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[Assistant] See, but I know most of the time the NFL gets more money out of people.


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[Assistant] Using the color rush uniforms because you don't, you were usually aware of those unis.


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[Assistant] For those Thursday night games. So let me see if, uh, I don't know when they supposed to be doing that.


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[Assistant] But let me see if I can find out when, uh, let me see if I can pull. I think the only Thursday night y'all correct me in the chat, uh, is the Rams matchup. Isn't it family? Y'all remind me. Hold on. Let me take a look. Missed second here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just pulling from memory, man. Actually, no, Jacksonville.


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[Assistant] The Jacksonville game is a Thursday night game.


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[Assistant] We'll be playing in the dawn of a Domo October the 19th against the Jacksonville Jaguars. There'll be on prom video.


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[Assistant] And then again, in week 16 against the Rams, it's also a Thursday night game. So.


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[Assistant] You know, if we do use the color rush unis, I'm thinking it might be during that timeframe. I don't know when they're going to wear that black helmet again at the war last year. I don't know when that's going to happen. So.


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[Assistant] We'll see. Okay, yeaah. There you go. I just pulled it up, fam. I was looking at the schedule. Let me share it with you guys. Oh yeaah, I got the thing on. Y'all can't see it.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's see. Alright, yeaah, that is right there. Yeaah, so yeaah, it's two Thursday night games, Jags, Jag Wars, and then later on in the year, the Rams. So we probably see some of that. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, so anyway, with that being said, let me get out on that, man. Listen, I appreciate y'all so kindly. Shout out to all of the family members.


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[Assistant] Hey bro, it's, it's, uh, man, I'm a music connoisseur, brother. You know, that's, that's, uh.


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[Assistant] Uh, whatever. Then I was listening to this, cause I like jazz too. I was listening to...


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[Assistant] Or Orange Clouds, y'all remember that? Let's see if we know anybody out there, uh, that had a song called Orange Clouds. Orange Clouds. It's by a group called Ozzy Muth.


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[Assistant] Because that's probably, y'all probably didn't hear that before, but I mean for those who probably


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[Assistant] I'm a, I like different music, man. And you know, I'm just, if it's good music, I like it.


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[Assistant] My player, but yeah, Glen Jones is throwback. That's all good, man. You know, it's, it's a ton of that.


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[Assistant] But anyway, yeah, y'all check that out, man. It's called Orange Clouds by Izzy Muth. It's a, I want to say they're a Latin.


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[Assistant] Jazz band, group, back in the, I mean, this is throwback. Okay, Eric said, yeah, that's right. That's right. Yep. Yep. Eric said he heard of them. See? Yeah. Said they great, really good music. They do a lot of good stuff, man.


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[Assistant] But, uh, yeah, they got a lot of great music, man. I'd be just vibing to, man, driving around in the car, listening to it on a really nice day, man. It's pretty smooth.


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[Assistant] But anyway, with that being said, let me get out on that man before I start talking about something else. Much love to the fan. Appreciate y'all, man. I'ma holla at y'all on the flip side. Peace and hoot that to you.


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[Assistant] So, but from early on, I mean, it's kind of weird when people look at your collection now and they're like, well, this is rich guy stuff. Like, you know, he's only able to have this sick collection or have sick clothes because he's making a bunch of money. How, how did you manage that balance? Cause you know, you're a young kid, you don't have all this money to spend on everything that you want, but were you like the kind of kid that was like,


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[Assistant] You seem like a pretty smart guy though, but you feel like it just didn't really suit you.


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[Assistant] Right. I would watch like movies and TV and be like these, like I would watch kids and it was like, I can't believe I still live with my parents. It made me feel like such a loser that I wasn't in New York doing cool shit.


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[Assistant] Could you imagine like 10 years from now that you have 20 stores?


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[Assistant] It's, it's really interesting to me with like that private gallery because that shows that you guys are willing to spend, you know, a large amount of money on something that you think is like good long-term brand building, but that doesn't necessarily have an impact on the average customer. Which I think is like, that just shows that you guys are really concerned about the long-term like vibe of it. And it's such a different thing.


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[Assistant] On the 30th of January, Nathuram himself


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[Assistant] I ran for a pistol, automatic pistol, and went to the prayer ground, evening at five o'clock, or five, maybe five minutes late.


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[Assistant] Describes, far more fully than the court newsman ever did, a bachelors party given by Mr. Bob Sawyer at his lodgings in the borough.


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[Assistant] There is a repose about Lant Street in the borough which sheds a gentle melancholy upon the soul.


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[Assistant] It is a by-street too, and its dullness is soothing.


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[Assistant] But he's the most desirable spot nevertheless. If a man wished to abstract himself from the world, to remove himself from within the reach of temptation, to place himself beyond the possibility of any inducement to look out of the window, he should by all means go to Land Street.


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[Assistant] Several small housekeepers who are employed in the docks, a handful of mantua makers, and a seasoning of jobbing tailors.


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[Assistant] The majority of the inhabitants either direct their energies to the letting of furnished apartments, or devote themselves to the healthful and invigorating pursuit of mangling.


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[Assistant] The chief features in the still life of the street are green shutters, lodging bills, brass door plates and bell handles.


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[Assistant] The principal specimens of animated nature, The Pop Boy, The Muffin Youth, and The Baked Potato Man.


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[Assistant] The population is migratory, usually disappearing on the verge of quarter day and generally by night.


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[Assistant] His Majesty's revenues are seldom collected in this happy valley. The rents are dubious and the water communication is very frequently cut off.


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[Assistant] The punch was ready made in a red pan in the bedroom. A little table covered with a green bays cloth had been borrowed from the parlour to play cards on.


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[Assistant] And the glasses of the establishment, together with those which had been bonnowed for the occasion from the public house, were all drawn up in a tray which was deposited on the landing outside the door.


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[Assistant] Notwithstanding the highly satisfactory nature of all these arrangements, there was a cloud on the countenance of Mr. Bob Sawyer as he sat by the fireside.


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[Assistant] Well it is unlucky she should have taken it in her head to turn sour just on this occasion. She might at least have waited till tomorrow.


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[Assistant] That's her malevolence. That's her malevolence. Return, Mr. Bob Sawyer, vehemently. She says that if I can afford to give a party, I ought to be able to pay her confounded little bill.


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[Assistant] How long has it been running? Inquired Mr. Ben Allen. A bill, by the by, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime without ever once stopping of its own accord.


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[Assistant] Only a quarter and a month or so, replied Mr. Bob Sawyer.


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[Assistant] It'll be a deuce and pleasant thing if she takes it into her head to let out when these fellas are here, won't it?


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[Assistant] Said Mr. Bed Allen at length. Horrible, replied Bob Sawyer. Horrible. A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in.


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[Assistant] Word upon a dirty, slipshod girl in black cotton stockings, who might have passed for the neglected daughter of a superannuated dustman in very reduced circumstances, thrust in her head and said, Please, Mr. Sawyer, Mrs. Raddle wants to speak to you.


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[Assistant] Before Bob Sawyer could return any answer, the girl suddenly disappeared with the jerk.


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[Assistant] As if somebody had given her a violent pull behind. This mysterious exit was no sooner accomplished


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[Assistant] Then there was another tap at the door. A smart, pointed tap, which seemed to say, here I am, and in I'm coming.


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[Assistant] Mr. Bob Sawyer glanced at his friend with a look of abject apprehension and once more cried, come in.


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[Assistant] The permission was not at all necessary. For before Mr. Bob Sawyer had uttered the words, a little fierce woman bounded into the room all in a tumble with passion and pale with rage.


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[Assistant] Here the little woman rubbed her hands and looked steadily over Mr. Bob Sawyer's head and at the wall behind him. I'm very sorry to put you to any inconvenience Mrs. Rattle.


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[Assistant] Bit her lips, rubbed her hands harder, and looked at the wall more steadily than ever.


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[Assistant] It was plain to see, as Mr. Bob Sawyer remarked in a style of Eastern allegory on a subsequent occasion, that she was getting the steam up.


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[Assistant] An astonishing number of men always are getting disappointed there. Well, Mr. Sawyer.


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[Assistant] I, I have no doubt Mrs. Raddle, said Bob Sawyer, blinking this last question, that before the middle of next week we shall be able to set ourselves quite square and go on on a better system afterwards. This was all Mrs. Raddle wanted.


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[Assistant] Said Mrs. Raddle, suddenly arresting the rapid tolerant of her speech and addressing the third party with impressive slowness and solemnity.


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[Assistant] No, you certainly do not, said Mr. Benjamin Allen. Very good, sir.


