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[Assistant] You might start to get little errors ingrained into your brain. You might start repeating the same errors over and over again. There are a couple of ways to overcome this. The first way is to have somebody correct you and make a list of every correction and really, really work on it.


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[Assistant] Perfect English, which is largely impossible. I don't speak perfect English. I make mistakes all the time. Sometimes you can hear them in my videos and that's normal, that's natural. But if you're going to go for perfection first,


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[Assistant] That's great. That's great. The big pro is that if or when you finish your English learning journey, if it can finish, but when you get, you know, to an advanced level, you will be speaking at an extremely high level of English. It will be extremely high quality.


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[Assistant] However, it's going to take you much, much longer to get there. And you might not have practised actually communicating with people so much. So you might be able to write a perfect letter.


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[Assistant] But spontaneous conversation might be a bit more difficult. It will take you longer to achieve fluent communication.


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[Assistant] Now I'm not going to tell you which side you should go for. I've already told you my preference but that's because I understand the way my brain works and I know that I want to get stuck in and practice from the very beginning and I accept that my way of learning


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[Assistant] Will mean that I repeat some mistakes over and over again. I mean, you can hear it in Spanish. I confuse por and para and estar and ser over and over again because instead of studying at all, I've just wanted to go in and communicate and chat and enjoy myself.


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[Assistant] If you're going to go for the complete accuracy method, then you have to accept that it's going to take you much longer.


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[Assistant] It might not be as enjoyable that you might find the process more boring, but the rewards are greater.


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[Assistant] In the long run, both are completely viable options.


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[Assistant] But this is a conversation, I would love you to write below about your methods, which kind of side you go towards. If you've got a completely different method, I'm so interested to hear what you guys have to say. Because you guys are all here for the same reason, you're trying to improve your English. So let's share some experiences and...


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[Assistant] Ask yourself that question and see if it can help you with how you go forward.


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[Assistant] That's everything for today. Don't forget to check out italki. The link is in the description box. And you can connect with me on all of my social media. I've got my Facebook, my Instagram, and my Twitter. And of course my PO box, so you can send me letters if you wish to. I will see you soon for another lesson. Muah!


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[Assistant] Now I hope you had a play around with this example website where you could toggle the CSS on and off. How exactly did I add CSS to this plain HTML website?


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[Assistant] Well that is what we're going to be learning about in this lesson.


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[Assistant] We're going to be exploring all three of these different styles of adding CSS, and I'm going to show you why they're important and in which situations you would use which one.


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[Assistant] Now the first one is the inline style of adding CSS. As the name suggests, it goes into the same line as a particular HTML element.


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[Assistant] So in this case, you can see we've got an HTML open tag and an HTML closing tag.


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[Assistant] Now we know from learning about HTML boilerplates, this is an element that goes into all of our HTML documents. There's nothing special about this particular element. It just tells the browser that this file is made up of HTML.


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[Assistant] Now, in this case, the inline CSS goes into the opening tag of the HTML. This is where the CSS exists. It's in the same line as the HTML tag.


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[Assistant] What the inline CSS looks like is something like this.


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[Assistant] You've got a style attribute, which is an attribute that is globally available to all tags, not just HTML, but anything else, image or break or anything you can think of, you can add the style attribute to it.


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[Assistant] As we know, normally attributes look like this. They have a name,


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[Assistant] Of the attribute, then we add the equal sign and then finally we add a value for the attribute.


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[Assistant] In this value section is where we add our CSS code. Our CSS code is broken down like this. The first part of it is the property that you want to change. And the second part


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[Assistant] Is the value of that property that you want to set it to.


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[Assistant] So in this case, what we're trying to do is to set our website's background to blue.


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[Assistant] And if I go ahead and run this code and load it up in a browser, you would simply see a website that has a blue background.


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[Assistant] And this is achieved using our inline CSS.


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[Assistant] Inline elements are really useful for adding CSS style to just a single element on your HTML page.


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[Assistant] But normally that's quite cumbersome because as you can imagine, there's tons of different HTML elements. If you have more and more of them and you wanted them to share similar styles, then you would have to add these inline styles to each and every single one of them, which is pretty tedious.


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[Assistant] It's not normally recommended to use inline styles in your entire document. It's only for specific sections or when you're testing or when you only want it in one single element or one line in your HTML document.


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[Assistant] Now the second way you can add CSS is through what's called internal CSS.


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[Assistant] Now this is done through a special HTML tag called the style element. We've got an open style tag and a closing style tag. And in between those two lines is where we add all of our CSS. All of this is our CSS.


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[Assistant] This CSS looks a little bit different from what you saw previously, right? Because previously all we had was this line.


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[Assistant] Now in this case, we've got something a little bit extra here. Why is that?


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[Assistant] Well, this is because last time when we had the CSS rule, we had it inline inside a particular element. So we said for this HTML element, we want to apply a background color.


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[Assistant] Now in this case, it's a little bit different because our internal style can apply to anywhere within the same HTML document. So it could go into any of these elements, the HTML or the head or anything that you've got coming up later on as well.


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[Assistant] What we have to add in addition is what we call a selector.


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[Assistant] And this selector comes before a set of curly braces, and then the CSS goes in between these two sets of curly braces.


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[Assistant] Now when I say in between a set of curly braces, you have to imagine it a little bit like this. This is the opening curly brace and this is the closing curly brace.


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[Assistant] And if you had it all on one line, then it would look something like this with your CSS going in between on multiple lines.


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[Assistant] That's why we open and close them on separate lines. But if you imagine it as one line, then it would look something like this.


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[Assistant] Our internal styling can apply to anywhere in our HTML document and inside we can target or select as many elements as we want. We could say, let's apply the background red to the HTML.


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[Assistant] And when this code is rendered in the browser, you will see the background of the entire HTML turn red.


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[Assistant] Internal styles are really useful for applying it only to one HTML document. As you can see, this style and any code that goes in there is limited to the HTML that it sits in. So it means if you have a multi-page website,


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[Assistant] Then you probably shouldn't be using the internal style. Instead, you should be using something called an external CSS styling.


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[Assistant] Now the biggest difference between the external and the internal and inline styles is that this actually lives in a completely separate file, which you'll normally see as styles.css or main.css or anything that has a .css extension.


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[Assistant] Inside this CSS file is where we write our CSS rules. So we've got our selector, we've got our property and we've got values and we can make many, many of these inside this file.


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[Assistant] Now, how do we link up the stylesheet file with our index.html? Well, inside the head section of our HTML, we would add a link element, which you'll notice is a self-closing tag. So it doesn't need a closing tag.


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[Assistant] And we have two things that we normally write. One, which is a relationship.


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[Assistant] Which refers to what is the role of this thing that we're linking to.


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[Assistant] And the second thing is the href, which is where is it located?


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[Assistant] In this case, we're saying it's in the same directory and it's inside a file called styles.css.


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[Assistant] Which points to this file right here. And when we go ahead and run this and show it in the browser, you'll see it turns our HTML background to a green color.


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[Assistant] And this style of external CSS is what's used most commonly in web development. And this is what we're going to be focusing on most of the time, but it's important to be aware of the other two styles, the inline, the internal,


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[Assistant] Because you'll see it out there in the wild in other people's CSS code. So remember inline is really useful when you only want to target a single element.


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[Assistant] And internal is really useful when you only want to target a single webpage.


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[Assistant] But for most cases, and when you have a multi-page website, then what you're going to need is the external way of adding CSS through the use of a separate file, which will be called something something dot CSS.


