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[Assistant] Oh, stop it, both of you, said King Caspian. I want to know what it is that Nickerbrick keeps on hinting we should do, but before that, I want to know who these two strangers are whom he has brought into our council, and who stand there with their ears open and their mouths shut.


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[Assistant] They are friends of mine, said Nickerbrick. And what better right of you yourself to be here than that you are a friend of Trumpkins and the Badgers?


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[Assistant] His Majesty the King is to whom you have sworn allegiance, said Truffle Hunter sternly.


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[Assistant] Court manners, court manners, sneered Nickerbrick. But in this whole we may talk plainly. You know and he knows that this Telmarine boy will be king of nowhere in a week unless we can help him out of the trap in which he sits. Perhaps, said Cornelius, your new friends would like to speak for themselves. You there, who and what are you? Worshipful master doctor.


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[Assistant] So please you, I am only a poor old woman I am, and very obliged to his worshipful dwarfship for his friendship, I'm sure.


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[Assistant] I have some poor little skill, not like yours, Master Doctor, of course, in small spells and cantrips that I'd be glad to use against our enemies if it was agreeable to all concerned, for I hate them.


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[Assistant] That is all most interesting and, uh, satisfactory, said Dr Cornelius. I think I now know what you are, madam.


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[Assistant] Perhaps your other friend, Nickerbrick, would give some account of himself.


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[Assistant] And even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me.


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[Assistant] I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.


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[Assistant] And it is in the presence of these two that you wish to disclose your plan, said Caspian.


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[Assistant] Yes, said Nickerbrick, and by their help that I mean to execute it.


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[Assistant] There was a minute or two during which Trumpkin and the boys could hear Caspian and his two friends speaking in low voices, but could not make out what they were saying. Then Caspian spoke aloud. Well, Nickerbrick, he said, we will hear your plan.


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[Assistant] There was a pause so long that the boys began to wonder if Knickerbrick was ever going to begin.


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[Assistant] It was in a lower voice, as if he himself did not much like what he was saying.


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[Assistant] Oh, they are on the way, put in Truffle Hunter.


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[Assistant] If he will not send them, but I made no doubt he will, is he more likely to come himself?


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[Assistant] No, you're right there, said Nickerbrick. Aslan and the Kings go together.


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[Assistant] Either Aslan is dead, or he is not on our side. Or else, something stronger than himself keeps him back. And if he did come, how do we know he'd be our friend?


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[Assistant] He was not always a good friend to dwarfs, by all that's told. Not even to all beasts. Ask the wolves. And anyway, he was in Narnia only once that I ever heard of, and he didn't stay long.


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[Assistant] Before they had gone many yards, they were confronted with young fir woods growing on the very edge, and after they had tried to go through these, stooping and pushing for about ten minutes,


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[Assistant] They realized that in there it would take them an hour to do half a mile. So they came back and out again and decided to go round the fir woods.


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[Assistant] This took them much farther to their right than they wanted to go, far out of sight of the cliffs and out of sound of the river.


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[Assistant] When they were able at last to go back to the edge of the gorge nearly a mile below the point from which they had started,


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[Assistant] They found the cliffs on their side of it a good deal lower and more broken.


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[Assistant] Soon they found a way down into the gorge and continued the journey at the river's edge. But first they had a rest and a long drink.


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[Assistant] No one was talking anymore about breakfast or even dinner with Caspian.


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[Assistant] They may have been wise to stick to the rush instead of going along the top.


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[Assistant] It kept them sure of their direction and ever since the fur would...


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[Assistant] They'd all been afraid of being forced too far out of their course and losing themselves in the wood. It was an old and pathless forest, and you could not keep anything like a straight course in it. Patches of hopeless brambles, fallen trees,


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[Assistant] Boggy places and dense undergrowth would be always getting in your way.


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[Assistant] But the gorge of the rush was not at all a nice place for travelling either. I mean, it was not a nice place for people in a hurry.


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[Assistant] For an afternoon's ramble, ending in a picnic tea, it would have been delightful.


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[Assistant] It had everything you could want on an occasion of that sort.


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[Assistant] Rumbling waterfalls. Silver cascades.


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[Assistant] Deep amber-coloured pools, mossy rocks, and deep moss on the banks in which you could sink over your ankles. Every kind of fern, jewel-like dragonflies, sometimes a hawk overhead. And once, Peter and Trumpkin both thought, an eagle.


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[Assistant] But of course, what the children and the dwarf wanted to see as soon as possible was the great river below them, and Baruna, and the way to Aslan's Howl.


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[Assistant] As they went on, the rush began to fall more and more steeply.


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[Assistant] Their journey became more and more of a climb and less and less of a walk.


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[Assistant] In places even a dangerous climb over slippery rocks.


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[Assistant] With a nasty drop into dark chasms and the river roaring angrily at the bottom.


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[Assistant] For any sign of a break or any place where they could climb them. Those cliffs remained cruel.


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[Assistant] It was maddening because everyone knew that once they were out of the gorge on that side, they would have only a smooth slope and a fairly short walk to Caspian's headquarters.


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[Assistant] The boys and the dwarf are now in favour of lighting a fire and cooking their bear meat.


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[Assistant] Susan didn't want this. She only wanted, as she said, to get on and finish it and get out of these beastly woods.


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[Assistant] Lucy was far too tired and miserable to have any opinion about anything.


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[Assistant] But as there was no dry wood to be had, it mattered very little what anyone thought.


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[Assistant] The boys began to wonder if raw meat was really as nasty as they'd always been told. Trumpkin assured them it was.


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[Assistant] Of course, if the children had attempted a journey like this a few days ago in England, they would have been knocked up.


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[Assistant] I think I've explained before how Narnia was altering them. Even Lucy was, by now, so to speak.


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[Assistant] Only one third of a little girl going to boarding school for the first time.


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[Assistant] The river gorge had just made a bend and the whole view spread out beneath them. They could see open country stretching before them to the horizon and, between it and them, the broad silver ribbon of the great river.


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[Assistant] They could see the specially broad and shallow place, which had once been the fords of Baruna, but was now spanned by a long, many arched bridge. There was a little town at the far end of it.


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[Assistant] By Jove, said Edmund, we fought the Battle of Baruna just where that town is.


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[Assistant] This cheered the boys more than anything. You can't help feeling stronger when you look at a place where you won a glorious victory, not to mention a kingdom, hundreds of years ago.


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[Assistant] Peter and Edmund were soon so busy talking about the battle that they forgot their sore feet and the heavy drag of their male shirts on their shoulders. The dwarf was interested too. They were all getting on at a quicker pace now. The going became easier. Though there were still sheer cliffs on their left, the ground was becoming lower on their right. Soon it was no longer a gorge at all, only a valley. There were no more waterfalls.


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[Assistant] And presently they were in fairly thick woods again. Then, all at once


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[Assistant] Whizz, and a sound rather like the stroke of a woodpecker.


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[Assistant] The children were still wondering where, ages ago, they had heard a sound just like that, and why they disliked it so when Trumpkin shouted, DOWN! At the same moment forcing Lucy, who happened to be next to him, flat down into the bracken.


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[Assistant] Peter, who had been looking up to see if he could spot a squirrel, had seen what it was.


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[Assistant] A long, cruel arrow had sunk into a tree trunk just above his head.


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[Assistant] Quick, quick, get back, crawl, panted Trumpkin.


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[Assistant] They turned and wriggled along uphill, under the bracken, amid clouds of horribly buzzing flies.


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[Assistant] Arrows whizzed round them. One struck Susan's helmet with a sharp ping and glanced off.


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[Assistant] They crawled quicker, sweat poured off them. Then they ran, stooping nearly double.


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[Assistant] The boys held their swords in their hands for fear they would trip them up.


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[Assistant] It was heartbreaking work, all uphill again, back over the ground they had already travelled.


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[Assistant] When they felt that they really couldn't run anymore even to save their lives, they all dropped down in the damp moss beside a waterfall and behind a big boulder panting.


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[Assistant] So that's all right, said Trumpkin, drawing a deep breath. They are not searching the wood. Only sentries, I expect.


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[Assistant] But it means that Miraz has an outpost down there. Bottles and battle doors though. It was a near thing.


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[Assistant] I ought to have my head smacked for bringing us this way at all, said Peter.


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[Assistant] On the contrary, your majesty, said the dwarf, for one thing it wasn't you, it was your royal brother, King Edmund, who first suggested going by glass water.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid the DLF's right, said Edmund, who had quite honestly forgotten this ever since things began going wrong.


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[Assistant] And for another, continued Trumpkin, if we'd gone my way, we'd have walked straight into that new outpost, most likely. Or at least had just the same trouble avoiding it. I think this glass water route has turned out for the best. A blessing in disguise, said Susan. Some disguise, said Edmund.


