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[Assistant] When something is paramount it means it's more important than anything else. In emergency situations, the safety of the passengers is paramount to the airline crew.


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[Assistant] So you know the safety of the passengers is important to the airline crew.


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[Assistant] But by including the adjective paramount, you know it's more important than anything else. So the safety of the passengers is more important than protecting the actual airplane. The safety of the passengers is paramount.


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[Assistant] So when I hear vast I know that the extent is very great. For example, the Sahara Desert is a vast expanse of sand dunes.


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[Assistant] So of course I know there are sand dunes in the desert. I know there are many sand dunes, but when I hear vast


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[Assistant] The image I have in my mind all of a sudden changes and I see sand dune after sand dune after sand dune because it's vast.


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[Assistant] For example, the professor's lecture on quantum mechanics was profound.


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[Assistant] By using this adjective, I understand that the person saying this learned a lot of very deep insights or now has a very deep understanding of the topic because it was profound, pervasive.


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[Assistant] This means spreading widely throughout a group.


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[Assistant] Or an area. Remember, we talked about how smartphones are ubiquitous. They appear everywhere.


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[Assistant] Well, as a result, we can say that social media is a pervasive part of modern society. Because smartphones are ubiquitous and social media, like the J4's English YouTube channel,


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[Assistant] For example, cats have an inherent ability to land on their feet when they fall.


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[Assistant] permanent within the cat. It's not separable from the cat. The cat didn't learn how to do this. It's just an inherent quality. Inquisitive. Inquisitive. This means showing a strong curiosity.


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[Assistant] So if you're at the museum with a young child or even an adult and they ask a lot of questions about what they're seeing.


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[Assistant] They could also be inquisitive by wanting to read all of the signs and the posters and the information about the objects that they're looking at at the museum.


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[Assistant] In my opinion, being inquisitive is a very beneficial quality when you're learning, especially when you're learning a language. I love when my students ask questions when they're inquisitive because it shows they're really trying to understand.


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[Assistant] And when you ask questions and you get those answers, you're able to form those connections in your brain and learn faster as well. So hopefully you are inquisitive when it comes to the English language.


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[Assistant] Fickle. That's fun to say. Fickle. This means changing frequently, especially in one's loyalties, interests, or affections. For example, the fashion industry is known for its fickle trends.


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[Assistant] And then next week, they say that is the ugliest sweater ever and you shouldn't wear it. So they're very fickle about what's trendy and what's not trendy. The fashion industry could also be fickle about which designers they promote and support.


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[Assistant] Maybe one day this person is the designer that everyone's talking about, but then next week nobody's talking about that person and there's a totally new designer. So the fashion industry and many other industries is very fickle. Intrinsic.


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[Assistant] This means belonging naturally and therefore it's an essential part. For example, an intrinsic motivation to succeed drives some athletes to push their limits.


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[Assistant] So they're not motivated by winning a trophy because that's an external motivation. The trophy is outside of them.


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[Assistant] They're motivated by something within, an intrinsic motivation.


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[Assistant] And just like I said that being inquisitive is important when you're learning a language, so is having an intrinsic motivation. If you're only motivated


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[Assistant] To study, to pass the IELTS, well that's an external motivation. And although it's great to have that motivation, generally it's not enough.


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[Assistant] Generally we also need an intrinsic motivation to really push ourselves and succeed our full potential. Eminent.


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[Assistant] Eminent. This means famous.


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[Assistant] And respected within a specific profession or field.


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[Assistant] So if she is a quantum mechanic, then that is her field. Quantum mechanics is her field.


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[Assistant] If she is a physicist then that is her field, her area of


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[Assistant] Study, interest, or profession. And here it said her eminent contributions. So it's implying that her contributions are famous or respected within that particular field, whether it be quantum mechanics or physics.


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[Assistant] Now you have the top 10 adjectives added to your vocabulary, but how well do you really know these adjectives? Let's find out with a quiz. Here are the questions. Hit pause, take as much time as you need, and when you're ready, hit play.


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[Assistant] So how'd you do with that quiz? Well, let's find out. Here are the answers. Hit pause, review them, take as much time as you need, and when you're ready to continue, hit play.


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[Assistant] It's hard to choose, but I would probably say for me, it's fickle.


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[Assistant] I'll ask the townspeople about Sephiroth


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[Assistant] Uh, yes. Shinra's owned it a long time.


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[Assistant] This is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.


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[Assistant] From the shores of the Mississippi to the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains, they had struggled on with a constancy almost unparalleled in history.


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[Assistant] The savage man and the savage beast, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and disease, every impediment which nature could place in the way, had all been overcome with Anglo-Saxon tenacity.


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[Assistant] Yet the long journey and the accumulated terrors had shaken the hearts of the stoutest among them.


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[Assistant] There was not one who did not sink upon his knees in heartfelt prayer when they saw the broad valley of Utah, bathed in the sunlight beneath them, and learned from the lips of their leader that this was the promised land, and that these virgin acres were to be theirs for evermore.


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[Assistant] Young speedily proved himself to be a skilful administrator, as well as a resolute chief. Maps were drawn and charts prepared, in which the future city was sketched out. All around farms were apportioned and allotted in proportion to the standing of each individual.


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[Assistant] The tradesman was put to his trade, and the artisan to his calling.


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[Assistant] In the town streets and squares sprang up as if by magic.


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[Assistant] In the country there was draining and hedging, planting and clearing, until the next summer saw the whole country golden with the wheat crop. Everything prospered in the strange settlement.


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[Assistant] Above all, the great temple which they had erected in the centre of the city grew ever taller and larger.


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[Assistant] From the first blush of dawn until the closing of the twilight, the clatter of the hammer and the rasp of the saw was never absent from the monument which the immigrants erected to him who had led them safe through many dangers.


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[Assistant] The two castaways, John Ferrier and the little girl who had shared his fortunes and had been adopted as his daughter, accompanied the Mormons to the end of their great pilgrimage.


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[Assistant] Little Lucy Ferrier was borne along pleasantly enough in Elder Stangerson's wagon, a retreat which she shared with the Mormon's three wives and with his son, a headstrong forward-boy of twelve.


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[Assistant] Having rallied with the elasticity of childhood, from the shock caused by her mother's death she soon became a pet with the women, and reconciled herself to this new life in her moving, canvas-covered home.


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[Assistant] In the meantime, Ferrier, having recovered from his privations, distinguished himself as a useful guide and an indefatigable hunter.


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[Assistant] So rapidly did he gain the esteem of his new companions, that when they reached the end of their wanderings it was unanimously agreed that he should be provided with as large and as fertile a tract of land as any of the settlers, with the exception of Young himself.


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[Assistant] And of Stangerson, Kemble, Johnston, and Reba, who were the four principal elders,


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[Assistant] On the farm thus acquired, John Ferrier built himself a substantial log-house, which received so many additions in succeeding years that it grew into a roomy villa.


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[Assistant] He was a man of a practical turn of mind, keen in his dealings and skilful with his hands. His iron constitution enabled him to work morning and evening at improving and tilling his lands. Hence it came about that his farm and all that belonged to him prospered exceedingly.


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[Assistant] In three years he was better off than his neighbours. In six he was well to do.


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[Assistant] In nine he was rich, and in twelve there were not half a dozen men in the whole of Salt Lake City who could compare with him.


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[Assistant] From the great inland sea, to the distant Wasatch mountains, there was no name better known than that of John Ferrier.


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[Assistant] There was one way, and only one in which he offended the susceptibilities of his co-religionists.


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[Assistant] No argument or persuasion could ever induce him to set up a female establishment after the manner of his companions. He never gave reasons for this persistent refusal


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[Assistant] There were some who accused him of lukewarmness in his adopted religion.


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[Assistant] And others who put it down to greed of wealth and reluctance to incur expense.


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[Assistant] Others again spoke of some early love affair and of a fair-haired girl who had pined away on the shores of the Atlantic.


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[Assistant] Whatever the reason, Feria remains strictly celibate.


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[Assistant] In every other respect he conformed to the religion of the young settlement, and gained the name of being an orthodox and straight walking man.


