north wind in one of their mythologies. My company called it less complimentary things.
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+ The base, including the attached city, was under military command which ultimately led up to the general staff of the Legion. This was a council of officers from half a score of rebellious planets, though Earthlings predominated and, of course, Simon Levinsohn held the supreme authority. I met him a few times, a gaunt, lonely man, enormously able, ridden by his cause as by a nightmare, but not unkindly on a personal level. With just that indomitable heart, the Maccabees had faced Rome's iron legions -- Valgolia was greatly interested in the ancient history of a conquered province, knowing how often it held the key to current problems.
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+ There was also a liaison officer from Luron sitting at staff meetings. Luron!
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+ * * * * *
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+ When I first saw him, this Colonel Wergil, I stood stiff and cold and felt the bristling along my spine. He looked as humanoid as most of the races at the base. Hairless, faintly scaled greenish-yellow skin, six fingers to a hand, and flat chinless face don't make that breed hideous to me; I have reckoned Ganolons and Mergri among my friends. But Luron -- the old and deadly rival, the lesser empire watching its chance to pounce on us, hating us for the check we are on the ambitions of their militarists, Luron.
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+ I have no race prejudices and am willing to take the word of our comparative psychologists that there is no more inherent evil in the Luronians than in any other stock, that the peculiar cold viciousness of their civilization is a matter of unfortunate cultural rather than biological evolution and could be changed in time. But none of this alters the fact that at present they are what they are, brilliant, greedy, heartless, and a menace to the peace of the Galaxy. I have been too long engaged in the struggle between my nation and theirs to think otherwise.
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+ Other states had sent some clandestine help to the Legion, weapons and money and vague promises. Luron, I soon found, had said it would attack us in full strength if the uprising showed a good chance of success, and meanwhile, they gave assistance, credits and materiel and the still more important machine tools, and Wergil's military advice was useful.
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+ I know now, as I suspected even then, that Levinsohn and his associates were not fooled as to Luron's ultimate intentions. Indeed, they planned to make common cause with what remained of Valgolia, as well as certain other traditional foes of their present ally, as soon as they had gained their objectives of independence, and stop any threat of aggression from Luron. It was shrewdly planned, but such a shaky coalition, still bleeding with the hurts and hatreds of a struggle just ended, would be weaker than the Empire, and Luron almost certainly would have sowed further dissension in it and waited for its decay before striking.
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+ The Earthlings have a proverb to the effect that he who sups with the Devil must use a long spoon. But they seemed to have forgotten it now.
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+ The attack, I learned, was scheduled for about four months from the time the agents were recalled. The rebels were counting on the Valgolian power being spread too thinly over the Empire to stand off their massed assault on a few key points. Then, with the home planet a radioactive ruin, with revolt in a score of planetary systems and the ensuing chaos and communications breakdown, and with the Luronians invading, the Imperial fleet and military would have to make terms with the anarchs.
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+ It would work. I knew with a dark chill that it would work. Unless somehow I could get a warning out. That had to be done for more than the protection of Epsilon Eridani, which, even in a surprise attack could defend itself better than these conspirators realized. But all bloodshed should be spared, if possible -- and the rebellion did not yet deserve to succeed, for the unity achieved thus far had been the unity of a snake pit against a temporary enemy.
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+ Did it all rest on me? God of space, had the whole burden of history suddenly fallen on my shoulders?
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+ I didn't dare think about it. I forced the consequences of failure out of my forebrain, back down into the unconscious, the breeding ground of nightmares, and lived from one day to the next. I worked, and waited, learned what I could and watched for my chance.
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+ But it was not all grimness and concentration. It couldn't be; intelligent life just isn't built that way. We had our social activities, small gatherings or big parties, we relaxed and played. At first I found that gratifying, for it gave me a chance to pump the others. Then I found it maddening, because it kept me from snooping and laying plans. Finally it began to hurt -- I was coming to know the anarchs.
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+ They lived and laughed and loved even as humans do. They were basically as decent and reasonable as any similar group of Valgolians. Many were as tormented as I by the thought of the slaughter they readied. There were embittered ones, who had lost all they held dear, and I realized that, while civilization has its price, you can't be objective about it when you are the one who must pay. There were others who had been well off and had chucked all their hopes to join a desperate cause in which they happened to believe. There were children -- and what had they done to deserve having their parents gambling away life?
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+ In spite of their appearance, to which I was now accustomed, they were human. When I had laughed and talked and sung and drunk beer and danced and arranged entertainments with them, they were my friends.
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+ Moodily, I began to see that I would be one of the price-payers.
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+ I saw most of Hawkins and Barbara, and after them -- because of her -- Kane. The old psychologist and I got along famously. He would drop into my room for a smoke and a cup of coffee and a drawled conversation whenever he had the chance. His slow gentle voice, his trenchancy, the way the little crinkles appeared around his eyes when he smiled, reminded me of my father. I often wish those two could have met. They would have enjoyed each other.
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+ Then Barbara would stop by on her way from work, or, better yet, she would ask me over to her apartment for a home-cooked dinner. Yes, she could cook too. We would sometimes take long walks down the corridors of the city, we even went up once in a while to the surface for a breath of cold air and loneliness, and it was the most natural thing in the world for us to go hand in hand.
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+ There was no sunlight underground. But when the fluorotube glow shone on her hair, I thought of sunlight on Earth, the high keen light of the Colorado plateaus, the morning light stealing through the trees of Hood Island.
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+ Ydis, Ydis, I said, once your violet eyes were like the skies over Kalariho, over Kealvigh, our home, pasture land of winds. But it has been so long. It has been ten years since you died --
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+ I fought. May all the gods bear witness that I fought myself. And I thought I was winning.
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+ I will never forget one certain evening.
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+ Hawkins and I had come over to Barbara's for supper, and the three of us were sitting now, talking. Wieniawski's Violin Concerto cried its sorrow, muted in the background, and the serene home she had made of the bare little functional apartment folded itself around us. Then Kane dropped in as he often did, with a casualness that fooled nobody, and sat with all his soul in his eyes, looking at Barbara. He was a nice kid. I didn't know why he should annoy me so.
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+ The talk shifted to Valgolia. I found myself taking the side of my race. It wasn't that I hoped to convert anyone, but -- well, it was wrong that we should be monsters in the sight of these friends.
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+ "Brutes," said Kane. "Two-legged animals. Damned bald-headed, copper-skinned giants. Wouldn't be quite so bad if they were octopi or insects, but they're just enough different from us to be a caricature. It's obscene."
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+ "Sartons look like a dirty joke on mankind," I said. "Why don't you object to them?"
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+ "They're in the same boat as us."
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+ "Then why mix political and esthetic prejudices? And have you ever thought that you look just as funny to an Eridanian?"
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+ "No race should look odd to another," said Nat Hawkins. He puffed blue clouds. "Even by our standards, the redskins are handsome, in a more spectacular way than humans, maybe."
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+ "And Barbara," I smiled, with a curious little pang inside me, "would look good to any humanoid."
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+ "I should think so," said Kane sulkily. "The redskins took enough of our women."
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+ "Well," I said, "their original conquistadores were young and healthy, very far from home, and had just finished a hard campaign where they lost many friends. At least there were no half-breeds afterward. And since the reconquest none of their soldiers has been permitted to have anything to do with an Earthwoman against her consent. It's not their fault if the consent is forthcoming oftener than you idealists think."
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+ "That sort of thing was more or less standard procedure at home with them, wasn't it?" asked Hawkins.
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+
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+ I nodded. "The harshness of their native world forced them to develop their technology faster than on Earth, so they kept a lot of barbarian customs well into the industrial age. For instance, the rulers of the state that finally conquered all the others and unified the planet took the title Waelsing, Emperor, and it's still a monarchy in theory. But a limited monarchy these days, with parliamentary democracy and even local self-government of the town-meeting sort. They're highly civilized now."
536
+
537
+ "I wouldn't call that spree of conquest they went on exactly civilized."
538
+
539
+ "Well, just for argument's sake, let's try to look at it from their side," I answered. "Here their explorers arrived at Sol, found a system richer than they could well imagine -- and all the wealth being burned up in fratricidal war. Their technical power was sufficiently beyond ours so that any band of adventurers could do pretty much as it wanted in the Solar System, and all native states were begging for their help. It was inevitable that they'd mix in.
540
+
541
+ "Sure, the Eridanians have been exploiting Solarian resources, though perhaps more wisely than we did. Sure, they garrison unwilling planets. But from their point of view, they're slowly civilizing a race of atomic-powered savages, and taking no more than their just reward for it. Sure, they've done hideous things, or were supposed to have, but there've been plenty of reforms in their policy since our last revolt. They've adopted the -- the red man's burden."
542
+
543
+ "Could be. But Sol wasn't their only conquest."
544
+
545
+ "Oh, well, of course they had their time of all-out imperialism. There are still plenty of the old school around, starward the course of empire, keep the lesser breeds in their place, and so on. That's one reason why the highest posts are still reserved for members of their own race, another being that even the liberal ones don't trust us that far, yet.
546
+
547
+ "Their first fifty years or so saw plenty of aggression. But then they stabilized. They had as much as they could manage. To put it baldly, the Empire is glutted. And now, without actually admitting they ever did wrong, they're trying to make up what they did to many of their victims."
548
+
549
+ "They could do that easily enough. Just let us go free."
550
+
551
+ * * * * *
552
+
553
+ "I've already told you why they don't dare. Apart from fearing us, they're economically and militarily dependent on their colonies. You're an American, Nat. Why didn't our nation let the South go its own way when it wanted to secede? Why don't we all go back to Europe and let the Indians have our country?
554
+
555
+ "And, of course, Epsilon Eridani honestly thinks it has a great civilizing mission, and is much better for the natives than any lesser independence could ever be. In some cases, you've got to admit they're right. Have you ever seen a real simon-pure native king in action? Or read the history of nations like Germany and Russia? And why do we have to segregate races and minorities even in our own organization to prevent clashes?"
556
+
557
+ "We're getting there," said Nat Hawkins. "It's not easy, but we'll make it."
558
+
559
+ Only you're not there yet, I thought, and for that reason you must be stopped.
560
+
561
+ "You claim they're sated," said Barbara. "But they've kept on conquering here and there, to this very day."
562
+
563
+ "Believe it or not, but with rare exceptions that's been done reluctantly. Peripheral systems have learned how to build star ships, become nuisances or outright menaces, and the Empire has had to swallow them. Modern technology is simply too deadly for anarchy. A full-scale war can sterilize whole planets. That's another function of empire, so the Eridanians claim -- just to keep civilization going till something better can be worked out."
564
+
565
+ "Such as what?"
566
+
567
+ "Well, several worlds already have donagangor status -- self-government under the Emperor, representatives in the Imperial Council, and no restrictions on personal advancement of their citizens. Virtual equality with the Valgolians. And their policy is to grant such status to any colony they think is ready for it."
568
+
569
+ Hawkins shook his head. "Won't do, Con. It sounds nice, but old Tom Jefferson had the right idea. 'If men must wait in slavery until they are ready for freedom, they will wait long indeed.'"
570
+
571
+ "Who said we were slaves -- " I began.
572
+
573
+ "You talk like a damned reddie yourself," said Kane. "You seem to think pretty highly of the Empire."
574
+
575
+ * * * * *
576
+
577
+ I gave him a cold look. "What do you think I'm doing here?" I snapped.
578
+
579
+ "Yeah. Yeah, sorry. I'm kind of tired. Maybe I'd better go now." Before long Kane made some rather moody good nights and went out.
580
+
581
+ Nat Hawkins twinkled at me. "I'm a little bushed myself," he said. "Guess I'll hit the bunk too."
582
+
583
+ When he was gone, I sat smoking and trying to gather up the will to leave. There was a darkness in me. What, after all, was I doing here? Gods, I believed I was in the right, but why is right so pitiless?
584
+
585
+ On Earth they represent the goddess of justice as blind. On Valgolia she has fangs.
586
+
587
+ Barbara came over and sat on the arm of my chair. "What's the matter, Con?" she asked. "You look pretty grim these days."
588
+
589
+ "My work's developing some complications," I said tonelessly. My mind added: It sure is. No way to call headquarters, the rebellion gathering enormous momentum, and on a basis of treachery and racial hatred.
590
+
591
+ Barbara's fingers rumpled my hair, the grafted hair which by now felt more a part of me than my own lost crest. "You're an odd fellow," she said quietly. "On the surface so frank and friendly and cheerful, and down underneath you're hiding yourself and your private unhappiness."
592
+
593
+ "Why," I looked up at her, astonished, "even the psychologists -- "
594
+
595
+ "They're limited, Con. They can measure, but they can't feel. Not the way -- "
596
+
597
+ She stopped, and the light glowed in her hair and her eyes were wide and serious on mine and one small hand stole over to touch my fingers. Blindly, I wrenched my face away.
598
+
599
+ Her voice was low. "It's some other woman, isn't it?"
600
+
601
+ "Other -- ? Well, no. There was one, but she's dead now. She died ten years ago."
602
+
603
+ Ydis, Ydis!
604
+
605
+ "Your wife?"
606
+
607
+ I nodded. "We were only married for three years. My daughter is still alive; she's going on twelve now. But I haven't seen her for over two years. She's not on Earth. I wonder if she even thinks of me."
608
+
609
+ "Con," said Barbara, very softly and gravely, "you can't go on mourning a woman forever."
610
+
611
+ "I'm not. Forget it. I shouldn't have spoken about it."
612
+
613
+ "You needed to. That's all right."
614
+
615
+ "My girl ought to have a mother -- " The words came of themselves. What followed thereafter seemed also to happen without my willing it.
616
+
617
+ Presently Barbara stood back from me. She was laughing, low and sweet and joyous. "Con, you old sourpuss, cheer up! It isn't that bad, you know!"
618
+
619
+ I managed a wry grin, though it seemed to need all the energies left in me. "You look so happy your fool self that I have to counter-balance it."
620
+
621
+ "Con, if you knew how I'd been hoping!"
622
+
623
+ We talked for a long time, but she did most of it -- the plans, the hopes, the trip we were going to take and the house we were going to build down by the seashore -- "Mary," my daughter, was going to have a home, along with the dozen brothers and sisters she'd have in due course -- after the war.
624
+
625
+ After the war.
626
+
627
+ I left, finally, stumbling like a blind man toward my quarters. Oh, yes, I loved her and she loved me and we were going to have a home and a sailboat and a dozen children, after the war, when Earth was free. What more could a man ask for?
628
+
629
+ It had been many years since I'd needed autohypnosis to put myself to sleep, but I used it now.
630
+
631
+ VII
632
+
633
+ A month passed.
634
+
635
+ The delay was partly due to the slowness with which I had to work, even after a plan had been laid. I could only do a little at a time, and the times had to be well separated. Each day brought the moment of onslaught closer, but I dared not hurry myself. If they caught me at my work, there would be an end of all things.
636
+
637
+ But I cannot swear that my own mind did not prompt me to an unnatural slowness and caution. I was only human, and every day was one more memory.
638
+
639
+ They had all been very good to us; our friends had a party to celebrate our engagement and we were universally congratulated and all the rest of it. Yes, Kane was there too, shaking my hand and wishing me all the luck in the world. Afterward he went back to his work and his pilot's practice with a strange fierceness.
640
+
641
+ If at times I fell into glum abstraction, well, I had always been a little moody and Barbara could tease me out of it. Most of the times I was with her, I didn't think about the future at all.
642
+
643
+ There had been a certain deep inward coldness to her. She had carried the old wound of her losses with bitter dignity. But as the days went on, I saw less and less of it. She would even admit that individual Valgolians might be fine fellows and that the Empire had done a few constructive things for Earth. But it was more than a change of attitude. She was thawing after a long winter, she laughed more, she was wholly human now.
644
+
645
+ Human --
646
+
647
+ We sat one evening, she and I, in one of the big lounges the base had for its personnel. There were only one or two muted lights in the long quiet room, a breathing of music, snatches of whispering like our own. She sat close against me, and my lips kept straying down to brush her hair and her cheek.
648
+
649
+ "When we're married -- " she said dreamily. Then all at once: "Con, what are we waiting for?"
650
+
651
+ * * * * *
652
+
653
+ I looked at her in some surprise.
654
+
655
+ "Con, why do we assume we can't get married before the war's over?" Her voice was low and hurried, shaking just a little. "The base here has chaplains. It's less than a month now till the business starts. God knows what'll happen then. Either of us might be killed." I heard her gulp. "Con, if they killed you -- "
656
+
657
+ "They won't," I said. "I'm kill-proof."
658
+
659
+ "No, no. We have so little time, and it may be all we'll ever have. Marry me now, darling, dearest, and at least there'll be something to remember. Whatever comes, we'll have had that while."
660
+
661
+ "I tell you," I insisted, with a sudden hideous dismay, "there's nothing to worry about. Forget it."
662
+
663
+ "Oh, I'm not asking for pity. I've more happiness now than is right. Maybe that's why I'm afraid. But, Con, they killed my father and they killed my mother and they killed Jimmy, and if they take you too, it'll be more than I can stand."
664
+
665
+ The savage woe of an old Earthly poet lanced through my brain:
666
+
667
+ The time is out of joint O cursèd spite, That ever I was born To set it right!
668
+
669
+ And then, for just a moment, there came the notion of yielding. You love the girl, Conru. You love her so much it's a pain in you. Well, take her! Marry her!
670
+
671
+ No. I was not excessively tender of heart or conscience, but neither was I that kind of scoundrel.
672
+
673
+ I kissed her words away. Afterward, alone in the darkness of my room, I realized that Conrad Haugen had no good reason to hang back. It was true, all she said was true, and no other couple was waiting for an uncertain future.
674
+
675
+ It was the time for action.
676
+
677
+ * * * * *
678
+
679
+ I had been ready for days now, postponing the moment. And those days were marching to the time of war, the rebels were quivering to go, a scant few weeks at most lay between me and the ruin of Valgolian plans and work and hope.
680
+
681
+ In my steadily expanding official capacity, I could go anywhere and do almost anything in an engineering line. So, bit by bit, I had tinkered with the base's general alarm system.
682
+
683
+ We had scoutships posted, of course, but by the very nature of things they had to be close to the planet or an approaching enemy would slip between them without detection. And the substantial vibrations of a ship traveling faster than light do not arrive much ahead of the ship itself. Whatever warning we had of a hypothetical assault would be very short. It would be signaled to all of us by a siren on the intercommunications system, and after that it would be battle stations, naval units to their ships and all others to such ground defenses as we had.
684
+
685
+ But modern warfare is all to the offense. There is no way of stopping an attack from space except by meeting it and annihilating it before it gets to its destination. The rebels were counting on that fact to aid them when they struck, but it would, of course, work against them if their enemy should happen to hit first. Everyone was understandably nervous about the chance of our being discovered and assailed.
686
+
687
+ Working a little at a time, I had put a special switch in the general alarm circuit. It showed up merely as one of many on a sector call board near my room; no one was likely to notice it. And my quarters were not those originally given me. I had moved to a smaller place farther from Barbara, ostensibly to be near my work at the shipyards, actually to be near the base's ultrabeam shack.
688
+
689
+ Now it was time to act.
690
+
691
+ I needed an excuse for not going to the gun turret where I was assigned. That involved faking a serious fever, but like all Intelligence men, I had been trained to full psychosomatic integration. The same neural forces that in hysteria produce paralysis, stigmata, and other real symptoms were under my conscious control. I thought myself sick. By morning I was half delirious and my veins were on fire.
692
+
693
+ The surgeon general came to see me. "What the hell's the trouble?" he wondered. "This place is supposed to be sterile."
694
+
695
+ "Maybe it's too damn sterile," I murmured with a perfectly genuine weakness. Then, fighting the light-headedness that hummed and buzzed in me: "Tsitbu fever, Doc. I'm sure that's what it is."
696
+
697
+ "Can't say I've ever heard of it."
698
+
699
+ "You'll find it in your medical books." He would, too. "It's found on the planet Sirius V, where I once visited. Filter-passing virus, transmitted by airborne spores. Not contagious here. In humans it becomes chronic; no ill effects except a few days' fever like this every few years. Now go 'way and lemme die in peace." I closed my eyes on the distorted and unreal world of sickness.
700
+
701
+ * * * * *
702
+
703
+ Later Barbara came in, pale and with her hair like a rumpled halo. I had to assure her many times that I was all right and would be on my feet in two or three days. Then she smiled and sat down on the bunk and passed a cool palm over my forehead.
704
+
705
+ "Poor Con," she said. "Poor squarehead."
706
+
707
+ "I feel fine as long as you're here," I whispered.
708
+
709
+ "Don't talk," she said. "Just go to sleep." She kissed me and sat quiet. Hers was the rare gift of being a definite personality even when silent and motionless. I clasped her hand and pretended to fall into uneasy sleep. After a while she kissed me again, very softly, and went out.
710
+
711
+ I told my body to recover. It took time, hours of time, while the stubborn cells retreated to a normal level of activity. I lay there thinking of many things, most of them unpleasant.
712
+
713
+ It was well into the night, the logical time to act even if the factories did go on a twenty-four hour basis.
714
+
715
+ I got up, still swaying a little with weakness, the dregs of the fever ringing in my head. After I had vomited and swallowed a stimulant tablet, I felt better. I put on my uniform, but substituted a plain service jacket without insignia of rank for the tunic. That should make me fairly inconspicuous in the confusion.
716
+
717
+ Strength came. I glanced cautiously along the dim-lit corridor, and it was empty and silent. I stole out and hurried toward the ultrabeam shack. My hidden switch was on the way; I threw it and ran on with lowered head.
718
+
719
+ The siren screamed behind me, before me, around me, the howling of all the devils in hell -- Hoo! hoo! Battle stations! Strange ships approaching! Battle stations! All hands to battle stations! Hoo-oo!
720
+
721
+ I could imagine the pandemonium that erupted, men boiling out of factories and rooms, cursing and yelling and dashing frantically for their posts -- children screaming in terror, women white-faced with sudden numbness -- weapons manned, instruments sweeping the skies, spaceships roaring heavenward, incoherent yelling on the intercoms to find out who had given that signal. With luck, I would have fifteen minutes or half an hour of safe insanity.
722
+
723
+ A few men raced by me, on their way to the nearest missile rack. They paid me no heed, and I hurried along my own path.
724
+
725
+ The winding stair leading up to the ultrabeam shack loomed before me. I went its length, three steps at a time, bounding and gasping with my haste, up to the transmitter.
726
+
727
+ It was the tenuous link binding together a score of rebel planets, the only communication with the stars that glittered so coldly overhead. The ultrabeam does not have an infinite velocity, but it does have an unlimited speed, one depending solely on the frequency of the generating equipment, and since it only goes to such receivers as are tuned to its pattern -- there must be at least one such tuned unit for the generator to work -- it has a virtually infinite range. So men can talk between the stars, but are their words the wiser for that?
728
+
729
+ * * * * *
730
+
731
+ Up and up and up, round and round, up and up, metal clanging underfoot and always the demon screech of the siren -- up!
732
+
733
+ I sprang from the head of the stairs and crossed the areaway in one leap to the open door of the shack. There was only one operator on duty, a slim boyish figure before the glittering panel. He didn't hear me as I came behind him. I knocked him out with a calculated blow to the base of the skull. He'd be unconscious for at least fifteen minutes and that was time enough. I heaved his body out of the chair and sat down.
734
+
735
+ The unit was set for the complicated secret scrambler pattern of the Legion, one which was changed periodically just in case. I twirled the dials, adjusting for the pattern of the set I knew was kept tuned for me at Vorka's headquarters.
736
+
737
+ The set hummed, warming up. I lifted my eyes and stared into the naked face of Boreas. The shack was above ground, itself dominated by the skeletal tower of the transmitter, and a broad port revealed land and sky.
738
+
739
+ Overhead the stars were glittering, bright and hard and cruel, flashing and flashing out of the crystal dark. The peaks rose on every side, soaring dizziness of cliffs and ragged snarl of crags, hemming us in with our tiny works and struggles. It was bitterly, ringingly cold out there; the snow screamed when you walked on it; the snapping thunder of frost-split rock woke the dull roar of avalanches, and there was the wind, the old immortal wind, moaning and blowing and wandering under the stars. I saw them running, little antlike men spilling from their nest and racing across the snow before they froze. I saw the ships rise one after the other and rush darkly skyward. The base had come alive and was reaching up to defy the haughty stars.
740
+
741
+ The set buzzed and whistled, warming up, muttering with the cosmic interference whose source nobody knows. I began to speak into the microphone, softly and urgently: "Calling Intelligence HQ, Sol III, North America Center. Captain Halgan Conru calling North America Center. Come in, Center, come in."
742
+
743
+ * * * * *
744
+
745
+ The receiver rustled with the thin dry voice of the stars. Dimly, I could hear the wind outside, snarling around the walls.
746
+
747
+ "Come in, Center. Come in, Center."
748
+
749
+ "Captain Halgan!" The voice rattled into the waiting stillness of the shack. "Captain Halgan, is it really you?"
750
+
751
+ "Get General Vorka at once," I said. "Meanwhile, are you recording? All right, be sure you get this."
752
+
753
+ I told them everything I knew. I told them what planet this was, and where we were on its surface, and what our strength and plans were. I gave them the disposition of the scoutship pickets, as far as those were known to me, and the standard Legion recognition signals. I finished with an account of the savage differences still existing between Earthman and Earthman, and Earth and its treacherous allies. And all the time I was talking to a recording machine. Nobody was listening.
754
+
755
+ When I was through, I waited a minute, not feeling any particular emotion. I was too tired. I sat there, listening to the wind and the interstellar whistling, till Vorka spoke to me.
756
+
757
+ "Halgan! Halgan, you've done it!"
758
+
759
+ "Shut up," I said. "What's coming now?"
760
+
761
+ "I checked the Fleet units. We have a Supernova with escort at Bramgar, about fifteen light-years from where you are. You are at their base, aren't you? Can you hold out for two days more?"
762
+
763
+ "I think so."
764
+
765
+ "Better get into the hills. We may have to bombard."
766
+
767
+ "Go to hell." I turned off the set.
768
+
769
+ Now to get back. They must already know it was a trick; they must be scouring the base for the saboteur. As soon as all loyal men were back, the hunt would really be on.
770
+
771
+ I had, of course, worn gloves. There would be no fingerprints. And the operator wouldn't know who had attacked him.
772
+
773
+ I changed the scrambler setting to one picked at random. And in a corner, as if it had fallen there by accident, I dropped a handkerchief stolen from Wergil of Luron. The tiny fragments of tissue which adhere to such a thing could easily be proven to be from him or one of his associates, for the basic Luronian life-molecules are all levo-rotatory. It might help.
774
+
775
+ I slipped back down the stairs, quickly and quietly. It was over. The base was as good as taken. But there was more to be done. Apart from the saving of my own life, there was still a desperate need for secrecy. For if the rebels knew what was coming, they might choose to stand and fight, or they might flee into the roadless wildernesses of space. Whichever it was, all our work and sacrifice would have gone for little.
776
+
777
+ * * * * *
778
+
779
+ The provocateur policy is the boldest and most farsighted enterprise ever undertaken. It is the first attempt to make history as we choose, to control the great social forces we are only dimly beginning to understand, so that intelligence may ultimately be its own master.
780
+
781
+ Sure. Very fine and idealistic, and no doubt fairly true as well. But there is death and treachery in it, loneliness and heartbreak, and the bitterness of the betrayed. Have we the right to set ourselves up as God? Can we really say, in our omniscience, that everyone but us is wrong? There were sane, decent, intelligent folk here on Boreas, the ones we needed so desperately for all civilization. Did we have to make them our enemies, so that their grandchildren might be our friends?
782
+
783
+ I didn't know. Wherever I turned, there were treason and injustice. However hard I tried to do right, I had to wrong somebody.
784
+
785
+ I ran on, back to my cabin. I peeled off my clothes and dived into bed, and by the time they looked in on me I had worked back most of my fever.
786
+
787
+ Don't think, Conru. Don't think of this new victory and the safety of the Empire. And, perhaps, a step closer to the harshly won unity of Earth. Don't think of the way the light catches in Barbara's hair and gets turned into molten gold. You've got a fever to create, man. You've got to think yourself sick again. That ought to be easy.
788
+
789
+ VIII
790
+
791
+ Barbara came in. She was white and still, and presently she leaned her head against my breast and cried quietly, for a long time.
792
+
793
+ "There is a spy here," she told me.
794
+
795
+ "I heard about it." I stroked her hair and held her to me, clumsily. "Do you know who it was?"
796
+
797
+ "I don't know. Somehow, they seem to think the Luronians may be guilty, but they aren't sure. They arrested them, and two were killed resisting. Colonel Wergil is in the brig now, while they decide if Luron can still be trusted."
798
+
799
+ "It can't," I said. "Earth must win alone."
800
+
801
+ "We'll win," she said dauntlessly. "With Luron or without it, we'll win." Then, like a little frightened girl, creeping close to me: "But we needed that help so much."
802
+
803
+ I kissed her and remained silent.
804
+
805
+ The next day I got on my feet again, weak but recovered. I wandered aimlessly around the base, waiting for Barbara to get through work, listening to people talk. It was ugly, the fear and tension and wolfish watchfulness. Whom can we trust? Who is the enemy?
806
+
807
+ Mostly, they thought the Luronians were guilty. After all, those were the only beings on the planet who had not had to pass a rigorous investigation and psychological examination. But nobody was sure.
808
+
809
+ Levinsohn spoke over the televisor. His gaunt, lined face had grown very tired, yet there was metal in his voice. The new situation necessitated a change of plans, but the time of assault would, if anything, be moved ahead. "Be of good heart. Stand by your comrades. We'll still be free!"
810
+
811
+ I went to Barbara's apartment and we sat up very late. But even in this private record I do not wish to say what we talked about.
812
+
813
+ * * * * *
814
+
815
+ And the next day the Empire came.
816
+
817
+ There was one Supernova ship with light escort, but that was enough. Such vessels have the mass of a large asteroid, and one of them can sterilize a planet; two or three can take it apart. Theoretically, a task force comprising twenty Nova-class battleships with escorts can reduce one of those monsters if it is willing to lose most of its units. But nothing less can even do significant damage, and the rebel base did not have that much. Nor could they get even what they had into full action.
818
+
819
+ The ships rushed out of interstellar space, flashing the recognition signals I had given. Before the picket vessels suspected what was wrong, the Valgolians were on them. One managed to bleat a call to base and the alarm screamed again, men rushed to battle stations. Then the Imperials blanketed all communications with a snarl of interference through which nothing the rebels had could drive.
820
+
821
+ So naturally they were thought to have been annihilated in a few swift blazes of fire and steel, a quick clean death and forgetfulness of defeat. But only the drivers were crippled, and then the Supernova yanked the vessels to its titan flanks and held them in unbreakable gravity beams. The crews would be taken later, with narcotic gas or paralyzer beams -- alive.
822
+
823
+ For the Empire needs its rebels.
824
+
825
+ I knew the uselessness of going to battle stations, so I hung behind, seeking out Barbara, whose place was with the missile computer bank. I met her and Kane in the hallway. The boy's face was white, and there were tears running down his cheeks.
826
+
827
+ "This is the end," he said. "They've found us out, and there's nothing left but to die. Good by, Barbara." He kissed her, wildly, and ran for his ship. Moodily, I watched him go. He expected death, and he would get only capture, and afterward --
828
+
829
+ "What are you doing here, Con?" asked Barbara.
830
+
831
+ "I'm too shaky to be any good in the artillery. Let me go with you, I can punch a computer."
832
+
833
+ She nodded silently, and we went off together.
834
+
835
+ * * * * *
836
+
837
+ The floor shook under us, and a crash of rock roared down the halls. The heavy weapons on the Supernova were bloodlessly reducing our ground installations and our ships not yet in action to smashed rubble. They would kill not a single one of us, except by uncontrollable accident, and save many Valgolian and Earth lives that way, but it wasn't pleasant to be slugged. The girl and I staggered ahead. When the lights went out, I stopped and held her.
838
+
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+ "It's no use," I said. "They've got us."
840
+
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+ "Let me go!" she cried.
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+ I hung on, and suddenly she collapsed against me, crying and shaking. We stood there with the city rumbling and shivering around us, waiting.
844
+
845
+ Presently the Valgolian commander released the interference and contacted Levinsohn, offering terms of surrender. It seemed to Levinsohn, and it was meant to seem, that further resistance would be useless butchery. His ships were gone and his foes need only bombard him to ruin. He capitulated, and one by one we laid down our arms and filed to meet the victors.
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+
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+ The terms, as announced by messengers -- the intercom was out of action -- were generous. Leading rebels and those judged potentially "dangerous" would go to penal colonies on various Earthlike planets. Except that they weren't penal colonies at all, but, of course, the Earthlings wouldn't know this. They were indoctrination centers, and, with all my bitterness, I still longed to observe a man like Levinsohn after five years in one of the centers. He'd see things in a different perspective. He'd see the Empire for what it was -- even if I sometimes had a little trouble seeing that now -- and he'd be a better rebel for it.