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[Assistant] I suppose we'll have to go right up the gorge again now, said Lucy.


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[Assistant] Lou, you're a hero, said Peter. That's the nearest you've got today to saying, I told you so. Let's get on.


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[Assistant] And as soon as we're well up into the forest said Trumpkin.


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[Assistant] Whatever anyone says, I'm going to light a fire and cook supper, but we must get well away from here.


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[Assistant] And the word supper had had a wonderful effect.


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[Assistant] They reached the fir wood which had caused them so much trouble while it was still daylight, and bivouacked in a hollow just above it. It was tedious gathering the firewood, but it was grand when the fire blazed up.


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[Assistant] And they began producing the damp and smeary parcels of bear meat.


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[Assistant] Which would have been so very unattractive to anyone who had spent the day indoors.


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[Assistant] The dwarf had splendid ideas about cookery. Each apple, they still had a few of these, was wrapped up in bears' meat.


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[Assistant] As if it was to be apple dumpling with meat instead of pastry only much thicker and spiked on a sharp stick and then roasted.


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[Assistant] And the juice of the apple worked all through the meat like apple sauce would roast pork.


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[Assistant] Bear that has lived too much on other animals is not very nice.


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[Assistant] But bear that has had plenty of honey and fruit is excellent, and this turned out to be that sort of bear. It was a truly glorious meal, and of course no washing up.


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[Assistant] Only lying back and watching the smoke from Trumpkin's pipe and stretching one's tired legs and chatting.


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[Assistant] Everyone felt quite hopeful now about finding King Caspian tomorrow and defeating Miraz in a few days. It may not have been sensible of them to feel like this, but they did. They dropped off to sleep one by one, but all pretty quickly.


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[Assistant] Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine.


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[Assistant] With the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name. She thought at first it was her father's voice, but that did not seem quite right.


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[Assistant] Then she thought it was Peter's voice, but that did not seem to fit either.


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[Assistant] She did not want to get up, not because she was still tired. On the contrary, she was wonderfully rested and all the aches had gone from her bones.


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[Assistant] But because she felt so extremely happy and comfortable.


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[Assistant] She was looking straight up at the Narnian moon, which is larger than ours and at the starry sky.


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[Assistant] For the place where they had Bivouac was comparatively open.


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[Assistant] Away to her right, the jagged cliff tops on the far side of the gorge.


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[Assistant] Straight ahead, open grass to where a glade of trees began about a bow shot away. Lucy looked very hard at the trees of that glade. Why, I do believe they're moving, she said to herself. They're walking about.


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[Assistant] Uh, so congratulations. You had not put any photos of your son on social media, but you just did. For over a year. Congratulations. You made it longer than I did. I had the plan not to. Yeah? And why did you?


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[Assistant] All five of them came out into the courtyard. What's to be the target? asked Peter.


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[Assistant] I think that apple hanging over the wall on the branch there would do, said Susan. That'll do nicely lass.


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[Assistant] So Trumpkin, you mean the yellow one near the middle of the arch? No, not that, said Susan. The red one up above, over the battlement. The dwarf's face fell.


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[Assistant] It looks more like a cherry than an apple, he muttered, but he said nothing out loud.


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[Assistant] They tossed out for the first shot, greatly to the interest of Trumpkin, who had never seen a coin tossed before, and Susan lost.


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[Assistant] They were to shoot from the top of the steps that led from the hall into the courtyard.


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[Assistant] Everyone could see from the way the dwarf took his position and handled his bow that he knew what he was about. Twang went the string.


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[Assistant] It was an excellent shot. The tiny apple shook as the arrow passed and a leaf came fluttering down.


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[Assistant] Then Susan went to the top of the steps and strung her bow.


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[Assistant] She was not enjoying her match half so much as Edmund had enjoyed his.


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[Assistant] Not because she had any doubt about hitting the apple, but because Susan was so tender-hearted that she almost hated to beat someone who had been beaten already. The dwarf watched her keenly as she drew the shaft to her ear. A moment later, with a little soft thump, which they could all hear in that quiet place.


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[Assistant] The apple fell to the grass with Susan's arrow in it.


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[Assistant] Oh well done Sue, shouted the other children.


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[Assistant] It wasn't really any better than yours, said Susan to the dwarf. I think there was a tiny breath of wind as you shot.


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[Assistant] No, there wasn't, said Trumpkin. Don't tell me. I know when I am fairly beaten. I won't even say that the scar of my last wound catches me a bit when I get my arm well back. Oh, are you wounded? asked Lucy. Do let me look.


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[Assistant] It's not a sight for little girls, began Trumpkin, but then he suddenly checked himself.


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[Assistant] There I go, talking like a fool again, he said.


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[Assistant] He sat down on the steps and took off his hauberk and slipped down his little shirt, showing an arm as hairy and muscular in proportion as a sailor's, though not much bigger than a child's. There was a clumsy bandage on the shoulder which Lucy proceeded to unroll. Underneath the cut looked very nasty and there was a good deal of swelling.


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[Assistant] Then she carefully dripped onto it one single drop of the cordial from her flask. Hello, eh? What have you done? said Trumpkin.


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[Assistant] But however he turned his head and squinted and whisked his beard to and fro, he couldn't quite see his own shoulder.


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[Assistant] Then he felt it as well as he could, getting his arms and fingers into very difficult positions, as you do when you're trying to scratch a place that is just out of reach.


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[Assistant] Then he swung his arm and raised it and tried the muscles and finally jumped to his feet crying, Giants and Junipers! It's cured! It's as good as new!


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[Assistant] The children all said it was quite alright and not to mention it.


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[Assistant] And now, said Peter, if you've really decided to believe in us, I have, said the dwarf.


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[Assistant] It's quite clear what we have to do. We must join King Caspian at once.


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[Assistant] The sooner the better, said Trumpkin. My being such a fool has already wasted about an hour.


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[Assistant] It's about two days journey the way you came, said Peter. For us, I mean. We can't walk all day and night like you dwarfs. Then he turned to the others.


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[Assistant] What Trumpkin calls Aslan's Howe is obviously the stone table itself. You remember it was about a half a day's march, or a little less, from there down to the fords of Baruna. Baruna's bridge, we call it, said Trumpkin. There was no bridge in our time, said Peter.


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[Assistant] And then from Baruna down to here was another day and a bit. We used to get home about tea time on the second day going easily. Going hard, we could do the whole thing in a day and a half perhaps.


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[Assistant] But remember it's all woods now, said Trumpkin, and there are enemies to dodge.


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[Assistant] Look here, said Edmund, need we go by the same way that our dear little friend came?


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[Assistant] No more of that, your majesty, if you love me, said the dwarf.


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[Assistant] That's all right lass, I'm in your majesty, said Trumpkin with a chuckle. A jibe won't raise a blister.


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[Assistant] And after that they often called him the DLF, till they'd almost forgotten what it meant.


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[Assistant] As I was saying, continued Edmund, we needn't go that way. Why shouldn't we row a little south till we come to Glasswater Creek and row up it?


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[Assistant] That brings us up behind the hill of the stone table and we'll be safe while we're at sea. If we start at once, we can be at the head of glass water before dark, get a few hours sleep and be with Caspian pretty early tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Do let's get on. We've done nothing yet and we've been here nearly two days.


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[Assistant] And anyway, no one's going to have my hat for a fish basket again, said Edmund.


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[Assistant] They used one of the raincoats as a kind of bag and put a good many apples in it. Then they all had a good long drink at the well.


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[Assistant] For they would meet no more fresh water till they landed at the head of the creek and went down to the boat. The children were sorry to leave Careparavelle, which, even in ruins, had begun to feel like home again.


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[Assistant] The DLF had better steer, said Peter, and Ed and I will take an oar each. Half a moment, though. We'd better take off our mail. We're going to be pretty warm before we're done. The girls had better be in the bows and shout directions to the DLF, cause he doesn't know the way.


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[Assistant] You better get us a fair way out to sea till we've passed the island.


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[Assistant] And soon the green, wooded coast of the island was falling away behind them.


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[Assistant] And its little bays and headlands were beginning to look flatter, and the boat was rising and falling in the gentle swell. The sea began to grow bigger around them, and in the distance bluer, but close round the boat it was green and bubbly. Everything smelled salty, and there was no noise except the swishing of water,


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[Assistant] And the clip-clop of water against the sides, and the splash of the oars, and the jolting noise of the rollox. The sun grew hot.


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[Assistant] It was delightful for Lucy and Susan in the bars, bending over the edge and trying to get their hands in the sea which they could never quite reach.


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[Assistant] The bottom, mostly pure, pale sand but with occasional patches of purple seaweed, could be seen beneath them.