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[Assistant] Lucy Ferrier grew up within the log-house and assisted her adopted father in all his undertakings. The keen air of the mountains and the balsamic odour of the pine trees took the place of nurse and mother to the young girl.


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[Assistant] As year succeeded to year, she grew taller and stronger, her cheek more ruddy, and her step more elastic.


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[Assistant] Many a wayfarer upon the high road which ran by Feria's farm felt long-forgotten thoughts revive in their mind as they watched her little girlish figure tripping through the wheat fields, or met her mounted upon her father's Mustang and managing it with all the ease and grace of a true child of the West.


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[Assistant] So the bud blossomed into a flower, and the year which saw her father, the richest of the farmers, left her as fair a specimen of American girlhood as could be found in the whole Pacific slope.


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[Assistant] It was not the father, however, who first discovered that the child had developed into the woman.


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[Assistant] It seldom is in such cases. That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates. Least of all, does the maiden herself know it until the tone of a voice or the touch of a hand sets her heart thrilling within her.


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[Assistant] And she learns with a mixture of pride and of fear that a new and a larger nature has awoken within her.


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[Assistant] There are few who cannot recall that day, and remember the one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life.


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[Assistant] In the case of Luciferia the occasion was serious enough in itself, apart from its future influence on her destiny, and that of many besides.


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[Assistant] It was a warm June morning, and the Latter-day Saints were as busy as the bees whose hive they had chosen for their emblem. In the fields and in the streets rose the same hum of human industry.


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[Assistant] Down the dusty high roads, defiled along streams of heavily laden mules, all heading to the west, for the gold fever had broken out in California, and the overland route lay through the city of the elect.


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[Assistant] There, too, were droves of sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasturelands, and trains of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable journey.


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[Assistant] Through all this motley assemblage, threading her way with the skill of an accomplished rider, there galloped Lucy Ferrier, her fair face flushed with the exercise, and her long chestnut hair floating out behind her.


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[Assistant] She had a commission from her father in the city, and was dashing in as she had done many a time before, with all the fearlessness of youth, thinking only of her task and how it was to be performed.


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[Assistant] The travel stained adventurers gazed after her in astonishment.


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[Assistant] And even the unemotional Indians, journeying in with their pelties, relaxed their accustomed stoicism as they marvelled at the beauty of the pale-faced maiden.


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[Assistant] She had reached the outskirts of the city when she found the road blocked by a great drove of cattle driven by a half dozen wild-looking herdsmen from the plains. In her impatience


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[Assistant] She endeavored to pass this obstacle by pushing her horse into what appeared to be a gap.


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[Assistant] Scarcely has she got fairly into it, however, before the beasts closed in behind her, and she found herself completely embedded in the moving stream of fierce-eyed long-horned bullocks.


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[Assistant] Accustomed as she was to deal with cattle, she was not alarmed at her situation.


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[Assistant] The horns of one of the creatures either by accident or design,


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[Assistant] Came in violent contact with the flank of the Mustang and excited it to madness.


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[Assistant] In an instant it reared up upon its hind legs with a snort of rage and pranced and tossed in a way that would have unseated any but a most skilful rider. The situation was full of peril.


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[Assistant] Every plunge of the excited horse brought it against the horns again and goaded it to fresh madness. It was all that the girl could do to keep herself in the saddle


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[Assistant] Her head began to swim, and her grip upon the bridle to relax.


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[Assistant] Choked by the rising cloud of dust, and by the steam from the struggling creatures, she might have abandoned her efforts in despair, but for a kindly voice at her elbow, which assured her of assistance.


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[Assistant] At the same moment a sinewy brown hand caught the frightened horse by the kerb, and forcing away through the drove, soon brought her to the outskirts.


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[Assistant] Whoever would have thought that Poncho would have been so scared by a lot of cows.


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[Assistant] Thank God you keep your seat, the other said earnestly.


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[Assistant] He was a tall, savage-looking young fellow, mounted on a powerful rowan horse, and clad in the rough dress of a hunter with a long rifle slung over his shoulders.


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[Assistant] When you see him, ask him if he remembers the Jefferson hopes of St. Louis.


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[Assistant] If he's the same farrier, my father and he were pretty thick.


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[Assistant] And you'd better come and ask yourself, she asked demurely.


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[Assistant] The young fellow seemed pleased at the suggestion, and his dark eyes sparkled with pleasure.


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[Assistant] I'll do so," he said. We've been in the mountains for two months, and are not over and above in visiting condition. He must take us as he finds us.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't see that it would make much matter to you, anyhow. You ain't even a friend of ours.


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[Assistant] And now I must push along, or Father won't trust me with his business any more. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] Goodbye," he answered, raising his broad sombrero, and bending over her little hand.


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[Assistant] She wheeled her Mustang round, gave it a cut with her riding whip, and darted away down the broad road in a rolling cloud of dust.


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[Assistant] Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions, Gloomy and Tassiturn.


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[Assistant] He and they had been among the Nevada mountains prospecting for silver, and were returning to Salt Lake City in the hope of raising capital enough to work some loads, which they had discovered. He had been as keen as any of them upon the business until this sudden incident had drawn his thoughts into another channel.


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[Assistant] The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths.


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[Assistant] When she had vanished from his sight, he realised that a crisis had come in his life, and that neither silver speculations nor any other questions could ever be of such importance to him as this new and all-absorbing one.


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[Assistant] The love which had sprung up in his heart was not the sudden changeable fancy of a boy.


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[Assistant] But rather the wild fierce passion of a man of strong will and imperious temper


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[Assistant] He had been accustomed to succeed in all that he undertook. He swore in his heart that he would not fail in this if human effort and human perseverance could render him successful.


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[Assistant] He called on John Ferrier that night, and many times again, until his face was a familiar one at the farmhouse.


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[Assistant] John, cooped up in the valley, and absorbed in his work, had had little chance of learning the news of the outside world during the last twelve years. All this Jefferson Hope was able to tell him, and in a style which interested Lucy as well as her father.


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[Assistant] He had been a pioneer in California, and could narrate many a strange tale of fortunes made and fortunes lost in those wild, halcyon days.


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[Assistant] He'd been a scout too, and a trapper, a silver explorer, and a ranchman.


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[Assistant] Wherever stirring adventures were to be had, Jefferson Hope had been there in search of them.


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[Assistant] He soon became a favourite with the old farmer, who spoke eloquently of his virtues. On such occasions Lucy was silent.


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[Assistant] But her blushing cheek and her bright, happy eyes showed only too clearly that her young heart was no longer her own.


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[Assistant] Her honest father may not have observed these symptoms, but they were assuredly not thrown away upon the man who had won her affections.


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[Assistant] It was a summer evening when he came galloping down the road and pulled up at the gate.


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[Assistant] She was at the doorway and came down to meet him. He threw the bridle over the fence and strode up the pathway.


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[Assistant] I am off, Lucy," he said, taking her two hands in his, and gazing tenderly down into her face. I won't ask you to come with me now, but will you be ready to come when I'm here again?


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[Assistant] And when will that be? she asked, blushing and laughing.


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[Assistant] He has given his consent, provided we get these minds working all right. I have no fear on that head.


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[Assistant] Oh, well, of course. If you and Father have arranged it all, there's no more to be said," she whispered with her cheek against his broad breast. Thank God, he said, hoarsely, stooping and kissing her, it is settled.


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[Assistant] The longer I stay the harder it will be to go. They're waiting for me at the canyon. Good-bye, my own darling, good-bye. In two months you shall see me.


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[Assistant] He tore himself from her as he spoke, and flinging himself upon his horse, galloped furiously away, never even looking around, as though afraid that his resolution might fail him if he took one glance at what he was leaving.


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[Assistant] I am most honored to be among you to share the stage with my fellow honorees.


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[Assistant] Another rousing round of applause for the parents and step parents who not only made this day possible, but made you possible.


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[Assistant] And I'd also, I have to give another shout out to my dear friend and former roommate and the greatest mayor that Burlington has ever known, Murrow Weinberger.


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[Assistant] This makes you just about as old as I feel after nine months of arguing with Russia at the UN.


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[Assistant] It's no wonder that UVM is one of those rare universities where with the wilderness beckoning, students actually leave their rooms voluntarily.