848
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+ Someday Levinsohn and his kind would be back on Earth, the new leaders ready to lead the way to a new tomorrow. And I would be with them.
850
+
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+ I'd be back with Levinsohn and the rest, and with Barbara, too, and we'd try to pave the way to the peace and friendship. But meanwhile there'd be other revolutions -- striving and hoping and breaking their hearts daring what they thought would be death to win what they called freedom and what we hoped would be evolution.
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+
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+ It was the fire to temper a new civilization.
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+
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+ We walked down the hall, Barbara and I, hand in hand, alone in spite of all the people who were shuffling the same way. Most of them were weeping. But Barbara's head was high now.
856
+
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+ "What will happen to us?" she asked.
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+ "I don't know," I said. "But, Barbara, whatever happens after this, remember that I love you. Remember that I'll always love you."
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+ "I love you too," she smiled, and kissed me. "We'll be together, Con. That's all that matters. We'll be together."
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+
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+ That was important -- and it made me feel good. Yes, we'd be together; I'd see to that. But for a while Barbara would hate me through all the long years of the indoctrination. Someday, perhaps, she would understand ... the indoctrination could do it, and I could help. But by the gods of space, how would it be to take that hate all that while?
864
+
865
+ * * * * *
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+
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+ We came out into the central chamber where the prisoners were gathering to be herded up to the ships. Armed Valgolian guards stood under the glare of improvised lights. Other Imperials were going through the city, flushing out those who might be hiding and removing whatever our armed forces could use. The equipment would do no one any good here, and Boreas would be left to its darkness.
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+
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+ It was cold in the vast shadowy room. The heating plant had broken down and the ancient cold of Boreas was seeping in. Barbara shivered and I held her close to me. Nat Hawkins moved over to join us, wordlessly.
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+
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+ I was questioned in a locked room by one of the big Valgolian officers. He looked at a stereograph in his hand and he took me aside, but it was not unusual. Many of the starbound prisoners were being questioned by their guards, and I was merely one of them.
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+
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+ "Colonel Halgan?" the officer asked with an eagerness close to hero-worship. He was obviously fresh from school and military terminology came from his lips as if it really meant something to a Valgolian. The colonel, of course, meant that in a titular sense I had been elevated for my work. Funny, if you use the language enough, you get to believe it yourself.
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+ "Sir," the young officer continued, "this is one of the greatest pieces of work I've ever seen. I am to extend the official congratulations of -- "
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+ I let him talk for a while and then I raised my hand peremptorily and I told him that the girl with the Earthling Hawkins was to go along for indoctrination, despite the fact that her name did not appear on his lists. He nodded, and I went back to Barbara, but half a dozen men had come between us.
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+ Levinsohn and five guards. The man's carriage was still erect, the old unbreakable pride and courage were still in him. Someone among the prisoners broke loose and rushed at him, cursing, till the Valgolians thrust him back into line.
880
+
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+ "Levinsohn!" screamed the man. "Levinsohn, you dirty Jew, you sold us out!"
882
+
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+ There you see why this rebellion had to be crushed. Earth still had a long way to go. The Levinsohns, the Barbaras, the more promising of the anarchs would be educated and returned and the civilizing process would go on. Earth's best and bravest would unite and fight us, and with each defeat they would learn something of what we had to teach them, that all races, however divergent, must respect each other and work together, learn it with an intensity which the merely intellectual teaching of schools and propaganda could not achieve alone -- or, at any rate, soon enough.
884
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+ Valgolia is the great and lonely enemy, the self-appointed Devil since none of us can be angels. It is the source of challenge and adversity such as has always driven intelligence onward and upward, in spite of itself.
886
+
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+ Sooner or later, generations hence, perhaps, all the subject worlds will have attained internal unity, forgetting their very species in a common bond of intelligence. And on that day Valgolia's work will be done. She and her few friends, her donagangors, will seemingly capitulate without a fight and become simply part of a union of free and truly civilized planets.
888
+
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+ And such a union will be firmer and more enduring than all the tyrant empires of the past. It will have the strength of a thousand or more races, working together in the harmony which they achieved in struggling against us.
890
+
891
+ * * * * *
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+
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+ That is the goal, but it is a long way ahead; there may be centuries needed, and meanwhile Valgolia is alone.
894
+
895
+ Barbara would understand. In time she would understand what she as yet did not even know. But first would be the hatred, the cold stark hatred that must come of knowing who and what I really am. I could only wait for that hatred to come after she learned, and then wait for it to go, slowly, slowly....
896
+
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+ Lines of the Earthlings were filing forward, and, with Nat Hawkins, Barbara waited for me. I walked to her and took her hand. Her head was high, as high as Levinsohn's. She expected all of us to die, but she'd meet the relatives and friends she thought were dead.
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+ It would be a great, a crushing humiliation, to know one's martyrs were alive and being well treated and intensively educated by the foe, who was supporting and encouraging one's supposedly dangerous revolution.
900
+
901
+ "It won't be so bad as long as we're together, darling," I said.
902
+
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+ She smiled, misunderstanding, and kissed me defiantly before our Valgolian guards.
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Would that I could rid the earth of them and wipe out their names for ever.\"", "start_byte": 140561, "end_byte": 140788, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 70.55999755859375, "end_time": 85.5199966430664, "cut_start_time": 70.78499755859374, "cut_end_time": 84.90006005859374, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"If any witch is found in this county, let her be beaten to death.", "start_byte": 140920, "end_byte": 140986, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 95.5999984741211, "end_time": 100.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 95.85499847412109, "cut_end_time": 100.02012347412109, "narrative_prediction": {"issued": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Now we are rid of them, and that ends the matter for this county at any rate.\"", "start_byte": 141118, "end_byte": 141197, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 108.95999908447266, "end_time": 114.5999984741211, "cut_start_time": 109.11499908447266, "cut_end_time": 114.09006158447265, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Are you a mutang?\"", "start_byte": 141595, "end_byte": 141614, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 142.63999938964844, "end_time": 144.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 142.79499938964844, "cut_end_time": 144.25006188964844, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Yes, I am.\"", "start_byte": 141629, "end_byte": 141641, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 145.44000244140625, "end_time": 146.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 145.48500244140624, "cut_end_time": 146.56000244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Then,", "start_byte": 141643, "end_byte": 141649, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 146.83999633789062, "end_time": 147.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 147.2049963378906, "cut_end_time": 147.4201213378906, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"you did not know of the official order issued?\"", "start_byte": 141660, "end_byte": 141708, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 148.0800018310547, "end_time": 151.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 148.05500183105468, "cut_end_time": 150.93000183105468, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Oh yes, I heard of it,", "start_byte": 141710, "end_byte": 141733, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 151.1199951171875, "end_time": 153.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 151.6249951171875, "cut_end_time": 153.1400576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\"Are you not afraid to die, that you stay here in this county?\"", "start_byte": 141766, "end_byte": 141829, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 155.47999572753906, "end_time": 159.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 155.70499572753906, "cut_end_time": 159.24012072753905, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I have a matter of complaint to lay before your Excellency to be put right; please take note of it and grant my request. It is this: There are true mutangs and false mutangs. False mutangs ought to be killed, but you would not kill an honest mutang, would you? Your orders pertain to false mutangs; I do not understand them as pertaining to those who are true. I am an honest mutang; I knew you would not kill me, so I remained here in peace.\"", "start_byte": 141866, "end_byte": 142310, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 162.16000366210938, "end_time": 193.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 162.59500366210938, "cut_end_time": 193.72006616210936, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"How do you know that there are honest mutangs?\"", "start_byte": 142334, "end_byte": 142382, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 195.75999450683594, "end_time": 198.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 196.01499450683593, "cut_end_time": 198.64011950683593, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Let's put the matter to the test and see. If I am not proven honest, let me die.\"", "start_byte": 142403, "end_byte": 142485, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 200.24000549316406, "end_time": 206.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 200.45500549316407, "cut_end_time": 205.80006799316405, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Very well,", "start_byte": 142487, "end_byte": 142498, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 206.16000366210938, "end_time": 206.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 206.47500366210937, "cut_end_time": 206.98006616210938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"but can you really make good, and do you truly know how to call back departed spirits?\"", "start_byte": 142521, "end_byte": 142609, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 208.16000366210938, "end_time": 213.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 208.38500366210937, "cut_end_time": 213.42000366210937, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I can.\"", "start_byte": 142632, "end_byte": 142640, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 215.32000732421875, "end_time": 216.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 215.29500732421874, "cut_end_time": 216.01000732421875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"I had a friend of such and such rank in Seoul; can you call his spirit back to me?\"", "start_byte": 142749, "end_byte": 142833, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 222.67999267578125, "end_time": 228.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 222.90499267578124, "cut_end_time": 228.13011767578124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Let me do so; but first you must prepare food, with wine, and serve it properly.\"", "start_byte": 142855, "end_byte": 142937, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 230.0800018310547, "end_time": 236.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 230.05500183105468, "cut_end_time": 235.71000183105468, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"It is a serious matter to take a person's life; let me find out first if she is true or not, and then decide.", "start_byte": 143002, "end_byte": 143112, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 239.9600067138672, "end_time": 248.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 240.25500671386717, "cut_end_time": 247.62000671386718, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I want a suit of your clothes, too, please.", "start_byte": 143165, "end_byte": 143209, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 252.55999755859375, "end_time": 255.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 252.81499755859375, "cut_end_time": 255.38012255859374, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"I've come.", "start_byte": 143529, "end_byte": 143540, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 276.8800048828125, "end_time": 278.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 277.03500488281253, "cut_end_time": 277.8200048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"The soul of my friend is really present; I can no longer doubt or deny it.", "start_byte": 144155, "end_byte": 144230, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 317.55999755859375, "end_time": 322.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 317.86499755859376, "cut_end_time": 322.74006005859377, "narrative_prediction": {"saying": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"Alas! 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Pray help me. Though soon I shall be dead, yet, if you will not forget my little ones in this world, neither will I forget you in the world that is to come.", "start_byte": 228192, "end_byte": 228409, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 795.719970703125, "end_time": 810.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 795.874970703125, "cut_end_time": 809.6700957031251, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAway with you!", "start_byte": 229365, "end_byte": 229380, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 890.4000244140625, "end_time": 891.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 890.4650244140626, "cut_end_time": 891.7800869140625, "narrative_prediction": {"say": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou are seeking but to trick us.", "start_byte": 229398, "end_byte": 229431, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 893.3599853515625, "end_time": 896.0, "cut_start_time": 893.5949853515625, "cut_end_time": 895.4000478515625, "narrative_prediction": {"say": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cFor Christ\u2019s sake!", "start_byte": 230014, "end_byte": 230033, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 940.239990234375, "end_time": 942.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 940.464990234375, "cut_end_time": 941.970052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"hear": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cMay the Lord give unto you!", "start_byte": 230098, "end_byte": 230126, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 949.1599731445312, "end_time": 952.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 949.3149731445312, "cut_end_time": 951.2900981445313, "narrative_prediction": {"say": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe beggar is overdoing it,", "start_byte": 230454, "end_byte": 230482, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 984.6400146484375, "end_time": 987.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 985.0950146484375, "cut_end_time": 987.0500771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"thinks": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe knows the trick too well.", "start_byte": 230507, "end_byte": 230536, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 989.3599853515625, "end_time": 992.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 989.5149853515625, "cut_end_time": 991.8701103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cFor the love of Christ give me a groat!", "start_byte": 230778, "end_byte": 230818, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1014.0800170898438, "end_time": 1018.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 1014.4450170898438, "cut_end_time": 1017.0200170898438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "hoarse": {"id": "0", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "broken": {"id": "0", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cThey disturb us,", "start_byte": 231043, "end_byte": 231060, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1037.43994140625, "end_time": 1038.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1037.7049414062499, "cut_end_time": 1038.6300039062498, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cand are impertinent as well. Why should poverty be so impertinent? Why should its hungry moans prevent us from sleeping?\u201d", "start_byte": 231072, "end_byte": 231194, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1039.5999755859375, "end_time": 1049.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1039.8649755859374, "cut_end_time": 1048.6800380859374, "narrative_prediction": {"say": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy dost thou think of such things? Why dost thou think of thyself alone, and live only for thyself- -thou who art not a shoemaker? THY children are not ailing. THY wife is not hungry. Look around thee. Can\u2019st thou not find a subject more fitting for thy thoughts than thy shoes?", "start_byte": 233722, "end_byte": 234002, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1287.47998046875, "end_time": 1316.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1287.67498046875, "cut_end_time": 1315.02010546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, what is it, my good sir?", "start_byte": 235832, "end_byte": 235863, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1499.6800537109375, "end_time": 1502.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1499.9450537109374, "cut_end_time": 1502.1400537109373, "narrative_prediction": {"inquired": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is this, Makar Alexievitch. You have once before been my benefactor. Pray again show me the charity of God, and assist my unfortunate family. My wife and children have nothing to eat. To think that a father should have to say this!", "start_byte": 235906, "end_byte": 236141, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1506.4000244140625, "end_time": 1526.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1506.6650244140624, "cut_end_time": 1525.9400869140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou see,", "start_byte": 236194, "end_byte": 236203, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1530.5999755859375, "end_time": 1531.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1530.6349755859374, "cut_end_time": 1531.5301005859374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI am afraid of the other lodgers here. That is to say, I am not so much afraid of, as ashamed to address them, for they are a proud, conceited lot of men. Nor would I have troubled even you, my friend and former benefactor, were it not that I know that you yourself have experienced misfortune and are in debt; wherefore, I have ventured to come and make this request of you, in that I know you not only to be kind-hearted, but also to be in need, and for that reason the more likely to sympathise with me in my distress.", "start_byte": 236219, "end_byte": 236741, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1533.199951171875, "end_time": 1573.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1533.7249511718749, "cut_end_time": 1572.730076171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAh, Makar Alexievitch,", "start_byte": 236920, "end_byte": 236943, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1588.1600341796875, "end_time": 1590.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1588.4350341796874, "cut_end_time": 1590.4800966796874, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201csurely it is not much that I am asking of you? My-my wife and children are starving. C-could you not afford me just a grivennik?", "start_byte": 236957, "end_byte": 237086, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1591.3599853515625, "end_time": 1602.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1591.7549853515625, "cut_end_time": 1601.5100478515624, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow these people put me to shame!", "start_byte": 237117, "end_byte": 237151, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1605.239990234375, "end_time": 1607.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1605.7949902343748, "cut_end_time": 1607.790052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, good sir, I cannot,", "start_byte": 237277, "end_byte": 237301, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1617.1199951171875, "end_time": 1618.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1617.3449951171874, "cut_end_time": 1618.8801201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, what you will,", "start_byte": 237311, "end_byte": 237332, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1620.199951171875, "end_time": 1622.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1620.4949511718748, "cut_end_time": 1622.3400136718749, "narrative_prediction": {"persisted": {"id": "4", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cPerhaps ten kopecks?", "start_byte": 237348, "end_byte": 237369, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1624.0, "end_time": 1626.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1624.175, "cut_end_time": 1625.3799999999999, "narrative_prediction": {"persisted": {"id": "4", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow is it,", "start_byte": 237524, "end_byte": 237535, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1638.56005859375, "end_time": 1639.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1638.80505859375, "cut_end_time": 1639.57005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cthat, though you are in such straits, you have hired a room at five roubles?", "start_byte": 237550, "end_byte": 237627, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1640.56005859375, "end_time": 1646.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1640.80505859375, "cut_end_time": 1645.4800585937498, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOf the disgrace put upon me,", "start_byte": 238289, "end_byte": 238318, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1698.8800048828125, "end_time": 1700.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1699.1850048828123, "cut_end_time": 1701.0600048828123, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI am innocent. True, I to a certain extent disobeyed orders, but never did I commit theft or embezzlement.", "start_byte": 238335, "end_byte": 238442, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1702.3199462890625, "end_time": 1712.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1702.5149462890624, "cut_end_time": 1711.9300712890624, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "By the time I had returned to Gorokhovaia Street darkness had fallen and the lamps had been lit. However, I did not linger long in that particular spot, for Gorokhovaia Street is too noisy a place. But what sumptuous shops and stores it contains! Everything sparkles and glitters, and the windows are full of nothing but bright colours and materials and hats of different shapes. One might think that they were decked merely for display; but no, -- people buy these things, and give them to their wives! Yes, it IS a sumptuous place. Hordes of German hucksters are there, as well as quite respectable traders. And the quantities of carriages which pass along the street! One marvels that the pavement can support so many splendid vehicles, with windows like crystal, linings made of silk and velvet, and lacqueys dressed in epaulets and wearing swords! Into some of them I glanced, and saw that they contained ladies of various ages. Perhaps they were princesses and countesses! Probably at that hour such folk would be hastening to balls and other gatherings. In fact, it was interesting to be able to look so closely at a princess or a great lady. They were all very fine. At all events, I had never before seen such persons as I beheld in those carriages....", "start_byte": 221847, "end_byte": 223108, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 196.9600067138672, "end_time": 311.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 197.5450067138672, "cut_end_time": 310.37006921386717}, {"text": "Then I thought of you. Ah, my own, my darling, it is often that I think of you and feel my heart sink. How is it that YOU are so unfortunate, Barbara? How is it that YOU are so much worse off than other people? In my eyes you are kind-hearted, beautiful, and clever -- why, then, has such an evil fate fallen to your lot? How comes it that you are left desolate -- you, so good a human being! While to others happiness comes without an invitation at all? Yes, I know -- I know it well -- that I ought not to say it, for to do so savours of free-thought; but why should that raven, Fate, croak out upon the fortunes of one person while she is yet in her mother\u2019s womb, while another person it permits to go forth in happiness from the home which has reared her? To even an idiot of an Ivanushka such happiness is sometimes granted.", "start_byte": 223110, "end_byte": 223940, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 311.9200134277344, "end_time": 389.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 312.1150134277344, "cut_end_time": 388.6300134277344}, {"text": " says Fate,", "start_byte": 223967, "end_byte": 223978, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 394.3999938964844, "end_time": 396.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 394.9549938964844, "cut_end_time": 395.7400563964844}, {"text": " Yes, I know that it is wrong to hold such opinions, but involuntarily the sin of so doing grows upon one\u2019s soul. Nevertheless, it is you, my darling, who ought to be riding in one of those carriages. Generals would have come seeking your favour, and, instead of being clad in a humble cotton dress, you would have been walking in silken and golden attire. Then you would not have been thin and wan as now, but fresh and plump and rosy-cheeked as a figure on a sugar-cake. Then should I too have been happy -- happy if only I could look at your lighted windows from the street, and watch your shadow -- happy if only I could think that you were well and happy, my sweet little bird! Yet how are things in reality? Not only have evil folk brought you to ruin, but there comes also an old rascal of a libertine to insult you! Just because he struts about in a frockcoat, and can ogle you through a gold-mounted lorgnette, the brute thinks that everything will fall into his hands -- that you are bound to listen to his insulting condescension! Out upon him! But why is this? It is because you are an orphan, it is because you are unprotected, it is because you have no powerful friend to afford you the decent support which is your due. WHAT do such facts matter to a man or to men to whom the insulting of an orphan is an offence allowed? Such fellows are not men at all, but mere vermin, no matter what they think themselves to be. Of that I am certain. Why, an organ-grinder whom I met in Gorokhovaia Street would inspire more respect than they do, for at least he walks about all day, and suffers hunger -- at least he looks for a stray, superfluous groat to earn him subsistence, and is, therefore, a true gentleman, in that he supports himself. To beg alms he would be ashamed; and, moreover, he works for the benefit of mankind just as does a factory machine.", "start_byte": 224176, "end_byte": 226040, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 415.5199890136719, "end_time": 610.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 417.0149890136719, "cut_end_time": 609.6500515136719}, {"text": " says he,", "start_byte": 226064, "end_byte": 226073, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 612.8800048828125, "end_time": 614.0, "cut_start_time": 613.0150048828125, "cut_end_time": 613.7500048828125}, {"text": " True, he is a pauper, and nothing but a pauper; but, at least he is an HONOURABLE pauper. Though tired and hungry, he still goes on working -- working in his own peculiar fashion, yet still doing honest labour. Yes, many a decent fellow whose labour may be disproportionate to its utility pulls the forelock to no one, and begs his bread of no one. I myself resemble that organ-grinder. That is to say, though not exactly he, I resemble him in this respect, that I work according to my capabilities, and so far as in me lies. More could be asked of no one; nor ought I to be adjudged to do more.", "start_byte": 226101, "end_byte": 226697, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 616.6400146484375, "end_time": 676.0, "cut_start_time": 617.2850146484375, "cut_end_time": 674.5700146484376}, {"text": "Apropos of the organ-grinder, I may tell you, dearest, that today I experienced a double misfortune. As I was looking at the grinder, certain thoughts entered my head and I stood wrapped in a reverie. Some cabmen also had halted at the spot, as well as a young girl, with a yet smaller girl who was dressed in rags and tatters. These people had halted there to listen to the organ-grinder, who was playing in front of some one\u2019s windows. Next, I caught sight of a little urchin of about ten -- a boy who would have been good-looking but for the fact that his face was pinched and sickly. Almost barefooted, and clad only in a shirt, he was standing agape to listen to the music -- a pitiful childish figure. Nearer to the grinder a few more urchins were dancing, but in the case of this lad his hands and feet looked numbed, and he kept biting the end of his sleeve and shivering. Also, I noticed that in his hands he had a paper of some sort. Presently a gentleman came by, and tossed the grinder a small coin, which fell straight into a box adorned with a representation of a Frenchman and some ladies. The instant he heard the rattle of the coin, the boy started, looked timidly round, and evidently made up his mind that I had thrown the money; whereupon, he ran to me with his little hands all shaking, and said in a tremulous voice as he proffered me his paper:", "start_byte": 226699, "end_byte": 228066, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 676.0, "end_time": 786.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 676.235, "cut_end_time": 786.2400625}, {"text": " I turned over the paper, and saw that there was written on it what is usual under such circumstances.", "start_byte": 228089, "end_byte": 228191, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 787.6799926757812, "end_time": 795.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 788.0449926757813, "cut_end_time": 794.9700551757812}, {"text": " The thing seemed clear enough; it was a matter of life and death. Yet what was I to give the lad? Well, I gave him nothing. But my heart ached for him. I am certain that, shivering with cold though he was, and perhaps hungry, the poor lad was not lying. No, no, he was not lying. The shameful point is that so many mothers take no care of their children, but send them out, half-clad, into the cold. Perhaps this lad\u2019s mother also was a feckless old woman, and devoid of character? Or perhaps she had no one to work for her, but was forced to sit with her legs crossed -- a veritable invalid? Or perhaps she was just an old rogue who was in the habit of sending out pinched and hungry boys to deceive the public? What would such a boy learn from begging letters? His heart would soon be rendered callous, for, as he ran about begging, people would pass him by and give him nothing. Yes, their hearts would be as stone, and their replies rough and harsh.", "start_byte": 228410, "end_byte": 229364, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 810.4000244140625, "end_time": 890.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 811.0050244140625, "cut_end_time": 889.8100869140625}, {"text": " they would say.", "start_byte": 229381, "end_byte": 229397, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 891.8400268554688, "end_time": 893.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 892.0150268554688, "cut_end_time": 893.1800268554688}, {"text": " He would hear that from every one, and his heart would grow hard, and he would shiver in vain with the cold, like some poor little fledgling that has fallen out of the nest. His hands and feet would be freezing, and his breath coming with difficulty; until, look you, he would begin to cough, and disease, like an unclean parasite, would worm its way into his breast until death itself had overtaken him -- overtaken him in some foetid corner whence there was no chance of escape. Yes, that is what his life would become. There are many such cases. Ah, Barbara, it is hard to hear", "start_byte": 229432, "end_byte": 230013, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 896.0, "end_time": 940.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 896.355, "cut_end_time": 939.72}, {"text": " and yet pass the suppliant by and give nothing, or say merely:", "start_byte": 230034, "end_byte": 230097, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 942.47998046875, "end_time": 949.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 942.8949804687501, "cut_end_time": 948.6600429687501}, {"text": " Of course, SOME supplications mean nothing (for supplications differ greatly in character). Occasionally supplications are long, drawn-out and drawling, stereotyped and mechanical -- they are purely begging supplications. Requests of this kind it is less hard to refuse, for they are purely professional and of long standing.", "start_byte": 230127, "end_byte": 230453, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 952.3200073242188, "end_time": 984.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 952.5050073242188, "cut_end_time": 984.1500698242188}, {"text": " one thinks to oneself.", "start_byte": 230483, "end_byte": 230506, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 987.4400024414062, "end_time": 989.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 987.6350024414063, "cut_end_time": 989.0100024414063}, {"text": " But there are other supplications which voice a strange, hoarse, unaccustomed note, like that today when I took the poor boy\u2019s paper. He had been standing by the kerbstone without speaking to anybody -- save that at last to myself he said,", "start_byte": 230537, "end_byte": 230777, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 992.4400024414062, "end_time": 1014.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 993.0050024414063, "cut_end_time": 1013.1600649414063}, {"text": " in a voice so hoarse and broken that I started, and felt a queer sensation in my heart, although I did not give him a groat. Indeed, I had not a groat on me. Rich folk dislike hearing poor people complain of their poverty.", "start_byte": 230819, "end_byte": 231042, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1018.0399780273438, "end_time": 1037.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1018.6949780273437, "cut_end_time": 1036.9600405273438}, {"text": " they say,", "start_byte": 231061, "end_byte": 231071, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1038.719970703125, "end_time": 1039.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1038.834970703125, "cut_end_time": 1039.470033203125}, {"text": "To tell you the truth, my darling, I have written the foregoing not merely to relieve my feelings, but, also, still more, to give you an example of the excellent style in which I can write. You yourself will recognise that my style was formed long ago, but of late such fits of despondency have seized upon me that my style has begun to correspond to my feelings; and though I know that such correspondence gains one little, it at least renders one a certain justice. For not unfrequently it happens that, for some reason or another, one feels abased, and inclined to value oneself at nothing, and to account oneself lower than a dishclout; but this merely arises from the fact that at the time one is feeling harassed and depressed, like the poor boy who today asked of me alms. Let me tell you an allegory, dearest, and do you hearken to it. Often, as I hasten to the office in the morning, I look around me at the city -- I watch it awaking, getting out of bed, lighting its fires, cooking its breakfast, and becoming vocal; and at the sight, I begin to feel smaller, as though some one had dealt me a rap on my inquisitive nose. Yes, at such times I slink along with a sense of utter humiliation in my heart. For one would have but to see what is passing within those great, black, grimy houses of the capital, and to penetrate within their walls, for one at once to realise what good reason there is for self- depredation and heart-searching. Of course, you will note that I am speaking figuratively rather than literally. Let us look at what is passing within those houses. In some dingy corner, perhaps, in some damp kennel which is supposed to be a room, an artisan has just awakened from sleep. All night he has dreamt -- IF such an insignificant fellow is capable of dreaming? -- about the shoes which last night he mechanically cut out. He is a master-shoemaker, you see, and therefore able to think of nothing but his one subject of interest. Nearby are some squalling children and a hungry wife. Nor is he the only man that has to greet the day in this fashion. Indeed, the incident would be nothing -- it would not be worth writing about, save for another circumstance. In that same house ANOTHER person -- a person of great wealth -- may also have been dreaming of shoes; but, of shoes of a very different pattern and fashion (in a manner of speaking, if you understand my metaphor, we are all of us shoemakers). This, again, would be nothing, were it not that the rich person has no one to whisper in his ear:", "start_byte": 231196, "end_byte": 233721, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1049.0799560546875, "end_time": 1287.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1049.4449560546875, "cut_end_time": 1287.0500185546873}, {"text": " That is what I want to say to you in allegorical language, Barbara. Maybe it savours a little of free- thought, dearest; but, such ideas WILL keep arising in my mind and finding utterance in impetuous speech. Why, therefore, should one not value oneself at a groat as one listens in fear and trembling to the roar and turmoil of the city? Maybe you think that I am exaggerating things -- that this is a mere whim of mine, or that I am quoting from a book? No, no, Barbara. You may rest assured that it is not so. Exaggeration I abhor, with whims I have nothing to do, and of quotation I am guiltless.", "start_byte": 234003, "end_byte": 234604, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1316.6800537109375, "end_time": 1381.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1317.1350537109374, "cut_end_time": 1380.1900537109375}, {"text": "I arrived home today in a melancholy mood. Sitting down to the table, I had warmed myself some tea, and was about to drink a second glass of it, when there entered Gorshkov, the poor lodger. Already, this morning, I had noticed that he was hovering around the other lodgers, and also seeming to want to speak to myself. In passing I may say that his circumstances are infinitely worse than my own; for, only think of it, he has a wife and children! Indeed, if I were he, I do not know what I should do. Well, he entered my room, and bowed to me with the pus standing, as usual, in drops on his eyelashes, his feet shuffling about, and his tongue unable, at first, to articulate a word. I motioned him to a chair (it was a dilapidated enough one, but I had no other), and asked him to have a glass of tea. To this he demurred -- for quite a long time he demurred, but at length he accepted the offer. Next, he was for drinking the tea without sugar, and renewed his excuses, but upon the sugar I insisted. After long resistance and many refusals, he DID consent to take some, but only the smallest possible lump; after which, he assured me that his tea was perfectly sweet. 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When the fraud was discovered the merchant was prosecuted, but the transactions in which he had engaged involved Gorshkov, although the latter had been guilty only of negligence, want of prudence, and culpable indifference to the Treasury\u2019s interests. True, the affair had taken place some years ago, but various obstacles had since combined to thwart Gorshkov.", "start_byte": 237628, "end_byte": 238288, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1646.1199951171875, "end_time": 1698.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1646.5349951171875, "cut_end_time": 1698.1501201171875}, {"text": " said he to me,", "start_byte": 238319, "end_byte": 238334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1700.9599609375, "end_time": 1702.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1700.9349609375, "cut_end_time": 1701.9700234375}]}
