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[Assistant] He looked at Mr. Fogg, and he did not know what to think. Aouda took her protector's hand. She could not speak. Meanwhile, Passepartout was looking for the train. He thought it would be there, ready to start for Omaha. The train! The train! He cried. Gone! Replied Fix. And when does the next train pass here?


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[Assistant] Said Phineas Fogg. Not till this evening. Ah, was all the quiet man said.


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[Assistant] Showing what happened on the voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong.


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[Assistant] The detective met Passport 2 often on the deck.


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[Assistant] Fix did not try to get more information about Mr. Fogg.


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[Assistant] He did see Mr. Fogg once or twice, but the gentleman usually stayed in his room.


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[Assistant] Passepartout began to seriously wonder how Fix could be on the same path as his master.


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[Assistant] He had first met this friendly man at Suez, then on board the Mongolia.


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[Assistant] He had stopped at Bombay, and now he was on the Rangoon. What was Fix's purpose?


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[Assistant] Passpartout was ready to wager his Indian shoes that Fix would also leave Hong Kong at the same time, and probably on the same steamer.


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[Assistant] Passpartout could never have guessed the detective's real purpose.


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[Assistant] He would never have guessed that Fogg was being followed as a robber.


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[Assistant] Passpartout decided that Fix could only be an agent of Mr. Fogg's friends at the reform club.


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[Assistant] Spying on Mr. Fogg, who is so honorable a man.


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[Assistant] Ah, gentlemen of the reform, this shall cost you dear.


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[Assistant] Passpartout, happy with this discovery, decided not to tell his master.


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[Assistant] He didn't want Mr. Fogg to be upset with his friends.


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[Assistant] But Passpartout decided to try to confuse fix.


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[Assistant] During the afternoon of Wednesday, 30th October, the Rangoon entered the Strait of Malacca.


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[Assistant] The Rangoon stopped at Singapore the next day at 4 a.m. to receive coal. They had gained half a day and Phineas Fogg noted this in his journal.


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[Assistant] Oda wanted to walk on shore, so Phineas Fogg went with her. Fix followed them carefully.


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[Assistant] After a drive of two hours through the country, Aoda and Mr. Fogg returned to the town.


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[Assistant] At 10 o'clock, they boarded the steamer, followed closely by the detective.


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[Assistant] At eleven o'clock, the Rangoon left Singapore Harbor.


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[Assistant] Singapore is 1300 miles away from the island of Hong Kong.


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[Assistant] Phineas Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey in six days, so he could take the steamer to Yokohama, Japan on the 6th of November.


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[Assistant] The Rangoon had many passengers, including a number of Indians, Sri Lankans, Chinese, Malays, and Portuguese. The weather had been fine, but now it had changed. The waves were very strong and the boat rolled heavily.


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[Assistant] The poor design of the Rangoon meant the steamer had to slow down. Passepartout was very angry, but his master did not seem to worry.


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[Assistant] Perhaps Passport 2 was thinking about the gas burning in Seville Row. You are in a great hurry then, said Fix to him one day, to reach Hong Kong. A very great hurry.


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[Assistant] Mr. Fogg, I suppose is anxious to catch the steamer for Yokohama. Terribly anxious.


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[Assistant] You believe in this journey around the world, then? Absolutely. Don't you, Mr. Fix? I? I don't believe a word of it. You're a clever dog? said Passepartout, winking at him.


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[Assistant] This disturbed Fix. Had the Frenchman guessed his real purpose? He didn't know what to think.


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[Assistant] But how could Passpartout have discovered that he was a detective? Passpartout went even further the next day.


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[Assistant] Shall we be so unfortunate as to lose you when we get to Hong Kong? Why? replied Fix. I don't know, perhaps, uh,


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[Assistant] Ah, if you would only go on with us. You are going to Bombay, and here you are in China. America is not far off.


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[Assistant] And from America to Europe is only a step. Passpartout continue to confuse fix.


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[Assistant] There is good and bad luck in such things.


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[Assistant] But you must understand that I don't travel at my own expense. Oh, I am quite sure of that. FIX did not know what to think.


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[Assistant] He decided that if Fogg prepared to leave Hong Kong, he would tell Passepart to everything.


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[Assistant] Or the servant knew nothing of the robbery and would leave the robber.


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[Assistant] Phineas Fogg was not disturbed by anything, however, including Aouda.


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[Assistant] Passepartout saw in Aouda's eyes that she felt strongly about his master.


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[Assistant] We can't really count the time when you were sleeping, can we?


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[Assistant] Stand up, my child, said the goddess. I am the goddess Athena. I have come to bring you three gifts.


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[Assistant] Do not fear Medusa, because the gods will help you.


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[Assistant] When wearing this helmet, you will be invisible to human eyes.


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[Assistant] Apollo, the voice of the gods, has sent you these magic boots. With these boots on, you can fly like a bird.


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[Assistant] Lastly, I have made you a special shield that is made from a pure metal and works like a mirror. This shield is perhaps the most important gift. You will need it to complete your task.


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[Assistant] He is the leader of a great kingdom over the mountains.


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[Assistant] Go to the capital, Athens, and show this sword to the king.


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[Assistant] He has waited a long time for you to grow up and hopes that you follow him as Athens' next king.


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[Assistant] Two weeks had passed since Adele and Robert had had their talk about Edna. Every light in the large dining hall was lit, and all of the tables had been taken away.


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[Assistant] To make room for the large number of guests who were now gathered there.


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[Assistant] Many relatives, mainly fathers and husbands, had come to Grand Isle to visit their children and wives for a day and an evening.


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[Assistant] Chairs were placed around the room so that little groups could be formed for conversation.


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[Assistant] The people shared with their families the stories and news of the past week. Then, after a while...


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[Assistant] The little group started to open up to those who were not family members.


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[Assistant] And soon the occasion became a social gathering for the community. Once everyone felt easy and calm.


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[Assistant] The gathering started to become a little more active.


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[Assistant] Music began to be performed, and then people started to dance.


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[Assistant] Games were played and the children eagerly looked through the comic books.


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[Assistant] Mr. Pontellier had brought with him from the city.


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[Assistant] Then the guests asked the Farival twins to play something on the piano for them.


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[Assistant] They played two songs for the party, and everyone was quite happy with their performance. Madame Le Brun's bird cried. He was the only one at the party.


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[Assistant] Who did not pretend he had not heard them play these songs before.


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[Assistant] The twins' grandfather got angry with the bird and demanded that it be removed from the party. Victor Lebrun refused.


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[Assistant] Luckily, the bird did not make any further comments for the rest of the performance.


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[Assistant] And then a young girl danced for everyone, while her mother played the piano. She was dressed perfectly for the occasion.


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[Assistant] She wore a little black dress with black shoes.


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[Assistant] Her movements were very smooth and surprisingly quick. She obviously practiced very often.


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[Assistant] Madame Retignolle then decided to play a waltz on the piano, so that everyone else could now dance altogether.


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[Assistant] She played beautifully and made the dance quite enjoyable to the guests who participated.


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[Assistant] In fact, the only people who did not participate were the Farival twins.


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[Assistant] They could not stand the idea of being separated


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[Assistant] And they did not think of the possibility of simply dancing with each other.


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[Assistant] Afterwards, ice cream and cake were served to the guests. Victor had arranged this.


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[Assistant] And seeing how everybody seemed to like the food, he felt proud that it had turned out well.


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[Assistant] And made it a point to encourage everyone to eat more.


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[Assistant] And then it was time for the kids to go to bed. Some did as their parents asked them


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[Assistant] While others cried and insisted that they be allowed to stay up longer.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Pontellier danced several times throughout the night. A few times with her husband.


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[Assistant] As well as once with Robert and Mr. Ratignolle. Feeling a bit hot and tired.


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[Assistant] She went to the front of the building to sit for a moment and watch both the guests and the sea. The moon was bright that evening, throwing its light down upon the water.


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[Assistant] Then Robert joined her outside and asked if she would like for Miss Rice to play some music. Edna did want this.


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[Assistant] Decided to do his best to get her to come and perform.


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[Assistant] Miss Rice was not a very friendly or social person. However,


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[Assistant] Wearing an ugly dress with fake flowers in her hair Her face showed no emotion at all. She walked directly to the piano.