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[Assistant] Responded Mrs. Raddle with lofty politeness. Then perhaps, sir,


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[Assistant] And finding that it had not been successful, proceeded to descend the stairs with sobs innumerable. When they came aloud, double knock at the street door.


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[Assistant] Whereupon she burst into a hysterical fit of weeping, accompanied with dismal moans, which was prolonged until the knock had been repeated six times, when, in an uncontrollable burst of mental agony, she threw down all the umbrellas and disappeared into the back parlor, closing the door after her with an awful crash. Does Mr. Sawyer live here? Said Mr. Pickwick when the door was opened.


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[Assistant] Having given this instruction, the handmaid, who had been brought up among the aboriginal inhabitants of Southwark, disappeared with a candle in her hand down the kitchen stairs, perfectly satisfied that she had done everything that could possibly be required of her under the circumstances.


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[Assistant] Mr. Snodgrass, who entered last, secured the street door after several ineffectual efforts by putting up the chain. Other friends stumbled upstairs, where they were received by Mr. Bob Sawyer, who had been afraid to go down lest he should be waylaid by Mrs. Raddle.


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[Assistant] How are you? said the discomfited student. Glad to see you. Take care of the glasses.


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[Assistant] This caution was addressed to Mr. Pickwick who had put his hat in the tray.


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[Assistant] Dear me, said Mr. Pickwick, I beg your pardon. Don't mention it, don't mention it, said Bob Sawyer. I'm rather confined for room here, but you must put up with all that when you come to see a young bachelor. Walk in. You've seen this gentleman before, I think.


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[Assistant] Mr. Pickwick shook hands with Mr. Benjamin Allen and his friends followed his example.


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[Assistant] They had scarcely taken their seats when there was another double knock.


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[Assistant] A heavy footstep was heard upon the stair, and Jack Hopkins presented himself.


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[Assistant] He wore a black velvet waistcoat with thunder and lightning buttons and a blue striped shirt with a white false collar. You're late, Jack, said Mr. Benjamin Allen.


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[Assistant] Been detained at Bartholomew's, replied Hopkins. Anything new? No, nothing particular. Rather a good accident brought into the casualty ward.


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[Assistant] What was that, sir? Inquired Mr. Pickwick. Only a man fallen out of the four pair of stairs windows, but it's a very fair case, very fair case indeed.


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[Assistant] Do you mean that the patient is in a fair way to recover? Inquired Mr. Pickwick. No. Replied Hopkins carelessly. No, I should rather say he wouldn't. There must be a splendid operation though tomorrow. Magnificent sight if Slasher does it.


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[Assistant] You consider Mr. Slasher a good operator? Said Mr. Pickwick. Best alive, replied Hopkins.


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[Assistant] Took a boy's leg out to the socket last week. Boy ate five apples in a gingerbread cake. Exactly two minutes after it was all over, Boy said he wouldn't lie there to be made game of, and he'd tell his mother if they didn't begin. Dear me, said Mr. Pickwick, astonished. Pooh, that's nothing, that ain't, said Jack Hopkins, is it, Bob?


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[Assistant] Nothing at all, replied Mr. Bob Sawyer. By the by, Bob, said Hopkins with a scarcely perceptible glance at Mr. Pickwick's attentive face.


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[Assistant] We had a curious accident last night. A child was brought in who swallowed a necklace.


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[Assistant] Bless my heart, said Mr. Pickwick, what a dreadful thing. I beg your pardon, sir, go on. Next day, child swallowed two beads.


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[Assistant] The day after that he treated himself to three. And so on, till in a week's time he got through the necklace. Five and twenty beads in all.


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[Assistant] There was heard a devil of a noise like a small hailstorm.


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[Assistant] Don't do that, my boy, said the father. I ain't doing nothing, said the child. Well, don't do it again, said the father.


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[Assistant] There was a short silence, and then the noise began again worse than ever. If you don't mind what I say, my boy, said the father, you'll find yourself in bed in something less than a pig's whisper.


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[Assistant] No other father, said the child, beginning to cry. It's the necklace. I swallowed it, father.


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[Assistant] The father caught the child up and ran with him to the hospital. The beads in the boy's stomach rattling all the way with the jolting.


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[Assistant] That's the most extraordinary case I ever heard of, said Mr. Pickwick, with an emphatic blow on the table. Oh, that's nothing, said Jack Hopkins. Is it, Bob? Threatening not, replied Bob Sawyer. Very singular things occurred in our profession, I can assure you, sir, said Hopkins.


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[Assistant] So I should be disposed to imagine replied Mr. Pickwick.


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[Assistant] Another knock at the door announced a large-headed young man in a black wig, who brought with him a Scorbutic youth in a long stock.


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[Assistant] The arrival of a prim personage in clean linen and cloth boots rendered the party complete.


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[Assistant] And the succeeding three hours were devoted to Vantayan at six pence a dozen.


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[Assistant] When the last natural had been declared, and the profit and loss account of fish and sixpences adjusted to the satisfaction of all parties, Mr. Bob Sawyer rang for supper, and the visitors squeezed themselves into corners while it was getting ready.


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[Assistant] It was not so easily got ready as some people may imagine.


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[Assistant] The man to whom the order for the oysters had been sent had not been told to open them.


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[Assistant] It is a very difficult thing to open an oyster with a limp knife or a two-pronged fork, and very little was done in this way.


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[Assistant] Very little of the beef was done either, and the ham, which was also from the German sausage shop round the corner, was in a similar predicament. However, there was plenty of porter in a tin can, and the cheese went a very great way, for it was very strong. So upon the whole, perhaps, the supper was quite as good as such matters usually are.


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[Assistant] After supper, another jug of punch was put upon the table, together with a paper of cigars and a couple of bottles of spirits. Then, there was an awful pause.


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[Assistant] But a very embarrassing one notwithstanding. The fact is, the girl was washing the glasses. The establishment boasted four.


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[Assistant] The prim man in the cloth boots, who had been unsuccessfully attempting to make a joke during the whole time the round game lasted, saw his opportunity and availed himself of it.


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[Assistant] I am sorry you've forgotten it, said Mr. Bob Sawyer, glancing eagerly at the door as he thought he heard the noise of glasses jingling. Very sorry.


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[Assistant] Replied Betsy. No warm water, exclaimed Mr. Bob Sawyer. No, said the girl with the shake of the head, which expressed a more decided negative than the most copious language could have conveyed. Mrs. Raggles says you won't have none.


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[Assistant] Said Bob with heroic firmness, I'll pay her what I owe her and give her warning tomorrow morning. Poor fellow. How devoutly he wished he could.


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[Assistant] The greater part of whom, with the view of raising their spirits, attached themselves with extra cordiality to the cold brandy and water.


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[Assistant] The first perceptible effects of which were displayed in a renewal of hostilities between the scorbiotic youth and the gentleman in the shirt.


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[Assistant] And I should be very sorry, Sawyer, to create any disturbance in the street in which you reside, said Mr. Gunter. But I'm afraid I shall be under the necessity of alarming the neighbours by throwing the person who's just spoken out of the window.


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[Assistant] What do you mean by that, sir? Inquired Mr. Noddy. What I say, sir? Replied Mr. Gunter. I should like to see you do it, sir. Said Mr. Noddy. You shall feel me do it in half a minute, sir. Replied Mr. Gunter. I request that you favor me with your card, sir.


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[Assistant] On which Mr. Noddy begged to state that his father was quite as respectable as Mr. Gunter's father.


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[Assistant] As this announcement seemed the prelude to a recommencement of the dispute, there was another interference on the part of the company.


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[Assistant] To this Mr. Gunter replied that upon the whole he rather preferred Mr. Noddy to his own brother.


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[Assistant] Now, said Jack Hopkins, just to set us going again, Bob, I don't mind singing a song.


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[Assistant] And Hopkins, incited thereto by tumultuous applause, plunged himself at once into the King God bless him, which he sang as loud as he could to a novel air, compounded of the Bay of Biscay and a frog he would.


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[Assistant] The chorus was the essence of the song, and as each gentleman sang it to the tune he knew best, the effect was very striking indeed.


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[Assistant] It was at the end of the chorus to the first verse that Mr. Pickwick held up his hands in a listening attitude and said as soon as silence was restored, hush, I beg your pardon,


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[Assistant] I thought I heard somebody calling from upstairs. A profound silence immediately ensued and Mr. Bob Sawyer was observed to turn pale.


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[Assistant] Replied the voice with great shrillness and rapidity of utterance.


