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If you have resolved otherwise, let justice do her part, I must do mine.\u201d", "start_byte": 166888, "end_byte": 167281, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 417.5199890136719, "end_time": 447.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 417.6549890136719, "cut_end_time": 446.2501140136719, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHost of the Sun", "start_byte": 168094, "end_byte": 168110, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 511.7200012207031, "end_time": 513.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 511.69500122070315, "cut_end_time": 513.1300012207031, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHost of the Sun", "start_byte": 169769, "end_byte": 169785, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 653.0399780273438, "end_time": 654.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 653.0149780273438, "cut_end_time": 654.3400405273437, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cA thief!", "start_byte": 170572, "end_byte": 170581, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 716.8800048828125, "end_time": 717.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 717.1250048828125, "cut_end_time": 717.8400048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cA shot from this,", "start_byte": 171285, "end_byte": 171303, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 777.6799926757812, "end_time": 779.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 777.9449926757812, "cut_end_time": 779.5401176757813, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cfor the mad fool who detains me.", "start_byte": 171314, "end_byte": 171347, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 780.5599975585938, "end_time": 783.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 780.9249975585938, "cut_end_time": 783.1501225585938, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWho are you?", "start_byte": 171652, "end_byte": 171665, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 809.760009765625, "end_time": 811.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 810.105009765625, "cut_end_time": 811.540009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "brutal": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cA man who is resolved to answer no question until it is put more courteously.\u201d", "start_byte": 171711, "end_byte": 171790, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 816.239990234375, "end_time": 823.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 816.694990234375, "cut_end_time": 822.360115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWho are you?\u201d[", "start_byte": 171792, "end_byte": 171807, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 823.4400024414062, "end_time": 826.0, "cut_start_time": 823.8050024414063, "cut_end_time": 825.2700024414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThat which I represented myself to be. I have travelled all through Germany, and never found impudence at home, anywhere but here.\u201d", "start_byte": 171811, "end_byte": 171943, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 845.3599853515625, "end_time": 856.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 845.8049853515626, "cut_end_time": 855.3600478515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYour speedy flight renders you very suspicious. Why did you fly?\u201d", "start_byte": 171945, "end_byte": 172011, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 856.1599731445312, "end_time": 862.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 856.4049731445313, "cut_end_time": 862.2100356445312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBecause I was tired of being the laughing-stock of your rabble.\u201d", "start_byte": 172013, "end_byte": 172078, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 862.7999877929688, "end_time": 867.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 863.2049877929687, "cut_end_time": 867.5101127929688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou threatened to fire.\u201d", "start_byte": 172080, "end_byte": 172105, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 867.9600219726562, "end_time": 871.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 868.5950219726562, "cut_end_time": 870.5400219726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMy pistol was not loaded.\u201d", "start_byte": 172107, "end_byte": 172134, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 871.0399780273438, "end_time": 874.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 871.3949780273438, "cut_end_time": 873.7500405273438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy did you secretly carry arms?\u201d", "start_byte": 172204, "end_byte": 172238, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 879.9600219726562, "end_time": 884.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 880.4250219726563, "cut_end_time": 883.6800219726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBecause I have with me articles of value, and because I have been warned against a certain \u2018Host of the Sun,\u2019 who is said to be roving about these parts.\u201d", "start_byte": 172240, "end_byte": 172395, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 884.7999877929688, "end_time": 898.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 885.1249877929688, "cut_end_time": 896.8400502929687, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYour replies argue much for your audacity, but little for the goodness of your cause. I will give you till to-morrow to discover the truth to me.\u201d", "start_byte": 172397, "end_byte": 172544, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 898.1599731445312, "end_time": 909.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 898.3849731445313, "cut_end_time": 908.6300356445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI shall abide by what I have already said.\u201d", "start_byte": 172546, "end_byte": 172590, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 909.47998046875, "end_time": 913.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 910.01498046875, "cut_end_time": 912.70004296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cLet him be conducted to the tower.\u201d", "start_byte": 172592, "end_byte": 172628, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 913.239990234375, "end_time": 916.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 913.494990234375, "cut_end_time": 916.150115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cTo the tower? I hope, Herr Superior, that there is still justice in this country. I shall require satisfaction.\u201d", "start_byte": 172630, "end_byte": 172743, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 916.8400268554688, "end_time": 927.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 917.1650268554688, "cut_end_time": 926.2300893554687, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI will give it you as soon as you are acquitted.\u201d", "start_byte": 172745, "end_byte": 172795, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 927.0800170898438, "end_time": 931.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 927.7450170898438, "cut_end_time": 930.9200170898438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cForgive me for the first outbreak, sir, if I accosted you somewhat hardly yesterday.\u201d", "start_byte": 173097, "end_byte": 173183, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 957.0, "end_time": 964.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 957.245, "cut_end_time": 963.3100000000001, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cVery readily, if you treat me thus.\u201d", "start_byte": 173185, "end_byte": 173222, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 964.239990234375, "end_time": 968.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 964.384990234375, "cut_end_time": 967.220052734375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOur laws are severe, and your affair made a noise. I cannot release you without committing a breach of duty. Appearance is against you, and I wish you would say something, by which it might be refuted.\u201d", "start_byte": 173224, "end_byte": 173427, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 968.239990234375, "end_time": 982.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 968.624990234375, "cut_end_time": 982.130052734375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat, if I know nothing?\u201d", "start_byte": 173429, "end_byte": 173455, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 982.7999877929688, "end_time": 986.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 983.2849877929688, "cut_end_time": 985.4700502929687, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThen I must lay the case before the government, and you will, in the meanwhile, remain closely confined.\u201d", "start_byte": 173457, "end_byte": 173563, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 986.239990234375, "end_time": 994.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 986.614990234375, "cut_end_time": 994.1900527343751, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd then?\u201d", "start_byte": 173565, "end_byte": 173576, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 994.9199829101562, "end_time": 997.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 995.4049829101563, "cut_end_time": 996.5700454101562, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThen you run the risk of being flogged over the border as a vagrant, or, if mercy is shown, of being placed among the recruits.\u201d", "start_byte": 173578, "end_byte": 173707, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 997.1599731445312, "end_time": 1008.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 997.4749731445313, "cut_end_time": 1006.9100981445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cCan I be alone with you for a quarter of an hour?\u201d", "start_byte": 173828, "end_byte": 173879, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1017.8800048828125, "end_time": 1021.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 1018.2450048828125, "cut_end_time": 1021.1200048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNow, what do you want?\u201d", "start_byte": 173981, "end_byte": 174005, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1030.719970703125, "end_time": 1033.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1031.0449707031248, "cut_end_time": 1033.1300332031249, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYour demeanour of yesterday, Herr Superior, would never have brought me to a confession, for I set force at defiance. The moderation with which you have treated me to-day has given me confidence and respect for you. I think that you are an honourable man.\u201d", "start_byte": 174007, "end_byte": 174264, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1033.5999755859375, "end_time": 1052.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1034.2049755859375, "cut_end_time": 1051.9501005859374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat have you to say to me?\u201d", "start_byte": 174266, "end_byte": 174295, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1052.800048828125, "end_time": 1056.0, "cut_start_time": 1053.275048828125, "cut_end_time": 1055.300048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI see that you are an honourable man; I have long wished for a man like you. Give me, I pray, your right hand.\u201d", "start_byte": 174297, "end_byte": 174409, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1056.0, "end_time": 1067.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1056.425, "cut_end_time": 1066.58, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cTo what end?\u201d", "start_byte": 174411, "end_byte": 174425, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1067.3599853515625, "end_time": 1069.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1067.7149853515625, "cut_end_time": 1069.0501103515624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThat head is gray and reverend. You have been long in the world -- have felt many sorrows -- is it not so? And have become more humane.\u201d", "start_byte": 174427, "end_byte": 174564, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1069.8800048828125, "end_time": 1082.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1070.0150048828125, "cut_end_time": 1081.8600048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cSir, to what does this tend?\u201d", "start_byte": 174566, "end_byte": 174596, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1082.5999755859375, "end_time": 1086.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1082.8149755859374, "cut_end_time": 1085.9400380859374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou are now distant by only one step from eternity -- soon, soon will you need mercy from God. You will not deny it to man. Do you suspect nothing? With whom do you suppose you are speaking?\u201d", "start_byte": 174598, "end_byte": 174790, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1086.43994140625, "end_time": 1105.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1087.12494140625, "cut_end_time": 1105.04006640625, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "The fame of this man shortly spread over the entire province. The high roads became unsafe; the citizens were rendered uneasy by the burglaries committed in the night; the name of the", "start_byte": 162326, "end_byte": 162509, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 42.599998474121094, "end_time": 57.439998626708984, "cut_start_time": 43.224998474121094, "cut_end_time": 57.5400609741211}, {"text": " became the terror of the country-people, justice searched for him, and a reward was offered for his head. He was fortunate enough to frustrate all attempts made against his liberty, and cunning enough to turn to the account of his safety the superstition of the wonder-loving peasantry. His comrades had to spread the report that he had made a compact with the devil, and understood witchcraft. The district in which he played his part, belonged less at that time than now to the enlightened part of Germany; the reports were believed, and his person was secure. No one showed a desire to attack the dangerous fellow who had the devil at his service.", "start_byte": 162527, "end_byte": 163178, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 59.040000915527344, "end_time": 112.4800033569336, "cut_start_time": 59.20500091552734, "cut_end_time": 111.90006341552734}, {"text": "He had already for a year followed his melancholy profession, when it began to grow insupportable. The band at whose head he stood, did not fulfil his brilliant expectations. A seductive exterior had dazzled him amid the fumes of the wine; now he saw with horror how frightfully he had been deceived. Hunger and want took the place of that superfluity by which his senses had been lulled; very often he had to risk his life on a meal, which was scarcely sufficient to keep him from starvation. The phantom of that brotherly concord vanished; envy, suspicion, and jealousy raged among this abandoned crew. Justice had offered a reward to any one who should deliver him up alive, with a solemn pardon if he were an accomplice -- a powerful temptation for the dregs of the earth! The unhappy man knew his peril. The honesty of those who betrayed God and man, was a bad security for his life. From this moment sleep was gone; a deadly and eternal anguish preyed on his repose; the hideous spectre of suspicion rattled behind him, wherever he fled, tortured him when he was awake, lay down by him when he went to sleep, and scared him with horrible visions. His conscience, which had been for some time dumb, now recovered its speech, and the adder of remorse, which had slept, now awoke amid the general storm of his bosom. All his hatred was now diverted from mankind, and turned its frightful edge against himself. He now forgave all nature, and found none but himself to execrate.", "start_byte": 163180, "end_byte": 164659, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 112.4800033569336, "end_time": 240.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 112.93500335693359, "cut_end_time": 239.66006585693358}, {"text": "Vice had completed its instruction of this unhappy being; his naturally good sense at last overcame the mournful delusion. Now he felt how low he had fallen, calm melancholy took the place of grinding despair. With tears he wished the past were recalled, for now he felt certain that he could go through it differently. He began to hope that he might be allowed to become honest, because he felt that he could be so. At the highest point of his depravity, he was perhaps nearer to goodness than before his first fault.", "start_byte": 164661, "end_byte": 165179, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 240.16000366210938, "end_time": 285.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 240.19500366210937, "cut_end_time": 284.4100661621094}, {"text": "About the same time, the seven years\u2019 war had broken out, and recruiting was going on with vigour. This circumstance inspired the unhappy man with hope, and he wrote a letter to his sovereign, an extract of which I insert:", "start_byte": 165181, "end_byte": 165403, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 285.6000061035156, "end_time": 303.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 285.9150061035156, "cut_end_time": 303.1200686035156}, {"text": "\u201cIf your princely favour feels no repugnance towards descending to me, if criminals of my class are not beyond the sphere of your mercy, grant me a hearing, I beg of your most serene highness! I am a murderer and a robber; the law condemns me to death, the tribunals are in search of me, and I offer myself to serve as a volunteer. But at the same time, I bring a singular request before your throne. I detest my life, and do not fear death, but it is terrible for me to die without having lived. I would live to make reparation for a portion of the past, I would live to make some atonement to the state, which I have offended. My execution will be an example to the world, but no compensation for my deeds. I detest vice, and have a burning desire for integrity and virtue. I have shown the talents for becoming formidable to my country -- I hope I have some left to be of service to it.", "start_byte": 165405, "end_byte": 166294, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 303.7200012207031, "end_time": 372.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 304.21500122070313, "cut_end_time": 372.1000012207031}, {"text": "\u201cI know that I am asking something which is unprecedented. My life is forfeit, and it is not for me to negotiate with justice. But I do not appear in bonds and fetters before you -- I am still free -- and fear on my part has the smallest share in my request.", "start_byte": 166296, "end_byte": 166554, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 372.3599853515625, "end_time": 390.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 372.9649853515625, "cut_end_time": 390.64004785156254}, {"text": "\u201cIt is for mercy that I ask. If I had a claim to justice, I should no longer venture to assert it. But of one thing I may remind my judge. The epoch of my crimes begins with the judgment that for ever deprived me of honour. Had fairness been less denied me on that occasion, I should not now, perhaps, have stood in need of mercy.", "start_byte": 166556, "end_byte": 166886, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 390.8399963378906, "end_time": 417.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 391.18499633789065, "cut_end_time": 416.8000588378907}, {"text": "This petition remained unanswered, and so did a second, and a third, in which the applicant asked for a trooper\u2019s place in the prince\u2019s service. His hopes for a pardon were utterly extinguished, so he resolved to quit the country, and to die as a brave soldier in the service of the King of Prussia.", "start_byte": 167283, "end_byte": 167582, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 447.0400085449219, "end_time": 470.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 447.5050085449219, "cut_end_time": 469.92000854492187}, {"text": "He succeeded in escaping from his land, and began his journey. The road led him through a little provincial town, where he wished to pass the night. A short time before, mandates of exceeding strictness had been published throughout the country, requiring a severe examination of travellers, because the sovereign, a prince of the empire, had taken part in the war. The toll-collector (Thorschreiber) of this little town had just received a mandate, and he was sitting on a bench before the toll-bar, when the", "start_byte": 167584, "end_byte": 168093, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 470.55999755859375, "end_time": 511.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 471.16499755859377, "cut_end_time": 511.82012255859377}, {"text": " came up. The appearance of this man had in it something comical, and at the same time wild and terrible. The lean pony which he rode, and the grotesque choice of his attire, in which his taste had probably been less consulted than the chronology of his thefts, contrasted singularly enough with a face over which so many raging passions were spread, like mangled corpses on a field of battle. The collector was struck by the sight of this strange wanderer. He had grown grey at the toll-bar, and by attending to his office for forty years had become an infallible physiognomist of all the vagabonds about. The falcon-glance of this investigator did not miss its man on this occasion. He at once fastened the town-gate, and asked the rider for his passport while he secured his bridle. Wolf was prepared for chances of this kind, and actually had with him a passport, which he had taken shortly before while plundering a merchant. This single voucher, however, did not suffice to counteract the observation of forty years, and to move the oracle of the toll-bar to a recantation. He trusted his eyes more than the paper, and Wolf was obliged to follow him to the office of the bailiff.", "start_byte": 168111, "end_byte": 169296, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 513.0399780273438, "end_time": 615.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 513.0149780273438, "cut_end_time": 614.7200405273438}, {"text": "The superior of the office examined the passport and declared it correct. He was an ardent lover of news, and it was his delight to chatter over the newspaper by his bottle. The passport told him that the bearer had come straight from those foreign countries, where the theatre of the war was situated. 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The first two, which are the tallest, are by the inside northwest gate, put there long before there was any gate, by Hunter Kelly, of whom more hereafter. But these oaks, the pillars of Springfield\u2019s temple-cathedral-synagogue, whose roof is the sky, are made the theme of many varieties of teaching, all of which goes back to Johnny Appleseed, who gave to Hunter Kelly the original acorns that made the trees of Oak Ridge, and these pillar oaks as well.", "start_byte": 25428, "end_byte": 26396, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 360.20001220703125, "end_time": 435.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 361.0350122070313, "cut_end_time": 434.3000747070313}, {"text": "There is another teaching, abroad in Springfield, 2018, the teaching of Democracy, of which the Symbol is the Golden Rain-Tree brought from New Harmony, Indiana. 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But she does not know where it has gone, it has circled and wandered so, appearing and disappearing. And it is with a tremendous leaping of the heart she finds it next day on her altar with wings gone but with pages open to be read to the faithful. Its main themes are the teachings of the trees, of which we have spoken, woven with her own traditional doctrines of the flowers, but all these teachings in most heightened and glorified aspects. 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She insists I am the wicked one to be pressing this devilish investigation, when there are rarer things to impart, \u2014 but in the glad Mystic Year, since I must know, she is endowed with the hair of what might be called her 1920 Grandmother-self, and the only change she notices is a more painful tendency to freckles, from riding horseback in a certain notable cavalry, behind a certain young lady commander, Avanel Boone, \u2014 of whom more anon.", "start_byte": 28636, "end_byte": 29154, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 619.9199829101562, "end_time": 659.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 620.4049829101563, "cut_end_time": 658.4401079101563}, {"text": "The most important revelation to her, sociologically, is that she finds herself no longer one of", "start_byte": 29156, "end_byte": 29252, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 659.2000122070312, "end_time": 666.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 660.2850122070313, "cut_end_time": 666.5800122070312}, {"text": " That is, she has not much money, and no privilege of collecting rents in the style that is now the sole reason many of the", "start_byte": 29271, "end_byte": 29394, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 668.47998046875, "end_time": 676.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 668.62498046875, "cut_end_time": 676.82004296875}, {"text": " are in Springfield for a part of the year. She is in Springfield because she loves a certain factory. She loves it because she is Patricia Anthony, forewoman, and can order people about. Her factory is at Ninth and Converse Streets, on the same ground with The Illinois Watch Company and The Sangamon Electric Company. It is a place where telescopic and microscopic lenses are made. As for the Golden Book about which she is all aquiver, she finds the volume when she is inspecting the place in the late afternoon of All Saint\u2019s Day, Anno Domini, 2018. She says I am there with her, carrying on, as of old, in the same conceited, philandering way. I am helping take inventory of the supplies needed for the next week, as my excuse for the tour. The factory echoes hollow with our solitary steps. 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When he looks into the glass he sees, in 1920, a young rascal who has stooped shoulders, from long bending over the jewelry and watches he has mended. He sees dull-brown hair and eyes, a blank face, a heavy jaundiced skin, all of which give the lie to the great brain. And he is five feet in height.", "start_byte": 37221, "end_byte": 38108, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1320.239990234375, "end_time": 1389.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1320.674990234375, "cut_end_time": 1388.780115234375}, {"text": "In 2018 he is six feet four, an old man, but with a blazing eye and a voice like the surf in a storm. His hair is brilliant black, his face is that of the Arabian war horse and the American eagle. Into his temple come all the wise of the world, week after week, and he introduces them, and they speak to his people and the rest. But he is to deliver his own discourse on a certain day in the autumn of the Mystic Year. It is a little before the beginning of the services. 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Their genius becomes intensely centered in a few, and there are speakers with definite, individual messages, who shout not only wonderful round rolling words, but phrases with whip lash and sentences with sword edge, in orations as individual as the world demands that art shall be. The African man with the soul of the fox, now speaks like the fox, as is his right and duty, the man with the soul of the elephant now speaks like the elephant, as is his right and duty, and the woman with the heart of the nightingale now speaks like the nightingale.", "start_byte": 43747, "end_byte": 44941, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1869.3599853515625, "end_time": 1967.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1869.6149853515624, "cut_end_time": 1966.1001103515623}, {"text": "Our evangelist reveals to us his dream that in the Mystic Year 2018, he is the Vice-President of the Springfield Athletic Union and his nickname is Cave Man Thomas. 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Of his predestined valor I may discourse at an opportune time. But meanwhile let me show you a further variation from the typical story about The Golden Book.", "start_byte": 45673, "end_byte": 46526, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2028.3199462890625, "end_time": 2099.840087890625, "cut_start_time": 2029.0349462890624, "cut_end_time": 2098.940133789062}, {"text": "I am more eager to know how the welfare worker finds herself in the mirrors of 2018 than to receive any other news of that time from her. Despite all her graces she has no especial personal vanity. She is more imperious than vain. But I gently insist upon her confidence till she confesses that she finds herself in the mirrors of 2018 much the same, but with a greater rush of blood through all that magnificent slender frame, and a consequent higher color. In her dream she rejoices in a great resiliency, a greater long-bow curve in action, as she walks with even more of her humorously commanding way. 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At last he took on his true form and came alone to Kelly when he stood meditating among the first sprouts of the famous Apple Amaranth Orchard, and there gave the young fellow words of admiration for his valor. For the Devil is often a true sport.", "start_byte": 50364, "end_byte": 50888, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2406.719970703125, "end_time": 2450.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 2407.514970703125, "cut_end_time": 2449.000033203125}, {"text": "There Kelly made a compact to submit himself to torture for many years if the pioneer city of his vow to Johnny Appleseed might be built here. 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In the hunter\u2019s living skull and heart were entangled the roots of the first Apple-Amaranth Trees, and from them all others of this region come.", "start_byte": 51103, "end_byte": 51627, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2466.320068359375, "end_time": 2507.39990234375, "cut_start_time": 2466.985068359375, "cut_end_time": 2506.469943359375}, {"text": "The Devil has a great respect for his contracts. 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There he wrote The Golden Book for our little city far below. By day he lived as that boy of Springfield who grew up as Saint Scribe of the Shrines, and established the discipline and ritual of The One Hundred Shrines of the World. He was rumored among a few of us to be the reincarnation of Hunter Kelly. He became the first teacher of St. Friend, who wore his mantle well after him. And now he is pictured, in many a dazzling flame-like color, throwing down from the window of his cell in heaven, this very hour of All Saint\u2019s Day, The Golden Book of Springfield.", "start_byte": 52478, "end_byte": 53158, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2579.280029296875, "end_time": 2637.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 2579.4950292968747, "cut_end_time": 2636.5700917968747}, {"text": "All this is the first intimation to Gwendolyn Charles that stranger things than we know may happen in heaven and on earth. As the wonder upon the screen moves on, with no formula of orthodox religion, and indeed with a sense of humor, like the laughter of the skies, she understands not what world she is in, and the lovely hedonist and artist is shaken with the passions of the mystic St. Catharine of Sienna.", "start_byte": 53160, "end_byte": 53570, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2637.56005859375, "end_time": 2672.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 2638.16505859375, "cut_end_time": 2671.8200585937498}, {"text": "She is concerned to know that in the box of the projecting machine is a dazzling presence, a sort of giant fairy, a little larger than a man, an operator, indeed, one she has not hired. There is an orchestra of giant fairies, who play such tunes as blue bells should give forth in the wild woods.", "start_byte": 53572, "end_byte": 53868, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2672.199951171875, "end_time": 2701.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 2672.474951171875, "cut_end_time": 2700.540013671875}, {"text": "And meantime, according to her tale, the book is there, pictured on the screen, circling around the domes and towers of Rabbi Terence Ezekiel\u2019s heretical synagogue on east Mason Street. And so the Rabbi makes haste to that place, and a few friends follow. But many people in the audience of quite different faiths declare that those are their own church steeples and not his temple towers, and hasten to the houses of their belief. Which is not so strange, to one who has been in a law court, for there it is demonstrated that a witness is somewhat apt to see and remember what he desires to see and remember. 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It is the shop located on the southeast corner of Fifth Street and Capital Avenue. This place has kept most of the fancy horse-shoeing trade of the city in 1920.", "start_byte": 57346, "end_byte": 57662, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 46.439998626708984, "end_time": 69.5999984741211, "cut_start_time": 46.93499862670899, "cut_end_time": 68.95006112670899}, {"text": "The aged proprietor-patriarch,", "start_byte": 57664, "end_byte": 57694, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 69.5999984741211, "end_time": 72.31999969482422, "cut_start_time": 70.10499847412109, "cut_end_time": 72.32006097412109}, {"text": " still does the heavy part of the work. He has, \u2014 with their own help, indeed, put three sons and three daughters through college, handsomely. He has trained his sons to his business and the extraordinary secrets of his shop, of which the whole tribe are inordinately proud.", "start_byte": 57716, "end_byte": 57990, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 74.0, "end_time": 94.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 74.155, "cut_end_time": 94.1}, {"text": "In early youth he discovered the process of hammering out the old Damascus blades, and vastly improved upon it, and struck off a new type of sword for the world, and his work has remained in undeviating pattern and quality ever since. At his simple forge he hammers out those wonderful swords in plain sight of the passer-by or the detective from Europe. They cannot grasp the secret. He named his gift to the world,", "start_byte": 57992, "end_byte": 58408, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 94.63999938964844, "end_time": 127.95999908447266, "cut_start_time": 95.31499938964843, "cut_end_time": 127.99006188964843}, {"text": " It is waspish and supple, all-conquering in body and soul. Sideways it can be wound like watch spring steel, or even a coil of narrow ribbon. Edgewise it can cut more human flesh and bone than the heavy guillotine, it can cut straight through an iron or granite block of any thickness, as though it were cutting snow. In its standard form it is longer than the longest cavalry sword. It is the assumption of the strange old", "start_byte": 58428, "end_byte": 58852, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 130.16000366210938, "end_time": 165.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 130.30500366210936, "cut_end_time": 165.53000366210938}, {"text": " that it will be used mostly by women, his descendants, and in battle for this land. Legend has it that the blade is named for a sweetheart who died in his youth. Certainly there is no living Avanel. He and his sons and daughters, all of them trained to his trade, have shod the horses of the notables of the country round, of more than one president of the United States, and of innumerable forgotten candidates for the presidency who began their careers by ostentatiously going to his humble shop.", "start_byte": 58869, "end_byte": 59368, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 167.0800018310547, "end_time": 203.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 167.40500183105468, "cut_end_time": 203.35006433105468}, {"text": "His daughters are quite accomplished in light, ornamental iron work. They are well bred, high strung girls, and have the vitality of young tigers. These girls and their father are responsible for the most remarkable phenomenon of the streets of Springfield in 1917. Inspired by the Amazons of the Russian Revolution, at the very beginning of that revolution, before it was declared a failure by the western world, they filled out an idea which had long been forming in their minds, and organized a troop of girl cavalry and offered it to the government for service against Germany. The girls were fully disciplined and equipped at the time of the declaration of war. Their services were refused, and almost all of the girls went into the stereotyped war work, many of them overseas. But now the whole body of troops is together again, riding our streets night and day, armed with the Avanel sword, and led, quite haughtily, by the Iron Gentleman\u2019s youngest daughter.", "start_byte": 59370, "end_byte": 60336, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 203.8000030517578, "end_time": 278.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 204.4550030517578, "cut_end_time": 277.54006555175783}, {"text": "The brothers have organized a similar group of cavalry, armed with the same blade, and call it The Horse Shoe Brotherhood. But, of course, it has not attracted the same attention as the dazzling girls. The Horse Shoe Brotherhood was not accepted by the government as a body. They enlisted, or were drafted, one at a time, in a conventional fashion. 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He had several personal encounters on the streets of Springfield in middle age, horsewhipping some hereditary enemy, or thwarting some hereditary enemy who threatened, imminently, to horsewhip him.", "start_byte": 61178, "end_byte": 61641, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 344.1199951171875, "end_time": 380.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 344.2349951171875, "cut_end_time": 379.52005761718755}, {"text": " is a savage only two or three days in the year in his old age. He tells his boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 children and grandchildren, that they are to shoe horses and ideas forevermore, and send these ideas galloping across the world, sure footed; and his family are to keep on doing this, whether the town likes it or not. He tells them to hammer out swords perfectly tempered and to put their own souls on the anvil and hammer them till they are swords likewise, and to go forth and cut their way through the world, and bring back the heads of their enemies to Springfield and hang them in rows in front of their forges, whether the town likes it or not.", "start_byte": 61663, "end_byte": 62307, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 381.79998779296875, "end_time": 427.0, "cut_start_time": 381.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 426.3300502929688}, {"text": " and his sons have revived the cult of boxing and bare fist fighting, and as a result there is many a black eye and bloody nose among both", "start_byte": 62329, "end_byte": 62467, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 428.8399963378906, "end_time": 439.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 428.89499633789063, "cut_end_time": 439.13012133789067}, {"text": " and", "start_byte": 62479, "end_byte": 62483, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 439.6400146484375, "end_time": 439.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 439.6750146484375, "cut_end_time": 440.0200771484375}, {"text": " of Springfield. We are as thoroughly damaged as German duelling students, though with not quite the same marks. And the boy scouts are getting battered up, and something must be done to put a stop to this.", "start_byte": 62493, "end_byte": 62699, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 440.5199890136719, "end_time": 456.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 440.5149890136719, "cut_end_time": 455.5601140136719}, {"text": " and his two older sons have the forge-burned faces of blacksmiths. But though the youngest excels in their accomplishments, he is more a brother of his father\u2019s cavalry-sword, the Damascus Blade.", "start_byte": 62721, "end_byte": 62917, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 458.239990234375, "end_time": 475.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 458.37499023437505, "cut_end_time": 473.84011523437505}, {"text": "Like the rest he is tall and slender, but there is a difference. He hardly needs his father\u2019s gift to the world; he is such a fencer with the shorter and more conventional blade. He looks like the flattering portraits of Louis Fourteenth of France, that were made in that monarch\u2019s youth. He has a great turn for pageantry, though with him it has taken a completely democratic phase. There is no sounder citizen in all his works and ways than this Joseph Bartholdi Michael. He has studied long under Thomas Wood Stevens, William Chauncey Langdon, and Percy Mackaye. And so he has established a pageantry calendar for the city which has been adopted by the City Commissioners, backed by the Chamber of Commerce, the Art Association, the Rotary Club, the Lion\u2019s Club, and the Optimist\u2019s Club.", "start_byte": 62919, "end_byte": 63709, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 475.0400085449219, "end_time": 538.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 475.4850085449219, "cut_end_time": 538.350071044922}, {"text": "He has somewhat mitigated the", "start_byte": 63711, "end_byte": 63740, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 538.8800048828125, "end_time": 542.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 539.1050048828125, "cut_end_time": 542.5000673828125}, {"text": " of the boy scouts by evolving a code book of chivalry for them, and it endeavors to impart taboos, observances, and as well, honorifics for real merit. He ties up all these with the pomps of his calendar. He it is that imparts to his youthful followers a special consideration for the ladies, and reverence for their beauty.", "start_byte": 63752, "end_byte": 64077, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 542.9600219726562, "end_time": 569.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 542.9350219726563, "cut_end_time": 568.5400219726563}, {"text": "He fought at the Meuse-Argonne, was all through the battle of a little more than five weeks\u2019 length from September 26, 1918, on through hell and glory to November first, when the American First Army cut like magic swords through those four intricate systems of German defenses, that were spread out over those famous ten miles. On November the first he and many Springfield boys, including his two blacksmith brothers, were going on like fate, like their own irresistible blades which they managed to carry into that long five weeks\u2019 battle. In all this Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the exquisite, was the dashing leader of his group, a private in the ranks, but from the beginning to the end, a sword. And they swept forward with the American First Army till the very end of hostilities on the eleventh of November. They did their full share of the work of that American First Army, which, the experts say, took sixteen thousand prisoners, 468 guns, 2,664 machines guns, 177 trench mortars, made an advance of 34 miles in 47 days and set free 1,550 square kilometers of French ground and 150 villages.", "start_byte": 64079, "end_byte": 65178, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 569.3599853515625, "end_time": 669.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 569.9649853515625, "cut_end_time": 668.2400478515625}, {"text": "Indeed they took their due part in that battle which saved the world.", "start_byte": 65180, "end_byte": 65249, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 669.1199951171875, "end_time": 675.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 669.6649951171876, "cut_end_time": 674.2200576171875}, {"text": "It is at the end of this battle, at the dawn before Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, that Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the exquisite, has his vision of the year 2018. He dreams of leaving Springfield for a similar battle in Asia, with a far more uncertain outcome. He is about to go forth with The Horse Shoe Brotherhood and the Amazon Riders, armed one and all with the Avanel Sword, against the strange nation of the Singaporians, who are blasting the world with their demon ambition as did the Germans of 1914. And he bears the same name. He is known as Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, is an old man, with a pageant leader for a son: \u2014 Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third.", "start_byte": 65251, "end_byte": 65930, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 675.0399780273438, "end_time": 733.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 675.6149780273438, "cut_end_time": 732.3300405273437}, {"text": "Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, has reverted to an exaggeration of", "start_byte": 65932, "end_byte": 66004, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 733.5999755859375, "end_time": 739.0, "cut_start_time": 734.1449755859376, "cut_end_time": 739.1000380859375}, {"text": " His son, on the other hand, is in 2018 an exquisite: almost gone to seed, a histrionic silly. Bartholdi Second that is to be, touches on the history of the clan for one hundred years, for the benefit of the Prognosticator\u2019s Club. On looking deeply into his dream he finds that his father is still known among the descendants as", "start_byte": 66026, "end_byte": 66354, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 740.8400268554688, "end_time": 769.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 741.2850268554688, "cut_end_time": 769.4900893554687}, {"text": " About 1925 the children and grandchildren took for their family flag the picture of six anvils, and above them six hammers.", "start_byte": 66376, "end_byte": 66500, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 771.8800048828125, "end_time": 791.0, "cut_start_time": 772.1150048828125, "cut_end_time": 790.3400048828125}, {"text": "In the Mystic Year the cottages of these people are scattered in every quarter of the town, and the flag with the six anvils and six hammers flies in front of almost every cottage of a descendant, man or woman. The male descendants, of whatever name or high education, are blacksmiths and forge workers and makers of the Avanel blade, as are indeed many of the women. It seems to take the Michael hammer stroke to make that blade. With a few temporary exceptions, the men are busy horse-shoeing for the Amazons and making swords.", "start_byte": 66502, "end_byte": 67031, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 791.0, "end_time": 831.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 791.505, "cut_end_time": 831.5600625000001}, {"text": "And with the exception of a few too exquisite creatures like Joseph Bartholdi, III, the clan is not inbred. The greater part of the brains of the tribe is still in their legs and arms, not off in a separate compartment in their skulls.", "start_byte": 67033, "end_byte": 67268, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 831.9600219726562, "end_time": 850.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 832.3050219726563, "cut_end_time": 849.4400844726563}, {"text": "By dint of earnest cross-questioning, I get it from Joseph Bartholdi Michael, that he has been a figure in Illinois in dreams of 2000\u20132018. He has been the author in precocious youth of a book, entitled:", "start_byte": 67270, "end_byte": 67473, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 850.3200073242188, "end_time": 868.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 850.8150073242188, "cut_end_time": 868.1500073242188}, {"text": " a treatise on the laws of flying machine commerce, and it became the basis of the economic side of Black Hawk Boone\u2019s pet theory and way of life.", "start_byte": 67495, "end_byte": 67641, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 870.47998046875, "end_time": 881.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 870.76498046875, "cut_end_time": 880.64004296875}, {"text": "According to the model, Joseph Bartholdi, in his reincarnation, has shod the horses of many a governor of Illinois and President of the United States, and President of the World Government. This husky, distinguished democracy combines with the prestige of his precocious book to make him the most distinguished representative of the teeming 2018 Middle West, in the World Government. He champions there the ceremonies and honors due the International Flag with the loyalty to what they like and a sense of the depths of pageantry, that has distinguished the Michael following from the beginning. Portia, the Singing Aviator, has in the generation of the Mystic Year, written the local song about", "start_byte": 67643, "end_byte": 68338, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 881.5599975585938, "end_time": 932.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 882.1049975585938, "cut_end_time": 932.9000600585938}, {"text": " And she calls it in the same song:", "start_byte": 68385, "end_byte": 68420, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 936.3200073242188, "end_time": 939.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 936.8150073242188, "cut_end_time": 939.4000073242188}, {"text": " or", "start_byte": 68451, "end_byte": 68454, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 943.3200073242188, "end_time": 944.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 943.4450073242188, "cut_end_time": 943.9400073242188}, {"text": " in allusion to his fashion of almost draping it around him, with the Star Spangled Banner, when he is speaking on high occasions, on international issues.", "start_byte": 68482, "end_byte": 68637, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 946.9199829101562, "end_time": 957.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 947.3149829101562, "cut_end_time": 957.0300454101563}, {"text": "Instead of an exquisite, he is lean, wiry, with a hooked and hatchet face, burned, cooked, in the forge. He finds he has the habit of pointing his long, skinny fingers at the enemy he denounces. He finds that, like his progenitor,", "start_byte": 68639, "end_byte": 68869, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 957.5999755859375, "end_time": 980.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 958.1449755859376, "cut_end_time": 980.3801005859375}, {"text": " he has a record of putting things through with sheer fury when there is no other weapon handy.", "start_byte": 68891, "end_byte": 68986, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 982.0800170898438, "end_time": 988.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 982.5250170898438, "cut_end_time": 988.6300170898438}, {"text": "He tells the Prognosticator\u2019s Club, that, through the century, the flag with the six hammers and the six anvils has been smeared by renegades. But the proud truth-speaking custom has tortured the whole clan till some one has risen to confess the sins of the name, and start new.", "start_byte": 68988, "end_byte": 69266, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 988.5999755859375, "end_time": 1010.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 989.2349755859375, "cut_end_time": 1009.7900380859376}, {"text": "And the Michaels have been hated off and on for a whole century because of these things, and because they were always hating some one, even without cause. They were apt to be jealous of other vigorous citizens, considering themselves the sole saviors of the principle of defiant democracy. 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Yet in 2018 it seems that the scepter is just a little departing from the younger generation. It is not that they are ousted from public office. The fearless voice of a Michael always counts most as a private citizen, and, whenever Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, returns from The World Government, he takes his place in the Horse Shoe Brotherhood as a private in the ranks beside his son Joseph Bartholdi, the Third, and it is their full intention, according to hereditary political habit, to ride against Singapore, when the time is ripe, as privates in the ranks.", "start_byte": 69916, "end_byte": 70567, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1060.800048828125, "end_time": 1108.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1061.485048828125, "cut_end_time": 1107.1800488281249}, {"text": "But a new clan has come up from Cairo, Illinois, led by Black Hawk Boone. Many of their young girls look more like young Indian maids from a government reservation school, than people of Caucasian stock. But, for all that, they have their own original ways of delicate manner and address, most disconcerting to the fixed limits of Springfield\u2019s conventionality. They are rather short and heavy-set. Their merry young men and middle-aged men have, most of them, long, curly black lovelocks to the shoulders, not carefully combed, and nearly all defiantly wag big black beards in every argument, when all other men in the modern world are shaved clean.", "start_byte": 70569, "end_byte": 71219, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1108.239990234375, "end_time": 1162.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1109.0349902343748, "cut_end_time": 1161.090115234375}, {"text": "They cheerfully hate the blacksmith clan which they are ousting by a greater talent for fury, preaching, and cursing, and by having just a little more brain at the back of the neck.", "start_byte": 71221, "end_byte": 71402, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1162.52001953125, "end_time": 1176.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1162.90501953125, "cut_end_time": 1175.2300195312498}, {"text": "The town wits say these clans hate each other because, on the whole, they are so much alike, and always vote the same way at a crisis. The locks of both the Boone men and women stream back over their shoulders, and their left hands are dyed crimson as a proud perpetual reminder to themselves and all the world that among their ancestors were aborigines.", "start_byte": 71404, "end_byte": 71758, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1176.0799560546875, "end_time": 1202.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1176.7449560546875, "cut_end_time": 1202.1400810546875}, {"text": "But America has not suffered the regime of nigh two hundred years of baseball umpires: \u2014 and presidential elections accepted by November 15 by the defeated party, without a disposition to be good sports on the part of self-respecting clans like these. And so it comes about to stir the romantic soul of the town that the Avanel Blade of the", "start_byte": 71760, "end_byte": 72100, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1202.800048828125, "end_time": 1232.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1203.6250488281248, "cut_end_time": 1232.1800488281249}, {"text": " of 1920 has become a woman in 2018, but a woman no kin to the Michaels. In 2018 Horse Shoe Brotherhood and Michael Amazons are under one commander, the lovely Lady Avanel Boone, and, though they be armed with the Avanel Blade indeed, she scores a point in family pride and makes them swear fealty on Daniel Boone\u2019s old hunting knife, which she carries in her belt as a token of her Kentucky forbears.", "start_byte": 72117, "end_byte": 72518, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1233.1199951171875, "end_time": 1274.0, "cut_start_time": 1233.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1273.2000576171874}, {"text": "And now, as the son of the", "start_byte": 72520, "end_byte": 72546, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1274.0, "end_time": 1277.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1274.7749999999999, "cut_end_time": 1277.58}, {"text": " tells the story, it comes as a clouded vision before me, as though I were half in the vision and beginning a destiny of my own.", "start_byte": 72563, "end_byte": 72691, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1278.56005859375, "end_time": 1288.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1278.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1288.37012109375}, {"text": "It is the snowy morning of All Saint\u2019s Day, 2018, the Michael Clan and a general assembly of Springfield people are at the crossing of Fifth Street and Capital Avenue, and by the ancestral forge on the southeast corner. The fire is burning high and the bellows is roaring. The horse of the conquering Avanel Boone is to be shod by that good sport Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, who has just returned from the World Government to take his modest place in the ranks of her following. And then there are these curly haired, black browed, black bearded rascals to whom all Michaels must be polite, and these Red-Indian looking girls and boys, Avanel\u2019s innumerable adoring cousins who are publicly admiring her with hectic words and kissing her with sugar sweetness and honest family idolatry. There is a touch of the uncanny, the restless, the Ishmaelite about all these Boones, they have no business in the streets of a town. They look like dressed-up wood-choppers, all but that trim Avanel.", "start_byte": 72693, "end_byte": 73689, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1288.760009765625, "end_time": 1370.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1289.485009765625, "cut_end_time": 1369.4000722656249}, {"text": "While the snow is blowing into the shop, white-haired Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, has taken the old shoes from the dainty feet of the white pony, and, just as he is lifting a new shoe from the fire and the flames leap up, there is a music incredibly sweet, and with a great whirring of wings and terrible thunder", "start_byte": 73691, "end_byte": 74013, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1370.56005859375, "end_time": 1398.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1371.3150585937499, "cut_end_time": 1397.4501210937499}, {"text": " flies out of the fire, and circles above these two clans. Avanel with eyes fixed and strained in wonder, follows it on her unshod horse. The Book settles into her arms, and I see her sit above the company like a fairy in a trance, and read with adoring voice from the snow white book while the assembled clans and all the citizens gather close to hear.", "start_byte": 74024, "end_byte": 74377, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1399.3599853515625, "end_time": 1429.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1399.3749853515624, "cut_end_time": 1428.9701103515624}, {"text": "The first pages of the volume give in jewelled and flaming letters a new charter and constitution for the World Government, based on the life and teaching of Springfield\u2019s deathless citizen, Abraham Lincoln.", "start_byte": 74379, "end_byte": 74586, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1429.56005859375, "end_time": 1447.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1430.3350585937499, "cut_end_time": 1446.41005859375}, {"text": "There is in the air an exquisite song and around the consecrated Avanel a glory ineffable, for she is the High Priestess of The Book for her people. The song in the air praises her, and urges her, and all those she commands, to valor for the Heavenly Star Spangled Banner and the Heavenly International Flag. And the song whispers that the book, in many strange forms, will appear in many a green field of our middle west this day, in many a pulpit and many a lonely mourner\u2019s house to give life and eternal light.", "start_byte": 74588, "end_byte": 75102, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1447.3599853515625, "end_time": 1493.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1448.2049853515623, "cut_end_time": 1492.8200478515623}, {"text": "But, as my neighbor from the blacksmith shop of 1920 tells the tale more slowly, the vision turns to mere words again, and then to dust and ashes. And I myself seem but ashes on the winds of time.", "start_byte": 75104, "end_byte": 75300, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1493.8399658203125, "end_time": 1514.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1494.2249658203125, "cut_end_time": 1512.5700908203123}, {"text": "The histories of the future in the Prognosticator\u2019s Club are no more contradictory than the accounts our fathers give of the leading events of the Civil War.", "start_byte": 75302, "end_byte": 75459, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1514.0400390625, "end_time": 1524.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1514.7250390625, "cut_end_time": 1524.0001015624998}, {"text": "Everywhere South of Mason and Dixon\u2019s line they say that Grant surrendered to Lee. It is in every southern school book. When we look into history we are made dizzy by cloud and flame. And we shall still be partizans in the highest Heaven. There are many earthly languages. There are many heavenly languages. There are many blazing, blinding tomorrows. But they all lead to the same glorious tomorrow at last.", "start_byte": 75461, "end_byte": 75869, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1524.6400146484375, "end_time": 1559.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1525.1150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1558.4400146484375}, {"text": "The Prognosticators are a dithyrambic, chanting, improvising howling dervish set, with a certain sense of humor among all these blinding lights, which is but to say they have elasticity of soul and mind.", "start_byte": 75871, "end_byte": 76074, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1559.1199951171875, "end_time": 1576.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1559.4949951171875, "cut_end_time": 1575.7701201171874}, {"text": "Many of the Michael Clan of Springfield, of 1920, returned soldiers, Red Cross nurses, and other workers, saw kindred visions of the Flying Book of Springfield blazing above the trenches at midnight for their comfort, while voices in the air sang them stories of home.", "start_byte": 76076, "end_byte": 76344, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1576.800048828125, "end_time": 1598.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1577.195048828125, "cut_end_time": 1596.910048828125}]}

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At the present she is an exceedingly cool panther.", "start_byte": 89030, "end_byte": 89124, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1052.5999755859375, "end_time": 1062.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1052.5749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1061.5601005859373, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Street of Past History,", "start_byte": 92896, "end_byte": 92924, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1362.9599609375, "end_time": 1365.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1362.9349609375, "cut_end_time": 1364.9800234375, "narrative_prediction": {"called": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI must admit,", "start_byte": 93470, "end_byte": 93484, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1410.719970703125, "end_time": 1412.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1411.384970703125, "cut_end_time": 1412.780095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cthe civic patriotism of two most unfashionable persons. Old Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, who is away now at the legislature of the World Government, is the head of our whole architectural project. He is something of a Smart Set person, and is in fact an old West Pointer. But the real work was done by the most unpopular Thibetan Boy and the architectural planning and imagining was by the negro John Emis. Old Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, has lent his name to protect these people, and leave them unmolested in their project. As it is, he turns his appropriation over to them. The city would not give either of such a salary. It will give the Thibetan Boy a little credit, when all is over, but John Emis none at all, because he is a negro. When you go down into the streets again you will find a black stripe tucked away in some odd corner of the design of every building in The Street of Past History. If you look you will see that same stripe now, on the outer circle of towers. It goes slenderly around the fourth story and the tenth. That black stripe is the personal secret signature of John Emis, the negro architect.\u201d", "start_byte": 93496, "end_byte": 94641, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1414.239990234375, "end_time": 1508.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1414.5849902343748, "cut_end_time": 1507.530115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI begin to be almost reconciled to living in Springfield,", "start_byte": 95113, "end_byte": 95171, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1548.9200439453125, "end_time": 1554.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1549.0950439453125, "cut_end_time": 1554.0201064453124, "narrative_prediction": {"muses": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSpringfield is all society, you know, and it is hopeless to try to make it anything else. 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I should not be elected the head of the Amazons if I were a fool about exclusiveness. As a matter of fact I cut those who go to the parties of Mara, the daughter of the Man from Singapore. It is plain she gets those people under her roof to poison them against the world government or at least muffle their suspicions of her father\u2019s doings and the doings of his like. You are the only person who thinks I cut loyal patriotic people.\u201d", "start_byte": 96554, "end_byte": 97029, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1679.0400390625, "end_time": 1713.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1679.8350390624998, "cut_end_time": 1712.7001015624999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMy Fathers have been long in the grave, and my own dust has long been buried in other dust. 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I darkly suspect he is one of those who go about in unpressed clothes and will doubtless furnish me with words to say to you. I should say that the daughter of such a father should be willing to dye her left hand crimson, for him, proudly.\u201d", "start_byte": 101697, "end_byte": 102008, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2123.0400390625, "end_time": 2149.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 2123.1550390625, "cut_end_time": 2147.8801015625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIf you truly love me you will not use my father against me. While I respect him, I cannot respect all his clan and ideas and I am even more vexed over his way of mixing with mussy people. If I must have that kind of thing, I go to the saint who does it for religion and not from philosophy. 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And we were moving, gilded images from head to feet, and we were satisfied with each other at last, and I knew I wanted you to be gilded as much as you desired me to be so, and we took the wickedest pleasure in looking upon the yellow world around us.\u201d", "start_byte": 103740, "end_byte": 104107, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2296.0, "end_time": 2325.919921875, "cut_start_time": 2296.645, "cut_end_time": 2324.8899375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes,", "start_byte": 104109, "end_byte": 104114, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2325.919921875, "end_time": 2327.320068359375, "cut_start_time": 2326.624921875, "cut_end_time": 2327.270171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "But it is not after the noble manner of these others that I enter at last into the vision of 2018.", "start_byte": 77027, "end_byte": 77125, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 31.040000915527344, "end_time": 40.52000045776367, "cut_start_time": 32.125000915527345, "cut_end_time": 39.43006341552734}, {"text": "There is deep darkness, and time passing by without end, and shade. There is the fear of the moles that will not leave me alone, who make nests of alien dust, beneath my ribs. And my bones crumble through the century, like last year\u2019s autumn leaves. Then there is, alternating with drouth, bitter frost. And roots wrap my heart and brain. And there is sleep.", "start_byte": 77127, "end_byte": 77485, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 40.52000045776367, "end_time": 76.80000305175781, "cut_start_time": 41.08500045776368, "cut_end_time": 75.57006295776367}, {"text": "Then a galloping and gay shrieking, away on the road, to the East of Oak Ridge! And though I am six feet beneath the ground the eyes of the soul are given me. I see wonderful young horsewomen out on that Great Northwest Road and the ancient clay between me and that cavalcade turns to air and to light. 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It is obvious by the air with which she takes possession of me and hustles me down that rain and sleet-scourged avenue, that she considers herself the heroine of my story. But dear me, what stubborn material for a heroine. Here, after a century, woman is the same she always was.", "start_byte": 77990, "end_byte": 78884, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 119.5999984741211, "end_time": 201.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 120.37499847412109, "cut_end_time": 200.9200609741211}, {"text": "To put it in restrained phrases she is, in her disposition, like the weather. She scolds me for the unpressed state of my clothes, and my mussed hair, and my lack of air of distinction. She says I have slept in my clothes so much that they are in a perfectly abused condition.", "start_byte": 78886, "end_byte": 79162, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 201.63999938964844, "end_time": 225.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 202.37499938964842, "cut_end_time": 224.67006188964842}, {"text": "I admit that I have not consulted a tailor for some little time. She says I carry myself as though I were a ditch digger or were following the plough, instead of walking with a lady. She lashes me for what she alleges are my ridiculous ideas, and goes over the catalogue till it is impossible to enjoy the panorama that I glimpse through the bracing sleet and rain, and I scarcely care to look at her, the little devil, \u2014 though she is to be my heroine.", "start_byte": 79164, "end_byte": 79617, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 225.67999267578125, "end_time": 260.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 226.49499267578125, "cut_end_time": 259.34005517578123}, {"text": "The only flattering thing about the encounter is the air of settled proprietorship of this young lady.", "start_byte": 79619, "end_byte": 79721, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 260.1199951171875, "end_time": 267.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 260.8749951171875, "cut_end_time": 266.54005761718753}, {"text": "At length there is silence and I chase along meekly beside her under the umbrella, and cool down, and do her the honor to look her over as well as I can in the storm. Her face is half hidden by her flapping waterproof cape and we are walking under tremendous shade trees. I note her chin quite high in the air, her spirited profile set straight forward, and her cheeks, with color that goes like a blown-out flame and then comes again like a heart-beat.", "start_byte": 79723, "end_byte": 80176, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 267.5199890136719, "end_time": 307.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 268.1049890136719, "cut_end_time": 306.7500515136719}, {"text": "March 2, 2018: \u2014 I am again in my New City. I begin the day by reading the Illinois State Journal of March 2; it is the same paper as of old. I note the advertisements of laundries, screen factories, cleaners and dyers, apple merchants, dealers in hats and caps, dealers in hay, grain and feed, places for the purchase of fish, game and oysters, poultry and eggs, etc. I note ladies\u2019 furnishing establishments, retail dry goods stores, bakeries, headquarters for cash registers, meat markets, the establishments of upholsterers, places where may be found parcel delivery messengers, lists of dealers in flour and feed, various advertisements of baggage and transfer companies, dealers in wall paper, paints, oils and varnish, and everything in advertisements in the Journal to convince me that this is the same old paper, and the same old capital city.", "start_byte": 80178, "end_byte": 81030, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 307.9599914550781, "end_time": 377.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 308.44499145507814, "cut_end_time": 376.28005395507813}, {"text": "Yet I am endowed with new powers. I go about the streets as a sort of a millennial chameleon. I find myself wearing various bodies. First I am but myself, kneeling before the Image of the Virgin, in the church of St. Peter and St. Paul. In an hour I am a City Hall stenographer, in the office of the Mayor. This Mayor is referred to in the Journal as", "start_byte": 81032, "end_byte": 81382, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 377.67999267578125, "end_time": 411.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 377.99499267578125, "cut_end_time": 411.14011767578126}, {"text": " Later in the morning I am clerk for Justice of the Peace John Boat, whose office is right by the jail. And both the jail and the office stairs have the same old skunk smell that has distinguished jails and the stairs of justice from the beginning. Later, in the afternoon, I am an emergency messenger for the Japanese department of the World\u2019s Fair of the University of Springfield, and am, to all appearances, a Japanese. I find myself wearing the clothes and shoes of these various supernumeraries, and in my double consciousness, knowing their affairs all through, as though I had lived in their frames twenty years. Yet no matter whose body I seem to wear or whose tongue I seem to be wagging, I step back into the same yokel when, once in the morning, and once in the afternoon, between these episodes I find myself cowering in the presence of Comrade Avanel. It is a cloudy, foggy day, and fog seems to come between us whenever I try to look at her. In the morning I win her hard consent to take yesterday\u2019s walk again, and she promises not to scold me, only flinging out the assertion that I am a diamond in the rough and that it is her business to polish me: \u2014 a statement I seem to have heard before somewhere.", "start_byte": 81406, "end_byte": 82626, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 413.67999267578125, "end_time": 514.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 414.04499267578126, "cut_end_time": 512.5400551757813}, {"text": "In the afternoon she behaves, and the fog blows away after a while and I am able to enjoy the vision of this proud quivering young body and soul. From beneath the bantam-rooster air emerges a little glimpse of the sibyl.", "start_byte": 82628, "end_byte": 82848, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 514.239990234375, "end_time": 534.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 514.864990234375, "cut_end_time": 533.750052734375}, {"text": "For all her tailor-made smartness, she is like the Indian, and walks unimpeded as though in moccasins. Her hair is black and long and straight, and today her fashion plate profile is changed to something more native American. Yet her skin is so white and her cheeks are so red, and the flush comes and goes so fast, the Indian illusion has completely disappeared when she turns her face to me. Her changing elusive face has a haunting kinship to the countenance of my favorite and adored image of the virgin that has been for much more than a century to the north of the high altar of the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, where I have been again meditating this very morning. And I try to tell her that she is a more earthly younger sister of this virgin, but indeed of the same tribe and house of saints.", "start_byte": 82850, "end_byte": 83656, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 534.6799926757812, "end_time": 599.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 535.4249926757813, "cut_end_time": 598.4901176757812}, {"text": "When she bows her head in what may be dreaming, there is to my foolish imagination a hint of Pallas Athena about the action. When she lifts her head, and looks me full in the face all the upper part of her countenance is definitely a feminized portrait of Shelley, and she wears those curls hiding either ear after the smartest fashion of 2018. They are called the Harriet Beecher Stowe curls, and copied from those in the most frequent portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, when she was a dazzling young woman. I try to tell Avanel how her beauty seems, but my speeches are not eloquent and my heroine is neither poetess nor prophetess in her replies. 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She cannot be a society chatterbox when discussing her clan.", "start_byte": 84506, "end_byte": 84878, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 672.8400268554688, "end_time": 704.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 673.4850268554687, "cut_end_time": 704.1500268554688}, {"text": "She goes on to tell how her mother came of two long lines of Springfield Catholics. And I gather, as Avanel talks on and on, and I piece it out from dim memories that float about the back of my head, that two lines of her mother\u2019s house were the one Irish, and the other Lithuanian, and that long ago this woman was the most famous dancer of The Gordon Craig Theatre. She died in Avanel\u2019s fifteenth year. And it seemed in the local fitness of things for the little girl with the same talent to go forward bearing the same responsibilities as soon as she could carry them, dancers coming to their own early, if they ever have a place. She was soon the head of all those who could make Springfield\u2019s devotional ideals clear and appealing, through those inherited rituals. Avanel and her group have danced for the Churches at Christmas and other times, and, in the history of her art most important of all, the festivals of Johnny Appleseed, and of St. Scribe and Hunter Kelly. And now I begin to remember with her some of those occasions as through rifts of cloud.", "start_byte": 84880, "end_byte": 85942, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 704.5999755859375, "end_time": 790.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 705.2849755859376, "cut_end_time": 789.2401005859375}, {"text": "Now Avanel says she does not want me to be seen in the audience where she gives a religious dance. She is angry with herself and me, because she is herself flattening out so, after talking on religious matters. But I am philosophical about this young woman, today, and look about at what we are passing.", "start_byte": 85944, "end_byte": 86247, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 790.3200073242188, "end_time": 814.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 790.9650073242187, "cut_end_time": 813.4400073242188}, {"text": "We stare silently into the windows at adding machines, mantels, grates, and tiles. We pass a wholesale house for barber supplies, and Avanel says I need a hair cut. We pass the business houses of feather-renovators and dealers, of dealers in safes and locks, and rubber stamps. I note aloud in passing that Avanel has many rubber stamp ideas and needs to alter them if she would do justice to her glorious face. She answers not. We walk on. We pass through a wholesale region, and while the fog still conceals the towers of the town and comes lower, we can look into the windows yet, and I note that this is not as in the century before. Almost every wholesaler has a dazzling insignia and coat of arms. This is true for instance of the manufacturing machinists and millwrights, the headquarters for tempering and dies. It is true, even, of the dealers in sand and gravel, the tinners and slate roofers, the transfer and trucking companies, the brick and tile manufacturers, the soda water manufacturers, the pump manufacturers, the cigar manufacturers, the leather and belting men, and many others that to me were most commonplace of old. But their window displays are as the throne rooms of knighthood.", "start_byte": 86249, "end_byte": 87453, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 814.47998046875, "end_time": 919.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 815.12498046875, "cut_end_time": 916.4200429687501}, {"text": "March 3: \u2014 Mist and darkness of soul are clearing away. And I am welcomed in my real and permanent aspect in the streets of the New Springfield, by many fellow citizens that it appears I have known for long. I am to them also the yokel Avanel thinks me to be, and I meet with many covert smiles. It seems I have returned after years of art study in New York, and it is the first time many of them have seen me for quite awhile. I am welcomed back to town a slightly boresome but harmless cousin. But everyone calls his worst enemy cousin, as in a Kentucky village. Young Jim Kopensky asks in a cousinly manner why I start art classes here, if I had any kind of prospects in New York, rather implying that I am here because I have nowhere else to go. He takes up a strain remarkably like that of Avanel, and insists that I failed with the great metropolitan oracles of art because of uncreased trousers, and merely stares with incredulity when I insist that their trousers are often uncreased, and some of them dress like rag bags. Despite many similar greetings, I inwardly vow to start my art classes anyhow, and I spend a morning having a most fraternal chat with Sparrow Short. He is retouching a portrait of Mara of Singapore, painted several years ago when she was a young girl, and the political issue between Singapore and America was not so keen. Short is determined to exhibit it at the August opening of The World\u2019s Fair of the University of Springfield. In this picture I behold her in her glory, a premature creature of thirteen, a Singaporian Juliet, Short says", "start_byte": 87455, "end_byte": 89029, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 919.239990234375, "end_time": 1052.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 919.684990234375, "cut_end_time": 1052.700052734375}, {"text": " The days Short painted this portrait, she was deeply reading the most inflaming Singaporian romance, and in the portrait it flashes recklessly from her, and her eyes and mouth are round with the thought of the loves of the lost gods, who flourished before the prophet of the Cocaine Buddha of Singapore killed them all in the jungle. She is dressed in green silk and in her hands is a great green feather fan. Short is painting out certain vague white blossoms on a bush in the background and turning them to green buds, for Mara has imperiously demanded it.", "start_byte": 89125, "end_byte": 89684, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1062.56005859375, "end_time": 1105.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1063.21505859375, "cut_end_time": 1104.40005859375}, {"text": "I am living near the studio of Sparrow Short, in one of the old houses of Springfield on South Fourth Street which existed in my previous life, and where once lived a dear friend of mine.", "start_byte": 89686, "end_byte": 89873, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1105.1199951171875, "end_time": 1117.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1105.8049951171874, "cut_end_time": 1117.3101201171874}, {"text": "Everything in the old house is disposed and ordered as formerly, and it is only when I step out on the front lawn and pass under a certain mulberry tree that I seem to be in the New Springfield.", "start_byte": 89875, "end_byte": 90069, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1117.800048828125, "end_time": 1131.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1118.235048828125, "cut_end_time": 1130.610048828125}, {"text": "I pass under this tree. I walk a little way to the house of Avanel, and we saunter abroad. And the fogs are blowing away and she is in a most amiable mood, and I am able to note that our city is indeed a flying, fluttering place.", "start_byte": 90071, "end_byte": 90300, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1131.0799560546875, "end_time": 1151.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1131.5249560546874, "cut_end_time": 1150.7400810546874}, {"text": "Confectioneries, auto trucks, popcorn vans, pleasure machines, and the passing crowds are decked with ribbons and streamers. Many families have a flag pole in the front yard with a row of tiny ancestral flags, one over the other, each indicating some form of skilled or unskilled manual labor by which the ancestors of the house made their way, and it is considered a disgrace to display any other type of ancestral flag, but one which shows some form of manual labor.", "start_byte": 90302, "end_byte": 90770, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1151.800048828125, "end_time": 1190.0, "cut_start_time": 1152.005048828125, "cut_end_time": 1189.4400488281249}, {"text": "But many staffs have only three flags, that of the town, that of the International Government, and above these, the Star Spangled Banner. These people pride themselves in being more democratic, and not parading their ancestry. Nearly all business houses, particularly the large and wholesale houses, have their own especial banners and bunting, and some give out toy balloons and the like to the children, marked with the same schemes. The Star Spangled Banner is above everything, even on the International buildings, to indicate that the United States has the old South Carolina privilege of secession from the World Federation, whenever she pleases.", "start_byte": 90772, "end_byte": 91424, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1190.0, "end_time": 1242.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1190.625, "cut_end_time": 1241.2200624999998}, {"text": "And so I am walking with Avanel, on the late afternoon of March third, 2018. We find ourselves very near the center of the group of slender Sunset Towers. Seven of them are of the seven colors of the rainbow, one for each color, placed in a circle around the Truth Tower, which is in the very center of the star-plan system of boulevards. We climb the Truth Tower and look about. The Truth Tower is also called The Edgar Lee Masters Tower, and it is high above the rest. At the foot of it is the circular green with Golden Rain-Trees from New Harmony, Indiana. This is called the Edgar Lee Masters Park. Near by is the Lincoln Memorial Park, containing the marked sites of Lincoln\u2019s three law offices, and in the center our first State House, now the Lincoln museum. On the sides of all the Sunset Towers that one may see from the old public square is spread the Red Star of Springfield, set in the White Star of Illinois. Searchlights blaze through it, spreading red and white light. Outside the white Truth Tower that soars above all the city, and outside its rainbow circle of campaniles, the ninety-two other campaniles shimmer in the sun, their hues ranging from grey to rose-grey, and grey-gold to rose-gold. And they grow wilder in the red, black and white gorgeousness of the night.", "start_byte": 91426, "end_byte": 92716, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1242.56005859375, "end_time": 1351.0, "cut_start_time": 1243.4050585937498, "cut_end_time": 1350.15005859375}, {"text": "The fifty towers on the outermost circle are the newest. 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It is the first time she has taken in the panorama, since the last circle of towers was completed and The Street of Past History illuminated.", "start_byte": 93187, "end_byte": 93468, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1385.760009765625, "end_time": 1410.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1386.475009765625, "cut_end_time": 1409.860009765625}, {"text": " she says,", "start_byte": 93485, "end_byte": 93495, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1412.800048828125, "end_time": 1414.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1412.995048828125, "cut_end_time": 1413.880048828125}, {"text": "The voice of this woman beside me alters to that gentle and human tone in which she spoke of her mother, as though this city, too, has its hand somewhat on her heart. Yet she is proud and almost barks at me when I attempt any kind of understanding, and to her I am not of this city, and my sole excuse for living is that I admire her, and therefore must be forgiven every other trait in my character till she has time to mend my ways. My scalp must dangle at her belt.", "start_byte": 94643, "end_byte": 95111, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1508.280029296875, "end_time": 1548.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1509.0750292968748, "cut_end_time": 1547.9300917968749}, {"text": " she muses,", "start_byte": 95172, "end_byte": 95183, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1554.280029296875, "end_time": 1556.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1554.495029296875, "cut_end_time": 1555.540091796875}, {"text": "Then, in an instant, another Avanel seems to flash forth.", "start_byte": 95390, "end_byte": 95447, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1575.3599853515625, "end_time": 1580.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1575.7549853515625, "cut_end_time": 1579.9801103515624}, {"text": "Avanel points out to me old Camp Lincoln, northwest, beyond the towers. There she leads the Amazonian Cavalry and the Horseshoe Brotherhood in bi-weekly drill, in preparation for the possible war against Singapore. Looming like the dome of the Taj Mahal above the trees is a gigantic world globe, which marks the center of the field. Around this shining map of everything her drills are held.", "start_byte": 95604, "end_byte": 95996, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1592.8399658203125, "end_time": 1625.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1593.0949658203124, "cut_end_time": 1624.3400908203123}, {"text": "But I answer her cut:", "start_byte": 95998, "end_byte": 96019, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1625.0400390625, "end_time": 1628.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1625.9050390625, "cut_end_time": 1627.5900390625}, {"text": " she gives reply,", "start_byte": 96192, "end_byte": 96209, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1645.0400390625, "end_time": 1646.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1645.3350390624998, "cut_end_time": 1646.5501015625}, {"text": "About nine in the evening, there are star-chimes from all the towers. The bells are singing the song of Portia, the aviator: \u2014", "start_byte": 96317, "end_byte": 96443, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1656.760009765625, "end_time": 1667.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1657.195009765625, "cut_end_time": 1666.820072265625}, {"text": "Avanel speaks to me in a swearing tone of voice:", "start_byte": 96505, "end_byte": 96553, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1675.0400390625, "end_time": 1679.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1675.2950390624999, "cut_end_time": 1678.3701015625}, {"text": "I am wondering why I like this Avanel. I conclude it is because of her overwhelming vanity and unbreakable pride. She has the soul of a thousand peacocks and there is a potential lioness in her beside.", "start_byte": 97031, "end_byte": 97232, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1713.6400146484375, "end_time": 1731.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1714.3650146484374, "cut_end_time": 1730.7100771484374}, {"text": "She clasps her hands and looks silently over the city, her eyes wide and leaping with delight over the glory of the illumination. 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We are wrestling with more up-to-date nuisances, with a brighter goal in sight.", "start_byte": 111643, "end_byte": 111879, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 597.760009765625, "end_time": 616.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 598.4350097656251, "cut_end_time": 615.8300722656251}, {"text": "It is the dream of a human beehive far from the Marxian society. It is something on the newest New Harmony model, a Springfield that is democratic, artistic, religious, and patriarchal, and therefore following many of the most ancient forms and metaphors of orthodoxy, as an electric light may be softened and given its final character by the shell of an ancient horn lantern.", "start_byte": 111881, "end_byte": 112257, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 616.4000244140625, "end_time": 647.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 616.8050244140625, "cut_end_time": 645.7800244140625}, {"text": "April 7: \u2014 This evening I take Avanel Boone to the Henry George dinner. When I see that long array of distinguished citizens and Avanel names off to me their offices and attributes, I realize that Henry George triumphs in an especial manner over the soul of Springfield, and I rejoice in this with all my heart, for I deeply revere the man and glory in his influence. Avanel first points out to me the followers of her saints: \u2014 St. Scribe of the Shrines, who has only recently departed this world, and St. Friend, The Bread Giver, who is still to be seen in the Springfield Cathedral, active and wonderful. And here are some of the principal followers of this dynasty of saints: \u2014 the pious Darsies, the wholesome Hollys, the sad Rancies, torch bearers of liberalism. Among them are endless officers and privates in the ranks of the Amazonian and the Horseshoe Brotherhood, all religious and political radicals. Avanel is much amused to point out at the dinner an equal number of opposites, though often of the same nominal allegiances, the snobbish Rues, the wirehaired Radleys, the iron-ribbed Standings, and some of the less powerful of the mayor\u2019s faction, some young Kopenskys, Rocks, and the like, who have no more to do with the spirit of Henry George than they have to do with the New Testament.", "start_byte": 112259, "end_byte": 113563, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 647.1599731445312, "end_time": 752.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 647.7249731445313, "cut_end_time": 752.5100981445313}, {"text": "My dear Avanel grows more sarcastic and almost breaks up the meeting at our end of the table when Jefferson Radley, henchman and slave of the wicked Doctor Mayo Sims, opens the evening with a speech in which he names Henry George and Alexander Hamilton, in the same tone of voice and with the same praise.", "start_byte": 113565, "end_byte": 113870, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 752.9600219726562, "end_time": 777.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 753.4850219726562, "cut_end_time": 776.5300844726563}, {"text": "And now I get my first sight of Black Hawk Boone. As he rises to speak, my dear Avanel blushes with ill-repressed pride and she cannot keep the sparkle from her eyes and the tension of embarrassment and love from her face as Black Hawk shakes his mane.", "start_byte": 113872, "end_byte": 114124, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 777.280029296875, "end_time": 800.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 778.095029296875, "cut_end_time": 799.480029296875}, {"text": "He is a short man, with a curly big black beard such as Ashurbanipal and Nimrod must have shaken at their foes. His cheek is flushed with anger and his midnight eyes give out lightning and he hits the table till the dishes rattle and as good as denounces Jefferson Radley as a hypocrite and a scoundrel. He is plainly one of those accustomed to having his way completely, as far as he has it at all, for few people will have the energy to combat the wrath he puts into any battle or into such a thing as a pretty after-dinner tribute to a saint. Boone howls, and snaps his teeth together. 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He has never been at home when I have called on his daughter.", "start_byte": 114796, "end_byte": 115351, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 853.5599975585938, "end_time": 899.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 854.3249975585937, "cut_end_time": 897.9900600585938}, {"text": "April 10: \u2014 The city hall is apparently less rigid than of old, a masterpiece of the happy-go-lucky. Mayor Slick Slack Kopensky,", "start_byte": 115353, "end_byte": 115481, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 899.1599731445312, "end_time": 911.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 899.6049731445313, "cut_end_time": 910.9300981445313}, {"text": " is sitting next to me at a coffee house table with Sims and Kusuko and Cave Man Thomas, all parts of the City Hall machine. Kopensky looks like the pictures of President William McKinley. While by no means so large a character, he is, by all reports, much more picturesque in his political methods. 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It is plain in one taxi ride that the system has commanded rivers of ungrudged money and I can well believe that outside the political field the system has had an unbroken and unchallenged prestige.", "start_byte": 116208, "end_byte": 117548, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 970.239990234375, "end_time": 1071.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 970.9149902343751, "cut_end_time": 1070.550115234375}, {"text": "In the coffee houses and the gigantic loafing lobbies of the motion-picture theatres and over the endless ice cream tables of the drug stores and confectioneries and in the lounging rooms of the dance-halls everywhere the argument roars and rattles and clatters and squeals and shrieks and splutters and swears. Every kind of a skirmish between Catholic and Protestant, aristocrat and democrat, labor and capital, is obliterated or merged into this main war. Springfield is Black Hawk Boone, President of the Board of Education and the World\u2019s Fair of the University of Springfield and editor of the relentless Boone Ax: \u2014 versus this gang composed of Mayor Kopensky, Sims, his boss, and the laughing, dancing crew led by Drug Store Smith and Coffee Kusuko and Cave Man Thomas.", "start_byte": 117550, "end_byte": 118327, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1071.9200439453125, "end_time": 1136.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1072.7050439453124, "cut_end_time": 1135.6900439453125}]}