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[Assistant] What does Mrs. Pontellier want to hear?


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[Assistant] asked Miss Rice, sitting at the instrument with her hands down at her sides. Everyone had stopped talking.


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[Assistant] There was a feeling of curiosity throughout the room.


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[Assistant] Edna felt embarrassed, being the center of attention.


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[Assistant] Anything Miss Rice would like to play would be fine, she said.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Pontellier thought of herself as a music lover.


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[Assistant] When someone managed to play a piece of music well.


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[Assistant] It caused all kinds of emotions to rise within her.


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[Assistant] She would often sit quietly and listen to Madame Retignolle practice in the mornings.


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[Assistant] Her friend explained that she continued to play.


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[Assistant] Because she thought it was good for her children to often hear music in the house.


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[Assistant] She imagined the man watching a bird flying across the sky. The man felt lonely and without hope.


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[Assistant] Some of the other songs she played made Edna think of children running around together in a field.


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[Assistant] Or of an old woman holding a cat in her arms.


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[Assistant] The very first sound made by Miss Rice on the piano caused Edna to shake in her chair. This woman was a true piano player.


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[Assistant] Her playing did not have the same effect on Mrs. Pontellier as the songs of Madame Ratignolles. Instead of seeing images in her mind, Edna became full of emotion.


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[Assistant] Her tears prevented her from seeing and speaking.


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[Assistant] Miss Rice understood and put her hand on Edna's arm.


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[Assistant] When I play here at Grand Isle, I only play for you. Everyone else is a damned fool.


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[Assistant] And then Miss Rice went back to her cottage and locked the door.


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[Assistant] While others claimed that she expressed every composer's ideas perfectly when she played.


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[Assistant] The hour was approaching midnight, when the party came to an end.


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[Assistant] Everyone began to return to his or her cottages to prepare for bed. However,


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[Assistant] One person had the idea of going for a swim at that late hour.


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[Assistant] One morning, as Edna was walking to the beach,


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[Assistant] Miss Rice surprised her by approaching her with a direct question. Do you miss that young friend of yours?


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[Assistant] As the time for her to return to New Orleans quickly approached.


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[Assistant] Edna found herself spending more and more of her time swimming in the sea.


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[Assistant] It had become the only thing she really enjoyed doing.


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[Assistant] Miss Rice's question went straight to Edna's heart.


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[Assistant] For it was the only thing that she usually thought about.


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[Assistant] She had even begun to regularly visit Madame LeBrun's sewing room.


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[Assistant] So that she could talk about Robert and look through the family pictures.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, most of the pictures of Robert were old.


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[Assistant] None of them looked quite like the man she was so familiar with. Everyone knew that she missed him.


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[Assistant] Even her husband asked how her life had changed without having Robert around any longer.


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[Assistant] It did not make her feel strange to talk with him about Robert.


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[Assistant] Edna got into a bit of an argument with Adele.


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[Assistant] It was because she expressed the idea that she could give up nearly everything she had, even her life, for her children.


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[Assistant] But she could never live a false or unhappy life for them.


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[Assistant] Of course Adele could not understand this kind of thinking at all. In her mind,


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[Assistant] The greatest thing a woman could ever do for her children was give up her life to die for them.


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[Assistant] Madame Rice's question did not come as a surprise to Edna. Oh, yes I do, she answered.


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[Assistant] But his mother must have felt terrible to see him go. Are you kidding? asked Madame Rice in surprise. She didn't mind at all. Her favorite child is still living with her.


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[Assistant] She absolutely loves that idiot son of hers, Victor. I have no idea why. Robert's a good boy.


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[Assistant] But I can't imagine how he keeps himself from beating his brother to death.


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[Assistant] Well, you didn't see him a few years ago.


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[Assistant] When the two of them got into a terrible fight over that Spanish girl named Mariaquita. A bad girl she is.


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[Assistant] Edna did not want to hear anymore about this. It made her upset.


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[Assistant] She removed her robe and walked out into the water She swam with more energy than ever


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[Assistant] When she finished and walked back up onto the beach again, she found Miss Rife still there, looking out at the water. When are you going back to the city? She asked the pianist. I'm leaving on Monday. She answered. What about you? Not for another week yet. Did you enjoy your holiday?


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[Assistant] However, the insects and those two Faribault twins just about made me crazy.


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[Assistant] Why don't you just ask me instead of bothering yourself?


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[Assistant] Why don't you let me do that for you


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm done. Anything else I can do?


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[Assistant] But will we see each other before then? Tonight. Tomorrow.


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[Assistant] It's so difficult for me to wait to be with you for so long.


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[Assistant] Don't tell me you are ill upon Tellier. Please, come in and sit awhile.


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[Assistant] No, I'm feeling just fine. It's my wife that I've come to talk with you about.


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[Assistant] Something's wrong with her and I'm not sure what it is.


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[Assistant] But I just saw her maybe a week before and she looked perfectly fine.


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[Assistant] It's nothing to do with her health, actually. She's just been acting strange lately. I can't understand why. She doesn't care about the house at all. She just lets it go.


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[Assistant] Not all women are the same. Not all of them would like to be a housewife.


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[Assistant] I understand that, but the problem is the way she does things.


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[Assistant] I don't want to fight with her all the time but she makes me so angry that I can't control myself anymore.


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[Assistant] It seems like the idea of women's rights has been growing in her more and more.


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[Assistant] Has she made friends with any of those highly intelligent women I've been hearing about lately? My wife sometimes talks about them. That's what so strange.


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[Assistant] She's not spending time with anyone, really.


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[Assistant] She's almost always alone, walking the streets with a sad look on her face. She's been coming home late in the evenings too.


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[Assistant] She's not had any of her Tuesday afternoon receptions for a long time. I just can't understand it. I'm seriously concerned. I think something is terribly wrong.


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[Assistant] Is anybody in her family this way too? No, absolutely not. They are all good people. They all live in Kentucky and run a horse farm. Some of the most beautiful land I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] It would make her feel better to spend time with her family for a while She refuses to go She says that weddings are too depressing


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[Assistant] Can you believe that she says such a thing to her husband?


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[Assistant] I think, Pontellier, that you ought to just let things continue as they are for a while.


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[Assistant] She's experiencing some kind of emotional problem deep inside of herself, and she's trying to deal with it.


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[Assistant] If you interfere too often, it will only make things worse and it will take her a much longer time to get better.


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[Assistant] It's not possible for you or I to understand what she's experiencing. We just have to be patient. Invite me over for dinner soon. I can have a look at her then, as a friend. Oh, that would be great. How's Thursday?


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[Assistant] That should be fine as long as my wife hasn't planned anything for that evening. Oh, there's one more thing, doctor. I'm going on a business trip to New York soon. Do you think I should take Edna with me?


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[Assistant] It's up to her. Don't force her to go.


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[Assistant] Chapter 7 The Hearing of the Call


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[Assistant] When Buck made sixteen hundred dollars in five minutes for John Thornton.


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[Assistant] He made it possible for his master to pay back some money that he had borrowed before.


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[Assistant] He also made it possible for Thornton and his partners to make a trip into the eastern part of the Northland.


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[Assistant] According to a story heard among gold miners, a lost mine was there.


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[Assistant] Only a few people ever made it back from this area More than a few had died trying to reach it This lost mine was covered in mystery No one knew of the first man to find it


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[Assistant] It seemed like the story had been there since the beginning of time. Men swore their lives to it.


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[Assistant] Holding tightly to their pieces of gold that were unlike any quality of gold in the Northland.


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[Assistant] But no living man in John Thornton's time had come back with gold from this mine. The dead were dead.


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[Assistant] Such was the way when Thornton, Pete, and Hans, with Buck and half a dozen other dogs,


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[Assistant] With a handful of salt and a gun he could go into the wilderness and do whatever he pleased, for as long as he pleased. Not being in a hurry, like an Indian,


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[Assistant] He hunted for his dinner while traveling in the daytime. If he failed to find any food, like the Indian, he kept on traveling.


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[Assistant] Safe in the knowledge that sooner or later he would come to it.


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[Assistant] So, on this great journey into the East, meat was the only food to be had.


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[Assistant] And wandering through strange places without a time limit.


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[Assistant] For weeks at a time, they would travel every day. And for weeks at a time, they would stop and camp.