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[Assistant] And it's inside this file where you're going to be writing the CSS code that can target an entire website with all of its multiple web pages.


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[Assistant] So these are the three ways that you can add CSS to your HTML documents. And don't worry, we're going to be practicing this and all of its forms many, many times so that you understand how it works.


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[Assistant] Let's try an exercise and see how to add CSS in various different ways to our HTML file.


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[Assistant] Alright, so once you've downloaded and extracted the project file and open it inside VS Code, you should see this folder. And here, notice there are five files that have already been created for you.


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[Assistant] And in this exercise, there is a little bit of revision about creating multiple web pages, about file paths.


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[Assistant] Internal and external. So starting inside index.html, the first thing I want you to do is to create three links to the three different web pages. This one, this one, and this one.


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[Assistant] And once you've done that, then you can go inside each of those web pages. So starting with the inline.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then internal, external, and you're going to follow the instruction that the H1 tells you to. So in this case, we want to use inline styling in order to style this H1 in blue.


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[Assistant] And then you get to go to the internal and do the same thing, but this time using internal styling and styling the H1 in red. And then finally using external styling using this style.css file and styling the H1 in green.


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[Assistant] If you want to take a look at what the final outcome will look like, you can go into the solution folder, right click on the solution.html and show preview. And then make sure that you collapse this solution folder because having all of it out, two versions of each file is very confusing.


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[Assistant] So I recommend just collapsing that folder so you don't get confused.


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[Assistant] And this is what you're aiming for on the index.html, which is the homepage. We've got an H1 and then we've got three links. And if we click on each of these, you can see they've got an H1 that says Stalemian blue, Stalemian red, and green. And we're going to achieve that using the three different ways of adding CSS.


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[Assistant] Once you're ready, go ahead and download the starting files and give this challenge a go. Pause the video now.


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[Assistant] Alright, so how did that go? I'm going to run through the solution code with you to explain some of the things that you would need to do to complete this challenge. The first thing we said was to style the homepage. So we added in three anchor tags, which is how we create links.


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[Assistant] And once we did that, we were able to use the href of each of the anchor tags in order to link to the relevant webpage.


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[Assistant] The first one links to the inline webpage, inline.html, internal, external, and we use the dot slash notation in order to reach within the current folder. So solution.html lives inside solution.


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[Assistant] And in this case, in order to get to inline.html, we use the dot slash to get to this folder and then we forward slash to go to inline.html right here.


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[Assistant] Now once you've created your three links, the next stage is to go into the first webpage inline. And here we want to style that H1 using CSS, but adding it inline.


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[Assistant] So as I said, it's in the literal line of the h1 element, so it only applies to this h1 element. And we've added it in right here saying that the style should be set so that the color of this text is blue.


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[Assistant] And remember that the inline style goes in the opening tag of the element that you want to target.


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[Assistant] The next one is internal, so we add internal styling usually by putting it inside the head section, so between the open and closing tags of the head element.


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[Assistant] And this is a convention that most developers will stick to, although this will work no matter where you put the style element.


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[Assistant] So here we've got an open and closing style tag and in between we've added in our CSS. So we're saying that


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[Assistant] Our selector is going to select all the h1 on this page, of which there is only one, and we're going to change its text color to red.


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[Assistant] And finally we've got the final version which is the external HTML and we do this by creating a link element right again inside the head section of your website.


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[Assistant] We establish the relationship is we're sending up a style sheet and then we provide a href to the location where our style sheet is located, which is in the current directory. And then it's in a file called style.css. So we can see that right here.


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[Assistant] And inside here, we've again targeted the H1 and we've set the color to green.


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[Assistant] And all of that together creates these different webpages in our multi-page website with the code that sets the style in three different ways.


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[Assistant] So did you get that right? If you had any issues at all, be sure to go back into your code and fix anything that was wrong and make sure that you've understood the three different ways of adding CSS.


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[Assistant] In the next lesson, we're going to learn more about the different selectors that we can use to select different parts of our HTML file. So for all of that and more, I'll see you there.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'll help you.


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[Assistant] Hey, uh, Zack? Hmm? Uhm, so, Soldier.


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[Assistant] It's complicated. Really? Did she tell you anything?


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[Assistant] Thankfully, we have someone used to this kind of terrain.


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[Assistant] We would have reached Mordeo High by now if we hadn't crashed. So, we're going to need to make up for lost time.


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[Assistant] Our main mission here is reconnaissance. Engaging Genesis was not expected.


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[Assistant] The entrance is behind that warehouse. Make your way in from there


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[Assistant] I'm sure you know, but it'll be cold. Mind your body temperature. If you stop moving, your body temp will go down. To get it back up, just do your usual thing.


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[Assistant] We'll be standing by here. Don't take too long.


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[Assistant] Max, uh, hey, hey.


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[Assistant] I know, I'll get dressed all by myself.


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[Assistant] It's actually just a matter of time until all of the elements come together for things to be alright. I mean, I believe that, you know, most difficult...


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[Assistant] You are a former member of Soldier.


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[Assistant] Your cellular structure has already mutated.


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[Assistant] Yes. After nearly being killed by Genesis, it was really all I could do to survive.


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[Assistant] Do not make a man bored. A woman should give him more freedom. The less control a man has, the more faithful he will be to you.


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[Assistant] All the honors of this world are not worth one good friend.


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[Assistant] War turns into wild beasts, people born to live as brothers.


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[Assistant] An explained joke is no longer a joke.


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[Assistant] The living should be treated with kindness, but only the truth should be spoken about the dead.


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[Assistant] Freedom is not something you have been given. This is something that cannot be taken away from you.


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[Assistant] Cherish those who seek the truth, but beware of those who find it.


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[Assistant] Great things require indefatigable perseverance.


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[Assistant] The name of a person who has done great things inspires more respect than all adjectives.


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[Assistant] It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.


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[Assistant] Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.


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[Assistant] It would be wise instead of being angry at the world around us to find the courage to act.


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[Assistant] Marriage is the only dangerous adventure available even to cowards.


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[Assistant] The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.


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[Assistant] Infinitely small people have infinitely great pride.


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[Assistant] These quotes from Voltaire show how one man can write prolifically and talk about different topics, the freedom of speech, and relationships with people.


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[Assistant] Sometimes it's good to lose everything in order to understand what you really lack.


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[Assistant] Adventures are never fun while you're having them.


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[Assistant] True humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is thinking of yourself less.


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[Assistant] If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly, but it's still worth it.


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[Assistant] What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.


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[Assistant] Crying is alright in its way while it lasts, but you have to stop sooner or later, and then you'll still have to decide what to do.


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[Assistant] Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning.


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[Assistant] What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.


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[Assistant] Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.


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[Assistant] God can't give us peace and happiness apart from himself, because there is no such thing.


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[Assistant] Money and love, happiness and respect will come into life as soon as you find something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.


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[Assistant] Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.


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[Assistant] You never know how much you really believe anything until it's truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.


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[Assistant] Love anything and your heart will be wrong and possibly broken.


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[Assistant] We have collected these quotes from Clive Staples Lewis, which truly show the wisdom of this Christian author. He gave his life to tell this world different stories about childhood, imagination, wisdom, and relationship with God.


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[Assistant] You think so? Wow. Look at that. It's a bear. I don't think it's a bear. It's a cow.


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[Assistant] Wow, we have a visitor. It's a cat. I've got an idea.


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[Assistant] You guys came to investigate this town, right? There's a lot of strange things you can find in this town.