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[Assistant] It's like old times, said Lucy. Do you remember our voyage to Terebinthia?


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[Assistant] Yes, said Susan, and our great ship, the Splendour Hyaline, with the swan's head at her prow and the carved swan's wings coming back almost to her waist.


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[Assistant] And the silken sails and the great stern lanterns and the feasts on the poop and the musicians.


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[Assistant] Do you remember when we had the musicians up in the rigging playing flutes so that it sounded like music out of the sky? Presently, Susan took over Edmund's oar and he came forward to join Lucy.


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[Assistant] They had passed the island now and stood closer into the shore, all wooded and deserted. They would have thought it very pretty if they had not remembered the time.


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[Assistant] The oars are too big for you, said Peter shortly, not because he was cross, but because he had no strength to spare for talking.


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[Assistant] Their next visit was a pleasanter one, as they came lower down.


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[Assistant] The mountains opened out into a great glen or wooded forge with a swift river running at the bottom.


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[Assistant] The open places near the river's edge were a mass of fox gloves and wild roses, and the air was buzzing with bees. Here, Truffle Hunter called again, Glenstorm, Glenstorm!


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[Assistant] And after a pause, Caspian heard the sound of hoofs. It grew louder till the valley trembled, and at last, breaking and trampling the thickets, there came in sight the noblest creatures that Caspian had yet seen.


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[Assistant] The great centaur Glenstorm and his three sons.


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[Assistant] His flanks were glossy chestnut and the beard that covered his broad chest was golden red.


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[Assistant] He was a prophet and a stargazer and knew what they had come about.


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[Assistant] Long live the king, he cried. I and my sons are ready for war. When is the battle to be joined?


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[Assistant] Up till now, neither Caspian nor the others had really been thinking of a war.


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[Assistant] They had some vague idea, perhaps, of an occasional raid on some human farmstead or of attacking a party of hunters if it ventured too far into these southern wilds.


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[Assistant] But in the main, they had thought only of living to themselves in woods and caves and building up an attempt at old Narnia in hiding.


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[Assistant] As soon as Glenstorm had spoken, everyone felt much more serious.


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[Assistant] Do you mean a real war to drive Miraz out of Narnia? asked Caspian. What else? said the centaur.


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[Assistant] Why else does your majesty go clad in mail and girt with sword? Is it possible, Glenstorm? said the badger. The time is ripe.


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[Assistant] I watched the skies, Badger, for it is mine to watch as it is yours to remember. Tarver and Alambil have met in the halls of high heaven, and on earth a son of Adam has once more arisen to rule and name the creatures. The hour has struck.


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[Assistant] Our council at the dancing lawn must be a council of war.


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[Assistant] He spoke in such a voice that neither Caspian nor the others hesitated for a moment.


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[Assistant] Quite possible that they might win a war and quite certain that they must wage one. As it was now past the middle of the day,


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[Assistant] They rested with the centaurs, and ate such food as the centaurs provided. Cakes of an oaten meal, and apples, and herbs, and wine, and cheese.


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[Assistant] But they had to go a long way round in order to avoid a region in which men live.


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[Assistant] It was well into the afternoon before they found themselves in level fields, warm between hedgerows.


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[Assistant] There, truffle hunter, called at the mouth of a little hole in a green bank.


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[Assistant] He was of course bigger than a common mouse, well over a foot high when he stood on his hind legs, and with ears nearly as long as, though broader than, a rabbit's. His name was Reapy Cheep, and he was a gay and martial mouse. He wore a tiny little rapier at his side and twirled his long whiskers as if they were a moustache.


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[Assistant] There are twelve of us, sire, he said with a dashing and graceful bow, and I place all the resources of my people unreservedly at your majesty's disposal.


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[Assistant] Caspian tried hard and successfully not to laugh, but he couldn't help thinking that Weepy Cheep and all his people could very easily be put in a washing basket and carried home on one's back.


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[Assistant] It would take too long to mention all the creatures whom Caspian met that day.


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[Assistant] The three hard biters who were badgers like truffle hunter, Camillo the hare, and Hogglestock the hedgehog. They rested at last beside a well at the edge of a wide and level circle of grass, bordered with tall elms, which now threw long shadows across it, for the sun was setting, the daisies closing, and the rooks flying home to bed. Here they supped on food they had brought with them, and Trumpkin lit his pipe. Knickerbrick was not a smoker.


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[Assistant] Now, said the badger, if only we could wake the spirits of these trees and this well, we should have done a good day's work. Can't we? said Caspian. No, said Truffle-Hunter, we have no power over them.


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[Assistant] Since the humans came into the land, felling forests and defiling streams, the Dryads and Nyads have sunk into a deep sleep.


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[Assistant] Who knows if ever they will stir again. And that is a great loss to our side.


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[Assistant] Tell Marines are horribly afraid of the woods and once the trees moved in anger, our enemies would go mad with fright and be chased out of Narnia as quick as their legs could carry them.


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[Assistant] What imaginations you animals have, said Trumpkin, who didn't believe in such things. But why stop at trees and waters? Wouldn't it be even nicer if the stones started throwing themselves at old mirrors?


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[Assistant] The badger only grunted at this, and after that there was such a silence that Caspian had nearly dropped off to sleep when he thought he heard a faint musical sound from the depth of the woods at his back. Then he thought it was only a dream and turned over again. But as soon as his ear touched the ground, he felt or heard, it was hard to tell which, a faint beating or drumming. He raised his head. The beating noise at once became fainter


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[Assistant] But the music returned clearer this time. It was like flutes.


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[Assistant] He saw that Truffle Hunter was sitting up staring into the wood. The moon was bright. Caspian had been asleep longer than he thought.


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[Assistant] Nearer and nearer came the music, a tune wild and yet dreamy.


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[Assistant] And the noise of many light feet till at last out from the wood into the moonlight came dancing shapes such as Caspian had been thinking of all his life.


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[Assistant] The upper part of their bodies gleamed naked in the pale light, but their legs and feet were those of goats.


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[Assistant] Fawns! cried Caspian, jumping up, and in a moment they were all round him.


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[Assistant] It took next to no time to explain the whole situation to them and they accepted Caspian at once.


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[Assistant] Before he knew what he was doing, he found himself joining in the dance.


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[Assistant] Trumpkin with heavier and jerkier movements did likewise, and even Truffle Hunter hopped and lumbered about as best he could.


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[Assistant] Only Nickerbrick stayed where he was, looking on in silence.


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[Assistant] The fawns footed it all round Caspian to their reedy pipes.


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[Assistant] Their strange faces, which seemed mournful and merry all at once, looked into his. Dozens of fawns. Mentius, and Obentinus, and Dumnus, Volans, Voltinus, Jerbius, Niminus, Norsus, and Oscans. Patertwig had sent them all. When Caspian awoke next morning, he could hardly believe that it had not all been a dream.


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[Assistant] But the grass was covered with little cloven hoof marks.


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[Assistant] Robert De Niro's too old to be making gangster movies still. Dude needs to start playing grandfather roles or something.


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[Assistant] He's basically leveraged everything that he owns to make this dream come true.


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[Assistant] So you're protecting yourself by hiding behind your rank and staying aboard. Edmond Dantes, I am making you the new captain of the Faroe Islands.


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[Assistant] You presume to demote me? There is no demotion. You will remain first mate. Under Captain Dantes. Unless of course you choose to seek another birth.


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[Assistant] We are here to plead the case of Edmond Dantès. What now? Dantès.


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[Assistant] You knew. Edmund, also. Like a son.


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[Assistant] Who knows? Must have been Thor, the man who had Edmund arrested, left for Paris soon after to take up the post of Chief Prosecutor. Of course, the shock of his father's violent murder may also have spurred his departure. They were strange times.


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[Assistant] One of my captains. And then one day Dong Le forced me out.


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[Assistant] Yes, a month after poor Edmund was arrested, Mercedes wed his best friend.


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[Assistant] And with the death of his father and brother in the war, Venom became Count Mondego. They live in Paris now. Count and Countess Mondego.


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[Assistant] Senor Vampa, allow Jacopo to live. He's already suffered enough with the prospect of being buried alive. Men that wanted to see some sport have seen it. Those who wanted mercy for Jacopo will get it. And by keeping me in Jacopo, you will have yet another skilled sailor and fighter for your crew.


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[Assistant] The boy's reply to all this was, do your worst.


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[Assistant] Got two chests on the ferry for our cut. One day I'll never notice.


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[Assistant] Donald Trump yesterday at the CIA, uh, referred to the sun coming out after his inaugural speech when in fact it was cloudy and raining.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we call them by numbers around here.


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[Assistant] What difference does it make? How do you feel one?