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[Assistant] Sometimes they eat more than they could ever imagine.


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[Assistant] All according to nature and the luck of their hunting. Summer arrived.


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[Assistant] And dogs and men packed on their backs, rode on boats across blue mountain lakes, and went up and down unknown rivers.


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[Assistant] The months came and went and back and forth they moved through the unmapped area where no men were


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[Assistant] And yet, where men had been, if the lost mind was true.


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[Assistant] They traveled through summer snowstorms, cold under the midnight sun.


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[Assistant] Dropped into summer valleys where the insects were everywhere.


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[Assistant] And in the shadows of the mountains picked wild fruit and flowers as sweet and beautiful as any that the Southland had.


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[Assistant] In the fall of the year they entered an area full of lakes that was sad and silent. There they found no signs of life, only the cold winds and beginnings of ice.


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[Assistant] And through another winter they wandered on the old trails of men that had gone before them.


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[Assistant] They came upon an old path that went clear through the forest, an ancient path, and it seemed that the lost mine was very near.


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[Assistant] But the path began nowhere and ended nowhere, and it remained a mystery.


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[Assistant] As the man who made it and the reason he made it remained a mystery.


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[Assistant] Another time they came upon the remains of an old hunting camp.


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[Assistant] And among the half rotted blankets John Thornton found an old gun


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[Assistant] He knew that it was a Hudson Bay Company gun of the days when the Northland was hardly explored, when such a gun was worth its weight in gold. And that was all.


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[Assistant] But a place in a wide valley where the gold showed like yellow butter across the bottom of the river. They looked no further.


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[Assistant] Each day they worked, they earned thousands of dollars in dust and gold rocks. And they worked every day.


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[Assistant] They stored the gold in bags, fifty pounds to each bag.


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[Assistant] And it began to pile up like firewood outside the small house they had built. Like giants they were.


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[Assistant] Days coming and going like dreams as they built up their riches.


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[Assistant] There was nothing for the dogs to do except pull in the meat that John Thornton killed.


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[Assistant] And Buck spent long hours sitting in front of the fire, thinking and dreaming.


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[Assistant] The dream of the hairy man with short legs came to him more often, now that there was little work to be done, and often, looking into the fire,


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[Assistant] Buck wandered with him in that other world which he remembered.


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[Assistant] The main feeling in this other world seemed to be fear.


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[Assistant] When he watched the hairy man sleeping by the fire, head between his knees and hands held above, Buck saw that he slept restlessly, with many jumps and noises.


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[Assistant] At which time he would look fearfully into the darkness and then put more wood on the fire. Who was this hairy man?


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[Assistant] When they walked by the beach and the hairy man gathered food and ate it as he gathered.


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[Assistant] And they were alert and watchful, the pair of them, with eyes moving and noses shaking, for the man heard and smelled as well as Buck.


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[Assistant] The hairy man could jump into the trees and travel ahead as fast as on the ground.


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[Assistant] He would swing his arms from branch to branch, sometimes a dozen feet apart, letting go and catching. He never fell, never missed the next branch.


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[Assistant] In fact, he seemed as much at home among the trees as on the ground.


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[Assistant] And Buck had memories of nights spent beneath trees where the hairy man held tightly to a branch while he slept.


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[Assistant] Close in feeling to the dream of the hairy man was the call that Buck heard that seemed to come from the depths of the forest.


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[Assistant] It filled him with a great unrest and strange wants.


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[Assistant] It caused him to feel a sweet gladness and he was aware of wild longings and stirrings for something he did not know.


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[Assistant] Sometimes he chased after the call into the forest.


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[Assistant] Looking for it as if it was a solid thing, growling softly.


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[Assistant] or he would push his nose into the black dirt where the long grass grew


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[Assistant] Or he would lay low for hours as if trying to hide.


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[Assistant] Behind fallen trees, wide-eyed, with ears ready to listen to all that moved and made noise around him.


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[Assistant] It might be that lying in this way, he hoped to surprise this call he could not understand.


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[Assistant] But he did not know why he did these many things.


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[Assistant] He was made to do them and did not reason about them at all.


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[Assistant] Strange feelings came upon him that he could not resist.


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[Assistant] He would be lying in camp, sleeping lazily in the heat of the day


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[Assistant] When suddenly his head would lift and his ears stand up, listening.


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[Assistant] He loved to run down dry rivers and to look at the bird life in the woods.


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[Assistant] For a day at a time, he would lie under some bushes, watching fat northern birds move up and down, showing their feathers to each other.


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[Assistant] But especially, he loved to run in the low light of the summer midnights, listening to the softened sounds of the forest.


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[Assistant] Looking for that mysterious something that called, called


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[Assistant] Waking or sleeping at all times for him to come.


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[Assistant] One night, he all of a sudden jumped up from his sleep, looking wildly about with his nose smelling the air, his hair standing up along his back. From the forest came the call.


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[Assistant] Or at least one note of the call, for the call had many notes, stronger than it ever had before.


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[Assistant] He ran through the forest as quick as lightning and as silent as snow.


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[Assistant] As he came closer to the cry he went more slowly.


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[Assistant] Being careful in every movement till he came to an open place among the trees.


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[Assistant] Looking out, he saw, sitting high on its legs, with nose pointed to the sky, a long, thin timber-wolf.


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[Assistant] He had made no noise, but the wolf stopped its howling, trying to sense Buck's presence.


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[Assistant] Buck went into the open, moving low to the ground, body gathered tightly together, tail straight and high, feet falling with great care.


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[Assistant] Every movement showed both danger and friendliness.


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[Assistant] It was the mix of fear and peace that marks the meeting of wild animals that hunt. But the wolf ran away at the sight of Buck. He followed, with wild leaps, hoping to catch up.


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[Assistant] And Buck ran the wolf up the dry river into an area where fallen trees blocked the path.


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[Assistant] The wolf turned on its hind legs just the way that other husky dogs did when backed into a corner.


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[Assistant] He circled him and moved toward him with friendly advances. The wolf was careful and afraid, for Buck was three times his size in weight, while his head barely reached Buck's shoulder.


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[Assistant] Looking for his chance, the wolf ran away and the chase began again.


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[Assistant] Time and again he was cornered by Buck and the scene was repeated, though the wolf was in poor condition.


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[Assistant] He would run until Buck's head was almost at his legs.


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[Assistant] When he would turn around and begin snapping his teeth again.


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[Assistant] And played with each other in the half nervous, half shy way that wild beasts show their friendliness.


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[Assistant] After some time the wolf started off again in a slow run that plainly showed he was going somewhere. He made it clear that he wanted Buck to come.


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[Assistant] And they ran side by side through the midnight light straight up the river into the hills where it began and higher heading straight for the mountains.


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[Assistant] On the opposite side of a great hill, they came into a flat country where great areas of forest continued on.


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[Assistant] And through these forests, they ran steadily, hour after hour.


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[Assistant] The sun rising higher and the day growing warmer. Buck was wildly glad.


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[Assistant] He knew he was at last answering the call.


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[Assistant] Running by the side of his wood brother toward the place where the call surely came.


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[Assistant] Old memories were coming upon him fast, and he was moving to them as surely as if they were realities, not shadows of the past. He had done this thing before.


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[Assistant] Somewhere in that other dark remembered world. And he was doing it now again. Running freely in the open.


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[Assistant] The wolf started on toward the place from where the call surely came and then returned to him.


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[Assistant] Sniffing noses and making actions for Buck to follow him.


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[Assistant] Buck turned around and slowly started back the way they came.


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[Assistant] For the better part of an hour, the wild brother ran by his side, crying softly.


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[Assistant] Then he sat down and with nose pointing to the sky howled. It was a sad howl, and as Buck held to the path back to camp


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[Assistant] He heard it grow softer and softer until it was lost in the distance.


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[Assistant] John Thornton was eating dinner when Buck ran into camp and jumped upon him full of love, knocking him over from his chair.


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[Assistant] Licking his face and biting his hand, Thornton responded by shaking him back and forth and calling him names lovingly.


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[Assistant] For two days and nights Buck never left camp. Never let John Thornton out of his sight. He followed him about at his work, watched him while he ate,


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[Assistant] Saw him into his blankets at night and out of them again in the morning.


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[Assistant] But after two days he began to hear the call of the forest again. At this time it sounded with more importance. He had to obey.