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The Mayor is the eighth. He seldom has occasion to use his prerogative of the casting vote, for it is not often five to five on a side. There are only three people in the commission who represent the School Board, one of them is Black Hawk Boone.", "start_byte": 120192, "end_byte": 120495, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 96.4000015258789, "end_time": 119.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 96.3750015258789, "cut_end_time": 118.21006402587889}, {"text": "Boone roars away with the others, who are on his right and left, like Aaron and Hur holding up the hands of Moses. And it is only at the end of some long and well dramatized skirmish that Boone wins by forcing the issues in his paper the Boone Ax and scaring a more cowardly four in Kopensky\u2019s faction to vote with him temporarily on what seems a purely educational issue. 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The remainder of Kopensky\u2019s routine political workers are slack in every way except in the matter of secret party-discipline.", "start_byte": 121082, "end_byte": 121292, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 170.16000366210938, "end_time": 189.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 170.13500366210937, "cut_end_time": 188.38000366210937}, {"text": "The columnist Romanoff in a charitable mood says, in the Boone Ax for April 11, 2018: \u2014", "start_byte": 121294, "end_byte": 121381, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 189.83999633789062, "end_time": 200.0, "cut_start_time": 190.56499633789062, "cut_end_time": 199.44005883789063}, {"text": "April 15: \u2014 As I wander about, I am glad that in my former life I was a member of the Anti-Saloon League of Central Illinois. There is no such thing as a saloon to be seen. The bar room is as extinct as the trilobite. Coca-Cola and Bevo have their new successors every day, along with mysterious elaborations of coffee and tea, and spiced drinks from the Jungles of South America. And, of course, after a hundred non-alcoholic years the soda fountains have tremendous importance. Drug Store Smith, member of the city council, is the local Soda Fountain King. He is now the owner of all the drug stores, including Dodds\u2019 Drug Store, which keeps its old location at Fifth and Monroe.", "start_byte": 122164, "end_byte": 122845, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 265.8399963378906, "end_time": 324.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 266.31499633789065, "cut_end_time": 324.09005883789064}, {"text": "I have indeed a curious impression as I go into Dodds\u2019 for a soda. Fifth and Monroe reminds me of a century before. It is still the street-car center of our town. There are as of old long benches in Dodds\u2019 where people are waiting to take street cars and there are the same revolving stools along the soda fountain counter but that counter is twice as long and there are tables for customers now. The sodas are as good as those wonders Jim Sylva used to mix, but no better.", "start_byte": 122847, "end_byte": 123320, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 324.5199890136719, "end_time": 364.0, "cut_start_time": 325.2049890136719, "cut_end_time": 363.2200515136719}, {"text": "Across the street is the old Coe\u2019s Book Store, owned by some descendant of the original Coe family. There is, as of old, a great counter of magazines, some of them better, some of them rawer than the old list. Many of them are now published in Springfield or near by. The majority of the motion picture magazines are full of simpering photographs of Los Angeles ladies in bathing suits. They are, of course, delightful to behold but the mystery still remains as to what this has to do with the art of the motion picture. Of the literary magazines, the Atlantic Monthly and Poetry, a Magazine of Verse, still survive. The Atlantic still keeps its brick red cover and its nippy New England style and Poetry still has Pegasus on the cover and new poets on the inside. Vogue and Vanity Fair are still for sale. I wander out and watch the Fifth and Monroe crowd again. It is Saturday, nine o\u2019clock in the evening, and the automobile horns are deafening and the crossing policeman is quite busy.", "start_byte": 123322, "end_byte": 124311, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 364.0, "end_time": 444.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 364.755, "cut_end_time": 443.8000625}, {"text": "And now I have gone to a good old slapstick movie, by a descendant of Charlie Chaplin, and I am standing again on the corner and it is half past ten. Many people are looking up at the passing figures in the dance hall in the third story over the theatre. Windows are open and wild Singaporian music pours out into the streets. There are great yellow Singaporian lanterns hanging in front of the open windows and yellower light is pouring from the hall itself. It is one of the chain of Yellow dance halls in the syndicate owned by Kusuko and part of his political machine, along with his chain of Coffee houses. This particular place is called", "start_byte": 124313, "end_byte": 124956, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 444.4800109863281, "end_time": 497.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 445.28501098632813, "cut_end_time": 497.78007348632815}, {"text": "There was a man who sat by me in the movie laughing like a boy. He is now beside me again. He is a gigantic black haired but aged Jew, obviously the Rabbi Terence Ezekiel, heretic, and planter of the Oaks of Springfield. 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They take along with it the knockout coffee of Kusuko, who owns all the coffee houses under whatever name, new or old.", "start_byte": 125271, "end_byte": 125790, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 527.280029296875, "end_time": 571.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 527.665029296875, "cut_end_time": 570.480029296875}, {"text": "And so the Rabbi and I join in these refreshments and have a jolly midnight with the heart of political and educational Springfield and, as long as the Rabbi leads the argument, there is more than enough wit in the assembly. He has the Jewish turn for puns and it is plain that Doctor Mayo Sims and Kopensky have a second laughing foeman.", "start_byte": 125792, "end_byte": 126130, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 571.1599731445312, "end_time": 599.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 571.9249731445312, "cut_end_time": 598.9700981445312}, {"text": "But amid the jokes the Rabbi is not a bit backward about hatching local empires along with this inbred Michael and this black-haired descendant of Daniel Boone. Their present campaign, which they do not conceal in its tactics from me, their", "start_byte": 126132, "end_byte": 126372, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 599.8800048828125, "end_time": 619.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 600.9850048828125, "cut_end_time": 619.1400048828125}, {"text": " is, of course, an effort to out-maneuver the Mayor. Kopensky wants to bring cheap unskilled labor to town, leaving out the usual University entrance-examination. His ostensible reason is that the World\u2019s Fair buildings will not be completed August 15, the date of opening, without this aid. It is obviously but a maneuver to bring more City Hall votes to town and votes of a manageable type.", "start_byte": 126382, "end_byte": 126774, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 619.8800048828125, "end_time": 652.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 620.1650048828125, "cut_end_time": 651.6800673828125}, {"text": "And so I talk politics with these three. Boone proclaims that the presence this evening of Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, is an evidence that the Boones and the Michaels can pull together from time to time and the Rabbi and the lad seem completely ruled by this headlong Boone who cannot eat mackerel without glowering as though he were devouring his enemies.", "start_byte": 126776, "end_byte": 127141, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 652.0800170898438, "end_time": 678.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 652.6450170898438, "cut_end_time": 677.7000795898438}, {"text": "The other two are jollying him out of his intensity and he seems to thank them for it. He really relaxes a little toward midnight, as though, after all, this is a festive occasion of red blooded lads in a coffee house. As I think it over, walking home alone, there is an elusive impression that young Michael was being given an extra show of confidence for", "start_byte": 127143, "end_byte": 127499, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 678.3200073242188, "end_time": 706.0, "cut_start_time": 678.9350073242188, "cut_end_time": 706.1000073242187}, {"text": " by the apparently headlong older gentlemen.", "start_byte": 127509, "end_byte": 127553, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 707.2000122070312, "end_time": 712.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 707.4350122070313, "cut_end_time": 710.7300122070312}, {"text": "April 17: \u2014 I have been asking questions about Drug Store Smith. It seems this person, Smith, has aspirations, and values his exceedingly nominal place among the scientific chemists of America and will leave the town any time to attend a congress of such, where he receives due invitation: \u2014 and it is part of the tactics of Boone to lure him out when his vote will be an inconvenience. But it is not always easy to get him sufficient honors of this kind for he is not a benevolent scientist. 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He has a chain of coffee houses as long as Smith\u2019s chain of pharmacy-post-office-street-car-station-patent-medicine-confectionery- cigar-stand-and-soda-fountain establishments. Kusuko has made the black demi-tasse the special Springfield vice and there are no deeper addicts than those who fight him politically.", "start_byte": 128311, "end_byte": 128698, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 778.5999755859375, "end_time": 810.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 779.2549755859375, "cut_end_time": 809.4400380859375}, {"text": "People feel quite sure his drink contains some more sinister ingredient from the Malay peninsula. And he it is who sees to it that all the business offices are equipped with coffee urns that whistle through the late afternoon: \u2014 the custom of mixing business and coffee having originated with his great great grandmother, a famous local stenographer, who in the end became lady mayor, through her stenographers\u2019 guild. 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They unroll the beautiful ensnaring legends of the Malay peninsula and the islands around it. These storytellers appear occasionally in some of the other coffee houses, also, along with negro singers, etc.", "start_byte": 130654, "end_byte": 130953, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 963.5999755859375, "end_time": 989.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 963.6949755859375, "cut_end_time": 988.7500380859375}, {"text": "And now comes Kusuko\u2019s last touch, where he has completely replaced the old political functions of the American saloon, as an acceptable harness for the social brigands. There is always some allusion in the coffee houses, some implication, that the next real thing to do will be dancing, later in the evening, in wonderful Yellow Dance Halls. These are also owned by Kusuko and are the very keystone of his system. I follow the drifting tide of jolly good fellows several evenings and it leads me inevitably to the halls before midnight.", "start_byte": 130955, "end_byte": 131492, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 989.9199829101562, "end_time": 1034.0, "cut_start_time": 990.7049829101562, "cut_end_time": 1033.2700454101562}, {"text": "They are never too near the coffee houses and soda fountains and never too far away. There is nothing on the surface to make one apprehensive in the halls, except some very daring social dancing. There is often a motion picture show for part of the evening just off the lounging hallway and place of promenade. 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Despite this they are fond of him on the board, but row with him till the men cuss before the ladies in desperate efforts to hold him down, and keep him down, and prevent his bullying the whole assembly out of existence. 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The Rabbi, as we drink the black coffee and eat the salt mackerel, confirms my tentative remark that Boone, as president of the Board of Education, enforces its edicts, though few of the decrees are those into which from the standpoint of strategy, or even conviction, he can put his private heart. 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If there is any banner of the soul flying above me, your name is written on it and the white is the pride that makes you so angry and the red is the strength that makes you an Amazon, and the blue of the flag is the prairie sky, of which you are the vainest, loveliest daughter.", "start_byte": 141323, "end_byte": 141628, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 540.47998046875, "end_time": 566.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 540.71498046875, "cut_end_time": 564.56004296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cGoodnight.\u201d", "start_byte": 141670, "end_byte": 141682, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 569.3200073242188, "end_time": 572.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 569.4950073242188, "cut_end_time": 570.3500073242187, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe star of red and white in the heart of the flag, being the twenty-first star in the design, indicates, in the official interpretation, that Illinois was the twenty-first state admitted to the Union and the red part indicates Springfield, the capital.", "start_byte": 142150, "end_byte": 142404, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 616.239990234375, "end_time": 634.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 616.714990234375, "cut_end_time": 633.820052734375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe point in the star-plan system of boulevards that becomes a road passing through the inner-wall gate at Modesta and the outer at Palmyra starts the fancy moving along a certain classic flying-machine route over Alton and St. Louis, southwest to the tremendous motion-picture studios of the Los Angeles region and the radical educational institutions evolved from them, which are so great a peril to the land. This air route I call \u2018The Path of Ill Learning.\u2019 It is constantly travelled by our motion-picture educators and artists who go to exchange ideas and refresh themselves at Los Angeles, that great seat of spiritual lies.\u201d", "start_byte": 145332, "end_byte": 145965, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 885.4400024414062, "end_time": 937.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 886.2150024414062, "cut_end_time": 936.0600024414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut the oldest order, the darling of the founder of the greater work of this Cathedral, is the order of the Pilgrimage, founded here seventy-five years ago by St. Scribe of the Shrines, now gone to his reward. And the road northwest, as all but strangers in the city know, leads from the first shrine, which is the tomb of Lincoln, through the gates at Ashland and Virginia, straight north to Havana and the classic land of Spoon River and Lewiston, to North Dakota and the coast, and so on around the world to the hundred shrines. How many young pilgrims have turned back before they reached the outer gate at Virginia, held more by soul\u2019s weakness than by bodily weariness, within the double walls built so long ago by Ralph Adams Cram! But some here present today have continued the not too difficult journey and have returned to live within these double walls again and adore the Host upon this altar.\u201d", "start_byte": 146685, "end_byte": 147592, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 997.1199951171875, "end_time": 1076.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 997.8749951171875, "cut_end_time": 1075.3800576171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cEvery shrine is a modern Station of the Cross. Between shrine and shrine, await many desperate foes of the soul. And so I have often called it \u2018The Road to Heaven and Hell.\u2019 There is no nominal way to take this discipline. He who is a little hurt by this discipline is destroyed.\u201d", "start_byte": 148446, "end_byte": 148727, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1153.199951171875, "end_time": 1179.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1153.4749511718749, "cut_end_time": 1178.1700136718748, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201coffer advice.", "start_byte": 148932, "end_byte": 148946, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1197.0, "end_time": 1198.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1197.125, "cut_end_time": 1198.4400624999998, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201chates him.", "start_byte": 148956, "end_byte": 148967, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1199.199951171875, "end_time": 1200.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1199.174951171875, "cut_end_time": 1199.9100136718748, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou all know that my Kentucky forbears went west and settled down near Cairo, Illinois, and also that I feel no odium in the appellation \u2018Egyptian.\u2019 Possibly the name of the region, \u2018Egypt, Illinois\u2019 derives from the fact that there is an older Cairo, in Egypt. Then Memphis, Tennessee is not so far away. Possibly the floods and the malaria and the frogs and the languor and the witchcraft of legend, where the Ohio comes rolling down into the swamps, help out the Egyptian idea. The time was when \u2018Egypt\u2019 meant, exclusively, that part of Illinois by Cairo. Now it is applied in derision to all down state Illinois, by the peanut politicians of Chicago. In a whirlwind world, independent languor becomes a virtue, and meditation engenders a finer art than any nervousness.\u201d", "start_byte": 150661, "end_byte": 151436, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1343.47998046875, "end_time": 1415.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1344.15498046875, "cut_end_time": 1414.53010546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHe is a great one to prate of languor.", "start_byte": 151466, "end_byte": 151505, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1419.3199462890625, "end_time": 1422.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1419.7649462890624, "cut_end_time": 1422.4800712890624, "narrative_prediction": {"whispers": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWithout haste, without rest, our rewards and appreciations pay for our creations. Let the young Egyptian patriot see these dragons as big brothers that sweep through the high growing corn armies, messengers flying from county to county, crying in the trumpet glory of their silver voices, that art and life are married in the region of the capital.", "start_byte": 154249, "end_byte": 154598, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1668.3599853515625, "end_time": 1696.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1668.5849853515624, "cut_end_time": 1695.9100478515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI wonder if the Lincoln residence was located among the best people when it was built?", "start_byte": 155754, "end_byte": 155841, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1793.6400146484375, "end_time": 1801.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1794.1450146484374, "cut_end_time": 1800.9100771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy grandmother once told me that Mrs. Lincoln was really a fashionable person and not of poor-white stock like Lincoln and I am glad to hear it. He must have been a great trial to her, with her refined instincts.\u201d", "start_byte": 155913, "end_byte": 156127, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1808.56005859375, "end_time": 1827.0, "cut_start_time": 1809.18505859375, "cut_end_time": 1825.93005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI am sorry the Lincoln residence is not in a more fashionable region today. I wonder if they can move it out by the Country Club. Springfield is all \u2018society,\u2019 you know, and you might as well admit it.... I wish if they leave the residence here they would move these common houses and build a great Greek Temple over the Lincoln home, and make a park for about two hundred yards each way and have big avenues leading up to it and allow no common person to live anywhere near here. Lincoln was after all the greatest person since Jesus and we ought to show some sense of it.\u201d", "start_byte": 156182, "end_byte": 156757, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1832.6800537109375, "end_time": 1880.0, "cut_start_time": 1833.3850537109374, "cut_end_time": 1878.8600537109373, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI simply cannot stand that cheap cowboy hat you wear. It is simply a ridiculous pose or else the instinct of a rotter.\u201d", "start_byte": 156980, "end_byte": 157100, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1899.6400146484375, "end_time": 1911.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1899.8350146484374, "cut_end_time": 1910.3100771484374, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cto please old Black Hawk Boone,", "start_byte": 157436, "end_byte": 157468, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1938.280029296875, "end_time": 1941.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1938.5350292968749, "cut_end_time": 1941.020029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"explain": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " mood and complains fondly of her father\u2019s general code of behavior. I gather the impression that her ideal has no big black beard and no long curly oily locks, no fashion of getting angry. She is just the age when they palpitate between fond indulgence of", "start_byte": 135694, "end_byte": 135950, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 52.720001220703125, "end_time": 76.19999694824219, "cut_start_time": 52.695001220703126, "cut_end_time": 76.30000122070312}, {"text": " and black fury at his goat-like intractability to all plain suggestions that he make a change in himself. Boone being a widower and Avanel his only child, she is his shepherdess most emphatically.", "start_byte": 135959, "end_byte": 136156, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 77.04000091552734, "end_time": 94.5999984741211, "cut_start_time": 77.41500091552734, "cut_end_time": 93.65000091552734}, {"text": "Meanwhile Avanel hand-embroiders a gorgeous Springfield Flag and allows me to help her untangle several skeins of red silk and in general to play the idle dangler as well as I can. I am quite aware I do not do it in the off-hand manner I should. I am a little too heavy with the silk but she admits that I do not roar at the least tangle, as her father might.", "start_byte": 136158, "end_byte": 136517, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 94.5999984741211, "end_time": 124.80000305175781, "cut_start_time": 95.31499847412108, "cut_end_time": 123.87012347412109}, {"text": "Anyway, the flag is finished. And just as I begin to get what might be called", "start_byte": 136519, "end_byte": 136596, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 124.80000305175781, "end_time": 131.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 125.30500305175781, "cut_end_time": 131.3200030517578}, {"text": " with Avanel, a lot of disgusting young dandies, whose names I do not know, come in for tea. And I am obliged to stay and drink the stuff and I would rather drink rain water off the roof of a soot-factory, that\u2019s what I would.", "start_byte": 136609, "end_byte": 136835, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 132.0800018310547, "end_time": 152.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 132.05500183105468, "cut_end_time": 150.10006433105468}, {"text": "May 5: \u2014 I have seen in waking dreams, as I walk on the edge of New Springfield, at the prairie end of a shadowed deserted street, a great open door into the deep of eternity and, hovering above the great deep, Springfield, when it becomes the perfect and transcendent city. I look down upon towers so packed together in a sheaf and the flags so mighty, it seems but a fantasy of celestial flagstaffs and pinnacles. There are many flags of the International Government and many flashes of the Star Spangled Banner. But one flag stirs me the most. It is the one embroidered with the very silk and with the very same stitches I have seen Avanel put in with much silly chat so lately. It is the flag nearest. It is on a tower rising from the deep, a neighbor, it seems, I can almost touch. But as I look there are thousands of flags like it suddenly unfurled on a myriad pinnacles of the city below.", "start_byte": 136837, "end_byte": 137733, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 152.32000732421875, "end_time": 235.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 152.64500732421874, "cut_end_time": 234.43000732421876}, {"text": "May 6: \u2014 All the city is mourning the blighting of the season\u2019s acorns and Amaranth Apples and the buds of the Golden Rain Tree. Almost all the boughs have the little blackened tufts of buds and leaves. Avanel meets me at the door in the evening. Her father has given her a terrific scolding for what she says is", "start_byte": 137735, "end_byte": 138047, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 235.9199981689453, "end_time": 260.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 236.10499816894531, "cut_end_time": 260.4801231689453}, {"text": " and she is glad to walk and walk for miles and cool off in the clear starry air. I get it out of her, she has been trying to stop her father\u2019s smoking. But she is forgetting it and taking on her sibyl mood. Later she confesses she has been trying to get her father to cut his hair and quit dyeing his left hand crimson and that he has been trying to get her to dye her hand and unbind her hair as a Boone should. So, sore of heart, she is willing that we should be true comrades in the midst of this universe. And at once we are, as it were, brothers and sisters of the stars. She goes so far as to take my arm.", "start_byte": 138062, "end_byte": 138674, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 262.3999938964844, "end_time": 315.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 262.7949938964844, "cut_end_time": 314.7400563964844}, {"text": "She agrees to my proposal that we pluck out the mystery of the souls of our city\u2019s flags together, if two young creatures may get such wisdom.", "start_byte": 138676, "end_byte": 138818, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 315.5199890136719, "end_time": 326.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 316.1449890136719, "cut_end_time": 325.1100515136719}, {"text": "May 7: \u2014 Avanel this evening takes me to call upon St. Friend, The Giver of Bread. It is, in her eyes, quite a religious function. And we are to inquire formally about flags. St. Friend knows me not, though there is something in his voice that goes back one hundred years, and I dimly remember, in my double consciousness, visits with a friend who had much the same furniture, and some of the same turns of phrase, but he had not the face or figure of this man. We are by the open fireplace, under the old lithograph of Alexander Campbell. Flashing in the firelight, is the old bookcase to the left, containing the bound volumes of the Millenial Harbinger and Richardson\u2019s old life of Campbell and all the rest of it.", "start_byte": 138820, "end_byte": 139537, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 326.79998779296875, "end_time": 389.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 327.0649877929688, "cut_end_time": 388.0100502929688}, {"text": "St. Friend, the Giver of Bread, is indeed an old man, a little lame, leaning on a cane. He is much over six feet tall, when straightened, and with a smooth shaven countenance, but looking as Abraham Lincoln might have done, had he lived into another century and grown grayer with no other sign of the passing of the years. St. Friend, the Giver of Bread, receives Avanel as a favorite daughter and convert and indeed I feel in the air the justification for my estimate of this girl. In his presence she puts aside all vestige of nonsense. It is Church to her to be with him.", "start_byte": 139539, "end_byte": 140113, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 389.2799987792969, "end_time": 437.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 389.6049987792969, "cut_end_time": 436.3900612792969}, {"text": "St. Friend disgraces himself by taking the oldest kind of a corncob pipe from a shelf inside the fireplace and smoking like a chimney. He asks Avanel if she cares and she says,", "start_byte": 140115, "end_byte": 140291, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 437.8399963378906, "end_time": 454.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 438.11499633789066, "cut_end_time": 453.6801213378906}, {"text": "We get to the matter of the flags quite late in the evening.", "start_byte": 140314, "end_byte": 140374, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 456.8800048828125, "end_time": 462.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 457.4250048828125, "cut_end_time": 460.9300048828125}, {"text": "St. Friend tells how in his youth when Apple-Amaranth blossoms had as now a touch of red in the hearts, those hearts began to be called,", "start_byte": 140376, "end_byte": 140512, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 462.0799865722656, "end_time": 472.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 462.25498657226564, "cut_end_time": 473.0300490722656}, {"text": " and St. Friend suggests that the saying be restored to its former place on the tongues of Springfield, especially since the red and white star in the municipal flag is copied from this flower.", "start_byte": 140541, "end_byte": 140734, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 475.1199951171875, "end_time": 487.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 475.50499511718755, "cut_end_time": 486.8401201171875}, {"text": "Then much of what he and Avanel have to say to each other about the flag he declares he will put into his next sermon. It is plain to me that this gray mind leans for vitality upon the mind of the proud young child. She knows it not but only thinks herself a kind of playmate in a solemn way.", "start_byte": 140736, "end_byte": 141028, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 487.8800048828125, "end_time": 513.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 488.27500488281254, "cut_end_time": 512.1000048828125}, {"text": "On the way home Avanel is much ashamed of herself for staying so long and says that I am an awkward lummox, and I can walk home my own way.", "start_byte": 141030, "end_byte": 141169, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 513.3599853515625, "end_time": 525.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 513.8149853515625, "cut_end_time": 524.5001103515625}, {"text": "Therefore I make my speech, as I take her sternly to her door. She holds herself straight as a ramrod, with lips stubbornly pursed together, as I say:", "start_byte": 141171, "end_byte": 141321, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 525.8400268554688, "end_time": 540.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 526.2850268554688, "cut_end_time": 539.7200268554687}, {"text": " Avanel goes into the house with a sharp", "start_byte": 141629, "end_byte": 141669, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 566.3599853515625, "end_time": 569.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 566.6049853515625, "cut_end_time": 569.0201103515625}, {"text": "May 8: \u2014 It is a blazing spring day and everything that was not frosted is getting quite green. Baby carriages are abroad, with the pink darlings crowing within them, welcoming the sun. The streets are full of spring finery. About four o\u2019clock on this jolly afternoon I meet Rabbi Terence Ezekiel in Tom Strong\u2019s. We fill up on rousing coffee and I manage to get the conversation around to the Springfield flag about which I am endlessly curious.", "start_byte": 141684, "end_byte": 142130, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 572.719970703125, "end_time": 613.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 572.8849707031251, "cut_end_time": 611.740095703125}, {"text": "The Rabbi says: \u2014", "start_byte": 142132, "end_byte": 142149, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 613.760009765625, "end_time": 616.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 614.395009765625, "cut_end_time": 615.720009765625}, {"text": " But Rabbi Ezekiel prefers the idea that this red and white star indicates in the year 2018 the coming of age of Illinois and America.", "start_byte": 142405, "end_byte": 142539, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 634.6799926757812, "end_time": 649.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 635.4849926757813, "cut_end_time": 647.7401176757812}, {"text": "May 10: \u2014 It is Sunday morning, and I am in the Great Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul with Avanel. The whole picture is clean cut around me. Every word and whisper is clear. There are no clouds at all. Yet the Cathedral is indeed gigantic. I am reminded of majestic Notre Dame in Paris. It is the same combination of styles, and St. Friend begins his sermon with an appeal for a special fund to add the steeples. As in cathedrals of Europe, only the rectangular foundations of the spires, a little higher than the roof, are in place.", "start_byte": 142541, "end_byte": 143078, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 649.4000244140625, "end_time": 696.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 649.7350244140625, "cut_end_time": 695.9400869140625}, {"text": "He preaches the sermon, which Avanel helped him build, which touches on the flag:", "start_byte": 143080, "end_byte": 143161, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 696.9600219726562, "end_time": 703.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 697.5050219726563, "cut_end_time": 702.7400844726562}, {"text": "\u201cVisitors to the Fair may care to know the path of white around the red star of Springfield is the map of our five-pointed system of double walls and within them a star-plan system of avenues. This system, like this star, is a symbol of the relation of Springfield to all the outside world. The top of the star points north to Chicago by way of the outerwall gate at Mason City. Tomorrow the corn dragon engines begin to take that route. They are to be dedicated with honors that I hope all who hear me will be there to endorse and acclaim. The star-point, indicating northeast, starts our flying machine trip over the inner-wall gate at Illiopolis and the outerwall gate at Warrensburg and on to Danville, if you please, and to New York and the sea journey to the capital of the International Government, which government is looked to with loyalty by all patriots and honorable men. Highways running parallel to the air lines in this direction are haunted by memories of Johnny Appleseed, in the regions of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Massilon, Ohio. The roads are of some distinction in all the fruit and flower religions of Springfield. Our city sends pilgrims that way in the spring who will yet replant the whole world in glory with many a sacred grove. But the southeast point of the Springfield star system is a road that passes through the inner-wall gate at Taylorville and the outer at Pana, and points in the direction of Virginia and Richmond. Our fruit and flower devotees take all roads, but because of the wonders of the early southern spring many of them deem this the holiest way. There are found, more than other where, the botanizing pilgrims of the faiths of my friend Rabbi Terence Ezekiel and my friend Mother Grey and her daughter Roxana. There many of the Rabbi\u2019s young oaks have sprung up in the name of universal righteousness and that way he still takes his pilgrimage, according to the mystical doctrine of the Oak which is the foundation of our Rabbi\u2019s dreams. This road goes through New Harmony, Indiana, before it turns south into Kentucky. Many pilgrims pass that way to do honor to the original home of the Golden Rain Tree of Democracy.", "start_byte": 143163, "end_byte": 145330, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 703.8800048828125, "end_time": 885.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 704.3050048828126, "cut_end_time": 884.2100673828126}, {"text": "At this point Avanel frowns; indeed she will not be bullied out of her movies. But she grows grave again and she takes earnestly what else he has to say:", "start_byte": 145967, "end_byte": 146120, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 937.719970703125, "end_time": 953.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 938.3949707031251, "cut_end_time": 952.100033203125}, {"text": "\u201cThe star-point indicating northwest with the inner gate at Ashland and the outer at Virginia is the one that interests me most. There are three orders of discipline in connection with this Cathedral. The newest is the Order of the Blessed Bread of the More Liberal Observance, in whose name we are to have the great bread distribution on June the eighth. The one a little older is The Order of the Blessed Bread of the Strict Observance, a discipline for those lost in despair and determined to seize one more hope, if there be one, before they consent to die.", "start_byte": 146122, "end_byte": 146683, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 953.0399780273438, "end_time": 997.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 953.5249780273438, "cut_end_time": 995.7500405273438}, {"text": "They have taken the ocean ships or airships of Seattle, they have gone afoot and by every known vehicle through Asia. It is a journey unforgettable \u2014 to the holy land of Confucius and to his holy grave, to the Blessed Bohdi Tree of Buddha, to the bathing places of Benares, to the holy places of Mecca, Jerusalem, Assisi, Rome, Lourdes, and London. I, too, in my youth, with a fiery young company from Springfield made this pilgrimage which was first undertaken by St. Scribe and written down later in his little book of Discipline called: \u2018The Hundred Shrines.\u2019 We went by motor, by steamship, by flying machine, but whenever possible, afoot. Let the visitor in this audience note that he who prays at these shrines, according to the office of The Brotherhood of The Hundred Shrines, has made, we think, the true beginning of life for a modern soul.", "start_byte": 147594, "end_byte": 148444, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1076.3599853515625, "end_time": 1153.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1076.9949853515625, "cut_end_time": 1152.3600478515625}, {"text": "May 11: \u2014 Avanel and I are taking lunch together at the Fire Cracker King Restaurant and Coffee House. She is, indeed, giving her absent father a scolding. It seems that Black Hawk Boone has presumed to", "start_byte": 148729, "end_byte": 148931, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1179.199951171875, "end_time": 1197.0, "cut_start_time": 1179.5149511718748, "cut_end_time": 1196.9300136718748}, {"text": " And she", "start_byte": 148947, "end_byte": 148955, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1198.56005859375, "end_time": 1199.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1198.8350585937499, "cut_end_time": 1199.30005859375}, {"text": " I venture to inquire wherein he has been so presumptuous as to attempt to guide her wandering feet. And it seems that he thinks she is too fond of long rehearsals for the celebration of the festival of St. Scribe, May fifteenth in the Gordon Craig Theatre, and not enough devoted to the Amazonian drill ground. He wants three drills a week, not two. He says we may be at war with Singapore any day and she cannot dance to victory and had best quit religious dancing, till after the war. My reply is quite deft. I insist that I, at least, am prepared to appreciate her dancing and am only waiting the next appearance at the Gordon Craig Theatre and she continues to scowl but says I have but till the fifteenth to wait. It is now about two in the afternoon and we are going to hear some speeches. Avanel explains to me that the first Corn Dragon Engines are starting, with great ceremony, to Chicago and we are to hear orations at the station before they go. The transportation district centering in Illinois has, through Eric Hedder, a ploughboy from near Cairo, evolved a type of a dragon engine, a mate to the dragon-fly flying machine. A complete set of these engines have just been finished for the Springfield and Chicago division. They are equipped with silvery horns instead of shrill whistles. The exercises are, of course, at the gigantic Union Depot at Tenth and Washington. The passengers of honor include this Eric Hedder, the Mayor and some of his political enemies, including Black Hawk Boone, who is making the speech of the afternoon. This prospect seems to please his daughter fairly well, considering how she hates him. But now we are there, and Boone is already speaking:", "start_byte": 148968, "end_byte": 150659, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1200.719970703125, "end_time": 1343.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1201.434970703125, "cut_end_time": 1342.2200332031248}, {"text": "Here Avanel whispers to me:", "start_byte": 151438, "end_byte": 151465, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1415.800048828125, "end_time": 1419.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1416.545048828125, "cut_end_time": 1418.4500488281249}, {"text": " But now her father is mentioning an artist she admires.", "start_byte": 151506, "end_byte": 151562, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1422.8800048828125, "end_time": 1428.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1423.6050048828124, "cut_end_time": 1427.4500048828124}, {"text": "\u201cEric Hedder, who designed these engines, is a ploughboy from near my home-town of Cairo. The corn dragons are indeed messengers from Egypt to Chicago, and other where. The corn-dragon engine is a giant wound-up mechanical toy but something more. It is a kind of citizen, through its Egyptian soul, and through the soul of the engineer who happens at any time to inhabit it. He is one of our new type of aristocracy. The older aristocracies indicated their worth by having themselves photographed in the midst of their athletic sports, at the race track, or playing golf or croquet, or in soldier\u2019s uniform. But in this year of grace, 2018, they are depicted as amateur or professional railroad engineers, or the like. To hold so many lives in trust and to discharge the obligation year after year without faltering is classed as the occupation of a scholar and a gentleman. And so, as is the case of all special privilege, the chariot of privilege is decorated and starred and given plumes like the corn and made glorious.", "start_byte": 151564, "end_byte": 152587, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1428.719970703125, "end_time": 1526.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1428.714970703125, "cut_end_time": 1524.6700332031248}, {"text": "\u201cTo me this is a journey from the State of Illinois to somewhere else. Loyalty to Chicago is a commendable thing in itself, but Chicago is the commercial center of the entire United States, and the only way to keep it from tipping and teetering the state clean over, is to bring forward other than commercial considerations. Loyalty to Chicago is loyalty to Florida and California, Oregon and Maine. These are all of them quite commendable commonwealths. But loyalty to Springfield is the distinctive sign of loyalty to Illinois.", "start_byte": 152589, "end_byte": 153118, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1526.1199951171875, "end_time": 1573.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1526.4349951171873, "cut_end_time": 1572.7001201171875}, {"text": "\u201cThe engines will rush back, bringing skilled mechanics, wise industrial statesmen, and world leaders in art for little Springfield, down here in Egypt. Such people are held in infinitely higher honor here than in the Chicago that made them. All men and women seem to have increased in vanity in this year 2018, and this is a highly commendable change. I rejoice that citizens of the United States now live upon honor and its power more than upon the desire for mere currency. So the corn-dragons will always be robbing Chicago, America\u2019s commercial capital, of her best. People will keep coming here for much smaller salaries and for more passionate praise. [Applause!]", "start_byte": 153120, "end_byte": 153790, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1573.800048828125, "end_time": 1630.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1574.6350488281248, "cut_end_time": 1629.800048828125}, {"text": "\u201cI hope that the whizzing and whistling of these engines, henceforth more musical than of old, will be the war cry of our whole Egyptian village and countryside. I hope that for generation after generation many dragons of this breed will whirl by, and many another ploughboy, sighting them through the cornfields, will not only catch the original vision of Eric Hedder, but new untamed dreams of art and glory and creation will be engendered on such days.", "start_byte": 153792, "end_byte": 154247, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1630.47998046875, "end_time": 1668.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1631.5749804687498, "cut_end_time": 1667.4300429687498}, {"text": " [Great Applause!]", "start_byte": 154599, "end_byte": 154617, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1696.719970703125, "end_time": 1699.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1696.9949707031249, "cut_end_time": 1698.4000957031249}, {"text": "Avanel admits that her father had to roar in this case, for the crowd was large, and, speaking from a station platform in the open air, the loudest man cannot be heard with traffic going by and newsboys selling extras about the event before it happens. We walk just a little south along the viaduct on Tenth from the great New Union Depot to a most familiar and ancient structure, a kind of rough memorial shrine, which was once the station whence the Lincoln presidential train left for Washington and where Lincoln gave his parting word to the City of Springfield. Outside the door of the museum, Avanel and I re-read Lincoln\u2019s famous farewell to his fellow citizens, cast in bronze and set up for a tablet long ago.", "start_byte": 154619, "end_byte": 155337, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1699.6800537109375, "end_time": 1758.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1699.9750537109373, "cut_end_time": 1756.8300537109374}, {"text": "Then, being in the mood of reminiscence, we walk past the Lincoln residence and Avanel begins to compare Lincoln to Jesus and speak of him as the greatest person sent to men since Jesus. And I think the sibyl has at last permanently emerged and that my companion is finally with me.", "start_byte": 155339, "end_byte": 155621, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1758.199951171875, "end_time": 1782.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1758.574951171875, "cut_end_time": 1781.800013671875}, {"text": "But there is a devil in this Avanel. 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This hunting knife means more to me than pride in fighting blood. It may go through the heart of some cocaine-crazy creature in far Asia. But it means that other thing to me, the sanctity of the log cabin, or the cottage which we must defend as Boone defended the first cabins in the blue grass. To him they were pavilions of new patriarchs, not barnyards or forts.\u201d", "start_byte": 166398, "end_byte": 166942, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 780.5999755859375, "end_time": 836.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 781.0649755859375, "cut_end_time": 835.1101005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cPeople", "start_byte": 168245, "end_byte": 168252, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 944.3200073242188, "end_time": 944.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 944.4750073242187, "cut_end_time": 945.0200073242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBeau Nash,", "start_byte": 171744, "end_byte": 171755, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1223.5999755859375, "end_time": 1224.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1223.6049755859374, "cut_end_time": 1224.6400380859375, "narrative_prediction": {"called": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201ccousin", "start_byte": 172834, "end_byte": 172841, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1314.4000244140625, "end_time": 1315.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1314.4550244140623, "cut_end_time": 1315.1100869140623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOwner.", "start_byte": 173335, "end_byte": 173342, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1359.280029296875, "end_time": 1360.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1359.2950292968749, "cut_end_time": 1359.9900292968748, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cinternational and national treason", "start_byte": 173662, "end_byte": 173697, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1387.3599853515625, "end_time": 1390.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1387.4049853515623, "cut_end_time": 1390.1901103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cJohn Nash has tattooed himself with treason forevermore and it remains to be seen whether every gilded wing stands for treason.\u201d", "start_byte": 173887, "end_byte": 174016, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1406.43994140625, "end_time": 1418.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1406.7149414062499, "cut_end_time": 1416.1700664062498, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSt. Friend represents, almost in spite of himself, the idea of thousands of laymen, that few priests have represented: \u2014 the general idea of religion, under a church roof, with one\u2019s fellow human beings. 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Some of the places are in the hands of new firms but keep the old names.", "start_byte": 162018, "end_byte": 162427, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 398.55999755859375, "end_time": 438.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 399.35499755859377, "cut_end_time": 437.2200600585938}, {"text": "The sign-painters\u2019 shops are a wilderness of bedevilment. They are almost official extensions of the art department of the World\u2019s Fair of the University of Springfield. They are full of everything that may be painted to bring rejoicing to the fastidious stranger.", "start_byte": 162429, "end_byte": 162693, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 438.3999938964844, "end_time": 457.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 439.0049938964844, "cut_end_time": 456.9800563964844}, {"text": "It is growing toward evening and my dear lady has signified that she will consent to eat with me in that restaurant room of glass, that high tower place, where she gave me my first view of the new city. And, as we walk that way, we are amazed at something as novel to her as to myself. We have been almost noting it to one another all day. With glowering faces and ugly looks, two factions in costume are passing and re-passing one another. And there are threats of fist fights between the young men and some appointments for real battles without gloves are obviously made, with those euphuisms that in the old day covered appointments for pistol deeds.", "start_byte": 162695, "end_byte": 163348, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 457.9599914550781, "end_time": 514.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 458.86499145507815, "cut_end_time": 513.8800539550781}, {"text": "There are two factions of aviators, one dressed somewhat in the color scheme of the robin, including the vest, which follows the red color of the breast of that bird. The rival faction are the Snobs, who are out with it, make no quibble about being snobs, and are costumed with hints of the wasp and bee. There are as many girls and women, as boys and men, in the Snob and Robin costumes. All this has sprung up from the ground in a few days and is not in the pageant and festival calendar of the city. The aviator\u2019s day for dressing up is in early October. But the surprise is not so much the new costumes as the increasing sharpness of the controversy. Most of the children of the Boone and Michael clans, rivals though they be, are dressed as Robins and expound to us their side of a complicated matter. The substance is that the city is liable to a riot over the use and monopoly of the flying machines by the Snobs, led by one John Nash, sometimes called", "start_byte": 163350, "end_byte": 164309, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 514.7999877929688, "end_time": 596.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 515.3049877929687, "cut_end_time": 596.0400502929688}, {"text": " and the Snobs are defying their enemies and spoiling for a riot. While Avanel and I have our customary little dinner in what was once a quiet corner, two young Booneites we have previously interviewed, having finished their chocolate, come to us and roar their anger again in our ears and seek to recruit our good opinions, as they nerve themselves to subdue the Snobs and if necessary shoot holes in their machines.", "start_byte": 164322, "end_byte": 164739, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 598.4000244140625, "end_time": 632.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 599.2050244140626, "cut_end_time": 630.8200869140625}, {"text": "May 18: \u2014 The costumes of the rival factions have disappeared from these streets. All noise and argument have disappeared. The city goes about the even tenor of its way. The papers are full of the social and military affairs of the Amazons and the Horseshoe Brotherhood and denunciations of the world\u2019s common enemy, Singapore. I am wondering why I have never gone to Camp Lincoln to see these Amazons and Michaelites drilling in full panoply of war and wondering even more why the child Avanel is at the head of them. She must be a sort of", "start_byte": 164741, "end_byte": 165281, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 632.8800048828125, "end_time": 680.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 633.1550048828125, "cut_end_time": 680.6700048828125}, {"text": " as one may say, decorative royalty, with the real management in other hands. But I always speak in her presence of military matters as though she were in actual command. Tonight I meet her near her home as she comes riding from Camp Lincoln on her white war pony. She is a centauress.", "start_byte": 165309, "end_byte": 165594, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 682.3599853515625, "end_time": 711.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 682.3449853515625, "cut_end_time": 710.2500478515625}, {"text": "Not only is her pony white but every thread of her riding habit is white. I help her down from her pony, go through the entirely unnecessary motion of doing so, and we lead the tired steed around to the stable in the rear of the Boone cottage and old Boone is there, waiting to feed and water the creature. The father is ignored and the horse is spoken to by Avanel in terms of endearment. We go into the house and sit by that unlit fireplace and wait for Black Hawk to come in to dinner. All of which is, by the way, preliminary to the fact I wish here to record, that the tired Avanel draws from her belt an old hunting knife and its heavy white sheath and puts it on the mantle with the unbuckled Avanel sword and sheath, then allows me to take them down, and answers my questions about the knife.", "start_byte": 165596, "end_byte": 166396, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 711.5999755859375, "end_time": 780.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 712.2649755859376, "cut_end_time": 779.6300380859375}, {"text": "May 19: \u2014 By this time all the trees are putting forth their second leaves, and smaller blossoms than before the frost. But everyone is rejoicing for it is spring of a sort. The air is filled with hovering branches in palest green, a good gift to man. The town knows it and walks abroad gaily, this morning of May nineteenth.", "start_byte": 166944, "end_byte": 167269, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 836.8800048828125, "end_time": 868.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 837.2950048828126, "cut_end_time": 866.9000673828125}, {"text": "Then, late in the afternoon, local war breaks out suddenly and we know nothing about the trees, and care less. It is a Springfield utterly new and terrible to its citizens. The star chimes are not allowed to ring. I am with Comrade Avanel in the very top of the Truth Tower. The terrors of flight and pursuit sweep over the far sections of Springfield given over to aviation fields, orchards and the like.", "start_byte": 167271, "end_byte": 167676, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 868.3200073242188, "end_time": 901.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 868.6750073242188, "cut_end_time": 901.2400073242188}, {"text": "When machines overtake each other there is, so far, no shooting or the like, only a veering to the right or left. It might be a game of tag, were it not for the symbolism in decoration put on by the two factions driving the machines. There is a big death\u2019s head painted near the front of every Snob machine, and the hunting knife of Daniel Boone painted on the front of every Robin Redbreast machine.", "start_byte": 167678, "end_byte": 168078, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 901.5599975585938, "end_time": 931.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 901.9849975585938, "cut_end_time": 931.2900600585938}, {"text": "Neither Black Hawk Boone nor Avanel has authorized any such use of this symbol. The whole threat and roaring are unauthorized by any of the leaders of factions. The", "start_byte": 168080, "end_byte": 168244, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 931.719970703125, "end_time": 944.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 932.1349707031251, "cut_end_time": 944.390095703125}, {"text": " have escaped the leash.", "start_byte": 168253, "end_byte": 168277, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 944.9199829101562, "end_time": 947.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 944.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 946.8700454101563}, {"text": "Avanel is the only reporter her father will trust tonight and she has come to the top room of the Truth Tower, because it is the observation and news gathering room for things that may be untangled from a tower. All the papers have made common cause tonight. All the telescopes are in use, looking to the borders just beyond the City Wall, the borders of Morgan, Menard, Logan, Macon, Christian, Montgomery and Macoupin Counties. The news is assembled and everything observed is explained by telephones from these regions and re-telephoned into the various offices and rewritten there and then telegraphed to all the world that cares. Newsgathering remains what it has been for a century and a half. Boone is at the opposite end of the phone from Avanel and the first definite effects of the threatened air-riot are to make that gentleman quite profane.", "start_byte": 168279, "end_byte": 169132, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 947.9199829101562, "end_time": 1014.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 948.1849829101562, "cut_end_time": 1013.6600454101563}, {"text": "The flying machines were at first not public property. But so much crowding out of the truly skilled flyers came about by the monopolists with buried gold, that machines are now rented to private citizens by the state or city for a nominal fee and deposit for damages. To enter the examinations in the autumn and to fly for the year is, in theory, one of the privileges of highly skilled, athletic people. Our friend, Portia, the Singing Aviator, is with us tonight and helping unravel the story of the rise of factions. And the gentle creature has written of the uppermost blue and of the dawn clouds and of the map of the earth and of sailing around the curve of the earth. This young girl is appalled to be obliged to take sides in the controversy and enlist for a possible battle of mere children. The most famous aviators on each side come from the High Schools. She does not want to paint war insignia upon her machine. But already her literary imitators have done so. Her three most sedulous apes in the High School, John Nash and Findlay Bryson and Margaret Rand, who have diluted her innocent and heroic songs, turning them into society verses, now demand that she put the death\u2019s head upon her machine, or lose them as disciples. And Portia is appalled to find that the names she once chose in sport to classify the machines are now used to represent actual factions in the threatened war. The Robin Redbreast and Carrier-Pigeon machines are all on the side of the Robins, and the Snobs are subdivided into the Don Juan, the Raider, the Flamboyant, the Brahmin and the Bird of Paradise. It is the exceedingly high priced Brahmin and Bird of Paradise machines that make the trouble.", "start_byte": 169134, "end_byte": 170825, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1014.239990234375, "end_time": 1152.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1015.0349902343751, "cut_end_time": 1151.450115234375}, {"text": "People go to the High Schools past their twenty-first year. And the town is first torn up by High School pupils, children of the local multimillionaires, such of them as still have brains and body enough to go through the rigid examinations for aviation. These children of men with buried gold are again and again at the top of the aviation waiting-lists. This is especially exasperating because having a private fortune is proclaimed in every political speech to be against the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Illinois.", "start_byte": 170827, "end_byte": 171386, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1152.6400146484375, "end_time": 1194.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1153.0050146484375, "cut_end_time": 1194.0900146484373}, {"text": "And so youngsters of the Wicked Standings, the Cheerful Radleys, the Arrogant Rocks, the Fat Zebeskys, the Nervous Kusukos, the Slick Slack Kopenskys, the Shrewd Sims family, and all that set try successfully to monopolize the priceless Brahmin and Bird of Paradise. 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Word comes to the news room at the top of the Truth Tower that all through the counties touching the Springfield wall, wherever Brahmin and Bird of Paradise machines reach the ground, the farmers taking Springfield affairs a little more seriously than we do, proceed to set torch to the wings.", "start_byte": 171777, "end_byte": 172425, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1227.6800537109375, "end_time": 1280.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1227.9350537109374, "cut_end_time": 1279.3401162109374}, {"text": "May 21: \u2014 The Robin Redbreast people can work, at least, and their costume has now flooded the offices. There is such a tension everywhere (without the least thing really happening) and the streets are so full of marching Robins that the young sports say today that they have surrendered. There is much talk of peace and sentimental prattle about our dear little town and slush about all calling each other", "start_byte": 172427, "end_byte": 172833, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1280.8800048828125, "end_time": 1314.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1281.1850048828123, "cut_end_time": 1314.4700673828124}, {"text": " again. But just before midnight The Boone Ax gets out an extra, charging that the Brahmin and Bird of Paradise machines are tied up to the snob children by long time leases and there is not one but still remains in the hands of the owner of a secret fortune or some directly obligated minion of the same.", "start_byte": 172842, "end_byte": 173147, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1315.0400390625, "end_time": 1340.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1315.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1338.2800390625}, {"text": "May 22: \u2014 The sky is all gold today. The Snob machines reappear, defiantly gilded, and on the front of every one is painted the name of the Snob using it, and after his name the word: \u2014", "start_byte": 173149, "end_byte": 173334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1340.0799560546875, "end_time": 1359.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1340.3949560546873, "cut_end_time": 1359.1700810546874}, {"text": " And young John Nash has taken the fatal step and added a terrible element to what was before but a family row that was leading nowhere in particular. He has decorated his machine with green jade eyes and pictures of the green and speckled lotus of the Cocaine Buddha of Singapore and thereby added the final insult of", "start_byte": 173343, "end_byte": 173661, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1360.719970703125, "end_time": 1387.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1361.444970703125, "cut_end_time": 1387.310033203125}, {"text": " and utterly changed the spirit of the fight. All day the gilded machines go by unmolested among the angry Pigeons and Robins, but as Black Hawk Boone says in a big type evening editorial:", "start_byte": 173698, "end_byte": 173886, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1390.56005859375, "end_time": 1406.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1390.96505859375, "cut_end_time": 1406.0100585937498}, {"text": "May 23: \u2014 The University set today bring forth legislation which is drawn up and sponsored by John Boat and St. Friend, the Giver of Bread. This emergency legislation, backed by the immediate surrender and burning of the arrogant leases, appears to insure uniform rents for all machines of whatever class. The fear of the curse of treason has made all the gold-foil faction meek as rabbits for a day. And so they consent to the cancellation of all previous lists and papers of all sorts and the re-enlistment of all aviators once a month. They consent to the proposal that it be made a jail offense to use the same machine longer than three months. Machines must be re-rented in order as registered. No classification to be made as to value of machine, or gold-foil on the wings, or type of machine: \u2014 every aviator to take his chance. St. Friend thinks that he and Justice of the Peace, John Boat, have done well. Certainly this afternoon, according to the new arrangement, it is as in Utopia and the rich and the poor, the privileged and unprivileged, have equal chances in the air.", "start_byte": 174018, "end_byte": 175102, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1418.4000244140625, "end_time": 1505.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1418.6950244140623, "cut_end_time": 1504.0000869140624}, {"text": "We are alone in the Truth Tower, my love and I, and we are talking of St. Friend, who has brought this all about, and Avanel sends for him, to take in the view of the sunset with us, if he pleases, and wait with us for the returning star chimes. The evening and its beauty, after such days of empty stampede and panic, move my lady Avanel to deeper words than are her habit. 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They envy the discovery of the three new infinitesimal elements by the chemists of Singapore. No wonder some of them finally turn to the green and speckled lotus and the cocaine Buddha.", "start_byte": 178203, "end_byte": 179047, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 87.44000244140625, "end_time": 153.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 88.22500244140625, "cut_end_time": 153.24006494140625}, {"text": "\u201cThe service this type of imagination has done our city is calculable, definite. People moved by it have made our factories the most notable of the kind in this region of the United States. And they give us also an airship of the mind that carries us far into the future and we return heavily ladened. We examine the treasure. It is a funny little creature called \u2018man,\u2019 carrying an extraordinary world conquering device, some amorphous, dubious toy, akin to the ancient phonograph.", "start_byte": 179049, "end_byte": 179531, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 153.52000427246094, "end_time": 197.1999969482422, "cut_start_time": 154.19500427246092, "cut_end_time": 196.24000427246094}, {"text": "\u201cLet us agree that whatever carries bread across the world is of service. Whatever puts a roof over the head of democracy is worth while. Whatever puts clothing on the back of mankind must be respected. 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For overhead friend and foe are celebrating truce, if not peace, and the whole remaining populace is in the street to behold it.", "start_byte": 182004, "end_byte": 182728, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 408.32000732421875, "end_time": 474.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 409.2650073242188, "cut_end_time": 472.4100073242188}, {"text": "May 25: \u2014 I am reading in the Truth Tower, in the newspaper lookout room, last evening\u2019s Boone Ax with Avanel and talking it over with her. It seems that the inside political whispers convey to the intelligent the fact that Mayo Sims has sent out his dragnet: \u2014 his jesters, his druggists, his coffee house wits, to talk among the older people and get their youngsters in hand. 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For many a day, and indeed for two generations, on behalf of the city and state, they have been flying from mine to mine in their working hours, giving expert advice or exercising stern authority, according to their specific offices.", "start_byte": 183171, "end_byte": 183718, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 510.1600036621094, "end_time": 555.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 510.5450036621094, "cut_end_time": 554.0200661621094}, {"text": "The Rock family began as the Michaelites began. For a long time it was a tradition that every boy of the Rock clan must dig coal with the pick for a certain number of years, and belong to the Miner\u2019s Union. 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He says he will do as he pleases, and do it soon, that this is a land of religious liberty, that he chooses the green glass god of Singapore, of his own free will, and there is no treason in it, that he will have the law on whoever molests him.", "start_byte": 184414, "end_byte": 184886, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 617.239990234375, "end_time": 655.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 617.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 654.9301152343751}, {"text": "Now there are shouting and cries below and there are jinglings of all the phones in the lookout rooms and when we answer one we are told that Nash has already ascended and is coming from the west. Almost instantly we see him and then he is directly above the Truth Tower, circling, going up, and circling and going down, while his own old faction, in the street, grow angrier every minute. He has painted his whole machine the Singaporian green and there are all the special signs and seals of Singapore he can put there, upon the body of his machine, and finally, in insult to our virtuous city, he flies low that we may see them and then flies high that we may hate him.", "start_byte": 184888, "end_byte": 185560, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 655.8800048828125, "end_time": 716.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 656.2950048828126, "cut_end_time": 715.3800673828125}, {"text": "But on his third descent, a Robin Redbreast machine, with all speed on, sweeps up from the north. Nash expects a threat, but the man in the other machine begins to shoot at Nash, just as he is above Washington Park, and down comes the dead man by the Washington Park Pavilion, with a terrific crash of broken wings, and absurd Singapore has her first American martyr.", "start_byte": 185562, "end_byte": 185929, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 716.3200073242188, "end_time": 751.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 716.9350073242188, "cut_end_time": 750.2800073242188}, {"text": "The newspaper people come pouring into the Truth Tower. We all send the story to the papers as we can. It seems that the avenger is the son of the Mayor. It is", "start_byte": 185931, "end_byte": 186090, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 751.1599731445312, "end_time": 764.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 752.2249731445313, "cut_end_time": 764.9000356445313}, {"text": " the new President of the Robin Redbreast flying association. He has been president twenty-four hours and has made haste to vindicate his office.", "start_byte": 186115, "end_byte": 186260, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 766.9600219726562, "end_time": 779.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 767.3350219726562, "cut_end_time": 778.5600219726563}, {"text": "Of course there will be no prosecution of Jim. In the first place he is the son of the Mayor. In the second place he is now a newspaper hero. In the third place he has removed the blasphemer, hated alike by those with millions in gold and alcohol buried away, and those with teetotal tendencies and no money but their legal salaries.", "start_byte": 186262, "end_byte": 186595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 779.239990234375, "end_time": 812.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 779.754990234375, "cut_end_time": 810.340052734375}, {"text": "May 26: \u2014 Everyone has forgotten the flying machine feud. An Anti-Singapore panic is on. St. Friend has started a series of weekday sermons against Singapore in the Cathedral and Rabbi Ezekiel is doing the same in his Temple and they are moving all secular forums to co-operate. And The Boone Ax whacks and chops at the issue for no one hates a Singaporian better than Black Hawk Boone, the roaring cinnamon bear. It is hard to make out any justification of a war at this exact hour.", "start_byte": 186597, "end_byte": 187080, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 812.239990234375, "end_time": 855.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 812.464990234375, "cut_end_time": 855.000115234375}, {"text": "When, in his youth, St. Friend made the Pilgrimage of St. Scribe he heard certain strange political talk near the dazzling temple of the cocaine Buddha of Singapore. Three half-English Eurasians were deep in future world politics. This conversation temporarily spoiled his meditations on the real and beautiful Prince Gautama, which otherwise continued throughout the whole of Asia. Ever since that day, St. Friend has been giving his attention to the Japanese and Chinese denunciations of the Singaporians, especially since those denunciations have been so stoutly re-echoed by Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, the greatest American representative in the legislature of the World Government. That tremendous hall has rung with the hammer-blows of Michael, the Blacksmith, against international treason, the arrogant Singaporian cry of", "start_byte": 187082, "end_byte": 187922, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 855.9600219726562, "end_time": 923.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 856.2950219726563, "cut_end_time": 923.8600844726562}, {"text": "St. Friend and the Rabbi and Boone, backed by the Board of Education, proclaim that they have been studying the wily local policy of the man from Singapore. It seems to be first, to promote confusion. 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His classes in the Malay Peninsula languages and literature are well attended by the sons and daughters of those who denounce him. Many wait for any slip of the tongue or wrong turn of the voice and cannot catch him.", "start_byte": 188424, "end_byte": 188868, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 967.239990234375, "end_time": 1006.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 967.744990234375, "cut_end_time": 1004.8301152343751}, {"text": "They cannot help liking the jolly old Malay lore about things which have nothing to do with politics and which are the whole theme of the brown professor\u2019s discourses.", "start_byte": 188870, "end_byte": 189037, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1006.760009765625, "end_time": 1019.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 1006.885009765625, "cut_end_time": 1018.280072265625}, {"text": "May 27: \u2014 Boone and his faction have slacked up on the Singaporian scent and are back on the old argument. Boone declares that the University must be put more firmly in the position of censor of the administration, and after all there are, by actual count, a larger group of those, supposed to have buried gold and buried alcohol, still using flying machines than the list of our", "start_byte": 189039, "end_byte": 189418, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1019.4400024414062, "end_time": 1051.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1019.7250024414062, "cut_end_time": 1051.4600024414062}, {"text": " The Snobs have merely put on the Robin Redbreast uniform. And he boldly prints the list of those morally certain to have much buried alcohol and gold but puts it so deftly there is no risk of suit. And so, to make good, the City Hall starts an informal flying festival this afternoon and crowds anyone who can fly at all into machines that come pouring down from Chicago in response to orders from our City Hall. 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He gives all possible attention through coffee-house henchmen, and openly, in The Boone Ax, to the discrediting of", "start_byte": 190133, "end_byte": 190319, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1117.43994140625, "end_time": 1134.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1117.7249414062499, "cut_end_time": 1134.26006640625}, {"text": " And true or false, the stories are whispered around the town about Jim that will spoil him as a political asset and ruin his glory as the punisher of", "start_byte": 190335, "end_byte": 190485, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1136.9599609375, "end_time": 1149.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1137.6149609375, "cut_end_time": 1149.2100859374998}, {"text": "He has been guilty of certain cruelties to animals and children. It is whispered that the police have clearly established it. They are keeping the records. They are hoping they may some day have the freedom to act. 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He goes through as many curves as a pigeon bred for flying tricks. And it is said on the street that the Robin Redbreast Club will keep him in office out of respect for his luck. He has always been a reckless but endlessly successful trick flyer. So by midnight Jim has won the cheap rumor battle in the coffee houses and Yellow Dance Halls and drug stores. And why not? Boone should be in better business.", "start_byte": 191092, "end_byte": 191668, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1203.47998046875, "end_time": 1255.0, "cut_start_time": 1204.2449804687499, "cut_end_time": 1253.1300429687499}, {"text": "May 29: \u2014 The town wakes up this morning to find the Snobs asserting themselves again, though now it is the parents and grandparents that are more at fault, not the high school aviators. The families on the list Boone has published, along with their sympathizers, have in the night put gold-foil on conspicuous portions of the cupolas of their cottage roofs or the roofs of their club houses.", "start_byte": 191670, "end_byte": 192062, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1255.0, "end_time": 1288.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1255.235, "cut_end_time": 1286.87}, {"text": "May 30: \u2014 There is a scandal in the Microscope and Telescope Factory. Old Montague Rock is one of the chief men of the factory. Patricia Anthony, the Proud, is leading a strike against him because of a certain contract, which he long ago secured, for lenses which have been delivered for over a year in a steady stream to a firm on the western coast. It now transpires that these people were agents for the Singaporian Government and Patricia Anthony is morally certain, Singapore is using these lenses in the new mysterious war machine which is a step beyond the lens gun. The Singaporians are presumed to be laying up these machines already, for the day of Singaporian rebellion against the World Government.", "start_byte": 192064, "end_byte": 192774, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1288.0799560546875, "end_time": 1348.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1288.3649560546874, "cut_end_time": 1346.5800810546875}, {"text": "Old Montague Rock has always had an irritating style of address and he has made a speech to the strikers in a fashion that has not helped toward peace one little bit. He has said this very morning that the Singaporians are the souls of honor and most admirable, aside from their religion, with which, of course, he has nothing to do. And that they are the height of Asiatic aristocracy at all times. He has said our city should be flattered to furnish them with lenses for guns for local police work in Asia. And so he continues to paraphrase his speech in conversations with reporters at Fifth and Monroe and in Coe\u2019s Book Store, and wherever he meets his friends and enemies, through the whole afternoon.", "start_byte": 192776, "end_byte": 193482, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1348.56005859375, "end_time": 1406.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1348.72505859375, "cut_end_time": 1405.4701210937499}, {"text": "So The Boone Ax advocates a strikers\u2019 parade for tomorrow afternoon and Boone strains his whole credit and prestige in the city to make it a success. Those societies, etc. that are to be the principal decorative features are listed, in this afternoon\u2019s papers, and the line of march is printed. They are to assemble on Second and Monroe, near the old arsenal, and march south on Second to Capital Avenue, east on Capital Avenue to Fifth, north on Fifth to Monroe, east on Monroe to Sixth, etc.", "start_byte": 193484, "end_byte": 193977, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1406.6800537109375, "end_time": 1453.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1407.3550537109375, "cut_end_time": 1450.7700537109374}, {"text": "May 31: \u2014 The Anti King Coal Parade goes by this afternoon with many surprises, not in the official list of splendors. The event was scheduled to be called:", "start_byte": 193979, "end_byte": 194135, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1453.43994140625, "end_time": 1467.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1453.7649414062498, "cut_end_time": 1467.74006640625}, {"text": " but Montague Rock being often called King Coal, the other title gets into the headlines.", "start_byte": 194177, "end_byte": 194266, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1471.47998046875, "end_time": 1480.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1472.0249804687498, "cut_end_time": 1479.7301054687498}, {"text": "First, between girls on horseback, carrying the Star Spangled Banner and the International flag, rides Patricia Anthony, forewoman of the lens factory, and, after her, march or ride the strikers, in all possible glittering and glassy spangles, to show their trade and their gaiety. And then comes King Coal in chains. He is presumed to be an excellent portrait of the head of the Rock family. He is built of actual coal, in parts, and black pasteboard also. 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Then Avanel comes by at the head of her Amazons and Michaelites, all riding milk white ponies. It is the first time I have seen Avanel in command, and Boone did not mention this cavalcade in his paper. Indeed, it is remarked upon as a most arbitrary use of military forces that are accepted by the International Government. Avanel is every inch the commander and, for all she is so slender and young, looks the immortal, Athena, leading forth her city. There must be something, not rumored in the coffee houses, or this demonstration in force would not be permitted this mile of riders. Their faces are not masked as were those of the ancient Ku Klux Klan but the costume is, indeed, as singular. It is, for both the men and the women, in the pattern of the old hunter and trapper outfit of coonskin cap and fringed shirt, jacket, leggins and moccasins. But it is all white leather, with touches of long white fur. The girl\u2019s costumes are cut a bit like the conventional riding habit. The dazzling whiteness would not have been possible before the days of smoke consumers and dustless streets. I behold an avalanche of thundering snow.", "start_byte": 195128, "end_byte": 196409, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1558.800048828125, "end_time": 1675.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1559.255048828125, "cut_end_time": 1674.880111328125}]}

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Their poor strength must be economized in narrow channels if it is to last and be recuperated. But if St. Friend tries to put such a set of chains on me I will not speak to him for a month.\u201d", "start_byte": 211026, "end_byte": 211334, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1220.800048828125, "end_time": 1249.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1221.155048828125, "cut_end_time": 1247.910048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Citizens in the Communion of the Blessed Bread.", "start_byte": 211595, "end_byte": 211647, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1271.5999755859375, "end_time": 1275.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1271.5849755859374, "cut_end_time": 1274.8100380859373, "narrative_prediction": {"descriptive": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cWe walk our plain path! We eat our plain bread in a rare fellowship! Therefore all things become eternal. The Church of Springfield, the church of this sunlit grass, the church of a million days and nights, is proclaimed from the steps of this Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul this day.\u201d", "start_byte": 217156, "end_byte": 217447, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1756.8399658203125, "end_time": 1787.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1757.1949658203125, "cut_end_time": 1784.8900908203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI think I choose St. Friend for my guide, because he begins and ends with prayer. I do not stay away from motion pictures, as he commands, nor from the Yellow Dance Halls, as he and my father both command. But I distrust these places, because of the warnings of these good men. I will eat this bread, you and I will eat it together, though I know it is railed at in the Yellow Dance Halls, and I know the keen things that are said there against such superstitions. We will continue to eat together the Amaranth-Apples that are tabooed there. We will read together the proverbs and songs and prayers of St. Scribe and, while our feet may be in the Yellow Halls, our souls will be making the pilgrimage of the one hundred religions. We will be thinking together how the whole human race is the body of Christ, soon to be raised from the dead.\u201d", "start_byte": 218182, "end_byte": 219024, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1854.9200439453125, "end_time": 1933.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1856.4850439453123, "cut_end_time": 1932.7800439453124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe trouble with this breaking of bread is that it is a pledge to break our bodies. I do not want to break mine for a long time, if ever.\u201d", "start_byte": 221187, "end_byte": 221326, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2121.080078125, "end_time": 2134.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 2121.575078125, "cut_end_time": 2133.490078125, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYet,", "start_byte": 221328, "end_byte": 221333, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2134.800048828125, "end_time": 2135.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 2135.215048828125, "cut_end_time": 2135.800048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "June 1, 2018: \u2014 In the capital of Illinois, in this year of grace, St. Friend is a healer of the body and soul. He is more of a philosopher than the fuming Black Hawk Boone, that is, he has a cooler disposition. Yet Boone heals by hard maxims, given with that lovely fruit, the Amaranth-Apple. St. Friend heals by sermons and prayers and the pictured parables, the rituals envisaged and illuminated in the celebration of the Office of the Blessed Bread.", "start_byte": 197160, "end_byte": 197613, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 25.280000686645508, "end_time": 67.04000091552734, "cut_start_time": 25.53500068664551, "cut_end_time": 66.45006318664551}, {"text": "The real name of our saint, which no one ever hears, is Hugh Adams Matheney. He is, away and beyond, the oldest of the Board of Education or of any of the leaders of the city. He has little fire in his blood, but has still the greatest reserve battery of nervous force. He was, even as a little boy, a protege and disciple of St. Scribe of the Shrines, who was then in the height of his glory as a leader of our town. He preceded St. Friend as the dominating figure of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul and handed down to him and to the whole city the old doctrine, with a new emphasis, that the whole human race is the mystical body of Christ, soon to be raised from the dead. On his mother\u2019s side St. Friend is a descendant of a long line of members of the Church of the Disciples. On his father\u2019s side his ancestors are notable in several lines, for instance, the Matheneys of Springfield. The original Matheneys put up one of the first three settlers\u2019 log cabins ever erected in this county. The Adams strain is from New Harmony, Indiana. There they were bakers for several generations. The cottage of St. Friend has his baker\u2019s coat of arms painted over the little front door, over the tremendous open fireplace, and in the little dining room. On one slender pole, in front of his cottage, all of his family flags are flying. The most important of the flags, in the estimation of St. Friend, is that of the clan of these same Adams people from New Harmony.", "start_byte": 197615, "end_byte": 199082, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 67.04000091552734, "end_time": 196.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 67.76500091552734, "cut_end_time": 195.31000091552733}, {"text": "St. Friend is the last of his actual clan to be a baker, though the town is full of his first and second cousins; \u2014 and third cousins, indeed, that claim him proudly. He has adopted a son, an orphan boy, early apprenticed to his flour barrels by the school authorities, a boy of Thibetan ancestry and one of a small local group of Thibetans. He is now grown. Except for ceremonial occasions he has long graduated from baking. He is occupied in designing more exquisite and slender sunset towers, of the school of Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, to add one more circle to the outer ring, when purple cottages and old buildings have been sufficiently cleared away. He is known as the", "start_byte": 199084, "end_byte": 199775, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 196.47999572753906, "end_time": 256.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 196.71499572753905, "cut_end_time": 257.06005822753906}, {"text": " or the", "start_byte": 199794, "end_byte": 199801, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 259.1199951171875, "end_time": 260.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 259.25499511718755, "cut_end_time": 259.8701201171875}, {"text": "When I have passed him on the street, I have observed him muttering to himself or occasionally walking and arguing with the other Thibetans. He looks every inch the stranger, with square face and almond eyes, and skin brickdust red, with heavy bronze beneath it.", "start_byte": 199819, "end_byte": 200081, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 262.32000732421875, "end_time": 284.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 262.82500732421875, "cut_end_time": 283.6600698242188}, {"text": "The sister of St. Friend, living in the same cottage, a mild, ghostly creature, creeping about, is more than a centenarian. She remembers the celebration of Armistice Day, November 11, 1918. She was then a baby in her father\u2019s arms, and held out her hands to catch the falling showers of confetti thrown from the high buildings. She thought it was snow.", "start_byte": 200083, "end_byte": 200436, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 284.8800048828125, "end_time": 317.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 285.59500488281253, "cut_end_time": 315.9900048828125}, {"text": "St. Friend graduated from the Hay-Edwards school. He went through one of Springfield\u2019s High Schools. He continued on for a while through the Municipal University of the town. He attended a college of his faith at Washington, D. C. He then became a novice of the order of St. Scribe of the Shrines and took that discipline as literally as possible.", "start_byte": 200438, "end_byte": 200785, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 317.67999267578125, "end_time": 346.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 318.2649926757813, "cut_end_time": 344.8500551757813}, {"text": "St. Friend is a close correspondent of the hundred radical bishops who are, often in remoter fashion, followers of St. Scribe of the Shrines, while at the same time they are conserving the results of the Church Revolution. Two of these bishops, the present leaders of the order, were young pilgrims with him when he made the journey commanded by St. Scribe, the pilgrimage around the world to the one hundred shrines of the one hundred religions, beginning with the Tomb of Lincoln. The boy returned while St. Scribe was still in his prime and a rousing, dominating figure in the city. The boy became the private secretary of the Saint. When the saint was an old man, the disciple was his confidential adviser and finally, when the great man departed this life, the office of leading the Cathedral flock naturally devolved upon the disciple. It was about this time that the rumor began to move among the people that the departed St. Scribe was once Hunter Kelly and it slowly became the fashion, with some of the more fanciful citizens, to speak of Hunter Kelly-St. Scribe as though they were one guardian spirit. St. Friend was offered the headship of the order of St. Scribe but he refused it and, without abandoning his place and the prescribed forms and prayers of this discipline, he set up quite a separate order of his own, the Order of the Blessed Bread of the Strict Observance, and today he has proclaimed from the Cathedral pulpit the setting up of a more popular order, of the more liberal observance, and though there is much not yet cleared up by the sermon, Avanel is resolved to join, if possible, and recruit me, if it may be done.", "start_byte": 200787, "end_byte": 202435, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 346.0799865722656, "end_time": 482.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 346.37498657226564, "cut_end_time": 481.7301115722656}, {"text": "This is the history of The Order of The Strict Observance: \u2014 For many years St. Friend has given himself, in true devotion, as a member of the Springfield Associated Charities, to provide for the handful of defectives, drug fiends, and those outlaws who are now classed with them by common consent: \u2014 the unskilled laborers. St. Friend finds in his heart a great Franciscan pity for them. He finds there a sharp social rebellion that there should be any outlaws or helpless ones whatever. So he has become, by acclamation, the perpetual head of the Associated Charities, and these feverish wanton ones have been cheerfully left to his over-solicitude. The entire contingent of the socially crippled cuts as small a figure on the general horizon of the city as did the group of the professional paupers in the days when blind men turned hand organs. The educational machinery is such that within the double city walls, built long ago by Ralph Adams Cram, the so-called", "start_byte": 202437, "end_byte": 203404, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 482.8800048828125, "end_time": 562.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 483.5450048828125, "cut_end_time": 563.0600673828126}, {"text": " have long been kept out. People in general are well-fed, super-skilled laborers. And they have about all the carnal bread and all the carnal circuses they can well digest.", "start_byte": 203416, "end_byte": 203588, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 563.8400268554688, "end_time": 582.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 563.8150268554688, "cut_end_time": 582.2700268554688}, {"text": "But St. Friend, who in his youth wept for every fallen sparrow till he could weep no more, has long maintained his Order of the Blessed Bread of the Strict Observance for those left behind in the race, generally degenerate sons and daughters of old settlers. The order is properly called the", "start_byte": 203590, "end_byte": 203881, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 582.719970703125, "end_time": 605.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 583.294970703125, "cut_end_time": 605.740095703125}, {"text": " Those who join eat of a bread baked from a special Sangamon County wheat, planted between the inner and the outer wall by some of the various sects of the Flower Religion and the Park Religion. St. Friend cares not what sect plants the wheat, so it be planted by those who believe in democracy and prayer.", "start_byte": 203917, "end_byte": 204223, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 608.3599853515625, "end_time": 631.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 608.7749853515626, "cut_end_time": 630.2700478515625}, {"text": "After due vigil, the bread is skilfully baked by the Thibetan boy, or other chosen members of the society. Those who eat of it are exhorted, but not commanded, to take the oath before John Boat, for the bread, till now, has been primarily intended for the Brotherhood of the Strict Observance.", "start_byte": 204225, "end_byte": 204518, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 631.1199951171875, "end_time": 655.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 631.5449951171876, "cut_end_time": 655.2300576171875}, {"text": "This oath before John Boat or other cooperating justice of the peace is printed in the little book of devotion that goes with the Strict Observance. The book and oath are intended for the most hopeless derelicts only. Presumably the bread is eaten for the first time by these, after the oath is administered.", "start_byte": 204520, "end_byte": 204828, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 655.9199829101562, "end_time": 679.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 656.3749829101563, "cut_end_time": 678.9501079101562}, {"text": "The gray-headed old justice of the peace furnished the idea himself, when he and St. Friend were young men, and St. Friend kept the copy of the oath and brooded upon it long before he felt it politic to found the order. John Boat had observed, in his experience as a notary, that men, who seem but animated putrescence, still regard their sworn word in court. It is the last chance to put iron into them. This thought in mind, the oath is administered with the solemnity that went into the old monastic vows. From the many who have been given life by the oath, St. Friend has taken great assurance that he is on the road to a tremendous social amelioration.", "start_byte": 204830, "end_byte": 205487, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 679.9600219726562, "end_time": 736.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 680.7150219726562, "cut_end_time": 734.6700219726563}, {"text": "June 2: \u2014 Because Avanel and I have decided to join the more liberal observance of the Order of the Blessed Bread, though we, as yet, know little about it, she is eager to show to me the occasion of the administering of the oath of the Strict Observance. This Monday morning we are taking the back bench in the shadowy corner of the justice court to watch the older ceremonial. Now most oaths in court are rattled off like parrot words, but to John Boat this is an occasion when he is a priest after the order of Melchizedek. He gives a seeming dignity to the most carping and exacting demand of the pledge, reading it line upon line. Blue-faced Surto Hurdenburg, the derelict, echoes him with full and honest intent, repeating every line after the learned court with great respect and devotion.", "start_byte": 205489, "end_byte": 206284, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 736.1199951171875, "end_time": 803.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 736.5849951171875, "cut_end_time": 802.3600576171875}, {"text": "This is the text of the pledge: \u2014 ", "start_byte": 206286, "end_byte": 206320, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 803.1199951171875, "end_time": 807.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 803.6949951171875, "cut_end_time": 805.9300576171876}, {"text": "State of Illinois City of Springfield, June 2, 2018.", "start_byte": 206322, "end_byte": 206374, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 807.239990234375, "end_time": 816.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 807.644990234375, "cut_end_time": 815.100115234375}, {"text": "I, Surto Hurdenburg, accepting the lordship of Christ, do solemnly swear, by the everliving God, that from this time henceforth I will support the Constitution of the World Government, the Constitution of the United States, the Laws of Illinois, the Ordinances of Springfield, that I will faithfully observe and keep inviolate the moral laws of the community; that I will carefully and faithfully observe my duty to my neighbor, recognizing his rights at all times; that I will endeavor to become an expert workman and member of a guild; that I will faithfully, honestly and conscientiously exercise my rights of franchise as a member of my guild and a citizen of the community, with a firm determination to bring about the best results for clean and honest government, and that I will devote as much strength as possible to the study of civic reform, examining at all times the opinions of clean-minded radical citizens and acting on them according to the dictates of my conscience. I specifically promise to abstain from motion-picture shows, yellow dance halls, bad women, alcoholic liquors and narcotics, and to denounce and work against in every way possible the traffic in Singaporian cocaine.", "start_byte": 206376, "end_byte": 207575, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 816.0800170898438, "end_time": 921.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 816.3050170898438, "cut_end_time": 919.8900170898438}, {"text": "Further and finally, I promise to eat the Blessed Bread of this Order of the Strict Observance, according to the manner and at the times laid down in the Book of Devotion, and to follow the discipline for body and soul there prescribed and imposed for the good of the order and the health and well-being of my city.", "start_byte": 207577, "end_byte": 207892, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 921.1199951171875, "end_time": 944.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 921.9049951171875, "cut_end_time": 942.7801201171875}, {"text": "(Signed) Surto Hurdenburg.", "start_byte": 207894, "end_byte": 207920, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 944.3200073242188, "end_time": 948.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 944.4550073242187, "cut_end_time": 947.5800698242188}, {"text": "Subscribed and sworn to before me this Second Day of June, 2018.", "start_byte": 207922, "end_byte": 207986, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 948.9600219726562, "end_time": 956.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 949.6650219726563, "cut_end_time": 955.7400219726562}, {"text": "(Seal) John Boat Notary Public.", "start_byte": 207988, "end_byte": 208019, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 956.719970703125, "end_time": 961.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 956.7649707031251, "cut_end_time": 960.4100332031251}, {"text": "I conclude that, in the light of Springfield life as I have seen it these strange days, it will be easier for such as Surto Hurdenburg to keep the more literal specifications of the pledge, such as the ban on motion pictures, than to enter into the deep mazes of citizenship with judgment. He will keep close to St. Friend and the order, who hate the films, and thereby be able to let the films alone. Most photoplays outside of the educational buildings or beyond the immediate jurisdiction of the World\u2019s Fair authorities are shown on the right or left of the sauntering corridors opening on the Yellow Dance Halls on the same floors. Here half-hour lengths of film are run through, when the crowd sweeps in to rest. The merits of the exceedingly artistic studio and theatre, called", "start_byte": 208021, "end_byte": 208805, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 961.1199951171875, "end_time": 1025.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 962.2549951171875, "cut_end_time": 1025.1800576171875}, {"text": " headed by Gwendolyn Charles and Rabbi Terence Ezekiel remain unappreciated by St. Friend and the members of the Order of the Strict Observance. This in spite of the fact that the Photoplay Association in question now has in charge most of those exquisite and unimpeachable film theatres of the University World\u2019s Fair and several other worth-while film-theatre circuits in Central Illinois.", "start_byte": 208843, "end_byte": 209234, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1028.56005859375, "end_time": 1059.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1028.72505859375, "cut_end_time": 1058.7701210937498}, {"text": " will rent slightly worn films to Yellow Dance Halls, after first runs in these others, and thereby make the films in the eyes of the Order of the Strict Observance, mere devil\u2019s nets for fish.", "start_byte": 209271, "end_byte": 209464, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1062.47998046875, "end_time": 1078.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1062.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 1077.1300429687499}, {"text": "So, though the highly esteemed Rabbi Terence Ezekiel tries to act as mediator, there is eternal war between the fiery Gwendolyn Charles and this saint.", "start_byte": 209466, "end_byte": 209617, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1078.43994140625, "end_time": 1092.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1078.89494140625, "cut_end_time": 1091.70006640625}, {"text": "For a long time back truly aesthetic and truly educational motion pictures have been shown in the school and University class rooms. Many of them are scientific and historical records and renderings. In the odd hours of loafing through these three months I have noted many of them as of the best gifts of the new time. But our stubborn St. Friend, as a member of the school board, generally votes against them, and in solitary grandeur. While at one with the general policies of the educational system, he makes many a speech before the members for the restoration of the regime of the book and the blackboard. He truly says that these are now almost abolished in the presence of the protean triumphant films, of the street pageantry, the training of skilled labor in the high schools, of the oral, the phonographic, telegraphic and telephone methods, applied to all forms of teaching. And only last week he met what appeared to be his Waterloo when it was voted to extend and enlarge the entirely respectable, if a little frigid, university dance halls and to include motion picture loafing rooms, the better to run competition with the Yellow Halls.", "start_byte": 209619, "end_byte": 210770, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1092.8800048828125, "end_time": 1195.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1093.5950048828124, "cut_end_time": 1194.0700048828123}, {"text": "Some of these things I go over with Avanel, as we walk home from witnessing Surto Hurdenburg\u2019s oath, and we wonder just what of the forbidden things, besides motion pictures, St. Friend will include in his pledge for the Liberal Observance. Avanel says:", "start_byte": 210772, "end_byte": 211025, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1195.239990234375, "end_time": 1220.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1195.924990234375, "cut_end_time": 1220.1601152343749}, {"text": "Saturday, June 7: \u2014 St. Friend has today given it out by word of mouth and by editorials in the five papers that the whole world is welcome to his bread. The Order of the Liberal Observance is already more popularly called by the alternate descriptive title:", "start_byte": 211336, "end_byte": 211594, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1249.3599853515625, "end_time": 1271.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1249.9149853515623, "cut_end_time": 1271.6900478515624}, {"text": " There is no oath; even a Quaker may join.", "start_byte": 211648, "end_byte": 211690, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1275.43994140625, "end_time": 1280.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1275.81494140625, "cut_end_time": 1279.53000390625}, {"text": "Sunday, June 8: \u2014 It is the warmest morning of the year, so far, in an exceedingly backward summer. It is the first real June weather, and all the people rejoice in it. Avanel walks to church in the most wonderful of white airy dresses. And in these vacuum-cleaned streets, with no soot and no coal dust and no factory grime, people, working or playing, can be dressed all day as for a party if they choose.", "start_byte": 211692, "end_byte": 212099, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1280.5999755859375, "end_time": 1318.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1281.1649755859373, "cut_end_time": 1317.6700380859374}, {"text": "All day yesterday couriers of all faiths, representing St. Friend\u2019s personal rather than his religious companions, have been out inviting the people. At least one member of each family has been asked to bring his tribe to the Cathedral green and to listen and carry the message back with the bread.", "start_byte": 212101, "end_byte": 212399, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1318.719970703125, "end_time": 1343.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1319.2549707031249, "cut_end_time": 1342.510095703125}, {"text": "Avanel and I are early for Church and so we make a circuit, enjoying the airy splendors of the crowd. And we go around by St. John\u2019s Hospital, so lately rebuilt by the insistence of Mayo Sims, to vindicate his scientific zeal, and they say it is a splendid scientific monument to any man. It is east of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, as it has been for over four generations. And the heretic synagogue and the school for teaching Hebrew, conducted by Rabbi Terence Ezekiel, are on the sites where the two orthodox synagogues were, one hundred years ago.", "start_byte": 212401, "end_byte": 212964, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1343.6800537109375, "end_time": 1392.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1343.8950537109374, "cut_end_time": 1391.1001162109374}, {"text": "The green in front of the Cathedral was enclosed by a beautiful Gothic wall long ago, at the same time the devout congregation rebuilt the church. The enclosure is rapidly filling with people. St. Friend is to speak to the whole city from the Cathedral steps.", "start_byte": 212966, "end_byte": 213225, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1392.0400390625, "end_time": 1413.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1393.0050390625, "cut_end_time": 1411.9500390624999}, {"text": "Piled on great wooden trays on the side of the Cathedral steps are the splendid brown loaves, put there for all the world by the Brotherhood of the Strict Observance, who are about in their almost monkish official robes, proud indeed to be so prominent.", "start_byte": 213227, "end_byte": 213480, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1413.239990234375, "end_time": 1433.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1413.5349902343748, "cut_end_time": 1432.280115234375}, {"text": "Blue-faced Surto Hurdenburg, so lately sworn in, is an ex-headwaiter of alleged New York hotel training and he is now to prove his mettle. He is about his task decorously and swiftly enough, for those seated and settled already have the tissue-wrapped loaves in their laps, and all through the sermon, as fast as our citizens are settled, they are given their loaves without a sound or a grimace, and Hurdenburg, the efficient, rises high at once in the estimation of the children of light.", "start_byte": 213482, "end_byte": 213972, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1433.6400146484375, "end_time": 1475.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1434.0550146484375, "cut_end_time": 1474.5500146484374}, {"text": "But now the saint rises to speak. He is indeed a figure; his white hair gleams in the June morning air. His face is the face of Lincoln, grown old, with a touch of St. Francis eternally young. He straightens to his full height. He is fifty years younger. He is one of those capable of seeming collapse for weeks, when it is but the storage time, and then the lightning is discharged in one tremendous hour.", "start_byte": 213974, "end_byte": 214380, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1475.199951171875, "end_time": 1512.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1476.104951171875, "cut_end_time": 1511.8600136718749}, {"text": "There is a certain vast medieval humor about him. He is vested in his ceremonial baking apron and Avanel giggles till he actually begins to speak. This is the end of his sermon: \u2014 ", "start_byte": 214382, "end_byte": 214562, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1512.719970703125, "end_time": 1529.0, "cut_start_time": 1513.154970703125, "cut_end_time": 1527.980033203125}, {"text": "\u201cPray consider that, in your freedom from vows this splendid June day, you are nevertheless dubbed knights, my fellow citizens. In medieval times monks and knights served the Church with the same divine vocation and devotion.", "start_byte": 214564, "end_byte": 214789, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1529.0, "end_time": 1549.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1529.7649999999999, "cut_end_time": 1548.57}, {"text": "\u201cThe Church of Springfield has come. It is the sunlit grass of this park; it is this Illinois sky. Under the roof of this Cathedral behind me and of all the churches, temples, and synagogues of this town, its primer work has been done and will be done. It will begin with sheltered faiths and will not contradict or undermine any.", "start_byte": 214791, "end_byte": 215121, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1549.3599853515625, "end_time": 1579.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1550.2149853515625, "cut_end_time": 1578.6801103515625}, {"text": "\u201cIt seems that we must periodically sing hymns and look at the little jeweled holy things and read the precious little books, or we cannot go on and out and up. There was only one Johnny Appleseed in the history of mankind. His image is in our Cathedral, but even he read Swedenborg and clung to that system. Yet sooner or later, like that great saint Johnny Appleseed, we awaken to our great outdoors, and all the visions there.", "start_byte": 215123, "end_byte": 215552, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1579.800048828125, "end_time": 1620.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1580.6250488281248, "cut_end_time": 1618.7500488281248}, {"text": "\u201cAll Holy worship, learned, as when Johnny Appleseed walked the highroad, or the primer lesson when he first read Swedenborg beneath his boyhood roof, makes over the mere bread of comradeship into this blessed bread which will heal our shameful diseases of body and of soul.", "start_byte": 215554, "end_byte": 215828, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1620.3199462890625, "end_time": 1643.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1620.8649462890623, "cut_end_time": 1642.3800087890625}, {"text": "\u201cShare it, share it! When we have shared the blessed bread, communing like true friends, the beauty of all Heaven, the sea in which we move that is above all and through all and in all, will gild more perfectly the Springfield daily grind and the Springfield sabbath. The devout convert and his child and his grandchild will build his house as beautifully as our Sacred Apple Tree is made, as righteously as the Sacred Oak Tree, as democratically as the Golden Rain Tree, which spreads its branches like a gate for all of us to pass through in equality. The devout convert will build such architecture as glitters in the songs and books of devotion of St. Scribe.", "start_byte": 215830, "end_byte": 216493, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1643.5999755859375, "end_time": 1703.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1643.7749755859375, "cut_end_time": 1702.3201005859373}, {"text": "\u201cThe voices of the children will be as noble as the discourses of the prairie winds that catch our tree boughs at sunset. Every house will be as delicate and subtle as the ferny hollows of the Sangamon. The convert will name many birds that will come at his call and he will feed them crumbs of this Blessed Bread in friendship.", "start_byte": 216495, "end_byte": 216823, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1703.0400390625, "end_time": 1728.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1703.8150390624999, "cut_end_time": 1727.8701015625}, {"text": "\u201cWhen Springfield has partaken of this manna for a generation, all things will become new. Leavening thoughts will come from all the street corners. Novel fancies will come from the coffee houses. The conferences and colloquies of fallible men will take on something of the aspect of the meetings of the inspired souls of Heaven.", "start_byte": 216825, "end_byte": 217154, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1728.800048828125, "end_time": 1756.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1729.295048828125, "cut_end_time": 1755.830048828125}, {"text": "And now Avanel comments: \u2014 \u201cIf you look deeply into the aphorisms my father serves with his apples and with his paper money theory, you will find, though he is no atheist or mocker, he is a son of the narrow, dry antagonisms of some of the village atheist stock with which our blood mingled during our sojourn in Egypt. I glory in my Indian ancestry, even if I do not make myself conspicuous with my hair loose and my left hand crimson. But as to my father\u2019s village-infidel streak, I have no use for it. Moreover, I heard him ding dong his doctrines in my childhood at times when he was not at his best. I know better how to take St. Friend. Both are narrow as mousetraps on their literal side, if one has a turn for being caught.", "start_byte": 217449, "end_byte": 218180, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1787.0400390625, "end_time": 1854.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1787.5450390624999, "cut_end_time": 1853.9501015624999}, {"text": "And so this evening Avanel invites me to her own select table in the inn at the top of one of the great northwest gates, the inner gate, that overlooks the former village of Ashland, Cass County, and is one of the chief glories of the Inner Wall. It is the Musicians\u2019 Building and from here oftener than anywhere else on this wall, sound the special evening hymns and organ solos and chimes, over this whole segment of the city and over the forest parks to the north, between the walls. Pilgrims pass through the gate beneath us. They have visited, according to the ritual, Lincoln\u2019s monument, the First Shrine of St. Scribe \u2014 Hunter Kelly, and they are hurrying along his great highway leading northwest through the Gate of the Outer Wall, that overlooks the former village of Virginia in old Cass County.", "start_byte": 219026, "end_byte": 219832, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1933.8399658203125, "end_time": 1999.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1934.5249658203124, "cut_end_time": 1998.3100908203123}, {"text": "Our refractory is called: \u2014 The Pilgrim\u2019s First Inn. It is on the cafeteria principle but is a most spacious place, being the whole floor of the tower, with tremendous sheets of glass for windows, so that an aviator, circling it, can see straight through it from every angle, and all the colored and decorative searchlights of this happy June evening sweep through it as the twilight comes on, lights for the most part of the delicate tints of the towers: \u2014 more like rapid clouds, left over from the sunset, than sharp, searching, swords.", "start_byte": 219834, "end_byte": 220373, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1999.4000244140625, "end_time": 2043.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1999.7950244140625, "cut_end_time": 2042.3200244140623}, {"text": "So Avanel and I find our table, in proper chatting distance from several others, some of whom have also brought their brown loaf. And we carry from the counter a few things like coffee and butter and Amaranth-Apples and we banquet. She speaks more lovingly of her father\u2019s many moods. She divides the apples, uttering at the same time scraps of his philosophy.", "start_byte": 220375, "end_byte": 220735, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2043.43994140625, "end_time": 2074.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 2043.9449414062499, "cut_end_time": 2073.82006640625}, {"text": "At last we take the bread of St. Friend. It is our communion service, High Mass of comradeship.", "start_byte": 220737, "end_byte": 220832, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2074.760009765625, "end_time": 2086.320068359375, "cut_start_time": 2075.625009765625, "cut_end_time": 2084.8701347656247}, {"text": "Avanel quotes from the Gospel of Luke, \u2014 from Luke\u2019s deathless story of the first communion.", "start_byte": 220834, "end_byte": 220926, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2086.320068359375, "end_time": 2093.840087890625, "cut_start_time": 2086.5350683593747, "cut_end_time": 2093.060130859375}, {"text": "There is a ringing of bells all over the city, silvery and sweet, and in every tower of the walls: \u2014 the ringing of the star chimes. It is a clear night. The sweeping colored lights are gone. 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Would you?\u201d", "start_byte": 226710, "end_byte": 226765, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 443.0400085449219, "end_time": 449.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 443.3950085449219, "cut_end_time": 448.3700085449219, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cVelaska.\u201d", "start_byte": 227639, "end_byte": 227649, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 726.4400024414062, "end_time": 729.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 726.5050024414063, "cut_end_time": 727.8300024414062, "narrative_prediction": {"called": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe election is coming Tuesday, the Yellow Dance Hall Parade, tomorrow. Let us remember that this referendum election has been brought about by the signatures of the entire Board of Education, of over half the City Council and of a completely representative host of citizens of all families and clans and faiths. If we who have signed that paper win our petition, it is the last and third call and the voters will grant that The Yellow Dance Halls be banished from our city forever. Tomorrow the Yellow Parade is coming. There will be every effort on the part of the yellow claque to laugh down the seriousness of the issue. Let no friend of this Cathedral take part in that parade. Let all good citizens, at every spare moment from this hour to the election, go forth to urge their immediate kith and kin and fellow clansmen to turn out at the polls and vote for the banishment of these places and let my friends who have taken the especial Oath of the Strict Observance consider this election their charge and let them leave nothing undone that will secure a full showing at the polls of the voters of whatever persuasion. The only way to lose this election is by staying at home.\u201d", "start_byte": 231380, "end_byte": 232564, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1074.1600341796875, "end_time": 1183.0, "cut_start_time": 1074.8950341796874, "cut_end_time": 1181.3700341796873, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYet their children know these secret treasuries and meet in these halls to corrupt all the other children of the city. From way below gilded roofs the poison venders ascend by tortuous and shameful passages and go forth to dance and destroy and defeat the plain will of the people as recorded in initiative, referendum, and recall, and elections at the polls and guild elections: \u2014 and even, at the height of their folly, to whisper Singaporian treason.\u201d", "start_byte": 233502, "end_byte": 233957, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1266.280029296875, "end_time": 1306.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1266.705029296875, "cut_end_time": 1305.6900917968749, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cthe two strangers.", "start_byte": 236833, "end_byte": 236852, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1570.0799560546875, "end_time": 1572.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1570.2649560546874, "cut_end_time": 1571.7600810546874, "narrative_prediction": {"calls": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThey are trying too hard,", "start_byte": 238016, "end_byte": 238042, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1677.199951171875, "end_time": 1680.0, "cut_start_time": 1677.7849511718748, "cut_end_time": 1679.6800136718748, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cGood Cheer Can Save the Soul.\u201d", "start_byte": 238128, "end_byte": 238159, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1688.4000244140625, "end_time": 1691.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1688.7450244140623, "cut_end_time": 1690.8200244140623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cLet us Cultivate the Patience of Humor.\u201d", "start_byte": 238161, "end_byte": 238202, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1691.3599853515625, "end_time": 1695.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1691.7449853515625, "cut_end_time": 1694.2101103515624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cLet us Seek the Humility of Humor and Laugh at Ourselves.\u201d", "start_byte": 238204, "end_byte": 238263, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1695.0400390625, "end_time": 1701.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1695.7250390625, "cut_end_time": 1699.8100390625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Touch of Humor is in all Successful Politics.\u201d", "start_byte": 238265, "end_byte": 238316, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1701.199951171875, "end_time": 1706.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1702.064951171875, "cut_end_time": 1706.250013671875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo Man is Too Awkward to Dance.", "start_byte": 238318, "end_byte": 238350, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1706.8399658203125, "end_time": 1709.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1707.2749658203124, "cut_end_time": 1709.6100908203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHer lover will not see her face till the dawn, when she lays aside her veil also.\u201d", "start_byte": 238740, "end_byte": 238823, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1748.56005859375, "end_time": 1755.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1748.91505859375, "cut_end_time": 1754.84005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cVelaska", "start_byte": 239370, "end_byte": 239378, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1808.9200439453125, "end_time": 1809.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1809.0750439453125, "cut_end_time": 1809.7501064453124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cfor good and all.", "start_byte": 239408, "end_byte": 239426, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1811.3199462890625, "end_time": 1813.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1811.3349462890624, "cut_end_time": 1812.4100087890624, "narrative_prediction": {"voted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " now. Most of the people who study under him do not care what his views may be on any subject but art. He is the best teacher and that is enough for them. And, as a matter of fact, in expressing his international views which he does out of teaching hours, he is a roaring baby and unworthy of the attention of grown up politicians. But I tell him that even grown ups in politics should not be too much censured for misunderstanding him. People, like Short, who fight for individuality and whose whole object as teachers is to promote the diversity of their pupils, cannot see why the world cannot be one great art class. They are, indeed, in strong contrast with state builders, who build with men in masses and blocks.", "start_byte": 223291, "end_byte": 224010, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 159.0399932861328, "end_time": 220.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 159.0149932861328, "cut_end_time": 219.3901182861328}, {"text": "This morning Short takes me around to the Hall of Velaska, when it is absolutely deserted except by ourselves, and shows me with pride the pictures he has given the hall. These pictures are so set in the walls, they seem painted there, and the whole color scheme that Short has long planned holds them together. There is a defiant touch of Singaporian green in it, sometimes with the glisten of the hated green glass, but the place is otherwise in the most quiet and inoffensive taste.", "start_byte": 224012, "end_byte": 224497, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 220.16000366210938, "end_time": 254.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 220.73500366210936, "cut_end_time": 254.11000366210936}, {"text": "The first picture is the one that he had long planned for the World\u2019s Fair, till it was debarred on account of its subject: \u2014 the portrait of Mara of Singapore, when she was the age of Juliet. Next is what Short calls a Fairy Fashion-plate, a gown to be worn at the funeral of an exceedingly wealthy bumblebee. If we are to believe our guide, Mr. Short, here is depicted an occasion when one must wear a look of grief and resignation and an appropriate costume. Short explains that all bootlicking fairies consider it good form to blacken the face on such occasions. They will not blacken their faces for bumblebees who are poor. But, when a deal of honey is left to sustain the mourners, it has become a convenient manner of expressing grief for the honeyeater to steal an ink bottle off a writing table and spill the ink all over one\u2019s self. One looks more crestfallen than in any conventional black. So this fairy manikin is dressed in gray dove\u2019s feathers and ink poured on her in streaks and her little face is all smudged with it. Soon she will hurry home, take a complete bath, and eat the honey.", "start_byte": 224499, "end_byte": 225602, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 254.67999267578125, "end_time": 344.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 255.49499267578125, "cut_end_time": 343.33011767578125}, {"text": "The Boy and the Ostrichissimus: \u2014 The Ostrichissimus is a bird about three times the size of the ostrich and with ostrich plumes all over it, and some of them so long behind, it has not the insulting shape of the ostrich. A more graceful neck helps also. Its head is not so bald. The Ostrichissimus is driven with a silk cord, passed through the mouth, for a bridle. The boy driving holds on tight with both knees and is a little scared but enjoying himself immensely. They are hurrying across the Sahara desert.", "start_byte": 225604, "end_byte": 226116, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 344.6400146484375, "end_time": 390.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 345.4250146484375, "cut_end_time": 389.4000771484375}, {"text": "The Devil is Making Candy: \u2014 Short explains that this is a picture with a purpose. The Devil, in a cook\u2019s costume, is bending over the usual candy kettle. Peeping in at the door are those that wait for his candy. These are the usual run of sinners, types that appear in sermon pictures, the miser with his gold and the Magdalene with her painted jaws, etc. The devil looks exceedingly sly but Short explains that there is nothing for him to look sly about. It is only fudge. The Devil tests it by dipping in his finger, which, of course, he can do without burning himself.", "start_byte": 226118, "end_byte": 226690, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 390.1600036621094, "end_time": 440.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 390.9250036621094, "cut_end_time": 439.4000661621094}, {"text": " says Short,", "start_byte": 226697, "end_byte": 226709, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 441.20001220703125, "end_time": 443.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 441.4150122070313, "cut_end_time": 442.4100747070313}, {"text": "The Sewing Machine of Fate: \u2014 Fate is an old woman among the stars, big as a sign of the zodiac. She is crouched in a heap over a sewing machine. It is a little too small for her clumsy hands but she can use it. Forever and forever, with eyes that never lift from the plunging needle, she bends over her task, sending through new cloth from the looms of time. When this cloth has passed under the needle, it is written with characters that can never be snipped out. This inscription is all she lives for. Yet, like the inscriptions of the temples of Yucatan, it is forever unreadable except to ghosts, hobgoblins, spooks, and such like creatures, with whom sensible people have nothing to do.", "start_byte": 226767, "end_byte": 227459, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 449.5199890136719, "end_time": 711.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 450.2149890136719, "cut_end_time": 710.8701140136719}, {"text": "There is one great blank space on the wall, for the portrait of the mythical queen of the revels in this particular Yellow Hall, Sally Mary Ann Velaska Harris, familiarly called", "start_byte": 227461, "end_byte": 227638, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 711.760009765625, "end_time": 726.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 712.575009765625, "cut_end_time": 726.120072265625}, {"text": "Sunday, June 15: \u2014 I find myself this morning in the loft of the gigantic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul with Surto Hurdenburg. His face is still painted blue by mother nature, as a reminder of his long struggles with alcohol. But there are new unquenchable fires within. He looks like a broken down but repentant Bill Sykes. He takes the sermon with great literalness, as I know, by his asides to me.", "start_byte": 227651, "end_byte": 228057, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 729.1199951171875, "end_time": 769.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 729.6649951171876, "cut_end_time": 767.7800576171875}, {"text": "St. Friend\u2019s voice is much more quavering and old than last Sunday. He is living in the reaction from that tremendous physical outlay. It is as though we were endowed with a special sense of hearing and were listening from celestial parapets to the cry of a sick man on the earth.", "start_byte": 228059, "end_byte": 228339, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 769.0399780273438, "end_time": 792.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 769.3649780273438, "cut_end_time": 790.9901030273438}, {"text": "Such is the magnificence and medievalism of the old church, so brilliant are its windows, so austere its pillars and niches for the saints, and the images of those saints, that it seems to have been built a thousand instead of a hundred years ago. Yet here are not only images of St. Peter and St. Paul, but of a long line of saints, as beautiful as America itself all the way to yesterday. Here are Saint Francis and Swedenborg, and Johnny Appleseed before whom candles are burning: \u2014 Hunter Kelly, in his aspect of St. Scribe of the Shrines, and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mary Baker Eddy, and the first Mother Grey, founder of the flower religion and Jane Addams and that tremendous and divine jester and poet and sage, Abraham Lincoln. There are a hundred other niches with the American saints and world saints and a hundred others waiting for the saints of tomorrow.", "start_byte": 228341, "end_byte": 229209, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 792.280029296875, "end_time": 871.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 792.6950292968751, "cut_end_time": 870.3500917968751}, {"text": "But Surto Hurdenburg is listening to the sermon. Here is a fragment thereof: \u2014 ", "start_byte": 229211, "end_byte": 229290, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 871.0800170898438, "end_time": 878.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 871.5050170898438, "cut_end_time": 877.3500795898437}, {"text": "\u201cThe solution of the problem of the social evil can be given in four words: \u2018THE PROUD CITIZEN WOMAN.\u2019", "start_byte": 229292, "end_byte": 229394, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 878.6400146484375, "end_time": 890.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 879.4750146484375, "cut_end_time": 888.5000771484375}, {"text": "\u201cSpringfield has no tenements but until the life of the United States outside of Springfield has its larger hours of leisure and more green clear spaces in which to cultivate codes and fine observances between boy and girl, the custom of selling the young girls to the slaughter will leap over double Gothic walls and invade those groves and parks we call \u2018Springfield.\u2019 We have the beginning of chivalry in many ways, such as the public school honor pageants and athletic honor tournaments and all the fine codes of Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the First, in connection therewith. We still need more sense of honor, honor beyond the point of Bayard and the Cid.", "start_byte": 229396, "end_byte": 230055, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 890.4000244140625, "end_time": 944.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 890.8050244140625, "cut_end_time": 943.8100244140626}, {"text": "\u201cThere is only one issue for sweethearts: \u2014 honor or dishonor, citizen or slave. So it has been from the beginning of time, so it will continue till woman\u2019s redemption and complete emancipation. The fantastic Hindu would die ten thousand deaths before he would break caste.", "start_byte": 230057, "end_byte": 230330, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 944.719970703125, "end_time": 975.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 945.294970703125, "cut_end_time": 974.5600957031251}, {"text": "\u201cThe stubborn Mohammedan or Jew will yet be torn to shreds before he will consent to offer to an idol. Not all the tides of the world cynicism has changed these. The Japanese would cut out his tongue before he would speak a slighting word against the flag or honor of Japan or do a work in her despite. Are these people to be mocked for having a code?", "start_byte": 230332, "end_byte": 230683, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 975.3200073242188, "end_time": 1006.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 975.9950073242188, "cut_end_time": 1004.8900698242188}, {"text": "\u201cBy standing by those Don Quixotic notions they prove they are men, not cattle. America, led by such orchard cities as Springfield and the other capitals that are turning their streets into parks of worship, should have one patriotism, one caste rule, one religion, the religion of honoring woman as a comrade citizen.", "start_byte": 230685, "end_byte": 231003, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1006.0800170898438, "end_time": 1037.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1006.5950170898437, "cut_end_time": 1036.7500795898438}, {"text": "\u201cThe Yellow Dance Halls are deceits. They dance lies. Their unwritten laws are poisonous Singaporian devices that in the end make beasts of boys and girls and take cocaine for granted. And in the sporting, boastful excitement of cocaine, ill things are born, vendettas that only yesterday brought mortal bloodshed upon our streets and tricks that shamed us before the ages.", "start_byte": 231005, "end_byte": 231378, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1037.6800537109375, "end_time": 1074.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1038.4650537109374, "cut_end_time": 1072.4901162109375}, {"text": "The voice of the aged and weary St. Friend rises almost to a shriek. He pauses many times for breath but goes on, clinging to the pulpit as he may, exhausted by vigil and anger: \u2014 ", "start_byte": 232566, "end_byte": 232746, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1183.0, "end_time": 1201.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1183.7649999999999, "cut_end_time": 1200.36}, {"text": "\u201cThe Yellow Halls, where all public gambling is carried on and all election money passes! The Yellow Halls, where, despite the legislation of a clearly established majority, through a hundred years, the gold and alcohol from far beneath the gilded roofs, is brought forth from mouldy hiding places and doled out to corrupt the electorate and thwart the clearly recorded will of the people. How long shall we endure these secret multimillionaires and secret wine kings and secret cocaine kings, despising every phase of thoroughbred and honor-bound American Democracy? Despite all the doings of the month of May, not one hiding place of their gold has been unearthed, not one case of their wine has been dug up and confiscated by the Federal Government.", "start_byte": 232748, "end_byte": 233500, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1201.43994140625, "end_time": 1266.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1202.2349414062498, "cut_end_time": 1265.3700664062499}, {"text": "And so St. Friend has done and Surto Hurdenburg beside me takes him with exceeding literalness and goes forth to agitate and organize even more zealously till this battle is over.", "start_byte": 233959, "end_byte": 234138, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1306.8800048828125, "end_time": 1324.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1307.7750048828125, "cut_end_time": 1323.2900673828124}, {"text": "Monday, June 16: \u2014 Such is the protean character of human nature that at least one third of that congregation of yesterday, having their costumes already prepared, think it is a pity not to use them, and are in the parade this afternoon, which comes immediately after business hours, at four o\u2019clock.", "start_byte": 234140, "end_byte": 234440, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1324.800048828125, "end_time": 1352.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1325.3450488281248, "cut_end_time": 1351.130048828125}, {"text": "The parade is led by Velaska, and her minions are scattering giant asters from her yellow barge. She is an unknown and wears a yellow mask. All this is a tradition of these parades. The pantomime acts and dances, the width and length of the block, made up of a thousand clowns and jesters with baubles, go by; and Falstaffs without number. Because of the vacuum-cleaned streets and streets not so hard as of old underfoot, endless dancing and delicate and crisp and diaphanous effects can be secured and kept effective. But it is all yellow, not orange: \u2014 from Bacchus and Ariadne to the April gods and goddesses of all of Asia. Three great ballets, the New York, the New Orleans and the St. Louis, are imported to dance their way down the streets. The parade follows the exact route of the other and pours north on Sixth defiantly past the Cathedral, where I am watching it as it ends. The crowd has begun to clear away. There is a rabble of automobiles. Then there is a queer hush. The auto horns stop blowing.", "start_byte": 234442, "end_byte": 235454, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1352.3199462890625, "end_time": 1450.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1352.7649462890624, "cut_end_time": 1449.1600087890624}, {"text": "There comes the palanquin of the Man of Singapore, followed by that of his daughter, Mara: \u2014 such familiar sights to a certain number of Springfield citizens, that the element they add to the day\u2019s pageantry is nominal, but to those sensitive on the issue it is everything politically. The Boone Ax reporters scan once more, for the thousandth time, the unreadable faces of the two, searching out the Mystery of Asia. The man bows to his friends and the girl does the same and, according to those who have seen them many times before, their aspect is not one hair\u2019s breadth changed from former occasions. The blazing green, in the name of the Green Glass Buddha of Singapore is, if anything, a rest to the eyes after the uncanny yellow in the name of other less mysterious gods.", "start_byte": 235456, "end_byte": 236234, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1450.3199462890625, "end_time": 1521.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1451.0949462890624, "cut_end_time": 1520.8200712890625}, {"text": "I am most of all impressed with the fact, seeing him for the first time, that the Man from Singapore is, after all, in his Asiatic way, a superb gentleman. His daughter seems to me the most high bred of gazelle-like ladies, which, indeed, I had known from her child portrait by Sparrow Short and by Short\u2019s careful report of her ways.", "start_byte": 236236, "end_byte": 236570, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1521.1600341796875, "end_time": 1549.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1521.7350341796873, "cut_end_time": 1548.4400341796875}, {"text": "So it is hard for the honest puritans of The Boone Ax, even those who were not born yesterday, to find legitimate place for a new denouncing of the Professor of Malay Arts and Letters and his daughter. And so the late evening edition of The Boone Ax calls them", "start_byte": 236572, "end_byte": 236832, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1549.5999755859375, "end_time": 1570.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1550.4349755859373, "cut_end_time": 1569.8800380859375}, {"text": " That is all.", "start_byte": 236853, "end_byte": 236866, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1572.1600341796875, "end_time": 1573.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1572.4050341796874, "cut_end_time": 1573.1900341796875}, {"text": "I have a jolly evening with Old Sparrow Short in the Tom Strong Lunch Room. There with many others, friends of the halls, Short is quite frank over the issue of tomorrow and prattles away at the pessimists. He feels, for a certainty, all needed is that everyone there glow and enthuse. Coffee Kusuko owns most of the Yellow Halls, of course. That means he uses them any way Slick Slack Kopensky and Mayo Sims direct, at a crisis, and tonight the talk at the neighboring tables is all for the Yellow people and as loud as possible to be skillful. This is true in the Drug Stores of Smith as well, no doubt, for they are in the same combination.", "start_byte": 236868, "end_byte": 237511, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1573.9599609375, "end_time": 1630.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1574.7049609375, "cut_end_time": 1628.2500234375}, {"text": "Then later in the evening we go together to take Avanel to the Hall of Velaska, somewhat to the astonishment of Short, who knows she hates him. But she wants to give him a chance at her approval, through his pictures. When the revellers sight my lady, the leers fade, and the boa constrictor dances of Singapore subside. And the gray head of Short puts them somewhat on their dignity, even if they merely regard Avanel with spite. 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Velaska is expecting her lover. She is dressed in the heaviest and most pretentious of yellow silks; were it not for her veil, there would be no harmony. But it is iridescent, covers her from head to foot, blending and modifying all.", "start_byte": 238392, "end_byte": 238697, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1714.3199462890625, "end_time": 1743.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1714.8449462890624, "cut_end_time": 1743.0800712890625}, {"text": "She wears her yellow mask. Short says: \u2014", "start_byte": 238699, "end_byte": 238739, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1743.800048828125, "end_time": 1748.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1744.525048828125, "cut_end_time": 1748.110111328125}, {"text": "He is quite proud of his picture. Avanel is politely interested and no more. The picture gives me the headache, I am sure it is the poorest thing Short has done. He thinks it is the flag of liberty, almost equal to the Star Spangled Banner, and the Declaration of Independence, and Washington\u2019s Farewell Address. Avanel dances with many loving and devoted boys. Avanel admires enthusiastically all the other pictures of Short and his decorations. 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If they could only be taught the English language, or we could learn theirs, we might make them mascots for the city, or even Lord Mayor and Wife.\u201d", "start_byte": 252038, "end_byte": 252246, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1091.800048828125, "end_time": 1109.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1092.215048828125, "cut_end_time": 1108.390111328125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cDo not go too near. Those quills are poison.\u201d", "start_byte": 252268, "end_byte": 252314, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1113.9200439453125, "end_time": 1119.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1114.2250439453123, "cut_end_time": 1118.0600439453124, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, indeed,", "start_byte": 252316, "end_byte": 252329, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1119.0799560546875, "end_time": 1122.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1120.2249560546875, "cut_end_time": 1121.8300185546875, "narrative_prediction": {"answers": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd Java is almost the same as Singapore. We might have known such beasts came from near Singapore. I have heard of them. 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For the souls\u2019 highway will stay open and crying for the souls of men to follow when these towers are dead and gone.\u201d", "start_byte": 258111, "end_byte": 258307, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1638.8800048828125, "end_time": 1655.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1639.3250048828124, "cut_end_time": 1654.6600673828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "June 20, 2018: \u2014 Last night was presumably the time of the final closing of the halls, at precisely five minutes of twelve. So at five minutes of eight or thereabouts, one of the younger members of the Montague Rock family brings, with great secrecy and under special devices of disguise, a treasury of wine from beneath some cellar of his clan and distributes it to a carefully censored company in the Yellow Hall of the Mythical Velaska. The world begins to burn for those here assembled for their farewell dance. It so happens that Hurdenburg, intoxicated from the mere drink of victory, hears the noise as he passes. He mounts the stairs. He breaks past a guard who has himself had enough drink to make him too easy. But the remainder of the company have had enough to make them too stern and at the very sight of the", "start_byte": 240575, "end_byte": 241396, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 37.040000915527344, "end_time": 108.08000183105469, "cut_start_time": 37.52500091552734, "cut_end_time": 108.13006341552733}, {"text": " Hurdenburg, they turn to beasts. 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What the", "start_byte": 241871, "end_byte": 242004, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 147.75999450683594, "end_time": 159.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 147.99499450683592, "cut_end_time": 159.26011950683593}, {"text": " By religion, Jim probably means the Singaporian religion but does not stress that point.", "start_byte": 242153, "end_byte": 242242, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 168.8800048828125, "end_time": 178.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 169.3850048828125, "cut_end_time": 176.7400673828125}, {"text": "And so, at sight of Hurdenburg, the infamous minion of the wicked St. Friend, Hurdenburg drunk on political and ecclesiastical power, they make a rush for him, and, led by crawling Jim, this crew, in the masks of the Mythical Velaska, tie Surto Hurdenburg to a pillar. They drink more buried treasure, as they decide what to do with him. They formally and solemnly conclude that they will be merciful and not follow the well established American lynching custom of burning alive, though Hurdenburg, in this case, deserves such treatment. They untie him from the pillar, and carry him to the foot of a Golden Rain Tree of Democracy. Crawling Jim puts the noose in place. Then Hurdenburg is hanged by the neck till he is dead. And the merrymakers go back to the hall undisturbed and dance till five minutes before twelve and then the city police close the hall, according to expectations. The followers of the masked Velaska go home, apparently satisfied with one night\u2019s work, most of them in the arms of one another and quite drunk with wine. 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The city today proceeds to give Hurdenburg a wonderful funeral. This funeral seems to ring the doom of infamous Yellow Halls for all time. Saint Friend preaches a funeral sermon with tremendous fire.", "start_byte": 243888, "end_byte": 244337, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 342.5199890136719, "end_time": 384.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 342.9649890136719, "cut_end_time": 383.2601140136719}, {"text": "June 26: \u2014 It appears that the bad bloods of the town are frantically devouring their own souls, or leaving. The city has been losing, since the election and the lynching, as much genius as it does deviltry. Sparrow Short who has been obliged to take down his pictures and hang them defiantly in his own studio, has turned into a profane old varlet, amazing to hear, and is inciting as many pupils of ours as possible to leave Springfield. He is himself threatening to leave. 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There is no denying that they are getting pretty lively, considering that nothing but coffee is dispensed.", "start_byte": 244996, "end_byte": 245224, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 441.8800048828125, "end_time": 460.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 442.3750048828125, "cut_end_time": 459.16000488281253}, {"text": "Rabbi Ezekiel, moreover, with all care to defer to the aged St. Friend in a personal way, declares that the photoplay movement, being no longer in alliance with questioned places, is destined to go forward with fresh life. He admits that the abolition of the halls is justified, though he took no part in it. But he is a motion picture fan, whatever the turn of history.", "start_byte": 245226, "end_byte": 245596, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 460.55999755859375, "end_time": 493.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 460.79499755859376, "cut_end_time": 491.65012255859375}, {"text": "June 27: \u2014 My whole feeling over the fights about the halls is that I have not had much chance, after Avanel\u2019s promise to dance there with me. I have had only an evening or so.", "start_byte": 245598, "end_byte": 245774, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 493.1600036621094, "end_time": 509.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 493.6250036621094, "cut_end_time": 508.4800661621094}, {"text": "As for the lynching, the court proceedings promise to drag on, as they always have in such cases. Everyone knows nothing will be done except postpone. Everyone knows it was Jim, yet no one knows it, and the Janitor of the Yellow Hall is the only person whose name gets into the papers.", "start_byte": 245776, "end_byte": 246061, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 509.20001220703125, "end_time": 535.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 509.7750122070313, "cut_end_time": 534.8000122070313}, {"text": "June 28: \u2014 The Thibetan Boy, that the Romanoff dubbed the Muttering Thibetan, now swings into my life, and as though he were a guide sent from wonderland, with sealed orders just opened, he takes me the rounds of Springfield and the whole city becomes new. It is not a place of individual sinners and saints. The City\u2019s architecture seems to breathe and live for him. The tiniest gargoyle takes on personality and citizenship. All this morning he has been taking me through the gardens of Mother Grey. These gardens seem built rather than planted. The trees are green walls and roofs. I am amused to note there is no prejudice against dandelions, since, in a former existence, I had so many to dig up. They now make the carpets. He takes me into the temple studio of Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, who is especially busy for young university student girls who expect to be June brides in the next two or three days. This studio is a place established for the innermost circles of the flower religion. Before each altar is a design to be set up and kept glorious in some new cottage. Several of these are for a new row of cottages near Washington Park called Bridal Row. The temple is full of the fluttering brides of tomorrow, seeing the last touches and consulting about what candles and incense to burn, and asking over and over what flowers are permitted by the Flower Religion Marriage Service, which is the one most preferred by the exquisites of 2018.", "start_byte": 246063, "end_byte": 247526, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 535.719970703125, "end_time": 670.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 536.184970703125, "cut_end_time": 668.600095703125}, {"text": "June 29: \u2014 Avanel and I have developed a favorite walk: the Lincoln\u2019s monument region. We pass under many of the Golden Rain Trees and Ezekiel Oaks, to the Apple-Amaranth Grove that was the first in Sangamon County, and the Grave of Hunter Kelly, in the midst of it. There are the old pick and spade of the Devil, always left on the grave. When we do not walk in this region we are apt to be looking this way from the Truth Tower, from the lookout room of the newspapers, or looking back from the telescope room of the Ashland Gate. Avanel is generally very solemn looking this way, planning new processions and dances in praise of Hunter Kelly and the next festival of Hunter Kelly, July 11.", "start_byte": 247528, "end_byte": 248220, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.3200073242188, "end_time": 730.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 670.7550073242188, "cut_end_time": 728.3700073242188}, {"text": "June 30: \u2014 Avanel has four suitors in Springfield. I am often but a ghost in my own eyes and always but shadow to them. On the hot summer days she goes with three of them to the gigantic porcelain-lined swimming pool of Bunn Park, with two girls, a merry six. I hardly have my turn with her for several days at a time.", "start_byte": 248222, "end_byte": 248540, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 730.47998046875, "end_time": 761.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 730.97498046875, "cut_end_time": 760.6901054687501}, {"text": "One of her suitors is an engineer. One is a motor-truck driver. One is an aviator. I sometimes find myself the servant of all three men, but ignored as servants may be. As clouds, mists and smoke seems to choke me, through the whirlwind, I am sometimes the absurd unregarded dragon engine bearing her and the engineer to Chicago. While she laughs as his guest in the engine cab I must look down the track through the murk, and I cannot turn round and see the face of her lover, and the skies are laughing at me forever. Sometimes I am in my dream the absurd auto-truck engine, carrying her and the driver, as he delivers his last consignment of goods from the central market. Even the stones of the street laugh at me as we rattle over them. I am only a mechanical toy, and the traffic in the street, preparing for the great World\u2019s Fair, drowns out the whispers of the young people.", "start_byte": 248542, "end_byte": 249425, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 761.8400268554688, "end_time": 842.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 762.3450268554687, "cut_end_time": 841.4800268554687}, {"text": "Sometimes I am the ridiculous flying machine in which she rides as though to mock me, with the third lover. I must soar on and carry them and they go through fearful storms and up through inconceivable blackness and I cannot see before or after. Even the sound of the rushing wind drowns out their words.", "start_byte": 249427, "end_byte": 249731, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 842.719970703125, "end_time": 871.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 843.484970703125, "cut_end_time": 870.820095703125}, {"text": "And as these men dismount from their chariots, and as they are on the point of passing by me, with their lordly airs, I turn to dust. I am as dust of the road swept up by a little puff of wind. And then the witchcraft continues and I find myself a coal digger in the mine beside young Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, or laying brick with him somewhere, and I know that I am such stuff as dreams are made of.", "start_byte": 249733, "end_byte": 250145, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 871.52001953125, "end_time": 910.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 872.14501953125, "cut_end_time": 909.89008203125}, {"text": "My fourth rival is the one I most fear. He is a twenty year old libertine, a kind of a Lord Byron. He loves her now, for a day. His name is TIME. To torture me the more and lure me on from the desire for perpetual death and to prepare me again for a more futile struggle, he gives me deep and curious days with Avanel, when we seem to be twin explorers of the Universe. And then I have big athletic days with her when I seem, not a ghost, but something as substantial as a strutting turkey gobbler.", "start_byte": 250147, "end_byte": 250645, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 910.8800048828125, "end_time": 958.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 911.6650048828125, "cut_end_time": 957.8100048828126}, {"text": "So this last day of June, in the Mystic Year, after a big swim at Bunn Park, amidst thousands of gay mermen and mermaids, we plan an all-afternoon and all-evening walk. And we go west on Wellesley Avenue and north on Sixth Street, all the way to the Sangamon River and to Sangamon River Park. We find there a cage we have never seen before. It is between the ice pit of the grizzly bears and the yard of the giraffes. It is a large cage. In it a pair of new animals pace back and forth, trailing their quills on the ground. The cage is marked.", "start_byte": 250647, "end_byte": 251190, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 958.7999877929688, "end_time": 1011.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 959.6449877929688, "cut_end_time": 1010.1900502929687}, {"text": " They do not seem as fierce as lions, but have a more human peering, way. They seem to be deeply interested in the world rather than angry with it. The male animal marches round and round his mate. She is like him even to the collar of gorgeous quills that rise and fall. The heads of these sagacious beasts differentiate them further from lions. They have a bit more skull structure, and at the same time are more Satanic in their foreheads and their faces. They seem to speak to each other by signs, by glances, and mere pacing together. It gives the impression of being most detailed and constructive conversation. Meanwhile, the crests go through chameleon changes. The beasts watch the setting sun as intently as we have ever done, and the spike-quill collars follow every evanescent turn of the hues.", "start_byte": 251217, "end_byte": 252023, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1013.8400268554688, "end_time": 1089.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1014.8250268554688, "cut_end_time": 1088.0200893554688}, {"text": "Avanel says:", "start_byte": 252025, "end_byte": 252037, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1089.760009765625, "end_time": 1091.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1090.0150097656249, "cut_end_time": 1091.310072265625}, {"text": "The attendant says:", "start_byte": 252248, "end_byte": 252267, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1109.52001953125, "end_time": 1113.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1110.18501953125, "cut_end_time": 1113.7000820312498}, {"text": " answers Avanel as the light dawns instantly.", "start_byte": 252330, "end_byte": 252375, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1122.239990234375, "end_time": 1126.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1122.5149902343749, "cut_end_time": 1125.9301152343749}, {"text": "Then we forget these beasts and walk eastward along the Sangamon River Drive. Through the openings of the trees and from the higher points we look back southward. We have had our feast and our Amaranth-Apples in the Sangamon Park pavilion. The star chimes are ringing. The towers are there to the south. What torch bearers before time have equalled these priest-wizards with entrails of fire? They are sterner than priests. They are the soldier-machines of liberty that will sweep the world. They are the Macedonian phalanx that will decide for another century every field upon which they will appear. The merchants of Singapore refuse to use the Sunset Towers, when they build their new cities in their battle for world supremacy, and even by that they are doomed. The houses and commercial palaces and temples of Singapore crouch little and low, like huts in a forest, or glass pagodas in little stage comedies. They are fearful of the incantations hatched in our hives of electrical flame that shine on to the glory of Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, who planned the first ones, a century ago, and the Thibetan Boy and John Emis, who build them today.", "start_byte": 252533, "end_byte": 253697, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1141.6800537109375, "end_time": 1249.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1142.3450537109375, "cut_end_time": 1247.6101162109373}, {"text": "Avanel and I walk south to the city down beautiful Fifteenth Street. The city is the Fair and the Fair is the city, though there has not yet come the formal proclamation to the world of the opening. There is not one heart on the street but seems to be beating happily. The elation in the air on this perfect June night is worth a lifetime of groans. It seems to me that for this hour Springfield has been patiently toiling and staggering on, despite much sorrow and sin, for a century. All the children of this generation seem to sweep by us and to be spending the stored up capacity of themselves and all their ancestors for jubilation.", "start_byte": 253699, "end_byte": 254336, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1249.1600341796875, "end_time": 1305.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1249.4250341796874, "cut_end_time": 1304.7700966796874}, {"text": "There are hundreds of unspoiled sightseers in the crowd looking on the lights of Springfield, often for the first time. These visitors will not wait for the Mayor\u2019s proclamation, that the Fair has begun.", "start_byte": 254338, "end_byte": 254541, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1305.8800048828125, "end_time": 1323.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1306.3750048828124, "cut_end_time": 1322.7500048828124}, {"text": "And they are happy, but not as we two are. The bass viol orchestra of the lacquered and rumbling pleasure wagons sings a special song to us though we be independent walkers. We hear them, we boast, better than they hear themselves. There is a babble and a roar that is the beating of the vast heart of Springfield. Its rhythm goes into our footfalls every instant.", "start_byte": 254543, "end_byte": 254907, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1323.1199951171875, "end_time": 1358.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1323.5949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1357.3300576171873}, {"text": "It is late, and Avanel insists on going on, in the intoxication of weariness, and will not let me take her to her house on Mulberry Boulevard. She leads me into the very thick of the great forest of Sunset Towers again, now", "start_byte": 254909, "end_byte": 255132, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1358.0799560546875, "end_time": 1378.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1358.8449560546874, "cut_end_time": 1379.0600185546873}, {"text": " she says to me, with her face flushed to a deep crimson from utter weariness, and her eyes heavy with the desire for sleep, and her determined little feet still dancing nervously on. And this is what her soul says to me, and what we say to one another, in our fashion, as we whirl on: \u201cNot until another civilization rises here, will there be a rival form to these towers. It is only a matter of years till the type be perfected by John Emis or the Thibetan Boy or their kind. The first generation of ripened builders came a century ago. That was our Early Renaissance. At last our High Renaissance has come. The ripe architectural genius will appear who will gather to himself all that can be known of beam and girder and truss, of foundation and wind pressure and the distribution of light, all that can be learned about hollow brick and tile, of pillar and elevator and fireproofing. He will understand the chances peculiar to his materials and town. His imagination will be a smelter, a mastered volcano. He will have visions of welded steel that will put all men to shame but the builders of the Parthenon, the hewers of the Sphinx. There shall be no borrowings from Paris or Rome.", "start_byte": 255151, "end_byte": 256338, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1380.1600341796875, "end_time": 1487.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1380.1350341796874, "cut_end_time": 1486.2800966796874}, {"text": "\u201cThe least minor decoration shall reflect the majesty of the dream, as the Gothic altar carving repeated the flying buttress and the spires leaping heavenward.", "start_byte": 256340, "end_byte": 256499, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1487.0400390625, "end_time": 1500.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1487.5550390624999, "cut_end_time": 1499.5101015624998}, {"text": "\u201cBecause we take our pleasure at the feet of the Sunset Towers, now \u2018midnight towers\u2019 while the midnight stars go by, they shall be reembodied and perfected in the sons that shall spring from them like light.", "start_byte": 256501, "end_byte": 256709, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1500.1600341796875, "end_time": 1517.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1500.4950341796873, "cut_end_time": 1516.9100966796875}, {"text": "\u201cThey are the rose and gold progenitors of Springfield, the rainbow patriarchs of Springfield. They stand proudly through the night and the lighted streets below them are like a carpet of goldenrod and dandelions unrolled at their feet. Their heads are so far in the heavens they converse with their serene sister the moon. They look out together to the Springfield University and the Sangamon River where the bridges sweep to the north, sparkling threads in the mist. They look south to the Street of Past History that bends around till it meets them.", "start_byte": 256711, "end_byte": 257263, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1517.760009765625, "end_time": 1565.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1518.3150097656248, "cut_end_time": 1564.330072265625}, {"text": "\u201cWho shall dispraise the excellence of our towers? They look west with all the pioneers, and the very soul of far off, west-going Daniel Boone is in them.", "start_byte": 257265, "end_byte": 257419, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1565.280029296875, "end_time": 1578.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1565.6150292968748, "cut_end_time": 1577.4700292968748}, {"text": "\u201cWe take our pleasure, honorable, or philosophical, innocent or stupid or guilty, at their feet, and where pleasure is, there art is born. Many songs shall be sung to them, many new names given to them. Their children shall rise up to call them blessed. Their children shall be a world-conquering city all about them, before the relentless sun looks down upon their ruins, before that blazing lion of time shall have eaten their bones of steel.", "start_byte": 257421, "end_byte": 257865, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1578.47998046875, "end_time": 1618.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1578.83498046875, "cut_end_time": 1617.36004296875}, {"text": "\u201cThey were born from the black soil of Illinois and from the heart of the Thibetan and from the Red Indian and the Afro-American and all the tribes of the earth. There is in them many an antithesis to all the old architectures and structures.", "start_byte": 257867, "end_byte": 258109, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1618.239990234375, "end_time": 1638.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1618.8149902343748, "cut_end_time": 1638.260115234375}, {"text": "Now it is way past midnight, and we are at old Fifth and Monroe, and all the street cars and vehicles have long stopped, and the light in Dodds\u2019 drug store is dim, and the all-night clerks are nodding behind the cases, or chatting at the ice cream tables, half awake.", "start_byte": 258309, "end_byte": 258576, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1655.800048828125, "end_time": 1678.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1656.3750488281248, "cut_end_time": 1678.080048828125}, {"text": "And so Avanel and I, walking in one dream together, know not whether we see with the human eyes that perish or the eyes of eternity.", "start_byte": 258578, "end_byte": 258710, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1678.5999755859375, "end_time": 1691.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1679.2549755859375, "cut_end_time": 1689.9300380859374}, {"text": "Suddenly something of the cry of the earth reaches us, and there, camping at the crossing of the street car tracks of Fifth and Monroe is the Handsome Medicine Man, Devil\u2019s Gold. He is shaking his bead covered rattle, making medicine, and dishonoring our souls with his leer. And he calls us by name as we stand directly in front of him. We are so tired from our long walk, we cannot but admire his gilded face and his yellow magic blanket.", "start_byte": 258712, "end_byte": 259152, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1691.3199462890625, "end_time": 1732.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1691.6749462890625, "cut_end_time": 1731.2200087890624}, {"text": "Holding each other\u2019s hands like lovers we stoop and admire ourselves in the golden pool that flickers in the great campfire he has impudently built at the crossing of the street car tracks.", "start_byte": 259154, "end_byte": 259343, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1732.47998046875, "end_time": 1747.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1733.0549804687498, "cut_end_time": 1746.60004296875}]}