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[Assistant] One after the other they stop breathing. Is it of any use?


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[Assistant] Don't you think I'd give them ten cars if I could? You think I want to throw away the lives of those men? Callahan's life? My sister's husband?


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[Assistant] All on account of me. And my brother-in-law. And those three.


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[Assistant] He means a lot to me, but that doesn't change anything.


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[Assistant] It may be too late, Governor. There's been a break in the death house. The convicts are holding it against us. When did this happen? An hour ago. I've kept the news inside the prison.


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[Assistant] Yes, several. We don't know who's alive in there and who isn't.


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[Assistant] Yes, sir. Goodbye, Governor. Goodbye, sir.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna do Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Lana Del Rey, The Beatles, uh, Earl's sweatshirt, Marina and the Diamonds, Aurora, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, and Chief Keef.


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[Assistant] You can do it, girl. Oh yea, two more. See, I can't even count, y'all. I was homeschooled. Listen. Chief Keef, uh, Bieber, thank you.


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[Assistant] Listen, I'm trying to stay on the good side. Okay, okay, we won't do that one like that. What are you wearing right now?


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[Assistant] I wear a lot of underground stuff. So I feel like, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, my whole childhood I just went through a thing and that was all I got. So yeah, good will, uh.


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[Assistant] I guess Adidas, I'm gonna say Yeezy, which is part of Adidas, uh.


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[Assistant] I have, I normally have Takis, uhm, chocolate, always, uhm.


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[Assistant] That show was cool. To do a show. Maybe not to go. And...


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[Assistant] Yes, world peace, world peace, world peace, world peace. Eight things I want for my 18th birthday. Gee, can I, can I be, can I be bold here? Yea. Well, well, you can cheat anytime.


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[Assistant] I would like, okay, here's one. I would like my face to be the reverse. No, listen. You know when you look at yourself in the reflection and you look good and then you see a picture and you're like, ew.


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[Assistant] I wish my face was reversed. Like I wish I looked like what I looked like in the- like-


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[Assistant] To, uh, what the hell. I wanna.


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[Assistant] So we got Sporty Spice. Okay. Am I naming them like their real names? Cause I can't do that. No, we're gonna just name their names. Okay, it's Sporty Spice, Ginger Spice, Scary Spice, Baby Spice, Posh Spice. Woo!


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, something really specific to a certain song. Uhm, maybe about...


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[Assistant] I love him so much and I always have but I feel like it's like almost disrespectful to him if I was to always talk about him and like.


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[Assistant] I kinda miss going out in public, but then I'm like, nah. It's like, what am I gonna go do? Like, go buy some, like, shampoo? You know? I can still do, like, I go buy band- I went to Bath and Body Works yesterday alone. What? It was a very big deal to me.


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[Assistant] So I was like, oh that sounds cool, so I downloaded the app, and it took forever to download. So I'm like standing there like, this is taking a while, and she's like, it'll be fine.


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[Assistant] Uh, being able to have a bad moment once in a while and not be shamed for it.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Uhm, to be honest, I think it's, I think it was my show in New Zealand. I did this show in Auckland, New Zealand. It was my first arena ever. And I...


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[Assistant] It's so embarrassing. I came off stage and immediately started to cry.


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[Assistant] It was my first time being anywhere like that and the energy was so amazing. I went into the green room and I have a video. I thought it was, cause I thought it looked ugly. So I took a video. I was like this.


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[Assistant] I am so utterly confused.


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[Assistant] Hobby Frog volunteered to get the mystery nest out of the pond.


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[Assistant] Leave your comments if you think Dr. Gold is there to help the Hobby Kids or not. And what do you think he's up to? Don't forget to subscribe so you can discover what the Hobby Family finds on the next mystery episode. You don't want to miss it!


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[Assistant] He kicked around a lot of mining towns in the west and would make money, uh, even as a young kid fighting in, in these mining towns.


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[Assistant] There was no greater draw in America in sports.


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[Assistant] Sharky has beaten him very badly for six rounds, but in those six rounds Dempsey has constantly hit him low.


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[Assistant] There is a clause that says the fighter scoring a knockdown must go to a neutral corner. Ironically, it was insisted upon by Dempsey.


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[Assistant] Electoral college votes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.


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[Assistant] Chapter 5 Caspian's Adventure in the Mountains


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[Assistant] After this, Caspian and his tutor had many more secret conversations on the top of the great tower. And at each conversation, Caspian learned more about old Narnia.


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[Assistant] So that thinking and dreaming about the old days and longing that they might come back filled nearly all his spare hours.


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[Assistant] But of course he had not many hours to spare, for now his education was beginning in earnest.


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[Assistant] He learned sword fighting and riding, swimming and diving, how to shoot with the bow, and play on the recorder and the theore bow.


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[Assistant] How to hunt the stag and cut him up when he was dead. Besides, cosmography, rhetoric, heraldry, versification, and of course history, with a little law, physics, alchemy and astronomy.


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[Assistant] Of magic, he learned only the theory, for Dr Cornelius said the practical part was not proper study for princes.


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[Assistant] And I myself, he added, I'm only a very imperfect magician and can do only the smallest experiments of navigation.


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[Assistant] Which is a noble and heroical art, said the doctor.


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[Assistant] He was taught nothing because King Miraz disapproved of ships and the sea.


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[Assistant] As a little boy, he had often wondered why he disliked his aunt, Queen Pruna Prismia.


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[Assistant] He now saw that it was because she disliked him.


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[Assistant] He also began to see that Narnia was an unhappy country.


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[Assistant] The taxes were high and the laws were stern and Miraz was a cruel man.


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[Assistant] After some years there came a time when the Queen seemed to be ill, and there was a great deal of bustle and bother about her in the castle, and doctors came and the courtiers whispered. This was in early summertime. And one night, while all this fuss was going on,


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[Assistant] Caspian was unexpectedly wakened by Dr Cornelius after he had been only a few hours in bed.


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[Assistant] But he had learned to have confidence in his tutor and he began doing what he was told at once. When he was dressed, the doctor said, I have a wallet for you.


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[Assistant] We must go into the next room and fill it with victuals from your highness's supper table. My gentleman in waiting will be there, said Caspian. They are fast asleep and will not wake, said the doctor.


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[Assistant] I am a very minor magician, but I can at least contrive a charmed sleep.


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[Assistant] They went into the antechamber, and there, sure enough, the two gentlemen in waiting were, sprawling on chairs and snoring hard.


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[Assistant] Dr Cornelius quickly cut up the remains of a cold chicken and some slices of venison and put them with bread and an apple or so and a little flask of good wine into the wallet which he then gave to Caspian.


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[Assistant] It was a cloudy night, not at all like the night when they had seen the conjunction of Tarver and Alambil. Dr Cornelius said, Dear Prince, you must leave this castle at once.


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[Assistant] And go to seek your fortune in the wide world. Your life is in danger here. Why? Ask Caspian. Because you are the true king of Narnia.


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[Assistant] Caspian the 10th, the true son and heir of Caspian the 9th. Long life to your majesty.


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[Assistant] And suddenly, to Caspian's great surprise, the little man dropped down on one knee and kissed his hand. What does it all mean? I don't understand, said Caspian.


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[Assistant] I wonder you have never asked me before, said the doctor. Why, being the son of King Caspian, you are not King Caspian yourself. Everyone except your majesty knows that Miraz is a usurper. When he first began to rule, he did not even pretend to be the king. He called himself Lord Protector. But then your royal mother died.


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[Assistant] The good queen and the only Telmarine who was ever kind to me. And then one by one all the great lords who had known your father died or disappeared. Not by accident either. Miraz weeded them out.


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[Assistant] He sent to fight giants on the northern frontier till one by one they fell.


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[Assistant] Arlian and Eremon and a dozen more he executed for treason on a false charge. The two brothers of Beaver's Dam he shut up as madmen.


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[Assistant] Who alone among all the Telmarines did not fear the sea to sail away.


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[Assistant] And look for new lands beyond the eastern ocean, and, as he intended, they never came back.


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[Assistant] Then his flatterers, as he had instructed them, begged him to become king. And of course he did. Do you mean he now wants to kill me too? said Caspian.


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[Assistant] That is almost certain, said Dr Cornelius. But why now? said Caspian. I mean, why didn't he do it long ago if he wanted to? And what harm have I done him?


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[Assistant] He has changed his mind about you because of something that happened only two hours ago. The Queen has had a son. I don't see what that's got to do with it, said Caspian. Don't see!


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[Assistant] Explained the doctor, have all my lessons in history and politics taught you no more than that? Listen. As long as he had no children of his own, he was willing enough that you should be king after he died.