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[Assistant] Buck's restlessness came back to him, and he was haunted by memories of his wild brother.


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[Assistant] And though he listened day and night, the howl was never raised.


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[Assistant] He began to sleep out at night staying away from camp for days at a time


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[Assistant] And once he traveled over the hills and up the river until he reached that land of forests and streams.


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[Assistant] There he wandered around for a week searching for fresh signs of his lost wild brother. He didn't find any. He killed his meat and traveled.


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[Assistant] Traveling with the long, easy speed that animals in the wild have. One that never tires easily.


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[Assistant] He fished in the wide stream that emptied into the sea and by the stream he killed a large black bear who was also fishing. The bear was a hard fight.


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[Assistant] He found a dozen small dogs eating his kill.


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[Assistant] They ran quickly away as he surprised them.


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[Assistant] All except two, whom he killed with the same skill he used on the bear.


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[Assistant] His longing for blood became stronger than ever. He was a killer, a thing that hunted other animals, living on the things that lived. He lived alone and without help, using his strength and power


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[Assistant] Surviving in a hard and unfriendly environment where only the strong survived.


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[Assistant] Because of this, he had a great pride in himself, which showed itself in his physical body. It was found in all his movements, seen in the muscles themselves.


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[Assistant] Spoken plainly as words in the way he carried himself and made his beautiful fur coat, if anything, more beautiful.


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[Assistant] Except for the brown fur on his mouth and above his eyes,


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[Assistant] And for the spot of white hair that ran down the middle of his chest,


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[Assistant] He might well have been mistaken for a gigantic wolf. Larger than the largest of wolves. From his Saint Bernard father, he had inherited size and weight.


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[Assistant] But it was his German shepherd mother who had given shape to his size and weight. His nose was a long wolf nose.


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[Assistant] Except that it was larger than the nose of any wolf.


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[Assistant] And his head, somewhat wider, was the wolf-head on a huge scale.


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[Assistant] His cleverness was wolf cleverness, and it was wild.


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[Assistant] His intelligence, shepherd intelligence, and Saint Bernard.


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[Assistant] All this, plus an education gained in the wildest and hardest of schools, made him a horrible wild animal.


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[Assistant] He was as dangerous as those animals that lived in the wild.


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[Assistant] The ones that killed their food and lived on a straight meat diet.


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[Assistant] He was at the height of his life in full flower, and it seemed that power spilled off him all along his body.


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[Assistant] When Thornton passed a carrying hand along his back, it seemed that his hair snapped with hidden power and electricity.


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[Assistant] Every part, brain and body, was at the highest point.


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[Assistant] And between all these parts, there was perfect balance and equality.


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[Assistant] To sights and sounds that required action, he responded with lightning speed.


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[Assistant] Quickly as a husky dog would jump to defend from attack or to attack, he could jump twice as quickly.


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[Assistant] Decided and responded all at the same instant.


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[Assistant] His muscles, in which total power ran, snapped sharply into action, as if they were made of steel springs.


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[Assistant] Life streamed through him in a splendid flood, glad and wildly.


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[Assistant] As his partners watched Buck marching out of camp.


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[Assistant] When he was made, he broke God's model for dogs, said Pete. I think so myself, Hans agreed.


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[Assistant] They saw him marching out of camp, but they did not see the instant and terrible change which took place as soon as he was within the cover of the forest. Here, in secret, he no longer marched. At once he became a thing of the wild.


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[Assistant] Moving along softly, like a cat, a passing shadow that appeared and disappeared among the other shadows.


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[Assistant] He knew how to take advantage of every cover, to crawl on his stomach like a snake, and to jump and strike like a snake. He could take a bird from its nest, kill a rabbit as it slept.


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[Assistant] And snap in midair at little squirrels who tried to run away a second too late.


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[Assistant] Fish in open lakes and rivers were not quick enough to escape him. He killed to eat.


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[Assistant] Never because he was bored, and he liked to eat what he killed.


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[Assistant] So often there was a play in his actions.


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[Assistant] It was his delight to sneak upon squirrels and when he all but had them, let them go, crying in fear to the treetops.


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[Assistant] As the fall of the year came on, the moose appeared in large numbers.


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[Assistant] Moving slowly down to meet the winter in the lower and warmer valleys.


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[Assistant] Buckhead already killed a half-grown baby moose that had wandered away too far from the safety of the others.


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[Assistant] But he wished for the fight of stronger and larger animals. And he came upon it one day as he neared the river.


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[Assistant] A band of about twenty moose had crossed over from beyond the hills of forests and streams.


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[Assistant] And standing over six feet tall from the ground was as great a fighter as Buck could ever wish for.


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[Assistant] Back and forth the moose tossed the horns on his head, which branched out to fourteen points and measured almost seven feet in width.


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[Assistant] And the sight of Buck made him roar in warning and anger.


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[Assistant] When White Fang was a year old, Grey Beaver's journey finally ended. They returned to the camp.


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[Assistant] White Fang was the largest one-year-old dog in the camp.


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[Assistant] Although he was one fourth dog, he did not look like a normal dog. He looked like a large, strong wolf. As he walked into the camp, he saw many people that he knew.


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[Assistant] He also saw many dogs that he had known before the long journey. Now that he was very large, he was not afraid of the other dogs.


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[Assistant] If the other dogs tried to attack White Fang or take his food, he would fight them.


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[Assistant] Therefore, the other dogs learned not to take White Fang's food. Because the other dogs would not fight White Fang, he had a lot of confidence and pride. He did not bother them. They did not bother him. Even the older dogs respected him.


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[Assistant] In the summer, White Fang saw Kitchie again.


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[Assistant] It had been a long time since they last saw each other. One day as he walked in the camp he suddenly saw her outside of a strange tent. He stopped walking. He watched her for a long time. At first he forgot who she was.


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[Assistant] She did not want White Fang to bother her or the puppies, so she showed him her teeth to frighten him. When she did this, White Fang remembered her. He knew that she was his mother. Therefore, he went to her. When he arrived, however, Kitchy bit him. Sadly, White Fang understood. He left Kitchy. He had learned to live without her.


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[Assistant] He knew that it was wrong to fight with female dogs or wolves He did not know why


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[Assistant] It was natural for him to only fight with male dogs.


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[Assistant] White Fang still did not feel entirely comfortable living with the people. He was a wolf. Therefore, he was naturally wild. To live like a dog felt strange to him, although he did not understand why. Because of his discomfort, he became more lonely. He had no friends. Also, he became more fierce. The dogs never gave him any trouble.


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[Assistant] If a person laughed at him he would become extremely angry.


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[Assistant] If people laughed about something other than him he did not care. If people laughed at him it was horrible. He would become crazy with anger.


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[Assistant] At these times he would attack any dog that he saw. Then he would run into the forest. He would stay in the forest until he relaxed.


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[Assistant] When White Fang was three years old, the Indians had a serious problem. There was no food to eat.


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[Assistant] That year, the rivers, streams and lakes had no fish. They could not find any rabbits or deer to kill. Many people starved and died. Only the strong people did not die.


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[Assistant] The women and children gave all of their meat to the men.


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[Assistant] Because they needed food, the Indians even ate their leather clothes and shoes. Many dogs killed and ate other dogs. The people would also kill and eat some of the dogs. Many of the dogs left the camp. They lived in the forest and looked for food.


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[Assistant] Many of these dogs also died in the forest because they could not find food White Fang was one of the dogs that left the camp He lived in the forest


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[Assistant] Because he had lived in the forest when he was young, he knew how to hunt. He killed and ate squirrels. However, there were not many squirrels.


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[Assistant] Therefore he ate many other small animals such as mice and weasels. One day he even found and killed another wolf. White Fang was lucky. He always found enough food. He walked to many different parts of the forest. He even returned to the cave in which he was born. When he arrived at the cave he entered it. Kitchy was inside. She had also returned to the cave. When White Fang saw her,


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[Assistant] He found the cave of the lynx where his mother had killed many lynx's puppies years earlier. He slept in the lynx's cave.


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[Assistant] One day as White Fang was walking in the forest looking for food he met Lip-Lip. Like White Fang,


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[Assistant] White Fang remembered how Liplip had made him suffer. White Fang immediately attacked Liplip.