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Why run around with that mussy old Sparrow Short all the time and then expect to appear in fashionable places?\u201d", "start_byte": 262063, "end_byte": 262279, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 191.47999572753906, "end_time": 212.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 191.74499572753905, "cut_end_time": 211.66005822753905, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy are you here, you silly man?\u201d", "start_byte": 262955, "end_byte": 262989, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 272.3999938964844, "end_time": 279.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 272.5549938964844, "cut_end_time": 278.3601188964844, "narrative_prediction": {"continues": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cDo you think it has cost me nothing to struggle up through the dust and the dead grass and walk beside you? Do you think it has cost me nothing of pain to beat with my poor bare knuckles through the years?\u201d", "start_byte": 263012, "end_byte": 263219, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 282.760009765625, "end_time": 297.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 283.375009765625, "cut_end_time": 296.730009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"say": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cLast March you came galloping up the Northwest Road on your white pony, and I was buried too near the highway to sleep, with such glory going by. A man may hardly expect to live again beyond the life of that little earth that surrounds his bones, and feeds the roots of the nearest tree. He may, perhaps give life through the leaves of that tree to the locust in the bark, or to the squirrel in the branches, but your song came past my grave like a fairy\u2019s breath, and my ashes are again man or fire or weed or living thorns, or what you will them to be. If you will have nothing of a man, why give life to his dust?\u201d", "start_byte": 263315, "end_byte": 263933, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 307.9599914550781, "end_time": 363.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 308.2149914550781, "cut_end_time": 361.92011645507813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cDo you think I dance for temporal Springfield, or make my pony dance for such a city? We dance for an audience of the great deep.\u201d", "start_byte": 264242, "end_byte": 264373, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 393.67999267578125, "end_time": 405.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 394.1449926757813, "cut_end_time": 404.6000551757813, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAny one with Daniel Boone\u2019s hunting knife in her belt needs no pompous false prophets of democracy to tell her the road to freedom. In this gulf alone is freedom, if it is to be found, and in this gulf only, is tomorrow.\u201d", "start_byte": 264662, "end_byte": 264884, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 431.5199890136719, "end_time": 452.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 431.7949890136719, "cut_end_time": 451.1300515136719, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201clabor", "start_byte": 274565, "end_byte": 274571, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1290.199951171875, "end_time": 1291.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1290.194951171875, "cut_end_time": 1291.020013671875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cSINGAPORE IS COCAINE.\u201d", "start_byte": 275685, "end_byte": 275708, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1392.0, "end_time": 1397.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1392.0149999999999, "cut_end_time": 1395.3999999999999, "narrative_prediction": {"around": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 8}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "This afternoon and evening are the final drill times for the solemn festival in praise of Hunter Kelly, on July the eleventh. I watch the rehearsal. It is directed by Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third. The main dances, especially the drills on chosen white ponies are directed by the Lady Avanel, being modifications of the solemn marchings and countermarchings of the Gordon Craig Theatre. In this eleventh of July festival to celebrate Hunter Kelly\u2019s first planting of the Amaranth Orchards, there are to be great comic dancers, and clowns, but they are completely overshadowed by the devout ceremonial processions, horseback or afoot. Like all rehearsals, the affair drags interminably; much of the stateliness is still to be taken for granted, till the final occasion. It is a weary Avanel, who sends her pony home by a friend, and takes dinner with me in the Lincoln Park Pavilion and her eyes are unnaturally bright and she is silent and half crying. She pulls her napkin to pieces and then the card, from nervousness.", "start_byte": 261023, "end_byte": 262049, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 102.72000122070312, "end_time": 189.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 103.38500122070312, "cut_end_time": 188.48006372070313}, {"text": "She says: \u2014", "start_byte": 262051, "end_byte": 262062, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 189.32000732421875, "end_time": 191.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 189.67500732421874, "cut_end_time": 190.75000732421876}, {"text": "And then, after a silence, she continues: \u2014 \u201cThere is nothing respectable about you. All the best people of the city make fun of you and wish you would leave town. Why do you stay here? Why not go to some other town and start fresh? You have offended all our first families by your queer manners and gauche ways. And you will never improve them as long as you run around with that mussy old Sparrow Short. Certainly none of the real people, accomplishing anything, have any use for you. I do not believe you even know how to make out a check or keep a bank book. 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I am a gauche beau, that is all.... The mists sweep down upon us, and we are on the very eastern edge of Chaos, where it storms in upon the shore of created things. And Avanel\u2019s eyes are sleepy and her voice is faint and far away. But she says:", "start_byte": 263935, "end_byte": 264241, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 363.0400085449219, "end_time": 393.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 364.0150085449219, "cut_end_time": 392.5400085449219}, {"text": "Looming across the gulf is the gigantic porch of the Palace of Eve, its pillars reaching up into the highest clouds of the storm, pillars that are Doric, archaic, immemorial. And out of the gulf between rises the vague splendor of Avanel\u2019s Dream City of the Great Deep. 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I see Avanel on her dancing pony of white fire, surrounded by her devoted maidens, while dim and shadowy similitudes of branches of the Amaranth-Apple, made gigantic to shade the Universe, bend above the far off ministers of stately cosmic festival.", "start_byte": 264886, "end_byte": 265702, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 452.1199951171875, "end_time": 527.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 452.8649951171875, "cut_end_time": 526.7201201171875}, {"text": "As I watch the dance with eyes like those of a far-seeing bird, I behold a dim flashing under the shadow of the gigantic pillars of the Palace of Eve. As it were, a candle flame in the storm, Mother Eve, the immortal, looks up and down those great pillars and up to the clouded and roaring zenith with its tossing flowering boughs, and then to the solemn dances, far away. She sees her fairest daughters do honor to Hunter Kelly, pupil and friend of Johnny Appleseed. Nothing stranger or more beautiful ever happened in the shadow of her palace or beneath a flowering storm.", "start_byte": 265704, "end_byte": 266278, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 527.4400024414062, "end_time": 581.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 528.2350024414063, "cut_end_time": 579.8900024414063}, {"text": "July 4: \u2014 I am today in the wonder of a triple consciousness. To the sense of being an Anglo Saxon of the centuries of 1920 and 2018 is added that of being a Malay of 2018: I find myself in the house of the Man from Singapore, his Malay slave. I find myself equipped with singular habits, ideals, and ideas, as though I were the mainspring of a most unfamiliar clock. 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He has an outstanding gallantry toward the darling of his heart, his only child, Mara, the queen of his house. The picture of her departed mother hangs in the book room of the Professor of Malay Arts and Letters. It looks down gently upon many lounging mats and books left open. The face is all dignity and languor and devotion.", "start_byte": 267001, "end_byte": 267543, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 649.5999755859375, "end_time": 694.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 650.4349755859375, "cut_end_time": 693.7500380859375}, {"text": "My master\u2019s ancestors, according to his conversation with his daughter at late breakfast this morning, had an original Malay strain.", "start_byte": 267545, "end_byte": 267677, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 694.719970703125, "end_time": 705.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 695.294970703125, "cut_end_time": 704.470033203125}, {"text": "But added to that was a peculiar mixture of Anglo Saxon remittance man, Chinese banker and Arab trader. It is the combination that crystallized into the caste to which he now belongs, the caste that finally gave distinctive energy to his polyglot, worldshaking city, and lifted the mystic diabolism of the Cocaine Buddha into aggressive imperialism. His new caste found themselves resolving to make Singapore a city worshipped like Mecca, if they had to cut the throats of two thirds of the human race to bring it about.", "start_byte": 267679, "end_byte": 268199, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 705.1599731445312, "end_time": 746.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 705.8749731445313, "cut_end_time": 746.2500356445313}, {"text": "And so, at this late breakfast, he looks into his coffee languidly, but as though he saw pictures of history there. He says that the English admixture in his caste has long given them insight into the west, and kept English for their main language. The English strain has also given the Singaporian a facility in taking on the most modern scientific devices, and has endowed the proud island with political common sense for routine political tasks. The Chinese blood has given them patience and iron, to work on a hundred-year plan, first in their trade relations and banking arrangements, and then in all policies linked up with these. But now it is the sword of the far off ancient Arab disposition that is beginning to flash.", "start_byte": 268201, "end_byte": 268929, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 746.9199829101562, "end_time": 806.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 747.5549829101562, "cut_end_time": 805.9401079101563}, {"text": "The Man from Singapore speculates, drinking more coffee, and looking reverently at his daughter. He wonders what he and others will pay, for almost breaking caste in their joining themselves with the honorable but too voluptuous and beautiful Kling caste. So many of them are marrying women of her mother\u2019s race, and paying the high priests tremendous sums for the privilege. He wonders if it will bring them to inefficiency, and smother the Arab before it has a chance for complete expression. At least her mother\u2019s tribe brought them their first energy, for they owe the gift of the Cocaine Buddha, nearly a century ago, to the Kling Prophet.", "start_byte": 268931, "end_byte": 269575, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 806.6400146484375, "end_time": 862.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 807.3350146484376, "cut_end_time": 860.5800146484376}, {"text": "July 5: \u2014 I find myself at a civic reform rally late this afternoon, after business hours. I am still the Malay servant. I am sent by Mara, the good and beautiful, to watch from a distance the doings of the young artist, altar-builder, coal miner, bricklayer, exquisite and civic patriot: \u2014 Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third. He is her adorer. She sends me with a note to him, urging him to come to a suddenly improvised Sumatra chess party. Like Cleopatra, she urges me to observe his doings narrowly, and his moods when he reads her note.", "start_byte": 269577, "end_byte": 270119, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 862.719970703125, "end_time": 917.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 863.174970703125, "cut_end_time": 916.570095703125}, {"text": "Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, is on the back row of seats. He will take no part in the meeting, though urged to do so by many friends around him. The Mayor\u2019s proposition has been voted down at the polls, his desired legislation to let great masses of unskilled labor into the city\u2019s double walls without a time limit on their stay and without the usual University examination. Now he proposes another referendum. He wants to introduce his huskies temporarily, especially Singaporian bricklayers from California, since, as he says, our bricklaying machines have broken down and there is great haste to complete, in time, the building of the Street of Past History of the World\u2019s Fair of the University of Springfield.", "start_byte": 270121, "end_byte": 270844, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 917.8400268554688, "end_time": 975.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 918.3850268554688, "cut_end_time": 974.8500268554687}, {"text": "The meeting, squeezed in between the coffee house chats and dinner time, has been called by Michael the Third\u2019s best chums among the older men: \u2014 Boone, and the Rabbi, who hope to defeat the new measure. The speakers maintain that, once these laborers are admitted inside our double Gothic walls, it will be impossible to expel them, even after the Street of Past History is finished. They prove that there are enough bricklaying machines to fill all the present contracts on time. They maintain that there are endless boys in the High School Labor Department trained to follow up and finish the work in the wake of such machines as may surely be impressed into service.", "start_byte": 270846, "end_byte": 271516, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 975.5999755859375, "end_time": 1026.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 976.1849755859375, "cut_end_time": 1025.6201005859375}, {"text": "All this while that solemn conceited pumpkin Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, thinks he is brooding like Prince Hamlet himself. He will not say how much he believes of these accusations hurled about.", "start_byte": 271518, "end_byte": 271721, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1026.760009765625, "end_time": 1043.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1027.2850097656249, "cut_end_time": 1042.370072265625}, {"text": "Now rises old Black Hawk Boone and I am indeed amazed to see him through Singaporian eyes. He looks almost like a whey-faced creature, he is so much whiter than my master. And he looks like the world\u2019s greatest fidget, my master is such a languorous cat. And for all Boone\u2019s shrewd, cinnamon bear countenance, he seems to me a simple baby, my master looks so wise. And when he speaks of my master by implication, I cannot but be insulted. For my body and nerves tonight are Malay, whatever my soul may be. And at the same time I am in a terrible fear of Boone as one would be of a child with lighted matches in a powder mill. There is in him a certain divination by force of fury that I cannot but shrink to apprehend, though I utterly despise his mind, as long as I wear this Malay body as a garment and make shift with these Malay eyes and ears and this Malay sixth sense.", "start_byte": 271723, "end_byte": 272597, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1043.280029296875, "end_time": 1125.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1043.745029296875, "cut_end_time": 1123.860029296875}, {"text": "Boone\u2019s fury is everything. His words are nothing. In his capacity as editor and citizen, and not as President of the Board of Education, he denounces my master, who is entitled to official courtesy as a member of the University faculty. But it is plainly in Boone\u2019s thought that the time has almost come for the parting with the course in Malay Arts and Letters and Allied Studies, and the dismissal of all oracles therein, though they be the most learned oracles in the whole world, and the most courteous creatures above ground. Boone snaps out his words like a beast straining at a chain.", "start_byte": 272599, "end_byte": 273191, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1125.1199951171875, "end_time": 1173.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1125.3749951171874, "cut_end_time": 1173.2400576171874}, {"text": "He says these conspirators have long thought they could buy everything, including the souls of all state capitals. He tells how, nearly a century ago, Singapore purchased its freedom from the British Government at an enormous fee, furnished by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of that city. He tells how the port was immediately lifted from the rank of seventh to the rank of first in the world. He shows how, after the death of the prophet of the Cocaine Buddha and the local triumph of the religion, this zeal for purchase became Singapore\u2019s most eloquent service in that Buddha\u2019s name. They bought at any price every island north of Australia and south of Japan, including America\u2019s own Philippines. He charges that the war in southeast Asia, a generation ago, was stirred up by their spies, and while they were ostensibly with the World Government, the war ended with a vast increase of their territory by direct purchase of land and the bribing of many new and feeble legislatures to vote themselves into the Singaporian Union. Finally he rises to the height of mere abuse. He lets slip a most appalling avalanche in the name of his western God. And he says this Mayor and his boss have in some way been over-persuaded by a Singaporian spy, present in the city or writing to them, and petitioning that they send for these workmen, who come in as rough labor. 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And Boone crouches at the very edge of the footlights, and roars on.", "start_byte": 274653, "end_byte": 274902, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1299.0799560546875, "end_time": 1323.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1300.0249560546874, "cut_end_time": 1322.6000185546875}, {"text": "He declares that some of this alleged rough labor is morally certain to be a group of high officers of the army, here to paralyze America at the exact second the high priests of Singapore shall choose, using that dreadful secret gun, that it is whispered through all the world, is two steps beyond the terrible lens gun.", "start_byte": 274904, "end_byte": 275224, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1323.239990234375, "end_time": 1349.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1324.094990234375, "cut_end_time": 1348.330052734375}, {"text": "Meanwhile these Singaporians, open and secret, will corrupt the wild and innocent young blood of our city. Boone charges that the island capital is the world\u2019s Barbary coast, the one infamy beyond Suez. Among all the world\u2019s red-eyed and fish-eyed human derelicts, where cocaine is used to over-energize, and to make men flashy and reckless, there always their spies are busiest, and their missionaries are most pertinacious and successful. The world around,", "start_byte": 275226, "end_byte": 275684, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1349.43994140625, "end_time": 1392.0, "cut_start_time": 1350.0249414062498, "cut_end_time": 1391.51000390625}, {"text": "Boone continues, in an utterly different manner. There is that curious slender girl near the front seat with her companions, the Lady Avanel, and he does not want to seem to be speaking of her. But he says that these Singaporians are as afraid of white as the native soldiers of the Indian mutiny were afraid of breaking caste in their fashion, or the Egyptians were, \u2014 which enabled Cambyses to defeat them by heading his procession against them with a small and famous army of kittens. He says they are as afraid of white as the negroes of the South were afraid of it, which enabled the Ku Klux to send them scattering. It is no idle fancy of his that these people are as superstitious as the blacks of the old days. He says that in the last war of the World Government against the rebels of Asia, where Chinese, Japanese and Americans won so great a victory for world unity, there were a few Singaporians among the rebels, denounced by the Singaporian high priests, but these rebels seemed secretly authorized, and they had the typical lens gun equipment and the complete cocaine soul. And Boone tells what is evidently a familiar story, how one of the Springfield Amazons found a mysterious white pony on the battlefield, after her own had been shot under her. She rode him to the front line and drove a whole company of those cocaine fiends in flight, lens guns and all, with nothing in her hand but her Michael-forged blade. Boone says the Singaporians hate white because it is the color of truth and daytime and decency, and as for him, if he had had his way he would have painted every tower of this World\u2019s Fair white, and the inner and outer walls of the city white, to keep out the Singaporian spies and missionaries, but Slick Slack Kopensky and Mayo Sims won a victory for the present color scheme.", "start_byte": 275710, "end_byte": 277521, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1397.0799560546875, "end_time": 1551.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1397.3949560546873, "cut_end_time": 1550.2200810546874}, {"text": "Then young Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, to keep himself right with his friends, throws off his coat, and goes forward in the bricklayer\u2019s clothes he has been wearing beneath. As a former High School student-bricklayer and one often practicing that profession still, he pledges himself to go out and work one of the bricklaying machines, or use the old fashioned trowel, as is needed, until the Fair buildings are done. And he calls for volunteers to join him, and many of the gay young bloods do so at once.", "start_byte": 277523, "end_byte": 278038, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1551.760009765625, "end_time": 1596.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1552.215009765625, "cut_end_time": 1595.1800097656248}, {"text": "So this evening as I serve the black Siamese wine to the Man from Singapore and his daughter, and I stand respectfully at her left hand, and give my report while her wonderful smiles come and go, she clasps her hands and tries to be gay over old Boone. But her eyes are tragic pools, indeed, when I speak of her lover, and of the evident conflict in his heart. 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Her eyes are blue. Your eyes are black. Avanel\u2019s skin is white and rose. You are more golden than any coin, or any sunrise. 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Yet the comparison is not all to the advantage of the daughter of Boone.", "start_byte": 282043, "end_byte": 282363, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 230.55999755859375, "end_time": 260.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 231.25499755859374, "cut_end_time": 260.01012255859376}, {"text": "Avanel follows the most conventional of Vanity Fair and Vogue fashion plates, when not a marching, dancing priestess or an equestrienne in white. The Kling beauty is in her library or in her palanquin wrapped in endless easy swathings of green silk from breast to knee. Her bare shoulders and knees and feet and hands are her father\u2019s pride. He thinks there is nothing like their slender modelling in all the west. She is a singer with the Borneo harp. Avanel in her life as a religious dancer and leader of maiden cavalry and of the Horseshoe Brotherhood, is an unmaidenly horror to Mara, who prides herself on her seclusion. Avanel\u2019s omnipresence on the streets, as the town heroine, seems to Mara America\u2019s most complete scandal.", "start_byte": 282365, "end_byte": 283097, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 260.8800048828125, "end_time": 332.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 261.1350048828125, "cut_end_time": 331.8700048828125}, {"text": "Yet Mara has often been out in her palanquin, behind that of her father, ostensibly to please him, but actually to see if by chance this hated Avanel will go by. And she has brooded in seclusion over Avanel as much as such a gentle nature can.", "start_byte": 283099, "end_byte": 283342, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 332.55999755859375, "end_time": 356.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 333.10499755859377, "cut_end_time": 355.63006005859376}, {"text": "Finally, and chiefly, that rare mask, the face of Mara is the same her father wears, and so is half a world away from the open countenance of the lady who carries Daniel Boone\u2019s direct ancestral dagger. Yet there are things readable in the Singaporian countenances. The sincere passion for jungle beauty revealed in the face of Mara can be discerned. The Asiatic necromancy, the instinct for intrigue, is hidden by the innocence of the experiences of her sheltered days, and also, as in the face of her really wicked father, it is hidden by that University air of submitting absolutely to the open finalities of scholarship. And so they will often submit, where Singapore is not concerned. But one would say all Mara\u2019s scholars are poets to her, and of her father all his scholars are statesmen. Each is the other\u2019s flattering image. Each is disarmed in the presence of the other, artless and fond and kind.", "start_byte": 283344, "end_byte": 284251, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 356.8399963378906, "end_time": 447.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 357.55499633789066, "cut_end_time": 446.5400588378907}, {"text": "She continues this evening by talking frankly with her father about her suitors. I am as a well worn article of furniture. My ears do not trouble her. Are we not all members of the order that has sworn in a great whisper to conquer the world in the name of the holy green glass image that dwells in the temple on the far off Raffles plain?", "start_byte": 284253, "end_byte": 284592, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 447.67999267578125, "end_time": 476.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 448.36499267578125, "cut_end_time": 475.70005517578124}, {"text": "She asks her father which man will be of the greater service to Our Lord of Cocaine? Will it be the son of Slick Slack Kopensky, Crawling Jim: \u2014 or Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, who thinks he has converted my good mistress to Mary of Bethlehem and all the saints of the western heaven. Shall she do lip service to his faith, when he is present, till the day of all days when Singapore ceases to whisper and comes roaring against the world? Or shall she take Crawling Jim for all time?", "start_byte": 284594, "end_byte": 285085, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 476.67999267578125, "end_time": 520.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 477.2149926757813, "cut_end_time": 519.0100551757813}, {"text": "She is remarkably interested in both men. I am all curiosity over her tenderness for Jim. She calls him James. To be sure, he has undertaken a perilous thing for a son of Springfield. He has already discarded the wearing of anything white.", "start_byte": 285087, "end_byte": 285326, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 520.1199951171875, "end_time": 545.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 520.5949951171875, "cut_end_time": 543.5201201171875}, {"text": "July 7: \u2014 There are not many other Singaporians in the city, and tonight comes an all-Caucasian party except for servants, host and hostess. My amazement about Mara\u2019s attitude toward James now ceases. In this company he is a new creature.", "start_byte": 285328, "end_byte": 285566, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 545.760009765625, "end_time": 572.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 546.0550097656251, "cut_end_time": 571.200009765625}, {"text": "The ladies and gentlemen who come in for initiation into that curiosity, a Sumatra chess game are many of them Jim\u2019s most devoted henchmen in Jim\u2019s presumably highly democratic and now triumphant Robin Redbreast Aviation Club. They were deft enough to capture the club for him. They are people of breeding and assurance. As long as it existed, at the house of the Mythical Velaska the most famous yellow dance hall, they set the pace. Tonight they talk openly of their jolly little lynching of Surto Hurdenburg. They talk of how to bring back to town all the malcontents who have left because of the suppression of the Yellow Halls. They speak of them as martyrs and heroes. And then they talk as though they will leave also. With scarcely an exception they belong to Springfield\u2019s senior families, many of whom have been here as long as the Boones, and some of them before the Michaels. Scions of the house of Montague Rock are among them, including Montague Rock, Junior.", "start_byte": 285568, "end_byte": 286541, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 572.7999877929688, "end_time": 660.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 573.5149877929688, "cut_end_time": 659.8001127929688}, {"text": "By their voices and a thousand impalpable signs I know that, with scarcely an exception, they have been educated out of town at male and female finishing schools, on funds or power secured by the secret sale of their hereditary buried gold and buried alcohol. These schools are, obviously, the last stand of American plutocracy, that has grown most subtle in what appears to be its final battle. Here, at this party among friends, with no spies, and in perfect confidence, they use with an exaggerated freedom all the secret codes, passwords, and hints of manner that indicate the hidden masters of the land, the tribes with buried gold and buried alcohol.", "start_byte": 286543, "end_byte": 287199, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 660.8800048828125, "end_time": 723.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 661.2350048828125, "cut_end_time": 722.8700048828125}, {"text": "They are well grounded in the main books of plutocratic and alcoholic apologetics, one of which has been written by a fellow townsman, and it appears today, in Coe\u2019s Book Store: \u2014", "start_byte": 287201, "end_byte": 287380, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 723.5999755859375, "end_time": 738.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 724.7049755859375, "cut_end_time": 738.0701005859376}, {"text": " by Doctor Mayo Sims. Every poet, architect, artist, or musician who in any fine indirect way licks the boots of money, or sings sweetly of strong drink, has their approval. Many such craftsmen have been induced by gentle means to drop a delicate word for Singapore as the ultimate land of real aristocracy, and dangerous but marvelously inspiring cocaine.", "start_byte": 287415, "end_byte": 287771, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 742.239990234375, "end_time": 780.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 742.554990234375, "cut_end_time": 779.080052734375}, {"text": "Mara\u2019s guests have been taught in these out of town schools to hate our educational system from the World\u2019s Fair of our University down to the first grade, ward school. They are taught in their male and female finishing schools that the whole city of Springfield and all such cities are infamously democratic. These children are taught they must not let one tone of voice indicate anything more than a suffering tolerance of that system of which, in this city, Black Hawk Boone is the official head.", "start_byte": 287773, "end_byte": 288272, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 780.7999877929688, "end_time": 823.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 780.9749877929688, "cut_end_time": 822.4200502929688}, {"text": "As the evening progresses, all this crowd gaily says that Jim\u2019s luck in aviation holds in Sumatra chess, and the ladies whisper in their delicate fashion that they hope he stays lucky when it comes to love.", "start_byte": 288274, "end_byte": 288480, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 823.239990234375, "end_time": 842.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 823.9049902343751, "cut_end_time": 841.320052734375}, {"text": "Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, enters late. He says he is tired from bricklaying and slumps into the most conspicuous chair like a second rate actor\u2019s idea of a martyr to patriotism. Michael, the Third, will not play Sumatra or any other chess. He will not bet on any other man\u2019s chess playing. He glares at the merry Jim, or in his general direction. He stalks around, like a stork at a dinner of foxes.", "start_byte": 288482, "end_byte": 288892, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 842.5599975585938, "end_time": 882.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 842.9949975585938, "cut_end_time": 882.0201225585938}, {"text": "The crowd thins out, and at length the two men are left with Mara, because J. B. Michael, the Third, has not sense enough to go. She has given Jim Kopensky every sign and Michael, the Third, no signs at all.", "start_byte": 288894, "end_byte": 289101, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 882.8800048828125, "end_time": 904.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 883.8250048828126, "cut_end_time": 903.7500048828125}, {"text": "She wants this exquisite scion of the Blacksmith clan to play the game, and take his chance. But he is more at ease in his patriotic overalls, laying bricks to hurry up the final official opening of the Fair, and the Street of Past History.", "start_byte": 289103, "end_byte": 289343, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 904.6799926757812, "end_time": 925.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 905.2149926757812, "cut_end_time": 924.6000551757812}, {"text": "So she helps Kopensky to back Michael to the door, which is done by a simple process of walking toward him with a certain air.", "start_byte": 289345, "end_byte": 289471, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 925.9199829101562, "end_time": 937.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 926.4949829101563, "cut_end_time": 936.2100454101562}, {"text": "He is overwhelmed at Jim\u2019s assurance and vital power. But Jim is one of those whom love makes a man for an hour in a lifetime. As I open the door for the exquisite Michael, I divine Mara\u2019s pity for him. But what can a woman do? No proud Singaporian can have mercy on an unmagnetic fool. It is not a conspiracy against the loser. It is an elemental contest. This red oriental heart is for the man who wins this doorstep fight. Religion and destiny wait. And J. B. Michael, the Third, of his own weakness goes out the door in defeat.", "start_byte": 289473, "end_byte": 290004, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 937.1199951171875, "end_time": 986.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 937.6749951171876, "cut_end_time": 985.4700576171875}, {"text": "But Mara, having, without an uttered word, chosen this James Kopensky for what she can make of him, turns at once to the cocaine Buddha around the corner of the hall. Religion comes next.", "start_byte": 290006, "end_byte": 290193, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 986.6799926757812, "end_time": 1003.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 987.3749926757813, "cut_end_time": 1002.9600551757812}, {"text": "The triumphant Jim follows her thought. He takes a candle from the table. He holds it in front of the august image, that seems to him more like green air than glass. He bows, the complete devotee before that ironical god whose doctrines are absurd, even to me, though I am for a season in a Malay mind. But what doctrines are not absurd to that soul that refuses to receive them?", "start_byte": 290195, "end_byte": 290574, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1003.3599853515625, "end_time": 1038.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1003.8449853515625, "cut_end_time": 1037.0601103515626}, {"text": "Jim blows out the candle, and with it his former life, and, in intention, every western desire, and all for the glory of the holy islands of southeast Asia. He relights the candle at a taller one that is burning in front of the image.", "start_byte": 290576, "end_byte": 290810, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1038.56005859375, "end_time": 1061.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1038.77505859375, "cut_end_time": 1060.4701210937499}, {"text": "Just then a telegram comes. Later I am reproved for letting the boy make the turn in the hall that enables him to see Crawling Jim light the candle. It is a real telegram, that has to do with an out-of-town lecture to be given by the Man from Singapore, on", "start_byte": 290812, "end_byte": 291068, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1061.6400146484375, "end_time": 1085.0, "cut_start_time": 1062.2650146484375, "cut_end_time": 1084.6000146484373}, {"text": " And so the lord of the house comes in for it, reads it, and signs. The boy is not hustled to the door. He lingers. Our little ceremony is quite interrupted.", "start_byte": 291095, "end_byte": 291252, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1087.6800537109375, "end_time": 1104.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1088.4550537109374, "cut_end_time": 1103.1001162109374}, {"text": "At last the slow youth goes. He is the son of a Japanese Industrial Commissioner to the World\u2019s Fair. It seems that this man and the Chinese Commissioner are sufficiently Asiatic to understand my master, and their subterranean feud with him and his ally, Old Montague Rock, never has an end. The Man from Singapore says:", "start_byte": 291254, "end_byte": 291574, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1104.0400390625, "end_time": 1134.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1104.8350390624998, "cut_end_time": 1133.8300390625}, {"text": "And so, soon after, the flustered Jim bids his lady a devout good evening.", "start_byte": 291687, "end_byte": 291761, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1144.1199951171875, "end_time": 1152.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1144.6749951171873, "cut_end_time": 1151.6500576171875}, {"text": "July 8: \u2014 Mara has been nervous about the Springfield fortunes of her accepted suitor all day, but he reports this evening that there is no cause for apprehension, that he has not noted one more fluttering eyelid than usual today. He is still in place, in Springfield.", "start_byte": 291763, "end_byte": 292031, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1152.9599609375, "end_time": 1177.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1153.2849609374998, "cut_end_time": 1176.5300234375}, {"text": "Then Mara makes ardent haste to talk with Jim of the religion into which he took a decisive, if interrupted, first step last evening. There is a bit of a suppressed strain and the harshness of argument in her voice, as though she were debating with all Springfield, though Springfield is not here. She is showing Jim that the Singaporian aversion to white, colorless things, is in no way unreasonable, since the religion was born in a sweet shadowed jungle. The whitest thing to be found in such a woods is the patch of dried grass in the opening of the trees under the blasting rays of the noonday sun. The living creature who lingers there must die. The prophet had talked so long to the religious beasts that he learned the inner wisdom of this fear. By listening long to their stories and their teachings, white came to mean the death of the soul to him. When he returned to Singapore and preached his first sermon that shadowy evening on the Raffles plain, proclaiming the religion of night, the religion of prowling, of rich wines and sweeping hanging moss, he gave them the Holy Green Glass Idol, and extended the doctrine of the fear of whiteness. It was there revealed to him, as he spoke with inspiration, that the whiter the silver, the whiter the horse, the whiter the armor, the whiter the plume, the more dangerous the foe. And so Mara assures Jim that all the deadliest enemies of the faith will come in the open noonday, dressed in white. If Singapore conquers all things white, and all the noonday races of men it will win the world. If once it falls before an army in white, it will be utterly annihilated, and the Holy Religion of Cocaine will perish from the earth.", "start_byte": 292033, "end_byte": 293718, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1177.8399658203125, "end_time": 1325.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1178.2849658203124, "cut_end_time": 1324.2200908203124}, {"text": "Mara asks Crawling Jim if this is not perfectly reasonable, as doctrine and as prophecy. He falls before her. He embraces her golden knees with his crazy arms. He says it is perfectly reasonable, as doctrine and as prophecy.", "start_byte": 293720, "end_byte": 293944, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1325.8800048828125, "end_time": 1349.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1326.0850048828124, "cut_end_time": 1348.4800048828124}, {"text": "But she lifts him up and she preaches and kisses away the hours, like any devout lady in like case.", "start_byte": 293946, "end_byte": 294045, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1349.719970703125, "end_time": 1361.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1350.7349707031249, "cut_end_time": 1359.980095703125}, {"text": "July 9: \u2014 Mara is saying to Jim this evening that while in the by streets of her holy city among the dregs of the world\u2019s population, much cocaine is taken, in the presence of grotesque libels of the Green Glass Buddha, as a matter of fact, that is a degenerate form of the religion. It is well enough since it keeps the outcasts happy and in subjection, more easily led, yet fierce in battle like the old hashish-eating assassins. But the esoteric, the masters, do not take cocaine. She speaks lovingly of the Green Glass Buddha, but saying finally of him, with the University Tone of Voice, that he is the god of wine. Like Dionysius he is especially the inspiration of the drama and all the arts that gather round it. Upon those patrons of drugs, the two greatest civilizations have been founded and the fairest catalogue of the arts.", "start_byte": 294047, "end_byte": 294884, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1361.52001953125, "end_time": 1439.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1361.7950195312499, "cut_end_time": 1439.09008203125}, {"text": "It seems to me this evening, that the lessons are done. Mara has called to me to go for her father. I have ushered him into the room, and he is receiving Jim, the son of the Mayor of Springfield, as his own son. The Man from Singapore takes on a manner Jim has never seen. There are tears in his carved eyes. He is the headlong devotee in the infatuation of proselyting.", "start_byte": 294886, "end_byte": 295256, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1439.760009765625, "end_time": 1475.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1440.505009765625, "cut_end_time": 1474.840072265625}, {"text": "He tells Jim that those who are faithful take on the soul of the holy green glass idol, which was long ago the pure and transparent spirit of the first king of the boa constrictors, who, it is recorded, ruled his tribe in integrity and crystal honor. It is in his service that Singapore goes forth to choke the earth. From the god of glass emanate rays of psychic force that extend world wide, and give his followers spiritual eyes so they can do battle for him in the forest of Christianity and civilization. The war is really between these faithful ones and the tiger souls that infest the jungle. The vendetta of the serpents against the tigers has gone on through the ages since before there were men. It will not be ended till all the tigers are gone and the Great Boa Constrictor swallows the world as though it were a rabbit.", "start_byte": 295258, "end_byte": 296090, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1475.56005859375, "end_time": 1547.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1476.3650585937498, "cut_end_time": 1547.13005859375}, {"text": "The Man from Singapore says that the tigers feed on all men from wantonness, while the serpents kill only those who interfere with the spread of their beneficent kingdom and eat only when hungry. Before the eyes of the true priests of the serpent, all buildings turn to forest trees and all shadows to forest boughs, and all men to serpents or tigers or some neutral beasts. Thus we know our most dangerous foes. These are not necessarily the men who curse us. They are often our intended friends, but actually in the way of the God of Glass. Thus there is no real serpent among the citizens of Springfield but Montague Rock. He is indeed a good Singaporian. All the other men in power, be they friends or foes in the open, are tigers alike. Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, at the seat of World Government, is the worst tiger of all. He is proscribed and doomed.", "start_byte": 296092, "end_byte": 296960, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1547.719970703125, "end_time": 1627.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1548.604970703125, "cut_end_time": 1626.9000957031249}, {"text": "The Man from Singapore eyes Jim steadily and continues: \u2014", "start_byte": 296962, "end_byte": 297019, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1627.9200439453125, "end_time": 1634.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1628.6550439453124, "cut_end_time": 1633.5500439453124}, {"text": "Jim takes the hand of this man and says it is absolutely convincing. 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He is a mirror, pouring back the rays of her own romantic glory, and she knows it not. She is incredibly happy, for she thinks she has done a good stroke for Singapore and her own heart. I, even as a Malay, am stirred with a great pity for her.", "start_byte": 297556, "end_byte": 298000, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1690.719970703125, "end_time": 1735.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1690.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 1734.460033203125}, {"text": "Her father, also, sees Jim as a hero. The serpent Buddha has not made this man and his daughter infallible.", "start_byte": 298002, "end_byte": 298109, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1735.8399658203125, "end_time": 1746.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1736.2549658203125, "cut_end_time": 1745.0500908203123}, {"text": "July 11: \u2014 Mara is near the window looking out through the black velvet hangings, watching for Jim, though it is not time for him to call. 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We are both rather aimlessly turning over the magazines, and, after I have observed his idleness awhile, I take him out for a walk and say:", "start_byte": 303535, "end_byte": 303736, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2275.919921875, "end_time": 2297.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 2276.204921875, "cut_end_time": 2296.7200468749998}, {"text": "He answers slowly, almost whispering: \u2014 ", "start_byte": 303899, "end_byte": 303939, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2313.679931640625, "end_time": 2319.360107421875, "cut_start_time": 2314.3549316406247, "cut_end_time": 2318.2701816406247}, {"text": " We walk north on Mulberry Boulevard, past the House of the Man from Singapore, and then west on Carpenter toward a little highway that finally joins the great Northwest Road. 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His eyes are fixed upon those waves that roll in forever, that keep their forms an instant, and are gone for all time: some of men, some of wraiths and gods, some of planets and comets and suns.", "start_byte": 304998, "end_byte": 305532, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2431.60009765625, "end_time": 2490.320068359375, "cut_start_time": 2431.89509765625, "cut_end_time": 2489.53016015625}, {"text": "He turns around and beckons and over the sand comes Channa, the superb charioteer, and the horses of that chariot are nobler than the horses of the sun. Prince Siddartha is in the chariot in an instant and they drive out into that sea and the wheels of that chariot ride the waves. Those horses are like lightning, climbing waves that are like hills and mountains, till chariot, horses, and men all are veiled by the endless smoke and glory and darkness and dissolving foam. 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Now the Marxians of the world revere Marx and Hegel as these others did Abraham and Jehovah, but the only way to keep them from cutting each other\u2019s throats is for the World Government to stand between them.\u201d", "start_byte": 309106, "end_byte": 309534, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 264.2799987792969, "end_time": 299.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 264.7149987792969, "cut_end_time": 297.8300612792969, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIndeed it is true,", "start_byte": 309536, "end_byte": 309555, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 299.1199951171875, "end_time": 302.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 299.58499511718753, "cut_end_time": 301.80012011718753, "narrative_prediction": {"confirms": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Purple Flag Marxians of Japan, the Yellow Flag Marxians of China, the White Flags of Thibet, the Black Flags of Russia, the Red Flags of Central Europe, the Gray Flags of America, all conspire against one another, with at least five times five which is twenty-five hates, in all, to be mathematical. Yet they all read the same Marx to tatters. When the Yellow Flag Marxians of China agree among themselves sufficiently to fall upon the Purples of Japan, a thing we are momently expecting, the World Government will have a stern police duty, especially since both sides are being urged on by Singapore.\u201d", "start_byte": 309574, "end_byte": 310181, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 304.32000732421875, "end_time": 359.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 305.0150073242188, "cut_end_time": 357.87000732421876, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cInstead of a world of three classes, special privileged, middle class, and peasantry, as these Marxians think it to be, it is, from my brother\u2019s standpoint and my own, a globe whose seas and continents are spread with fifty to one hundred antagonistic races, mutually repellent. These fifty to one hundred races dye thoroughly, with the dye of race-mysticism, any economic teaching they take up. So practical world statesmanship, from the Japanese standpoint and I am glad to say, from the standpoint of the fiery Michael also, has dealt with race. Our statesmen advocated the principle of one vote to every main tribe in the world and fractional votes in due proportion to the size of the small tribes, long before your Michael entered the Senate, and every speech he has made there to strengthen that doctrine has been cheered from end to end of Japan.\u201d", "start_byte": 310304, "end_byte": 311160, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 371.8399963378906, "end_time": 444.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 372.43499633789065, "cut_end_time": 442.6901213378907, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Avanel Sword,", "start_byte": 312088, "end_byte": 312106, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 521.9199829101562, "end_time": 523.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 522.0449829101562, "cut_end_time": 523.4701079101562, "narrative_prediction": {"named": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Avanel Gates,", "start_byte": 312185, "end_byte": 312203, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 529.9199829101562, "end_time": 532.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 529.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 531.6801079101563, "narrative_prediction": {"named": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cPardon me, if for a moment I speak as an old man to his grandchildren. I ask to be forgiven if I am jealous of the furious and romantic years just coming on, jealous for the farther future, and for its vindication. The immediate years, I know, will fill our cups with sorrow whether we live or die. But I ask of you one Spartan thing, beyond fighting ten years \u2014 if ten years be necessary to subdue mad Singapore. Remember not only the virtues but the follies of your mothers, the Amazons, and your fathers, the Horseshoe Brotherhood, who rode side by side and fought so nobly thirty years ago. I can speak of this because I can say without flinching that our Japanese men and women Samurai went through the same glories and follies, with them in the same battle line. Forever after, they have lived in that war on that battle line. Do not go on perpetually climbing into office because you can recount military history, as many of our Samurai have done, drowning out the man or woman who wants to speak of matters thirty years ahead and plan such a thing as your Fair or University. No war ushers in the perfect state. The great wars are not all fought with the sword. To speak in the Christian phrase, remember that every yesterday is but a box of costly spikenard to be broken on the feet of Holy Tomorrow. Though you fight ten wars, let yesterday be your enemy. Otherwise you fight but as the nations that died before Confucius, and Mencius.\u201d", "start_byte": 316734, "end_byte": 318181, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 931.760009765625, "end_time": 1073.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 932.1850097656251, "cut_end_time": 1071.140009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBack home, after so long.", "start_byte": 318421, "end_byte": 318447, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1094.4000244140625, "end_time": 1097.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1094.4950244140623, "cut_end_time": 1096.9900869140624, "narrative_prediction": {"being": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI admit I am an old man, and I know the ironies, or at least some of them, if I win. Whoever is President of the World or mayor of a small town is predestined to be overthrown by the ten most envious and vigorous young men who want his place.\u201d", "start_byte": 320582, "end_byte": 320826, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1278.9599609375, "end_time": 1304.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1279.8449609375, "cut_end_time": 1302.9300234374998, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI can only hope that some of the envious will be from Springfield\u2019s freshman chivalry. I love the hate of young men and young women when it is high and keeps them driving forward to unseat the older generation in tournaments over noble issues. And whoever replaces me at the World Capitol, either in the legislature or the supreme chair, I hope to have made my bungling record there of such a sort, my foe, equally human, will be obliged to do his noblest to unseat me. But the sword of the Michaels has not been called the Avanel sword by divine accident alone, and at the end of my turn, ten years hence, or so, I am willing to be driven out of the supreme-chair by a Boone, of Springfield, particularly if it is a girl, and particularly if she is named Avanel.", "start_byte": 320915, "end_byte": 321679, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1312.5999755859375, "end_time": 1387.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1313.1449755859373, "cut_end_time": 1386.4301005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe world would have a princess, not a president. It would simply be the reiteration of monarchy and idolatry from of old time.\u201d", "start_byte": 321789, "end_byte": 321918, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1397.239990234375, "end_time": 1412.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1397.7449902343749, "cut_end_time": 1411.330115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"interrupt": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "severely": {"id": "0", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe New Springfield Race.", "start_byte": 322257, "end_byte": 322283, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1441.43994140625, "end_time": 1444.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1441.68494140625, "cut_end_time": 1443.6500664062498, "narrative_prediction": {"is": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "giving": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "diplomatically": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}, "ingratiating": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cWithin the range from Jew to Greek we openly trust one another\u2019s priesthood, realizing we are all kings and priests before God. Above all races and their sects are the stars, and beneath them is the rich earth, and between these our city climbs heavenward. I am sure that before a thousand years go by, yes, before a hundred years go by, some image of Prince Siddartha will stand beside the image of Johnny Appleseed, whose soul was so much like his own. Our image of Johnny Appleseed would have been equally impossible in the church of St. Peter and St. Paul that stood on the site of our cathedral one hundred years ago. With such practical unity of the main forces that have quarrelled immemorially in the old lands, I have the hope that similar forces of race and sect, with the buffer state of the ocean between them, to keep them cool, may come to practical reconciliation under the World Flag: \u2014 that those that can unite under the Flag of Springfield with joy, can some day unite, the world over, under the flag of all mankind.", "start_byte": 330098, "end_byte": 331134, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2130.080078125, "end_time": 2225.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 2130.475078125, "cut_end_time": 2224.450015625, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Today, being the Iron Gentleman\u2019s birthday, is a family festival with the Michaels and, in the very early morning, before there are any passers by, the leading representatives of the family are hand in hand in silence around the original forge of the Iron Gentleman, for a little while. The bellows is blowing and the fire is high and there is the beginning of a blade in the flame, for they remember that he has said:", "start_byte": 306936, "end_byte": 307354, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 72.12000274658203, "end_time": 106.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 72.45500274658202, "cut_end_time": 105.92000274658203}, {"text": " Then they repeat the Lord\u2019s Prayer and disperse, before the town is awake, leaving, according to custom, one man to finish the blade, at his leisure: \u2014 in this case Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third.", "start_byte": 307422, "end_byte": 307624, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 113.23999786376953, "end_time": 130.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 113.83499786376953, "cut_end_time": 129.50006036376953}, {"text": "St. Friend, the Giver of Bread, has told me that the Michaels in general have old fashioned Bible reading in their homes, with old hymns and family prayers, every morning or evening no matter what pet heresies may be running through the tribe. Not many of them accept the formally designed altars of Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, they have left here hammering a blade, unless they are direct fanatical converts to the Flower Religion.", "start_byte": 307626, "end_byte": 308067, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 130.83999633789062, "end_time": 167.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 131.2049963378906, "cut_end_time": 166.5600588378906}, {"text": "This evening I find myself one of a party in the library of St. Friend. We have been given an uplifting welcome by the saint, and the Thibetan Boy. Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Third, the non-entity whose fortunes seem always thrust upon me, is of the party. Black Hawk Boone is there. Our special guest is Sake Shioya, one of the Elder Statemen of Japan, and in America because he is head of the Department of Asiatic Art in the World\u2019s Fair of the University of Springfield. At home, when not in the Japanese Cabinet, he is professor Sake Shioya of the Doshisha University of Japan, and brother of Nataro Shioya, the leading Japanese representative in the Senate of the World Government.", "start_byte": 308069, "end_byte": 308759, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 167.55999755859375, "end_time": 232.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 168.16499755859374, "cut_end_time": 231.34006005859374}, {"text": "For a lifetime the brothers have shouted through Japan:", "start_byte": 308761, "end_byte": 308816, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 232.63999938964844, "end_time": 237.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 233.23499938964844, "cut_end_time": 237.31006188964844}, {"text": " St. Friend passes round the cigars and, himself, sticks to his corncob pipe. Perhaps it is because we are under the portrait of Alexander Campbell our talk turns to religious controversy. 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Those flags have been put up in special size and splendor, all over the town, even more than is the custom. And the borders of the parks around Camp Lincoln are one tremendous fleet of these banners. I find myself on the drill ground near the aged Japanese statesman. I am huddled on the side of the reviewing platform with the newspaper men, and we watch those strange Japanese eyes, and are amazed at his fiery enthusiasm for the International Flag. 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The blossoms of the tree are most delicately wrought, and shining with gold foil against the black. These trees were, in especial, the work of the hammers of the three daughters.", "start_byte": 312443, "end_byte": 312673, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 554.2000122070312, "end_time": 574.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 554.9650122070312, "cut_end_time": 573.7100122070312}, {"text": "But now, to the delight of the old Japanese, and the delight of us all, the magnificent cavalcade of men and women sweeps in from their city parade through these ancestral gates, to the Camp Lincoln grounds, in order, yet in riot, after the manner of a great dance of gay and inspired horses and horsemen. And they are all within the command of Avanel, standing high in her stirrups, and as much beneath her eye and as subject to her entranced fancy, as has been St. Friend, the Giver of Bread, when she uttered his sermons for him, hardly knowing how she did it, except that she spoke her mind.", "start_byte": 312675, "end_byte": 313270, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 574.5999755859375, "end_time": 625.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 575.4449755859375, "cut_end_time": 624.7801005859375}, {"text": "The men on horseback are but the background of the girls in their Diana mood. The huntress, and yet the Pallas Athena, seems roused in all these girls in white. Most of them are in their first strength: \u2014 high school girls when they are still a bit Tom boy; that which is with every girl for a year or half a lifetime as a reminiscence of the primeval girlhood of her far grandmothers, when they rode the two-toed and three-toed horse in equestrian dance and revel.", "start_byte": 313272, "end_byte": 313737, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 625.8400268554688, "end_time": 667.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 626.6150268554687, "cut_end_time": 666.9700893554688}, {"text": "High above all the other flags, on gigantic poles on either side of the reviewing stand, are the official flags of the field. The poles are of equal height and the flags are of identical size and importance in the eyes of the paraders, as they salute them and salute the Japanese each time round the field: \u2014 while the afterglow turns the air to crimson and orange and grey pearl.", "start_byte": 313739, "end_byte": 314119, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 667.9600219726562, "end_time": 699.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 668.4350219726563, "cut_end_time": 698.6200219726562}, {"text": "They go by screaming and screeching with delight, and sweep and cut the air with their Avanel blades in a sunset sword-drill. When they pass Avanel, whose horse is now near us, the salute in sign of submission to her pride, is given with all a girl Amazon\u2019s fantastic chivalry: the Boone dagger, lifted high overhead. In her person at least, the Boones of Springfield have put the Michaels of Springfield under their feet. And certainly the whitest thing in the whole whirlwind of white is the spirited head of old Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second. Whatever the morrow between these clans, his submission is made as she sights him, and he bows and salutes in the last afterglow, and she forces him to lead the review beside her.", "start_byte": 314121, "end_byte": 314853, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 699.3599853515625, "end_time": 764.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 699.9949853515625, "cut_end_time": 763.1200478515625}, {"text": "The Japanese watches and wonders and says to the press gallery that of course no day can be women\u2019s day and men\u2019s day equally, and this is one of the days of the women.", "start_byte": 314855, "end_byte": 315023, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 764.47998046875, "end_time": 779.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 765.21498046875, "cut_end_time": 778.51004296875}, {"text": "Now all the while I have been wondering about a certain device that is the millinery and nonsense of this drill park, the globe that is the mechanical toy of these laughing girls. Now the whole company are whirling round and round that giant school-globe that looms like the dome of the Taj Mahal in the center of the field. Upon the surface of the sphere of hollow crystal, the map of the world now begins to blaze out as darkness comes on, the continents in the conventional colors of the school globes from the beginning of the log school house days. The interior of the sphere is a vapor, the color of the sea, but becoming iridescent as though the world were but a bubble blown by the fancy of one of the powers of the universe. The changes of light are painted upon the faces of the riders and the flanks of the horses.", "start_byte": 315025, "end_byte": 315850, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 779.47998046875, "end_time": 850.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 780.0349804687501, "cut_end_time": 848.71010546875}, {"text": "July 17: \u2014 The Japanese is addressing the leaders of the Horseshoe Brotherhood and the Amazons. He says in conclusion: \u2014 \u201cHardly a man on the earth wanted the war to come that was waged against the World Government thirty years ago, if we are to believe the professions then made. So far as I can discover not one responsible statesman expected or intended it. Such dynamite may be touched off again, and this time it will be with more cause and more open anticipation. So though the responsible ones like Michael and my brother, if I may say so, are doing their best to prevent war, half the world is drilling and riding and marching, and flying about in practice war planes, and even here where the Great World\u2019s Fair of the University of Springfield is going on, that seems in itself an assurance of international brotherhood forever, you are drilling more zealously every day.", "start_byte": 315852, "end_byte": 316732, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 850.4400024414062, "end_time": 931.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 850.7450024414063, "cut_end_time": 929.7500649414063}, {"text": "July 18: \u2014 The same group as on the 14th of July are around the library table of St. Friend with the addition of the gigantic Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, who is among us as though he were in his boyhood again, being as he says,", "start_byte": 318183, "end_byte": 318420, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1073.3599853515625, "end_time": 1094.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1073.8749853515624, "cut_end_time": 1093.7701103515624}, {"text": " The idolizing friendship of the Japanese and his private secretary but provoke him to franker monologues and a greater disposition to sprawl about with his hair mussed up and his head on one side like an eagle acting the robin. He has his arm around his son, as though he would push him in amongst us. As the evening progresses, in reply to some quite pointed questions from the Japanese, on behalf of his brother and himself, who want to act upon the information, discreetly but definitely, Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, bawls out a confession: \u2014 ", "start_byte": 318448, "end_byte": 319005, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1097.760009765625, "end_time": 1142.0, "cut_start_time": 1098.255009765625, "cut_end_time": 1140.990009765625}, {"text": "\u201cFirst, let me say that no man ever held office in the world, who was actually capable of running more than a village of ten thousand inhabitants. All men who have been higher in apparent rank than village mayors, have simply made shift: rattled about in their big chairs as they could. The courageous man, knowing this, respects, but does not fear or revere the alleged great. They all get the respect from me due to a good mayor, and no more. No man should run for a great office without expecting to make a botch of his administration. I dream of something definite and quite selfish. I want to have my turn as President of the World Government. This proclamation may be too much American style for the stomachs of my Japanese friends here present. But no one was ever elected dog catcher, coroner, governor, senator, or president, in this United States, who did not first nominate himself. As a matter of fact I know of no American politician who was ever urged to run by his most admiring friend. I must keep my American political habits if I am to feel at home in this contest and to retain even the American vote. All this is by the way. I hope it is not too mysterious to a Japanese.", "start_byte": 319007, "end_byte": 320198, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1142.0, "end_time": 1241.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1142.3149999999998, "cut_end_time": 1240.4599999999998}, {"text": "\u201cTo continue as to my views around and about this office. A man may serve but one term at best. We Michaels are a long lived set, and I am hoping at the end of this war to have strength for one term.", "start_byte": 320200, "end_byte": 320399, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1241.47998046875, "end_time": 1259.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1242.0749804687498, "cut_end_time": 1259.27004296875}, {"text": "\u201cIt is a long journey to the nomination past all other possible national or international ambitions; for instance, in my case, past an ambition to forge a thousand Michael blades.", "start_byte": 320401, "end_byte": 320580, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1259.9599609375, "end_time": 1278.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1260.9849609374999, "cut_end_time": 1278.3700234374999}, {"text": "And now the eagle begins to flame in the face of Michael and he speaks most earnestly:", "start_byte": 320828, "end_byte": 320914, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1304.239990234375, "end_time": 1312.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1305.0749902343748, "cut_end_time": 1311.570052734375}, {"text": " Which ending is of course but gallant nonsense. But I venture, from my dark corner to interrupt severely: \u2014", "start_byte": 321680, "end_byte": 321788, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1387.6400146484375, "end_time": 1397.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1388.1050146484374, "cut_end_time": 1396.3900146484375}, {"text": "But no one seems to hear me. My voice comes from too far away.", "start_byte": 321920, "end_byte": 321982, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1412.0400390625, "end_time": 1419.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1412.8350390624998, "cut_end_time": 1418.4601015624999}, {"text": "July 21: \u2014 Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, is talking with the two Japanese and myself in Tom Strong\u2019s Lunch Room, and, with most elaborate and knightly deference to the extremely contrasting race character of our guests, and is giving his theory of what he calls: \u2014", "start_byte": 321984, "end_byte": 322256, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1419.9200439453125, "end_time": 1441.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1420.3650439453124, "cut_end_time": 1441.4500439453125}, {"text": " And his tone of voice is most diplomatically ingratiating, as he touches on matters alien to Japanese thought.", "start_byte": 322284, "end_byte": 322395, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1444.0400390625, "end_time": 1454.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1444.5250390625, "cut_end_time": 1453.4200390624999}, {"text": "\u201cJust as the sea is naturally the world\u2019s buffer state, and in area far greater than the total of all the continents, with the happy circumstance that the World Government is supported by a sea revenue, in this same way and no other way, institutions like the University Fair lie between all great enemies and factions of Springfield, a sea of separation, cooling, and reconciliation.", "start_byte": 322397, "end_byte": 322781, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1454.239990234375, "end_time": 1488.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1454.7749902343749, "cut_end_time": 1487.140115234375}, {"text": "\u201cSpringfield, in other ways, affords so good a symbol of desirable world conditions, toward which the World Government should be, perhaps, constructed, that I would like to put the city before you in that light.", "start_byte": 322783, "end_byte": 322994, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1488.6400146484375, "end_time": 1505.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1488.9250146484374, "cut_end_time": 1504.8200146484373}, {"text": "\u201cWhat is the ultimate citizen of Springfield? Already the race strains that have mixed, have made an elastic, resilient type, that is one with the city\u2019s suddenest moves.", "start_byte": 322996, "end_byte": 323166, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1505.719970703125, "end_time": 1522.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1506.194970703125, "cut_end_time": 1521.250033203125}, {"text": "\u201cOf course, one event or festival pleases the Italians most, another seems to be in the Scandinavian mood, though both events represent Springfield. Every new song or event or new idea goes echoing through the various temperaments, and has a resonance that a thought cannot have when it is echoed in only one kind of a corridor.", "start_byte": 323168, "end_byte": 323496, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1522.3199462890625, "end_time": 1548.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1523.0849462890624, "cut_end_time": 1548.2700087890623}, {"text": "\u201cAnd Springfieldians, for all their marvelous intermarriages, are not mongrel. They have a special Springfield sense of the sacred mystery of race, that keeps the great pronounced race types like the Japanese and others in honored separation, while within one general type or kindred tradition, there is much intermarriage.", "start_byte": 323498, "end_byte": 323821, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1548.8399658203125, "end_time": 1577.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1549.4449658203125, "cut_end_time": 1576.2100283203124}, {"text": "\u201cWe Michaelites say to each other, and you will forgive a family allusion, that the Springfield soul, which is so elastic, is like the sword evolved by the Iron Gentleman, which can be coiled like a ribbon from the side but, when cutting straightforward, can go through granite without losing edge anywhere.", "start_byte": 323823, "end_byte": 324130, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1577.1199951171875, "end_time": 1603.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1577.4949951171875, "cut_end_time": 1602.7100576171874}, {"text": "\u201cAs for the versatility and elasticity, the Irish grandmother of my pet enemy will keep him in city hall politics, and one Russian great-grandmother keeps him in the music department of the University, as one of the leading composers. Or so we are accustomed to tracing out family lines in this town.", "start_byte": 324132, "end_byte": 324432, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1603.9599609375, "end_time": 1630.0, "cut_start_time": 1604.6349609375, "cut_end_time": 1628.8400234375}, {"text": "\u201cAnother man is quite sure that his Portuguese great-grandfather gives him the voice to be one of the city\u2019s principals in local opera, and his Scotch great-grandfather, at least in his own eyes, explains the fact that he is an expert accountant.", "start_byte": 324434, "end_byte": 324680, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1630.0, "end_time": 1649.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1630.405, "cut_end_time": 1648.5600625}, {"text": "\u201cThe mystery of race is first of all a sex mystery, and with endless subtleties settled by instinct, on which no man can dogmatize, though they have caused jealous Othello to misunderstand and kill Desdemona, and Jessica to understand and wed Lorenzo, from the beginning. If race is first of all a sex mystery, it is next a religious mystery, which is more easily expounded, from the standpoint of politics, and touches, perhaps more clearly, our theory of World Government. The prayers at our family altars differ in tone and accent. The races with a turn for sectarianism, like the Scotch, are still working in our blood while others are the mainstay of the Cathedral. All phases of the race \u2014 the religious mystery, moving in harmony, cleanness, and self respect are not only a part of Springfield\u2019s total personality, but of Springfield\u2019s government, in the midst of apparent mob-law.", "start_byte": 324682, "end_byte": 325570, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1649.6800537109375, "end_time": 1727.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1650.4050537109374, "cut_end_time": 1726.6500537109373}, {"text": "\u201cFor instance, the fact that the Catholics have remained for these one hundred years worshipping in their incense-haunted Churches in the Springfield atmosphere, means that Springfield people, married before Springfield Catholic altars, have become a special kind of dreaming Catholics. Therefore, they have given us miracle-working, vision-seeing saints, like Saint Scribe of the Shrines, to help unify our mood. And we all worship in season at the Cathedral, and half of us are followers of St. Friend, the Giver of Bread, whatever our religious belief.", "start_byte": 325572, "end_byte": 326127, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1727.0799560546875, "end_time": 1775.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1727.6249560546873, "cut_end_time": 1775.2000185546874}, {"text": "\u201cI say the Christian Science Church of Springfield has a most noble history. It is made up largely of heretic Jews and proselytes from the old Congregational New Englanders. This would not be so if the doctrine were a pure abstraction appealing to all men equally. It is mixed in some incalculable way with the mystery of race and the mystery of the past, or it would not appeal so definitely to these two race traditions, and so little to all others.", "start_byte": 326129, "end_byte": 326580, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1775.8399658203125, "end_time": 1816.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1776.7249658203125, "cut_end_time": 1815.8700908203125}, {"text": "\u201cThe side of it that appeals to me is its history of freedom and its chronicle of subdivision, which mean life, at least I hold that they do in this case. And so we find the local Mother Church growing at first strong, and then new teachers rising in the body of the Church\u2019s life to make more vital the friendly and hostile pulpits of the town, and stimulate everywhere debate.", "start_byte": 326582, "end_byte": 326960, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1816.56005859375, "end_time": 1852.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1817.1150585937498, "cut_end_time": 1851.7801210937498}, {"text": "\u201cThe teachings of Rabbi Ezekiel of the Oak Religion and Mother Grey of the Flower Religion may be largely classified as coming from Christian Science. The wave of its tide is still strong among us, and we know not what Christian Science may bring forth for Springfield tomorrow.", "start_byte": 326962, "end_byte": 327240, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1852.4000244140625, "end_time": 1877.0, "cut_start_time": 1853.2250244140623, "cut_end_time": 1875.5900244140623}, {"text": "\u201cOur sects quarrel, of course, but whatever quarrels they have divide families only, never the city.", "start_byte": 327242, "end_byte": 327342, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1877.0, "end_time": 1887.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1877.2649999999999, "cut_end_time": 1886.4499999999998}, {"text": "\u201cI wish this could always be true of the races in the World Government.", "start_byte": 327344, "end_byte": 327415, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1887.3599853515625, "end_time": 1894.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1888.0449853515624, "cut_end_time": 1892.9500478515624}, {"text": "\u201cWe have seen adorers of the truth, like close followers of Mother Grey, the Florist, going from Synagogue to Church and from Church to the Open Forum, and it is generally deemed a mark of a good citizen, certainly among the descendants of the Iron Gentleman, to understand all of these movements, and to love many, though they appear to contradict one another. Within the dominion of the Springfield mind, there is a principle: \u2014 one sect, one vote: one race, one vote. As florist Mother Grey is willing to say to her most devoted following \u2018Our religions and races may be looked upon by the wise as many flowers of opposite design, yet all making glad the Springfield garden.\u2019 Yet there is no place in the world where people are more loyal to their clans. Boones are Boones forever.", "start_byte": 327417, "end_byte": 328201, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1894.0799560546875, "end_time": 1964.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1894.7449560546875, "cut_end_time": 1962.9600810546874}, {"text": "\u201cYou, as a Japanese, will be glad and comprehend when I say that even the religious life from the far east, except the teaching of Singapore, moves up into this common denominator in Springfield that we call citizenship. There are a few Mohammedan Philippinos, and I happen to know, they are good citizens and good Americans, though they are allowed but one apparent wife in these states. There is a group of Thibetans, of whom the Thibetan Boy is one socially, if not religiously, who do not find a contradiction between their Springfield patriotism that has gone on these three generations, and their reformed Buddhism. Of course, they marry for the most part among themselves, or bring Thibetans from New York or San Francisco to build up their colony. Whatever church a group of our people finds in tune with their race and sex and love-tradition, no matter how separate they keep their race strains, or how guarded their family altars and holy family flags, they surely belong to the Springfield race and the Springfield Civic Religion. They are loyal to the city as a scholar is to his University. This is the mood I would like to get into World-Government-Flag-Patriotism, which is now too crude. With obvious Singaporian exceptions, this Springfield civic religion is preached by every philosopher and every local atheist. Even Sparrow Short, though he seems to hate me and the World Government, would count it as great a hardship to be banished from Springfield, as Dante counted it, to be banished from Florence. I wish his kind could see the World Flag as they see the Springfield Flag.", "start_byte": 328203, "end_byte": 329800, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1964.52001953125, "end_time": 2104.320068359375, "cut_start_time": 1964.95501953125, "cut_end_time": 2102.89014453125}, {"text": "\u201cYou have wanted to understand my politics, to make it clearer to your brother in Japan. In most things the city is a symbol and pattern to me of World Unity and World Government and if there has been any consistency in my battles in the World Senate, it is because I had faith in this pattern.", "start_byte": 329802, "end_byte": 330096, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2104.320068359375, "end_time": 2130.080078125, "cut_start_time": 2105.255068359375, "cut_end_time": 2129.1701308593747}]}