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[Assistant] I can tell you the whole story, said the doctor, but not now. There is no time. You must fly at once. You'll come with me? said Caspian. I dare not.


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[Assistant] Said the doctor, it would make your danger greater.


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[Assistant] Two are more easily tracked than one. Dear Prince, dear King Caspian, You must be very brave. You must go alone and at once.


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[Assistant] Try to get across the southern border to the court of King Nain of Arkenland. He will be good to you. Shall I never see you again? said Caspian in a quavering voice. I hope so, dear King, said the doctor. What friend have I in the world except your majesty? And I have a little magic. But in the meantime, speed is everything. Here are two gifts before you go.


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[Assistant] This is a little purse of gold. Alas, all the treasure in this castle should be your own by rights. And here is something far better. He put in Caspian's hands something which he could hardly see, but which he knew by the feel to be a horn. That, said Dr Cornelius.


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[Assistant] Is the greatest and most sacred treasure of Narnia. Many terrors I endured, many spells did I utter to find it, when I was still young.


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[Assistant] It is the magic horn of Queen Susan herself.


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[Assistant] Which she left behind her when she vanished from Narnia at the end of the Golden Age.


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[Assistant] It is said that whoever blows it shall have strange help. No one can say how strange.


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[Assistant] It may have the power to call Queen Lucy and King Edmund and Queen Susan and High King Peter back from the past, and they will set all to rights.


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[Assistant] It may be that it will call up Aslan himself. Take it, King Caspian. But do not use it except at your greatest need. And now, haste, haste, haste.


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[Assistant] The little door at the very bottom of the tower, the door into the garden, is unlocked. There we must part. Can't I get my horse, Destria? said Caspian.


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[Assistant] He is already saddled and waiting for you just at the corner of the orchard.


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[Assistant] This is what it looks like with all the wrapping off. Actually, I forgot to show you and took off the cross bar on this side.


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[Assistant] And now I'm about to do the same thing here, take off this crossbar.


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[Assistant] Hadn't played basketball, he might have played Vegas as a sleight of hand artist, either on the stage or at the gaming tables. He could make anything disappear, even a basketball with his lightning moves. Beyond his ball handling skills, Pistol Pete shot with deadly accuracy, becoming the most prolific scorer in the history of college basketball. A droopy-eyed virtuoso, Maravich was born to entertain.


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[Assistant] Drafted by Atlanta in 1970, Pete Maravich entered the pros as a high dollar, high profile player whose flamboyant talent belied the pressures that were building within.


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[Assistant] In a lifelong search for stability, Merovich wandered into bizarre


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[Assistant] Pete Marovitch's father, Press, grew up in Pennsylvania steel country.


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[Assistant] Press moved on to coaching high schools and small colleges.


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[Assistant] Already a stepfather when his firstborn son Pete arrived in 1947, Prasmarevich charted a course straight to the gym.


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[Assistant] In 1956, the Marovitch family moved to South Carolina, where press went to coach Clemson.


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[Assistant] While he built a reputation in the ACC, Pete was building one of his own, playing on the high school varsity as a 12 year old.


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[Assistant] When press became assistant coach at North Carolina State in 1962, the family moved to Raleigh.


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[Assistant] At Broughton High School, it was clear that Press's passion had transferred to his son.


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[Assistant] While Pete led Broughton to the state semifinals in 1965, Press, in his first year as North Carolina State's head coach, won the ACC tournament. Father and son stood together on the brink of a dream.


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[Assistant] While Pete spent a year with a nearby prep school, his father let it be known in the college coaching fraternity that a package deal was possible. He didn't have to wait long.


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[Assistant] While Pete interacted with his father on the basketball court, his mother Helen was finding it increasingly difficult to live in the shadow of their mutual obsession.


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[Assistant] However hard Pete played off court, he never let up once the whistle blew, averaging 44 points a game in his sophomore and junior years. But scoring was only part of the pistol's arsenal.


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[Assistant] As he entered his senior year, Maravich was just under 700 points short of Oscar Robertson's NCAA scoring record.


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[Assistant] As the all-time college scoring champion, Maravich would face a new challenge in the NBA without his father on the sidelines.


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[Assistant] Out maneuvering the ABA's Carolina Cougars, the Hawks signed the collegiate sensation for five years at nearly two million dollars. But it wasn't only money that set Maravich apart.


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[Assistant] Despite his national following and 24-point average, Maravich wasn't adding wins to Atlanta's effort to upgrade. Although they had reached the Western Division Finals the year before he arrived, the Hawks never won a playoff round in his four seasons.


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[Assistant] In February of 1974, Maravich boiled over after being ejected from a game in Houston for arguing with an official.


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[Assistant] Interest did come from the New Orleans Jazz when the NBA expanded to 18 teams. The pistol was going home.


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[Assistant] While Merovich was drawing crowds to the Superdome, press had slipped into coaching obscurity.


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[Assistant] Fired by LSU in 1972, Press, now in his third season at Appalachian State, watched over his wife's downward slide.


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[Assistant] Three hours later, Helen Marovitch was pronounced dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was 49.


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[Assistant] After adjusting to the vastness of the Superdome, Maravich averaged over 21 points and 6 assists in his first season with the Jazz. His game was beginning to mature.


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[Assistant] But the pistol could still deliver showtime performances. Both guns were blazing on February 25th, 1977.


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[Assistant] After leading the league with a 31 point average that season,


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[Assistant] Marovitch and the Jazz were in the hunt for the 1978 Playoffs when Pete was brought down.


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[Assistant] In 1979, hindered by a knee brace, Maravich appeared in just 49 games, averaging 23 points before diminishing crowds. When the Jazz moved to Utah after the season, Maravich had worn out his welcome.


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[Assistant] Maravich came off the bench to help them post the best record in the NBA.


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[Assistant] Marovitch took a hard look at what was left of his NBA future.


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[Assistant] On September 20th, 1980, Pete Maravich, at 33, announced his retirement in Boston and returned to his home outside New Orleans.


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[Assistant] In 1982, the depressed son of a basketball father found someone else to believe in.


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[Assistant] Together, they continued their passion at the Pistols basketball camp in Clearwater, Florida.


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[Assistant] Then in 1986, Pete learned that his father was diagnosed with cancer.


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[Assistant] Pressmarevich died on April 5th, 1987. Nine months later, he was followed by his son.


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[Assistant] Pete Marovitch was scheduled to be interviewed for a Christian radio program. But first,


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[Assistant] And there was this great rumor that was circulating that he had developed a shot that he was going to dribble down the court and right before the basket, give it a hard dribble and the ball on the bounce would go in the basket.


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[Assistant] I would have liked to have seen Pete sacrifice a little bit more for the team.


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[Assistant] We would not be, uh, in first place in the division. And Pilsner just took over the game and shot us into the best record.


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[Assistant] Yeah, dude, this shit is crazy! Uhm, no, the forum's huge. It's huge. Like literally, it's like a real


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[Assistant] A huge ass building. No, it's great. And the last one was very cute. Uhm, it was all Christmassy when we were here last, which was like a month ago. First show of the year, I'm ready, I'm prepared, I'm good.


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[Assistant] Ever, so it was great, we like did everything imaginable, we like went ziplining and tubing and kayaking and then a helicopter and like to a waterfall and we like had like this big ass, it was great, it was great, it was really


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[Assistant] It's crazy. I mean, I also like Coldplay. I grew up listening to them. I love Coldplay. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Nice people. That's, that's like the vibe I get. Like nobody's got like a huge crew and not gonna look at anybody in the eye and like pushing everybody away, you know what I mean? Cause some people are like weird and kinda conceited, which I understand, but it's like, I feel like it's like good vibes today.


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[Assistant] It's like the coolest thing ever. I genuinely feel like Bond, all the James Bond movies are like...


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[Assistant] The coolest franchise, like ever. I really don't give a fuck about-


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[Assistant] Like, what's it called? Bunch of movies in a row. What are those? That's the word I just said, my dumbass. Uhm, yeaah. I really don't, I couldn't care less about like all the actions. I don't know, but I just feel like Bond is like, no matter what, it's cool. It's always cool. Always been cool, always is cool. It's like,


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[Assistant] That's what I've been told. Joining the organization is a very serious step. Getting out alive is much more difficult than getting in.


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[Assistant] Very well. We do not repeat an oath because it is non-binding enough. We only swear in our hearts to make Cuba free. You work for the Metropolitan Bank, is that correct?


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[Assistant] They are prepared to spend a considerable amount of money in the purchase of song rights and hiring of artists. Mr. Fenner has an account at your bank.


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[Assistant] Because of the special nature of this plan you are going to be given the choice. If you are willing, fine. If you refuse...


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[Assistant] Well, what about you? Remember what I said. You may decide either way.


