{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Bottoms” succeeded to “Hell Row”.", "pos": 682}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Can I have my dinner, mother? ’Cause it begins at half-past one, the man says so.", "pos": 5773}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You can have your dinner as soon as it’s done,", "pos": 5897}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Isn’t it done? Then I’m goin’ be-out it.", "pos": 5966}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’ll do nothing of the sort. It will be done in five minutes. It is only half-past twelve.", "pos": 6066}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "They’ll be beginnin’,", "pos": 6161}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You won’t die if they do. Besides, it’s only half-past twelve, so you’ve a full hour.", "pos": 6219}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "I told you!", "pos": 6653}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Take your pudding in your hand—and it’s only five past one, so you were wrong—you haven’t got your twopence,", "pos": 6712}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "I want to go, I want to go,", "pos": 6943}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, and you shall go, whining, wizzening little stick!", "pos": 7003}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "You never said you was coming—isn’t the’ a lot of things?—that lion’s killed three men—I’ve spent my tuppence—an’ look here. I got these from that stall where y’ave ter get them marbles in them holes. An’ I got these two in two goes-’aepenny a go-they’ve got moss-roses on, look here. I wanted these.", "pos": 7859}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "H’m! They are pretty!", "pos": 8267}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Shall you carry ’em, ’cause I’m frightened o’ breakin’ ’em?", "pos": 8312}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, are you coming now, or later?", "pos": 8855}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Are you goin’ a’ready?", "pos": 8893}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Already? It is past four, I know.", "pos": 8955}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "What are you goin’ a’ready for?", "pos": 8991}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You needn’t come if you don’t want,", "pos": 9038}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Has my dad been?", "pos": 9628}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No,", "pos": 9657}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "He’s helping to wait at the Moon and Stars. I seed him through that black tin stuff wi’ holes in, on the window, wi’ his sleeves rolled up.", "pos": 9680}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Ha! He’s got no money. An’ he’ll be satisfied if he gets his ’lowance, whether they give him more or not.", "pos": 9822}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What have I to do with it? What have I to do with all this? Even the child I am going to have! It doesn’t seem as if I were taken into account. I wait. I wait, and what I wait for can never come.", "pos": 12747}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Oh! Oh! waitin’ for me, lass? I’ve bin ’elpin’ Anthony, an’ what’s think he’s gen me? Nowt b’r a lousy hae’f-crown, an’ that’s ivry penny—", "pos": 13698}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He thinks you’ve made the rest up in beer,", "pos": 13839}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "An’ I ’aven’t—that I ’aven’t. You b’lieve me, I’ve ’ad very little this day, I have an’ all. Here, an’ I browt thee a bit o’ brandysnap, an’ a cocoanut for th’ children. Nay, tha niver said thankyer for nowt i’ thy life, did ter? It’s a good un, you may back yer life o’ that. I got it fra’ Bill Hodgkisson. ‘Bill,’ I says, ‘tha non wants them three nuts, does ter? Arena ter for gi’ein’ me one for my bit of a lad an’ wench?’ ‘I ham, Walter, my lad,’ ’e says; ‘ta’e which on ’em ter’s a mind.’ An’ so I took one, an’ thanked ’im. I didn’t like ter shake it afore ’is eyes, but ’e says, ‘Tha’d better ma’e sure it’s a good un, Walt.’ An’ so, yer see, I knowed it was. He’s a nice chap, is Bill Hodgkisson, e’s a nice chap!", "pos": 13902}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "A man will part with anything so long as he’s drunk, and you’re drunk along with him,", "pos": 14813}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Eh, tha mucky little ’ussy, who’s drunk, I sh’d like ter know?", "pos": 14918}
{"speaker": "John Field", "text": "Now sit still. Now your hair, I don’t know what it is like! It’s as bright as copper and gold, as red as burnt copper, and it has gold threads where the sun shines on it. Fancy their saying it’s brown. Your mother calls it mouse-colour.", "pos": 17079}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But you say you don’t like business,", "pos": 17436}
{"speaker": "John Field", "text": "I don’t. I hate it!", "pos": 17488}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And you would like to go into the ministry,", "pos": 17526}
{"speaker": "John Field", "text": "I should. I should love it, if I thought I could make a first-rate preacher.", "pos": 17591}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "Then why don’t you—why don’t you? If I were a man, nothing would stop me.", "pos": 17669}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "But my father’s so stiff-necked. He means to put me into the business, and I know he’ll do it.", "pos": 17834}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "But if you’re a man?", "pos": 17931}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "Being a man isn’t everything,", "pos": 17969}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Now, as she moved about her work at the Bottoms, with some experience of what being a man meant, she knew that it was not everything.", "pos": 18048}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Now do come and have this one wi’ me. It’s easy, you know. I’m pining to see you dance.", "pos": 22104}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "No, I won’t dance. But you mustn’t miss your dance,", "pos": 22379}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Nay, I don’t want to dance that—it’s not one as I care about.", "pos": 22615}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "Yet you invited me to it.", "pos": 22679}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I never thought o’ that. Tha’rt not long in taking the curl out of me.", "pos": 22741}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You don’t look as if you’d come much uncurled,", "pos": 22848}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’m like a pig’s tail, I curl because I canna help it,", "pos": 22907}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you are a miner!", "pos": 22997}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes. I went down when I was ten.", "pos": 23047}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When you were ten! And wasn’t it very hard?", "pos": 23121}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You soon get used to it. You live like th’ mice, an’ you pop out at night to see what’s going on.", "pos": 23178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It makes me feel blind,", "pos": 23278}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Like a moudiwarp!", "pos": 23317}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yi, an’ there’s some chaps as does go round like moudiwarps.", "pos": 23349}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They dun though!", "pos": 23520}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tha niver seed such a way they get in. But tha mun let me ta’e thee down some time, an’ tha can see for thysen.", "pos": 23561}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shouldn’t ter like it?", "pos": 23992}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "’Appen not, it ’ud dirty thee.", "pos": 24037}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Does ter, my wench? Well, I made that, so I can make thee one!", "pos": 25234}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What! why, it’s a steel one!", "pos": 25299}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "An’ what if it is! Tha s’lt ha’e one very similar, if not exactly same.", "pos": 25330}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Look here,", "pos": 25839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I found these in the pocket of your wedding-coat. Haven’t you settled the bills yet?", "pos": 25915}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No. I haven’t had a chance.", "pos": 26002}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you told me all was paid. I had better go into Nottingham on Saturday and settle them. I don’t like sitting on another man’s chairs and eating from an unpaid table.", "pos": 26032}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tha can ha’e it, for what good it’ll be to thee.", "pos": 26260}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thought—", "pos": 26311}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Didn’t you buy the furniture for Walter?", "pos": 26531}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I did,", "pos": 26585}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And how much did he give you to pay for it?", "pos": 26632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Eighty pound, if you’re so keen on knowin’,", "pos": 26727}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Eighty pounds! But there are forty-two pounds still owing!", "pos": 26786}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can’t help that.", "pos": 26847}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But where has it all gone?", "pos": 26868}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You’ll find all the papers, I think, if you look—beside ten pound as he owed me, an’ six pound as the wedding cost down here.", "pos": 26897}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Six pounds!", "pos": 27025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "His houses—which houses?", "pos": 27317}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thought the house we live in—", "pos": 27453}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They’re my houses, those two,", "pos": 27498}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then we ought to be paying you rent,", "pos": 27694}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Walter is paying me rent,", "pos": 27750}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And what rent?", "pos": 27798}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Six and six a week,", "pos": 27831}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is lucky to be you,", "pos": 27970}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "to have a husband as takes all the worry of the money, and leaves you a free hand.", "pos": 28027}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You don’t dance yourself, do you, missis?", "pos": 28469}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No—I never had the least inclination to,", "pos": 28648}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fancy! An’ how funny as you should ha’ married your Mester. You know he’s quite a famous one for dancing.", "pos": 28711}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I didn’t know he was famous,", "pos": 28819}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did he?", "pos": 28972}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, he did.", "pos": 28982}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "An’ it was thronged every Tuesday, and Thursday, an’ Sat’day—an’ there was carryin’s-on, accordin’ to all accounts.", "pos": 29026}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They’re working very late now, aren’t they?", "pos": 29368}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No later than they allers do, I don’t think. But they stop to have their pint at Ellen’s, an’ they get talkin’, an’ there you are! Dinner stone cold—an’ it serves ’em right.", "pos": 29444}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But Mr. Morel does not take any drink.", "pos": 29620}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What dost think o’ ’im?", "pos": 32662}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could kill you, I could!", "pos": 32789}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yer non want ter make a wench on ’im,", "pos": 32874}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh—my boy!", "pos": 33169}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Th’ gaffer come down to our stall this morning, an’ ’e says, ‘You know, Walter, this ’ere’ll not do. What about these props?’ An’ I says to him, ‘Why, what art talkin’ about? What d’st mean about th’ props?’ ‘It’ll never do, this ’ere,’ ’e says. ‘You’ll be havin’ th’ roof in, one o’ these days.’ An’ I says, ‘Tha’d better stan’ on a bit o’ clunch, then, an’ hold it up wi’ thy ’ead.’ So ’e wor that mad, ’e cossed an’ ’e swore, an’ t’other chaps they did laugh. 'I shan’t have it, Walter. Who knows more about it, me or you?’ So I says, ‘I’ve niver fun out how much tha’ knows, Alfred. It’ll ’appen carry thee ter bed an’ back.'", "pos": 36225}
{"speaker": "Children", "text": "Minton’s knocked off. My dad’ll be at home.", "pos": 38002}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’m not sure I wouldn’t rather be short, for when he’s flush, there isn’t a minute of peace.", "pos": 38877}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "What, are thee there! Sluthe off an’ let me wesh mysen.", "pos": 40876}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You may wait till I’ve finished,", "pos": 40958}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Oh, mun I? An’ what if I shonna?", "pos": 41008}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Then you can go and wash yourself in the soft-water tub.", "pos": 41088}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Ha! I can’ an’ a’, tha mucky little ’ussy.", "pos": 41147}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "A mean, wizzen-hearted stick!", "pos": 42692}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’ve never known Jerry mean in my life. A opener-handed and more freer chap you couldn’t find anywhere, accordin’ to my knowledge.", "pos": 42748}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Open-handed to you. But his fist is shut tight enough to his children, poor things.", "pos": 42900}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Poor things! And what for are they poor things, I should like to know.", "pos": 43009}
{"speaker": "Jerry", "text": "Mornin’, missis! Mester in?", "pos": 43248}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes—he is.", "pos": 43278}
{"speaker": "Jerry", "text": "A nice day,", "pos": 43446}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 43483}
{"speaker": "Jerry", "text": "Grand out this morning—grand for a walk.", "pos": 43489}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Do you mean you’re going for a walk?", "pos": 43532}
{"speaker": "Jerry", "text": "Yes. We mean walkin’ to Nottingham,", "pos": 43582}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 43632}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Lead, kindly Light. As if ‘Genevieve’ weren’t good enough,", "pos": 47179}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Good gracious, coming home in his drunkenness!", "pos": 48232}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Comin’ home in his what?", "pos": 48294}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Say you’re not drunk!", "pos": 48389}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "'Say you’re not drunk,' Why, nobody but a nasty little bitch like you ’ud ’ave such a thought. There’s money to bezzle with, if there’s money for nothing else. I’ve not spent a two-shillin’ bit this day,", "pos": 48584}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You don’t get as drunk as a lord on nothing. And, if you’ve been sponging on your beloved Jerry, why, let him look after his children, for they need it.", "pos": 48852}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "It’s a lie, it’s a lie. Shut your face, woman.", "pos": 49062}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No. Don’t call me that—you, the most despicable liar that ever walked in shoe-leather.", "pos": 49296}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "You’re a liar! You’re a liar, you’re a liar.", "pos": 49486}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "The house is filthy with you,", "pos": 49623}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Then get out on it—it’s mine. Get out on it! It’s me as brings th’ money whoam, not thee. It’s my house, not thine. Then ger out on’t—ger out on’t!", "pos": 49666}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And I would. Ah, wouldn’t I, wouldn’t I have gone long ago, but for those children. Ay, haven’t I repented not going years ago, when I’d only the one Do you think it’s for you I stop—do you think I’d stop one minute for you?", "pos": 49830}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Go, then. Go!", "pos": 50140}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No! No, you shan’t have it all your own way; you shan’t do all you like. I’ve got those children to see to. My word. I should look well to leave them to you.", "pos": 50186}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Go. Go!", "pos": 50400}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I should be only too glad. I should laugh, laugh, my lord, if I could get away from you,", "pos": 50470}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "The nuisance! the nuisance!", "pos": 52650}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Open the door, Walter,", "pos": 56867}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I don’t care who you are nor what you are, I shall have my own way.", "pos": 57942}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’ve brought thee a cup o’ tea, lass,", "pos": 61442}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, you needn’t, for you know I don’t like it,", "pos": 61491}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Drink it up; it’ll pop thee off to sleep again.", "pos": 61555}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’ll back my life there’s no sugar in,", "pos": 61673}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Yi—there’s one big un,", "pos": 61724}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s a wonder,", "pos": 61770}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Now I’m cleaned up for thee: tha’s no ’casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books.", "pos": 62871}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And the dinner cooks itself?", "pos": 63023}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Eh, I know nowt about th’ dinner.", "pos": 63068}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’d know if there weren’t any.", "pos": 63104}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Ay, ’appen so,", "pos": 63139}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Kirk", "text": "So you keep wagging on, then?", "pos": 63487}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Ay. There’s nothing else for it.", "pos": 63519}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "Have you seen Hose?", "pos": 63591}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I haven’t,", "pos": 63772}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "Eh, I wish he’d come. I’ve got a copperful of clothes, an’ I’m sure I heered his bell. Hark! He’s at the end. I’ve done ten dozen this week,", "pos": 63802}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "T-t-t!", "pos": 64288}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t know how you can find time.", "pos": 64313}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "Eh! You can find time if you make time.", "pos": 64351}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t know how you do it. And how much shall you get for those many?", "pos": 64414}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "Tuppence-ha’penny a dozen,", "pos": 64506}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well. I’d starve before I’d sit down and seam twenty-four stockings for twopence ha’penny.", "pos": 64554}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "Oh, I don’t know. You can rip along with ’em.", "pos": 64666}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Kirk", "text": "Did you knock, Mrs. Morel?", "pos": 65394}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "If you wouldn’t mind, Mrs. Kirk.", "pos": 65423}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Kirk", "text": "Eh, dear, how are you feeling?", "pos": 65568}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You might fetch Mrs. Bower,", "pos": 65623}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Kirk", "text": "Ag-gie—Ag-gie!", "pos": 65748}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Hash some cold meat up for the master’s dinner, and make him an apple-charlotte pudding,", "pos": 66068}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bower", "text": "He may go without pudding this day,", "pos": 66176}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "Shall ter finish, Sorry?", "pos": 66913}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Finish? Niver while the world stands!", "pos": 66972}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "It’s a heart-breaking job. Tha might as well leave it, Walter. It’ll do to-morrow, without thee hackin’ thy guts out.", "pos": 67066}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’ll lay no b—— finger on this to-morrow, Isr’el!", "pos": 67331}
{"speaker": "Israel", "text": "Oh, well, if tha wunna, somebody else’ll ha’e to,", "pos": 67396}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hey-up there—loose-a’!", "pos": 67493}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "Tha’ll happen catch me up,", "pos": 67584}
{"speaker": "Giles", "text": "It’s rainin’, Sorry,", "pos": 68203}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "There’s some herb beer behind the pantry door. Th’ master’ll want a drink, if he doesn’t stop. What is it?", "pos": 69557}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A boy.", "pos": 69884}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bower", "text": "Well, she’s about as bad as she can be. It’s a boy childt.", "pos": 70373}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Han yer got a drink?", "pos": 70611}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Was that the master?", "pos": 70984}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Bower", "text": "I’ve gave him his dinner,", "pos": 71025}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Well, how are ter, then?", "pos": 71919}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I s’ll be all right,", "pos": 71956}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "H’m! A lad, tha says. Bless him!", "pos": 71993}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Go now,", "pos": 72354}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I will, my lass,", "pos": 72374}
{"speaker": "Mr. Heaton", "text": "When He changed the water into wine at Cana, that is a symbol that the ordinary life, even the blood, of the married husband and wife, which had before been uninspired, like water, became filled with the Spirit, and was as wine, because, when love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.", "pos": 73731}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, poor fellow, his young wife is dead; that is why he makes his love into the Holy Ghost. Good gracious!", "pos": 74145}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "How d’yer do Nay, look thee at it! Tha niver wants ter shake hands wi’ a hand like that, does ter? There’s too much pick-haft and shovel-dirt on it.", "pos": 74480}
{"speaker": "Mr. Heaton", "text": "Are you tired?", "pos": 74904}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Tired? I ham that. You don’t know what it is to be tired, as I’m tired.", "pos": 74942}
{"speaker": "Mr. Heaton", "text": "No,", "pos": 75033}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Why, look yer ’ere. It’s a bit dry now, but it’s wet as a clout with sweat even yet. Feel it.", "pos": 75062}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Goodness! Mr. Heaton doesn’t want to feel your nasty singlet.", "pos": 75214}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "No, perhaps he doesn’t, but it’s all come out of me, whether or not. An’ iv’ry day alike my singlet’s wringin’ wet. ’Aven’t you got a drink, Missis, for a man when he comes home barkled up from the pit?", "pos": 75339}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know you drank all the beer,", "pos": 75558}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "An’ was there no more to be got? A man gets that caked up wi’ th’ dust, you know,—that clogged up down a coal-mine, he needs a drink when he comes home.", "pos": 75631}