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[Assistant] This school, known as a public ivy for its academic excellence, is also renowned for living its values.


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[Assistant] You have a proud tradition of breaking down racial and gender barriers.


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[Assistant] And you've lately shown your determination to eat what food activists call real food.


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[Assistant] The theory behind a commencement address is that an older person imparts to younger people some advice about how to live.


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[Assistant] Doubts about whether we can afford to help people struggling abroad given all the neat that needs to be done at home.


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[Assistant] And doubts about whether you personally, you as individuals, have what it takes to make an impact.


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[Assistant] So I'm going to use my remarks today to address each of these doubts in turn. First,


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[Assistant] Let me address those of you who think the world might be just a little too messed up to be changed. I hear you.


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[Assistant] Take climate change, rightly one of your big concerns.


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[Assistant] There's more evidence than the Green Mountain Range, and yet some people want to continue to debate the long-established science.


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[Assistant] And there is so much else to worry about. Inequality both at home and abroad.


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[Assistant] Sexual violence as a weapon of war, Ukraine, South Sudan, Syria.


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[Assistant] No wonder so many people today prefer social media to traditional media. It's much more soothing to see ones photo favorited than to be confronted daily


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[Assistant] By images of melting icebergs, girls kidnapped simply for attending school, or Syrian kids being struck down by barrel bombs.


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[Assistant] To some extent, news has always been an infamous downer. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren once said


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[Assistant] People's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.


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[Assistant] In the past quarter century, the United States, the United Nations, and our many partners have helped to reduce extreme poverty worldwide by more than 50%.


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[Assistant] And nearly cut in half both the number of women who die in childbirth and the number of children who perish before the age of five.


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[Assistant] In the field of medicine, tuberculosis treatments have saved 20 million lives since 1995.


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[Assistant] And the number of children infected with HIV has declined by 50% in the last decade.


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[Assistant] For 15 years, now serving in the parliament, leading the opposition, and widely thought to be the likely next president. In Afghanistan, nearly 40% of the girls there are enrolled in school, up from 3% under the Taliban.


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[Assistant] And 20 years after 800,000 people were slaughtered during the genocide in Rwanda.


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[Assistant] In that same country, and this should be a message to us all, Rwandan women comprise more than 60% of the lower house of parliament.


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[Assistant] Technology, which is a mixed bag, it's been used to spread vicious propaganda lately in Russia and to hunt down civilians in Syria, but it has also been a source of tremendous positive change.


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[Assistant] The second leading cause of death in some countries.


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[Assistant] Today though, a global campaign is underway to install 100 million safe stoves before the decades end.


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[Assistant] When under pressure, the chip generates enough energy to recharge a person's phone. This can be a huge deal in areas that lack conventional sources of power.


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[Assistant] My point is, sure, there's a lot going wrong out there in the world, but there's a lot going right as well. Or, as the great poet from just north of here put it, there is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.


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[Assistant] I would like to address a second concern that many of you have as well.


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[Assistant] The concern that we have enough problems here at home and can't afford to pay attention to problems happening overseas. Let me agree with part of this.


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[Assistant] Struck Vermont your sophomore year and hundreds of homes and businesses and bridges were destroyed. Many of you


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[Assistant] Also raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight hunger, selling one grilled cheese at a time, to cure cancer,


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[Assistant] Staging a dance marathon and relay races and to, and to research Alzheimer's disease.


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[Assistant] In the United States today, many believe after two long wars where Americans, and particularly our men and women in uniform, have made untold sacrifices, many believe it is time to come home.


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[Assistant] The latest polls show an all-time low in public support for an active foreign policy, as well as a growing desire to turn away from the world. More than half of Americans polled agree with the following sentence, quote,


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[Assistant] The U.S. should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own. End quote. I get it.


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[Assistant] I get why it's tempting to believe that we do not have the time


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[Assistant] The resources or the bandwidth to address problems over there when we have so many right here. But you all know better.


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[Assistant] We also live in a world that cannot afford to do without the moral voice


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[Assistant] We do not have to choose and we cannot afford to choose between here and there.


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[Assistant] We are not the world's policemen, and we should not be the world's policemen, but even in a world of limited resources,


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[Assistant] We cannot afford to choose between educating our children in America


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[Assistant] We cannot afford to choose between fighting the scourge of heroin addiction here in Vermont and ending the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons against his own people.


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[Assistant] We cannot afford to choose between providing healthcare here at home


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[Assistant] And leading the global effort to rid the world of HIV AIDS. We are America. We act and we lead.


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[Assistant] The stronger we are at home, the stronger we will be leading abroad.


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[Assistant] You can look out at Lake Champlain. I've lost my sense of direction. Where is Lake Champlain? Back that way.


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[Assistant] And it was Pat Leahy who added 125,000 acres to the Green Mountain National Forest and preserved more than 350 Vermont farms. You know that, Pat Leahy.


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[Assistant] But maybe less visible to you are all of the things that Senator Leahy has done to advance U.S. values and U.S. interests abroad. Thanks to Senator Leahy, just one man, one guy, one Vermonter.


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[Assistant] The United States no longer exports antipersonnel landmines.


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[Assistant] Thanks to this one Vermonter, the United States does not provide military training or assistance to foreign troops who have committed gross violations of human rights.


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[Assistant] Class of 2014, I know that the third doubt may creep in. You may be thinking to yourself, okay, there are people out there who can change the world, maybe, but I'm not one of them. That's your choice to make. Don't raise the bar too high on yourself.


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[Assistant] Louis Brandeis once said, the only title in our democracy superior to that of president is the title of citizen. And I believe that.


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[Assistant] Every day you involve yourself in local politics, you tutor in a school, you write a check, even a small check, for your favorite cause.


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[Assistant] I know it all seems daunting. One of my favorite expressions is never compare your insides to somebody else's outsides. When I sat where you sit, I was convinced everyone else had it all sorted out. I was the only one who had no idea what would come next. When I showed up as a journalist in the former Yugoslavia,


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[Assistant] A year after my college graduation, I watched the seasoned war correspondents who seemed so sure of themselves, and I tried to hide my fears, fears for my physical safety, but also fears of failing to do my job right. I will tell you one quick story.


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[Assistant] That underscores why one should never compare the churn that one feels inside to others exterior calm.


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[Assistant] Soon after arriving, I was called to my first meeting with the new president in the Oval Office. I was thrilled. The only trouble was, I couldn't find the Oval Office.


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[Assistant] Uh, printed out a small map from the Washington Post website, which was unfortunately not drawn to scale, and proceeded to get completely lost. By the time I found my way, and I was supposed to lead the briefing, I was late, to my first meeting with the President of the United States. I was also seven months pregnant at the time, and was breathless and discombobulated.


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[Assistant] And I set down the water bottle that every pregnant woman keeps nearby. Unfortunately as soon as my battered


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[Assistant] An arm reached over my shoulder and removed the unsanitary item from the view of the 44th President of the United States.


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[Assistant] Now at the time I thought this was a truly exceptional and exceptionally mortifying experience. But it turns out, when I told this story once before, publicly, my colleagues each approached me.


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[Assistant] The same colleagues who strode around as if they had worked at the White House from the beginning of time.


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[Assistant] And they each told me some version of the same story. They had all gotten lost on their first trip to the oval. They just hadn't told anybody.


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[Assistant] When you get out into the real world, it is easy to believe that you and only you are the only one who doesn't belong. Even when you reach the pinnacle of your career,


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[Assistant] My friend, the human rights advocate John Prendergast and I have long referred to our heads as bat caves.


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[Assistant] Where doubts, the bats, fly around sowing the fear that we may not be able to make the change that we seek. But as you get older, although the bats don't ever really go away,


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[Assistant] They are those who simply acknowledge their insecurities and forge ahead, unafraid to fall flat


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[Assistant] We need you to stay engaged both at home and abroad.


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[Assistant] And no matter what your insides are telling you, or how assured others seem on the outside,


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[Assistant] You, as in you personally, each of you.


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[Assistant] Can make a profound difference if you set your mind to it.


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[Assistant] You have lived in the shadow of the Vermont peaks for four years, and I urge you to make it your task to overcome mountains that others have found too high to scale.