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[Assistant] Lip-Lip was too weak to fight. White Fang bit Lip-Lip's throat. He killed Lip-Lip.


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[Assistant] The next day, when White Fang was walking by the river, he saw a camp. It looked like the Indian camp. However, this camp was in a different place. He smelled the air. It definitely was the same Indian camp. He walked to the camp. There was now plenty of food everywhere. He looked for Grey Beaver. He did not find Grey Beaver. But he found Grey Beaver's wife.


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[Assistant] She was very happy to see White Fang. She gave him a big fish to eat.


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[Assistant] Chapter 10 Life with the People


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[Assistant] For many days Kitchee could not walk freely through the camp. She was still tied to the rope. Therefore, White Fang walked by himself. He saw and learned many things about the people.


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[Assistant] He thought that the people were very clever because they could do many things that other animals could not do. For example, the people could make fire and houses. White Fang watched his mother obey the people. Therefore, he also obeyed them. When they called his name, he came to them. When they scolded him, he cried.


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[Assistant] He knew that if he did not obey, the people would beat and hit him.


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[Assistant] However, White Fang was not completely comfortable with the people. He was a wolf, a wild animal.


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[Assistant] Before living with the Indians, he lived freely in the forest. He could not forget that life. Sometimes he would see the forest and walk to it.


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[Assistant] He would stand on the edge of the camp and look into the forest.


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[Assistant] He wanted to return to the forest, but he did not have the courage to return. He would always return to his mother.


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[Assistant] Sometimes the older and stronger dogs could be very unfair. They would take all of the food. Then the other dogs would not get any food. He learned that the men were very fair people.


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[Assistant] He also knew that the women sometimes gave him pieces of meat and bones to eat.


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[Assistant] The worst thing about White Fang's life at the camp was lip-lip.


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[Assistant] Lip-lip was larger, stronger, and older than white fingers.


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[Assistant] Every time that White Fang left Kitchie for a walk, Lip-Lip would follow him and attack him. Lip-Lip forced White Fang to fight.


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[Assistant] Lip-Lip always won the fights. Lip-Lip enjoyed winning the fights. Lip-Lip made White Fang suffer a lot. The fights had a bad effect on White Fang. He became very angry and hateful.


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[Assistant] Although he had always had a bad temper, it was getting worse. Also, because of Lip-Lip, White Fang had no friends. He walked and played by himself. Whenever he walked near the other dogs, Lip-Lip would attack him or chase him away. Because of his suffering, White Fang became very clever.


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[Assistant] Because the other dogs would take his meat and fish he found other ways to get food. He became a thief.


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[Assistant] He also learned to walk through the camp with no one seeing him and to know what was happening everywhere at any time. He knew where Lip-Lip was at all times and was very good at avoiding him. Lip-Lip was afraid of Kitchee, so he never attacked White Fang near Kitchee.


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[Assistant] One day, however, the dogs were running very quickly. So Lip-Lip was not paying attention. Therefore, when White Fang ran to Kitchie, Lip-Lip followed him.


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[Assistant] When Kitchie saw Lip-Lip chasing White Fang, she was very angry.


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[Assistant] She used her foot and pushed LipLip to the ground.


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[Assistant] She hit him several times and then she bit him many times. Then Liplip stood up and began to walk away. White Fang attacked him.


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[Assistant] He ran to Liplip and quickly bit Liplip's back leg.


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[Assistant] Lip-lip screamed in pain, but he was so weak and tired that he did not fight back. The people ran to see what was happening. They threw rocks at White Fang to punish him.


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[Assistant] The next day, Grey Beaver decided that Kitschy would not run away from the camp again.


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[Assistant] Therefore, he released her from the rope and let her walk freely.


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[Assistant] White Fang was very happy being able to walk with his mother. When White Fang was with Kitchie, Lip-Lip did not go near White Fang.


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[Assistant] Later that day, Kitchee and White Fang walked to the edge of the camp. Together, they looked into the forest.


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[Assistant] White Fang slowly led Kitchy into the forest. He wanted to return to the cave. He walked a few steps, then he stopped and looked back. Kitchy had not moved. He looked at her and cried, but she would not move. He ran back to her and then ran into the forest again. She still did not follow him. As he looked at her,


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[Assistant] He smelled the air and the trees. The smell reminded him of the forest and the cave.


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[Assistant] He was still a young wolf and still needed his mother.


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[Assistant] Therefore, he could not return to the forest by himself. He got up and walked to the camp. He wanted to find his mother.


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[Assistant] As he returned to the camp, he cried a lot. He really missed the forest. Soon came a horrible day. Kitchie had to leave White Fang.


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[Assistant] Grey beaver gave kitschy to three eagles to pay him back.


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[Assistant] When Kitchy and Three Eagles got on Three Eagles' boat to leave the camp, White Fang tried to follow her.


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[Assistant] White Fang jumped into the water and tried to swim to the boat. White Fang was very frightened of losing his mother. Therefore, he did not obey Grey Beaver.


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[Assistant] Grey Beaver then took a boat into the river to get White Fang.


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[Assistant] He arrived at the place in the river where White Fang was swimming. He reached for White Fang and picked him up. Before he put White Fang in the boat, however, he beat the little wolf several times. It was very painful. White Fang was very angry and sad. He had just lost his mother. Now, Grey Beaver was punishing him. He showed his teeth to Grey Beaver.


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[Assistant] This made Grey Beaver more angry, and he beat White Fang several more times. Each time was harder and more painful. White Fang could not stand the beating. He began to cry. Finally, Grey Beaver stopped beating White Fang. White Fang cried and cried.


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[Assistant] Grey Beaver was satisfied with the beating and threw White Fang into the boat.


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[Assistant] At the time, Grey Beaver realized the boat had moved very far on the river, so he reached for the paddle, the stick used to move the boat in the water, to move the boat back to land. White Fang was on the paddle.


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[Assistant] So Grey Beaver kicked White Fang to move him off the paddle. This made White Fang angry, and he bit the foot of Grey Beaver. The earlier beating was nothing compared to this one. This beating was terrible. Grey Beaver's anger was horrible, as well as White Fang's fear. Grey Beaver beat White Fang with his hand, and then with the wooden paddle.


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[Assistant] Then he put him down in the canoe and kicked him several times. This time White Fang did not bite Grey Beaver's foot. He had learned his lesson about hurting people.


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[Assistant] When the boat came back to the land, White Fang lay in the boat. His body hurt very much. He quietly cried, but he did not move. Grey Beaver then picked up White Fang and threw him on the land.


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[Assistant] And as soon as he saw White Fang, he ran to him. Then he attacked him. White Fang had no strength to fight back. When Grey Beaver saw Lip Lip attack White Fang, he was very angry. He kicked Lip Lip very hard. Then Lip Lip ran away. White Fang was very happy. Even though Grey Beaver had just beat him, he knew that Grey Beaver was a very fair man.


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[Assistant] After Lip Lip ran from Grey Beaver, White Fang followed Grey Beaver to Grey Beaver's house. That night, White Fang could not sleep. He thought about his mother and cried.


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[Assistant] He cried so loud that Grey Beaver woke up and beat him again.


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[Assistant] White Fang would walk to the edge of the woods and cry loudly to himself. He missed his mother very much.


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[Assistant] Some days, White Fang thought about leaving the camp and returning to the cave in the forest. However, he wanted to see his mother again, so he waited in the camp for her to return. Actually, White Fang was not unhappy in the camp. He liked watching the people work. He thought that life in the camp was interesting.


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[Assistant] Also, he was beginning to like Grey Beaver very much.


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[Assistant] White Fang now understood how to obey Grey Beaver. Therefore, Grey Beaver was very good to him.


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[Assistant] Sometimes Grey Beaver even gave White Fang some meat or fish. He got used to living with the people.


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[Assistant] Actually, the children did tell me not to say anything to you.


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[Assistant] I took a walk and then returned to the house to meet someone. But who could you possibly know around here? I know a few people.


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[Assistant] They told me that it would make you uncomfortable if I said anything. Is this true? Would you have been uncomfortable? No, I would have preferred you to say something. Why did they think I would be uncomfortable?


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[Assistant] I don't know. Miles simply said that we should only do things that please you. Ha! If only he would please me. Did Flora say anything? She only agreed with Miles.