{"speaker": "Mr. Heaton", "text": "I am sure he does,", "pos": 75813}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "But it’s ten to one if there’s owt for him.", "pos": 75854}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "There’s water—and there’s tea,", "pos": 75900}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Water! It’s not water as’ll clear his throat.", "pos": 75950}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "My cloth!", "pos": 76183}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "A man as comes home as I do ’s too tired to care about cloths,", "pos": 76235}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Pity!", "pos": 76312}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Mr. Heaton, a man as has been down the black hole all day, dingin’ away at a coal-face, yi, a sight harder than that wall—", "pos": 76532}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Needn’t make a moan of it. A fine mess!", "pos": 76668}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Dos’t think I’m goin’ to sit wi’ my arms danglin’, cos tha’s got a parson for tea wi’ thee?", "pos": 77078}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "God Bless Our Home!", "pos": 77524}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What are you putting in for?", "pos": 77645}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I canna see what there is so much to laugh at.", "pos": 77817}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Kirk", "text": "He looks as if he was thinking about something—quite sorrowful,", "pos": 80728}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "My lamb!", "pos": 81008}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Look! Look, my pretty! If he lives, what will become of him—what will he be? I will call him Paul,", "pos": 82297}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I wish the nuisance would come. But I’ll say nothing, whatever time he comes. It only works me up; I won’t say anything. But I know if he does anything it’ll make my blood boil,", "pos": 83470}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Is there nothing to eat in the house?", "pos": 84298}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know what there is in the house,", "pos": 84517}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I asked a civil question, and I expect a civil answer,", "pos": 84652}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And you got it. What are you doing, clumsy, drunken fool?", "pos": 84729}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Then tha should get the flamin’ thing thysen. Tha should get up, like other women have to, an’ wait on a man.", "pos": 85256}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Wait on you—wait on you? Yes, I see myself.", "pos": 85368}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Yis, an’ I’ll learn thee tha’s got to. Wait on me, yes tha sh’lt wait on me—", "pos": 85427}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Never, milord. I’d wait on a dog at the door first.", "pos": 85506}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "What—what?", "pos": 85560}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "P-h!", "pos": 85733}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Did it catch thee?", "pos": 86792}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Go away,", "pos": 86914}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Let’s—let’s look at it,", "pos": 86991}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Go away!", "pos": 87045}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Lemme—lemme look at it, lass.", "pos": 87067}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Go away,", "pos": 87201}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "What has it done to thee, lass?", "pos": 87889}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You can see what it’s done,", "pos": 87966}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What of this child? Get me some wadding out of the middle drawer. Now that clean pit-scarf.", "pos": 88754}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Let me tie it for thee,", "pos": 89288}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I can do it myself. I knocked against the latch of the coal-place, when I was getting a raker in the dark, because the candle blew out.", "pos": 89330}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "It was her own fault,", "pos": 90122}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Isn’t my father going to get up?", "pos": 91342}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Let him lie,", "pos": 91392}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "If she hadn’t said so-and-so, it would never have happened. She asked for what she’s got.", "pos": 93083}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "What shollt ha’e, Walter? Oh, Jim, my lad, wheriver has thee sprung frae?", "pos": 93737}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Was there a sixpence? I hadn’t spent it, had I? And I hadn’t left it anywhere else?", "pos": 94773}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Did you take sixpence out of my purse last night?", "pos": 95457}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Me! No, I didna! I niver clapped eyes on your purse.", "pos": 95509}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Why, you know you did,", "pos": 95636}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I tell you I didna. Yer at me again, are yer? I’ve had about enough on’t.", "pos": 95679}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "So you filch sixpence out of my purse while I’m taking the clothes in.", "pos": 95769}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’ll may yer pay for this. And now, you’ll see me again when you do.", "pos": 95842}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’ll be before I want to,", "pos": 96130}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Where’s my dad?", "pos": 96500}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He says he’s run away,", "pos": 96555}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Where to?", "pos": 96600}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Eh, I don’t know. He’s taken a bundle in the blue handkerchief, and says he’s not coming back.", "pos": 96612}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "What shall we do?", "pos": 96709}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Eh, never trouble, he won’t go far.", "pos": 96744}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "But if he doesn’t come back,", "pos": 96782}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You pair of gabeys! You’ll see him before the night’s out.", "pos": 96905}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’d better fetch your bundle before you take your boots off,", "pos": 98125}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "You may thank your stars I’ve come back to-night,", "pos": 98208}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Why, where should you have gone? You daren’t even get your parcel through the yard-end. I don’t know what’s in your blue handkerchief. But if you leave it the children shall fetch it in the morning.", "pos": 98343}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "You mun get me a drop o’ laxy vitral. It’s a winder as we canna ha’e a sup i’ th’ ’ouse. Grand! Grand! It’s better than any of your tea or your cocoa stews,", "pos": 99199}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Goodness, man, don’t be so lachrymose. I wouldn’t be such a mardy baby,", "pos": 101752}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "What then, my beauty? I sh’ll come to thee in a minute.", "pos": 105580}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What a sight the lad looks!", "pos": 105759}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "He’s a little collier, bless his bit o’ mutton!", "pos": 105933}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What’s the matter? What’s the matter?", "pos": 106422}
{"speaker": "the child", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 106523}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "If he doesn’t stop, I’ll smack him till he does.", "pos": 106737}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’ll do nothing of the sort. Now cry there, Misery!", "pos": 106788}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "Here, Mrs. Morel, I want to tell you about your Willie.", "pos": 107386}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, do you? Why, what’s the matter?", "pos": 107444}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "A lad as gets ’old of another an’ rips his clothes off’n ’is back, wants showing something.", "pos": 107504}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Your Alfred’s as old as my William,", "pos": 107619}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "’Appen ’e is, but that doesn’t give him a right to get hold of the boy’s collar, an’ fair rip it clean off his back.", "pos": 107675}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well. I don’t thrash my children, and even if I did, I should want to hear their side of the tale.", "pos": 107793}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "They’d happen be a bit better if they did get a good hiding. When it comes ter rippin’ a lad’s clean collar off’n ’is back a-purpose—", "pos": 107913}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’m sure he didn’t do it on purpose,", "pos": 108074}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Anthony", "text": "Make me a liar! But I s’ll let your mester know,", "pos": 108130}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What did you tear Alfred Anthony’s collar for?", "pos": 108456}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "When did I tear his collar?", "pos": 108505}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t know when, but his mother says you did.", "pos": 108535}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Why—it was yesterday—an’ it was torn a’ready.", "pos": 108585}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But you tore it more.", "pos": 108633}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Well, I’d got a cobbler as ’ad licked seventeen—an’ Alfy Ant’ny ’e says: Adam an’ Eve an’ pinch-me, Went down to a river to bade. Adam an’ Eve got drownded, Who do yer think got saved? Oh, Pinch-you, an’ so I pinched ’im, an’ ’e was mad, an’ so he snatched my cobbler an’ run off with it. An’ so I run after ’im, an’ when I was gettin’ hold of him, ’e dodged, an’ it ripped ’is collar. But I got my cobbler—", "pos": 108657}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, you know you’ve got no right to rip his collar.", "pos": 109289}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Well, our mother! I never meant tr’a done it—an’ it was on’y an old indirrubber collar as was torn a’ready.", "pos": 109364}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Next time, you be more careful. I shouldn’t like it if you came home with your collar torn off.", "pos": 109489}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "I don’t care, our mother; I never did it a-purpose.", "pos": 109606}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No—well, you be more careful.", "pos": 109711}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Wheer’s that Willy?", "pos": 110065}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What do you want him for?", "pos": 110097}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’ll let ’im know when I get him,", "pos": 110160}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I suppose Mrs. Anthony’s got hold of you and been yarning to you about Alfy’s collar,", "pos": 110250}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Niver mind who’s got hold of me. When I get hold of ’im I’ll make his bones rattle.", "pos": 110372}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s a poor tale, that you’re so ready to side with any snipey vixen who likes to come telling tales against your own children.", "pos": 110472}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’ll learn ’im! It none matters to me whose lad ’e is; ’e’s none goin’ rippin’ an’ tearin’ about just as he’s a mind.", "pos": 110621}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Ripping and tearing about! He was running after that Alfy, who’d taken his cobbler, and he accidentally got hold of his collar, because the other dodged—as an Anthony would.", "pos": 110756}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I know!", "pos": 110956}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You would, before you’re told,", "pos": 110995}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Niver you mind. I know my business.", "pos": 111055}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That’s more than doubtful, supposing some loud-mouthed creature had been getting you to thrash your own children.", "pos": 111110}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I know,", "pos": 111245}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Can I have my tea, mother?", "pos": 111360}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Tha can ha’e more than that!", "pos": 111389}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Hold your noise, man, and don’t look so ridiculous.", "pos": 111435}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "He’ll look ridiculous before I’ve done wi’ him!", "pos": 111508}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Go out!", "pos": 111748}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’ll gi’e him ‘go out’!", "pos": 111869}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What! You shall not touch him for her telling, you shall not!", "pos": 111928}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Shonna I? Shonna I?", "pos": 112031}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Don’t you dare!", "pos": 112168}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "What! What!", "pos": 112197}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Go out of the house! Only dare! Only dare, milord, to lay a finger on that child! You’ll regret it for ever.", "pos": 112276}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "What dost want ter ma’e a stool-harsed Jack on ’im for? All he’ll do is to wear his britches behind out an’ earn nowt. What’s ’e startin’ wi’?", "pos": 114203}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It doesn’t matter what he’s starting with,", "pos": 114362}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "It wouldna! Put ’im i’ th’ pit we me, an’ ’ell earn a easy ten shillin’ a wik from th’ start. But six shillin’ wearin’ his truck-end out on a stool’s better than ten shillin’ i’ th’ pit wi’me, I know.", "pos": 114424}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He is not going in the pit, and there’s an end of it.", "pos": 114627}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "It wor good enough for me, but it’s non good enough for ’im.", "pos": 114702}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it’s no reason why I should do the same with my lad.", "pos": 114765}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Twelve! It wor a sight afore that!", "pos": 114865}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Whenever it was,", "pos": 114902}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Look, mother!", "pos": 115566}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "How pretty!", "pos": 115652}
{"speaker": "the damsel", "text": "Is Mr. Morel in?", "pos": 116686}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "My husband is at home,", "pos": 116739}
{"speaker": "the maiden", "text": "I—I mean young Mr. Morel,", "pos": 116784}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Which one? There are several.", "pos": 116843}
{"speaker": "the fair one", "text": "I—I met Mr. Morel—at Ripley,", "pos": 116933}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh—at a dance!", "pos": 116979}
{"speaker": "the fair one", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 116996}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t approve of the girls my son meets at dances. And he is not at home.", "pos": 117003}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Did a lady call for me yesterday, mother?", "pos": 117620}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t know about a lady. There was a girl came.", "pos": 117674}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "And why didn’t you tell me?", "pos": 117726}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Because I forgot, simply.", "pos": 117756}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "A good-looking girl—seemed a lady?", "pos": 117803}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I didn’t look at her.", "pos": 117840}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Big brown eyes?", "pos": 117864}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I did not look. And tell your girls, my son, that when they’re running after you, they’re not to come and ask your mother for you. Tell them that—brazen baggages you meet at dancing-classes.", "pos": 117882}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "I’m sure she was a nice girl.", "pos": 118075}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And I’m sure she wasn’t.", "pos": 118107}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "My suit come?", "pos": 118576}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "There’s a parcel in the front room.", "pos": 118607}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "How do you fancy your son in this!", "pos": 118678}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know I don’t want to fancy you in it.", "pos": 118758}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Aren’t you going to stop and see me, mother?", "pos": 118902}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No; I don’t want to see you,", "pos": 118959}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Dance, if you want to dance, my son; but don’t think you can work in the office, and then amuse yourself, and then study on top of all. You can’t; the human frame won’t stand it. Do one thing or the other—amuse yourself or learn Latin; but don’t try to do both.", "pos": 120401}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "They want me in Lime Street on Monday week, mother. And will you reply by Thursday whether you accept. Yours faithfully— They want me, mother, at a hundred and twenty a year, and don’t even ask to see me. Didn’t I tell you I could do it! Think of me in London! And I can give you twenty pounds a year, mater. We s’ll all be rolling in money.", "pos": 120815}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "We shall, my son,", "pos": 121282}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Come on, ’Postle, let’s go through my letters, and you can have the birds and flowers. Nice scent! Smell.", "pos": 122493}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Um! What d’you call it? Smell, mother.", "pos": 122985}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t want to smell their rubbish,", "pos": 123111}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "This girl’s father is as rich as Crœsus. He owns property without end. She calls me Lafayette, because I know French. ‘You will see, I’ve forgiven you’—I like her forgiving me. ‘I told mother about you this morning, and she will have much pleasure if you come to tea on Sunday, but she will have to get father’s consent also. I sincerely hope he will agree. I will let you know how it transpires. If, however, you—’", "pos": 123187}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "‘Let you know how it’ what?", "pos": 123606}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "‘Transpires’—oh yes!", "pos": 123660}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Transpires! I thought she was so well educated! My lad, they’re very wise. They know they’ve only got to flatter your vanity, and you press up to them like a dog that has its head scratched.", "pos": 123683}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Well, they can’t go on scratching for ever. And when they’ve done, I trot away.", "pos": 124168}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But one day you’ll find a string round your neck that you can’t pull off,", "pos": 124264}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Not me! I’m equal to any of ’em, mater, they needn’t flatter themselves.", "pos": 124354}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You flatter yourself,", "pos": 124429}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You couldn’t tell it was there, mother; you couldn’t tell it was there. Let’s make a sacrifice of Arabella. Let’s burn her.", "pos": 126231}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That’s the sacrifice of Missis Arabella. An’ I’m glad there’s nothing left of her.", "pos": 127169}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "You coward, you daren’t do it when I was in.", "pos": 128125}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Dossn’t I? Dossn’t I? Ha’e much more o’ thy chelp, my young jockey, an’ I’ll rattle my fist about thee. Ay, an’ I sholl that, dost see?", "pos": 128292}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Will yer? It ’ud be the last time, though.", "pos": 128560}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Stop it, both of you. We’ve had enough for one night. And you, look at your children!", "pos": 128932}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Look at the children, you nasty little bitch! Why, what have I done to the children, I should like to know? But they’re like yourself; you’ve put ’em up to your own tricks and nasty ways—you’ve learned ’em in it, you ’ave.", "pos": 129122}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Why didn’t you let me have a go at him? I could easily have beaten him.", "pos": 129468}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "A nice thing—your own father,", "pos": 129588}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Father! Call him my father!", "pos": 129634}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, he is—and so—", "pos": 129685}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "But why don’t you let me settle him? I could do, easily.", "pos": 129707}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "The idea! It hasn’t come to that yet.", "pos": 129766}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "No, it’s come to worse. Look at yourself. Why didn’t you let me give it him?", "pos": 129819}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Because I couldn’t bear it, so never think of it,", "pos": 129909}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "It’s music. It sends me to sleep.", "pos": 130395}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Make him stop drinking. Lord, let my father die. Let him not be killed at pit,", "pos": 132627}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Has my dad come?", "pos": 134482}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You can see he hasn’t. They’re ruined and black, but what do I care?", "pos": 134511}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What do you bother yourself for? If he wants to stop and get drunk, why don’t you let him?", "pos": 134904}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Let him! You may well say ‘let him’.", "pos": 135008}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Inger", "text": "Come in, Paul.", "pos": 135863}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I’ll be going and seeing if my mother wants an errand doing.", "pos": 135951}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "This is a nice time to come home,", "pos": 136175}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Wha’s it matter to yo’ what time I come whoam?", "pos": 136228}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’ll lay my fist about thy y’ead, I’m tellin’ thee, if tha doesna stop that clatter! Dost hear?", "pos": 136881}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You ought to tell your father. Now you’d better tell your father when he comes in. You know how he carries on and says he’s never told anything.", "pos": 137701}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right. I’ve won a prize in a competition, dad,", "pos": 137954}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Have you, my boy? What sort of a competition?", "pos": 138138}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, nothing—about famous women.", "pos": 138186}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "And how much is the prize, then, as you’ve got?", "pos": 138220}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s a book.", "pos": 138270}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Oh, indeed!", "pos": 138285}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "About birds.", "pos": 138299}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Hm—hm!", "pos": 138314}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Out of my road—out of my road!", "pos": 139127}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Look, dad!", "pos": 140697}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "That’s right, my beauty,", "pos": 140719}
{"speaker": "Arthur", "text": "Tell us about down pit, daddy.", "pos": 141072}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Well, there’s one little ’oss—we call ’im Taffy. An’ he’s a fawce un! He’s a brown un, an’ not very high. Well, he comes i’ th’ stall wi’ a rattle, an’ then yo’ ’ear ’im sneeze. 'Ello, Taff,' you say, 'what art sneezin’ for? Bin ta’ein’ some snuff?' An’ ’e sneezes again. Then he slives up an’ shoves ’is ’ead on yer, that cadin’. What’s want, Taff?' yo’ say.", "pos": 141129}
{"speaker": "Arthur", "text": "And what does he?", "pos": 141609}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "He wants a bit o’ bacca, my duckey. An’ what dost think, my darlin’? When I went to put my coat on at snap-time, what should go runnin’ up my arm but a mouse. Hey up, theer!' I shouts. An’ I wor just in time ter get ’im by th’ tail.", "pos": 141650}