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refused. Therefore tonight there is a great torch-parade and ritual by St. Friend and his followers in the cathedral. Debs, John Brown, Lovejoy, Liebknecht, are invoked. Springfield\u2019s fury, glory, and devotion are in every face and eye. St. Friend, with unaccustomed fire for these his days of feebler health, reviles the opinions of Short and his companions. But he demands their liberation in the name of the Constitution of the United States and Free Speech. St. Friend cries from the pulpit:", "start_byte": 332135, "end_byte": 332731, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 78.91999816894531, "end_time": 135.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 79.43499816894531, "cut_end_time": 135.06012316894532}, {"text": "The smoke of those torches comes between me and St. Friend. Everything on this day happens to me in such a fashion. There is much dust on the dustless streets, at least when I pass by. And many streets are unaccountably deserted, morning and afternoon, though there is a World\u2019s Fair crowd roaring somewhere near, I know. And the dust that sweeps up with the autumn leaves from these streets has the taste of old years in it, and the grave. It seems, some moments, as though I can keep my eyes open no longer. I am not to take one step further. Some fate has forbidden me to glimpse more of my City. But there is that in my will and my soul that commands me to go forward one step further, and open my eyes for one moment longer.", "start_byte": 332912, "end_byte": 333641, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 152.32000732421875, "end_time": 217.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 153.14500732421874, "cut_end_time": 216.49000732421874}, {"text": "And so through this evening I realize that, dimly and dizzily, the torches are being uplifted at the beginning of the star chiming hour.", "start_byte": 333643, "end_byte": 333779, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 217.47999572753906, "end_time": 230.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 218.08499572753905, "cut_end_time": 230.22005822753906}, {"text": "Now the great Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, is himself speaking in the cathedral, and, if he testifies for old Sparrow Short, who shall say that Short is a danger to the World Flag?", "start_byte": 333781, "end_byte": 333970, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 230.9199981689453, "end_time": 246.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 231.3649981689453, "cut_end_time": 245.65006066894532}, {"text": "Michael says that just as freedom resides in the Declaration of Independence, in trial by jury, and the like, which are immemorial, crystallized institutions of the radicalism of ancient times, so radicals with new thoughts should have every chance with their torch in the church and not be forced to wave it in the street, and that", "start_byte": 333972, "end_byte": 334304, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 246.67999267578125, "end_time": 273.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 247.20499267578126, "cut_end_time": 273.82011767578126}, {"text": "July 23: \u2014 Sparrow Short is left locked up and forgotten, for today there is a great war-music in the streets.", "start_byte": 334379, "end_byte": 334489, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 281.0799865722656, "end_time": 292.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 281.62498657226564, "cut_end_time": 291.64011157226565}, {"text": "All Singapore is running amuck. The Horseshoe Brotherhood and the Amazons are drilling double hours. Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, is firing his clan like an Arab Mahdi, preaching a new holy war. A new group of trumpeters are to the fore, blowing slender trumpets, all of them silver white, to frighten the Lord of Cocaine, trumpets whose cry is that of birds that the Singaporians hold accursed; the eagle, the turkey and the wild swan.", "start_byte": 334491, "end_byte": 334936, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 292.6000061035156, "end_time": 334.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 292.89500610351564, "cut_end_time": 333.72006860351564}, {"text": "And to that music, there at Camp Lincoln, the maelstrom of cavalry goes on, round and round their gigantic mechanical toy, their simple childlike image of the earth, and its glow is turning to a glare as of a smelter-furnace door, or the blaze of a little planet, newly whirled off from the sun.", "start_byte": 334938, "end_byte": 335233, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 334.32000732421875, "end_time": 362.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 335.06500732421875, "cut_end_time": 361.20006982421876}, {"text": "July 24: \u2014 War talk dies down and the whole town is full of hatred of its leaders and feverish silly rumors against them. More and more openly the small fry politicians of all factions seem to be justifying with reminiscent emphasis the lynching of Surto Hurdenburg as an heroic act of defiance of both the City Hall and the Board of Education. The actual responsibility for the lynching is shifted from this one to that one, but, whoever it was that led (if we are to believe the tone of the coffee houses) is a hero.", "start_byte": 335235, "end_byte": 335753, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 362.4800109863281, "end_time": 411.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 363.01501098632815, "cut_end_time": 410.51007348632817}, {"text": "The fairly well-meaning leaders of the town, comprising the majority of both the Board of Education and the City Hall, are in new tremendous offices, administering the growing responsibilities of the World\u2019s Fair and the war preparations also, and a gulf has been made between them and the people with whom they have been on gossiping terms heretofore.", "start_byte": 335755, "end_byte": 336107, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 411.6000061035156, "end_time": 441.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 412.57500610351565, "cut_end_time": 440.76006860351566}, {"text": "The old war between the town and the gown seems revived, with this difference, that the natives of Springfield act like the University students, and the finest World\u2019s Fair visitors seem the real citizens of the place, insulted at the deeds of the freshmen. The habit of turning every spare village green into a summer camp ground for passing tourists in automobiles, that has prevailed through the United States for a long time, has established in all the counties adjoining Springfield an enormous circle of village grounds, and here the great part of the Fair visitors camp by their own machines and come in to the show by day, by local transportation of all sorts. Their resentment of the frivolity of the rank and file of the city grows, and nightly they are the more appalled at the rumor as they chatter in their camps, that the Springfield mob intends to lynch wholesale the only people who have treated the Fair visitors with any degree of courtesy, namely: \u2014 the City Council and the Board of Education.", "start_byte": 336109, "end_byte": 337122, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 441.44000244140625, "end_time": 524.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 442.0250024414063, "cut_end_time": 523.3000649414063}, {"text": "Whole streets of the city are suddenly deserted and the business houses closed, for this or that lightly given reason, and the next hour that street, under obscure leaders may be filled with a howling mob, that seems to be howling about nothing.", "start_byte": 337124, "end_byte": 337369, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 524.8800048828125, "end_time": 547.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 525.1950048828126, "cut_end_time": 546.2400048828125}, {"text": "The slander still persists, with infinite variations, that the man who poisoned Drug Store Smith and Coffee House Kusuko did it at the direct instigation of old Boone. Such an action is indeed far from Boone\u2019s nature. And this, all discredited leaders, in a panic for their personal safety, steadily maintain.", "start_byte": 337371, "end_byte": 337680, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 547.1599731445312, "end_time": 576.0, "cut_start_time": 547.5749731445313, "cut_end_time": 574.6600356445313}, {"text": "July 25: \u2014 I am again the Malay servant at the house of the Man from Singapore.", "start_byte": 337682, "end_byte": 337761, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 576.0, "end_time": 584.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 576.595, "cut_end_time": 583.72}, {"text": "The death of Drug Store Smith and Coffee House Kusuko was exacted of the Mayor\u2019s son by Montague Rock. It was an earnest of the sincerity of his conversion to the Singaporian cult. The Man from Singapore had nothing to do with it and, in fact, does not approve of the use of such a drastic initiation,", "start_byte": 337763, "end_byte": 338064, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 584.239990234375, "end_time": 610.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 585.064990234375, "cut_end_time": 610.240052734375}, {"text": " he says. The slandering of Boone, it appears, by the talk of the Man from Singapore with his daughter, is also the work of this fanatical convert, Montague Rock. It is not exactly the Singaporian way. But again", "start_byte": 338130, "end_byte": 338341, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 620.1599731445312, "end_time": 641.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 620.4349731445312, "cut_end_time": 641.1400356445313}, {"text": "July 26: \u2014 About the beginning of July, four men come to town, who took part in the burning alive of a negro in Chicago. The burning was provoked by a yellow journal\u2019s account, giving hear-say evidence against the negro. Disturbing their minds not at all over the subsequent vindication of the black man, his executioners come to Springfield, intoxicated with their recent leadership, the first taste of public power they have ever known, the smell of burning flesh delighting their cannibal nostrils. They take odd jobs from Boone and profess to be his violent partizans. They are more violent than he desires or uses.", "start_byte": 338379, "end_byte": 338998, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 646.8800048828125, "end_time": 708.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 647.3250048828126, "cut_end_time": 706.8600673828125}, {"text": "And so tonight, while I am chained in the body of the Malay body-servant, the news comes over the phone, particularly grieving the Man from Singapore, that Boone has been hanged from the same tree at the northwest corner of the State House ground, where Surto Hurdenburg was hanged on the twentieth of June. The four men from Chicago, who lead the mob, want to burn Boone to death, but the rest of the crowd insist on a hanging. The crowd is not composed of partizans of the City Hall. There are few people who were at the murder of Hurdenburg; according to the report over the phone, equally obscure members of all factions are represented.", "start_byte": 339000, "end_byte": 339641, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 708.2000122070312, "end_time": 768.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 709.2650122070313, "cut_end_time": 767.5500122070313}, {"text": "The Man from Singapore says he deeply regrets the death of Boone who was an honorable and open foe of Singapore. He almost weeps before the beautiful Mara and, as to what she thinks, I know not. He says that if he had had his way, Boone should have lived several years longer, but the fashions, even of proselytes in Springfield, are past finding out.", "start_byte": 339643, "end_byte": 339994, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 768.47998046875, "end_time": 802.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 769.25498046875, "cut_end_time": 802.15010546875}, {"text": " he says to Mara,", "start_byte": 340029, "end_byte": 340046, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 805.760009765625, "end_time": 807.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 806.145009765625, "cut_end_time": 807.390072265625}, {"text": "Then he is gone to his writing room in the white tower of his house, and Mara sits waiting for Crawling Jim, who is due later this evening.", "start_byte": 340078, "end_byte": 340217, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 810.719970703125, "end_time": 822.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 811.304970703125, "cut_end_time": 822.100033203125}, {"text": "And here let it be recorded that, the Singaporian issue becoming more bitter, the towers of Springfield and all the principal cities of the United States have been painted white this last month, to drive out the more fanatical Singaporians. In complete harmony with this hysterical and fantastic and humorous procedure, Crawling Jim has been under the necessity of wearing a small white plume in his hat, or resigning his place as President of the Robin Redbreast Flying Club. Nothing is said among the members. Plumes begin to appear one at a time. Soon a majority have them. Jim put on his plume late yesterday. He values his supremacy in that flying club more than any victory in love or any dogma of religion.", "start_byte": 340219, "end_byte": 340932, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 822.9199829101562, "end_time": 886.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 823.6149829101563, "cut_end_time": 885.3301079101562}, {"text": "But having had a part in the Judas tricks which have ended in the hanging of Boone, he knocks most confidently on the door tonight, when it is almost midnight, and I let him in. He carries in his hand the hat with the white plume.", "start_byte": 340934, "end_byte": 341164, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 886.0800170898438, "end_time": 906.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 886.8950170898438, "cut_end_time": 905.9800795898437}, {"text": "He walks into the book-room most jauntily. There the deep eyed Mara awaits him with love. She is nestled among her books, just below her mother\u2019s languid picture. She lifts slow eyes that are heavy with love. But she sees that white plume. And Jim has little time left in life to have the Malay nature explained to him, the brief tale of how they may run", "start_byte": 341166, "end_byte": 341520, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 906.760009765625, "end_time": 940.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 907.495009765625, "cut_end_time": 940.500072265625}, {"text": " without reason.", "start_byte": 341528, "end_byte": 341544, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 941.1199951171875, "end_time": 943.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 941.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 942.3000576171876}, {"text": "Mara cannot wait. Her dagger is out, and she is indeed running", "start_byte": 341546, "end_byte": 341608, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 943.7999877929688, "end_time": 950.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 943.9649877929688, "cut_end_time": 950.1801127929688}, {"text": " They reach the hall together, and she stabs him before the eyes of the green Glass Buddha. She stands stark and lonely above him, and screams for her father to come down from his writing room.", "start_byte": 341617, "end_byte": 341810, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 951.2000122070312, "end_time": 970.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 951.8050122070313, "cut_end_time": 967.7800122070313}, {"text": "* * * * *", "start_byte": 341812, "end_byte": 341821, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 970.3599853515625, "end_time": 971.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 970.6549853515626, "cut_end_time": 971.6500478515625}, {"text": "October 29: \u2014 The body of Crawling Jim was found in a shadow, near the tree where Boone was hanged, by the group of young Boones who came to take away the body of their kinsman.", "start_byte": 341823, "end_byte": 342000, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 971.719970703125, "end_time": 987.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 971.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 986.4000332031251}, {"text": "No one is in serious peril of being brought to justice for the death of Boone, though that was three months and three days ago. This has always been the case, in Springfield lynchings and murders. It is a thing still taken for granted, as people look drearily in the direction of the courts. The weekly magazines in Coe\u2019s Book Store, from all over the country, roar about the two unavenged and unspeakable Springfield murders: \u2014 of the leading editor, and the son of the mayor on the same night. This has been in the papers, on similar occasions, for a century. And curiously enough, the town is blazing with international courage and all tense with efficiency on international issues. We are more in despair of bringing some sixty or one hundred masked murderers to justice than of annihilating the whole nation and religion of Singapore on the other side of the world. And there is, I admit, some justification for our hope. America, paralyzed one minute, is like a million bolts of lightning the next. There is something of the essence of majority rule in this, if one might think it out. But to our story.", "start_byte": 342002, "end_byte": 343111, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 987.3599853515625, "end_time": 1094.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 987.9749853515625, "cut_end_time": 1092.5501103515626}, {"text": "Singapore is about to proclaim an all-Asiatic alliance against the World Government, with the ostensible object of an ultimate Pacific Ocean Government, living in alleged reciprocity and amity with the World Government, but not under one jurisdiction. Their newspaper editorials, sent by cable, sound marvelously like the fulminations of South Carolina in the days of Andrew Jackson, and further fulminations in the days just before the Civil War.", "start_byte": 343113, "end_byte": 343560, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1094.1600341796875, "end_time": 1134.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1094.2550341796873, "cut_end_time": 1133.5300966796874}, {"text": "Indo China joins the Singaporian league, Burmah, and certain provinces of Southern China. But most of the Asiatic continent and all of Japan remains actively loyal to the Flag of Joseph\u2019s Coat. On the other hand there are strange hesitancies in Europe and South America. There are rumors of World Treason, even among American officials of the World Government. Today the Singaporian declaration hangs.", "start_byte": 343562, "end_byte": 343963, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1134.6800537109375, "end_time": 1173.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1134.8950537109374, "cut_end_time": 1172.6000537109373}, {"text": "I find myself again with the Japanese and his secretary on the reviewing stand by the wrought iron gates of Camp Lincoln, as the Amazons once more whirl by. They are valiant and potent as Britomart, and the Japanese Samurai says", "start_byte": 343965, "end_byte": 344193, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1173.1199951171875, "end_time": 1195.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1173.8649951171874, "cut_end_time": 1195.2001201171875}, {"text": "I find a wan new hope pouring into my dusty veins as they pass us many thousand strong, riding the best bred, the best shod horses in the whole wide world, and flashing the finest swords ever made. And along with the swords, the eyes of the horses flash as though they themselves were shouting the song of the warrior maidens. It is the old song, sung now with terrible irony and sweetness:", "start_byte": 344361, "end_byte": 344751, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1209.800048828125, "end_time": 1247.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1210.475048828125, "cut_end_time": 1246.590048828125}, {"text": " And then there are strains of that World Government song, beginning:", "start_byte": 344792, "end_byte": 344861, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1252.280029296875, "end_time": 1258.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1253.0750292968748, "cut_end_time": 1257.880091796875}, {"text": "The cheeks of the girls are sun-browned, and rosy as the Amaranth-Apples in the orchards of Hunter Kelly.", "start_byte": 344919, "end_byte": 345024, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1264.4000244140625, "end_time": 1273.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1265.1950244140623, "cut_end_time": 1272.3200244140623}, {"text": "The whole town is here; every faction, religion, tribe and tongue. Besides all the Michaels, Boones and Darsies, Bonansingas, Romanoffs, Fagins, Kopenskys, Rocks, Rues, Swartzes, McGinnisses, Ezekiels, Greys, there are even girls of the negro Timmons and Emis families. There are Hymans, Stanleys and Radleys, and all the rest. Each steed is like a pale horse of death. I am thinking that when human beings go forward like this, trained to the last inch, all whipcord and tempered steel, it is no wonder that, left far behind, to make mischief, there are human embers. This must be paid for, by the discarded creatures among us who cannot stand this pace and who are not quite vile enough in ordinary hours to be hid in jails or sanitariums, but who when their little time suddenly arrives, go forth marauding according to their nature and their good luck.", "start_byte": 345026, "end_byte": 345882, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1273.43994140625, "end_time": 1359.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1274.17494140625, "cut_end_time": 1359.23000390625}, {"text": "I am beneath the reviewing platform and, as I am meditating, the mayor\u2019s little sister stands up in her stirrups and cuts me across the face with her whip, not checking her pace an instant. Some one behind and above me says:", "start_byte": 345884, "end_byte": 346108, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1359.8399658203125, "end_time": 1380.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1360.6149658203124, "cut_end_time": 1380.7400908203124}, {"text": " It is the Japanese, all courtesy and solicitude. But he has been fortunate enough to see in time and to salute the meteors just ahead of this fiery little rider, the two battle flags of the Amazons, the Star Spangled Banner and the thousand-colored flag that will yet redeem mankind, made of all the flags in the world, sewed into one glorious banner, the Flag of Joseph\u2019s Coat.", "start_byte": 346147, "end_byte": 346526, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1384.9200439453125, "end_time": 1424.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1385.5550439453125, "cut_end_time": 1423.3401064453124}, {"text": "But I have my excuse for not seeing the flags of my world. My eyes have been dazzled by Avanel, who has been mourning and hidden three months and three days; she is riding in from a boulevard to the left, hurrying with her escort to the head of the cavalcade.", "start_byte": 346528, "end_byte": 346787, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1424.52001953125, "end_time": 1446.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1425.24501953125, "cut_end_time": 1445.9700820312498}, {"text": "The meaning of her accoutrement is plain. She is saying, by what she wears:", "start_byte": 346789, "end_byte": 346864, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1446.6400146484375, "end_time": 1454.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1447.3150146484375, "cut_end_time": 1454.4200771484375}, {"text": " Never was she such a commander as she is in this twilight, with black horse, black gauntlets, black dress, black harness, black plume, all things black and the only flash of white, her mourning face. Her pride is laid low for a higher pride. For the first time her black hair is combed back over her shoulders, after the manner and regulation of the Boones, and she goes forward to resume her command, and the girls cry out in passionate welcome, and there is a terrible mourning and a terrible menace in their cry, when she takes her left hand from the gauntlet, and it is dyed crimson, after the manner and regulation of the Boones.", "start_byte": 346942, "end_byte": 347577, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1462.52001953125, "end_time": 1523.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1462.98501953125, "cut_end_time": 1522.14001953125}, {"text": "October 30. \u2014 The Amazons of the city, and the Horseshoe Brotherhood have taken possession of the city, and until the day of their going, they will police the city and none shall hinder them, and they ride down the boulevards with little consideration or patience for the loitering of passers by. 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Whatever its policy in the past The Boone Ax now puts at the head of its regular inside editorial page a picture of Confucius, and under it this description: \u2014 \u2018The champion of old-fashioned, middle-class decency and respectability, and the lawgiver for this paper.\u2019", "start_byte": 347579, "end_byte": 348622, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1523.8399658203125, "end_time": 1619.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1524.4149658203123, "cut_end_time": 1619.3600908203125}, {"text": "\u201cThe picture goes there as our only vengeance for the death of the founder of this paper, and as our eternal reminder of that act.", "start_byte": 348624, "end_byte": 348754, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1619.9200439453125, "end_time": 1631.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1620.4850439453123, "cut_end_time": 1630.4201064453125}, {"text": "November 1, 2018: \u2014 But Confucius is not the patron saint of the lady Avanel.", "start_byte": 349033, "end_byte": 349110, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1656.1600341796875, "end_time": 1666.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1656.6350341796874, "cut_end_time": 1666.0600966796874}, {"text": "It all comes as a clouded vision before me as though I were half in the vision, and through it beginning a new and more desperate destiny of my own. It is the snowy morning of All Saints\u2019 Day. Representatives of the Michael Clan, young and old, Horseshoe Brotherhood, Amazons and many others are at the crossing of Fifth Street and Capital Avenue, by the ancestral Blacksmith Shop. The horse of the conquering Avanel Boone is to be shod by that good sport, Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, as a sign of fealty, and in final preparation for the going forth against Singapore. Scattered among the Michaels are the long-haired, black-haired Boones, with the locks of both the men and women streaming back over their shoulders, after the manner and regulation of the Boones, and their left hands dyed crimson, as a perpetual reminder to themselves and all the world of certain strains of Red Indian ancestry.", "start_byte": 349112, "end_byte": 350021, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1666.800048828125, "end_time": 1750.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1667.485048828125, "cut_end_time": 1749.300048828125}, {"text": "While the snow is blowing into the shop, white-haired Joseph Bartholdi Michael, the Second, aided by his son, the Third, have taken the old shoes from the dainty feet of the white pony, and just as the old warrior is lifting a new shoe from the fire, the flames leap up, there is a music incredibly sweet and, with a great whirring of wings and terrible thunder, the Golden Book flies out of the fire and circles above these two clans and their satellites of renown.", "start_byte": 350023, "end_byte": 350489, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1750.719970703125, "end_time": 1794.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1751.384970703125, "cut_end_time": 1793.8700332031249}, {"text": "And the swords of the Amazons are out in the air in involuntary salutation, and the face of Avanel has the consecration of a nun, taking her final vows. 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Then all was darkness and sleep.", "start_byte": 357569, "end_byte": 358100, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 487.6000061035156, "end_time": 538.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 488.13500610351565, "cut_end_time": 537.4400061035157}, {"text": "\u201cIn the early morning I woke from my trance and found myself lying on the floor of the Cathedral. The Image of Hunter Kelly-St. Scribe was gone from the niche.", "start_byte": 358102, "end_byte": 358261, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 538.1199951171875, "end_time": 551.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 538.8949951171875, "cut_end_time": 551.0000576171875}, {"text": "\u201cIn the late morning, when I found myself reading his Golden Book to the people, it seemed as though I had known its every word for infinite years.", "start_byte": 358263, "end_byte": 358410, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 551.5999755859375, "end_time": 563.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 552.1849755859375, "cut_end_time": 562.6301005859375}, {"text": "\u201cI read on and on. When I closed the book and dismissed the people, they went out singing through the streets \u2018Springfield Awake, Springfield Aflame.\u2019", "start_byte": 358412, "end_byte": 358562, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 563.3200073242188, "end_time": 576.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 563.4250073242188, "cut_end_time": 575.8800073242188}, {"text": "\u201cAs I stood alone in the church, a vision of the war came to me.", "start_byte": 358564, "end_byte": 358628, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 576.7999877929688, "end_time": 583.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 577.4249877929688, "cut_end_time": 582.4600502929687}, {"text": "\u201cThe angel of the Cathedral came down from the carved niche near the roof. By many signs she was, indeed, the angel of Illinois. The stone was transformed into a presence, delicate as the milkweed silk, ruddy as the sunrise. Her hair was the hue of red corn. Her wind blown mantle was the color of ripe wheat. Her wings were like those of the white eagle. Her eyes were dark as the deep-digged mine. Her smile was the beginning of visions.", "start_byte": 358630, "end_byte": 359069, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 583.0399780273438, "end_time": 626.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 583.5649780273437, "cut_end_time": 625.0601030273438}, {"text": "\u201cCircling her temple was an opalescent crown, twenty white stars, with the twenty-first over the forehead, with the red blood of Hunter Kelly in the heart\u2019s core of it.", "start_byte": 359071, "end_byte": 359239, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 626.3200073242188, "end_time": 641.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 626.5550073242188, "cut_end_time": 640.6800698242188}, {"text": "\u201cAbove her head appeared a great hand, swinging a censer through the roof and walls of the building. The Angel of the Cathedral said to me, as she stood beside me: \u2014 \u2018This is the Censer of Change. A great change is coming to Illinois and the Capital of Illinois.\u2019", "start_byte": 359241, "end_byte": 359504, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 641.52001953125, "end_time": 667.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 642.00501953125, "cut_end_time": 666.59001953125}, {"text": "\u201cThe smoke poured out and filled the streets. It penetrated every grove of Springfield. It beat in the blood of every living creature.", "start_byte": 359506, "end_byte": 359640, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 667.5599975585938, "end_time": 679.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 668.4549975585937, "cut_end_time": 679.0901225585937}, {"text": "\u201cThe Angel of Illinois said: \u2014 \u2018This is the Incense of Civic Genius. The city shall be barren no longer but bring forth.\u2019", "start_byte": 359642, "end_byte": 359763, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 679.8800048828125, "end_time": 693.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 680.4550048828125, "cut_end_time": 692.3500048828125}, {"text": "\u201cThen through the roof, as though there were a censer higher than the first, clouds of many colors descended. These became gorgeous cloud-winged children in wonderful, gleaming silks, flying through the walls. 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Then from above the high altar, from a fire which burned round the Host on the altar, there came soldiers of Heaven, in very ancient armor, but with newly pierced hands.", "start_byte": 360259, "end_byte": 360645, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 739.8400268554688, "end_time": 774.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 740.7050268554688, "cut_end_time": 773.8900268554688}, {"text": "\u201cThe Angel of the Cathedral, the Angel of Illinois, said: \u2018These are they who shall live invisibly by every hearth and table throughout the Capital.\u2019", "start_byte": 360647, "end_byte": 360796, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 774.719970703125, "end_time": 789.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 775.314970703125, "cut_end_time": 788.340095703125}, {"text": "\u201cThere burst from the pavement smoke and dust and stones, and from there arose the great glass image of the cocaine Buddha. Immobile as any other stone, he was yet carried by invisible hands. He and his company rushed with a great whistling like the hissing of serpents. They went out through the walls into the streets as though the walls were nothing. They had many kinds of monsters with them, and strangely singing birds of paradise, and lions with poison quills.", "start_byte": 360798, "end_byte": 361265, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 789.4000244140625, "end_time": 831.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 789.8550244140625, "cut_end_time": 830.5900869140626}, {"text": "\u201cThe Angel of Illinois said to me: \u2018This glass image will turn to dust.\u2019 Yet for every angel at a hearth of the city there will be a demon, a quilled lion, and a singing bird of paradise. These will eat invisibly at your tables and hearths, feeding upon the words and thoughts of the household. They will breathe hell\u2019s breath into the faces of the children. 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Beautiful people, mothers and children, boys and girls, in the lightest and whitest of summer masquerading costumes are walking and dancing over the whitest, cleanest streets our city has ever known. 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Some men do not see this city as it is, because they have walked in easy and stupid ways. They have never walked, as we do this evening, while the Thistle of Dreams comes up. We see it springing from the ground in an instant. It will go in an hour. But if we touch it we are blessed and tormented forever by newer and newer dreams. And at last our eyes will see this city as it is, a weed patch indeed, but of fancies. 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I was turning to go when one of the fellows called out, \u2018I say! What\u2019s this?\u2019 He pointed up, and we saw what looked like a black cloud coming from the south at a tremendous rate. I saw at once it wasn\u2019t a cloud; it came with a swirl and a rush quite different from any cloud I\u2019ve ever seen. But for a second I couldn\u2019t make out exactly what it was. It altered its shape and turned into a great crescent, and wheeled and veered about as if it was looking for something. The man who had called out had got his glasses, and was staring for all he was worth. Then he shouted that it was a tremendous flight of birds, \u2018thousands of them.\u2019 They went on wheeling and beating about high up in the air, and we were watching them, thinking it was interesting, but not supposing that they would make any difference to \u2018Wester,\u2019 who was just about out of sight. His machine was just a speck. Then the two arms of the crescent drew in as quick as lightning, and these thousands of birds shot in a solid mass right up there across the sky, and flew away somewhere about nor\u2019-nor\u2019-by-west. Then Henley, the man with the glasses, called out, \u2018He\u2019s down!\u2019 and started running, and I went after him. We got a car and as we were going along Henley told me that he\u2019d seen the machine drop dead, as if it came out of that cloud of birds. He thought then that they must have mucked up the propeller somehow. That turned out to be the case. We found the propeller blades all broken and covered with blood and pigeon feathers, and carcasses of the birds had got wedged in between the blades, and were sticking to them.\u201d", "start_byte": 10832, "end_byte": 12508, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 712.47998046875, "end_time": 817.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 712.60498046875, "cut_end_time": 817.45004296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cin confidence,", "start_byte": 12605, "end_byte": 12620, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 823.3599853515625, "end_time": 824.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 823.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 824.3100478515626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWester", "start_byte": 13232, "end_byte": 13239, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 864.280029296875, "end_time": 865.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 864.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 865.030029296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd perhaps I shall be the next,", "start_byte": 13323, "end_byte": 13356, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 870.1599731445312, "end_time": 872.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 870.5249731445313, "cut_end_time": 872.1500356445313, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cbut why look for trouble? Anyhow, I\u2019m going to see Toodle-oo to-morrow afternoon.\u201d", "start_byte": 13368, "end_byte": 13451, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 873.0399780273438, "end_time": 878.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 873.2849780273438, "cut_end_time": 877.9700405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cair pockets,", "start_byte": 13569, "end_byte": 13582, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 885.3599853515625, "end_time": 886.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 885.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 886.6801103515626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cbits of girls", "start_byte": 14737, "end_byte": 14751, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 967.8800048828125, "end_time": 968.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 967.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 968.8500048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd how can you be surprised if people will have a bit of a fling?", "start_byte": 15592, "end_byte": 15659, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1022.0, "end_time": 1025.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1022.225, "cut_end_time": 1025.3500625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWe\u2019re seeing money for the first time in our lives, and it\u2019s bright. And we work hard for it, and we risk our lives to get it. You\u2019ve heard of explosion yonder?\u201d", "start_byte": 15682, "end_byte": 15844, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1026.9200439453125, "end_time": 1036.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1027.1850439453124, "cut_end_time": 1036.0800439453124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cExplosion at Munition Works in the Northern District: Many Fatalities.", "start_byte": 16011, "end_byte": 16082, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1045.6400146484375, "end_time": 1050.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1045.6450146484374, "cut_end_time": 1050.4300771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"told": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cThey wouldn\u2019t let their folks see bodies; screwed them up in coffins as they found them in shop. The gas had done it.\u201d", "start_byte": 16152, "end_byte": 16271, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1055.760009765625, "end_time": 1063.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1056.215009765625, "cut_end_time": 1062.820009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cTurned their faces black, you mean?\u201d", "start_byte": 16273, "end_byte": 16310, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1063.3599853515625, "end_time": 1065.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1063.5249853515625, "cut_end_time": 1065.2500478515624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNay. They were all as if they had been bitten to pieces.\u201d", "start_byte": 16312, "end_byte": 16370, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1065.47998046875, "end_time": 1068.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1065.72498046875, "cut_end_time": 1068.55010546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cTanks,", "start_byte": 16734, "end_byte": 16741, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1092.0799560546875, "end_time": 1092.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1092.0549560546874, "cut_end_time": 1092.7300810546874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cas if they had been bitten to pieces", "start_byte": 17410, "end_byte": 17447, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1138.47998046875, "end_time": 1140.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1138.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 1140.81004296875, "narrative_prediction": {"had": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201copen", "start_byte": 18230, "end_byte": 18235, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1192.760009765625, "end_time": 1193.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1192.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 1193.300009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cA terrible business here, they tell me,", "start_byte": 18257, "end_byte": 18297, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1194.5999755859375, "end_time": 1196.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1194.5749755859374, "cut_end_time": 1196.9101005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"began": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cTh\u2019ast better be gone and quick about it,", "start_byte": 18543, "end_byte": 18585, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1212.239990234375, "end_time": 1214.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1212.3149902343748, "cut_end_time": 1214.590115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cbitten to pieces", "start_byte": 18854, "end_byte": 18871, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1233.280029296875, "end_time": 1234.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1233.385029296875, "cut_end_time": 1234.5000917968748, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201ceaten away.", "start_byte": 18917, "end_byte": 18929, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1237.5999755859375, "end_time": 1239.0, "cut_start_time": 1237.6449755859373, "cut_end_time": 1238.6600380859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI can hardly believe,", "start_byte": 21973, "end_byte": 21995, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1448.52001953125, "end_time": 1450.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1448.88501953125, "cut_end_time": 1450.11008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cthat I\u2019m not still in the wilds of Ireland.\u201d", "start_byte": 22006, "end_byte": 22051, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1450.8399658203125, "end_time": 1453.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1451.0949658203124, "cut_end_time": 1453.2300908203124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Then for days we hoped for more news as good as this or better. Has Von Kluck been surrounded? Not to-day, but perhaps he will be surrounded to-morrow. But the days became weeks, the weeks drew out to months; the battle in the West seemed frozen. Now and again things were done that seemed hopeful, with promise of events still better. But Neuve Chapelle and Loos dwindled into disappointments as their tale was told fully; the lines in the West remained, for all practical purposes of victory, immobile. Nothing seemed to happen; there was nothing to read save the record of operations that were clearly trifling and insignificant. People speculated as to the reason of this inaction; the hopeful said that Joffre had a plan, that he was", "start_byte": 1224, "end_byte": 1962, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 61.599998474121094, "end_time": 114.80000305175781, "cut_start_time": 61.794998474121094, "cut_end_time": 114.9001234741211}, {"text": " others declared that we were short of munitions, others again that the new levies were not yet ripe for battle. So the months went by, and almost two years of war had been completed before the motionless English line began to stir and quiver as if it awoke from a long sleep, and began to roll onward, overwhelming the enemy.", "start_byte": 1974, "end_byte": 2300, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 115.68000030517578, "end_time": 138.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 115.79500030517578, "cut_end_time": 138.03006280517576}, {"text": "The secret of the long inaction of the British Armies has been well kept. On the one hand it was rigorously protected by the censorship, which severe, and sometimes severe to the point of absurdity \u2014", "start_byte": 2302, "end_byte": 2501, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 138.0800018310547, "end_time": 151.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 138.28500183105467, "cut_end_time": 151.06000183105468}, {"text": " for instance \u2014 became in this particular matter ferocious. As soon as the real significance of that which was happening, or beginning to happen, was perceived by the authorities, an underlined circular was issued to the newspaper proprietors of Great Britain and Ireland. It warned each proprietor that he might impart the contents of this circular to one other person only, such person being the responsible editor of his paper, who was to keep the communication secret under the severest penalties. The circular forbade any mention of certain events that had taken place, that might take place; it forbade any kind of allusion to these events or any hint of their existence, or of the possibility of their existence, not only in the Press, but in any form whatever. The subject was not to be alluded to in conversation, it was not to be hinted at, however obscurely, in letters; the very existence of the circular, its subject apart, was to be a dead secret.", "start_byte": 2536, "end_byte": 3497, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 153.39999389648438, "end_time": 218.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 153.40499389648437, "cut_end_time": 217.85005639648438}, {"text": "These measures were successful. A wealthy newspaper proprietor of the North, warmed a little at the end of the Throwsters\u2019 Feast (which was held as usual, it will be remembered), ventured to say to the man next to him:", "start_byte": 3499, "end_byte": 3717, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 218.27999877929688, "end_time": 233.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 218.83499877929688, "cut_end_time": 232.85012377929687}, {"text": " His words were repeated, as proof, one regrets to say, that it was time for", "start_byte": 3762, "end_byte": 3838, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 235.52000427246094, "end_time": 240.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 235.74500427246093, "cut_end_time": 240.98000427246095}, {"text": " to", "start_byte": 3851, "end_byte": 3854, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 241.8800048828125, "end_time": 242.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 241.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 242.1900048828125}, {"text": "; and he was fined a thousand pounds. Then, there was the case of an obscure weekly paper published in the county town of an agricultural district in Wales. The Meiros Observer (we will call it) was issued from a stationer\u2019s back premises, and filled its four pages with accounts of local flower shows, fancy fairs at vicarages, reports of parish councils, and rare bathing fatalities. It also issued a visitors\u2019 list, which has been known to contain six names.", "start_byte": 3878, "end_byte": 4339, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 243.72000122070312, "end_time": 277.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 243.9250012207031, "cut_end_time": 276.8800637207031}, {"text": "This enlightened organ printed a paragraph, which nobody noticed, which was very like paragraphs that small country newspapers have long been in the habit of printing, which could hardly give so much as a hint to any one \u2014 to any one, that is, who was not fully instructed in the secret. As a matter of fact, this piece of intelligence got into the paper because the proprietor, who was also the editor, incautiously left the last processes of this particular issue to the staff, who was the Lord-High-Everything-Else of the establishment; and the staff put in a bit of gossip he had heard in the market to fill up two inches on the back page. But the result was that the Meiros Observer ceased to appear, owing to", "start_byte": 4341, "end_byte": 5055, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 277.0400085449219, "end_time": 323.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 277.2250085449219, "cut_end_time": 324.0600085449219}, {"text": " as the proprietor said; and he would say no more. No more, that is, by way of explanation, but a great deal more by way of execration of", "start_byte": 5080, "end_byte": 5217, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 326.0, "end_time": 335.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 326.13500000000005, "cut_end_time": 335.7700625}, {"text": "Now a censorship that is sufficiently minute and utterly remorseless can do amazing things in the way of hiding ... what it wants to hide. Before the war, one would have thought otherwise; one would have said that, censor or no censor, the fact of the murder at X or the fact of the bank robbery at Y would certainly become known; if not through the Press, at all events through rumor and the passage of the news from mouth to mouth. And this would be true \u2014 of England three hundred years ago, and of savage tribelands of to-day. But we have grown of late to such a reverence for the printed word and such a reliance on it, that the old faculty of disseminating news by word of mouth has become atrophied. Forbid the Press to mention the fact that Jones has been murdered, and it is marvelous how few people will hear of it, and of those who hear how few will credit the story that they have heard. You meet a man in the train who remarks that he has been told something about a murder in Southwark; there is all the difference in the world between the impression you receive from such a chance communication and that given by half a dozen lines of print with name, and street and date and all the facts of the case. People in trains repeat all sorts of tales, many of them false; newspapers do not print accounts of murders that have not been committed.", "start_byte": 5248, "end_byte": 6603, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 337.8800048828125, "end_time": 426.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 338.0050048828125, "cut_end_time": 426.6000048828125}, {"text": "Then another consideration that has made for secrecy. I may have seemed to say that the old office of rumor no longer exists; I shall be reminded of the strange legend of", "start_byte": 6605, "end_byte": 6775, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 426.79998779296875, "end_time": 437.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 427.03498779296876, "cut_end_time": 437.4001127929688}, {"text": " and the mythology of the", "start_byte": 6790, "end_byte": 6815, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 438.32000732421875, "end_time": 439.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 438.50500732421875, "cut_end_time": 439.7300073242188}, {"text": " But let me point out, in the first place, that both these absurdities depended on the papers for their wide dissemination. If there had been no newspapers or magazines Russians and Angels would have made but a brief, vague appearance of the most shadowy kind \u2014 a few would have heard of them, fewer still would have believed in them, they would have been gossiped about for a bare week or two, and so they would have vanished away.", "start_byte": 6833, "end_byte": 7265, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 441.0400085449219, "end_time": 469.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 441.4150085449219, "cut_end_time": 469.3000085449219}, {"text": "And, then, again, the very fact of these vain rumors and fantastic tales having been so widely believed for a time was fatal to the credit of any stray mutterings that may have got abroad. People had been taken in twice; they had seen how grave persons, men of credit, had preached and lectured about the shining forms that had saved the British Army at Mons, or had testified to the trains, packed with gray-coated Muscovites, rushing through the land at dead of night: and now there was a hint of something more amazing than either of the discredited legends. But this time there was no word of confirmation to be found in daily paper, or weekly review, or parish magazine, and so the few that heard either laughed, or, being serious, went home and jotted down notes for essays on", "start_byte": 7267, "end_byte": 8049, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 469.3599853515625, "end_time": 524.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 469.6049853515625, "cut_end_time": 524.4600478515625}, {"text": "I followed neither of these courses. For before the secret circular had been issued my curiosity had somehow been aroused by certain paragraphs concerning a", "start_byte": 8096, "end_byte": 8252, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 527.760009765625, "end_time": 537.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 527.975009765625, "cut_end_time": 537.390009765625}, {"text": " The propeller of the airplane had been shattered, apparently by a collision with a flight of pigeons; the blades had been broken and the machine had fallen like lead to the earth. And soon after I had seen this account, I heard of some very odd circumstances relating to an explosion in a great munition factory in the Midlands. I thought I saw the possibility of a connection between two very different events.", "start_byte": 8291, "end_byte": 8703, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 540.280029296875, "end_time": 567.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 540.625029296875, "cut_end_time": 567.320091796875}, {"text": "It has been pointed out to me by friends who have been good enough to read this record, that certain phrases I have used may give the impression that I ascribe all the delays of the war on the Western front to the extraordinary circumstances which occasioned the issue of the Secret Circular. Of course this is not the case, there were many reasons for the immobility of our lines from October 1914 to July 1916. These causes have been evident enough and have been openly discussed and deplored. But behind them was something of infinitely greater moment. We lacked men, but men were pouring into the new army; we were short of shells, but when the shortage was proclaimed the nation set itself to mend this matter with all its energy. We could undertake to supply the defects of our army both in men and munitions \u2014 if the new and incredible danger could be overcome. It has been overcome; rather, perhaps, it has ceased to exist; and the secret may now be told.", "start_byte": 8705, "end_byte": 9668, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 567.52001953125, "end_time": 634.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 567.6950195312501, "cut_end_time": 634.28001953125}, {"text": "I have said my attention was attracted by an account of the death of a well-known airman. I have not the habit of preserving cuttings, I am sorry to say, so that I cannot be precise as to the date of this event. To the best of my belief it was either towards the end of May or the beginning of June 1915. The newspaper paragraph announcing the death of Flight-Lieutenant Western-Reynolds was brief enough; accidents, and fatal accidents, to the men who are storming the air for us are, unfortunately, by no means so rare as to demand an elaborated notice. But the manner in which Western-Reynolds met his death struck me as extraordinary, inasmuch as it revealed a new danger in the element that we have lately conquered. He was brought down, as I said, by a flight of birds; of pigeons, as appeared by what was found on the bloodstained and shattered blades of the propeller. An eye-witness of the accident, a fellow-officer, described how Western-Reynolds set out from the aerodrome on a fine afternoon, there being hardly any wind. He was going to France; he had made the journey to and fro half a dozen times or more, and felt perfectly secure and at ease.", "start_byte": 9670, "end_byte": 10830, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 634.3599853515625, "end_time": 712.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 634.6049853515625, "cut_end_time": 712.2600478515625}, {"text": "This was the story that the young airman told one evening in a small company. He did not speak", "start_byte": 12510, "end_byte": 12604, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 817.6799926757812, "end_time": 823.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 817.9549926757812, "cut_end_time": 823.4600551757812}, {"text": " so I have no hesitation in reproducing what he said. Naturally, I did not take a verbatim note of his conversation, but I have something of a knack of remembering talk that interests me, and I think my reproduction is very near to the tale that I heard. And let it be noted that the flying man told his story without any sense or indication of a sense that the incredible, or all but the incredible, had happened. So far as he knew, he said, it was the first accident of the kind. Airmen in France had been bothered once or twice by birds \u2014 he thought they were eagles \u2014 flying viciously at them, but poor old", "start_byte": 12621, "end_byte": 13231, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 824.3599853515625, "end_time": 864.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 824.6149853515625, "cut_end_time": 864.3701103515625}, {"text": " had been the first man to come up against a flight of some thousands of pigeons.", "start_byte": 13240, "end_byte": 13321, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 865.1199951171875, "end_time": 870.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 865.2249951171875, "cut_end_time": 869.9500576171876}, {"text": " he added,", "start_byte": 13357, "end_byte": 13367, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 872.1599731445312, "end_time": 873.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 872.2949731445312, "cut_end_time": 873.0600356445312}, {"text": "Well, I heard the story, as one hears all the varied marvels and terrors of the air; as one heard some years ago of", "start_byte": 13453, "end_byte": 13568, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 878.1599731445312, "end_time": 885.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 878.2649731445313, "cut_end_time": 885.4400356445312}, {"text": " strange gulfs or voids in the atmosphere into which airmen fell with great peril; or as one heard of the experience of the airman who flew over the Cumberland mountains in the burning summer of 1911, and as he swam far above the heights was suddenly and vehemently blown upwards, the hot air from the rocks striking his plane as if it had been a blast from a furnace chimney. We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils. And here a new chapter in the chronicles of these perils and adventures had been opened by the death of Western-Reynolds; and no doubt invention and contrivance would presently hit on some way of countering the new danger.", "start_byte": 13583, "end_byte": 14295, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 886.6400146484375, "end_time": 937.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 886.7450146484375, "cut_end_time": 936.9000146484375}, {"text": "It was, I think, about a week or ten days after the airman\u2019s death that my business called me to a northern town, the name of which, perhaps, had better remain unknown. My mission was to inquire into certain charges of extravagance which had been laid against the working people, that is, the munition workers of this especial town. It was said that the men who used to earn \u00a32 10s. a week were now getting from seven to eight pounds, that", "start_byte": 14297, "end_byte": 14736, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 937.0399780273438, "end_time": 967.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 937.2149780273438, "cut_end_time": 967.9801030273438}, {"text": " were being paid two pounds instead of seven or eight shillings, and that, in consequence, there was an orgy of foolish extravagance. The girls, I was told, were eating chocolates at four, five, and six shillings a pound, the women were ordering thirty-pound pianos which they couldn\u2019t play, and the men bought gold chains at ten and twenty guineas apiece.", "start_byte": 14752, "end_byte": 15108, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 968.7999877929688, "end_time": 991.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 968.8649877929688, "cut_end_time": 990.9700502929687}, {"text": "I dived into the town in question and found, as usual, that there was a mixture of truth and exaggeration in the stories that I had heard. Gramophones, for example: they cannot be called in strictness necessaries, but they were undoubtedly finding a ready sale, even in the more expensive brands. And I thought that there were a great many very spick and span perambulators to be seen on the pavement; smart perambulators, painted in tender shades of color and expensively fitted.", "start_byte": 15110, "end_byte": 15590, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 991.0399780273438, "end_time": 1022.0, "cut_start_time": 991.2249780273438, "cut_end_time": 1022.0500405273438}, {"text": " a worker said to me.", "start_byte": 15660, "end_byte": 15681, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1025.4000244140625, "end_time": 1026.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1025.5850244140624, "cut_end_time": 1026.7500869140624}, {"text": "He mentioned certain works on the outskirts of the town. Of course, neither the name of the works nor of the town had been printed; there had been a brief notice of", "start_byte": 15846, "end_byte": 16010, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1036.0799560546875, "end_time": 1045.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1036.2349560546875, "cut_end_time": 1045.7000810546874}, {"text": " The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details.", "start_byte": 16083, "end_byte": 16150, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1050.760009765625, "end_time": 1055.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1051.125009765625, "cut_end_time": 1055.340072265625}, {"text": "This was a strange gas.", "start_byte": 16372, "end_byte": 16395, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1068.800048828125, "end_time": 1070.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1068.955048828125, "cut_end_time": 1070.4500488281249}, {"text": "I asked the man in the northern town all sorts of questions about the extraordinary explosion of which he had spoken to me. But he had very little more to say. As I have noted already, secrets that may not be printed are often deeply kept; last summer there were very few people outside high official circles who knew anything about the", "start_byte": 16397, "end_byte": 16733, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1070.47998046875, "end_time": 1092.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1070.7349804687499, "cut_end_time": 1092.1800429687498}, {"text": " of which we have all been talking lately, though these strange instruments of war were being exercised and tested in a park not far from London. So the man who told me of the explosion in the munition factory was most likely genuine in his profession that he knew nothing more of the disaster. I found out that he was a smelter employed at a furnace on the other side of the town to the ruined factory; he didn\u2019t know even what they had been making there; some very dangerous high explosive, he supposed. His information was really nothing more than a bit of gruesome gossip, which he had heard probably at third or fourth or fifth hand. The horrible detail of faces", "start_byte": 16742, "end_byte": 17409, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1092.9200439453125, "end_time": 1138.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1093.1650439453124, "cut_end_time": 1138.4800439453124}, {"text": " had made its violent impression on him, that was all.", "start_byte": 17448, "end_byte": 17502, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1140.719970703125, "end_time": 1144.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1140.834970703125, "cut_end_time": 1144.4500332031248}, {"text": "I gave him up and took a tram to the district of the disaster; a sort of industrial suburb, five miles from the center of the town. When I asked for the factory, I was told that it was no good my going to it as there was nobody there. But I found it; a raw and hideous shed with a walled yard about it, and a shut gate. I looked for signs of destruction, but there was nothing. The roof was quite undamaged; and again it struck me that this had been a strange accident. There had been an explosion of sufficient violence to kill workpeople in the building, but the building itself showed no wounds or scars.", "start_byte": 17504, "end_byte": 18111, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1144.43994140625, "end_time": 1185.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1144.7349414062498, "cut_end_time": 1184.9200039062498}, {"text": "A man came out of the gate and locked it behind him. I began to ask him some sort of question, or rather, I began to", "start_byte": 18113, "end_byte": 18229, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1185.43994140625, "end_time": 1192.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1185.80494140625, "cut_end_time": 1192.78006640625}, {"text": " for a question with", "start_byte": 18236, "end_byte": 18256, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1193.199951171875, "end_time": 1194.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1193.174951171875, "cut_end_time": 1194.700013671875}, {"text": " or some such phrase of convention. I got no farther. The man asked me if I saw a policeman walking down the street. I said I did, and I was given the choice of getting about my business forthwith or of being instantly given in charge as a spy.", "start_byte": 18298, "end_byte": 18542, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1196.8800048828125, "end_time": 1212.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1196.9950048828125, "cut_end_time": 1212.1600048828125}, {"text": " was, I think, his final advice, and I took it.", "start_byte": 18586, "end_byte": 18633, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1214.800048828125, "end_time": 1218.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1214.8250488281249, "cut_end_time": 1217.9800488281248}, {"text": "Well, I had come literally up against a brick wall. Thinking the problem over, I could only suppose that the smelter or his informant had twisted the phrases of the story. The smelter had said the dead men\u2019s faces were", "start_byte": 18635, "end_byte": 18853, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1218.0799560546875, "end_time": 1233.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1218.1649560546873, "cut_end_time": 1233.3600810546875}, {"text": "; this might be an unconscious perversion of", "start_byte": 18872, "end_byte": 18916, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1234.8800048828125, "end_time": 1237.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1235.0750048828124, "cut_end_time": 1237.6700048828125}, {"text": " That phrase might describe well enough the effect of strong acids, and, for all I knew of the processes of munition-making, such acids might be used and might explode with horrible results in some perilous stage of their admixture.", "start_byte": 18930, "end_byte": 19162, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1239.0, "end_time": 1253.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1239.175, "cut_end_time": 1253.6400624999999}, {"text": "It was a day or two later that the accident to the airman, Western-Reynolds, came into my mind. For one of those instants which are far shorter than any measure of time there flashed out the possibility of a link between the two disasters. But here was a wild impossibility, and I drove it away. And yet I think that the thought, mad as it seemed, never left me; it was the secret light that at last guided me through a somber grove of enigmas.", "start_byte": 19164, "end_byte": 19608, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1253.760009765625, "end_time": 1286.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1254.0150097656249, "cut_end_time": 1286.2100097656248}, {"text": "It was about this time, so far as the date can be fixed, that a whole district, one might say a whole county, was visited by a series of extraordinary and terrible calamities, which were the more terrible inasmuch as they continued for some time to be inscrutable mysteries. It is, indeed, doubtful whether these awful events do not still remain mysteries to many of those concerned; for before the inhabitants of this part of the country had time to join one link of evidence to another the circular was issued, and thenceforth no one knew how to distinguish undoubted fact from wild and extravagant surmise.", "start_byte": 19610, "end_byte": 20219, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1286.1199951171875, "end_time": 1327.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1286.3049951171874, "cut_end_time": 1327.7701201171874}, {"text": "The district in question is in the far west of Wales; I shall call it, for convenience, Meirion. In it there is one seaside town of some repute with holiday-makers for five or six weeks in the summer, and dotted about the county there are three or four small old towns that seem drooping in a slow decay, sleepy and gray with age and forgetfulness. They remind me of what I have read of towns in the west of Ireland. Grass grows between the uneven stones of the pavements, the signs above the shop windows decline, half the letters of these signs are missing, here and there a house has been pulled down, or has been allowed to slide into ruin, and wild greenery springs up through the fallen stones, and there is silence in all the streets. And, it is to be noted, these are not places that were once magnificent. The Celts have never had the art of building, and so far as I can see, such towns as Towy and Merthyr Tegveth and Meiros must have been always much as they are now, clusters of poorish, meanly-built houses, ill-kept and down at heel.", "start_byte": 20221, "end_byte": 21269, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1327.760009765625, "end_time": 1398.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1327.995009765625, "cut_end_time": 1398.7100097656248}, {"text": "And these few towns are thinly scattered over a wild country where north is divided from south by a wilder mountain range. One of these places is sixteen miles from any station; the others are doubtfully and deviously connected by single-line railways served by rare trains that pause and stagger and hesitate on their slow journey up mountain passes, or stop for half an hour or more at lonely sheds called stations, situated in the midst of desolate marshes. A few years ago I traveled with an Irishman on one of these queer lines, and he looked to right and saw the bog with its yellow and blue grasses and stagnant pools, and he looked to left and saw a ragged hillside, set with gray stone walls.", "start_byte": 21271, "end_byte": 21972, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1398.719970703125, "end_time": 1448.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1398.894970703125, "cut_end_time": 1448.340095703125}, {"text": " he said,", "start_byte": 21996, "end_byte": 22005, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1450.1600341796875, "end_time": 1450.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1450.1350341796874, "cut_end_time": 1450.9400341796875}]}

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Those are the men that believed in Madame Blavatsky.\u201d", "start_byte": 83826, "end_byte": 83971, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 77.5199966430664, "end_time": 87.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 77.6249966430664, "cut_end_time": 87.2301216430664, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell,", "start_byte": 83973, "end_byte": 83979, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 87.36000061035156, "end_time": 87.95999908447266, "cut_start_time": 87.47500061035156, "cut_end_time": 88.06000061035155, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cwhat do you think yourself? The Germans landed and hiding somewhere about the country: there\u2019s something extravagant in the notion, isn\u2019t there?\u201d", "start_byte": 83990, "end_byte": 84136, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 88.80000305175781, "end_time": 97.19999694824219, "cut_start_time": 88.9650030517578, "cut_end_time": 96.93000305175781, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI don\u2019t know what to think. You can\u2019t get over the facts. There are the soldiers with their rifles and their guns at the works all over Stratfordshire, and those guns go off. I told you I\u2019d heard them. Then who are the soldiers shooting at? That\u2019s what we ask ourselves at Midlingham.\u201d", "start_byte": 84138, "end_byte": 84424, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 97.19999694824219, "end_time": 115.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 97.66499694824218, "cut_end_time": 115.35005944824218, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cQuite so; I quite understand. It\u2019s an extraordinary state of things.\u201d", "start_byte": 84426, "end_byte": 84496, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 115.55999755859375, "end_time": 120.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 115.63499755859374, "cut_end_time": 120.09012255859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIt\u2019s more than extraordinary; it\u2019s an awful state of things. It\u2019s terror in the dark, and there\u2019s nothing worse than that. As that young fellow I was telling you about said, \u2018At the front you do know what you\u2019re up against.\u2019\u201d", "start_byte": 84498, "end_byte": 84724, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 120.44000244140625, "end_time": 134.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 120.69500244140625, "cut_end_time": 134.26006494140626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd people really believe that a number of Germans have somehow got over to England and have hid themselves underground?\u201d", "start_byte": 84726, "end_byte": 84848, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 134.24000549316406, "end_time": 141.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 134.54500549316407, "cut_end_time": 141.37000549316406, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cPeople say they\u2019ve got a new kind of poison-gas. Some think that they dig underground places and make the gas there, and lead it by secret pipes into the shops; others say that they throw gas bombs into the factories. It must be worse than anything they\u2019ve used in France, from what the authorities say.\u201d", "start_byte": 84850, "end_byte": 85155, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 141.83999633789062, "end_time": 161.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 142.22499633789062, "cut_end_time": 160.72005883789063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe authorities? Do they admit that there are Germans in hiding about Midlingham?\u201d", "start_byte": 85157, "end_byte": 85240, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 161.0399932861328, "end_time": 166.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 161.37499328613282, "cut_end_time": 166.50011828613282, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo. They call it \u2018explosions.\u2019 But we know it isn\u2019t explosions. We know in the Midlands what an explosion sounds like and looks like. And we know that the people killed in these \u2018explosions\u2019 are put into their coffins in the works. Their own relations are not allowed to see them.\u201d", "start_byte": 85242, "end_byte": 85524, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 166.72000122070312, "end_time": 184.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 166.81500122070312, "cut_end_time": 184.1800012207031, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd so you believe in the German theory?\u201d", "start_byte": 85526, "end_byte": 85568, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 184.55999755859375, "end_time": 187.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 185.08499755859376, "cut_end_time": 187.10006005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIf I do, it\u2019s because one must believe in something. Some say they\u2019ve seen the gas. I heard that a man living in Dunwich saw it one night like a black cloud with sparks of fire in it floating over the tops of the trees by Dunwich Common.\u201d", "start_byte": 85570, "end_byte": 85809, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 187.47999572753906, "end_time": 202.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 187.71499572753905, "cut_end_time": 202.52005822753907, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cVery strange, indeed; a black cloud with sparks of fire?\u201d", "start_byte": 86782, "end_byte": 86840, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 272.0400085449219, "end_time": 276.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 272.2050085449219, "cut_end_time": 276.2400085449219, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "even": {"id": "0", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI can\u2019t answer for it, you know; it\u2019s only a rumor.\u201d", "start_byte": 86842, "end_byte": 86895, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 276.55999755859375, "end_time": 280.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 276.8349975585938, "cut_end_time": 280.1101225585938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cJust so; and you think or you\u2019re inclined to think that this and all the rest you\u2019ve told me is to be put down to the hidden Germans?\u201d", "start_byte": 86897, "end_byte": 87032, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 280.1600036621094, "end_time": 289.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 280.4350036621094, "cut_end_time": 289.0000036621094, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAs I say; because one must think something.\u201d", "start_byte": 87034, "end_byte": 87079, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 289.3999938964844, "end_time": 292.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 289.6949938964844, "cut_end_time": 292.3100563964844, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI quite see your point. No doubt, if it\u2019s true, it\u2019s the most awful blow that has ever been dealt at any nation in the whole history of man. The enemy established in our vitals! But is it possible, after all? How could it have been worked?\u201d", "start_byte": 87081, "end_byte": 87322, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 292.9599914550781, "end_time": 309.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 293.25499145507814, "cut_end_time": 309.51011645507816, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cDe Facinore Humano", "start_byte": 89157, "end_byte": 89176, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 431.44000244140625, "end_time": 432.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 431.5250024414063, "cut_end_time": 432.94000244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"wrote": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMurderers, thieves, assassins, violators, and all the host of the abominable,", "start_byte": 89600, "end_byte": 89678, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 461.1600036621094, "end_time": 466.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 461.2250036621094, "cut_end_time": 466.6400661621094, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201care created by the false pretense and foolish credence of human virtue. A lion in a cage is a fierce beast, indeed; but what will he be if we declare him to be a lamb and open the doors of his den? Who will be guilty of the deaths of the men, women and children whom he will surely devour, save those who unlocked the cage?", "start_byte": 89704, "end_byte": 90028, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 468.4800109863281, "end_time": 490.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 468.56501098632816, "cut_end_time": 490.83007348632816, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWar,", "start_byte": 90197, "end_byte": 90202, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 502.0, "end_time": 502.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 502.095, "cut_end_time": 502.5800625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cwhich is one of the worst of evils, will always continue to exist. But a wise king will desire a brief war rather than a lengthy one, a short evil rather than a long evil. And this not from the benignity of his heart towards his enemies, for we have seen that the human heart is naturally malignant, but because he desires to conquer, and to conquer easily, without a great expenditure of men or of treasure, knowing that if he can accomplish this feat his people will love him and his crown will be secure. So he will wage brief victorious wars, and not only spare his own nation, but the nation of the enemy, since in a short war the loss is less on both sides than in a long war. And so from evil will come good.\u201d", "start_byte": 90217, "end_byte": 90934, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 503.5199890136719, "end_time": 552.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 503.7549890136719, "cut_end_time": 552.1501140136719, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cFor, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.\u201d", "start_byte": 91399, "end_byte": 91889, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 584.719970703125, "end_time": 617.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 584.734970703125, "cut_end_time": 617.1800957031251, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cnay, with but little trouble, he may actually and literally throw his garrisons into the heart of the enemy country before war has begun.\u201d", "start_byte": 92015, "end_byte": 92154, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 626.1599731445312, "end_time": 635.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 626.3449731445313, "cut_end_time": 635.6200356445313, "narrative_prediction": {"says": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cworse,", "start_byte": 92619, "end_byte": 92626, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 666.0, "end_time": 666.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 665.995, "cut_end_time": 666.5000625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cthan Neech", "start_byte": 92640, "end_byte": 92651, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 667.4400024414062, "end_time": 667.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 667.4950024414063, "cut_end_time": 668.0100649414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cthe Day", "start_byte": 93321, "end_byte": 93329, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 715.9600219726562, "end_time": 716.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 716.0250219726563, "cut_end_time": 716.9000219726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThat\u2019s what Henson told me,", "start_byte": 93514, "end_byte": 93542, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 729.52001953125, "end_time": 731.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 729.73501953125, "cut_end_time": 731.27008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHenson, head of the Buckley Iron and Steel Syndicate. He has been a lot in Germany.\u201d", "start_byte": 93587, "end_byte": 93672, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 733.9199829101562, "end_time": 739.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 734.0549829101562, "cut_end_time": 739.3900454101563, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell,", "start_byte": 93674, "end_byte": 93680, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 739.6799926757812, "end_time": 740.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 739.7249926757813, "cut_end_time": 740.3301176757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cof course, it may be so. If it is so, it is terrible beyond words.\u201d", "start_byte": 93694, "end_byte": 93762, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 741.52001953125, "end_time": 746.0, "cut_start_time": 741.6850195312501, "cut_end_time": 745.71001953125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " said Dr. Lewis.", "start_byte": 82836, "end_byte": 82852, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 5.960000038146973, "end_time": 6.599999904632568, "cut_start_time": 5.935000038146972, "cut_end_time": 6.700000038146972}, {"text": "Merritt shrugged his shoulders.", "start_byte": 82854, "end_byte": 82885, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 6.599999904632568, "end_time": 8.4399995803833, "cut_start_time": 6.574999904632568, "cut_end_time": 8.540062404632568}, {"text": "CHAPTER VII. The Case of the Hidden Germans", "start_byte": 83000, "end_byte": 83043, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 18.559999465942383, "end_time": 23.520000457763672, "cut_start_time": 18.604999465942385, "cut_end_time": 22.470124465942384}, {"text": "Lewis gasped for a moment, silent in contemplation of the magnificence of rumor. The Germans already landed, hiding underground, striking by night, secretly, terribly, at the power of England! Here was a conception which made the myth of", "start_byte": 83045, "end_byte": 83282, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 23.520000457763672, "end_time": 40.0, "cut_start_time": 23.685000457763675, "cut_end_time": 40.09000045776367}, {"text": " a paltry fable; before which the Legend of Mons was an ineffectual thing.", "start_byte": 83297, "end_byte": 83371, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 40.720001220703125, "end_time": 46.31999969482422, "cut_start_time": 40.695001220703126, "cut_end_time": 46.110001220703126}, {"text": "It was monstrous. And yet \u2014 ", "start_byte": 83373, "end_byte": 83401, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 46.31999969482422, "end_time": 48.79999923706055, "cut_start_time": 46.48499969482422, "cut_end_time": 48.74006219482422}, {"text": "He looked steadily at Merritt; a square-headed, black-haired, solid sort of man. He had symptoms of nerves about him for the moment, certainly, but one could not wonder at that, whether the tales he told were true, or whether he merely believed them to be true. Lewis had known his brother-in-law for twenty years or more, and had always found him a sure man in his own small world.", "start_byte": 83403, "end_byte": 83785, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 48.79999923706055, "end_time": 74.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 49.27499923706055, "cut_end_time": 74.22006173706055}, {"text": " said the doctor to himself,", "start_byte": 83797, "end_byte": 83825, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 75.4000015258789, "end_time": 77.5199966430664, "cut_start_time": 75.3750015258789, "cut_end_time": 77.3600015258789}, {"text": " he said,", "start_byte": 83980, "end_byte": 83989, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 87.95999908447266, "end_time": 88.80000305175781, "cut_start_time": 87.93499908447265, "cut_end_time": 88.77012408447266}, {"text": "The light of an ineffable amazement came into Lewis\u2019s eyes. The night of Remnant\u2019s visit, the trembling vibration of the air, the dark tree that had grown in his garden since the setting of the sun, the strange leafage that was starred with burning, with emerald and ruby fires, and all vanished away when he returned from his visit to the Garth; and such a leafage had appeared as a burning cloud far in the heart of England: what intolerable mystery, what tremendous doom was signified in this? But one thing was clear and certain: that the terror of Meirion was also the terror of the Midlands.", "start_byte": 85811, "end_byte": 86408, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 202.55999755859375, "end_time": 246.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 202.75499755859374, "cut_end_time": 246.46006005859374}, {"text": "Lewis made up his mind most firmly that if possible all this should be kept from his brother-in-law. Merritt had come to Porth as to a city of refuge from the horrors of Midlingham; if it could be managed he should be spared the knowledge that the cloud of terror had gone before him and hung black over the western land. Lewis passed the port and said in an even voice:", "start_byte": 86410, "end_byte": 86780, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 246.63999938964844, "end_time": 272.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 246.81499938964842, "cut_end_time": 271.67012438964844}, {"text": "Merritt told Lewis how it had been worked, or rather, how people said it had been worked. The idea, he said, was that this was a part, and a most important part, of the great German plot to destroy England and the British Empire.", "start_byte": 87324, "end_byte": 87553, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 309.760009765625, "end_time": 324.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 309.89500976562505, "cut_end_time": 324.610009765625}, {"text": "The scheme had been prepared years ago, some thought soon after the Franco-Prussian War. Moltke had seen that the invasion of England (in the ordinary sense of the term invasion) presented very great difficulties. The matter was constantly in discussion in the inner military and high political circles, and the general trend of opinion in these quarters was that at the best, the invasion of England would involve Germany in the gravest difficulties, and leave France in the position of the tertius gaudens. This was the state of affairs when a very high Prussian personage was approached by the Swedish professor, Huvelius.", "start_byte": 87555, "end_byte": 88180, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 324.79998779296875, "end_time": 368.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 325.0149877929688, "cut_end_time": 367.9000502929688}, {"text": "Thus Merritt, and here I would say in parenthesis that this Huvelius was by all accounts an extraordinary man. Considered personally and apart from his writings he would appear to have been a most amiable individual. He was richer than the generality of Swedes, certainly far richer than the average university professor in Sweden. But his shabby, green frock-coat, and his battered, furry hat were notorious in the university town where he lived. No one laughed, because it was well known that Professor Huvelius spent every penny of his private means and a large portion of his official stipend on works of kindness and charity. He hid his head in a garret, some one said, in order that others might be able to swell on the first floor. It was told of him that he restricted himself to a diet of dry bread and coffee for a month in order that a poor woman of the streets, dying of consumption, might enjoy luxuries in hospital.", "start_byte": 88182, "end_byte": 89111, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 368.0799865722656, "end_time": 428.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 368.2149865722657, "cut_end_time": 428.47011157226564}, {"text": "And this was the man who wrote the treatise", "start_byte": 89113, "end_byte": 89156, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 428.8800048828125, "end_time": 431.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 429.32500488281255, "cut_end_time": 431.4900673828125}, {"text": "; to prove the infinite corruption of the human race.", "start_byte": 89177, "end_byte": 89230, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 433.0400085449219, "end_time": 436.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 433.0950085449219, "cut_end_time": 436.0200710449219}, {"text": "Oddly enough, Professor Huvelius wrote the most cynical book in the world \u2014 Hobbes preaches rosy sentimentalism in comparison \u2014 with the very highest motives. He held that a very large part of human misery, misadventure, and sorrow was due to the false convention that the heart of man was naturally and in the main well disposed and kindly, if not exactly righteous.", "start_byte": 89232, "end_byte": 89599, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 436.20001220703125, "end_time": 461.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 436.3350122070313, "cut_end_time": 460.8600747070313}, {"text": " he says in one passage,", "start_byte": 89679, "end_byte": 89703, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 466.7200012207031, "end_time": 468.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 466.99500122070316, "cut_end_time": 468.32006372070316}, {"text": " And he goes on to show that kings and the rulers of the peoples could decrease the sum of human misery to a vast extent by acting on the doctrine of human wickedness.", "start_byte": 90029, "end_byte": 90196, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 490.9200134277344, "end_time": 502.0, "cut_start_time": 491.3350134277344, "cut_end_time": 501.6300134277344}, {"text": " he declares,", "start_byte": 90203, "end_byte": 90216, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 502.4800109863281, "end_time": 503.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 502.45501098632815, "cut_end_time": 503.44001098632816}, {"text": "And how, asks Huvelius, are such wars to be waged? The wise prince, he replies, will begin by assuming the enemy to be infinitely corruptible and infinitely stupid, since stupidity and corruption are the chief characteristics of man. So the prince will make himself friends in the very councils of his enemy, and also amongst the populace, bribing the wealthy by proffering to them the opportunity of still greater wealth, and winning the poor by swelling words.", "start_byte": 90936, "end_byte": 91398, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 552.280029296875, "end_time": 584.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 552.4450292968751, "cut_end_time": 584.440029296875}, {"text": "Guided by these principles, says Huvelius, the wise prince will entrench himself in the country that he desires to conquer;", "start_byte": 91891, "end_byte": 92014, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 617.280029296875, "end_time": 626.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 617.525029296875, "cut_end_time": 626.050029296875}, {"text": "This is a long and tiresome parenthesis; but it is necessary as explaining the long tale which Merritt told his brother-in-law, he having received it from some magnate of the Midlands, who had traveled in Germany. It is probable that the story was suggested in the first place by the passage from Huvelius which I have just quoted.", "start_byte": 92156, "end_byte": 92487, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 635.6799926757812, "end_time": 658.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 635.9549926757812, "cut_end_time": 657.9601176757812}, {"text": "Merritt knew nothing of the real Huvelius, who was all but a saint; he thought of the Swedish professor as a monster of iniquity,", "start_byte": 92489, "end_byte": 92618, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 658.0800170898438, "end_time": 666.0, "cut_start_time": 658.2650170898438, "cut_end_time": 665.8800170898438}, {"text": " as he said,", "start_byte": 92627, "end_byte": 92639, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 666.4000244140625, "end_time": 667.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 666.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 667.2900869140625}, {"text": " \u2014 meaning, no doubt, Nietzsche.", "start_byte": 92652, "end_byte": 92684, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 667.9600219726562, "end_time": 670.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 667.9850219726562, "cut_end_time": 670.2600844726562}, {"text": "So he told the story of how Huvelius had sold his plan to the Germans; a plan for filling England with German soldiers. Land was to be bought in certain suitable and well-considered places, Englishmen were to be bought as the apparent owners of such land, and secret excavations were to be made, till the country was literally undermined. A subterranean Germany, in fact, was to be dug under selected districts of England; there were to be great caverns, underground cities, well drained, well ventilated, supplied with water, and in these places vast stores both of food and of munitions were to be accumulated, year after year, till", "start_byte": 92686, "end_byte": 93320, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.52001953125, "end_time": 715.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 670.99501953125, "cut_end_time": 715.99008203125}, {"text": " dawned. And then, warned in time, the secret garrison would leave shops, hotels, offices, villas, and vanish underground, ready to begin their work of bleeding England at the heart.", "start_byte": 93330, "end_byte": 93512, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 716.7999877929688, "end_time": 729.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 716.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 729.5301127929688}, {"text": " said Merritt at the end of his long story.", "start_byte": 93543, "end_byte": 93586, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 731.4000244140625, "end_time": 733.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 731.5750244140626, "cut_end_time": 733.8600244140625}, {"text": " said Lewis,", "start_byte": 93681, "end_byte": 93693, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 740.3200073242188, "end_time": 741.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 740.6350073242188, "cut_end_time": 741.5300698242188}, {"text": "Indeed, he found something horribly plausible in the story. It was an extraordinary plan, of course; an unheard of scheme; but it did not seem impossible. It was the Trojan Horse on a gigantic scale; indeed, he reflected, the story of the horse with the warriors concealed within it which was dragged into the heart of Troy by the deluded Trojans themselves might be taken as a prophetic parable of what had happened to England \u2014 if Henson\u2019s theory were well founded. And this theory certainly squared with what one had heard of German preparations in Belgium and in France: emplacements for guns ready for the invader, German manufactories which were really German forts on Belgian soil, the caverns by the Aisne made ready for the cannon; indeed, Lewis thought he remembered something about suspicious concrete tennis-courts on the heights commanding London. But a German army hidden under English ground! It was a thought to chill the stoutest heart.", "start_byte": 93764, "end_byte": 94717, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 746.0, "end_time": 811.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 746.335, "cut_end_time": 811.5800625}]}

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But who could have suspected the truth?\u201d", "start_byte": 32190, "end_byte": 32271, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 274.55999755859375, "end_time": 280.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 275.1949975585938, "cut_end_time": 279.71012255859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cpersonality,", "start_byte": 33828, "end_byte": 33841, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 395.6000061035156, "end_time": 397.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 395.81500610351566, "cut_end_time": 396.73006860351563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "start_byte": 33975, "end_byte": 33999, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 406.6400146484375, "end_time": 408.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 406.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 408.66001464843754, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe long and the short of it is,", "start_byte": 34450, "end_byte": 34483, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 444.0, "end_time": 445.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 444.51500000000004, "cut_end_time": 446.0200625, "narrative_prediction": {"concluded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cthat any one of us may be the murderer, though he hasn\u2019t the faintest notion of the fact. Take Llewelyn there.\u201d", "start_byte": 34508, "end_byte": 34620, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 447.6000061035156, "end_time": 455.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 447.7950061035157, "cut_end_time": 454.62000610351566, "narrative_prediction": {"concluded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cTake Llewelyn now,", "start_byte": 35668, "end_byte": 35687, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 532.239990234375, "end_time": 533.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 532.564990234375, "cut_end_time": 533.470115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cLook here, Llewelyn, can you produce evidence to show where you were on the night those people were murdered on the Highway? I thought not.\u201d", "start_byte": 35707, "end_byte": 35848, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 534.8800048828125, "end_time": 543.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 535.1750048828126, "cut_end_time": 542.8000048828126, "narrative_prediction": {"hesitated": {"id": "2", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI thought not,", "start_byte": 35924, "end_byte": 35939, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 548.8400268554688, "end_time": 550.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 549.3050268554688, "cut_end_time": 550.6600893554688, "narrative_prediction": {"hesitated": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "speaking": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cNow I say that it is perfectly possible that Llewelyn may be dealing death throughout Meirion, although in his present personality he may not have the faintest suspicion that there is another Llewelyn within him, a Llewelyn who follows murder as a fine art.\u201d", "start_byte": 35958, "end_byte": 36217, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 552.0800170898438, "end_time": 570.0, "cut_start_time": 552.4350170898438, "cut_end_time": 568.9700170898437, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIf you had allowed me to speak,", "start_byte": 36619, "end_byte": 36651, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 598.719970703125, "end_time": 601.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 599.364970703125, "cut_end_time": 601.4200332031251, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "coldness": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI would have told you that on Tuesday last, the night on which those unfortunate people were murdered on the Highway I was staying at the Angel Hotel, Cardiff. I had business in Cardiff, and I was detained till Wednesday afternoon.\u201d", "start_byte": 36691, "end_byte": 36924, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 604.0800170898438, "end_time": 622.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 604.3850170898438, "cut_end_time": 622.2300795898437, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThere are several cases of double personality on record,", "start_byte": 37266, "end_byte": 37323, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 646.9199829101562, "end_time": 650.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 647.5049829101563, "cut_end_time": 650.4201079101563, "narrative_prediction": {"declared": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd I say again that it is quite possible that these murders may have been committed by one of us in his secondary personality. Why, I may be the murderer in my Remnant B. state, though Remnant A. knows nothing whatever about it, and is perfectly convinced that he could not kill a fowl, much less a whole family. Isn\u2019t it so, Lewis?\u201d", "start_byte": 37338, "end_byte": 37673, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 651.239990234375, "end_time": 675.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 651.6549902343751, "cut_end_time": 674.590115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMost of the cases of double or multiple personality that have been investigated,", "start_byte": 37741, "end_byte": 37822, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 681.0, "end_time": 686.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 681.4250000000001, "cut_end_time": 685.9400625000001, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201chave been in connection with the very dubious experiments of hypnotism, or the still more dubious experiments of spiritualism. All that sort of thing, in my opinion, is like tinkering with the works of a clock \u2014 amateur tinkering, I mean. You fumble about with the wheels and cogs and bits of mechanism that you don\u2019t really know anything about; and then you find your clock going backwards or striking 240 at tea-time. And I believe it\u2019s just the same thing with these psychical research experiments; the secondary personality is very likely the result of the tinkering and fumbling with a very delicate apparatus that we know nothing about. Mind, I can\u2019t say that it\u2019s impossible for one of us to be the Highway murderer in his B. state, as Remnant puts it. But I think it\u2019s extremely improbable. Probability is the guide of life, you know, Remnant,", "start_byte": 37833, "end_byte": 38685, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 687.280029296875, "end_time": 743.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 687.615029296875, "cut_end_time": 743.150091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd it follows, therefore, that improbability is also the guide of life. When you get a very high degree of probability, that is, you are justified in taking it as a certainty; and on the other hand, if a supposition is highly improbable, you are justified in treating it as an impossible one. That is, in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand.\u201d", "start_byte": 38794, "end_byte": 39155, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 750.5599975585938, "end_time": 776.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 751.0849975585937, "cut_end_time": 775.6900600585938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHow about the thousandth case?", "start_byte": 39157, "end_byte": 39188, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 776.7999877929688, "end_time": 778.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 777.4449877929687, "cut_end_time": 778.9801127929687, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSupposing these extraordinary crimes constitute the thousandth case?\u201d", "start_byte": 39204, "end_byte": 39274, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 779.6799926757812, "end_time": 784.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 779.7349926757813, "cut_end_time": 783.8600551757813, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201csomething in it.", "start_byte": 39506, "end_byte": 39523, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 799.5999755859375, "end_time": 801.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 799.5749755859375, "cut_end_time": 800.6401005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"mightn\u2019t": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cA motor could do it,", "start_byte": 40121, "end_byte": 40142, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 844.0800170898438, "end_time": 845.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 844.3750170898438, "cut_end_time": 845.3600170898437, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat about an airplane, then?", "start_byte": 40885, "end_byte": 40915, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 897.719970703125, "end_time": 899.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 898.124970703125, "cut_end_time": 899.410095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAs I said to Remnant at the Club,", "start_byte": 41272, "end_byte": 41306, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 924.47998046875, "end_time": 926.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 925.10498046875, "cut_end_time": 926.89004296875, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cimprobability is the guide of life. I can\u2019t believe that there are a pack of madmen or even two madmen at large in the country. I give it up.\u201d", "start_byte": 41321, "end_byte": 41464, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 927.4400024414062, "end_time": 938.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 927.4450024414062, "cut_end_time": 936.8200024414062, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cfound dead under mysterious circumstances", "start_byte": 41915, "end_byte": 41957, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 968.760009765625, "end_time": 971.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 968.9450097656251, "cut_end_time": 971.3000097656251, "narrative_prediction": {"referred": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIn consequence of instructions received from the Home Office,", "start_byte": 42624, "end_byte": 42686, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1022.5999755859375, "end_time": 1026.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1023.3449755859375, "cut_end_time": 1026.7601005859376, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI have to tell the jury that their business will be to hear the medical evidence and to bring in a verdict immediately in accordance with that evidence. I shall disallow all questions.\u201d", "start_byte": 42729, "end_byte": 42915, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1029.239990234375, "end_time": 1043.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1029.5749902343748, "cut_end_time": 1041.580052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cVery good,", "start_byte": 42990, "end_byte": 43001, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1048.9599609375, "end_time": 1049.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1049.5549609374998, "cut_end_time": 1050.0600234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThen I beg to inform you, Mr. Foreman and gentlemen of the jury, that under the Defense of the Realm Act, I have power to supersede your functions, and to enter a verdict according to the evidence which has been laid before the Court as if it had been the verdict of you all.\u201d", "start_byte": 43021, "end_byte": 43298, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1051.0, "end_time": 1068.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1051.175, "cut_end_time": 1067.9599999999998, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Indeed, Dr. Lewis, who found poor Williams, his wife and children miserably slaughtered on the Highway, was convinced at first that the presence of a concealed madman in the countryside offered the only possible solution to the difficulty.", "start_byte": 29759, "end_byte": 29998, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 106.08000183105469, "end_time": 122.87999725341797, "cut_start_time": 106.54500183105468, "cut_end_time": 121.71000183105468}, {"text": " he said to me afterwards, \u201cthat the Williams\u2019s had been killed by a homicidal maniac. It was the nature of the poor creatures\u2019 injuries that convinced me that this was the case. Some years ago \u2014 thirty-seven or thirty-eight years ago as a matter of fact \u2014 I had something to do with a case which on the face of it had a strong likeness to the Highway murder. At that time I had a practice at Usk, in Monmouthshire. A whole family living in a cottage by the roadside were murdered one evening; it was called, I think, the Llangibby murder; the cottage was near the village of that name. The murderer was caught in Newport; he was a Spanish sailor, named Garcia, and it appeared that he had killed father, mother, and the three children for the sake of the brass works of an old Dutch clock, which were found on him when he was arrested.", "start_byte": 30014, "end_byte": 30850, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 124.63999938964844, "end_time": 181.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 124.61499938964843, "cut_end_time": 180.74012438964843}, {"text": "\u201cGarcia had been serving a month\u2019s imprisonment in Usk Jail for some small theft, and on his release he set out to walk to Newport, nine or ten miles away; no doubt to get another ship. He passed the cottage and saw the man working in his garden. Garcia stabbed him with his sailor\u2019s knife. The wife rushed out; he stabbed her. Then he went into the cottage and stabbed the three children, tried to set the place on fire, and made off with the clockworks. That looked like the deed of a madman, but Garcia wasn\u2019t mad \u2014 they hanged him, I may say \u2014 he was merely a man of a very low type, a degenerate who hadn\u2019t the slightest value for human life. I am not sure, but I think he came from one of the Spanish islands, where the people are said to be degenerates, very likely from too much inter-breeding.", "start_byte": 30852, "end_byte": 31654, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 181.9600067138672, "end_time": 237.1999969482422, "cut_start_time": 182.1750067138672, "cut_end_time": 236.2000067138672}, {"text": "\u201cBut my point is that Garcia stabbed to kill and did kill, with one blow in each case. There was no senseless hacking and slashing. Now those poor people on the Highway had their heads smashed to pieces by what must have been a storm of blows. Any one of them would have been fatal, but the murderer must have gone on raining blows with his iron hammer on people who were already stone dead. And that sort of thing is the work of a madman, and nothing but a madman. That\u2019s how I argued the matter out to myself just after the event.", "start_byte": 31656, "end_byte": 32188, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 237.1999969482422, "end_time": 274.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 238.14499694824218, "cut_end_time": 273.6000594482422}, {"text": "Thus Dr. Lewis, and I quote him, or the substance of him, as representative of most of the educated opinion of the district at the beginnings of the terror. People seized on this theory largely because it offered at least the comfort of an explanation, and any explanation, even the poorest, is better than an intolerable and terrible mystery. Besides, Dr. Lewis\u2019s theory was plausible; it explained the lack of purpose that seemed to characterize the murders. And yet \u2014 there were difficulties even from the first. It was hardly possible that a strange madman should be able to keep hidden in a countryside where any stranger is instantly noted and noticed; sooner or later he would be seen as he prowled along the lanes or across the wild places. Indeed, a drunken, cheerful, and altogether harmless tramp was arrested by a farmer and his man in the fact and act of sleeping off beer under a hedge; but the vagrant was able to prove complete and undoubted alibis, and was soon allowed to go on his wandering way.", "start_byte": 32273, "end_byte": 33287, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 280.7200012207031, "end_time": 355.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 281.42500122070317, "cut_end_time": 354.47006372070314}, {"text": "Then another theory, or rather a variant of Dr. Lewis\u2019s theory, was started. This was to the effect that the person responsible for the outrages was, indeed, a madman; but a madman only at intervals. It was one of the members of the Porth Club, a certain Mr. Remnant, who was supposed to have originated this more subtle explanation. Mr. Remnant was a middle-aged man, who, having nothing particular to do, read a great many books by way of conquering the hours. He talked to the club \u2014 doctors, retired colonels, parsons, lawyers \u2014 about", "start_byte": 33289, "end_byte": 33827, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 355.7200012207031, "end_time": 395.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 356.13500122070315, "cut_end_time": 395.48006372070313}, {"text": " quoted various psychological textbooks in support of his contention that personality was sometimes fluid and unstable, went back to", "start_byte": 33842, "end_byte": 33974, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 397.20001220703125, "end_time": 406.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 397.4750122070313, "cut_end_time": 406.7400747070313}, {"text": " as good evidence of this proposition, and laid stress on Dr. Jekyll\u2019s speculation that the human soul, so far from being one and indivisible, might possibly turn out to be a mere polity, a state in which dwelt many strange and incongruous citizens, whose characters were not merely unknown but altogether unsurmised by that form of consciousness which so rashly assumed that it was not only the president of the republic but also its sole citizen.", "start_byte": 34000, "end_byte": 34448, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 408.55999755859375, "end_time": 444.0, "cut_start_time": 408.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 442.6600600585938}, {"text": " Mr. Remnant concluded,", "start_byte": 34484, "end_byte": 34507, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 445.9200134277344, "end_time": 447.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 445.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 447.3100759277344}, {"text": "Mr. Payne Llewelyn was an elderly lawyer, a rural Tulkinghorn. He was the hereditary solicitor to the Morgans of Pentwyn. This does not sound anything tremendous to the Saxons of London; but the style is far more than noble to the Celts of West Wales; it is immemorial; Teilo Sant was of the collaterals of the first known chief of the race. And Mr. Payne Llewelyn did his best to look like the legal adviser of this ancient house. He was weighty, he was cautious, he was sound, he was secure. I have compared him to Mr. Tulkinghorn of Lincoln\u2019s Inn Fields; but Mr. Llewelyn would most certainly never have dreamed of employing his leisure in peering into the cupboards where the family skeletons were hidden. Supposing such cupboards to have existed, Mr. Payne Llewelyn would have risked large out-of-pocket expenses to furnish them with double, triple, impregnable locks. He was a new man, an advena, certainly; for he was partly of the Conquest, being descended on one side from Sir Payne Turberville; but he meant to stand by the old stock.", "start_byte": 34622, "end_byte": 35666, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 455.239990234375, "end_time": 532.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 455.534990234375, "cut_end_time": 531.1600527343751}, {"text": " said Mr. Remnant.", "start_byte": 35688, "end_byte": 35706, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 533.6400146484375, "end_time": 534.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 533.6850146484376, "cut_end_time": 534.6700771484375}, {"text": "Mr. Llewelyn, an elderly man, as I have said, hesitated before speaking.", "start_byte": 35850, "end_byte": 35922, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 543.239990234375, "end_time": 548.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 543.634990234375, "cut_end_time": 547.8101152343751}, {"text": " Remnant went on.", "start_byte": 35940, "end_byte": 35957, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 550.6400146484375, "end_time": 552.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 550.6450146484375, "cut_end_time": 552.0400771484375}, {"text": "Mr. Payne Llewelyn did not at all relish Mr. Remnant\u2019s suggestion that he might well be a secret murderer, ravening for blood, remorseless as a wild beast. He thought the phrase about his following murder as a fine art was both nonsensical and in the worst taste, and his opinion was not changed when Remnant pointed out that it was used by De Quincey in the title of one of his most famous essays.", "start_byte": 36219, "end_byte": 36617, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 570.0, "end_time": 598.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 570.6650000000001, "cut_end_time": 598.47}, {"text": " he said with some coldness of manner,", "start_byte": 36652, "end_byte": 36690, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 601.3599853515625, "end_time": 604.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 601.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 603.9501103515626}, {"text": "Having given this satisfactory alibi, Mr. Payne Llewelyn left the club, and did not go near it for the rest of the week.", "start_byte": 36926, "end_byte": 37046, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 622.3200073242188, "end_time": 632.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 622.8150073242188, "cut_end_time": 630.3800698242188}, {"text": "Remnant explained to those who stayed in the smoking room that, of course, he had merely used Mr. Llewelyn as a concrete example of his theory, which, he persisted, had the support of a considerable body of evidence.", "start_byte": 37048, "end_byte": 37264, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 632.3200073242188, "end_time": 646.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 632.5850073242187, "cut_end_time": 646.2400073242188}, {"text": " he declared.", "start_byte": 37324, "end_byte": 37337, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 650.3200073242188, "end_time": 651.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 650.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 651.2100073242187}, {"text": "Dr. Lewis said it was so, in theory, but he thought not in fact.", "start_byte": 37675, "end_byte": 37739, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 675.0800170898438, "end_time": 681.0, "cut_start_time": 675.6550170898438, "cut_end_time": 680.2400170898437}, {"text": " he said,", "start_byte": 37823, "end_byte": 37832, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 686.0800170898438, "end_time": 687.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 686.1150170898437, "cut_end_time": 687.3700795898437}, {"text": " said Dr. Lewis, smiling at that gentleman, as if to say that he also had done a little reading in his day.", "start_byte": 38686, "end_byte": 38793, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 743.3200073242188, "end_time": 750.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 743.6350073242188, "cut_end_time": 749.9400073242188}, {"text": " said Remnant.", "start_byte": 39189, "end_byte": 39203, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 778.8800048828125, "end_time": 779.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 778.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 779.6900048828126}, {"text": "The doctor smiled and shrugged his shoulders, being tired of the subject. But for some little time highly respectable members of Porth society would look suspiciously at one another wondering whether, after all, there mightn\u2019t be", "start_byte": 39276, "end_byte": 39505, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 784.7999877929688, "end_time": 799.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 785.0849877929687, "cut_end_time": 799.7000502929687}, {"text": " However, both Mr. Remnant\u2019s somewhat crazy theory and Dr. Lewis\u2019s plausible theory became untenable when two more victims of an awful and mysterious death were offered up in sacrifice, for a man was found dead in the Llanfihangel quarry, where the woman had been discovered. And on the same day a girl of fifteen was found broken on the jagged rocks under the cliffs near Porth. Now, it appeared that these two deaths must have occurred at about the same time, within an hour of one another, certainly; and the distance between the quarry and the cliffs by Black Rock is certainly twenty miles.", "start_byte": 39524, "end_byte": 40119, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 801.2000122070312, "end_time": 844.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 801.5550122070313, "cut_end_time": 843.7100747070313}, {"text": " one man said.", "start_byte": 40143, "end_byte": 40157, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 845.5999755859375, "end_time": 847.0, "cut_start_time": 845.6749755859375, "cut_end_time": 846.6900380859375}, {"text": "But it was pointed out that there was no high road between the two places; indeed, it might be said that there was no road at all between them. There was a network of deep, narrow, and tortuous lanes that wandered into one another at all manner of queer angles for, say, seventeen miles; this in the middle, as it were, between Black Rock and the quarry at Llanfihangel. But to get to the high land of the cliffs one had to take a path that went through two miles of fields; and the quarry lay a mile away from the nearest by-road in the midst of gorse and bracken and broken land. And, finally, there was no track of motor-car or motor-bicycle in the lanes which must have been followed to pass from one place to the other.", "start_byte": 40159, "end_byte": 40883, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 847.0, "end_time": 897.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 847.5450000000001, "cut_end_time": 897.23}, {"text": " said the man of the motor-car theory. Well, there was certainly an aerodrome not far from one of the two places of death; but somehow, nobody believed that the Flying Corps harbored a homicidal maniac. 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Look at that airship of ours that came over Porth yesterday: ten years ago that would have been an inconceivable sight. Take the steam engine, stake printing, take the theory of gravitation: they were all inconceivable till somebody thought of them. So it is, no doubt, with this infernal dodgery that we\u2019re talking about: the Huns have found it out, and we haven\u2019t; and there you are. We can\u2019t conceive how these poor people have been murdered, because the method\u2019s inconceivable to us.\u201d", "start_byte": 48873, "end_byte": 49443, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 361.67999267578125, "end_time": 398.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 361.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 397.4001176757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWonderful man, that.", "start_byte": 49542, "end_byte": 49563, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 405.20001220703125, "end_time": 406.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 405.4150122070313, "cut_end_time": 406.6000122070313, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes,", "start_byte": 49565, "end_byte": 49570, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 406.8399963378906, "end_time": 407.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 407.26499633789064, "cut_end_time": 407.78005883789064, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHe was asked whether he knew something. And his reply really amounted to \u2018No, I don\u2019t.\u2019 But I have never heard it better put.\u201d", "start_byte": 49588, "end_byte": 49715, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 409.1199951171875, "end_time": 416.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 409.44499511718755, "cut_end_time": 416.47005761718754, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIndeed,", "start_byte": 53061, "end_byte": 53069, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 630.8800048828125, "end_time": 631.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 631.1650048828125, "cut_end_time": 631.7400673828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI believe they must have seen the devil himself to be in such a fright as that: save the people!\u201d", "start_byte": 53080, "end_byte": 53178, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 632.0399780273438, "end_time": 638.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 632.0149780273438, "cut_end_time": 637.0500405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThere was a stake handy, lucky for me,", "start_byte": 55784, "end_byte": 55823, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 808.9199829101562, "end_time": 811.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 809.2449829101563, "cut_end_time": 811.4201079101563, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cand I did beat him and beat him till the life was out of him. But what is come to the world, whatever?\u201d", "start_byte": 55835, "end_byte": 55939, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 811.9199829101562, "end_time": 820.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 812.1549829101563, "cut_end_time": 820.2101079101562, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cManger", "start_byte": 56404, "end_byte": 56411, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 849.4000244140625, "end_time": 850.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 849.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 850.1000244140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Well, let it be understood at once that all this detail that I have given about the occurrences in Meirion does not imply that the county in the far west was alone or especially afflicted by the terror that was over the land. They tell me that in the villages about Dartmoor the stout Devonshire hearts sank as men\u2019s hearts used to sink in the time of plague and pestilence. There was horror, too, about the Norfolk Broads, and far up by Perth no one would venture on the path that leads by Scone to the wooded heights above the Tay. And in the industrial districts: I met a man by chance one day in an odd London corner who spoke with horror of what a friend had told him.", "start_byte": 44471, "end_byte": 45144, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 68.08000183105469, "end_time": 112.91999816894531, "cut_start_time": 68.52500183105468, "cut_end_time": 112.24000183105468}, {"text": "And then the ship that hovered outside the mouth of the Thames with all sails set and beat to and fro in the wind, and never answered any hail, and showed no light! The forts shot at her and brought down one of the masts, but she went suddenly about with a change of wind under what sail still stood, and then veered down Channel, and drove ashore at last on the sandbanks and pinewoods of Arcachon, and not a man alive on her, but only rattling heaps of bones! That last voyage of the Semiramis would be something horribly worth telling; but I only heard it at a distance as a yarn, and only believed it because it squared with other things that I knew for certain.", "start_byte": 45330, "end_byte": 45996, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 125.0, "end_time": 171.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 125.18499999999999, "cut_end_time": 171.57999999999998}, {"text": "This, then, is my point; I have written of the terror as it fell on Meirion, simply because I have had opportunities of getting close there to what really happened. Third or fourth or fifth hand in the other places; but round about Porth and Merthyr Tegveth I have spoken with people who have seen the tracks of the terror with their own eyes.", "start_byte": 45998, "end_byte": 46341, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 171.9199981689453, "end_time": 195.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 172.1449981689453, "cut_end_time": 195.0301231689453}, {"text": "Well, I have said that the people of that far western county realized, not only that death was abroad in their quiet lanes and on their peaceful hills, but that for some reason it was to be kept all secret. Newspapers might not print any news of it, the very juries summoned to investigate it were allowed to investigate nothing. And so they concluded that this veil of secrecy must somehow be connected with the war; and from this position it was not a long way to a further inference: that the murderers of innocent men and women and children were either Germans or agents of Germany. It would be just like the Huns, everybody agreed, to think out such a devilish scheme as this; and they always thought out their schemes beforehand. They hoped to seize Paris in a few weeks, but when they were beaten on the Marne they had their trenches on the Aisne ready to fall back on: it had all been prepared years before the war. And so, no doubt, they had devised this terrible plan against England in case they could not beat us in open fight: there were people ready, very likely, all over the country, who were prepared to murder and destroy everywhere as soon as they got the word. In this way the Germans intended to sow terror throughout England and fill our hearts with panic and dismay, hoping so to weaken their enemy at home that he would lose all heart over the war abroad. It was the Zeppelin notion, in another form; they were committing these horrible and mysterious outrages thinking that we should be frightened out of our wits.", "start_byte": 46343, "end_byte": 47882, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 195.44000244140625, "end_time": 293.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 195.74500244140626, "cut_end_time": 292.65006494140624}, {"text": "It all seemed plausible enough; Germany had by this time perpetrated so many horrors and had so excelled in devilish ingenuities that no abomination seemed too abominable to be probable, or too ingeniously wicked to be beyond the tortuous malice of the Hun. But then came the questions as to who the agents of this terrible design were, as to where they lived, as to how they contrived to move unseen from field to field, from lane to lane. All sorts of fantastic attempts were made to answer these questions; but it was felt that they remained unanswered. Some suggested that the murderers landed from submarines, or flew from hiding places on the West Coast of Ireland, coming and going by night; but there were seen to be flagrant impossibilities in both these suggestions. Everybody agreed that the evil work was no doubt the work of Germany; but nobody could begin to guess how it was done. Somebody at the Club asked Remnant for his theory.", "start_byte": 47884, "end_byte": 48830, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 293.44000244140625, "end_time": 359.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 293.98500244140627, "cut_end_time": 358.2200649414063}, {"text": " said that ingenious person,", "start_byte": 48844, "end_byte": 48872, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 360.239990234375, "end_time": 361.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 360.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 361.78005273437503}, {"text": "The club listened with some awe to this high argument. 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It related to the murder of the Williams family on the Highway in front of their cottage door. I do not know that I have made it plain that the old Roman road called the Highway follows the course of a long, steep hill that goes steadily westward till it slants down and droops towards the sea. On either side of the road the ground falls away, here into deep shadowy woods, here to high pastures, now and again into a field of corn, but for the most part into the wild and broken land that is characteristic of Arfon. The fields are long and narrow, stretching up the steep hillside; they fall into sudden dips and hollows, a well springs up in the midst of one and a grove of ash and thorn bends over it, shading it; and beneath it the ground is thick with reeds and rushes. And then may come on either side of such a field territories glistening with the deep growth of bracken, and rough with gorse and rugged with thickets of blackthorn, green lichen hanging strangely from the branches; such are the lands on either side of the Highway.", "start_byte": 49717, "end_byte": 51004, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 416.9599914550781, "end_time": 500.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 417.41499145507817, "cut_end_time": 500.1801164550782}, {"text": "Now on the lower slopes of it, beneath the Williams\u2019s cottage, some three or four fields down the hill, there is a military camp. The place has been used as a camp for many years, and lately the site has been extended and huts have been erected. But a considerable number of the men were under canvas here in the summer of 1915.", "start_byte": 51006, "end_byte": 51334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 500.8800048828125, "end_time": 521.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 501.3050048828125, "cut_end_time": 520.8300673828126}, {"text": "On the night of the Highway murder this camp, as it appeared afterwards, was the scene of the extraordinary panic of the horses.", "start_byte": 51336, "end_byte": 51464, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 521.2000122070312, "end_time": 531.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 521.6750122070313, "cut_end_time": 529.1800122070313}, {"text": "A good many men in the camp were asleep in their tents soon after 9:30, when the Last Post was sounded. They woke up in panic. There was a thundering sound on the steep hillside above them, and down upon the tents came half a dozen horses, mad with fright, trampling the canvas, trampling the men, bruising dozens of them and killing two.", "start_byte": 51466, "end_byte": 51804, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 531.0399780273438, "end_time": 553.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 531.7949780273437, "cut_end_time": 553.2501030273438}, {"text": "Everything was in wild confusion, men groaning and screaming in the darkness, struggling with the canvas and the twisted ropes, shouting out, some of them, raw lads enough, that the Germans had landed, others wiping the blood from their eyes, a few, roused suddenly from heavy sleep, hitting out at one another, officers coming up at the double roaring out orders to the sergeants, a party of soldiers who were just returning to camp from the village seized with fright at what they could scarcely see or distinguish, at the wildness of the shouting and cursing and groaning that they could not understand, bolting out of the camp again and racing for their lives back to the village: everything in the maddest confusion of wild disorder.", "start_byte": 51806, "end_byte": 52544, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 553.8800048828125, "end_time": 600.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 554.3450048828125, "cut_end_time": 600.9000048828125}, {"text": "Some of the men had seen the horses galloping down the hill as if terror itself was driving them. They scattered off into the darkness, and somehow or another found their way back in the night to their pasture above the camp. They were grazing there peacefully in the morning, and the only sign of the panic of the night before was the mud they had scattered all over themselves as they pelted through a patch of wet ground. The farmer said they were as quiet a lot as any in Meirion; he could make nothing of it.", "start_byte": 52546, "end_byte": 53059, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 600.9199829101562, "end_time": 630.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 601.7749829101563, "cut_end_time": 630.5701079101563}, {"text": " he said,", "start_byte": 53070, "end_byte": 53079, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 631.6400146484375, "end_time": 632.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 631.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 632.1400146484375}, {"text": "Now all this was kept as quiet as might be at the time when it happened; it became known to the men of the Porth Club in the days when they were discussing the difficult question of the German outrages, as the murders were commonly called. And this wild stampede of the farm horses was held by some to be evidence of the extraordinary and unheard of character of the dreadful agency that was at work. One of the members of the club had been told by an officer who was in the camp at the time of the panic that the horses that came charging down were in a perfect fury of fright, that he had never seen horses in such a state, and so there was endless speculation as to the nature of the sight or the sound that had driven half a dozen quiet beasts into raging madness.", "start_byte": 53180, "end_byte": 53948, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 638.47998046875, "end_time": 688.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 639.12498046875, "cut_end_time": 687.23004296875}, {"text": "Then, in the middle of this talk, two or three other incidents, quite as odd and incomprehensible, came to be known, borne on chance trickles of gossip that came into the towns from outland farms, or were carried by cottagers tramping into Porth on market day with a fowl or two and eggs and garden stuff; scraps and fragments of talk gathered by servants from the country folk and repeated \u2014 to their mistresses. And in such ways it came out that up at Plas Newydd there had been a terrible business over swarming the bees; they had turned as wild as wasps and much more savage. They had come about the people who were taking the swarms like a cloud. They settled on one man\u2019s face so that you could not see the flesh for the bees crawling all over it, and they had stung him so badly that the doctor did not know whether he would get over it, and they had chased a girl who had come out to see the swarming, and settled on her and stung her to death. Then they had gone off to a brake below the farm and got into a hollow tree there, and it was not safe to go near it, for they would come out at you by day or by night.", "start_byte": 53950, "end_byte": 55071, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 688.0399780273438, "end_time": 761.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 688.4549780273438, "cut_end_time": 761.1701030273438}, {"text": "And much the same thing had happened, it seemed, at three or four farms and cottages where bees were kept. And there were stories, hardly so clear or so credible, of sheep dogs, mild and trusted beasts, turning as savage as wolves and injuring the farm boys in a horrible manner \u2014 in one case it was said with fatal results. It was certainly true that old Mrs. Owen\u2019s favorite Brahma-Dorking cock had gone mad; she came into Porth one Saturday morning with her face and her neck all bound up and plastered. She had gone out to her bit of a field to feed the poultry the night before, and the bird had flown at her and attacked her most savagely, inflicting some very nasty wounds before she could beat it off.", "start_byte": 55073, "end_byte": 55782, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 761.3200073242188, "end_time": 808.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 761.8650073242188, "cut_end_time": 808.1000073242187}, {"text": " she said,", "start_byte": 55824, "end_byte": 55834, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 811.3200073242188, "end_time": 811.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 811.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 812.0100073242188}, {"text": "Now Remnant, the man of theories, was also a man of extreme leisure. It was understood that he had succeeded to ample means when he was quite a young man, and after tasting the savors of the law, as it were, for half a dozen terms at the board of the Middle Temple, he had decided that it would be senseless to bother himself with passing examinations for a profession which he had not the faintest intention of practising. So he turned a deaf ear to the call of", "start_byte": 55941, "end_byte": 56403, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 820.4000244140625, "end_time": 849.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 820.7750244140625, "cut_end_time": 849.5000869140625}, {"text": " ringing through the Temple Courts, and set himself out to potter amiably through the world. He had pottered all over Europe, he had looked at Africa, and had even put his head in at the door of the East, on a trip which included the Greek isles and Constantinople. Now getting into the middle fifties, he had settled at Porth for the sake, as he said, of the Gulf Stream and the fuchsia hedges, and pottered over his books and his theories and the local gossip. He was no more brutal than the general public, which revels in the details of mysterious crime; but it must be said that the terror, black though it was, was a boon to him. He peered and investigated and poked about with the relish of a man to whose life a new zest has been added. He listened attentively to the strange tales of bees and dogs and poultry that came into Porth with the country baskets of butter, rabbits, and green peas; and he evolved at last a most extraordinary theory.", "start_byte": 56412, "end_byte": 57364, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 850.1599731445312, "end_time": 915.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 850.2849731445312, "cut_end_time": 914.3300981445312}]}