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[Assistant] There are no more secrets between Miles and me. We had a conversation outside of the church. What do you mean no secrets? I mean we know everything about one another. By the way, the person I came back to meet was Miss Jessel. She actually spoke to you?


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[Assistant] Yes, she was sitting at my desk in the classroom. Tell me what she said. She said that she is very sad. She feels the sadness of the dead. Of the dead? Of the wandering dead. She desires Flora's company. But now I don't care anymore. I've decided. You've decided what? I've decided what to do.


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[Assistant] Miles feels that I fear to write to his uncle. I, however, will prove him wrong.


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[Assistant] We'll bring him here and we'll discuss together with Miles why he has not gone back to school yet. He'll see that I'm not to blame. He'll understand the main reason.


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[Assistant] I should have sent it to him as soon as we received it. Oh, but you shouldn't.


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[Assistant] We still don't know why he was dismissed. Well, what could have been the reason? Was it because Miles is not clever? Was it because Miles is ill? Was it because he has bad manners? Of course not. It must have been for something terrible. Something evil. And do you know whom I blame? I blame their uncle.


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[Assistant] He was irresponsible when he left those two terrible people in charge of the house and the children.


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[Assistant] Because I did not say anything to their uncle when I knew something was wrong. I'm sure you won't be blamed. It's not my stuff that I'm worried about. It's the children.


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[Assistant] What should I say in my letter? Let me write to him.


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[Assistant] I'll get someone in town to help me. You want other people in town to know our business?


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[Assistant] Alright. It's impossible, I know. I guess you should write then. I'll start the letter this evening.


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[Assistant] Mr. Huntington returned about three weeks ago.


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[Assistant] The day after he arrived, however, he announced that he planned to find a nanny to care for little Arthur.


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[Assistant] Although I was quite surprised at how quickly my husband found a nanny. She was respectful.


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[Assistant] She was quite shy and never spoke of her past, her home, or her family. I was suspicious of this girl, as was Rachel. At last one morning, Rachel came into my room with a worried look.


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[Assistant] She informed me that Mr. Huntingdon and our son's nanny had been having a love affair.


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[Assistant] I decided that I must immediately leave that house with my son.


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[Assistant] Rachel told me that she would not stay in that house without my son and I. She requested to come along with us. I have no home, Mrs. Huntingdon, but with you, she told me. But I can't afford to pay you.


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[Assistant] And we will no longer live in comfort and wealth.


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[Assistant] You'll want somebody to clean and cook, won't you? I can do all that. And you don't have to pay me. I have some savings. Well, I said, then paused for a moment. Then we'll all go together. The next day, I sent a letter to Frederick, informing him that we would soon leave for Wildfell Hall.


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[Assistant] And hoped he would prepare the house for our arrival


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[Assistant] I then sent letters to Millicent and my dear aunt.


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[Assistant] Explaining that I must leave my husband to save my son's future.


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[Assistant] Or he would soon take his father's terrible, ungentlemanly habits.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, Rachel secretly packed our things together for the departure.


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[Assistant] Benson, one of the servants, removed the bags from the house secretly. He was quite willing to assist me, as he hates Mr. Huntingdon, as most of the other servants do. After escaping from Grassdale, I would become Mrs. Graham, as I must not keep my name, or Mr. Huntingdon may soon find me.


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[Assistant] Graham was my mother's last name before she married my father, and therefore I feel a connection with the name.


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[Assistant] October 24th. I am free and safe at last.


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[Assistant] Benson helped us leave and cried as we said goodbye and wished us good luck. The journey was a very long one.


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[Assistant] I worried that perhaps Frederick had not received the letter, but as we arrived, I saw a light in the window of the hall, and my fears were gone.


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[Assistant] Frederick had employed an old woman to keep the house warm and to have a meal prepared for us.


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[Assistant] She informed us that Frederick would come to visit the following morning


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[Assistant] And it was obvious that no one had lived there in many years.


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[Assistant] Frederick did indeed come the next morning, although he must be careful when he comes, as no one in the neighborhood knows of my secret.


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[Assistant] I have now been here nearly two weeks, but still worry that I may soon be discovered and be forced to return to my husband.


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[Assistant] My brother has informed me that Mr. Huntington is spending a great deal of time and effort attempting to find out where I am. He recently went to Stanningley.


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[Assistant] Thinking that my aunt would, perhaps, know of my location. He is written to my brother as well, asking him to tell him where to find me. But my brother tells him nothing, of course.


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[Assistant] My husband has suggested that I return our child to him.


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[Assistant] And I am free to live my life away from him.


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[Assistant] But I could never separate from my dear little Arthur.


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[Assistant] Three families have recently visited Wildfell Hall, attempting to discover who I am and where I have come from.


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[Assistant] Now, Gilbert, you must leave me and never come again.


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[Assistant] I will soon leave this place as soon as I find another safe place to hide from my husband. If we continue to meet it will be even more difficult to part. So you must not come again.


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[Assistant] The thoughts of our last meeting will become more painful.


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[Assistant] And he is right. We should forget each other. But don't be afraid, Gilbert. You should marry and find happiness. You are still young.


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[Assistant] Frederick shall inform you in six months of my location. If you still have these feelings, then you may write and I will answer you.


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[Assistant] A couple of days later, a letter arrived from Alsay Aroban, expressing how sorry he was for his behavior.


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[Assistant] Edna felt a little ashamed for having gotten so angry with him.


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[Assistant] After all, he had done nothing more than kiss her hand.


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[Assistant] Which was quite common among men and women in society.


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[Assistant] She decided to send him a letter in return


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[Assistant] It was a very funny letter that indicated she had completely forgiven him.


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[Assistant] She suggested that he visit her painting room anytime that he wished.


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[Assistant] Alcee Aroban showed up at her home almost immediately after receiving her letter. And from then on, he was there almost every day.


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[Assistant] He was always in a good mood and would do anything that she wanted without ever objecting. He was like a little puppy dog.


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[Assistant] That never stopped wanting to be around its master, even if the master was unfriendly to it. Edna however was seldom unfriendly.


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[Assistant] They became very close friends, but there was always a sexual desire between them.


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[Assistant] Araubin would occasionally express this desire in little childish ways, which Edna did not mind.


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[Assistant] She enjoyed letting that part of her imagination go free from time to time.


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[Assistant] Spending time at Miss Rice's could make Edna calm down.


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[Assistant] That woman's piano playing had the ability to touch even the deepest areas of Edna's person.


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[Assistant] Edna went there one depressing, rainy afternoon.


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[Assistant] Miss Rice was happy to see her and offered her a drink to warm her up a bit.


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[Assistant] After throwing a glass of whiskey down her throat, like a man might do, Edna suddenly said, I'm moving out. Hmm, where will you go?


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[Assistant] Miss Rice asked, without seeming surprised. Very near, actually. There's a little home down the street from here.


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[Assistant] I don't want to have to deal with all of those servants anymore. It's all so troublesome.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't believe that's the real reason for your moving. Ah!


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[Assistant] I see that I can't lie to you very easily. Well, alright.


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[Assistant] I'm moving because I have the ability to support myself now.


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[Assistant] I won a good amount of money this year at the race track and my father's been sending me money as well. Not to mention, my paintings have started to sell. Anyway, I plan to move into the little home with only one servant to help me get by. I've already found someone. And your husband? He doesn't know yet. Of course,


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[Assistant] Edna only knew that she no longer wanted to belong to any man. She wanted to be independent.


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[Assistant] She knew that this would be hard to explain to her husband.


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[Assistant] After a while, Miss Rice brought out a letter and gave it to Edna. Edna was surprised and excited.


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[Assistant] Does he know that you let me read his letters? Are you kidding? He'd never write me again if he did. It's obvious that the boy is in love with you.


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[Assistant] He writes me because a relationship with you is impossible.


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[Assistant] He's clearly trying to get rid of his feelings, but cannot. She read while Miss Rice played for her.


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[Assistant] Suddenly she jumped up from her seat and ran over to Miss Rice, shouting, How could you keep such a secret? He is returning. When? He only says very soon in the letter. And that is all I know. Tell me, are you in love with Robert, Edna? I am, Edna answered without any hesitation.


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[Assistant] I don't have one, except to be happy once again. Her happiness had already begun.


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[Assistant] She ran home laughing in the same rain that had.