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[Assistant] Don't interpose, Bob. Sorry, it's a capital song, but I'm afraid we'd better not have the other verse. They're very violent people, the people of the house.


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[Assistant] So hurried downstairs into the street, whether he was closely followed by Mr. Tupman, Mr. Winkle, and Mr. Snodgrass.


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[Assistant] That he was resolved to cut the throat of any gentleman except Mr. Bob Sawyer, who should aspire to the affections of his sister, Arabella.


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[Assistant] He burst into tears, knocked his hat over his eyes, and making the best of his way back, knocked double knocks at the door of the Borough Market office, and took short naps on the steps alternately until daybreak, under the firm impression that he lived there and had forgotten the key.


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[Assistant] The visitors, having all departed in compliance with the rather pressing request of Mrs. Raddle,


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[Assistant] The luckless Mr. Bob Sawyer was left alone to meditate on the probable events of tomorrow and the pleasures of the evening.


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[Assistant] Buccaneers football, NFC South football with you. So thanks a lot for having me on, man. I appreciate it.


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[Assistant] Well, Cube, coming into it, man, I knew that our week three matchup against the Eagles was going to be the key matchup. You know what I mean? Uhm, not to take anything away from Minnesota in week one or Chicago in week two, but I knew for us to see if we were really hitting on all cylinders, week three was going to be the test on Monday Night Football and we made Deandre Swift look like


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[Assistant] And 37 rushing yards, I think, or 157 rushing yards, what it was on Monday night. And then the real test, like I said, Baker Mayfield coming in.


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[Assistant] If Baker is not pressured, he's not a bad quarterback and he had not been pressured a lot those first two games and then to come back and, uh,


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[Assistant] Jordan Davis and Jalen Carter, those interior linemen, along with Cox and everybody else of Philadelphia, applied some pressure, had Baker Mayfield with happy feet.


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[Assistant] He turned it over, didn't have a lot of success. Couldn't get Mike Evans to ball often. And uh, you know, it showed in the final score with 25 to 11.


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[Assistant] Jalen Hurts gave us the ball a couple times, but as soon as we got it back on defense, we gave it right back on offense so we can never capitalize on the turnovers. And so those are the things I've said all year that we cannot have turnovers.


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[Assistant] Uh, with this type of quarterback that we have behind set, we just can't have the turnover from Baker maybe.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we rely heavily on our defense kill, you just said it, and Kalajuk Kansy, our first round draft pick, he's been...


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[Assistant] Out in two games, so it's, it's, you wanna see.


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[Assistant] If he can really be that piece that we need to add to the defensive line.


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[Assistant] To do some things and even Servatier Dennis, uh, being a third, no, fourth round pick linebacker out of Pittsburgh this year as well. He was supposed to serve on special teams and be able to relieve Devin White and, um.


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[Assistant] And Davis, when we needed him to, when he's out, so that hurts.


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[Assistant] Um, Jamel Dean to me is the biggest piece being out going against that Saints offense where you got a lot of a.


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[Assistant] Thomas is back and y'all got another good young wide receiver that's been playing very well so far this season for y'all.


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[Assistant] So to have him out of the game this week is big to me. And just real talk, we're going to need Christianizing.


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[Assistant] Um, the young safety out of Rutgers, he's not very big, but he is an impactful player when he comes downhill to hit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but he's gonna have to have a game man, especially with, uh, the other, you know, people being out. And then as a Jamel Dean is just, that's a big piece. Like I said, especially with Alavi and, and man Thomas, I think is, is getting better every week for y'all ready to get back to that old form. And then not to mention.


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[Assistant] Your man Alva Kamara gets to come back this week from the suspension and.


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[Assistant] I was wondering about Rasisha. He, that's the name I was, I was like wow. And he got another one.


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[Assistant] He's been getting a lot of love since he's been there doing well in practice and having to step up and play.


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[Assistant] More so, it's gonna be a big one. I think that he helps a lot. Uhm, Joe Trayon Shanker, he's not a young guy going into his third year, but coming off into it.


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[Assistant] Coming into the season, a lot of my shows and a lot of my other Buccaneers, uh, shows that I've been a guest on, we've talked about how Joe, JTS has got to turn into a double digit sack guy if the Buccaneers are going to have success.


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[Assistant] And he had a two-set game against Chicago. He showed some glimpses. We hope that he's going to get there.


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[Assistant] To get things done and it should help out, uh, uhm.


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[Assistant] A lot if he can get going and get playing. He's gotta help put pressure on because I said one of my keys to victory this week, especially if Jamus is going to be the quarterback in that car, we've got to put pressure on Jamus because he will force that ball in there if he's under duress and give it back to the, uh, to the other team.


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[Assistant] Uh, he did okay against Philly, but great against Chicago was our third round pick, uh, Yahya Diaby, the defensive end out of Louisville.


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[Assistant] Uhm, especially with, uh, Kalysha Kancy being out. Uhm, he's gonna have to play more inside and outside. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And they even put him in over Logan Hall a couple of times this past week to get Rush inside and out in that 3-4 defense. And I think that uh, Yahya Diaby.


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[Assistant] It was going to have to make some plays against the Saints this week and in a more effective role to help alleviate some things. Especially if Visa's banged up with that uh, with that pectoral muscle that they say that he has right now.


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[Assistant] You, you, you hit something that I really was ready to speak on and it's a rushing off.


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[Assistant] Up there was predicated on getting able, being able to do play action pass. Um, we said that this is going to be Rashad's white turn to show that he could be the number one back with Fournette being gone and not being here anymore. And we have not had success running the ball at all. Rashad White even did some things that he didn't do as rookie year. He turned the ball over. He put the ball on the ground, uh, against Philadelphia and first and foremost,


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[Assistant] I felt a lot better containing the Saints before Camaro was back. Now him being back, ready to get on the field and get back to work is going to be a little bit of a tougher task.


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[Assistant] Especially like I said with some of the inconsistent play we've had up front. Logan Hall is going to have to step up and be the second round traffic that we made in B.


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[Assistant] But yea, Rashad White has got to run the ball. You know, Chase Edmonds is out now on IR. We brought him in this off season.


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[Assistant] Trying to get help. So now we're relying on Sean Tucker and Keyshawn Vaughn to be our backups and.


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[Assistant] This is when I, I, that I told you so comes in for me because I told everyone in off season.


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[Assistant] It's gonna sound crazy or cliche, but we need to go find a running back that can help.


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[Assistant] Uh, take the pressure off of Baker Mayfield. And we didn't really do that. We relied solely on White losing their second year. And, you know, I think it's gonna, gonna hurt a little bit, but uh.


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[Assistant] And we have to find a way to hold up in our secondary against those receivers you have with one of our best playmakers, Jamel Dean, being uhm, out of a game. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that did surprise me, Q, cause especially the way, you know, Cam plays.


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[Assistant] And Grandison going into that game had had two and a half sacks in the first two games.


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[Assistant] So that did surprise me a little bit that I thought I was going to see. I thought y'all would get to Jordan love.


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[Assistant] You know, so I thought y'all would have more success in the pass rush against Jordan Love in that green bag. I was kind of surprised by that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that might, I mean, we should be able to throw the ball. We hope at the same time, Q, the thing that worries me is this offensive line is still not playing with great consistency for Tampa Bay right now. It was, it's okay. It's been holding up in the path of protection pretty well. I mean, Baker has only been one, I think it's like three times all year, protected fairly well until last week, but


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[Assistant] You know, Jensen going out, we still leave Hainsy at center. Hainsy's been solid, but I still believe this being an old defensive tackle myself. You put a 6'7 guy in front of a shorter nose guard like myself, I'm about to try to destroy and get underneath his pads and believe that I can put pressure on that quarterback. I just think he's more of a guard or a tackle.


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[Assistant] I like the way that the, um, the rookie Cody Mock is playing. He's, he's still got to learn.


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[Assistant] It scares me and then I think also the Saints have two edge players in Granderson and Cam Jordan that could put pressure. Worx is going to hold his side down, but you know, Gideki's been hit or miss since he's been with us.


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[Assistant] You know, those are the things that still are going to dictate. Now I believe Baker can take advantage of that secondary if he has the time. And I believe, you know, I'm always interested to see what Mike Evans and, and Latimer are going to do when they line up against one another. And Chris Godwin started.


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[Assistant] You know, I was big, uh, I was a big cheerleader of Kyle Trask. I wanted to see Kyle Trask get a shot. I thought the whole Baker Mayfield signing.


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[Assistant] And throwing in, they say there was a competition, but they pretty much knew at the second preseason game, they said that Baker was going to be the starter. I think Baker still has a draw. Uhm, Baker Mayfield is appealing to the NFL fan.