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[Assistant] We like to call them the town's seven wonders. Are you guys interested at all?


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[Assistant] If you have recently been treated for a heart attack, a condition caused by a blockage of blood flow to your heart muscle, this video will help you understand the condition and its treatment.


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[Assistant] Your heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood containing the oxygen and nutrients your body needs.


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[Assistant] The main pumping chamber of your heart is the left ventricle. When your left ventricle contracts, it sends oxygen rich blood to your body through a large artery called the aorta.


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[Assistant] Connected to your aorta are small arteries called coronary arteries.


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[Assistant] Blood flows from your aorta through the coronary arteries.


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[Assistant] To supply your heart muscle with oxygen and nutrients.


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[Assistant] During your heart attack, blood flow through one of your coronary arteries may have been severely reduced or completely blocked.


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[Assistant] Your reduced blood flow may have been caused by a buildup of a fatty substance called plaque in your coronary arteries.


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[Assistant] If this plaque became disrupted, a blood clot might form and severely worsen the narrowing.


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[Assistant] Or lead to a sudden complete blockage, stopping blood flow down the artery.


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[Assistant] A blockage in your coronary arteries prevented the oxygen and nutrients in your blood from reaching the part of your heart supplied by the artery.


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[Assistant] As a result, heart muscle in that area started to die.


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[Assistant] Heart damage to part of your heart muscle is called a heart attack.


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[Assistant] Your heart doctor may have recommended a procedure to help open the blockage and improve blood flow to the damaged area.


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[Assistant] The procedure you had may have been a coronary angioplasty.


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[Assistant] During a coronary angioplasty, a balloon-tipped catheter inflates inside your blocked coronary artery to open it.


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[Assistant] The procedure may have involved placing a stent to help prop the artery open. This is usually a thin metal mesh that acts as a scaffold.


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[Assistant] Or you may have had a coronary artery bypass graft or cabbage.


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[Assistant] Cabbage is a surgical procedure in which the blocked areas of the coronary arteries are bypassed with veins or other arteries from the body.


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[Assistant] Before you left the hospital, your health care provider most likely prescribed several medications.


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[Assistant] Your medication may include the following. Oral Antiplatelet Therapy.


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[Assistant] Helps prevent platelets from sticking together and forming new blood clots.


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[Assistant] You may have also received drugs called beta blockers that help lower your heart rate and blood pressure.


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[Assistant] Drugs such as angiotensin converting enzyme, or ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, or ARBs, and calcium channel blockers also work to lower your blood pressure if needed.


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[Assistant] And you may have been prescribed statins along with a low fat diet to lower your cholesterol.


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[Assistant] These drugs work by reducing the amount of cholesterol made in your liver.


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[Assistant] It is important to stay on your medications as your physician prescribed, even if you are feeling better.


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[Assistant] The intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected that we were all three fairly dumbfounded.


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[Assistant] Gregson sprang out of his chair and upset the remainder of his whiskey and water.


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[Assistant] It was quite thick enough before, grumbled Lestrade, taking a chair, I seem to have dropped into a sort of council of war.


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[Assistant] Are you—are you sure of this piece of intelligence?" stammered Gregson. I've just come from his room, said Lestrade. I was the first to discover what had occurred.


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[Assistant] We have been hearing Gregson's view of the matter, Holmes observed. Would you mind letting us know what you have seen and done?


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[Assistant] I have no objection," the stride answered, seating himself.


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[Assistant] I freely confess that I was of the opinion that Stangerson was concerned in the death of Drebber.


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[Assistant] This fresh development has shown me that I was completely mistaken.


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[Assistant] Full of the one idea, I set myself to find out what had become of the secretary. They had been seen together at Euston Station about half past eight on the evening of the third.


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[Assistant] At two in the morning, Drebber had been found in the Brixton Road.


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[Assistant] The question which confronted me was to find out how Stangerson had been employed between 8.30 and the time of the crime, and what had become of him afterwards.


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[Assistant] I telegraphed to Liverpool, giving a description of the man, and warning him to keep a watch upon the American boats. I then set to work, calling upon all the hotels and lodging houses in the vicinity of Euston.


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[Assistant] You see, I argue that if Trevor and his companion had become separated, the natural course for the latter would be to put up somewhere in a vicinity for the night, and then to hang about the station again next morning.


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[Assistant] I spent the whole of yesterday evening in making inquiries entirely without avail. This morning I began very early, and at eight o'clock I reached Halliday's Private Hotel in Little George Street. On my inquiry as to whether a Mr. Stangerson was living there, they at once answered me in the affirmative.


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[Assistant] No doubt you are the gentleman whom he was expecting, they said. He has been waiting for a gentleman for two days. Where is he now? I asked.


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[Assistant] He's upstairs in bed. He wishes to be called at nine. I will go out and see him at once, I said.


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[Assistant] It seemed to me that my sudden appearance might shake his nerves and lead him to say something unguarded. The boots volunteered to show me the room.


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[Assistant] It was on the second floor and there was a small corridor leading up to it.


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[Assistant] The boots pointed out the door to me, and was about to go downstairs again when I saw something that made me feel sickish, in spite of my twenty years' experience.


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[Assistant] From under the door there curled a little red ribbon of blood.


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[Assistant] Which had meandered across the passage and formed a little pool along the skirting at the other side.


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[Assistant] I gave a cry which brought the boots back. He nearly fainted when he saw it. The door was locked on the inside, but we put our shoulders to it and knocked it in.


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[Assistant] The window of the room was open, and beside the window all huddled up, laying the body of a man in his night-dress. He was quite dead, and had been for some time, for his limbs were rigid and cold.


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[Assistant] When we turned him over, the boots recognised him at once as being the same gentleman who had engaged the room under the name of Joseph Stangerson.


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[Assistant] The cause of death was a deep stab in the left side, which must have penetrated the heart. And now comes the strangest part of the affair. What do you suppose was above the murdered man?


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[Assistant] I felt a creeping of the flesh and a presentiment of coming horror, even before Sherlock Holmes answered.


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[Assistant] The word racha, written in letters of blood, he said.


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[Assistant] That was it," said Lestrade in an awestruck voice, and we were all silent for a while.


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[Assistant] There was something so methodical and so incomprehensible about the deeds of this unknown assassin that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes.


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[Assistant] My nerves, which were steady enough on the field of battle, tingled as I thought of it.


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[Assistant] The man was seen, said Lestrade. A milk-boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the muse at the back of the hotel.


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[Assistant] He noticed that a ladder which usually lay there was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open.


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[Assistant] After passing, he looked back and saw a man descend the ladder.


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[Assistant] He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel.


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[Assistant] He took no particular notice of him, beyond thinking in his own mind that it was early for him to be at work.


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[Assistant] He has an impression that the man was tall, had a reddish face, and was dressed in a long brownish coat.


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[Assistant] He must have stayed in the room some little time after the murder, for we found blood-stained water in the basin, where he'd washed his hands and marks on the sheets, where he deliberately wiped his knife.


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[Assistant] I glanced at Holmes on hearing the description of the murderer, which tallied so exactly with his own.


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[Assistant] There was, however, no trace of exultation or satisfaction upon his face.


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[Assistant] Did you find nothing in the room which could furnish a clue to the murderer? he asked.


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[Assistant] Stangerson had Drebber's purse in his pocket, but it seems that this was usual, as he did all the paying.


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[Assistant] There was 80 odd pounds in it, but nothing had been taken.