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[Assistant] He thinks it's a fair chance that the explosion won't be heard. And if it is heard people will only say,


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[Assistant] They should be back by now. It will be daylight soon.


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[Assistant] Before I left the States, I raised $12,000, not for me, but for Cuba. And it wasn't donated by a bunch of exiled millionaires. I got it from the people up in Spanish Harlem.


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[Assistant] Small time musicians, rumba dancers, old men who work in cigar factories, waiters, busboys, the people I grew up with.


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[Assistant] I took their money, more than they could afford to give, but they were glad to give it because they thought I could help get their country back for them. Now I've gotta go back there and tell them it didn't work, that I spent their money saving the hide of Tony Fenner, and that the politicos still own Cuba.


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[Assistant] Uh, was the passing of, uh, Bill Paxton. Yeah. Uh, passed away. And, I mean, the guy has been in so many different movies and very young and passed away.


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[Assistant] And I was just online, and of course as people do, they start tweeting these things. And all the biggest stars in Hollywood were tweeting, what a nice guy Bill Paxton was. And people say that, you hear that a lot about, oh he's a nice guy, he's a nice guy.


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[Assistant] Everybody was unanimously saying one of the nicest people I've ever worked with. In addition to being incredibly talented.


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[Assistant] And I was thinking about this thing that I actually witnessed Bill Paxton do. And that made me realize, oh my god, they're right. They're absolutely right. Which was...


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[Assistant] It's got some amazing performances, uh, Kurt Russell's in it, Val Kilmer's in it, and Bill Paxton's in it, and just, you know, just Sam Elliott's in it. It's just an amazing movie. It's great. And people go nuts for it. And I'm a huge fan of the movie Tombstone.


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[Assistant] And Jason Shalemi and I find out that Val Kilmer is going to be doing a play, not far from where we tape here, uh, in Burbank. Yeah. And he's going to be playing Mark Twain. Yeah. And we go and see it, and it turns out he was amazing. He was amazing doing, uh, Mark Twain. But we go to see Val Kilmer in this play,


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[Assistant] And we get in and we're taking our seats, and all of a sudden someone taps me on the shoulder, and it's Bill Paxton. Bill Paxton's like, hey man, how's it going? I'm like, hey, it's really good. And then I say, I just gotta tell you,


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[Assistant] Uh, how much I love Tombstone, what an amazing movie Tombstone is, and I said, I have to tell you, that's my, uh, mind producer over there, Jason Schlemming, who's been with me since he was like a kid, since he was like 18, and Tombstone is one of his favorite movies. And Bill Paxton went,


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[Assistant] Which, which guy is he? Which guy is he? And I said, right there, Jason. He says, his name's Jason? Yea. And he goes over, he walks over to Jason, he goes, Hey Jason, and he starts whispering in Jason's ear,


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[Assistant] And then he walked away, and I'm like, what the hell did he say to Jason? I go over to Jason, and Jason's not a famous guy or anything, and he spent quite a while with him, and he said, he just leaned over and he recited to me, quietly, all of his lines from Tombstone.


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[Assistant] I just wanted to, I wanted to share that because that's one of those things where when you witness true kindness, true humanity, you feel like, okay, let's just take a second. What a great man. What a great guy.


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[Assistant] Is equal to the curved surface area of a square


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[Assistant] What is the measure of an interior angle of a regular?


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[Assistant] AQ minus BQ minus 3AB into A minus B.


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[Assistant] What scientific concept is utilized in the development of energy efficiency LED light bulb?


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[Assistant] I know what you said. I can't take it in. Well why?


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[Assistant] Did Fred know? Nobody knew. Fred's the last person you would have told.


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[Assistant] But if Fred found out somehow- If Fred had found out and was going to tell, I believe Joe would have killed him.


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[Assistant] You can't give him a start! Oh, you really led up to that, didn't you? The kind welcome. How are you, son? And how's your family? Well, you can go to hell!


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[Assistant] But before I do, I want a letter written by him renouncing every penny from Bridget. Then it's finished.


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[Assistant] My latest project. It's nearly finished. There was a mitten in here. This way.


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[Assistant] I hold things in because I feel like I'll be judged sometimes. In my head I just feel like I'm never good enough for people.


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[Assistant] What are you doing here this time of night? Do you live here?


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[Assistant] Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world. You must pay for Thinus. But in return for your bounty, I will settle this dispute about the throne for you. If you will. You say the matter has been at issue for a year. May I have ten minutes at it?


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[Assistant] Did you spare him with all your clemency? Was that vengeance? Would that it had been. Vengeance at least is human. Now by the gods.


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[Assistant] Otherwise my soldiers who do not share my celebrated clemency will probably kill you. Pass the word to the guard. Thinus is now prisoner. Bitterness, fetch my armour.


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[Assistant] When that trumpet sounds, we must take every man his life in his hands and throw it in the face of death. And to my soldiers who have trusted me.


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[Assistant] It is true, though you swore it a thousand times and believed all you swore.


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[Assistant] These knockers at your gates are also believers in vengeance and in stabbing. You have slain their leader. It is right that they should slay you. And so do the end of history.


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[Assistant] As much a child as ever, Cleopatra. Haven't I met a woman of you after all?


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[Assistant] They fly down on a rope and knock you off your ass. That was it. That was the end of him.


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[Assistant] Here are the latest calls between former President Obama and President Trump.


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[Assistant] Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, chapter 25. Bentley Drummle, who was so sulky a fellow.


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[Assistant] That he even took up a book as if its writer had done him an injury.


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[Assistant] And in the large awkward tongue that seemed to lull about in his mouth, as he himself lulled about in a room, he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved and suspicious.


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[Assistant] He came of rich people down in Somersetshire, who had nursed this combination of qualities until they made the discovery that it was just of age and a blockhead. Thus Bentley Drummle had come to Mr. Pocket when he was a head taller than that gentleman, and half a dozen heads thicker than most gentlemen.


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[Assistant] Start-off had been spoiled by a weak mother, and kept at home when he ought to have been at school. But he was devotedly attached to her, and admired her beyond measure.


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[Assistant] He had a woman's delicacy of feature, and was, as you may see, though you never saw her, said Herbert to me, exactly like his mother.


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[Assistant] It was but natural that I should take to him much more kindly than to Drommel, and that even in the earliest evenings of our boating, he and I should pull homeward abreast of one another, conversing from boat to boat, while Bentley Drommel came up in our wake alone, under the overhanging banks and among the rushes. He would always creep in shore, like some uncomfortable amphibious creature, even when the tide would have sent him fast upon his way, and I always think of him as coming after us in the dark.


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[Assistant] And my possession of a half share in his chambers often took me up to London. We used to walk between the two places at all hours.


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[Assistant] I have an affection for the road yet, though it is not so pleasant a road as it was then, formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope. When I had been in Mr. Pocket's family a month or two, Mr. and Mrs. Camilla turned up. Camilla was Mr. Pocket's sister. Georgiana, whom I had seen at Miss Habersham's on the same occasion, also turned up. She was a cousin.


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[Assistant] An indigestive single woman who called her rigidity, religion, and her liver, love.


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[Assistant] These people hated me with a hatred of cupidity and disappointment. As a matter of course, they fawned upon me and my prosperity with the basest meanness. Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests,


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[Assistant] They showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express. Mrs. Pocket they held in contempt.


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[Assistant] But they allowed the poor soul to have been heavily disappointed in life, because that shed a feeble reflected light upon themselves.


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[Assistant] These were the surroundings among which I settled down and applied myself to my education. I soon contracted expensive habits and began to spend an amount of money


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[Assistant] But within a few short months, I should have thought almost fabulous. But through good and evil, I stuck to my books. There was no other merit in this, than my having sense enough to feel my deficiencies.


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[Assistant] Between Mr. Pocket and Herbert, I got on fast.


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[Assistant] And with one or the other, all was at my elbow to give me the start I wanted, and clear obstructions out of my road.


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[Assistant] I must have been as great adult as Drummle, if I had done less. I had not seen Mr. Wemmick for some weeks, when I thought I would write him a note, and propose to go home with him on a certain evening. He replied that it would give him much pleasure, and that he would expect me at the office at six o'clock. There I went, and there I found him.


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[Assistant] Putting the key of his safe down his back as the clock struck. Did you think of walking down to Walworth? said he. Certainly, said I, if you approve. Very much was Mr. Wemmick's reply.


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[Assistant] Pick us out a good one, old Britain, because if we had chosen to keep you in the box another day or two, we could easily have done it." He said to that.


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[Assistant] Let me make you a present of the best fowl in the shop. I'll let him, of course. As far as it goes, it's property and portable. You don't object to an aged parent, I hope." I really thought he was still speaking of the fowl, until he added, because I've got an aged parent at my place. I then said what politeness required. So, you haven't dined with Mr. Jaggers yet? he pursued, as we walked along.