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Until now therefore, we were undiminished in numbers, except by the desertion of those who had attached themselves to the impostor-prophet, and remained behind in Paris. About fifty French joined us. Our order of march was easily arranged; the ill success which had attended our division, determined Adrian to keep all in one body. I, with an hundred men, went forward first as purveyor, taking the road of the C\u00f4te d\u2019Or, through Auxerre, Dijon, Dole, over the Jura to Geneva. I was to make arrangements, at every ten miles, for the accommodation of such numbers as I found the town or village would receive, leaving behind a messenger with a written order, signifying how many were to be quartered there. The remainder of our tribe was then divided into bands of fifty each, every division containing eighteen men, and the remainder, consisting of women and children. Each of these was headed by an officer, who carried the roll of names, by which they were each day to be mustered. If the numbers were divided at night, in the morning those in the van waited for those in the rear. At each of the large towns before mentioned, we were all to assemble; and a conclave of the principal officers would hold council for the general weal. I went first, as I said; Adrian last. His mother, with Clara and Evelyn under her protection, remained also with him. Thus our order being determined, I departed. My plan was to go at first no further than Fontainebleau, where in a few days I should be joined by Adrian, before I took flight again further eastward.", "start_byte": 840044, "end_byte": 841699, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 254.9600067138672, "end_time": 350.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 254.93500671386718, "cut_end_time": 350.9000067138672}, {"text": "My friend accompanied me a few miles from Versailles. 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A month ago, and we were masters of ourselves; now, \u2014 \u201d he turned his face from me; though gathering twilight had already veiled its expression, he turned it yet more away, as he added \u2014", "start_byte": 842079, "end_byte": 842299, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 373.20001220703125, "end_time": 386.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 373.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 387.06001220703126}, {"text": "He spoke in a smothered voice, then suddenly clasping his hands, he exclaimed,", "start_byte": 842340, "end_byte": 842418, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 389.32000732421875, "end_time": 393.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 389.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 393.7800073242188}, {"text": "Tears streamed from his eyes.", "start_byte": 842900, "end_byte": 842929, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 423.79998779296875, "end_time": 426.0, "cut_start_time": 423.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 426.1000502929688}, {"text": " he continued,", "start_byte": 842948, "end_byte": 842962, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 427.1199951171875, "end_time": 428.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 427.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 428.22005761718754}, {"text": "Hitherto, with an undaunted spirit, and an high feeling of duty and worth, Adrian had fulfilled his self-imposed task. I had contemplated him with reverence, and a fruitless desire of imitation. I now offered a few words of encouragement and sympathy. He hid his face in his hands, and while he strove to calm himself, he ejaculated, \u201cFor a few months, yet for a few months more, let not, O God, my heart fail, or my courage be bowed down; let not sights of intolerable misery madden this half-crazed brain, or cause this frail heart to beat against its prison-bound, so that it burst. I have believed it to be my destiny to guide and rule the last of the race of man, till death extinguish my government; and to this destiny I submit.", "start_byte": 843349, "end_byte": 844084, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 454.0799865722656, "end_time": 500.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 454.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 500.50004907226565}, {"text": "His vehemence, and voice broken by irrepressible sighs, sunk to my heart; his eyes gleamed in the gloom of night like two earthly stars; and, his form dilating, his countenance beaming, truly it almost seemed as if at his eloquent appeal a more than mortal spirit entered his frame, exalting him above humanity. He turned quickly towards me, and held out his hand.", "start_byte": 845031, "end_byte": 845395, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 560.719970703125, "end_time": 583.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 560.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 583.740095703125}, {"text": " he cried,", "start_byte": 845415, "end_byte": 845425, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 585.0, "end_time": 585.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 584.975, "cut_end_time": 585.7}, {"text": "He grasped my hand, and bent a look on me, more fervent and animated than any smile; then turning his horse\u2019s head, he touched the animal with the spur, and was out of sight in a moment.", "start_byte": 845628, "end_byte": 845814, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 597.6400146484375, "end_time": 608.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 597.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 608.5000771484375}, {"text": "A man last night had died of the plague. The quiver was not emptied, nor the bow unstrung. We stood as marks, while Parthian Pestilence aimed and shot, insatiated by conquest, unobstructed by the heaps of slain. A sickness of the soul, contagious even to my physical mechanism, came over me. My knees knocked together, my teeth chattered, the current of my blood, clotted by sudden cold, painfully forced its way from my heavy heart. I did not fear for myself, but it was misery to think that we could not even save this remnant. That those I loved might in a few days be as clay-cold as Idris in her antique tomb; nor could strength of body or energy of mind ward off the blow. A sense of degradation came over me. Did God create man, merely in the end to become dead earth in the midst of healthful vegetating nature? Was he of no more account to his Maker, than a field of corn blighted in the ear? Were our proud dreams thus to fade? Our name was written", "start_byte": 845816, "end_byte": 846774, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 608.4000244140625, "end_time": 668.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 608.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 668.3400244140626}, {"text": " and, behold, we were no better than ephemera. We had called ourselves the", "start_byte": 846808, "end_byte": 846882, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.0800170898438, "end_time": 674.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 670.0550170898438, "cut_end_time": 674.7800170898438}, {"text": " and, lo! we were a", "start_byte": 846904, "end_byte": 846923, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 675.8800048828125, "end_time": 676.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 675.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 676.9800673828125}, {"text": " We repined that the pyramids had outlasted the embalmed body of their builder. Alas! the mere shepherd\u2019s hut of straw we passed on the road, contained in its structure the principle of greater longevity than the whole race of man. How reconcile this sad change to our past aspirations, to our apparent powers!", "start_byte": 846948, "end_byte": 847258, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 678.719970703125, "end_time": 697.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 678.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 697.4200957031251}, {"text": "Sudden an internal voice, articulate and clear, seemed to say: \u2014 Thus from eternity, it was decreed: the steeds that bear Time onwards had this hour and this fulfilment enchained to them, since the void brought forth its burthen. Would you read backwards the unchangeable laws of Necessity?", "start_byte": 847260, "end_byte": 847550, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 697.3200073242188, "end_time": 715.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 697.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 715.7000073242187}, {"text": "Mother of the world! Servant of the Omnipotent! eternal, changeless Necessity! who with busy fingers sittest ever weaving the indissoluble chain of events! \u2014 I will not murmur at thy acts. If my human mind cannot acknowledge that all that is, is right; yet since what is, must be, I will sit amidst the ruins and smile. Truly we were not born to enjoy, but to submit, and to hope.", "start_byte": 847552, "end_byte": 847932, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 715.5999755859375, "end_time": 740.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 715.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 741.0200380859375}, {"text": "Will not the reader tire, if I should minutely describe our long-drawn journey from Paris to Geneva? If, day by day, I should record, in the form of a journal, the thronging miseries of our lot, could my hand write, or language afford words to express, the variety of our woe; the hustling and crowding of one deplorable event upon another? Patience, oh reader! whoever thou art, wherever thou dwellest, whether of race spiritual, or, sprung from some surviving pair, thy nature will be human, thy habitation the earth; thou wilt here read of the acts of the extinct race, and wilt ask wonderingly, if they, who suffered what thou findest recorded, were of frail flesh and soft organization like thyself. Most true, they were \u2014 weep therefore; for surely, solitary being, thou wilt be of gentle disposition; shed compassionate tears; but the while lend thy attention to the tale, and learn the deeds and sufferings of thy predecessors.", "start_byte": 847934, "end_byte": 848869, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 740.9199829101562, "end_time": 798.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 740.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 798.9801079101562}, {"text": "Yet the last events that marked our progress through France were so full of strange horror and gloomy misery, that I dare not pause too long in the narration. If I were to dissect each incident, every small fragment of a second would contain an harrowing tale, whose minutest word would curdle the blood in thy young veins. It is right that I should erect for thy instruction this monument of the foregone race; but not that I should drag thee through the wards of an hospital, nor the secret chambers of the charnel-house. This tale, therefore, shall be rapidly unfolded. Images of destruction, pictures of despair, the procession of the last triumph of death, shall be drawn before thee, swift as the rack driven by the north wind along the blotted splendour of the sky.", "start_byte": 848871, "end_byte": 849643, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 798.8800048828125, "end_time": 842.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 798.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 842.7400673828125}, {"text": "Weed-grown fields, desolate towns, the wild approach of riderless horses had now become habitual to my eyes; nay, sights far worse, of the unburied dead, and human forms which were strewed on the road side, and on the steps of once frequented habitations, where,", "start_byte": 849645, "end_byte": 849907, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 842.6400146484375, "end_time": 858.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 842.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 858.7400771484375}, {"text": "Through the flesh that wastes away Beneath the parching sun, the whitening bones Start forth, and moulder in the sable dust.[23]", "start_byte": 849909, "end_byte": 850037, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 858.6400146484375, "end_time": 866.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 858.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 866.5000771484375}, {"text": "Sights like these had become \u2014 ah, woe the while! so familiar, that we had ceased to shudder, or spur our stung horses to sudden speed, as we passed them. France in its best days, at least that part of France through which we travelled, had been a cultivated desert, and the absence of enclosures, of cottages, and even of peasantry, was saddening to a traveller from sunny Italy, or busy England. Yet the towns were frequent and lively, and the cordial politeness and ready smile of the wooden-shoed peasant restored good humour to the splenetic. Now, the old woman sat no more at the door with her distaff \u2014 the lank beggar no longer asked charity in courtier-like phrase; nor on holidays did the peasantry thread with slow grace the mazes of the dance. Silence, melancholy bride of death, went in procession with him from town to town through the spacious region.", "start_byte": 850039, "end_byte": 850905, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 866.4000244140625, "end_time": 917.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 866.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 917.7800244140625}, {"text": "We arrived at Fontainebleau, and speedily prepared for the reception of our friends. On mustering our numbers for the night, three were found missing. When I enquired for them, the man to whom I spoke, uttered the word", "start_byte": 850907, "end_byte": 851125, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 917.6799926757812, "end_time": 930.0, "cut_start_time": 917.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 930.1000551757812}, {"text": " and fell at my feet in convulsions; he also was infected. There were hard faces around me; for among my troop were sailors who had crossed the line times unnumbered, soldiers who, in Russia and far America, had suffered famine, cold and danger, and men still sterner-featured, once nightly depredators in our over-grown metropolis; men bred from their cradle to see the whole machine of society at work for their destruction. I looked round, and saw upon the faces of all horror and despair written in glaring characters.", "start_byte": 851135, "end_byte": 851657, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 930.47998046875, "end_time": 960.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 930.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 961.0601054687501}, {"text": "We passed four days at Fontainebleau. Several sickened and died, and in the mean time neither Adrian nor any of our friends appeared. My own troop was in commotion; to reach Switzerland, to plunge into rivers of snow, and to dwell in caves of ice, became the mad desire of all. Yet we had promised to wait for the Earl; and he came not. My people demanded to be led forward \u2014 rebellion, if so we might call what was the mere casting away of straw-formed shackles, appeared manifestly among them. They would away on the word without a leader. The only chance of safety, the only hope of preservation from every form of indescribable suffering, was our keeping together. I told them this; while the most determined among them answered with sullenness, that they could take care of themselves, and replied to my entreaties with scoffs and menaces.", "start_byte": 851659, "end_byte": 852503, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 960.9600219726562, "end_time": 1009.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 960.9350219726563, "cut_end_time": 1009.5400844726563}, {"text": "At length, on the fifth day, a messenger arrived from Adrian, bearing letters, which directed us to proceed to Auxerre, and there await his arrival, which would only be deferred for a few days. Such was the tenor of his public letters. Those privately delivered to me, detailed at length the difficulties of his situation, and left the arrangement of my future plans to my own discretion. His account of the state of affairs at Versailles was brief, but the oral communications of his messenger filled up his omissions, and shewed me that perils of the most frightful nature were gathering around him. At first the re-awakening of the plague had been concealed; but the number of deaths encreasing, the secret was divulged, and the destruction already achieved, was exaggerated by the fears of the survivors. Some emissaries of the enemy of mankind, the accursed Impostors, were among them instilling their doctrine that safety and life could only be ensured by submission to their chief; and they succeeded so well, that soon, instead of desiring to proceed to Switzerland, the major part of the multitude, weak-minded women, and dastardly men, desired to return to Paris, and, by ranging themselves under the banners of the so called prophet, and by a cowardly worship of the principle of evil, to purchase respite, as they hoped, from impending death. The discord and tumult induced by these conflicting fears and passions, detained Adrian. It required all his ardour in pursuit of an object, and his patience under difficulties, to calm and animate such a number of his followers, as might counterbalance the panic of the rest, and lead them back to the means from which alone safety could be derived. He had hoped immediately to follow me; but, being defeated in this intention, he sent his messenger urging me to secure my own troop at such a distance from Versailles, as to prevent the contagion of rebellion from reaching them; promising, at the same time, to join me the moment a favourable occasion should occur, by means of which he could withdraw the main body of the emigrants from the evil influence at present exercised over them.", "start_byte": 852505, "end_byte": 854650, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1009.4400024414062, "end_time": 1131.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1009.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 1131.8200024414064}, {"text": "I was thrown into a most painful state of uncertainty by these communications. My first impulse was that we should all return to Versailles, there to assist in extricating our chief from his perils. I accordingly assembled my troop, and proposed to them this retrograde movement, instead of the continuation of our journey to Auxerre. With one voice they refused to comply. The notion circulated among them was, that the ravages of the plague alone detained the Protector; they opposed his order to my request; they came to a resolve to proceed without me, should I refuse to accompany them. Argument and adjuration were lost on these dastards. The continual diminution of their own numbers, effected by pestilence, added a sting to their dislike of delay; and my opposition only served to bring their resolution to a crisis. That same evening they departed towards Auxerre. Oaths, as from soldiers to their general, had been taken by them: these they broke. I also had engaged myself not to desert them; it appeared to me inhuman to ground any infraction of my word on theirs. The same spirit that caused them to rebel against me, would impel them to desert each other; and the most dreadful sufferings would be the consequence of their journey in their present unordered and chiefless array. These feelings for a time were paramount; and, in obedience to them, I accompanied the rest towards Auxerre. We arrived the same night at Villeneuve-la-Guiard, a town at the distance of four posts from Fontainebleau. When my companions had retired to rest, and I was left alone to revolve and ruminate upon the intelligence I received of Adrian\u2019s situation, another view of the subject presented itself to me. What was I doing, and what was the object of my present movements? Apparently I was to lead this troop of selfish and lawless men towards Switzerland, leaving behind my family and my selected friend, which, subject as they were hourly to the death that threatened to all, I might never see again. Was it not my first duty to assist the Protector, setting an example of attachment and duty? At a crisis, such as the one I had reached, it is very difficult to balance nicely opposing interests, and that towards which our inclinations lead us, obstinately assumes the appearance of selfishness, even when we meditate a sacrifice. We are easily led at such times to make a compromise of the question; and this was my present resource. I resolved that very night to ride to Versailles; if I found affairs less desperate than I now deemed them, I would return without delay to my troop; I had a vague idea that my arrival at that town, would occasion some sensation more or less strong, of which we might profit, for the purpose of leading forward the vacillating multitude \u2014 at least no time was to be lost \u2014 I visited the stables, I saddled my favourite horse, and vaulting on his back, without giving myself time for further reflection or hesitation, quitted Villeneuve-la-Guiard on my return to Versailles.", "start_byte": 854652, "end_byte": 857661, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1131.719970703125, "end_time": 1307.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1131.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 1307.300033203125}, {"text": "I was glad to escape from my rebellious troop, and to lose sight for a time, of the strife of evil with good, where the former for ever remained triumphant. I was stung almost to madness by my uncertainty concerning the fate of Adrian, and grew reckless of any event, except what might lose or preserve my unequalled friend. With an heavy heart, that sought relief in the rapidity of my course, I rode through the night to Versailles. I spurred my horse, who addressed his free limbs to speed, and tossed his gallant head in pride. The constellations reeled swiftly by, swiftly each tree and stone and landmark fled past my onward career. I bared my head to the rushing wind, which bathed my brow in delightful coolness. As I lost sight of Villeneuve-la-Guiard, I forgot the sad drama of human misery; methought it was happiness enough to live, sensitive the while of the beauty of the verdure-clad earth, the star-bespangled sky, and the tameless wind that lent animation to the whole. My horse grew tired \u2014 and I, forgetful of his fatigue, still as he lagged, cheered him with my voice, and urged him with the spur. He was a gallant animal, and I did not wish to exchange him for any chance beast I might light on, leaving him never to be refound. All night we went forward; in the morning he became sensible that we approached Versailles, to reach which as his home, he mustered his flagging strength. The distance we had come was not less than fifty miles, yet he shot down the long Boulevards swift as an arrow; poor fellow, as I dismounted at the gate of the castle, he sunk on his knees, his eyes were covered with a film, he fell on his side, a few gasps inflated his noble chest, and he died. I saw him expire with an anguish, unaccountable even to myself, the spasm was as the wrenching of some limb in agonizing torture, but it was brief as it was intolerable. I forgot him, as I swiftly darted through the open portal, and up the majestic stairs of this castle of victories \u2014 heard Adrian\u2019s voice \u2014 O fool! O woman nurtured, effeminate and contemptible being \u2014 I heard his voice, and answered it with convulsive shrieks; I rushed into the Hall of Hercules, where he stood surrounded by a crowd, whose eyes, turned in wonder on me, reminded me that on the stage of the world, a man must repress such girlish extacies. I would have given worlds to have embraced him; I dared not \u2014 Half in exhaustion, half voluntarily, I threw myself at my length on the ground \u2014 dare I disclose the truth to the gentle offspring of solitude? I did so, that I might kiss the dear and sacred earth he trod.", "start_byte": 857663, "end_byte": 860261, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1307.199951171875, "end_time": 1464.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1307.174951171875, "cut_end_time": 1464.980076171875}, {"text": "I found everything in a state of tumult. An emissary of the leader of the elect, had been so worked up by his chief, and by his own fanatical creed, as to make an attempt on the life of the Protector and preserver of lost mankind. His hand was arrested while in the act of poignarding the Earl; this circumstance had caused the clamour I heard on my arrival at the castle, and the confused assembly of persons that I found assembled in the Salle d\u2019Hercule. Although superstition and demoniac fury had crept among the emigrants, yet several adhered with fidelity to their noble chieftain; and many, whose faith and love had been unhinged by fear, felt all their latent affection rekindled by this detestable attempt. A phalanx of faithful breasts closed round him; the wretch, who, although a prisoner and in bonds, vaunted his design, and madly claimed the crown of martyrdom, would have been torn to pieces, had not his intended victim interposed. Adrian, springing forward, shielded him with his own person, and commanded with energy the submission of his infuriate friends \u2014 at this moment I had entered.", "start_byte": 860263, "end_byte": 861370, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1464.8800048828125, "end_time": 1530.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1464.8550048828124, "cut_end_time": 1530.1400673828125}, {"text": "Discipline and peace were at length restored in the castle; and then Adrian went from house to house, from troop to troop, to soothe the disturbed minds of his followers, and recall them to their ancient obedience. But the fear of immediate death was still rife amongst these survivors of a world\u2019s destruction; the horror occasioned by the attempted assassination, past away; each eye turned towards Paris. Men love a prop so well, that they will lean on a pointed poisoned spear; and such was he, the impostor, who, with fear of hell for his scourge, most ravenous wolf, played the driver to a credulous flock.", "start_byte": 861372, "end_byte": 861984, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1530.0400390625, "end_time": 1565.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1530.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1565.3801015625}, {"text": "It was a moment of suspense, that shook even the resolution of the unyielding friend of man. Adrian for one moment was about to give in, to cease the struggle, and quit, with a few adherents, the deluded crowd, leaving them a miserable prey to their passions, and to the worse tyrant who excited them. But again, after a brief fluctuation of purpose, he resumed his courage and resolves, sustained by the singleness of his purpose, and the untried spirit of benevolence which animated him. At this moment, as an omen of excellent import, his wretched enemy pulled destruction on his head, destroying with his own hands the dominion he had erected.", "start_byte": 861986, "end_byte": 862633, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1565.280029296875, "end_time": 1602.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1565.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 1602.620091796875}]}
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I collect pearls, and your eyes are the brightest I have seen ; if you will cry them out for me, I will carry you over to the great hot-house where Death lives, and looks after his plants and flowers, every one of which is a human life.\" ", "start_byte": 559847, "end_byte": 560174, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 322.8399963378906, "end_time": 355.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 323.14499633789063, "cut_end_time": 354.3600588378906}, {"text": "\" Oh, what would I not give to reach my child! \" said the weeping mother, and she wept more than ever, till her eyes dropped down to the bottom of the lake and became two precious pearls. Then the lake lifted her as if she had been in a swing, and she was borne in a moment from the shore where she stood to the other side. 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Many flowers and trees have withered in the night; Death will soon come and transplant them. You know that every human being has his or her tree of life, or flower, according as they are made ; they look like other plants, but they have beating human hearts. A child's heart can beat too. Walk about here, perhaps you will recognise your child's; but what will you give me if I tell you what more you must do? \" ", "start_byte": 561073, "end_byte": 561539, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 422.1199951171875, "end_time": 456.0, "cut_start_time": 422.83499511718753, "cut_end_time": 455.4200576171875}, {"text": "\" I have nothing to give,\" said the mother sadly, \" but I will go to the end of the world for you.\" ", "start_byte": 561541, "end_byte": 561641, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 456.0, "end_time": 464.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 456.845, "cut_end_time": 463.26000000000005}, {"text": "\" I've got nothing to do there,\" said the woman; \" but you can give me your long black hair; I'm sure you know yourself that it is beautiful, and I fancy it. I'll give you my white hair in place of it, that will always be something.\" ", "start_byte": 561643, "end_byte": 561877, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 464.7200012207031, "end_time": 482.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 464.81500122070315, "cut_end_time": 481.36000122070317}, {"text": "\" Don't you ask more than that,\" said she; \" I will give it ", "start_byte": 561879, "end_byte": 561939, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 482.1199951171875, "end_time": 486.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 482.7449951171875, "cut_end_time": 486.5000576171875}, {"text": "THE STORY OF A MOTHER 273 ", "start_byte": 561941, "end_byte": 561967, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 486.3999938964844, "end_time": 486.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 486.3749938964844, "cut_end_time": 486.6301188964844}, {"text": "you gladly,\" and she gave her her beautiful black hair, and received the old woman's white hair in exchange. ", "start_byte": 561969, "end_byte": 562078, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 486.6000061035156, "end_time": 495.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 486.59500610351563, "cut_end_time": 494.7400686035156}, {"text": "Then they went into Death's big hot-house, where the flowers and trees grew curiously mixed up together. Here were delicate hyacinths under bell glasses, and there were great strong peonies; here were water plants, some quite fresh, others sickly with water snakes wound round them, and little black cray fish pinching their stems. Here were beautiful palm trees, oaks, and plane trees; there grew parsley and sweet scented thyme; every tree and every flower had its name. Each one was a human life, living still, one in China, one in Greenland, scattered round about the world. There were big trees in small pots, growing in a stunted way, ready to burst their pots; and there were also, in other places, little tiresome flowers in rich earth sur- rounded with moss, and covered and tended. But the sad mother bent over all the tiniest plants, and listened for the human heart beating in them. Among a million she knew her child's at once. ", "start_byte": 562080, "end_byte": 563021, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 495.32000732421875, "end_time": 567.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 495.8550073242188, "cut_end_time": 566.8800698242188}, {"text": "\" This is it! \" she cried, stretching out her hands over a little blue crocus which hung feebly down to one side. ", "start_byte": 563023, "end_byte": 563137, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 567.760009765625, "end_time": 576.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 568.105009765625, "cut_end_time": 575.890009765625}, {"text": "\" Don't touch the flower,\" said the old woman, \" but place yourself here, so that when Death comes (for I expect him every minute) you may prevent him from pulling it up; threaten him that you will do the same to the other flowers, then he will be frightened. He has to answer to our Lord for them, not one may be pulled up without His leave.\" ", "start_byte": 563139, "end_byte": 563483, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 576.47998046875, "end_time": 601.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 576.9149804687501, "cut_end_time": 601.9301054687501}, {"text": "All at once an icy wind whistled through the place, and the blind mother felt that Death had come. ", "start_byte": 563485, "end_byte": 563584, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 601.8800048828125, "end_time": 609.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 602.4450048828126, "cut_end_time": 608.8100048828126}, {"text": "\" How didst thou find thy way hither? \" asked he. \" How couldst thou get here before me? ", "start_byte": 563586, "end_byte": 563675, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 609.5599975585938, "end_time": 618.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 609.9849975585938, "cut_end_time": 617.3600600585937}, {"text": "\" I am a mother,\" she said. ", "start_byte": 563677, "end_byte": 563705, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 618.1199951171875, "end_time": 621.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 618.5449951171876, "cut_end_time": 621.4301201171875}, {"text": "Then Death stretched out his long hand towards the delicate little flower, but she elapsed her hands tightly round his, in terror lest he should touch one of the leaves. Death breathed upon her hands; she felt that his breath was colder than the coldest wind, and her hands fell numbly away from his. ", "start_byte": 563707, "end_byte": 564008, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 621.9600219726562, "end_time": 643.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 622.3550219726562, "cut_end_time": 643.0800219726563}, {"text": "\" You have no power against me, you see,\" said Death. ", "start_byte": 564010, "end_byte": 564064, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 643.6799926757812, "end_time": 648.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 644.2949926757813, "cut_end_time": 648.1900551757813}, {"text": "\" But our Lord has! \" said she. ", "start_byte": 564066, "end_byte": 564098, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 648.5999755859375, "end_time": 652.0, "cut_start_time": 648.9549755859375, "cut_end_time": 651.6700380859376}, {"text": "\" I only do His will,\" said Death. \"I am his gardener! I ", "start_byte": 564100, "end_byte": 564157, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 652.0, "end_time": 657.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 652.405, "cut_end_time": 657.8600625}, {"text": "s ", "start_byte": 564159, "end_byte": 564161, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 657.760009765625, "end_time": 657.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 657.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 657.860072265625}, {"text": "274 ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES ", "start_byte": 564163, "end_byte": 564190, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 657.760009765625, "end_time": 658.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 657.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 658.740072265625}, {"text": "take all His flowers and trees and plant them in the Garden of Paradise, in the Unknown Land; but how they grow, and what they do there, I dare not tell thee! \" ", "start_byte": 564192, "end_byte": 564353, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 658.6400146484375, "end_time": 670.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 658.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 669.7400771484375}, {"text": "\" Give me back my child! \" said the mother, with tears and prayers; suddenly she clutched with both hands two beautiful flowers growing close by, and called out to Death, \" I will pull up all your flowers, for I am in despair! \" ", "start_byte": 564355, "end_byte": 564584, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.6400146484375, "end_time": 686.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 670.9450146484376, "cut_end_time": 686.2400771484375}, {"text": "\"Touch them not! \" said Death. 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Look down into the deep well close by, I will name the names of those flowers thou wast about to pluck, and thou shalt see their whole lives, and all that future thou wast about to destroy.\" ", "start_byte": 564794, "end_byte": 565187, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 701.280029296875, "end_time": 730.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 701.6950292968751, "cut_end_time": 729.150091796875}, {"text": "And she looked down into the well; it was happiness to see how one of them became a blessing to the world, and to see how much joy and pleasure was unfolded around him. 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Rather carry it away! bear it into God's kingdom! Forget my tears, forget my prayers, and all that I have said! \" ", "start_byte": 565734, "end_byte": 565980, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 773.6799926757812, "end_time": 792.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 774.2949926757813, "cut_end_time": 792.4801176757812}, {"text": "\" I do not understand thee! \" said Death; \" wilt thou have thy child back, or shall I take it whither thou knowest not! \" ", "start_byte": 565982, "end_byte": 566104, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 792.9600219726562, "end_time": 802.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 793.6150219726562, "cut_end_time": 801.4600219726562}]}
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Starboard, Swinburne.\"", "start_byte": 660948, "end_byte": 661239, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 200.63999938964844, "end_time": 223.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 200.84499938964842, "cut_end_time": 222.72012438964845, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Starboard it is, sir.\"", "start_byte": 661241, "end_byte": 661264, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 223.24000549316406, "end_time": 226.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 223.42500549316406, "cut_end_time": 225.07000549316405, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Steady; so -- that's right for the stern of the leeward vessel.\"", "start_byte": 661266, "end_byte": 661331, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 226.47999572753906, "end_time": 232.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 226.52499572753905, "cut_end_time": 232.11012072753905, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Now, my lads, over to the lee guns, and fire as they bear, when we round-to. Hands by the lee head-braces, and jib-sheet, stretch along the weather braces. 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I shall be very very glad when you come home again.", "start_byte": 669619, "end_byte": 670108, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 853.5999755859375, "end_time": 895.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 854.0649755859375, "cut_end_time": 894.4601005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Never mind, Peter,", "start_byte": 670354, "end_byte": 670373, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 911.3599853515625, "end_time": 913.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 911.6249853515625, "cut_end_time": 912.9401103515626, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Our next cruise was on the coast of Guinea and Gulf of Mexico where we were running up and down for three months, without falling in with anything but West Indiamen bound to Demerara, Berbice, and Surinam, and occasionally chasing a privateer; but in the light winds they were too fast for us. Still we were useful in protecting the trade, and O'Brien had a letter of thanks from the merchants, and a handsome piece of plate upon his quitting the station. We had made sail for Barbadoes two days, and were within sight of the island of Trinidad, when we perceived six sail on the lee-bow. We soon made them out to be three large ships and three schooners; and immediately guessed, which afterwards proved to be correct, that they were three privateers, with West India ships which they had captured. We made all sail, and at first the three privateers did the same; but afterwards, having made out our force, and not liking to abandon their prizes, they resolved to fight. The West Indiamen hauled to the wind on the other tack, and the three privateers shortened sail and awaited our coming. We beat to quarters, and when everything was ready, and we were within a mile of the enemy, who had now thrown out the tricoloured flag, O'Brien ordered all the men aft on the quarter-deck, and addressed them:", "start_byte": 658779, "end_byte": 660081, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 37.959999084472656, "end_time": 132.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 38.554999084472655, "cut_end_time": 131.16012408447267}, {"text": "This harangue suited the sailors very well, and they returned to their guns.", "start_byte": 660550, "end_byte": 660626, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 168.47999572753906, "end_time": 174.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 168.89499572753905, "cut_end_time": 173.57012072753906}, {"text": " said O'Brien,", "start_byte": 660640, "end_byte": 660654, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 175.36000061035156, "end_time": 177.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 175.65500061035155, "cut_end_time": 176.62000061035155}, {"text": "Mr Webster was the second lieutenant, a very steady, quiet, young man, and a good officer.", "start_byte": 660828, "end_byte": 660918, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 190.0800018310547, "end_time": 197.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 190.3250018310547, "cut_end_time": 196.99000183105468}, {"text": " said O'Brien,", "start_byte": 660933, "end_byte": 660947, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 199.1999969482422, "end_time": 200.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 199.4149969482422, "cut_end_time": 200.3400594482422}, {"text": "We were within two cable lengths of the privateers, who still remained hove-to within half a cable's length of each other. They were very large schooners, full of men, with their boarding netting triced up, and showing a very good set of teeth; as it afterwards proved, one mounted sixteen, and the other two fourteen, guns.", "start_byte": 661333, "end_byte": 661657, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 232.9600067138672, "end_time": 257.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 233.44500671386717, "cut_end_time": 256.07006921386716}, {"text": " replied Swinburne; and the brig rounded up on the wind, shooting up under the sterns of the two weathermost schooners, and discharging the broadside into them as the guns bore.", "start_byte": 661901, "end_byte": 662078, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 277.32000732421875, "end_time": 289.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 277.43500732421876, "cut_end_time": 288.68000732421876}, {"text": "By this time another broadside was poured into the schooner, who had not yet returned our fire, which, having foolishly remained hove to the wind, they could not do. The brig had now stern way, and O'Brien then executed a very skilful manoeuvre: he shifted the helm, and made a stern board, so as to back in between the two weather schooners and the one to leeward, bracing round at the same time on the other tack.", "start_byte": 662295, "end_byte": 662710, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 307.8800048828125, "end_time": 337.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 308.2250048828125, "cut_end_time": 336.9900673828125}, {"text": "The men stationed to the starboard guns flew over, and the other side being again loaded, we exchanged broadsides with the leeward and one of the windward schooners, the brig continuing her stern way until we passed a-head of them. By the time that we had reloaded, the brig had gathered headway, and again passed between the same two schooners, giving broadsides, and then passing astern of them.", "start_byte": 662781, "end_byte": 663178, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 342.760009765625, "end_time": 372.0, "cut_start_time": 343.235009765625, "cut_end_time": 370.750009765625}, {"text": " said O'Brien;", "start_byte": 663210, "end_byte": 663224, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 374.2799987792969, "end_time": 376.0, "cut_start_time": 374.4949987792969, "cut_end_time": 375.5300612792969}, {"text": " And so it was; for O'Brien had given two raking broadsides, and four others, receiving only two in return, for the schooners were not ready for us when we passed between them the last time.", "start_byte": 663261, "end_byte": 663451, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 378.7200012207031, "end_time": 392.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 379.01500122070314, "cut_end_time": 392.20000122070314}, {"text": "The smoke had now rolled away to leeward, and we were able to see the effect of our broadsides. The middle schooner had lost her main-boom, and appeared very much cut up in the hull. The schooner to leeward did not appear to have suffered much; but they now perceived their error, and made sail. They had expected that we should have run in between them, and fought broadside to broadside, by which means the weathermost schooner would have taken a raking position, while the others engaged us to windward and to leeward. Our own damages were trifling -- two men slightly wounded, and one main shroud cut away. We ran about half-a-mile astern from them; then with both broadsides ready, we tacked, and found that, as we expected, we could weather the whole of them. This we did; O'Brien running the brig within biscuit-throw of the weather schooner, engaging him broadside to broadside, with the advantage that the other two could not fire a shot into us without standing a chance of striking their consort. If he made more sail, so did we; if he shortened, so did we, so as to keep our position with little variation. The schooner fought well; but her metal was not to be compared with our thirty-two pound carronades, which ploughed up her sides at so short a distance, driving two ports into one. At last her foremast went by the board, and she dropped astern. In the meantime the other schooners had both tacked, and were coming up under our stern to rake us, but the accident which happened to the one we had engaged left us at liberty. We knew that she could not escape, so we tacked and engaged the other two, nearing them as fast as we could. The breeze now sprang up fast, and O'Brien put up the helm and passed between them, giving them both a raking broadside of grape and cannister, which brought the sticks about their ears. This sickened them; the smallest schooner which had been the leewardest at the commencement of the action, made all sail on a wind. We clapped on the royals to follow her, when we perceived that the other schooner, which had been in the middle, and whose main-boom we had shot away, had put her helm up, and was crowding all sail before the wind. O'Brien then said,", "start_byte": 663453, "end_byte": 665656, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 392.9599914550781, "end_time": 556.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 393.60499145507816, "cut_end_time": 556.0001164550781}, {"text": "We went about and ranged up to the schooner which had lost her foremast; but she, finding that her consort had deserted her, hauled down her colours just as we were about to pour in our broadside. Our men gave three cheers; and it was pleasant to see them all shaking hands with each other, congratulating and laughing at the successful result of our action.", "start_byte": 665783, "end_byte": 666141, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 565.760009765625, "end_time": 591.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 566.105009765625, "cut_end_time": 590.670009765625}, {"text": "In a minute the cutters were down and full of men. I took possession of the schooner, while the brig again tacked, and crowding all sail stood after the captured vessels. The schooner, which was the largest of the three, was called the Jean d'Arc, mounting sixteen guns, and had fifty-three men on board, the remainder being away in the prizes. The captain was wounded very badly, and one officer killed. Out of her ship's company, she had but eight killed and five wounded. They informed me that they had sailed three months ago from St. Pierre's, Martinique, and had fallen in with the two other privateers, and cruised in company, having taken nine West Indiamen since they had come out.", "start_byte": 666381, "end_byte": 667071, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 610.6400146484375, "end_time": 661.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 611.1650146484375, "cut_end_time": 661.2400146484375}, {"text": " said I, to the officer who gave the information,", "start_byte": 667080, "end_byte": 667129, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 662.719970703125, "end_time": 666.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 662.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 665.7800332031251}, {"text": "He replied,", "start_byte": 667196, "end_byte": 667207, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.1199951171875, "end_time": 671.