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[Assistant] Whatever the motives of these extraordinary crimes, robbery is certainly not one of them.


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[Assistant] There were no papers or memoranda in the murdered man's pocket, except a single telegram dated from Cleveland about a month ago, and containing the words, J. H. is in Europe. There was no name appended to the message. And there was nothing else, Holmes asked.


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[Assistant] Nothing of importance. The man's novel, with which he had read himself to sleep, was lying upon the bed, and his pipe was on a chair beside him.


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[Assistant] It was a glass of water on the table and on the windowsill a small chip ointment box containing a couple of pills.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes sprang from his chair with an exclamation of delight.


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[Assistant] The last link, he cried exultantly, my case is complete. The two detectives stared at him in amazement.


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[Assistant] I have now in my hands—my companion said confidently—all the threads which have formed such a tangle. There are, of course, details to be filled in, but I am certain of all the main facts, from the time that Drebbes parted from Stangerson at the station, up to the discovery of the body of the latter, as if I had seen them with my own eyes. I will give you a proof of my knowledge. Could you lay your hand upon those pills?"


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[Assistant] I have them," said Lestrade, producing a small white box.


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[Assistant] I took them and the purse and the telegram, intending to have them put in a place of safety at the police station.


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[Assistant] It was the merest chance my taking those pills, for I am bound to say that I do not attach any importance to them. Give them here," said Holmes. Now, Doctor, turning to me, are those ordinary pills?


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[Assistant] They certainly were not. They were of a pearly grey colour, small, round, and almost transparent against the light.


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[Assistant] From their likeness and transparency I should imagine that they are soluble in water," I remarked.


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[Assistant] Precisely so," answered Holmes. Now, would you mind going down and fetching that poor little devil of a terrier which has been bad so long, and which the landlady wanted you to put out of its pain yesterday?


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[Assistant] I went downstairs and carried the dog upstairs in my arms. Its laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence. I placed it upon a cushion on the


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[Assistant] I will now cut one of these pills in two," said Holmes, and drawing his penknife, he suited the action to the word.


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[Assistant] One half we return into the box for future purposes.


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[Assistant] The other half I will place in this wine glass, in which is a teaspoonful of water.


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[Assistant] You perceive that our friend the doctor is right, and that it readily dissolves.


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[Assistant] This may be very interesting," said Lestrade in the injured tone of one who suspects that he is being laughed at.


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[Assistant] I cannot see, however, what it has to do with the death of Mr Joseph Stangerson. Patience, my friend, patience.


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[Assistant] You will find in time that it has everything to do with it.


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[Assistant] I shall now add a little milk to make the mixture palatable, and on presenting it to the dog we find that he laps it up readily enough.


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[Assistant] As he spoke he turned the contents of the wine-glass into a saucer and placed it in front of the terrier, who speedily licked it dry.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes' earnest demeanour had so far convinced us that we all sat in silence, watching the animal intently, and expecting some startling effect. None such appeared, however.


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[Assistant] The dog continued to lie stretched upon the cushion, breathing in a laboured way, but apparently neither the better nor the worse for its draught. Holmes had taken out his watch,


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[Assistant] And as minute followed minute without result an expression of the utmost chagrin and disappointment appeared upon his features.


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[Assistant] drummed his fingers upon the table and showed every other symptom of acute impatience.


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[Assistant] So great was his emotion, that I felt sincerely sorry for him, while the two detectives smiled derisively, by no means displeased at this check which he had met.


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[Assistant] It can't be a coincidence," he cried at last, springing from his chair and pacing wildly up and down the room.


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[Assistant] It is impossible that it should be a mere coincidence. The very pills which I suspected in the case of Drebber are actually found after the death of Stangerson. And yet they are inert. What can it mean?


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[Assistant] Surely my whole chain of reasoning cannot have been false. It is impossible. And yet this wretched dog is none the worse.


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[Assistant] Ah, I have it. I have it. With a perfect shriek of delight, he rushed to the box, cut the other pill in two, dissolved it, added milk, and presented it to the terrier.


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[Assistant] The unfortunate creature's tongue seemed hardly to have been moistened in it, before it gave a convulsive shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and lifeless as if it had been struck by lightning.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes drew a long breath and wiped the perspiration from his forehead.


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[Assistant] I should have more faith," he said. I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation. Of the two pills in that box, one was of the most deadly poison, and the other was entirely harmless.


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[Assistant] I ought to have known that before I ever saw the box at all.


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[Assistant] This last statement appeared to me to be so startling that I could hardly believe that he was in his sober senses.


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[Assistant] There was the dead dog, however, to prove that his conjectures had been correct. It seemed to me that the mists in my own mind were gradually clearing away, and I began to have a dim, vague perception of the truth.


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[Assistant] All this seems strange to you," continued Holmes, because you failed at the beginning of the inquiry to grasp the importance of the single real clue which was presented to you. I had the good fortune to seize upon that.


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[Assistant] And everything which has occurred since then has served to confirm my original supposition, and indeed was the logical sequence of it.


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[Assistant] Hence things which have perplexed you and made the case more obscure have served to enlighten me and to strengthen my conclusions. It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.


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[Assistant] The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.


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[Assistant] This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway, without any of these outre and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable.


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[Assistant] These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.


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[Assistant] We're all ready to acknowledge that you are a smart man and that you have your own methods of working. We want something more. More than theory and preaching now though. It's a case of taking the man.


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[Assistant] I've made my case out and it seems I was wrong.


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[Assistant] Young Charpentier could not have been engaged in his second affair. Lestrade went after his man, Stangerson, and it appears that he was wrong too.


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[Assistant] You've thrown out ints here and ints there, and seem to know more than we do. But the time has come when we feel that we have a right to ask you straight out how much you do know of the business. Can you name the man who did it?


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[Assistant] Ah, I can't help feeling that Gregson is right, sir," remarked Lestrade. We have both tried and we have both failed. You have remarked more than once since I have been in the room that you had all the evidence which you require. Surely you will not withhold it any longer?


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[Assistant] Any delay in arresting the assassin, I observed, might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity. Thus pressed by us all, Holmes showed signs of irresolution.


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[Assistant] He continued to walk up and down the room with his head sunk on his chest and his brows drawn down, as was his habit when lost in thought.


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[Assistant] There will be no more murders," he said at last, stopping abruptly and facing us. You can put that consideration out of the question. You have asked me if I know the name of the assassin. I do.


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[Assistant] The mere knowing of his name is a small thing, however, compared with the power of laying our hands upon him. This I expect very shortly to do.


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[Assistant] I have good hopes of managing it through my own arrangements.


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[Assistant] But it is a thing which needs delicate handling, for we have a shrewd and desperate man to deal with, who is supported, as I have had occasion to prove, by another who is as clever as himself.


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[Assistant] As long as this man has no idea that anyone can have a clue there is some chance of securing him. But if he had the slightest suspicion


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[Assistant] He would change his name and vanish in an instant among the four million inhabitants of this great city.


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[Assistant] But that I am prepared for. At present I am ready to promise that the instant that I can communicate with you without endangering my own combinations, I shall do so.


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[Assistant] Gregson and Lestrade seem to be far from satisfied by this assurance, or by the depreciating allusion to the detective police.


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[Assistant] The former had flushed up to the roots of his flaxen hair, while the other's beady eyes glistened with curiosity and resentment.


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[Assistant] Good boy," said Holmes blandly. Why don't you introduce this pattern at Scotland Yard?" he continued, taking a pair of steel handcuffs from a drawer.