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[Assistant] Uhm, even if you want to see him do bad, it still draws and I think Tampa played into that a little bit. Uhm, he made pretty good decisions.


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[Assistant] In these first, uh, in the first two games and it made me change my mind a little bit like, okay, I'm going to pump the brakes. I'm going to give Baker a chance to see how he really plays and see if.


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[Assistant] He turns on the lead because I do think and not to go back to what was in the past when Baker Mayfield went to Carolina, I still think they want to and Matt rules offense. They were going to ask him to do more than what he probably should have been doing and it was a bad outcome.


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[Assistant] I think Kanellis is trying to be a little bit more conservative.


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[Assistant] A dependable young tight end in NFL. I think he's going to be good for us. So I believe Baker can get it done if protected. And I know that sounds cliche, like everybody says that, well, the quarterback stands upright, he'll be good.


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[Assistant] We see some guys stand upright and still make bad decisions and throw bad balls. I think Baker's capable of getting it done if he's not asked to do too much and he is allowed to use his legs just a little bit.


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[Assistant] First and foremost, man, and I know I'm not just saying this and, and Rashad and Dave and, and, and big country might get mad at me, but I honestly believe after watching these first three weeks of football.


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[Assistant] I believe that the Saints and Buccaneers, whoever can win between, you know, these division games, I think have a, the best chance of winning the division. I just honestly, honestly, uh, believe that. If we can go in on the road, keep our poise and protect our quarterback.


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[Assistant] I do think that the Buccaneers can come out victorious, but I don't see this being no high scoring game. I don't know why. Um, especially if, if y'all are limited to Jamus being your quarterback, um, if our defense can hold up in the secondary, I think we'll get the pass or should we need, I'm going to say, uh,


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[Assistant] No one really gave us a chance week one, Q. I know that for a fact and I'm not gonna lie.


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[Assistant] If you just looked at the stats and didn't see the score, if you looked at the box, you know, the box numbers and just saw stats, you were like, damn Minnesota killed Tampa Bay. But because of that defense force, uh, your boy into Cousins, into those turnovers.


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[Assistant] They actually had a chance to win the game and they, and they did win the game. But uhm.


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[Assistant] But yea, it wasn't pretty, but they found a way to get it in Chicago. Chicago's a dumpster fire right now, man. They just hanging on for dear life. So that's why I say I knew the Eagles would be a test. And all our division games are going to be hard. I mean, don't, everybody in the NFC South, I know how it is when we play each other. It's, it's going to be a tough one.


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[Assistant] It's just something out to me recently with the Buccaneers and the Saints and the way we came back and won at home that last game we played y'all last year. It's just like, I know it's a bad taste in the Saints mouth and they want to win this game. And if James does play, he has something to prove, especially with being hurt last year against Tampa.


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[Assistant] So it's gonna be tough, but I do think that these are the two best teams in the division playing each other this year. And no, uh, no flight to Atlanta because they're doing things with Bijon Robinson at the running back position, but I still don't think Desmond Ritter's ready yet to take that next step in the South.


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[Assistant] Man, first and foremost, Q, again, thank you for having me on. I think it's going to be a good game. I just hate that it's...


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[Assistant] This early in the season kind of because I wanted one more game before we got into our division games and see what we really have.


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[Assistant] We all know how it is though. Everybody can't win every week in the NFL. It's somebody going to be upset. But as long as I can see us moving in the right direction, if we take an L on the road, I can live with it. But like I said, I do honestly believe


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[Assistant] And again, like I said, thanks for having me. You can catch me on BGSE network on YouTube, Instagram, and on Facebook. My weekly show, The Big Game of Sports Buzz, airs on Wednesdays at 8.30 PM Central Time.


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[Assistant] One natural consequence that you can use is to make amends.


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[Assistant] For example, dishonesty is best resolved when you confess and are held accountable


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[Assistant] Other times, you must take an action to ride around.


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[Assistant] Say, returning a borrowed toy to a friend or sibling.


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[Assistant] Breathe but direct the instruction about why you have a family rule and the underlying value you hold


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[Assistant] In this family, we believe in honesty.


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[Assistant] Was it honesty of you to take Sam's car and pretend you didn't? What should you do to make it right? Tell stories from literature and life.


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[Assistant] Parents and teachers use the stories to teach moral lessons long before books were even invented. As you tell the stories of her life and the world around you,


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[Assistant] You convey lessons in values and ethics to our children.


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[Assistant] And as you discuss the stories you see around you,


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[Assistant] Children's literature abounds with great books that illustrate important values.


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[Assistant] Will you listen and respond to your children's stories about school and peers?


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[Assistant] Be mindful for children listening to the stories you tell other adults.


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[Assistant] These anecdotes show your kids how your values guide all aspects of your life. Provide opportunities to practice


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[Assistant] Kids must practice what they learn before it comes naturally to them. This applies in learning character too.


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[Assistant] Children can learn vicariously when they see character building in action, and learn directly when they hear lessons in values.


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[Assistant] But they need hands-on experience to know the true meaning of character.


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[Assistant] Say having to choose between two friends.


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[Assistant] Help her take ethical action and see the positive results in her daily life.


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[Assistant] The more adult response we should aim for.


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[Assistant] So raising our voice could lead to a sense of, it's my fault. The more mature response might be, this is their issue, I don't have to feel bad.


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[Assistant] Or, if a partner is rather patronizing, the childlike response might be,


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[Assistant] There are lots of kinds of intelligence, and mine is fine. And so on. Take a moment to look at the chart.


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[Assistant] We are almost certainly with somebody with a particular naughty set of issues which trigger our desires and our childlike defensive moves. The answer isn't to end the relationship.


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[Assistant] But rather to strive to deal with their compelling challenges with some of the wisdom


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[Assistant] It probably isn't in our remit to locate a wholly grown-up lover.


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[Assistant] But it is always in our remit to behave in more grown-up ways around our lovers' less mature sides.


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[Assistant] The Paris Opera House became very busy. One night, the great opera Faust was playing.


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[Assistant] When it ended, everyone shouted and clapped happily for the new singer Christine Dye.


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[Assistant] Christine could hardly believe that she had done so well.


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[Assistant] For the first time, she had sung the most famous part in Faust, the part of Margarita.


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[Assistant] Usually, Christine only sang small parts in the operas, as she was young and inexperienced.


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[Assistant] But then the actress, who usually played Margarita, became ill suddenly.


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[Assistant] So young Christine had to take her place.


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[Assistant] Christine did a beautiful job as Margarita, and the audience loved her.


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[Assistant] Many people said that she sang like a beautiful bird.


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[Assistant] Christine's amazing talent surprised the people. They had never really listened to her sing before.


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[Assistant] They asked themselves why she had only been given small parts in the operas.


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[Assistant] Such a wonderful singer deserves to always sing in the lead parts, they said to one another.


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[Assistant] The singers in Faust and the opera workers did not know why Christine suddenly sang so beautifully.


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[Assistant] Even though the opera was over, the people stayed and talked about the performance.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, a young man ran towards Christine's dressing room. His name was Raoul.


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[Assistant] And he was a rich gentleman, who people knew as the Vicomte de Chagny.


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[Assistant] He had seen Christine fall down with exhaustion at the opera's end, and he was very worried about her. He ran to her room to see her.


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[Assistant] A crowd of people was standing around her bed talking.


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[Assistant] Raoul told the doctor that Christine should have some fresh air and rest.


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[Assistant] So the doctor immediately told the excited people to go.


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[Assistant] Only himself, Raoul, and Christine's maid were left in the room.


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[Assistant] Rowell was relieved when Christine woke up and smiled at him. He knelt down by her bed and whispered,


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[Assistant] I must speak to you alone. It's very important.


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[Assistant] Yes. Please leave, sir, said the doctor.


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[Assistant] I'll watch over Miss Die and make sure she rests.


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[Assistant] Raoul thought to himself that her voice sounded strange.


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[Assistant] Roel was so anxious to speak with Christine that he waited quietly outside her door.


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[Assistant] He thought that she might come outside to say a final goodbye to the old owners of the opera.


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[Assistant] These men were named Messieurs Debian and Pauligny.


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[Assistant] And they were arriving tonight for a special reason.


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[Assistant] They were going to sell the opera house to two other men, Monsieur Richard and M. Charmin.


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[Assistant] But Christine never left her room, unfortunately for Raoul.


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[Assistant] But as he stood in the hall by her door, he heard voices coming from her room. One voice was Christine's. But the other belonged to a man. Who was inside with her?