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 670.3749951171875, "cut_end_time": 671.0900576171875}, {"text": "He replied in the affirmative; so that we had captured the very vessel, in attempting to cut out which we had lost so many men.", "start_byte": 667299, "end_byte": 667426, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 677.5999755859375, "end_time": 686.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 677.8749755859375, "cut_end_time": 686.0001005859375}, {"text": "We were all very glad of this, and Swinburne said,", "start_byte": 667428, "end_byte": 667478, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 686.4000244140625, "end_time": 691.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 686.6850244140625, "cut_end_time": 690.3200244140626}, {"text": "We secured the prisoners below, and commenced putting the schooner in order. In half-an-hour, we had completed our knotting and splicing, and having two of the carpenters with us, in an hour we had got up a small jury-mast forward, sufficient for the present. We lowered the mainsail, put try-sails on her, and stood after the brig, which was now close to the prizes: but they separated, and it was not till dark that she had possession of two. The third was then hull down on the other tack, with the brig in chase. We followed the brig, as did the two recaptured vessels, and even with our jury up, we found that we could sail as fast as they. The next morning we saw the brig hove-to and about three miles a-head, with the three vessels in her possession. We closed, and I went on board. Webster was put in charge of the privateer; and, after lying-to for that day to send our prize-masters and men on board to remove the prisoners, we got up a proper jury-mast, and all made sail together for Barbadoes. On my return on board, I found that we had but one man and one boy killed and six wounded, which I was not aware of. I forgot to say that the names of the other two privateers were L'Etoille and La Madeleine.", "start_byte": 667764, "end_byte": 668980, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 711.9199829101562, "end_time": 805.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 712.4349829101562, "cut_end_time": 805.3300454101562}, {"text": "In a fortnight we arrived with all our prizes safe in Carlisle Bay, where we found the admiral, who had anchored but two days before. I hardly need say that O'Brien was well received, and gained a great deal of credit for the action. I found several letters from my sister, the contents of which gave me much pain. My father had been some months in Ireland, and had returned without gaining any information. My sister said that he was very unhappy, paid no attention to his clerical duties, and would sit for days without speaking. That he was very much altered in his appearance, and had grown thin and care-worn.", "start_byte": 668982, "end_byte": 669596, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 805.7999877929688, "end_time": 850.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 806.3449877929688, "cut_end_time": 850.3501127929687}, {"text": " said she,", "start_byte": 669608, "end_byte": 669618, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 852.3200073242188, "end_time": 853.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 852.5950073242187, "cut_end_time": 853.6900073242188}, {"text": " I showed the letters to O'Brien who read them with much attention. 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What do you say?\u201d", "start_byte": 154179, "end_byte": 154413, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 73.04000091552734, "end_time": 90.95999908447266, "cut_start_time": 73.40500091552734, "cut_end_time": 90.42000091552734, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMr. Sweetsir is a man of the world,", "start_byte": 154689, "end_byte": 154725, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 109.87999725341797, "end_time": 112.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 110.03499725341797, "cut_end_time": 112.55012225341797, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIn putting the case before him, we are sure to have it presented to us from a new point of view.", "start_byte": 154736, "end_byte": 154833, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 113.68000030517578, "end_time": 119.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 114.08500030517578, "cut_end_time": 119.52000030517577, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe beastly English climate is telling on my nerves,", "start_byte": 155259, "end_byte": 155312, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 151.1199951171875, "end_time": 155.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 151.29499511718748, "cut_end_time": 155.0400576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cthe horrid weight of the atmosphere, after the exhilarating air of Paris; the intolerable dirt and dullness of London, you know. I was in bed, my dear aunt, when I received your letter. You may imagine the completely demoralised state I was in, when I tell you of the effect which the news of the robbery produced on me. I fell back on my pillow, as if I had been shot. Your Ladyship should really be a little more careful in communicating these disagreeable surprises to a sensitively-organised man. Never mind -- my valet is a perfect treasure; he brought me some drops of ether on a lump of sugar. I said, \u2018Alfred\u2019 (his name is Alfred), \u2018put me into my clothes!\u2019 Alfred put me in. I assure you it reminded me of my young days, when I was put into my first pair of trousers. Has Alfred forgotten anything? Have I got my braces on? Have I come out in my shirt-sleeves? Well, dear aunt; -- well, Mr. Troy! -- what can I say? What can I do?\u201d", "start_byte": 155335, "end_byte": 156276, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 156.9600067138672, "end_time": 234.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 157.10500671386717, "cut_end_time": 234.69006921386716, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou tell him,", "start_byte": 156363, "end_byte": 156377, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 241.67999267578125, "end_time": 243.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 241.87499267578124, "cut_end_time": 242.90011767578125, "narrative_prediction": {"nodded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI believe I speak for her Ladyship,", "start_byte": 156390, "end_byte": 156426, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 244.72000122070312, "end_time": 247.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 245.35500122070312, "cut_end_time": 247.4200012207031, "narrative_prediction": {"began": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cwhen I say that we should like to hear, in the first place, how the whole case strikes you, Mr. Sweetsir?\u201d", "start_byte": 156444, "end_byte": 156551, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 249.52000427246094, "end_time": 256.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 249.89500427246094, "cut_end_time": 256.6000042724609, "narrative_prediction": {"began": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cTell it me all over again,", "start_byte": 156553, "end_byte": 156580, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 256.9599914550781, "end_time": 259.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 257.18499145507815, "cut_end_time": 259.2900539550781, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell?", "start_byte": 156666, "end_byte": 156672, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 266.0400085449219, "end_time": 266.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 266.2150085449219, "cut_end_time": 266.8900085449219, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell?", "start_byte": 156687, "end_byte": 156693, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 268.4800109863281, "end_time": 269.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 268.77501098632814, "cut_end_time": 269.22001098632813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhere does the suspicion of robbery rest in your opinion? You look at the theft of the bank-note with a fresh eye.\u201d", "start_byte": 156710, "end_byte": 156826, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 270.7200012207031, "end_time": 278.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 270.99500122070316, "cut_end_time": 278.38000122070315, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou mentioned a clergyman just now,", "start_byte": 156828, "end_byte": 156864, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 278.3999938964844, "end_time": 281.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 278.5849938964844, "cut_end_time": 281.5101188964844, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe man, you know, to whom the money was sent. What was his name?\u201d", "start_byte": 156878, "end_byte": 156945, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 282.6000061035156, "end_time": 287.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 282.7950061035157, "cut_end_time": 287.12000610351566, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Reverend Samuel Bradstock.\u201d", "start_byte": 156947, "end_byte": 156979, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 287.3999938964844, "end_time": 290.0, "cut_start_time": 287.7349938964844, "cut_end_time": 289.7800563964844, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou want me to name the person whom I suspect?\u201d", "start_byte": 156981, "end_byte": 157029, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 290.0, "end_time": 293.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 290.15500000000003, "cut_end_time": 293.06, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, if you please,", "start_byte": 157031, "end_byte": 157051, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 293.3599853515625, "end_time": 295.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 293.7149853515625, "cut_end_time": 295.1300478515625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI suspect the Reverend Samuel Bradstock,", "start_byte": 157069, "end_byte": 157110, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 296.4800109863281, "end_time": 299.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 296.69501098632816, "cut_end_time": 299.45001098632815, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIf you have come here to make stupid jokes,", "start_byte": 157125, "end_byte": 157169, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 301.0, "end_time": 304.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 301.20500000000004, "cut_end_time": 304.21006250000005, "narrative_prediction": {"interposed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cyou had better go back to your bed again. We want a serious opinion.\u201d", "start_byte": 157196, "end_byte": 157266, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 306.55999755859375, "end_time": 311.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 306.81499755859375, "cut_end_time": 311.39006005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"interposed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou have a serious opinion,", "start_byte": 157268, "end_byte": 157296, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 311.55999755859375, "end_time": 314.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 311.6949975585938, "cut_end_time": 314.45006005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"rejoined": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "coolly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI never was more in earnest in my life. Your Ladyship is not aware of the first principle to be adopted in cases of suspicion. One proceeds on what I will call the exhaustive system of reasoning. Thus: Does suspicion point to the honest servants downstairs? No. To your Ladyship\u2019s adopted daughter? Appearances are against the poor girl; but you know her better than to trust to appearances. Are you suspicious of Moody? No. Of Hardyman -- who was in the house at the time? Ridiculous! But I was in the house at the time, too. Do you suspect Me? Just so! That idea is ridiculous, too. Now let us sum up. Servants, adopted daughter, Moody, Hardyman, Sweetsir -- all beyond suspicion. Who is left? The Reverend Samuel Bradstock.\u201d", "start_byte": 157321, "end_byte": 158049, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 316.5199890136719, "end_time": 377.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 316.7949890136719, "cut_end_time": 377.5201140136719, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cthe exhaustive system of reasoning,", "start_byte": 158080, "end_byte": 158116, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 379.8399963378906, "end_time": 382.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 379.81499633789065, "cut_end_time": 382.08012133789066, "narrative_prediction": {"exposition": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou are wasting our time,", "start_byte": 158164, "end_byte": 158190, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 385.8399963378906, "end_time": 387.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 386.10499633789067, "cut_end_time": 387.7300588378906, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sharply": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou know as well as I do that you are talking nonsense.\u201d", "start_byte": 158210, "end_byte": 158267, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 389.44000244140625, "end_time": 393.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 389.7650024414063, "cut_end_time": 392.37000244140626, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sharply": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI don\u2019t,", "start_byte": 158269, "end_byte": 158278, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 393.3599853515625, "end_time": 394.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 393.4749853515625, "cut_end_time": 394.40004785156253, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cTaking the gentlemanly professions all round, I know of no men who are so eager to get money, and who have so few scruples about how they get it, as the parsons. Where is there a man in any other profession who perpetually worries you for money? -- who holds the bag under your nose for money? -- who sends his clerk round from door to door to beg a few shillings of you, and calls it an \u2018Easter offering\u2019? The parson does all this. Bradstock is a parson. I put it logically. Bowl me over, if you can.\u201d", "start_byte": 158292, "end_byte": 158795, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 395.7200012207031, "end_time": 434.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 395.80500122070316, "cut_end_time": 434.44006372070317, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cbowl him over,", "start_byte": 158819, "end_byte": 158834, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 436.8399963378906, "end_time": 438.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 436.9049963378906, "cut_end_time": 438.18005883789067, "narrative_prediction": {"attempted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhen a man persists in talking nonsense,", "start_byte": 158883, "end_byte": 158924, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 442.79998779296875, "end_time": 446.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 443.16498779296876, "cut_end_time": 446.38011279296876, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201csilence is the best answer; anything else only encourages him.", "start_byte": 158936, "end_byte": 158999, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 447.5199890136719, "end_time": 452.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 447.7849890136719, "cut_end_time": 452.3901140136719, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI have a question to ask you,", "start_byte": 159022, "end_byte": 159052, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 454.7200012207031, "end_time": 457.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 455.17500122070317, "cut_end_time": 457.06006372070317, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou will either give me a serious reply, or wish me good-morning.", "start_byte": 159067, "end_byte": 159133, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 458.1600036621094, "end_time": 462.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 458.3650036621094, "cut_end_time": 461.9700036621094, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cSuperior in intelligence,", "start_byte": 159350, "end_byte": 159376, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 476.79998779296875, "end_time": 478.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 476.85498779296876, "cut_end_time": 478.51011279296876, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cbut not superior in courage, to the English police. Capable of performing wonders on their own ground and among their own people. But, my dear aunt, the two most dissimilar nations on the face of the earth are the English and the French. The French police may speak our language -- but they are incapable of understanding our national character and our national manners. Set them to work on a private inquiry in the city of Pekin -- and they would get on in time with the Chinese people. Set them to work in the city of London -- and the English people would remain, from first to last, the same impenetrable mystery to them. In my belief the London Sunday would be enough of itself to drive them back to Paris in despair. No balls, no concerts, no theaters, not even a museum or a picture-gallery open; every shop shut up but the gin-shop; and nothing moving but the church bells and the men who sell the penny ices. Hundreds of Frenchmen come to see me on their first arrival in England. Every man of them rushes back to Paris on the second Saturday of his visit, rather than confront the horrors of a second Sunday in London! However, you can try it if you like. Send me a written abstract of the case, and I will forward it to one of the official people in the Rue Jerusalem, who will do anything he can to oblige me. Of course,", "start_byte": 159387, "end_byte": 160720, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 479.5199890136719, "end_time": 581.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 479.8249890136719, "cut_end_time": 581.5400515136719, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201csome of you have got the number of the lost bank-note? If the thief has tried to pass it in Paris, my man may be of some use to you.\u201d", "start_byte": 160755, "end_byte": 160889, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 584.280029296875, "end_time": 596.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 584.665029296875, "cut_end_time": 593.670091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThree of us have got the number of the note,", "start_byte": 160891, "end_byte": 160936, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 596.4000244140625, "end_time": 599.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 597.1150244140625, "cut_end_time": 599.0200869140625, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMiss Isabel Miller, Mr. Moody, and myself.\u201d", "start_byte": 160957, "end_byte": 161001, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 600.7999877929688, "end_time": 605.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 600.9849877929688, "cut_end_time": 604.0801127929687, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cVery good,", "start_byte": 161003, "end_byte": 161014, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 605.0800170898438, "end_time": 606.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 605.2550170898438, "cut_end_time": 606.1500170898438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cSend me the number, with the abstract of the case. Is there anything else I can do towards recovering the money?", "start_byte": 161028, "end_byte": 161141, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 607.760009765625, "end_time": 616.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 608.085009765625, "cut_end_time": 615.750009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThere is one lucky circumstance in connection with this loss -- isn\u2019t there? It has fallen on a person who is rich enough to take it easy. Good heavens! suppose it had been my loss!\u201d", "start_byte": 161174, "end_byte": 161357, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 619.5999755859375, "end_time": 634.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 620.0149755859376, "cut_end_time": 633.8000380859376, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt has fallen doubly on me,", "start_byte": 161359, "end_byte": 161387, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 634.0399780273438, "end_time": 636.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 634.3149780273437, "cut_end_time": 637.0601030273438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cand I am certainly not rich enough to take it that easy. The money was destined to a charitable purpose; and I have felt it my duty to pay it again.\u201d", "start_byte": 161408, "end_byte": 161558, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 638.5999755859375, "end_time": 650.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 638.7149755859375, "cut_end_time": 650.1501005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou excellent creature!", "start_byte": 161725, "end_byte": 161749, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 662.3200073242188, "end_time": 664.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 662.4050073242188, "cut_end_time": 664.5700073242188, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou may not think it, but you reconcile me to human nature. How generous! how noble! I think I\u2019ll go to bed again, Mr. Troy, if you really don\u2019t want any more of me. My head feels giddy and my legs tremble under me. It doesn\u2019t matter; I shall feel easier when Alfred has taken me out of my clothes again. God bless you, my dear aunt! I never felt so proud of being related to you as I do to-day. Good-morning Mr. Troy! Don\u2019t forget the abstract of the case; and don\u2019t trouble yourself to see me to the door. I dare say I shan\u2019t tumble downstairs; and, if I do, there\u2019s the porter in the hall to pick me up again. Enviable porter! as fat as butter and as idle as a pig! Au revoir! au revoir!", "start_byte": 161760, "end_byte": 162451, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 665.3599853515625, "end_time": 723.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 665.5749853515625, "cut_end_time": 722.7900478515626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIs he really ill, do you think?", "start_byte": 162680, "end_byte": 162712, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 743.52001953125, "end_time": 746.0, "cut_start_time": 743.91501953125, "cut_end_time": 745.85001953125, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy nephew has turned fifty,", "start_byte": 162731, "end_byte": 162759, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 748.0800170898438, "end_time": 751.0, "cut_start_time": 748.5850170898437, "cut_end_time": 750.9100170898438, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cand he persists in living as if he was a young man. Every now and then Nature says to him, \u2018Felix, you are old!\u2019 And Felix goes to bed, and says it\u2019s his nerves.\u201d", "start_byte": 162784, "end_byte": 162947, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 752.9199829101562, "end_time": 766.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 753.2049829101562, "cut_end_time": 765.8100454101562, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI suppose he is to be trusted to keep his word about writing to Paris?", "start_byte": 162949, "end_byte": 163020, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 766.47998046875, "end_time": 771.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 767.35498046875, "cut_end_time": 771.36010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"pursued": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, yes! He may delay doing it but he will do it. In spite of his lackadaisical manner, he has moments of energy that would surprise you. Talking of surprises, I have something to tell you about Moody. Within the last day or two there has been a marked change in him -- a change for the worse.\u201d", "start_byte": 163043, "end_byte": 163338, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 773.1199951171875, "end_time": 794.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 773.5349951171876, "cut_end_time": 794.1001201171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou astonish me, Lady Lydiard! In what way has Moody deteriorated?\u201d", "start_byte": 163340, "end_byte": 163408, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 794.6400146484375, "end_time": 800.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 794.8850146484375, "cut_end_time": 799.4400146484376, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou shall hear. Yesterday was Friday. You took him out with you, on business, early in the morning.\u201d", "start_byte": 163410, "end_byte": 163511, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 800.0399780273438, "end_time": 808.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 800.3249780273437, "cut_end_time": 807.8501030273437, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIn the course of the afternoon,", "start_byte": 163656, "end_byte": 163688, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 817.760009765625, "end_time": 819.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 817.965009765625, "cut_end_time": 819.950009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"pursued": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI happened to want him, and I was informed that Moody had gone out again. Where had he gone? Nobody knew. Had he left word when he would be back? He had left no message of any sort. Of course, he is not in the position of an ordinary servant. I don\u2019t expect him to ask permission to go out. But I do expect him to leave word downstairs of the time at which he is likely to return. When he did come back, after an absence of some hours, I naturally asked for an explanation. Would you believe it? he simply informed me that he had been away on business of his own; expressed no regret, and offered no explanation -- in short, spoke as if he was an independent gentleman. You may not think it, but I kept my temper. I merely remarked that I hoped it would not happen again. He made me a bow, and he said, \u2018My business is not completed yet, my Lady. I cannot guarantee that it may not call me away again at a moment\u2019s notice.\u2019 What do you think of that? Nine people out of ten would have given him warning to leave their service. I begin to think I am a wonderful woman -- I only pointed to the door. One does hear sometimes of men\u2019s brains softening in the most unexpected manner. I have my suspicions of Moody\u2019s brains, I can tell you.\u201d", "start_byte": 163712, "end_byte": 164948, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 822.0, "end_time": 913.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 822.4350000000001, "cut_end_time": 912.9300625000001, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWait a little,", "start_byte": 165226, "end_byte": 165241, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 933.0399780273438, "end_time": 934.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 933.4949780273438, "cut_end_time": 934.5800405273437, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI haven\u2019t done surprising you yet. You have seen a boy here in a page\u2019s livery, I think? Well, he is a good boy; and he has gone home for a week\u2019s holiday with his friends. The proper person to supply his place with the boots and shoes and other small employments, is of course the youngest footman, a lad only a few years older than himself. What do you think Moody does? Engages a stranger, with the house full of idle men-servants already, to fill the page\u2019s place. At intervals this morning I heard them wonderfully merry in the servants hall -- so merry that the noise and laughter found its way upstairs to the breakfast-room. I like my servants to be in good spirits; but it certainly did strike me that they were getting beyond reasonable limits. I questioned my maid, and was informed that the noise was all due to the jokes of the strangest old man that ever was seen. In other words, to the person whom my steward had taken it on himself to engage in the page\u2019s absence. I spoke to Moody on the subject. He answered in an odd, confused way, that he had exercised his discretion to the best of his judgment and that (if I wished it), he would tell the old man to keep his good spirits under better control. I asked him how he came to hear of the man. He only answered, \u2018By accident, my Lady\u2019 -- and not one more word could I get out of him, good or bad. Moody engages the servants, as you know; but on every other occasion he has invariably consulted me before an engagement was settled. I really don\u2019t feel at all sure about this person who has been so strangely introduced into the house -- he may be a drunkard or a thief. I wish you would speak to Moody yourself, Mr. Troy. Do you mind ringing the bell?\u201d", "start_byte": 165262, "end_byte": 166981, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 936.0800170898438, "end_time": 1062.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 936.3750170898438, "cut_end_time": 1062.6000170898437, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI think I shall manage better with Moody, if your Ladyship will permit me to see him in private,", "start_byte": 167672, "end_byte": 167769, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1111.52001953125, "end_time": 1116.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1111.5950195312498, "cut_end_time": 1116.87001953125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cShall I go downstairs and speak with him in his own room?\u201d", "start_byte": 167788, "end_byte": 167847, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1117.800048828125, "end_time": 1121.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1117.925048828125, "cut_end_time": 1121.060048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy should you trouble yourself to do that?", "start_byte": 167849, "end_byte": 167893, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1121.199951171875, "end_time": 1123.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1121.2849511718748, "cut_end_time": 1123.550076171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSee him here; and I will go into the boudoir.\u201d", "start_byte": 167914, "end_byte": 167961, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1125.0400390625, "end_time": 1127.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1125.1050390624998, "cut_end_time": 1127.9500390624999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cSend Moody here,", "start_byte": 168035, "end_byte": 168052, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1132.1199951171875, "end_time": 1133.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1132.2549951171875, "cut_end_time": 1133.6401201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " she remarked.", "start_byte": 154164, "end_byte": 154178, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 71.83999633789062, "end_time": 73.04000091552734, "cut_start_time": 71.88499633789061, "cut_end_time": 72.94012133789062}, {"text": "Mr. Troy, in reply, expressed his doubts as to the wisdom of employing foreigners in a delicate investigation which required an accurate knowledge of English customs and English character. 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On the day after the visit to Miss Pink, the proposed council of three was held at Lady Lydiard\u2019s house.", "start_byte": 154834, "end_byte": 155021, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 119.83999633789062, "end_time": 133.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 120.00499633789062, "cut_end_time": 133.22005883789063}, {"text": "Felix, never punctual at keeping an appointment, was even later than usual on this occasion. He made his apologies with his hand pressed upon his forehead, and his voice expressive of the languor and discouragement of a suffering man.", "start_byte": 155023, "end_byte": 155257, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 133.9199981689453, "end_time": 151.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 134.16499816894532, "cut_end_time": 150.9100606689453}, {"text": " said Mr. Sweetsir --", "start_byte": 155313, "end_byte": 155334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 155.27999877929688, "end_time": 156.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 155.26499877929686, "cut_end_time": 156.87012377929688}, {"text": "Lady Lydiard, entirely without sympathy for nervous suffering, nodded to the lawyer.", "start_byte": 156278, "end_byte": 156362, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 234.9600067138672, "end_time": 241.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 235.06500671386718, "cut_end_time": 241.03000671386718}, {"text": " she said.", "start_byte": 156378, "end_byte": 156388, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 243.32000732421875, "end_time": 244.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 243.56500732421875, "cut_end_time": 244.35006982421874}, {"text": " Mr. Troy began,", "start_byte": 156427, "end_byte": 156443, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 247.67999267578125, "end_time": 249.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 247.76499267578126, "cut_end_time": 249.00011767578124}, {"text": " said Felix.", "start_byte": 156581, "end_byte": 156593, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 259.3599853515625, "end_time": 260.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 259.3549853515625, "cut_end_time": 260.65004785156253}, {"text": "Patient Mr. Troy told it all over again -- and waited for the result.", "start_byte": 156595, "end_byte": 156664, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 260.55999755859375, "end_time": 266.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 260.74499755859375, "cut_end_time": 265.4101225585938}, {"text": " said Felix.", "start_byte": 156673, "end_byte": 156685, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 266.79998779296875, "end_time": 268.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 266.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 268.14011279296875}, {"text": " said Mr. Troy.", "start_byte": 156694, "end_byte": 156709, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 269.1199951171875, "end_time": 270.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 269.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 270.42012011718754}, {"text": " said Felix.", "start_byte": 156865, "end_byte": 156877, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 281.44000244140625, "end_time": 282.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 281.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 282.5400649414063}, {"text": " said Mr. Troy.", "start_byte": 157052, "end_byte": 157067, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 295.1199951171875, "end_time": 296.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 295.20499511718754, "cut_end_time": 296.3401201171875}, {"text": " said Felix.", "start_byte": 157111, "end_byte": 157123, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 299.79998779296875, "end_time": 301.0, "cut_start_time": 299.90498779296877, "cut_end_time": 301.0900502929688}, {"text": " interposed Lady Lydiard,", "start_byte": 157170, "end_byte": 157195, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 304.4800109863281, "end_time": 306.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 304.4850109863281, "cut_end_time": 306.66001098632813}, {"text": " Felix coolly rejoined.", "start_byte": 157297, "end_byte": 157320, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 314.3599853515625, "end_time": 316.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 314.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 316.6100478515625}, {"text": "This ingenious exposition of", "start_byte": 158051, "end_byte": 158079, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 377.4800109863281, "end_time": 379.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 377.7350109863281, "cut_end_time": 379.94001098632816}, {"text": " failed to produce any effect on Lady Lydiard.", "start_byte": 158117, "end_byte": 158163, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 382.32000732421875, "end_time": 385.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 382.5450073242188, "cut_end_time": 385.8300073242188}, {"text": " she said sharply.", "start_byte": 158191, "end_byte": 158209, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 387.8399963378906, "end_time": 389.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 388.0949963378906, "cut_end_time": 389.27012133789066}, {"text": " said Felix.", "start_byte": 158279, "end_byte": 158291, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 394.55999755859375, "end_time": 395.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 394.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 395.82012255859377}, {"text": "Mr. Troy attempted to", "start_byte": 158797, "end_byte": 158818, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 434.8800048828125, "end_time": 436.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 435.01500488281255, "cut_end_time": 436.84000488281254}, {"text": " nevertheless. 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Sweetsir one might say, in a state of eclipse; but still the serviceable Sweetsir, who was never consulted in vain by the fortunate people privileged to call him friend!", "start_byte": 162452, "end_byte": 162678, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 723.239990234375, "end_time": 743.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 723.7849902343751, "cut_end_time": 743.090115234375}, {"text": " Mr. Troy asked.", "start_byte": 162713, "end_byte": 162729, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 746.0, "end_time": 748.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 746.095, "cut_end_time": 747.6300625}, {"text": " Lady Lydiard answered,", "start_byte": 162760, "end_byte": 162783, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 751.0, "end_time": 752.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 751.035, "cut_end_time": 752.8000000000001}, {"text": " pursued the lawyer.", "start_byte": 163021, "end_byte": 163041, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 771.52001953125, "end_time": 773.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 771.7050195312501, "cut_end_time": 772.7000195312501}, {"text": "Mr. Troy bowed, and said nothing. 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But of the Seicento. Why, there is her por- trait in London in your National Gallery, by a painter of the Venetian School \u2014 Bernardino Licinio, I think it is. You know it? But surely? The portrait of a young man, it calls itself, but I have always doubted it, and it pleases me to have my doubts confirmed.\" ", "start_byte": 192058, "end_byte": 192492, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1217.52001953125, "end_time": 1244.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1218.01501953125, "cut_end_time": 1244.0000820312498}, {"text": "Mrs. Lovatt, her head on one side, looked at Joanna and tried to remember the picture he described. She was not successful, but agreed warmly that Miss Bannerman had struck her from 3ie first as quite Early-Italian. Botticelli, she thought \u2014 or was it Luini? \u2014 there was surely an angel wonderfully like her in one of Leonardo's groups? 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Their figures, poised in the golden air of the summit stayed for a breath, suspended as by a miracle. Then their machines swept downwards. There was a rush of wind, a shrill whirring of bells, and they disappeared round the curve of the tram- lines. ", "start_byte": 195545, "end_byte": 195960, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1421.3599853515625, "end_time": 1446.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1421.6549853515623, "cut_end_time": 1445.2301103515624}, {"text": "And that same instant, as if by conspiracy, the little band by the gates broke into dance music. ", "start_byte": 195962, "end_byte": 196059, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1446.0400390625, "end_time": 1452.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1446.5750390624999, "cut_end_time": 1452.2401015624998}, {"text": "In the girl something was set free, and her heart exulted. 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A good man, that Pilcher.\" ", "start_byte": 196328, "end_byte": 196467, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1467.47998046875, "end_time": 1475.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1467.83498046875, "cut_end_time": 1474.6500429687499}, {"text": "But Joanna had not heard of Pilcher till now. She felt ashamed under Rasponi's incredulous glance, and was relieved when he put the subject aside. ", "start_byte": 196469, "end_byte": 196616, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1475.3599853515625, "end_time": 1483.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1476.1149853515624, "cut_end_time": 1482.9800478515624}, {"text": "There was still no car at the terminus. The harpist was thrumming diligently, the fiddler swayed as he tore the insistent melody out of his instrument, the deformed man in the chair gave forth the same air more delicately on a flute. 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K it had not been for my own fortune, your family would have been pretty much in want of a maintenance.", "start_byte": 40315, "end_byte": 40677, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 887.280029296875, "end_time": 906.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 887.435029296875, "cut_end_time": 906.4600917968751, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\"Never fear me, dear! Hoatd away, Major, and when you have got enough to take us back, why back we will go, won't we?", "start_byte": 48983, "end_byte": 49100, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1363.6800537109375, "end_time": 1370.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1363.8650537109374, "cut_end_time": 1370.5001162109374, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"For Hfe? Oh, no! my love, decidedly not for life,", "start_byte": 49732, "end_byte": 49782, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1406.239990234375, "end_time": 1410.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1406.464990234375, "cut_end_time": 1410.1300527343749, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "eagerly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\"To be sure it is, my dear. My darling Agnes, Mrs. General Hubert, as of course I must now call her, will be beyond all question the most fitting and proper person to introduce our daughter into society. Nor is there the shghtest reason why she should not be presented at court when she is old enough ; and it is just because she is not old enough yet, that I am con- tent to wait so patiently tUl it may suit you, my dear Major, to accompany us back to Europe. But though there might be no particular use in our going, as yet, it will, as I have lately thought, be extremely proper for me to write to my niece, and I certainly shall do so immediately.", "start_byte": 56378, "end_byte": 57030, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1795.1600341796875, "end_time": 1835.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1795.5350341796875, "cut_end_time": 1834.7200966796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Most ladies love a little fuss upon such occasions, and it is nbt very wonderful if Mrs. Major AUen coveted a good deal. Though feeling as little like an invahd as any lady ever did under such circumstances, she would not abate an hour of the regular stipulated month's confinement, which she had heard repeatedly spoken of as the proper period of retreat for ladies of delicate health. Not, indeed, that she desired to hve alone tiU. the baby-moon's evolution was complete \u2014 on the contrary, not only her friend and constant preceptress, Mrs. Sheepshanks, but all the other genteel ladies of Sydney, were given to understand that they might come to look at Mrs. Major AUen and her beautiful baby every morning if they liked it ; and as very sufficient caudle, and vast quantities of plum-cake were daily distributed, they aU did like it very much, and came ac- cordingly. ", "start_byte": 26148, "end_byte": 27021, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 90.23999786376953, "end_time": 137.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 90.57499786376952, "cut_end_time": 136.55012286376953}, {"text": "Any lady of any land might, indeed, have found much in Mrs. Allen's Sydney dressing-room, at this time, to repay the trouble of a visit, provided, that is to say, it was within tolerably easy reach of them. 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This part of the business had been long meditated upon, and the preparation for it having commenced at a very early stage of her hopes, was persevered in with unwearied industry to the end. Her long-loved satin-stitch was, upon this occasion as heretofore, of the most essential use to her ; indeed, without it, she never could have reached that perfection of attire for her- self, her room, and her child which became the admiration of Sydney and all its neighbouring villas. ", "start_byte": 27486, "end_byte": 28658, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 158.67999267578125, "end_time": 227.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 159.03499267578124, "cut_end_time": 226.33005517578124}, {"text": "Where a great effect is produced by very delicate touches, it is not altogether easy either to follow the process, or do justice to the result ; but what is both original and beautiful should never be passed over in silence, from the doubting timidity of those whose duty it is to describe it. 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Three small cushions, carelessly balanced on the back and arms of this extensive cojich, were also of the same gay^nd happy hue, and not a corner of them but showed in patterns of labyrinthine grace and intricacy the powers of a skilful needle. ", "start_byte": 28956, "end_byte": 29775, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 243.9600067138672, "end_time": 291.