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[Assistant] See how beautifully the spring works. They fasten in an instant.


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[Assistant] The old pattern is good enough," remarked Lestrade, if we can only find the man to put them on. Very good, very good, said Holmes, smiling. The cabman may as well help me with my boxes. Just ask him to step up, Wiggins.


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[Assistant] I was surprised to find my companion speaking as though he were about to set out on a journey, since he had not said anything to me about it.


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[Assistant] There was a small portmanteau in the room, and this he pulled out and began to strap.


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[Assistant] He was busily engaged at it when the cabman entered the room.


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[Assistant] Just give me a help with this buckle, cabman," he said, kneeling over his task, and never turning his head.


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[Assistant] The fellow came forward with a somewhat sullen, defiant air, and put down his hands to assist.


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[Assistant] Let me introduce you to Mr. Jefferson Hope.


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[Assistant] The murderer of Enoch Drebber and of Joseph Stangerson. The whole thing occurred in a moment, so quickly that I had no time to realize it.


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[Assistant] I have a vivid recollection of that instant, of Holmes's triumphant expression and the ring of his voice, of the cabman's dazed, savage face as he glared at the glittering handcuffs which had appeared as if by magic upon his wrists. For a second or two we might have been a group of statues,


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[Assistant] Then, with an inarticulate roar of fury, the prisoner wrenched himself free from Holmes's grasp and hurled himself through the window.


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[Assistant] Woodwork and glass gave way before him, but before he got quite through, Gregson, Lestrade, and Holmes sprang upon him like so many staghounds. He was dragged back into the room, and then commenced a terrific conflict.


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[Assistant] So powerful and so fierce was he that the four of us were shaken off again and again.


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[Assistant] He appeared to have the convulsive strength of a man in an epileptic fit.


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[Assistant] His face and hands were terribly mangled by his passes through the glass, but loss of blood had no effect in diminishing his resistance.


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[Assistant] It was not until Lestrade succeeded in getting his hand inside his neck-cloth, and half strangling him, that we made him realise that his struggles were of no avail.


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[Assistant] And even then we felt no security until we had pinioned his feet as well as his hands.


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[Assistant] You are very welcome to put any questions that you like to me now.


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[Assistant] Hi, how are you? And you? Bye!


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[Assistant] I'll collect lots of seashells. They'll be impressed.


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[Assistant] Seashells. Seashells. Where are they? There. I found one!


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[Assistant] Treasure, treasure! I found some treasure! Oh, I should bury the treasure.


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[Assistant] After burying the treasure? Yes!


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[Assistant] Huh? I know. Grandma, I've got a great idea.


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[Assistant] Wow! It's so white!


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[Assistant] Hello doggie. Do you know how to make a snowman?


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[Assistant] Oh! Wow! This is big!


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[Assistant] Here I come! It's so fast!


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[Assistant] Oh, how are you? I'm good boss, how are you? Ooh, you look terrible.


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[Assistant] You get us out of it. I fight, you plot, together we get out of it.


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[Assistant] Look at your brother, look at your sister, they're doing so well. Mommy, I know, but what do you expect? I gotta hang out with Mormons like these two, okay? Bye.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well apparently your boys and your real son got some work to do. So ladies, we gotta roll.


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[Assistant] Now, we are soft and miserable, just like you.


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[Assistant] We're done, right? I mean, we're squared?


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[Assistant] You got your cars now, so now you don't have to sit here and listen to your tiny man bullshit.


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[Assistant] I mean, you're the guy that needs to learn something. Shit, you're awful, bro. Hey, maybe someone can teach you the most basic human behavior.


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[Assistant] Then break up with him for the last time and fuck off out of all of our lives, please.


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[Assistant] No, I'm more like cold shit. But, but seriously, I just don't want to marry you. And no matter how many letters you send me, or chocolate bunnies, or skywriting my name, or naming stars after me, or whatever, it's nothing personal.


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[Assistant] Yeah, tell him if he needs a good fake tan or some hair gel, Rocco can hook him up.


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[Assistant] Fuck off, Luis! Try it, bro. I'll happily do more time for you.


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[Assistant] See, your mother here has been making that classic American mistake. In other words, she's been living beyond her means.


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[Assistant] Book 2, Chapter 3 John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet


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[Assistant] Three weeks had passed since Jefferson Hope and his comrades had departed from Salt Lake City.


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[Assistant] John Ferrier's heart was sore within him when he thought of the young man's return, and of the impending loss of his adopted child.


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[Assistant] Yet her bright and happy face reconciled him to the arrangement more than any argument could have done.


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[Assistant] He had always determined, deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Mormon.


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[Assistant] Such a marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace.


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[Assistant] Whatever he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible.


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[Assistant] He had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to express an unorthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in the land of the saints.


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[Assistant] Yes, a dangerous matter—so dangerous that even the most saintly dared only whisper their religious opinions with bated breath, lest something which fell from their lips might be misconstrued and bring down a swift retribution upon them.


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[Assistant] The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description.


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[Assistant] Not the inquisition of Seville, nor the German Wehmgericht, nor the secret societies of Italy were ever able to put a more formidable machinery in motion than that which cast a cloud over the State of Utah.


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[Assistant] Its invisibility, and the mystery which was attached to it, made this organisation doubly terrible. It appeared to be omniscient and omnipotent, and yet was neither seen nor heard.


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[Assistant] The man who held out against the church vanished away.


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[Assistant] But no father ever returned to tell them how he had fared at the hands of his secret judges.


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[Assistant] A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them.


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[Assistant] No wonder that men went about in fear and trembling, and that even in the heart of the wilderness they dared not whisper the doubts which oppressed them.


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[Assistant] At first this vague and terrible power was exercised only upon the recalcitrants who, having embraced the Mormon faith, wished afterwards to pervert or to abandon it. Soon, however, it took a wider range.


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[Assistant] The supply of adult women was running short, and polygamy without a female population on which to draw was a barren doctrine indeed. Strange rumours began to be banded about,


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[Assistant] Rumours of murdered immigrants and rifled camps in regions where Indians had never been seen.


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[Assistant] Fresh women appeared in the harems of the elders, women who pined and wept, and bore upon their faces the traces of an un-extinguishable horror.


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[Assistant] Belated wanderers upon the mountains spoke of gangs of armed men, masked, stealthy, and noiseless, who flittered by them in the darkness.


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[Assistant] These tales and rumours took substance and shape, and were corroborated and re-corroborated until they resolved themselves into a definite name.


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[Assistant] To this day, in the lonely ranches of the West, the name of the Danite Band, or the Avenging Angels, is a sinister and an ill-omened one.


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[Assistant] Fuller knowledge of the organisation which produced such terrible results served to increase rather than to lessen the horror which it inspired in the minds of men.


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[Assistant] Non-new who belong to this ruthless society.


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[Assistant] The names of the participators in the deeds of blood and violence done under the name of religion were kept profoundly secret.


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[Assistant] The very friend to whom you communicated your misgivings as to the Prophet and his mission might be one of those who would come forth at night with fire and sword to exact a terrible reparation.


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[Assistant] Hence every man feared his neighbour, And none spoke of the things which were nearest his heart.


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[Assistant] One fine morning, John Ferrier was about to set out to his wheat fields when he heard the click of the latch.


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[Assistant] And looking through the window saw a stout, sandy-haired, middle-aged man coming up the pathway.


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[Assistant] His heart leapt to his mouth. For this was none other than the great Brigham Young himself.