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[Assistant] Roll stood close to the door to hear their conversation. Ah, Christine, you must love me, you must love me, the man's deep voice said.


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[Assistant] Christine answered in a voice full of emotion and love. Then Christine


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[Assistant] You have given me a gift greater than jewels or riches. The gift of your voice and your trust in me. I thank you, said the deep voice. Raoul stood still. His heart was pounding.


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[Assistant] It was in that moment that Raoul realized that he loved Christine, and he had always loved her.


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[Assistant] Hearing Christine's emotional words to the unknown man filled Raoul with pain and jealousy.


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[Assistant] He needed to find out who this man was that Christine seemed to care for so much. No one said anything more.


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[Assistant] But Raoul remained by Christine's door, hoping to discover the man's name. Suddenly the door opened. Christine came out of the room, breathing quickly. A veil was hiding her face. Why?


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[Assistant] She looked straight ahead of her and was in such a hurry to leave that she never saw Raoul standing in the shadows.


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[Assistant] Rose saw that she did not lock her door.


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[Assistant] When Christine disappeared around the corner, Roel opened the door and jumped into the room. He looked around wildly for the unknown man. He cried out, Show yourself, sir. I know you are here. I wish to have words with you. I will not let you leave this room. He lit a candle and searched the room. There was no one there.


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[Assistant] The good and true thought may in times of temptation be as an angel of mercy, purifying and guarding the soul.


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[Assistant] For good words, almost always inspire to good works.


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[Assistant] Temples and statues decay, but books survive.


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[Assistant] Which are as fresh today as when they are first passed through their author's minds, ages ago.


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[Assistant] What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page.


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[Assistant] The only effect of time has been to sift out the bad products.


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[Assistant] For nothing in literature can long survive, but what is really good?


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[Assistant] They bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did. We see them as if they were really alive. We sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them. Their experience becomes ours.


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[Assistant] And we feel as if we were in a major actor's wisdom in the scenes which they describe.


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[Assistant] Has we ever remain under the influence of the Great Man of Old? The Imperial intellect of the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago.


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[Assistant] Today's program ends here. Thank you for listening.


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[Assistant] Two guys break out of jail in a truck in broad daylight and vanish in...


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[Assistant] Those two cops that came here. What do they want?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Professional courtesy, huh? Stay right here.


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[Assistant] The Chrysler building, the Empire State building. Impossible, I said. That's New York. Sadie looked as green as I felt. She was still cradling Muffin, whose eyes were closed. The cat seemed to be purring. It can't be, Sadie said. We only traveled a few minutes.


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[Assistant] And yet here we were, sailing up the East River, right under the Williamsburg Bridge.


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[Assistant] We glided to a stop next to a small dock on the Brooklyn side of the river.


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[Assistant] In front of us was an industrial yard filled with piles of scrap metal and old construction equipment.


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[Assistant] In the center of it all, right at the water's edge, rose a huge factory warehouse heavily painted with graffiti, the windows boarded up. That is not a mansion, Sadie said. Her powers of perception are really amazing. Look again. Amos pointed to the top of the building. How? How did you? My voice failed me.


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[Assistant] I wasn't sure why I hadn't seen it before, but now it was obvious. A five-story mansion perched on the roof of the warehouse, like another layer of a cake. You couldn't build a mansion up there? Long story, Amos said, but we needed a private location. And is this the East shore? Sadie asked. You said something about that in London. My grandparents living on the East shore.


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[Assistant] Amos smiled. Yes, very good, Sadie. In ancient times.


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[Assistant] The east bank of the Nile was always the side of the living, the side where the sun rises. The dead were buried west of the river.


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[Assistant] It was considered bad luck, even dangerous to live there. The tradition is still strong among our people. Our people, I asked, but Sadie muscled in with another question. So you can't live in Manhattan, she asked.


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[Assistant] Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate. Other what? Sadie demanded. Nothing. Amos walked past us to the Steersman. He plucked off the man's hat and coat, and there was no one underneath. The Steersman simply wasn't there.


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[Assistant] Amos put on his fedora, folded his coat over his arm.


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[Assistant] Then wave toward a metal staircase that wound all the way up the side of the warehouse to the mansion on the roof. All ashore, he said.


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[Assistant] And welcome to the 21st Gnome.


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[Assistant] Gnome, I asked, as we followed him up the stairs, like those little runty guys? Heavens no, Amos said. I hate gnomes, they smell horrible. But you said gnome, n-o-m-e, as in a district, a region.


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[Assistant] The term is from ancient times when Egypt was divided into 42 provinces. Today the system is a little different. We've gone global.


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[Assistant] The world is divided into 360 gnomes. Egypt, of course, is the first. Greater New York is the 21st.


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[Assistant] Sadie glanced at me and twirled her finger around her temple. No, Sadie, Amos said without looking back. I'm not crazy. There's much you need to learn. We reached the top of the stairs.


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[Assistant] Looking up at the mansion, it was hard to understand what I was seeing. The house was at least 50 feet tall.


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[Assistant] Built of enormous limestone blocks and steel framed windows.


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[Assistant] There were hieroglyphs engraved around the windows, and the walls were lit up so the place looked like a cross between a modern museum and an ancient temple.


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[Assistant] But the weirdest thing was that if I glanced away, the whole building seemed to disappear. I tried it several times just to be sure. If I looked for the mansion from the corner of my eye, it wasn't there. I had to force my eyes to refocus on it, and even that took a lot of willpower.


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[Assistant] Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage door, a dark, heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. Carter, after you. Uhm, how do I? How do you think? Great, another mystery.


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[Assistant] I was about to suggest we ram Amos' head against it and see if that worked.


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[Assistant] Then I looked at the door again, and I had the strangest feeling. I stretched out my arm, slowly, without touching the door.


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[Assistant] I raised my hand and the door followed my movement, sliding upward until it disappeared into the ceiling. Sadie looked stunned. How? I don't know, I admitted. A little embarrassed. Motion sensor, maybe. Interesting. Amos sounded a little troubled. Not the way I would have done it, but very good. Remarkably good. Thanks, I think.


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[Assistant] Sadie tried to go inside first, but as soon as she stepped on the threshold, Muffin wailed and almost clawed her way out of Sadie's arms. Sadie stumbled backward. What was that about, cat? Oh, of course, Amos said. My apologies. He put his hand on the cat's head and said very formally. You may enter. The cat needs permission? I asked. Special circumstances.


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[Assistant] Which wasn't much of an explanation, but he walked inside without saying another word. We followed, and this time Muffin stayed quiet.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Sadie's jaw dropped. She craned her neck to look at the ceiling, and I thought the gum might fall out of her mouth. Yes, Amos said, this is the great room. I could see why he called it that. The cedar-beamed ceiling was four stories high.


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[Assistant] Held up by carved stone pillars engraved with hieroglyphs.


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[Assistant] A weird assortment of musical instruments and ancient Egyptian weapons decorated the walls. Three levels of balconies ringed the room with rows of doors all looking out on the main area. The fireplace was big enough to park a car in.


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[Assistant] Outside, through glass walls, I could see the terrace that wrapped around the house.


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[Assistant] And at the far end of the great room was a set of double doors marked with the eye of Horus and chained with half a dozen padlocks. I wondered what could possibly be behind them. But the real showstopper was the statue in the center of the great room.


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[Assistant] It was 30 feet tall made of black marble.


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[Assistant] I could tell it was of an Egyptian god because the figure had a human body and an animal's head, like a stork or a crane with a long neck and a really long beak.


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[Assistant] The god was dressed ancient style, in a kilt, sash, and neck collar.


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[Assistant] He held a scribed stylus in one hand and an open scroll in the other, as if he had just


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[Assistant] We had to turn off the tape for a while because we were being followed, but, well, we'll get to that later. Sadie was telling you how we left London, right? So, anyway.


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[Assistant] We followed Amos down to the weird boat docked at the K side. I cradled Dad's work bag under my arm. I still couldn't believe he was gone. I felt guilty leaving London without him, but I believed Amos about one thing. Right now Dad was beyond our help. I didn't trust Amos.


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[Assistant] But I figured if I wanted to find out what had happened to dad, I was going to have to go along with him. He was the only one who seemed to know anything. Amos stepped aboard the reed boat. Sadie jumped right on, but I hesitated.


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[Assistant] I'd seen boats like this on the Nile before and they never seemed very sturdy.


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[Assistant] It was basically woven together from coils of plant fiber, like a giant floating rug.


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[Assistant] I figured the torches at the front couldn't be a good idea, because if we didn't sink, we'd burn.