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 244.5850067138672, "cut_end_time": 289.89006921386715}, {"text": "Mrs. Major Allen herself was habited in a robe of white, which, though not of a particularly fine texture, was really exquisitely elegant, as all the Sydney ladies agreed, from the profusion of elaborate satiu-stitch bestowed upon its cuffs and collar. 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The copious quantity of ringlets, too, which, excepting that they happened to be of a somewhat softer texture, differed little from those which had fanned the dusty air of the Silverton ball-room, . when she danced with Captain Tate, appeared in Kke manner by de- grees, and, to use Voltaire's charming words, returned to enchant the world ", "start_byte": 31213, "end_byte": 31898, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 372.1199951171875, "end_time": 410.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 372.26499511718754, "cut_end_time": 410.2501201171875}, {"text": "Pas k pas, ", "start_byte": 31900, "end_byte": 31911, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 410.760009765625, "end_time": 411.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 410.91500976562503, "cut_end_time": 411.700072265625}, {"text": "Comme un Jour doux, dans les yeux d^licants. 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Its admirable mother, who piqued herself on being an excellent manager, was a great economist in aU that appertained to the laundry department, and before it was many hours old she discovered that care must be taken as to its dear little expenses in that line; as well as in its papa's and her own. So the darling poppet was not always prepared for company ; but when it was, the fulness of the mother's heart might easily be read in ", "start_byte": 32348, "end_byte": 32879, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 437.3999938964844, "end_time": 466.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 437.8849938964844, "cut_end_time": 466.9000563964844}, {"text": "THE major's attention TO BUSINESS. 13 ", "start_byte": 32881, "end_byte": 32919, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 466.79998779296875, "end_time": 466.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 466.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 466.9801127929688}, {"text": "the elaborate decoration of its attire. In a word, New South Wales had never before seen such a mother and child; and nothing could exceed the admiration they inspired, or the high consideration in which the AUen family, one and all, were held. ", "start_byte": 32921, "end_byte": 33166, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 466.8800048828125, "end_time": 482.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 466.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 482.35006738281254}, {"text": "Meanwhile, the Major kept his word, and did take care that all the httle parties in which he was engaged, either at home or abroad, should answer. Nevertheless, his parental prudence kept pace with his success, and his lady's tightly -settled, and regularly-remitted income, continued to supply all their ex- penses ; so that the Major's steady winnings went on accumu- lating in a manner that spoke strongly of the fundamental improvement which had taken place in his character and morals since the period when the reader and Mrs. Barnaby were first introduced to him at Clifton. ", "start_byte": 33168, "end_byte": 33749, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 482.8800048828125, "end_time": 515.0, "cut_start_time": 483.4150048828125, "cut_end_time": 514.4000048828125}, {"text": "These winnings, indeed, particularly if stated night after night, or day by day, would, to European ears, appear mere bagatelles, hardly worth recording in a professional gamester's account ; but to an inhabitant of Sydney, the yearly aggregate, if roimdly named, which, however, never happened to occur, would have been considered as enormous. In this case, as in every other, unremitting perseverance does wonders. ", "start_byte": 33751, "end_byte": 34168, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 515.0, "end_time": 540.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 515.615, "cut_end_time": 540.1000625}, {"text": "Nulla dies sine linea ", "start_byte": 34170, "end_byte": 34192, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 540.4400024414062, "end_time": 542.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 540.5750024414062, "cut_end_time": 542.2400024414063}, {"text": "is a receipt to fill volumes ; and on the same principles, a purse of no small dimensions may be filled, by one who, playing with assured success, never suffers any hour in the day and night to be passed in idleness, when it is possible to put a pack of cards in action. ", "start_byte": 34194, "end_byte": 34465, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 542.1599731445312, "end_time": 558.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 542.1349731445313, "cut_end_time": 557.2300981445313}, {"text": "Such was the system of Major Allen ; and, though on a small scale, Sydney was no bad field of action for him. As- suredly there was no Crockford's, where, within the space of half a night, a man, without quitting his chair, may be sure of finding an opportunity, if he seek it, of beggaring himself or his neighbour. But there were little quiet corners where, by day or night, small hazards might be played for among the idlers, of which the more industrious part of the population know little or nothing ; and a taste for that tempting seesaw, the gaming-table, generated, perhaps, in the brilhant saloiis of Paris, or the club-houses of London, may find wherewithal to keep itself alive, even in the deep retreats of New South Wales. ", "start_byte": 34467, "end_byte": 35203, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 558.0800170898438, "end_time": 601.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 558.4450170898438, "cut_end_time": 600.6500170898438}, {"text": "Major Allen was, therefore, by no means an idle man, neither could he fairly be called an intemperate one. The glass of rum-and-milk that greeted the morn, and the tumbler or two of whisky-toddy that hailed the genial hours of night, can- not be justly quoted in contradiction to this ; for nobody ever saw Major Allen drunk. Moreover, his habits, in aU thing-s ", "start_byte": 35205, "end_byte": 35567, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 601.719970703125, "end_time": 623.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 602.1449707031251, "cut_end_time": 623.3000957031251}, {"text": "14 THK WIDOW MAEEIED. ", "start_byte": 35569, "end_byte": 35591, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 623.2000122070312, "end_time": 623.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 623.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 623.3000747070313}, {"text": "appertaining to expenditure, were exceedingly careful ; though he by no means denied himself the constant comfort of a good dinner, or the occasional gratification of a little display ; so that he and his lady were decidedly classed among the very first people in Sydney. In temper, and general domestic demeanour, as favourable a report may be made of him as most gentlemen under similar circumstances would be hkely to deserve ; so on the whole, it is to be hoped that the character of this individual, who, from his near connection with my heroine, must make an important figure in the drama of her future Hfe, may be consi- dered in all respects as improved rather than the contrary, since the reader parted from him. ", "start_byte": 35593, "end_byte": 36315, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 623.2000122070312, "end_time": 662.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 623.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 662.2300122070312}, {"text": "But, notwithstanding all these excellent domestic qualities, Major Allen was not what could be called a confidential hus- band. Indeed, there were some circumstances connected with his first appearance in the colony, which his wife was never fuUy able to understand. It was evident that he had some powerful friends among the persons in authority, and the defer- ence and very strict observance he paid them, proved him to be of a most grateful temper; but he never entered with his charm- ing lady into any explanation of the origin of this close con- nection between them. Neither did he appear to deem it necessary that she should be troubled with any statement respecting the Httle sums he was accumulating ; nay, his notions of a weU-regulated family economy might have led him to prefer taking his lady's income under his own immediate and separate control ; but here, after a somewhat spirited trial on occasion of the two first quarterly payments, he gave in, Mrs. AUen not being a woman to give way easily, where she felt herself to be right. So thenceforward he contented himself with knowing that all household expenses, of every kind whatever, including of course his own dress and httle personal appoint- ments, were defrayed regularly, and in the most creditable man-, ner, that is to say, without credit, by this fund. ", "start_byte": 36317, "end_byte": 37651, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 662.9199829101562, "end_time": 736.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 663.4149829101563, "cut_end_time": 736.3001079101563}, {"text": "Now and then, indeed, thinking the httle occasional assist- ance which her quick faculties enabled her to afford whenever his favourite amusement went on in her presence, gave her some right to inquire, she ventured to question him respecting his winnings. But the following short specimen of such dia- logues win show that he well knew how to answer them. ", "start_byte": 37653, "end_byte": 38010, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 736.8400268554688, "end_time": 756.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 737.6350268554688, "cut_end_time": 756.2700893554688}, {"text": "\" For heaven's sake. Major ! what do you do with all your winnings? \" she said to him one day, when she would greatly have hked to have got hold of a portion of them to assist in the purchase of a little finery. \" I see you pocket lots of cash night after night, and when am I to be the better for it? \" ", "start_byte": 38012, "end_byte": 38316, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 756.9600219726562, "end_time": 773.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 757.3750219726563, "cut_end_time": 772.9100844726563}, {"text": "\" Don't put yourself in a flurry, my love ; I often lose money, of course ; though Gtod knows, and you Icnow, too, my ", "start_byte": 38318, "end_byte": 38436, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 773.4000244140625, "end_time": 780.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 773.8950244140625, "cut_end_time": 780.2600244140625}, {"text": "DOMESTIC FINANCE. 15 ", "start_byte": 38438, "end_byte": 38459, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 780.1599731445312, "end_time": 780.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 780.1349731445313, "cut_end_time": 780.2600356445313}, {"text": "love, that I always take every possible precaution to avoid it ; but, nevertheless, it will happen.\" ", "start_byte": 38461, "end_byte": 38562, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 780.1599731445312, "end_time": 785.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 780.1349731445313, "cut_end_time": 785.4000356445313}, {"text": "\" You have not got the face to tell me, that you do not make money by playing? \" said Mrs. Major AHen, with some appear- ance of excitemerit. ", "start_byte": 38564, "end_byte": 38706, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 785.9199829101562, "end_time": 793.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 786.4649829101563, "cut_end_time": 793.3200454101562}, {"text": "\" No, my love ! I know my duty both to myself and you too well, to continue playing if such were the case. But it is an amusement that I like, and I take the most scrupulous care that it shall never become any annoyance to you, my dear angel ! which you know it must do, did I not take care, when I win, to lay by the amount to be in readiness for the time when I may lose.\" ", "start_byte": 38708, "end_byte": 39083, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 793.9199829101562, "end_time": 815.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 794.1649829101563, "cut_end_time": 814.8100454101562}, {"text": "Mrs. Major Allen snuffed the air with a slight appearance of agitation, but only said, \" I hope you do lay it by. Major AUen.\" ", "start_byte": 39085, "end_byte": 39212, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 815.5599975585938, "end_time": 823.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 815.9249975585938, "cut_end_time": 823.0200600585938}, {"text": "This occurred some months before the birth of the Httle Martha ; and it was when she was exactly three months old, that a snug small evening party at home, attended with a run of very obvious good fortune, led to a renewal of the subject. ", "start_byte": 39214, "end_byte": 39453, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 823.6799926757812, "end_time": 837.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 824.4649926757812, "cut_end_time": 836.7101176757812}, {"text": "\" A pretty sum you must have pouched last night. Major,\" said his lady, as she poured out his tea on the following morn- ing, while their infant heiress lay sweetly slumbering in a cradle at her side. ", "start_byte": 39455, "end_byte": 39656, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 837.4400024414062, "end_time": 848.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 837.8350024414062, "cut_end_time": 847.3300024414062}, {"text": "\" Yes, my love, pretty well.\" ", "start_byte": 39658, "end_byte": 39688, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 848.1199951171875, "end_time": 850.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 848.4149951171876, "cut_end_time": 850.2001201171876}, {"text": "\" Then I do trust our poor child will be the better forit,\" said Mrs. Major AUen, putting down the teapot, and placing her right hand on the top of the cradle, while with the other she fondly daUied with the httle coverhd, as if it wanted more tucking in than she had given it a dozen times over already. \" I do hope. Major Allen, that for the first time in your life you win do something to assist in the maintenance of your family.\" ", "start_byte": 39690, "end_byte": 40125, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 850.8800048828125, "end_time": 875.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 851.2550048828125, "cut_end_time": 874.8900048828125}, {"text": "\" My family,\" rephed the Major, cherupping very affection- ately towards the cradle, \" have not been very long in want of maintenance.\" ", "start_byte": 40127, "end_byte": 40263, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 875.5999755859375, "end_time": 884.0, "cut_start_time": 875.8449755859375, "cut_end_time": 883.2200380859375}, {"text": "\" Why, we have been married,\" replied Mrs. Allen,", "start_byte": 40265, "end_byte": 40314, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 884.0, "end_time": 887.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 884.315, "cut_end_time": 887.2000625000001}, {"text": " ", "start_byte": 40678, "end_byte": 40679, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 906.9600219726562, "end_time": 906.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 906.9350219726563, "cut_end_time": 907.0600844726563}, {"text": "\" My dearest creature ! can you imagine that a man of my knowledge of the world, and general savoir vivre, would ever have been guilty of that most unpardonable of aU human actions, the marrying a woman without fortune? No, my beautiful Mrs. Major AUen, I adore you far too vehemently, ever to have been guilty of such treacherous, unmanly baseness, ", "start_byte": 40681, "end_byte": 41031, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 906.9600219726562, "end_time": 928.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 907.3850219726563, "cut_end_time": 928.3000844726563}, {"text": "16 THE WIDOW MARBIED. ", "start_byte": 41033, "end_byte": 41055, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 928.2000122070312, "end_time": 928.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 928.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 928.3000747070313}, {"text": "as to have seduced you into marriage with \u2014 with \u2014 ^in short, my love, with myself, had I not known that, though not so rich as I once thought you, there was no danger of your actually starving in consequence of your affection for me.\" ", "start_byte": 41057, "end_byte": 41293, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 928.2000122070312, "end_time": 941.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 928.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 940.6500747070313}, {"text": "\" And you probably thought there might be no danger of your own starving either, dear Major ?\" replied the lady, laugh- ing a sort of experimental laugh, as not quite certain how the hit might be taken. However, her excellent husband was in extremely good humour, and only laughed a Httle in return, buttering his toast the while as pleasantly as possible. ", "start_byte": 41295, "end_byte": 41652, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 941.3200073242188, "end_time": 961.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 941.6650073242188, "cut_end_time": 960.7100073242187}, {"text": "This, of course, acted as an encouragement upon the lady, and she again hinted that she should like a Uttle money. ", "start_byte": 41654, "end_byte": 41769, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 961.5999755859375, "end_time": 968.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 961.9849755859375, "cut_end_time": 967.4901005859375}, {"text": "\" Upon my word I shall be delighted to oblige you, my dearest Mrs. AUen,\" he replied, with every appearance of gravity ; \" but the birth of this darling babe furnishes the very strongest motive a man is capable of feeling, for prudence and economy. I cannot give you money, my dear love ! It is the greatest possible grief for me to be obliged to say so, but I should never forgive myself, never ! Nor ever, I truly believe, should I sleep in peace again, did I for a moment yield to any temptation that might affect the futtire fortune of our dear little daughter ! \" ", "start_byte": 41771, "end_byte": 42340, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 968.3200073242188, "end_time": 1002.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 968.6450073242188, "cut_end_time": 1001.7900698242188}, {"text": "Here again the Major cherupped at the cradle, and Mrs. AUen, heaving a deep sigh, only muttered in reply, \" Then it is quite impossible I should buy any feathers for her bonnet ! \" ", "start_byte": 42342, "end_byte": 42523, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1002.4400024414062, "end_time": 1013.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 1002.9750024414062, "cut_end_time": 1012.5300649414063}, {"text": "The tone of this very happy New South Welsh couple to each other was, in more respects than one, rather singular. There was occasionally a vast deal of fondness displayed on both sides, yet a sharp observer might sometimes have fancied that there was some latent feeling of suspicion and reserve at their hearts. If this, however, was really the case, they conducted themselves on the whole with great discretion, and might not unaptly have been quoted as a proof that all feelings, with pro- per schoohng, may ever be made subservient to will. This, indeed, must always be the case where motive is strong ; and motive was strong enough both in the Major and his lady to produce a line of conduct in each, running so parallel to each other that there was little or no danger of their ever producing a concus- sion by crossing. Thus, Major Allen never, even in his most playful moments, nor when the whisky-toddy had been the most seductive, hazarded the slightest allusion either to his friend Maintry, or to his excellent servant William, or to the cause or manner of his voyage out, or to the beautiful Isabella d'Almafonte, or even to the Duke of Welhngton. While, on the other hand, Mrs. Major Allen appeared totally to have for- gotten Silverton Park, and her beautiful set of grays ; never gave the slightest indication of remembering such a place as Clifton, such an Abigail as Betty Jacks, such wretches as the ", "start_byte": 42525, "end_byte": 43944, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1013.0800170898438, "end_time": 1093.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1013.6250170898438, "cut_end_time": 1093.8600795898437}, {"text": "MUTUAL OBLIVION. 17 ", "start_byte": 43946, "end_byte": 43966, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1093.760009765625, "end_time": 1093.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1093.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 1093.860072265625}, {"text": "tradesmen of Cheltenliam, or such an extraordinaxy dull place as the Fleet Prison. ", "start_byte": 43968, "end_byte": 44051, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1093.760009765625, "end_time": 1098.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1093.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 1098.060009765625}, {"text": "There can be no doubt in the world that this was the best plan they could follow ; for without it there would have been so remarkaiale a discrepancy between their confidential reminis- cences, and the dignified strain of their ordinary bearing, as must have made their fives appear, even to each other, like one long-drawn-out conspiracy. Whereas, under the existing sys- tem, everything went on so smoothly, that it might almost be douljted whether they had not really and truly undergone some Lethean process which had cleared oflf effectually and for ever all the heavier shadows that hung upon the background of their past existence. In a word, \" bygones are Bygones\" would have been the most expressive and appropriate motto that they could possibly have adopted. ", "start_byte": 44053, "end_byte": 44822, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1098.719970703125, "end_time": 1140.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1099.2549707031249, "cut_end_time": 1140.1600957031249}, {"text": "Mrs. Major Allen was certainly in many respects a very clever woman. Having acutely enough found out what the Major's tactics were and were likely to be, respecting the past, she not only adopted the same with very excellent feminine tact, but taking the fullest advantage of the general amnesty thus granted by memory to all former faults and foUies, she gazed at her black-eyed little daughter with renewed hope, and renewed ambition, and felt as fresh in spirit, and as ready to set off again in pursuit of new plots, and new projects, as if she had never met with a disappointment in her fife. ", "start_byte": 44824, "end_byte": 45422, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1140.8800048828125, "end_time": 1173.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1141.3150048828124, "cut_end_time": 1173.0700048828123}, {"text": "But if she wisely cast a veil over what it was disagreeable to remember, the same wisdom led her, as much as it was pos- sible to do so, to keep for ever before her husband's eyes, her own, and those of everybody who approached her, the recoUec- tion of all that was creditable in which she could claim a share. Those who know the character of the man can feel no doubt that here, too, the happy sympathy of disposition existing between the married pair would have manifested itself, if the thing had been possible ; but herein it would seem that the lady had the advantage of the gentleman. For while she dis- coiirsed pretty considerably at large concerning her aunt Compton, of Comptou Basset, her dearly beloved niece, Mrs. General Hubert, and above all, of her great friend, and great connection, Lady Elizabeth Norris, the Major, though now and then in general Sydney society echoing the affectionate family aUusions of his wife, was never heard to obtrude the mention of his own relations upon anybody. ", "start_byte": 45424, "end_byte": 46434, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1173.5999755859375, "end_time": 1228.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1174.1049755859374, "cut_end_time": 1228.2101005859374}, {"text": "It was impossible for a woman so acute as Mrs. Major Afien, not to perceive that these frequent references to the old country, increased their consideration in the new one, and this indeed so evidently, that at length it struck her as being well worth while to make an effort towards renewing some intercourse ", "start_byte": 46436, "end_byte": 46746, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1228.8800048828125, "end_time": 1245.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1229.3150048828124, "cut_end_time": 1245.1800048828125}, {"text": "B ", "start_byte": 46748, "end_byte": 46750, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1245.0799560546875, "end_time": 1245.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1245.0549560546874, "cut_end_time": 1245.1800185546874}, {"text": "18 THE WIDOW MARRIED. ", "start_byte": 46752, "end_byte": 46774, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1245.0799560546875, "end_time": 1245.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1245.0549560546874, "cut_end_time": 1245.3200185546875}, {"text": "witli those, the far-off sound of whose names was so advan- tageous. ", "start_byte": 46776, "end_byte": 46845, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1245.239990234375, "end_time": 1249.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1245.234990234375, "cut_end_time": 1248.600052734375}, {"text": "One afternoon that the Major, who not unfrequently passed his soirees from home, had declared his intention of remaining during the entire evening in his own mansion, where he hoped a friend would call and perhaps play a quiet game or two at piquet with him, he happened to say, after giving his lady in- structions about making the toddy, and one or two other little particulars, \" I like to think, dearest, that whatever I do win will be sure, sooner or later, to help out the fortune of our darling baby.\" ", "start_byte": 46847, "end_byte": 47356, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1249.239990234375, "end_time": 1275.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1249.854990234375, "cut_end_time": 1274.890115234375}, {"text": "Notliing was so sure to put Mrs. Major Allen in good humour, as an observation of this kind from her husband; for the charming buoyancy of her spirits was such that she already \u2014 though her young daughter was Httle more than a twelvemonth old \u2014 had determined in her own mind, that the third Martha should do better in life than either of her beautiful predecessors had done. With a degree of contentment to wliich no words can do justice, she perceived in the features, hair, and complexion of her child, that she had not gazed upon her own image in vain ; and blessing the prescient tenderness which had dictated her doing so, she prophesied, as she contemplated the black eyes and dark hair of the darling, that in her the race of Compton should rise higher than all aunt Betsy's economy had ever yet contrived to place it. Mindful, however, of the many proofs which had met her in the course of her career, that money was an iinportant auxiliary in all affairs of love, she became, perhaps, almost immoderately anxious as to everything that concerned the little Martha's pecuniary interests. It is pos- sible that the Major was in some degree aware of this ; for it is certain that whenever particularly desirous of insuring the con- currence or aid of his lady, in any of his little schemes, he now invariably hinted that it was probable their result, if well managed, would be favourable to the future prospects of their daughter. ", "start_byte": 47358, "end_byte": 48795, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1275.760009765625, "end_time": 1353.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1276.0550097656248, "cut_end_time": 1352.360009765625}, {"text": "On the occasion above alluded to, his reference to this produced the happiest effect. Mrs. Allen smiled with the greatest sweetness, and even playfully pinched his cheek as she replied,", "start_byte": 48797, "end_byte": 48982, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1353.1199951171875, "end_time": 1363.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1353.6049951171874, "cut_end_time": 1363.3501201171873}, {"text": " ", "start_byte": 49101, "end_byte": 49102, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1370.9200439453125, "end_time": 1370.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1370.8950439453124, "cut_end_time": 1371.0201064453124}, {"text": "The Major returned the pinch, nodded his head, but said nothing. ", "start_byte": 49104, "end_byte": 49169, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1370.9200439453125, "end_time": 1375.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1371.4950439453123, "cut_end_time": 1374.6001064453123}, {"text": "\" I suppose you axe afraid to promise. Major, for fear I should plague you about it? Hey? Don't be afraid; I shall know how to mind my hits, and shall not be over stupid, I dare Bay, in giving a guess about the when and the how too, though ", "start_byte": 49171, "end_byte": 49411, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1375.1600341796875, "end_time": 1389.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1375.6850341796874, "cut_end_time": 1389.8600966796873}, {"text": "RETURN TO THE OLD COUNTRY PLANNED. 19 ", "start_byte": 49413, "end_byte": 49451, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1389.760009765625, "end_time": 1390.0, "cut_start_time": 1389.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 1390.100009765625}, {"text": "I may not happen positively to know anything about it. How- ever, if you will take my advice, you will turn your thoughts that way, let it be as long as it will before you can turn your- self \u2014 unless^ indeed, there is any particular reason why you should stay here for life.\" ", "start_byte": 49453, "end_byte": 49730, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1390.0, "end_time": 1406.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1389.995, "cut_end_time": 1405.53}, {"text": " re- plied the Major, rather eagerly. \" But I don't quite under- stand, dear, what you mean by turning my 'thoughts that way,' \" he continued, with a musing air ; and then, after a moment's pause, added, \" To say the truth, my dear Mrs. Allen, my thoughts seldom turn for long together in any other direc- tion. The doings here, my dear, let a man be as persevering as he will, are pitiful in the extreme ; and it is impossible to think of what's going on every night on the other side of the water, without being devilishly provoked, I promise you \u2014 particularly when a man feels that he improves every day he lives.\" ", "start_byte": 49783, "end_byte": 50402, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1410.3199462890625, "end_time": 1445.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1410.5049462890624, "cut_end_time": 1444.6100087890625}, {"text": "Mrs. Major Allen listened to this with the greatest satis- faction ; it was the first time she had ever heard her husband distinctly declare an intention of returning to England ; and though, at the very bottom of her heart, she had determined to do so herself one day or other, even if she found herself obliged to leave him behind, the discovering that his wishes accorded with her own was highly gratifying, and she immediately de- termined upon opening her mind to him concerning a scheme that had for some time past occupied her head. ", "start_byte": 50404, "end_byte": 50944, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1445.3599853515625, "end_time": 1474.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1445.7549853515625, "cut_end_time": 1473.7001103515624}, {"text": "\" My darling Major ! \" she exclaimed, \" how delighted I am to hear you talk so ! Remember the saying, ' Where there's a will there's a way ;' and do you only give me your promise that when you can go, you will, and I wiU give mine to push on in every way possible to the same dehghtful end. I will spend just next to nothing, dearest, in any way; \u2014 ^I will buy no feathers either for baby or myself, and almost no flowers neither ; I'll promise not to think of any more satin dresses, if it is for \u2014 ^almost a dozen years to come ; and I will trust, for making a decent appearance, altogether to turning, trimming, and satin-stitch. In short, my dearest Major, there is nothing in the whole world that I would not do to get back.\" ", "start_byte": 50946, "end_byte": 51677, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1474.4000244140625, "end_time": 1519.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1474.8650244140624, "cut_end_time": 1519.2200244140624}, {"text": "\" I am glad to hear all this, my love, very glad. There is nothing like having a few rouleaux beforehand, my dear, depend upon it \u2014 stick to the saving plan about clothes and all your own little expenses, and it is quite impossible to say what may be the fruits of it one of these days.\" ", "start_byte": 51679, "end_byte": 51967, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1519.719970703125, "end_time": 1537.0, "cut_start_time": 1520.2549707031249, "cut_end_time": 1536.500033203125}, {"text": "\" Oh ! but you don't know, Major, what else I have got in my head,\" replied his wife, with a gay glance that reminded birn of Chfton ; \" when we do go back, it shall not be my fault if we do not find somebody worth introducing our child to.\" ", "start_byte": 51969, "end_byte": 52211, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1537.0, "end_time": 1550.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1537.405, "cut_end_time": 1550.4199999999998}, {"text": "b2 ", "start_byte": 52213, "end_byte": 52216, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1550.3599853515625, "end_time": 1550.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1550.3349853515624, "cut_end_time": 1550.4600478515624}, {"text": "20 THE WIDOW MAIEIED. ", "start_byte": 52218, "end_byte": 52240, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1550.3599853515625, "end_time": 1551.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1550.3349853515624, "cut_end_time": 1551.2200478515624}, {"text": "\" Who will that be, my dear ? \" said he, with a glance almost as gay as her own ; \" to my Lord Muoklebury ? \" \u2014 for, with a degree of generous confidence which really did honour to her heart, Mrs. Major Allen had confessed to her husband how very near marriage she had been with that nobleman, and how completely it was owing to a mere accidental misunderstanding between them that the match had been broken off. ", "start_byte": 52242, "end_byte": 52655, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1551.1199951171875, "end_time": 1573.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1551.4949951171875, "cut_end_time": 1573.0901201171873}, {"text": "\" It is by no means impossible that I may do that good service both to you and to her, my love,\" answered the lady ; \" for I have every reason to flatter myself that what was love, very fervent love certainly, has now mellowed into friendship, and I have little doubt that by the time we return he may be able to see me, and even my child, without pain \u2014 ^though he may perhaps heave a guiltless sigh that he is not the father of it. But it was not of him, Major Allen \u2014 I do assure you that it was not of him I was thinking.\" ", "start_byte": 52657, "end_byte": 53184, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1573.760009765625, "end_time": 1604.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1574.3150097656248, "cut_end_time": 1604.040072265625}, {"text": "\" Of whom, then, Mrs. Allen, \u2014 of those Clifton people ? Pray do not let us talk about them. For, in the first instance, I hate them all particularly ; and in the next, they are not in a station of life that can do me, or any man of fashion, service.\" ", "start_byte": 53186, "end_byte": 53438, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1604.56005859375, "end_time": 1620.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1604.8550585937498, "cut_end_time": 1619.84005859375}, {"text": "Mrs. Allen was not at all displeased at hearing her husband thus class himself ; but her change of colour would have been visible had she not worn rouge, when he named Clifton. The emotion passed, however, and she resumed without any trace of embarrassment. ", "start_byte": 53440, "end_byte": 53698, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1620.5999755859375, "end_time": 1635.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1620.8949755859373, "cut_end_time": 1634.7901005859374}, {"text": "\" No, no, no, no. Major Allen, I am not so humble-minded as you imagine. It is not my brother and sister Peters, nor any of my nephews and nieces in that very commercial district that I am thinking about, but of persons in a very different station, I assure you. Be patient for a moment, and I will explain myself.\" ", "start_byte": 53700, "end_byte": 54016, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1635.52001953125, "end_time": 1656.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1635.8250195312498, "cut_end_time": 1655.9500195312498}, {"text": "The Major was at that moment smoking a cigar, and continued the operation with as much composure as she could have desired, while she rose from her chair and opened the drawer of a work-table at the further extremity of the apart- ment. From this drawer she took what might be recognised at the first glance as an English newspaper, and which, though of no very recent date, was the last that had been received in the colony. ", "start_byte": 54018, "end_byte": 54444, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1656.5999755859375, "end_time": 1681.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1657.0849755859374, "cut_end_time": 1680.1500380859375}, {"text": "\" I have promised never to be extravagant again, my dear,\" said the lady, advancing up the room, and searching the precious columns as she walked, for the article she wished to show him, \" and therefore you must not scold me for having bought this newspaper, I reaUy could not resist it when I found this para- graph concerning the very nearest relations I have in the world. Let me read it to you, shall I ? \" ", "start_byte": 54446, "end_byte": 54857, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1681.1199951171875, "end_time": 1703.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1681.6949951171873, "cut_end_time": 1703.7401201171874}, {"text": "FAMILY CONNECTIONS. 21 ", "start_byte": 54859, "end_byte": 54882, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1703.6400146484375, "end_time": 1704.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1703.6150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1704.1800146484375}, {"text": "The Major smoked on, but graciously nodded his head. ", "start_byte": 54884, "end_byte": 54937, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1704.719970703125, "end_time": 1708.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1705.324970703125, "cut_end_time": 1707.970033203125}, {"text": "\" It is the account of a drawing-room held at St. James's Palace, Major Allen \u2014 I was always fond of reading those sort of articles even in England, for nothing keeps up our acquaint- ance with the fashionable world so well \u2014 besides the insight it gives one into dress ; and here of course it is ten thousand times more valuable stOl, to prevent one's forgetting the very names of one's relations, and aU other persons of rank.\" ", "start_byte": 54939, "end_byte": 55369, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1708.719970703125, "end_time": 1733.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1709.104970703125, "cut_end_time": 1732.280095703125}, {"text": "Here JNIrs. Major Allen began reading a very long list of persons present at the drawing-room, and at length came to the names of \" General and Mrs. Hubert,\" as being among them. ", "start_byte": 55371, "end_byte": 55550, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1733.0400390625, "end_time": 1743.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1733.7050390625, "cut_end_time": 1742.8501015625}, {"text": "\" I suppose you know who she is, Major Allen, if you do not remember him.\" ", "start_byte": 55552, "end_byte": 55627, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1743.4000244140625, "end_time": 1748.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1743.8850244140624, "cut_end_time": 1747.9200244140625}, {"text": "\" Not I,\" said the Major. ", "start_byte": 55629, "end_byte": 55655, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1748.43994140625, "end_time": 1750.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1748.67494140625, "cut_end_time": 1750.4100664062498}, {"text": "\" What, my dear ! \u2014 don't you remember my darling niece, Agnes ? The girl that I devoted myself to so completely, before she married ? \" ", "start_byte": 55657, "end_byte": 55794, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1750.800048828125, "end_time": 1759.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1750.975048828125, "cut_end_time": 1758.930111328125}, {"text": "\" What, the little WUloughby, who was so skittish that she would never let one speak to her. Oh ! dear yes, I remember her perfectly.\" ", "start_byte": 55796, "end_byte": 55931, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1759.52001953125, "end_time": 1768.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1759.6050195312498, "cut_end_time": 1767.86008203125}, {"text": "\" WeU, Major, it is she who is now Mrs. General Hubert, and who has been, as you perceive, presented at Court.\" ", "start_byte": 55933, "end_byte": 56045, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1768.6400146484375, "end_time": 1775.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1768.9950146484375, "cut_end_time": 1775.1400146484375}, {"text": "\" Oh ! she married the stiif-backed Colonel did she ? I forgot all about it, my dear. And is it to the General's lady that you are going to introduce me ? \" ", "start_byte": 56047, "end_byte": 56204, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1775.719970703125, "end_time": 1785.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1776.194970703125, "cut_end_time": 1784.6500332031248}, {"text": "There was a comic sort of leer in the eye of the Major as he said this, which his wife did not altogether understand ; but after looking at him for a moment, she rephed, ", "start_byte": 56206, "end_byte": 56376, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1785.43994140625, "end_time": 1795.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1785.84494140625, "cut_end_time": 1794.71006640625}, {"text": " ", "start_byte": 57031, "end_byte": 57032, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1835.6800537109375, "end_time": 1835.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1835.6550537109374, "cut_end_time": 1835.7801162109374}, {"text": "\" Depend upon it, my dear, I shall make no sort of objection,\" replied the amiable Major ; \" but don't you think it just possible that she may not answer you ? \" ", "start_byte": 57034, "end_byte": 57196, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1835.6800537109375, "end_time": 1845.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1835.9550537109374, "cut_end_time": 1844.3600537109373}, {"text": "\" No, Major Allen, I do not. I know better than any one else can, except herself, dear child ! how devoted was the attach- ment I showed her \u2014 and it is not in nature to believe that whenever I choose to recall myself to her remembrance, she ", "start_byte": 57198, "end_byte": 57440, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1845.0799560546875, "end_time": 1858.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1845.5449560546874, "cut_end_time": 1858.8600810546875}, {"text": "22 THE WIDOW MARRIED. ", "start_byte": 57442, "end_byte": 57464, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1858.800048828125, "end_time": 1858.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1858.8550488281248, "cut_end_time": 1859.060048828125}, {"text": "should be otherwise than delighted at hearing from me. I will not deny that some trifling circumstances occurred previous to her marriage, and to mine, which displeased me. However, everything was made up, most affectionately, before I left England, and a very touching scene it was, I assure you, with poor dear Willoughby, her father, who suddenly returned from some place hke this, I don't know where, abroad, and brought another daughter with him. A charming creature she is \u2014 not quite so lovely and elegant-looking as my niece, but very pretty, and married to an extremely rich young son of a baronet. So you see. Major, the connection throughout is most extremely desirable for our Martha, and when the time comes for our return, will unquestionably be of the greatest importance to her. So write I shall most decidedly.\" ", "start_byte": 57466, "end_byte": 58295, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1858.9599609375, "end_time": 1909.