{"speaker": "Arthur", "text": "And did you kill it?", "pos": 141992}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I did, for they’re a nuisance. The place is fair snied wi’ ’em.", "pos": 142015}
{"speaker": "Arthur", "text": "An’ what do they live on?", "pos": 142081}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "The corn as the ’osses drops—an’ they’ll get in your pocket an’ eat your snap, if you’ll let ’em—no matter where yo’ hing your coat—the slivin’, nibblin’ little nuisances, for they are.", "pos": 142109}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What’s the matter with you?", "pos": 143409}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nothing,", "pos": 143465}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "If you eat no dinner, you’re not going to school,", "pos": 143510}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why?", "pos": 143572}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That’s why.", "pos": 143589}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Are ter asleep, my darlin’?", "pos": 146084}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No; is my mother comin’?", "pos": 146134}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "She’s just finishin’ foldin’ the clothes. Do you want anything?", "pos": 146161}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t want nothing. But how long will she be?", "pos": 146258}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Not long, my duckie. This childt’s axin’ for thee; how long art goin’ to be?", "pos": 146308}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Until I’ve finished, good gracious! Tell him to go to sleep.", "pos": 146551}
{"speaker": "Father", "text": "She says you’re to go to sleep,", "pos": 146614}
{"speaker": "Boy", "text": "Well, I want her to come,", "pos": 146684}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "He says he can’t go off till you come,", "pos": 146730}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Eh, dear! I shan’t be long. And do stop shouting downstairs. There’s the other children—", "pos": 146796}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "She says she won’t be long. Good-night, my darling.", "pos": 146971}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Good-night,", "pos": 147256}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Good gracious! wherever have you been?", "pos": 149590}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, there wasn’t any, so we went over Misk Hills. And look here, our mother!", "pos": 149710}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Now, those are fine ones!", "pos": 149835}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And there’s over two pounds—isn’t there over two pounds?", "pos": 149878}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes. Pretty!", "pos": 149959}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Spinney Park—Spinney Park.", "pos": 152166}
{"speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "text": "Holliday. Bower—John Bower. John Bower!", "pos": 153321}
{"speaker": "Boy", "text": "It’s me,", "pos": 153595}
{"speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "text": "Why, you used to ’ave a different nose than that,", "pos": 153620}
{"speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "text": "How is it your father’s not come!", "pos": 153780}
{"speaker": "Boy", "text": "He’s badly,", "pos": 153872}
{"speaker": "Cashier", "text": "You should tell him to keep off the drink,", "pos": 153901}
{"speaker": "Voice from behind", "text": "An’ niver mind if he puts his foot through yer,", "pos": 153976}
{"speaker": "Cashier", "text": "Fred Pilkington!", "pos": 154144}
{"speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "text": "Walter Morel!", "pos": 154435}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Here!", "pos": 154475}
{"speaker": "Cashier", "text": "Morel—Walter Morel!", "pos": 154517}
{"speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "text": "He’s here. Where is he? Morel’s lad? Here he is!", "pos": 154784}
{"speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "text": "Seventeen pounds eleven and fivepence. Why don’t you shout up when you’re called?", "pos": 155037}
{"speaker": "Mr. Winterbottom", "text": "Sixteen an’ six. How much do you think you’ve given me? Haven’t you got a tongue in your head? Don’t they teach you to count at the Board-school?", "pos": 155555}
{"speaker": "Collier", "text": "Nowt but algibbra an’ French. An’ cheek an’ impidence,", "pos": 155989}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Wharmby", "text": "Your father’s not come yet. Sit you down.", "pos": 156823}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Hello! Have you bested me? Shall you have a drink of something?", "pos": 157246}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m not going to the office any more,", "pos": 157837}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Why, what’s the matter?", "pos": 157886}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m not going any more,", "pos": 157978}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, very well, tell your father so.", "pos": 158017}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m not—I’m not going to fetch the money.", "pos": 158092}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Then one of Carlin’s children can go; they’d be glad enough of the sixpence,", "pos": 158136}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They can have it, then! I don’t want it.", "pos": 158362}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, very well. But you needn’t bully me about it.", "pos": 158416}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They’re hateful, and common, and hateful, they are, and I’m not going any more. Mr. Braithwaite drops his ‘h’s’, an’ Mr. Winterbottom says ‘You was’.", "pos": 158487}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And is that why you won’t go any more?", "pos": 158639}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They always stan’ in front of me, so’s I can’t get out,", "pos": 158840}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, my lad, you’ve only to ask them,", "pos": 158907}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "An’ then Alfred Winterbottom says, ‘What do they teach you at the Board-school?’", "pos": 158961}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "They never taught him much, that is a fact—neither manners nor wit—and his cunning he was born with. What was the cheque?", "pos": 159044}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Seventeen pounds eleven and fivepence, and sixteen and six stoppages. It’s a good week; and only five shillings stoppages for my father.", "pos": 159400}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I wondered how much that little dish was,", "pos": 160744}
{"speaker": "crockery man", "text": "Sevenpence to you.", "pos": 160798}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Thank you.", "pos": 160819}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Mother! don’t wear that nubbly little bonnet.", "pos": 161166}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Then what else shall I wear. And I’m sure it’s right enough.", "pos": 161235}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It looks rather come down. Couldn’t you give it a pick-me-up?", "pos": 161424}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’ll jowl your head for impudence,", "pos": 161501}
{"speaker": "pot man", "text": "Do you want it for fivepence?", "pos": 161786}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’ll have it,", "pos": 161894}
{"speaker": "pot man", "text": "Yer’ll do me the favour, like? Yer’d better spit in it, like yer do when y’ave something give yer.", "pos": 161920}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t see you give it me. You wouldn’t let me have it for fivepence if you didn’t want to.", "pos": 162084}
{"speaker": "pot man", "text": "In this flamin’, scrattlin’ place you may count yerself lucky if you can give your things away,", "pos": 162191}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes; there are bad times, and good. Oh!", "pos": 162301}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My word, you are loaded!", "pos": 162726}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I am! Such a weight! Is the bread done?", "pos": 162791}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The last one is soaking. You needn’t look, I’ve not forgotten it.", "pos": 162975}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, that pot man! You know what a wretch I’ve said he was? Well, I don’t think he’s quite so bad.", "pos": 163057}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t you?", "pos": 163192}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No. I think he can’t make any money—well, it’s everybody’s cry alike nowadays—and it makes him disagreeable.", "pos": 163273}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It would me,", "pos": 163384}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, one can’t wonder at it. And he let me have—how much do you think he let me have this for?", "pos": 163410}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Show me! I love cornflowers on things,", "pos": 163589}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, and I thought of the teapot you bought me—", "pos": 163701}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "One and three,", "pos": 163751}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Fivepence!", "pos": 163779}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s not enough, mother.", "pos": 163792}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No. Do you know, I fairly sneaked off with it. But I’d been extravagant, I couldn’t afford any more. And he needn’t have let me have it if he hadn’t wanted to.", "pos": 163819}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, he needn’t, need he. We c’n have stewed fruit in it,", "pos": 163981}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Or custard, or a jelly,", "pos": 164141}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Or radishes and lettuce,", "pos": 164184}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Don’t forget that bread,", "pos": 164220}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s done,", "pos": 164339}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes. Oh, and I’m a wicked, extravagant woman. I know I s’ll come to want.", "pos": 164399}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Four penn’orth! How cheap!", "pos": 164677}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, but I couldn’t afford it this week of all weeks.", "pos": 164730}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But lovely!", "pos": 164786}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Aren’t they! Paul, look at this yellow one, isn’t it—and a face just like an old man!", "pos": 164810}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Just! And smells that nice! But he’s a bit splashed. Now look at him now he’s wet!", "pos": 164939}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes!", "pos": 165152}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Dakin", "text": "What, han’ yer knocked off? It’s a pity as they letn yer goo. Nay, you know you’re flig to come up again. I reckon Minton’s knocked off, missis,", "pos": 169323}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Isn’t it sickenin’!", "pos": 169690}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Dakin", "text": "Ha! But I’n just seed Jont Hutchby.", "pos": 169743}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "They might as well have saved their shoe-leather,", "pos": 169781}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Can I help it, woman? Then I’ll eat my bit o’ snap as I took with me,", "pos": 170156}
{"speaker": "Arthur", "text": "What’s my dad eating his snap for now?", "pos": 170528}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I should ha’e it holled at me if I didna,", "pos": 170583}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What a story!", "pos": 170642}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "An’ is it goin’ to be wasted? I’m not such a extravagant mortal as you lot, with your waste. If I drop a bit of bread at pit, in all the dust an’ dirt, I pick it up an’ eat it.", "pos": 170678}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It wouldn’t be wasted.", "pos": 170907}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Good bread-an’-butter’s not for mice, either. Dirty or not dirty, I’d eat it rather than it should be wasted.", "pos": 170932}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You might leave it for the mice and pay for it out of your next pint,", "pos": 171058}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Oh, might I?", "pos": 171147}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Just look, mother! Isn’t it lovely?", "pos": 172543}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Now, don’t waste it,", "pos": 172641}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What time dost say he’s coming?", "pos": 173580}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "The train gets in at half-past six. Then he’ll be here at ten past seven.", "pos": 173646}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Eh, bless you, it’ll be hours late on the Midland,", "pos": 173750}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Hadna you better be gettin’ him summat t’ eat ready?", "pos": 174008}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "There’s plenty of time,", "pos": 174081}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "There’s not so much as I can see on,", "pos": 174121}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ask him if the London train’s come,", "pos": 174526}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "I’m not. You be quiet—he might send us off.", "pos": 174618}
{"speaker": "Arthur", "text": "It’s an hour an’ a half late,", "pos": 175088}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Well, it’s Christmas Eve.", "pos": 175146}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "H’m! It’s an hour an’ a ha’ef.", "pos": 176207}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And those children waiting!", "pos": 176254}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Th’ train canna ha’ come in yet,", "pos": 176294}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I tell you, on Christmas Eve they’re hours wrong.", "pos": 176338}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Ha’s here!", "pos": 176753}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Mater!", "pos": 177008}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "My boy! But how late you are!", "pos": 177026}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Aren’t I! Well, dad!", "pos": 177190}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Well, my lad! We thought tha’d niver be commin’,", "pos": 177273}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Oh, I’d come!", "pos": 177358}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But you look well,", "pos": 177434}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Well! I should think so—coming home! By jove! mother, it’s not different!", "pos": 177483}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Well, did iver you see such a parish oven!", "pos": 177912}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Go, go, my boy. You may never have a chance again, and I should love to think of you cruising there in the Mediterranean almost better than to have you at home.", "pos": 179371}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Is this Walter Morel’s? What is it?", "pos": 180605}
{"speaker": "Pit-lad", "text": "Your mester’s got hurt,", "pos": 180708}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Eh, dear me! It’s a wonder if he hadn’t, lad. And what’s he done this time?", "pos": 180743}
{"speaker": "Pit-lad", "text": "I don’t know for sure, but it’s ’is leg somewhere. They ta’ein’ ’im ter th’ ’ospital.", "pos": 180838}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Good gracious me! Eh, dear, what a one he is! There’s not five minutes of peace, I’ll be hanged if there is! His thumb’s nearly better, and now—Did you see him?", "pos": 180926}
{"speaker": "Pit-lad", "text": "I seed him at th’ bottom. An’ I seed ’em bring ’im up in a tub, an’ ’e wor in a dead faint. But he shouted like anythink when Doctor Fraser examined him i’ th’ lamp cabin—an’ cossed an’ swore, an’ said as ’e wor goin’ to be ta’en whoam—’e worn’t goin’ ter th’ ’ospital.", "pos": 181106}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He would want to come home, so that I can have all the bother. Thank you, my lad. Eh, dear, if I’m not sick—sick and surfeited, I am! And it must be pretty bad if they’ve taken him to the hospital. But what a careless creature he is! Other men don’t have all these accidents. Yes, he would want to put all the burden on me. Eh, dear, just as we were getting easy a bit at last. Put those things away, there’s no time to be painting now. What time is there a train? I know I s’ll have to go trailing to Keston. I s’ll have to leave that bedroom.", "pos": 181406}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can finish it,", "pos": 182035}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You needn’t. I shall catch the seven o’clock back, I should think. Oh, my blessed heart, the fuss and commotion he’ll make! And those granite setts at Tinder Hill—he might well call them kidney pebbles—they’ll jolt him almost to bits. I wonder why they can’t mend them, the state they’re in, an’ all the men as go across in that ambulance. You’d think they’d have a hospital here. The men bought the ground, and, my sirs, there’d be accidents enough to keep it going. But no, they must trail them ten miles in a slow ambulance to Nottingham. It’s a crying shame! Oh, and the fuss he’ll make! I know he will! I wonder who’s with him. Barker, I s’d think. Poor beggar, he’ll wish himself anywhere rather. But he’ll look after him, I know. Now there’s no telling how long he’ll be stuck in that hospital—and won’t he hate it! But if it’s only his leg it’s not so bad. I wish this boiler was at the bottom of the sea!", "pos": 182065}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There isn’t a train till four-twenty. You’ve time enough.", "pos": 183308}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh no, I haven’t!", "pos": 183379}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Come with me? What for, I should like to know? Now, what have I to take him? Eh, dear! His clean shirt—and it’s a blessing it is clean. But it had better be aired. And stockings—he won’t want them—and a towel, I suppose; and handkerchiefs. Now what else? A comb, a knife and fork and spoon,", "pos": 183556}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Goodness knows what sort of state his feet were in,", "pos": 183906}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Here you are,", "pos": 184298}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I can’t be bothered!", "pos": 184360}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, you’ve got to, so there, now it’s put out ready,", "pos": 184406}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Is it bad?", "pos": 185263}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s bad enough,", "pos": 185322}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What?", "pos": 185354}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, it’s not really dangerous, but the nurse says it’s a dreadful smash. You see, a great piece of rock fell on his leg—here—and it’s a compound fracture. There are pieces of bone sticking through—", "pos": 185546}
{"speaker": "Children", "text": "Ugh—how horrid!", "pos": 185748}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Of course, he says he’s going to die—it wouldn’t be him if he didn’t. ‘I’m done for, my lass!’ he said, looking at me. ‘Don’t be so silly,’ I said to him. ‘You’re not going to die of a broken leg, however badly it’s smashed.’ ‘I s’ll niver come out of ’ere but in a wooden box,’ he groaned. ‘Well,’ I said, ‘if you want them to carry you into the garden in a wooden box, when you’re better, I’ve no doubt they will.’ ‘If we think it’s good for him,’ said the Sister. She’s an awfully nice Sister, but rather strict. Of course, he is bad. And he will be. It’s a great shock, and he’s lost a lot of blood; and, of course, it is a very dangerous smash. It’s not at all sure that it will mend so easily. And then there’s the fever and the mortification—if it took bad ways he’d quickly be gone. But there, he’s a clean-blooded man, with wonderful healing flesh, and so I see no reason why it should take bad ways. Of course there’s a wound—", "pos": 185811}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But he always gets better,", "pos": 186978}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That’s what I tell him. And he really looked nearly done for. But the Sister says that is the pain. And he looked at me when I came away! I said: ‘I s’ll have to go now, Walter, because of the train—and the children.’ And he looked at me. It seems hard.", "pos": 187032}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I found Barker at the hospital. He did look bad, poor little fellow! ‘Well,’ I said to him, ‘what sort of a journey did you have with him?’ ‘Dunna ax me, missis!’ he said. ‘Ay,’ I said, ‘I know what he’d be.’ ‘But it wor bad for him, Mrs. Morel, it wor that!’ he said. ‘I know,’ I said. ‘At ivry jolt I thought my ’eart would ha’ flown clean out o’ my mouth,’ he said. ‘An’ the scream ’e gives sometimes! Missis, not for a fortune would I go through wi’ it again.’ ‘I can quite understand it,’ I said. ‘It’s a nasty job, though,’ he said, ‘an’ one as’ll be a long while afore it’s right again.’ ‘I’m afraid it will,’ I said. I like Mr. Barker—I do like him. There’s something so manly about him. And of course, for a man like your father, the hospital is hard. He can’t understand rules and regulations. And he won’t let anybody else touch him, not if he can help it. When he smashed the muscles of his thigh, and it had to be dressed four times a day, would he let anybody but me or his mother do it? He wouldn’t. So, of course, he’ll suffer in there with the nurses. And I didn’t like leaving him. I’m sure, when I kissed him an’ came away, it seemed a shame.", "pos": 188588}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What do you want to be?", "pos": 192967}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Anything.", "pos": 193011}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That is no answer,", "pos": 193023}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Then, you must look in the paper for the advertisements.", "pos": 193620}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’ve got to go and look for advertisements for a job.", "pos": 193890}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I wish. I was fat like him, and like a dog in the sun. I wish I was a pig and a brewer’s waggoner.", "pos": 195941}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, you may try.", "pos": 196248}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I wonder if you would run, my boy, unless you saw all the other men chasing her too. You feel safe enough and vain enough in a crowd. But take care, and see how you feel when you find yourself alone, and in triumph.", "pos": 198351}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "If you saw her, mother, you would know how I feel. Tall and elegant, with the clearest of clear, transparent olive complexions, hair as black as jet, and such grey eyes—bright, mocking, like lights on water at night. It is all very well to be a bit satirical till you see her. And she dresses as well as any woman in London. I tell you, your son doesn’t half put his head up when she goes walking down Piccadilly with him.", "pos": 198688}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But there. I am very likely a silly—meeting trouble halfway. There, you see! You’ve only written four letters, and the third is answered. You’re lucky, my boy, as I always said you were.", "pos": 199558}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Now look at that silly cow! careering round as if it thought it was a circus.", "pos": 201287}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s most likely a bottfly,", "pos": 201379}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "A what?", "pos": 201427}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s just like Venice,", "pos": 201954}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Perhaps. Now you see that blouse, wouldn’t that just suit our Annie? And for one-and-eleven-three. Isn’t that cheap?", "pos": 202058}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And made of needlework as well,", "pos": 202253}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 202296}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Here it is! But now where is it?", "pos": 203107}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s up the entry,", "pos": 203263}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Can I see Mr. Jordan?", "pos": 204814}