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[Assistant] The latter, however, received his salutations coldly, and followed him with a stern face into the sitting-room.


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[Assistant] Brother Ferrier," he said, taking a seat, and eyeing the farmer keenly from under his light-coloured eyelashes, "'The true believers have been good friends to you. We picked you up when you were starving in the desert. We shared our food with you, led you safe to the Chosen Valley,


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[Assistant] In return for all this, we asked but one condition.


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[Assistant] That was that you should embrace the true faith and conform in every way to its usages. This you promised to do, and this, if common report says truly, you have neglected.


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[Assistant] And how have I neglected it?" asked Ferrier, throwing out his hands in ex postulation.


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[Assistant] Have I not given to the common fund? Have I not attended at the temple? Have I not?


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[Assistant] Where are your wives? asked Young, looking around him. Call them in, that I may greet them.


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[Assistant] It is true that I have not married, Feria answered.


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[Assistant] But women were few, and there were many who had better claims than I.


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[Assistant] I was not a lonely man. I had my daughter to attend to my wants.


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[Assistant] And has found favour in the eyes of many who are high in the land." John Ferrier groaned internally.


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[Assistant] There are stories of her which I would feign disbelieve.


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[Assistant] Stories that she is sealed to some Gentile. This must be the gossip of idle tongues.


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[Assistant] What is the thirteenth rule in the code of the sainted Joseph Smith?


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[Assistant] It is impossible that you, who profess the Holy Creed, should suffer your daughter to violate it. John Ferrier made no answer, but he played nervously with his riding whip.


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[Assistant] Upon this one point, your whole faith shall be tested.


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[Assistant] So it has been decided in the sacred council of four. The girl is young.


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[Assistant] And Drebber has a son, and either of them would gladly welcome your daughter to their house. Let her choose between them.


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[Assistant] They are young and rich, and of the true faith. What say you to that?


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[Assistant] Ferrier remained silent for some little time with his brows knitted.


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[Assistant] You will give us time, he said at last.


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[Assistant] My daughter is very young. She is scarce of an age to marry.


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[Assistant] She shall have a month to choose," said Young, rising from his seat. At the end of that time she shall give her answer.


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[Assistant] He was passing through the door when he turned with flushed face and flashing eyes.


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[Assistant] It were better for you, John Ferrier, he thundered.


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[Assistant] That you and she were now lying blanch skeletons upon the Sierra Blanco.


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[Assistant] Then that you should put your weak wills against the orders of the Holy Four.


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[Assistant] With a threatening gesture of his hand he turned from the door, and Ferrier heard his heavy step scrunching along the shingly path.


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[Assistant] He was still sitting with his elbows upon his knees, considering how he should broach the matter to his daughter, when a soft hand was laid upon his, and looking up he saw her standing beside him.


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[Assistant] Don't you scare yourself," he answered, drawing her to him and passing his broad, rough hand caressingly over her chestnut hair. We'll fix it up somehow or other.


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[Assistant] You don't find your fancy kinda lessening for this chap, do you? A sob and a squeeze of his hand was her only answer.


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[Assistant] No, of course not. I shouldn't care to bear you say you did. He's a likely lad, and he's a Christian, which is more than these folk here, in spite all their praying and preaching. There's a party starting for Nevada tomorrow, and I'll manage to send him a message, letting him know the hole we're in.


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[Assistant] If I know anything of that young man, he'll be back here with a speed that would whip electro-telegraphs." Lucy laughed through her tears at her father's description.


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[Assistant] But it is for you that I'm frightened, dear. One hears, one hears such dreadful stories about those who oppose the Prophet. Something terrible always happens to them.


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[Assistant] But we haven't opposed him yet, her father answered.


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[Assistant] It'll be time to look out for squalls when we do. We have a clear month before us.


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[Assistant] We'll raise as much as we can in money and let the rest go.


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[Assistant] To tell the truth, Lucy, it isn't the first time I've thought of doing it.


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[Assistant] I don't care about knuckling under to any man, as these folk do to their darn prophet.


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[Assistant] I'm a freeborn American, and it's all new to me. Guess I'm too old to learn.


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[Assistant] If he comes browsing about this farm, he might chance to run up against a charge of bookshot travelling in the opposite direction.


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[Assistant] But they won't let us leave, his daughter objected.


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[Assistant] Wait till Jefferson comes, and we'll soon manage that.


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[Assistant] In the meantime, don't you fret yourself, my dearie, and don't get your eyes swelled up, else he'll be walking into me when he sees you.


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[Assistant] There's nothing to be afraid about, and there's no danger at all.


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[Assistant] John Ferrier uttered these consoling remarks in a very confident tone, but she could not help observing that he paid unusual care to the fastening of the doors that night, and that he carefully cleaned and loaded the rusty old shotgun which hung upon the wall of his bedroom.


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[Assistant] Yo, alright, I'll check him out. What's his site? I'll send you a link.


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[Assistant] Please? I suppose it's safe to leave them here.


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[Assistant] Uh oh, that was the best, most yummy spotted acorns anyone could ever find. Spotted acorns? Do you think someone might have taken them? Yes, someone who likes spotted acorns. Well it wasn't me. Of course not.


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[Assistant] We know you didn't take them little redwood fox. Because you would have given them right back. Those acorns have to be somewhere. We'll look under every leaf.


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[Assistant] Oh, what should I do? Should I give you back or keep you? Oh, how?


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[Assistant] I mean, they're little white squirrels, and they need to go back where they belong.


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[Assistant] It's amazing how just thinking of cool things can cool you down.


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[Assistant] This animation is brought to you by the Nucleus Medical Art Library, or NMAL, where you can download this animation and thousands of medical images and videos created by Nucleus Medical Media.


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[Assistant] To apply for a free 30 day trial, click on the link in the description.


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[Assistant] So what starts here can indeed change the world. But the question is, what will the world look like after you change it? Well, I'm confident that it will look much, much better. But if you'll humor this old sailor for just a moment, I have a few suggestions that may help you on your way to a better world.


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[Assistant] And while these lessons were learned during my time in the military, I can assure you


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[Assistant] Showing faster than everyone and reaching the shore long before the rest of us. Seal training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered.


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[Assistant] But your will to succeed, not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education, not your social status. If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not by the size of their flippers. Several times a week, the instructors would line up the class and do a uniform inspection. It was exceptionally thorough.


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[Assistant] Then wet from head to toe, roll around on the beach until every part of your body was covered with sand. The effect was known as a sugar cookie.


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[Assistant] You were never going to have a perfect uniform. The instructors weren't going to allow it. Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform, you still end up as a sugar cookie. It's just the way life is sometimes. If you want to change the world, get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward. Every day during training,


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[Assistant] A circus meant that for that day, you didn't measure up. A circus meant more fatigue, and more fatigue meant that the following day would be more difficult and more circuses were likely. But at some time during SEAL training, everyone, everyone made the circus list. But an interesting, an interesting thing happened to those who were constantly on the list. Over time, those students who did two hours of extra calisthenics got stronger and stronger.


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[Assistant] The obstacle course contained 25 obstacles, including the 10 foot wall.


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[Assistant] You had to climb the three tiered tower, and once at the top, you grabbed the rope, swung underneath the rope,


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[Assistant] Failure could mean injury and being dropped from the course. Without hesitation, the student slid down the rope perilously fast. Instead of several minutes, it only took him half that time. And by the end of the course, he had broken the record. If you want to change the world, sometimes you have to slide down the obstacles head first.