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[Assistant] Just a few hours before, so upset her.


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[Assistant] She stopped at a candy store and bought lots of candy to send to her boys in Eberville.


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[Assistant] And when she got home, she wrote her husband a very nice letter


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[Assistant] About her plans to move into another home for a short time.


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[Assistant] There was nothing of her sadness or anger in the letter.


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[Assistant] It was full of nothing but her hopes for the future.


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[Assistant] Chapter 12 I managed to control myself the following morning.


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[Assistant] I watched the children more closely than ever before now. I did not let one of them out of my sight.


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[Assistant] Which gave me little opportunity to speak with Mrs. Groves alone.


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[Assistant] I did not want to let the children know about my worries.


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[Assistant] So I waited until the afternoon to mention anything to Mrs. Groves. I depended on her.


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[Assistant] It was a very lucky thing that she had been there and had believed me. For without her support, I might have lost my mind. Mrs. Grose's thinking, however, was different from mine. She did not doubt the truth of what I told her.


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[Assistant] But she had never actually seen those horrible people walking about the house.


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[Assistant] And because she could see no obvious change in the children's behavior, she did not worry about them as much as I did. In fact, she worried much more about me.


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[Assistant] For she could see that I was upset and getting less sleep than usual. She and I met on the main balcony above the house.


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[Assistant] Each of us sitting in a chair overlooking the great lawn below, we appear to be having a simple chat. The children meanwhile.


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[Assistant] Played on the lawn, where we could easily watch them.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Groza's eyes followed their movements below without any sign of worry. Then she turned to listen to what I had to tell her.


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[Assistant] The look on her face told me that she was simply doing me a favor by patiently listening. I shared with her the events of the night before.


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[Assistant] After finding Miles last night standing outside.


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[Assistant] I went downstairs and out the front door to bring him back in. He came running to me as soon as he saw me. During the time I walked him back to his bedroom, neither of us said a word.


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[Assistant] I kept wondering how he might attempt to explain himself.


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[Assistant] Would he still try and make up a silly lie, even though the truth was so clear?


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[Assistant] I wondered if he would still try to act like a perfectly well behaved child in front of me.


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[Assistant] I tried to guess how our relationship might change after this night. The look on his face seemed to show embarrassment. But there was also something else there. He seemed pleased.


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[Assistant] When we entered his room I could see that his bed was completely untouched.


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[Assistant] The moonlight was so bright that we had no trouble seeing one another. I sat down on the edge of his bed.


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[Assistant] And then felt I had no choice but to directly talk with him about what had happened.


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[Assistant] He smiled and his teeth glowed white in the moonlight. Could you possibly understand if I told you? I did not know how to answer this.


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[Assistant] I simply moved my head forward to say that I would understand. I felt so helpless sitting there before him. He had so much power over me.


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[Assistant] I could not suggest anything about Quint or anyone else without making myself look crazy. Oh, how I prayed that he would tell me the truth.


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[Assistant] I went outside so that you might think I was a bad child. I know how good you always seem to think I am. He said this very happily and innocently.


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[Assistant] I could do nothing but take him into my arms and fight desperately against the tears that wanted so badly to flow from my eyes.


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[Assistant] I replied, still putting on a pleasant face.


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[Assistant] I had arranged for Flora to wake you by putting out your candle and then going to her window. I felt like a complete fool. I had let myself be so easily cheated.


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[Assistant] I of course could not mention that I had seen Miss Jessel.


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[Assistant] For he could just as easily accuse me of being mad.


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[Assistant] I had no choice but to pretend to accept his story. I could do nothing else.


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[Assistant] I said, trying my best to make a joke. He welcomed my joke with a bigger smile and said, you see, I can be very bad, can't I?


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[Assistant] Dear sir, I'm quite sure you no longer love me, therefore I have found someone who will love me, and have no doubt I will be happy with him.


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[Assistant] I sincerely wish you happy in your choice, and it shall not be my fault if we are not always good friends, as you are now my brother.


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[Assistant] I love your brother and we have just returned from getting married.


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[Assistant] I have burned all your letters and hope you will destroy my notes to you, but the ring of hair you are welcome to keep. Lucy Ferraz


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[Assistant] The Miss Dashwoods had now been in town more than two months, and Marianne wished to be gone.


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[Assistant] She missed her mother and sister as well as the quiet country life.


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[Assistant] When the girls began talking about going back home, Mrs. Palmer suggested they go to Cleveland for a visit before going home.


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[Assistant] Cleveland, however, was in Somersetshire, near Magna Combe, Willoughby's country home.


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[Assistant] Eleanor understood her sister's reason for not wishing to go to Cleveland, but she knew that traveling such a great distance would be safer with another family. Cleveland was not far from Barton, perhaps only a day's journey.


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[Assistant] They would as well not be staying long at Cleveland and would return home shortly, so Marianne finally agreed.


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[Assistant] One morning, Colonel Brandon was visiting Mrs. Jennings and her young guests, when he requested to talk to Eleanor alone.


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[Assistant] He began speaking of his country home, explaining that it was not large but was comfortable for a family.


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[Assistant] Eleanor was quite confused as to his reasons for telling her of his home.


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[Assistant] After a short time however, he explained that he would be willing to employ Edward there as his minister.


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[Assistant] The income was only 200 pounds a year, but he wished for Elinor to offer this to him.


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[Assistant] She soon sent a note to Edward requesting that he go see her as she had to speak to him about an important matter.


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[Assistant] Colonel Brandon, give me an income? Can it be possible? Indeed, replied Eleanor.


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[Assistant] Eleanor then gave him Colonel Brandon's address, and he left, sincerely thanking her for her help, but looked pained as he spoke.


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[Assistant] After going to Colonel Brandon's to thank him for offering him an income, Edward then went to see Lucy. She was overjoyed at their good luck and eagerly thanked Colonel Brandon and Eleanor.


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[Assistant] It was now over a week since John Dashwood had visited them.


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[Assistant] Eleanor thought that she must show proper manners and go see her sister-in-law.


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[Assistant] Marianne and Mrs. Jennings absolutely refused to go, as both of the women now had very little respect for Mrs. John Dashwood.


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[Assistant] Eleanor went, but Mrs. Dashwood was resting and therefore could not be disturbed.


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[Assistant] Just as she was leaving, John Dashwood came to greet her and invited her in.


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[Assistant] He seemed quite pleased to see her, as he had many questions about Colonel Brandon's offer to his brother.


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[Assistant] Has Colonel Brandon really offered Edward an income? But they are not related, nor have any connection. Why would he offer such a generous position?


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[Assistant] Well, Edward is a very lucky man, but please do not mention this matter to Fanny.


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[Assistant] She is still quite upset over the engagement, he said quietly.


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[Assistant] You know, my dear Eleanor, you will be happy to hear that Mrs. Farrars has recently said that she would much prefer that Edward become engaged to you rather than to Lucy, as she has no fortune. Mrs. Farrars is quite upset over this matter.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Farrar's can never forget that Edward is her son. She is one of the most loving mothers in the world. Eleanor was silent. We think now, said Mr. Dashwood, of Robert marrying Miss Morton. Eleanor smiled and calmly replied.


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[Assistant] Robert will now be considered the oldest son and will receive his mother's fortune.


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[Assistant] Eleanor was tired of talking to her foolish brother and said very little after that. Soon enough, Robert Farrar's arrived and John Dashwood went to fetch his wife.


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[Assistant] My mother was the first person to tell me of it, and I immediately said to her, Mother, I do not know what you plan to do, but if Edward does marry this young woman, I will never see him again. How shocking this is! Have you ever seen the lady?


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[Assistant] Yes, I saw her once when I came to visit Fanny, while she and her sister were here. She is quite an awkward country girl, without style or elegance. I remember her perfectly.


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[Assistant] He stopped speaking as Mrs. John Dashwood came into the room. She did not speak of Edward, but Eleanor could see she was still quite upset.


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[Assistant] She was more polite toward Eleanor during this visit, remarking that she wished they had spent more time together during their visit to London.


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[Assistant] One morning, Eleanor persuaded her sister to take a walk outside, as she had not been outside Mrs. Jennings for nearly two weeks. As they were walking, they came upon their brother, John Dashwood. He was rather happy to see them.