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[Assistant] But you also have it in your power right now to do good things. To notice what goes on around you.


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[Assistant] And to undertake small acts of kindness that will change someone's world in the here and now.


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[Assistant] I thank you for letting me share this glorious day with you, and I wish you satisfaction personally.


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[Assistant] And above all, I congratulate you, class of 2014. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Hi guys, welcome back to English with Lucy. I've got a really special video today. In the month of June, just after my birthday,


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[Assistant] I decided that I wanted to see how much Brazilian Portuguese I could learn in one working week.


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[Assistant] So the weekend before the challenge was my birthday and I just took the opportunity to chill and celebrate with my family.


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[Assistant] And my boyfriend cooked me a lovely meal. It was wonderful.


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[Assistant] The day has arrived. I'm going to be attempting to learn Brazilian Portuguese in five days.


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[Assistant] That's all really. I went to Portugal quite a lot when I was a child because we had an apartment there. Uhm, but no, I've never, I've never studied Portuguese, so I've just been given the access code and I'm going to start learning.


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[Assistant] And so it began. That was my first attempt at Portuguese. And I felt so excited when I got my first words right. Uhm, I know the pronunciation was a bit iffy, but I focus on that a little bit later. So I started incorporating using babble.


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[Assistant] It turned out to be so easy to do on a daily basis, and in public as well.


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[Assistant] You can turn off the speech recognition when you're on public transport, so you can just be listening to what they're saying. And yeah, I started to really enjoy myself.


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[Assistant] But I want to put myself in this situation to kind of understand how you guys feel when you have to speak English with native speakers.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I could barely ask a question. How on earth was I understanding Gabriel when he was explaining the difference between Brazilian and Portuguese pronunciation?


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[Assistant] I'm sure it's because I already speak Spanish and I'm learning Italian, I'm used to those Latin languages, but I honestly could understand 80% of what he was saying. The problem was responding.


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[Assistant] So inside Made in Brazil, I sat down with Sarah who works for Babbel and she showed me how the app can help you with your pronunciation and it was such a confidence boost. I was really, really struggling with it and I didn't realise how much I was getting wrong. It was awesome. Okay, so I have sat down with Sarah from Babbel.


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[Assistant] And after all that pronunciation, I had built up quite an appetite, so Sarah treated me to a Brazilian lunch. It was incredible.


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[Assistant] Then I'd like to admit, but I'm in the office and when I say office I mean I'm in a barn. Practicing Portuguese in public was really scary. I'm finding babble to be really useful.


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[Assistant] Because I found their course directory and you can pick and choose exactly what you want to practice. So like we spoke about the pronunciation yesterday, there's one on false friends, idioms.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you can go through the grammar you want, and I think that's a really good way of learning, just kind of being aware of where you're lacking.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yesterday I picked up on a few of my errors, uhm, and then just


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[Assistant] And I started looking at grammar as well, which is something that I hadn't really focused on before.


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[Assistant] And I realised that grammar is a massive topic. It's too, it's too big, far too big to focus on in just one week. So I just touched on learning the present forms of the verbs and also looking at the irregular as well. Uhm, I'll look at more complicated things going forward.


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[Assistant] Bom dia, I'm in the barn again, and I just wanted to say...


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[Assistant] And really, it varies for everyone. I would not be able to learn.


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[Assistant] Into every free little space in your life. For me the best time.


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[Assistant] Was when I was on public transport because I have to travel a lot with work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, free time, chilling on my sofa. First thing in the morning, last thing at night.


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[Assistant] Times where my brain was more relaxed, uhm, because the app is so easy to use and it's so pretty, it doesn't really feel like you're studying too much, it feels, you know, sort of like you're playing a game and


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[Assistant] It's quite addictive really. I know if I was to sit down and cram and study lots and lots and lots, hours and hours and hours,


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[Assistant] So my favourite part of the week was definitely when I had the chat with Gabrielle.


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[Assistant] The most useful part of my experience was definitely sitting down with Sarah.


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[Assistant] Sarah really drew my attention to where I was lacking and like I always say, try and self diagnose, find out where you're lacking and then study exactly that. And that's the beauty of Babbel. You can look through all the courses and pick and choose what you need to learn.


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[Assistant] Another thing I really like about the app is they've got sections for vacation phrases.


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[Assistant] Uh, everyday life phrases, things like that are really, really useful. Going ahead, I will 100% from the bottom of my heart carry on using Babbel. I think it's fantastic. I think I'll also compliment it with some sort of language exchange.


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[Assistant] Or maybe even a private teacher. I would like some lessons so that I can get feedback on my speaking and my conversation. I just want to encourage you all to, if you're already studying a language, keep going, keep doing it. Find new ways to incorporate that language into your everyday life. An app can be a really good way of doing that.


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[Assistant] And try it. If you're interested in Babbel, all the information is in the description box.


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[Assistant] Penelope is having a summer holiday. She's enjoying a day at the beach.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the secret to success, it doesn't matter if you come from a little village or from a big town.


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[Assistant] There's one thing that you have to do and that is you have to first of all work your ass off.


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[Assistant] And number two, you have to have a very clear vision of where you want to go.


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[Assistant] You have to, uh, be brave. You have to be tough. You have to have the discipline to follow through.


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[Assistant] Now I know there's some out there that say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I need eight. Well, I say just sleep a little faster.


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[Assistant] Because the bottom line is, you have 6 hours of sleep, 24 hours are available, so you have 18 hours now available to your work, your family, your hobbies.


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[Assistant] That out of the 24 hours of the day, that I don't waste one single hour. Those hours were too precious. And so there I just wanted to tell people, don't give me this thing, I have a difficult time with the time and I don't have time for this and I don't have time for that. You have time. You make the time. Wherever I go, people ask me all the time, what is the secret to success? Find your vision and follow it.


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[Assistant] You can have the best cruise liner, but if the captain does not know where to go, that ship will drift around the world and out there at sea and will never end up anywhere. And this is exactly the way it is in real life.


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[Assistant] If you don't have a goal, if you don't have a vision, you just drift around. You're not gonna be happy. The simple truth is, if you don't have a vision,


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[Assistant] If you don't have a goal, if you don't see your future laid out in front of you, you're just floating around without a purpose.


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[Assistant] Never ever think small. If you're going to accomplish anything, you have to think big. You have to go and shoot for the stars.


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[Assistant] There's one of the most common things why people are frozen and why they cannot make a move in life because they're scared of failing. I say to myself, hey,


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[Assistant] That the only time you really consider the failure is if you fall and you don't get up. So remember, never think small, think big. Work your ass off.


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[Assistant] Nobody ever stumbled upon success by accident. I mean, you never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.


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[Assistant] I always believed no stone unturned. Work your butt off. That's what I always believed. No matter what you do, work, work, work.


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[Assistant] Just remember, you can't climb that ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.


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[Assistant] Well, if you think of anything else, Mr. Lopez. Yeah, sure. Sure, I'll give you a call.


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[Assistant] That's what I told him. Hey, I'm all good, baby. How you doing? Hi, D. Hey, Desi. Hey, what's up, man? What's up, man? Throwing it in? Uh, yeah, he got it a while ago. Very nice. Please, after you.


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[Assistant] Hey, you wanna listen? Yes! No! Yes! Then you're not coming in.


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[Assistant] What do you think? Desi wouldn't let me address like that. See what I mean? Come to think of it little, what the fuck are you wearing, huh? What? Go home and take a bath. Do nothing else. Put on some clothes, huh? Yea, I had a complicated day, okay?


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[Assistant] That thing, T? Come on, that sparkly thing? Wake up, you junkie fag! Oh, right, right! That thing! That shit!


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[Assistant] I only hired you because I thought you were dumb. Yeah, thank you very much. You're welcome very much.


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[Assistant] Our greatest gift as a species is not our body. We're not the fastest. We're not the strongest. Our body


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[Assistant] Hardly distinguishes itself in any way in the animal kingdom. Our greatest sort of gift in the tree of life is our mind.


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[Assistant] If you could make a phone call to the 20 year old Neil deGrasse Tyson and give that young man a bit of advice, what would you tell him? I wouldn't.