{"speaker": "the young man", "text": "I’ll fetch him,", "pos": 204849}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "Good-morning!", "pos": 205198}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Good-morning. I came with my son, Paul Morel. You asked him to call this morning.", "pos": 205304}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "Come this way. Sit down! Did you write this letter?", "pos": 205388}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 206176}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "Where did you learn to write?", "pos": 206560}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He is a bad writer,", "pos": 206674}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "And you say you know French?", "pos": 206866}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 206937}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "What school did you go to?", "pos": 206955}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The Board-school.", "pos": 206984}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "And did you learn it there?", "pos": 207004}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No—I—", "pos": 207034}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "His godfather gave him lessons,", "pos": 207083}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "Read that,", "pos": 207391}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "'Monsieur,' It’s the—it’s the— Sir,—Please send me two pairs—gris fil bas—grey thread stockings sans—without doigts—fingers", "pos": 207540}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "'Please send by return two pairs grey thread stockings without toes.'", "pos": 208146}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, 'doigts’ means ‘fingers’—as well—as a rule—", "pos": 208217}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "Fingers to stockings!", "pos": 208416}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, it does mean fingers,", "pos": 208452}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "And when could he come?", "pos": 208734}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, as soon as you wish. He has finished school now.", "pos": 208770}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "He would live in Bestwood?", "pos": 208846}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes; but he could be in—at the station—at quarter to eight.", "pos": 208875}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 208937}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I think you’ll like it,", "pos": 209238}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "'Doigts’ does mean ‘fingers’, mother, and it was the writing. I couldn’t read the writing.", "pos": 209275}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Never mind, my boy. I’m sure he’ll be all right, and you won’t see much of him. Wasn’t that first young fellow nice? I’m sure you’ll like them.", "pos": 209367}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But wasn’t Mr. Jordan common, mother? Does he own it all?", "pos": 209512}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I suppose he was a workman who has got on. You mustn’t mind people so much. They’re not being disagreeable to you—it’s their way. You always think people are meaning things for you. But they don’t.", "pos": 209572}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Where should we go for dinner?", "pos": 210301}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "We oughtn’t to have come here, mother,", "pos": 210935}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Never mind. We won’t come again.", "pos": 210987}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t want it, mother,", "pos": 211108}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, you’ll have it. Brazen hussy! Look now, she’s taking that man his pudding, and he came long after us.", "pos": 211147}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It doesn’t matter, mother. Should we go, mother?", "pos": 211503}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Will you bring one currant tart?", "pos": 211796}
{"speaker": "the girl", "text": "Directly,", "pos": 211890}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "We have waited quite long enough. It’s the last time I go there for anything! We’ll go, and look at Keep’s and Boot’s, and one or two places, shall we? Now, just look at those black grapes! They make your mouth water. I’ve wanted some of those for years, but I s’ll have to wait a bit before I get them. Oh! oh! Isn’t it simply lovely!", "pos": 211912}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They’re looking at you,", "pos": 213100}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But what is it?", "pos": 213167}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Stocks! Look, there’s a tubful.", "pos": 213222}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "So there is—red and white. But really, I never knew stocks to smell like it! Paul! Paul! Just look here! Now, just look at that fuchsia!", "pos": 213289}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "H’m! You’d think every second as the flowers was going to fall off, they hang so big an’ heavy.", "pos": 213686}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And such an abundance!", "pos": 213823}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And the way they drop downwards with their threads and knots!", "pos": 213859}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Lovely!", "pos": 213945}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I wonder who’ll buy it!", "pos": 213955}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I wonder! Not us.", "pos": 213990}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It would die in our parlour.", "pos": 214026}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, beastly cold, sunless hole; it kills every bit of a plant you put in, and the kitchen chokes them to death.", "pos": 214057}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Won’t it be nice for me to come out at dinner-times? I can go all round here and see everything. I s’ll love it.", "pos": 214399}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You will,", "pos": 214527}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He says it’ll be here on Saturday. About one pound eleven,", "pos": 214868}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s no more than I thought,", "pos": 215043}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "An’ I s’ll earn eight shillings a week,", "pos": 215088}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That William promised me, when he went to London, as he’d give me a pound a month. He has given me ten shillings—twice; and now I know he hasn’t a farthing if I asked him. Not that I want it. Only just now you’d think he might be able to help with this ticket, which I’d never expected.", "pos": 215204}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He earns a lot,", "pos": 215493}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He earns a hundred and thirty pounds. But they’re all alike. They’re large in promises, but it’s precious little fulfilment you get.", "pos": 215522}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He spends over fifty shillings a week on himself,", "pos": 215657}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And I keep this house on less than thirty, and am supposed to find money for extras. But they don’t care about helping you, once they’ve gone. He’d rather spend it on that dressed-up creature.", "pos": 215720}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She should have her own money if she’s so grand,", "pos": 215930}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "She should, but she hasn’t. I asked him. And I know he doesn’t buy her a gold bangle for nothing. I wonder whoever bought me a gold bangle. the photograph of Louie is very striking, and I can see she must be attractive. But do you think, my boy, it was very good taste of a girl to give her young man that photo to send to his mother—the first? Certainly the shoulders are beautiful, as you say. But I hardly expected to see so much of them at the first view.", "pos": 215992}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Who dost reckon this is?", "pos": 216958}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s the girl our William is going with,", "pos": 217007}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "H’m! ’Er’s a bright spark, from th’ look on ’er, an’ one as wunna do him owermuch good neither. Who is she?", "pos": 217070}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Her name is Louisa Lily Denys Western.", "pos": 217180}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "An’ come again to-morrer! An’ is ’er an actress?", "pos": 217221}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "She is not. She’s supposed to be a lady.", "pos": 217295}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’ll bet! A lady, is she? An’ how much does she reckon ter keep up this sort o’ game on?", "pos": 217338}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "On nothing. She lives with an old aunt, whom she hates, and takes what bit of money’s given her.", "pos": 217473}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Then he’s a fool to ha’ ta’en up wi’ such a one as that.", "pos": 217619}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Dear Mater. I’m sorry you didn’t like the photograph. It never occurred to me when I sent it, that you mightn’t think it decent. However, I told Gyp that it didn’t quite suit your prim and proper notions, so she’s going to send you another, that I hope will please you better. She’s always being photographed; in fact, the photographers ask her if they may take her for nothing.", "pos": 217678}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I wonder if she ever wears anything except evening clothes. I’m sure I ought to be impressed.", "pos": 218306}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are disagreeable, mother. I think the first one with bare shoulders is lovely.", "pos": 218435}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Do you? Well, I don’t.", "pos": 218533}
{"speaker": "M. Melling", "text": "Good-morning. Good-morning, mother,", "pos": 219401}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Good-morning,", "pos": 219469}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 221171}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 221189}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Paul Morel. All right,", "pos": 221214}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Good-morning,", "pos": 222679}
{"speaker": "M. Melling", "text": "You want the letters for the Spiral department, Thomas?", "pos": 222729}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Will you please send me at once a pair of lady’s silk spiral thigh-hose, without feet, such as I had from you last year; length, thigh to knee, etc. Major Chamberlain wishes to repeat his previous order for a silk non-elastic suspensory bandage.", "pos": 223117}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "You my new lad? Fetched the letters?", "pos": 224019}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 224140}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Copied ’em?", "pos": 224147}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No.", "pos": 224161}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Well, come on then, let’s look slippy. Changed your coat?", "pos": 224167}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No.", "pos": 224227}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "You want to bring an old coat and leave it here. Sit down. Now look here. You want to copy these letters in here. See that?", "pos": 224233}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 225147}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Think you can do it all right?", "pos": 225154}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 225187}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "All right then, let’s see you. Now then, how’r’ yer getting on? Done ’em? Strike my bob, lad, but you’re a beautiful writer! Ne’er mind, how many h’yer done? Only three! I’d ’a eaten ’em. Get on, my lad, an’ put numbers on ’em. Here, look! Get on! Yes? you’d better get some of your back work done, then. I’ve not time to stand here while you talk. Come, my lad, there’s Polly crying out for them orders. Can’t you buck up a bit? Here, come out! You’d better watch me. Come on with me,", "pos": 225194}
{"speaker": "Pappleworth", "text": "Here y’are!", "pos": 227640}
{"speaker": "Polly", "text": "I think it is ‘here you are’! The girls have been here nearly half an hour waiting. Just think of the time wasted!", "pos": 227672}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "You think of getting your work done and not talking so much. You could ha’ been finishing off.", "pos": 227808}
{"speaker": "Polly", "text": "You know quite well we finished everything off on Saturday!", "pos": 227929}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Tu-tu-tu-tu-terterter! Here’s your new lad. Don’t ruin him as you did the last.", "pos": 228043}
{"speaker": "Polly", "text": "As we did the last! Yes, we do a lot of ruining, we do. My word, a lad would take some ruining after he’d been with you.", "pos": 228138}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "It’s time for work now, not for talk,", "pos": 228279}
{"speaker": "Polly", "text": "It was time for work some time back,", "pos": 228361}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Have you nothing else to do but talk?", "pos": 228722}
{"speaker": "one handsome girl", "text": "Only wait for you,", "pos": 228784}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Well, get on, get on. Come on, my lad. You’ll know your road down here again.", "pos": 228839}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "Mr. J. A. Bates, Esquire! Didn’t they teach you any better than that while they were at it? If you put ‘Mr.’ you don’t put ‘Esquire’—a man can’t be both at once. Make another! Are you going to send that to a gentleman? I don’t know what they do teach in schools. You’ll have to write better than that. Lads learn nothing nowadays, but how to recite poetry and play the fiddle. Have you seen his writing?", "pos": 229267}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Yes; prime, isn’t it? Let’s see, what’s your name?", "pos": 230155}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Paul Morel.", "pos": 230689}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Paul Morel, is it? All right, you Paul-Morel through them things there, and then—", "pos": 230786}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Can’t you make a bit less row? Folk’ll think we keep cats.", "pos": 231820}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "They’re all tom-cats then.", "pos": 232031}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "Well, you needn’t come blaming it on to me. It’s not my fault.", "pos": 232564}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "I never said it was your fault. Will you do as I tell you?", "pos": 232674}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "You don’t say it’s my fault, but you’d like to make out as it was. Yes, I’ll do it for you, but you needn’t be snappy.", "pos": 232768}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Here’s your new lad,", "pos": 232991}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "Oh!", "pos": 233079}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Yes; don’t make a softy of him between you.", "pos": 233095}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "It’s not us as ’ud make a softy of him,", "pos": 233141}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Come on then, Paul,", "pos": 233205}
{"speaker": "one of the girls", "text": "Au revoy, Paul,", "pos": 233249}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, and how was it?", "pos": 236246}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ever so funny, mother. You don’t have to work a bit hard, and they’re nice with you.", "pos": 236281}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And did you get on all right?", "pos": 236382}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes: they only say my writing’s bad. But Mr. Pappleworth—he’s my man—said to Mr. Jordan I should be all right. I’m Spiral, mother; you must come and see. It’s ever so nice.", "pos": 236414}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Haven’t you done that yet? Go on, be a month of Sundays. I’m going to bring my little Yorkshire terrier bitch to-morrow,", "pos": 236970}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What’s a Yorkshire terrier?", "pos": 237224}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "Don’t know what a Yorkshire terrier is? Don’t know a Yorkshire—", "pos": 237254}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Is it a little silky one—colours of iron and rusty silver?", "pos": 237348}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "That’s it, my lad. She’s a gem. She’s had five pounds’ worth of pups already, and she’s worth over seven pounds herself; and she doesn’t weigh twenty ounces.", "pos": 237409}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "Put your pen in your ear, if you’re going to be a clerk. Pen in your ear! Why don’t you hold your shoulders straighter? Come down here,", "pos": 238007}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "When you sit winding, it looks as if you were spinning at a spinning-wheel—it looks ever so nice. You remind me of Elaine in the ‘Idylls of the King’. I’d draw you if I could. How do you put needles in?", "pos": 239643}
{"speaker": "Emma", "text": "Go away and don’t bother.", "pos": 240360}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But I ought to know how to put needles in.", "pos": 240388}
{"speaker": "Emma", "text": "There are many things you ought to know,", "pos": 240483}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Tell me, then, how to stick needles in the machine.", "pos": 240539}
{"speaker": "Emma", "text": "Oh, the boy, what a nuisance he is! Why, this is how you do it.", "pos": 240593}
{"speaker": "Polly", "text": "Mr. Pappleworth wants to know how much longer you’re going to be down here playing with the girls, Paul.", "pos": 240761}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Good-bye!", "pos": 240896}
{"speaker": "Emma", "text": "It wasn’t me who wanted him to play with the machine,", "pos": 240934}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "I know you’ve been laughing at me.", "pos": 241561}
{"speaker": "one of the girls", "text": "Don’t be so soft, Fanny!", "pos": 241598}
{"speaker": "Emma", "text": "Fanny’s is better, to my fancy,", "pos": 241694}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "You needn’t try to make a fool of me,", "pos": 241739}
{"speaker": "Emma", "text": "No, but she has, Paul; she’s got beautiful hair.", "pos": 241808}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s a treat of a colour. That coldish colour like earth, and yet shiny. It’s like bog-water.", "pos": 241859}
{"speaker": "one girl", "text": "Goodness me!", "pos": 241966}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "How I do but get criticised,", "pos": 242011}
{"speaker": "Emma", "text": "But you should see it down, Paul. It’s simply beautiful. Put it down for him, Fanny, if he wants something to paint.", "pos": 242054}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then I’ll take it down myself,", "pos": 242237}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "Well, you can if you like,", "pos": 242284}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What a lovely lot! It’s splendid! I’ll bet it’s worth pounds.", "pos": 242445}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "I’ll leave it you when I die, Paul,", "pos": 242642}
{"speaker": "one of the girls", "text": "You look just like anybody else, sitting drying their hair,", "pos": 242705}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’ll help, mother?", "pos": 244902}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "There’s precious little left, after your ticket and dinners and such are taken off.", "pos": 244944}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Goodness, boy! if you don’t like it, alter it, and if you can’t alter it, put up with it.", "pos": 246052}
{"speaker": "Arthur", "text": "Dirty nuisance!", "pos": 246923}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "There’s not a man tries harder for his family! He does his best for them, and then gets treated like a dog. But I’m not going to stand it, I tell you!", "pos": 247452}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Eight guineas! More fool him! If he’d gen me some on’t, it ’ud ha’ looked better on ’im.", "pos": 248870}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Given you some of it! Why give you some of it!", "pos": 248975}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Hello, mother! Here’s Gyp!", "pos": 249622}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Morel!", "pos": 249864}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I am afraid you will be hungry,", "pos": 249912}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Oh no, we had dinner in the train. Have you got my gloves, Chubby?", "pos": 249963}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "How should I?", "pos": 250089}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Then I’ve lost them. Don’t be cross with me.", "pos": 250114}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Hello, dad!", "pos": 250416}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Hello, my son! Tha’s let on me!", "pos": 250430}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "How do you do, Mr. Morel?", "pos": 250564}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I’m very well, and I hope so are you. You must make yourself very welcome.", "pos": 250618}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Oh, thank you,", "pos": 250695}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You will like to go upstairs,", "pos": 250740}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "If you don’t mind; but not if it is any trouble to you.", "pos": 250789}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It is no trouble. Annie will take you. Walter, carry up this box.", "pos": 250847}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "And don’t be an hour dressing yourself up,", "pos": 250915}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Shall I unstrap the box?", "pos": 251264}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Oh, thank you very much!", "pos": 251304}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "I think she’s rather tired, mother. It’s a beastly journey, and we had such a rush.", "pos": 251398}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Is there anything I can give her?", "pos": 251500}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Oh no, she’ll be all right. I told you you’d no need to change,", "pos": 251554}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Oh, Chubby! Don’t you think he’s always grumbling, Mrs. Morel?", "pos": 251805}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Is he? That’s not very nice of him.", "pos": 251928}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "It isn’t, really!", "pos": 251985}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You are cold. Won’t you come near the fire?", "pos": 252005}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Come and sit you here! Come and sit you here!", "pos": 252104}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "No, dad, keep your own chair. Sit on the sofa, Gyp,", "pos": 252164}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "No, no! This cheer’s warmest. Come and sit here, Miss Wesson.", "pos": 252232}
{"speaker": "girl", "text": "Thank you so much,", "pos": 252311}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "Fetch me a hanky, Chubby dear!", "pos": 252474}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "I’ll go,", "pos": 253004}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Oh, thank you!", "pos": 253157}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Aren’t you tired, Gyp?", "pos": 253987}
{"speaker": "Gyp", "text": "Rather, Chubby,", "pos": 254012}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "I’ll light her the candle, mother,", "pos": 254117}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 254163}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Good-night, Mrs. Morel,", "pos": 254252}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You wait a minute,", "pos": 254532}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Well, mother?", "pos": 254998}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, my son?", "pos": 255014}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Do you like her?", "pos": 255111}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 255130}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "She’s shy yet, mother. She’s not used to it. It’s different from her aunt’s house, you know.", "pos": 255159}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Of course it is, my boy; and she must find it difficult.", "pos": 255254}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "She does. If only she wouldn’t put on her blessed airs!", "pos": 255313}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s only her first awkwardness, my boy. She’ll be all right.", "pos": 255398}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "That’s it, mother. You know, she’s not like you, mother. She’s not serious, and she can’t think.", "pos": 255462}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "She’s young, my boy.", "pos": 255611}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Yes; and she’s had no sort of show. Her mother died when she was a child. Since then she’s lived with her aunt, whom she can’t bear. And her father was a rake. She’s had no love.", "pos": 255634}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No! Well, you must make up to her.", "pos": 255815}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "And so—you have to forgive her a lot of things.", "pos": 255852}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What do you have to forgive her, my boy?", "pos": 255902}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "I dunno. When she seems shallow, you have to remember she’s never had anybody to bring her deeper side out. And she’s fearfully fond of me.", "pos": 255945}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Anybody can see that.", "pos": 256087}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "But you know, mother—she’s—she’s different from us. Those sort of people, like those she lives amongst, they don’t seem to have the same principles.", "pos": 256111}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You mustn’t judge too hastily,", "pos": 256262}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Hello! Are you getting up?", "pos": 256421}