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[Assistant] At the back, the tiller was manned by a little guy wearing Amos' black trench coat and hat.


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[Assistant] The hat was shoved down on his head so I couldn't see his face. His hands and feet were lost in the folds of the coat.


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[Assistant] How does this thing move? I asked Amos. You've got no sale. Trust me. Amos offered me a hand.


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[Assistant] The night was cold, but when I stepped on board I suddenly felt warmer.


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[Assistant] As if the torchlight were casting a protective glow over us.


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[Assistant] In the middle of the boat was a hut made from woven mats.


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[Assistant] From Sadie's arms, Muffin sniffed at it and growled. Take a seat inside, Amos suggested. The trip might be a little rough. I'll stand, thanks. Sadie nodded at the little guy in back. Who's your driver? Amos acted as if he hadn't heard the question. Hang on everyone. He nodded to the steersman and the boat lurched forward. The feeling was hard to describe.


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[Assistant] You know that tingle in the pit of your stomach when you're on a roller coaster and it goes into free fall?


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[Assistant] It was kinda like that, except we weren't falling and the feeling didn't go away. The boat moved with astounding speed. The lights of the city blurred, then were swallowed in a thick fog. Strange sounds echoed in the dark, slithering and hissing. Distant screams, voices whispering in languages I didn't understand. The tingling turned to nausea. The sounds got louder, until I was about to scream myself. Then suddenly the boat slowed.


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[Assistant] The noises stopped and the fog dissipated. City lights came back brighter than before.


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[Assistant] Above us loomed a bridge, much taller than any bridge in London. My stomach did a slow roll. To the left, I saw a familiar skyline. The Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building. Impossible, I said. That's New York. Sadie looked as green as I felt. She was still cradling Muffin, whose eyes were closed. The cat seemed to be purring. It can't be, Sadie said.


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[Assistant] Mary, what's my daughter's phone number in Texas? What time do I take my pills and what the devil are you doing over there?


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[Assistant] That's what I heard and it doesn't make much sense. You walked out on the switchboard to marry Philip.


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[Assistant] Now I learn you've walked out on marrying Philip to go back to a switchboard. That's idiotic even for young people.


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[Assistant] This is to tell you how sorry I am and, uh, this is to ask you to forgive me.


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[Assistant] I beg your pardon, sir. This is Monsieur Le Havre of the French Embassy. You will permit me please to speak with the President, non?


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[Assistant] And what are you doing? Not telling your mother? You're doing something that I hate!


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[Assistant] What happened, Meher? You haven't made tea yet?


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[Assistant] Walaikumusalam, beta. Ye sab kuch kya hai?


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[Assistant] I'll call Harun Bhai.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Doh doh bibhiye hai teri. Sharam kar, toh ne phir wo hi hairkate shuru kar diye hai.


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[Assistant] Waisi, Afreen hai un ladkiyon pe, jo iski chikni chukdi baaton mein aa jaati hain.


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[Assistant] No, Mother, I'd be too much bothering. Anyway, anyway, what?


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[Assistant] Taking it pretty hard. He loves you, Jim. You're still his son regardless.


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[Assistant] Cookie, they're all gone. Now you don't have to keep me here any longer. Take me to Jim. We've got to help him.


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[Assistant] There is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and the reins, shooting for the lungs and the breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like.


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[Assistant] So if a man's weight be wandering, let him study the mathematics. For in demonstrations,


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[Assistant] If he be not apt to beat over matters,


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[Assistant] So, every defect of the mind may have a special receipt


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[Assistant] Roel was watching the opera when the lights went out.


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[Assistant] He ran to her dressing room, but she was not there.


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[Assistant] He was looking for her when he passed by the office of Richard and Montchermin, the owners of the opera house.


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[Assistant] Inside, a large group of people were talking to each other. The police chief had arrived. He was asking questions when Raoul entered.


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[Assistant] Have any of you gentlemen seen Christine die? asked Raoul. We are here to discover what has happened to her, said the police chief.


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[Assistant] Now, I need to meet with the owners. He looked around. Where are they? he asked. Everyone looked at the locked door.


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[Assistant] The owners have shut themselves in the room someone said. We will see about that said the police chief.


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[Assistant] In a loud voice he cried, open the door! It's the police! While hitting the door. Finally the police chief had to break down the door. Everyone ran into the room. Raoul was the last person to enter.


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[Assistant] Suddenly he felt a bony hand touch his shoulder.


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[Assistant] Eric keeps his secrets to himself, a voice behind him said.


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[Assistant] Roll turned around and saw a dark-skinned man with green eyes. The man had a strange hat on.


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[Assistant] But before he could speak, the man turned and walked quickly away.


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[Assistant] When everyone was in the office, the police chief looked around.


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[Assistant] Where is Christine Dai? Is she here? He asked them.


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[Assistant] Both owners looked up. She's missing? One of them asked.


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[Assistant] Yes, she disappeared during the opera, someone said. And I know who took her, Rowell said. Everyone turned and looked at him. You do? said the police chief.


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[Assistant] He also called himself the Angel of Music.


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[Assistant] Christine knew him by that name. But his real name is Eric.


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[Assistant] The police chief nodded and smiled at Raoul. Clearly the boy is imagining things.


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[Assistant] He must be very upset that the young lady had disappeared.


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[Assistant] Actually, Monsieur Chagny, the police chief said, I think I know who took Miss Dye, and it was not a phantom named Eric.


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[Assistant] There were four carriages sitting in front of the opera house this evening. Yours, Sorelles, Carlotta's, and your brother's.


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[Assistant] Immediately after Christine's disappearance, your brother's carriage left the opera house in a big hurry. It was leaving Paris. I think your brother has taken Miss Dye. Perhaps he does not want you to be with her.


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[Assistant] Ro thought about this. He knew his brother, Philippe, was against his love for Christine.


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[Assistant] After all, Raoul was a count's son, and Christine was only a poor opera singer. He became very angry with his brother.


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[Assistant] He ran towards the door, burning with anger. Suddenly he heard a quiet voice ask, Where are you going, Raoul?


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[Assistant] Roel saw that it was the dark man with the green eyes who had spoken to him earlier. Who are you? he asked.


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[Assistant] Take off that horrible mask. Why do you hide your face? If you are a good man, you will show yourself to me.


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[Assistant] Eric, whoever you are, I hate you. You made me think you were the angel of music. I thought my father had sent him to me, and I was comforted. Now that you have destroyed my dreams, let me go from here.


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[Assistant] For a while, they just hung there to each other laughing and crying and saying things without meaning. She'd say a few words like,


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[Assistant] And he'd kiss her speechless and tell her the many things he had done to fight her.


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[Assistant] What apparently had happened three years before was that


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[Assistant] Mei had come by bus, not by train.


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[Assistant] And in her telegram, she meant bus station, not railroad station.


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[Assistant] She had waited at the bus station for days and had spent all her money trying to find Harry. Finally, she got a job typing. What? said Harry. Have you been working in town all the time? She nodded.


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[Assistant] Pretty soon she looked over at the stairs and said in a weak voice, I never came up the stairs before.


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[Assistant] You see, I went out of town yesterday on a short business trip. Oh Harry!


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[Assistant] Then she threw her arms around his neck and really began to cry. After a minute she backed away


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[Assistant] And pointed very stiffly toward the north end of the station. Harry, for three years, for three solid years, I've been right over there, working right in this very station, typing in the office of the station master.


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[Assistant] 17. A bad trip to Paris. Okay, before I get to the demon fruit bats, I should back up. The night before we fled Luxor. I didn't get much sleep.


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[Assistant] First because of an out-of-body experience, then a run-in with Zia. Stop smirking, Sadie, it wasn't a good run-in. After lights out, I tried to sleep, honest.


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[Assistant] I even used the stupid magic headrest they gave me instead of a pillow. But it didn't help.


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[Assistant] As soon as I managed to shut my eyes, my ba decided to take a little trip.


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[Assistant] Just like before, I felt myself floating above my body, taking on a winged form.


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[Assistant] Then the current of the duet swept me away at blurring speed.


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[Assistant] When my vision cleared, I found myself in a dark cavern.


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[Assistant] Uncle Amos was sneaking through it, finding his way with a faint blue light that flickered on the top of his staff. I wanted to call to him, but my voice didn't work.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure how he could miss me floating a few feet away in glowing chicken form, but apparently I was invisible to him.


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[Assistant] He stepped forward and the ground at his feet suddenly blazed to life with a red hieroglyph. Amos cried out but his mouth froze half open.