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What about them?\u201d", "start_byte": 58767, "end_byte": 59148, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 110.08000183105469, "end_time": 139.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 110.39500183105469, "cut_end_time": 139.12000183105468, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell: then there are the stories of good-tempered old sheepdogs turning wicked and \u2018savaging\u2019 children?\u201d", "start_byte": 59150, "end_byte": 59255, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 139.0399932861328, "end_time": 147.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 139.2349932861328, "cut_end_time": 146.5100557861328, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cQuite so. I haven\u2019t seen any of these cases professionally; but I believe the stories are accurate enough.\u201d", "start_byte": 59257, "end_byte": 59365, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 147.75999450683594, "end_time": 155.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 148.12499450683592, "cut_end_time": 154.67005700683592, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd the old woman assaulted by her own poultry?\u201d", "start_byte": 59367, "end_byte": 59416, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 155.75999450683594, "end_time": 159.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 156.41499450683594, "cut_end_time": 159.12011950683592, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThat\u2019s perfectly true. Her daughter put some stuff of their own concoction on her face and neck, and then she came to me. The wounds seemed going all right, so I told her to continue the treatment, whatever it might be.\u201d", "start_byte": 59418, "end_byte": 59639, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 159.72000122070312, "end_time": 174.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 160.12500122070313, "cut_end_time": 173.71000122070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cVery good,", "start_byte": 59641, "end_byte": 59652, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 174.39999389648438, "end_time": 175.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 174.86499389648438, "cut_end_time": 175.42011889648438, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cDon\u2019t you see the link between all this and the horrible things that have been happening about here for the last month?\u201d", "start_byte": 59716, "end_byte": 59837, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 180.36000061035156, "end_time": 188.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 180.83500061035156, "cut_end_time": 187.74000061035156, "narrative_prediction": {"spoke": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "italic": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 8}, "impressiveness": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 7}}}, {"text": "\u201cGreat burning!", "start_byte": 59989, "end_byte": 60004, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 199.52000427246094, "end_time": 200.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 199.87500427246093, "cut_end_time": 200.82006677246093, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat on earth are you getting at now? It is madness. Do you mean to tell me that you think there is some connection between a swarm or two of bees that have turned nasty, a cross dog, and a wicked old barn-door cock and these poor people that have been pitched over the cliffs and hammered to death on the road? There\u2019s no sense in it, you know.\u201d", "start_byte": 60020, "end_byte": 60367, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 201.83999633789062, "end_time": 227.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 202.1049963378906, "cut_end_time": 226.24012133789063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI am strongly inclined to believe that there is a great deal of sense in it,", "start_byte": 60369, "end_byte": 60446, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 227.72000122070312, "end_time": 232.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 228.6450012207031, "cut_end_time": 232.5500012207031, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "calmness": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cLook here, Lewis, I saw you grinning the other day at the club when I was telling the fellows that in my opinion all these outrages had been committed, certainly by the Germans, but by some method of which we have no conception. But what I meant to say when I talked about inconceivables was just this: that the Williams\u2019s and the rest of them have been killed in some way that\u2019s not in theory at all, not in our theory, at all events, some way we\u2019ve not contemplated, not thought of for an instant. Do you see my point?\u201d", "start_byte": 60488, "end_byte": 61010, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 236.0399932861328, "end_time": 274.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 236.22499328613281, "cut_end_time": 273.0901182861328, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, in a sort of way. You mean there\u2019s an absolute originality in the method? I suppose that is so. But what next?\u201d", "start_byte": 61012, "end_byte": 61130, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 274.6000061035156, "end_time": 284.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 275.1650061035156, "cut_end_time": 282.8100686035157, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell,", "start_byte": 61311, "end_byte": 61317, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 298.1600036621094, "end_time": 299.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 298.7350036621094, "cut_end_time": 299.2500661621094, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cyou will allow that we have two sets of phenomena of a very extraordinary kind occurring at the same time. Don\u2019t you think that it\u2019s only reasonable to connect the two sets with one another.\u201d", "start_byte": 61328, "end_byte": 61520, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 300.6400146484375, "end_time": 314.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 301.15501464843754, "cut_end_time": 313.5100771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSo the philosopher of Tenterden steeple and the Goodwin Sands thought, certainly,", "start_byte": 61522, "end_byte": 61604, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 314.1600036621094, "end_time": 320.0, "cut_start_time": 314.5550036621094, "cut_end_time": 319.9400036621094, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut what is the connection? Those poor folks on the Highway weren\u2019t stung by bees or worried by a dog. And horses don\u2019t throw people over cliffs or stifle them in marshes.\u201d", "start_byte": 61618, "end_byte": 61791, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 321.1199951171875, "end_time": 335.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 321.5949951171875, "cut_end_time": 334.5001201171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo; I never meant to suggest anything so absurd. It is evident to me that in all these cases of animals turning suddenly savage the cause has been terror, panic, fear. The horses that went charging into the camp were mad with fright, we know. And I say that in the other instances we have been discussing the cause was the same. The creatures were exposed to an infection of fear, and a frightened beast or bird or insect uses its weapons, whatever they may be. If, for example, there had been anybody with those horses when they took their panic they would have lashed out at him with their heels.\u201d", "start_byte": 61793, "end_byte": 62393, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 335.20001220703125, "end_time": 380.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 335.5450122070313, "cut_end_time": 379.07007470703127, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, I dare say that that is so. Well.\u201d", "start_byte": 62395, "end_byte": 62435, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 380.20001220703125, "end_time": 385.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 380.7250122070313, "cut_end_time": 385.8600747070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell; my belief is that the Germans have made an extraordinary discovery. I have called it the Z Ray. You know that the ether is merely an hypothesis; we have to suppose that it\u2019s there to account for the passage of the Marconi current from one place to another. Now, suppose that there is a psychic ether as well as a material ether, suppose that it is possible to direct irresistible impulses across this medium, suppose that these impulses are towards murder or suicide; then I think that you have an explanation of the terrible series of events that have been happening in Meirion for the last few weeks. And it is quite clear to my mind that the horses and the other creatures have been exposed to this Z Ray, and that it has produced on them the effect of terror, with ferocity as the result of terror. Now what do you say to that? Telepathy, you know, is well established; so is hypnotic suggestion. You have only to look in the \u2018Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica\u2019 to see that, and suggestion is so strong in some cases as to be an irresistible imperative. Now don\u2019t you feel that putting telepathy and suggestion together, as it were, you have more than the elements of what I call the Z Ray? I feel myself that I have more to go on in making my hypothesis than the inventor of the steam engine had in making his hypothesis when he saw the lid of the kettle bobbing up and down. What do you say?\u201d", "start_byte": 62437, "end_byte": 63832, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 385.760009765625, "end_time": 485.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 385.825009765625, "cut_end_time": 484.670009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI remember thinking to myself: \u2018Look here, I am not delirious; my temperature is perfectly normal. I am not drunk; I only had a pint of Graves with my dinner, over three hours ago. I have not eaten any poisonous fungus; I have not taken Anhelonium Lewinii experimentally. So, now then! What is happening?\u2019\u201d", "start_byte": 68418, "end_byte": 68725, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 829.6400146484375, "end_time": 855.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 830.0250146484375, "cut_end_time": 853.7300146484375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou know,", "start_byte": 69669, "end_byte": 69679, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 925.4400024414062, "end_time": 926.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 926.2850024414063, "cut_end_time": 926.8200024414062, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": " said Mr. Remnant. He spoke now with an italic impressiveness.", "start_byte": 59653, "end_byte": 59715, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 175.32000732421875, "end_time": 180.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 175.29500732421874, "cut_end_time": 179.74006982421875}, {"text": "Lewis stared at Remnant in amazement. He lifted his red eyebrows and lowered them in a kind of scowl. His speech showed traces of his native accent.", "start_byte": 59839, "end_byte": 59987, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 188.55999755859375, "end_time": 199.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 188.78499755859374, "cut_end_time": 198.28012255859375}, {"text": " he exclaimed.", "start_byte": 60005, "end_byte": 60019, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 200.72000122070312, "end_time": 201.83999633789062, "cut_start_time": 200.69500122070312, "cut_end_time": 201.6100012207031}, {"text": " replied Remnant, with extreme calmness.", "start_byte": 60447, "end_byte": 60487, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 232.67999267578125, "end_time": 236.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 232.66499267578124, "cut_end_time": 235.38005517578125}, {"text": "Remnant seemed to hesitate, partly from a sense of the portentous nature of what he was about to say, partly from a sort of half-unwillingness to part with so profound a secret.", "start_byte": 61132, "end_byte": 61309, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 284.0400085449219, "end_time": 298.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 284.3150085449219, "cut_end_time": 296.5500710449219}, {"text": " he said,", "start_byte": 61318, "end_byte": 61327, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 299.1600036621094, "end_time": 300.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 299.3850036621094, "cut_end_time": 300.0400661621094}, {"text": " said Lewis.", "start_byte": 61605, "end_byte": 61617, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 320.0, "end_time": 321.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 320.115, "cut_end_time": 321.20000000000005}, {"text": "Dr. Lewis made no answer. He was watching the growth of a new, unknown tree in his garden.", "start_byte": 63834, "end_byte": 63924, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 485.9599914550781, "end_time": 493.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 486.62499145507815, "cut_end_time": 492.71011645507815}, {"text": "The doctor made no answer to Remnant\u2019s question. For one thing, Remnant was profuse in his eloquence \u2014 he has been rigidly condensed in this history \u2014 and Lewis was tired of the sound of his voice. For another thing, he found the Z Ray theory almost too extravagant to be bearable, wild enough to tear patience to tatters. And then as the tedious argument continued Lewis became conscious that there was something strange about the night.", "start_byte": 63926, "end_byte": 64364, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 493.44000244140625, "end_time": 525.0, "cut_start_time": 494.2650024414063, "cut_end_time": 524.7500024414063}, {"text": "It was a dark summer night. The moon was old and faint, above the Dragon\u2019s Head across the bay, and the air was very still. It was so still that Lewis had noted that not a leaf stirred on the very tip of a high tree that stood out against the sky; and yet he knew that he was listening to some sound that he could not determine or define. It was not the wind in the leaves, it was not the gentle wash of the water of the sea against the rocks; that latter sound he could distinguish quite easily. But there was something else. It was scarcely a sound; it was as if the air itself trembled and fluttered, as the air trembles in a church when they open the great pedal pipes of the organ.", "start_byte": 64366, "end_byte": 65052, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 525.0, "end_time": 574.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 525.835, "cut_end_time": 573.32}, {"text": "The doctor listened intently. It was not an illusion, the sound was not in his own head, as he had suspected for a moment; but for the life of him he could not make out whence it came or what it was. He gazed down into the night over the terraces of his garden, now sweet with the scent of the flowers of the night; tried to peer over the tree-tops across the sea towards the Dragon\u2019s Head. It struck him suddenly that this strange fluttering vibration of the air might be the noise of a distant aeroplane or airship; there was not the usual droning hum, but this sound might be caused by a new type of engine. A new type of engine? Possibly it was an enemy airship; their range, it had been said, was getting longer; and Lewis was just going to call Remnant\u2019s attention to the sound, to its possible cause, and to the possible danger that might be hovering over them, when he saw something that caught his breath and his heart with wild amazement and a touch of terror.", "start_byte": 65054, "end_byte": 66024, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 574.6799926757812, "end_time": 647.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 575.9549926757812, "cut_end_time": 645.8401176757812}, {"text": "He had been staring upward into the sky, and, about to speak to Remnant, he had let his eyes drop for an instant. He looked down towards the trees in the garden, and saw with utter astonishment that one had changed its shape in the few hours that had passed since the setting of the sun. There was a thick grove of ilexes bordering the lowest terrace, and above them rose one tall pine, spreading its head of sparse, dark branches dark against the sky.", "start_byte": 66026, "end_byte": 66478, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 647.280029296875, "end_time": 680.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 648.145029296875, "cut_end_time": 679.820029296875}, {"text": "As Lewis glanced down over the terraces he saw that the tall pine tree was no longer there. In its place there rose above the ilexes what might have been a greater ilex; there was the blackness of a dense growth of foliage rising like a broad and far-spreading and rounded cloud over the lesser trees.", "start_byte": 66480, "end_byte": 66781, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 680.5999755859375, "end_time": 705.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 681.1249755859375, "cut_end_time": 704.4201005859376}, {"text": "Here, then was a sight wholly incredible, impossible. It is doubtful whether the process of the human mind in such a case has ever been analyzed and registered; it is doubtful whether it ever can be registered. It is hardly fair to bring in the mathematician, since he deals with absolute truth (so far as mortality can conceive absolute truth); but how would a mathematician feel if he were suddenly confronted with a two-sided triangle? I suppose he would instantly become a raging madman; and Lewis, staring wide-eyed and wild-eyed at a dark and spreading tree which his own experience informed him was not there, felt for an instant that shock which should affront us all when we first realize the intolerable antinomy of Achilles and the Tortoise. Common sense tells us that Achilles will flash past the tortoise almost with the speed of the lightning; the inflexible truth of mathematics assures us that till the earth boils and the heavens cease to endure the Tortoise must still be in advance; and thereupon we should, in common decency, go mad. We do not go mad, because, by special grace, we are certified that, in the final court of appeal, all science is a lie, even the highest science of all; and so we simply grin at Achilles and the Tortoise, as we grin at Darwin, deride Huxley, and laugh at Herbert Spencer.", "start_byte": 66783, "end_byte": 68108, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 705.4000244140625, "end_time": 806.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 706.0250244140625, "cut_end_time": 805.9700244140626}, {"text": "Dr. Lewis did not grin. He glared into the dimness of the night, at the great spreading tree that he knew could not be there. And as he gazed he saw that what at first appeared the dense blackness of foliage was fretted and starred with wonderful appearances of lights and colors.", "start_byte": 68110, "end_byte": 68390, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 806.9199829101562, "end_time": 827.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 807.6049829101563, "cut_end_time": 826.6900454101562}, {"text": "Afterwards he said to me:", "start_byte": 68392, "end_byte": 68417, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 827.47998046875, "end_time": 829.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 827.98498046875, "cut_end_time": 829.6901054687501}, {"text": "The night had gloomed over; clouds obscured the faint moon and the misty stars. Lewis rose, with some kind of warning and inhibiting gesture to Remnant, who, he was conscious was gaping at him in astonishment. He walked to the open French window, and took a pace forward on to the path outside, and looked, very intently, at the dark shape of the tree, down below the sloping garden, above the washing of the waves. He shaded the light of the lamp behind him by holding his hands on each side of his eyes.", "start_byte": 68727, "end_byte": 69232, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 855.239990234375, "end_time": 893.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 856.1549902343751, "cut_end_time": 892.6901152343751}, {"text": "The mass of the tree \u2014 the tree that couldn\u2019t be there \u2014 stood out against the sky, but not so clearly, now that the clouds had rolled up. Its edges, the limits of its leafage, were not so distinct. Lewis thought that he could detect some sort of quivering movement in it; though the air was at a dead calm. It was a night on which one might hold up a lighted match and watch it burn without any wavering or inclination of the flame.", "start_byte": 69234, "end_byte": 69667, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 893.4400024414062, "end_time": 925.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 893.9450024414062, "cut_end_time": 923.2900649414063}]}

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As to the Highway case, you remember that Thomas Evans said that he stopped and talked to Williams on the night of the murder. In my opinion Evans was the murderer. He came under the influence of the Ray, became a homicidal maniac in an instant, snatched Williams\u2019s spade from his hand and killed him and the others.\u201d", "start_byte": 71951, "end_byte": 72678, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 123.44000244140625, "end_time": 174.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 123.75500244140625, "cut_end_time": 173.66006494140623, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe bodies were found by me on the road.\u201d", "start_byte": 72680, "end_byte": 72722, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 174.72000122070312, "end_time": 179.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 175.2350012207031, "cut_end_time": 177.97000122070312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is possible that the first impact of the Ray produces violent nervous excitement, which would manifest itself externally. Williams might have called to his wife to come and see what was the matter with Evans. The children would naturally follow their mother. It seems to me simple. And as for the animals \u2014 the horses, dogs, and so forth, they as I say, were no doubt panic stricken by the Ray, and hence driven to frenzy.\u201d", "start_byte": 72724, "end_byte": 73151, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 179.0399932861328, "end_time": 208.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 179.7349932861328, "cut_end_time": 208.05005578613282, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy should Evans have murdered Williams instead of Williams murdering Evans? Why should the impact of the Ray affect one and not the other?\u201d", "start_byte": 73153, "end_byte": 73294, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 208.75999450683594, "end_time": 220.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 209.09499450683595, "cut_end_time": 218.71011950683592, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy does one man react violently to a certain drug, while it makes no impression on another man? Why is A able to drink a bottle of whisky and remain sober, while B is turned into something very like a lunatic after he has drunk three glasses?\u201d", "start_byte": 73296, "end_byte": 73541, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 220.16000366210938, "end_time": 235.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 221.06500366210938, "cut_end_time": 235.58006616210938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is a question of idiosyncrasy,", "start_byte": 73543, "end_byte": 73577, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 235.8000030517578, "end_time": 238.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 236.3750030517578, "cut_end_time": 238.3800030517578, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIs idiosyncrasy Greek for \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2019?", "start_byte": 73597, "end_byte": 73639, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 239.9199981689453, "end_time": 243.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 240.38499816894532, "cut_end_time": 243.4700606689453, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNot at all,", "start_byte": 73657, "end_byte": 73669, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 245.0800018310547, "end_time": 246.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 245.4850018310547, "cut_end_time": 246.26006433105468, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI mean that in some diatheses whisky \u2014 as you have mentioned whisky \u2014 appears not to be pathogenic, or at all events not immediately pathogenic. In other cases, as you very justly observed, there seems to be a very marked cachexia associated with the exhibition of the spirit in question, even in comparatively small doses.\u201d", "start_byte": 73700, "end_byte": 74025, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 248.63999938964844, "end_time": 273.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 249.07499938964844, "cut_end_time": 272.9300618896484, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, is that so? Oh, really. I see,", "start_byte": 74702, "end_byte": 74737, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 321.239990234375, "end_time": 327.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 321.654990234375, "cut_end_time": 326.41011523437504, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cjumpy", "start_byte": 76382, "end_byte": 76388, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 441.6000061035156, "end_time": 442.0, "cut_start_time": 441.64500610351564, "cut_end_time": 442.1000061035156, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell,", "start_byte": 76468, "end_byte": 76474, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 448.6400146484375, "end_time": 449.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 449.1950146484375, "cut_end_time": 449.46001464843755, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI am glad to see you here again. Porth always suits you. I don\u2019t think you\u2019re looking quite up to your usual form. But three weeks of Meirion air will do wonders.\u201d", "start_byte": 76537, "end_byte": 76701, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 453.1600036621094, "end_time": 464.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 453.5350036621094, "cut_end_time": 463.9000036621094, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, I hope it will,", "start_byte": 76703, "end_byte": 76725, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 464.3599853515625, "end_time": 465.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 464.76498535156253, "cut_end_time": 465.77004785156254, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI am not up to the mark. Things are not going well at Midlingham.\u201d", "start_byte": 76743, "end_byte": 76810, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 466.4800109863281, "end_time": 471.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 466.81501098632816, "cut_end_time": 470.79007348632814, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBusiness is all right, isn\u2019t it?\u201d", "start_byte": 76812, "end_byte": 76846, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 471.44000244140625, "end_time": 474.0, "cut_start_time": 471.9150024414063, "cut_end_time": 473.4100024414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes. Business is all right. But there are other things that are all wrong. We are living under a reign of terror. It comes to that.\u201d", "start_byte": 76848, "end_byte": 76981, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 474.0, "end_time": 483.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 474.615, "cut_end_time": 482.2700625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat on earth do you mean?\u201d", "start_byte": 76983, "end_byte": 77011, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 483.0400085449219, "end_time": 486.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 483.8050085449219, "cut_end_time": 485.9300085449219, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, I suppose I may tell you what I know. It\u2019s not much. I didn\u2019t dare write it. But do you know that at every one of the munition works in Midlingham and all about it there\u2019s a guard of soldiers with drawn bayonets and loaded rifles day and night? Men with bombs, too. And machine-guns at the big factories.\u201d", "start_byte": 77013, "end_byte": 77325, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 486.3599853515625, "end_time": 509.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 486.8549853515625, "cut_end_time": 508.6700478515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cGerman spies?\u201d", "start_byte": 77327, "end_byte": 77342, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 509.3599853515625, "end_time": 511.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 509.6149853515625, "cut_end_time": 510.90011035156255, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou don\u2019t want Lewis guns to fight spies with. Nor bombs. Nor a platoon of men. I woke up last night. It was the machine-gun at Benington\u2019s Army Motor Works. Firing like fury. And then bang! bang! bang! That was the hand bombs.\u201d", "start_byte": 77344, "end_byte": 77573, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 511.4800109863281, "end_time": 530.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 512.1250109863281, "cut_end_time": 529.4000109863282, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut what against?\u201d", "start_byte": 77575, "end_byte": 77594, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 530.1599731445312, "end_time": 532.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 530.9649731445313, "cut_end_time": 531.9800981445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNobody knows.\u201d", "start_byte": 77596, "end_byte": 77611, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 532.2000122070312, "end_time": 534.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 532.8050122070313, "cut_end_time": 534.0300122070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNobody knows what is happening,", "start_byte": 77613, "end_byte": 77645, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 534.5599975585938, "end_time": 536.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 535.3949975585938, "cut_end_time": 536.8101225585938, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cA young fellow I know,", "start_byte": 77900, "end_byte": 77923, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 555.6400146484375, "end_time": 557.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 556.2050146484376, "cut_end_time": 557.4100146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cwas on short leave the other day from the front, and he spent it with his people at Belmont \u2014 that\u2019s about four miles out of Midlingham, you know. \u2018Thank God,\u2019 he said to me, \u2018I am going back to-morrow. It\u2019s no good saying that the Wipers salient is nice, because it isn\u2019t. But it\u2019s a damned sight better than this. At the front you know what you\u2019re up against anyhow.\u2019 At Midlingham everybody has the feeling that we\u2019re up against something awful and we don\u2019t know what; it\u2019s that that makes people inclined to whisper. There\u2019s terror in the air.\u201d", "start_byte": 77934, "end_byte": 78483, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 557.9199829101562, "end_time": 597.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 558.0149829101563, "cut_end_time": 595.9601079101562, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cPeople are afraid to go about alone at nights in the outskirts. They make up parties at the stations to go home together if it\u2019s anything like dark, or if there are any lonely bits on their way.\u201d", "start_byte": 78578, "end_byte": 78774, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 605.2000122070312, "end_time": 618.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 605.7750122070313, "cut_end_time": 618.1100122070312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut why? I don\u2019t understand. What are they afraid of?\u201d", "start_byte": 78776, "end_byte": 78831, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 618.9199829101562, "end_time": 623.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 619.5649829101562, "cut_end_time": 622.6101079101562, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, I told you about my being awakened up the other night with the machine-guns at the motor works rattling away, and the bombs exploding and making the most terrible noise. That sort of thing alarms one, you know. It\u2019s only natural.\u201d", "start_byte": 78833, "end_byte": 79070, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 623.760009765625, "end_time": 639.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 624.355009765625, "cut_end_time": 638.970009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIndeed, it must be very terrifying. You mean, then, there is a general nervousness about, a vague sort of apprehension that makes people inclined to herd together?\u201d", "start_byte": 79072, "end_byte": 79237, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 639.6799926757812, "end_time": 651.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 640.3849926757813, "cut_end_time": 649.9000551757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThere\u2019s that, and there\u2019s more. People have gone out that have never come back. There were a couple of men in the train to Holme, arguing about the quickest way to get to Northend, a sort of outlying part of Holme where they both lived. They argued all the way out of Midlingham, one saying that the high road was the quickest though it was the longest way. \u2018It\u2019s the quickest going because it\u2019s the cleanest going,\u2019 he said.\u201d", "start_byte": 79239, "end_byte": 79666, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 651.239990234375, "end_time": 679.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 651.6549902343751, "cut_end_time": 678.700052734375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat happened to him?\u201d", "start_byte": 80333, "end_byte": 80356, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 723.280029296875, "end_time": 726.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 723.915029296875, "cut_end_time": 724.910091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHe was found lying on his back in the middle of a field \u2014 some way from the path. He was dead. The doctors said he\u2019d been suffocated. Nobody knows how. Then there have been other cases. We whisper about them at Midlingham, but we\u2019re afraid to speak out.\u201d", "start_byte": 80358, "end_byte": 80613, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 726.3200073242188, "end_time": 746.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 726.8850073242188, "cut_end_time": 745.9200698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "CHAPTER VI. Mr. Remnant\u2019s Z Ray", "start_byte": 70555, "end_byte": 70586, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 21.440000534057617, "end_time": 28.639999389648438, "cut_start_time": 21.635000534057617, "cut_end_time": 26.330000534057618}, {"text": "Dr. Lewis was kept some time at the Garth. It was past twelve when he got back to his house.", "start_byte": 70588, "end_byte": 70680, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 28.639999389648438, "end_time": 35.119998931884766, "cut_start_time": 29.28499938964844, "cut_end_time": 34.94006188964844}, {"text": "He went quickly to the room that overlooked the garden and the sea and threw open the French window and peered into the darkness. There, dim indeed against the dim sky but unmistakable, was the tall pine with its sparse branches, high above the dense growth of the ilex trees. The strange boughs which had amazed him had vanished; there was no appearance now of colors or of fires.", "start_byte": 70682, "end_byte": 71063, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 35.119998931884766, "end_time": 63.20000076293945, "cut_start_time": 35.43499893188477, "cut_end_time": 62.040123931884764}, {"text": "He drew his chair up to the open window and sat there gazing and wondering far into the night, till brightness came upon the sea and sky, and the forms of the trees in the garden grew clear and evident. He went up to his bed at last filled with a great perplexity, still asking questions to which there was no answer.", "start_byte": 71065, "end_byte": 71382, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 63.20000076293945, "end_time": 85.04000091552734, "cut_start_time": 64.08500076293946, "cut_end_time": 83.98006326293945}, {"text": "The doctor did not say anything about the strange tree to Remnant. When they next met, Lewis said that he had thought there was a man hiding amongst the bushes \u2014 this in explanation of that warning gesture he had used, and of his going out into the garden and staring into the night. He concealed the truth because he dreaded the Remnant doctrine that would undoubtedly be produced; indeed, he hoped that he had heard the last of the theory of the Z Ray. But Remnant firmly reopened this subject.", "start_byte": 71384, "end_byte": 71880, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 85.04000091552734, "end_time": 118.91999816894531, "cut_start_time": 86.03500091552733, "cut_end_time": 118.33000091552734}, {"text": " he said.", "start_byte": 71941, "end_byte": 71950, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 122.63999938964844, "end_time": 123.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 122.61499938964843, "cut_end_time": 123.49012438964843}, {"text": " said the doctor.", "start_byte": 73578, "end_byte": 73595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 238.27999877929688, "end_time": 239.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 238.25499877929687, "cut_end_time": 240.02006127929687}, {"text": " asked Remnant.", "start_byte": 73640, "end_byte": 73655, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 243.63999938964844, "end_time": 245.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 243.80499938964843, "cut_end_time": 244.66012438964844}, {"text": " said Lewis, smiling blandly.", "start_byte": 73670, "end_byte": 73699, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 246.16000366210938, "end_time": 248.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 246.13500366210937, "cut_end_time": 248.15000366210936}, {"text": "Under this cloud of professional verbiage Lewis escaped from the Club and from Remnant. He did not want to hear any more about that Dreadful Ray, because he felt sure that the Ray was all nonsense. But asking himself why he felt this certitude in the matter he had to confess that he didn\u2019t know. An aeroplane, he reflected, was all nonsense before it was made; and he remembered talking in the early nineties to a friend of his about the newly discovered X Rays. The friend laughed incredulously, evidently didn\u2019t believe a word of it, till Lewis told him that there was an article on the subject in the current number of the Saturday Review; whereupon the unbeliever said,", "start_byte": 74027, "end_byte": 74701, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 273.67999267578125, "end_time": 321.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 274.1349926757813, "cut_end_time": 320.94005517578125}, {"text": " and was converted on the X Ray faith on the spot. Lewis, remembering this talk, marveled at the strange processes of the human mind, its illogical and yet all-compelling ergos, and wondered whether he himself was only waiting for an article on the Z Ray in the Saturday Review to become a devout believer in the doctrine of Remnant.", "start_byte": 74738, "end_byte": 75071, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 327.0400085449219, "end_time": 352.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 327.7350085449219, "cut_end_time": 351.8000710449219}, {"text": "But he wondered with far more fervor as to the extraordinary thing he had seen in his own garden with his own eyes. The tree that changed all its shape for an hour or two of the night, the growth of strange boughs, the apparition of secret fires among them, the sparkling of emerald and ruby lights: how could one fail to be afraid with great amazement at the thought of such a mystery?", "start_byte": 75073, "end_byte": 75459, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 352.20001220703125, "end_time": 379.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 352.86501220703127, "cut_end_time": 378.4100122070313}, {"text": "Dr. Lewis\u2019s thoughts were distracted from the incredible adventure of the tree by the visit of his sister and her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt lived in a well-known manufacturing town of the Midlands, which was now, of course, a center of munition work. On the day of their arrival at Porth, Mrs. Merritt, who was tired after the long, hot journey, went to bed early, and Merritt and Lewis went into the room by the garden for their talk and tobacco. They spoke of the year that had passed since their last meeting, of the weary dragging of the war, of friends that had perished in it, of the hopelessness of an early ending of all this misery. Lewis said nothing of the terror that was on the land. One does not greet a tired man who is come to a quiet, sunny place for relief from black smoke and work and worry with a tale of horror. Indeed, the doctor saw that his brother-in-law looked far from well. And he seemed", "start_byte": 75461, "end_byte": 76381, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 379.2799987792969, "end_time": 441.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 379.8449987792969, "cut_end_time": 441.6801237792969}, {"text": "; there was an occasional twitch of his mouth that Lewis did not like at all.", "start_byte": 76389, "end_byte": 76466, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 442.5199890136719, "end_time": 448.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 442.8849890136719, "cut_end_time": 446.8801140136719}, {"text": " said the doctor, after an interval of silence and port wine,", "start_byte": 76475, "end_byte": 76536, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 449.3599853515625, "end_time": 453.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 449.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 452.98011035156253}, {"text": " said the other.", "start_byte": 76726, "end_byte": 76742, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 465.67999267578125, "end_time": 466.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 465.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 466.3601176757813}, {"text": " Merritt repeated, and he went on to describe the bewilderment and terror that hung like a cloud over the great industrial city in the Midlands, how the feeling of concealment, of some intolerable secret danger that must not be named, was worst of all.", "start_byte": 77646, "end_byte": 77898, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 536.8800048828125, "end_time": 555.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 536.9250048828126, "cut_end_time": 554.6500673828125}, {"text": " he said,", "start_byte": 77924, "end_byte": 77933, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 557.3599853515625, "end_time": 557.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 557.3449853515625, "cut_end_time": 557.9800478515625}, {"text": "Merritt made a sort of picture of the great town cowering in its fear of an unknown danger.", "start_byte": 78485, "end_byte": 78576, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 597.760009765625, "end_time": 605.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 598.035009765625, "cut_end_time": 604.780072265625}, {"text": "\u201cThe other chap fancied a short cut across the fields, by the canal. \u2018It\u2019s half the distance,\u2019 he kept on. \u2018Yes, if you don\u2019t lose your way,\u2019 said the other. Well, it appears they put an even half-crown on it, and each was to try his own way when they got out of the train. It was arranged that they were to meet at the \u2018Wagon\u2019 in Northend. \u2018I shall be at the \u201cWagon\u201d first,\u2019 said the man who believed in the short cut, and with that he climbed over the stile and made off across the fields. It wasn\u2019t late enough to be really dark, and a lot of them thought he might win the stakes. But he never turned up at the Wagon \u2014 or anywhere else for the matter of that.\u201d", "start_byte": 79668, "end_byte": 80331, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 679.7999877929688, "end_time": 723.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 679.9049877929688, "cut_end_time": 722.2901127929688}, {"text": "Lewis was ruminating all this profoundly. Terror in Meirion and terror far away in the heart of England; but at Midlingham, so far as he could gather from these stories of soldiers on guard, of crackling machine-guns, it was a case of an organized attack on the munitioning of the army. He felt that he did not know enough to warrant his deciding that the terror of Meirion and of Stratfordshire were one.", "start_byte": 80615, "end_byte": 81020, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 746.3200073242188, "end_time": 775.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 746.6850073242188, "cut_end_time": 774.6200073242188}, {"text": "Then Merritt began again:", "start_byte": 81022, "end_byte": 81047, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 775.1199951171875, "end_time": 777.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 775.4949951171875, "cut_end_time": 777.0901201171876}, {"text": "\u201cThere\u2019s a queer story going about, when the door\u2019s shut and the curtain\u2019s drawn, that is, as to a place right out in the country over the other side of Midlingham; on the opposite side to Dunwich. They\u2019ve built one of the new factories out there, a great red brick town of sheds they tell me it is, with a tremendous chimney. It\u2019s not been finished more than a month or six weeks. They plumped it down right in the middle of the fields, by the line, and they\u2019re building huts for the workers as fast as they can but up to the present the men are billeted all about, up and down the line.", "start_byte": 81049, "end_byte": 81637, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 777.4000244140625, "end_time": 815.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 777.7950244140625, "cut_end_time": 814.2900869140625}, {"text": "\u201cAbout two hundred yards from this place there\u2019s an old footpath, leading from the station and the main road up to a small hamlet on the hillside. Part of the way this path goes by a pretty large wood, most of it thick undergrowth. I should think there must be twenty acres of wood, more or less. As it happens, I used this path once long ago; and I can tell you it\u2019s a black place of nights.", "start_byte": 81639, "end_byte": 82031, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 815.4000244140625, "end_time": 843.0, "cut_start_time": 815.7950244140625, "cut_end_time": 840.7000244140626}]}

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We are certainly in the far West here; still, the Germans might slip round and raid us and do a lot of damage just because Meirion is the last place we should expect them to go for.\u201d", "start_byte": 98703, "end_byte": 98907, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 177.67999267578125, "end_time": 189.0, "cut_start_time": 177.65499267578124, "cut_end_time": 188.77005517578124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut there are no fortifications, surely, on the cliff?\u201d", "start_byte": 98909, "end_byte": 98965, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 189.0, "end_time": 192.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 189.525, "cut_end_time": 192.41006249999998, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, no; I never heard of anything of the kind there.\u201d", "start_byte": 98967, "end_byte": 99021, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 192.72000122070312, "end_time": 195.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 192.9850012207031, "cut_end_time": 195.1900637207031, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, what\u2019s the point of forbidding the public to go on the cliff, then? I can quite understand putting a sentry on the top to keep a look-out for the enemy. What I don\u2019t understand is a sentry at the bottom who can\u2019t keep a look-out for anything, as he can\u2019t see the sea. And why warn the public off the cliffs? I couldn\u2019t facilitate a German landing by standing on Pengareg, even if I wanted to.\u201d", "start_byte": 99023, "end_byte": 99423, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 195.44000244140625, "end_time": 215.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 195.80500244140623, "cut_end_time": 214.84006494140624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is curious,", "start_byte": 99425, "end_byte": 99440, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 215.16000366210938, "end_time": 216.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 215.47500366210937, "cut_end_time": 216.34006616210937, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cSome military reasons, I suppose.\u201d", "start_byte": 99461, "end_byte": 99496, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 217.16000366210938, "end_time": 219.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 217.27500366210936, "cut_end_time": 219.07006616210936, "narrative_prediction": {"agreed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cislands", "start_byte": 101858, "end_byte": 101866, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 339.67999267578125, "end_time": 340.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 339.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 340.2200551757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThey do say he was a visitor at Porth. Somehow he has been drowned in the marsh, whatever.\u201d", "start_byte": 102218, "end_byte": 102310, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 358.9599914550781, "end_time": 365.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 359.3949914550781, "cut_end_time": 364.20005395507815, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut it\u2019s perfectly safe. I\u2019ve been all over it a dozen times.\u201d", "start_byte": 102312, "end_byte": 102375, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 365.0799865722656, "end_time": 368.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 365.37498657226564, "cut_end_time": 368.4700490722656, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, indeed, we did always think so. If you did slip by accident, like, and fall into the water, it was not so deep; it was easy enough to climb out again. And this gentleman was quite young, to look at him, poor man; and he has come to Meirion for his pleasure and holiday and found his death in it!\u201d", "start_byte": 102377, "end_byte": 102680, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 368.55999755859375, "end_time": 384.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 368.80499755859375, "cut_end_time": 383.5501225585938, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cDid he do it on purpose? Is it suicide?\u201d", "start_byte": 102682, "end_byte": 102723, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 384.1600036621094, "end_time": 387.0, "cut_start_time": 384.4850036621094, "cut_end_time": 386.8800036621094, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThey say he had no reasons to do that.\u201d", "start_byte": 102725, "end_byte": 102765, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 387.0, "end_time": 389.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 387.305, "cut_end_time": 389.05, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cA terrible thing, sir, to be sure, and a sad pity; and I am sure this is not the sort of sight you have come to see down in Meirion this beautiful summer. So don\u2019t you think, sir, that it would be more pleasant like, if you would leave us to this sad business of ours? I have heard many gentlemen staying in Porth say that there is nothing to beat the view from the hill over there, not in the whole of Wales.\u201d", "start_byte": 102889, "end_byte": 103300, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 395.0799865722656, "end_time": 414.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 395.17498657226565, "cut_end_time": 414.53011157226564, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cmove on.\u201d", "start_byte": 103401, "end_byte": 103411, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 420.0799865722656, "end_time": 421.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 420.0849865722656, "cut_end_time": 420.83011157226565, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201chope you are enjoying yourself, sir; indeed you do look a lot better already", "start_byte": 104036, "end_byte": 104113, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 450.6000061035156, "end_time": 454.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 450.96500610351563, "cut_end_time": 454.57006860351567, "narrative_prediction": {"politeness": {"id": "0", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cC.W.", "start_byte": 104422, "end_byte": 104427, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 469.9200134277344, "end_time": 470.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 469.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 470.2600759277344, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIndeed, sir,", "start_byte": 104758, "end_byte": 104771, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 488.1199951171875, "end_time": 489.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 488.4049951171875, "cut_end_time": 489.22005761718754, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cit is part of my orders not to set foot on the other side of that gate myself, not for one scrag-end of a minute.\u201d", "start_byte": 104783, "end_byte": 104898, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 489.760009765625, "end_time": 496.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 489.935009765625, "cut_end_time": 495.440009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "So things went on very well. Merritt began to stroll about the garden, which was full of the comfortable spaces, groves, and surprises that only country gardens know. To the right of one of the terraces he found an arbor or summer-house covered with white roses, and he was as pleased as if he had discovered the Pole. He spent a whole day there, smoking and lounging and reading a rubbishy sensational story, and declared that the Devonshire roses had taken many years off his age. Then on the other side of the garden there was a filbert grove that he had never explored on any of his former visits; and again there was a find. Deep in the shadow of the filberts was a bubbling well, issuing from rocks, and all manner of green, dewy ferns growing about it and above it, and an angelica springing beside it. Merritt knelt on his knees, and hollowed his hand and drank the well water. He said (over his port) that night that if all water were like the water of the filbert well the world would turn to teetotalism. It takes a townsman to relish the manifold and exquisite joys of the country.", "start_byte": 96830, "end_byte": 97923, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 80.5199966430664, "end_time": 138.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 80.7549966430664, "cut_end_time": 138.2501216430664}, {"text": "It was not till he began to venture abroad that Merritt found that something was lacking of the old rich peace that used to dwell in Meirion. He had a favorite walk which he never neglected, year after year. This walk led along the cliffs towards Meiros, and then one could turn inland and return to Porth by deep winding lanes that went over the Allt. So Merritt set out early one morning and got as far as a sentry-box at the foot of the path that led up to the cliff. There was a sentry pacing up and down in front of the box, and he called on Merritt to produce his pass, or to turn back to the main road. Merritt was a good deal put out, and asked the doctor about this strict guard. And the doctor was surprised.", "start_byte": 97925, "end_byte": 98643, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 138.44000244140625, "end_time": 174.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 138.71500244140626, "cut_end_time": 174.47000244140625}, {"text": " he said.", "start_byte": 98693, "end_byte": 98702, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 177.16000366210938, "end_time": 177.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 177.13500366210937, "cut_end_time": 177.78000366210938}, {"text": " the doctor agreed.", "start_byte": 99441, "end_byte": 99460, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 216.24000549316406, "end_time": 217.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 216.21500549316406, "cut_end_time": 217.25006799316407}, {"text": "He let the matter drop, perhaps because the matter did not affect him. People who live in the country all the year round, country doctors certainly, are little given to desultory walking in search of the picturesque.", "start_byte": 99498, "end_byte": 99714, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 219.36000061035156, "end_time": 231.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 219.68500061035155, "cut_end_time": 230.89006311035155}, {"text": "Lewis had no suspicion that sentries whose object was equally obscure were being dotted all over the country. There was a sentry, for example, by the quarry at Llanfihangel, where the dead woman and the dead sheep had been found some weeks before. The path by the quarry was used a good deal, and its closing would have inconvenienced the people of the neighborhood very considerably. But the sentry had his box by the side of the track and had his orders to keep everybody strictly to the path, as if the quarry were a secret fort.", "start_byte": 99716, "end_byte": 100248, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 231.36000061035156, "end_time": 257.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 231.60500061035157, "cut_end_time": 257.12000061035155}, {"text": "It was not known till a month or two ago that one of these sentries was himself a victim of the terror. The men on duty at this place were given certain very strict orders, which from the nature of the case, must have seemed to them unreasonable. For old soldiers, orders are orders; but here was a young bank clerk, scarcely in training for a couple of months, who had not begun to appreciate the necessity of hard, literal obedience to an order which seemed to him meaningless. He found himself on a remote and lonely hillside, he had not the faintest notion that his every movement was watched; and he disobeyed a certain instruction that had been given him. The post was found deserted by the relief; the sentry\u2019s dead body was found at the bottom of the quarry.", "start_byte": 100250, "end_byte": 101016, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 257.3999938964844, "end_time": 296.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 257.6949938964844, "cut_end_time": 296.5000563964844}, {"text": "This by the way; but Mr. Merritt discovered again and again that things happened to hamper his walks and his wanderings. Two or three miles from Porth there is a great marsh made by the Afon river before it falls into the sea, and here Merritt had been accustomed to botanize mildly. He had learned pretty accurately the causeways of solid ground that lead through the sea of swamp and ooze and soft yielding soil, and he set out one hot afternoon determined to make a thorough exploration of the marsh, and this time to find that rare Bog Bean, that he felt sure, must grow somewhere in its wide extent.", "start_byte": 101018, "end_byte": 101622, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 296.79998779296875, "end_time": 327.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 297.1249877929688, "cut_end_time": 327.50005029296875}, {"text": "He got into the by-road that skirts the marsh, and to the gate which he had always used for entrance.", "start_byte": 101624, "end_byte": 101725, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 327.67999267578125, "end_time": 332.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 328.05499267578125, "cut_end_time": 332.31005517578126}, {"text": "There was the scene as he had known it always, the rich growth of reeds and flags and rushes, the mild black cattle grazing on the", "start_byte": 101727, "end_byte": 101857, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 332.55999755859375, "end_time": 339.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 332.79499755859376, "cut_end_time": 339.7800600585938}, {"text": " of firm turf, the scented procession of the meadowsweet, the royal glory of the loosestrife, flaming pennons, crimson and golden, of the giant dock.", "start_byte": 101867, "end_byte": 102016, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 340.1199951171875, "end_time": 348.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 340.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 348.54012011718754}, {"text": "But they were bringing out a dead man\u2019s body through the gate.", "start_byte": 102018, "end_byte": 102080, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 348.7200012207031, "end_time": 351.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 348.79500122070317, "cut_end_time": 351.41006372070314}, {"text": "A laboring man was holding open the gate on the marsh. Merritt, horrified, spoke to him and asked who it was, and how it had happened.", "start_byte": 102082, "end_byte": 102216, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 351.6000061035156, "end_time": 358.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 351.77500610351564, "cut_end_time": 358.49000610351567}, {"text": "Here the sergeant of police in charge of the party interposed, according to orders, which he himself did not understand.", "start_byte": 102767, "end_byte": 102887, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 389.3599853515625, "end_time": 395.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 389.6749853515625, "cut_end_time": 395.0000478515625}, {"text": "Every one is polite in Meirion, but somehow Merritt understood that, in English, this speech meant", "start_byte": 103302, "end_byte": 103400, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 414.8800048828125, "end_time": 420.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 415.1150048828125, "cut_end_time": 419.9900048828125}, {"text": "Merritt moved back to Porth \u2014 he was not in the humor for any idle, pleasurable strolling after so dreadful a meeting with death. He made some inquiries in the town about the dead man, but nothing seemed known of him. It was said that he had been on his honeymoon, that he had been staying at the Porth Castle Hotel; but the people of the hotel declared that they had never heard of such a person. Merritt got the local paper at the end of the week; there was not a word in it of any fatal accident in the marsh. He met the sergeant of police in the street. That officer touched his helmet with the utmost politeness and a", "start_byte": 103413, "end_byte": 104035, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 421.44000244140625, "end_time": 450.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 421.68500244140625, "cut_end_time": 450.50006494140627}, {"text": "; but as to the poor man who was found drowned or stifled in the marsh, he knew nothing.", "start_byte": 104114, "end_byte": 104202, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 455.0, "end_time": 459.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 455.46500000000003, "cut_end_time": 459.33000000000004}, {"text": "The next day Merritt made up his mind to go to the marsh to see whether he could find anything to account for so strange a death. What he found was a man with an armlet standing by the gate. The armlet had the letters", "start_byte": 104204, "end_byte": 104421, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 459.5199890136719, "end_time": 469.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 459.9449890136719, "cut_end_time": 470.0201140136719}, {"text": " on it, which are understood to mean Coast Watcher. The Watcher said he had strict instructions to keep everybody away from the marsh. Why? He didn\u2019t know, but some said that the river was changing its course since the new railway embankment was built, and the marsh had become dangerous to people who didn\u2019t know it thoroughly.", "start_byte": 104428, "end_byte": 104756, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 470.1600036621094, "end_time": 488.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 470.1350036621094, "cut_end_time": 487.6700036621094}, {"text": " he added,", "start_byte": 104772, "end_byte": 104782, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 489.1199951171875, "end_time": 489.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 489.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 489.8301201171875}, {"text": "Merritt glanced over the gate incredulously. The marsh looked as it had always looked; there was plenty of sound, hard ground to walk on; he could see the track that he used to follow as firm as ever. He did not believe in the story of the changing course of the river, and Lewis said he had never heard of anything of the kind. But Merritt had put the question in the middle of general conversation; he had not led up to it from any discussion of the death in the marsh, and so the doctor was taken unawares. If he had known of the connection in Merritt\u2019s mind between the alleged changing of the Afon\u2019s course and the tragical event in the marsh, no doubt he would have confirmed the official explanation. He was, above all things, anxious to prevent his sister and her husband from finding out that the invisible hand of terror that ruled at Midlingham was ruling also in Meirion.", "start_byte": 104900, "end_byte": 105783, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 496.3599853515625, "end_time": 541.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 496.62498535156254, "cut_end_time": 541.5001103515625}, {"text": "Lewis himself had little doubt that the man who was found dead in the marsh had been struck down by the secret agency, whatever it was, that had already accomplished so much of evil; but it was a chief part of the terror that no one knew for certain that this or that particular event was to be ascribed to it. People do occasionally fall over cliffs through their own carelessness, and as the case of Garcia, the Spanish sailor, showed, cottagers and their wives and children are now and then the victims of savage and purposeless violence. Lewis had never wandered about the marsh himself; but Remnant had pottered round it and about it, and declared that the man who met his death there \u2014 his name was never known, in Porth at all events \u2014 must either have committed suicide by deliberately lying prone in the ooze and stifling himself, or else must have been held down in it. There were no details available, so it was clear that the authorities had classified this death with the others; still, the man might have committed suicide, or he might have had a sudden seizure and fallen in the slimy water face-downwards. And so on: it was possible to believe that case A or B or C was in the category of ordinary accidents or ordinary crimes. But it was not possible to believe that A and B and C were all in that category. And thus it was to the end, and thus it is now. We know that the terror reigned, and how it reigned, but there were many dreadful events ascribed to its rule about which there must always be room for doubt.", "start_byte": 105785, "end_byte": 107316, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 541.8800048828125, "end_time": 620.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 542.1350048828125, "cut_end_time": 620.5300048828125}]}

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I want him to get built up thoroughly before he goes back to Midlingham.\u201d", "start_byte": 109320, "end_byte": 109436, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 86.16000366210938, "end_time": 91.68000030517578, "cut_start_time": 86.32500366210937, "cut_end_time": 91.35006616210937, "narrative_prediction": {"dreading": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cIf you hear a shot,", "start_byte": 114062, "end_byte": 114082, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 333.20001220703125, "end_time": 334.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 333.4850122070313, "cut_end_time": 334.45001220703125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cand you see a man fall, you know pretty well what killed him.\u201d", "start_byte": 114098, "end_byte": 114161, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 334.9200134277344, "end_time": 338.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 334.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 338.0900134277344, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cCan you tell me,", "start_byte": 114422, "end_byte": 114439, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 351.4800109863281, "end_time": 352.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 351.81501098632816, "cut_end_time": 352.74007348632813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cwhy moths rush into the flame?\u201d", "start_byte": 114485, "end_byte": 114517, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 354.6000061035156, "end_time": 356.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 354.7250061035156, "cut_end_time": 356.65000610351564, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "as": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, shut up!", "start_byte": 114787, "end_byte": 114800, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 369.5199890136719, "end_time": 370.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 369.7849890136719, "cut_end_time": 370.5601140136719, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cwhy", "start_byte": 117350, "end_byte": 117354, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 507.2799987792969, "end_time": 507.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 507.2549987792969, "cut_end_time": 507.7001237792969, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201chow", "start_byte": 117360, "end_byte": 117364, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 507.9200134277344, "end_time": 507.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 507.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 508.0200759277344, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou\u2019re wanted in the surgery, if you please, sir.", "start_byte": 118372, "end_byte": 118422, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 564.3200073242188, "end_time": 566.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 564.5150073242188, "cut_end_time": 566.6000698242187, "narrative_prediction": {"bustled": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cdoctor bach, doctor bach,", "start_byte": 118915, "end_byte": 118941, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 593.239990234375, "end_time": 595.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 593.224990234375, "cut_end_time": 595.000115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"crying": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cunless it was the People that had done it.", "start_byte": 119410, "end_byte": 119453, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 619.1199951171875, "end_time": 621.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 619.3949951171875, "cut_end_time": 621.1500576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"declared": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWas he with his brother and sister? Don\u2019t they know anything about it?\u201d", "start_byte": 119566, "end_byte": 119638, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 627.47998046875, "end_time": 631.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 627.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 630.8201054687501, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " not by any means up to the mark, and that it was therefore desirable that he should be spared the knowledge of the intolerable and tragic mysteries which were being enacted all about them.", "start_byte": 108709, "end_byte": 108898, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 54.31999969482422, "end_time": 64.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 54.49499969482422, "cut_end_time": 63.99006219482422}, {"text": " said Lewis,", "start_byte": 108961, "end_byte": 108973, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 67.55999755859375, "end_time": 68.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 67.72499755859374, "cut_end_time": 68.53006005859375}, {"text": " said Remnant.", "start_byte": 109152, "end_byte": 109166, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 77.36000061035156, "end_time": 77.95999908447266, "cut_start_time": 77.33500061035156, "cut_end_time": 78.06000061035155}, {"text": " said the doctor, dreading lest he might have to hear about the Z Ray all over again.", "start_byte": 109234, "end_byte": 109319, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 82.0, "end_time": 86.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 81.975, "cut_end_time": 86.26006249999999}, {"text": "Then, on the other hand, Merritt was as still as death about the doings of the Midlands; he hated to think of them, much more to speak of them; and thus, as I say, he and the men at the Porth Club kept their secrets from one another; and thus, from the beginning to the end of the terror, the links were not drawn together. In many cases, no doubt, A and B met every day and talked familiarly, it may be confidentially, on other matters of all sorts, each having in his possession half of the truth, which he concealed from the other. So the two halves were never put together to make a whole.", "start_byte": 109438, "end_byte": 110031, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 91.68000030517578, "end_time": 123.04000091552734, "cut_start_time": 92.00500030517577, "cut_end_time": 122.66006280517578}, {"text": "Merritt, as the doctor guessed, had a kind of uneasy feeling \u2014 it scarcely amounted to a suspicion \u2014 as to the business of the marsh; chiefly because he thought the official talk about the railway embankment and the course of the river rank nonsense. But finding that nothing more happened, he let the matter drop from his mind, and settled himself down to enjoy his holiday.", "start_byte": 110033, "end_byte": 110408, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 123.04000091552734, "end_time": 142.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 123.21500091552734, "cut_end_time": 142.02000091552733}, {"text": "He found to his delight that there were no sentries or watchers to hinder him from the approach to Larnac Bay, a delicious cove, a place where the ashgrove and the green meadow and the glistening bracken sloped gently down to red rocks and firm yellow sands. Merritt remembered a rock that formed a comfortable seat, and here he established himself of a golden afternoon, and gazed at the blue of the sea and the crimson bastions and bays of the coast as it bent inward to Sarnau and swept out again southward to the odd-shaped promontory called the Dragon\u2019s Head. Merritt gazed on, amused by the antics of the porpoises who were tumbling and splashing and gamboling a little way out at sea, charmed by the pure and radiant air that was so different from the oily smoke that often stood for heaven at Midlingham, and charmed, too, by the white farmhouses dotted here and there on the heights of the curving coast.", "start_byte": 110410, "end_byte": 111323, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 142.27999877929688, "end_time": 190.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 142.52499877929688, "cut_end_time": 190.20006127929688}, {"text": "Then he noticed a little row-boat at about two hundred yards from the shore. There were two or three people aboard, he could not quite make out how many, and they seemed to be doing something with a line; they were no doubt fishing, and Merritt (who disliked fish) wondered how people could spoil such an afternoon, such a sea, such pellucid and radiant air by trying to catch white, flabby, offensive, evil-smelling creatures that would be excessively nasty when cooked. He puzzled over this problem and turned away from it to the contemplation of the crimson headlands. And then he says that he noticed that signaling was going on. Flashing lights of intense brilliance, he declares, were coming from one of those farms on the heights of the coast; it was as if white fire was spouting from it. Merritt was certain, as the light appeared and disappeared, that some message was being sent, and he regretted that he knew nothing of heliography. Three short flashes, a long and very brilliant flash, then two short flashes. Merritt fumbled in his pocket for pencil and paper so that he might record these signals, and, bringing his eyes down to the sea level, he became aware, with amazement and horror, that the boat had disappeared. All that he could see was some vague, dark object far to westward, running out with the tide.", "start_byte": 111325, "end_byte": 112652, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 190.39999389648438, "end_time": 260.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 190.70499389648438, "cut_end_time": 260.57011889648436}, {"text": "Now it is certain, unfortunately, that the Mary Ann was capsized and that two schoolboys and the sailor in charge were drowned. The bones of the boat were found amongst the rocks far along the coast, and the three bodies were also washed ashore. The sailor could not swim at all, the boys only a little, and it needs an exceptionally fine swimmer to fight against the outward suck of the tide as it rushes past Pengareg Point.", "start_byte": 112654, "end_byte": 113080, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 260.8800048828125, "end_time": 282.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 261.21500488281254, "cut_end_time": 282.1700048828125}, {"text": "But I have no belief whatever in Merritt\u2019s theory. He held (and still holds, for all I know), that the flashes of light which he saw coming from Penyrhaul, the farmhouse on the height, had some connection with the disaster to the Mary Ann. When it was ascertained that a family were spending their summer at the farm, and that the governess was a German, though a long naturalized German, Merritt could not see that there was anything left to argue about, though there might be many details to discover. But, in my opinion, all this was a mere mare\u2019s nest; the flashes of brilliant light were caused, no doubt, by the sun lighting up one window of the farmhouse after the other.", "start_byte": 113082, "end_byte": 113760, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 282.67999267578125, "end_time": 318.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 283.3149926757813, "cut_end_time": 318.2100551757813}, {"text": "Still, Merritt was convinced from the very first, even before the damning circumstance of the German governess was brought to light; and on the evening of the disaster, as Lewis and he sat together after dinner, he was endeavoring to put what he called the common sense of the matter to the doctor.", "start_byte": 113762, "end_byte": 114060, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 318.5199890136719, "end_time": 333.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 318.7549890136719, "cut_end_time": 332.8301140136719}, {"text": " said Merritt,", "start_byte": 114083, "end_byte": 114097, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 334.3999938964844, "end_time": 334.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 334.3749938964844, "cut_end_time": 335.0201188964844}, {"text": "There was a flutter of wild wings in the room. A great moth beat to and fro and dashed itself madly against the ceiling, the walls, the glass bookcase. Then a sputtering sound, a momentary dimming of the lamp. The moth had succeeded in its mysterious quest.", "start_byte": 114163, "end_byte": 114420, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 338.239990234375, "end_time": 351.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 338.534990234375, "cut_end_time": 351.09011523437505}, {"text": " said Lewis as if he were answering Merritt,", "start_byte": 114440, "end_byte": 114484, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 352.6400146484375, "end_time": 354.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 352.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 354.5000771484375}, {"text": "Lewis had put his question as to the strange habits of the common moth to Merritt with the deliberate intent of closing the debate on death by heliograph. The query was suggested, of course, by the incident of the moth in the lamp, and Lewis thought that he had said,", "start_byte": 114519, "end_byte": 114786, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 356.9599914550781, "end_time": 369.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 357.17499145507816, "cut_end_time": 369.45005395507815}, {"text": " in a somewhat elegant manner. And, in fact Merritt looked dignified, remained silent, and helped himself to port.", "start_byte": 114801, "end_byte": 114915, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 370.4800109863281, "end_time": 376.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 370.45501098632815, "cut_end_time": 375.94001098632816}, {"text": "That was the end that the doctor had desired. He had no doubt in his own mind that the affair of the Mary Ann was but one more item in the long account of horrors that grew larger almost with every day; and he was in no humor to listen to wild and futile theories as to the manner in which the disaster had been accomplished. Here was a proof that the terror that was upon them was mighty not only on the land but on the waters; for Lewis could not see that the boat could have been attacked by any ordinary means of destruction. From Merritt\u2019s story, it must have been in shallow water. The shore of Larnac Bay shelves very gradually, and the Admiralty charts showed the depth of water two hundred yards out to be only two fathoms; this would be too shallow for a submarine. And it could not have been shelled, and it could not have been torpedoed; there was no explosion. The disaster might have been due to carelessness; boys, he considered, will play the fool anywhere, even in a boat; but he did not think so; the sailor would have stopped them. And, it may be mentioned, that the two boys were as a matter of fact extremely steady, sensible young fellows, not in the least likely to play foolish tricks of any kind.", "start_byte": 114917, "end_byte": 116138, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 376.2799987792969, "end_time": 442.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 376.6049987792969, "cut_end_time": 442.2301237792969}, {"text": "Lewis was immersed in these reflections, having successfully silenced his brother-in-law; he was trying in vain to find some clue to the horrible enigma. The Midlingham theory of a concealed German force, hiding in places under the earth, was extravagant enough, and yet it seemed the only solution that approached plausibility; but then again even a subterranean German host would hardly account for this wreckage of a boat, floating on a calm sea. And then what of the tree with the burning in it that had appeared in the garden there a few weeks ago, and the cloud with a burning in it that had shown over the trees of the Midland village?", "start_byte": 116140, "end_byte": 116782, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 442.44000244140625, "end_time": 475.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 442.7250024414063, "cut_end_time": 474.70006494140625}, {"text": "I think I have, already written something of the probable emotions of the mathematician confronted suddenly with an undoubted two-sided triangle. I said, if I remember, that he would be forced, in decency, to go mad; and I believe that Lewis was very near to this point. He felt himself confronted with an intolerable problem that most instantly demanded solution, and yet, with the same breath, as it were, denied the possibility of there being any solution. People were being killed in an inscrutable manner by some inscrutable means, day after day, and one asked", "start_byte": 116784, "end_byte": 117349, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 475.0400085449219, "end_time": 507.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 475.4550085449219, "cut_end_time": 507.3800085449219}, {"text": " and", "start_byte": 117355, "end_byte": 117359, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 507.6000061035156, "end_time": 507.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 507.57500610351565, "cut_end_time": 508.02006860351565}, {"text": "; and there seemed no answer. In the Midlands, where every kind of munitionment was manufactured, the explanation of German agency was plausible; and even if the subterranean notion was to be rejected as savoring altogether too much of the fairytale, or rather of the sensational romance, yet it was possible that the backbone of the theory was true; the Germans might have planted their agents in some way or another in the midst of our factories. But here in Meirion, what serious effect could be produced by the casual and indiscriminate slaughter of a couple of schoolboys in a boat, of a harmless holiday-maker in a marsh? The creation of an atmosphere of terror and dismay? It was possible, of course, but it hardly seemed tolerable, in spite of the enormities of Louvain and of the Lusitania.", "start_byte": 117365, "end_byte": 118164, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 508.3599853515625, "end_time": 553.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 508.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 553.1201103515625}, {"text": "Into these meditations, and into the still dignified silence of Merritt broke the rap on the door of Lewis\u2019s man, and those words which harass the ease of the country doctor when he tries to take any ease:", "start_byte": 118166, "end_byte": 118371, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 553.52001953125, "end_time": 564.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 553.76501953125, "cut_end_time": 564.06008203125}, {"text": " Lewis bustled out, and appeared no more that night.", "start_byte": 118423, "end_byte": 118475, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 566.8800048828125, "end_time": 570.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 567.1150048828125, "cut_end_time": 569.6400048828125}, {"text": "The doctor had been summoned to a little hamlet on the outskirts of Porth, separated from it by half a mile or three-quarters of road. One dignifies, indeed, this settlement without a name in calling it a hamlet; it was a mere row of four cottages, built about a hundred years ago for the accommodation of the workers in a quarry long since disused. In one of these cottages the doctor found a father and mother weeping and crying out to", "start_byte": 118477, "end_byte": 118914, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 570.1599731445312, "end_time": 593.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 570.6949731445312, "cut_end_time": 593.3400356445313}, {"text": " and two frightened children, and one little body, still and dead. It was the youngest of the three, little Johnnie, and he was dead.", "start_byte": 118942, "end_byte": 119075, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 595.2000122070312, "end_time": 602.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 595.5350122070313, "cut_end_time": 602.1400122070313}, {"text": "The doctor found that the child had been asphyxiated. He felt the clothes; they were dry; it was not a case of drowning. He looked at the neck; there was no mark of strangling. He asked the father how it had happened, and father and mother, weeping most lamentably, declared they had no knowledge of how their child had been killed:", "start_byte": 119077, "end_byte": 119409, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 602.3599853515625, "end_time": 619.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 602.7449853515625, "cut_end_time": 618.7500478515625}, {"text": " The Celtic fairies are still malignant. Lewis asked what had happened that evening; where had the child been?", "start_byte": 119454, "end_byte": 119564, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 621.719970703125, "end_time": 627.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 622.114970703125, "cut_end_time": 627.580033203125}, {"text": "Reduced into some sort of order from its original piteous confusion, this is the story that the doctor gathered.", "start_byte": 119640, "end_byte": 119752, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 631.2000122070312, "end_time": 637.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 631.4250122070313, "cut_end_time": 637.4100122070313}, {"text": "All three children had been well and happy through the day. They had walked in with the mother, Mrs. Roberts, to Porth on a marketing expedition in the afternoon; they had returned to the cottage, had had their tea, and afterwards played about on the road in front of the house. John Roberts had come home somewhat late from his work, and it was after dusk when the family sat down to supper. Supper over, the three children went out again to play with other children from the cottage next door, Mrs. Roberts telling them that they might have half an hour before going to bed.", "start_byte": 119754, "end_byte": 120330, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 637.5999755859375, "end_time": 665.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 637.8049755859375, "cut_end_time": 665.2400380859375}, {"text": "The two mothers came to the cottage gates at the same moment and called out to their children to come along and be quick about it. The two small families had been playing on the strip of turf across the road, just by the stile into the fields. The children ran across the road; all of them except Johnnie Roberts. His brother Willie said that just as their mother called them he heard Johnnie cry out:", "start_byte": 120332, "end_byte": 120733, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 665.47998046875, "end_time": 684.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 665.85498046875, "cut_end_time": 684.03010546875}]}

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He did declare it was like a wailing of Judgment Day.\u201d", "start_byte": 134560, "end_byte": 134907, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 188.63999938964844, "end_time": 214.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 188.88499938964844, "cut_end_time": 214.06006188964844, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cas if he were begging for his life,", "start_byte": 136412, "end_byte": 136448, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 322.44000244140625, "end_time": 324.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 322.6450024414063, "cut_end_time": 324.5500649414063, "narrative_prediction": {"looking": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhose dog will that be?", "start_byte": 136584, "end_byte": 136608, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 334.239990234375, "end_time": 336.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 334.534990234375, "cut_end_time": 335.990052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt will be Thomas Griffith\u2019s, Treff Loyne,", "start_byte": 136629, "end_byte": 136672, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 337.4800109863281, "end_time": 340.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 337.7350109863281, "cut_end_time": 340.50001098632816, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, then, why doesn\u2019t he go home? Go home then!", "start_byte": 136689, "end_byte": 136739, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 341.67999267578125, "end_time": 345.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 341.98499267578126, "cut_end_time": 345.6001176757813, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cGo home, then! Over the gate with you.\u201d", "start_byte": 136833, "end_byte": 136873, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 351.3999938964844, "end_time": 354.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 351.5849938964844, "cut_end_time": 353.9301188964844, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cthe place in the grove,", "start_byte": 141558, "end_byte": 141582, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 689.4000244140625, "end_time": 691.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 689.7250244140625, "cut_end_time": 690.8900244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"suppose": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Captain says to me,", "start_byte": 143246, "end_byte": 143270, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 805.3599853515625, "end_time": 806.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 805.6449853515625, "cut_end_time": 807.0601103515626, "narrative_prediction": {"muttered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201c\u2018Don\u2019t hesitate to shoot if there\u2019s any trouble.\u2019 \u2018Shoot what, sir,\u2019 I says. \u2018The trouble,\u2019 says he, and that\u2019s all I could get out of him.\u201d", "start_byte": 143295, "end_byte": 143436, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 808.280029296875, "end_time": 817.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 808.525029296875, "cut_end_time": 817.350029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"muttered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThomas Griffith! Thomas Griffith! Where be you, Thomas Griffith?\u201d", "start_byte": 144262, "end_byte": 144328, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 872.8800048828125, "end_time": 878.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 873.1250048828125, "cut_end_time": 878.2600673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"bellowing": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThomas Griffith!", "start_byte": 144589, "end_byte": 144606, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 896.9600219726562, "end_time": 898.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 897.3350219726562, "cut_end_time": 898.3300219726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": " said one;", "start_byte": 132265, "end_byte": 132275, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 13.399999618530273, "end_time": 14.079999923706055, "cut_start_time": 13.374999618530273, "cut_end_time": 14.180062118530273}, {"text": " said another.", "start_byte": 132324, "end_byte": 132338, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 18.799999237060547, "end_time": 19.559999465942383, "cut_start_time": 18.82499923706055, "cut_end_time": 19.42006173706055}, {"text": "CHAPTER XI. At Treff Loyne Farm", "start_byte": 132340, "end_byte": 132371, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 19.559999465942383, "end_time": 23.399999618530273, "cut_start_time": 19.834999465942385, "cut_end_time": 23.080061965942384}, {"text": "Let it be remembered, again and again, that, all the while that the terror lasted, there was no common stock of information as to the dreadful things that were being done. The press had not said one word upon it, there was no criterion by which the mass of the people could separate fact from mere vague rumor, no test by which ordinary misadventure or disaster could be distinguished from the achievements of the secret and awful force that was at work.", "start_byte": 132373, "end_byte": 132827, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 23.399999618530273, "end_time": 58.2400016784668, "cut_start_time": 23.744999618530276, "cut_end_time": 57.86012461853027}, {"text": "And so with every event of the passing day. A harmless commercial traveler might show himself in the course of his business in the tumbledown main street of Meiros and find himself regarded with looks of fear and suspicion as a possible worker of murder, while it is likely enough that the true agents of the terror went quite unnoticed. And since the real nature of all this mystery of death was unknown, it followed easily that the signs and warnings and omens of it were all the more unknown. Here was horror, there was horror; but there was no links to join one horror with another; no common basis of knowledge from which the connection between this horror and that horror might be inferred.", "start_byte": 132829, "end_byte": 133525, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 58.2400016784668, "end_time": 111.91999816894531, "cut_start_time": 58.5350016784668, "cut_end_time": 111.6400016784668}, {"text": "So there was no one who suspected at all that this dismal and hollow sound that was now heard of nights in the region to the north of Porth, had any relation at all to the case of the little girl who went out one afternoon to pick purple flowers and never returned, or to the case of the man whose body was taken out of the peaty slime of the marsh, or to the case of Cradock, dead in his fields, with a strange glimmering of light about his body, as his wife reported. And it is a question as to how far the rumor of this melancholy, nocturnal summons got abroad at all. Lewis heard of it, as a country doctor hears of most things, driving up and down the lanes, but he heard of it without much interest, with no sense that it was in any sort of relation to the terror. Remnant had been given the story of the hollow and echoing voice of the darkness in a colored and picturesque form; he employed a Tredonoc man to work in his garden once a week. The gardener had not heard the summons himself, but he knew a man who had done so.", "start_byte": 133527, "end_byte": 134558, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 111.91999816894531, "end_time": 188.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 112.2549981689453, "cut_end_time": 188.5400606689453}, {"text": "Remnant considered the matter, and was inclined to think that the sound must be caused by a subterranean inlet of the sea; there might be, he supposed, an imperfect or half-opened or tortuous blow-hole in the Tredonoc woods, and the noise of the tide, surging up below, might very well produce that effect of a hollow wailing, far away. But neither he nor any one else paid much attention to the matter; save the few who heard the call at dead of night, as it echoed awfully over the black hills.", "start_byte": 134909, "end_byte": 135405, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 214.67999267578125, "end_time": 250.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 214.89499267578125, "cut_end_time": 250.49011767578125}, {"text": "The sound had been heard for three or perhaps four nights, when the people coming out of Tredonoc church after morning service on Sunday noticed that there was a big yellow sheepdog in the churchyard. The dog, it appeared, had been waiting for the congregation; for it at once attached itself to them, at first to the whole body, and then to a group of half a dozen who took the turning to the right. Two of these presently went off over the fields to their respective houses, and four strolled on in the leisurely Sunday-morning manner of the country, and these the dog followed, keeping to heel all the time. The men were talking hay, corn and markets and paid no attention to the animal, and so they strolled along the autumn lane till they came to a gate in the hedge, whence a roughly made farm road went through the fields, and dipped down into the woods and to Treff Loyne farm.", "start_byte": 135407, "end_byte": 136292, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 250.9600067138672, "end_time": 313.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 251.2950067138672, "cut_end_time": 313.5300692138672}, {"text": "Then the dog became like a possessed creature. He barked furiously. He ran up to one of the men and looked up at him,", "start_byte": 136294, "end_byte": 136411, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 313.8800048828125, "end_time": 322.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 314.1250048828125, "cut_end_time": 322.36006738281253}, {"text": " as the man said, and then rushed to the gate and stood by it, wagging his tail and barking at intervals. The men stared and laughed.", "start_byte": 136449, "end_byte": 136582, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 324.7200012207031, "end_time": 334.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 324.87500122070315, "cut_end_time": 333.76000122070315}, {"text": " said one of them.", "start_byte": 136609, "end_byte": 136627, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 336.0799865722656, "end_time": 337.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 336.35498657226566, "cut_end_time": 337.20011157226566}, {"text": " said another.", "start_byte": 136673, "end_byte": 136687, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 340.55999755859375, "end_time": 341.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 340.7649975585938, "cut_end_time": 341.43006005859377}, {"text": " He went through the gesture of picking up a stone from the road and throwing it at the dog.", "start_byte": 136740, "end_byte": 136832, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 345.760009765625, "end_time": 351.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 346.08500976562505, "cut_end_time": 351.110009765625}, {"text": "But the dog never stirred. He barked and whined and ran up to the men and then back to the gate. At last he came to one of them, and crawled and abased himself on the ground and then took hold of the man\u2019s coat and tried to pull him in the direction of the gate. The farmer shook the dog off, and the four went on their way; and the dog stood in the road and watched them and then put up its head and uttered a long and dismal howl that was despair.", "start_byte": 136875, "end_byte": 137324, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 354.1600036621094, "end_time": 384.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 354.4750036621094, "cut_end_time": 384.2500036621094}, {"text": "The four farmers thought nothing of it; sheepdogs in the country are dogs to look after sheep, and their whims and fancies are not studied. But the yellow dog \u2014 he was a kind of degenerate collie \u2014 haunted the Tredonoc lanes from that day. He came to a cottage door one night and scratched at it, and when it was opened lay down, and then, barking, ran to the garden gate and waited, entreating, as it seemed, the cottager to follow him. They drove him away and again he gave that long howl of anguish. It was almost as bad, they said, as the noise that they had heard a few nights before. And then it occurred to somebody, so far as I can make out with no particular reference to the odd conduct of the Treff Loyne sheepdog, that Thomas Griffith had not been seen for some time past. He had missed market day at Porth, he had not been at Tredonoc church, where he was a pretty regular attendant on Sunday; and then, as heads were put together, it appeared that nobody had seen any of the Griffith family for days and days.", "start_byte": 137326, "end_byte": 138349, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 384.55999755859375, "end_time": 458.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 384.9549975585938, "cut_end_time": 458.19012255859377}, {"text": "Now in a town, even in a small town, this process of putting heads together is a pretty quick business. In the country, especially in a countryside of wild lands and scattered and lonely farms and cottages, the affair takes time. Harvest was going on, everybody was busy in his own fields, and after the long day\u2019s hard work neither the farmer nor his men felt inclined to stroll about in search of news or gossip. A harvester at the day\u2019s end is ready for supper and sleep and for nothing else.", "start_byte": 138351, "end_byte": 138846, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 458.6400146484375, "end_time": 494.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 458.8850146484375, "cut_end_time": 494.3900146484375}, {"text": "And so it was late in that week when it was discovered that Thomas Griffith and all his house had vanished from this world.", "start_byte": 138848, "end_byte": 138971, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 494.79998779296875, "end_time": 503.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 495.1349877929688, "cut_end_time": 502.7900502929688}, {"text": "I have often been reproached for my curiosity over questions which are apparently of slight importance, or of no importance at all. I love to inquire, for instance, into the question of the visibility of a lighted candle at a distance. Suppose, that is, a candle lighted on a still, dark night in the country; what is the greatest distance at which you can see that there is a light at all? And then as to the human voice; what is its carrying distance, under good conditions, as a mere sound, apart from any matter of making out words that may be uttered?", "start_byte": 138973, "end_byte": 139529, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 503.1199951171875, "end_time": 542.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 503.4749951171875, "cut_end_time": 542.1600576171875}, {"text": "They are trivial questions, no doubt, but they have always interested me, and the latter point has its application to the strange business of Treff Loyne. That melancholy and hollow sound, that wailing summons that appalled the hearts of those who heard it was, indeed, a human voice, produced in a very exceptional manner; and it seems to have been heard at points varying from a mile and a half to two miles from the farm. I do not know whether this is anything extraordinary; I do not know whether the peculiar method of production was calculated to increase or to diminish the carrying power of the sound.", "start_byte": 139531, "end_byte": 140140, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 542.6799926757812, "end_time": 587.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 543.0249926757813, "cut_end_time": 587.1201176757813}, {"text": "Again and again I have laid emphasis in this story of the terror on the strange isolation of many of the farms and cottages in Meirion. I have done so in the effort to convince the townsman of something that he has never known. To the Londoner a house a quarter of a mile from the outlying suburban lamp, with no other dwelling within two hundred yards, is a lonely house, a place to fit with ghosts and mysteries and terrors. How can he understand then, the true loneliness of the white farmhouses of Meirion, dotted here and there, for the most part not even on the little lanes and deep winding byways, but set in the very heart of the fields, or alone on huge bastioned headlands facing the sea, and whether on the high verge of the sea or on the hills or in the hollows of the inner country, hidden from the sight of men, far from the sound of any common call. There is Penyrhaul, for example, the farm from which the foolish Merritt thought he saw signals of light being made: from seaward it is of course, widely visible; but from landward, owing partly to the curving and indented configuration of the bay, I doubt whether any other habitation views it from a nearer distance than three miles.", "start_byte": 140142, "end_byte": 141343, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 587.52001953125, "end_time": 672.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 587.6850195312501, "cut_end_time": 671.85001953125}, {"text": "And of all these hidden and remote places, I doubt if any is so deeply buried as Treff Loyne. I have little or no Welsh, I am sorry to say, but I suppose that the name is corrupted from Trellwyn, or Tref-y-llwyn,", "start_byte": 141345, "end_byte": 141557, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 672.1599731445312, "end_time": 689.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 672.4549731445313, "cut_end_time": 689.3600981445313}, {"text": " and, indeed, it lies in the very heart of dark, overhanging woods. A deep, narrow valley runs down from the high lands of the Allt, through these woods, through steep hillsides of bracken and gorse, right down to the great marsh, whence Merritt saw the dead man being carried. The valley lies away from any road, even from that by-road, little better than a bridlepath, where the four farmers, returning from church were perplexed by the strange antics of the sheepdog. One cannot say that the valley is overlooked, even from a distance, for so narrow is it that the ashgroves that rim it on either side seem to meet and shut it in. I, at all events, have never found any high place from which Treff Loyne is visible; though, looking down from the Allt, I have seen blue wood-smoke rising from its hidden chimneys.", "start_byte": 141583, "end_byte": 142398, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 691.0399780273438, "end_time": 749.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 691.2549780273438, "cut_end_time": 748.6101030273438}, {"text": "Such was the place, then, to which one September afternoon a party went up to discover what had happened to Griffith and his family. There were half a dozen farmers, a couple of policemen, and four soldiers, carrying their arms; those last had been lent by the officer commanding at the camp. Lewis, too, was of the party; he had heard by chance that no one knew what had become of Griffith and his family; and he was anxious about a young fellow, a painter, of his acquaintance, who had been lodging at Treff Loyne all the summer.", "start_byte": 142400, "end_byte": 142931, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 749.2000122070312, "end_time": 784.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 749.5150122070313, "cut_end_time": 783.9900747070312}, {"text": "They all met by the gate of Tredonoc churchyard, and tramped solemnly along the narrow lane; all of them, I think, with some vague discomfort of mind, with a certain shadowy fear, as of men who do not quite know what they may encounter. Lewis heard the corporal and the three soldiers arguing over their orders.", "start_byte": 142933, "end_byte": 143244, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 784.3200073242188, "end_time": 805.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 784.6650073242188, "cut_end_time": 805.0700073242188}, {"text": " muttered the corporal,", "start_byte": 143271, "end_byte": 143294, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 806.9600219726562, "end_time": 808.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 806.9350219726563, "cut_end_time": 808.1900844726563}, {"text": "The men grumbled in reply; Lewis thought he heard some obscure reference to rat-poison, and wondered what they were talking about.", "start_byte": 143438, "end_byte": 143568, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 817.5999755859375, "end_time": 826.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 817.9249755859375, "cut_end_time": 826.1201005859375}, {"text": "They came to the gate in the hedge, where the farm road led down to Treff Loyne. They followed this track, roughly made, with grass growing up between its loosely laid stones, down by the hedge from field to wood, till at last they came to the sudden walls of the valley, and the sheltering groves of the ash trees. Here the way curved down the steep hillside, and bent southward, and followed henceforward the hidden hollow of the valley, under the shadow of the trees.", "start_byte": 143570, "end_byte": 144040, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 826.4000244140625, "end_time": 858.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 826.7750244140625, "cut_end_time": 857.5000244140625}, {"text": "Here was the farm enclosure; the outlying walls of the yard and the barns and sheds and outhouses. One of the farmers threw open the gate and walked into the yard, and forthwith began bellowing at the top of his voice:", "start_byte": 144042, "end_byte": 144260, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 858.0399780273438, "end_time": 872.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 858.3149780273437, "cut_end_time": 872.3701030273438}, {"text": "The rest followed him. The corporal snapped out an order over his shoulder, and there was a rattling metallic noise as the men fixed their bayonets and became in an instant dreadful dealers out of death, in place of harmless fellows with a feeling for beer.", "start_byte": 144330, "end_byte": 144587, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 878.6400146484375, "end_time": 896.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 879.0650146484376, "cut_end_time": 896.4700771484376}, {"text": " again bellowed the farmer.", "start_byte": 144607, "end_byte": 144634, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 898.6799926757812, "end_time": 900.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 898.8049926757812, "cut_end_time": 900.4101176757813}, {"text": "There was no answer to this summons. But they found poor Griffith lying on his face at the edge of the pond in the middle of the yard. There was a ghastly wound in his side, as if a sharp stake had been driven into his body.", "start_byte": 144636, "end_byte": 144860, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 900.6400146484375, "end_time": 917.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 900.8950146484375, "cut_end_time": 917.2600146484375}]}

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I never attended them.\u201d", "start_byte": 145897, "end_byte": 146043, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 90.95999908447266, "end_time": 102.31999969482422, "cut_start_time": 91.14499908447264, "cut_end_time": 101.91006158447266, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThere was Griffith, and his wife, and his son Thomas and Mary Griffith, his daughter. And I do think there was a gentleman lodging with them this summer.\u201d", "start_byte": 146045, "end_byte": 146200, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 102.31999969482422, "end_time": 112.87999725341797, "cut_start_time": 102.59499969482421, "cut_end_time": 112.48006219482421, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cFlemish", "start_byte": 146679, "end_byte": 146687, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 144.55999755859375, "end_time": 145.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 144.53499755859374, "cut_end_time": 145.27012255859376, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat is it to goodness, doctor?", "start_byte": 147178, "end_byte": 147210, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 180.36000061035156, "end_time": 182.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 180.79500061035156, "cut_end_time": 182.79000061035157, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI can tell you nothing at all \u2014 except that that poor man there has been pierced to the heart,", "start_byte": 147236, "end_byte": 147331, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 184.27999877929688, "end_time": 190.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 184.53499877929687, "cut_end_time": 190.78012377929687, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDo you think they are inside and they will shoot us?", "start_byte": 147346, "end_byte": 147399, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 192.0, "end_time": 195.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 192.375, "cut_end_time": 195.39, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cthey,", "start_byte": 147459, "end_byte": 147465, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 199.67999267578125, "end_time": 200.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 199.65499267578124, "cut_end_time": 200.11011767578125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cCome!", "start_byte": 147693, "end_byte": 147699, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 216.0, "end_time": 216.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 216.155, "cut_end_time": 216.5, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cwe must do something. We must get into the house and see what is wrong.\u201d", "start_byte": 147713, "end_byte": 147786, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 217.36000061035156, "end_time": 222.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 217.48500061035156, "cut_end_time": 221.77006311035154, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, but suppose they are at us while we are getting in,", "start_byte": 147788, "end_byte": 147845, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 222.0800018310547, "end_time": 225.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 222.4150018310547, "cut_end_time": 225.8600018310547, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhere shall we be then, Doctor Lewis?\u201d", "start_byte": 147866, "end_byte": 147905, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 226.9199981689453, "end_time": 229.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 227.13499816894532, "cut_end_time": 229.18006066894532, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIndeed now,", "start_byte": 149223, "end_byte": 149235, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 320.8800048828125, "end_time": 322.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 321.1850048828125, "cut_end_time": 322.1800048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201che did know that there was something amiss. A pity it was, Thomas Williams, that we did not follow him when he implored us last Sunday.\u201d", "start_byte": 149262, "end_byte": 149399, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 323.760009765625, "end_time": 332.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 323.91500976562503, "cut_end_time": 332.560072265625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cparlor,", "start_byte": 150239, "end_byte": 150247, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 392.32000732421875, "end_time": 393.0, "cut_start_time": 392.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 392.9200073242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cLook!", "start_byte": 150639, "end_byte": 150645, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 419.239990234375, "end_time": 419.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 419.39499023437503, "cut_end_time": 419.78005273437503, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201clook! It is as if they had been besieged. Do you see that piece of bacon, half gnawed through?\u201d", "start_byte": 150703, "end_byte": 150799, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 423.6000061035156, "end_time": 430.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 423.64500610351564, "cut_end_time": 430.1100061035157, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd,", "start_byte": 150965, "end_byte": 150970, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 441.9200134277344, "end_time": 442.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 442.2150134277344, "cut_end_time": 442.5000134277344, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cthey had the best water here in all Meirion. The well is down there in the wood; it is most famous water. The old people did use to call it Ffynnon Teilo; it was Saint Teilo\u2019s Well, they did say.\u201d", "start_byte": 150997, "end_byte": 151194, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 444.0799865722656, "end_time": 458.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 444.19498657226563, "cut_end_time": 458.69004907226565, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThey must have died of thirst,", "start_byte": 151196, "end_byte": 151227, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 458.9599914550781, "end_time": 460.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 459.30499145507815, "cut_end_time": 460.72011645507814, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThey have been dead for days and days.\u201d", "start_byte": 151241, "end_byte": 151281, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 461.67999267578125, "end_time": 464.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 461.8749926757813, "cut_end_time": 464.45005517578124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cDr. James Lewis, Porth.", "start_byte": 152412, "end_byte": 152436, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 540.4000244140625, "end_time": 543.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 540.6350244140625, "cut_end_time": 542.6800244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"written": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThere seems no hope for any of us. We are in the dream of death....\u201d", "start_byte": 154439, "end_byte": 154508, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 680.1199951171875, "end_time": 685.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 680.3849951171875, "cut_end_time": 684.8001201171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cdream of death", "start_byte": 154607, "end_byte": 154622, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 692.1599731445312, "end_time": 693.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 692.2749731445313, "cut_end_time": 693.1700981445313, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": " one of the soldiers muttered to another. A pale sun showed for a moment and glittered on their bayonets. They were standing about the body of poor, dead Griffith, with a certain grimness growing on their faces and hardening there. Their corporal snapped something at them again; they were quite ready. Lewis knelt down by the dead man and looked closely at the great gaping wound in his side.", "start_byte": 145463, "end_byte": 145856, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 61.36000061035156, "end_time": 88.23999786376953, "cut_start_time": 61.62500061035156, "cut_end_time": 87.85000061035157}, {"text": " he said.", "start_byte": 145887, "end_byte": 145896, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 90.19999694824219, "end_time": 90.95999908447266, "cut_start_time": 90.26499694824219, "cut_end_time": 90.84005944824219}, {"text": "That was from one of the farmers. They all looked at one another, this party of rescue, who knew nothing of the danger that had smitten this house of quiet people, nothing of the peril which had brought them to this pass of a farmyard with a dead man in it, and his beasts standing patiently about him, as if they waited for the farmer to rise up and give them their food. Then the party turned to the house. It was an old, sixteenth century building, with the singular round,", "start_byte": 146202, "end_byte": 146678, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 112.87999725341797, "end_time": 144.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 113.22499725341797, "cut_end_time": 144.66005975341795}, {"text": " chimney that is characteristic of Meirion. The walls were snowy with whitewash, the windows were deeply set and stone mullioned, and a solid, stone-tiled porch sheltered the doorway from any winds that might penetrate to the hollow of that hidden valley. The windows were shut tight. There was no sign of any life or movement about the place. The party of men looked at one another, and the churchwarden amongst the farmers, the sergeant of police, Lewis, and the corporal drew together.", "start_byte": 146688, "end_byte": 147176, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 145.24000549316406, "end_time": 180.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 145.26500549316407, "cut_end_time": 179.78006799316407}, {"text": " said the churchwarden.", "start_byte": 147211, "end_byte": 147234, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 182.75999450683594, "end_time": 184.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 182.97499450683594, "cut_end_time": 184.10005700683593}, {"text": " said Lewis.", "start_byte": 147332, "end_byte": 147344, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 190.9600067138672, "end_time": 192.0, "cut_start_time": 191.13500671386717, "cut_end_time": 191.6800067138672}, {"text": " said another farmer. He had no notion of what he meant by", "start_byte": 147400, "end_byte": 147458, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 195.55999755859375, "end_time": 199.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 195.79499755859374, "cut_end_time": 199.78006005859373}, {"text": " and no one of them knew better than he. They did not know what the danger was, or where it might strike them, or whether it was from without or from within. They stared at the murdered man, and gazed dismally at one another.", "start_byte": 147466, "end_byte": 147691, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 200.16000366210938, "end_time": 216.0, "cut_start_time": 200.38500366210937, "cut_end_time": 215.50000366210938}, {"text": " said Lewis,", "start_byte": 147700, "end_byte": 147712, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 216.39999389648438, "end_time": 217.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 216.37499389648437, "cut_end_time": 217.24011889648438}, {"text": " said the sergeant.", "start_byte": 147846, "end_byte": 147865, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 225.75999450683594, "end_time": 226.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 225.73499450683593, "cut_end_time": 226.68005700683594}, {"text": "The corporal put one of his men by the gate at the top of the farmyard, another at the gate by the bottom of the farmyard, and told them to challenge and shoot. The doctor and the rest opened the little gate of the front garden and went up to the porch and stood listening by the door. It was all dead silence. Lewis took an ash stick from one of the farmers and beat heavily three times on the old, black, oaken door studded with antique nails.", "start_byte": 147907, "end_byte": 148352, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 229.47999572753906, "end_time": 259.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 229.88499572753906, "cut_end_time": 259.49005822753907}, {"text": "He struck three thundering blows, and then they all waited. There was no answer from within. He beat again, and still silence. He shouted to the people within, but there was no answer. They all turned and looked at one another, that party of quest and rescue who knew not what they sought, what enemy they were to encounter. There was an iron ring on the door. Lewis turned it but the door stood fast; it was evidently barred and bolted. The sergeant of police called out to open, but again there was no answer.", "start_byte": 148354, "end_byte": 148865, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 259.8399963378906, "end_time": 296.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 260.12499633789065, "cut_end_time": 296.2400588378907}, {"text": "They consulted together. There was nothing for it but to blow the door open, and some one of them called in a loud voice to anybody that might be within to stand away from the door, or they would be killed. And at this very moment the yellow sheepdog came bounding up the yard from the woods and licked their hands and fawned on them and barked joyfully.", "start_byte": 148867, "end_byte": 149221, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 296.5199890136719, "end_time": 320.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 296.8249890136719, "cut_end_time": 320.4401140136719}, {"text": " said one of the farmers;", "start_byte": 149236, "end_byte": 149261, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 322.0799865722656, "end_time": 323.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 322.05498657226565, "cut_end_time": 323.57011157226566}, {"text": "The corporal motioned the rest of the party back, and they stood looking fearfully about them at the entrance to the porch. The corporal disengaged his bayonet and shot into the keyhole, calling out once more before he fired. He shot and shot again; so heavy and firm was the ancient door, so stout its bolts and fastenings. At last he had to fire at the massive hinges, and then they all pushed together and the door lurched open and fell forward. The corporal raised his left hand and stepped back a few paces. He hailed his two men at the top and bottom of the farmyard. They were all right, they said. And so the party climbed and struggled over the fallen door into the passage, and into the kitchen of the farmhouse.", "start_byte": 149401, "end_byte": 150123, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 332.8800048828125, "end_time": 384.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 333.27500488281254, "cut_end_time": 383.47000488281253}, {"text": "Young Griffith was lying dead before the hearth, before a dead fire of white wood ashes. They went on towards the", "start_byte": 150125, "end_byte": 150238, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 384.239990234375, "end_time": 392.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 384.45499023437503, "cut_end_time": 392.42011523437503}, {"text": " and in the doorway of the room was the body of the artist, Secretan, as if he had fallen in trying to get to the kitchen. Upstairs the two women, Mrs. Griffith and her daughter, a girl of eighteen, were lying together on the bed in the big bedroom, clasped in each others\u2019 arms.", "start_byte": 150248, "end_byte": 150527, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 393.0, "end_time": 411.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 393.21500000000003, "cut_end_time": 411.0}, {"text": "They went about the house, searched the pantries, the back kitchen and the cellars; there was no life in it.", "start_byte": 150529, "end_byte": 150637, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 411.5199890136719, "end_time": 419.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 411.8049890136719, "cut_end_time": 418.5100515136719}, {"text": " said Dr. Lewis, when they came back to the big kitchen,", "start_byte": 150646, "end_byte": 150702, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 419.67999267578125, "end_time": 423.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 419.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 423.2301176757813}, {"text": "Then they found these pieces of bacon, cut from the sides on the kitchen wall, here and there about the house. There was no bread in the place, no milk, no water.", "start_byte": 150801, "end_byte": 150963, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 430.5199890136719, "end_time": 441.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 430.9249890136719, "cut_end_time": 441.5101140136719}, {"text": " said one of the farmers,", "start_byte": 150971, "end_byte": 150996, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 442.3999938964844, "end_time": 444.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 442.3749938964844, "cut_end_time": 443.92005639648437}, {"text": " said Lewis.", "start_byte": 151228, "end_byte": 151240, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 460.760009765625, "end_time": 461.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 460.83500976562505, "cut_end_time": 461.390009765625}, {"text": "The group of men stood in the big kitchen and stared at one another, a dreadful perplexity in their eyes. The dead were all about them, within the house and without it; and it was in vain to ask why they had died thus. The old man had been killed with the piercing thrust of some sharp weapon; the rest had perished, it seemed probable, of thirst; but what possible enemy was this that besieged the farm and shut in its inhabitants? There was no answer.", "start_byte": 151283, "end_byte": 151736, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 464.8399963378906, "end_time": 495.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 465.25499633789065, "cut_end_time": 495.38012133789067}, {"text": "The sergeant of police spoke of getting a cart and taking the bodies into Porth, and Dr. Lewis went into the parlor that Secretan had used as a sitting-room, intending to gather any possessions or effects of the dead artist that he might find there. Half a dozen portfolios were piled up in one corner, there were some books on a side table, a fishing-rod and basket behind the door \u2014 that seemed all. No doubt there would be clothes and such matters upstairs, and Lewis was about to rejoin the rest of the party in the kitchen, when he looked down at some scattered papers lying with the books on the side table. On one of the sheets he read to his astonishment the words:", "start_byte": 151738, "end_byte": 152411, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 495.6000061035156, "end_time": 540.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 496.0450061035157, "cut_end_time": 539.9600686035157}, {"text": " This was written in a staggering trembling scrawl, and examining the other leaves he saw that they were covered with writing.", "start_byte": 152437, "end_byte": 152563, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 543.0399780273438, "end_time": 551.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 543.4249780273437, "cut_end_time": 550.9000405273438}, {"text": "The table stood in a dark corner of the room, and Lewis gathered up the sheets of paper and took them to the window-ledge and began to read, amazed at certain phrases that had caught his eye. But the manuscript was in disorder; as if the dead man who had written it had not been equal to the task of gathering the leaves into their proper sequence; it was some time before the doctor had each page in its place. This was the statement that he read, with ever-growing wonder, while a couple of the farmers were harnessing one of the horses in the yard to a cart, and the others were bringing down the dead women.", "start_byte": 152565, "end_byte": 153176, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 551.239990234375, "end_time": 591.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 551.644990234375, "cut_end_time": 591.0600527343751}, {"text": "\u201cI do not think that I can last much longer. We shared out the last drops of water a long time ago. I do not know how many days ago. We fall asleep and dream and walk about the house in our dreams, and I am often not sure whether I am awake or still dreaming, and so the days and nights are confused in my mind. I awoke not long ago, at least I suppose I awoke and found I was lying in the passage. I had a confused feeling that I had had an awful dream which seemed horribly real, and I thought for a moment what a relief it was to know that it wasn\u2019t true, whatever it might have been. I made up my mind to have a good long walk to freshen myself up, and then I looked round and found that I had been lying on the stones of the passage; and it all came back to me. There was no walk for me.", "start_byte": 153178, "end_byte": 153970, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 591.47998046875, "end_time": 648.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 591.93498046875, "cut_end_time": 648.4200429687501}, {"text": "\u201cI have not seen Mrs. Griffith or her daughter for a long while. They said they were going upstairs to have a rest. I heard them moving about the room at first, now I can hear nothing. Young Griffith is lying in the kitchen, before the hearth. He was talking to himself about the harvest and the weather when I last went into the kitchen. He didn\u2019t seem to know I was there, as he went gabbling on in a low voice very fast, and then he began to call the dog, Tiger.", "start_byte": 153972, "end_byte": 154437, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 648.6799926757812, "end_time": 680.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 649.0249926757813, "cut_end_time": 679.8400551757812}, {"text": "Here the manuscript became unintelligible for half a dozen lines. Secretan had written the words", "start_byte": 154510, "end_byte": 154606, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 685.2000122070312, "end_time": 692.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 685.6250122070313, "cut_end_time": 691.9600122070312}, {"text": " three or four times over. He had begun a fresh word and had scratched it out and then followed strange, unmeaning characters, the script, as Lewis thought, of a terrible language. And then the writing became clear, clearer than it was at the beginning of the manuscript, and the sentences flowed more easily, as if the cloud on Secretan\u2019s mind had lifted for a while. There was a fresh start, as it were, and the writer began again, in ordinary letter-form:", "start_byte": 154623, "end_byte": 155081, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 693.4000244140625, "end_time": 725.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 693.5350244140625, "cut_end_time": 725.1400869140625}, {"text": "\u201cDEAR LEWIS,", "start_byte": 155083, "end_byte": 155095, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 725.4400024414062, "end_time": 726.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 725.6750024414063, "cut_end_time": 726.6600024414063}, {"text": "\u201cI hope you will excuse all this confusion and wandering. I intended to begin a proper letter to you, and now I find all that stuff that you have been reading \u2014 if this ever gets into your hands. I have not the energy even to tear it up. If you read it you will know to what a sad pass I had come when it was written. It looks like delirium or a bad dream, and even now, though my mind seems to have cleared up a good deal, I have to hold myself in tightly to be sure that the experiences of the last days in this awful place are true, real things, not a long nightmare from which I shall wake up presently and find myself in my rooms at Chelsea.", "start_byte": 155097, "end_byte": 155743, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 726.7999877929688, "end_time": 772.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 727.1549877929688, "cut_end_time": 772.1201127929688}, {"text": "\u201cI have said of what I am writing, \u2018if it ever gets into your hands,\u2019 and I am not at all sure that it ever will. If what is happening here is happening everywhere else, then I suppose, the world is coming to an end. I cannot understand it, even now I can hardly believe it. I know that I dream such wild dreams and walk in such mad fancies that I have to look out and look about me to make sure that I am not still dreaming.", "start_byte": 155745, "end_byte": 156170, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 772.4400024414062, "end_time": 803.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 772.7950024414063, "cut_end_time": 803.4800649414062}, {"text": "\u201cDo you remember that talk we had about two months ago when I dined with you? We got on, somehow or other, to space and time, and I think we agreed that as soon as one tried to reason about space and time one was landed in a maze of contradictions. You said something to the effect that it was very curious but this was just like a dream. \u2018A man will sometimes wake himself from his crazy dream,\u2019 you said, \u2018by realizing that he is thinking nonsense.\u2019 And we both wondered whether these contradictions that one can\u2019t avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and the stars bits of nightmare. I have often thought over that lately. I kick at the walls as Dr. Johnson kicked at the stone, to make sure that the things about me are there. And then that other question gets into my mind \u2014 is the world really coming to an end, the world as we have always known it; and what on earth will this new world be like? I can\u2019t imagine it; it\u2019s a story like Noah\u2019s Ark and the Flood. People used to talk about the end of the world and fire, but no one ever thought of anything like this.", "start_byte": 156172, "end_byte": 157325, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 803.760009765625, "end_time": 885.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 804.095009765625, "cut_end_time": 884.9600722656251}, {"text": "\u201cAnd then there\u2019s another thing that bothers me. Now and then I wonder whether we are not all mad together in this house. In spite of what I see and know, or, perhaps, I should say, because what I see and know is so impossible, I wonder whether we are not all suffering from a delusion. Perhaps we are our own gaolers, and we are really free to go out and live. Perhaps what we think we see is not there at all. I believe I have heard of whole families going mad together, and I may have come under the influence of the house, having lived in it for the last four months. I know there have been people who have been kept alive by their keepers forcing food down their throats, because they are quite sure that their throats are closed, so that they feel they are unable to swallow a morsel. I wonder now and then whether we are all like this in Treff Loyne; yet in my heart I feel sure that it is not so.", "start_byte": 157327, "end_byte": 158231, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 885.280029296875, "end_time": 948.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 885.7150292968751, "cut_end_time": 948.0800292968751}, {"text": "\u201cStill, I do not want to leave a madman\u2019s letter behind me, and so I will not tell you the full story of what I have seen, or believe I have seen. If I am a sane man you will be able to fill in the blanks for yourself from your own knowledge. If I am mad, burn the letter and say nothing about it. Or perhaps \u2014 and indeed, I am not quite sure \u2014 I may wake up and hear Mary Griffith calling to me in her cheerful sing-song that breakfast will be ready \u2018directly, in a minute,\u2019 and I shall enjoy it and walk over to Porth and tell you the queerest, most horrible dream that a man ever had, and ask what I had better take.", "start_byte": 158233, "end_byte": 158852, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 948.47998046875, "end_time": 993.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 948.7849804687501, "cut_end_time": 992.97004296875}, {"text": "\u201cI think that it was on a Tuesday that we first noticed that there was something queer about, only at the time we didn\u2019t know that there was anything really queer in what we noticed. I had been out since nine o\u2019clock in the morning trying to paint the marsh, and I found it a very tough job. I came home about five or six o\u2019clock and found the family at Treff Loyne laughing at old Tiger, the sheepdog. He was making short runs from the farmyard to the door of the house, barking, with quick, short yelps. Mrs. Griffith and Miss Griffith were standing by the porch, and the dog would go to them, look in their faces, and then run up the farmyard to the gate, and then look back with that eager yelping bark, as if he were waiting for the women to follow him. Then, again and again, he ran up to them and tugged at their skirts as if he would pull them by main force away from the house.", "start_byte": 158854, "end_byte": 159740, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 993.239990234375, "end_time": 1052.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 993.814990234375, "cut_end_time": 1051.830052734375}]}