{"speaker": "voice", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 256486}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Merry Christmas!", "pos": 256519}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "Was she really getting up when she said she was?", "pos": 256654}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Yes, she was,", "pos": 256724}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "Happy New Year,", "pos": 256805}
{"speaker": "voice", "text": "Thank you, Chubby dear!", "pos": 256834}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "Buck up!", "pos": 256895}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Well, it’s a winder!", "pos": 257032}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Shall I have to send you an Easter egg up there?", "pos": 257149}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "Have you really been all this time getting ready?", "pos": 257379}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "Chubby dear! That question is not permitted, is it, Mrs. Morel?", "pos": 257441}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Oh, Annie, do you know where I left my muff?", "pos": 258523}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "You know it is in your bedroom. Why do you ask Annie? Is it as late as that, mother?", "pos": 258587}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It is not late, my boy, but it is as late as I usually sit up.", "pos": 259049}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "Won’t you go to bed, then?", "pos": 259114}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And leave you two? No, my boy, I don’t believe in it.", "pos": 259153}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Can’t you trust us, mother?", "pos": 259209}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Whether I can or not, I won’t do it. You can stay till eleven if you like, and I can read.", "pos": 259239}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Go to bed, Gyp. We won’t keep mater waiting.", "pos": 259332}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Annie has left the candle burning, Lily. I think you will see.", "pos": 259402}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Yes, thank you. Good-night, Mrs. Morel.", "pos": 259486}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Can’t you trust us, mother?", "pos": 259627}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "My boy, I tell you I don’t believe in leaving two young things like you alone downstairs when everyone else is in bed.", "pos": 259687}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "You know, mother, when I’m away from her I don’t care for her a bit. I shouldn’t care if I never saw her again. But, then, when I’m with her in the evenings I am awfully fond of her.", "pos": 259974}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s a queer sort of love to marry on, if she holds you no more than that!", "pos": 260159}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "It is funny! But yet—there’s so much between us now I couldn’t give her up.", "pos": 260255}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know best. But if it is as you say, I wouldn’t call it love—at any rate, it doesn’t look much like it.", "pos": 260379}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Oh, I don’t know, mother. She’s an orphan, and—", "pos": 260507}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "I think it will be a fine day. You know Mr. Leivers has gone to live on a new farm. Well, he asked me last week if I wouldn’t go and see Mrs. Leivers, and I promised to bring you on Monday if it’s fine. Shall we go?", "pos": 261166}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "I say, little woman, how lovely! And we’ll go this afternoon?", "pos": 261434}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "Are we going?", "pos": 262021}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "When I’m ready,", "pos": 262047}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "Go and get dressed while I wash up,", "pos": 262099}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, my stars! What a bobby-dazzler!", "pos": 262687}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s not a bobby-dazzler at all! It’s very quiet. Well, do you like it?", "pos": 262799}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Awfully! You are a fine little woman to go jaunting out with! Well, if I was walking down the street behind you, I should say: ‘Doesn’t that little person fancy herself!”’", "pos": 263001}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, she doesn’t. She’s not sure it suits her.", "pos": 263227}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh no! she wants to be in dirty black, looking as if she was wrapped in burnt paper. It does suit you, and I say you look nice.", "pos": 263299}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, it’s cost me just three shillings. You couldn’t have got it ready-made for that price, could you?", "pos": 263500}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I should think you couldn’t,", "pos": 263618}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And, you know, it’s good stuff.", "pos": 263661}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Awfully pretty,", "pos": 263695}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Too young for me, though, I’m afraid,", "pos": 263789}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Too young for you! Why don’t you buy some false white hair and stick it on your head.", "pos": 263839}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I s’ll soon have no need. I’m going white fast enough.", "pos": 263954}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, you’ve no business to. What do I want with a white-haired mother?", "pos": 264026}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’m afraid you’ll have to put up with one, my lad. Now look at that!", "pos": 264111}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You sit a minute, mother,", "pos": 264873}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "The world is a wonderful place, and wonderfully beautiful.", "pos": 265082}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And so’s the pit. Look how it heaps together, like something alive almost—a big creature that you don’t know.", "pos": 265155}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes. Perhaps!", "pos": 265278}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And all the trucks standing waiting, like a string of beasts to be fed,", "pos": 265306}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And very thankful I am they are standing, for that means they’ll turn middling time this week.", "pos": 265389}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But I like the feel of men on things, while they’re alive. There’s a feel of men about trucks, because they’ve been handled with men’s hands, all of them.", "pos": 265498}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 265655}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s a wild road, mother. Just like Canada.", "pos": 266447}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Isn’t it beautiful!", "pos": 266506}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "See that heron—see—see her legs?", "pos": 266560}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Here’s a bit of new-mown hay. Come, let me help you.", "pos": 267208}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No, go away. I will do it in my own way.", "pos": 267552}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What a way to climb!", "pos": 267671}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Hateful stiles!", "pos": 267755}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Duffer of a little woman, who can’t get over ’em.", "pos": 267784}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Oh! you’ve come, then. I am glad to see you.", "pos": 268775}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Now are you sure we’re not a bother to you? I know what a farming life is.", "pos": 268933}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Oh no! We’re only too thankful to see a new face, it’s so lost up here.", "pos": 269029}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I suppose so,", "pos": 269103}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I suppose these are cabbage-roses? I suppose they are cabbage-roses when they come out?", "pos": 269462}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 269668}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then they’re maiden-blush.", "pos": 269733}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 269814}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You don’t have much in your garden,", "pos": 269840}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "This is our first year here,", "pos": 269887}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Tea is ready, mother. Would you care to have tea now, Mrs. Morel?", "pos": 270473}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Of course. Whenever it’s ready.", "pos": 270664}
{"speaker": "Maurice", "text": "Durst you do it?", "pos": 271580}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Let’s see. Rap, rap, rap! She knocks you, and nips you, but she never hurts,", "pos": 271617}
{"speaker": "Maurice", "text": "Now, Miriam, you come an ’ave a go.", "pos": 272039}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No,", "pos": 272093}
{"speaker": "Geoffrey", "text": "Ha! baby. The mardy-kid!", "pos": 272126}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It doesn’t hurt a bit. It only just nips rather nicely.", "pos": 272172}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No,", "pos": 272243}
{"speaker": "Geoffrey", "text": "She dursn’t. She niver durst do anything except recite poitry.", "pos": 272305}
{"speaker": "Maurice", "text": "Dursn’t jump off a gate, dursn’t tweedle, dursn’t go on a slide, dursn’t stop a girl hittin’ her. She can do nowt but go about thinkin’ herself somebody. ‘The Lady of the Lake.’ Yah!", "pos": 272387}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I dare do more than you. You’re never anything but cowards and bullies.", "pos": 272629}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not such a clown shall anger me, A boor is answered silently", "pos": 272788}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "I wouldn’t get the apple-blossom,", "pos": 273145}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I wasn’t going to get it. It won’t hurt you. See, it doesn’t hurt. It only makes you laugh. Why, I’d let her take corn from my face, only she bumps a bit. She’s ever so neat. If she wasn’t, look how much ground she’d peck up every day. There, you see. It doesn’t hurt, does it?", "pos": 273248}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No,", "pos": 274581}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But it is a beautiful place,", "pos": 275147}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leivers", "text": "it’s a nice little place, if only it weren’t for the rabbits. The pasture’s bitten down to nothing. I dunno if ever I s’ll get the rent off it.", "pos": 275224}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Would you believe it!", "pos": 275474}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Wasn’t it lovely, mother?", "pos": 275557}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Now wouldn’t I help that man! Wouldn’t I see to the fowls and the young stock! And I’d learn to milk, and I’d talk with him, and I’d plan with him. My word, if I were his wife, the farm would be run, I know! But there, she hasn’t the strength—she simply hasn’t the strength. She ought never to have been burdened like it, you know. I’m sorry for her, and I’m sorry for him too. My word, if I’d had him, I shouldn’t have thought him a bad husband! Not that she does either; and she’s very lovable.", "pos": 275751}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Now you look like a young witch-woman. Doesn’t she, William?", "pos": 277213}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Has he made a sight of me? That he has! You look nice enough, if that’s what you want to know,", "pos": 277430}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Oh, would you mind, washing me these two blouses, and these things?", "pos": 278227}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Which? My new black suède. Look here, mother, that’s the fourth pair she’s lost since Christmas—at five shillings a pair!", "pos": 278837}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "You only gave me two of them,", "pos": 279039}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Here is your book, Lily. Would you care to go on with it for a few minutes?", "pos": 279354}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No. No, thank you,", "pos": 279451}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "I will sit still.", "pos": 279483}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But it is so dull.", "pos": 279503}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Read a book! Why, she’s never read a book in her life.", "pos": 279604}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, go along!", "pos": 279660}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "It’s true, mother—she hasn’t. She’s never read a book in her life.", "pos": 279722}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "’Er’s like me, ’Er canna see what there is i’ books, ter sit borin’ your nose in ’em for, nor more can I.", "pos": 279861}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But you shouldn’t say these things,", "pos": 279987}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "But it’s true, mother—she can’t read. What did you give her?", "pos": 280053}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, I gave her a little thing of Annie Swan’s. Nobody wants to read dry stuff on Sunday afternoon.", "pos": 280116}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Well, I’ll bet she didn’t read ten lines of it.", "pos": 280219}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You are mistaken,", "pos": 280269}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Did you read any?", "pos": 280377}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Yes, I did,", "pos": 280407}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "How much?", "pos": 280434}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "I don’t know how many pages.", "pos": 280446}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Tell me one thing you read. You know, mother, she’s no idea of money, she’s so wessel-brained. When she’s paid, she’ll suddenly buy such rot as marrons glacés, and then I have to buy her season-ticket, and her extras, even her underclothing. And she wants to get married, and I think myself we might as well get married next year. But at this rate—", "pos": 280477}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "A fine mess of a marriage it would be. I should consider it again, my boy.", "pos": 281249}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Oh, well, I’ve gone too far to break off now, and so I shall get married as soon as I can.", "pos": 281348}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Very well, my boy. If you will, you will, and there’s no stopping you; but I tell you, I can’t sleep when I think about it.", "pos": 281452}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Oh, she’ll be all right, mother. We shall manage.", "pos": 281578}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And she lets you buy her underclothing?", "pos": 281630}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Well, she didn’t ask me; but one morning—and it was cold—I found her on the station shivering, not able to keep still; so I asked her if she was well wrapped up. She said: ‘I think so.’ So I said: ‘Have you got warm underthings on?’ And she said: ‘No, they were cotton.’ I asked her why on earth she hadn’t got something thicker on in weather like that, and she said because she had nothing. And there she is—a bronchial subject! I had to take her and get some warm things. Well, mother, I shouldn’t mind the money if we had any. And, you know, she ought to keep enough to pay for her season-ticket; but no, she comes to me about that, and I have to find the money.", "pos": 281690}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s a poor lookout,", "pos": 282385}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "But I can’t give her up now; it’s gone too far. And, besides, for some things I couldn’t do without her.", "pos": 282559}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "My boy, remember you’re taking your life in your hands. Nothing is as bad as a marriage that’s a hopeless failure. Mine was bad enough, God knows, and ought to teach you something; but it might have been worse by a long chalk.", "pos": 282677}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "I couldn’t give her up now,", "pos": 283145}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, remember there are worse wrongs than breaking off an engagement.", "pos": 283184}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "I can’t give her up now,", "pos": 283269}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, go to bed, my son. You’ll feel better in the morning, and perhaps you’ll know better.", "pos": 283431}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Well, if you don’t believe me, what she’s like, would you believe she has been confirmed three times?", "pos": 283927}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Nonsense!", "pos": 284042}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Nonsense or not, she has! That’s what confirmation means for her—a bit of a theatrical show where she can cut a figure.", "pos": 284074}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "I haven’t, Mrs. Morel! I haven’t! it is not true!", "pos": 284196}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "What! Once in Bromley, once in Beckenham, and once somewhere else.", "pos": 284265}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Nowhere else!", "pos": 284369}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "It was! And if it wasn’t why were you confirmed twice?", "pos": 284420}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "Once I was only fourteen, Mrs. Morel,", "pos": 284477}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes. I can quite understand it, child. Take no notice of him. You ought to be ashamed, William, saying such things.", "pos": 284549}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "But it’s true. She’s religious—she had blue velvet Prayer-Books—and she’s not as much religion, or anything else, in her than that table-leg. Gets confirmed three times for show, to show herself off, and that’s how she is in everything—everything! As for love! you might as well ask a fly to love you! It’ll love settling on you—", "pos": 284686}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Now, say no more. If you want to say these things, you must find another place than this. I am ashamed of you, William! Why don’t you be more manly. To do nothing but find fault with a girl, and then pretend you’re engaged to her!", "pos": 285086}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "You know, mother. Gyp’s shallow. Nothing goes deep with her.", "pos": 285626}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "William, I wish you wouldn’t say these things,", "pos": 285707}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "But it doesn’t, mother. She’s very much in love with me now, but if I died she’d have forgotten me in three months.", "pos": 285828}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "How do you know? You don’t know, and therefore you’ve no right to say such a thing.", "pos": 286050}
{"speaker": "Miss Western", "text": "He’s always saying these things!", "pos": 286151}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "In three months after I was buried you’d have somebody else, and I should be forgotten. And that’s your love!", "pos": 286202}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "he’ll never have any money to marry on, that I am sure of. And so she’ll save him that way. I’m afraid he’s ruining himself against that creature, who isn’t worthy of his love—no, no more than a rag doll.", "pos": 286439}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "No, I’ve not been well. I’ve seemed to have a dragging cold all the last month, but it’s going, I think.", "pos": 287324}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You are doing too much,", "pos": 287633}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "And yet, you know, mother, for all that, if I died she’d be broken-hearted for two months, and then she’d start to forget me. You’d see, she’d never come home here to look at my grave, not even once.", "pos": 287859}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Why, William, you’re not going to die, so why talk about it?", "pos": 288061}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "But whether or not—", "pos": 288143}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And she can’t help it. She is like that, and if you choose her—well, you can’t grumble,", "pos": 288177}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Look, what a rash my collar’s made under my chin!", "pos": 288340}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It ought not to do that. Here, put a bit of this soothing ointment on. You should wear different collars.", "pos": 288506}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "How is he?", "pos": 289580}
{"speaker": "Landlady", "text": "No better,", "pos": 289604}
{"speaker": "William", "text": "Owing to a leakage in the hold of this vessel, the sugar had set, and become converted into rock. It needed hacking—", "pos": 290060}
{"speaker": "Landlady", "text": "He got home at six o’clock on Monday morning, and he seemed to sleep all day; then in the night we heard him talking, and this morning he asked for you. So I wired, and we fetched the doctor.", "pos": 290354}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Will you have a fire made?", "pos": 290548}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I want my father; he’s got to go to London. Tha wants Walter Morel? Go in theer an’ tell Joe Ward. I want my father; he’s got to go to London.", "pos": 291874}
{"speaker": "Joe Ward", "text": "Thy feyther? Is he down? What’s his name?", "pos": 292111}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Mr. Morel.", "pos": 292155}
{"speaker": "Joe Ward", "text": "What, Walter? Is owt amiss?", "pos": 292168}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "He’s got to go to London.", "pos": 292198}
{"speaker": "Joe Ward", "text": "Walter Morel’s wanted, number 42, Hard. Summat’s amiss; there’s his lad here. He’ll be up in a few minutes,", "pos": 292287}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Is it thee, Paul? Is ’e worse?", "pos": 293236}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’ve got to go to London.", "pos": 293269}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "’E’s niver gone, child?", "pos": 293522}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 293547}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "When wor’t?", "pos": 293554}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Last night. We had a telegram from my mother.", "pos": 293568}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Mother! Paul!", "pos": 294366}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I went to work, mother,", "pos": 294951}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Did you?", "pos": 294998}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Wheer s’ll we ha’e him when he does come?", "pos": 295096}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "In the front-room.", "pos": 295159}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Then I’d better shift th’ table?", "pos": 295180}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 295215}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "An’ ha’e him across th’ chairs?", "pos": 295222}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know there—Yes, I suppose so.", "pos": 295256}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "You niver seed such a length as he is! He’s here! Bring another candle,", "pos": 295562}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Steady! Steady, steady! Now then!", "pos": 296728}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, my son—my son! Oh, my son—my son—my son!", "pos": 297533}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother!", "pos": 297673}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, my son—my son!", "pos": 297743}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My word, he’s a weight!", "pos": 298068}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "If only it could have been me!", "pos": 298891}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother, Miss Jordan was down to-day, and she said my sketch of a colliery at work was beautiful. What’s a-matter, mother? What’s a-matter? Mother, what’s a-matter?", "pos": 299277}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know what’s the matter. What’s the matter?", "pos": 299661}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m badly, mother! Mr. Jordan gave me five shillings for a Christmas-box! You aren’t glad!", "pos": 300163}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Where hurts you?", "pos": 300385}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I feel badly, mother.", "pos": 300465}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Might he never have had it if I’d kept him at home, not let him go to Nottingham?", "pos": 300574}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "He might not have been so bad,", "pos": 300697}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I should have watched the living, not the dead,", "pos": 300793}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I s’ll die, mother!", "pos": 301226}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, my son—my son!", "pos": 301336}