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[Assistant] Coils of light wrapped around his legs like vines.


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[Assistant] Soon red tendrils completely entwined him, and Amos stood petrified, his unblinking eyes staring straight ahead. I tried to fly to him, but I was stuck in place, floating helplessly, so I could only observe. Laughter echoed through the cavern.


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[Assistant] A horde of things emerged from the darkness.


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[Assistant] Toad creatures, animal headed demons, and even stranger monsters half hidden in the gloom.


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[Assistant] They'd been lying in ambush, I realized, waiting for Amos. In front of them appeared a fiery silhouette. Set.


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[Assistant] But his form was much clearer now, and this time it wasn't human. His body was emaciated, slimy and black, and his head was that of a feral beast. Bonsoir, Amos, Set said. How nice of you to come.


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[Assistant] We're going to have so much fun.


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[Assistant] I sat bolt upright in bed, back in my own body, with my heart pounding. Amos had been captured. I knew it for certain.


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[Assistant] And even worse, Set had known somehow that Amos was coming. I thought back to something Bost had said, about how the Serpopards had broken into the mansion.


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[Assistant] She'd said the defenses had been sabotaged and only a magician of the house could have done it. A horrible suspicion started building inside me. I stared into the dark for a long time.


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[Assistant] Listening to the little kid next to me mumbling spells in his sleep, when I couldn't stand it any longer. I opened the door with a push of my mind, the way I'd done at Amos' mansion, and I sneaked out.


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[Assistant] I was wandering through the empty marketplace, thinking about Dad and Amos, replaying the events over and over, trying to figure out what I could have done differently to save them, when I spotted Zia.


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[Assistant] She was hurrying across the courtyard as if she were being chased, but what really caught my attention was the shimmering black cloud around her as if someone had wrapped her in a glittery shadow. She came to a section of blank wall and waved her hand. Suddenly a doorway appeared.


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[Assistant] Ziya glanced nervously behind her and ducked inside. Of course I followed. I moved quietly up to the doorway.


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[Assistant] I could hear Zia's voice inside, but I couldn't make out what she was saying.


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[Assistant] The doctors agree in ordering me complete rest.


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[Assistant] An absence of mental excitement and avoidance of anything in the nature of violent physical exercise.


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[Assistant] On the matter of diet, they are not so much in agreement, he continued. No, said Mrs. Sampleton.


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[Assistant] Then she suddenly brightened into alert attention, but not to what Frampton was saying.


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[Assistant] Just in time for tea. And don't they look as if they were muddy up to the eyes?


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[Assistant] The child was staring out through the open window with horror in her eyes. In a chill shock of nameless fear


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[Assistant] In the deepening twilight, three figures were walking across the lawn towards the window.


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[Assistant] And then a hoarse young voice chanted out of the dusk. I said, birdie, why do you bound?


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[Assistant] Frampton grabbed wildly at his stick and hat. The hall door, the gravel drive, and the front gate were dimly noted stages in his headlong retreat.


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[Assistant] A cyclist coming along the road had to run into the hedge to avoid collision. Here we are, my dear, said the bearer of the white Macintosh, coming in through the window. Fairly muddy, but most of it's dry. Who was that who bolted out as we came up? A most extraordinary man, a Mr. Nuttall, said Mrs. Sampleton.


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[Assistant] He was once haunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly dug grave with the creatures snarling and grinning and foaming just above him. Enough to make anyone lose their nerve.


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[Assistant] Chapter 14 Life on the Island When Tom woke up, he didn't recognize where he was. It took him a few seconds to remember that he and his friends had run away. It was nice waking up outside, among the trees and the animals.


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[Assistant] Landed on a tree branch near the boys and looked at them curiously.


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[Assistant] It seemed as though this were the first time it had ever seen human beings before. At the same time,


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[Assistant] Tom noticed how similar animals and insects were to human beings.


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[Assistant] They noticed that the river had carried away their boat. But this didn't bother any of them. They had everything they needed. They built another fire and then Tom and Huck went fishing. Joe was the cook.


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[Assistant] So he just rested until they returned with the fish.


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[Assistant] They wandered around the island for a while and then played some more in the river. At lunchtime, Joe cooked up some meat for everyone.


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[Assistant] And they sat around the fire talking for a while. They were happy all morning.


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[Assistant] But once they sat down to rest and the talking stopped, they started to feel differently.


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[Assistant] But they didn't talk about these feelings with each other for fear that they'd be laughed at.


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[Assistant] Then there suddenly came a loud noise from the direction of the village. They all jumped up and ran to the edge of the island to see what it might have been. On their way to the shore, they heard the loud noise again.


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[Assistant] Through the trees, they could see a riverboat full of people.


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[Assistant] It was the boat that people used to cross the river every day. But it wasn't being used for that purpose now. It wasn't crossing the river. It was going down the river.


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[Assistant] Said Tom. Suddenly the three boys started to feel great. The village must be terribly sad.


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[Assistant] Just to see all of those people looking for them on the boat.


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[Assistant] It made them realize how important they were to their village.


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[Assistant] All of those sad feelings they'd had a few minutes ago were now forgotten. It was great being a pirate again. When night came, the boats went back to the village and the boys went back to their fire. They all agreed that this had been a great day. It felt good to be missed.


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[Assistant] They wondered what the people of the village might be saying about them right now. They talked and laughed a lot, thinking about this.


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[Assistant] But soon their laughter died down and they began to think about how this probably wasn't very funny for the people in the village, especially for their families.


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[Assistant] Then Joe looked up from the fire and said,


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[Assistant] Soon both Joe and Huckleberry were sleeping. Tom, however, had other plans. He left a note for both of them.


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[Assistant] Putting one in Joe's hat and the other in his pocket. So he'd find it easily, and then he ran toward the river.


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[Assistant] I heard she'd traveled with that wicked steer-four through Italy and lived there for a while. But in the end he became tired of her and left her. She didn't know what to do or where to go, poor thing. But she came back to London. And that's where I found my dear child. Because I've been all over Europe looking for her. But I knew she'd come back to England one day. So every night I've been searching the city streets for her. And last night I found her. Hopeless.


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[Assistant] And exhausted, on a bridge, looking down into the river. I hadn't found her then. I don't like to think what she would have done.


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[Assistant] And what about the rest of your family? Are Ham and Peckety going to Australia, too? No, they aren't. Poor Ham will never be the same again. I really think his heart is broken. But he's got a good job, and he's very popular in Yarmouth, so he'll stay there.


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[Assistant] My sister wants to stay too, partly because of you, Master David, and partly to look after Ham. She cooks and cleans for him in Yarmouth, you know. Well, my friend, I said, shaking hands firmly with the old boatman, I wish you and Emily all the best in your new life. I'll do my duty, whether I'm in England or Australia, said Daniel.


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[Assistant] We'll have to look for the money on islands, or under trees, or maybe even under the floors of old houses where spirits of people who used to live are. Why would the money be there?


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[Assistant] Because that's where thieves usually put their money.


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[Assistant] Sometimes they forget about it, or they die, and the money just sits there. I know a house that would be good to look in. And there are lots of old trees around it. How will we know which tree to look under? We all just look under them all.


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[Assistant] I plan to spend it before my father takes it from me and spends it on drinks. What about you? I'm going to marry someone. You're crazy to want to get married. Married people fight all the time. Not my wife. She'll be very sweet.


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[Assistant] No, women are all the same, Tom. Who is this girl you want to marry? I can't tell you. Well, I don't want you to get married. I won't have anyone to play with.


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[Assistant] Why don't you just move in with my wife and me, Huck?


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[Assistant] Are you sure this is right? Do you think they'd put it so far under the ground? This may not be the right place.


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[Assistant] This doesn't seem right either. Can we try another place, Tom?


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[Assistant] We could try that old house behind Mrs. Douglas's home up on Cardiff Hill. Yes, but won't she take the money from us? If we find the money, it's ours. She couldn't take it from us.


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[Assistant] Let's work a bit more and see if we find anything first.


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[Assistant] We must look for the shadow of an old tree in the moonlight. The money will be under the ground in that place.


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[Assistant] Huck, we're wrong again. But we're digging where the shadow was. Maybe we started at the wrong time. We should give up.


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[Assistant] We can't just keep guessing about the right time and place, and I don't like digging out here at night. It frightens me.


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[Assistant] I'm frightened too, Huck. The thieves almost always put a spirit with the treasure to protect it. Really? Sure they do. Tom, I don't like dead people. And they probably don't like us. Let's get out of here. I agree. Let's go to that house I mentioned to you before. Where? Near Mrs. Douglas's home.