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1858.9349609375, "cut_end_time": 1908.7500234375}, {"text": "The indifference with which the Major at first appeared to listen to her, relaxed by degrees as she went on, and when at length she paused, he said, without any sneer at all, ", "start_byte": 58297, "end_byte": 58472, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1909.43994140625, "end_time": 1919.0, "cut_start_time": 1909.9749414062499, "cut_end_time": 1918.6400039062498}, {"text": "\" Very well, my dear ; you are perfectly a woman of the world, which is exactly what I would wish you to be ; and nothing could be more desirable than that our little girl should in due time be introduced to such very near relations. But, I beheve, I have hinted to you before, that there are two or three reasons which should render my immediate return to England inconvenient. I have, hitherto, never entered upon any explana- tion of them ; because, in fact, they possessed little interest in themselves, and were of no consequence whatever to us in our present situation. But if it should prove that there really is any chance of our getting among the set you mention, when we get back, it may be as well to make you understand the affair sufficiently to prevent any awkward blunders on your part, which might be inconvenient. Not that the thing, in point of fact, is of any great consequence ; but nevertheless, as it involves some trifling etiquette, that some sort of people think a great deal about, it may be as well to put you aufait of the business ; and I shall have great pleasure, I am sure, in giving you this proof of my confidence. ", "start_byte": 58474, "end_byte": 59623, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1919.0, "end_time": 1982.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1919.2749999999999, "cut_end_time": 1982.1499999999999}, {"text": "\" But here comes our friend Belmaine. Remember, love, all our established hints and tokens ; and remember, also, that whatever I do chance to win will be added to the fund, which I trust we shall be able to lay up for our dear girl's benefit. There! he is obliged to knock again ! Why does not that stupid girl open the door ? We will finish our talk to-morrow, dear. Only remember that you are not to write to England till I have explained myself.\" ", "start_byte": 59625, "end_byte": 60075, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1982.719970703125, "end_time": 2011.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1983.424970703125, "cut_end_time": 2010.3800332031249}, {"text": "The worthy Mr. Belmaine here made his appearance, and was received in the most friendly manner, both by the Major and his lady. He was not an old acquaintance, but appeared ", "start_byte": 60077, "end_byte": 60250, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2011.3599853515625, "end_time": 2020.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 2011.9649853515625, "cut_end_time": 2020.9001103515625}, {"text": "ANNOYANCES AT THE CAKD TABLE. 23 ", "start_byte": 60252, "end_byte": 60285, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2020.800048828125, "end_time": 2020.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 2020.775048828125, "cut_end_time": 2021.0201113281248}, {"text": "to be a very valued one, for nothing was omitted that could make their substantial tea-drinking agreeable ; and the httle Martha, who with almost precocious strength of limb already waddled fearlessly over the floor, was induced to add her note of welcome, by a wonderfully articulated \" ta, ta.\" ", "start_byte": 60287, "end_byte": 60584, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2020.9200439453125, "end_time": 2037.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 2020.8950439453124, "cut_end_time": 2036.7000439453125}, {"text": "Soon after the meal was concluded, Mrs. Major Allen retired for a few moments to superintend the coucher of her beautifvd child, and, ere she returned, the two gentlemen had very rationally sought and found consolation for her absence in a pack of cards. ", "start_byte": 60586, "end_byte": 60841, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2037.3599853515625, "end_time": 2051.919921875, "cut_start_time": 2038.0949853515624, "cut_end_time": 2051.0799853515623}, {"text": "Whenever Major Allen indulged himself in the presence of his wife with a game at piquet, whist, or eoarte, the only amusements of the kind he ever ventured upon, his lady had the appearance of being in, what is vulgarly called, a fidget ; for she walked about the room, looked at the different hands, and, in short, seemed in search of amusement for herself which she could not find. On such occasions, it was usual for the Major to say \" Pray, my dear love, do Sit down ; you have no idea how you worry me by moving about so.\" And she replied, \" Well, then, my dear, I will take my work, and amuse myself now and then by looking at your hand.\" And then she did take her work, and sat down behind him, very close indeed, sometimes twitching his hair in a lively manner, and sometimes playfully running her needle into his shoulder, always per- mitting her animated eyes to invite his partner to take part in the jest. After enduring this for about five minutes, it was usual for the Major to lose his patience, and to exclaim, \u2014 ", "start_byte": 60843, "end_byte": 61872, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2051.919921875, "end_time": 2111.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 2052.274921875, "cut_end_time": 2111.350109375}, {"text": "\" Upon my word, my love, I cannot play if you go on so. You are as froUcsome as a kitten, dearest, and I give you my honour I can't bear to check you ; but, upon my soul, I am such a nervous player, that I don't know what I'm about for two minutes together, while you are playing your monkey tricks. Could you not take your work a httlefurther away, love? \" ", "start_byte": 61874, "end_byte": 62232, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2111.800048828125, "end_time": 2132.0, "cut_start_time": 2112.025048828125, "cut_end_time": 2131.210048828125}, {"text": "Mrs. Major Allen could never stand this reproof, but con- stantly replied, rather in a plaintive tone \u2014 ", "start_byte": 62234, "end_byte": 62338, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2132.0, "end_time": 2138.320068359375, "cut_start_time": 2132.475, "cut_end_time": 2137.8601249999997}, {"text": "\" And pretty dull sort of work I shall find it ! I dare say, Mr. This, or Mr. That (whoever the- Major's partner might be), will not be so cross as you are, dear, so I wiU go and sit by Mm.\" ", "start_byte": 62340, "end_byte": 62531, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2138.320068359375, "end_time": 2151.080078125, "cut_start_time": 2138.575068359375, "cut_end_time": 2150.480130859375}, {"text": "And she did go and sit by him, or rather behind him, but so quietly, that it was next to impossible that he should be churlish enough to make any objection to her remaining there. 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I'd be a liar and a cheat. But he is so nice! If he did want me!... No, no! Just for comforts! I couldn't! What a miserable wretch I am!\u201d", "start_byte": 254380, "end_byte": 254542, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 324.67999267578125, "end_time": 338.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 324.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 337.8701176757813, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou, miss?\u201d", "start_byte": 259918, "end_byte": 259930, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 727.8400268554688, "end_time": 729.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 728.1250268554687, "cut_end_time": 728.9200268554688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cVery important. Take me up.\u201d", "start_byte": 259932, "end_byte": 259961, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 729.5999755859375, "end_time": 732.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 729.9349755859375, "cut_end_time": 732.3100380859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe boss is out.\u201d", "start_byte": 259963, "end_byte": 259981, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 732.6799926757812, "end_time": 735.0, "cut_start_time": 733.0349926757813, "cut_end_time": 734.4000551757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou're the doctor!", "start_byte": 260008, "end_byte": 260027, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 737.8400268554688, "end_time": 739.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 737.9950268554687, "cut_end_time": 739.2900893554688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cDo you know where he went?\u201d", "start_byte": 260203, "end_byte": 260231, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 749.280029296875, "end_time": 751.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 749.595029296875, "cut_end_time": 750.600029296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNever know. But I'll be in this bird cage until he comes back.\u201d", "start_byte": 260233, "end_byte": 260297, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 751.239990234375, "end_time": 755.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 751.5349902343751, "cut_end_time": 754.720052734375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI shall have to wait for him.\u201d", "start_byte": 260299, "end_byte": 260330, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 755.1199951171875, "end_time": 758.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 755.5349951171876, "cut_end_time": 757.1301201171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cUp she goes!\u201d", "start_byte": 260332, "end_byte": 260346, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 758.2000122070312, "end_time": 759.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 758.4350122070313, "cut_end_time": 759.3400747070312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou, Miss Conover?\u201d", "start_byte": 260649, "end_byte": 260669, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 779.280029296875, "end_time": 781.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 779.485029296875, "cut_end_time": 780.730029296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes.", "start_byte": 260671, "end_byte": 260676, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 781.0399780273438, "end_time": 782.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 781.3149780273437, "cut_end_time": 781.7400405273438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI have made a really important discovery. Did Cutty say when he would return?\u201d", "start_byte": 260751, "end_byte": 260830, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 786.3200073242188, "end_time": 791.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 786.5750073242187, "cut_end_time": 790.7000698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo. I am not in his confidence to that extent. But I do know that you assumed unnecessary risks in coming here.\u201d", "start_byte": 260832, "end_byte": 260945, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 791.4400024414062, "end_time": 799.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 791.5950024414062, "cut_end_time": 798.6300024414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIs Mr. Hawksley awake?\u201d", "start_byte": 260987, "end_byte": 261011, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 802.1599731445312, "end_time": 804.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 802.3149731445312, "cut_end_time": 804.8500981445312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHe is.\u201d", "start_byte": 261013, "end_byte": 261021, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 804.8800048828125, "end_time": 805.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 804.9550048828125, "cut_end_time": 805.6200048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIt appears that he left this wallet in my kitchen that night. It might buck him up if I gave it to him.\u201d", "start_byte": 261023, "end_byte": 261128, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 805.9199829101562, "end_time": 813.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 806.4949829101563, "cut_end_time": 812.9201079101563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cCome, I've been trying futilely to read him asleep, but he is restless. No excitement, please.\u201d", "start_byte": 261198, "end_byte": 261294, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 818.47998046875, "end_time": 825.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 818.7849804687501, "cut_end_time": 824.4300429687501, "narrative_prediction": {"conceded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI'll try not to. Perhaps, after all, you had better give him the wallet.\u201d", "start_byte": 261296, "end_byte": 261370, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 825.0399780273438, "end_time": 830.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 825.4749780273438, "cut_end_time": 829.3101030273438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOn the contrary, that would start a series of questions I could not answer. Come along.\u201d", "start_byte": 261372, "end_byte": 261461, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 830.0800170898438, "end_time": 836.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 830.6250170898438, "cut_end_time": 836.7700170898438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cJust when I never felt so lonely! Ripping!\u201d", "start_byte": 262383, "end_byte": 262427, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 904.3200073242188, "end_time": 908.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 904.9950073242188, "cut_end_time": 908.3000073242188, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "2", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow -- how are you?", "start_byte": 263072, "end_byte": 263092, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 955.3599853515625, "end_time": 958.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 955.9649853515625, "cut_end_time": 957.8100478515626, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "inanely": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cTop-hole, considering. Quite ready to be killed all over again.\u201d", "start_byte": 263117, "end_byte": 263182, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 960.6799926757812, "end_time": 965.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 960.8949926757813, "cut_end_time": 964.4900551757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou mustn't talk like that!", "start_byte": 263184, "end_byte": 263212, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 965.0399780273438, "end_time": 967.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 965.4249780273437, "cut_end_time": 967.0300405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"protested": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOnly to show you I was bucking up. Thank you for doing what you did.\u201d", "start_byte": 263230, "end_byte": 263300, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 968.9600219726562, "end_time": 973.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 969.2650219726563, "cut_end_time": 973.7500219726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI had to do it.\u201d", "start_byte": 263302, "end_byte": 263319, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 973.9199829101562, "end_time": 975.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 974.4749829101563, "cut_end_time": 975.9901079101563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMost women would have run away and left me to my fate.\u201d", "start_byte": 263321, "end_byte": 263377, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 975.9600219726562, "end_time": 979.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 976.2250219726562, "cut_end_time": 978.8200844726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNot my kind.\u201d", "start_byte": 263379, "end_byte": 263393, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 979.52001953125, "end_time": 981.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 979.76501953125, "cut_end_time": 980.86001953125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cRather not! Your kind would risk its neck to help a stray cat. I say, what's that you have in your hand?\u201d", "start_byte": 263395, "end_byte": 263501, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 981.3599853515625, "end_time": 988.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 981.5849853515625, "cut_end_time": 987.6101103515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cGood gracious!", "start_byte": 263503, "end_byte": 263518, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 988.4000244140625, "end_time": 989.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 988.8950244140625, "cut_end_time": 989.7100869140626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is yours, isn't it?\u201d", "start_byte": 263547, "end_byte": 263571, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 991.8400268554688, "end_time": 993.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 992.0450268554688, "cut_end_time": 993.3500893554688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes. I wanted you to bring it to me the way you have. If I hadn't come back -- out of that -- it was to be yours.\u201d", "start_byte": 263573, "end_byte": 263688, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 993.9600219726562, "end_time": 1002.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 994.6550219726563, "cut_end_time": 1001.2900844726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMine?", "start_byte": 263690, "end_byte": 263696, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1002.0800170898438, "end_time": 1002.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 1002.2350170898437, "cut_end_time": 1002.8300795898438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy not? Gregor gone, there wasn't a soul in the world. I was hungry, and you gave me food. I wanted that to pay you. I'll wager you've never looked into it.\u201d", "start_byte": 263727, "end_byte": 263886, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1005.3599853515625, "end_time": 1016.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1005.8649853515625, "cut_end_time": 1015.8700478515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI had no right to.\u201d", "start_byte": 263888, "end_byte": 263908, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1016.47998046875, "end_time": 1018.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1016.83498046875, "cut_end_time": 1017.98010546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cSee!", "start_byte": 263910, "end_byte": 263915, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1018.52001953125, "end_time": 1019.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 1018.62501953125, "cut_end_time": 1019.13008203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI wasn't so stony as you thought. What? Cash and unregistered bonds. They would have been yours absolutely.\u201d", "start_byte": 263982, "end_byte": 264091, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1023.5999755859375, "end_time": 1031.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1024.0649755859374, "cut_end_time": 1030.4200380859374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut I don't -- I can't quite,", "start_byte": 264093, "end_byte": 264123, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1031.1199951171875, "end_time": 1034.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1031.6149951171874, "cut_end_time": 1033.8100576171873, "narrative_prediction": {"stammered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cbut I couldn't have kept them!\u201d", "start_byte": 264144, "end_byte": 264176, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1035.52001953125, "end_time": 1038.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1035.6050195312498, "cut_end_time": 1038.29001953125, "narrative_prediction": {"stammered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cPositively yes. You would have shown them to that ripping guardian of yours, and he would have made you see.\u201d", "start_byte": 264178, "end_byte": 264288, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1038.47998046875, "end_time": 1044.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1038.88498046875, "cut_end_time": 1044.33010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"stammered": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIndeed, yes! He would have been scared to death. You poor man, can't you see? Circumstantial evidence that I had killed you!\u201d", "start_byte": 264290, "end_byte": 264416, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1044.8800048828125, "end_time": 1054.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1045.4150048828124, "cut_end_time": 1053.3100048828123, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cGood Lord! And you're right, too! So it goes. You can't do anything you want to do. The good Samaritan is never requited; and I wanted to break the rule. Lord, what a bally mix-up I'd have tumbled you in! I forgot that you were you, that you would have gone straight to the authorities. Of course I knew if I pulled through and you found the wallet you would bring it to me.\u201d", "start_byte": 264418, "end_byte": 264794, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1054.239990234375, "end_time": 1077.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1055.0349902343748, "cut_end_time": 1076.140115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI want you to give this to your guardian when he comes in. I want him to understand. I say, you know, I'm going to love that old thoroughbred! He's fine. Fancy his carrying me on his shoulders and eventually bringing me up here among the clouds! Americans.... Are you all like that? And you!\u201d", "start_byte": 265388, "end_byte": 265681, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1122.8399658203125, "end_time": 1143.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1123.6849658203123, "cut_end_time": 1142.1400283203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd what about me?\u201d", "start_byte": 265817, "end_byte": 265837, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1154.47998046875, "end_time": 1157.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1154.69498046875, "cut_end_time": 1156.27010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"say": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "faintly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat?\u201d", "start_byte": 266032, "end_byte": 266039, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1171.280029296875, "end_time": 1172.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1171.6050292968748, "cut_end_time": 1172.600091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIf -- it wouldn't have been just as well!\u201d", "start_byte": 266041, "end_byte": 266084, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1172.6400146484375, "end_time": 1176.0, "cut_start_time": 1173.1350146484374, "cut_end_time": 1175.4600146484374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou mustn't talk like that! You just mustn't! You're with friends, real friends, who want to help you all they can.", "start_byte": 266086, "end_byte": 266202, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1176.0, "end_time": 1183.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1176.415, "cut_end_time": 1182.9800624999998, "narrative_prediction": {"And": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cWho could be friendless, with all that money?", "start_byte": 266304, "end_byte": 266350, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1189.0, "end_time": 1191.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1189.185, "cut_end_time": 1191.1399999999999, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI didn't mean that!", "start_byte": 266545, "end_byte": 266565, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1203.9200439453125, "end_time": 1205.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1204.2050439453124, "cut_end_time": 1205.2500439453124, "narrative_prediction": {"With": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cI say, you two!", "start_byte": 266682, "end_byte": 266698, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1213.43994140625, "end_time": 1215.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1213.54494140625, "cut_end_time": 1215.1900664062498, "narrative_prediction": {"closed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cWanting to buck up a chap because you re that sort! All right. I'll stick it out! You two! And I might be the worst scoundrel unhung!\u201d", "start_byte": 266739, "end_byte": 266874, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1218.0799560546875, "end_time": 1228.0, "cut_start_time": 1218.1849560546875, "cut_end_time": 1227.2600185546873, "narrative_prediction": {"closed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, I say, now! Please!", "start_byte": 267607, "end_byte": 267631, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1280.239990234375, "end_time": 1283.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1280.7849902343748, "cut_end_time": 1282.7101152343748, "narrative_prediction": {"heard": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cPolish Dance,", "start_byte": 268357, "end_byte": 268371, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1336.1199951171875, "end_time": 1337.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1336.1049951171874, "cut_end_time": 1337.0101201171874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMiss Conover?", "start_byte": 268704, "end_byte": 268718, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1360.6400146484375, "end_time": 1362.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1360.8850146484374, "cut_end_time": 1362.1200146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes. I'm over here on the divan.\u201d", "start_byte": 268752, "end_byte": 268786, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1364.4000244140625, "end_time": 1367.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1364.7450244140623, "cut_end_time": 1366.4400869140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnything wrong?\u201d", "start_byte": 268788, "end_byte": 268805, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1367.0400390625, "end_time": 1368.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1367.2350390625, "cut_end_time": 1368.2401015624998, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnything I can get for you?\u201d", "start_byte": 269054, "end_byte": 269083, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1384.8800048828125, "end_time": 1387.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1385.0250048828125, "cut_end_time": 1387.2300673828124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, thanks. I'll try to snatch a little sleep before Cutty returns.\u201d", "start_byte": 269085, "end_byte": 269154, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1387.280029296875, "end_time": 1391.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1387.5750292968748, "cut_end_time": 1391.310029296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut he may be gone all night!\u201d", "start_byte": 269156, "end_byte": 269187, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1391.5999755859375, "end_time": 1394.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1391.9449755859373, "cut_end_time": 1394.5100380859374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWill it be so very scandalous if I stay here?\u201d", "start_byte": 269189, "end_byte": 269236, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1394.43994140625, "end_time": 1398.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1394.87494140625, "cut_end_time": 1397.4000664062498, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou poor child! Go ahead and sleep. Don't hesitate to call me if you want anything. I have a mild sedative if you would like it.\u201d", "start_byte": 269238, "end_byte": 269368, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1398.56005859375, "end_time": 1407.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1398.94505859375, "cut_end_time": 1406.5000585937498, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, thanks. I did not know that Mr. Hawksley played.\u201d", "start_byte": 269370, "end_byte": 269424, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1407.1199951171875, "end_time": 1411.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1407.4549951171873, "cut_end_time": 1410.3801201171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWonderfully! But does it bother you?\u201d", "start_byte": 269426, "end_byte": 269464, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1411.0400390625, "end_time": 1413.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1411.1650390625, "cut_end_time": 1413.3301015625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIt kind of makes me choky.\u201d", "start_byte": 269466, "end_byte": 269494, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1413.6800537109375, "end_time": 1416.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1413.9650537109374, "cut_end_time": 1415.7301162109375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI'll tell him.\u201d", "start_byte": 269496, "end_byte": 269512, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1416.1600341796875, "end_time": 1418.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1416.5150341796875, "cut_end_time": 1417.7000341796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Loneliness. She had dined downtown, and on the way home the shadow had stalked beside her. Loneliness. Never before had these rooms seemed so empty, empty. If God had only given her a brother and he had marched in that glorious parade, what fun they two would be having at this moment! Empty rooms; not even a pet.", "start_byte": 250640, "end_byte": 250954, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 47.68000030517578, "end_time": 71.87999725341797, "cut_start_time": 47.935000305175784, "cut_end_time": 70.36000030517579}, {"text": "Loneliness. She had been a silly little fool to stand so aloof, just because she was poor and lived in a faded locality. She mocked herself. Poor but proud, like the shopgirl in the movies. Denied herself companionship because she was ashamed of her genteel poverty. And now she was paying for it. Silly little fool! It wasn't as if she did not know how to make and keep friends. She knew she had attractions. Just a senseless false pride. The best friends in the world, after a series of rebuffs, would drop away. Her mother's friends never called any more, because of her aloofness. She had only a few girl friends, and even these no doubt were beginning to think her uppish.", "start_byte": 250956, "end_byte": 251633, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 71.87999725341797, "end_time": 116.68000030517578, "cut_start_time": 72.30499725341797, "cut_end_time": 115.52012225341797}, {"text": "She did not take off her hat and coat. She wandered through the empty rooms, undecided. If she went to a movie the rooms would be just as lonely when she returned. Companionship. The urge of it was so strong that there was a temptation to call up someone, even someone she had rebuffed. She was in the mood to confess everything and to make an honest attempt to start all over again -- to accept friendship and let pride go hang. Impulsively she started for the telephone, when the doorbell rang.", "start_byte": 251635, "end_byte": 252131, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 116.68000030517578, "end_time": 150.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 117.41500030517578, "cut_end_time": 149.45000030517576}, {"text": "Immediately the sense of loneliness fell away. Another chapter in the great game of hide and seek that had kept her from brooding until to-night? The doorbell carried a new message these days. Nine o'clock. Who could be calling at that hour? She had forgotten to advise Cutty of the fact that someone had gone through the apartment. She could not positively assert the fact. Those articles in her bureau she herself might have disturbed. She might have taken a handkerchief in a hurry, hunted for something under the lingerie impatiently. Still she could not rid herself of the feeling that alien hands had been rifling her belongings. Not Bernini, decidedly.", "start_byte": 252133, "end_byte": 252792, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 150.27999877929688, "end_time": 194.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 150.90499877929688, "cut_end_time": 193.85006127929688}, {"text": "Remembering Cutty's advice about opening the door with her foot against it, she peered out. No emissary of Bolshevisim here. A weary little messenger boy with a long box in his arms called her name.", "start_byte": 252794, "end_byte": 252992, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 194.75999450683594, "end_time": 209.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 195.44499450683594, "cut_end_time": 209.87011950683592}, {"text": "The boy thrust the box into her hands and clumped to the stairhead. Kitty slammed the door and ran into the living room, tearing open the box as she ran. Roses from Cutty; she knew it. The old darling! Just when she was on the verge of breaking down and crying! She let the box fall to the floor and cuddled the flowers to her heart, her eyes filling. Cutty.", "start_byte": 253018, "end_byte": 253376, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 213.1199951171875, "end_time": 239.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 213.10499511718749, "cut_end_time": 238.4401201171875}, {"text": "One of those ideas which sometime or another spring into the minds of all pretty women who are poor sprang into hers -- an idea such as an honest woman might muse over, only to reject. Sinister and cynical. Kitty was at this moment in rather a desperate frame of mind. Those two inherent characteristics, which she had fought valiantly -- love of good times and of pretty clothes -- made ingress easy for this sinister and cynical idea. Having gained a foothold it pressed forward boldly. Cutty, who had everything -- strength, comeliness, wisdom, and money. To live among all those beautiful things, never to be lonely again, to be waited on, fussed over, made much of, taken into the high world. Never more to add up accounts, to stretch five-dollar bills across the chasm of seven days. An old man's darling!", "start_byte": 253378, "end_byte": 254189, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 239.44000244140625, "end_time": 308.0, "cut_start_time": 240.30500244140623, "cut_end_time": 307.25000244140625}, {"text": " she burst out, passionately. She drew a hand across her eyes. As if that gesture could rub out an evil thought! It is all very well to say", "start_byte": 254204, "end_byte": 254343, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 310.44000244140625, "end_time": 321.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 310.8950024414063, "cut_end_time": 321.08006494140625}, {"text": " But if the idea will not?", "start_byte": 254353, "end_byte": 254379, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 322.0799865722656, "end_time": 324.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 322.4549865722656, "cut_end_time": 324.75004907226565}, {"text": "She caught up the copper jug and still holding the roses to her heart, the tears streaming down her cheeks, rushed out to the kitchen for water. She dropped the green stems into the jug, buried her face in the buds to cool the hot shame on her cheeks, and remembered -- what a ridiculous thing the mind was! -- that she had three shirt waists to iron. She set the jug on the kitchen table, where it remained for many hours, and walked over to the range, to the flatiron shelf. As she reached for a flatiron her hand stopped in midair.", "start_byte": 254544, "end_byte": 255078, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 338.8800048828125, "end_time": 376.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 339.2950048828125, "cut_end_time": 375.78000488281253}, {"text": "A fat black wallet! Instantly she knew who had placed it there. That poor Johnny Two-Hawks!", "start_byte": 255080, "end_byte": 255171, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 376.3999938964844, "end_time": 385.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 376.6749938964844, "cut_end_time": 385.6600563964844}, {"text": "Kitty lifted out the wallet from behind the flatirons. No doubt of it, Johnny Two-Hawks had placed it there when she had gone to the speaking tube to summon the janitor. Not knowing if he would ever call for it! Preferring that she rather than his enemies should have it. And without a word! What a simple yet amazing hiding place; and but for the need of a flatiron the wallet would have stayed there until she moved. Left it there, with the premonition that he was heading into trouble. But what if they had killed him? How would she have explained the wallet's presence in her apartment? Good gracious, what an escape!", "start_byte": 255173, "end_byte": 255794, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 385.79998779296875, "end_time": 429.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 386.21498779296877, "cut_end_time": 428.37011279296877}, {"text": "Without direct consciousness she raised the flap. She saw the edges of money and documents; but she did not touch anything. There was no need. She knew it belonged to Johnny Two-Hawks. Of course there was an appalling attraction. The wallet was, figuratively, begging to be investigated. But resolutely she closed the flap. Why? Because it was as though Two-Hawks had placed the wallet in her hands, charging her to guard it against the day he reclaimed it. There was no outward proof that the wallet was his. She just knew, that was all.", "start_byte": 255796, "end_byte": 256334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 429.44000244140625, "end_time": 470.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 429.80500244140626, "cut_end_time": 469.56006494140627}, {"text": "Still, she examined the outside carefully. In one corner had been originally a monogram or a crest; effectually obliterated by the application of fire.", "start_byte": 256336, "end_byte": 256487, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 470.20001220703125, "end_time": 481.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 470.6450122070313, "cut_end_time": 480.81001220703126}, {"text": "Who he was and what he was, by a simple turn of the wrist. It was Cutty's affair now, not hers. He had a legal right to examine the contents. He was an agent of the Federal Government. The drums of jeopardy and Stefani Gregor and Johnny Two-Hawks, all interwoven. She had waited in vain for Cutty to mention the emeralds. What signified his silence? She had indirectly apprised him of the fact that she knew the author of that advertisement offering to purchase the drums, no questions asked. Who but Cutty in New York would know about them? The mark of the thong. Johnny Two-Hawks had been carrying the drums, and Karlov's men had torn them from their victim's neck during the battle. Was there any reason why Cutty should not have taken her completely into his confidence? Palaces looted. If Stefani Gregor had lived in a palace, why not his protege? Still, it was possible Cutty was holding back until he could tell her everything.", "start_byte": 256489, "end_byte": 257423, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 481.8399963378906, "end_time": 552.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 482.16499633789067, "cut_end_time": 552.4000588378907}, {"text": "But what to do with it? If she called him up and made known her discovery, Cutty would rush up as fast as a taxicab could bring him. He had peremptorily ordered her not to come to his apartment for the present. But to sit here and wait, to be alone again after he had gone! It was not to be borne. Orders or no orders, she would carry the wallet to him. He could lecture her as much as he pleased. To-night, at least, she would lay aside her part as parlour maid in the drama. It would give her something to do, keep her mind off herself. Nothing but excitement would pull her out of this semi-hysterical doldrum.", "start_byte": 257425, "end_byte": 258038, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 552.5599975585938, "end_time": 593.0, "cut_start_time": 553.0949975585937, "cut_end_time": 592.1800600585938}, {"text": "She hid the wallet in the pocket of her underskirt. Already her blood was beginning to dance. She ran into her bedroom for two veils, a gray automobile puggree and one of those heavy black affairs with butterflies scattered over it, quite as effectual as a mask. She wound the puggree about her hat. When the right moment came she would discard the puggree and drop the black veil. Her coat was of dark blue, lined with steel-gray taffeta. Turned inside out it would fool any man. She wore spats. These she would leave behind when she made the change.", "start_byte": 258040, "end_byte": 258591, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 593.0, "end_time": 632.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 593.825, "cut_end_time": 631.59}, {"text": "Someone might follow her as far as the Knickerbocker, but beyond there, never. She was sorry, but she dared not warn Bernini. He might object, notify Cutty, and spoil everything.", "start_byte": 258593, "end_byte": 258771, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 632.5999755859375, "end_time": 645.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 633.3149755859375, "cut_end_time": 644.5401005859376}, {"text": "By the time she reached the street exhilaration suffused her. The melancholia was gone. The sinister and cynical idea had vanished apparently. Apparently. Merely it had found a hiding place and was content to abide there for the present. Such ideas are not without avenues of retreat; they know the hours of attack. Kitty was alive to but one fact: The game of hide and seek was on again. She was going to have some excitement. She was going into the night on an adventure, as children play at bears in the dark. The youth in her still rejected the fact that the woof and warp of this adventure were murder and loot and pain.", "start_byte": 258773, "end_byte": 259398, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 645.4400024414062, "end_time": 690.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 645.4750024414062, "cut_end_time": 689.2400024414063}, {"text": "En route to the Subway she never looked back. At Forty-second Street she detrained, walked into the Knickerbocker, entered the ladies dressing room, turned her coat, redraped her hat, checked her gaiters, and sought a taxi. Within two blocks of Cutty's she dismissed the cab and finished the journey on foot.", "start_byte": 259400, "end_byte": 259708, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 690.47998046875, "end_time": 712.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 690.75498046875, "cut_end_time": 712.19004296875}, {"text": "At the left of the lobby was an all-night apothecary's, with a door going into the lobby. Kitty proceeded to the elevator through this avenue. Number Four was down, and she stepped inside, raising her veil.", "start_byte": 259710, "end_byte": 259916, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 712.7999877929688, "end_time": 727.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 713.1449877929688, "cut_end_time": 727.2901127929688}, {"text": "\u201cNo matter. Take me up.", "start_byte": 259983, "end_byte": 260006, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 735.0, "end_time": 737.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 735.3050000000001, "cut_end_time": 736.7300625}, {"text": " What a pretty girl she was. No come-on in her eyes, though. \u201cThe boss may not get back until morning. He just went out in his engineer's togs. He sure wasn't expecting you.", "start_byte": 260028, "end_byte": 260201, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 739.2000122070312, "end_time": 749.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 739.4350122070313, "cut_end_time": 748.9800747070312}, {"text": "As Kitty stepped out into the corridor a wave of confusion assailed her. She hadn't planned against Cutty's absence. There was nothing she could say to the nurse; and if Johnny Two-Hawks was asleep -- why, all she could do would be to curl up on a divan and await Cutty's return.", "start_byte": 260348, "end_byte": 260627, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 759.9600219726562, "end_time": 777.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 760.1050219726562, "cut_end_time": 776.3800844726562}, {"text": "The nurse appeared.", "start_byte": 260629, "end_byte": 260648, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 777.2000122070312, "end_time": 779.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 777.6750122070313, "cut_end_time": 779.3400747070312}, {"text": " Kitty realized at once that she must take the nurse into her confidence.", "start_byte": 260677, "end_byte": 260750, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 782.1599731445312, "end_time": 786.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 782.4449731445312, "cut_end_time": 786.0100981445313}, {"text": "Kitty shrugged and produced the wallet.", "start_byte": 260947, "end_byte": 260986, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 799.3599853515625, "end_time": 802.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 799.5349853515626, "cut_end_time": 801.5900478515625}, {"text": "The nurse, eyeing the lovely animated face, conceded that it might.", "start_byte": 261130, "end_byte": 261197, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 813.4400024414062, "end_time": 818.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 814.2750024414063, "cut_end_time": 818.0400024414063}, {"text": "When Kitty saw Hawksley she gave a little gasp of astonishment. Why, he was positively handsome! His dark head, standing out boldly against the bolstering pillows, the fine lines of his face definite, the pallor -- he was like a Roman cameo. Who and what could he be, this picturesque foundling?", "start_byte": 261463, "end_byte": 261758, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 836.719970703125, "end_time": 859.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 837.224970703125, "cut_end_time": 858.4300957031251}, {"text": "His glance flashed into hers delightedly. For hours and hours the constant wonder where she was, why no one mentioned her, why they evaded his apparently casual questions. To burst upon his vision in the nadir of his boredom and loneliness like this! She was glorious, this American girl. She made him think of a golden scabbard housing a fine Toledo blade. Hadn't she saved his life? More, hadn't she assumed a responsibility in so doing? Instantly he purposed that she should not be permitted to resign the office of good Samaritan. He motioned toward the nurse's chair; and Kitty sat down, her errand in total eclipse.", "start_byte": 261760, "end_byte": 262381, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 859.0800170898438, "end_time": 904.