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[Assistant] Not yet. He told me so this afternoon when he heard you were coming. I expect you'll have an invitation to-morrow. He's going to ask your pals too. Three of them ain't there.


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[Assistant] Although I was not in the habit of counting Drummle as one of my intimate associates, I answered, yes. Well, he's going to ask the whole gang. I hardly felt complimented by the word. And whatever he gives you, he'll give you good. Don't look forward to variety, but you'll have excellence. And here's another rum thing in his house, proceeded Wemmick, after a moment's pause.


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[Assistant] I've heard him a hundred times if I've heard him once, say to a regular cracksman in our front office.


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[Assistant] You know where I live. Now, no bolt is ever drawn there. Why don't you do a stroke of business with me?


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[Assistant] Not a man of them, sir, would be bold enough to try it on for love or money. They dread him so much, said I. Dread him? said Remig. I believe you they dread him. Not but what he's artful.


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[Assistant] Every spoon. So they wouldn't have much, I observed.


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[Assistant] Even if they are, but he would have much,' said Wemmick, cutting me short. And they know it. He'd have their lives, and the lives of scores of them. He'd have all he could get.


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[Assistant] I was falling into meditation on my guardian's greatness, when Wemmick remarked, As to the absence of plate, that's only his natural depth, you know.


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[Assistant] A river's its natural depth, an ease is natural depth. Look at his watch-chain. That's real enough. It's very massive," said I. Massive? repeated Wormick. Oh, I think so. An ease watch is a gold repeater, and worth a hundred pound if it's worth a penny. Mr Pip.


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[Assistant] There are about seven hundred thieves in this town who know all about that watch.


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[Assistant] There's not a man, a woman, or a child among them, who wouldn't identify the smallest link in that chain, and drop it as if it was red-hot, if inveigled into touching it.


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[Assistant] At first, with such discourse, and afterwards with conversation of a more general nature, did Mr. Wemmick and I beguile the time and the road, until he gave me to understand that we had arrived in the district of Walworth.


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[Assistant] Wemmick's house was a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden.


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[Assistant] And the top of it was cut out, and painted like a battery mounted with guns. "'My own doing,' said Remick. "'Looks pretty, don't it?' I highly commended it. I think it was the smallest house I ever saw, with the queerest gothic windows, by far the greater part of them sham, and a gothic door almost too small to get in at. "'That's a real flagstaff, you see,' said Remick.


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[Assistant] And on Sundays, I run out a real flag. Then look here, after I have crossed this bridge.


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[Assistant] I oystered up, so, and cut off the communication. The bridge was a plank, and it crossed a chasm about four feet wide and two deep.


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[Assistant] But it was very pleasant to see the pride with which he hoisted it up and made it fast, smiling as he did so, with a relish, and not merely mechanically. And nine o'clock every night, Greenwich time, said Wemmick, the gun fires. There he is, you see. And when you hear him go, I think you'll say he's a stinger. The piece of ordnance referred to.


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[Assistant] was mounted in a separate fortress constructed of latticework.


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[Assistant] It was protected from the weather by an ingenious little tarpaulin contrivance, and the nature of an umbrella.


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[Assistant] So as not to impede the idea of fortifications, for it's a principle with me, if you have an idea, carry it out and keep it up. I don't know whether that's your opinion," I said, decidedly. At the back there's a pig, and there are fowls and rabbits. Then I knock together my own little frame, you see, and grow cucumbers, and you judge at supper what sort of a salad I can raise.


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[Assistant] Said Wemmick, smiling again. But seriously too, as she shook his head.


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[Assistant] If you can suppose a little place besieged, it would hold out a devil of a time in point of provisions.


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[Assistant] Then he conducted me to a bower, and ride a dozen yards off.


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[Assistant] But which is approached by such ingenious twists of path, that it took quite a long time to get at.


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[Assistant] And in this retreat our glasses were already set forth.


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[Assistant] This piece of water with an island in the middle, which might have been the salad for supper, was of a circular form.


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[Assistant] And he constructed a fountain in it, which, when you set a little mill going, and took a cork out of a pipe,


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[Assistant] It played to that powerful extent that it made the back of your hand quite wet. "'I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own jack-and-wall trades,' said Rammick, in acknowledging my compliments. "'Well, it's a good thing, you know. It brushes the new-gate cobwebs away, and pleases the aged. You wouldn't mind being at once introduced to the aged, would you? It wouldn't put you out.


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[Assistant] I expressed the readiness I felt, and we went into the castle. There we found, sitting by a fire, a very old man in a flannel coat, clean, cheerful, comfortable, and well cared for, but intensely deaf. "'Well, aged parent,' said Remick, shaking hands with him in a cordial and jacose way, "'how am you?'


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[Assistant] I wish you could hear his name. Not away at him, Mr Pip, that's what he likes.


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[Assistant] You're as proud of its punch, ain't you, aged?" said Wimick, contemplating the old man with his hard face really softened. There's a nod for you," giving him a tremendous one. There's another for you," giving him a still more tremendous one. You like that, don't you?


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[Assistant] If you're not tired, Mr. Pip, though—I know it's tiring to strangers—will you tip him one more? You can't think how it pleases him.


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[Assistant] I tipped him several more, and he was in great spirits. We left him bestering himself to feed the fowls, and we sat down to our puncher in the arbor, where Wemmick told me as he smoked a pipe,


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[Assistant] That it had taken him a good many years to bring the property up to its present pitch of perfection. Is it your own, Mr Wemmick?


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[Assistant] Oh, yes," said Wormick. I've got hold of it. A bit at time. It's a freehold by George. Is it indeed? I hope Mr. Jaggers admires it. Never seen it," said Wormick. Never heard of it. Never seen the aged. Never heard of him. No, the office is one thing, and private life is another.


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[Assistant] When I go into the office, I leave the castle behind me, and when I come into the castle, I leave the office behind me. If it's not in any way disagreeable to you, you'll oblige me by doing the same. I don't wish it professionally spoken about. Of course.


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[Assistant] I felt my good faith involved in the observance of his request. The punch being very nice.


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[Assistant] We sat there drinking it and talking, until it was almost nine o'clock. "'Get in near gunfire,' said Wemmick. Then, as he laid down his pipe, "'it's the aged's treat.' Proceeding into the castle again, we found the aged heating the poker, with expectant eyes.


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[Assistant] Who I believe would have been blown out of his armchair, but for holding on by the elbows, cried out exultantly.


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[Assistant] And several manuscript confessions written under condemnation.


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[Assistant] Upon which Mr. Wemmick set particular value as being, to use his own words, Every one of them lies, sir.


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[Assistant] These were agreeably dispersed among small specimens of china and glass, various neat trifles made by the proprietor of the museum, and some tobacco stoppers carved by the aged.


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[Assistant] They were all displayed in that chamber of the castle into which I had been first inducted, and which served, not only as the general sitting-room, but as the kitchen too, if I might judge from a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace, designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack. There was a neat little girl in attendance, who looked after the aged in the day. When she had laid the supper-cloth, the bridge was lowered to give her means of egress, and she withdrew for the night.


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[Assistant] And though the castle was rather subject to dry rot, in so much that it tasted like a bad nut, and though the pig might have been farther off, I was heartily pleased with my whole entertainment. Nor was there any drawback on my little turret bedroom.


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[Assistant] It seemed as if I had to balance that pole on my forehead all night. Wemmick was up early in the morning, and I'm afraid I heard him cleaning my boots. After that, he fell to gardening, and I saw him from my gothic window pretending to employ the aged, and nodding at him in a most devoted manner.


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[Assistant] Our breakfast was as good as the supper, and at half-past eight precisely, we started for Little Britain.


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[Assistant] By degrees, Wormick got drier and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again. At last, when we got to his place of business and he pulled out his key from his coat-collar, he looked as unconscious of his Walworth property.


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[Assistant] As if the castle and the drawbridge and the arbor and the lake and the fountain and the aged had all been blown into space together by the last discharge of the stinger.


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[Assistant] There's this whole episode where he steals the crime- the prime- What is it? The prime jewel? The crown jewel. He steals the crown jewel.


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[Assistant] Bravest of the brave, tip of the spear. All that and a bag of chips.


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[Assistant] I tell you I love you, and I know you must care about me, Ashley.


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[Assistant] Darling, have you worked since my man Godfrey? Gee, Miriam, hardly at all.


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[Assistant] We don't know nothing about the contents, but it's gotta be signed for by Mr. Selznick personally. Those are the instructions.


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[Assistant] He threw a left hook, right hand, left hook. That so fast that it was like one punch.