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[Assistant] Would put me in a position to call the 20 year old and say, here's the advice.


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[Assistant] The act of learning by life experience has sufficient value that to just have someone tell you what you should or shouldn't do is not what makes you who and what you are. Who and what you are is what you do and what you learn from what you did.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can tell somebody something, but if they don't think it's true...


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[Assistant] So there is nothing I can tell myself at any time in life because I am learning what it is to be alive. I'm learning what it is to become a scientist. I'm learning what it is when people treat me one way or another because they presume I should be an athlete rather than a scientist. That's life experience that feeds what I am today.


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[Assistant] The immigrant who comes to America, they come to America with not a penny to their name, and they work hard, and they start a business, and they finally get actually wealthy.


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[Assistant] So the kids have everything provided for them. And then they become deadbeats. Then the parent says, where did I go wrong? I gave you everything I didn't have. It's the fact that you started with nothing.


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[Assistant] If introduced into a next generation as advice or as a handout, will create the person that you are.


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[Assistant] In fact, it can circumvent it. It can derail that pathway.


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[Assistant] I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society.


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[Assistant] You don't think about Michael Jordan, the basketball player, and say, oh, he was just like this other player. No. It's Michael Jordan. I think the greatest of people in society


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[Assistant] A stroke occurs when the blood flow in part of your brain is blocked.


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[Assistant] After just a few minutes, the starved brain cells begin to die.


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[Assistant] Normally, the brain receives blood via two major pairs of arteries.


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[Assistant] And supply your brain cells with a constant flow of oxygen, glucose, and nutrients necessary for their functions.


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[Assistant] or becomes completely blocked, preventing normal blood flow.


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[Assistant] The blockage may be caused by a blood clot also called a thrombus, which forms in an unhealthy artery of the brain.


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[Assistant] The lack of blood flow causes the tissue the artery supplies to become starved or ischemic.


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[Assistant] Similarly, the blockage may be due to an embolus, a blood clot that forms elsewhere in the body.


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[Assistant] The embolus lodges in a narrowed artery and obstructs blood flow.


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[Assistant] For example, in an intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke,


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[Assistant] A blood vessel bursts, spilling blood directly onto your brain, while robbing the intended tissue of nourishment.


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[Assistant] Both the hemorrhage and ischemia destroy brain tissue.


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[Assistant] occurs when a weak spot in a blood vessel wall called an aneurysm bursts.


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[Assistant] And leaks blood into the tight space between your brain and your skull.


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[Assistant] The high pressure bleeding results in serious damage to brain tissue.


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[Assistant] You may be given medication to break up the clot causing your stroke.


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[Assistant] You may be given medication to help the brain's blood flow return to normal.


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[Assistant] But look at this road. It is broad. The cars can pass easily.


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[Assistant] And destroy are two opposite words.


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[Assistant] King and Queen are opposite to each other. Nico is the King. And the opposite of King is


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[Assistant] The queen. Miko is the queen. The king and the queen are two opposite words. But they complete each other.


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[Assistant] Now we're going to learn about what is old and what is young. These are two opposite words. When someone is living for a few years, that person is young. When someone has been living for many, many years, that person is old. Young and old. Two opposite words.


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[Assistant] I remember playing leaf catch when I was little.


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[Assistant] Oh, of course. Just make sure you look after each other.


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[Assistant] Hello, little redwood fox. Oh, is everything alright?


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[Assistant] When I'm sad, I have a nibble on some food. It helps cheer me up.


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[Assistant] Why, right there, under the briar, along with all of these.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, little redwood fox. These acorns were lost.


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[Assistant] It is a bit hot for racing. Phew.


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[Assistant] Hee hee hee hee hee. Little Field Mouse. Hello everyone.


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[Assistant] What a good idea. Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a magical land, the sun shone very bright, all day long, and all through the night. Huh? The sun shone at night?


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[Assistant] Wait, wasn't this supposed to be a really cold story? Yes, you're making us feel even hotter. Just wait.


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[Assistant] Endometriosis is a condition where tissue, similar to the lining in your uterus, grows in other areas of your body.


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[Assistant] During a normal menstrual cycle, your ovaries make chemicals called hormones.


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[Assistant] which signal the lining of your uterus to thicken the lining called the endometrium


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[Assistant] Builds up to prepare to receive a fertilized egg. If the egg isn't fertilized, the uterus sheds the lining through your vagina.


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[Assistant] This monthly bleeding is called your menstrual period.


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[Assistant] If you have endometriosis, the lining type tissue grows outside your uterus for reasons that aren't clear.


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[Assistant] The misplaced tissue responds to the hormones just like it would if it were inside your uterus.


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[Assistant] The tissue continues to thicken, then sheds and bleeds with every menstrual cycle.


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[Assistant] However, the blood and tissue that are shed outside the uterus have no way to leave your body.


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[Assistant] The trapped endometrial flow can irritate the surrounding area, causing inflammation and pain.


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[Assistant] Bands of scar tissue called adhesions may form, sticking one organ to another or causing your fallopian tubes to close.


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[Assistant] This can affect your fertility, which is the ability to become pregnant.


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[Assistant] Endometriosis can form endometriomas, also known as chocolate cysts. These cysts are fluid-filled sacs on your ovaries that can affect fertility.


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[Assistant] The most common sites for endometriosis are the ovaries, fallopian tubes, the outside of your uterus, the supporting structures around your uterus


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[Assistant] If you have endometriosis you may have one or more of these symptoms.


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[Assistant] Chronic usually worsening central pelvic pain. Pain before or during your period.


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[Assistant] Pain during sex, felt deep within your pelvis. Painful urination during your period. Painful bowel movements during your period. Abnormal bleeding. Diarrhea, constipation or nausea.


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[Assistant] And difficulty getting pregnant, called infertility.


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[Assistant] Your doctor may recommend treatment options from the following categories.


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[Assistant] Pain management medications such as aspirin, acetaminophen, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, also known as NSAIDs, provide relief from pain.


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[Assistant] Hormone therapy, such as birth control pills, can prevent monthly endometrial buildup and bleeding.


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[Assistant] You may need a surgical procedure to treat the tissue causing pain or bleeding.


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[Assistant] Examples of such procedures include removal or destruction of endometrial tissue.


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[Assistant] Removal or destruction of nerve fibers that transmit pain.


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[Assistant] Removal of your uterus, called a hysterectomy.


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[Assistant] Or removal of your ovaries, called an oophorectomy.


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[Assistant] Varicose veins are enlarged, twisted veins. They usually occur in your legs. Varicose veins don't usually cause problems, but if they're painful or you don't like the way they look, you may want to seek treatment.


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[Assistant] Treatment may also help prevent blood clots from forming in the event you have a future surgical procedure, such as a total hip replacement. Some patients may have discolored skin,


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[Assistant] Most cases of varicose veins can be treated with the following procedures. Sclerotherapy


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[Assistant] Surface treatments using laser or microelectric devices, phlebectomy, and endovenous ablation. These procedures can be done in your doctor's office.


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[Assistant] require no large cuts and have a short recovery period.


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[Assistant] You may need more than one treatment over several weeks to see results.


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[Assistant] In this procedure, a chemical is injected into the vein. The chemical irritates and scars the vein. This causes the vein to close off and fade away.


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[Assistant] Surface laser and microelectric treatments are used to treat smaller veins near the skin surface.


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[Assistant] In these procedures, the heat from small bursts of laser light or electric current make the vein fade away.


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[Assistant] A phlebectomy is also used to treat smaller veins near the skin surface.


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[Assistant] During a phlebectomy, a tiny cut is made in the skin over the vein. Then, the vein is pulled out and removed.


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[Assistant] Endovenous ablation is a procedure to treat deeper varicose veins.


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[Assistant] In this procedure, a flexible tube called a catheter is inserted through a small cut into the vein.


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[Assistant] The catheter is used to send heat from either laser light or radio waves into the vein. The heat closes off the vein and causes it to fade away.


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[Assistant] On rare occasions, your healthcare provider may advise a more invasive procedure, such as vein stripping.


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[Assistant] It's usually performed in a hospital and may require more recovery time.


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[Assistant] Usually two or three cuts are made in the skin over the damaged vein. Then the vein is tied off and pulled out through the lower cut.