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 859.5250170898438, "cut_end_time": 903.2500795898437}, {"text": "His quick smile was so engaging that Kitty answered it -- kindred spirits, subconsciously recognizing each other. Fire; but neither of them knew that; or that two lonely human beings of opposite sex, in touch, constitute a first-rate combustible.", "start_byte": 262429, "end_byte": 262675, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 908.5599975585938, "end_time": 927.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 909.1549975585938, "cut_end_time": 926.7201225585937}, {"text": "Quietly the nurse withdrew. There would be a tonic in this meeting for the patient. Her own presence might neutralize the effect. She had not spent all those dreadful months in base hospitals without acquiring a keen insight into the needs of sick men. No harm in letting him have this pretty, self-reliant girl alone to himself for a quarter of an hour. 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God bless you!\u2019", "start_byte": 909800, "end_byte": 909875, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 518.7999877929688, "end_time": 525.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 519.2549877929688, "cut_end_time": 524.7600502929688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Good-night,", "start_byte": 909877, "end_byte": 909889, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 525.1199951171875, "end_time": 526.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 525.5149951171875, "cut_end_time": 526.1301201171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018You don\u2019t think anything can have happened \u2014 any accident?", "start_byte": 910369, "end_byte": 910428, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 565.6799926757812, "end_time": 570.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 566.0949926757813, "cut_end_time": 570.4601176757812, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "falteringly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Do you mean that he can have tumbled off a precipice? Hardly likely. A man who has climbed Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau would scarcely come to grief hereabouts. I think the worst that has befallen him is to have lost his dinner.\u2019", "start_byte": 910454, "end_byte": 910683, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 573.1199951171875, "end_time": 593.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 573.4149951171876, "cut_end_time": 592.8900576171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018My dear Gerald, I have been miserable about you.\u2019", "start_byte": 911092, "end_byte": 911142, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 625.3200073242188, "end_time": 630.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 625.7750073242188, "cut_end_time": 630.4100698242188, "narrative_prediction": {"singing": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Because I didn\u2019t appear at dinner? Forgive me, dearest. The heat gave me a racking headache, and I thought a tremendous walk was the only way to cure it. I have been down to Montreux, and seen your father, who is pining for your return. He looked quite scared when I dashed into the garden where he was reading his paper on the terrace by the lake. I was not ten minutes at Montreux altogether.\u2019", "start_byte": 911144, "end_byte": 911540, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 630.8400268554688, "end_time": 662.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 631.1850268554688, "cut_end_time": 662.2600893554687, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Dear father! It was very good of you to go and see him.\u2019", "start_byte": 911542, "end_byte": 911599, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 662.760009765625, "end_time": 667.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 663.025009765625, "cut_end_time": 667.4400722656251, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018It was only a peep. I\u2019", "start_byte": 911601, "end_byte": 911624, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 667.8400268554688, "end_time": 669.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 668.1750268554688, "cut_end_time": 669.4800893554687, "narrative_prediction": {"m": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I am sorry you had a headache. It seems an epidemic. Daphne was not able to appear at dinner for the same reason.\u2019", "start_byte": 911661, "end_byte": 911776, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 672.9600219726562, "end_time": 682.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 673.4350219726563, "cut_end_time": 682.3400219726562, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Poor little Daphne!\u2019", "start_byte": 911778, "end_byte": 911799, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 682.5599975585938, "end_time": 684.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 682.8749975585938, "cut_end_time": 684.1200600585938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018The walk downhill through fields and orchards and vineyards", "start_byte": 912427, "end_byte": 912487, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 736.7999877929688, "end_time": 740.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 737.1849877929687, "cut_end_time": 740.9401127929688, "narrative_prediction": {"will": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u2018Delicious,", "start_byte": 912517, "end_byte": 912528, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 743.0800170898438, "end_time": 744.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 743.2450170898438, "cut_end_time": 744.1600170898438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018but don\u2019t you think it is rather too far for a walk?\u2019", "start_byte": 912547, "end_byte": 912601, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 745.6799926757812, "end_time": 750.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 746.0449926757813, "cut_end_time": 749.6900551757813, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Are you too lazy to walk with me?\u2019", "start_byte": 912603, "end_byte": 912638, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 750.3599853515625, "end_time": 753.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 750.6549853515626, "cut_end_time": 753.6100478515625, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I don\u2019t think you need insult me by such a question.", "start_byte": 912640, "end_byte": 912693, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 753.719970703125, "end_time": 758.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 754.0149707031251, "cut_end_time": 758.100033203125, "narrative_prediction": {"set": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u2018You are not looking well, Gerald,", "start_byte": 913003, "end_byte": 913037, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 786.4000244140625, "end_time": 788.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 786.7050244140626, "cut_end_time": 788.7300244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "anxiously": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018My dearest, who could possibly look well in such a languid atmosphere as this? We are in a vaporous basin, shut in by a circle of hills. Down at Montreux it is like being at the bottom of a gigantic forcing-pit; here, though we fancy ourselves ever so high, we are only on the side of the incline. The wall still rises above us. At this season we ought to be at Davos or Pontresina.\u2019", "start_byte": 913133, "end_byte": 913517, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 796.0, "end_time": 835.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 796.3050000000001, "cut_end_time": 834.46, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Those are the only places people go to nowadays,", "start_byte": 913519, "end_byte": 913568, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 835.239990234375, "end_time": 840.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 835.6749902343751, "cut_end_time": 840.230115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "discontentedly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I shall be almost ashamed to tell my friends where I have been. All the people one meets in society go to the Engadine.\u2019", "start_byte": 913604, "end_byte": 913725, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 844.0, "end_time": 854.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 844.265, "cut_end_time": 854.6300625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "discontentedly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I don\u2019t think that idea need spoil our enjoyment of this lovely scenery,", "start_byte": 913727, "end_byte": 913800, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 854.8800048828125, "end_time": 860.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 855.4650048828125, "cut_end_time": 860.6700048828126, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Look at Daphne and Mr. Turchill, what a way they are below us!\u2019", "start_byte": 913817, "end_byte": 913881, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 862.1599731445312, "end_time": 868.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 862.3549731445313, "cut_end_time": 868.2900356445313, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018That is just like Daphne,", "start_byte": 915567, "end_byte": 915593, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1018.0, "end_time": 1020.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 1018.285, "cut_end_time": 1020.1300625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018She is always beginning something tremendous and never finishing it. I daresay we shall have Turchill down here presently in search of a carriage to bring her the second half of the way.\u2019", "start_byte": 915674, "end_byte": 915862, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1027.199951171875, "end_time": 1042.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1027.434951171875, "cut_end_time": 1042.1800136718748, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Yesterday she gave herself a headache by roaming about the hills,", "start_byte": 915864, "end_byte": 915930, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1042.47998046875, "end_time": 1047.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1043.0149804687499, "cut_end_time": 1047.54010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018she has not a particle of discretion.\u2019", "start_byte": 915949, "end_byte": 915988, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1049.0400390625, "end_time": 1052.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1049.2750390625, "cut_end_time": 1052.1801015624999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Do you expect her to be full of wisdom at eighteen, Auntie?", "start_byte": 915990, "end_byte": 916050, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1052.760009765625, "end_time": 1057.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1053.115009765625, "cut_end_time": 1057.6500722656249, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "deprecatingly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I can only say, my dear, that at eighteen I was not a fool,", "start_byte": 916083, "end_byte": 916143, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1061.1600341796875, "end_time": 1067.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1061.4850341796873, "cut_end_time": 1066.9600341796875, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sourly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I have a little business to arrange in Geneva,", "start_byte": 916653, "end_byte": 916700, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1107.8399658203125, "end_time": 1111.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1108.5249658203124, "cut_end_time": 1111.7600283203124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I think I shall take the train, as the quicker way, and then I can be back to dinner.\u2019", "start_byte": 916854, "end_byte": 916941, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1125.280029296875, "end_time": 1133.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1125.5950292968748, "cut_end_time": 1132.320029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Have you anything very important to do in Geneva?", "start_byte": 916971, "end_byte": 917021, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1135.4000244140625, "end_time": 1139.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1135.7050244140623, "cut_end_time": 1139.0300244140624, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018you never said anything about it before.\u2019", "start_byte": 917034, "end_byte": 917076, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1140.3199462890625, "end_time": 1143.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1140.6049462890624, "cut_end_time": 1143.3900712890625, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018No; it is a necessity which has arisen quite lately. I\u2019ll tell you all about it \u2014 afterwards. Good-bye till dinner-time. You must be tired after your morning drive, and you won\u2019t feel inclined for much excursionising to-day.\u2019", "start_byte": 917078, "end_byte": 917304, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1143.800048828125, "end_time": 1162.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1144.0950488281248, "cut_end_time": 1162.370111328125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018I\u2019", "start_byte": 917306, "end_byte": 917309, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1162.800048828125, "end_time": 1163.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1162.775048828125, "cut_end_time": 1163.340048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018I am going to make all arrangements for our marriage,", "start_byte": 918041, "end_byte": 918095, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1223.8800048828125, "end_time": 1228.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1224.2650048828125, "cut_end_time": 1228.0300673828124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "low": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u2018Good-bye,", "start_byte": 918122, "end_byte": 918132, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1230.4000244140625, "end_time": 1231.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1230.6250244140624, "cut_end_time": 1231.3800244140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018I think I\u2019ll go to my room and lie down,", "start_byte": 918296, "end_byte": 918337, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1246.199951171875, "end_time": 1249.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1246.564951171875, "cut_end_time": 1249.500076171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Please don\u2019t let Edgar come worrying about me. Tell him to amuse himself without my company for once in a way.\u2019", "start_byte": 918361, "end_byte": 918473, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1251.3599853515625, "end_time": 1261.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1251.7649853515625, "cut_end_time": 1260.4101103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018My dearest, I don\u2019t think he has any idea of amusing himself without you in Switzerland. How tired you look, my poor pet! Go and lie down and get a nice refreshing sleep after your walk. You shall not be disturbed till I come myself to bring you some tea. That will be better for you than coming down to luncheon.\u2019", "start_byte": 918475, "end_byte": 918790, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1261.4000244140625, "end_time": 1288.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1262.0450244140625, "cut_end_time": 1287.5900244140623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018I don\u2019t feel much inclined for sleep, though I confess to being tired. I should like you to come and sit with me for a little, Lina, soon after luncheon, if you don\u2019t mind.\u2019", "start_byte": 918792, "end_byte": 918966, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1288.0799560546875, "end_time": 1302.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1288.6049560546874, "cut_end_time": 1301.9600810546874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Mind! My darling, as if I were not always glad to be with you.\u2019", "start_byte": 918968, "end_byte": 919032, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1302.6400146484375, "end_time": 1310.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1302.8050146484375, "cut_end_time": 1309.3300771484373, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "2", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u2018He is mad, and I am mad,", "start_byte": 919213, "end_byte": 919238, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1327.1199951171875, "end_time": 1330.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1327.4649951171873, "cut_end_time": 1330.1800576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018What was it that he read on my hand that day at Fontainebleau?", "start_byte": 920057, "end_byte": 920120, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1406.52001953125, "end_time": 1412.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1406.8050195312499, "cut_end_time": 1413.02008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Was it this? was it this?\u2019", "start_byte": 920141, "end_byte": 920168, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1415.239990234375, "end_time": 1418.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1415.464990234375, "cut_end_time": 1417.9601152343748, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Seneca was a wise and learned man,", "start_byte": 920576, "end_byte": 920611, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1454.4000244140625, "end_time": 1457.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1454.5150244140625, "cut_end_time": 1457.4900244140624, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018but with all his wisdom he found it difficult to die. Cleopatra\u2019s death sounds easier \u2014 a basket of fruit and a little gliding snake a bright pretty creature that a child might have played with, and been stung to death unawares.\u2019", "start_byte": 920626, "end_byte": 920856, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1458.719970703125, "end_time": 1480.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1459.0149707031248, "cut_end_time": 1479.7000957031248, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Oh God! let me never forget what she has been to me,", "start_byte": 921180, "end_byte": 921233, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1510.47998046875, "end_time": 1516.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1510.71498046875, "cut_end_time": 1515.77010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"prayed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018sister, mother, all the world of love, and protection, and comfort \u2014 teach me to be true to her; teach me to be loyal.\u2019", "start_byte": 921302, "end_byte": 921422, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1522.0799560546875, "end_time": 1532.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1522.2149560546875, "cut_end_time": 1531.7800185546873, "narrative_prediction": {"prayed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Dearest, your hand is burning hot; you must be in a fever,", "start_byte": 921733, "end_byte": 921792, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1557.280029296875, "end_time": 1562.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1557.5450292968749, "cut_end_time": 1562.840091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018No; there is nothing the matter with me.\u2019", "start_byte": 921810, "end_byte": 921852, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1564.3599853515625, "end_time": 1567.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1564.5749853515624, "cut_end_time": 1567.3301103515623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018I\u2019", "start_byte": 921854, "end_byte": 921857, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1567.52001953125, "end_time": 1568.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1567.49501953125, "cut_end_time": 1568.14008203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2019m afraid that walk was too fatiguing. I have ordered some tea for you.", "start_byte": 921877, "end_byte": 921948, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1569.8399658203125, "end_time": 1575.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1569.9449658203125, "cut_end_time": 1575.2000283203124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I hope you have had a nice long sleep.\u2019", "start_byte": 922094, "end_byte": 922134, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1589.5999755859375, "end_time": 1592.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1590.0049755859375, "cut_end_time": 1592.5301005859374, "narrative_prediction": {"spoke": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I have not been able to sleep much,", "start_byte": 922136, "end_byte": 922172, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1592.9200439453125, "end_time": 1595.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1593.2750439453125, "cut_end_time": 1595.3401064453124, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I have not been able to sleep much, but I have been resting. Don\u2019t trouble about me, Lina dear. I am very well. What delicious tea!", "start_byte": 922348, "end_byte": 922480, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1610.5999755859375, "end_time": 1622.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1610.9049755859373, "cut_end_time": 1622.7600380859374, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018How good you are! I want to talk with you \u2014 to have a long serious talk \u2014 about you and \u2014 Mr. Goring.\u2019", "start_byte": 922558, "end_byte": 922661, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1629.239990234375, "end_time": 1639.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1629.5149902343749, "cut_end_time": 1638.3900527343749, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Indeed, dear. It is not often my lively sister has any inclination for seriousness.\u2019", "start_byte": 922663, "end_byte": 922748, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1639.0799560546875, "end_time": 1647.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1639.6649560546873, "cut_end_time": 1646.9200185546874, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018No; but I have been thinking deeply of late about long engagements, and short engagements, and love before marriage, and love after marriage \u2014 don\u2019t you know.", "start_byte": 922750, "end_byte": 922909, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1647.8399658203125, "end_time": 1660.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1648.0649658203124, "cut_end_time": 1660.8500908203125, "narrative_prediction": {"spoke": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u2018And what wise thoughts have you had upon the subject, dearest?", "start_byte": 923037, "end_byte": 923100, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1671.1600341796875, "end_time": 1676.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1671.7050341796873, "cut_end_time": 1676.4600966796875, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "lightly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I can hardly explain them; but I have been thinking \u2014 you know that I am not desperately in love with \u2014 poor Edgar. I have never pretended to be so; have I, dear?\u2019", "start_byte": 923123, "end_byte": 923287, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1678.9200439453125, "end_time": 1693.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1679.3350439453125, "cut_end_time": 1692.7000439453125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018You have always spoken lightly of him. But it is your way to speak lightly of everything; and I hope and believe that he is much more dear to you than you say he is.\u2019", "start_byte": 923289, "end_byte": 923456, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1693.239990234375, "end_time": 1708.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1693.684990234375, "cut_end_time": 1708.530052734375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018He is not. I respect him, because I know how good he is; but that is all. And do you know, Lina, I have sometimes fancied that your feeling for Mr. Goring is not much stronger than mine for Edgar. You are attached to him; you have an affection for him, which has grown out of long acquaintance and habit \u2014 an almost sisterly affection; but you are not passionately in love with him. If he were to die you would be grieved, but you would not be heartbroken.", "start_byte": 923458, "end_byte": 923915, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1708.9599609375, "end_time": 1750.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1709.4549609375, "cut_end_time": 1750.4000859374999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Daphne!", "start_byte": 924014, "end_byte": 924022, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1759.9200439453125, "end_time": 1760.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1759.9750439453123, "cut_end_time": 1760.7901064453124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018how dare you? How can you be so cruel? Not love him! Why, you know that I have loved him ever since I was a child, with a love which every day of my life has made stronger \u2014 a love which is so rooted in my heart that I cannot imagine what life would be like without him. I am not impulsive or demonstrative \u2014 I do not talk about those things which are most dear and most sacred in my life, simply because they are too sacred to be spoken about. If he were \u2014 to die \u2014 if I were to lose him \u2014 no, I cannot think of that. It is heartless of you to put such thoughts into my mind. My life has been all sunshine \u2014 a calm happy life. God may be keeping some great grief in store for my later days. If it were to come I should bow beneath the rod; but my heart would break all the same.\u2019", "start_byte": 924040, "end_byte": 924821, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1762.280029296875, "end_time": 1835.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1762.385029296875, "cut_end_time": 1835.090091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018And if the grief took another shape \u2014 if he were to be false to you?", "start_byte": 924823, "end_byte": 924892, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1835.8800048828125, "end_time": 1842.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1836.4250048828123, "cut_end_time": 1842.4600048828124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018That would be worse,", "start_byte": 924958, "end_byte": 924979, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1848.719970703125, "end_time": 1850.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1849.0449707031248, "cut_end_time": 1850.310033203125, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "huskily": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018it would kill me.\u2019", "start_byte": 925004, "end_byte": 925023, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1852.52001953125, "end_time": 1856.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1852.6150195312498, "cut_end_time": 1854.2100195312498, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "huskily": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018I ought not to have talked of such things, dear,", "start_byte": 925157, "end_byte": 925206, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1868.239990234375, "end_time": 1872.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1868.634990234375, "cut_end_time": 1872.320052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "gently": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018It was very foolish.\u2019", "start_byte": 925255, "end_byte": 925277, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1876.239990234375, "end_time": 1879.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1876.414990234375, "cut_end_time": 1878.120115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "gently": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Yes; it was foolish, Daphne,", "start_byte": 925508, "end_byte": 925537, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1901.0, "end_time": 1903.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1901.3349999999998, "cut_end_time": 1903.8200625, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "tremulously": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018No good can ever come of such thoughts. We are in God\u2019s hands. We can only be happy in this life with fear and trembling, for our joy is so easily turned into sorrow. And now, dear, if you are quite comfortable, and there is nothing more I can do for you, I must go back to Aunt Rhoda. I promised to go for a walk with her.\u2019", "start_byte": 925565, "end_byte": 925890, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1906.3599853515625, "end_time": 1935.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1906.6749853515623, "cut_end_time": 1934.8901103515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Isn\u2019t it too warm for walking?\u2019", "start_byte": 925892, "end_byte": 925924, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1935.4000244140625, "end_time": 1939.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1935.7950244140625, "cut_end_time": 1939.5200869140624, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "tremulously": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u2018Not for Aunt Rhoda\u2019s idea of an afternoon walk, which is generally to stroll down to the pier, and sit under the trees watching the people land from the steamers.\u2019", "start_byte": 925926, "end_byte": 926090, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1939.52001953125, "end_time": 1952.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1939.76501953125, "cut_end_time": 1952.12008203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Shall you be out long, do you think?\u2019", "start_byte": 926092, "end_byte": 926130, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1952.800048828125, "end_time": 1956.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1952.975048828125, "cut_end_time": 1955.7301113281248, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018That will depend upon Aunt Rhoda. She said something about wanting to go in the steamer to Vevey, if it could be done comfortably before dinner.\u2019", "start_byte": 926132, "end_byte": 926278, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1956.280029296875, "end_time": 1968.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1956.6250292968748, "cut_end_time": 1967.880091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018Good-bye! Kiss me, Lina. Tell me you are not angry with me for what I said just now. I wanted to sound the depths of your love.\u2019", "start_byte": 926280, "end_byte": 926409, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1968.4000244140625, "end_time": 1980.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1968.7450244140623, "cut_end_time": 1979.3900869140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u2018It was cruel, dear; but I am not angry,", "start_byte": 926411, "end_byte": 926451, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1980.280029296875, "end_time": 1984.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1980.695029296875, "cut_end_time": 1984.270091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "kissing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "tenderly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u2018God bless you, and reward you for all you have been to me, Lina!", "start_byte": 926590, "end_byte": 926655, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1996.8399658203125, "end_time": 2002.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1997.1949658203125, "cut_end_time": 2002.2500283203124, "narrative_prediction": {"faltered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "tearfully": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " she muttered breathlessly;", "start_byte": 904988, "end_byte": 905015, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 105.19999694824219, "end_time": 107.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 105.39499694824218, "cut_end_time": 107.11012194824218}, {"text": " thankful that ", "start_byte": 905024, "end_byte": 905039, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 108.4800033569336, "end_time": 109.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 108.6350033569336, "cut_end_time": 109.74000335693358}, {"text": "The little basket trembled in Mrs. Mowser\u2019s agitated grasp, as she trotted briskly downhill to the hotel.", "start_byte": 905531, "end_byte": 905636, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 153.63999938964844, "end_time": 162.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 154.02499938964843, "cut_end_time": 161.65006188964844}, {"text": " said Mowser,", "start_byte": 905684, "end_byte": 905697, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 165.60000610351562, "end_time": 166.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 165.6450061035156, "cut_end_time": 166.5400686035156}, {"text": "Having detested Daphne from the day of her birth, Mowser now felt a virtuous thrill, the sense of a relieved conscience, in the idea that Daphne had justified her dislike. It would have been pain and grief to her had the girl turned out well; but to have her judgment borne out, her wisdom made clear as daylight, every evil feeling of her heart fully excused by the girl\u2019s bad conduct, this was comfort which weighed heavily in the scale against her honest sorrow for the mistress whom she honestly loved.", "start_byte": 905776, "end_byte": 906282, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 174.55999755859375, "end_time": 218.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 174.81499755859375, "cut_end_time": 218.33006005859374}, {"text": "She had no idea that the revelation she was going to make must necessarily lead to the cancelment of Madoline\u2019s engagement. Her notion was that if Sir Vernon were made acquainted with the treachery that had been going on in his family circle, he would turn his younger daughter out of doors, and compel Gerald Goring to keep faith with his elder daughter. She allowed nothing for those finer shades of feeling which generally lead to the breaking of matrimonial engagements. It seemed to her that if a man had got himself engaged to a girl, and wanted to cry off, he must be taken by the scruff off his neck, as it were, and made to fulfill his promise.", "start_byte": 906284, "end_byte": 906937, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 218.67999267578125, "end_time": 273.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 219.00499267578124, "cut_end_time": 273.62005517578126}, {"text": "When seven o\u2019clock came and the table-d\u2019h\u00f4te, Daphne was shut up in her own room with a bad headache; Mr. Goring was missing; and there were only Aunt Rhoda, Madoline, and Edgar to take their accustomed places near one end of the long table. A little pencilled note from Daphne had been brought to Madoline by one of the chambermaids, just before dinner:", "start_byte": 906939, "end_byte": 907293, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 273.79998779296875, "end_time": 303.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 274.1349877929688, "cut_end_time": 303.26011279296876}, {"text": " said Mrs. Ferrers.", "start_byte": 907520, "end_byte": 907539, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 322.9599914550781, "end_time": 324.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 323.1549914550782, "cut_end_time": 324.69005395507816}, {"text": " answered Lina, smiling;", "start_byte": 907656, "end_byte": 907680, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 336.3999938964844, "end_time": 338.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 336.5849938964844, "cut_end_time": 338.2601188964844}, {"text": "This question was unanswerable. They could only speculate vaguely about the absent one. Nobody had seen him after he parted from Madoline at the garden gate. Perhaps he had walked to Vevey, perhaps to Montreux, miscalculating the distance, and the time it would take him to go and return. There was an uncomfortable feeling all through the slow protracted dinner, Madoline\u2019s eyes wandering to the door every now and then, expecting to see Gerald enter; Edgar out of spirits because Daphne was absent; Mrs. Ferrers overcome by the heat, and beginning to perceive that Swiss scenery was a delight of which one might become weary.", "start_byte": 907848, "end_byte": 908475, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 352.5199890136719, "end_time": 408.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 352.8649890136719, "cut_end_time": 408.3901140136719}, {"text": " said Edgar, staring absently at a savoury mess of veal and vegetable to which he had mechanically helped himself.", "start_byte": 908560, "end_byte": 908674, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 415.4800109863281, "end_time": 426.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 415.6750109863282, "cut_end_time": 426.14001098632815}, {"text": " answered Aunt Rhoda somewhat snappishly.", "start_byte": 908754, "end_byte": 908795, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 431.20001220703125, "end_time": 434.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 431.2750122070313, "cut_end_time": 434.1700122070313}, {"text": "If Mrs. Ferrers had confessed that she had been snoring vigorously for an hour and a half, she would have been nearer the truth.", "start_byte": 908942, "end_byte": 909070, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 446.8399963378906, "end_time": 457.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 447.1549963378906, "cut_end_time": 456.61012133789063}, {"text": "Dinner came to its formal close in the shape of an unripe dessert, and there was still no sign of Gerald. Edgar went up to the corridor and knocked at Daphne\u2019s door to inquire if her head were better.", "start_byte": 909072, "end_byte": 909272, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 457.0400085449219, "end_time": 473.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 457.3450085449219, "cut_end_time": 473.3000710449219}, {"text": "She answered from within in a weary voice:", "start_byte": 909274, "end_byte": 909316, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 473.6000061035156, "end_time": 477.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 473.84500610351563, "cut_end_time": 477.14006860351566}, {"text": " replied the tired voice, and he went away sorrowing.", "start_byte": 909890, "end_byte": 909943, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 526.3200073242188, "end_time": 530.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 526.4850073242188, "cut_end_time": 530.3600073242188}, {"text": "What was his life worth without her? Absolutely nothing. He had chosen to make this one delight, this one love, the all-in-all of existence.", "start_byte": 909945, "end_byte": 910085, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 530.719970703125, "end_time": 544.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 530.964970703125, "cut_end_time": 543.9200332031251}, {"text": "He went down into the garden with a moody dejected air and joined Lina, who was sitting in a spot where the view of the valley below and the height above was loveliest; but Lina was scarcely more cheerful than Edgar. She was beginning to feel seriously uneasy at Gerald\u2019s absence.", "start_byte": 910087, "end_byte": 910367, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 544.0399780273438, "end_time": 565.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 544.2949780273437, "cut_end_time": 565.4100405273438}, {"text": " she asked falteringly.", "start_byte": 910429, "end_byte": 910452, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 570.6400146484375, "end_time": 573.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 570.7550146484375, "cut_end_time": 572.4800146484375}, {"text": "They sat in the garden till the valley and lake below were folded in darkness, and the moon was climbing high above the dark fir trees and the gray peak, and then Lina\u2019s heart was lightened by the sound of a sympathetic tenor voice, whose every tone she knew, singing La Donna e mobile, in notes that floated nearer and nearer as the singer came up the grassy slope below the garden. She went to meet him.", "start_byte": 910685, "end_byte": 911090, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 593.0399780273438, "end_time": 625.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 593.2049780273438, "cut_end_time": 624.6601030273438}, {"text": " sorry you felt fidgety about me.\u2019", "start_byte": 911625, "end_byte": 911659, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.0399780273438, "end_time": 672.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 670.0349780273438, "cut_end_time": 672.6201030273438}, {"text": "* * * * *", "start_byte": 911801, "end_byte": 911810, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 684.719970703125, "end_time": 684.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 684.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 684.820033203125}, {"text": "They were to start upon their return journey early next morning, so as to reach Montreux before the tropical heat of afternoon. They all breakfasted together in Madoline\u2019s sitting-room between six and seven, Aunt Rhoda, who was a great advocate of early rising, looking much the sleepiest of the party. Daphne was pale and spiritless, but as she declared herself perfectly well nobody could say anything to her.", "start_byte": 911812, "end_byte": 912223, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 684.719970703125, "end_time": 719.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 685.194970703125, "cut_end_time": 719.330033203125}, {"text": "They started at seven o\u2019clock. There were two carriages; a roomy landau, and a vehicle of composite shape and long service for Mowser and the luggage. Daphne at once declared her intention of walking.", "start_byte": 912225, "end_byte": 912425, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 719.5999755859375, "end_time": 736.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 719.9349755859375, "cut_end_time": 736.3800380859375}, {"text": " will be lovely,\u2019 she said.", "start_byte": 912488, "end_byte": 912515, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 740.8800048828125, "end_time": 743.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 740.8850048828125, "cut_end_time": 742.6900673828126}, {"text": " exclaimed Edgar;", "start_byte": 912529, "end_byte": 912546, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 744.1599731445312, "end_time": 745.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 744.3249731445313, "cut_end_time": 745.5800356445312}, {"text": " On which Daphne set out without another word, waving her hand lightly to Madoline as she vanished at a turn in the road.", "start_byte": 912694, "end_byte": 912815, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 758.47998046875, "end_time": 769.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 758.75498046875, "cut_end_time": 768.06004296875}, {"text": "Gerald Goring handed the two ladies to their seats in the landau, and took his place facing them. He had a listless worn-out look, as if his pedestrianism last night had exhausted him.", "start_byte": 912817, "end_byte": 913001, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 769.1599731445312, "end_time": 786.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 769.3249731445313, "cut_end_time": 786.0300981445313}, {"text": " Lina said anxiously, disturbed at seeing his haggard countenance in the clear morning light.", "start_byte": 913038, "end_byte": 913131, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 788.7999877929688, "end_time": 796.0, "cut_start_time": 788.9149877929688, "cut_end_time": 795.5900502929687}, {"text": " said Mrs. Ferrers discontentedly.", "start_byte": 913569, "end_byte": 913603, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 840.2000122070312, "end_time": 844.0, "cut_start_time": 840.3150122070313, "cut_end_time": 843.4000122070313}, {"text": " said Madoline.", "start_byte": 913801, "end_byte": 913816, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 860.6799926757812, "end_time": 862.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 860.7349926757813, "cut_end_time": 861.7600551757813}, {"text": "She pointed with her sunshade to a glancing white figure among the chestnut groves below. Edgar and Daphne had descended by those steep straight paths which made so little of the distance, while the horses were travelling quietly along the gentle windings of the road. It was a lovely drive to Montreux, the town and its adjacent villages looking like a child\u2019s toys set out upon a green table; the castle of Chillon distinctly seen at every turn of the road; the hillsides shaded by Spanish chestnuts, big and old; verdant slopes mounting up and up towards a blue heaven. They passed the little post and telegraph office at Glion, a wooden hut, baked through and through with the sun, like an oven; the hotel where the children were at play in the garden, and a few early-rising adults strolled about rather listlessly, waiting for breakfast; and then down by the ever-winding road, past many a trickling waterfall; sometimes a mere cleft in the rock, sometimes a stony recess in a low wall, fringed with ferns, where the water drops perpetually into the basin below, and so by wooded slopes descending steeply to the sapphire lake, past the parish church, picturesquely situated on the hillside, and by many a public pump with a double spout, and tanks where the women were washing linen or vegetables under an open roof. 