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The people in the house were talking to each other in high voices, arguing about something that I did not understand.", "start_byte": 161344, "end_byte": 161515, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 59.63999938964844, "end_time": 71.5199966430664, "cut_start_time": 59.94499938964844, "cut_end_time": 71.10006188964844}, {"text": "\u201c\u2018It is those damned gipsies, I tell you,\u2019 said old Griffith.", "start_byte": 161517, "end_byte": 161578, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 71.5199966430664, "end_time": 76.19999694824219, "cut_start_time": 71.9949966430664, "cut_end_time": 75.7800591430664}, {"text": "\u201c\u2018What would they do a thing like that for?\u2019 asked Mrs. Griffith. \u2018If it was stealing now \u2014 \u2019", "start_byte": 161580, "end_byte": 161673, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 76.19999694824219, "end_time": 82.87999725341797, "cut_start_time": 76.55499694824218, "cut_end_time": 82.74005944824218}, {"text": "\u201c\u2018It is more likely that John Jenkins has done it out of spite,\u2019 said the son. \u2018He said that he would remember you when we did catch him poaching.\u2019", "start_byte": 161675, "end_byte": 161822, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 82.87999725341797, "end_time": 92.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 83.25499725341797, "cut_end_time": 92.34012225341796}, {"text": "\u201cThey seemed puzzled and angry, so far as I could make out, but not at all frightened. I got up and began to dress. I don\u2019t think I looked out of the window. The glass on my dressing-table is high and broad, and the window is small; one would have to poke one\u2019s head round the glass to see anything.", "start_byte": 161824, "end_byte": 162123, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 92.72000122070312, "end_time": 113.04000091552734, "cut_start_time": 93.01500122070311, "cut_end_time": 112.74006372070312}, {"text": "\u201cThe voices were still arguing downstairs. I heard the old man say, \u2018Well, here\u2019s for a beginning anyhow,\u2019 and then the door slammed.", "start_byte": 162125, "end_byte": 162258, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 113.04000091552734, "end_time": 123.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 113.42500091552733, "cut_end_time": 123.25006341552734}, {"text": "\u201cA minute later the old man shouted, I think, to his son. Then there was a great noise which I will not describe more particularly, and a dreadful screaming and crying inside the house and a sound of rushing feet. They all cried out at once to each other. I heard the daughter crying, \u2018it is no good, mother, he is dead, indeed they have killed him,\u2019 and Mrs. Griffith screaming to the girl to let her go. And then one of them rushed out of the kitchen and shot the great bolts of oak across the door, just as something beat against it with a thundering crash.", "start_byte": 162260, "end_byte": 162820, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 123.44000244140625, "end_time": 163.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 123.77500244140624, "cut_end_time": 163.47006494140624}, {"text": "\u201cI ran downstairs. I found them all in wild confusion, in an agony of grief and horror and amazement. They were like people who had seen something so awful that they had gone mad.", "start_byte": 162822, "end_byte": 163001, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 163.72000122070312, "end_time": 177.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 164.02500122070313, "cut_end_time": 177.5300637207031}, {"text": "\u201cI went to the window looking out on the farmyard. I won\u2019t tell you all that I saw. But I saw poor old Griffith lying by the pond, with the blood pouring out of his side.", "start_byte": 163003, "end_byte": 163173, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 177.8000030517578, "end_time": 190.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 178.1550030517578, "cut_end_time": 190.29000305175782}, {"text": "\u201cI wanted to go out to him and bring him in. But they told me that he must be stone dead, and such things also that it was quite plain that any one who went out of the house would not live more than a moment. We could not believe it, even as we gazed at the body of the dead man; but it was there. I used to wonder sometimes what one would feel like if one saw an apple drop from the tree and shoot up into the air and disappear. I think I know now how one would feel.", "start_byte": 163175, "end_byte": 163643, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 190.55999755859375, "end_time": 224.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 190.85499755859374, "cut_end_time": 224.46006005859374}, {"text": "\u201cEven then we couldn\u2019t believe that it would last. We were not seriously afraid for ourselves. We spoke of getting out in an hour or two, before dinner anyhow. It couldn\u2019t last, because it was impossible. Indeed, at twelve o\u2019clock young Griffith said he would go down to the well by the back way and draw another pail of water. I went to the door and stood by it. He had not gone a dozen yards before they were on him. He ran for his life, and we had all we could do to bar the door in time. And then I began to get frightened.", "start_byte": 163645, "end_byte": 164172, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 224.9199981689453, "end_time": 263.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 225.2149981689453, "cut_end_time": 263.2901231689453}, {"text": "\u201cStill we could not believe in it. Somebody would come along shouting in an hour or two and it would all melt away and vanish. There could not be any real danger. There was plenty of bacon in the house, and half the weekly baking of loaves and some beer in the cellar and a pound or so of tea, and a whole pitcher of water that had been drawn from the well the night before. We could do all right for the day and in the morning it would have all gone away.", "start_byte": 164174, "end_byte": 164630, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 263.7200012207031, "end_time": 295.0, "cut_start_time": 264.04500122070317, "cut_end_time": 294.5300012207031}, {"text": "\u201cBut day followed day and it was still there. I knew Treff Loyne was a lonely place \u2014 that was why I had gone there, to have a long rest from all the jangle and rattle and turmoil of London, that makes a man alive and kills him too. I went to Treff Loyne because it was buried in the narrow valley under the ash trees, far away from any track. There was not so much as a footpath that was near it; no one ever came that way. Young Griffith had told me that it was a mile and a half to the nearest house, and the thought of the silent peace and retirement of the farm used to be a delight to me.", "start_byte": 164632, "end_byte": 165226, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 295.0, "end_time": 338.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 295.415, "cut_end_time": 337.70000000000005}, {"text": "\u201cAnd now this thought came back without delight, with terror. Griffith thought that a shout might be heard on a still night up away on the Allt, \u2018if a man was listening for it,\u2019 he added, doubtfully. My voice was clearer and stronger than his, and on the second night I said I would go up to my bedroom and call for help through the open window. I waited till it was all dark and still, and looked out through the window before opening it. And then I saw over the ridge of the long barn across the yard what looked like a tree, though I knew there was no tree there. It was a dark mass against the sky, with wide-spread boughs, a tree of thick, dense growth. I wondered what this could be, and I threw open the window, not only because I was going to call for help, but because I wanted to see more clearly what the dark growth over the barn really was.", "start_byte": 165228, "end_byte": 166081, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 338.1199951171875, "end_time": 396.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 338.44499511718755, "cut_end_time": 396.08005761718755}, {"text": "\u201cI saw in the depth of the dark of it points of fire, and colors in light, all glowing and moving, and the air trembled. I stared out into the night, and the dark tree lifted over the roof of the barn and rose up in the air and floated towards me. I did not move till at the last moment when it was close to the house; and then I saw what it was and banged the window down only just in time. I had to fight, and I saw the tree that was like a burning cloud rise up in the night and sink again and settle over the barn.", "start_byte": 166083, "end_byte": 166601, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 396.3999938964844, "end_time": 435.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 396.8449938964844, "cut_end_time": 435.3601188964844}, {"text": "\u201cI told them downstairs of this. They sat with white faces, and Mrs. Griffith said that ancient devils were let loose and had come out of the trees and out of the old hills because of the wickedness that was on the earth. She began to murmur something to herself, something that sounded to me like broken-down Latin.", "start_byte": 166603, "end_byte": 166919, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 435.6400146484375, "end_time": 459.0, "cut_start_time": 435.9550146484375, "cut_end_time": 458.79001464843753}, {"text": "\u201cI went up to my room again an hour later, but the dark tree swelled over the barn. Another day went by, and at dusk I looked out, but the eyes of fire were watching me. I dared not open the window.", "start_byte": 166921, "end_byte": 167119, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 459.0, "end_time": 473.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 459.33500000000004, "cut_end_time": 473.67006250000003}, {"text": "\u201cAnd then I thought of another plan. There was the great old fireplace, with the round Flemish chimney going high above the house. If I stood beneath it and shouted I thought perhaps the sound might be carried better than if I called out of the window; for all I knew the round chimney might act as a sort of megaphone. Night after night, then, I stood in the hearth and called for help from nine o\u2019clock to eleven. I thought of the lonely place, deep in the valley of the ashtrees, of the lonely hills and lands about it. I thought of the little cottages far away and hoped that my voice might reach to those within them. I thought of the winding lane high on the Allt, and of the few men that came there of nights; but I hoped that my cry might come to one of them.", "start_byte": 167121, "end_byte": 167888, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 473.9200134277344, "end_time": 527.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 474.3250134277344, "cut_end_time": 527.0000759277344}, {"text": "\u201cBut we had drunk up the beer, and we would only let ourselves have water by little drops, and on the fourth night my throat was dry, and I began to feel strange and weak; I knew that all the voice I had in my lungs would hardly reach the length of the field by the farm.", "start_byte": 167890, "end_byte": 168161, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 527.4400024414062, "end_time": 546.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 527.7950024414063, "cut_end_time": 546.3500649414062}, {"text": "\u201cIt was then we began to dream of wells and fountains, and water coming very cold, in little drops, out of rocky places in the middle of a cool wood. We had given up all meals; now and then one would cut a lump from the sides of bacon on the kitchen wall and chew a bit of it, but the saltness was like fire.", "start_byte": 168163, "end_byte": 168471, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 546.6400146484375, "end_time": 568.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 546.9850146484375, "cut_end_time": 568.0500771484375}, {"text": "\u201cThere was a great shower of rain one night. The girl said we might open a window and hold out bowls and basins and catch the rain. I spoke of the cloud with burning eyes. She said \u2018we will go to the window in the dairy at the back, and one of us can get some water at all events.\u2019 She stood up with her basin on the stone slab in the dairy and looked out and heard the plashing of the rain, falling very fast. And she unfastened the catch of the window and had just opened it gently with one hand, for about an inch, and had her basin in the other hand. \u2018And then,\u2019 said she, \u2018there was something that began to tremble and shudder and shake as it did when we went to the Choral Festival at St. Teilo\u2019s, and the organ played, and there was the cloud and the burning close before me.\u2019", "start_byte": 168473, "end_byte": 169256, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 568.4000244140625, "end_time": 621.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 568.7050244140626, "cut_end_time": 621.3500244140625}, {"text": "\u201cAnd then we began to dream, as I say. I woke up in my sitting-room one hot afternoon when the sun was shining, and I had been looking and searching in my dream all through the house, and I had gone down to the old cellar that wasn\u2019t used, the cellar with the pillars and the vaulted room, with an iron pike in my hand. Something said to me that there was water there, and in my dream I went to a heavy stone by the middle pillar and raised it up, and there beneath was a bubbling well of cold, clear water, and I had just hollowed my hand to drink it when I woke. I went into the kitchen and told young Griffith. I said I was sure there was water there. He shook his head, but he took up the great kitchen poker and we went down to the old cellar. I showed him the stone by the pillar, and he raised it up. But there was no well.", "start_byte": 169258, "end_byte": 170088, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 621.5599975585938, "end_time": 678.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 621.9849975585938, "cut_end_time": 678.1300600585938}, {"text": "\u201cDo you know, I reminded myself of many people whom I have met in life? I would not be convinced. I was sure that, after all, there was a well there. They had a butcher\u2019s cleaver in the kitchen and I took it down to the old cellar and hacked at the ground with it. The others didn\u2019t interfere with me. We were getting past that. We hardly ever spoke to one another. Each one would be wandering about the house, upstairs and downstairs, each one of us, I suppose, bent on his own foolish plan and mad design, but we hardly ever spoke. Years ago, I was an actor for a bit, and I remember how it was on first nights; the actors treading softly up and down the wings, by their entrance, their lips moving and muttering over the words of their parts, but without a word for one another. So it was with us. I came upon young Griffith one evening evidently trying to make a subterranean passage under one of the walls of the house. I knew he was mad, as he knew I was mad when he saw me digging for a well in the cellar; but neither said anything to the other.", "start_byte": 170090, "end_byte": 171143, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 678.3599853515625, "end_time": 751.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 678.7349853515625, "cut_end_time": 751.0700478515625}, {"text": "\u201cNow we are past all this. We are too weak. We dream when we are awake and when we dream we think we wake. Night and day come and go and we mistake one for another; I hear Griffith murmuring to himself about the stars when the sun is high at noonday, and at midnight I have found myself thinking that I walked in bright sunlit meadows beside cold, rushing streams that flowed from high rocks.", "start_byte": 171145, "end_byte": 171537, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 751.3599853515625, "end_time": 781.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 751.7349853515625, "cut_end_time": 780.7400478515625}, {"text": "\u201cThen at the dawn figures in black robes, carrying lighted tapers in their hands pass slowly about and about; and I hear great rolling organ music that sounds as if some tremendous rite were to begin, and voices crying in an ancient song shrill from the depths of the earth.", "start_byte": 171539, "end_byte": 171813, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 781.3599853515625, "end_time": 801.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 781.4749853515625, "cut_end_time": 800.9600478515625}, {"text": "\u201cOnly a little while ago I heard a voice which sounded as if it were at my very ears, but rang and echoed and resounded as if it were rolling and reverberated from the vault of some cathedral, chanting in terrible modulations. I heard the words quite clearly.", "start_byte": 171815, "end_byte": 172074, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 801.47998046875, "end_time": 821.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 801.70498046875, "cut_end_time": 820.3001054687501}, {"text": "\u201cIncipit liber ir\u00e6 Domini Dei nostri. (Here beginneth The Book of the Wrath of the Lord our God.)", "start_byte": 172076, "end_byte": 172173, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 821.0800170898438, "end_time": 829.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 821.1850170898438, "cut_end_time": 829.2500170898438}, {"text": "\u201cAnd then the voice sang the word Aleph, prolonging it, it seemed through ages, and a light was extinguished as it began the chapter:", "start_byte": 172175, "end_byte": 172308, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 829.47998046875, "end_time": 839.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 829.74498046875, "cut_end_time": 839.15010546875}, {"text": "\u201cIn that day, saith the Lord, there shall be a cloud over the land, and in the cloud a burning and a shape of fire, and out of the cloud shall issue forth my messengers; they shall run all together, they shall not turn aside; this shall be a day of exceeding bitterness, without salvation. And on every high hill, saith the Lord of Hosts, I will set my sentinels, and my armies shall encamp in the place of every valley; in the house that is amongst rushes I will execute judgment, and in vain shall they fly for refuge to the munitions of the rocks. In the groves of the woods, in the places where the leaves are as a tent above them, they shall find the sword of the slayer; and they that put their trust in walled cities shall be confounded. Woe unto the armed man, woe unto him that taketh pleasure in the strength of his artillery, for a little thing shall smite him, and by one that hath no might shall he be brought down into the dust. That which is low shall be set on high; I will make the lamb and the young sheep to be as the lion from the swellings of Jordan; they shall not spare, saith the Lord, and the doves shall be as eagles on the hill Engedi; none shall be found that may abide the onset of their battle.", "start_byte": 172310, "end_byte": 173534, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 839.52001953125, "end_time": 929.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 839.8150195312501, "cut_end_time": 928.80001953125}]}

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They have made up their complacent minds that it was due to dirt and bad drainage. As a matter of fact the Plague had nothing to do with dirt or with drains; and there is nothing to prevent its ravaging England to-morrow. But if you tell people so, they won\u2019t believe you. They won\u2019t believe in anything that isn\u2019t there at the particular moment when you are talking to them. As with the Plague, so with the Terror. We could not believe that such a thing could ever happen. Remnant said, truly enough, that whatever it was, it was outside theory, outside our theory. Flatland cannot believe in the cube or the sphere.\u201d", "start_byte": 175091, "end_byte": 176234, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 67.36000061035156, "end_time": 150.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 67.57500061035155, "cut_end_time": 149.90000061035155, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cLook,", "start_byte": 176376, "end_byte": 176382, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 160.8000030517578, "end_time": 161.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 160.9750030517578, "cut_end_time": 161.2200030517578, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cat any eighteenth century print of a Gothic cathedral. You will find that the trained artistic eye even could not behold in any true sense the building that was before it. I have seen an old print of Peterborough Cathedral that looks as if the artist had drawn it from a clumsy model, constructed of bent wire and children\u2019s bricks.\u201d", "start_byte": 176392, "end_byte": 176726, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 161.9199981689453, "end_time": 184.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 162.0749981689453, "cut_end_time": 184.2001231689453, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNow, I was saying that, paradoxically, it is only by the inexplicable things that life can be explained. We are apt to say, you know, \u2018a very odd coincidence\u2019 and pass the matter by, as if there were no more to be said, or as if that were the end of it. Well, I believe that the only real path lies through the blind alleys.\u201d", "start_byte": 180413, "end_byte": 180739, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 452.0400085449219, "end_time": 476.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 452.3250085449219, "cut_end_time": 476.5900085449219, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHow do you mean?\u201d", "start_byte": 180741, "end_byte": 180759, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 476.9599914550781, "end_time": 478.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 477.23499145507816, "cut_end_time": 478.1801164550781, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNow suppose you encounter a swarm of these creatures in the dark. Suppose the smaller ones fly up your nostrils. You will gasp for breath and open your mouth. Then, suppose some hundreds of them fly into your mouth, into your gullet, into your windpipe, what will happen to you? You will be dead in a very short time, choked, asphyxiated.\u201d", "start_byte": 187453, "end_byte": 187793, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 950.760009765625, "end_time": 974.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 951.045009765625, "cut_end_time": 974.140009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut the moths would be dead too. They would be found in the bodies.\u201d", "start_byte": 187795, "end_byte": 187864, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 974.47998046875, "end_time": 979.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 975.01498046875, "cut_end_time": 978.61004296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd again; you know the country and you know how a herd of cattle will sometimes pursue people through the fields in a solemn, stolid sort of way. They behave as if they wanted to close in on you. Townspeople sometimes get frightened and scream and run; you or I would take no notice, or at the utmost, wave our sticks at the herd, which will stop dead or lumber off. But suppose they don\u2019t lumber off. The mildest old cow, remember, is stronger than any man. What can one man or half a dozen men do against half a hundred of these beasts no longer restrained by that mysterious inhibition, which has made for ages the strong the humble slaves of the weak? But if you are botanizing in the marsh, like that poor fellow who was staying at Porth, and forty or fifty young cattle gradually close round you, and refuse to move when you shout and wave your stick, but get closer and closer instead, and get you into the slime. Again, where is your help? If you haven\u2019t got an automatic pistol, you must go down and stay down, while the beasts lie quietly on you for five minutes. It was a quicker death for poor Griffith of Treff Loyne \u2014 one of his own beasts gored him to death with one sharp thrust of its horn into his heart. And from that morning those within the house were closely besieged by their own cattle and horses and sheep; and when those unhappy people within opened a window to call for help or to catch a few drops of rain water to relieve their burning thirst, the cloud waited for them with its myriad eyes of fire. Can you wonder that Secretan\u2019s statement reads in places like mania? You perceive the horrible position of those people in Treff Loyne; not only did they see death advancing on them, but advancing with incredible steps, as if one were to die not only in nightmare but by nightmare. But no one in his wildest, most fiery dreams had ever imagined such a fate. I am not astonished that Secretan at one moment suspected the evidence of his own senses, at another surmised that the world\u2019s end had come.\u201d", "start_byte": 191788, "end_byte": 193818, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1265.6400146484375, "end_time": 1412.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1265.8550146484374, "cut_end_time": 1412.5800146484373, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd how about the Williams\u2019s who were murdered on the Highway near here?\u201d", "start_byte": 193820, "end_byte": 193894, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1412.8399658203125, "end_time": 1417.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1413.2549658203125, "cut_end_time": 1417.6300908203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd conceive the terror of such an attack. Even one rat in a fury is said to be an ugly customer to meet; conceive then, the irruption of these terrible, swarming myriads, rushing upon the helpless, unprepared, astonished workers in the munition shops.\u201d", "start_byte": 195319, "end_byte": 195573, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1521.8399658203125, "end_time": 1541.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1522.1749658203123, "cut_end_time": 1540.9600283203124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou know,", "start_byte": 196545, "end_byte": 196555, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1610.239990234375, "end_time": 1610.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1610.5649902343748, "cut_end_time": 1611.020115234375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd then, when the truth at last appeared it was through the whimsical \u2018coincidence,\u2019 as we call such signs, of the moth in my lamp and the moth on the dead child\u2019s forehead. This, I think, is very extraordinary.\u201d", "start_byte": 197005, "end_byte": 197219, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1646.1199951171875, "end_time": 1660.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1646.5949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1660.4701201171874, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd there seems to have been one beast that remained faithful; the dog at Treff Loyne. That is strange.\u201d", "start_byte": 197221, "end_byte": 197326, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1660.6800537109375, "end_time": 1668.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1660.9850537109373, "cut_end_time": 1668.2900537109374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThat remains a mystery.\u201d", "start_byte": 197328, "end_byte": 197353, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1668.719970703125, "end_time": 1671.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1668.9949707031249, "cut_end_time": 1670.6500332031248, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cmercy", "start_byte": 198431, "end_byte": 198437, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1746.0, "end_time": 1746.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1745.975, "cut_end_time": 1746.6400624999999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cburning clouds", "start_byte": 198753, "end_byte": 198768, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1767.6800537109375, "end_time": 1768.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1767.6550537109374, "cut_end_time": 1768.7100537109375, "narrative_prediction": {"found": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "fiercer": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cwhy?", "start_byte": 199430, "end_byte": 199435, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1817.800048828125, "end_time": 1818.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1817.785048828125, "cut_end_time": 1818.330111328125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cCanterbury Tales", "start_byte": 201334, "end_byte": 201351, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1955.239990234375, "end_time": 1956.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1955.344990234375, "cut_end_time": 1956.4601152343748, "narrative_prediction": {"give": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhen I have to choose between the evidence of tradition and the evidence of a document, I always believe the evidence of tradition. Documents may be falsified, and often are falsified; tradition is never falsified.", "start_byte": 201918, "end_byte": 202133, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1995.0400390625, "end_time": 2010.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1995.2750390625, "cut_end_time": 2010.2100390624998, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cgood", "start_byte": 202799, "end_byte": 202804, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 2061.280029296875, "end_time": 2061.679931640625, "cut_start_time": 2061.355029296875, "cut_end_time": 2061.749966796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "We were discussing a few months ago the awful shadow of the terror which at length had passed away from the land. I had formed my opinion, partly from observation, partly from certain facts which had been communicated to me, and the passwords having been exchanged, I found that Lewis had come by very different ways to the same end.", "start_byte": 174736, "end_byte": 175069, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 41.720001220703125, "end_time": 65.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 41.995001220703124, "cut_end_time": 65.39000122070313}, {"text": " he said,", "start_byte": 175081, "end_byte": 175090, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 66.4800033569336, "end_time": 67.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 66.45500335693359, "cut_end_time": 67.2900658569336}, {"text": "I agreed with all this. I added that sometimes the world was incapable of seeing, much less believing, that which was before its own eyes.", "start_byte": 176236, "end_byte": 176374, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 150.27999877929688, "end_time": 160.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 150.66499877929687, "cut_end_time": 160.42012377929686}, {"text": " I said,", "start_byte": 176383, "end_byte": 176391, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 161.1199951171875, "end_time": 161.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 161.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 161.90005761718749}, {"text": "\u201cExactly; because Gothic was outside the \u00e6sthetic theory (and therefore vision) of the time. You can\u2019t believe what you don\u2019t see: rather, you can\u2019t see what you don\u2019t believe. It was so during the time of the Terror. All this bears out what Coleridge said as to the necessity of having the idea before the facts could be of any service to one. Of course, he was right; mere facts, without the correlating idea, are nothing and lead to no conclusion. We had plenty of facts, but we could make nothing of them. I went home at the tail of that dreadful procession from Treff Loyne in a state of mind very near to madness. I heard one of the soldiers saying to the other: \u2018There\u2019s no rat that\u2019ll spike a man to the heart, Bill.\u2019 I don\u2019t know why, but I felt that if I heard any more of such talk as that I should go crazy; it seemed to me that the anchors of reason were parting. I left the party and took the short cut across the fields into Porth. I looked up Davies in the High Street and arranged with him that he should take on any cases I might have that evening, and then I went home and gave my man his instructions to send people on. And then I shut myself up to think it all out \u2014 if I could.", "start_byte": 176728, "end_byte": 177927, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 184.8000030517578, "end_time": 269.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 184.9650030517578, "cut_end_time": 269.3000030517578}, {"text": "\u201cYou must not suppose that my experiences of that afternoon had afforded me the slightest illumination. Indeed, if it had not been that I had seen poor old Griffith\u2019s body lying pierced in his own farmyard, I think I should have been inclined to accept one of Secretan\u2019s hints, and to believe that the whole family had fallen a victim to a collective delusion or hallucination, and had shut themselves up and died of thirst through sheer madness. I think there have been such cases. It\u2019s the insanity of inhibition, the belief that you can\u2019t do something which you are really perfectly capable of doing. But; I had seen the body of the murdered man and the wound that had killed him.", "start_byte": 177929, "end_byte": 178612, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 269.5199890136719, "end_time": 318.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 269.9749890136719, "cut_end_time": 318.0601140136719}, {"text": "\u201cDid the manuscript left by Secretan give me no hint? Well, it seemed to me to make confusion worse confounded. You have seen it; you know that in certain places it is evidently mere delirium, the wanderings of a dying mind. How was I to separate the facts from the phantasms \u2014 lacking the key to the whole enigma. Delirium is often a sort of cloud-castle, a sort of magnified and distorted shadow of actualities, but it is a very difficult thing, almost an impossible thing, to reconstruct the real house from the distortion of it, thrown on the clouds of the patient\u2019s brain. You see, Secretan in writing that extraordinary document almost insisted on the fact that he was not in his proper sense; that for days he had been part asleep, part awake, part delirious. How was one to judge his statement, to separate delirium from fact? In one thing he stood confirmed; you remember he speaks of calling for help up the old chimney of Treff Loyne; that did seem to fit in with the tales of a hollow, moaning cry that had been heard upon the Allt: so far one could take him as a recorder of actual experiences. And I looked in the old cellars of the farm and found a frantic sort of rabbit-hole dug by one of the pillars; again he was confirmed. But what was one to make of that story of the chanting voice, and the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and the chapter out of some unknown Minor Prophet? When one has the key it is easy enough to sort out the facts, or the hints of facts from the delusions; but I hadn\u2019t the key on that September evening. I was forgetting the \u2018tree\u2019 with lights and fires in it; that, I think, impressed me more than anything with the feeling that Secretan\u2019s story was, in the main, a true story. I had seen a like appearance down there in my own garden; but what was it?", "start_byte": 178614, "end_byte": 180411, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 318.44000244140625, "end_time": 452.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 318.73500244140627, "cut_end_time": 451.69006494140626}, {"text": "\u201cWell, this is an instance of what I mean. I told you about Merritt, my brother-in-law, and the capsizing of that boat, the Mary Ann. He had seen, he said, signal lights flashing from one of the farms on the coast, and he was quite certain that the two things were intimately connected as cause and effect. I thought it all nonsense, and I was wondering how I was going to shut him up when a big moth flew into the room through that window, fluttered about, and succeeded in burning itself alive in the lamp. That gave me my cue; I asked Merritt if he knew why moths made for lamps or something of the kind; I thought it would be a hint to him that I was sick of his flashlights and his half-baked theories. So it was \u2014 he looked sulky and held his tongue.", "start_byte": 180761, "end_byte": 181517, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 478.4800109863281, "end_time": 532.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 478.82501098632815, "cut_end_time": 531.9600109863281}, {"text": "\u201cBut a few minutes later I was called out by a man who had found his little boy dead in a field near his cottage about an hour before. The child was so still, they said, that a great moth had settled on his forehead and only fluttered away when they lifted up the body. It was absolutely illogical; but it was this odd \u2018coincidence\u2019 of the moth in my lamp and the moth on the dead boy\u2019s forehead that first set me on the track. I can\u2019t say that it guided me in any real sense; it was more like a great flare of red paint on a wall; it rang up my attention, if I may say so; it was a sort of shock like a bang on the big drum. No doubt Merritt was talking great nonsense that evening so far as his particular instance went; the flashes of light from the farm had nothing to do with the wreck of the boat. But his general principle was sound; when you hear a gun go off and see a man fall it is idle to talk of \u2018a mere coincidence.\u2019 I think a very interesting book might be written on this question: I would call it \u2018A Grammar of Coincidence.\u2019", "start_byte": 181519, "end_byte": 182560, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 532.239990234375, "end_time": 606.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 532.684990234375, "cut_end_time": 606.1901152343751}, {"text": "\u201cBut as you will remember, from having read my notes on the matter, I was called in about ten days later to see a man named Cradock, who had been found in a field near his farm quite dead. This also was at night. His wife found him, and there were some very queer things in her story. She said that the hedge of the field looked as if it were changed; she began to be afraid that she had lost her way and got into the wrong field. Then she said the hedge was lighted up as if there were a lot of glow-worms in it, and when she peered over the stile there seemed to be some kind of glimmering upon the ground, and then the glimmering melted away, and she found her husband\u2019s body near where this light had been. Now this man Cradock had been suffocated just as the little boy Roberts had been suffocated, and as that man in the Midlands who took a short cut one night had been suffocated. Then I remembered that poor Johnnie Roberts had called out about \u2018something shiny\u2019 over the stile just before he played truant. Then, on my part, I had to contribute the very remarkable sight I witnessed here, as I looked down over the garden; the appearance as of a spreading tree where I knew there was no such tree, and then the shining and burning of lights and moving colors. Like the poor child and Mrs. Cradock, I had seen something shiny, just as some man in Stratfordshire had seen a dark cloud with points of fire in it floating over the trees. And Mrs. Cradock thought that the shape of the trees in the hedge had changed.", "start_byte": 182562, "end_byte": 184083, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 606.52001953125, "end_time": 712.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 606.92501953125, "cut_end_time": 712.23001953125}, {"text": "\u201cMy mind almost uttered the word that was wanted; but you see the difficulties. This set of circumstances could not, so far as I could see, have any relation with the other circumstances of the Terror. How could I connect all this with the bombs and machine-guns of the Midlands, with the armed men who kept watch about the munition shops by day and night. Then there was the long list of people here who had fallen over the cliffs or into the quarry; there were the cases of the men stifled in the slime of the marshes; there was the affair of the family murdered in front of their cottage on the Highway; there was the capsized Mary Ann. I could not see any thread that could bring all these incidents together; they seemed to me to be hopelessly disconnected. I could not make out any relation between the agency that beat out the brains of the Williams\u2019s and the agency that overturned the boat. I don\u2019t know, but I think it\u2019s very likely if nothing more had happened that I should have put the whole thing down as an unaccountable series of crimes and accidents which chanced to occur in Meirion in the summer of 1915. Well, of course, that would have been an impossible standpoint in view of certain incidents in Merritt\u2019s story. Still, if one is confronted by the insoluble, one lets it go at last. If the mystery is inexplicable, one pretends that there isn\u2019t any mystery. That is the justification for what is called free thinking.", "start_byte": 184085, "end_byte": 185525, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 712.5599975585938, "end_time": 813.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 712.9149975585938, "cut_end_time": 812.7300600585938}, {"text": "\u201cThen came that extraordinary business of Treff Loyne. I couldn\u2019t put that on one side. I couldn\u2019t pretend that nothing strange or out of the way had happened. There was no getting over it or getting round it. I had seen with my eyes that there was a mystery, and a most horrible mystery. I have forgotten my logic, but one might say that Treff Loyne demonstrated the existence of a mystery in the figure of Death.", "start_byte": 185527, "end_byte": 185941, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 813.1599731445312, "end_time": 843.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 813.3549731445313, "cut_end_time": 842.8000981445313}, {"text": "\u201cI took it all home, as I have told you, and sat down for the evening before it. It appalled me, not only by its horror, but here again by the discrepancy between its terms. Old Griffith, so far as I could judge, had been killed by the thrust of a pike or perhaps of a sharpened stake: how could one relate this to the burning tree that had floated over the ridge of the barn. It was as if I said to you: \u2018here is a man drowned, and here is a man burned alive: show that each death was caused by the same agency!\u2019 And the moment that I left this particular case of Treff Loyne, and tried to get some light on it from other instances of the Terror, I would think of the man in the midlands who heard the feet of a thousand men rustling in the wood, and their voices as if dead men sat up in their bones and talked. And then I would say to myself, \u2018and how about that boat overturned in a calm sea?\u2019 There seemed no end to it, no hope of any solution.", "start_byte": 185943, "end_byte": 186892, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 843.2000122070312, "end_time": 910.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 843.4950122070313, "cut_end_time": 910.3600122070313}, {"text": "\u201cIt was, I believe, a sudden leap of the mind that liberated me from the tangle. It was quite beyond logic. I went back to that evening when Merritt was boring me with his flashlights, to the moth in the candle, and to the moth on the forehead of poor Johnnie Roberts. There was no sense in it; but I suddenly determined that the child and Joseph Cradock the farmer, and that unnamed Stratfordshire man, all found at night, all asphyxiated, had been choked by vast swarms of moths. I don\u2019t pretend even now that this is demonstrated, but I\u2019m sure it\u2019s true.", "start_byte": 186894, "end_byte": 187451, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 910.719970703125, "end_time": 950.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 910.994970703125, "cut_end_time": 950.520095703125}, {"text": "\u201cThe moths? Do you know that it is extremely difficult to kill a moth with cyanide of potassium? Take a frog, kill it, open its stomach. There you will find its dinner of moths and small beetles, and the \u2018dinner\u2019 will shake itself and walk off cheerily, to resume an entirely active existence. No; that is no difficulty.", "start_byte": 187866, "end_byte": 188186, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 979.1199951171875, "end_time": 1003.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 979.3649951171875, "cut_end_time": 1003.0801201171876}, {"text": "\u201cWell, now I came to this. I was shutting out all the other cases. I was confining myself to those that came under the one formula. I got to the assumption or conclusion, whichever you like, that certain people had been asphyxiated by the action of moths. I had accounted for that extraordinary appearance of burning or colored lights that I had witnessed myself, when I saw the growth of that strange tree in my garden. That was clearly the cloud with points of fire in it that the Stratfordshire man took for a new and terrible kind of poison gas, that was the shiny something that poor little Johnnie Roberts had seen over the stile, that was the glimmering light that had led Mrs. Cradock to her husband\u2019s dead body, that was the assemblage of terrible eyes that had watched over Treff Loyne by night. Once on the right track I understood all this, for coming into this room in the dark, I have been amazed by the wonderful burning and the strange fiery colors of the eyes of a single moth, as it crept up the pane of glass, outside. Imagine the effect of myriads of such eyes, of the movement of these lights and fires in a vast swarm of moths, each insect being in constant motion while it kept its place in the mass: I felt that all this was clear and certain.", "start_byte": 188188, "end_byte": 189455, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1003.52001953125, "end_time": 1095.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1003.83501953125, "cut_end_time": 1095.30008203125}, {"text": "\u201cThen the next step. Of course, we know nothing really about moths; rather, we know nothing of moth reality. For all I know there may be hundreds of books which treat of moth and nothing but moth. But these are scientific books, and science only deals with surfaces; it has nothing to do with realities \u2014 it is impertinent if it attempts to do with realities. To take a very minor matter; we don\u2019t even know why the moth desires the flame. But we do know what the moth does not do; it does not gather itself into swarms with the object of destroying human life. But here, by the hypothesis, were cases in which the moth had done this very thing; the moth race had entered, it seemed, into a malignant conspiracy against the human race. It was quite impossible, no doubt \u2014 that is to say, it had never happened before \u2014 but I could see no escape from this conclusion.", "start_byte": 189457, "end_byte": 190323, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1095.6800537109375, "end_time": 1156.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1096.0050537109373, "cut_end_time": 1156.5801162109374}, {"text": "\u201cThese insects, then, were definitely hostile to man; and then I stopped, for I could not see the next step, obvious though it seems to me now. I believe that the soldiers\u2019 scraps of talk on the way to Treff Loyne and back flung the next plank over the gulf. They had spoken of \u2018rat poison,\u2019 of no rat being able to spike a man through the heart; and then, suddenly, I saw my way clear. If the moths were infected with hatred of men, and possessed the design and the power of combining against him; why not suppose this hatred, this design, this power shared by other non-human creatures.", "start_byte": 190325, "end_byte": 190913, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1156.8800048828125, "end_time": 1200.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1157.2850048828125, "cut_end_time": 1200.4200673828125}, {"text": "\u201cThe secret of the Terror might be condensed into a sentence: the animals had revolted against men.", "start_byte": 190915, "end_byte": 191014, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1200.760009765625, "end_time": 1208.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1201.0950097656248, "cut_end_time": 1208.000009765625}, {"text": "\u201cNow, the puzzle became easy enough; one had only to classify. Take the cases of the people who met their deaths by falling over cliffs or over the edge of quarries. We think of sheep as timid creatures, who always ran away. But suppose sheep that don\u2019t run away; and, after all, in reason why should they run away? Quarry or no quarry, cliff or no cliff; what would happen to you if a hundred sheep ran after you instead of running from you? There would be no help for it; they would have you down and beat you to death or stifle you. Then suppose man, woman, or child near a cliff\u2019s edge or a quarry-side, and a sudden rush of sheep. Clearly there is no help; there is nothing for it but to go over. There can be no doubt that that is what happened in all these cases.", "start_byte": 191016, "end_byte": 191786, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1208.47998046875, "end_time": 1265.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1208.7449804687499, "cut_end_time": 1265.30010546875}, {"text": "\u201cThe horses were the murderers; the horses that afterwards stampeded the camp below. By some means which is still obscure to me they lured that family into the road and beat their brains out; their shod hoofs were the instruments of execution. And, as for the Mary Ann, the boat that was capsized, I have no doubt that it was overturned by a sudden rush of the porpoises that were gamboling about in the water of Larnac Bay. A porpoise is a heavy beast \u2014 half a dozen of them could easily upset a light rowing-boat. The munition works? Their enemy was rats. I believe that it has been calculated that in \u2018greater London\u2019 the number of rats is about equal to the number of human beings, that is, there are about seven millions of them. The proportion would be about the same in all the great centers of population; and the rat, moreover, is, on occasion, migratory in its habits. You can understand now that story of the Semiramis, beating about the mouth of the Thames, and at last cast away by Arcachon, her only crew dry heaps of bones. The rat is an expert boarder of ships. And so one can understand the tale told by the frightened man who took the path by the wood that led up from the new munition works. He thought he heard a thousand men treading softly through the wood and chattering to one another in some horrible tongue; what he did hear was the marshaling of an army of rats \u2014 their array before the battle.", "start_byte": 193896, "end_byte": 195317, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1417.9200439453125, "end_time": 1521.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1418.2750439453125, "cut_end_time": 1521.3900439453123}, {"text": "There can be no doubt, I think, that Dr. Lewis was entirely justified in these extraordinary conclusions. As I say, I had arrived at pretty much the same end, by different ways; but this rather as to the general situation, while Lewis had made his own particular study of those circumstances of the Terror that were within his immediate purview, as a physician in large practice in the southern part of Meirion. Of some of the cases which he reviewed he had, no doubt, no immediate or first-hand knowledge; but he judged these instances by their similarity to the facts which had come under his personal notice. He spoke of the affairs of the quarry at Llanfihangel on the analogy of the people who were found dead at the bottom of the cliffs near Porth, and he was no doubt justified in doing so. He told me that, thinking the whole matter over, he was hardly more astonished by the Terror in itself than by the strange way in which he had arrived at his conclusions.", "start_byte": 195575, "end_byte": 196543, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1541.5999755859375, "end_time": 1610.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1541.9249755859373, "cut_end_time": 1609.7800380859373}, {"text": " he said, \u201cthose certain evidences of animal malevolence which we knew of, the bees that stung the child to death, the trusted sheepdog\u2019s turning savage, and so forth. Well, I got no light whatever from all this; it suggested nothing to me \u2014 simply because I had not got that \u2018idea\u2019 which Coleridge rightly holds necessary in all inquiry; facts qua facts, as we said, mean nothing and come to nothing. You do not believe, therefore you cannot see.", "start_byte": 196556, "end_byte": 197003, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1610.9200439453125, "end_time": 1646.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1610.8950439453124, "cut_end_time": 1645.9500439453125}, {"text": "It would not be wise, even now, to describe too closely the terrible scenes that were to be seen in the munition areas of the north and the midlands during the black months of the Terror. Out of the factories issued at black midnight the shrouded dead in their coffins, and their very kinsfolk did not know how they had come by their deaths. All the towns were full of houses of mourning, were full of dark and terrible rumors; incredible, as the incredible reality. There were things done and suffered that perhaps never will be brought to light, memories and secret traditions of these things will be whispered in families, delivered from father to son, growing wilder with the passage of the years, but never growing wilder than the truth.", "start_byte": 197355, "end_byte": 198097, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1671.199951171875, "end_time": 1722.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1671.664951171875, "cut_end_time": 1722.050013671875}, {"text": "It is enough to say that the cause of the Allies was for awhile in deadly peril. The men at the front called in their extremity for guns and shells. No one told them what was happening in the places where these munitions were made.", "start_byte": 198099, "end_byte": 198330, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1722.43994140625, "end_time": 1739.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1722.7549414062498, "cut_end_time": 1739.51000390625}, {"text": "At first the position was nothing less than desperate; men in high places were almost ready to cry", "start_byte": 198332, "end_byte": 198430, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1739.5999755859375, "end_time": 1746.0, "cut_start_time": 1739.8149755859374, "cut_end_time": 1746.1000380859375}, {"text": " to the enemy. But, after the first panic, measures were taken such as those described by Merritt in his account of the matter. The workers were armed with special weapons, guards were mounted, machine-guns were placed in position, bombs and liquid flame were ready against the obscene hordes of the enemy, and the", "start_byte": 198438, "end_byte": 198752, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1746.56005859375, "end_time": 1767.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1746.6250585937498, "cut_end_time": 1767.7501210937498}, {"text": " found a fire fiercer than their own. Many deaths occurred amongst the airmen; but they, too, were given special guns, arms that scattered shot broadcast, and so drove away the dark flights that threatened the airplanes.", "start_byte": 198769, "end_byte": 198989, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1768.9599609375, "end_time": 1784.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1769.1249609375, "cut_end_time": 1784.1100234374999}, {"text": "And, then, in the winter of 1915-16, the Terror ended suddenly as it had begun. Once more a sheep was a frightened beast that ran instinctively from a little child; the cattle were again solemn, stupid creatures, void of harm; the spirit and the convention of malignant design passed out of the hearts of all the animals. The chains that they had cast off for awhile were thrown again about them.", "start_byte": 198991, "end_byte": 199387, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1784.47998046875, "end_time": 1814.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1784.84498046875, "cut_end_time": 1814.32010546875}, {"text": "And, finally, there comes the inevitable", "start_byte": 199389, "end_byte": 199429, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1814.56005859375, "end_time": 1817.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1814.8350585937499, "cut_end_time": 1817.65012109375}, {"text": " Why did the beasts who had been humbly and patiently subject to man, or affrighted by his presence, suddenly know their strength and learn how to league together, and declare bitter war against their ancient master?", "start_byte": 199436, "end_byte": 199652, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1818.4000244140625, "end_time": 1833.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1818.8850244140624, "cut_end_time": 1833.6000869140623}, {"text": "It is a most difficult and obscure question. I give what explanation I have to give with very great diffidence, and an eminent disposition to be corrected, if a clearer light can be found.", "start_byte": 199654, "end_byte": 199842, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1833.760009765625, "end_time": 1848.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1834.1050097656248, "cut_end_time": 1847.7000722656248}, {"text": "Some friends of mine, for whose judgment I have very great respect, are inclined to think that there was a certain contagion of hate. They hold that the fury of the whole world at war, the great passion of death that seems driving all humanity to destruction, infected at last these lower creatures, and in place of their native instinct of submission, gave them rage and wrath and ravening.", "start_byte": 199844, "end_byte": 200235, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1848.1600341796875, "end_time": 1876.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1848.5350341796875, "cut_end_time": 1875.8600966796873}, {"text": "This may be the explanation. I cannot say that it is not so, because I do not profess to understand the working of the universe. But I confess that the theory strikes me as fanciful. There may be a contagion of hate as there is a contagion of smallpox; I do not know, but I hardly believe it.", "start_byte": 200237, "end_byte": 200529, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1876.1600341796875, "end_time": 1897.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1876.4650341796873, "cut_end_time": 1897.5200341796874}, {"text": "In my opinion, and it is only an opinion, the source of the great revolt of the beasts is to be sought in a much subtler region of inquiry. I believe that the subjects revolted because the king abdicated. Man has dominated the beasts throughout the ages, the spiritual has reigned over the rational through the peculiar quality and grace of spirituality that men possess, that makes a man to be that which he is. And when he maintained this power and grace, I think it is pretty clear that between him and the animals there was a certain treaty and alliance. There was supremacy on the one hand, and submission on the other; but at the same time there was between the two that cordiality which exists between lords and subjects in a well-organized state. I know a socialist who maintains that Chaucer\u2019s", "start_byte": 200531, "end_byte": 201333, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1897.8399658203125, "end_time": 1955.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1898.0549658203124, "cut_end_time": 1955.1600283203124}, {"text": " give a picture of true democracy. I do not know about that, but I see that knight and miller were able to get on quite pleasantly together, just because the knight knew that he was a knight and the miller knew that he was a miller. If the knight had had conscientious objections to his knightly grade, while the miller saw no reason why he should not be a knight, I am sure that their intercourse would have been difficult, unpleasant, and perhaps murderous.", "start_byte": 201352, "end_byte": 201811, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1956.56005859375, "end_time": 1987.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1956.69505859375, "cut_end_time": 1986.90005859375}, {"text": "So with man. I believe in the strength and truth of tradition. A learned man said to me a few weeks ago:", "start_byte": 201813, "end_byte": 201917, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1987.43994140625, "end_time": 1995.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1987.7349414062498, "cut_end_time": 1994.83006640625}, {"text": " This is true; and, therefore, I think, one may put trust in the vast body of folklore which asserts that there was once a worthy and friendly alliance between man and the beasts. Our popular tale of Dick Whittington and his Cat no doubt represents the adaptation of a very ancient legend to a comparatively modern personage, but we may go back into the ages and find the popular tradition asserting that not only are the animals the subjects, but also the friends of man.", "start_byte": 202134, "end_byte": 202606, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2010.47998046875, "end_time": 2046.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 2010.83498046875, "cut_end_time": 2046.00004296875}, {"text": "All that was in virtue of that singular spiritual element in man which the rational animals do not possess. Spiritual does not mean respectable, it does not even mean moral, it does not mean", "start_byte": 202608, "end_byte": 202798, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2046.3199462890625, "end_time": 2061.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 2046.6549462890623, "cut_end_time": 2061.3700712890623}, {"text": " in the ordinary acceptation of the word. It signifies the royal prerogative of man, differentiating him from the beasts.", "start_byte": 202805, "end_byte": 202926, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 2061.679931640625, "end_time": 2071.080078125, "cut_start_time": 2061.694931640625, "cut_end_time": 2070.600181640625}]}

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Indeed to goodness, you are all of you more trouble than you are worth.", "start_byte": 122066, "end_byte": 122182, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 113.12000274658203, "end_time": 121.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 113.23500274658203, "cut_end_time": 120.80006524658202, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cJohnnie! Come you in directly, or you will be sorry for it. Johnnie!\u201d", "start_byte": 122212, "end_byte": 122282, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 123.5999984741211, "end_time": 130.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 123.7549984741211, "cut_end_time": 130.4500609741211, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cCome you, little Johnnie. Come you, bachgen, there\u2019s a good boy. I do see you hiding there.\u201d", "start_byte": 122363, "end_byte": 122456, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 135.8800048828125, "end_time": 143.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 136.1650048828125, "cut_end_time": 142.8400048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"called": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201che was always such a happy little fellow", "start_byte": 122562, "end_byte": 122603, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 150.0, "end_time": 152.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 150.095, "cut_end_time": 152.38, "narrative_prediction": {"laughing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cand perhaps he did climb over, and he is running now about the meadow, and has lost his way.\u201d", "start_byte": 122926, "end_byte": 123020, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 177.60000610351562, "end_time": 184.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 177.87500610351563, "cut_end_time": 183.28006860351562, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cTake care of the two that you have left to you,", "start_byte": 123512, "end_byte": 123560, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 224.9600067138672, "end_time": 228.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 225.6450067138672, "cut_end_time": 228.7400067138672, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDon\u2019t let them out of your sight if you can help it. It is dreadful times that we are living in.\u201d", "start_byte": 123595, "end_byte": 123693, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 230.63999938964844, "end_time": 237.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 230.88499938964844, "cut_end_time": 236.49012438964843, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cseason", "start_byte": 123776, "end_byte": 123783, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 243.9199981689453, "end_time": 244.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 243.9849981689453, "cut_end_time": 244.77006066894532, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Rockets", "start_byte": 124306, "end_byte": 124318, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 283.3599853515625, "end_time": 284.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 283.6549853515625, "cut_end_time": 284.4201103515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cSo far as I can see,", "start_byte": 125404, "end_byte": 125425, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 362.9599914550781, "end_time": 364.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 363.3949914550781, "cut_end_time": 364.9901164550781, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cthere\u2019s nothing to prevent a submarine from standing out there by Ynys Sant and landing half a dozen men in a collapsible boat in any of these little coves. And pretty fools we should look, shouldn\u2019t we, with our throats cut on the sands; or carried back to Germany in the submarine?", "start_byte": 125437, "end_byte": 125721, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 365.760009765625, "end_time": 383.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 365.935009765625, "cut_end_time": 383.130072265625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThat\u2019s right, lad,", "start_byte": 125766, "end_byte": 125785, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 386.2799987792969, "end_time": 387.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 386.4749987792969, "cut_end_time": 387.5100612792969, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cyou give us the tip.\u201d", "start_byte": 125796, "end_byte": 125818, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 388.32000732421875, "end_time": 390.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 388.5150073242188, "cut_end_time": 389.82000732421875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cterror zone,", "start_byte": 126146, "end_byte": 126159, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 415.0400085449219, "end_time": 416.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 415.0550085449219, "cut_end_time": 416.1600710449219, "narrative_prediction": {"given": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThere was that; and then there was something else that I could not make out at all. It seemed to me that the hedge did look different from usual. 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People who think Llandudno overcrowded and Colwyn Bay too raw and red and new, come year after year to the placid old town in the southwest and delight in its peace; and as I say, they enjoyed themselves much as usual there in the summer of 1915. 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The north-countryman had his thoughts on elusive submarines and German raiders; the watcher had simply received instructions to keep people off the Castell Coch fields, without reason assigned. 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A man could not be killed with that in the open air; to be fatal that required a confined space, such a position as the bottom of a huge vat or of a well.", "start_byte": 127335, "end_byte": 127831, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 501.8399963378906, "end_time": 541.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 502.38499633789064, "cut_end_time": 540.2601213378906}, {"text": "He did not know how Cradock had been killed; he confessed it to himself. He had been suffocated; that was all he could say.", "start_byte": 127833, "end_byte": 127956, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 541.0800170898438, "end_time": 552.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 541.7250170898437, "cut_end_time": 551.4800170898437}, {"text": "It seemed that the man had gone out at about half-past nine to look after some beasts. The field in which they were was about five minutes\u2019 walk from the house. He told his wife he would be back in a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes. 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She looked over the stile and called and hoped to see her husband coming towards her or to hear his voice; but there was no answer, and glancing down the path she saw, or thought she saw, some sort of brightness on the ground, \u201ca dim sort of light like a bunch of glow-worms in a hedge-bank.", "start_byte": 129415, "end_byte": 129823, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 668.0399780273438, "end_time": 701.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 668.5849780273438, "cut_end_time": 700.6601030273438}, {"text": "So for Lewis the terror blackened and became altogether intolerable, and others, he perceived, felt as he did. He did not know, he never asked whether the men at the club had heard of these deaths of the child and the young farmer; but no one spoke of them. Indeed, the change was evident; at the beginning of the terror men spoke of nothing else; now it had become all too awful for ingenious chatter or labored and grotesque theories. 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Joe Pier are lying at the point of death, and from the fact that an influential person caused .Tuno's permission to visit General Arming- ton, I esteem it highly imprudent to retain him, or even harm him in any manner.\" ", "start_byte": 314847, "end_byte": 315100, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 55.119998931884766, "end_time": 74.08000183105469, "cut_start_time": 55.40499893188477, "cut_end_time": 73.46012393188477}, {"text": "'' But what can we do with him, now that we have had him thus summarily seized and gagged ? \" said another. 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", "start_byte": 315390, "end_byte": 315487, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 93.76000213623047, "end_time": 101.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 93.75500213623046, "cut_end_time": 100.97006463623046}, {"text": "''I wonder if he really believes her to be in our posses- sion ; if he does, I dread the consequences should we let him off now ; any way, we dare not retain him in custody ; but, I have it \u2014 some of the keepers can free Dr. Juno from his present shackles, and feign great anger and surprise at discovering tliis assault on him, stating that it was the in- nocent lunatics who did it, that are permitted to run loose in that ward, and who were very grievously annoyed when, a short time since, General Armington assaulted and almost killed the physician-in-chief. They evidently con- cluded that Dr. Juno was a friend to the general, and therefore took it into their heads to grab him \u2014 this will explain the matter satisfactory to Dr. Juno, especially if caution is exercised and great innocence assumed. Go then and do this instantly, for every moment will aggra- vate the matter ; and should he say, ' Why did the officers not then and there stop them from this outrage V ' say that the latter were afraid to do so without assistance, which they now come to offer,\" said the i)hysician-in-cliief. ", "start_byte": 315489, "end_byte": 316589, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 101.36000061035156, "end_time": 183.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 101.89500061035156, "cut_end_time": 183.30006311035157}, {"text": "Dr. Juno was at once relieved, and the foregoing expla- nation was made ; but he said : ", "start_byte": 316591, "end_byte": 316679, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 183.8800048828125, "end_time": 191.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 184.2950048828125, "cut_end_time": 191.15000488281248}, {"text": "\" That is curious,\" and looked as if he had great doubts about the matter. He did not say anything more, but he thought : \" How is this ; I cannot understand exactly wliy they should seize and gag me one moment and free me the next ':* That apology about the innocent lunatics was a lame one, Avhicli will not go down with me. I think they had fully intended to again cast me into that cell, or pro- bably mvn-der me, but they are commencing to fear my in- fluence. Wait, boys, a little longer, and provided I live, if I do not bring your shanty down, I am a fool, and thereby free my darling Lucinda, who, I am now more than ever convinced, is incarcerated in some secret cell in this hell- hole ! ", "start_byte": 316681, "end_byte": 317380, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 191.39999389648438, "end_time": 248.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 191.75499389648436, "cut_end_time": 248.32005639648438}, {"text": "\" If I only knew some one that was acquainted with this ", "start_byte": 317382, "end_byte": 317438, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 248.63999938964844, "end_time": 251.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 249.03499938964842, "cut_end_time": 251.74006188964844}, {"text": "THE CONSPIRATORS AND LOVERS. 173 ", "start_byte": 317440, "end_byte": 317473, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 251.63999938964844, "end_time": 252.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 251.61499938964843, "cut_end_time": 252.14006188964842}, {"text": "place, or who knows any of the servants in this asylum. The Armingtons are all in this place, but there is Pat O'Conner and Judy McCrea, who may know what I want to know ; I will instantly go to Pat O 'Conner and question him ; however, he seemed to shun me on previous occa- sions ; but that evidently was through fear of the bloody conspirators ; however, I can try him. I will see him privately, and, if he only fears exposure, and has no other feelings against me, he will aid and enlighten me all he can.\" ", "start_byte": 317475, "end_byte": 317986, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 252.0399932861328, "end_time": 293.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 252.0149932861328, "cut_end_time": 293.1100557861328}, {"text": "lie went in disguise that very night, about ten o'clock, to Pat O'Conner's residence and asked to see him ; Judy came to the door and said that Pat would be in in a few minutes, \"would he take a sate an' wate V \" ", "start_byte": 317988, "end_byte": 318201, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 293.3599853515625, "end_time": 308.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 293.81498535156254, "cut_end_time": 308.5101103515625}, {"text": " said the doctor, and asked, \"Are you Judy McCrea V \" ", "start_byte": 318216, "end_byte": 318270, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 310.20001220703125, "end_time": 314.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 310.3450122070313, "cut_end_time": 313.63007470703127}, {"text": "\" I bees that lady,\" she replied. ", "start_byte": 318272, "end_byte": 318306, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 314.6400146484375, "end_time": 317.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 314.90501464843754, "cut_end_time": 317.1300146484375}, {"text": "\" Do you and Pat O 'Conner live alone in this large house since the general is in the insane asylum?\" asked the doctor. ", "start_byte": 318308, "end_byte": 318428, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 317.8399963378906, "end_time": 326.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 318.18499633789065, "cut_end_time": 326.2400588378907}, {"text": "\" Yis, sir, we do ; an' is thare anyting morer that ye lik to know ? \" interposed Judy, rather angrily. ", "start_byte": 318430, "end_byte": 318534, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 326.8399963378906, "end_time": 336.0, "cut_start_time": 327.64499633789063, "cut_end_time": 335.32005883789066}, {"text": "\" There is something more, Judy ; I love your lost Mistress Lucinda, and I have news for you, and I came here to ask you and Pat to assist me, if you can, to relieve her from her cruel imprisonment \" \u2014 ", "start_byte": 318536, "end_byte": 318738, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 336.0, "end_time": 352.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 336.45500000000004, "cut_end_time": 352.7000625}, {"text": "\" Och, howly Moses ! an' who be ye ; fur what I knows ye may be atryin' to git meself an' Pat darlin' into trouble V \" interrupted Judy. ", "start_byte": 318740, "end_byte": 318877, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 352.6000061035156, "end_time": 364.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 352.57500610351565, "cut_end_time": 364.47006860351564}, {"text": " said he, and removing his disguise proved to Judy the truth of his assertion. ", "start_byte": 318921, "end_byte": 319000, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 368.3999938964844, "end_time": 375.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 368.7449938964844, "cut_end_time": 375.2001188964844}, {"text": "\"Tanks to the Lord! fur acomin' to sea us, fur Pat \"wanted to sea ye badly ; but he was afeard to go where ye was, fur he was adreadin' them bluddy divils ! \" responded Judy, overcome with such vehement joy that she laughed and cried at once. ", "start_byte": 319002, "end_byte": 319245, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 375.8800048828125, "end_time": 397.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 376.09500488281253, "cut_end_time": 397.66000488281253}, {"text": "174 THE SOCIAL WAR OF 1900; OR, ", "start_byte": 319247, "end_byte": 319279, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 397.55999755859375, "end_time": 398.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 397.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 398.2501225585938}, {"text": "At this moment Pat O'Conner entered the house, when Judy called to him : ", "start_byte": 319281, "end_byte": 319354, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 398.1600036621094, "end_time": 404.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 398.5450036621094, "cut_end_time": 403.0300036621094}, {"text": "'\u2022 Pat, darlin', air ye be yerself alone ? \" ", "start_byte": 319356, "end_byte": 319401, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 404.0799865722656, "end_time": 408.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 404.3349865722656, "cut_end_time": 407.33004907226564}, {"text": "\" Yis, Judy, me darlin',\" said Pat. ", "start_byte": 319403, "end_byte": 319439, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 408.55999755859375, "end_time": 411.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 408.85499755859377, "cut_end_time": 411.2301225585938}, {"text": "\" Thin, com in,, som one ye know bees here,\" she ejacu- lated. ", "start_byte": 319441, "end_byte": 319504, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 411.760009765625, "end_time": 418.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 412.295009765625, "cut_end_time": 417.360009765625}, {"text": "'* God bless ye, good Dochter Juno, but I'se glad to see ye ; an' do ye know anyting ov our mishtress an' mashter V \" choking with delight, said Pat. ", "start_byte": 319506, "end_byte": 319656, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 418.0799865722656, "end_time": 430.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 418.44498657226563, "cut_end_time": 430.51011157226566}, {"text": "\" Yes, sir, faithful Pat, I have been to see the general in the insane asylum, and found him really insane, but I could not learn anything of Miss Lucinda Armington ; however, I sincerely believe that she also is imprisoned in that place, not for insanity, but for having been my friend. I came to see you particularly to inquire, if you can give me any information in any way of the dark deeds of these bloody people ? \" exclaimed Dr. Juno. ", "start_byte": 319658, "end_byte": 320100, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 430.760009765625, "end_time": 467.0, "cut_start_time": 431.41500976562503, "cut_end_time": 466.40000976562504}, {"text": " said Pat. ", "start_byte": 320198, "end_byte": 320209, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 474.55999755859375, "end_time": 475.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 474.6949975585938, "cut_end_time": 475.4301225585938}, {"text": " said he, \"because tliat would ruin everything; we must work in secret as well as they, or we cannot save our dear friends and benefactors ; I mean Miss Lucinda and her father \" \u2014 ", "start_byte": 320258, "end_byte": 320438, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 479.8399963378906, "end_time": 494.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 480.19499633789064, "cut_end_time": 492.77012133789066}, {"text": " interrupted Pat,", "start_byte": 320466, "end_byte": 320483, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 496.760009765625, "end_time": 498.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 496.935009765625, "cut_end_time": 498.060072265625}, {"text": " ", "start_byte": 320663, "end_byte": 320664, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 517.4400024414062, "end_time": 517.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 517.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 517.5400649414063}, {"text": "\" Pat, you say you hnoio it ; but, can you inform me Jiow you know this V \" asked he. ", "start_byte": 320666, "end_byte": 320752, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 517.4400024414062, "end_time": 526.0, "cut_start_time": 517.5450024414063, "cut_end_time": 525.3700024414063}, {"text": "\" Yis, sir, I'll tell ye how I knows it ; Jemmy, me frind, what is now in the Penitentiary, was a overseer widin that asylum, an' Judy and meself tould Jemmy to hunt fur ye an' our mislitress, an' he did so an' found ye both ; an' he tould me that he would let ye both out, ef he could, an' I tink he was cought adoin' they work, an' that is why these divils put him into the prison,\" said Pat, very much dis- tressed. ", "start_byte": 320754, "end_byte": 321173, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 526.0, "end_time": 563.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 526.485, "cut_end_time": 563.62}, {"text": "THE CONSPIRATORS AND LOVERS. 175 ", "start_byte": 321175, "end_byte": 321208, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 563.5599975585938, "end_time": 564.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 563.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 564.2600600585938}, {"text": "\" O Lord ! O Lord ! Pat, I have it all now in my mind. Jemmy opened my cell and was the sole cause of my escape from that liell-hole.\" ", "start_byte": 321210, "end_byte": 321345, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 564.1599731445312, "end_time": 574.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 564.4849731445313, "cut_end_time": 574.0000356445313}, {"text": "\" Was he, bedad '!* I tould Judy I belaved he had to do wid yer escape,\" said Pat, half crazy with joy. \" But will ye not do somethin' quickerer than lightnin' to git my swate mishtress outer ov that divil ov a plaze V \" ", "start_byte": 321347, "end_byte": 321568, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 574.6799926757812, "end_time": 593.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 575.0449926757813, "cut_end_time": 592.7100551757812}, {"text": "\" Yes, sir, I will do that just as soon as I can gather suf- ficient people and influence around me to do it success- fully ; but it would be foolish to try sooner and fail ; much better keep everything quiet until I am strong enough to strike a fatal blow. I will get a permit from the Governor of the Commonwealth to visit Jemmy in the Penitentiary, and will learn particulars,\" said Dr. Juno. ", "start_byte": 321570, "end_byte": 321966, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 593.9199829101562, "end_time": 624.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 594.4849829101563, "cut_end_time": 624.1901079101563}, {"text": "\" Och, murdher ! an' ye knows how to work them cur- mudgon. An' I have morer to tell ye, ov tings I knows,\" responded Pat. ", "start_byte": 321968, "end_byte": 322091, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 625.239990234375, "end_time": 636.0, "cut_start_time": 625.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 635.080052734375}]}

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But where am I?\u201d", "start_byte": 752150, "end_byte": 752223, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 54.720001220703125, "end_time": 60.47999954223633, "cut_start_time": 55.22500122070313, "cut_end_time": 59.940001220703124, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cFine men!", "start_byte": 752823, "end_byte": 752833, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 103.55999755859375, "end_time": 104.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 103.89499755859374, "cut_end_time": 104.63006005859374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, Your Majesty,", "start_byte": 753015, "end_byte": 753083, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 118.72000122070312, "end_time": 123.04000091552734, "cut_start_time": 118.99500122070312, "cut_end_time": 122.84006372070311, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHave some brought from the reserve,", "start_byte": 753163, "end_byte": 753199, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 128.16000366210938, "end_time": 130.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 128.48500366210936, "cut_end_time": 130.06006616210936, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThat\u2019s a fine death!", "start_byte": 753415, "end_byte": 753436, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 144.67999267578125, "end_time": 146.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 145.14499267578125, "cut_end_time": 146.36011767578125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAh! He is alive,", "start_byte": 754569, "end_byte": 754586, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 225.8000030517578, "end_time": 227.60000610351562, "cut_start_time": 226.4950030517578, "cut_end_time": 227.6600655517578, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cLift this young man up and carry him to the dressing station.\u201d", "start_byte": 754603, "end_byte": 754666, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 228.63999938964844, "end_time": 233.0, "cut_start_time": 228.84499938964842, "cut_end_time": 232.17006188964842, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWe must halt here: the Emperor will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen prisoners.\u201d", "start_byte": 755359, "end_byte": 755472, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 280.8399963378906, "end_time": 289.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 281.01499633789064, "cut_end_time": 289.26005883789065, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "rapidly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThere are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole Russian army, that he is probably tired of them,", "start_byte": 755474, "end_byte": 755575, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 289.67999267578125, "end_time": 295.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 290.24499267578125, "cut_end_time": 295.70011767578126, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAll the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor Alexander\u2019s Guards,", "start_byte": 755600, "end_byte": 755688, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 297.79998779296875, "end_time": 303.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 298.09498779296877, "cut_end_time": 303.00011279296876, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhich is the senior?", "start_byte": 755996, "end_byte": 756017, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 326.4800109863281, "end_time": 327.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 326.69501098632816, "cut_end_time": 327.71001098632814, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou are the commander of the Emperor Alexander\u2019s regiment of Horse Guards?", "start_byte": 756095, "end_byte": 756170, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 333.8399963378906, "end_time": 338.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 334.3449963378906, "cut_end_time": 338.32012133789067, 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352.5401188964844, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI bestow it with pleasure,", "start_byte": 756373, "end_byte": 756400, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 354.20001220703125, "end_time": 356.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 354.45501220703125, "cut_end_time": 356.0000747070313, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd who is that young man beside you?\u201d", "start_byte": 756417, "end_byte": 756456, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 357.6000061035156, "end_time": 360.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 358.0450061035157, "cut_end_time": 359.97006860351564, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe\u2019s very young to come to meddle with us.\u201d", "start_byte": 756540, "end_byte": 756584, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 368.8800048828125, "end_time": 372.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 369.3050048828125, "cut_end_time": 371.4200048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYouth is no hindrance to courage,", "start_byte": 756586, "end_byte": 756620, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 372.239990234375, "end_time": 374.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 372.484990234375, "cut_end_time": 374.60011523437504, "narrative_prediction": {"muttered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "failing": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cA splendid reply!", "start_byte": 756662, "end_byte": 756680, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 377.7200012207031, "end_time": 379.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 378.0350012207031, "cut_end_time": 379.31000122070316, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYoung man, you will go far!\u201d", "start_byte": 756697, "end_byte": 756726, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 380.8800048828125, "end_time": 383.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 381.0450048828125, "cut_end_time": 382.8100048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cyoung man", "start_byte": 756984, "end_byte": 756994, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 401.32000732421875, "end_time": 402.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 401.3550073242188, "cut_end_time": 402.12000732421876, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, and you, young man,", "start_byte": 757050, "end_byte": 757076, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 406.0, "end_time": 408.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 406.125, "cut_end_time": 407.9500625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow do you feel, mon brave?\u201d", "start_byte": 757087, "end_byte": 757116, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 408.8800048828125, "end_time": 411.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 409.0550048828125, "cut_end_time": 411.4000673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHave these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. Au revoir, Prince Repn\u00edn!", "start_byte": 758118, "end_byte": 758247, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 482.8399963378906, "end_time": 492.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 483.0349963378907, "cut_end_time": 492.59012133789065, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt would be good,", "start_byte": 758741, "end_byte": 758759, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 532.5599975585938, "end_time": 534.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 532.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 534.3601225585937, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cit would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to Mary. How good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, and what to expect after it beyond the grave! How happy and calm I should be if I could now say: \u2018Lord, have mercy on me!\u2019... But to whom should I say that? Either to a Power indefinable, incomprehensible, which I not only cannot address but which I cannot even express in words \u2014 the Great All or Nothing-", "start_byte": 758873, "end_byte": 759323, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 542.8800048828125, "end_time": 573.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 543.1950048828126, "cut_end_time": 573.5100048828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cor to that God who has been sewn into this amulet by Mary! There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.\u201d", "start_byte": 759345, "end_byte": 759565, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 575.8800048828125, "end_time": 591.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 576.1550048828125, "cut_end_time": 591.0500673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. He did not know how long his unconsciousness lasted. Suddenly he again felt that he was alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head.", "start_byte": 751785, "end_byte": 751994, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 27.079999923706055, "end_time": 43.040000915527344, "cut_start_time": 27.744999923706057, "cut_end_time": 42.34012492370606}, {"text": " was his first thought.", "start_byte": 752070, "end_byte": 752093, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 48.68000030517578, "end_time": 51.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 48.86500030517578, "cut_end_time": 51.46006280517578}, {"text": " he thought.", "start_byte": 752137, "end_byte": 752149, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 53.720001220703125, "end_time": 54.720001220703125, "cut_start_time": 53.72500122070313, "cut_end_time": 54.390063720703125}, {"text": "He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices speaking French. He opened his eyes. Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity. He did not turn his head and did not see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up and stopped near him.", "start_byte": 752225, "end_byte": 752595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 60.47999954223633, "end_time": 87.68000030517578, "cut_start_time": 61.25499954223633, "cut_end_time": 87.15012454223633}, {"text": "It was Napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. Bonaparte riding over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left on the field.", "start_byte": 752597, "end_byte": 752821, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 87.68000030517578, "end_time": 103.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 88.09500030517577, "cut_end_time": 102.94000030517577}, {"text": " remarked Napoleon, looking at a dead Russian grenadier, who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide.", "start_byte": 752834, "end_byte": 753013, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 104.63999938964844, "end_time": 118.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 104.76499938964844, "cut_end_time": 117.37012438964842}, {"text": " said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were firing at Augesd.", "start_byte": 753084, "end_byte": 753161, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 123.04000091552734, "end_time": 128.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 123.07500091552734, "cut_end_time": 126.86006341552734}, {"text": " said Napoleon, and having gone on a few steps he stopped before Prince Andrew, who lay on his back with the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (The flag had already been taken by the French as a trophy.)", "start_byte": 753200, "end_byte": 753413, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 130.16000366210938, "end_time": 144.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 130.35500366210937, "cut_end_time": 144.03000366210938}, {"text": " said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolk\u00f3nski.", "start_byte": 753437, "end_byte": 753477, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 146.36000061035156, "end_time": 149.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 146.55500061035156, "cut_end_time": 149.24000061035156}, {"text": "Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was Napoleon who said it. He heard the speaker addressed as Sire. But he heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. Not only did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once forgot them. His head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. He knew it was Napoleon \u2014 his hero \u2014 but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to understand it so differently. He collected all his strength, to stir and utter a sound. He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan which aroused his own pity.", "start_byte": 753479, "end_byte": 754567, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 149.63999938964844, "end_time": 225.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 150.02499938964843, "cut_end_time": 225.06012438964842}, {"text": " said Napoleon.", "start_byte": 754587, "end_byte": 754602, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 227.60000610351562, "end_time": 228.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 227.7150061035156, "cut_end_time": 228.5200061035156}, {"text": "Having said this, Napoleon rode on to meet Marshal Lannes, who, hat in hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory.", "start_byte": 754668, "end_byte": 754811, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 233.0, "end_time": 243.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 233.295, "cut_end_time": 242.4900625}, {"text": "Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look about him and even speak.", "start_byte": 754813, "end_byte": 755251, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 243.16000366210938, "end_time": 272.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 243.49500366210938, "cut_end_time": 272.38000366210935}, {"text": "The first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a French convoy officer, who said rapidly:", "start_byte": 755253, "end_byte": 755358, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 272.79998779296875, "end_time": 280.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 273.30498779296875, "cut_end_time": 280.5800502929688}, {"text": " said another officer.", "start_byte": 755576, "end_byte": 755598, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 295.7200012207031, "end_time": 297.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 295.7250012207031, "cut_end_time": 297.27000122070314}, {"text": " said the first one, indicating a Russian officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards.", "start_byte": 755689, "end_byte": 755780, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 303.32000732421875, "end_time": 309.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 303.56500732421875, "cut_end_time": 309.27006982421875}, {"text": "Bolk\u00f3nski recognized Prince Repn\u00edn whom he had met in Petersburg society. Beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of the Horse Guards.", "start_byte": 755782, "end_byte": 755935, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 309.4800109863281, "end_time": 322.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 309.62501098632816, "cut_end_time": 321.60007348632814}, {"text": "Bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse.", "start_byte": 755937, "end_byte": 755994, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 322.20001220703125, "end_time": 326.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 322.44501220703125, "cut_end_time": 325.9100747070313}, {"text": " he asked, on seeing the prisoners.", "start_byte": 756018, "end_byte": 756053, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 327.8399963378906, "end_time": 330.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 327.92499633789066, "cut_end_time": 329.8701213378906}, {"text": "They named the colonel, Prince Repn\u00edn.", "start_byte": 756055, "end_byte": 756093, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 330.32000732421875, "end_time": 333.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 330.30500732421876, "cut_end_time": 333.36000732421877}, {"text": " asked Napoleon.", "start_byte": 756171, "end_byte": 756187, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 338.9200134277344, "end_time": 340.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 339.0650134277344, "cut_end_time": 340.2200134277344}, {"text": " replied Repn\u00edn.", "start_byte": 756214, "end_byte": 756230, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 342.32000732421875, "end_time": 343.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 342.5250073242188, "cut_end_time": 343.63006982421877}, {"text": " said Napoleon.", "start_byte": 756277, "end_byte": 756292, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 347.0, "end_time": 348.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 347.15500000000003, "cut_end_time": 348.17}, {"text": " said Repn\u00edn.", "start_byte": 756358, "end_byte": 756371, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 352.8800048828125, "end_time": 354.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 353.15500488281253, "cut_end_time": 354.0200673828125}, {"text": " said Napoleon.", "start_byte": 756401, "end_byte": 756416, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 356.1600036621094, "end_time": 357.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 356.2750036621094, "cut_end_time": 357.2500661621094}, {"text": "Prince Repn\u00edn named Lieutenant Sukht\u00e9len.", "start_byte": 756458, "end_byte": 756499, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 360.6400146484375, "end_time": 364.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 360.8650146484375, "cut_end_time": 363.97001464843754}, {"text": "After looking at him Napoleon smiled.", "start_byte": 756501, "end_byte": 756538, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 364.3999938964844, "end_time": 368.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 364.65499389648437, "cut_end_time": 368.1901188964844}, {"text": " muttered Sukht\u00e9len in a failing voice.", "start_byte": 756621, "end_byte": 756660, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 374.7200012207031, "end_time": 377.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 374.9050012207031, "cut_end_time": 377.19006372070317}, {"text": " said Napoleon.", "start_byte": 756681, "end_byte": 756696, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 379.3599853515625, "end_time": 380.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 379.6049853515625, "cut_end_time": 380.5801103515625}, {"text": "Prince Andrew, who had also been brought forward before the Emperor\u2019s eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his attention. Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield and, addressing him, again used the epithet", "start_byte": 756728, "end_byte": 756983, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 383.79998779296875, "end_time": 401.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 384.29498779296875, "cut_end_time": 401.2301127929688}, {"text": " that was connected in his memory with Prince Andrew.", "start_byte": 756995, "end_byte": 757048, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 402.1199951171875, "end_time": 406.0, "cut_start_time": 402.3449951171875, "cut_end_time": 405.4400576171875}, {"text": " said he.", "start_byte": 757077, "end_byte": 757086, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 408.0400085449219, "end_time": 408.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 408.1050085449219, "cut_end_time": 408.8000710449219}, {"text": "Though five minutes before, Prince Andrew had been able to say a few words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed straight on Napoleon, he was silent.... So insignificant at that moment seemed to him all the interests that engrossed Napoleon, so mean did his hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and understood, that he could not answer him.", "start_byte": 757118, "end_byte": 757576, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 411.9200134277344, "end_time": 444.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 412.2450134277344, "cut_end_time": 444.2300134277344}, {"text": "Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. Looking into Napoleon\u2019s eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one alive could understand or explain.", "start_byte": 757578, "end_byte": 758018, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 444.9599914550781, "end_time": 476.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 445.18499145507815, "cut_end_time": 475.63011645507817}, {"text": "The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of the officers as he went:", "start_byte": 758020, "end_byte": 758117, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 476.1600036621094, "end_time": 482.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 476.7450036621094, "cut_end_time": 482.4900036621094}, {"text": " and he spurred his horse and galloped away.", "start_byte": 758248, "end_byte": 758292, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 492.760009765625, "end_time": 496.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 492.97500976562503, "cut_end_time": 495.21000976562505}, {"text": "His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure.", "start_byte": 758294, "end_byte": 758345, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 496.3999938964844, "end_time": 501.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 496.9949938964844, "cut_end_time": 500.7500563964844}, {"text": "The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the little gold icon Princess Mary had hung round her brother\u2019s neck, but seeing the favor the Emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to return the holy image.", "start_byte": 758347, "end_byte": 758580, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 501.1199951171875, "end_time": 518.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 501.56499511718755, "cut_end_time": 518.1501201171875}, {"text": "Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest outside his uniform.", "start_byte": 758582, "end_byte": 758739, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 518.9600219726562, "end_time": 532.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 519.2950219726563, "cut_end_time": 532.6600219726563}, {"text": " thought Prince Andrew, glancing at the icon his sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence,", "start_byte": 758760, "end_byte": 758872, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 534.3200073242188, "end_time": 542.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 534.4650073242187, "cut_end_time": 542.3200698242188}, {"text": " said he to himself,", "start_byte": 759324, "end_byte": 759344, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 573.5999755859375, "end_time": 575.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 573.7249755859375, "cut_end_time": 575.5001005859375}, {"text": "The stretchers moved on. At every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. Visions of his father, wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious fancies.", "start_byte": 759567, "end_byte": 759935, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 591.8400268554688, "end_time": 618.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 592.4450268554688, "cut_end_time": 617.9200893554688}]}

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I am very glad. All our important business here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. The diplomatic career now lies open before you.\u201d", "start_byte": 516500, "end_byte": 516879, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 481.44000244140625, "end_time": 508.0, "cut_start_time": 481.61500244140626, "cut_end_time": 507.3900024414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMais, mon cher, I did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it up tomorrow. But you will see everything for yourself when you get to Petersburg. It is high time for you to get away from these terrible recollections.", "start_byte": 517242, "end_byte": 517605, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 532.4000244140625, "end_time": 556.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 532.5750244140626, "cut_end_time": 556.1000869140626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, yes, my boy. And my valet can go in your carriage. Ah! I was nearly forgetting,", "start_byte": 517629, "end_byte": 517714, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 558.280029296875, "end_time": 564.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 558.645029296875, "cut_end_time": 564.740091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so I have received what was due from the Ryaz\u00e1n estate and will keep it; you won\u2019t require it. We\u2019ll go into the accounts later.\u201d", "start_byte": 517726, "end_byte": 517923, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 565.5599975585938, "end_time": 579.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 565.8049975585938, "cut_end_time": 579.3300600585937, "narrative_prediction": {"sighed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cwhat was due from the Ryaz\u00e1n estate", "start_byte": 517928, "end_byte": 517964, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 580.0399780273438, "end_time": 582.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 580.0549780273437, "cut_end_time": 582.3600405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"meant": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou will find the beautiful H\u00e9l\u00e8ne here, whom it is always delightful to see.\u201d", "start_byte": 519853, "end_byte": 519932, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 712.280029296875, "end_time": 717.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 712.475029296875, "cut_end_time": 717.190091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAt Home", "start_byte": 520255, "end_byte": 520263, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 738.8400268554688, "end_time": 739.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 738.8150268554688, "cut_end_time": 739.4800268554687, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWait a bit, I have something in view for you this evening.", "start_byte": 521564, "end_byte": 521623, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 826.2000122070312, "end_time": 829.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 826.5250122070313, "cut_end_time": 829.7100122070312, "narrative_prediction": {"saying": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy dear H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, be charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for ten minutes. And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count who will not refuse to accompany you.\u201d", "start_byte": 521668, "end_byte": 521867, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 832.47998046875, "end_time": 845.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 832.74498046875, "cut_end_time": 844.85010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"saying": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIsn\u2019t she exquisite?", "start_byte": 521999, "end_byte": 522020, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 854.4000244140625, "end_time": 856.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 854.7350244140625, "cut_end_time": 856.0500869140625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd how she carries herself! For so young a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! It comes from her heart. Happy the man who wins her! With her the least worldly of men would occupy a most brilliant position in society. Don\u2019t you think so? I only wanted to know your opinion,", "start_byte": 522093, "end_byte": 522384, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 860.6400146484375, "end_time": 881.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 861.0250146484375, "cut_end_time": 881.6100146484375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI hope you won\u2019t say that it is dull in my house again,", "start_byte": 522944, "end_byte": 523000, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 919.9199829101562, "end_time": 923.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 920.2349829101563, "cut_end_time": 923.2401079101563, "narrative_prediction": {"saying": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThat is probably the work of Vinesse,", "start_byte": 523775, "end_byte": 523813, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 973.280029296875, "end_time": 975.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 973.675029296875, "cut_end_time": 975.620029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSo you have never noticed before how beautiful I am?", "start_byte": 524899, "end_byte": 524952, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1047.6400146484375, "end_time": 1051.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1048.1850146484373, "cut_end_time": 1051.1700146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"seemed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou had not noticed that I am a woman? Yes, I am a woman who may belong to anyone \u2014 to you too,", "start_byte": 524976, "end_byte": 525072, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1052.719970703125, "end_time": 1060.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1053.0149707031248, "cut_end_time": 1060.1900332031248, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, I will leave you in your little corner,", "start_byte": 526029, "end_byte": 526075, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1124.3199462890625, "end_time": 1126.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1124.5749462890624, "cut_end_time": 1127.0300087890623, "narrative_prediction": {"came": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI see you are all right there.\u201d", "start_byte": 526105, "end_byte": 526137, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1129.0, "end_time": 1131.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1129.185, "cut_end_time": 1130.6899999999998, "narrative_prediction": {"came": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI hear you are refitting your Petersburg house?\u201d", "start_byte": 526415, "end_byte": 526464, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1149.239990234375, "end_time": 1152.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1149.5349902343748, "cut_end_time": 1152.290052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThat\u2019s a good thing, but don\u2019t move from Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s. It is good to have a friend like the prince,", "start_byte": 526615, "end_byte": 526718, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1162.8399658203125, "end_time": 1169.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1163.2749658203124, "cut_end_time": 1169.0300283203123, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "smiling": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI know something about that. Don\u2019t I? And you are still so young. You need advice. Don\u2019t be angry with me for exercising an old woman\u2019s privilege.\u201d", "start_byte": 526756, "end_byte": 526904, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1171.52001953125, "end_time": 1181.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1171.8450195312498, "cut_end_time": 1181.10001953125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIf you marry it will be a different thing,", "start_byte": 526995, "end_byte": 527038, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1187.52001953125, "end_time": 1190.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1187.95501953125, "cut_end_time": 1190.1500195312499, "narrative_prediction": {"continued": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, she\u2019s good looking,", "start_byte": 527460, "end_byte": 527485, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1218.1600341796875, "end_time": 1220.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1218.4250341796874, "cut_end_time": 1219.6900966796875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut she\u2019s stupid. I have myself said she is stupid,", "start_byte": 527543, "end_byte": 527595, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1224.0799560546875, "end_time": 1227.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1224.4449560546875, "cut_end_time": 1227.8400810546875, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThere is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites in me. I have been told that her brother Anatole was in love with her and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that\u2019s why he was sent away. Hippolyte is her brother... Prince Vas\u00edli is her father... It\u2019s bad....", "start_byte": 527609, "end_byte": 527908, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1228.6400146484375, "end_time": 1248.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1228.9350146484373, "cut_end_time": 1248.9900771484374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut no! Why did this thought never occur to me before?", "start_byte": 528400, "end_byte": 528455, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1282.280029296875, "end_time": 1286.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1282.6250292968748, "cut_end_time": 1285.900091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"told": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " Nor did he say to himself:", "start_byte": 510825, "end_byte": 510852, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 84.55999755859375, "end_time": 86.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 84.85499755859374, "cut_end_time": 86.40006005859374}, {"text": " But when he came across a man of position his instinct immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any premeditation Prince Vas\u00edli took the first opportunity to gain his confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his request.", "start_byte": 510961, "end_byte": 511232, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 94.08000183105469, "end_time": 114.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 94.54500183105468, "cut_end_time": 114.03006433105469}, {"text": "He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as Gentleman of the Bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to Petersburg and staying at his house. With apparent absent-mindedness, yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, Prince Vas\u00edli did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. Had he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both above and below him in social standing. Something always drew him toward those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people.", "start_byte": 511234, "end_byte": 511998, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 114.44000244140625, "end_time": 168.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 114.82500244140624, "cut_end_time": 168.12000244140626}, {"text": "Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bez\u00fakhov and a rich man, felt himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. He had to sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his estate near Moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended and grieved had he chosen not to see them. These different people \u2014 businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike \u2014 were all disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of Pierre\u2019s noble qualities. He was always hearing such words as:", "start_byte": 512000, "end_byte": 512798, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 168.55999755859375, "end_time": 225.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 168.92499755859373, "cut_end_time": 225.46012255859375}, {"text": " or,", "start_byte": 512831, "end_byte": 512835, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 227.39999389648438, "end_time": 227.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 227.63499389648436, "cut_end_time": 227.82011889648436}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 512864, "end_byte": 512864, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 229.60000610351562, "end_time": 229.60000610351562, "cut_start_time": 229.57500610351562, "cut_end_time": 229.70006860351563}, {"text": " or,", "start_byte": 512904, "end_byte": 512908, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 232.16000366210938, "end_time": 232.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 232.37500366210938, "cut_end_time": 232.62006616210937}, {"text": " and so on, till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. Even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. The angry eldest princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll\u2019s, had come into Pierre\u2019s room after the funeral. With drooping eyes and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where she had sacrificed so much. She could not refrain from weeping at these words. Touched that this statuesque princess could so change, Pierre took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began knitting a striped scarf for him.", "start_byte": 512936, "end_byte": 514023, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 234.0800018310547, "end_time": 311.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 234.05500183105468, "cut_end_time": 310.4300018310547}, {"text": " said Prince Vas\u00edli to him, handing him a deed to sign for the princess\u2019 benefit.", "start_byte": 514123, "end_byte": 514204, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 317.2799987792969, "end_time": 323.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 317.4649987792969, "cut_end_time": 322.5201237792969}, {"text": "Prince Vas\u00edli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw this bone \u2014 a bill for thirty thousand rubles \u2014 to the poor princess that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of the inlaid portfolio. Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess grew still kinder. The younger sisters also became affectionate to him, especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him.", "start_byte": 514206, "end_byte": 514703, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 323.4800109863281, "end_time": 357.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 323.80501098632817, "cut_end_time": 356.96001098632814}, {"text": "It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. Besides, he had no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. He was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful intoxication. He felt as though he were the center of some important and general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of him, but still that happy result always remained in the future.", "start_byte": 514705, "end_byte": 515396, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 357.5199890136719, "end_time": 406.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 357.8849890136719, "cut_end_time": 405.5601140136719}, {"text": "More than anyone else, Prince Vas\u00edli took possession of Pierre\u2019s affairs and of Pierre himself in those early days. From the death of Count Bez\u00fakhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. He had the air of a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for pity\u2019s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice of fate and the designs of rogues. During the few days he spent in Moscow after the death of Count Bez\u00fakhov, he would call Pierre, or go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time:", "start_byte": 515398, "end_byte": 516078, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 406.1600036621094, "end_time": 452.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 406.4450036621094, "cut_end_time": 452.2400036621094}, {"text": " said Prince Vas\u00edli one day, closing his eyes and fingering Pierre\u2019s elbow, speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed upon and could not now be altered.", "start_byte": 516316, "end_byte": 516499, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 468.79998779296875, "end_time": 481.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 468.92498779296875, "cut_end_time": 480.94011279296876}, {"text": "Notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words were pronounced, Pierre, who had so long been considering his career, wished to make some suggestion. But Prince Vas\u00edli interrupted him in the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was needed.", "start_byte": 516881, "end_byte": 517240, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 508.0, "end_time": 532.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 508.46500000000003, "cut_end_time": 532.1300625}, {"text": " Prince Vas\u00edli sighed.", "start_byte": 517606, "end_byte": 517628, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 556.4400024414062, "end_time": 558.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 556.5950024414062, "cut_end_time": 557.9400649414063}, {"text": " he added.", "start_byte": 517715, "end_byte": 517725, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 564.6400146484375, "end_time": 565.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 564.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 565.3400146484375}, {"text": "By", "start_byte": 517925, "end_byte": 517927, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 579.719970703125, "end_time": 580.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 579.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 580.140033203125}, {"text": " Prince Vas\u00edli meant several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre\u2019s peasants, which the prince had retained for himself.", "start_byte": 517965, "end_byte": 518094, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 582.5599975585938, "end_time": 590.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 582.7149975585937, "cut_end_time": 590.6801225585938}, {"text": "In Petersburg, as in Moscow, Pierre found the same atmosphere of gentleness and affection. He could not refuse the post, or rather the rank (for he did nothing), that Prince Vas\u00edli had procured for him, and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous that, even more than in Moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never attained.", "start_byte": 518096, "end_byte": 518526, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 590.9600219726562, "end_time": 621.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 591.2550219726563, "cut_end_time": 620.7700844726563}, {"text": "Of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in Petersburg. The Guards had gone to the front; D\u00f3lokhov had been reduced to the ranks; Anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; Prince Andrew was abroad; so Pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with a friend older than himself and whom he respected. His whole time was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and his beautiful daughter H\u00e9l\u00e8ne.", "start_byte": 518528, "end_byte": 519114, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 621.280029296875, "end_time": 661.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 621.615029296875, "cut_end_time": 660.8500917968751}, {"text": "Like the others, Anna P\u00e1vlovna Sch\u00e9rer showed Pierre the change of attitude toward him that had taken place in society.", "start_byte": 519116, "end_byte": 519235, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 661.4400024414062, "end_time": 669.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 661.7450024414063, "cut_end_time": 669.4500649414063}, {"text": "Formerly in Anna P\u00e1vlovna\u2019s presence, Pierre had always felt that what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte\u2019s stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said was charmant. Even if Anna P\u00e1vlovna did not say so, he could see that she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty.", "start_byte": 519237, "end_byte": 519715, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 669.8800048828125, "end_time": 702.0, "cut_start_time": 670.2250048828125, "cut_end_time": 701.5800048828125}, {"text": "In the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 Pierre received one of Anna P\u00e1vlovna\u2019s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added:", "start_byte": 519717, "end_byte": 519852, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 702.0, "end_time": 712.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 702.405, "cut_end_time": 712.1100625}, {"text": "When he read that sentence, Pierre felt for the first time that some link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an entertaining supposition.", "start_byte": 519934, "end_byte": 520237, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 717.8400268554688, "end_time": 737.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 718.2850268554688, "cut_end_time": 736.9400268554688}, {"text": "Anna P\u00e1vlovna\u2019s", "start_byte": 520239, "end_byte": 520254, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 737.47998046875, "end_time": 738.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 737.75498046875, "cut_end_time": 738.9401054687501}, {"text": " was like the former one, only the novelty she offered her guests this time was not Mortemart, but a diplomatist fresh from Berlin with the very latest details of the Emperor Alexander\u2019s visit to Potsdam, and of how the two august friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. Anna P\u00e1vlovna received Pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the young man\u2019s recent loss by the death of Count Bez\u00fakhov (everyone constantly considered it a duty to assure Pierre that he was greatly afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention of her most august Majesty the Empress M\u00e1rya F\u00ebdorovna. Pierre felt flattered by this. Anna P\u00e1vlovna arranged the different groups in her drawing room with her habitual skill. The large group, in which were Prince Vas\u00edli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. Another group was at the tea table. Pierre wished to join the former, but Anna P\u00e1vlovna \u2014 who was in the excited condition of a commander on a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which there is hardly time to put in action \u2014 seeing Pierre, touched his sleeve with her finger, saying:", "start_byte": 520264, "end_byte": 521562, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 739.47998046875, "end_time": 826.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 739.60498046875, "cut_end_time": 825.77010546875}, {"text": " (She glanced at H\u00e9l\u00e8ne and smiled at her.)", "start_byte": 521624, "end_byte": 521667, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 829.9199829101562, "end_time": 832.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 830.1549829101563, "cut_end_time": 832.1800454101563}, {"text": "The beauty went to the aunt, but Anna P\u00e1vlovna detained Pierre, looking as if she had to give some final necessary instructions.", "start_byte": 521869, "end_byte": 521997, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 845.2000122070312, "end_time": 854.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 845.5950122070312, "cut_end_time": 853.9100747070313}, {"text": " she said to Pierre, pointing to the stately beauty as she glided away.", "start_byte": 522021, "end_byte": 522092, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 856.0800170898438, "end_time": 860.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 856.1950170898438, "cut_end_time": 860.3500795898437}, {"text": " and Anna P\u00e1vlovna let Pierre go.", "start_byte": 522385, "end_byte": 522418, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 881.6799926757812, "end_time": 884.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 881.9349926757812, "cut_end_time": 884.1701176757813}, {"text": "Pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to H\u00e9l\u00e8ne\u2019s perfection of manner. If he ever thought of H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, it was just of her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in society.", "start_byte": 522420, "end_byte": 522625, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 884.4000244140625, "end_time": 898.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 884.7850244140625, "cut_end_time": 897.9700869140626}, {"text": "The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed desirous of hiding her adoration for H\u00e9l\u00e8ne and inclined rather to show her fear of Anna P\u00e1vlovna. She looked at her niece, as if inquiring what she was to do with these people. On leaving them, Anna P\u00e1vlovna again touched Pierre\u2019s sleeve, saying:", "start_byte": 522627, "end_byte": 522943, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 898.4000244140625, "end_time": 919.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 898.8150244140626, "cut_end_time": 919.9700244140626}, {"text": " and she glanced at H\u00e9l\u00e8ne.", "start_byte": 523001, "end_byte": 523028, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 923.4400024414062, "end_time": 925.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 923.6550024414063, "cut_end_time": 925.1300649414063}, {"text": "H\u00e9l\u00e8ne smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. The aunt coughed, swallowed, and said in French that she was very pleased to see H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, then she turned to Pierre with the same words of welcome and the same look. In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave to everyone. Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. The aunt was just speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to Pierre\u2019s father, Count Bez\u00fakhov, and showed them her own box. Princess H\u00e9l\u00e8ne asked to see the portrait of the aunt\u2019s husband on the box lid.", "start_byte": 523030, "end_byte": 523773, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 925.52001953125, "end_time": 973.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 925.77501953125, "cut_end_time": 972.78008203125}, {"text": " said Pierre, mentioning a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table.", "start_byte": 523814, "end_byte": 523975, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 975.6799926757812, "end_time": 986.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 975.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 986.0000551757813}, {"text": "He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, passing it across H\u00e9l\u00e8ne\u2019s back. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne stooped forward to make room, and looked round with a smile. She was, as always at evening parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at front and back. Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. He was conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the creaking of her corset as she moved. He did not see her marble beauty forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body only covered by her garments. And having once seen this he could not help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once seen through.", "start_byte": 523977, "end_byte": 524897, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 986.5999755859375, "end_time": 1047.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 987.0149755859376, "cut_end_time": 1047.1201005859375}, {"text": " H\u00e9l\u00e8ne seemed to say.", "start_byte": 524953, "end_byte": 524975, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1051.199951171875, "end_time": 1052.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1051.384951171875, "cut_end_time": 1052.520013671875}, {"text": " said her glance. And at that moment Pierre felt that H\u00e9l\u00e8ne not only could, but must, be his wife, and that it could not be otherwise.", "start_byte": 525073, "end_byte": 525208, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1060.239990234375, "end_time": 1069.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1060.424990234375, "cut_end_time": 1069.4001152343749}, {"text": "He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen.", "start_byte": 525210, "end_byte": 525482, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1069.760009765625, "end_time": 1088.0, "cut_start_time": 1070.115009765625, "cut_end_time": 1087.750009765625}, {"text": "Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every day until then, but he could no longer do it. He could not, any more than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. She was terribly close to him. She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any barrier except the barrier of his own will.", "start_byte": 525484, "end_byte": 526027, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1088.0, "end_time": 1124.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1088.445, "cut_end_time": 1123.6599999999999}, {"text": " came Anna P\u00e1vlovna\u2019s voice,", "start_byte": 526076, "end_byte": 526104, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1126.9599609375, "end_time": 1129.0, "cut_start_time": 1127.0949609375, "cut_end_time": 1128.8300234375}, {"text": "And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything reprehensible, looked round with a blush. It seemed to him that everyone knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself.", "start_byte": 526139, "end_byte": 526334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1131.1199951171875, "end_time": 1143.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1131.4949951171875, "cut_end_time": 1143.4400576171874}, {"text": "A little later when he went up to the large circle, Anna P\u00e1vlovna said to him:", "start_byte": 526336, "end_byte": 526414, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1143.8399658203125, "end_time": 1149.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1144.1949658203125, "cut_end_time": 1148.8800283203125}, {"text": "This was true. The architect had told him that it was necessary, and Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house done up.", "start_byte": 526466, "end_byte": 526613, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1152.47998046875, "end_time": 1162.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1152.7449804687499, "cut_end_time": 1162.1500429687499}, {"text": " she said, smiling at Prince Vas\u00edli.", "start_byte": 526719, "end_byte": 526755, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1169.0799560546875, "end_time": 1171.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1169.2749560546874, "cut_end_time": 1171.3600810546875}, {"text": "She paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have mentioned their age.", "start_byte": 526906, "end_byte": 526994, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1181.47998046875, "end_time": 1187.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1181.71498046875, "cut_end_time": 1186.9601054687498}, {"text": " she continued, uniting them both in one glance. Pierre did not look at H\u00e9l\u00e8ne nor she at him. But she was just as terribly close to him. He muttered something and colored.", "start_byte": 527039, "end_byte": 527211, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1190.0799560546875, "end_time": 1202.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1190.1349560546873, "cut_end_time": 1201.7600185546873}, {"text": "When he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what had happened. What had happened? Nothing. He had merely understood that the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned he had said absent-mindedly:", "start_byte": 527213, "end_byte": 527459, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1202.0799560546875, "end_time": 1218.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1202.4649560546875, "cut_end_time": 1217.9500810546874}, {"text": " he had understood that this woman might belong to him.", "start_byte": 527486, "end_byte": 527541, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1220.0400390625, "end_time": 1224.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1220.3550390624998, "cut_end_time": 1223.5200390625}, {"text": " he thought.", "start_byte": 527596, "end_byte": 527608, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1227.760009765625, "end_time": 1228.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1227.8050097656248, "cut_end_time": 1228.290072265625}, {"text": " he reflected, but while he was thinking this (the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had thought and heard of her might be false. And he again saw her not as the daughter of Prince Vas\u00edli, but visualized her whole body only veiled by its gray dress.", "start_byte": 527909, "end_byte": 528399, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1248.9200439453125, "end_time": 1282.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1249.0550439453125, "cut_end_time": 1281.7401064453124}]}