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[Assistant] I just wish there were a couple of 12 strikes I had when they were in my way. But eh, one fair square, God bless him.


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[Assistant] He made his own decisions. I mean, he never confided anybody to say, should I do this or should I do that? He wouldn't take advice too well.


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[Assistant] After the fight, he figured that he didn't want to fight anymore. He just wanted to do something different.


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[Assistant] But he wasn't champion of the world. He didn't have the crown on his head. So that was a big difference.


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[Assistant] The AI, unless it's told to fear death, will not fear death. There is no second place in war. If you're going up against an AI pilot, you don't stand a chance.


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[Assistant] Hey, I'm Chip Foose here at Foose Design. Today we're going to discuss the fifth generation Corvette. You know, if you're looking for a sports car, the bargain that you can get a C5 Corvette for is amazing. Between $10,000 and $20,000, if you want to get yourself this sports car and just go out and enjoy it, you can get a real nice car. Now, if you're a hot rodder and you're looking for all the mechanicals,


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[Assistant] Fifth generation Corvette, and you know, I've never been a huge fan of the car itself. Fun to drive, but aesthetically and as a designer, to me, the car just looks soft. It's doughy, it's round and kind of looks lazy in design. You know, compared to today where you've got some sharp edges and some aggressive design, the C5 is a very round,


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[Assistant] I would probably use graphics to try and break it up and do something to tone it or something to try and make it look a little more aggressive. Now I wouldn't get.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter what you've got, you can, you can change it and play around with it and have some fun, but make it your own car. Here, I'll, I'll do a little sketch of one and, uh, maybe show you what I'm thinking.


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[Assistant] You know, the engineers would come in and say, well, that bumper, you know, if we make it, uh, two inches too wide, it's going to be a lot easier to put on the car. So designers had their hands tied where they couldn't do all the things that they wanted to do.


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[Assistant] Callaway that did the really cool windshield and soft door and I'm gonna, I'm gonna sketch that up on this car also, but I'm gonna play with a couple of, uh,


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[Assistant] One of the benefits of playing around with this back end, it's just going to make the overhang look lighter. It's still as long as it was, but it's going to look lighter just by bringing it up a little bit and actually giving a little more shape into the back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that little gill that they had in the front of the car really broke up the body side, but I think it was a 64, 65. They actually had three angled ones. I'm going to bring that detail into this car to get a little more aggressive.


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[Assistant] Whatever I can find, but I like to sketch in a ballpoint pen. Pencil, you get pencil all over your hand and you end up smearing it. And I'm rubbing my hand all over this paper, so a ballpoint pen works for me.


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[Assistant] And then what I'll end up doing when I get something that I'm starting to like, I'll do an overlay and, uh, start playing with it there. The other thing I'm going to play around with is this, uh, front bumper and this, this whole detail here. It looks very simple.


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[Assistant] The word stance of the vehicle, what I mean by that is the ride height. The reason I say to find the stance that you like is I'm a huge fan of building a car where it looks great and that's where it actually performs. You don't have to leave a show and lift your vehicle so you can actually drive home and completely change the look, build it where it looks cool and it works right.


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[Assistant] I would have to say no. I have seen a lot of cars that have been chopped that have actually destroyed the car. It's how they're chopped that can either make them look better or worse. And, uh, you know, a lot of people think, you know, if you're gonna, if you're gonna chop it, more is better.


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[Assistant] Where you think, oh, that looks really cool. You get it all finished and you walk back. Now the body just looks really, really heavy and the top looks small. You need to proportion it so that it doesn't have that feeling. There's a lot of mercs out there that are really cut really low.


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[Assistant] And the bodies just look heavy. Look at Sam Barris, who chopped the very first one. That car is beautifully proportioned. It's the green one that was restored by, uh, Robrizio street rods up in San Francisco. But, uh, Sam Barris.


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[Assistant] But, uh, the greatest thing about it is there are no rules in customizing a car. You get to build what you want.


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[Assistant] Typically when I throw color on something, I start with a real pale blue because it's reflecting all the sky tone. It's this car we're outside. So.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna do this car in a warm champagne silver color.


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[Assistant] Concept type car look. And that's basically what we're doing here is trying to come up with a concept for a C4 or a C5 Corvette. So I'm going to play around with something that I think almost always works.


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[Assistant] Beautiful flowing line through the top of that body, but breaking up. I'm not going black, but I would have this beautiful champagne color and then something that's in a warm kind of charcoal-y color next to it.


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[Assistant] But, uh, you know, I have an idea in my head of what I want to design, and as I'm drawing, sometimes it grows and starts to change. This isn't going off too far from what I had originally thought.


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[Assistant] I get asked all the time whether I'm a Ford or Chevy or Chrysler guy, and my answer is yes. I'm all of them. You know, in life I have chosen one woman to spend the rest of my life with, but I don't want to get my hands on every car I can.


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[Assistant] I've been asked to build copies of cars that I've built for other customers before and


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[Assistant] It's very flattering that guys want that car, but in my mind, if I were going to build a car, I want to build something that is mine, not something that I saw in a movie. Let's build something better than that.


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[Assistant] It's going to be interesting, uh, how they do it and how it's accepted. But I personally think it'll be accepted well because it's already being accepted well in other brands.


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[Assistant] You know, you could buy one of these cars and put some giant flares on it and, uh, a big hood scoop that you would typically see as a hot rod or a custom. Some really cool big wide wheels underneath these big fenders. But everybody that looks at that car says, wow, look at the fender flares and look at that hood scoop. They know exactly what you did to it.


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[Assistant] When I build a car, I don't want people to know exactly what I wanted or what I did to it. I want them to discover it. So as they're looking at it, they start to discover, oh, look, they did this and they did this.


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[Assistant] That doesn't always happen. They're just gonna walk up and think, wow, what is this? And then they'll figure it out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, when it comes to the wheels on this, I'm just indicating them as if, uh, you know, what they would look like if the car was moving, because that's not the focal point right now. I'm focusing on the body. If I were designing the wheels for this car, I might spend, you know,


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[Assistant] Six hours just playing around with different ideas until I get something that I'm happy with. So I'm just, like I say, just indicating here. So it's just something that's inspirational and kind of fun. I have an idea of what I would do. Some type of a, uh,


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[Assistant] Starting out with the soft, round-bodied Corvette, what I wanted to do was try and give it a little angular design, so by giving it a two-tone and having some kind of, you know, not a real bold color change, but a subtle color change with a graphic, I actually tightened up the, uh, the form of the body there.


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[Assistant] Shall we say ground effects to the car. Cool set of wheels.


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[Assistant] Ever since it's been running around, it has the worst behind it.


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[Assistant] You had all this mechanization going on, the people leaving, but...


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[Assistant] It's come to the point now where they don't do underground mining if they can get away with it. They do mountaintop removals and surface mining. You can mine a whole mountainside.


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[Assistant] And I'm talking about a whole mountainside within a year or two with around, uh, seven to twelve people.


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[Assistant] Exactly, you're under the Short Term Loan Act by the legislative enactment says it applies only to those who register under the Short Term Loan Act.


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[Assistant] I guess I want to really quickly talk about the Composition app, uhm, unfortunately this is the first I've, uhm, I'm seeing it, which, let's see if I can, this is great, uhm,


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[Assistant] My question is from an interaction perspective, my initial thought would be someone would want to keep, uhm, once they find three lines that they like, they would want to just freeze those lines and then do tweaks afterwards. But in the app, it's constantly changing and re-optimizing the lines. Uhm, can you comment on that decision a little bit?


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[Assistant] Well I like going over there and, well I don't see why you're so against it all of a sudden.


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[Assistant] Now Billy was having a lot of trouble before he met Susan, but, oh, she's really calmed him down.


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[Assistant] Now what did I say? Well I like going over there and, well I don't see why you're so against it all of a sudden.


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[Assistant] Billy, is there something you want to tell me?


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[Assistant] For years now, Obamacare has been the bane of Republicans' existence.


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[Assistant] ...before it was passed. Nearly 49 million Americans had no coverage, and if you were buying for yourself, insurers could deny anyone they considered too risky. Some denied entire professions, like air traffic controllers, taxi cab drivers, and scuba divers, and this baby was denied coverage at just four months old for an unexpected pre-existing condition.


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[Assistant] You will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your healthcare plan.


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[Assistant] You'll be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period.


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[Assistant] That was partly thanks to Republicans gutting a program in the original bill that helped protect insurers from unexpected losses. And that has been something of a pattern here.


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[Assistant] But that time is now over. It is their turn to present a plan and the clock is ticking. Insurance companies are deciding right now whether to even offer Obamacare plans next year. But before you panic,