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[Assistant] It is comforting to know that there is open water above you. But as you approach the ship, which is tied to a pier, the light begins to fade. The steel structure of the ship blocks the moonlight. It blocks the surrounding street lamps. It blocks all ambient light.


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[Assistant] But you are the class of 2014, the class that can affect the lives of 800 million people in the next century. Start each day with a task completed.


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[Assistant] But if you take some risks, step up when the times are the toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden, and never, ever give up. If you do these things,


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[Assistant] You're pathetic. You know that? You think you're such hot shit, don't you?


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[Assistant] Must be easy for you. Thinking of me as being crazy must help.


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[Assistant] You're not crazy, Luis. You're empty. You don't care about anyone. You're a shell!


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[Assistant] I've got a letter telling everyone that you pushed me.


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[Assistant] Don't worry about it, man. I like the setup here.


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[Assistant] These guitars are all collector's items. Celebrity rock memorabilia.


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[Assistant] You want I should stick $50,000 guitar up your ass? No, but I got some friends I can introduce you to if that's how you get your kicks. Oh, funny guy. Alright!


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[Assistant] You sure that was smart? You sure not shooting me was smart? I don't think so. Ah, alright. If we can operate, we're gonna need some, some goodwill here. What now?


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[Assistant] Let's try something different.


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[Assistant] To all the wonderful sounds around us.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm not really doing anything. And look at how happy I am.


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[Assistant] Look up and tell me what you see.


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[Assistant] Anyone hungry? Should we think about going home soon?


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[Assistant] I don't think so. These are very rare. I've never, ever seen one until now.


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[Assistant] Alright, so for the final project, we're going to be building a motivational poster website and we're going to make our own memes.


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[Assistant] You might've seen some of these around the internet. There are the serious ones, which are based off these nineties motivational posters where you have some sort of title and you have some sort of.


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[Assistant] Motivational tags like potential, we all have the tools for greatness within us and I believe that is true and you've got a cute little arctic fox.


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[Assistant] But also, there are some pretty hilarious ones, like, coolness. You may be cool, but you'll never be four popped collars cool, like this guy.


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[Assistant] So the goal is to make our own website where we can create our own motivational poster.


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[Assistant] The important part of a motivational poster is there is a image that is going to be big. There is a border around the image. So we now know all about borders and we can do that.


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[Assistant] We have a black background and that is easy because we know all about CSS color properties. We have a big main title, which we're going to use a custom font for to mimic this font a little bit better. And finally, we have a paragraph at the bottom.


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[Assistant] And we're going to figure out how we're going to center things on the screen, how to add borders and how to apply basically everything that we've learned so far in this section.


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[Assistant] Go ahead and download the starting project files for the motivation meme project and extract it and then open it up inside VS code.


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[Assistant] Now the main thing is that it's your website, it's your project and as with all the projects in the course, it's totally up to you how you want to create it, but there are some caveats and it's important that you touch all of the learning points. So these six points are important and


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[Assistant] After completing these six points, you can change your website, you can mess with it however you like, but I want to make sure that everything you've learned so far has consolidated and it all makes sense.


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[Assistant] We're going to use a custom font from Google called the Libre Baskerville, which looks somewhat similar to the motivational main title font.


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[Assistant] You should add your own image into the images folder under the assets folder. I've got an example image in here for you just in case you want to use it, but I recommend putting in your own images just for practice. And that image should have a five pixel white border.


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[Assistant] And the text should be center aligned and you should adjust the margin so that the image and text are centered on the page. Now this is going to be the trickiest part because centering elements using CSS is a whole science in itself, but we're going to do it simply.


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[Assistant] We're going to horizontally center the div by giving that div a width of 50% to take up 50% of the screen. And then if you think about it, there's only 25% left on each side. So if we have a margin left of 20% on that div, then it should push it into the center.


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[Assistant] In addition, you might find it useful to set the image to have a width of a hundred percent so that it fills the entire container div so that you're not having to center the image along with the div.


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[Assistant] Some of these hints are only going to make sense once you get started writing the code for it. So don't worry too much about it now. I'm just highlighting certain points in the to do so that when you get to it.


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[Assistant] To pay more attention to these parts and these helpful tips, which you'll probably need because especially this point number five, it's quite a difficult task and it will take some time for you to figure out how to get it to look like this.


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[Assistant] And if you want to push the div down vertically, then I recommend just adding a top margin.


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[Assistant] To push it down by a pixel amount. It doesn't have to be spot bang in the middle of the center. Cause as I said, that is a whole science in itself and we're going to be covering it in coming sections, but it's just a little bit more complicated. So we're going to judge it by eye for this project for now.


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[Assistant] In order to get something that looks like the goal image, I recommend putting the h1, the paragraph and the image inside a div.


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[Assistant] That way you can center the div on the screen and you won't have to mess with all three elements and their centering, which is already a hard enough task.


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[Assistant] Finally, you're going to use your developer doc reading skills and learn by yourself about a property called text transform and figure out how to make the H1 look uppercase like what I've got in the solution goal website.


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[Assistant] All of these elements are on screen. We've got the white board around the image. We've got the black background, the white text, the custom font, and our H1 is totally in uppercase without us having to type it in uppercase. So that's where that text transform property comes in. And notice how this entire


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[Assistant] Content div is roughly somewhere in the center, horizontally and vertically, just judging it by eye. It's not perfect, but as long as you find the perfect avocado, everything else is easy in life.


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[Assistant] Pause the video now and complete this project.


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[Assistant] And once you're done, come back and I'm going to walk through the solution code with you.


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[Assistant] So hopefully that wasn't too hard. If we take a look at the solution HTML, you can see that I've completed all of those tasks with a small HTML and a small CSS file. So it shouldn't be too hard.


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[Assistant] Now some of the steps are pretty self-explanatory, but there's a couple of things I want to just briefly touch on. One is you will need the Google font links in the head section if you want to be able to have that custom font on screen. And this is the custom font.


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[Assistant] In addition, we want to have all our elements inside a div so that we can style it all together. And that's quite important in terms of positioning. So I've created a class for the div.


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[Assistant] In this case, you could have also used an ID, but-


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[Assistant] If you were going to extend this website, then it's safer to use a class so that you might be able to reuse the CSS in the future.


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[Assistant] The poster is the part that is more or less center aligned and we use that trick with setting its width and setting its margin using percentages to get it more or less in the horizontal center. And then I simply set a hundred pixel margin top, just judging it by eye to get it somewhere in the middle.


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[Assistant] And I added the custom font and the border to the image and made the image a hundred percent wide so that it would fit fully into that poster div.


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[Assistant] If you had any problems, this is a time where you can look at the solution code and look at your own code and see if there's any fixes you want to make. And once you have, then you can also modify the website any way you like to personalize it and make it your own.


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[Assistant] If you prefer your bedtime stories without relaxing music,


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[Assistant] Please check out the top-in comment to a link for that video. Peter Pan by J.M.Barry Chapter 1 Peter Breaks Through All children except one grow up. They soon know that they will grow up. And the way Wendy knew was this. One day, when she was two years old,


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[Assistant] She was playing in a garden and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful. The Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, Oh, why can't you remain like this forever?


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[Assistant] This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.


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[Assistant] Of course they lived at 14, their house number on their street, and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one.


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[Assistant] She was a lovely lady with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes


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[Assistant] One within the other that came from the puzzling east. However, how many you discover there. There is always one more. And her sweet mocking mouth.


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[Assistant] Had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get. Though there it was.


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[Assistant] Perfectly conspicuous in the right hand corner.