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Daphne, flushed with exercise, looked ever so much better than she had looked at breakfast, where she had been without appetite even for her beloved rolls and honey.", "start_byte": 916283, "end_byte": 916651, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1077.9200439453125, "end_time": 1107.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1078.3650439453124, "cut_end_time": 1106.7300439453124}, {"text": " said Gerald, while they were all sitting about the airy drawing-room in a purposeless way, before settling down into their old quarters and old habits.", "start_byte": 916701, "end_byte": 916853, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1111.8399658203125, "end_time": 1125.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1111.8949658203123, "cut_end_time": 1125.1300908203125}, {"text": "Madoline looked surprised.", "start_byte": 916943, "end_byte": 916969, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1133.199951171875, "end_time": 1135.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1133.364951171875, "cut_end_time": 1135.1200761718749}, {"text": " she asked;", "start_byte": 917022, "end_byte": 917033, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1139.199951171875, "end_time": 1140.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1139.344951171875, "cut_end_time": 1140.0900136718749}, {"text": " afraid we\u2019ve seen everything there is to be seen within a manageable distance,\u2019 said Mrs. Ferrers, rather dolefully.", "start_byte": 917310, "end_byte": 917427, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1163.43994140625, "end_time": 1173.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1163.41494140625, "cut_end_time": 1173.1300664062499}, {"text": "Daphne was sitting near the door. She had dropped into a low deep chair, and sat with her straw hat in her lap, full of wild flowers which she had gathered on her way down. Gerald stooped as he passed her, and took one of the half-withered blossoms \u2014 things so fragile in their delicate beauty that they faded as soon as plucked \u2014 and put it in his breast. 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There was a great division of opinion in the council; but, seeing the great danger that threatened us both from the Turks at Constantinople and the Venetians, and that it was madness at such a time to engage in war with a Christian power, the grand master persuaded the council to accede to their request. There has never been any friendly feeling between Venice and ourselves since that time. Still, I trust that our common danger will reunite us, and that whether Negropont or Rhodes is attacked by the Moslems, we shall render loyal aid to each other.\u201d", "start_byte": 75540, "end_byte": 76231, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 422.0, "end_time": 469.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 422.615, "cut_end_time": 468.59006250000004, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWe will go first to the house of our langue,", "start_byte": 77213, "end_byte": 77258, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 535.0399780273438, "end_time": 538.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 535.3749780273438, "cut_end_time": 538.0401030273438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cand tell them to send down slaves to fetch up our baggage; then I will take you, Gervaise, to Sir Peter D'Aubusson, and hand you over to his care.\u201d", "start_byte": 77274, "end_byte": 77422, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 540.280029296875, "end_time": 550.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 540.5850292968751, "cut_end_time": 550.470029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWelcome back to us, Sir Guy,", "start_byte": 81577, "end_byte": 81606, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 815.280029296875, "end_time": 818.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 815.635029296875, "cut_end_time": 817.900029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "rising": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "warmly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI have been looking for your coming, for we need men with clear heads. Of strong arms and valiant spirits we have no lack; but men of judgment and discretion, who can be trusted to look at matters calmly and not to be carried away by passion, are welcome indeed to us. I was expecting you about this time, and when I heard that a ship had arrived from Marseilles I made inquiries, and was glad to find that you were on board.\u201d", "start_byte": 81672, "end_byte": 82099, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 823.760009765625, "end_time": 855.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 824.165009765625, "cut_end_time": 855.370009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI am heartily glad to be back, D'Aubusson; I am sick of the dull life of a commandery, and rejoice at the prospect of stirring times again. This lad is young Tresham, who has come out in my charge, and for whom you have been good enough to obtain the post of page to the grand master.\u201d", "start_byte": 82101, "end_byte": 82387, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 855.719970703125, "end_time": 876.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 856.114970703125, "cut_end_time": 875.850095703125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd no slight business was it to do so,", "start_byte": 82389, "end_byte": 82429, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 876.0800170898438, "end_time": 879.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 876.3050170898438, "cut_end_time": 879.1800795898438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "smile": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt happened there was a vacancy when the letter concerning him arrived, and had it been one of the highest offices in the Order there could not have been a keener contention for it. Every bailiff had his candidate ready; but I seldom ask for anything for members of my langue, and when I told the other bailiffs that it was to me a matter of honour to carry out the last request of my dead friend, they all gave way. You see, I am placed in a position of some little difficulty. The grand master is so enfeebled and crippled that he leaves matters almost entirely in my hands, and it would be an abuse of my position, and would excite no little jealousy, were I to use the power I possess to nominate friends of my own to appointments. It is only by the most rigid impartiality, and by dividing as fairly as possible all offices between the eight langues, that all continue to give me their support. As you know, we have had great difficulties and heartburnings here; but happily they have to a great extent been set at rest by forming a new langue of Castile and Portugal out of that of Aragon. This has given one more vote to the smaller langues, and has so balanced the power that of late the jealousies between us have greatly subsided, and all are working well together in face of the common danger. Well, young sir, and how like you the prospect of your pageship?\u201d", "start_byte": 82461, "end_byte": 83832, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 881.9199829101562, "end_time": 978.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 882.2849829101563, "cut_end_time": 978.4501079101562, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI like it greatly, sir, but shall like still more the time when I can buckle on armour and take a share of the fighting with the infidels. I would fain, sir, offer to you my deep and humble thanks for the great kindness you have shown me in procuring me the appointment of page to the grand master.\u201d", "start_byte": 83834, "end_byte": 84134, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 978.8400268554688, "end_time": 996.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 979.1850268554688, "cut_end_time": 996.3700893554687, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThere are the less thanks due, lad, inasmuch as I did it not for you, but for the dear friend who wrote to me on your behalf. However, I trust that you will do credit to my nomination by your conduct here.\u201d", "start_byte": 84162, "end_byte": 84369, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 999.0800170898438, "end_time": 1012.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 999.3850170898438, "cut_end_time": 1012.4500170898438, "narrative_prediction": {"smiled": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "kindly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThere is a letter from our grand prior which I have brought to you,", "start_byte": 84371, "end_byte": 84439, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1012.7999877929688, "end_time": 1017.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 1013.0049877929688, "cut_end_time": 1017.0501127929688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe commended the lad to me warmly, and seems to be greatly pleased with his conduct.\u201d", "start_byte": 84455, "end_byte": 84541, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1018.8800048828125, "end_time": 1025.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1019.2550048828125, "cut_end_time": 1024.9700673828124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe does indeed speak warmly,", "start_byte": 84631, "end_byte": 84660, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1030.9599609375, "end_time": 1033.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1031.1949609375, "cut_end_time": 1033.1200859374999, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe tells me that the lad, young as he was, had been well trained when he came, and that he worked with great diligence during the five months he was in the House, and displayed such skill and strength for his age, as to surprise his preceptors, who prophesied that he would turn out a stout swordsman, and would be a credit to the Order.\u201d", "start_byte": 84705, "end_byte": 85044, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1036.239990234375, "end_time": 1058.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1036.434990234375, "cut_end_time": 1057.510115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHe is well furnished with garments both for ordinary and state occasions,", "start_byte": 85046, "end_byte": 85120, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1058.1600341796875, "end_time": 1063.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1058.5550341796875, "cut_end_time": 1063.1900966796875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cand in this packet are some sixty gold crowns, which are the last remains of his patrimony, and which I was to hand to you in order to pay the necessary expenses during his pageship.\u201d", "start_byte": 85136, "end_byte": 85320, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1065.199951171875, "end_time": 1078.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1065.5349511718748, "cut_end_time": 1077.760013671875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe could have done without that,", "start_byte": 85322, "end_byte": 85355, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1078.239990234375, "end_time": 1080.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1078.5049902343749, "cut_end_time": 1080.320115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cRecommended to me as he is, I would have seen that he lacked nothing, but was provided with all necessaries for his position. I will in the future take care that in all things he is on a par with his companions.", "start_byte": 85374, "end_byte": 85586, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1082.56005859375, "end_time": 1096.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1082.73505859375, "cut_end_time": 1096.15005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cTell Richard de Deauville to come here,", "start_byte": 85645, "end_byte": 85685, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1101.43994140625, "end_time": 1104.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1101.7149414062499, "cut_end_time": 1104.3800664062499, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDeauville, take this youth, Gervaise Tresham to your room. He is appointed one of the pages of the grand master. He is English, but he speaks French as well as you do, having lived in France for some years. Take him to your apartment and treat him kindly and well, seeing that he is a stranger and new to all here. Tomorrow he will go to the palace.\u201d", "start_byte": 85897, "end_byte": 86248, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1117.52001953125, "end_time": 1142.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1117.68501953125, "cut_end_time": 1142.08008203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI suppose you arrived in that ship which came in today,", "start_byte": 86321, "end_byte": 86377, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1147.47998046875, "end_time": 1151.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1147.88498046875, "cut_end_time": 1150.99010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou are in luck indeed to have obtained a pageship at the grand master's. You begin to count your time at once, while we do not begin to count ours until we are seventeen. Still, good luck may befall us yet, for if the grand master dies, Sir Peter is sure to be chosen to succeed him. Then, you see, we too shall be pages of the grand master.\u201d", "start_byte": 86431, "end_byte": 86775, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1154.719970703125, "end_time": 1176.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1155.0049707031249, "cut_end_time": 1175.7100957031248, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHow many are there of you?\u201d", "start_byte": 86777, "end_byte": 86805, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1176.1600341796875, "end_time": 1178.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1176.6450341796874, "cut_end_time": 1178.0900966796873, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOnly De Lille and myself. Of course D'Aubusson will take on the grand master's present pages; but as there are five vacancies on an average every year, he will be able to find room for us among the number.\u201d", "start_byte": 86807, "end_byte": 87014, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1178.52001953125, "end_time": 1191.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1178.69501953125, "cut_end_time": 1190.81001953125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy, how many pages has the grand master?", "start_byte": 87016, "end_byte": 87058, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1191.43994140625, "end_time": 1194.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1191.7149414062499, "cut_end_time": 1194.3800664062499, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "surprise": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cSixteen of them, so you may guess the duties are easy enough, as only two are generally employed, except, of course on solemn occasions.\u201d", "start_byte": 87090, "end_byte": 87228, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1197.280029296875, "end_time": 1206.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1197.5350292968749, "cut_end_time": 1205.620091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAre there any other English besides myself?\u201d", "start_byte": 87230, "end_byte": 87275, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1206.4000244140625, "end_time": 1210.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1206.9150244140624, "cut_end_time": 1209.2600869140624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThere are eight belonging to the French langues; the others are Spaniards, Italians, or Germans. There, this is our room and this is De Lille. De Lille, this is the grand master's new page, Master Gervaise Tresham, and our lord says we are to treat him kindly and entertain him well until tomorrow, when he will go to the palace. He speaks our language, and has been some years in France.\u201d", "start_byte": 87301, "end_byte": 87691, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1212.239990234375, "end_time": 1236.0, "cut_start_time": 1212.4949902343749, "cut_end_time": 1235.740052734375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHow came you to be there?", "start_byte": 87693, "end_byte": 87719, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1236.0, "end_time": 1238.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1236.2849999999999, "cut_end_time": 1237.77, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy father was a Lancastrian, and my mother a great friend of our Queen Margaret of Anjou, and they were with her all the time she was in exile.\u201d", "start_byte": 87747, "end_byte": 87892, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1240.239990234375, "end_time": 1250.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1240.654990234375, "cut_end_time": 1249.6700527343748, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHow quarrelsome you English are!", "start_byte": 87894, "end_byte": 87927, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1250.239990234375, "end_time": 1253.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1250.664990234375, "cut_end_time": 1252.570115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou seem to be always fighting among yourselves.\u201d", "start_byte": 87944, "end_byte": 87994, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1254.239990234375, "end_time": 1257.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1254.684990234375, "cut_end_time": 1257.4701152343748, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI don't think,", "start_byte": 87996, "end_byte": 88011, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1257.760009765625, "end_time": 1259.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1258.115009765625, "cut_end_time": 1258.9500097656248, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cthere is any love lost between Louis of France and the Duke of Burgundy, to say nothing of other great lords.\u201d", "start_byte": 88042, "end_byte": 88153, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1261.5999755859375, "end_time": 1268.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1262.0749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1267.5800380859373, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "smile": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo; you are right there. But though we talk a great deal about fighting, it is only occasionally that we engage in it.\u201d", "start_byte": 88155, "end_byte": 88275, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1268.1199951171875, "end_time": 1275.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1268.3249951171874, "cut_end_time": 1274.8500576171873, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThat is supper,", "start_byte": 88486, "end_byte": 88502, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1289.0400390625, "end_time": 1290.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1289.3050390624999, "cut_end_time": 1290.4601015624999, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWe will leave you here while we go down to stand behind our lord's chair. When the meal is over we will bring a pasty or something else good, and a measure of wine, and have our supper together up here; and we will tell the servitors to bring up another pallet for you. Of course, you can go down with us if you like.\u201d", "start_byte": 88531, "end_byte": 88850, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1292.8399658203125, "end_time": 1311.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1293.1549658203123, "cut_end_time": 1310.3800283203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThank you, I would much rather stay here. Every one would be strange to me, and having nothing to do I should feel in the way.\u201d", "start_byte": 88852, "end_byte": 88980, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1311.1199951171875, "end_time": 1319.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1311.5349951171875, "cut_end_time": 1318.6100576171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI think I have been asleep,", "start_byte": 89207, "end_byte": 89235, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1332.0799560546875, "end_time": 1334.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1332.5149560546874, "cut_end_time": 1333.8900810546875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou look as if you had, anyhow,", "start_byte": 89293, "end_byte": 89325, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1337.0400390625, "end_time": 1339.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1337.2550390625, "cut_end_time": 1339.0201015624998, "narrative_prediction": {"laughed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt was the best thing you could do. We have brought up supper. We generally sit down and eat after the knights have done, but this is much better, as you are here.", "start_byte": 89345, "end_byte": 89509, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1340.4000244140625, "end_time": 1349.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1340.6950244140623, "cut_end_time": 1348.5500869140624, "narrative_prediction": {"laughed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou see,", "start_byte": 89791, "end_byte": 89800, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1367.52001953125, "end_time": 1369.0, "cut_start_time": 1367.8050195312499, "cut_end_time": 1368.54001953125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cthere is a row of small islands across the mouth of the outer port, and the guns of St. Nicholas, and those on this wall, would prevent any hostile fleet from entering.\u201d", "start_byte": 89817, "end_byte": 89987, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1370.280029296875, "end_time": 1380.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1370.665029296875, "cut_end_time": 1379.830029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI hardly see what use that port is, for it lies altogether outside the town, and vessels could not unload there.\u201d", "start_byte": 89989, "end_byte": 90103, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1380.0799560546875, "end_time": 1388.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1380.3949560546873, "cut_end_time": 1387.6700810546874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo. Still, it forms a useful place of refuge. In case a great fleet came to attack us, our galleys would lay up in the inner port, which would be cleared of all the merchant craft, as these would hamper the defence; they would, therefore, be sent round into the outer port, where they would be safe from any attack by sea, although they would doubtless be burnt did an army besiege the town.\u201d", "start_byte": 90105, "end_byte": 90498, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1388.280029296875, "end_time": 1410.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1388.5850292968748, "cut_end_time": 1410.4100292968749, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou must know that each langue has charge of a separate part of the wall. From the foot of the mole of St. Nicholas to the grand master's palace it is in charge of France. On the line where we now are, between the palace and the gate of St. George, it is held by Germany. From that gate to the Spanish tower Auvergne is posted. England takes the wall between the Spanish tower and that of St. Mary. You defend only the lower storey of that tower, the upper part being held by Aragon, whose charge extends up to the gate of St. John. Thence to the tower of Italy -- behind which lies the Jews' quarter -- Provence is in charge, while the sea front thence to the mole of St. Nicholas, is held by Italy and Castile, each taking half. Not only have the langues the charge of defending each its portion of the wall, but of keeping it in order at all times; and I may say that nowhere is the wall better kept or more fairly decorated with carvings than where England holds.\u201d", "start_byte": 90758, "end_byte": 91727, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1425.760009765625, "end_time": 1482.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1426.0650097656248, "cut_end_time": 1481.610009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou have not told me who defends the palace itself.\u201d", "start_byte": 91729, "end_byte": 91782, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1482.239990234375, "end_time": 1486.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1482.664990234375, "cut_end_time": 1485.4200527343748, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThat is in charge of a force composed of equal numbers of picked knights from each langue.\u201d", "start_byte": 91784, "end_byte": 91876, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1486.0799560546875, "end_time": 1491.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1486.4249560546873, "cut_end_time": 1490.9000810546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat a rich and beautiful country!", "start_byte": 92345, "end_byte": 92380, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1520.1600341796875, "end_time": 1522.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1520.3350341796875, "cut_end_time": 1522.5500341796874, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is very pleasant to look at,", "start_byte": 92392, "end_byte": 92424, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1523.800048828125, "end_time": 1526.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1524.1250488281248, "cut_end_time": 1525.930111328125, "narrative_prediction": {"agreed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut all this would be a sore disadvantage to us if the Turks were besieging us, for the groves and orchards would conceal their approaches, the walls and buildings would give them shelter, and our cannon would be of little use until they reached the farther side of the ditch. If the Turks come, I hear it is decided to level all the buildings and walls, and to chop down every tree.\u201d", "start_byte": 92443, "end_byte": 92828, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1527.9599609375, "end_time": 1550.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1528.3649609375, "cut_end_time": 1549.8200859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIf they were to plant their cannon on the hills they would do us much harm,", "start_byte": 92830, "end_byte": 92906, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1550.4000244140625, "end_time": 1554.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1550.7550244140625, "cut_end_time": 1554.6500869140625, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Turks are clumsy gunners they say,", "start_byte": 92928, "end_byte": 92967, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1556.0799560546875, "end_time": 1558.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1556.1149560546874, "cut_end_time": 1558.4700810546874, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cand they would but waste their powder and ball at that distance, without making a breach in our walls.\u201d", "start_byte": 92988, "end_byte": 93092, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1560.1600341796875, "end_time": 1566.0, "cut_start_time": 1560.5050341796873, "cut_end_time": 1565.6200341796873, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cEven if they did, they could surely scarce pass that deep fosse,", "start_byte": 93094, "end_byte": 93159, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1566.0, "end_time": 1570.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1566.2549999999999, "cut_end_time": 1570.23, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow different to the towns at home!", "start_byte": 94779, "end_byte": 94815, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1672.8399658203125, "end_time": 1675.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1673.2749658203124, "cut_end_time": 1675.3100908203123, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOne would hardly know that it was a town at all.\u201d", "start_byte": 94934, "end_byte": 94984, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1683.280029296875, "end_time": 1687.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1683.6150292968748, "cut_end_time": 1686.550091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, it is rather different to the view from the top of the tower of Notre Dame, which I ascended while I was staying in Paris. But this sort of building is best here; the thickness of the stone roofs keeps out the heat of the sun, and it is only when it is almost overhead that it shines down into the narrow streets. As you can see by the number of the people on the roofs, they use them as a resort in the evening. Then carpets are spread, and they receive visitors, and can talk to their neighbours over the low walls that separate the roofs. You can trace the divisions. Some of the house roofs are larger than others, but all are upon the same level; this being the regulation, in order that there might be free passage everywhere for the troops.\u201d", "start_byte": 94986, "end_byte": 95740, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1687.1600341796875, "end_time": 1730.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1687.6950341796874, "cut_end_time": 1729.9300341796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThis is your new comrade, boys,", "start_byte": 97089, "end_byte": 97121, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1813.6800537109375, "end_time": 1816.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1813.9050537109374, "cut_end_time": 1816.1400537109373, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMaster Gervaise Tresham, a member of the English langue. Be good comrades to him. By the reports I hear I am sure that you will find him a worthy companion.\u201d", "start_byte": 97134, "end_byte": 97292, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1817.239990234375, "end_time": 1829.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1817.5049902343749, "cut_end_time": 1828.770115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou may as well join them in their exercises. In that way you will sooner become at home with them.\u201d", "start_byte": 98038, "end_byte": 98139, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1875.43994140625, "end_time": 1882.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1875.7549414062498, "cut_end_time": 1881.3500039062499, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou will have to get one more suit, Gervaise,", "start_byte": 100241, "end_byte": 100287, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2012.56005859375, "end_time": 2015.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 2013.01505859375, "cut_end_time": 2015.7801210937498, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "The head of the party was Sir Guy Redcar, who had been a commander in England, but who was now relinquishing that post in order to take a high office in the convent at the Island. With him were four lads between seventeen and twenty who were going out as professed knights, having served their year of probation as novices at the grand priory. With these Gervaise was already acquainted, as they had lived, studied, and performed their military exercises together. The three eldest of these Gervaise liked much, but the youngest of the party, Robert Rivers, a relation of the queen, had always shown a very different spirit from the others. He was jealous that a member of one of the defeated and disinherited Lancastrian families should obtain a post of such honour and advantage as that of page to the grand master, and that thus, although five years younger, Gervaise should enter the Order on an equality with him.", "start_byte": 70370, "end_byte": 71288, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 74.72000122070312, "end_time": 138.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 75.40500122070311, "cut_end_time": 137.30006372070312}, {"text": "In point of strength and stature he was, of course, greatly superior to Gervaise; but he had been spoilt from his childhood, was averse to exercise, and dull at learning, and while Gervaise was frequently commended by his instructors, he himself was constantly reproved, and it had been more than once a question whether he should be received as a professed knight at the termination of his year of novitiate. Thus, while the other lads treated Gervaise kindly, and indeed made rather a pet of him, Robert Rivers ignored him as much as possible, and if obliged to speak to him did so with a pointed rudeness that more than once brought upon him a sharp reproof from his companions. Gervaise himself was but little affected by Robert's manner. He was of an exceptionally good tempered nature, and, indeed, was so occupied with his work and so anxious to satisfy his teachers, that Robert's ill humour passed almost unnoticed.", "start_byte": 71290, "end_byte": 72214, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 138.32000732421875, "end_time": 200.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 138.71500732421873, "cut_end_time": 199.57000732421875}, {"text": "The journey was performed without incident. During their passage across the south of France, Gervaise's perfect knowledge of the language gained for him a great advantage over his companions, and enabled him to be of much use to Sir Guy. They had fine weather during their passage up the Mediterranean, and in the day their leader gave them their first lessons in the management and discipline of a ship.", "start_byte": 72216, "end_byte": 72620, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 200.1199951171875, "end_time": 225.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 200.8049951171875, "cut_end_time": 224.6600576171875}, {"text": " he said; \u201cand it is essential to the education of a knight of our Order to know all things connected with the management of a ship, even to its building. We construct our own galleys at Rhodes, using, of course, the labour of slaves, but under our own superintendence; and it is even more essential to us to know how to fight on sea than on land. There is, too, you see, a rivalry among ourselves, for each langue has its duties, and each strives to perform more gallant deeds and to bring in more rich prizes than the others. We of England are among the smallest of the langues, and yet methinks we do a fair portion of the work, and gain fully our share of honour. There is no fear of your having much time on your hands, for it is quite certain that there will soon be open war between Mahomet and the Order. In spite of the nominal truce, constant skirmishes are taking place, so that, in addition to our fights with pirates, we have sometimes encounters with the sultan's galleys.", "start_byte": 72725, "end_byte": 73711, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 232.24000549316406, "end_time": 301.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 232.44500549316405, "cut_end_time": 300.2900054931641}, {"text": "\u201cSeven years ago, a number of our Order took part in the defence of Lesbos, and lost their lives at its capture, and we have sure information that Mahomet is preparing for an attack on the Island. No doubt he thinks it will be an easy conquest, for in '57 he succeeded in landing eighteen thousand men on the Island, and in ravaging a large district, carrying off much booty. Since then, however, the defences of Rhodes have been greatly strengthened. Zacosta, our last grand master, laboured diligently to increase the fortifications, and, specially, built on one side of the entrance to the harbour a strong tower, called Fort St. Nicholas. Orsini has carried on the works, which have been directed by D'Aubusson, who is captain general of the forces of the Island, and who has deepened the ditches and built a wall on the sea front of the town six hundred feet in length and twenty feet in height, money being found by the grand master from his private purse.", "start_byte": 73713, "end_byte": 74675, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 301.0799865722656, "end_time": 368.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 301.43498657226564, "cut_end_time": 367.10011157226563}, {"text": "\u201cAt present we are not sure whether the great armament that Mahomet is preparing is intended for the capture of Negropont, which belongs to Venice, or of Rhodes. Unfortunately Venice and Rhodes are not good friends. In the course of our war with Egypt in '58 we captured from some Venetian vessels, in which they were travelling, several Egyptian merchants with a great store of goods. The Venetians protested that as the ships were theirs we had no right to interfere with our enemies who were travelling in them, and, without giving time for the question to be discussed, at once attacked our galleys, and sent a fleet against Rhodes. They landed on the Island, and not only pillaged the district of Halki, but, a number of natives having sought shelter in a cave, the Venetians blocked up the entrance with brushwood, set it on fire, and suffocated them all.", "start_byte": 74677, "end_byte": 75538, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 368.0400085449219, "end_time": 422.0, "cut_start_time": 368.7350085449219, "cut_end_time": 421.0700085449219}, {"text": "There was great excitement among Gervaise and his companions when it was announced that Rhodes was in sight, and as they approached the town they gazed with admiration at the castle with its stately buildings, the palace of the grand master and the Hospital of St. John, rising above the lower town, the massive walls strengthened by projecting bastions, and the fortifications of the ports. Of these there were two, with separate entrances, divided from each other by a narrow tongue of land. At its extremity stood Fort St. Nicholas, which was connected by a strong wall running along the promontory to the town. The inner port, as it was called, was of greater importance, as it adjoined the town itself. It was defended in the first place by Fort St. Nicholas, and at the inner entrance stood the towers of St. John and St. Michael, one on either side. Into this the vessel was steered. There were many craft lying there, among them eight or ten of the galleys of the Order.", "start_byte": 76233, "end_byte": 77211, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 469.0400085449219, "end_time": 535.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 469.2650085449219, "cut_end_time": 534.4700085449219}, {"text": " Sir Guy said,", "start_byte": 77259, "end_byte": 77273, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 538.4000244140625, "end_time": 540.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 538.8450244140626, "cut_end_time": 539.9200869140625}, {"text": "On landing, Gervaise was surprised at the number of slaves who were labouring at the public works, and who formed no small proportion of the population in the streets. Their condition was pitiable. They were, of course, enemies of Christianity, and numbers of them had been pirates; but he could not help pitying their condition as they worked in the full heat of the sun under the vigilant eyes of numbers of overseers, who carried heavy whips, in addition to their arms. Their progress to the upper city was slow, for on their way they met many knights, of whom several were acquainted with Sir Guy; and each, after greeting him, demanded the latest news from England, and in return gave him particulars of the state of things at Rhodes.", "start_byte": 77424, "end_byte": 78163, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 550.5599975585938, "end_time": 597.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 550.7349975585938, "cut_end_time": 597.4500600585937}, {"text": "At last they arrived at the house of the English langue. The Order was divided into langues or nationalities. Of these there were eight -- Provence, Auvergne, France, Italy, Germany, England, Aragon, and Castile and Portugal. The French element was by far the strongest. The Order had been founded in that country, and as it possessed no less than three langues, and held the greater part of the high official positions in the Order, it was only kept in check by the other langues acting together to demand their fair share of dignities. The grand master's authority was considerable, but it was checked by the council, which was composed of the bailiffs and knights of the highest order, known as Grand Crosses. Each langue had its bailiff elected by itself: these resided constantly at Rhodes. Each of these bailiffs held a high office; thus the Bailiff of Provence was always the grand commander of the Order. He controlled the expenditure, superintended the stores, and was governor of the arsenal. The Bailiff of Auvergne was the commander-in-chief of all the forces, army and navy. The Bailiff of France was the grand hospitaller, with the supreme direction of the hospitals and infirmaries of the Order, a hospital in those days signifying a guest house. The Bailiff of Italy was the grand admiral, and the Bailiff of England was chief of the light cavalry. Thus the difficulties and jealousies that would have arisen at every vacancy were avoided.", "start_byte": 78165, "end_byte": 79620, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 597.6799926757812, "end_time": 694.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 597.8949926757813, "cut_end_time": 693.6601176757813}, {"text": "In the early days of the Order, when Jerusalem was in the hands of the Christians, the care of the hospitals was its chief and most important function. Innumerable pilgrims visited Jerusalem, and these were entertained at the immense guest house of the Order. But with the loss of Jerusalem and the expulsion of the Christians from Palestine, that function had become of very secondary importance although there was still a guest house and infirmary at Rhodes, where strangers and the sick were carefully attended by the knights. No longer did these ride out to battle on their war horses. It was on the sea that the foe was to be met, and the knights were now sailors rather than soldiers. They dwelt at the houses of their respective langues; here they ate at a common table, which was supplied by the bailiff, who drew rations for each knight, and received, in addition, a yearly sum for the supply of such luxuries as were not included in the rations. The average number of knights residing in each of these langues averaged from a hundred to a hundred and fifty.", "start_byte": 79622, "end_byte": 80689, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 694.4000244140625, "end_time": 759.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 695.0450244140625, "cut_end_time": 758.6400244140625}, {"text": "It was not until some hours after his arrival that Sir Guy could find time to take Gervaise across to the house of the langue of Auvergne, to which D'Aubusson belonged. It was a larger and more stately pile than that of the English langue, but the arrangements were similar in all these buildings. In the English house Gervaise had not felt strange, as he had the companionship of his fellow voyagers; but as he followed Sir Guy through the spacious halls of the langue of Auvergne, where no familiar face met his, he felt more lonely than he had done since he entered the house at Clerkenwell.", "start_byte": 80691, "end_byte": 81285, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 759.1199951171875, "end_time": 794.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 759.6149951171875, "cut_end_time": 794.4601201171876}, {"text": "On sending in his name Sir Guy was at once conducted to the chamber occupied by D'Aubusson. The knight was seated at his table, examining some plans. 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It was from this great cutting that the stones for the construction of the walls, towers, and buildings of the town had been taken, the work having been going on ever since the knights established themselves at Rhodes, and being performed by a host of captives taken in war, together with labour hired from neighboring islands. Upon this immense work the Order had expended no small proportion of their revenue since their capture of the island in 1310, and the result was a fortress that, under the conditions of warfare of that age, seemed almost impregnable; and this without any natural advantage of position.", "start_byte": 93160, "end_byte": 93983, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1570.3199462890625, "end_time": 1621.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1570.3949462890623, "cut_end_time": 1620.4400712890624}, {"text": "In addition to the five great towers or bastions, the wall was strengthened by square towers at short intervals. 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He could climb the rope with any of them, could vault on to the wooden horse with a heavy cuirass and backpiece on him, and held his own in a bout with swords against Conrad von Berghoff, who was considered the best swordplayer among them. As soon as the exercises were over all proceeded to the bath, and then to dinner. The meal was a simple one, but Gervaise enjoyed it thoroughly, for the table was loaded with an abundance of fruits of kinds altogether novel to him, and which he found delicious.", "start_byte": 98141, "end_byte": 99007, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1882.0799560546875, "end_time": 1935.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1882.3049560546874, "cut_end_time": 1935.1200185546875}, {"text": "The official in charge of them sat at the head of the table, and the meal was eaten in silence. After it was over and they had retired to their own rooms discipline was at an end, and they were free to amuse themselves as they liked. 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By this time Gervaise's trunks had been brought over from the English auberge, where they had been conveyed from the ship, and his garments were taken out and inspected by his comrades, who all admitted that they were, in point of beauty of colour and material, and in fashion, equal to their own.", "start_byte": 99459, "end_byte": 100239, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1963.800048828125, "end_time": 2012.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1964.3450488281248, "cut_end_time": 2011.930111328125}]}
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