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[Assistant] As with any procedure, there are risks as well as benefits.


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[Assistant] Talk to your healthcare provider to see what type of varicose vein treatment may work best for you.


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[Assistant] Chapter Two. The Statement of the Case.


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[Assistant] Miss Morstan entered the room with a firm step and an outward composure of manner.


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[Assistant] She was a blonde young lady, small, dainty, well-gloved and dressed in the most perfect taste.


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[Assistant] There was, however, a plainness and simplicity about her costume which bore with it a suggestion of limited means. The dress was a sombre greyish beige, untrimmed and unbraided, and she wore a small turban of the same dull hue, relieved only by a suspicion of white feather in the side.


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[Assistant] Her face had neither regularity of feature nor beauty of complexion.


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[Assistant] But her expression was sweet and amiable, and her large blue eyes were singularly spiritual and sympathetic.


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[Assistant] In an experience of women which extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.


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[Assistant] I could not but observe that as she took the seat which Sherlock Holmes placed for her, her lip trembled, her hand quivered, and she showed every sign of intense inward agitation. "'I have come to you, Mr. Holmes,' she said, "'because you once enabled my employer, Mrs. Cecil Forrester, to unravel a little domestic complication. She was much impressed by your kindness and skill.'


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[Assistant] Mrs Cecil Forrester, he repeated thoughtfully.


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[Assistant] I believe that I was of some slight service to her. The case, however, as I remember it, was a very simple one. She did not think so, but at least you cannot say the same of mine. I can hardly imagine anything more strange, more utterly inexplicable, than the situation in which I find myself.


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[Assistant] Holmes rubbed his hands, and his eyes glistened.


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[Assistant] You will, I am sure, excuse me," I said, rising from my chair. To my surprise, the young lady held up her gloved hand to detain me. If your friend, she said, would be good enough to stop, he might be of inestimable service to me. I relapsed into my chair. Briefly, she continued,— The facts are these. My father was an officer in an Indian regiment,


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[Assistant] I was placed, however, in a comfortable boarding establishment at Edinburgh, and there I remained until I was seventeen years of age.


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[Assistant] In the year 1878 my father, who was senior captain of his regiment, obtained twelve months leave and came home.


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[Assistant] He telegraphed to me from London that he had arrived all safe and directed me to come down at once, giving the Langham Hotel as his address. His message, as I remember, was full of kindness and love. On reaching London I drove to the Langham, and was informed that Captain Morstan was staying there, but that he had gone out the night before and had not yet returned. I waited all day without news of him. That night


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[Assistant] On the advice of the manager of the hotel I communicated with the police.


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[Assistant] And next morning we advertise in all the papers.


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[Assistant] Our inquiries led to no result, and from that day to this.


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[Assistant] She put her hand to her throat, and a choking sob cut short the sentence. The date? asked Holmes, opening his notebook. He disappeared upon the third of December, 1878, nearly ten years ago. His luggage? Remained at the hotel. There was nothing in it to suggest a clue. Some clothes, some books,


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[Assistant] Major Sholto of his own regiment, the 34th Bombay Inventory. The Major had retired some little time before, and lived at Upper Norwood. We communicated with him, of course.


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[Assistant] But he did not even know that his brother officer was in England. A singular case, remarked Holmes.


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[Assistant] I have not yet described to you the most singular part.


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[Assistant] About six years ago, to be exact, upon the 4th of May, 1882, an advertisement appeared in the Times asking for the address of Miss Mary Morstan.


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[Assistant] I had at that time just entered the family of Mrs. Cecil Forrester in the capacity of governess.


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[Assistant] By her advice, I published my address in the advertisement column. Same day.


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[Assistant] There arrived through the post a small cardboard box addressed to me,


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[Assistant] There has always appeared a similar box containing a similar pearl without any clue as to the sender.


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[Assistant] They have been pronounced by an expert to be of a rare variety and of considerable value. You can see for yourselves that they are very handsome.


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[Assistant] She opened a flat box as she spoke, and showed me six of the finest pearls that I had ever seen.


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[Assistant] Your statement is most interesting," said Sherlock Holmes. Has anything else occurred to you? Yes, and no later than today. That is why I have come to you. This morning I received this letter, which you will perhaps read for yourself. Thank you," said Holmes. The envelope, too, please.


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[Assistant] Man's thumb-mark on corner. Probably postman. Best quality paper. Envelopes at sixpence a packet. Particular man in his stationery. No address. Be at the third pillar from the left, outside the Lyceum Theatre, to-night at seven o'clock.


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[Assistant] If you are distrustful, bring two friends. You are a wronged woman, and you shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown friend.


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[Assistant] Well really, this is a very pretty little mystery. What do you intend to do, Miss Morstan? That is exactly what I want to ask you.


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[Assistant] Then we shall most certainly go. You and I, and yes, why, Dr. Watson is the very man. Your correspondent says two friends. He and I have worked together before. But would he come?


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[Assistant] She asked with something appealing in her voice and expression. I should be proud and happy, said I fervently, if I can be of any service. You are both very kind, she answered.


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[Assistant] I have led a retired life, and have no friends whom I could appeal to. If I am here at six it will do, I suppose.


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[Assistant] You must not be later," said Holmes. There is one other point, however. Is this handwriting the same as that upon the pearl box addresses? I have them here," she answered, producing half a dozen pieces of paper. You are certainly a model client. You have the correct intuition. Let us see now.


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[Assistant] He spread out the papers upon the table, and gave little darting glances from one to the other.


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[Assistant] They are disguised hands, except a letter, he said presently, but there can be no question as to the authorship.


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[Assistant] See how the irrepressible Greek E will break out, and see the twirl of the final S. They are undoubtedly by the same person. I should not like to suggest false hopes, Miss Morstan, but is there any resemblance between this hand and that of your father?" Nothing could be more unlike. I expected to hear you say so.


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[Assistant] We shall look out for you then at six. Pray allow me to keep the papers. I may look into the matter before then. It is only half past three. Au revoir then.


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[Assistant] Au revoir," said our visitor, and with a bright, kindly glance from one to the other of us she replaced her pearl box in her bosom and hurried away. Standing at the window I watched her walking briskly down the street until the grey turban and white feather were but a speck in the sombre crowd.


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[Assistant] What a very attractive woman! I exclaimed, turning to my companion.


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[Assistant] He had let his pipe again and was leaning back with drooping eyelids. Is she? he said languidly. I did not observe.


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[Assistant] You really are an automaton, a calculating machine," I cried. There's something positively inhuman in you at times." He smiled gently.


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[Assistant] It is of the first importance, he said, not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities.


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[Assistant] A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.


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[Assistant] The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.


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[Assistant] I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money


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[Assistant] And the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. In this case, however, I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.


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[Assistant] Have you ever had occasion to study character in handwriting? What do you make of this fellow's scribble?" It is legible and regular," I answered, a man of business habits and some force of character. Holmes shook his head.


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[Assistant] Look at his long letters, he said. They hardly rise above the common herd.


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[Assistant] Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write.


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[Assistant] There is vacillation in his case, and self-esteem in his capitals.


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[Assistant] I am going out now. I have some few references to make. Let me recommend this book.


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[Assistant] My mind ran upon our late visitor. Her smiles, the deep rich tones of her voice, the strange mystery which overhung her life.


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[Assistant] If she was seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance, she must be seven and twenty now, a sweet age when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.


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[Assistant] So I sat and mused until such dangerous thoughts came into my head, that I hurried away to my desk, and plunged furiously into the latest treaties upon pathology.


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[Assistant] What was I, an army surgeon with a weak leg and a weaker banking account, that I should dare to think of such things? She was a unit, a factor, nothing more. If my future were black


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[Assistant] It was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination. End of chapter 2


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[Assistant] I don't care if you don't want to sell. I want to buy. How much did you offer the last time? Double it. Offer 20 million and then we see if it is not for sale. If this banking is not hanging on my wall, your head will be. Okay? Think about that.


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[Assistant] Not yet. I think there's always a prize in this city. Oh! Louis, excuse us!


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[Assistant] Shut up, bitch! Take your pills! Ephraim, the mine is here!