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I will invite two or three people, and if he does not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair \u2014 yes, my affair. I am her father.\u201d", "start_byte": 530193, "end_byte": 530423, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 85.44000244140625, "end_time": 102.4800033569336, "cut_start_time": 85.82500244140624, "cut_end_time": 102.10006494140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAt Home", "start_byte": 530457, "end_byte": 530465, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 105.19999694824219, "end_time": 105.91999816894531, "cut_start_time": 105.17499694824218, "cut_end_time": 105.81005944824219, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cTill tomorrow,", "start_byte": 531458, "end_byte": 531473, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 179.16000366210938, "end_time": 180.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 179.46500366210938, "cut_end_time": 180.32000366210937, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBe in to dinner or I shall not see you,", "start_byte": 531479, "end_byte": 531519, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 181.1999969482422, "end_time": 184.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 181.2949969482422, "cut_end_time": 184.1500594482422, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI am staying in for your sake,", "start_byte": 531525, "end_byte": 531556, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 184.9199981689453, "end_time": 187.1999969482422, "cut_start_time": 185.2449981689453, "cut_end_time": 187.1600606689453, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is time I understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken before, or am I mistaken now? No, she is not stupid, she is an excellent girl,", "start_byte": 531781, "end_byte": 531943, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 203.36000061035156, "end_time": 216.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 203.63500061035157, "cut_end_time": 216.28000061035155, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cshe never makes a mistake, never says anything stupid. She says little, but what she does say is always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!", "start_byte": 531974, "end_byte": 532194, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 218.52000427246094, "end_time": 235.0, "cut_start_time": 218.74500427246093, "cut_end_time": 234.64000427246094, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat am I doing? I need resolution. Can it be that I have none?\u201d", "start_byte": 533114, "end_byte": 533179, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 299.1199951171875, "end_time": 304.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 299.3449951171875, "cut_end_time": 304.0700576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSerg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch, From all sides reports reach me,", "start_byte": 535747, "end_byte": 535796, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 489.6000061035156, "end_time": 493.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 489.67500610351567, "cut_end_time": 493.8000686035156, "narrative_prediction": {"was": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, and so he never got farther than: \u2018Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch\u2019?", "start_byte": 535804, "end_byte": 535862, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 495.3599853515625, "end_time": 498.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 495.7849853515625, "cut_end_time": 498.77004785156254, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cExactly, not a hair\u2019s breadth farther,", "start_byte": 535890, "end_byte": 535929, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 500.7200012207031, "end_time": 503.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 500.7850012207031, "cut_end_time": 503.48006372070313, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "laughing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201c\u2018Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch... From all sides... From all sides... Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch...\u2019 Poor Vyazm\u00edtinov could not get any farther! He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered \u2018Serg\u00e9y\u2019 he sobbed, \u2018Kuz-m\u00ed-ch,\u2019 tears, and \u2018From all sides\u2019 was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again his handkerchief, and again: \u2018Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch, From all sides,\u2019... and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.\u201d", "start_byte": 535965, "end_byte": 536397, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 506.32000732421875, "end_time": 538.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 506.5150073242188, "cut_end_time": 537.9000698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cKuzm\u00edch... From all sides... and then tears,", "start_byte": 536399, "end_byte": 536444, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 538.3200073242188, "end_time": 541.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 538.4050073242188, "cut_end_time": 541.3100698242188, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "laughing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cDon\u2019t be unkind,", "start_byte": 536474, "end_byte": 536491, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 543.47998046875, "end_time": 544.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 543.75498046875, "cut_end_time": 544.85010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"cried": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe is such a worthy and excellent man, our dear Vyazm\u00edtinov....\u201d", "start_byte": 536572, "end_byte": 536637, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 550.2000122070312, "end_time": 554.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 550.4550122070312, "cut_end_time": 554.5500122070313, "narrative_prediction": {"cried": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes... it\u2019s getting on, it will all be settled today.", "start_byte": 537666, "end_byte": 537720, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 626.0, "end_time": 629.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 626.325, "cut_end_time": 629.5800625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cour dear Vyazm\u00edtinov,", "start_byte": 537764, "end_byte": 537786, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 632.719970703125, "end_time": 634.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 632.754970703125, "cut_end_time": 634.300033203125, "narrative_prediction": {"threatened": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, there\u2019s nothing left for you and me but to sip sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to be thus boldly, provocatively happy.", "start_byte": 538089, "end_byte": 538250, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 656.3200073242188, "end_time": 668.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 656.6650073242188, "cut_end_time": 667.6300698242188, "narrative_prediction": {"seemed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd what nonsense all this is that I am saying!", "start_byte": 538252, "end_byte": 538300, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 668.280029296875, "end_time": 671.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 668.785029296875, "cut_end_time": 671.360091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThat\u2019s happiness!\u201d", "start_byte": 538368, "end_byte": 538387, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 675.9199829101562, "end_time": 677.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 676.0849829101563, "cut_end_time": 677.2800454101563, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSo it is all finished!", "start_byte": 539392, "end_byte": 539415, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 752.1599731445312, "end_time": 753.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 752.5849731445313, "cut_end_time": 753.7700981445313, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd how has it all happened? How quickly! Now I know that not because of her alone, nor of myself alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. They are all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that I cannot, I cannot, disappoint them. But how will it be? I do not know, but it will certainly happen!", "start_byte": 539429, "end_byte": 539761, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 754.6400146484375, "end_time": 780.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 755.0150146484375, "cut_end_time": 779.8300771484376, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut no doubt it always is and must be so!", "start_byte": 540058, "end_byte": 540100, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 800.9199829101562, "end_time": 804.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 801.4149829101563, "cut_end_time": 804.2100454101562, "narrative_prediction": {"consoled": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd besides, what have I done to bring it about? How did it begin? I traveled from Moscow with Prince Vas\u00edli. Then there was nothing. So why should I not stay at his house? Then I played cards with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it begin, when did it all come about?", "start_byte": 540123, "end_byte": 540422, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 806.0, "end_time": 826.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 806.385, "cut_end_time": 826.8100625000001, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI am asking you when you last heard from Bolk\u00f3nski,", "start_byte": 540962, "end_byte": 541014, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 866.0399780273438, "end_time": 869.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 866.6849780273437, "cut_end_time": 869.7801030273438, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow absent-minded you are, my dear fellow.\u201d", "start_byte": 541053, "end_byte": 541097, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 872.8800048828125, "end_time": 875.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 873.1750048828126, "cut_end_time": 875.5100048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, what of it, if you all know it?", "start_byte": 541185, "end_byte": 541223, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 883.0399780273438, "end_time": 885.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 883.2949780273437, "cut_end_time": 885.4701030273437, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat of it? It\u2019s the truth!", "start_byte": 541241, "end_byte": 541269, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 886.5599975585938, "end_time": 888.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 886.7149975585937, "cut_end_time": 888.4000600585938, "narrative_prediction": {"smiled": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhen did you get the letter? Was it from Olm\u00fctz?", "start_byte": 541345, "end_byte": 541394, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 894.239990234375, "end_time": 897.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 894.504990234375, "cut_end_time": 897.460052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow can one talk or think of such trifles?", "start_byte": 541486, "end_byte": 541529, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 904.1599731445312, "end_time": 907.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 904.5449731445312, "cut_end_time": 907.0700356445312, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, from Olm\u00fctz,", "start_byte": 541548, "end_byte": 541566, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 908.1599731445312, "end_time": 909.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 908.3849731445313, "cut_end_time": 909.6100981445313, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sigh": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, the old fool,", "start_byte": 542129, "end_byte": 542147, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 950.5599975585938, "end_time": 952.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 951.2849975585938, "cut_end_time": 952.3601225585937, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThat Princess H\u00e9l\u00e8ne will be beautiful still when she\u2019s fifty.\u201d", "start_byte": 542161, "end_byte": 542225, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 953.280029296875, "end_time": 958.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 953.525029296875, "cut_end_time": 957.280029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI think I may congratulate you,", "start_byte": 542227, "end_byte": 542259, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 958.0399780273438, "end_time": 960.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 958.7249780273438, "cut_end_time": 960.6600405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"whispered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIf I hadn\u2019t this headache I\u2019d have stayed longer.\u201d", "start_byte": 542327, "end_byte": 542378, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 964.9600219726562, "end_time": 968.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 965.1850219726563, "cut_end_time": 968.0300844726563, "narrative_prediction": {"whispered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThis happiness is not for you,", "start_byte": 542907, "end_byte": 542938, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1005.280029296875, "end_time": 1007.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 1005.605029296875, "cut_end_time": 1007.360029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"whispered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThis happiness is for those who have not in them what there is in you.\u201d", "start_byte": 542975, "end_byte": 543047, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1010.0, "end_time": 1015.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 1010.265, "cut_end_time": 1014.58, "narrative_prediction": {"whispered": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, L\u00eblya?", "start_byte": 543714, "end_byte": 543727, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1060.4000244140625, "end_time": 1061.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1060.5250244140625, "cut_end_time": 1061.4900244140624, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, it is your own fault.\u201d", "start_byte": 544536, "end_byte": 544565, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1117.5999755859375, "end_time": 1119.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1117.7749755859375, "cut_end_time": 1119.4201005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"seemed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe step must be taken but I cannot, I cannot!", "start_byte": 544567, "end_byte": 544614, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1119.800048828125, "end_time": 1123.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1120.0650488281249, "cut_end_time": 1123.4300488281249, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOf course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...\u201d", "start_byte": 544972, "end_byte": 545040, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1147.6400146484375, "end_time": 1152.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1147.9150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1152.0000146484374, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMarriages are made in heaven,", "start_byte": 545042, "end_byte": 545072, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1152.3199462890625, "end_time": 1154.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1152.5349462890624, "cut_end_time": 1154.1600087890624, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAline,", "start_byte": 545305, "end_byte": 545312, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1172.0799560546875, "end_time": 1172.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1172.2349560546875, "cut_end_time": 1172.8200185546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cgo and see what they are about.\u201d", "start_byte": 545335, "end_byte": 545368, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1174.1600341796875, "end_time": 1176.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1174.2550341796873, "cut_end_time": 1176.0300341796874, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cStill the same,", "start_byte": 545550, "end_byte": 545566, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1188.9599609375, "end_time": 1190.0, "cut_start_time": 1189.2049609375, "cut_end_time": 1190.1000234374999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThank God!", "start_byte": 545977, "end_byte": 545988, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1220.0, "end_time": 1220.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1220.2549999999999, "cut_end_time": 1220.9099999999999, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cMy wife has told me everything!", "start_byte": 546010, "end_byte": 546042, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1222.239990234375, "end_time": 1224.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 1222.5749902343748, "cut_end_time": 1224.2301152343748, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy dear boy... L\u00eblya... I am very pleased.", "start_byte": 546112, "end_byte": 546155, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1228.760009765625, "end_time": 1232.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1229.0150097656249, "cut_end_time": 1231.9600722656248, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "trembled": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI loved your father... and she will make you a good wife... God bless you!...\u201d", "start_byte": 546179, "end_byte": 546258, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1233.9599609375, "end_time": 1239.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1234.2349609374999, "cut_end_time": 1239.1700234374998, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "trembled": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cPrincess, come here!", "start_byte": 546389, "end_byte": 546410, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1248.719970703125, "end_time": 1250.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1248.934970703125, "cut_end_time": 1250.1400957031249, "narrative_prediction": {"shouted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAll this had to be and could not be otherwise,", "start_byte": 546633, "end_byte": 546680, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1265.9200439453125, "end_time": 1268.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1266.2550439453123, "cut_end_time": 1268.9701064453125, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cso it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. It is good because it\u2019s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.", "start_byte": 546698, "end_byte": 546826, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1269.760009765625, "end_time": 1278.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1270.165009765625, "cut_end_time": 1278.2200097656248, "narrative_prediction": {"held": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "silence": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cH\u00e9l\u00e8ne!", "start_byte": 546931, "end_byte": 546939, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1285.8399658203125, "end_time": 1286.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1286.2949658203124, "cut_end_time": 1286.7400908203124, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cSomething special is always said in such cases,", "start_byte": 546968, "end_byte": 547016, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1289.3599853515625, "end_time": 1292.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1289.8049853515624, "cut_end_time": 1292.5800478515623, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, take those off... those...", "start_byte": 547148, "end_byte": 547179, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1302.3599853515625, "end_time": 1304.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1302.6849853515623, "cut_end_time": 1304.7301103515624, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is too late now, it\u2019s done; besides I love her,", "start_byte": 547608, "end_byte": 547659, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1333.3599853515625, "end_time": 1337.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1333.6249853515624, "cut_end_time": 1337.2401103515624, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cJe vous aime!", "start_byte": 547678, "end_byte": 547692, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1338.56005859375, "end_time": 1339.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1338.68505859375, "cut_end_time": 1339.7801210937498, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": ") was not behaving very well in this matter.", "start_byte": 530054, "end_byte": 530098, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 75.04000091552734, "end_time": 78.80000305175781, "cut_start_time": 75.18500091552734, "cut_end_time": 77.66006341552733}, {"text": " thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart,", "start_byte": 530143, "end_byte": 530192, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 82.16000366210938, "end_time": 85.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 82.13500366210937, "cut_end_time": 85.19006616210937}, {"text": "Six weeks after Anna P\u00e1vlovna\u2019s", "start_byte": 530425, "end_byte": 530456, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 102.4800033569336, "end_time": 105.19999694824219, "cut_start_time": 102.82500335693359, "cut_end_time": 105.30000335693359}, {"text": " and after the sleepless night when he had decided that to marry H\u00e9l\u00e8ne would be a calamity and that he ought to avoid her and go away, Pierre, despite that decision, had not left Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s and felt with terror that in people\u2019s eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. He might perhaps have been able to free himself but that Prince Vas\u00edli (who had rarely before given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening party at which Pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil the general pleasure and disappoint everyone\u2019s expectation. Prince Vas\u00edli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take Pierre\u2019s hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for Pierre to kiss and would say:", "start_byte": 530466, "end_byte": 531457, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 105.91999816894531, "end_time": 179.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 106.1449981689453, "cut_end_time": 179.13012316894532}, {"text": " or,", "start_byte": 531474, "end_byte": 531478, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 180.63999938964844, "end_time": 181.1999969482422, "cut_start_time": 180.72499938964845, "cut_end_time": 181.16006188964843}, {"text": " or,", "start_byte": 531520, "end_byte": 531524, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 184.47999572753906, "end_time": 184.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 184.56499572753907, "cut_end_time": 184.98005822753905}, {"text": " and so on. And though Prince Vas\u00edli, when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre\u2019s sake, hardly exchanged a couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. Every day he said to himself one and the same thing:", "start_byte": 531557, "end_byte": 531780, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 187.1999969482422, "end_time": 203.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 187.17499694824218, "cut_end_time": 203.02012194824218}, {"text": " he sometimes said to himself", "start_byte": 531944, "end_byte": 531973, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 216.27999877929688, "end_time": 218.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 216.51499877929686, "cut_end_time": 218.15012377929688}, {"text": " He had often begun to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark \u2014 showing that it did not interest her \u2014 or by a silent look and smile which more palpably than anything else showed Pierre her superiority. She was right in regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile.", "start_byte": 532195, "end_byte": 532563, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 235.0, "end_time": 262.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 235.285, "cut_end_time": 261.58}, {"text": "She always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general smile that usually brightened her face. Pierre knew that everyone was waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. A thousand times during that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to that dreadful abyss, Pierre said to himself:", "start_byte": 532565, "end_byte": 533113, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 262.239990234375, "end_time": 299.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 262.614990234375, "cut_end_time": 298.940052734375}, {"text": "He wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really possessed. Pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at Anna P\u00e1vlovna\u2019s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire paralyzed his will.", "start_byte": 533181, "end_byte": 533612, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 304.239990234375, "end_time": 335.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 304.604990234375, "cut_end_time": 335.22005273437503}, {"text": "On H\u00e9l\u00e8ne\u2019s name day, a small party of just their own people \u2014 as his wife said \u2014 met for supper at Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s. All these friends and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young girl would be decided that evening. The visitors were seated at supper. Princess Kur\u00e1gina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, was sitting at the head of the table. On either side of her sat the more important guests \u2014 an old general and his wife, and Anna P\u00e1vlovna Sch\u00e9rer. At the other end sat the younger and less important guests, and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, side by side. Prince Vas\u00edli was not having any supper: he went round the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of the guests. To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark except to Pierre and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, whose presence he seemed not to notice. He enlivened the whole party. The wax candles burned brightly, the silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies\u2019 toilets and the gold and silver of the men\u2019s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with the animated hum of several conversations. At one end of the table, the old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the story of the misfortunes of some Mary V\u00edktorovna or other. At the center of the table, Prince Vas\u00edli attracted everybody\u2019s attention. With a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last Wednesday\u2019s meeting of the Imperial Council, at which Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch Vyazm\u00edtinov, the new military governor general of Petersburg, had received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander from the army to Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch, in which the Emperor said that he was receiving from all sides declarations of the people\u2019s loyalty, that the declaration from Petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be worthy of it. This rescript began with the words:", "start_byte": 533614, "end_byte": 535746, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 335.8399963378906, "end_time": 489.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 336.23499633789066, "cut_end_time": 489.32012133789067}, {"text": " etc.", "start_byte": 535797, "end_byte": 535802, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 493.8800048828125, "end_time": 495.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 493.9150048828125, "cut_end_time": 494.77000488281254}, {"text": " asked one of the ladies.", "start_byte": 535863, "end_byte": 535888, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 498.9599914550781, "end_time": 500.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 499.06499145507814, "cut_end_time": 500.39011645507816}, {"text": " answered Prince Vas\u00edli, laughing,", "start_byte": 535930, "end_byte": 535964, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 503.4800109863281, "end_time": 506.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 503.51501098632815, "cut_end_time": 506.11007348632813}, {"text": " someone repeated laughing.", "start_byte": 536445, "end_byte": 536472, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 541.4000244140625, "end_time": 543.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 541.6250244140625, "cut_end_time": 543.1900244140626}, {"text": " cried Anna P\u00e1vlovna from her end of the table holding up a threatening finger.", "start_byte": 536492, "end_byte": 536571, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 544.760009765625, "end_time": 550.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 544.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 549.880072265625}, {"text": "Everybody laughed a great deal. At the head of the table, where the honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the influence of a variety of exciting sensations. Only Pierre and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing to do with Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch \u2014 a smile of bashfulness at their own feelings. But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, saut\u00e9, and ices, and however they avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave that the story about Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch, the laughter, and the food were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was directed to \u2014 Pierre and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne. Prince Vas\u00edli mimicked the sobbing of Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said:", "start_byte": 536639, "end_byte": 537665, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 554.9199829101562, "end_time": 626.0, "cut_start_time": 555.3249829101562, "cut_end_time": 625.7100454101562}, {"text": " Anna P\u00e1vlovna threatened him on behalf of", "start_byte": 537721, "end_byte": 537763, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 629.9600219726562, "end_time": 632.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 630.1150219726562, "cut_end_time": 632.7000219726563}, {"text": " and in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at Pierre, Prince Vas\u00edli read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter\u2019s happiness. The old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh seemed to say:", "start_byte": 537787, "end_byte": 538088, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 634.5999755859375, "end_time": 656.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 634.8249755859375, "cut_end_time": 655.9701005859375}, {"text": "", "start_byte": 538251, "end_byte": 538251, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 668.280029296875, "end_time": 668.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 668.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 668.380091796875}, {"text": " thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces of the lovers.", "start_byte": 538301, "end_byte": 538367, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 671.3200073242188, "end_time": 675.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 671.4750073242187, "cut_end_time": 675.7000073242187}, {"text": "Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was evidently forced. Not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked at the beautiful H\u00e9l\u00e8ne with her radiant face and at the red, broad, and happy though uneasy face of Pierre. It seemed as if the very light of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone.", "start_byte": 538389, "end_byte": 539079, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 677.6799926757812, "end_time": 728.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 677.7949926757813, "cut_end_time": 727.9300551757813}, {"text": "Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and embarrassed him. He was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. He did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. Only now and then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot unexpectedly through his mind.", "start_byte": 539081, "end_byte": 539390, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 728.719970703125, "end_time": 752.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 729.104970703125, "cut_end_time": 751.6700332031251}, {"text": " he thought.", "start_byte": 539416, "end_byte": 539428, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 753.8800048828125, "end_time": 754.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 753.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 754.5800673828126}, {"text": " thought Pierre, glancing at those dazzling shoulders close to his eyes.", "start_byte": 539762, "end_byte": 539834, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 780.0800170898438, "end_time": 785.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 780.2750170898438, "cut_end_time": 784.4100795898438}, {"text": "Or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. He felt it awkward to attract everyone\u2019s attention and to be considered a lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris possessed of a Helen.", "start_byte": 539836, "end_byte": 540057, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 785.280029296875, "end_time": 800.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 785.655029296875, "cut_end_time": 800.670029296875}, {"text": " he consoled himself.", "start_byte": 540101, "end_byte": 540122, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 804.239990234375, "end_time": 806.0, "cut_start_time": 804.4049902343751, "cut_end_time": 805.580052734375}, {"text": " And here he was sitting by her side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her breathing, her movements, her beauty. Then it would suddenly seem to him that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good fortune. Suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a second time. But Pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what was said.", "start_byte": 540423, "end_byte": 540960, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 826.9600219726562, "end_time": 866.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 827.3850219726563, "cut_end_time": 865.5000219726562}, {"text": " repeated Prince Vas\u00edli a third time.", "start_byte": 541015, "end_byte": 541052, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 869.8800048828125, "end_time": 872.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 869.9850048828125, "cut_end_time": 872.5700673828126}, {"text": "Prince Vas\u00edli smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at him and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne.", "start_byte": 541099, "end_byte": 541184, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 875.9199829101562, "end_time": 883.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 876.1249829101563, "cut_end_time": 882.7600454101563}, {"text": " thought Pierre.", "start_byte": 541224, "end_byte": 541240, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 885.52001953125, "end_time": 886.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 885.62501953125, "cut_end_time": 886.38001953125}, {"text": " and he himself smiled his gentle childlike smile, and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne smiled too.", "start_byte": 541270, "end_byte": 541343, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 888.47998046875, "end_time": 894.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 888.62498046875, "cut_end_time": 893.84004296875}, {"text": " repeated Prince Vas\u00edli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a dispute.", "start_byte": 541395, "end_byte": 541484, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 897.5999755859375, "end_time": 904.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 897.7749755859376, "cut_end_time": 903.6200380859375}, {"text": " thought Pierre.", "start_byte": 541530, "end_byte": 541546, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 907.1199951171875, "end_time": 908.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 907.2349951171875, "cut_end_time": 907.9200576171875}, {"text": " he answered, with a sigh.", "start_byte": 541567, "end_byte": 541593, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 909.52001953125, "end_time": 911.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 909.49501953125, "cut_end_time": 911.14001953125}, {"text": "After supper Pierre with his partner followed the others into the drawing room. The guests began to disperse, some without taking leave of H\u00e9l\u00e8ne. Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, refusing to let her see them off. The diplomatist preserved a mournful silence as he left the drawing room. He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre\u2019s happiness. The old general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was.", "start_byte": 541595, "end_byte": 542128, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 911.5999755859375, "end_time": 950.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 911.8649755859375, "cut_end_time": 950.4400380859375}, {"text": " he thought.", "start_byte": 542148, "end_byte": 542160, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 952.280029296875, "end_time": 953.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 952.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 952.830091796875}, {"text": " whispered Anna P\u00e1vlovna to the old princess, kissing her soundly.", "start_byte": 542260, "end_byte": 542326, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 960.5599975585938, "end_time": 964.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 960.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 964.7701225585938}, {"text": "The old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her daughter\u2019s happiness.", "start_byte": 542380, "end_byte": 542470, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 968.280029296875, "end_time": 974.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 968.685029296875, "cut_end_time": 974.630029296875}, {"text": "While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time alone with H\u00e9l\u00e8ne in the little drawing room where they were sitting. He had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, but had never spoken to her of love. Now he felt that it was inevitable, but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. He felt ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else\u2019s place here beside H\u00e9l\u00e8ne.", "start_byte": 542472, "end_byte": 542906, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 974.9199829101562, "end_time": 1005.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 975.1949829101562, "cut_end_time": 1004.9601079101562}, {"text": " some inner voice whispered to him.", "start_byte": 542939, "end_byte": 542974, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1007.5599975585938, "end_time": 1010.0, "cut_start_time": 1007.8049975585938, "cut_end_time": 1009.6300600585938}, {"text": "But, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was satisfied with the party. She replied in her usual simple manner that this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had.", "start_byte": 543049, "end_byte": 543262, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1015.0399780273438, "end_time": 1030.0, "cut_start_time": 1015.5449780273437, "cut_end_time": 1029.7300405273438}, {"text": "Some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. They were sitting in the large drawing room. Prince Vas\u00edli came up to Pierre with languid footsteps. Pierre rose and said it was getting late. Prince Vas\u00edli gave him a look of stern inquiry, as though what Pierre had just said was so strange that one could not take it in. But then the expression of severity changed, and he drew Pierre\u2019s hand downwards, made him sit down, and smiled affectionately.", "start_byte": 543264, "end_byte": 543712, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1030.0, "end_time": 1060.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1030.625, "cut_end_time": 1059.8500625}, {"text": " he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which Prince Vas\u00edli had only acquired by imitating other parents.", "start_byte": 543728, "end_byte": 543972, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1061.5999755859375, "end_time": 1078.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1061.7449755859375, "cut_end_time": 1077.7800380859373}, {"text": "And he again turned to Pierre.", "start_byte": 543974, "end_byte": 544004, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1078.1199951171875, "end_time": 1080.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1078.4949951171875, "cut_end_time": 1080.1501201171875}, {"text": "\u201cSerg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch \u2014 From all sides \u2014 \u201d he said, unbuttoning the top button of his waistcoat.", "start_byte": 544006, "end_byte": 544096, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1080.6800537109375, "end_time": 1087.0, "cut_start_time": 1080.7750537109373, "cut_end_time": 1086.7500537109374}, {"text": "Pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story about Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch that interested Prince Vas\u00edli just then, and Prince Vas\u00edli saw that Pierre knew this. He suddenly muttered something and went away. It seemed to Pierre that even the prince was disconcerted. The sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world touched Pierre: he looked at H\u00e9l\u00e8ne and she too seemed disconcerted, and her look seemed to say:", "start_byte": 544098, "end_byte": 544535, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1087.0, "end_time": 1117.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 1087.215, "cut_end_time": 1117.31}, {"text": " thought Pierre, and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about Serg\u00e9y Kuzm\u00edch, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it properly. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne answered with a smile that she too had missed it.", "start_byte": 544615, "end_byte": 544837, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1123.43994140625, "end_time": 1138.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1123.60494140625, "cut_end_time": 1138.54006640625}, {"text": "When Prince Vas\u00edli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre.", "start_byte": 544839, "end_byte": 544970, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1138.8800048828125, "end_time": 1147.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1139.1750048828123, "cut_end_time": 1147.2300673828124}, {"text": " replied the elderly lady.", "start_byte": 545073, "end_byte": 545099, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1154.239990234375, "end_time": 1156.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1154.354990234375, "cut_end_time": 1155.890115234375}, {"text": "Prince Vas\u00edli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down on a sofa in a far corner of the room. He closed his eyes and seemed to be dozing. His head sank forward and then he roused himself.", "start_byte": 545101, "end_byte": 545303, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1156.4000244140625, "end_time": 1172.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1156.6250244140624, "cut_end_time": 1171.0400244140624}, {"text": " he said to his wife,", "start_byte": 545313, "end_byte": 545334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1172.719970703125, "end_time": 1174.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1172.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 1173.8800957031249}, {"text": "The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. Pierre and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne still sat talking just as before.", "start_byte": 545370, "end_byte": 545548, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1176.3599853515625, "end_time": 1188.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1176.7549853515625, "cut_end_time": 1188.5800478515623}, {"text": " she said to her husband.", "start_byte": 545567, "end_byte": 545592, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1190.0, "end_time": 1191.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1189.975, "cut_end_time": 1191.4300624999998}, {"text": "Prince Vas\u00edli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. Shaking himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went past the ladies into the little drawing room. With quick steps he went joyfully up to Pierre. His face was so unusually triumphant that Pierre rose in alarm on seeing it.", "start_byte": 545594, "end_byte": 545975, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1191.8800048828125, "end_time": 1220.0, "cut_start_time": 1192.0950048828124, "cut_end_time": 1219.4700048828124}, {"text": " said Prince Vas\u00edli.", "start_byte": 545989, "end_byte": 546009, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1220.8399658203125, "end_time": 1222.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 1220.8149658203124, "cut_end_time": 1222.1300283203125}, {"text": " (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his daughter.) \u2014", "start_byte": 546043, "end_byte": 546111, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1224.52001953125, "end_time": 1228.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1224.7850195312499, "cut_end_time": 1228.30008203125}, {"text": " (His voice trembled.)", "start_byte": 546156, "end_byte": 546178, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1232.280029296875, "end_time": 1233.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1232.525029296875, "cut_end_time": 1233.6800292968749}, {"text": "He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his malodorous mouth. Tears actually moistened his cheeks.", "start_byte": 546260, "end_byte": 546387, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1239.719970703125, "end_time": 1248.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1240.174970703125, "cut_end_time": 1248.500033203125}, {"text": " he shouted.", "start_byte": 546411, "end_byte": 546423, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1250.0400390625, "end_time": 1251.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1250.0150390625, "cut_end_time": 1250.8201015625}, {"text": "The old princess came in and also wept. The elderly lady was using her handkerchief too. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful H\u00e9l\u00e8ne\u2019s hand several times. 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He looked at her face. She drew nearer to him. Her face flushed.", "start_byte": 547017, "end_byte": 547146, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1292.47998046875, "end_time": 1302.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1292.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 1301.99004296875}, {"text": " she said, pointing to his spectacles.", "start_byte": 547180, "end_byte": 547218, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1304.6400146484375, "end_time": 1307.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1304.6150146484374, "cut_end_time": 1307.1100771484373}, {"text": "Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and inquiring look. He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his lips and met them with her own. Her face struck Pierre, by its altered, unpleasantly excited expression.", "start_byte": 547220, "end_byte": 547606, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1307.4000244140625, "end_time": 1333.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1307.6950244140623, "cut_end_time": 1333.1500244140625}, {"text": " thought Pierre.", "start_byte": 547660, "end_byte": 547676, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1337.1600341796875, "end_time": 1338.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1337.1350341796874, "cut_end_time": 1337.8700966796873}]}

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I am having the avenue swept, your honor.\u201d", "start_byte": 550548, "end_byte": 550609, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 203.47999572753906, "end_time": 208.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 204.00499572753907, "cut_end_time": 208.07012072753906, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cGod be thanked,", "start_byte": 550663, "end_byte": 550679, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 212.24000549316406, "end_time": 213.60000610351562, "cut_start_time": 212.50500549316405, "cut_end_time": 213.53006799316407, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cthe storm has blown over!\u201d", "start_byte": 550703, "end_byte": 550730, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 214.72000122070312, "end_time": 217.0, "cut_start_time": 214.77500122070313, "cut_end_time": 216.53000122070313, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt would have been hard to drive up, your honor,", "start_byte": 550732, "end_byte": 550781, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 217.0, "end_time": 220.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 217.525, "cut_end_time": 220.19006249999998, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.\u201d", "start_byte": 550793, "end_byte": 550862, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 220.9600067138672, "end_time": 225.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 221.13500671386717, "cut_end_time": 224.9200067138672, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat? A minister? What minister? Who gave orders?", "start_byte": 550942, "end_byte": 550992, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 232.0, "end_time": 236.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 232.195, "cut_end_time": 236.8100625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe road is not swept for the princess my daughter, but for a minister! For me, there are no ministers!\u201d", "start_byte": 551030, "end_byte": 551135, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 239.36000061035156, "end_time": 247.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 239.66500061035157, "cut_end_time": 247.30000061035156, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYour honor, I thought...\u201d", "start_byte": 551137, "end_byte": 551163, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 247.27999877929688, "end_time": 248.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 247.47499877929687, "cut_end_time": 248.47006127929686, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou thought!", "start_byte": 551165, "end_byte": 551178, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 248.75999450683594, "end_time": 250.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 248.77499450683592, "cut_end_time": 250.01011950683593, "narrative_prediction": {"shouted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "rapidly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou thought!... Rascals! Blackguards!... I\u2019ll teach you to think!", "start_byte": 551257, "end_byte": 551323, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 255.47999572753906, "end_time": 260.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 255.56499572753907, "cut_end_time": 260.34012072753904, "narrative_prediction": {"shouted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThought... Blackguards...", "start_byte": 551453, "end_byte": 551479, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 269.44000244140625, "end_time": 271.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 269.50500244140625, "cut_end_time": 270.98000244140627, "narrative_prediction": {"shouted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "rapidly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBlackguards!... Throw the snow back on the road!", "start_byte": 551730, "end_byte": 551779, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 289.2799987792969, "end_time": 292.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 289.3749987792969, "cut_end_time": 292.3901237792969, "narrative_prediction": {"shouted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI know nothing, I am the same as usual,", "start_byte": 552015, "end_byte": 552055, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 309.9200134277344, "end_time": 313.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 310.1450134277344, "cut_end_time": 313.0700134277344, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIf I seem not to notice he will think that I do not sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will say (as he has done before) that I\u2019m in the dumps.\u201d", "start_byte": 552260, "end_byte": 552434, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 329.9599914550781, "end_time": 342.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 330.25499145507814, "cut_end_time": 341.96011645507815, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cFool... or dummy!", "start_byte": 552502, "end_byte": 552520, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 346.8800048828125, "end_time": 348.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 347.1250048828125, "cut_end_time": 348.72006738281254, "narrative_prediction": {"muttered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd the other one is not here. They\u2019ve been telling tales,", "start_byte": 552536, "end_byte": 552595, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 350.0400085449219, "end_time": 354.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 350.3850085449219, "cut_end_time": 354.7000710449219, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhere is the princess?", "start_byte": 552676, "end_byte": 552699, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 359.5199890136719, "end_time": 361.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 359.7549890136719, "cut_end_time": 361.1900515136719, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHiding?\u201d", "start_byte": 552711, "end_byte": 552720, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 361.9200134277344, "end_time": 362.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 361.9850134277344, "cut_end_time": 362.6500134277344, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cShe is not very well,", "start_byte": 552722, "end_byte": 552744, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 362.9599914550781, "end_time": 364.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 363.37499145507815, "cut_end_time": 364.90005395507814, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "bright": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cso she won\u2019t come down. It is natural in her state.\u201d", "start_byte": 552799, "end_byte": 552852, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 368.44000244140625, "end_time": 373.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 368.68500244140625, "cut_end_time": 373.2200024414063, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "bright": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cHm! Hm!", "start_byte": 552854, "end_byte": 552862, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 373.1199951171875, "end_time": 374.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 373.1049951171875, "cut_end_time": 374.2601201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"muttered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI am afraid for the baby,", "start_byte": 553180, "end_byte": 553206, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 399.44000244140625, "end_time": 401.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 400.06500244140625, "cut_end_time": 401.69006494140626, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHeaven knows what a fright might do.\u201d", "start_byte": 553244, "end_byte": 553282, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 403.9200134277344, "end_time": 407.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 404.2550134277344, "cut_end_time": 406.9100134277344, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSo we are to have visitors, mon prince?", "start_byte": 553814, "end_byte": 553854, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 447.2799987792969, "end_time": 450.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 447.6149987792969, "cut_end_time": 450.2500612792969, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHis Excellency Prince Vas\u00edli Kur\u00e1gin and his son, I understand?", "start_byte": 553939, "end_byte": 554003, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 456.0, "end_time": 460.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 456.15500000000003, "cut_end_time": 460.60006250000004, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "inquiringly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHm! \u2014 his excellency is a puppy.... I got him his appointment in the service,", "start_byte": 554028, "end_byte": 554106, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 462.79998779296875, "end_time": 468.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 462.9449877929688, "cut_end_time": 469.00005029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "disdainfully": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy his son is coming I don\u2019t understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. I don\u2019t want him.", "start_byte": 554138, "end_byte": 554249, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 470.8800048828125, "end_time": 479.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 471.08500488281254, "cut_end_time": 479.36006738281253, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "disdainfully": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAre you unwell today? Eh? Afraid of the \u2018minister\u2019 as that idiot Alp\u00e1tych called him this morning?\u201d", "start_byte": 554289, "end_byte": 554389, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 481.760009765625, "end_time": 489.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 481.985009765625, "cut_end_time": 489.35000976562503, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, mon p\u00e8re.\u201d", "start_byte": 554391, "end_byte": 554406, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 489.79998779296875, "end_time": 491.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 489.9349877929688, "cut_end_time": 491.05005029296876, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, I feel a kind of oppression,", "start_byte": 554962, "end_byte": 554996, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 532.4000244140625, "end_time": 535.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 533.1250244140625, "cut_end_time": 535.5300244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDo you want anything?\u201d", "start_byte": 555062, "end_byte": 555085, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 540.3200073242188, "end_time": 542.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 540.7250073242187, "cut_end_time": 542.3000698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, merci, mon p\u00e8re.\u201d", "start_byte": 555087, "end_byte": 555109, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 542.6400146484375, "end_time": 544.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 542.8250146484376, "cut_end_time": 544.3600771484375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, all right, all right.\u201d", "start_byte": 555111, "end_byte": 555140, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 544.9600219726562, "end_time": 547.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 545.2650219726563, "cut_end_time": 547.2700844726563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHas the snow been shoveled back?\u201d", "start_byte": 555227, "end_byte": 555261, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 553.8400268554688, "end_time": 555.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 554.1550268554688, "cut_end_time": 555.7600268554688, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, your excellency. Forgive me for heaven\u2019s sake... It was only my stupidity.\u201d", "start_byte": 555263, "end_byte": 555344, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 555.9199829101562, "end_time": 561.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 556.1549829101563, "cut_end_time": 561.0101079101563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAll right, all right,", "start_byte": 555346, "end_byte": 555368, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 561.3200073242188, "end_time": 563.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 561.5350073242188, "cut_end_time": 562.9800073242187, "narrative_prediction": {"interrupted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "laughing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd why not marry her if she really has so much money? That never does any harm,", "start_byte": 556204, "end_byte": 556285, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 626.719970703125, "end_time": 632.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 626.984970703125, "cut_end_time": 632.5400332031251, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, that\u2019s how I want you to look.\u201d", "start_byte": 556673, "end_byte": 556710, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 662.5599975585938, "end_time": 665.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 662.7249975585938, "cut_end_time": 664.8300600585937, "narrative_prediction": {"nodded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI say, Father, joking apart, is she very hideous?", "start_byte": 556712, "end_byte": 556762, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 665.6799926757812, "end_time": 670.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 666.3549926757813, "cut_end_time": 670.3500551757812, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cEnough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious with the old prince.\u201d", "start_byte": 556878, "end_byte": 556968, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 678.6400146484375, "end_time": 684.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 678.7550146484375, "cut_end_time": 684.3900771484375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIf he starts a row I\u2019ll go away,", "start_byte": 556970, "end_byte": 557003, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 684.6400146484375, "end_time": 688.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 684.9950146484375, "cut_end_time": 688.2200146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI can\u2019t bear those old men! Eh?\u201d", "start_byte": 557026, "end_byte": 557059, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 689.9199829101562, "end_time": 693.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 690.1549829101563, "cut_end_time": 692.8100454101562, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cRemember, for you everything depends on this.\u201d", "start_byte": 557061, "end_byte": 557108, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 693.1199951171875, "end_time": 697.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 693.4649951171875, "cut_end_time": 697.3900576171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy did they write, why did Lise tell me about it? It can never happen!", "start_byte": 557360, "end_byte": 557432, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 715.8400268554688, "end_time": 722.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 716.1650268554688, "cut_end_time": 722.0400893554688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow shall I enter the drawing room? Even if I like him I can\u2019t now be myself with him.", "start_byte": 557477, "end_byte": 557564, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 724.8800048828125, "end_time": 731.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 725.0450048828126, "cut_end_time": 731.2600048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou know they\u2019ve come, Marie?", "start_byte": 558135, "end_byte": 558165, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 771.760009765625, "end_time": 773.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 772.255009765625, "cut_end_time": 773.910072265625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat! Are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?", "start_byte": 558717, "end_byte": 558774, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 815.7999877929688, "end_time": 819.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 816.2549877929688, "cut_end_time": 819.4601127929687, "narrative_prediction": {"began": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThey\u2019ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself up at all!\u201d", "start_byte": 558787, "end_byte": 558930, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 820.8800048828125, "end_time": 829.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 821.2650048828125, "cut_end_time": 829.5300048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"began": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,", "start_byte": 559935, "end_byte": 559981, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 906.0399780273438, "end_time": 909.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 906.3849780273438, "cut_end_time": 909.4301030273438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou have a maroon dress, have it fetched. Really! You know the fate of your whole life may be at stake. But this one is too light, it\u2019s not becoming!\u201d", "start_byte": 560052, "end_byte": 560203, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 914.719970703125, "end_time": 925.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 914.974970703125, "cut_end_time": 924.970095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, it will not do,", "start_byte": 561170, "end_byte": 561190, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 991.0399780273438, "end_time": 992.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 991.2649780273438, "cut_end_time": 993.0200405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "decidedly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, Mary, really this dress does not suit you. I prefer you in your little gray everyday dress. Now please, do it for my sake. Katie,", "start_byte": 561232, "end_byte": 561366, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 995.9199829101562, "end_time": 1005.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 996.1549829101563, "cut_end_time": 1005.8100454101562, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cbring the princess her gray dress, and you\u2019ll see, Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it,", "start_byte": 561390, "end_byte": 561489, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1006.9600219726562, "end_time": 1012.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1007.1650219726563, "cut_end_time": 1012.1600219726563, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "smiling": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cCome, dear princess,", "start_byte": 561771, "end_byte": 561792, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1032.0799560546875, "end_time": 1033.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1032.2249560546875, "cut_end_time": 1033.8300810546873, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cjust one more little effort.\u201d", "start_byte": 561823, "end_byte": 561853, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1035.760009765625, "end_time": 1038.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1035.985009765625, "cut_end_time": 1037.7400722656248, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, now we\u2019ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,", "start_byte": 561935, "end_byte": 561996, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1043.760009765625, "end_time": 1047.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1044.0450097656249, "cut_end_time": 1047.7300097656248, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, leave me alone,", "start_byte": 562158, "end_byte": 562178, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1059.1199951171875, "end_time": 1061.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1059.2949951171875, "cut_end_time": 1060.9000576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAt least, change your coiffure,", "start_byte": 562482, "end_byte": 562514, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1084.0, "end_time": 1086.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1084.5349999999999, "cut_end_time": 1086.3500625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDidn\u2019t I tell you,", "start_byte": 562542, "end_byte": 562561, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1087.9200439453125, "end_time": 1089.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1088.1950439453124, "cut_end_time": 1089.2200439453125, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "reproachfully": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cMary\u2019s is a face which such a coiffure does not suit in the least. Not in the least! Please change it.\u201d", "start_byte": 562625, "end_byte": 562729, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1092.9599609375, "end_time": 1100.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1093.1349609375, "cut_end_time": 1100.4900234375, "narrative_prediction": {"went": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "reproachfully": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cLeave me alone, please leave me alone! It is all quite the same to me,", "start_byte": 562731, "end_byte": 562802, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1100.719970703125, "end_time": 1106.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1100.944970703125, "cut_end_time": 1105.850033203125, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou will change it, won\u2019t you?", "start_byte": 563306, "end_byte": 563337, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1143.719970703125, "end_time": 1145.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1144.074970703125, "cut_end_time": 1145.800033203125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut no, it is impossible, I am too ugly,", "start_byte": 563973, "end_byte": 564014, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1198.8800048828125, "end_time": 1204.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1199.2650048828125, "cut_end_time": 1204.2900048828124, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cPlease come to tea. The prince will be out in a moment,", "start_byte": 564030, "end_byte": 564086, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1205.4000244140625, "end_time": 1209.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1205.9050244140624, "cut_end_time": 1209.2000244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"came": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cO God,", "start_byte": 564739, "end_byte": 564746, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1261.8399658203125, "end_time": 1263.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1262.0149658203125, "cut_end_time": 1263.2000283203124, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201chow am I to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? How am I to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to fulfill Thy will?", "start_byte": 564758, "end_byte": 564908, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1264.3199462890625, "end_time": 1276.0, "cut_start_time": 1264.5149462890624, "cut_end_time": 1275.6900087890624, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " incautiously remarked the little princess on hearing the news.", "start_byte": 548666, "end_byte": 548729, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 60.63999938964844, "end_time": 65.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 60.734999389648436, "cut_end_time": 65.36012438964843}, {"text": "Prince Nicholas frowned, but said nothing.", "start_byte": 548731, "end_byte": 548773, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 65.44000244140625, "end_time": 69.4000015258789, "cut_start_time": 65.43500244140624, "cut_end_time": 69.38006494140625}, {"text": "A fortnight after the letter Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s servants came one evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day.", "start_byte": 548775, "end_byte": 548901, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 69.4000015258789, "end_time": 80.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 69.4550015258789, "cut_end_time": 80.7300640258789}, {"text": "Old Bolk\u00f3nski had always had a poor opinion of Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of Paul and Alexander Prince Vas\u00edli had risen to high position and honors. And now, from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into a feeling of contemptuous ill will. He snorted whenever he mentioned him. On the day of Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s arrival, Prince Bolk\u00f3nski was particularly discontented and out of temper. Whether he was in a bad temper because Prince Vas\u00edli was coming, or whether his being in a bad temper made him specially annoyed at Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s visit, he was in a bad temper, and in the morning T\u00edkhon had already advised the architect not to go to the prince with his report.", "start_byte": 548903, "end_byte": 549710, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 80.72000122070312, "end_time": 143.1999969482422, "cut_start_time": 80.97500122070312, "cut_end_time": 142.6400012207031}, {"text": " said T\u00edkhon, drawing the architect\u2019s attention to the sound of the prince\u2019s footsteps.", "start_byte": 549743, "end_byte": 549830, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 145.67999267578125, "end_time": 151.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 145.77499267578125, "cut_end_time": 151.68005517578123}, {"text": "However, at nine o\u2019clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. It had snowed the day before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. 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When the little princess had grown accustomed to life at Bald Hills, she took a special fancy to Mademoiselle Bourienne, spent whole days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her about the old prince and criticized him.", "start_byte": 553284, "end_byte": 553812, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 407.239990234375, "end_time": 447.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 407.64499023437503, "cut_end_time": 446.680052734375}, {"text": " remarked Mademoiselle Bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers.", "start_byte": 553855, "end_byte": 553938, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 450.239990234375, "end_time": 456.0, "cut_start_time": 450.544990234375, "cut_end_time": 455.78005273437503}, {"text": " she said inquiringly.", "start_byte": 554004, "end_byte": 554026, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 460.7200012207031, "end_time": 462.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 460.98500122070317, "cut_end_time": 462.45000122070314}, {"text": " said the prince disdainfully.", "start_byte": 554107, "end_byte": 554137, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 468.9599914550781, "end_time": 470.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 468.97499145507817, "cut_end_time": 470.69011645507817}, {"text": " (He looked at his blushing daughter.)", "start_byte": 554250, "end_byte": 554288, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 479.6000061035156, "end_time": 481.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 479.84500610351563, "cut_end_time": 481.61006860351563}, {"text": "Though Mademoiselle Bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and after the soup the prince became more genial.", "start_byte": 554408, "end_byte": 554654, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 491.3599853515625, "end_time": 508.0, "cut_start_time": 491.7949853515625, "cut_end_time": 507.45004785156254}, {"text": "After dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. The little princess was sitting at a small table, chattering with M\u00e1sha, her maid. She grew pale on seeing her father-in-law.", "start_byte": 554656, "end_byte": 554831, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 508.0, "end_time": 520.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 508.32500000000005, "cut_end_time": 519.8900625}, {"text": "She was much altered. She was now plain rather than pretty. Her cheeks had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down.", "start_byte": 554833, "end_byte": 554960, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 520.4000244140625, "end_time": 532.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 520.6450244140625, "cut_end_time": 531.9700869140626}, {"text": " she said in reply to the prince\u2019s question as to how she felt.", "start_byte": 554997, "end_byte": 555060, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 535.6799926757812, "end_time": 540.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 535.9449926757812, "cut_end_time": 539.5001176757813}, {"text": "He left the room and went to the waiting room where Alp\u00e1tych stood with bowed head.", "start_byte": 555142, "end_byte": 555225, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 547.9600219726562, "end_time": 553.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 548.2650219726563, "cut_end_time": 553.3500844726562}, {"text": " interrupted the prince, and laughing his unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alp\u00e1tych to kiss, and then proceeded to his study.", "start_byte": 555369, "end_byte": 555506, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 563.0399780273438, "end_time": 573.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 563.0349780273438, "cut_end_time": 572.7100405273437}, {"text": "Prince Vas\u00edli arrived that evening. He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow.", "start_byte": 555508, "end_byte": 555701, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 573.3599853515625, "end_time": 588.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 573.6549853515626, "cut_end_time": 587.9500478515625}, {"text": "Prince Vas\u00edli and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them.", "start_byte": 555703, "end_byte": 555765, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 588.47998046875, "end_time": 593.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 588.74498046875, "cut_end_time": 593.35010546875}, {"text": "Anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his large and handsome eyes. He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly heiress in the same way. All this might, he thought, turn out very well and amusingly.", "start_byte": 555767, "end_byte": 556203, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 593.760009765625, "end_time": 626.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 593.825009765625, "cut_end_time": 626.460009765625}, {"text": " thought Anatole.", "start_byte": 556286, "end_byte": 556303, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 632.6799926757812, "end_time": 634.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 632.7349926757813, "cut_end_time": 634.3701176757812}, {"text": "He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his father\u2019s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to him. Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter entered, as if to say:", "start_byte": 556305, "end_byte": 556672, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 634.280029296875, "end_time": 662.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 634.685029296875, "cut_end_time": 662.610029296875}, {"text": " Anatole asked, as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been mentioned during the journey.", "start_byte": 556763, "end_byte": 556876, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 670.47998046875, "end_time": 678.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 670.6549804687501, "cut_end_time": 678.10010546875}, {"text": " said Prince Anatole.", "start_byte": 557004, "end_byte": 557025, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 688.1199951171875, "end_time": 689.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 688.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 689.7500576171875}, {"text": "In the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants\u2019 rooms that the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had been minutely described. Princess Mary was sitting alone in her room, vainly trying to master her agitation.", "start_byte": 557110, "end_byte": 557358, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 697.719970703125, "end_time": 715.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 698.1549707031251, "cut_end_time": 715.1700957031251}, {"text": " she said, looking at herself in the glass.", "start_byte": 557433, "end_byte": 557476, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 722.0800170898438, "end_time": 724.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 722.3950170898438, "cut_end_time": 724.8600795898437}, {"text": " The mere thought of her father\u2019s look filled her with terror. The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received from M\u00e1sha, the lady\u2019s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the minister\u2019s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. Having received this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into Princess Mary\u2019s room.", "start_byte": 557565, "end_byte": 558133, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 731.5599975585938, "end_time": 771.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 731.8249975585937, "cut_end_time": 770.8101225585938}, {"text": " said the little princess, waddling in, and sinking heavily into an armchair.", "start_byte": 558166, "end_byte": 558243, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 773.8800048828125, "end_time": 779.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 774.1550048828125, "cut_end_time": 778.9800048828125}, {"text": "She was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, but had on one of her best dresses. Her hair was carefully done and her face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded outlines. Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still more noticeable how much plainer she had become. Some unobtrusive touch had been added to Mademoiselle Bourienne\u2019s toilet which rendered her fresh and pretty face yet more attractive.", "start_byte": 558245, "end_byte": 558715, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 779.3599853515625, "end_time": 815.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 779.6849853515625, "cut_end_time": 814.8800478515625}, {"text": " she began.", "start_byte": 558775, "end_byte": 558786, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 819.52001953125, "end_time": 820.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 819.49501953125, "cut_end_time": 820.98008203125}, {"text": "The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be dressed. Princess Mary\u2019s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both her companions\u2019 not having the least conception that it could be otherwise. To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. She flushed, her beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. Both these women quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. She was so plain that neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing her with perfect sincerity, and with the na\u00efve and firm conviction women have that dress can make a face pretty.", "start_byte": 558932, "end_byte": 559933, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 829.9199829101562, "end_time": 906.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 830.4249829101562, "cut_end_time": 905.2200454101562}, {"text": " said Lise, looking sideways at Princess Mary from a little distance.", "start_byte": 559982, "end_byte": 560051, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 909.4400024414062, "end_time": 914.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 909.4850024414063, "cut_end_time": 914.3400024414062}, {"text": "It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain. After two or three changes to which Princess Mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her with her head bent first on one side and then on the other.", "start_byte": 560205, "end_byte": 561168, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 925.4400024414062, "end_time": 991.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 925.8350024414062, "cut_end_time": 990.5100024414063}, {"text": " she said decidedly, clasping her hands.", "start_byte": 561191, "end_byte": 561231, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 992.9199829101562, "end_time": 995.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 992.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 995.5700454101562}, {"text": " she said to the maid,", "start_byte": 561367, "end_byte": 561389, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1005.719970703125, "end_time": 1006.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 1005.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 1006.850095703125}, {"text": " she added, smiling with a foretaste of artistic pleasure.", "start_byte": 561490, "end_byte": 561548, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1012.3599853515625, "end_time": 1016.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 1012.3649853515625, "cut_end_time": 1015.8401103515625}, {"text": "But when Katie brought the required dress, Princess Mary remained sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst into sobs.", "start_byte": 561550, "end_byte": 561769, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1016.280029296875, "end_time": 1032.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1016.785029296875, "cut_end_time": 1031.490029296875}, {"text": " said Mademoiselle Bourienne,", "start_byte": 561793, "end_byte": 561822, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1033.760009765625, "end_time": 1035.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1033.745009765625, "cut_end_time": 1035.4300722656249}, {"text": "The little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to Princess Mary.", "start_byte": 561855, "end_byte": 561933, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1038.0400390625, "end_time": 1043.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1038.3950390625, "cut_end_time": 1043.4101015625}, {"text": " she said.", "start_byte": 561997, "end_byte": 562007, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1047.8399658203125, "end_time": 1048.800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1047.8149658203124, "cut_end_time": 1048.7900908203123}, {"text": "The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne\u2019s, and Katie\u2019s, who was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping of birds.", "start_byte": 562009, "end_byte": 562156, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1048.800048828125, "end_time": 1059.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1049.185048828125, "cut_end_time": 1058.530048828125}, {"text": " said Princess Mary.", "start_byte": 562179, "end_byte": 562199, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1061.199951171875, "end_time": 1063.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1061.384951171875, "cut_end_time": 1062.7000761718748}, {"text": "Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds was silenced at once. They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist.", "start_byte": 562201, "end_byte": 562480, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1063.0400390625, "end_time": 1084.0, "cut_start_time": 1063.3950390625, "cut_end_time": 1083.5000390624998}, {"text": " said the little princess.", "start_byte": 562515, "end_byte": 562541, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1086.4000244140625, "end_time": 1087.9200439453125, "cut_start_time": 1086.4850244140623, "cut_end_time": 1087.9000869140625}, {"text": " she went on, turning reproachfully to Mademoiselle Bourienne,", "start_byte": 562562, "end_byte": 562624, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1089.1199951171875, "end_time": 1092.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1089.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1092.5900576171873}, {"text": " answered a voice struggling with tears.", "start_byte": 562803, "end_byte": 562843, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1106.0799560546875, "end_time": 1109.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1106.3349560546874, "cut_end_time": 1108.7200185546874}, {"text": "Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves that Princess Mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, but it was too late. She was looking at them with an expression they both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. This expression in Princess Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to be shaken in her determination.", "start_byte": 562845, "end_byte": 563304, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1109.199951171875, "end_time": 1143.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1109.434951171875, "cut_end_time": 1142.8600136718749}, {"text": " said Lise. And as Princess Mary gave no answer, she left the room.", "start_byte": 563338, "end_byte": 563405, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1145.8399658203125, "end_time": 1151.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1145.9149658203123, "cut_end_time": 1151.1000908203125}, {"text": "Princess Mary was left alone. She did not comply with Lise\u2019s request, she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her glass. Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and pondered. A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different happy world of his own. She fancied a child, her own \u2014 such as she had seen the day before in the arms of her nurse\u2019s daughter \u2014 at her own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the child.", "start_byte": 563407, "end_byte": 563972, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1151.6800537109375, "end_time": 1198.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 1152.0650537109375, "cut_end_time": 1198.4001162109373}, {"text": " she thought.", "start_byte": 564015, "end_byte": 564028, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1204.3199462890625, "end_time": 1205.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1204.3049462890624, "cut_end_time": 1205.4600712890624}, {"text": " came the maid\u2019s voice at the door.", "start_byte": 564087, "end_byte": 564122, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1209.1199951171875, "end_time": 1211.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1209.1849951171873, "cut_end_time": 1211.0800576171873}, {"text": "She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the Saviour lit by a lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. A painful doubt filled her soul. Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a man, be for her? In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing was for earthly love. The more she tried to hide this feeling from others and even from herself, the stronger it grew.", "start_byte": 564124, "end_byte": 564738, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1211.719970703125, "end_time": 1261.8399658203125, "cut_start_time": 1212.084970703125, "cut_end_time": 1261.4000332031248}, {"text": " she said,", "start_byte": 564747, "end_byte": 564757, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1263.199951171875, "end_time": 1264.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1263.4749511718749, "cut_end_time": 1264.220013671875}, {"text": " And scarcely had she put that question than God gave her the answer in her own heart.", "start_byte": 564909, "end_byte": 564995, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1276.0, "end_time": 1282.3199462890625, "cut_start_time": 1276.5749999999998, "cut_end_time": 1281.6499999999999}]}