{"speaker": "aunt", "text": "For some things, it was a good thing Paul was ill that Christmas. I believe it saved his mother.", "pos": 301498}
{"speaker": "Letter", "text": "I was at a ball last night. Some delightful people were there, and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. I had every dance—did not sit out one.", "pos": 302077}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I say, your daffodils are nearly out. Isn’t it early? But don’t they look cold?", "pos": 307392}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Cold!", "pos": 307508}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The green on their buds—", "pos": 307562}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Let me take the rug,", "pos": 307627}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can carry it,", "pos": 307675}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "I’m sure you’re tired and cold. Let me take your coat. It is heavy. You mustn’t walk far in it.", "pos": 307776}
{"speaker": "farmer", "text": "Why, mother, you’ve got almost more than you can manage there.", "pos": 308002}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Won’t you lie down?", "pos": 308598}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh no; I’m not tired. Isn’t it lovely coming out, don’t you think? I saw a sloe-bush in blossom and a lot of celandines. I’m glad it’s sunny.", "pos": 308639}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Can I give you anything to eat or to drink?", "pos": 308794}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, thank you.", "pos": 308840}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "How’s your mother?", "pos": 308857}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I think she’s tired now. I think she’s had too much to do. Perhaps in a little while she’ll go to Skegness with me. Then she’ll be able to rest. I s’ll be glad if she can.", "pos": 308878}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Yes. It’s a wonder she isn’t ill herself.", "pos": 309052}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Oh dear, Miriam, these potatoes have boiled dry!", "pos": 310700}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Have they, mother?", "pos": 310805}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "I shouldn’t care, Miriam, if I hadn’t trusted them to you.", "pos": 310837}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Well. I’m sure I looked at them five minutes since.", "pos": 311043}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Yes. I know it’s easily done.", "pos": 311152}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They’re not much burned. It doesn’t matter, does it?", "pos": 311203}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "It wouldn’t matter but for the boys. Only Miriam knows what a trouble they make if the potatoes are ‘caught’.", "pos": 311331}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "you shouldn’t let them make a trouble.", "pos": 311495}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Dinner ready?", "pos": 311727}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Nearly, Edgar,", "pos": 311743}
{"speaker": "young man", "text": "I’m ready for mine,", "pos": 311795}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "These potatoes are burnt, mother.", "pos": 312187}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Yes, Edgar. I forgot them for a minute. Perhaps you’ll have bread if you can’t eat them.", "pos": 312223}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "What was Miriam doing that she couldn’t attend to them?", "pos": 312354}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "I’m sure she was trying hard,", "pos": 312573}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "She hasn’t got sense even to boil the potatoes. What is she kept at home for?", "pos": 312622}
{"speaker": "Maurice", "text": "On’y for eating everything that’s left in th’ pantry,", "pos": 312716}
{"speaker": "Father", "text": "They don’t forget that potato-pie against our Miriam,", "pos": 312786}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "You disappointed me at dinner-time, Miriam.", "pos": 313741}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "They are such brutes!", "pos": 313814}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "But hadn’t you promised not to answer them? And I believed in you. I can’t stand it when you wrangle.", "pos": 313889}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But they’re so hateful! and—and low.", "pos": 314012}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Yes, dear. But how often have I asked you not to answer Edgar back? Can’t you let him say what he likes?", "pos": 314067}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But why should he say what he likes?", "pos": 314174}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Aren’t you strong enough to bear it, Miriam, if even for my sake? Are you so weak that you must wrangle with them?", "pos": 314213}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "I do want you to see this,", "pos": 316170}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s almost as if you were feeling inside the live body of the bird, it’s so warm. They say a bird makes its nest round like a cup with pressing its breast on it. Then how did it make the ceiling round, I wonder? I like them, when their petals go flat back with the sunshine. They seemed to be pressing themselves at the sun.", "pos": 316316}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Will you come with me on to the fallow?", "pos": 318417}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Have you seen the swing?", "pos": 319516}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No. Where?", "pos": 319543}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "In the cowshed,", "pos": 319571}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Come on, then. It’s something like a rope! Come on, then, and have first go,", "pos": 319804}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "See, we put some bags on the seat;", "pos": 320341}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Come on, then,", "pos": 320501}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No, I won’t go first,", "pos": 320534}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why?", "pos": 320617}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You go,", "pos": 320624}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right. Mind out! It’s a treat of a swing,", "pos": 320766}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 321279}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I didn’t know a bird was watching. Now I’ll die. I’ve had a long turn. But it’s a treat of a swing—it’s a real treat of a swing!", "pos": 321658}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No; you go on,", "pos": 322169}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, don’t you want one?", "pos": 322196}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Well, not much. I’ll have just a little.", "pos": 322245}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s so ripping! Keep your heels up, or they’ll bang the manger-wall.", "pos": 322344}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ha! No higher!", "pos": 322772}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But you’re not a bit high,", "pos": 322812}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But no higher.", "pos": 322858}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Won’t you really go any farther? Should I keep you there?", "pos": 323053}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No; let me go by myself,", "pos": 323125}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, you’re scarcely moving. They say if you can swing you won’t be sea-sick. I don’t believe I should ever be sea-sick.", "pos": 323198}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why do I like this so?", "pos": 324340}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why do you?", "pos": 324454}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t know. It seems so true.", "pos": 324478}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s because—it’s because there is scarcely any shadow in it; it’s more shimmery, as if I’d painted the shimmering protoplasm in the leaves and everywhere, and not the stiffness of the shape. That seems dead to me. Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really. There you are! I wanted that. Now, look at them and tell me, are they pine trunks or are they red coals, standing-up pieces of fire in that darkness? There’s God’s burning bush for you, that burned not away. Why are you always sad?", "pos": 324512}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Sad!", "pos": 325695}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. You are always sad.", "pos": 325772}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I am not—oh, not a bit!", "pos": 325813}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But even your joy is like a flame coming off of sadness. You’re never jolly, or even just all right.", "pos": 325850}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No. I wonder—why?", "pos": 325969}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because you’re not; because you’re different inside, like a pine-tree, and then you flare up; but you’re not just like an ordinary tree, with fidgety leaves and jolly—", "pos": 326005}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Eh, my Hubert! Eh, my Hubert!", "pos": 326602}
{"speaker": "Hubert", "text": "Don’t! don’t, Miriam!", "pos": 326842}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes; you love me, don’t you?", "pos": 326891}
{"speaker": "Hubert", "text": "Don’t!", "pos": 327053}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You love me, don’t you?", "pos": 327109}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What do you make such a fuss for? Why can’t you be ordinary with him?", "pos": 327149}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No! no!", "pos": 328915}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You shall!", "pos": 328962}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 329068}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t you like being at home?", "pos": 329249}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Who would? What is it? I’m all day cleaning what the boys make just as bad in five minutes. I don’t want to be at home.", "pos": 329308}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What do you want, then?", "pos": 329463}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I want to do something. I want a chance like anybody else. Why should I, because I’m a girl, be kept at home and not allowed to be anything? What chance have I?", "pos": 329489}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Chance of what?", "pos": 329652}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Of knowing anything—of learning, of doing anything. It’s not fair, because I’m a woman.", "pos": 329670}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But it’s as well to be a woman as a man,", "pos": 330048}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ha! Is it? Men have everything.", "pos": 330110}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I should think women ought to be as glad to be women as men are to be men,", "pos": 330144}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No! no! Everything the men have.", "pos": 330234}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But what do you want?", "pos": 330290}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I want to learn. Why should it be that I know nothing?", "pos": 330324}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What! such as mathematics and French?", "pos": 330381}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why shouldn’t I know mathematics? Yes! Yes!", "pos": 330421}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, you can learn as much as I know. I’ll teach you, if you like. Would you?", "pos": 330514}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 330732}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m going to teach Miriam algebra,", "pos": 330807}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well. I hope she’ll get fat on it.", "pos": 330853}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Hello! I knew it was you.", "pos": 331198}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "How?", "pos": 331256}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I knew your step. Nobody treads so quick and firm.", "pos": 331263}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ready to do some algebra?", "pos": 331338}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But—", "pos": 331415}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You said you wanted,", "pos": 331454}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "To-night, though?", "pos": 331490}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But I came on purpose. And if you want to learn it, you must begin. Well, my goodness! Take the ashes and come.", "pos": 331524}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You know you like them,", "pos": 332047}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Sit down. Here. It’s only letters for figures. You put down ‘a’ instead of ‘2’ or ‘6’. Do you see? Don’t you?", "pos": 332099}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Hello! What are you doing?", "pos": 332871}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Algebra,", "pos": 332911}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Algebra!", "pos": 332936}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You don’t give me time to learn it,", "pos": 333868}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right. What do you tremble your soul before it for? You don’t learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can’t you look at it with your clear simple wits?", "pos": 333916}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Paul, don’t be so hard on Miriam. She may not be quick, but I’m sure she tries.", "pos": 334374}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can’t help it. I go off like it. You don’t mind me, Miriam, do you?", "pos": 334456}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No, no, I don’t mind.", "pos": 334585}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t mind me; it’s my fault. I didn’t—", "pos": 334657}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "After all, if the land were nationalised, Edgar and Paul and I would be just the same.", "pos": 336320}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can do my best things when you sit there in your rocking-chair, mother,", "pos": 336770}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’m sure!", "pos": 336855}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nine o’clock!", "pos": 338790}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "The wood is so lovely now. I wanted you to see it.", "pos": 338866}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They grumble so if I’m late,", "pos": 338989}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But you’re not doing anything wrong,", "pos": 339029}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Where?", "pos": 340430}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Down the middle path. Ah!", "pos": 340449}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They seem as if they walk like butterflies, and shake themselves. Let us go. Till Sunday,", "pos": 341622}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "She is one of those who will want to suck a man’s soul out till he has none of his own left, and he is just such a gaby as to let himself be absorbed. She will never let him become a man; she never will. You have been far enough to-night. You must have been right home with her. She must be wonderfully fascinating, that you can’t get away from her, but must go trailing eight miles at this time of night.", "pos": 342812}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I do like to talk to her,", "pos": 343832}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Is there nobody else to talk to?", "pos": 343883}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You wouldn’t say anything if I went with Edgar.", "pos": 343918}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know I should. You know, whoever you went with, I should say it was too far for you to go trailing, late at night, when you’ve been to Nottingham. Besides it is disgusting—bits of lads and girls courting.", "pos": 343968}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It is not courting,", "pos": 344232}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t know what else you call it.", "pos": 344264}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s not! Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.", "pos": 344302}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Till goodness knows what time and distance,", "pos": 344358}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What are you so mad about? Because you don’t like her.", "pos": 344481}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t say I don’t like her. But I don’t hold with children keeping company, and never did.", "pos": 344550}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But you don’t mind our Annie going out with Jim Inger.", "pos": 344645}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "They’ve more sense than you two.", "pos": 344702}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why?", "pos": 344737}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Our Annie’s not one of the deep sort.", "pos": 344744}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, it’s so pretty in the country. Mr. Sleath asked about you. He said he’d missed you. Are you a bit better?", "pos": 344928}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I ought to have been in bed a long time ago,", "pos": 345053}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, mother, you know you wouldn’t have gone before quarter-past ten.", "pos": 345113}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, yes, I should!", "pos": 345185}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, little woman, you’d say anything now you’re disagreeable with me, wouldn’t you? Don’t let me be late to-night—not later than ten o’clock. My mother gets so upset.", "pos": 345206}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why does she get upset?", "pos": 345827}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because she says I oughtn’t to be out late when I have to get up early.", "pos": 345864}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Very well!", "pos": 345938}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Paul! Paul! come and look!", "pos": 348298}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Come here!", "pos": 348845}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What for?", "pos": 348869}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Come and see. To think, that here I might never have seen them! Now, just see those! I was looking at the currant bushes, when, thinks I to myself, ‘There’s something very blue; is it a bit of sugar-bag?’ and there, behold you! Sugar-bag! Three glories of the snow, and such beauties! But where on earth did they come from?", "pos": 348894}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 349529}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, that’s a marvel, now! I thought I knew every weed and blade in this garden. But haven’t they done well? You see, that gooseberry-bush just shelters them. Not nipped, not touched!", "pos": 349556}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They’re a glorious colour!", "pos": 349812}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Aren’t they! I guess they come from Switzerland, where they say they have such lovely things. Fancy them against the snow! But where have they come from? They can’t have blown here, can they?", "pos": 349850}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And you never told me,", "pos": 350133}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No! I thought I’d leave it till they might flower.", "pos": 350168}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And now, you see! I might have missed them. And I’ve never had a glory of the snow in my garden in my life.", "pos": 350221}
{"speaker": "Leonard", "text": "You should see the Flying Scotsman come through at half-past six! Lad, but she doesn’t half buzz!", "pos": 350963}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "See, what a quiet garden!", "pos": 352358}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, have you waited for me!", "pos": 354418}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 354511}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The spring broken here;", "pos": 354536}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "It is only an old umbrella, isn’t it?", "pos": 354720}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But it was William’s an’ my mother can’t help but know. Come on. I can’t do it; You know, if one person loves, the other does.", "pos": 354873}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ah! Like mother said to me when I was little, ‘Love begets love.’", "pos": 355518}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, something like that, I think it must be.", "pos": 355602}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I hope so, because, if it were not, love might be a very terrible thing,", "pos": 355650}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, but it is—at least with most people,", "pos": 355735}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Think of the Queen going up here!", "pos": 358988}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If she could get up, for she had rheumatism like anything. I reckon they treated her rottenly.", "pos": 359086}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You don’t think she deserved it?", "pos": 359196}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, I don’t. She was only lively.", "pos": 359245}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Supposing you could have that farm,", "pos": 360561}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes!", "pos": 360620}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Wouldn’t it be lovely to come and see you!", "pos": 360627}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "We might be going there—folk easily might think we’re going that far,", "pos": 363207}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Paul’s come!", "pos": 365500}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "Aren’t you glad?", "pos": 365530}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Well, aren’t you?", "pos": 365622}