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[Assistant] My sister, she's still getting adjusted. We all are. So how can I help you?


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[Assistant] Fracing a cow mine. Take out the whole team. No exceptions. Okay, man, if that's what the money wants. You're a bright guy, Luis. I still like you. You made a good choice coming here. That man, no good. Go! Roll the bitch! Chang! Chang! Chang! Chang! Chang!


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[Assistant] That you did lose a serviceable job was competent.


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[Assistant] Okay, perhaps I will buy clubs over you.


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[Assistant] You have heard about Liberty City. Rampage.


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[Assistant] The owner still will not accept my offers. I have been more than reasonable.


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[Assistant] Do what needs to be done in his boardroom. Send an


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[Assistant] Ah, in the MeTV buildings. Yet, and it will not be easy.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry. I wasn't discussing your career development. I was telling you what to do. Now! Fuck off and go!


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[Assistant] That maybe you have some diamonds for sale.


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[Assistant] Soon, man, soon. I want you to cover Timur's back. He's going to talk to some people. I need you there.


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[Assistant] It was late in the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes still sat exactly as I had left him, save that he had laid aside his violin and was deep in a book.


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[Assistant] He looked across at me as I stirred, and I noticed that his face was dark and troubled.


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[Assistant] You have slept soundly, he said. I feared that our talk would wake you.


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[Assistant] I heard nothing, I answered. Have you had fresh news, then?


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[Assistant] Unfortunately no. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed. I expected something definite by this time. Wiggins has just been up to report. He says that no trace can be found of the launch.


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[Assistant] It is a provoking check, for every hour is of importance.


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[Assistant] Can I do anything? I am perfectly fresh now and quite ready for another night's outing. No, we can do nothing. We can only wait.


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[Assistant] If we go ourselves the message might come in our absence and delay be caused. You can do what you will, but I must remain on guard.


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[Assistant] Then I shall run over to Camberwell and call upon Mrs Cecil Forrester. She asked me to yesterday. On Mrs Cecil Forrester?


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[Assistant] asked Holmes, with the twinkle of a smile in his eyes.


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[Assistant] Well, of course Miss Morstan too. They were anxious to hear what happened.


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[Assistant] I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted—not the best of them.


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[Assistant] But I say, if you are crossing the river you may as well return Toby, for I don't think it is at all likely that we shall have any use for him now.


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[Assistant] I took our mongrel accordingly and left him, together with a half-sovereign, at the old naturalists in Pinchin Lane.


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[Assistant] At Camberwell I found Miss Morstan a little weary after her night's adventures, but very eager to hear the news. Mrs. Forrester, too, was full of curiosity.


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[Assistant] I told them all that we had done, suppressing, however, the more dreadful parts of the tragedy. Thus, although I spoke of Mr. Sholto's death, I said nothing of the exact manner and method of it.


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[Assistant] An injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal and a wooden-legged ruffian, they take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked earl.


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[Assistant] And two night errands to the rescue," added Miss Morstan, with a bright glance at me.


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[Assistant] Why, Mary, your fortune depends upon the issue of this search. I don't think that you are nearly excited enough.


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[Assistant] Just imagine what it must be to be so rich and to have the world at your feet.


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[Assistant] It sent a little thrill of joy to my heart, to notice that she showed no sign of elation at the prospect.


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[Assistant] On the contrary, she gave a toss of her proud head, as though the matter were one in which she took small interest.


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[Assistant] It is for Mr Thaddeus Sholto that I am anxious," she said. Nothing else is of any consequence.


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[Assistant] But I think that he has behaved most kindly and honorably throughout. It is our duty to clear him of this dreadful and unfounded charge.


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[Assistant] It was evening before I left Camberwell, and quite dark by the time I reached home. My companion's book and pipe lay by his chair, but he had disappeared. I looked about in the hope of seeing a note, but there was none.


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[Assistant] I suppose that Mr. Sherlock Holmes has gone out," I said to Mrs. Hudson as she came up to lower the blinds.


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[Assistant] Do you know, sir?—singing her voice into an impressive whisper—I'm afraid for his health. Why so, Mrs. Hudson? Well, he's that strange, sir.


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[Assistant] After he was gone, he walked and he walked, up and down and up and down, until I was weary of the sound of his footstep. Then I heard him talking to himself and muttering,


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[Assistant] And every time the bell rang out he came on the stair head with, What is that Mrs. Hudson?


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[Assistant] And now he's slammed off to his room, but I can hear him walking away the same as ever. I hope he's not going to be ill, sir.


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[Assistant] I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine, but he turned on me, sir, with such a look that I don't know how ever I got out of the room.


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[Assistant] I don't think you have any cause to be uneasy, Mrs. Hudson," I answered. I've seen him like this before. He has some small matter upon his mind which makes him restless.


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[Assistant] I tried to speak lightly to our worthy landlady, but I was myself somewhat uneasy when through the long night I still from time to time heard the dull sound of his tread


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[Assistant] And knew how his keen spirit was chafing against this involuntary inaction


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[Assistant] At breakfast time he looked worn and haggard, with a little fleck of feverish colour upon either cheek. "'You're knocking yourself up, old man,' I remarked. "'I heard you marching about in the night.' "'No, I could not sleep,' he answered. "'This infernal problem is consuming me. It is too much to be borked by so petty an obstacle. When all else had been overcome,


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[Assistant] I know the men, the launch, everything, and yet I can get no news.


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[Assistant] I have set other agencies at work and used every means at my disposal.


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[Assistant] The whole river has been searched on either side, but there is no news, nor has Mrs Smith heard of her husband.


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[Assistant] I shall come to the conclusion soon that they have scuttled craft, but there are objections to that, or that Mrs Smith has put us on a wrong scent.


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[Assistant] No, I think that may be dismissed. I had inquiries made, and there is a launch of that description. Could it have gone up the river? I have considered that possibility too.


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[Assistant] And there is a search party who will work up as far as Richmond. If no news comes to-day, I shall start off myself to-morrow, and go for the men rather than the boat. But surely, surely we shall hear something.


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[Assistant] We did not, however. Not a word came to us either from Wiggins or from the other agencies.


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[Assistant] There were articles in most of the papers upon the Norwood tragedy.


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[Assistant] They all appeared to be rather hostile to the unfortunate Thaddeus Sholto.


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[Assistant] No fresh details were to be found, however, in any of them, save that an inquest was to be held upon the following day.


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[Assistant] I walked over to Camberwell in evening to report our ill success to the ladies.


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[Assistant] And busied himself all evening in an abstruse chemical analysis which involved much heating of retorts and distilling of vapours, ending at last in a smell which fairly drove me out of the apartment.


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[Assistant] Up to the small hours of the morning I could hear the clinking of his test tubes, which told me that he was still engaged in his malodorous experiment.


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[Assistant] In the early dawn I woke with a start and was surprised to find him standing by my bedside, clad in a rude sailor dress with a pea jacket and a coarse red scarf round his neck.


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[Assistant] I am off down the river, Watson," said he. I have been turning it over in my mind, and I can see only one way out of it. It is worth trying at all events. Surely I can come with you, then," said I.


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[Assistant] No, you can be much more useful if you remain here as my representative.


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[Assistant] I am loath to go, for it is quite on the cards that some message may come during the day, though Wiggins was despondent about it last night.


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[Assistant] I want you to open all notes and telegrams, and to act on your own judgment if any news should come. Can I rely upon you? Most certainly.


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[Assistant] I am afraid that you will not be able to wire to me, for I can hardly tell yet where I may find myself.


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[Assistant] If I am in luck, however, I may not be gone so very long. I shall have news of some sort or other before I get back.


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[Assistant] I had heard nothing of him by breakfast time. On opening the standard, however, I found that there was a fresh allusion to the business.


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[Assistant] With reference to the Upper Norwood tragedy," it remarked, we have reason to believe that the matter promises to be even more complex and mysterious than was originally supposed.


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[Assistant] Fresh evidence has shown that it is quite impossible that Mr Thaddeus Sholto could have been in any way concerned in the matter.


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[Assistant] He and the housekeeper, Mrs. Burnstone, were both released yesterday evening.