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[Assistant] The many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her.


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[Assistant] And they all ran to her house to propose to her, except Mr Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, so he got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, in time he gave up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying,


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[Assistant] Mr Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.


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[Assistant] Mrs Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game. Not so much as a brussel sprout was missing, but by, whole colour flowers dropped out, and instead of them, there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been totting up. They were Mrs Darling's guesses,


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[Assistant] Wendy came first, then John, then Michael. For a week or two after Wendy came, it was very doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mrs. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses


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[Assistant] While she looked at him imploringly. She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way.


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[Assistant] His way was with a pencil and a piece of paper, and if she confused him with suggestions, he had to begin at the beginning again. Now don't interrupt, he would beg her. I have £1.17 here, and £2.06 at the office.


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[Assistant] 8, 9, 7, dot, carry 7, don't speak, my own, and then the pound you lent to that man who came to the door, quiet child, dot, and carry child, there, you've done it. Did I say 9, 7,


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[Assistant] Yes, I said 9-7. The question is, can we try for a year on 9-9-7? Of course we can George, she cried, but she was prejudiced in Wenda's favour, and he was really the grander character of the two.


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[Assistant] Remember months you warned her almost threateningly, and off he went again.


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[Assistant] Mumps, one pound, that is what I put down.


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[Assistant] But I dare say it would be more like 30 shillings. Don't speak. Measles one five. German measles half a guinea.


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[Assistant] Makes two fifteen, six. Don't waggle your finger. Whooping coughs say fifteen shillings.


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[Assistant] And so it went, and it added up differently each time, but at last Wendy just got through, with mumps reduced to 12-6, and two kinds of measles treated as one. There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak, but both were kept, and soon you might have seen the three of them


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[Assistant] Going in a row to Miss Folsom's kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse. Mrs Darling loved to have everything just so.


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[Assistant] And Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours. So of course they had a nurse.


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[Assistant] As they were poor owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim newfoundland dog called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important. However,


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[Assistant] And the darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their houses and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse. How thorough was she at bath time, and up at any moment of the night, if one of her charges made the slightest cry,


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[Assistant] She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat. She believed to her last day in the old fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf,


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[Assistant] And made sounds of content all over this newfangled talk about germs and so on.


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[Assistant] It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved and butting them back into line if they strayed.


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[Assistant] On John's footer, in England soccer we called football footer for short, days she never once forgot his sweater.


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[Assistant] She usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain. There is a room in the basement of Mrs. Folsom's school where the nurses wait. They sat on forms while Nana lay on the floor, but that was the only difference. They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk.


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[Assistant] She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs Darling's friends, but if they did come, she


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[Assistant] She first whipped off Michael's pinafore and put him into one with blue braiding and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John's hair.


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[Assistant] No nursery could possibly have been more conducted correctly, and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the neighbours talked. He had his position in the city to consider. Nana also troubled him in another way. He had sometimes a feeling that she did not admire him. I know she admires you tremendously, George. Mrs. Darling would assure him.


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[Assistant] And then she would sign to the children to be specially nice to father. Lovely dances followed, in which the only other servant, Lyza, was sometimes allowed to join. Such a midget, she looked in her long skirt and maid's cap, though she had sworn, when engaged, that she would never see ten again. The gaiety of those romps.


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[Assistant] And guest of all was Mrs Darling, who had pirouette so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her, you might have got it. There was never a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.


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[Assistant] Mrs Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. It was the nightly custom of every good mother, after her children are asleep, to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning. Repacking into the proper places.


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[Assistant] There are many articles that have wondered during the day. If you could keep away, but of course you can't, you could see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect.


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[Assistant] Lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you would pick this thing up.


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[Assistant] Making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were nice as a kitten and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake up in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind and on the top.


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[Assistant] I'll spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.


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[Assistant] I don't know whether you have seen a map of a person's mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting. But catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card.


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[Assistant] And these are probably roads in the island for the netherland. It's always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs, and rakish looking craft in the offing.


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[Assistant] And savages, and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs.


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[Assistant] And princesses with six elder brothers and a hut fast going to decay.


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[Assistant] And one very small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be an easy map, if that were all.


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[Assistant] But there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pulling day, getting into braces, say 99, three pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on. And either these are part of the island,


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[Assistant] Or they are on another map showing them, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.


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[Assistant] Of course, the Netherlands vary a good deal. For instance,


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[Assistant] Had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it, which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.


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[Assistant] John lived in a boat, turned upside down on the sands. Michael in a wigwam.


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[Assistant] Wendy in a house of leaves, deftly sewn together. John had no friends. Michael had friends at night.


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[Assistant] Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents, but on the whole the Netherlands had a family resemblance, and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they had each others noses and so forth. On these magic shores children at play


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[Assistant] Are forever beaching their coracles, their simple boats. We too have been there. We can still hear the sound of the surf. Though we shall land no more.


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[Assistant] Of all the detectable islands, the Neverland is the snugest and most compact. Not large and sprawly, you know.


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[Assistant] With tedious distances between one adventure and another. But nicely crammed.


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[Assistant] When you play at it by day with the chairs and tablecloth, it is not in the least alarming.


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[Assistant] But in the two minutes before you go to sleep, it becomes very real. That is why there are night lights.


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[Assistant] Mrs Darling found things she could not understand. And of these, quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, and yet, he was here and there in John and Michael's minds.


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[Assistant] While Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him, the name stood out in bolder letters than any other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed


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[Assistant] She felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance. Yes, he is rather cocky. Wendy admitted with regret. Her mother had been questioning her. But who is he? My pet? He is Peter Pan, you know, mother.


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[Assistant] At first Mrs Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood, she remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him, as that when children died, he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She had believed in him at the time, but now she was married and full of sense.


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[Assistant] She quite doubted whether there was any such person. Besides, she said to Wendy, he would be grown up by this time. Oh no, he isn't grown up, Wendy assured her confidently. He is just my size.


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[Assistant] She meant that he was her size in both mind and body. She didn't know how she knew she just knew it.


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[Assistant] Mrs Darling consulted Mr Darling, but he smiled, poo poo. Mark my words, he said.


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[Assistant] It is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads. Just the sort of an idea a dog would have. Leave it alone and it will blow over. But it would not blow over.


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[Assistant] And soon, the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.


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[Assistant] Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention a week after the event happened that when they were in the wood, they had met their dead father and had a game with him. But it was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation.


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[Assistant] Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and Mrs Darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a tolerant smile, I do believe it is that Peter again. Whatever do you mean Wendy?


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[Assistant] It is so naughty of him not to wipe his feet, Wendy said, sighing. She was a tidy child. She explained in quite a matter of fact way.


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[Assistant] But she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her. Unfortunately, she never woke, so she didn't know how she knew. She just knew. What nonsense you talk, precious. No one can get into the house without knocking. He comes in by the window, she said.


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[Assistant] My love, it is three floors up. Were not the leaves at the foot of the window, mother? It was quite true, the leaves had been found very near the window. Mrs. Darling did not know what to think, for it all seemed so natural to Wendy.


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[Assistant] That you could not dismiss it by saying she had been dreaming. My child, the mother cried, why did you not tell me of this before? I forgot, said Wendy lightly. She was in a hurry to get her breakfast. Oh surely she must have been dreaming.


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[Assistant] But on the other hand, there were the leaves. Mrs. Darling examined them very carefully. They were skeleton leaves.


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[Assistant] She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a candle for marks of a strange foot.