{"speaker": "Agatha", "text": "Yes, but I’m not going to let him see it, and think I wanted him.", "pos": 365653}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, Jimmy my lad, how are ter? Nobbut sick an’ sadly, like? Why, then, it’s a shame, my owd lad.", "pos": 365869}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "O Lord, let me not love Paul Morel. Keep me from loving him, if I ought not to love him. But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him—as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.", "pos": 366950}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why?", "pos": 368776}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Nothing. Only I’d rather not.", "pos": 368805}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Very well.", "pos": 368837}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But, if you’d care to meet me, we could still go together.", "pos": 368850}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Meet you where?", "pos": 368927}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Somewhere—where you like.", "pos": 368945}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shan’t meet you anywhere. I don’t see why you shouldn’t keep calling for me. But if you won’t, I don’t want to meet you.", "pos": 368973}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "We aren’t lovers, we are friends. We know it. Let them talk. What does it matter what they say.", "pos": 369737}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Come and look at the sweet-peas,", "pos": 370912}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Come here, and let me pin them in for you. You know, a woman ought always to arrange her flowers before her glass. Some women do—those who look decent. Don’t let mater know,", "pos": 371715}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Good-evening, Mrs. Morel,", "pos": 372722}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, is it you, Miriam?", "pos": 372839}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But, what is the ‘Bride of Enderby’ that the bells are supposed to ring?", "pos": 375217}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s an old tune they used to play on the bells for a warning against water. I suppose the Bride of Enderby was drowned in a flood,", "pos": 375318}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And the people knew what that tune meant?", "pos": 375644}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes—just like the Scotch when they heard ‘The Flowers o’ the Forest’—and when they used to ring the bells backward for alarm.", "pos": 375705}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "How? A bell sounds the same whether it’s rung backwards or forwards.", "pos": 375833}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But, if you start with the deep bell and ring up to the high one—der—der—der—der—der—der—der—der!", "pos": 375918}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Hm! But I wish everything that’s written weren’t so sad.", "pos": 376145}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I canna see what they want drownin’ theirselves for,", "pos": 376251}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Let me help to wash up,", "pos": 376405}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Certainly not. You sit down again. There aren’t many.", "pos": 376441}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Here! Here! How much will it be to drive to Brook Cottage?", "pos": 376839}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Two shillings.", "pos": 377009}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Why, how far is it?", "pos": 377026}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A good way.", "pos": 377048}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t believe it. You see, it’s only threepence each, and if it were a tram-car— Is it this? Now, this is it! I’m thankful it wasn’t that brute. I was frightened.", "pos": 377062}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You, Paul, eat a piece of bread-and-butter.", "pos": 378133}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right. But you said you’d have a real holiday, and now you work.", "pos": 378217}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Work! What are you talking about!", "pos": 378552}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Such rot! there isn’t a grain of intelligence in it. Nobody with more gumption than a grasshopper could go and sit and listen. I suppose they’re at the ‘Coons’. Come down lover’s lane For a walk with me, talk with me.", "pos": 379221}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ah! What is it?", "pos": 381331}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 382152}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s the moon,", "pos": 382186}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes. Isn’t it wonderful?", "pos": 382226}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, everybody else has been in long ago!", "pos": 383278}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What does that matter! I can go a walk if I like, can’t I?", "pos": 383356}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And I should have thought you could get in to supper with the rest,", "pos": 383439}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shall please myself. It’s not late. I shall do as I like.", "pos": 383526}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Very well, then do as you like.", "pos": 383603}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you know where Arthur is?", "pos": 384978}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I do not,", "pos": 385034}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He is a fool. And if he did anything I shouldn’t mind. But no, he simply can’t come away from a game of whist, or else he must see a girl home from the skating-rink—quite proprietously—and so can’t get home. He’s a fool.", "pos": 385066}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t know that it would make it any better if he did something to make us all ashamed,", "pos": 385301}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I should respect him more,", "pos": 385410}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I very much doubt it,", "pos": 385456}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Are you fearfully fond of him?", "pos": 385533}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What do you ask that for?", "pos": 385589}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because they say a woman always like the youngest best.", "pos": 385617}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "She may do—but I don’t. No, he wearies me.", "pos": 385675}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you’d actually rather he was good?", "pos": 385720}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’d rather he showed some of a man’s common sense.", "pos": 385761}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Give it here, blind eye! It’s from your son, Arthur,", "pos": 386072}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What now—!", "pos": 386225}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My dearest Mother, 'I don’t know what made me such a fool. I want you to come and fetch me back from here. I came with Jack Bredon yesterday, instead of going to work, and enlisted. He said he was sick of wearing the seat of a stool out, and, like the idiot you know I am, I came away with him. 'I have taken the King’s shilling, but perhaps if you came for me they would let me go back with you. I was a fool when I did it. I don’t want to be in the army. My dear mother, I am nothing but a trouble to you. But if you get me out of this, I promise I will have more sense and consideration. . . .'", "pos": 386257}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, now, let him stop!", "pos": 386914}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "let him stop.", "pos": 386972}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "If I’m not sick!", "pos": 387082}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Now, you’re not going to worry your soul out about this, do you hear.", "pos": 387129}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I suppose I’m to take it as a blessing,", "pos": 387234}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’re not going to mount it up to a tragedy, so there,", "pos": 387309}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "The fool!—the young fool!", "pos": 387380}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He’ll look well in uniform,", "pos": 387419}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, will he! Not in my eyes!", "pos": 387511}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He should get in a cavalry regiment; he’ll have the time of his life, and will look an awful swell.", "pos": 387555}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Swell!—swell!—a mighty swell idea indeed!—a common soldier!", "pos": 387657}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, what am I but a common clerk?", "pos": 387719}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "A good deal, my boy!", "pos": 387770}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What?", "pos": 387818}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "At any rate, a man, and not a thing in a red coat.", "pos": 387826}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shouldn’t mind being in a red coat—or dark blue, that would suit me better—if they didn’t boss me about too much.", "pos": 387879}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Just as he was getting on, or might have been getting on, at his job—a young nuisance—here he goes and ruins himself for life. What good will he be, do you think, after this?", "pos": 388034}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It may lick him into shape beautifully,", "pos": 388211}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Lick him into shape!—lick what marrow there was out of his bones. A soldier!—a common soldier!—nothing but a body that makes movements when it hears a shout! It’s a fine thing!", "pos": 388264}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can’t understand why it upsets you,", "pos": 388443}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No, perhaps you can’t. But I understand;", "pos": 388494}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And shall you go to Derby?", "pos": 388659}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 388700}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s no good.", "pos": 388707}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’ll see for myself.", "pos": 388723}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And why on earth don’t you let him stop. It’s just what he wants.", "pos": 388746}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Of course, you know what he wants! I’ve had to go to Derby to-day.", "pos": 388814}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Has ter, lass. What took thee there?", "pos": 389159}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That Arthur!", "pos": 389198}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Oh—an’ what’s agate now?", "pos": 389213}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He’s only enlisted.", "pos": 389240}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Nay, that he niver ’as!", "pos": 389317}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And is going down to Aldershot to-morrow.", "pos": 389354}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Well! That’s a winder. H’m! I hope he may never set foot i’ my house again,", "pos": 389398}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "The idea! Saying such a thing!", "pos": 389616}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I do. A fool as runs away for a soldier, let ’im look after ’issen; I s’ll do no more for ’im.", "pos": 389669}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "A fat sight you have done as it is,", "pos": 389784}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, did you go?", "pos": 389901}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I did.", "pos": 389964}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And could you see him?", "pos": 389973}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 389998}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And what did he say?", "pos": 390005}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He blubbered when I came away.", "pos": 390028}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 390061}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And so did I, so you needn’t ‘h’m’! But the doctor, said he was perfectly proportioned—almost exactly; all his measurements were correct. He is good-looking, you know.", "pos": 390068}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He’s awfully nice-looking. But he doesn’t fetch the girls like William, does he?", "pos": 390398}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No; it’s a different character. He’s a good deal like his father, irresponsible.", "pos": 390481}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What do you think I’ve got for my pictures, mother?", "pos": 390832}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Now, how should I know, my boy!", "pos": 390972}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "A first prize for those glass jars—", "pos": 391006}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 391044}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And a first prize for that sketch up at Willey Farm.", "pos": 391051}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Both first?", "pos": 391106}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 391120}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 391127}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s nice, isn’t it?", "pos": 391200}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It is.", "pos": 391234}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why don’t you praise me up to the skies?", "pos": 391243}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I should have the trouble of dragging you down again,", "pos": 391299}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Hello! you didn’t tell me you were coming to town.", "pos": 393457}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No. I drove in to Cattle Market with father. I’ve told you about Mrs. Dawes,", "pos": 393521}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I think I’ve seen him before,", "pos": 393734}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Where have you seen me?", "pos": 394349}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Walking with Louie Travers,", "pos": 394463}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, do you know her? Where are you going?", "pos": 394540}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "To the Castle.", "pos": 394648}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What train are you going home by?", "pos": 394665}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I am driving with father. I wish you could come too. What time are you free?", "pos": 394701}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You know not till eight to-night, damn it!", "pos": 394780}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What are yer lookin’ at? What’r yer lookin’ at, three hap’orth o’ pap?", "pos": 396295}
{"speaker": "Mr. Pappleworth", "text": "He’s only one of your good little sops who can’t help it.", "pos": 396821}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What did you think of Mrs. Dawes?", "pos": 398094}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "She doesn’t look very amiable,", "pos": 398149}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes—in stature. But without a grain of taste. I like her for some things. Is she disagreeable?", "pos": 398266}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t think so. I think she’s dissatisfied.", "pos": 398363}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What with?", "pos": 398411}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Well—how would you like to be tied for life to a man like that?", "pos": 398424}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why did she marry him, then, if she was to have revulsions so soon?", "pos": 398490}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ay, why did she!", "pos": 398560}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And I should have thought she had enough fight in her to match him,", "pos": 398605}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ay? What makes you think so?", "pos": 398707}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Look at her mouth—made for passion—and the very setback of her throat—", "pos": 398765}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes. And what were the things you liked about her?", "pos": 398917}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know—her skin and the texture of her—and her—I don’t know—there’s a sort of fierceness somewhere in her. I appreciate her as an artist, that’s all.", "pos": 399058}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 399216}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You don’t really like her, do you?", "pos": 399309}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I do,", "pos": 399418}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You don’t—you can’t—not really.", "pos": 399436}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Then what?", "pos": 399470}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Eh, I don’t know—perhaps you like her because she’s got a grudge against men. If you put red berries in your hair, why would you look like some witch or priestess, and never like a reveller?", "pos": 399501}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 400221}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why can’t you laugh? You never laugh laughter. You only laugh when something is odd or incongruous, and then it almost seems to hurt you.", "pos": 400312}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I wish you could laugh at me just for one minute—just for one minute. I feel as if it would set something free. But I do laugh at you—I do.", "pos": 400510}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Never! There’s always a kind of intensity. When you laugh I could always cry; it seems as if it shows up your suffering. Oh, you make me knit the brows of my very soul and cogitate.", "pos": 400717}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I’m sure I don’t want to,", "pos": 400941}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m so damned spiritual with you always!", "pos": 400979}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, get that French and we’ll do some—some Verlaine.", "pos": 401914}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 401982}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Fetch me a drop of water in a bowl. I shall be late, and then I s’ll catch it. There! Now, could you have done it quicker?", "pos": 402561}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No! You are so fine!", "pos": 403208}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That’s all right!", "pos": 403689}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Did you have them mended?", "pos": 403772}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No!", "pos": 403811}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But why didn’t you?", "pos": 403817}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The back one goes on a bit.", "pos": 403839}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But it’s not safe.", "pos": 403869}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can use my toe.", "pos": 403890}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I wish you’d had them mended,", "pos": 403910}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t worry—come to tea to-morrow, with Edgar.", "pos": 403956}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Shall we?", "pos": 404005}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do—about four. I’ll come to meet you.", "pos": 404017}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Very well.", "pos": 404057}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Till to-morrow,", "pos": 404326}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You’ll take care, won’t you?", "pos": 404377}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 404421}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Here goes! See, mother!", "pos": 405086}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 405656}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Aren’t they pretty?", "pos": 405751}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 405773}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Edgar and Miriam are coming to tea to-morrow. You don’t mind? Do you?", "pos": 405841}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know whether I mind or not.", "pos": 405973}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t see why you should. I have plenty of meals there.", "pos": 406007}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You do.", "pos": 406067}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then why do you begrudge them tea?", "pos": 406077}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I begrudge whom tea?", "pos": 406114}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What are you so horrid for?", "pos": 406137}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, say no more! You’ve asked her to tea, it’s quite sufficient. She’ll come.", "pos": 406167}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "She exults—she exults as she carries him off from me. She’s not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him. She wants to draw him out and absorb him till there is nothing left of him, even for himself. He will never be a man on his own feet—she will suck him up.", "pos": 410207}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why don’t you like her, mother?", "pos": 411812}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t know, my boy. I’m sure I’ve tried to like her. I’ve tried and tried, but I can’t—I can’t!", "pos": 411867}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Don’t talk any more,", "pos": 413771}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why not? Are you tired?", "pos": 413924}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes, and it wears you out.", "pos": 413950}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yet you always make me like it,", "pos": 414010}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t wish to,", "pos": 414053}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not when you’ve gone too far, and you feel you can’t bear it. But your unconscious self always asks it of me. And I suppose I want it. If only you could want me, and not want what I can reel off for you!", "pos": 414092}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I! I! Why, when would you let me take you?", "pos": 414333}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then it’s my fault,", "pos": 414399}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shan’t come and meet you,", "pos": 415690}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Oh, very well; it’s not very nice out,", "pos": 415729}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s not that—only they don’t like me to. They say I care more for you than for them. And you understand, don’t you? You know it’s only friendship.", "pos": 415790}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Shut that doo-er! If tha oppens it again while I’m weshin’ me, I’ll ma’e thy jaw rattle. Oh, my sirs! Wheer’s my towel? F-ff-f!", "pos": 417869}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Goodness, man, don’t be such a kid! It’s not cold.", "pos": 418483}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Thee strip thysen stark nak’d to wesh thy flesh i’ that scullery, nowt b’r a ice-’ouse!", "pos": 418555}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And I shouldn’t make that fuss,", "pos": 418686}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "No, tha’d drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi’ thy nesh sides.", "pos": 418738}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?", "pos": 418811}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Eh, I dunno; that’s what they say. But there’s that much draught i’ yon scullery, as it blows through your ribs like through a five-barred gate.", "pos": 418880}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It would have some difficulty in blowing through yours,", "pos": 419049}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Me! I’m nowt b’r a skinned rabbit. My bones fair juts out on me.", "pos": 419165}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I should like to know where,", "pos": 419248}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Iv’ry-wheer! I’m nobbut a sack o’ faggots.", "pos": 419298}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I suppose, you had a good figure once.", "pos": 419998}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Eh!", "pos": 420064}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He had, if he didn’t hurtle himself up as if he was trying to get in the smallest space he could.", "pos": 420141}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Me! me a good figure! I wor niver much more n’r a skeleton.", "pos": 420265}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Man! don’t be such a pulamiter!", "pos": 420345}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "'Strewth! Tha’s niver knowed me but what I looked as if I wor goin’ off in a rapid decline.", "pos": 420398}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’ve had a constitution like iron, and never a man had a better start, if it was body that counted. You should have seen him as a young man,", "pos": 420523}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Gi’e my back a bit of a wesh. Eh, tha mucky little ’ussy!", "pos": 421068}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Goodness, man!", "pos": 421926}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Should thee like to clap thysen into britches as cowd as a tub o’ water?", "pos": 421976}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "Evenin’, missis,", "pos": 422676}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Good-evening,", "pos": 422755}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Tha’s made thy heels crack,", "pos": 422794}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "I dunno as I have,", "pos": 422836}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "How’s missis?", "pos": 422945}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "We’re expectin’ us third just now, you see. Well,", "pos": 423011}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Let’s see—when?", "pos": 423134}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "Well, I shouldn’t be surprised any time now.", "pos": 423170}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Ah! And she’s kept fairly?", "pos": 423217}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "Yes, tidy.", "pos": 423246}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That’s a blessing, for she’s none too strong.", "pos": 423259}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "No. An’ I’ve done another silly trick.", "pos": 423307}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What’s that?", "pos": 423348}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "I’m come be-out th’ market-bag. Nay, you’ll be wantin’ that yourself.", "pos": 423419}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I shan’t. I take a string bag always. Barker’s little, but he’s ten times the man you are,", "pos": 423514}