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[Assistant] It is believed, however, that the police have a clue as to the real culprits, and that it is being prosecuted by Mr Athony Jones of Scotland Yard, with all his well-known energy and sagacity.


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[Assistant] Further arrests may be expected at any moment.


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[Assistant] That is satisfactory so far as it goes, thought I. Friend Sholto is safe at any rate. I wonder what the fresh clue may be, though it seems to be a stereotype form whenever the police have made a blunder. I tossed the paper down upon the table,


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[Assistant] Whereas Mordecai Smith, boatman, and his son Jim, left Smith's wharf,


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[Assistant] The sum of five pounds will be paid to anyone who can give information to Mrs Smith at Smith's Wharf, or at 221B Baker Street, as to the whereabouts of the said Mordecai Smith and the launch Aurora.


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[Assistant] This was clearly Holmes's doing. The Baker Street address was enough to prove that.


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[Assistant] It struck me as rather ingenious, because it might be read by the fugitives without their seeing in it more than the natural anxiety of a wife for her missing husband. It was a long day.


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[Assistant] Every time that a knock came to the door, or a sharp step passed in the street, I imagined that it was either Holmes returning, or an answer to his advertisement.


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[Assistant] I tried to read, but my thoughts would wander off to our strange quest, and to the ill-assorted and villainous pair whom we were pursuing. Could there be, I wondered, some radical flaw in my companion's reasoning? Might he be suffering from some huge self-deception?


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[Assistant] Was it not possible that his nimble and speculative mind had built up this wild theory upon faulty premises?


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[Assistant] I'd never known him to be wrong, and yet the keenest reasoner may occasionally be deceived.


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[Assistant] He was likely, I thought, to fall into error through the over-refinement of his logic, his preference for a subtle and bizarre explanation when a plainer and more commonplace one lay ready to his hand.


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[Assistant] Yet on the other hand, I had myself seen the evidence, and I had heard the reasons for his deductions.


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[Assistant] When I look back on the long chain of curious circumstances, many of them trivial in themselves, but all tending in the same direction,


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[Assistant] I could not disguise from myself that even if Holmes's explanation were incorrect, the true theory must be equally utter and startling.


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[Assistant] At three o'clock in the afternoon there was a loud peal at the bell, an authoritative voice in the hall, and, to my surprise, no less a person than Mr Atholney Jones was shown up to me.


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[Assistant] Very different was he, however, from the brusque and masterful professor of common sense who had taken over the case so confidently at Upper Norwood.


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[Assistant] His expression was downcast, and his bearing meek, and even apologetic.


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[Assistant] Good day, sir. Good day," said he. Mr Sherlock Holmes is out, I understand. Yes, and I can't be sure when he'll be back. But perhaps you would care to wait. Take that chair and try one of these cigars. Thank you.


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[Assistant] I don't mind if I do," said he, mopping his face with a red bandana handkerchief. And a whiskey and soda?


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[Assistant] Well, Arthur Glass, it is very hot for the time of year, and I have had a good deal to worry and try me. You know my theory about this Norwood case. I remember that you expressed one. Well, I have been obliged to reconsider it.


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[Assistant] I had my net drawn tightly round Mr. Shalto, sir. When pop, he went through a hole in the middle of it. He was able to prove an alibi which could not be shaken.


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[Assistant] From the time that he left his brother's room he was never out of sight of someone or other.


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[Assistant] So it could not be he who climbed over roofs and through trap-doors.


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[Assistant] Your friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, is a wonderful man, sir," said he in a husky and confidential voice. He is a man who is not to be beat. I have known that young man going to a good many cases.


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[Assistant] But I never saw the case yet that he could not throw a light upon.


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[Assistant] He is irregular in his methods, and a little quick perhaps in jumping at theories.


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[Assistant] But on the whole, I think you would have made a most promising officer, and I don't care who knows it. I've had a wire from him this morning, by which I understand that he has got some clue to this Sholto business. Here is the message.


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[Assistant] He took the telegram out of his pocket and handed it to me. It was dated from Poplar at twelve o'clock.


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[Assistant] Go to Baker Street at once, it said. If I have not returned, wait for me. I am close on the track of the Sholto Gang. You can come with us tonight if you want to be in at the finish.


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[Assistant] This sounds well. He has evidently picked up the scent again, said I.


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[Assistant] Then he has been at fault too! exclaimed Jones with evident satisfaction.


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[Assistant] Even the best of us are thrown off sometimes. Of course this may prove to be a false alarm, but it is my duty as an officer of the law to allow no chance to slip. But there is someone at the door. Perhaps this is E.


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[Assistant] A heavy step was heard ascending the stair, with a great wheezing and rattling as from a man who was sorely put to it for breath. Once or twice he stopped, as though the climb were too much for him, but at last he made his way to our door and entered.


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[Assistant] His appearance corresponded to the sounds which we had heard.


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[Assistant] He was an aged man, clad in seafaring garb, with an old pea jacket buttoned up to his throat.


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[Assistant] His back was bowed, his knees were shaky, and his breathing was painfully asthmatic. As he leaned upon a thick oaken cudgel,


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[Assistant] His shoulders heaved in the effort to draw the air into his lungs.


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[Assistant] He had a coloured scarf round his chin, and I could see little of his face save a pair of keen dark eyes overhung by bushy white brows and long grey side-whiskers.


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[Assistant] Altogether he gave me the impression of a respectable master mariner who had fallen into years and poverty. What is it, my man? I asked.


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[Assistant] He looked about him in the slow, methodical fashion of old age.


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[Assistant] No, but I'm acting for him. You can tell me any message you have for him.


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[Assistant] You repeated with a petulant obstinacy of a very old man. Well, you must wait for him.


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[Assistant] If Mr. Holmes ain't here, then Mr. Holmes must find it all out for himself.


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[Assistant] I don't care about the look of either of you, and I won't tell a word." He shuffled towards the door, but Athony Jones got in front of him.


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[Assistant] Wait a bit, my friend," said he, you have important information, and you must not walk off.


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[Assistant] We shall keep you whether you like it or not until our friend returns. The old man made a little run towards the door.


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[Assistant] But as Athelney Jones put his broad back up against it, he recognized the uselessness of resistance.


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[Assistant] Pretty sore treatment this, he cried, stamping his stick.


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[Assistant] I come here to see it, gentlemen, and you two, who I never saw in my life, seize me and treat me in this fashion.


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[Assistant] You will be none the worse, I said. We shall recompense you for the loss of your time.


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[Assistant] Sit over here on the sofa, and you will not have long to wait.


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[Assistant] Suddenly, however, Holmes' voice broke in upon us.


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[Assistant] I think that you might offer me a cigar too," he said. We both started in our chairs.


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[Assistant] Here is the old man, said he, holding out a heap of white hair. Here he is.


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[Assistant] Wig, whiskers, eyebrows, and all. I thought my disguise was pretty good, but I hardly expected that it would stand that test.


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[Assistant] Oh, you rogue!" cried Jones, highly delighted. You would have made an actor, an arrear one. You had the proper workhouse cough, and those weak legs of yours are worth ten pounds a week.


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[Assistant] I thought I knew the glint of your eye, though. You didn't get away from us so easily, you see.


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[Assistant] I have been working in that get-up all day, said he, lighting his cigar.


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[Assistant] You see, a good many of the criminal classes begin to know me, especially since our friend here took to publishing some of my cases.


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[Assistant] So I can only go on the warpath under some simple disguise like this. You got my wire? Yes, that was what brought me here. How has your case prospered? It has all come to nothing. I have had to release two of my prisoners, and there is no evidence against the other two.


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[Assistant] Never mind. We shall give you two others in the place of them. But you must put yourself under my orders. You are welcome to all the official credit, but you must act on the line that I point out. Is that agreed? Entirely, if you'll help me to the men.


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[Assistant] Well then, in the first place I shall want a fast police boat, a steam launch, to be at the Westminster stairs at seven o'clock. That is easily managed.


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[Assistant] There's always one about there, but I can step across the road and telephone to make sure.


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[Assistant] Then I shall want two stanch men in case of resistance. There will be two or three in the boat. What else? When we secure the man we shall get the treasure.