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[Assistant] And mentioned that he had intended to visit them after arriving in town but had been quite busy.


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[Assistant] Eleanor soon discovered that he and Fanny had been in town for two days.


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[Assistant] I have heard that you are here with a woman of very good fortune. And the Middletons too. You must introduce me to them as well.


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[Assistant] Her brother promised to go for a visit the next day, and did come, though Mrs. John Dashwood did not join him.


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[Assistant] He was quite polite to Mrs. Jennings and even more so to Colonel Brandon, who was there for a visit as well.


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[Assistant] After staying with them half an hour, he asked Eleanor to walk with him to the Middletons' home for an introduction.


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[Assistant] Two thousand a year? That's excellent. I wish you good fortune, Elinor.


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[Assistant] I'm very sure that Colonel Brandon does not wish to marry me. You should try to win him, Eleanor. Fanny is very concerned for you.


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[Assistant] She wishes for you to be well married, and her mother does as well. Eleanor refused to answer.


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[Assistant] It would be wonderful if Fanny had a brother and I a sister who were married at the same time.


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[Assistant] His excellent mother, Mrs. Farrar's, has agreed to give him a thousand pounds a year if he will marry the honorable Miss Morton with a fortune of thirty thousand pounds. She is quite a generous woman.


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[Assistant] When we arrived, she gave Fanny a present of 200 pounds as she knows how difficult and expensive it is for us here in town. He paused for her pity.


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[Assistant] Our father at his death gave many valuables to your mother, which we have had to replace since you four left Norland. Such purchases have been quite expensive. Eleanor had to smile, but could say nothing.


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[Assistant] After explaining how poor he now was, he became more cheerful and spoke again.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Jennings seems to be quite a valuable friend for you.


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[Assistant] Perhaps she will leave you and our sisters a fortune when she dies.


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[Assistant] Eleanor knew that her brother felt guilty in not fulfilling his promise to their father to take care of his sisters and their mother.


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[Assistant] He hoped that his sisters would soon marry wealthy husbands so he would no longer have to feel such guilt.


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[Assistant] A few evenings after this visit, Mr. and Mrs. Dashwood announced that they would be having a dinner party.


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[Assistant] The guests were to include John Dashwood's sisters, Mrs. Jennings, the Steele sisters, Colonel Brandon and the Middletons.


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[Assistant] Eleanor soon discovered that Mrs. Farrar's would attend the party as well.


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[Assistant] She worried about how to manage seeing Edward in the same room with Lucy Steel. She was not looking forward to the event, but did not speak to anyone about her worries.


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[Assistant] Lucy came to speak to her in private about her own anxieties of meeting Mrs. Farrars.


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[Assistant] She said, as they walked up the stairs to the party,


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[Assistant] Eleanor could have eased her worries in suggesting that they were soon to see Miss Morton's future mother-in-law, but she instead pitied her.


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[Assistant] Lucy was quite surprised at such tenderness as she had hoped to be greatly envied by Elinor.


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[Assistant] During the party, Mrs. Farrars and her daughter were nothing but impolite to poor Eleanor.


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[Assistant] Although she no longer felt the pain on receiving such rude looks.


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[Assistant] She instead was quite amused, as she understood that if they knew of Lucy's secret, she would no longer be hated.


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[Assistant] As Mrs. Farrars and her daughter did not know of Lucy's secret, they treated her quite well.


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[Assistant] Lucy felt quite honored, and her sister wanted only to be teased about Dr. Davies to be perfectly happy.


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[Assistant] Perhaps you know already that Mrs. Graham's husband is not really dead, and that she had run away from him.


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[Assistant] But perhaps you did not know that she has gone back to him again.


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[Assistant] Your mother liked flowers that always looked up at the sun and sky.


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[Assistant] She herself wasn't a lady who looked down at


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[Assistant] It was in the library of a large old house on the day before Christmas that I heard the story you are about to read.


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[Assistant] Many of my friends and I had gathered together at a home outside town to spend a few days celebrating the holiday. In the evening


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[Assistant] Following an old tradition, we began to tell stories.


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[Assistant] A man named Griffin started with a story about a young boy who saw a ghost while lying in bed.


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[Assistant] The boy immediately tried to wake his mother, so that she too, could see what he was seeing.


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[Assistant] The ghost however, had disappeared by the time she opened her eyes.


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[Assistant] Everyone at the party listened without saying a word.


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[Assistant] They were terribly frightened by the idea of a ghost bothering a child.


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[Assistant] It made the story twice as interesting, and it made them twice as afraid.


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[Assistant] After the story had finished, I noticed that my friend Douglas seemed troubled by something. Then, putting his drink down on the table before him,


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[Assistant] He told everyone that he also had a story to tell. If you thought Griffin's story was frightening, wait until you hear what I have to tell you, he said.


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[Assistant] In my story, a ghost visits, not just a little boy, but a young girl too.


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[Assistant] I promise you that you've never heard anything like it before.


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[Assistant] Commented one woman. Yes, oh boy, do continue. Said another guest.


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[Assistant] Douglas' face became serious, and he looked almost everyone in the eye before speaking. I'm the only one who knows this story. Believe me.


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[Assistant] Very few people can hear it and not be very upset by it. Good. That's all the more reason to tell us, I said.


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[Assistant] Everyone in the room laughed. Except for Douglas. Who just put his hand on the back of his head.


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[Assistant] He seemed to be thinking about whether or not he should tell us.


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[Assistant] He walked back and forth in front of the fireplace and then stood looking out of the window for a moment before turning around to speak.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, but I couldn't possibly tell you this without the story in front of me. I have it on paper at home. Everyone cried out in disappointment. If you want to hear it so badly...


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[Assistant] You'll have to wait until my servant brings it from my home in the city. I can send him a message this evening. Yes, please do, many people said.


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[Assistant] Is this the story about something that happened to you? I then asked. No, no, no! My goodness, no! he replied.


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[Assistant] But then how are you the only person to know the story? Did someone tell you and you wrote it down yourself? I read the story in a letter that was sent to me by a woman many years ago, he answered.


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[Assistant] Comments came from the crowd suggesting that it was an old lover or girlfriend. Douglas smiled at this and admitted that he had liked the woman. However, she had been much too old for him.


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[Assistant] She died twenty years ago. A very wonderful woman indeed, he added.


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[Assistant] I met her during one of my summer breaks in college. She taught my sister in our parents' home.


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[Assistant] Occasionally, she and I would walk together and chat. I found her very interesting and intelligent.


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[Assistant] The story you'll be hearing happened many years before I had met her.


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[Assistant] I'm certain that I was the only person she ever told. It sounds like she liked you very much, I said. I know what you are thinking. But it was not at all like that.


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[Assistant] She liked me, but she was not in love with me.


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[Assistant] She had been in love before, and that is part of the story. And when can we expect to hear this story, I asked. I should have the letter by tomorrow evening, he answered.


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[Assistant] Shall we gather in the library again tomorrow after dinner? Who will come? Most of the people present said that they would definitely be there.


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[Assistant] However, Mrs. Griffin wanted to know more about the story before agreeing to devote another evening to storytelling.


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[Assistant] She asked, We'll find that out when we hear the story, I said.


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[Assistant] No, I'm afraid that even after you've heard the whole thing, it may not be very obvious who she was in love with.


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[Assistant] He then got up from his chair and announced that it was time for him to go to bed. I'll see you all tomorrow, he said and then left the room. After hearing his bedroom door close, Mrs. Griffin said,


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[Assistant] He has kept this a secret for so many years.


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[Assistant] It's quite special that we get to hear about it for the first time tomorrow, I said. I'm very much looking forward to it. Everyone else said that they were equally excited.


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[Assistant] The following day a package arrived for Douglas from his home. In the evening after dinner, we all once again met in the library. A few of the ladies from the night before, however, could not attend.


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[Assistant] For they had scheduled appointments that could not be canceled. It was good that they did not stay.


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[Assistant] Because I fear how the story might have affected them In addition to this


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[Assistant] Prepared us for the story with important information that was not included in the woman's writing.


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[Assistant] He began by explaining that the woman had been a 20-year-old school teacher when she went for a job interview at a home in London.


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[Assistant] The man who interviewed her was a very handsome and wealthy young fellow.


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[Assistant] His charming manner made her like him very much. Even though she did not know him.