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You\u2019d be only too glad, of course.", "start_byte": 568037, "end_byte": 568131, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 194.36000061035156, "end_time": 202.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 194.50500061035154, "cut_end_time": 202.31006311035156, "narrative_prediction": {"seemed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cHere at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to ourselves, dear prince,", "start_byte": 569201, "end_byte": 569288, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 282.6000061035156, "end_time": 287.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 282.9750061035156, "cut_end_time": 287.44000610351566, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt\u2019s not as at Annette\u2019s * receptions where you always ran away; you remember cette ch\u00e8re Annette!\u201d", "start_byte": 569356, "end_byte": 569456, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 291.9599914550781, "end_time": 300.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 292.20499145507813, "cut_end_time": 300.98011645507813, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAh, but you won\u2019t talk politics to me like Annette!\u201d", "start_byte": 569476, "end_byte": 569529, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 303.8399963378906, "end_time": 307.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 304.4749963378907, "cut_end_time": 307.4301213378906, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd our little tea table?\u201d", "start_byte": 569531, "end_byte": 569558, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 307.9200134277344, "end_time": 310.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 308.1450134277344, "cut_end_time": 310.05001342773437, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, yes!\u201d", "start_byte": 569560, "end_byte": 569570, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 310.0799865722656, "end_time": 311.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 310.29498657226566, "cut_end_time": 311.25011157226567, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy is it you were never at Annette\u2019s?", "start_byte": 569572, "end_byte": 569611, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 311.4800109863281, "end_time": 314.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 311.83501098632814, "cut_end_time": 314.22001098632813, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAh, I know, I know,", "start_byte": 569648, "end_byte": 569668, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 316.7200012207031, "end_time": 319.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 316.9150012207032, "cut_end_time": 319.54006372070313, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sly": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "glance": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cyour brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh!", "start_byte": 569698, "end_byte": 569755, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 322.32000732421875, "end_time": 327.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 322.48500732421877, "cut_end_time": 328.02006982421875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI have even heard of your doings in Paris!\u201d", "start_byte": 569790, "end_byte": 569834, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 330.3999938964844, "end_time": 334.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 330.4249938964844, "cut_end_time": 333.9101188964844, "narrative_prediction": {"shook": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "finger": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd didn\u2019t Hippolyte tell you?", "start_byte": 569836, "end_byte": 569867, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 334.32000732421875, "end_time": 336.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 334.7050073242188, "cut_end_time": 336.46006982421875, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cdidn\u2019t he tell you how he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the door? Oh, she is a pearl among women, Princess,", "start_byte": 570014, "end_byte": 570157, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 346.5199890136719, "end_time": 357.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 346.8049890136719, "cut_end_time": 357.4201140136719, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNot at all bad!", "start_byte": 570685, "end_byte": 570701, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 394.8800048828125, "end_time": 396.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 395.1750048828125, "cut_end_time": 396.6200048828125, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "examining": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cnot at all bad, that little companion! I hope she will bring her along with her when we\u2019re married, la petite est gentille.", "start_byte": 570730, "end_byte": 570854, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 398.6400146484375, "end_time": 408.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 398.6750146484375, "cut_end_time": 408.5000146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat are Prince Vas\u00edli and that son of his to me? Prince Vas\u00edli is a shallow braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,", "start_byte": 571023, "end_byte": 571152, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 424.79998779296875, "end_time": 434.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 425.03498779296876, "cut_end_time": 434.6500502929688, "narrative_prediction": {"grumbled": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd why should she marry?", "start_byte": 571738, "end_byte": 571764, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 480.5199890136719, "end_time": 482.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 480.8849890136719, "cut_end_time": 482.4701140136719, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cTo be unhappy for certain. There\u2019s Lise, married to Andrew \u2014 a better husband one would think could hardly be found nowadays \u2014 but is she contented with her lot? And who would marry Marie for love? Plain and awkward! They\u2019ll take her for her connections and wealth. Are there no women living unmarried, and even the happier for it?", "start_byte": 571778, "end_byte": 572110, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 483.2799987792969, "end_time": 512.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 483.4349987792969, "cut_end_time": 511.5800612792969, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, I\u2019ve nothing against it,", "start_byte": 572415, "end_byte": 572446, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 535.3599853515625, "end_time": 537.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 535.6149853515625, "cut_end_time": 537.8200478515625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cbut he must be worthy of her. And that is what we shall see.\u201d", "start_byte": 572476, "end_byte": 572538, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 539.280029296875, "end_time": 543.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 539.345029296875, "cut_end_time": 543.240029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThat is what we shall see! That is what we shall see!", "start_byte": 572540, "end_byte": 572594, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 543.6799926757812, "end_time": 547.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 544.0849926757812, "cut_end_time": 547.7800551757813, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "aloud": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cGot herself up like a fool!", "start_byte": 572940, "end_byte": 572968, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 574.6799926757812, "end_time": 576.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 574.9249926757813, "cut_end_time": 577.0601176757813, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cShe is shameless, and he ignores her!\u201d", "start_byte": 573008, "end_byte": 573047, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 579.5599975585938, "end_time": 582.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 579.7549975585938, "cut_end_time": 582.3800600585938, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "irritably": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell! How d\u2019ye do? How d\u2019ye do? Glad to see you!\u201d", "start_byte": 573088, "end_byte": 573138, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 585.719970703125, "end_time": 590.0, "cut_start_time": 586.044970703125, "cut_end_time": 589.340033203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cFriendship laughs at distance,", "start_byte": 573140, "end_byte": 573171, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 590.0, "end_time": 592.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 590.2950000000001, "cut_end_time": 591.96, "narrative_prediction": {"began": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "rapid": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "self-confident": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "familiar": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cHere is my second son; please love and befriend him.\u201d", "start_byte": 573244, "end_byte": 573298, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 597.9199829101562, "end_time": 602.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 598.1849829101562, "cut_end_time": 602.2300454101563, "narrative_prediction": {"began": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cFine young fellow! Fine young fellow!", "start_byte": 573336, "end_byte": 573374, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 606.6799926757812, "end_time": 610.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 606.9649926757812, "cut_end_time": 610.7201176757812, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, come and kiss me,", "start_byte": 573385, "end_byte": 573409, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 611.5599975585938, "end_time": 613.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 611.6949975585937, "cut_end_time": 613.4800600585937, "narrative_prediction": {"offered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd so they are writing from Potsdam already?", "start_byte": 573891, "end_byte": 573937, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 651.4400024414062, "end_time": 654.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 651.9950024414063, "cut_end_time": 654.7200024414062, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "repeating": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cIs it for visitors you\u2019ve got yourself up like that, eh?", "start_byte": 574037, "end_byte": 574094, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 662.7999877929688, "end_time": 666.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 663.1749877929688, "cut_end_time": 665.9701127929687, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cFine, very fine! You have done up your hair in this new way for the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.\u201d", "start_byte": 574105, "end_byte": 574304, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 667.1199951171875, "end_time": 681.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 667.2749951171875, "cut_end_time": 680.5300576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt was my fault, mon p\u00e8re,", "start_byte": 574306, "end_byte": 574333, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 681.0399780273438, "end_time": 683.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 681.4449780273437, "cut_end_time": 683.1501030273438, "narrative_prediction": {"interceded": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "blush": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou must do as you please,", "start_byte": 574382, "end_byte": 574409, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 686.3200073242188, "end_time": 688.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 686.5750073242187, "cut_end_time": 688.5800073242187, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cbut she need not make a fool of herself, she\u2019s plain enough as it is.\u201d", "start_byte": 574465, "end_byte": 574536, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 691.8400268554688, "end_time": 697.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 692.0250268554688, "cut_end_time": 697.2800893554688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOn the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,", "start_byte": 574630, "end_byte": 574691, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 703.8800048828125, "end_time": 708.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 704.2550048828125, "cut_end_time": 708.3600673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNow you, young prince, what\u2019s your name?", "start_byte": 574714, "end_byte": 574755, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 710.0, "end_time": 712.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 710.385, "cut_end_time": 712.5000625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201ccome here, let us talk and get acquainted.\u201d", "start_byte": 574800, "end_byte": 574844, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 716.0800170898438, "end_time": 719.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 716.3150170898438, "cut_end_time": 718.7500795898437, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNow the fun begins,", "start_byte": 574846, "end_byte": 574866, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 719.280029296875, "end_time": 721.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 719.745029296875, "cut_end_time": 721.3400917968751, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, my dear boy, I hear you\u2019ve been educated abroad, not taught to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards?", "start_byte": 574935, "end_byte": 575122, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 726.280029296875, "end_time": 739.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 726.635029296875, "cut_end_time": 739.050029296875, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "scrutinizing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "closely": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}, "intently": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, I have been transferred to the line,", "start_byte": 575187, "end_byte": 575228, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 744.6400146484375, "end_time": 747.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 744.9150146484375, "cut_end_time": 747.6500771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "hardly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cAh! That\u2019s a good thing. So, my dear boy, you wish to serve the Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. Well, are you off to the front?\u201d", "start_byte": 575283, "end_byte": 575448, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 751.9199829101562, "end_time": 765.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 752.1749829101562, "cut_end_time": 765.2901079101563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, Prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but I am attached... what is it I am attached to, Papa?", "start_byte": 575450, "end_byte": 575554, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 765.8400268554688, "end_time": 773.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 766.0650268554688, "cut_end_time": 773.6500893554688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "laugh": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cA splendid soldier, splendid! \u2018What am I attached to!\u2019 Ha, ha, ha!", "start_byte": 575607, "end_byte": 575674, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 777.3599853515625, "end_time": 782.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 777.6249853515625, "cut_end_time": 782.6601103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"laughed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou may go,", "start_byte": 575772, "end_byte": 575784, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 792.1599731445312, "end_time": 793.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 792.4749731445313, "cut_end_time": 793.5800356445312, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd so you\u2019ve had him educated abroad, Prince Vas\u00edli, haven\u2019t you?", "start_byte": 575848, "end_byte": 575915, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 799.760009765625, "end_time": 804.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 800.3050097656251, "cut_end_time": 804.5700097656251, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there is much better than ours.\u201d", "start_byte": 575956, "end_byte": 576053, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 807.719970703125, "end_time": 814.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 808.234970703125, "cut_end_time": 813.890095703125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. The lad\u2019s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! Well, come with me now.", "start_byte": 576055, "end_byte": 576181, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 814.2000122070312, "end_time": 823.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 814.5250122070313, "cut_end_time": 823.3700122070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, do you think I shall prevent her, that I can\u2019t part from her?", "start_byte": 576339, "end_byte": 576407, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 834.0800170898438, "end_time": 837.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 834.4550170898438, "cut_end_time": 837.9600795898438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "angrily": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat an idea! I\u2019m ready for it tomorrow! Only let me tell you, I want to know my son-in-law better. You know my principles \u2014 everything aboveboard! I will ask her tomorrow in your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and I\u2019ll see.", "start_byte": 576438, "end_byte": 576694, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 839.760009765625, "end_time": 857.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 839.875009765625, "cut_end_time": 857.660009765625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cLet her marry, it\u2019s all the same to me!", "start_byte": 576720, "end_byte": 576760, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 859.4400024414062, "end_time": 862.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 859.6050024414063, "cut_end_time": 861.7700649414063, "narrative_prediction": {"screamed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "piercing": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI will tell you frankly,", "start_byte": 576831, "end_byte": 576856, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 866.7999877929688, "end_time": 868.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 867.2949877929688, "cut_end_time": 868.6400502929688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou know, you see right through people. Anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent son or kinsman.\u201d", "start_byte": 576982, "end_byte": 577112, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 877.5599975585938, "end_time": 888.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 877.9449975585937, "cut_end_time": 888.4400600585938, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAll right, all right, we\u2019ll see!\u201d", "start_byte": 577114, "end_byte": 577148, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 888.7999877929688, "end_time": 892.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 889.0549877929687, "cut_end_time": 891.6001127929687, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut am I not too cold with him?", "start_byte": 577956, "end_byte": 577988, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 957.0399780273438, "end_time": 959.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 957.0849780273438, "cut_end_time": 959.9200405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI try to be reserved because in the depth of my soul I feel too near to him already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine that I do not like him.\u201d", "start_byte": 578012, "end_byte": 578182, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 961.239990234375, "end_time": 974.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 961.234990234375, "cut_end_time": 974.870052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cPoor girl, she\u2019s devilish ugly!", "start_byte": 578263, "end_byte": 578295, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 981.3200073242188, "end_time": 984.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 981.6050073242187, "cut_end_time": 984.2300698242187, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow she loves me!", "start_byte": 581278, "end_byte": 581296, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1212.9599609375, "end_time": 1215.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1213.3349609375, "cut_end_time": 1215.2200234375, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow happy I am now, and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? Can it be possible?", "start_byte": 581321, "end_byte": 581432, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1217.1199951171875, "end_time": 1226.199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1217.4049951171874, "cut_end_time": 1225.9100576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat delicacy!", "start_byte": 581995, "end_byte": 582010, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1265.6800537109375, "end_time": 1267.0400390625, "cut_start_time": 1265.9050537109374, "cut_end_time": 1267.1301162109373, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIs it possible that Am\u00e9lie", "start_byte": 582034, "end_byte": 582061, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1268.3599853515625, "end_time": 1270.6800537109375, "cut_start_time": 1268.7949853515624, "cut_end_time": 1270.6301103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cthinks I could be jealous of her, and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?", "start_byte": 582088, "end_byte": 582175, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1272.3199462890625, "end_time": 1278.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1272.5749462890624, "cut_end_time": 1278.2000712890624, "narrative_prediction": {"kissed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "warmly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": " Princess Mary saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s face, serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression", "start_byte": 565993, "end_byte": 566205, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 34.63999938964844, "end_time": 50.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 35.04499938964844, "cut_end_time": 50.41012438964844}, {"text": " produced on the visitors. And she saw Mademoiselle Bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she entered the room. Prince Vas\u00edli approached first, and she kissed the bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. Then Anatole came up to her. She still could not see him. She only felt a soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. When she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. Anatole stood with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable self-possession. If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is bad. But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the princess\u2019 hair. It was evident that he could be silent in this way for a very long time.", "start_byte": 566213, "end_byte": 567727, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 51.0, "end_time": 168.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 51.105000000000004, "cut_end_time": 168.1600625}, {"text": " he seemed to say. Besides this, in his behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in them curiosity, awe, and even love \u2014 a supercilious consciousness of his own superiority. It was as if he said to them:", "start_byte": 567807, "end_byte": 568036, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 174.67999267578125, "end_time": 194.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 174.73499267578126, "cut_end_time": 194.21011767578125}, {"text": " Perhaps he did not really think this when he met women \u2014 even probably he did not, for in general he thought very little \u2014 but his looks and manner gave that impression. The princess felt this, and as if wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, she turned to his father. The conversation was general and animated, thanks to Princess Lise\u2019s voice and little downy lip that lifted over her white teeth. She met Prince Vas\u00edli with that playful manner often employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption that between the person they so address and themselves there are some semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though no such reminiscences really exist \u2014 just as none existed in this case. Prince Vas\u00edli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of things that had never occurred. Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these merry reminiscences.", "start_byte": 568132, "end_byte": 569199, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 202.8800048828125, "end_time": 282.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 203.1250048828125, "cut_end_time": 282.5400673828125}, {"text": " said the little princess (of course, in French) to Prince Vas\u00edli.", "start_byte": 569289, "end_byte": 569355, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 287.3599853515625, "end_time": 291.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 287.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 292.0600478515625}, {"text": "* Anna P\u00e1vlovna.", "start_byte": 569458, "end_byte": 569474, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 300.8800048828125, "end_time": 303.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 300.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 303.9400048828125}, {"text": " the little princess asked Anatole.", "start_byte": 569612, "end_byte": 569647, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 314.1199951171875, "end_time": 316.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 314.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 316.8201201171875}, {"text": " she said with a sly glance,", "start_byte": 569669, "end_byte": 569697, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 319.44000244140625, "end_time": 322.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 319.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 322.4000649414063}, {"text": " and she shook her finger at him,", "start_byte": 569756, "end_byte": 569789, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 327.9200134277344, "end_time": 330.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 327.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 330.4500134277344}, {"text": " asked Prince Vas\u00edli, turning to his son and seizing the little princess\u2019 arm as if she would have run away and he had just managed to catch her,", "start_byte": 569868, "end_byte": 570013, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 336.6400146484375, "end_time": 346.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 336.7450146484375, "cut_end_time": 346.54001464843753}, {"text": " he added, turning to Princess Mary.", "start_byte": 570158, "end_byte": 570194, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 357.4800109863281, "end_time": 360.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 357.45501098632815, "cut_end_time": 360.7400109863282}, {"text": "When Paris was mentioned, Mademoiselle Bourienne for her part seized the opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections.", "start_byte": 570196, "end_byte": 570332, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 360.67999267578125, "end_time": 370.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 361.04499267578126, "cut_end_time": 370.36005517578127}, {"text": "She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her about her native land. When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole came to the conclusion that he would not find Bald Hills dull either.", "start_byte": 570334, "end_byte": 570684, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 370.2799987792969, "end_time": 394.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 370.5649987792969, "cut_end_time": 394.8701237792969}, {"text": " he thought, examining her,", "start_byte": 570702, "end_byte": 570729, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 396.55999755859375, "end_time": 398.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 396.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 398.64012255859376}, {"text": " *", "start_byte": 570855, "end_byte": 570857, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 408.3999938964844, "end_time": 408.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 408.3749938964844, "cut_end_time": 408.9000563964844}, {"text": "* The little one is charming.", "start_byte": 570859, "end_byte": 570888, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 408.79998779296875, "end_time": 412.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 408.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 413.0400502929688}, {"text": "The old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering what he was to do. The coming of these visitors annoyed him.", "start_byte": 570890, "end_byte": 571022, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 412.9599914550781, "end_time": 424.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 413.12499145507815, "cut_end_time": 424.37005395507816}, {"text": " he grumbled to himself. What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about which he always deceived himself. The question was whether he could ever bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. The prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. Life without Princess Mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to him.", "start_byte": 571153, "end_byte": 571737, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 434.55999755859375, "end_time": 480.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 434.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 480.19006005859376}, {"text": " he thought.", "start_byte": 571765, "end_byte": 571777, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 482.4800109863281, "end_time": 483.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 482.51501098632815, "cut_end_time": 483.33001098632815}, {"text": " So thought Prince Bolk\u00f3nski while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded an immediate answer. Prince Vas\u00edli had brought his son with the evident intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask for an answer. His birth and position in society were not bad.", "start_byte": 572111, "end_byte": 572414, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 512.1199951171875, "end_time": 535.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 512.3149951171876, "cut_end_time": 534.8500576171875}, {"text": " the prince said to himself,", "start_byte": 572447, "end_byte": 572475, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 537.719970703125, "end_time": 539.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 537.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 539.380095703125}, {"text": " he added aloud.", "start_byte": 572595, "end_byte": 572611, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 547.6799926757812, "end_time": 550.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 547.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 550.3200551757812}, {"text": "He entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly round the company. He noticed the change in the little princess\u2019 dress, Mademoiselle Bourienne\u2019s ribbon, Princess Mary\u2019s unbecoming coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne\u2019s and Anatole\u2019s smiles, and the loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation.", "start_byte": 572613, "end_byte": 572939, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 550.239990234375, "end_time": 574.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 550.504990234375, "cut_end_time": 574.320052734375}, {"text": " he thought, looking irritably at her.", "start_byte": 572969, "end_byte": 573007, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 576.9600219726562, "end_time": 579.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 576.9350219726563, "cut_end_time": 579.6400219726563}, {"text": "He went straight up to Prince Vas\u00edli.", "start_byte": 573049, "end_byte": 573086, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 582.6799926757812, "end_time": 585.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 583.0149926757813, "cut_end_time": 585.6300551757813}, {"text": " began Prince Vas\u00edli in his usual rapid, self-confident, familiar tone.", "start_byte": 573172, "end_byte": 573243, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 592.1599731445312, "end_time": 597.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 592.1549731445313, "cut_end_time": 597.9800356445313}, {"text": "Prince Bolk\u00f3nski surveyed Anatole.", "start_byte": 573300, "end_byte": 573334, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 602.7999877929688, "end_time": 606.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 602.9249877929688, "cut_end_time": 606.6000502929687}, {"text": " he said.", "start_byte": 573375, "end_byte": 573384, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 610.6400146484375, "end_time": 611.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 610.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 611.6600146484375}, {"text": " and he offered his cheek.", "start_byte": 573410, "end_byte": 573436, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 613.5599975585938, "end_time": 615.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 613.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 615.8500600585937}, {"text": "Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had told him to expect.", "start_byte": 573438, "end_byte": 573600, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 615.7999877929688, "end_time": 628.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 615.9949877929688, "cut_end_time": 628.0400502929688}, {"text": "Prince Bolk\u00f3nski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vas\u00edli, pointed to it and began questioning him about political affairs and news. He seemed to listen attentively to what Prince Vas\u00edli said, but kept glancing at Princess Mary.", "start_byte": 573602, "end_byte": 573889, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 628.6799926757812, "end_time": 651.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 628.8649926757813, "cut_end_time": 651.3401176757812}, {"text": " he said, repeating Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s last words. Then rising, he suddenly went up to his daughter.", "start_byte": 573938, "end_byte": 574035, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 654.9199829101562, "end_time": 662.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 655.0149829101563, "cut_end_time": 662.4300454101563}, {"text": " said he.", "start_byte": 574095, "end_byte": 574104, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 666.2000122070312, "end_time": 667.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 666.2050122070312, "cut_end_time": 666.9200122070313}, {"text": " interceded the little princess, with a blush.", "start_byte": 574334, "end_byte": 574380, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 683.2000122070312, "end_time": 686.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 683.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 686.3900747070313}, {"text": " said Prince Bolk\u00f3nski, bowing to his daughter-in-law,", "start_byte": 574410, "end_byte": 574464, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 688.47998046875, "end_time": 691.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 688.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 691.63010546875}, {"text": "And he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was reduced to tears.", "start_byte": 574538, "end_byte": 574628, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 697.280029296875, "end_time": 703.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 697.5850292968751, "cut_end_time": 703.880091796875}, {"text": " said Prince Vas\u00edli.", "start_byte": 574692, "end_byte": 574712, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 708.3200073242188, "end_time": 710.0, "cut_start_time": 708.3850073242188, "cut_end_time": 710.0200073242188}, {"text": " said Prince Bolk\u00f3nski, turning to Anatole,", "start_byte": 574756, "end_byte": 574799, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 712.6400146484375, "end_time": 716.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 712.7350146484375, "cut_end_time": 715.9000771484375}, {"text": " thought Anatole, sitting down with a smile beside the old prince.", "start_byte": 574867, "end_byte": 574933, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 721.280029296875, "end_time": 726.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 721.385029296875, "cut_end_time": 725.8500917968751}, {"text": " asked the old man, scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently.", "start_byte": 575123, "end_byte": 575185, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 739.1199951171875, "end_time": 744.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 739.1149951171875, "cut_end_time": 744.0401201171875}, {"text": " said Anatole, hardly able to restrain his laughter.", "start_byte": 575229, "end_byte": 575281, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 747.6400146484375, "end_time": 751.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 747.7250146484375, "cut_end_time": 751.7700146484375}, {"text": " said Anatole, turning to his father with a laugh.", "start_byte": 575555, "end_byte": 575605, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 773.6400146484375, "end_time": 777.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 773.8850146484375, "cut_end_time": 777.3800146484375}, {"text": " laughed Prince Bolk\u00f3nski, and Anatole laughed still louder. Suddenly Prince Bolk\u00f3nski frowned.", "start_byte": 575675, "end_byte": 575770, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 782.8800048828125, "end_time": 792.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 782.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 791.4300048828126}, {"text": " he said to Anatole.", "start_byte": 575785, "end_byte": 575805, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 793.47998046875, "end_time": 795.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 793.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 795.97004296875}, {"text": "Anatole returned smiling to the ladies.", "start_byte": 575807, "end_byte": 575846, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 795.9199829101562, "end_time": 799.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 796.2649829101563, "cut_end_time": 799.7901079101563}, {"text": " said the old prince to Prince Vas\u00edli.", "start_byte": 575916, "end_byte": 575954, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 804.7999877929688, "end_time": 807.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 805.1049877929688, "cut_end_time": 807.8200502929687}, {"text": " He took Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s arm and led him to his study. As soon as they were alone together, Prince Vas\u00edli announced his hopes and wishes to the old prince.", "start_byte": 576182, "end_byte": 576337, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 823.6799926757812, "end_time": 834.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 823.9549926757812, "cut_end_time": 833.6501176757813}, {"text": " said the old prince angrily.", "start_byte": 576408, "end_byte": 576437, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 837.9600219726562, "end_time": 839.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 838.1050219726562, "cut_end_time": 839.8600844726562}, {"text": " The old prince snorted.", "start_byte": 576695, "end_byte": 576719, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 857.719970703125, "end_time": 859.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 857.934970703125, "cut_end_time": 859.250095703125}, {"text": " he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting from his son.", "start_byte": 576761, "end_byte": 576829, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 862.0800170898438, "end_time": 866.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 862.3150170898438, "cut_end_time": 866.2900170898438}, {"text": " said Prince Vas\u00edli in the tone of a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so keen-sighted a companion.", "start_byte": 576857, "end_byte": 576981, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 868.5999755859375, "end_time": 877.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 868.6149755859375, "cut_end_time": 877.5200380859375}, {"text": "As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time without male society, on Anatole\u2019s appearance all the three women of Prince Bolk\u00f3nski\u2019s household felt that their life had not been real till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance.", "start_byte": 577150, "end_byte": 577573, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 892.2000122070312, "end_time": 926.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 892.7750122070313, "cut_end_time": 925.6900747070313}, {"text": "Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. The handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed all her attention. He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and magnanimous. She felt convinced of that. Thousands of dreams of a future family life continually rose in her imagination. She drove them away and tried to conceal them.", "start_byte": 577575, "end_byte": 577954, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 926.0800170898438, "end_time": 957.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 926.2850170898438, "cut_end_time": 956.2300170898437}, {"text": " thought the princess.", "start_byte": 577989, "end_byte": 578011, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 959.9199829101562, "end_time": 961.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 959.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 961.3300454101562}, {"text": "And Princess Mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new guest.", "start_byte": 578184, "end_byte": 578262, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 974.9199829101562, "end_time": 981.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 975.0049829101563, "cut_end_time": 981.3901079101563}, {"text": " thought Anatole.", "start_byte": 578296, "end_byte": 578313, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 984.3200073242188, "end_time": 986.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 984.3150073242188, "cut_end_time": 986.1500073242188}, {"text": "Mademoiselle Bourienne, also roused to great excitement by Anatole\u2019s arrival, thought in another way. Of course, she, a handsome young woman without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did not intend to devote her life to serving Prince Bolk\u00f3nski, to reading aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she liked to repeat to herself. It was the story of a girl who had been seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre m\u00e8re) appeared, and reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. Mademoiselle Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this story to him, her seducer. And now he, a real Russian prince, had appeared. He would carry her away and then sa pauvre m\u00e8re would appear and he would marry her. So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle Bourienne\u2019s head at the very time she was talking to Anatole about Paris. It was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar to her, and now that Anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible.", "start_byte": 578315, "end_byte": 579835, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 986.1599731445312, "end_time": 1103.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 986.5149731445313, "cut_end_time": 1102.8400981445313}, {"text": "The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with na\u00efve and lighthearted gaiety.", "start_byte": 579837, "end_byte": 580084, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1103.4000244140625, "end_time": 1121.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1103.8350244140624, "cut_end_time": 1120.7900244140624}, {"text": "Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the spectacle of his power over these three women. 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But Anatole\u2019s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne\u2019s little foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. Mademoiselle Bourienne was also looking at Princess Mary, and in her lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new to the princess.", "start_byte": 580502, "end_byte": 581276, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1152.800048828125, "end_time": 1212.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1152.8850488281248, "cut_end_time": 1212.9600488281249}, {"text": " thought Princess Mary.", "start_byte": 581297, "end_byte": 581320, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1215.1199951171875, "end_time": 1217.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1215.0949951171874, "cut_end_time": 1217.1600576171875}, {"text": " she thought, not daring to look at his face, but still feeling his eyes gazing at her.", "start_byte": 581433, "end_byte": 581520, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1226.199951171875, "end_time": 1233.0, "cut_start_time": 1226.434951171875, "cut_end_time": 1232.830013671875}, {"text": "In the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, Anatole kissed Princess Mary\u2019s hand. 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Glad to throw her father over! And she knew I should notice it. Fr... fr... fr! And don\u2019t I see that that idiot had eyes only for Bourienne \u2014 I shall have to get rid of her. And how is it she has not pride enough to see it? If she has no pride for herself she might at least have some for my sake! She must be shown that the blockhead thinks nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but I\u2019ll let her see....\u201d", "start_byte": 584504, "end_byte": 585090, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 181.0800018310547, "end_time": 225.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 181.81500183105467, "cut_end_time": 225.1700018310547, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat devil brought them here?", "start_byte": 585411, "end_byte": 585441, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 250.47999572753906, "end_time": 253.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 251.21499572753905, "cut_end_time": 253.20012072753906, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI never invited them. 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Last night a proposition was made me on your account and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.\u201d", "start_byte": 587856, "end_byte": 587996, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 424.6000061035156, "end_time": 437.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 425.08500610351564, "cut_end_time": 436.65000610351564, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow am I to understand you, mon p\u00e8re?", "start_byte": 587998, "end_byte": 588036, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 437.3999938964844, "end_time": 440.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 437.4249938964844, "cut_end_time": 440.2601188964844, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHow understand me!", "start_byte": 588090, "end_byte": 588109, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 444.239990234375, "end_time": 446.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 444.354990234375, "cut_end_time": 446.180115234375, "narrative_prediction": {"cried": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "angrily": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cPrince Vas\u00edli finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you on his pupil\u2019s behalf. That\u2019s how it\u2019s to be understood! \u2018How understand it\u2019!... And I ask you!\u201d", "start_byte": 588137, "end_byte": 588320, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 448.1600036621094, "end_time": 461.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 448.2950036621094, "cut_end_time": 460.1900661621094, "narrative_prediction": {"whispered": {"id": "2", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI do not know what you think, Father,", "start_byte": 588322, "end_byte": 588360, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 461.0400085449219, "end_time": 464.0, "cut_start_time": 461.6750085449219, "cut_end_time": 464.0500085449219, "narrative_prediction": {"whispered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI? I? What of me? Leave me out of the question. I\u2019m not going to get married. What about you? That\u2019s what I want to know.\u201d", "start_byte": 588387, "end_byte": 588510, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 466.239990234375, "end_time": 477.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 466.404990234375, "cut_end_time": 477.08005273437504, "narrative_prediction": {"whispered": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI wish only to do your will, but if I had to express my own desire...", "start_byte": 588828, "end_byte": 588898, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 499.5199890136719, "end_time": 506.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 500.1149890136719, "cut_end_time": 506.0500515136719, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThat\u2019s admirable!", "start_byte": 588960, "end_byte": 588978, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 510.6000061035156, "end_time": 511.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 510.77500610351564, "cut_end_time": 511.80000610351567, "narrative_prediction": {"shouted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe will take you with your dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She\u2019ll be the wife, while you...\u201d", "start_byte": 588992, "end_byte": 589109, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 512.8800048828125, "end_time": 518.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 513.0850048828125, "cut_end_time": 518.6300673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"shouted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNow then, now then, I\u2019m only joking!", "start_byte": 589248, "end_byte": 589285, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 529.280029296875, "end_time": 531.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 529.785029296875, "cut_end_time": 531.890091796875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cRemember this, Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to choose. I give you freedom. Only remember that your life\u2019s happiness depends on your decision. Never mind me!\u201d", "start_byte": 589296, "end_byte": 589490, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 532.4000244140625, "end_time": 545.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 532.6650244140625, "cut_end_time": 545.3700869140625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut I do not know, Father!\u201d", "start_byte": 589492, "end_byte": 589520, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 545.760009765625, "end_time": 548.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 546.515009765625, "cut_end_time": 548.420072265625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThere\u2019s no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you or anybody; but you are free to choose.... Go to your room, think it over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. I know you will pray over it. Well, pray if you like, but you had better think it over. Go! Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!", "start_byte": 589522, "end_byte": 589854, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 548.8800048828125, "end_time": 573.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 549.4250048828126, "cut_end_time": 573.4800673828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWho\u2019s that? Why? Wait a moment!", "start_byte": 590623, "end_byte": 590655, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 629.8800048828125, "end_time": 631.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 630.2050048828125, "cut_end_time": 631.5700048828126, "narrative_prediction": {"seemed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, Princess, I have lost your affection forever!", "start_byte": 591435, "end_byte": 591485, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 692.0800170898438, "end_time": 696.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 692.3550170898437, "cut_end_time": 695.9500795898438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy? I love you more than ever,", "start_byte": 591517, "end_byte": 591549, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 698.9199829101562, "end_time": 702.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 699.0449829101562, "cut_end_time": 701.9700454101562, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cand I will try to do all I can for your happiness.\u201d", "start_byte": 591571, "end_byte": 591623, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 703.6799926757812, "end_time": 708.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 703.9049926757813, "cut_end_time": 707.4601176757812, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so carried away by passion. Oh, only my poor mother...\u201d", "start_byte": 591625, "end_byte": 591748, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 708.3200073242188, "end_time": 718.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 709.0250073242188, "cut_end_time": 718.0800698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI quite understand,", "start_byte": 591750, "end_byte": 591770, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 718.4400024414062, "end_time": 720.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 718.4550024414062, "cut_end_time": 720.5000649414063, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "sad": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cCalm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father,", "start_byte": 591814, "end_byte": 591862, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 723.760009765625, "end_time": 727.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 723.895009765625, "cut_end_time": 727.500009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAh, my dear, my dear!", "start_byte": 592191, "end_byte": 592213, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 750.719970703125, "end_time": 752.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 751.004970703125, "cut_end_time": 752.740095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"began": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy son\u2019s fate is in your hands. Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a daughter!\u201d", "start_byte": 592287, "end_byte": 592397, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 758.5599975585938, "end_time": 767.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 758.7749975585938, "cut_end_time": 767.0900600585937, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cFr... fr...", "start_byte": 592450, "end_byte": 592462, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 773.280029296875, "end_time": 773.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 773.255029296875, "cut_end_time": 773.380091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe prince is making a proposition to you in his pupil\u2019s \u2014 I mean, his son\u2019s \u2014 name. Do you wish or not to be Prince Anatole Kur\u00e1gin\u2019s wife? Reply: yes or no,", "start_byte": 592490, "end_byte": 592649, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 775.9199829101562, "end_time": 788.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 776.2549829101563, "cut_end_time": 788.7900454101563, "narrative_prediction": {"shouted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cand then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,", "start_byte": 592663, "end_byte": 592762, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 789.6400146484375, "end_time": 796.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 789.8650146484375, "cut_end_time": 796.3700771484375, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, or no?\u201d", "start_byte": 592847, "end_byte": 592860, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 802.239990234375, "end_time": 805.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 802.484990234375, "cut_end_time": 804.340052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my life from yours. I don\u2019t wish to marry,", "start_byte": 592862, "end_byte": 592964, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 805.1199951171875, "end_time": 814.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 805.6149951171875, "cut_end_time": 814.8801201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "positively": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cHumbug! Nonsense! Humbug, humbug, humbug!", "start_byte": 593061, "end_byte": 593103, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 821.4400024414062, "end_time": 825.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 821.6250024414063, "cut_end_time": 825.0700649414063, "narrative_prediction": {"cried": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never forget. But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching this heart, so kind and generous? Say \u2018perhaps\u2019... The future is so long. Say \u2018perhaps.\u2019\u201d", "start_byte": 593327, "end_byte": 593554, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 842.4000244140625, "end_time": 860.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 842.9250244140625, "cut_end_time": 859.8400869140626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cPrince, what I have said is all there is in my heart. I thank you for the honor, but I shall never be your son\u2019s wife.\u201d", "start_byte": 593556, "end_byte": 593676, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 860.4000244140625, "end_time": 871.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 860.6250244140625, "cut_end_time": 870.0000244140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, so that\u2019s finished, my dear fellow! I am very glad to have seen you. Very glad! Go back to your rooms, Princess. Go!", "start_byte": 593678, "end_byte": 593801, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 871.0399780273438, "end_time": 878.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 871.4649780273438, "cut_end_time": 878.5501030273438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cVery, very glad to have seen you,", "start_byte": 593824, "end_byte": 593858, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 880.1199951171875, "end_time": 881.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 880.3449951171875, "cut_end_time": 881.8201201171876, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy vocation is a different one,", "start_byte": 593899, "end_byte": 593931, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 884.9199829101562, "end_time": 887.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 885.4849829101563, "cut_end_time": 887.4000454101563, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange poor Am\u00e9lie\u2019s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so passionately repents. I will do all I can to arrange the match between them. If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! And, oh God, how passionately she must love him if she could so far forget herself! Perhaps I might have done the same!...", "start_byte": 593956, "end_byte": 594529, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 889.3200073242188, "end_time": 934.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 889.3150073242188, "cut_end_time": 934.5100698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": " thought Princess Mary; and fear, which she had seldom experienced, came upon her. She feared to look round, it seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the dark corner. And this someone was he \u2014 the devil \u2014 and he was also this man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips.", "start_byte": 582698, "end_byte": 583011, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 32.08000183105469, "end_time": 61.84000015258789, "cut_start_time": 32.09500183105469, "cut_end_time": 61.60006433105469}, {"text": "She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room.", "start_byte": 583013, "end_byte": 583070, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 61.84000015258789, "end_time": 67.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 61.99500015258789, "cut_end_time": 67.2400626525879}, {"text": "Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre m\u00e8re rebuking her for her fall.", "start_byte": 583072, "end_byte": 583313, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 67.44000244140625, "end_time": 87.4800033569336, "cut_start_time": 67.70500244140625, "cut_end_time": 86.44006494140625}, {"text": "The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. She could not lie either on her face or on her side. Every position was awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than ever because Anatole\u2019s presence had vividly recalled to her the time when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. She sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third time, muttering to herself.", "start_byte": 583315, "end_byte": 583834, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 87.4800033569336, "end_time": 128.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 88.3550033569336, "cut_end_time": 128.07006585693358}, {"text": " the little princess repeated.", "start_byte": 583876, "end_byte": 583906, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 132.16000366210938, "end_time": 134.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 132.13500366210937, "cut_end_time": 134.14000366210936}, {"text": " and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry.", "start_byte": 583970, "end_byte": 584028, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 138.8000030517578, "end_time": 143.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 138.7750030517578, "cut_end_time": 143.7100030517578}, {"text": "The old prince did not sleep either. T\u00edkhon, half asleep, heard him pacing angrily about and snorting. The old prince felt as though he had been insulted through his daughter. The insult was the more pointed because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he loved more than himself. 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She read this in T\u00edkhon\u2019s face and in that of Prince Vas\u00edli\u2019s valet, who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot water.", "start_byte": 586796, "end_byte": 587152, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 346.32000732421875, "end_time": 371.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 346.6550073242188, "cut_end_time": 370.7800073242188}, {"text": "The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of his daughter that morning. Princess Mary well knew this painstaking expression of her father\u2019s. His face wore that expression when his dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, repeating in a low voice the same words several times over.", "start_byte": 587154, "end_byte": 587552, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 371.3999938964844, "end_time": 399.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 371.9649938964844, "cut_end_time": 398.9801188964844}, {"text": "He came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously.", "start_byte": 587554, "end_byte": 587611, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 399.6000061035156, "end_time": 404.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 399.63500610351565, "cut_end_time": 404.78000610351563}, {"text": " he said with an unnatural smile.", "start_byte": 587663, "end_byte": 587696, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 408.32000732421875, "end_time": 411.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 408.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 411.2800698242188}, {"text": " (for some reason Prince Bolk\u00f3nski referred to Anatole as a", "start_byte": 587787, "end_byte": 587846, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 419.2799987792969, "end_time": 423.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 419.6449987792969, "cut_end_time": 423.5501237792969}, {"text": ")", "start_byte": 587854, "end_byte": 587855, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 424.6000061035156, "end_time": 424.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 424.57500610351565, "cut_end_time": 424.70006860351566}, {"text": " said the princess, growing pale and then blushing.", "start_byte": 588037, "end_byte": 588088, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 440.1600036621094, "end_time": 444.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 440.2350036621094, "cut_end_time": 443.6600036621094}, {"text": " cried her father angrily.", "start_byte": 588110, "end_byte": 588136, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 446.1600036621094, "end_time": 448.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 446.5450036621094, "cut_end_time": 448.0200661621094}, {"text": " whispered the princess.", "start_byte": 588361, "end_byte": 588385, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 464.0, "end_time": 466.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 463.975, "cut_end_time": 466.34000000000003}, {"text": "The princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be decided now or never. She lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to submit from habit, and she said:", "start_byte": 588512, "end_byte": 588827, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 477.79998779296875, "end_time": 499.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 478.4549877929688, "cut_end_time": 498.98005029296877}, {"text": " She had no time to finish. The old prince interrupted her.", "start_byte": 588899, "end_byte": 588958, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 506.3599853515625, "end_time": 510.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 506.6449853515625, "cut_end_time": 510.7001103515625}, {"text": " he shouted.", "start_byte": 588979, "end_byte": 588991, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 511.8399963378906, "end_time": 512.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 511.81499633789065, "cut_end_time": 512.9601213378907}, {"text": "The prince stopped. He saw the effect these words had produced on his daughter. She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears.", "start_byte": 589111, "end_byte": 589246, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 518.9600219726562, "end_time": 529.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 518.9450219726563, "cut_end_time": 528.8500844726562}, {"text": " he said.", "start_byte": 589286, "end_byte": 589295, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 531.8400268554688, "end_time": 532.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 531.8250268554688, "cut_end_time": 532.4800893554687}, {"text": " he still shouted when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the study.", "start_byte": 589855, "end_byte": 589952, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 573.760009765625, "end_time": 581.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 574.095009765625, "cut_end_time": 580.180072265625}, {"text": "Her fate was decided and happily decided. But what her father had said about Mademoiselle Bourienne was dreadful. It was untrue to be sure, but still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. She was going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of Mademoiselle Bourienne aroused her. She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her. With a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess Mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of Mademoiselle Bourienne who had not yet seen her.", "start_byte": 589954, "end_byte": 590621, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 581.52001953125, "end_time": 629.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 582.1950195312501, "cut_end_time": 629.2100820312501}, {"text": " Anatole\u2019s face seemed to say. Princess Mary looked at them in silence. She could not understand it. At last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. 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The princess\u2019 beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne\u2019s pretty face.", "start_byte": 591012, "end_byte": 591433, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 661.52001953125, "end_time": 692.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 661.86501953125, "cut_end_time": 691.25008203125}, {"text": " said Mademoiselle Bourienne.", "start_byte": 591486, "end_byte": 591515, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 696.280029296875, "end_time": 698.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 696.295029296875, "cut_end_time": 698.360029296875}, {"text": " said Princess Mary,", "start_byte": 591550, "end_byte": 591570, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 702.0399780273438, "end_time": 703.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 702.0649780273437, "cut_end_time": 703.7800405273438}, {"text": " answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile.", "start_byte": 591771, "end_byte": 591813, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 720.4000244140625, "end_time": 723.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 720.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 723.8500869140626}, {"text": " she said, and went out.", "start_byte": 591863, "end_byte": 591887, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 727.47998046875, "end_time": 729.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 727.61498046875, "cut_end_time": 729.78004296875}, {"text": "Prince Vas\u00edli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, as if stirred to his heart\u2019s core and himself regretting and laughing at his own sensibility, when Princess Mary entered. 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How tell the little countess!\u201d", "start_byte": 595286, "end_byte": 595445, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 59.439998626708984, "end_time": 75.12000274658203, "cut_start_time": 59.61499862670899, "cut_end_time": 74.21012362670899, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAuntie, darling, do tell me what it is!\u201d", "start_byte": 596983, "end_byte": 597024, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 181.63999938964844, "end_time": 184.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 181.83499938964843, "cut_end_time": 184.35012438964844, "narrative_prediction": {"flung": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cNothing, my dear.\u201d", "start_byte": 597026, "end_byte": 597045, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 184.8800048828125, "end_time": 186.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 184.8950048828125, "cut_end_time": 186.8100673828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, dearest, sweet one, honey, I won\u2019t give up \u2014 I know you know something.\u201d", "start_byte": 597047, "end_byte": 597124, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 186.72000122070312, "end_time": 192.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 187.02500122070313, "cut_end_time": 191.6900637207031, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou are a little slyboots,", "start_byte": 597160, "end_byte": 597187, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 194.75999450683594, "end_time": 196.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 195.02499450683592, "cut_end_time": 196.42011950683593, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cA letter from Nik\u00f3lenka! I\u2019m sure of it!", "start_byte": 597200, "end_byte": 597241, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 197.52000427246094, "end_time": 200.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 197.84500427246093, "cut_end_time": 200.54006677246093, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut for God\u2019s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your mamma.\u201d", "start_byte": 597312, "end_byte": 597384, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 205.60000610351562, "end_time": 210.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 206.06500610351563, "cut_end_time": 209.6200061035156, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI will, I will, only tell me! You won\u2019t? Then I will go and tell at once.\u201d", "start_byte": 597386, "end_byte": 597461, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 210.1199951171875, "end_time": 216.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 210.5049951171875, "cut_end_time": 215.7600576171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, on my true word of honor,", "start_byte": 597577, "end_byte": 597607, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 224.16000366210938, "end_time": 226.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 224.57500366210937, "cut_end_time": 226.43006616210937, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI won\u2019t tell anyone!", "start_byte": 597641, "end_byte": 597662, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 228.39999389648438, "end_time": 230.16000366210938, "cut_start_time": 228.65499389648437, "cut_end_time": 229.99011889648438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNik\u00f3lenka... wounded... a letter,", "start_byte": 597699, "end_byte": 597733, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 233.39999389648438, "end_time": 236.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 233.61499389648438, "cut_end_time": 236.78005639648438, "narrative_prediction": {"announced": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "gleeful": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "triumph": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cNicholas!", "start_byte": 597770, "end_byte": 597780, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 239.36000061035156, "end_time": 240.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 239.70500061035156, "cut_end_time": 240.42006311035155, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cA little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he wrote himself,", "start_byte": 598019, "end_byte": 598102, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 257.20001220703125, "end_time": 262.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 257.5850122070313, "cut_end_time": 262.70007470703126, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThere now! It\u2019s true that all you women are crybabies,", "start_byte": 598133, "end_byte": 598188, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 265.2799987792969, "end_time": 268.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 265.5949987792969, "cut_end_time": 269.0100612792969, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNow I\u2019m very glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. You are all blubberers and understand nothing.\u201d", "start_byte": 598252, "end_byte": 598383, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 273.3599853515625, "end_time": 282.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 273.7149853515625, "cut_end_time": 281.40011035156255, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou haven\u2019t read the letter?", "start_byte": 598420, "end_byte": 598449, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 285.6000061035156, "end_time": 287.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 286.18500610351566, "cut_end_time": 287.49000610351567, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, but she said that it was all over and that he\u2019s now an officer.\u201d", "start_byte": 598465, "end_byte": 598534, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 288.760009765625, "end_time": 293.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 289.115009765625, "cut_end_time": 292.22000976562504, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThank God!", "start_byte": 598536, "end_byte": 598547, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 293.0799865722656, "end_time": 294.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 293.56498657226564, "cut_end_time": 294.34004907226563, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut perhaps she deceived you. Let us go to Mamma.\u201d", "start_byte": 598579, "end_byte": 598630, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 296.760009765625, "end_time": 300.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 297.14500976562505, "cut_end_time": 299.91000976562503, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIf I\u2019d been in Nik\u00f3lenka\u2019s place I would have killed even more of those Frenchmen,", "start_byte": 598677, "end_byte": 598760, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 303.8800048828125, "end_time": 308.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 304.1950048828125, "cut_end_time": 308.7400673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat nasty brutes they are! I\u2019d have killed so many that there\u2019d have been a heap of them.\u201d", "start_byte": 598771, "end_byte": 598863, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 309.44000244140625, "end_time": 314.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 309.6650024414063, "cut_end_time": 314.0300024414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHold your tongue, P\u00e9tya, what a goose you are!\u201d", "start_byte": 598865, "end_byte": 598913, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 314.67999267578125, "end_time": 318.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 315.0749926757813, "cut_end_time": 317.9701176757813, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI\u2019m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,", "start_byte": 598915, "end_byte": 598968, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 318.32000732421875, "end_time": 321.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 318.88500732421875, "cut_end_time": 321.8900073242188, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDo you remember him?", "start_byte": 598983, "end_byte": 599004, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 323.3599853515625, "end_time": 324.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 324.0949853515625, "cut_end_time": 325.0600478515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cDo I remember Nicholas?\u201d", "start_byte": 599072, "end_byte": 599097, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 330.0, "end_time": 332.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 330.315, "cut_end_time": 331.65000000000003, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, S\u00f3nya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, remember everything?", "start_byte": 599099, "end_byte": 599187, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 332.5199890136719, "end_time": 338.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 333.1749890136719, "cut_end_time": 338.3800515136719, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI remember Nik\u00f3lenka too, I remember him well,", "start_byte": 599292, "end_byte": 599339, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 345.1600036621094, "end_time": 348.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 345.7150036621094, "cut_end_time": 348.9000036621094, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut I don\u2019t remember Bor\u00eds. I don\u2019t remember him a bit.\u201d", "start_byte": 599351, "end_byte": 599408, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 349.6000061035156, "end_time": 354.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 349.95500610351564, "cut_end_time": 353.32006860351567, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat! You don\u2019t remember Bor\u00eds?", "start_byte": 599410, "end_byte": 599442, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 354.32000732421875, "end_time": 357.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 355.00500732421875, "cut_end_time": 356.9300698242188, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "surprise": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt\u2019s not that I don\u2019t remember \u2014 I know what he is like, but not as I remember Nik\u00f3lenka. Him \u2014 I just shut my eyes and remember, but Bor\u00eds... No!", "start_byte": 599470, "end_byte": 599617, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 359.1199951171875, "end_time": 370.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 359.6149951171875, "cut_end_time": 370.0701201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNo! there\u2019s nothing at all.\u201d", "start_byte": 599640, "end_byte": 599669, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 372.1600036621094, "end_time": 374.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 372.2950036621094, "cut_end_time": 374.0000661621094, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, Nat\u00e1sha!", "start_byte": 599671, "end_byte": 599684, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 374.7200012207031, "end_time": 376.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 375.1650012207032, "cut_end_time": 376.3000637207031, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI am in love with your brother once for all and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him as long as I live.\u201d", "start_byte": 599903, "end_byte": 600039, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 389.67999267578125, "end_time": 399.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 390.17499267578125, "cut_end_time": 399.0301176757813, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cShall you write to him?", "start_byte": 600316, "end_byte": 600340, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 418.8399963378906, "end_time": 420.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 419.20499633789063, "cut_end_time": 420.38005883789066, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI don\u2019t know. I think if he writes, I will write too,", "start_byte": 600641, "end_byte": 600695, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 440.0, "end_time": 443.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 440.685, "cut_end_time": 443.66, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "blushing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd you won\u2019t feel ashamed to write to him?\u201d", "start_byte": 600718, "end_byte": 600763, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 444.8800048828125, "end_time": 447.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 445.28500488281253, "cut_end_time": 447.15000488281254, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo.\u201d", "start_byte": 600780, "end_byte": 600785, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 449.5199890136719, "end_time": 450.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 449.5049890136719, "cut_end_time": 450.4300515136719, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd I should be ashamed to write to Bor\u00eds. I\u2019m not going to.\u201d", "start_byte": 600787, "end_byte": 600849, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 450.3999938964844, "end_time": 454.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 450.9349938964844, "cut_end_time": 454.1301188964844, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy should you be ashamed?\u201d", "start_byte": 600851, "end_byte": 600879, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 454.32000732421875, "end_time": 456.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 454.8450073242188, "cut_end_time": 456.70006982421876, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s awkward and would make me ashamed.\u201d", "start_byte": 600881, "end_byte": 600942, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 456.6000061035156, "end_time": 460.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 456.93500610351566, "cut_end_time": 460.07000610351565, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd I know why she\u2019d be ashamed,", "start_byte": 600944, "end_byte": 600977, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 460.67999267578125, "end_time": 462.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 461.3349926757813, "cut_end_time": 462.8001176757813, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt\u2019s because she was in love with that fat one in spectacles", "start_byte": 601030, "end_byte": 601091, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 466.0400085449219, "end_time": 469.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 466.4450085449219, "cut_end_time": 469.1800710449219, "narrative_prediction": {"described": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cand now she\u2019s in love with that singer", "start_byte": 601161, "end_byte": 601200, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 474.1600036621094, "end_time": 476.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 474.5150036621094, "cut_end_time": 476.3700661621094, "narrative_prediction": {"meant": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cthat\u2019s why she\u2019s ashamed!\u201d", "start_byte": 601247, "end_byte": 601274, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 479.5199890136719, "end_time": 482.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 479.5049890136719, "cut_end_time": 482.5900515136719, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cP\u00e9tya, you\u2019re stupid!", "start_byte": 601276, "end_byte": 601298, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 482.5199890136719, "end_time": 484.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 482.8149890136719, "cut_end_time": 484.2800515136719, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cNot more stupid than you, madam,", "start_byte": 601315, "end_byte": 601348, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 485.6000061035156, "end_time": 487.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 485.99500610351566, "cut_end_time": 487.7500686035157, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDon\u2019t come in,", "start_byte": 601742, "end_byte": 601757, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 514.0800170898438, "end_time": 515.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 514.6050170898437, "cut_end_time": 515.4600170898437, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cCome later.", "start_byte": 601808, "end_byte": 601820, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 518.0800170898438, "end_time": 519.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 518.1350170898438, "cut_end_time": 519.5300795898438, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is done!", "start_byte": 602296, "end_byte": 602308, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 555.8800048828125, "end_time": 557.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 556.5750048828126, "cut_end_time": 557.3000673828125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cdear S\u00f3nya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.", "start_byte": 603186, "end_byte": 603250, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 619.1199951171875, "end_time": 623.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 619.3849951171875, "cut_end_time": 622.7400576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy are you crying, Mamma?", "start_byte": 603550, "end_byte": 603577, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 644.1599731445312, "end_time": 646.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 644.6949731445312, "cut_end_time": 646.1200981445313, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cFrom all he says one should be glad and not cry.\u201d", "start_byte": 603591, "end_byte": 603641, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 647.3200073242188, "end_time": 651.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 647.6250073242188, "cut_end_time": 650.3500698242187, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd who is it she takes after?", "start_byte": 603734, "end_byte": 603765, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 657.9600219726562, "end_time": 659.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 658.2650219726563, "cut_end_time": 660.0000219726563, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cpear", "start_byte": 604439, "end_byte": 604444, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 706.47998046875, "end_time": 707.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 706.47498046875, "cut_end_time": 707.00010546875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cgranny,", "start_byte": 604455, "end_byte": 604463, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 707.6400146484375, "end_time": 708.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 707.6350146484375, "cut_end_time": 708.2300771484375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat a style! How charmingly he describes!", "start_byte": 605261, "end_byte": 605304, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 766.0, "end_time": 769.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 766.4350000000001, "cut_end_time": 769.6200625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd what a soul! Not a word about himself.... Not a word! About some Den\u00edsov or other, though he himself, I dare say, is braver than any of them. He says nothing about his sufferings. What a heart! How like him it is! And how he has remembered everybody! Not forgetting anyone. I always said when he was only so high \u2014 I always said....\u201d", "start_byte": 605360, "end_byte": 605698, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 772.8800048828125, "end_time": 798.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 773.1350048828125, "cut_end_time": 797.8200673828126, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still living with the Rost\u00f3vs.", "start_byte": 595070, "end_byte": 595161, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 42.560001373291016, "end_time": 48.91999816894531, "cut_start_time": 42.88500137329102, "cut_end_time": 48.34000137329102}, {"text": " said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared to sympathize in any way.", "start_byte": 595180, "end_byte": 595256, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 50.560001373291016, "end_time": 56.720001220703125, "cut_start_time": 50.66500137329102, "cut_end_time": 55.910063873291016}, {"text": "The count sobbed yet more.", "start_byte": 595258, "end_byte": 595284, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 56.720001220703125, "end_time": 59.439998626708984, "cut_start_time": 57.135001220703124, "cut_end_time": 58.73000122070312}, {"text": "Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God\u2019s help, would inform her.", "start_byte": 595447, "end_byte": 595743, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 75.12000274658203, "end_time": 97.36000061035156, "cut_start_time": 75.51500274658203, "cut_end_time": 96.28006524658203}, {"text": "At dinner Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna talked the whole time about the war news and about Nik\u00f3lenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might very likely be getting a letter from him that day. Each time that these hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at the count and at Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna, the latter very adroitly turned the conversation to insignificant matters. Nat\u00e1sha, who, of the whole family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her father and Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna, that it had something to do with her brother, and that Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna was preparing them for it. Bold as she was, Nat\u00e1sha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything relating to Nik\u00f3lenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her chair regardless of her governess\u2019 remarks. After dinner, she rushed headlong after Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room.", "start_byte": 595745, "end_byte": 596981, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 97.36000061035156, "end_time": 181.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 97.95500061035156, "cut_end_time": 180.75000061035155}, {"text": "Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna shook her head.", "start_byte": 597126, "end_byte": 597158, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 192.24000549316406, "end_time": 194.75999450683594, "cut_start_time": 192.57500549316407, "cut_end_time": 194.31000549316406}, {"text": " she said.", "start_byte": 597188, "end_byte": 597198, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 196.32000732421875, "end_time": 197.52000427246094, "cut_start_time": 196.29500732421874, "cut_end_time": 197.61006982421875}, {"text": " exclaimed Nat\u00e1sha, reading confirmation in Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna\u2019s face.", "start_byte": 597242, "end_byte": 597310, "is_quote": false, 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She felt that S\u00f3nya was speaking the truth, that there was such love as S\u00f3nya was speaking of. But Nat\u00e1sha had not yet felt anything like it. She believed it could be, but did not understand it.", "start_byte": 600041, "end_byte": 600314, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 399.9200134277344, "end_time": 418.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 400.3750134277344, "cut_end_time": 417.8400134277344}, {"text": " she asked.", "start_byte": 600341, "end_byte": 600352, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 420.2799987792969, "end_time": 421.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 420.2549987792969, "cut_end_time": 421.5801237792969}, {"text": "S\u00f3nya became thoughtful. The question of how to write to Nicholas, and whether she ought to write, tormented her. Now that he was already an officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on himself?", "start_byte": 600354, "end_byte": 600639, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 421.4800109863281, "end_time": 440.0, "cut_start_time": 421.75501098632816, "cut_end_time": 439.32001098632816}, {"text": " she said, blushing.", "start_byte": 600696, "end_byte": 600716, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 443.55999755859375, "end_time": 444.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 443.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 444.9801225585938}, {"text": "S\u00f3nya smiled.", "start_byte": 600765, "end_byte": 600778, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 447.8399963378906, "end_time": 449.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 447.95499633789063, "cut_end_time": 449.1700588378906}, {"text": " said P\u00e9tya, offended by Nat\u00e1sha\u2019s previous remark.", "start_byte": 600978, "end_byte": 601029, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 462.7200012207031, "end_time": 466.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 462.69500122070315, "cut_end_time": 465.78006372070314}, {"text": " (that was how P\u00e9tya described his namesake, the new Count Bez\u00fakhov)", "start_byte": 601092, "end_byte": 601160, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 469.7200012207031, "end_time": 474.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 470.05500122070316, "cut_end_time": 473.94006372070317}, {"text": " (he meant Nat\u00e1sha\u2019s Italian singing master),", "start_byte": 601201, "end_byte": 601246, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 476.6000061035156, "end_time": 479.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 476.94500610351565, "cut_end_time": 479.43000610351567}, {"text": " said Nat\u00e1sha.", "start_byte": 601299, "end_byte": 601313, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 484.239990234375, "end_time": 485.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 484.214990234375, "cut_end_time": 485.700115234375}, {"text": " said the nine-year-old P\u00e9tya, with the air of an old brigadier.", "start_byte": 601349, "end_byte": 601413, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 487.7200012207031, "end_time": 491.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 487.87500122070315, "cut_end_time": 490.95000122070314}, {"text": "The countess had been prepared by Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna\u2019s hints at dinner. On retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears kept coming into her eyes. Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna, with the letter, came on tiptoe to the countess\u2019 door and paused.", "start_byte": 601415, "end_byte": 601740, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 491.3999938964844, "end_time": 514.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 491.9249938964844, "cut_end_time": 513.2901188964844}, {"text": " she said to the old count who was following her.", "start_byte": 601758, "end_byte": 601807, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 515.3599853515625, "end_time": 518.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 515.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 518.1801103515626}, {"text": " And she went in, closing the door behind her.", "start_byte": 601821, "end_byte": 601867, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 519.4400024414062, "end_time": 523.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 519.5050024414063, "cut_end_time": 523.4800649414062}, {"text": "The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened.", "start_byte": 601869, "end_byte": 601919, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 523.4000244140625, "end_time": 527.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 523.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 527.6100869140625}, {"text": "At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna\u2019s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna opened the door. Her face wore the proud expression of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the public to appreciate his skill.", "start_byte": 601921, "end_byte": 602294, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 527.52001953125, "end_time": 555.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 528.0750195312501, "cut_end_time": 555.3300820312501}, {"text": " she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips.", "start_byte": 602309, "end_byte": 602502, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 557.2000122070312, "end_time": 570.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 557.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 569.6800747070313}, {"text": "When she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away the bald head. V\u00e9ra, Nat\u00e1sha, S\u00f3nya, and P\u00e9tya now entered the room, and the reading of the letter began. After a brief description of the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father\u2019s and mother\u2019s hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed V\u00e9ra, Nat\u00e1sha, and P\u00e9tya. Besides that, he sent greetings to Monsieur Schelling, Madame Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him", "start_byte": 602504, "end_byte": 603185, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 570.4400024414062, "end_time": 619.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 571.0350024414063, "cut_end_time": 618.9200024414063}, {"text": " When she heard this S\u00f3nya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. The countess was crying.", "start_byte": 603251, "end_byte": 603548, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 623.1599731445312, "end_time": 644.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 623.5349731445312, "cut_end_time": 643.4600356445312}, {"text": " asked V\u00e9ra.", "start_byte": 603578, "end_byte": 603590, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 646.2000122070312, "end_time": 647.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 646.1850122070313, "cut_end_time": 647.4000747070313}, {"text": "This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Nat\u00e1sha looked at her reproachfully.", "start_byte": 603643, "end_byte": 603733, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 651.2000122070312, "end_time": 657.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 651.2350122070312, "cut_end_time": 657.6700747070313}, {"text": " thought the countess.", "start_byte": 603766, "end_byte": 603788, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 659.9199829101562, "end_time": 661.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 659.8949829101563, "cut_end_time": 661.9801079101562}, {"text": "Nicholas\u2019 letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she did not let it out of her hands. The tutors came, and the nurses, and Dm\u00edtri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh proofs of Nik\u00f3lenka\u2019s virtues. How strange, how extraordinary, how joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who had first learned to say", "start_byte": 603790, "end_byte": 604438, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 661.8800048828125, "end_time": 706.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 662.2450048828125, "cut_end_time": 706.4900048828125}, {"text": " and then", "start_byte": 604445, "end_byte": 604454, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 707.0800170898438, "end_time": 707.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 707.2750170898438, "cut_end_time": 707.7400795898437}, {"text": " that this son should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly warrior doing some kind of man\u2019s work of his own, without help or guidance. The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess. Her son\u2019s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. As twenty years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this letter, he now was.", "start_byte": 604464, "end_byte": 605259, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 708.4400024414062, "end_time": 766.0, "cut_start_time": 708.7950024414063, "cut_end_time": 765.5000024414063}, {"text": " said she, reading the descriptive part of the letter.", "start_byte": 605305, "end_byte": 605359, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 769.52001953125, "end_time": 772.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 769.49501953125, "cut_end_time": 772.82008203125}]}

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Oh, you petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!", "start_byte": 610616, "end_byte": 610672, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 267.3999938964844, "end_time": 272.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 267.5649938964844, "cut_end_time": 272.2401188964844, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDear me, how you have changed!\u201d", "start_byte": 610773, "end_byte": 610805, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 278.6400146484375, "end_time": 282.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 279.1850146484375, "cut_end_time": 281.16001464843754, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you\u2019d been to a fete, not like us sinners of the line,", "start_byte": 611748, "end_byte": 611849, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 339.55999755859375, "end_time": 345.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 339.9049975585938, "cut_end_time": 345.9701225585938, "narrative_prediction": {"cried": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "swagger": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}, "baritone": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cEh, is she pretty?", "start_byte": 612067, "end_byte": 612086, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 361.239990234375, "end_time": 362.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 361.45499023437503, "cut_end_time": 362.78005273437503, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "wink": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy do you shout so? You\u2019ll frighten them!", "start_byte": 612111, "end_byte": 612154, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 364.0799865722656, "end_time": 366.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 364.5249865722657, "cut_end_time": 366.65004907226563, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI did not expect you today,", "start_byte": 612168, "end_byte": 612196, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 367.55999755859375, "end_time": 369.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 367.99499755859375, "cut_end_time": 369.3600600585938, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI only sent you the note yesterday by Bolk\u00f3nski \u2014 an adjutant of Kut\u00fazov\u2019s, who\u2019s a friend of mine. I did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... Well, how are you? Been under fire already?", "start_byte": 612208, "end_byte": 612406, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 369.9599914550781, "end_time": 381.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 370.2149914550781, "cut_end_time": 381.78005395507813, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAs you see,", "start_byte": 612590, "end_byte": 612602, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 393.9200134277344, "end_time": 395.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 394.3150134277344, "cut_end_time": 395.2600759277344, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIndeed? Yes, yes!", "start_byte": 612614, "end_byte": 612632, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 396.32000732421875, "end_time": 398.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 396.87500732421876, "cut_end_time": 398.26006982421876, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "smile": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd we too have had a splendid march. You know, of course, that His Imperial Highness rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and balls! I can\u2019t tell you. And the Tsar\u00e9vich was very gracious to all our officers.\u201d", "start_byte": 612660, "end_byte": 612967, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 399.760009765625, "end_time": 419.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 399.995009765625, "cut_end_time": 418.54000976562503, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, you Guards!", "start_byte": 613174, "end_byte": 613190, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 432.4800109863281, "end_time": 433.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 432.78501098632813, "cut_end_time": 433.78001098632814, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cI say, send for some wine.\u201d", "start_byte": 613205, "end_byte": 613233, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 434.79998779296875, "end_time": 437.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 435.0149877929688, "cut_end_time": 436.5501127929688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIf you really want it,", "start_byte": 613258, "end_byte": 613281, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 438.760009765625, "end_time": 440.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 439.02500976562504, "cut_end_time": 440.260072265625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, and I have some money and a letter to give you,", "start_byte": 613375, "end_byte": 613428, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 446.32000732421875, "end_time": 448.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 446.68500732421876, "cut_end_time": 448.88000732421875, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, they\u2019ve sent you a tidy sum,", "start_byte": 613659, "end_byte": 613694, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 463.7200012207031, "end_time": 465.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 463.95500122070314, "cut_end_time": 465.77000122070314, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAs for us, Count, we get along on our pay. I can tell you for myself...\u201d", "start_byte": 613754, "end_byte": 613827, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 469.0400085449219, "end_time": 474.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 469.3450085449219, "cut_end_time": 473.5100710449219, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI say, Berg, my dear fellow,", "start_byte": 613829, "end_byte": 613858, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 474.1600036621094, "end_time": 475.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 474.5850036621094, "cut_end_time": 476.0200661621094, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cwhen you get a letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk everything over with, and I happen to be there, I\u2019ll go at once, to be out of your way! Do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!", "start_byte": 613873, "end_byte": 614090, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 476.79998779296875, "end_time": 488.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 477.0249877929688, "cut_end_time": 488.5401127929688, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDon\u2019t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know I speak from my heart as to an old acquaintance.\u201d", "start_byte": 614250, "end_byte": 614340, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 497.8399963378906, "end_time": 503.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 498.06499633789065, "cut_end_time": 502.52012133789066, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, don\u2019t mention it, Count! I quite understand,", "start_byte": 614342, "end_byte": 614391, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 503.0400085449219, "end_time": 505.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 503.6750085449219, "cut_end_time": 506.0200710449219, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "getting": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "speaking": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "muffled": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "guttural": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cGo across to our hosts: they invited you,", "start_byte": 614462, "end_byte": 614504, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 510.3599853515625, "end_time": 512.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 510.6649853515625, "cut_end_time": 512.9801103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOh dear, what a beast I am!", "start_byte": 614839, "end_byte": 614867, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 534.7999877929688, "end_time": 536.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 535.2049877929687, "cut_end_time": 536.9801127929687, "narrative_prediction": {"muttered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy?\u201d", "start_byte": 614910, "end_byte": 614916, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 539.1599731445312, "end_time": 539.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 539.3249731445313, "cut_end_time": 539.6900356445312, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them such a fright! Oh, what a pig I am!", "start_byte": 614918, "end_byte": 615018, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 539.9199829101562, "end_time": 546.0, "cut_start_time": 540.3549829101563, "cut_end_time": 546.1000454101563, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "flushing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}, "suddenly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, have you sent Gabriel for some wine? All right let\u2019s have some!\u201d", "start_byte": 615052, "end_byte": 615123, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 548.239990234375, "end_time": 553.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 548.514990234375, "cut_end_time": 552.200052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat nonsense! Much I need it!", "start_byte": 615381, "end_byte": 615412, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 568.3200073242188, "end_time": 570.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 568.5450073242188, "cut_end_time": 570.6500073242188, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy have you thrown that away?", "start_byte": 615465, "end_byte": 615496, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 573.3599853515625, "end_time": 575.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 573.7549853515625, "cut_end_time": 575.1400478515625, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do I want it for!\u201d", "start_byte": 615512, "end_byte": 615585, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 576.280029296875, "end_time": 580.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 576.7150292968751, "cut_end_time": 579.990091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy \u2018What the devil\u2019?", "start_byte": 615587, "end_byte": 615609, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 580.52001953125, "end_time": 582.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 580.99501953125, "cut_end_time": 582.26001953125, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThis letter would be of great use to you.\u201d", "start_byte": 615662, "end_byte": 615705, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 584.5599975585938, "end_time": 587.0, "cut_start_time": 584.8149975585937, "cut_end_time": 586.6200600585938, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI want nothing, and I won\u2019t be anyone\u2019s adjutant.\u201d", "start_byte": 615707, "end_byte": 615758, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 587.0, "end_time": 590.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 587.335, "cut_end_time": 589.9000625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy not?", "start_byte": 615760, "end_byte": 615769, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 590.4000244140625, "end_time": 591.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 590.8450244140626, "cut_end_time": 591.4200869140625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIt\u2019s a lackey\u2019s job!\u201d", "start_byte": 615788, "end_byte": 615810, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 592.6400146484375, "end_time": 594.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 593.0250146484375, "cut_end_time": 594.2200771484376, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYou are still the same dreamer, I see,", "start_byte": 615812, "end_byte": 615851, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 594.6400146484375, "end_time": 596.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 595.0550146484376, "cut_end_time": 596.6600146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "shaking": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd you\u2019re still the same diplomatist! But that\u2019s not the point... Come, how are you?", "start_byte": 615888, "end_byte": 615974, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 598.9199829101562, "end_time": 603.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 599.3349829101563, "cut_end_time": 603.9801079101562, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, as you see. So far everything\u2019s all right, but I confess I should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.\u201d", "start_byte": 615991, "end_byte": 616121, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 605.2000122070312, "end_time": 613.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 605.4150122070313, "cut_end_time": 613.0500122070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWhy?\u201d", "start_byte": 616123, "end_byte": 616129, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 613.5999755859375, "end_time": 614.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 613.8149755859375, "cut_end_time": 614.2301005859375, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBecause when once a man starts on military service, he should try to make as successful a career of it as possible.\u201d", "start_byte": 616131, "end_byte": 616248, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 614.52001953125, "end_time": 621.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 614.97501953125, "cut_end_time": 620.90008203125, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, that\u2019s it!", "start_byte": 616250, "end_byte": 616265, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 621.4000244140625, "end_time": 622.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 621.6150244140625, "cut_end_time": 622.7800244140625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cShouldn\u2019t we now send for Berg?", "start_byte": 616475, "end_byte": 616507, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 636.7999877929688, "end_time": 638.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 637.0649877929687, "cut_end_time": 638.3800502929688, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe would drink with you. I can\u2019t.\u201d", "start_byte": 616522, "end_byte": 616557, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 639.1199951171875, "end_time": 641.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 639.2649951171875, "cut_end_time": 641.0200576171875, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?", "start_byte": 616559, "end_byte": 616621, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 641.47998046875, "end_time": 644.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 641.69498046875, "cut_end_time": 644.98010546875, "narrative_prediction": {"asked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "contemptuous": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cHe is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,", "start_byte": 616665, "end_byte": 616719, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 647.5599975585938, "end_time": 650.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 647.9749975585938, "cut_end_time": 650.8200600585938, "narrative_prediction": {"answered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cArnauts!", "start_byte": 617550, "end_byte": 617559, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 703.1199951171875, "end_time": 704.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 703.1349951171875, "cut_end_time": 703.9301201171875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cArnauts", "start_byte": 617562, "end_byte": 617570, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 704.4000244140625, "end_time": 705.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 704.6350244140625, "cut_end_time": 705.0900244140626, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWould you believe it, Count, I was not at all alarmed, because I knew I was right. Without boasting, you know, I may say that I know the Army Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord\u2019s Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and so my conscience was at ease. I came forward....", "start_byte": 617674, "end_byte": 618001, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 711.3599853515625, "end_time": 732.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 711.6449853515625, "cut_end_time": 731.6001103515625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cWell, he stormed at me, as the saying is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but rather of death, as the saying is. \u2018Albanians!\u2019 and \u2018devils!\u2019 and \u2018To Siberia!\u2019", "start_byte": 618195, "end_byte": 618382, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 744.0800170898438, "end_time": 756.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 744.4350170898438, "cut_end_time": 756.4800170898437, "narrative_prediction": {"kept": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}, "silent": {"id": "0", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cI knew I was in the right so I kept silent; was not that best, Count?... \u2018Hey, are you dumb?\u2019 he shouted. Still I remained silent. And what do you think, Count? The next day it was not even mentioned in the Orders of the Day. That\u2019s what keeping one\u2019s head means. That\u2019s the way, Count,", "start_byte": 618418, "end_byte": 618705, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 759.2000122070312, "end_time": 776.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 759.5050122070313, "cut_end_time": 776.5600122070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, that was fine,", "start_byte": 618766, "end_byte": 618786, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 780.3200073242188, "end_time": 781.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 780.7250073242187, "cut_end_time": 781.8600698242187, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "smiling": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou cannot imagine what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,", "start_byte": 620650, "end_byte": 620725, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 900.3200073242188, "end_time": 905.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 900.5250073242188, "cut_end_time": 904.8400073242187, "narrative_prediction": {"saying": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWe shall probably advance,", "start_byte": 622021, "end_byte": 622048, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 991.52001953125, "end_time": 993.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 992.01501953125, "cut_end_time": 993.38008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAs to your business,", "start_byte": 622426, "end_byte": 622447, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1016.8800048828125, "end_time": 1018.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 1017.3750048828125, "cut_end_time": 1018.5000673828125, "narrative_prediction": {"continued": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cwe will talk of it later", "start_byte": 622492, "end_byte": 622517, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1020.719970703125, "end_time": 1022.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1020.954970703125, "cut_end_time": 1022.190095703125, "narrative_prediction": {"continued": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cCome to me after the review and we will do what is possible.\u201d", "start_byte": 622552, "end_byte": 622614, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1024.719970703125, "end_time": 1028.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 1024.894970703125, "cut_end_time": 1028.1800957031248, "narrative_prediction": {"continued": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI think you were talking of the Sch\u00f6n Grabern affair? Were you there?\u201d", "start_byte": 622801, "end_byte": 622872, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1040.56005859375, "end_time": 1044.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 1040.53505859375, "cut_end_time": 1044.05005859375, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI was there,", "start_byte": 622874, "end_byte": 622887, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1044.47998046875, "end_time": 1045.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1044.8149804687498, "cut_end_time": 1045.54004296875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, there are many stories now told about that affair!\u201d", "start_byte": 623065, "end_byte": 623122, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1056.719970703125, "end_time": 1060.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1057.0249707031248, "cut_end_time": 1059.9000957031249, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, stories!", "start_byte": 623124, "end_byte": 623138, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1060.6400146484375, "end_time": 1062.0799560546875, "cut_start_time": 1061.0750146484374, "cut_end_time": 1062.1800146484375, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "loudly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYes, many stories! But our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy\u2019s fire! Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!\u201d", "start_byte": 623238, "end_byte": 623456, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1069.1199951171875, "end_time": 1083.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1069.3649951171874, "cut_end_time": 1082.7900576171874, "narrative_prediction": {"repeated": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "loudly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOf whom you imagine me to be one?", "start_byte": 623458, "end_byte": 623492, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1083.3599853515625, "end_time": 1085.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1083.7949853515624, "cut_end_time": 1085.7301103515624, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "quiet": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "particularly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 9}, "amiably": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cI am not talking about you,", "start_byte": 623686, "end_byte": 623714, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1098.6400146484375, "end_time": 1100.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 1099.1750146484374, "cut_end_time": 1100.4600146484374, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI don\u2019t know you and, frankly, I don\u2019t want to. I am speaking of the staff in general.\u201d", "start_byte": 623725, "end_byte": 623813, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1100.9599609375, "end_time": 1106.1600341796875, "cut_start_time": 1101.2649609374998, "cut_end_time": 1105.6300859374999, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAnd I will tell you this,", "start_byte": 623815, "end_byte": 623841, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1106.1600341796875, "end_time": 1108.0, "cut_start_time": 1106.6750341796874, "cut_end_time": 1108.1000341796873, "narrative_prediction": {"interrupted": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "quiet": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "authority": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cyou wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven\u2019t sufficient self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more serious duel, and besides, Drubetsk\u00f3y, who says he is an old friend of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to displease you. However,", "start_byte": 623899, "end_byte": 624317, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1111.43994140625, "end_time": 1138.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1111.7649414062498, "cut_end_time": 1138.82000390625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cyou know my name and where to find me, but don\u2019t forget that I do not regard either myself or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my advice is to let the matter drop. Well then, on Friday after the review I shall expect you, Drubetsk\u00f3y. Au revoir!", "start_byte": 624336, "end_byte": 624613, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 1140.0, "end_time": 1159.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1140.185, "cut_end_time": 1158.9399999999998, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": "The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading their cleanliness and discipline. They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. The regiments had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand Duke\u2019s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their proper posts. Bor\u00eds had been quartered, and had marched all the way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. Berg, who had obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money matters very satisfactorily. Bor\u00eds, during the campaign, had made the acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by a letter of recommendation he had brought from Pierre had become acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolk\u00f3nski, through whom he hoped to obtain a post on the commander in chief\u2019s staff. Berg and Bor\u00eds, having rested after yesterday\u2019s march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess. Berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. Bor\u00eds, in the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg\u2019s move, and watched his opponent\u2019s face, evidently thinking about the game as he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on.", "start_byte": 608825, "end_byte": 610408, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 142.60000610351562, "end_time": 252.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 143.44500610351562, "cut_end_time": 252.0000061035156}, {"text": " he remarked.", "start_byte": 610455, "end_byte": 610468, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 255.16000366210938, "end_time": 256.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 255.13500366210937, "cut_end_time": 256.62000366210935}, {"text": " replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing his hand.", "start_byte": 610485, "end_byte": 610543, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 257.79998779296875, "end_time": 261.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 257.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 261.13005029296875}, {"text": "At that moment the door opened.", "start_byte": 610545, "end_byte": 610576, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 261.9599914550781, "end_time": 264.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 262.49499145507815, "cut_end_time": 264.16011645507814}, {"text": " shouted Rost\u00f3v.", "start_byte": 610599, "end_byte": 610615, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 266.0, "end_time": 267.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 265.975, "cut_end_time": 267.1}, {"text": " he exclaimed, imitating his Russian nurse\u2019s French, at which he and Bor\u00eds used to laugh long ago.", "start_byte": 610673, "end_byte": 610771, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 272.1600036621094, "end_time": 278.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 272.1950036621094, "cut_end_time": 278.1500661621094}, {"text": "Bor\u00eds rose to meet Rost\u00f3v, but in doing so did not omit to steady and replace some chessmen that were falling. He was about to embrace his friend, but Nicholas avoided him. With that peculiar feeling of youth, that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner different from that of its elders which is often insincere, Nicholas wished to do something special on meeting his friend. He wanted to pinch him, push him, do anything but kiss him \u2014 a thing everybody did. But notwithstanding this, Bor\u00eds embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and kissed him three times.", "start_byte": 610807, "end_byte": 611389, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 282.3599853515625, "end_time": 319.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 282.5449853515625, "cut_end_time": 318.44004785156255}, {"text": "They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young men take their first steps on life\u2019s road, each saw immense changes in the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken those first steps. Both had changed greatly since they last met and both were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them.", "start_byte": 611391, "end_byte": 611746, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 319.0799865722656, "end_time": 339.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 319.54498657226566, "cut_end_time": 338.75004907226565}, {"text": " cried Rost\u00f3v, with martial swagger and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Bor\u00eds, pointing to his own mud-bespattered breeches. The German landlady, hearing Rost\u00f3v\u2019s loud voice, popped her head in at the door.", "start_byte": 611850, "end_byte": 612065, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 345.8800048828125, "end_time": 361.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 345.9150048828125, "cut_end_time": 360.5700048828125}, {"text": " he asked with a wink.", "start_byte": 612087, "end_byte": 612109, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 362.67999267578125, "end_time": 364.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 362.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 363.7800551757813}, {"text": " said Bor\u00eds.", "start_byte": 612155, "end_byte": 612167, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 366.55999755859375, "end_time": 367.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 366.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 367.3600600585938}, {"text": " he added.", "start_byte": 612197, "end_byte": 612207, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 369.2799987792969, "end_time": 369.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 369.2549987792969, "cut_end_time": 369.8600612792969}, {"text": " asked Bor\u00eds.", "start_byte": 612407, "end_byte": 612420, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 381.67999267578125, "end_time": 383.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 381.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 382.4600551757813}, {"text": "Without answering, Rost\u00f3v shook the soldier\u2019s Cross of St. George fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, glanced at Berg with a smile.", "start_byte": 612422, "end_byte": 612588, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 383.1199951171875, "end_time": 393.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 383.5449951171875, "cut_end_time": 393.1201201171875}, {"text": " he said.", "start_byte": 612603, "end_byte": 612612, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 395.20001220703125, "end_time": 396.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 395.1750122070313, "cut_end_time": 396.4200747070313}, {"text": " said Bor\u00eds, with a smile.", "start_byte": 612633, "end_byte": 612659, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 398.1600036621094, "end_time": 399.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 398.1350036621094, "cut_end_time": 399.4900661621094}, {"text": "And the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family.", "start_byte": 612969, "end_byte": 613172, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 419.2799987792969, "end_time": 432.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 419.8549987792969, "cut_end_time": 431.6001237792969}, {"text": " said Rost\u00f3v.", "start_byte": 613191, "end_byte": 613204, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 433.67999267578125, "end_time": 434.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 433.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 434.6700551757813}, {"text": "Bor\u00eds made a grimace.", "start_byte": 613235, "end_byte": 613256, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 437.1600036621094, "end_time": 438.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 437.3950036621094, "cut_end_time": 438.6200661621094}, {"text": " said he.", "start_byte": 613282, "end_byte": 613291, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 440.1600036621094, "end_time": 441.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 440.1350036621094, "cut_end_time": 441.2200036621094}, {"text": "He went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent for wine.", "start_byte": 613293, "end_byte": 613373, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 441.1199951171875, "end_time": 446.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 441.64499511718753, "cut_end_time": 446.0001201171875}, {"text": " he added.", "start_byte": 613429, "end_byte": 613439, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 448.8399963378906, "end_time": 450.0799865722656, "cut_start_time": 448.81499633789065, "cut_end_time": 450.18005883789067}, {"text": "Rost\u00f3v took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both arms on the table and began to read. After reading a few lines, he glanced angrily at Berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the letter.", "start_byte": 613441, "end_byte": 613657, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 450.0799865722656, "end_time": 463.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 450.31498657226564, "cut_end_time": 463.02011157226565}, {"text": " said Berg, eying the heavy purse that sank into the sofa.", "start_byte": 613695, "end_byte": 613753, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 465.67999267578125, "end_time": 469.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 465.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 468.7201176757813}, {"text": " said Rost\u00f3v,", "start_byte": 613859, "end_byte": 613872, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 475.9200134277344, "end_time": 476.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 475.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 476.6800134277344}, {"text": " he exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his words, he added,", "start_byte": 614091, "end_byte": 614249, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 488.44000244140625, "end_time": 497.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 488.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 497.7200024414063}, {"text": " said Berg, getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice.", "start_byte": 614392, "end_byte": 614460, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 505.9200134277344, "end_time": 510.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 505.8950134277344, "cut_end_time": 509.7200134277344}, {"text": " added Bor\u00eds.", "start_byte": 614505, "end_byte": 614518, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 512.8800048828125, "end_time": 515.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 512.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 515.1300673828125}, {"text": "Berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples upwards, in the way affected by the Emperor Alexander, and, having assured himself from the way Rost\u00f3v looked at it that his coat had been noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile.", "start_byte": 614520, "end_byte": 614837, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 515.0800170898438, "end_time": 534.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 515.4450170898438, "cut_end_time": 534.2200170898437}, {"text": " muttered Rost\u00f3v, as he read the letter.", "start_byte": 614868, "end_byte": 614908, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 536.8800048828125, "end_time": 539.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 536.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 538.7200048828125}, {"text": " he repeated, flushing suddenly.", "start_byte": 615019, "end_byte": 615051, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 546.0, "end_time": 548.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 545.975, "cut_end_time": 547.89}, {"text": "In the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation to Bagrati\u00f3n which the old countess at Anna Mikh\u00e1ylovna\u2019s advice had obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take it to its destination and make use of it.", "start_byte": 615125, 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"end_byte": 615786, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 591.3200073242188, "end_time": 592.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 591.2950073242188, "cut_end_time": 592.3800698242188}, {"text": " remarked Bor\u00eds, shaking his head.", "start_byte": 615852, "end_byte": 615886, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 596.5599975585938, "end_time": 598.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 596.5349975585938, "cut_end_time": 598.3900600585938}, {"text": " asked Rost\u00f3v.", "start_byte": 615975, "end_byte": 615989, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 603.8800048828125, "end_time": 605.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 603.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 604.6600673828125}, {"text": " said Rost\u00f3v, evidently thinking of something else.", "start_byte": 616266, "end_byte": 616317, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 622.719970703125, "end_time": 626.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 622.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 625.860033203125}, {"text": "He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend\u2019s eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question.", "start_byte": 616319, "end_byte": 616439, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 626.1599731445312, "end_time": 634.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 626.6349731445313, "cut_end_time": 633.5600356445312}, {"text": "Old Gabriel brought in the wine.", "start_byte": 616441, "end_byte": 616473, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 634.3599853515625, "end_time": 636.7999877929688, "cut_start_time": 634.6849853515625, "cut_end_time": 636.3400478515625}, {"text": " asked Bor\u00eds.", "start_byte": 616508, "end_byte": 616521, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 638.3599853515625, "end_time": 639.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 638.3349853515625, "cut_end_time": 639.0900478515625}, {"text": " asked Rost\u00f3v, with a contemptuous smile.", "start_byte": 616622, "end_byte": 616663, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 644.8800048828125, "end_time": 647.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 644.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 647.5900048828125}, {"text": " answered Bor\u00eds.", "start_byte": 616720, "end_byte": 616736, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 650.719970703125, "end_time": 652.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 650.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 652.500095703125}, {"text": "Again Rost\u00f3v looked intently into Bor\u00eds\u2019 eyes and sighed. Berg returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three officers became animated. The Guardsmen told Rost\u00f3v of their march and how they had been made much of in Russia, Poland, and abroad. They spoke of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told stories of his kindness and irascibility. Berg, as usual, kept silent when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the stories of the Grand Duke\u2019s quick temper he related with gusto how in Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of a movement. With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting:", "start_byte": 616738, "end_byte": 617549, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 652.4000244140625, "end_time": 703.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 652.8550244140625, "cut_end_time": 703.0800244140626}, {"text": " ", "start_byte": 617560, "end_byte": 617561, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 704.4000244140625, "end_time": 704.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 704.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 704.5000869140625}, {"text": " was the Tsar\u00e9vich\u2019s favorite expression when he was in a rage) and called for the company commander.", "start_byte": 617571, "end_byte": 617672, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 705.0399780273438, "end_time": 711.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 705.0149780273438, "cut_end_time": 710.7300405273438}, {"text": " (Berg stood up and showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and self-complacency than his did.)", "start_byte": 618002, "end_byte": 618194, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 732.3200073242188, "end_time": 744.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 732.5250073242188, "cut_end_time": 743.5800698242188}, {"text": " said Berg with a sagacious smile.", "start_byte": 618383, "end_byte": 618417, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 756.47998046875, "end_time": 759.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 756.62498046875, "cut_end_time": 758.9301054687501}, {"text": " said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke.", "start_byte": 618706, "end_byte": 618764, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 776.47998046875, "end_time": 780.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 776.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 779.87010546875}, {"text": " said Rost\u00f3v, smiling.", "start_byte": 618787, "end_byte": 618809, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 781.760009765625, "end_time": 784.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 781.735009765625, "cut_end_time": 784.170072265625}, {"text": "But Bor\u00eds noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where he got his wound. This pleased Rost\u00f3v and he began talking about it, and as he went on became more and more animated. He told them of his Sch\u00f6n Grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not at all as it really was. Rost\u00f3v was a truthful young man and would on no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his hearers \u2014 who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear just such a story \u2014 they would either not have believed him or, still worse, would have thought that Rost\u00f3v was himself to blame since what generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as he could from a Frenchman into the wood. Besides, to tell everything as it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of will to tell only what happened. It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. And so he told them all that.", "start_byte": 618811, "end_byte": 620597, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 784.0800170898438, "end_time": 896.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 784.3650170898437, "cut_end_time": 895.6700170898438}, {"text": "In the middle of his story, just as he was saying:", "start_byte": 620599, "end_byte": 620649, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 896.719970703125, "end_time": 900.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 897.3949707031251, "cut_end_time": 900.110095703125}, {"text": " Prince Andrew, whom Bor\u00eds was expecting, entered the room. Prince Andrew, who liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance and being well disposed toward Bor\u00eds, who had managed to please him the day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. Having been sent with papers from Kut\u00fazov to the Tsar\u00e9vich, he looked in on Bor\u00eds, hoping to find him alone. When he came in and saw an hussar of the line recounting his military exploits (Prince Andrew could not endure that sort of man), he gave Bor\u00eds a pleasant smile, frowned as with half-closed eyes he looked at Rost\u00f3v, bowed slightly and wearily, and sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped in on bad company. Rost\u00f3v flushed up on noticing this, but he did not care, this was a mere stranger. Glancing, however, at Bor\u00eds, he saw that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line.", "start_byte": 620726, "end_byte": 621623, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 905.5599975585938, "end_time": 964.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 905.8149975585937, "cut_end_time": 963.3100600585938}, {"text": "In spite of Prince Andrew\u2019s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of the contempt with which Rost\u00f3v, from his fighting army point of view, regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer was evidently one, Rost\u00f3v felt confused, blushed, and became silent. Bor\u00eds inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without indiscretion, one might ask about our plans.", "start_byte": 621625, "end_byte": 622019, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 964.719970703125, "end_time": 991.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 965.164970703125, "cut_end_time": 990.380095703125}, {"text": " replied Bolk\u00f3nski, evidently reluctant to say more in the presence of a stranger.", "start_byte": 622049, "end_byte": 622131, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 993.4400024414062, "end_time": 998.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 993.4150024414063, "cut_end_time": 998.0700024414062}, {"text": "Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled. To this Prince Andrew answered with a smile that he could give no opinion on such an important government order, and Berg laughed gaily.", "start_byte": 622133, "end_byte": 622424, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 998.9199829101562, "end_time": 1016.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 999.1749829101562, "cut_end_time": 1015.9901079101563}, {"text": " Prince Andrew continued, addressing Bor\u00eds,", "start_byte": 622448, "end_byte": 622491, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1018.4000244140625, "end_time": 1020.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1018.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 1020.6500244140625}, {"text": " (and he looked round at Rost\u00f3v).", "start_byte": 622518, "end_byte": 622551, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1022.6400146484375, "end_time": 1024.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1023.0350146484375, "cut_end_time": 1024.3500146484375}, {"text": "And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rost\u00f3v, whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to anger he did not condescend to notice, and said:", "start_byte": 622616, "end_byte": 622800, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1028.760009765625, "end_time": 1040.56005859375, "cut_start_time": 1029.2650097656249, "cut_end_time": 1040.6600722656249}, {"text": " said Rost\u00f3v angrily, as if intending to insult the aide-de-camp.", "start_byte": 622888, "end_byte": 622953, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1045.43994140625, "end_time": 1050.0, "cut_start_time": 1045.41494140625, "cut_end_time": 1049.27000390625}, {"text": "Bolk\u00f3nski noticed the hussar\u2019s state of mind, and it amused him. With a slightly contemptuous smile, he said:", "start_byte": 622955, "end_byte": 623064, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1050.0, "end_time": 1056.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 1050.235, "cut_end_time": 1056.54}, {"text": " repeated Rost\u00f3v loudly, looking with eyes suddenly grown furious, now at Bor\u00eds, now at Bolk\u00f3nski.", "start_byte": 623139, "end_byte": 623237, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1062.0799560546875, "end_time": 1069.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 1062.0549560546874, "cut_end_time": 1068.8700185546875}, {"text": " said Prince Andrew, with a quiet and particularly amiable smile.", "start_byte": 623493, "end_byte": 623558, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1085.6400146484375, "end_time": 1090.0, "cut_start_time": 1085.6350146484374, "cut_end_time": 1089.4600146484374}, {"text": "A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man\u2019s self-possession mingled at that moment in Rost\u00f3v\u2019s soul.", "start_byte": 623560, "end_byte": 623684, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1090.0, "end_time": 1098.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 1090.495, "cut_end_time": 1098.1200625}, {"text": " he said,", "start_byte": 623715, "end_byte": 623724, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1100.3599853515625, "end_time": 1100.9599609375, "cut_start_time": 1100.3349853515624, "cut_end_time": 1101.0300478515624}, {"text": " Prince Andrew interrupted in a tone of quiet authority,", "start_byte": 623842, "end_byte": 623898, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1108.0, "end_time": 1111.43994140625, "cut_start_time": 1107.975, "cut_end_time": 1111.1899999999998}, {"text": " he added rising,", "start_byte": 624318, "end_byte": 624335, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 1138.719970703125, "end_time": 1140.0, "cut_start_time": 1138.694970703125, "cut_end_time": 1139.8700332031249}]}

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They\u2019re coming!", "start_byte": 627900, "end_byte": 627932, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 194.47999572753906, "end_time": 196.9600067138672, "cut_start_time": 194.73499572753906, "cut_end_time": 196.57012072753906, "narrative_prediction": {"ran": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cEyes front!", "start_byte": 628431, "end_byte": 628443, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 231.67999267578125, "end_time": 233.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 231.76499267578126, "cut_end_time": 232.64011767578126, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHurrah!", "start_byte": 629066, "end_byte": 629074, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 275.3599853515625, "end_time": 276.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 275.44498535156254, "cut_end_time": 276.15011035156255, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!", "start_byte": 629794, "end_byte": 629818, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 326.3999938964844, "end_time": 328.8399963378906, "cut_start_time": 326.5949938964844, "cut_end_time": 328.8100563964844, "narrative_prediction": {"thundered": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHurrah! Hurrah!", "start_byte": 629978, "end_byte": 629994, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 339.2799987792969, "end_time": 340.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 339.3849987792969, "cut_end_time": 340.8101237792969, "narrative_prediction": {"growing": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 8}}}, {"text": "\u201cOh God, what would happen to me if the Emperor spoke to me?", "start_byte": 631663, "end_byte": 631723, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 454.239990234375, "end_time": 457.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 454.534990234375, "cut_end_time": 457.860052734375, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI should die of happiness!\u201d", "start_byte": 631741, "end_byte": 631769, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 458.760009765625, "end_time": 461.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 458.97500976562503, "cut_end_time": 460.34000976562504, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI thank you all, gentlemen, I thank you with my whole heart.", "start_byte": 631809, "end_byte": 631870, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 463.9200134277344, "end_time": 467.9599914550781, "cut_start_time": 464.3250134277344, "cut_end_time": 467.4900134277344, "narrative_prediction": {"addressed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cYou have earned the St. George\u2019s standards and will be worthy of them.\u201d", "start_byte": 631980, "end_byte": 632052, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 474.6000061035156, "end_time": 479.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 475.1050061035156, "cut_end_time": 478.68000610351567, "narrative_prediction": {"addressed": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOh, to die, to die for him,", "start_byte": 632054, "end_byte": 632082, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 479.55999755859375, "end_time": 481.7200012207031, "cut_start_time": 479.80499755859375, "cut_end_time": 481.78012255859375, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cHurrah!\u201d", "start_byte": 632206, "end_byte": 632215, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 489.44000244140625, "end_time": 491.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 489.48500244140627, "cut_end_time": 490.2100024414063, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHurrah!", "start_byte": 632262, "end_byte": 632270, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 494.32000732421875, "end_time": 495.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 494.42500732421877, "cut_end_time": 495.0400698242188, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHow can the Emperor be undecided?", "start_byte": 632464, "end_byte": 632498, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 508.5199890136719, "end_time": 511.0, "cut_start_time": 509.3449890136719, "cut_end_time": 511.0700515136719, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cOf course not!", "start_byte": 633313, "end_byte": 633328, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 568.280029296875, "end_time": 569.4000244140625, "cut_start_time": 568.6950292968751, "cut_end_time": 569.500091796875, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cIs it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? At a time of such love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels and affronts matter? I love and forgive everybody now.\u201d", "start_byte": 633346, "end_byte": 633550, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 570.5599975585938, "end_time": 585.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 571.0149975585938, "cut_end_time": 584.2701225585938, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201clike a vewy devil,", "start_byte": 634371, "end_byte": 634390, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 641.52001953125, "end_time": 642.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 641.6850195312501, "cut_end_time": 642.88008203125, "narrative_prediction": {"expressed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cFine fellows, the P\u00e1vlograds!", "start_byte": 634418, "end_byte": 634448, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 645.4400024414062, "end_time": 647.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 645.9150024414063, "cut_end_time": 647.6200649414063, "narrative_prediction": {"remarked": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cMy God, how happy I should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire this instant!", "start_byte": 634473, "end_byte": 634556, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 649.47998046875, "end_time": 654.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 650.07498046875, "cut_end_time": 654.71004296875, "narrative_prediction": {"thought": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}], "narrations": [{"text": "From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten o\u2019clock all had been brought into due order. The ranks were drawn up on the vast field. The whole army was extended in three lines: the cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the infantry.", "start_byte": 627185, "end_byte": 627472, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 141.1999969482422, "end_time": 163.72000122070312, "cut_start_time": 141.92499694824218, "cut_end_time": 162.92012194824218}, {"text": "A space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. The three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kut\u00fazov\u2019s fighting army (with the P\u00e1vlograds on the right flank of the front); those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, under one command, and in a like order.", "start_byte": 627474, "end_byte": 627852, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 163.72000122070312, "end_time": 190.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 164.22500122070312, "cut_end_time": 189.6400012207031}, {"text": "Like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper:", "start_byte": 627854, "end_byte": 627899, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 190.67999267578125, "end_time": 194.47999572753906, "cut_start_time": 191.03499267578124, "cut_end_time": 194.19005517578125}, {"text": " Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final preparation swept over all the troops.", "start_byte": 627933, "end_byte": 628019, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 196.9600067138672, "end_time": 204.0800018310547, "cut_start_time": 197.40500671386718, "cut_end_time": 203.36006921386718}, {"text": "From the direction of Olm\u00fctz in front of them, a group was seen approaching. And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. It looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its joy at the approach of the Emperors. One voice was heard shouting:", "start_byte": 628021, "end_byte": 628430, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 204.0800018310547, "end_time": 231.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 204.5450018310547, "cut_end_time": 231.50000183105467}, {"text": " Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was repeated by others from various sides and all became silent.", "start_byte": 628444, "end_byte": 628558, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 233.0800018310547, "end_time": 242.24000549316406, "cut_start_time": 233.4150018310547, "cut_end_time": 240.9000643310547}, {"text": "In the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. This was the Emperors\u2019 suites. The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. It seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army itself, rejoicing at the Emperors\u2019 approach, had naturally burst into music. Amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the Emperor Alexander was clearly heard. He gave the words of greeting, and the first regiment roared", "start_byte": 628560, "end_byte": 629065, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 242.24000549316406, "end_time": 275.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 242.90500549316405, "cut_end_time": 275.33000549316404}, {"text": " so deafeningly, continuously, and joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the immensity of the power they constituted.", "start_byte": 629075, "end_byte": 629220, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 276.32000732421875, "end_time": 287.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 276.5850073242188, "cut_end_time": 286.24000732421877}, {"text": "Rost\u00f3v, standing in the front lines of Kut\u00fazov\u2019s army which the Tsar approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this triumph.", "start_byte": 629222, "end_byte": 629505, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 287.3599853515625, "end_time": 306.0, "cut_start_time": 287.56498535156254, "cut_end_time": 305.3800478515625}, {"text": "He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word.", "start_byte": 629507, "end_byte": 629792, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 306.0, "end_time": 326.3999938964844, "cut_start_time": 306.545, "cut_end_time": 325.81}, {"text": " thundered from all sides, one regiment after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then", "start_byte": 629819, "end_byte": 629930, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 328.8399963378906, "end_time": 336.0, "cut_start_time": 329.2149963378906, "cut_end_time": 336.10005883789063}, {"text": " growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar.", "start_byte": 629995, "end_byte": 630063, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 340.8800048828125, "end_time": 346.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 341.1750048828125, "cut_end_time": 345.1200673828125}, {"text": "Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had already passed. Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men \u2014 the Emperors. Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that whole mass of men was concentrated.", "start_byte": 630065, "end_byte": 630661, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 346.32000732421875, "end_time": 387.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 346.80500732421876, "cut_end_time": 387.1800698242188}, {"text": "The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone\u2019s attention.", "start_byte": 630663, "end_byte": 630879, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 387.760009765625, "end_time": 403.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 388.39500976562505, "cut_end_time": 402.180009765625}, {"text": "Rost\u00f3v was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had recognized the Tsar and watched his approach. When he was within twenty paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness and ecstasy such as he had never before known. Every trait and every movement of the Tsar\u2019s seemed to him enchanting.", "start_byte": 630881, "end_byte": 631271, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 403.2799987792969, "end_time": 429.0, "cut_start_time": 403.5149987792969, "cut_end_time": 427.6500612792969}, {"text": "Stopping in front of the P\u00e1vlograds, the Tsar said something in French to the Austrian Emperor and smiled.", "start_byte": 631273, "end_byte": 631379, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 429.0, "end_time": 436.0, "cut_start_time": 429.485, "cut_end_time": 435.28000000000003}, {"text": "Seeing that smile, Rost\u00f3v involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still stronger flow of love for his sovereign. He longed to show that love in some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. The Tsar called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him.", "start_byte": 631381, "end_byte": 631661, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 436.0, "end_time": 454.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 436.315, "cut_end_time": 453.55}, {"text": " thought Rost\u00f3v.", "start_byte": 631724, "end_byte": 631740, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 457.79998779296875, "end_time": 458.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 457.8149877929688, "cut_end_time": 458.68011279296877}, {"text": "The Tsar addressed the officers also:", "start_byte": 631771, "end_byte": 631808, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 461.3599853515625, "end_time": 463.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 461.7149853515625, "cut_end_time": 463.6701103515625}, {"text": " To Rost\u00f3v every word sounded like a voice from heaven. How gladly would he have died at once for his Tsar!", "start_byte": 631871, "end_byte": 631978, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 467.9599914550781, "end_time": 474.6000061035156, "cut_start_time": 468.3349914550781, "cut_end_time": 474.20011645507816}, {"text": " thought Rost\u00f3v.", "start_byte": 632083, "end_byte": 632099, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 481.7200012207031, "end_time": 483.2799987792969, "cut_start_time": 481.69500122070315, "cut_end_time": 483.38000122070315}, {"text": "The Tsar said something more which Rost\u00f3v did not hear, and the soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted", "start_byte": 632101, "end_byte": 632205, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 483.2799987792969, "end_time": 489.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 484.0149987792969, "cut_end_time": 489.3901237792969}, {"text": "Rost\u00f3v too, bending over his saddle, shouted", "start_byte": 632217, "end_byte": 632261, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 491.3599853515625, "end_time": 494.32000732421875, "cut_start_time": 491.6449853515625, "cut_end_time": 494.1901103515625}, {"text": " with all his might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if only to express his rapture fully.", "start_byte": 632271, "end_byte": 632389, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 495.0400085449219, "end_time": 503.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 495.3050085449219, "cut_end_time": 502.17000854492187}, {"text": "The Tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided.", "start_byte": 632391, "end_byte": 632462, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 503.1199951171875, "end_time": 508.5199890136719, "cut_start_time": 503.6649951171875, "cut_end_time": 507.53005761718754}, {"text": " thought Rost\u00f3v, but then even this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything else the Tsar did.", "start_byte": 632499, "end_byte": 632621, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 511.0, "end_time": 519.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 511.055, "cut_end_time": 518.71}, {"text": "That hesitation lasted only an instant. The Tsar\u2019s foot, in the narrow pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at last only his white plumes were visible to Rost\u00f3v from amid the suites that surrounded the Emperors.", "start_byte": 632623, "end_byte": 633075, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 519.6799926757812, "end_time": 552.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 520.1749926757813, "cut_end_time": 550.2901176757813}, {"text": "Among the gentlemen of the suite, Rost\u00f3v noticed Bolk\u00f3nski, sitting his horse indolently and carelessly. Rost\u00f3v recalled their quarrel of yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought not to challenge Bolk\u00f3nski.", "start_byte": 633077, "end_byte": 633312, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 552.3200073242188, "end_time": 568.280029296875, "cut_start_time": 552.7450073242188, "cut_end_time": 567.9200698242188}, {"text": " he now thought.", "start_byte": 633329, "end_byte": 633345, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 569.4000244140625, "end_time": 570.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 569.3750244140625, "cut_end_time": 570.5900244140626}, {"text": "When the Emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began a ceremonial march past him, and Rost\u00f3v on Bedouin, recently purchased from Den\u00edsov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron \u2014 that is, alone and in full view of the Emperor.", "start_byte": 633552, "end_byte": 633800, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 585.52001953125, "end_time": 602.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 586.0750195312501, "cut_end_time": 601.8300820312501}, {"text": "Before he reached him, Rost\u00f3v, who was a splendid horseman, spurred Bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the animal went when excited. Bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his tail extended, Bedouin, as if also conscious of the Emperor\u2019s eye upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground.", "start_byte": 633802, "end_byte": 634213, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 602.8400268554688, "end_time": 631.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 603.2650268554688, "cut_end_time": 630.0200893554688}, {"text": "Rost\u00f3v himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling himself one with his horse, rode past the Emperor with a frowning but blissful face", "start_byte": 634215, "end_byte": 634370, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 631.2000122070312, "end_time": 641.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 631.3950122070313, "cut_end_time": 641.3000747070313}, {"text": " as Den\u00edsov expressed it.", "start_byte": 634391, "end_byte": 634416, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 642.8400268554688, "end_time": 645.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 642.8150268554688, "cut_end_time": 645.5400893554688}, {"text": " remarked the Emperor.", "start_byte": 634449, "end_byte": 634471, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 647.52001953125, "end_time": 649.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 647.49501953125, "cut_end_time": 648.91001953125}, {"text": " thought Rost\u00f3v.", "start_byte": 634557, "end_byte": 634573, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 654.6799926757812, "end_time": 656.3200073242188, "cut_start_time": 654.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 656.4201176757813}]}

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They are bringing another!", "start_byte": 650940, "end_byte": 650974, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 149.0399932861328, "end_time": 150.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 149.4949932861328, "cut_end_time": 150.9801182861328, "narrative_prediction": {"cried": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cSell us that horse!", "start_byte": 651187, "end_byte": 651207, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 164.8000030517578, "end_time": 166.1999969482422, "cut_start_time": 165.2150030517578, "cut_end_time": 166.3000030517578, "narrative_prediction": {"called": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIf you like, your honor!\u201d", "start_byte": 651246, "end_byte": 651272, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 168.67999267578125, "end_time": 170.9199981689453, "cut_start_time": 168.94499267578124, "cut_end_time": 170.09005517578123, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cBut don\u2019t hurt my little horse!", "start_byte": 651788, "end_byte": 651820, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 204.55999755859375, "end_time": 206.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 204.79499755859374, "cut_end_time": 206.31006005859373, "narrative_prediction": {"added": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cBut don\u2019t hurt my little horse!", "start_byte": 652330, "end_byte": 652362, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 241.27999877929688, "end_time": 243.1999969482422, "cut_start_time": 241.88499877929686, "cut_end_time": 243.30006127929687, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "good-naturedly": {"id": "1", "type": "adverb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cAlley! Alley!", "start_byte": 652515, "end_byte": 652529, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 253.63999938964844, "end_time": 254.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 253.81499938964842, "cut_end_time": 254.74006188964844, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cThe Emperor! The Emperor!", "start_byte": 652597, "end_byte": 652623, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 258.8800048828125, "end_time": 261.20001220703125, "cut_start_time": 259.3650048828125, "cut_end_time": 261.09006738281255, "narrative_prediction": {"heard": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe P\u00e1vlograd hussars?", "start_byte": 653912, "end_byte": 653935, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 351.1199951171875, "end_time": 352.79998779296875, "cut_start_time": 351.44499511718755, "cut_end_time": 352.90005761718754, "narrative_prediction": {"inquired": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe reserves, sire!", "start_byte": 653951, "end_byte": 653971, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 354.239990234375, "end_time": 355.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 354.784990234375, "cut_end_time": 355.98011523437503, "narrative_prediction": {"replied": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cThe P\u00e1vlograd hussars?\u201d", "start_byte": 654040, "end_byte": 654064, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 360.0400085449219, "end_time": 362.9200134277344, "cut_start_time": 360.1750085449219, "cut_end_time": 362.1200710449219, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cGently, gently! Can\u2019t you do it more gently?", "start_byte": 656616, "end_byte": 656661, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 529.1199951171875, "end_time": 532.6400146484375, "cut_start_time": 529.3649951171875, "cut_end_time": 532.7401201171875, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cWhat a terrible thing war is: what a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre!\u201d", "start_byte": 656851, "end_byte": 656942, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 544.9600219726562, "end_time": 551.9199829101562, "cut_start_time": 545.1950219726563, "cut_end_time": 551.3600219726562, "narrative_prediction": {"heard": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cNot \u2018our Sovereign, the Emperor,\u2019 as they say at official dinners,", "start_byte": 657482, "end_byte": 657549, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 585.8400268554688, "end_time": 589.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 586.0050268554688, "cut_end_time": 589.7700268554688, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cbut the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the French!\u201d", "start_byte": 657560, "end_byte": 657700, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 590.3599853515625, "end_time": 599.4400024414062, "cut_start_time": 590.6449853515625, "cut_end_time": 598.7401103515625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "0", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIf we fought before,", "start_byte": 657702, "end_byte": 657723, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 599.4400024414062, "end_time": 601.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 600.1950024414062, "cut_end_time": 601.2200024414062, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cnot letting the French pass, as at Sch\u00f6n Grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? We will all die for him gladly! Is it not so, gentlemen? Perhaps I am not saying it right, I have drunk a good deal \u2014 but that is how I feel, and so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!\u201d", "start_byte": 657734, "end_byte": 658042, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 601.760009765625, "end_time": 623.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 601.895009765625, "cut_end_time": 622.290072265625, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cHurrah!", "start_byte": 658044, "end_byte": 658052, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 623.2000122070312, "end_time": 623.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 623.5750122070312, "cut_end_time": 624.0600747070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cLads! here\u2019s to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over our enemies! Hurrah!", "start_byte": 658543, "end_byte": 658625, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 657.0399780273438, "end_time": 663.0, "cut_start_time": 657.2949780273437, "cut_end_time": 663.1000405273438, "narrative_prediction": {"exclaimed": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}, "dashing": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "old": {"id": "1", "type": "adjective", "confidence": 9}, "baritone": {"id": "1", "type": "noun", "confidence": 9}}}, {"text": "\u201cAs there\u2019s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he\u2019s fallen in love with the Tsar,", "start_byte": 658865, "end_byte": 658952, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 680.760009765625, "end_time": 685.47998046875, "cut_start_time": 681.235009765625, "cut_end_time": 685.580009765625, "narrative_prediction": {"said": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cDen\u00edsov, don\u2019t make fun of it!", "start_byte": 658964, "end_byte": 658995, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 686.719970703125, "end_time": 688.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 686.984970703125, "cut_end_time": 688.620033203125, "narrative_prediction": {"cried": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cIt is such a lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...\u201d", "start_byte": 659011, "end_byte": 659061, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 689.6799926757812, "end_time": 693.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 689.9149926757813, "cut_end_time": 693.1301176757813, "narrative_prediction": {"cried": {"id": "1", "type": "verb", "confidence": 10}}}, {"text": "\u201cI believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove...\u201d", "start_byte": 659063, "end_byte": 659127, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 693.2000122070312, "end_time": 697.0800170898438, "cut_start_time": 693.4250122070313, "cut_end_time": 696.6600747070313, "narrative_prediction": {}}, {"text": "\u201cNo, you don\u2019t understand!\u201d", "start_byte": 659129, "end_byte": 659156, "is_quote": true, "start_time": 697.0800170898438, "end_time": 699.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 697.4250170898438, "cut_end_time": 698.9200170898438, "narrative_prediction": {}}], "narrations": [{"text": " shouted Den\u00edsov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some food.", "start_byte": 650788, "end_byte": 650870, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 137.63999938964844, "end_time": 143.44000244140625, "cut_start_time": 137.67499938964843, "cut_end_time": 142.66012438964844}, {"text": "The officers gathered round Den\u00edsov\u2019s canteen, eating and talking.", "start_byte": 650872, "end_byte": 650938, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 143.44000244140625, "end_time": 149.0399932861328, "cut_start_time": 144.19500244140625, "cut_end_time": 147.91000244140625}, {"text": " cried one of the officers, indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by two Cossacks.", "start_byte": 650975, "end_byte": 651088, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 150.8800048828125, "end_time": 158.39999389648438, "cut_start_time": 150.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 157.49000488281249}, {"text": "One of them was leading by the bridle a fine large French horse he had taken from the prisoner.", "start_byte": 651090, "end_byte": 651185, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 158.39999389648438, "end_time": 164.8000030517578, "cut_start_time": 158.92499389648438, "cut_end_time": 164.08011889648438}, {"text": " Den\u00edsov called out to the Cossacks.", "start_byte": 651208, "end_byte": 651244, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 166.1999969482422, "end_time": 168.67999267578125, "cut_start_time": 166.17499694824218, "cut_end_time": 168.3400594482422}, {"text": "The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner. The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German accent. He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, addressing first one, then another. He said he would not have been taken, it was not his fault but the corporal\u2019s who had sent him to seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. And at every word he added:", "start_byte": 651274, "end_byte": 651787, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 170.9199981689453, "end_time": 204.55999755859375, "cut_start_time": 171.6749981689453, "cut_end_time": 204.5600606689453}, {"text": " and stroked the animal. It was plain that he did not quite grasp where he was. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly discipline and zeal in the service. He brought with him into our rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was so alien to us.", "start_byte": 651821, "end_byte": 652185, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 206.39999389648438, "end_time": 232.0, "cut_start_time": 206.70499389648438, "cut_end_time": 231.00005639648435}, {"text": "The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rost\u00f3v, being the richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it.", "start_byte": 652187, "end_byte": 652328, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 232.0, "end_time": 241.27999877929688, "cut_start_time": 232.515, "cut_end_time": 240.62}, {"text": " said the Alsatian good-naturedly to Rost\u00f3v when the animal was handed over to the hussar.", "start_byte": 652363, "end_byte": 652453, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 243.1999969482422, "end_time": 249.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 243.17499694824218, "cut_end_time": 248.35005944824218}, {"text": "Rost\u00f3v smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money.", "start_byte": 652455, "end_byte": 652513, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 249.1199951171875, "end_time": 253.63999938964844, "cut_start_time": 249.4049951171875, "cut_end_time": 253.0800576171875}, {"text": " said the Cossack, touching the prisoner\u2019s arm to make him go on.", "start_byte": 652530, "end_byte": 652595, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 254.63999938964844, "end_time": 258.8800048828125, "cut_start_time": 254.61499938964843, "cut_end_time": 258.5701243896484}, {"text": " was suddenly heard among the hussars.", "start_byte": 652624, "end_byte": 652662, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 261.20001220703125, "end_time": 264.1600036621094, "cut_start_time": 261.37501220703126, "cut_end_time": 263.27007470703126}, {"text": "All began to run and bustle, and Rost\u00f3v saw coming up the road behind him several riders with white plumes in their hats. In a moment everyone was in his place, waiting.", "start_byte": 652664, "end_byte": 652833, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 264.1600036621094, "end_time": 276.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 264.5750036621094, "cut_end_time": 275.2100661621094}, {"text": "Rost\u00f3v did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. Instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of himself had vanished. He was filled with happiness at his nearness to the Emperor. He felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the day he had lost. He was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of meeting arrives. Not daring to look round and without looking round, he was ecstatically conscious of his approach. He felt it not only from the sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more festive around him. Nearer and nearer to Rost\u00f3v came that sun shedding beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, and majestic voice that was yet so simple! And as if in accord with Rost\u00f3v\u2019s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard the Emperor\u2019s voice.", "start_byte": 652835, "end_byte": 653910, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 276.4800109863281, "end_time": 351.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 276.74501098632817, "cut_end_time": 350.08001098632815}, {"text": " he inquired.", "start_byte": 653936, "end_byte": 653949, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 352.79998779296875, "end_time": 354.239990234375, "cut_start_time": 352.7749877929688, "cut_end_time": 353.7000502929688}, {"text": " replied a voice, a very human one compared to that which had said:", "start_byte": 653972, "end_byte": 654039, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 355.8800048828125, "end_time": 360.0400085449219, "cut_start_time": 355.8550048828125, "cut_end_time": 359.9500673828125}, {"text": "The Emperor drew level with Rost\u00f3v and halted. Alexander\u2019s face was even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. It shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face of the majestic Emperor. Casually, while surveying the squadron, the Emperor\u2019s eyes met Rost\u00f3v\u2019s and rested on them for not more than two seconds. Whether or no the Emperor understood what was going on in Rost\u00f3v\u2019s soul (it seemed to Rost\u00f3v that he understood everything), at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into Rost\u00f3v\u2019s face. A gentle, mild light poured from them. Then all at once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left foot, and galloped on.", "start_byte": 654066, "end_byte": 654842, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 362.9200134277344, "end_time": 413.4800109863281, "cut_start_time": 363.5850134277344, "cut_end_time": 412.8300759277344}, {"text": "The younger Emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve o\u2019clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped toward the vanguard. Before he came up with the hussars, several adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action.", "start_byte": 654844, "end_byte": 655181, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 413.4800109863281, "end_time": 434.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 414.39501098632815, "cut_end_time": 433.6200734863281}, {"text": "This battle, which consisted in the capture of a French squadron, was represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were retreating against their will. A few minutes after the Emperor had passed, the P\u00e1vlograd division was ordered to advance. In Wischau itself, a petty German town, Rost\u00f3v saw the Emperor again. In the market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the Emperor\u2019s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there had not been time to move. The Emperor, surrounded by his suite of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. The wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity to the Emperor shocked Rost\u00f3v. Rost\u00f3v saw how the Emperor\u2019s rather round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his left foot began convulsively tapping the horse\u2019s side with the spur, and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not stir. An adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to place him on a stretcher that had been brought. The soldier groaned.", "start_byte": 655183, "end_byte": 656614, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 434.760009765625, "end_time": 529.1199951171875, "cut_start_time": 435.45500976562505, "cut_end_time": 528.210009765625}, {"text": " said the Emperor apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away.", "start_byte": 656662, "end_byte": 656747, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 532.6400146484375, "end_time": 538.5599975585938, "cut_start_time": 532.6150146484375, "cut_end_time": 537.8200146484376}, {"text": "Rost\u00f3v saw tears filling the Emperor\u2019s eyes and heard him, as he was riding away, say to Czartor\u00fdski:", "start_byte": 656749, "end_byte": 656850, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 538.5599975585938, "end_time": 544.9600219726562, "cut_start_time": 538.7549975585938, "cut_end_time": 544.8301225585938}, {"text": "The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau, within sight of the enemy\u2019s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us at the least firing. The Emperor\u2019s gratitude was announced to the vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of vodka. The campfires crackled and the soldiers\u2019 songs resounded even more merrily than on the previous night. Den\u00edsov celebrated his promotion to the rank of major, and Rost\u00f3v, who had already drunk enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor\u2019s health.", "start_byte": 656944, "end_byte": 657481, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 551.9199829101562, "end_time": 585.8400268554688, "cut_start_time": 552.7449829101563, "cut_end_time": 585.1901079101563}, {"text": " said he,", "start_byte": 657550, "end_byte": 657559, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 589.6799926757812, "end_time": 590.3599853515625, "cut_start_time": 589.6549926757813, "cut_end_time": 590.2600551757813}, {"text": " he said,", "start_byte": 657724, "end_byte": 657733, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 601.1199951171875, "end_time": 601.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 601.0949951171875, "cut_end_time": 601.7601201171875}, {"text": " rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers.", "start_byte": 658053, "end_byte": 658099, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 623.9600219726562, "end_time": 627.2000122070312, "cut_start_time": 623.9350219726563, "cut_end_time": 626.5800844726563}, {"text": "And the old cavalry captain, K\u00edrsten, shouted enthusiastically and no less sincerely than the twenty-year-old Rost\u00f3v.", "start_byte": 658101, "end_byte": 658218, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 627.2000122070312, "end_time": 636.1599731445312, "cut_start_time": 627.5850122070312, "cut_end_time": 635.1400122070313}, {"text": "When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, K\u00edrsten filled others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the soldiers\u2019 bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm.", "start_byte": 658220, "end_byte": 658541, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 636.1599731445312, "end_time": 657.0399780273438, "cut_start_time": 636.8349731445313, "cut_end_time": 656.4300356445312}, {"text": " he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar\u2019s baritone.", "start_byte": 658626, "end_byte": 658679, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 663.0, "end_time": 667.52001953125, "cut_start_time": 662.975, "cut_end_time": 666.8400625}, {"text": "The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts.", "start_byte": 658681, "end_byte": 658747, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 667.52001953125, "end_time": 672.5999755859375, "cut_start_time": 668.14501953125, "cut_end_time": 671.5700195312501}, {"text": "Late that night, when all had separated, Den\u00edsov with his short hand patted his favorite, Rost\u00f3v, on the shoulder.", "start_byte": 658749, "end_byte": 658863, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 672.5999755859375, "end_time": 680.760009765625, "cut_start_time": 672.9549755859375, "cut_end_time": 680.1201005859375}, {"text": " he said.", "start_byte": 658953, "end_byte": 658962, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 685.47998046875, "end_time": 686.719970703125, "cut_start_time": 685.45498046875, "cut_end_time": 686.82004296875}, {"text": " cried Rost\u00f3v.", "start_byte": 658996, "end_byte": 659010, "is_quote": false, "start_time": 688.5599975585938, "end_time": 689.6799926757812, "cut_start_time": 688.6249975585938, "cut_end_time": 689.5200600585938}]}