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[Assistant] But Tom, we just agreed not to work where dead people were.


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[Assistant] Right, so, we'll go there in the daytime. The spirits sleep during the daytime. Oh, okay. We can go if you want to, but I don't like the idea.


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[Assistant] My stepfather had asked Mr. Quinion, the manager, to find me somewhere to stay in London.


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[Assistant] So, at the end of my first day, I was called to Mr. Quinion's office, and introduced to an important-looking, rather fat, middle-aged man, with a head as bald as an egg. His name was Mr. McCorber.


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[Assistant] And he offered me a spare room in the house he was renting with his family. I agreed to take it, and Mr. McCorber and I walked home together. The McCorbers were obviously very poor, but tried hard not to let this show.


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[Assistant] The house had several floors of rather dirty, empty rooms with very little furniture. Mrs. McCorber was a thin, tired-looking woman with a baby in her arms. The baby was one of twins. And in all my experience of the family, I never saw Mrs. McCorber without at least one of the twins. They also had a four-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter.


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[Assistant] Their only servant was a young orphan girl.


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[Assistant] I was very unhappy during this time. Mr. Murdstone insisted on my studying and so my mother gave me lessons. In the past, she and I had enjoyed our studies together and she had taught me a lot in her gentle way. But now,


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[Assistant] Both Mr. and Ms. Murdstone were present during my lessons, and somehow I could not concentrate or remember what I had learned. My poor mother was very sympathetic and tried to encourage me, sometimes even whispering the answer to me. But the Murdstones had sharp ears. Cloud of my love! Mr. Murdstone used to say crossly. Remember!


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[Assistant] You're making the boy's character worse by helping him like that. Oh, Edward, I'm sorry, my mother replied, looking embarrassed and hanging her head like a guilty child.


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[Assistant] So what we're actually talking about is actually people for wellness, walking more and doing more. And they're not going to do that in a lot of high heels. So trainers are changing the materials. They're now a lot of fabric trainers. And if you've inherited foot problems, then that kind of fabric, they're wrapping around knobbly bits and knobbly bits hurt.


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[Assistant] Except it don't seem hardly likely that you'd beat yourself to death with a club. I'd murder you so it didn't look like murder.


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[Assistant] Whipping up a bestseller proved to be more challenging than Stephen expected.


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[Assistant] It's still far too technical, said Simon Mitten after reading part of the book for the second time.


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[Assistant] He had equations on almost every page. If he wanted to make money, he had lots of editing to do.


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[Assistant] As Stephen noted, Bantam's books were widely available in airport bookstores. That was good enough for him.


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[Assistant] Stephen wrote and rewrote. He talked about the history of science, the expanding universe, and Einstein's theory of general relativity.


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[Assistant] He also talked about the possibility of a grand theory of everything, which would explain all the phenomena in the universe.


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[Assistant] He assumed that his readers would know certain basic facts about cosmology.


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[Assistant] Peter Guzzardi, his editor, assured him this wasn't so. He kept after Stephen to simplify things.


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[Assistant] At times I thought the process would never end, recalled Stephen. But he was grateful for Ghazardi's help. And knew he would have a stronger book. Health Crisis.


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[Assistant] Stephen was still working on the manuscript when he decided to visit a research facility in Geneva, Switzerland that was studying nuclear particles.


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[Assistant] New discoveries about elementary particles were being made there, and Stephen wanted to share the excitement firsthand.


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[Assistant] While Jane traveled in Germany, a nurse looked after Stephen in Switzerland.


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[Assistant] One night when the nurse checked on Stephen, she found him gasping for breath. His face had turned purple.


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[Assistant] Stephen was rushed to the hospital and put on life support.


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[Assistant] Stephen had pneumonia, a disease that can prove deadly for people with his condition.


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[Assistant] A distraught Jane arrived as soon as she heard the news, unable to breathe on his own.


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[Assistant] An unconscious Steven was hooked up to a ventilator, a machine that would breathe for him. For the moment he was stable.


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[Assistant] But doctors feared that an ALS patient would never fully recover from pneumonia and would face unbearable physical hardships.


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[Assistant] One of the doctors asked Jane if Stephen should be removed from the ventilator while he was still unconscious. Jane was horrified. Stephen must live, she cried. You must bring him out of the anesthetic.


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[Assistant] Jane made sure that everything possible was done to ensure his survival.


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[Assistant] When Stephen regained consciousness, an air ambulance flew him back to England where he entered the hospital in Cambridge.


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[Assistant] A special tube was inserted into his neck so he could breathe without a ventilator.


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[Assistant] But this meant that Stephen would never speak again.


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[Assistant] After the surgery, Stephen needed someone with him around the clock.


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[Assistant] She began contacting charitable organizations for help. Several responded favorably.


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[Assistant] The Hawkins received enough money to pay for the nursing care that Stephen needed. Stephen's speech had been slurred and slow.


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[Assistant] That meaningful conversation was almost impossible.


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[Assistant] He began to wonder if his life was worthwhile after all.


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[Assistant] News of Stephen's plight spread throughout the scientific community. American computer expert Walt Walters


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[Assistant] had developed a computer program called Equalizer for his mother-in-law who could not speak either.


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[Assistant] He sends Stephen a copy of the program. It would allow Stephen to use the slight movement that remained in his hand to select letters and common words on the computer screen.


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[Assistant] When he completed what he wanted to say, he could save it on a disk or he could send it to a speech synthesizer.


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[Assistant] The synthesizer would speak the words for him electronically.


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[Assistant] At first Stephen was reluctant to use the new computer program.


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[Assistant] Accepting it meant accepting that he would never speak naturally again. But Stephen had too much to say and do to remain silent.


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[Assistant] One evening he signaled to his research fellow, Brian Witt, that he would like to try the computer.


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[Assistant] Hello, Stephen greeted his assistant in his new artificial voice. Then he got down to business. Will you help me finish my book?


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[Assistant] The equalizer proved to be just the lifeline that Stephen needed.


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[Assistant] For the first time in many years, everyone knew what he was saying, even six-year-old Timothy, who had never learned to understand his father's speech.


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[Assistant] It was a bit slow, Stephen had said of his voice synthesizer, but then I think slowly, so it suited me quite well.


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[Assistant] David Mason, a computer expert, was able to equip Stephen's wheelchair with a mini computer and a voice synthesizer. Wherever he went, Stephen could talk with those around him. He liked to joke that his new voice had an American accent.


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[Assistant] He thought he might include a special appendix with many of the mathematical equations he had omitted from the text. His editor nixed the suggestion at once. It would terrify people he explained.


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[Assistant] He thought it might be too silly to use in a book about the beginning of the universe.


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[Assistant] Once again, Peter Guzzardi disagreed with Stephen. He thought that the title was fantastic.


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[Assistant] He told Stephen that he smiled when he saw the word brief. That settled the matter for Stephen. A little human never hurt anything.


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[Assistant] Besides, as Guzzatti had pointed out, Stephen likes to make people smile.


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[Assistant] Stephen and Jane went to New York to celebrate the occasion. A banquet was held in Stephen's honor.


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[Assistant] Afterward, Stephen went outside with his guests to look down on the East River.


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[Assistant] When he returned to his hotel he heard music wafting down the hall.


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[Assistant] Stephen followed the sound to the ballroom where a dance was being held.


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[Assistant] It didn't matter that he hadn't been invited. Soon he was spinning around the dance floor in his wheelchair.


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[Assistant] Even when the party was officially over, the band continued to play just for him.


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[Assistant] Stephen had high hopes for his book, but some people at Bantam Books were a little nervous. They worried that the public might not be as interested in Black Holes and the Big Bang as Bantam had hoped.


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[Assistant] After all, these ideas were far removed from the practical concerns of everyday life.


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[Assistant] Would people be confused or intrigued by Stephen's explanation of the no boundary proposal?


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[Assistant] To be on the safe side, bound and reduce the number of copies to be printed.


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[Assistant] The company didn't want to risk being stuck with lots of unsold books.


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[Assistant] The publisher needn't have worried. In record time, bookstores sold out of a brief history of time. Perhaps it was the intriguing title or general admiration for Stephen and his accomplishments. Or perhaps, as Stephen had always suspected, most people are fascinated by cosmology.


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[Assistant] Whatever the reason, the books had flown off the shelves. Book sellers weren't worried about the printing mistake.


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[Assistant] Eagerly booksellers ordered new copies. Stephen Hawking had a runaway hit.


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[Assistant] If you pull it back all the way, it just goes straight. Oh, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] I don't think you can do anything from there.