{"speaker": "Wesson", "text": "I see you’ve kested me,", "pos": 423939}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 423998}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’m afraid you’re cold, Mr. Wesson,", "pos": 424110}
{"speaker": "Wesson", "text": "It’s a bit nippy,", "pos": 424165}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Then come to the fire.", "pos": 424197}
{"speaker": "Wesson", "text": "Nay, I s’ll do where I am.", "pos": 424222}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Go thy ways i’ th’ armchair,", "pos": 424368}
{"speaker": "Wesson", "text": "Nay, thank yer; I’m very nicely here.", "pos": 424421}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, come, of course. And how’s that chest of yours?", "pos": 424461}
{"speaker": "Wesson", "text": "Oh, it’s very middlin’,", "pos": 424748}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "Wi’ a rattle in it like a kettle-drum,", "pos": 424783}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "T-t-t-t!", "pos": 424845}
{"speaker": "Wesson", "text": "Not yet,", "pos": 424939}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Then, why didn’t you?", "pos": 424961}
{"speaker": "Wesson", "text": "It’ll come,", "pos": 424996}
{"speaker": "Barker", "text": "Ah, an’ Doomsday!", "pos": 425021}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Count it, boy,", "pos": 425227}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "A measly twenty-five shillings!", "pos": 426951}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ten pounds eleven,", "pos": 427027}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And he gives me a scrattlin’ twenty-five, an’ his club this week! But I know him. He thinks because you’re earning he needn’t keep the house any longer. No, all he has to do with his money is to guttle it. But I’ll show him!", "pos": 427097}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, mother, don’t!", "pos": 427324}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Don’t what, I should like to know?", "pos": 427357}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t carry on again. I can’t work.", "pos": 427409}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, it’s all very well,", "pos": 427468}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, it won’t make it any better to whittle about it.", "pos": 427549}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I should like to know what you’d do if you had it to put up with.", "pos": 427606}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It won’t be long. You can have my money. Let him go to hell.", "pos": 427674}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "The two loaves at the top,", "pos": 427897}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "All alone?", "pos": 428213}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. What is it? Still design, for decorating stuffs, and for embroidery.", "pos": 428236}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ah, how beautiful! Why does it seem cruel?", "pos": 428859}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What?", "pos": 429231}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "There seems a feeling of cruelty about it,", "pos": 429239}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s jolly good, whether or not,", "pos": 429294}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And what will you do with it?", "pos": 429411}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Send it to Liberty’s. I did it for my mother, but I think she’d rather have the money.", "pos": 429454}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 429543}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I did that for you. You do like it?", "pos": 429806}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Take your things off. I shouldn’t have expected to see you here to-night, Miriam Leivers,", "pos": 430991}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 431347}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "If tha doesna tha durs’na. Glory! You’re a positive muck-heap,", "pos": 431453}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I clean them myself.", "pos": 431790}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Then you wanted a job,", "pos": 431813}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Inter alia,", "pos": 431981}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Oh, Lord! are you going to spout foreign languages? What does it mean, Miriam?", "pos": 432004}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "‘Among other things,’ I believe,", "pos": 432160}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "‘Among other things,’ ’Postle?", "pos": 432276}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "In fact, it’s one big smile,", "pos": 432500}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Up its sleeve, ’Postle Morel—you believe me,", "pos": 432543}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Are you still at school?", "pos": 432858}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 432911}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You’ve not had your notice, then?", "pos": 432918}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "I expect it at Easter.", "pos": 432954}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Isn’t it an awful shame, to turn you off merely because you didn’t pass the exam?", "pos": 432979}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 433063}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Agatha says you’re as good as any teacher anywhere. It seems to me ridiculous. I wonder why you didn’t pass.", "pos": 433101}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Short of brains, eh, ’Postle?", "pos": 433212}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Only brains to bite with,", "pos": 433267}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Nuisance!", "pos": 433319}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Beat! I hate you!", "pos": 433578}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Mind!", "pos": 433681}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’d as lief be neighbours with a vixen,", "pos": 433728}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Did it ruffle his pretty hair, then! And his nice little moustache! It’s a wicked moustache, ’Postle. And fancy me having Connie’s last cig.. Thanks so much, darling. Don’t you think he does it nicely, Miriam?", "pos": 433837}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Oh, very!", "pos": 434504}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Light, old boy? Sweet boy!", "pos": 434562}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I s’ll kiss thee back, Beat,", "pos": 435148}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Tha wunna!", "pos": 435188}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Quite,", "pos": 435271}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "By the way, aren’t you forgetting the bread?", "pos": 435293}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "By Jove!", "pos": 435340}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Oh, golly! This is what comes of the oblivion of love, my boy.", "pos": 435447}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Poor mater!", "pos": 435714}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "You want to grate it. My word, Miriam! you’re in for it this time,", "pos": 435739}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I!", "pos": 436134}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "You’d better be gone when his mother comes in. I know why King Alfred burned the cakes. Now I see it! ’Postle would fix up a tale about his work making him forget, if he thought it would wash. If that old woman had come in a bit sooner, she’d have boxed the brazen thing’s ears who made the oblivion, instead of poor Alfred’s.", "pos": 436170}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Smell of burning!", "pos": 436941}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "It’s the cigarettes,", "pos": 436976}
{"speaker": "Leonard", "text": "I suppose he’s left you to settle it between you. No,", "pos": 437120}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "he’s gone off with number nine.", "pos": 437280}
{"speaker": "Leonard", "text": "I just met number five inquiring for him,", "pos": 437314}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "Yes—we’re going to share him up like Solomon’s baby,", "pos": 437372}
{"speaker": "Leonard", "text": "Oh, ay,", "pos": 437457}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 437514}
{"speaker": "Leonard", "text": "An’ you’d have the leavings, like?", "pos": 437583}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "This bread’s a fine sight, our Paul,", "pos": 437725}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then you should stop an’ look after it,", "pos": 437776}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "You mean you should do what you’re reckoning to do,", "pos": 437829}
{"speaker": "Beatrice", "text": "He should, shouldn’t he!", "pos": 437898}
{"speaker": "Leonard", "text": "I s’d think he’d got plenty on hand,", "pos": 437941}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "You had a nasty walk, didn’t you, Miriam?", "pos": 437993}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes—but I’d been in all week—", "pos": 438049}
{"speaker": "Leonard", "text": "And you wanted a bit of a change, like,", "pos": 438081}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Well, you can’t be stuck in the house for ever. Don’t forget that bread, our Paul. Good-night, Miriam. I don’t think it will rain.", "pos": 438150}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s a mess!", "pos": 438523}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But, what is it, after all—twopence, ha’penny.", "pos": 438547}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, but—it’s the mater’s precious baking, and she’ll take it to heart. However, it’s no good bothering.", "pos": 438627}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Half-past eight! We’d better buck up. Where’s your French?", "pos": 439517}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ce matin les oiseaux m’ont éveillé. Il faisait encore un crépuscule. Mais la petite fenêtre de ma chambre était blême, et puis, jaûne, et tous les oiseaux du bois éclatèrent dans un chanson vif et résonnant. Toute l’aûbe tressaillit. J’avais rêvé de vous. Est-ce que vous voyez aussi l’aûbe? Les oiseaux m’éveillent presque tous les matins, et toujours il y a quelque chose de terreur dans le cri des grives. Il est si clair— Look, the past participle conjugated with avoir agrees with the direct object when it precedes.", "pos": 440189}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’ve done well this week. You really do blossom out sometimes. You ought to write poetry.", "pos": 442306}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t trust myself,", "pos": 442555}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You should try! Shall we read, or is it too late?", "pos": 442589}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "It is late—but we can read just a little,", "pos": 442679}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Behold her singing in the field Yon solitary highland lass. Fair Ines It was a beauteous evening, calm and pure, And breathing holy quiet like a nun. Tu te rappelleras la beaûté des caresses. Mater needn’t know till morning. It won’t upset her so much then as at night.", "pos": 443311}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I forgot that bread, mother. Well, it’s only twopence ha’penny. I can pay you for that.", "pos": 444747}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Yes, you don’t know how badly my mother is!", "pos": 445033}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why is she badly?", "pos": 445136}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Well! She could scarcely get home.", "pos": 445192}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why could you scarcely get home?", "pos": 445292}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "I found her as white as a sheet sitting here,", "pos": 445378}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, why?", "pos": 445479}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It was enough to upset anybody, hugging those parcels—meat, and green-groceries, and a pair of curtains—", "pos": 445564}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, why did you hug them; you needn’t have done.", "pos": 445690}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Then who would?", "pos": 445743}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Let Annie fetch the meat.", "pos": 445761}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Yes, and I would fetch the meat, but how was I to know. You were off with Miriam, instead of being in when my mother came.", "pos": 445789}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And what was the matter with you?", "pos": 445914}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I suppose it’s my heart,", "pos": 445976}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And have you felt it before?", "pos": 446061}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes—often enough.", "pos": 446092}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then why haven’t you told me?—and why haven’t you seen a doctor?", "pos": 446112}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "You’d never notice anything. You’re too eager to be off with Miriam.", "pos": 446246}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, am I—and any worse than you with Leonard?", "pos": 446331}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "I was in at a quarter to ten.", "pos": 446379}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I should have thought, that she wouldn’t have occupied you so entirely as to burn a whole ovenful of bread.", "pos": 446453}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Beatrice was here as well as she.", "pos": 446591}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Very likely. But we know why the bread is spoilt.", "pos": 446627}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why?", "pos": 446679}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Because you were engrossed with Miriam,", "pos": 446698}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, very well—then it was not!", "pos": 446766}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’d better go to bed before your father comes in. And if you’re going to have anything to eat, you’d better get it.", "pos": 447288}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t want anything.", "pos": 447435}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "If I wanted you to go to Selby on Friday night, I can imagine the scene. But you’re never too tired to go if she will come for you. Nay, you neither want to eat nor drink then.", "pos": 447658}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can’t let her go alone.", "pos": 447856}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Can’t you? And why does she come?", "pos": 447884}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not because I ask her.", "pos": 447920}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "She doesn’t come without you want her—", "pos": 447945}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, what if I do want her—", "pos": 447986}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Why, nothing, if it was sensible or reasonable. But to go trapseing up there miles and miles in the mud, coming home at midnight, and got to go to Nottingham in the morning—", "pos": 448029}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If I hadn’t, you’d be just the same.", "pos": 448205}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, I should, because there’s no sense in it. Is she so fascinating that you must follow her all that way?", "pos": 448244}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I do like her, but—", "pos": 448538}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Like her! It seems to me you like nothing and nobody else. There’s neither Annie, nor me, nor anyone now for you.", "pos": 448571}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What nonsense, mother—you know I don’t love her—I—I tell you I don’t love her—she doesn’t even walk with my arm, because I don’t want her to.", "pos": 448732}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Then why do you fly to her so often?", "pos": 448876}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I do like to talk to her—I never said I didn’t. But I don’t love her.", "pos": 448915}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Is there nobody else to talk to?", "pos": 448987}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not about the things we talk of. There’s a lot of things that you’re not interested in, that—", "pos": 449022}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What things?", "pos": 449118}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why—painting—and books. You don’t care about Herbert Spencer.", "pos": 449184}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No. And you won’t at my age.", "pos": 449248}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, but I do now—and Miriam does—", "pos": 449300}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And how do you know, that I shouldn’t. Do you ever try me!", "pos": 449338}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But you don’t, mother, you know you don’t care whether a picture’s decorative or not; you don’t care what manner it is in.", "pos": 449431}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "How do you know I don’t care? Do you ever try me? Do you ever talk to me about these things, to try?", "pos": 449556}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But it’s not that that matters to you, mother, you know it’s not.", "pos": 449659}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What is it, then—what is it, then, that matters to me?", "pos": 449727}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’re old, mother, and we’re young.", "pos": 449829}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, I know it well—I am old. And therefore I may stand aside; I have nothing more to do with you. You only want me to wait on you—the rest is for Miriam.", "pos": 450018}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You know it isn’t, mother, you know it isn’t!", "pos": 450320}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It looks a great deal like it,", "pos": 450402}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, mother—I really don’t love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you.", "pos": 450477}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I can’t bear it. I could let another woman—but not her. She’d leave me no room, not a bit of room— And I’ve never—you know, Paul—I’ve never had a husband—not really— And she exults so in taking you from me—she’s not like ordinary girls.", "pos": 450815}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I don’t love her, mother,", "pos": 451163}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "My boy! There, now go to bed. You’ll be so tired in the morning. There’s your father—now go. Perhaps I’m selfish. If you want her, take her, my boy.", "pos": 451317}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ha—mother!", "pos": 451748}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "At your mischief again?", "pos": 451878}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "At any rate, it is sober,", "pos": 452016}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "H’m—h’m! h’m—h’m!", "pos": 452054}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Nor was that bought for you. If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I’m sure I’m not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you’ve swilled a bellyful of beer.", "pos": 452290}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Wha-at—wha-at! Wha-at—not for me?", "pos": 452470}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Waste your own stuff!", "pos": 452684}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "What—what! I’ll show yer, yer young jockey!", "pos": 452718}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right! Show me!", "pos": 452825}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Ussha!", "pos": 453069}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Right! Father! Mother! Mother!", "pos": 453247}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "What’s a-matter with ’er?", "pos": 454084}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Faint!", "pos": 454122}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 454145}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t be poorly, mother—don’t be poorly!", "pos": 454307}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s nothing, my boy,", "pos": 454375}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Can you go to bed, mother?", "pos": 454599}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, I’ll come.", "pos": 454628}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Sleep with Annie, mother, not with him.", "pos": 454646}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No. I’ll sleep in my own bed.", "pos": 454688}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t sleep with him, mother.", "pos": 454720}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’ll sleep in my own bed.", "pos": 454752}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Good-night, mother.", "pos": 454910}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Good-night!", "pos": 454932}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You were late,", "pos": 458916}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Was I?", "pos": 458943}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Was it rough riding?", "pos": 458996}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I didn’t notice it.", "pos": 459030}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Tea won’t be for a few minutes. Will you come and look at the daffodils? Has the wind made you tired?", "pos": 459115}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, I think not,", "pos": 459616}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "It must be rough on the road—the wood moans so.", "pos": 459648}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You can see by the clouds it’s a south-west wind; that helps me here.", "pos": 459698}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You see, I don’t cycle, so I don’t understand,", "pos": 459770}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Is there need to cycle to know that!", "pos": 459833}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Aren’t they magnificent?", "pos": 460615}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Magnificent! It’s a bit thick—they’re pretty! Why must you always be fondling things?", "pos": 460656}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But I love to touch them,", "pos": 460892}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Can you never like things without clutching them as if you wanted to pull the heart out of them? Why don’t you have a bit more restraint, or reserve, or something? You wheedle the soul out of things. I would never wheedle—at any rate, I’d go straight. You’re always begging things to love you, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them— You don’t want to love—your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere.", "pos": 460939}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Shall we go through the wood a little way? Isn’t it dreadful?", "pos": 462736}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know! Is it worse than a weasel with its teeth in a rabbit’s throat? One weasel or many rabbits? One or the other must go! We will go back to the house. I don’t want to walk out.", "pos": 463069}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Let us sit here a minute. Isn’t it beautiful?", "pos": 463572}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Get out, or I’ll dot thee one.", "pos": 464351}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Bill, I’ve had enough o’ thee. No, no—I’ve had enough.", "pos": 464971}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why are you sad?", "pos": 465411}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m not sad; why should I be. I’m only normal.", "pos": 465448}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But what is the matter?", "pos": 465586}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nothing!", "pos": 465649}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Nay!", "pos": 465660}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’d far better not talk,", "pos": 465739}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But I wish to know—", "pos": 465777}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You always do,", "pos": 465836}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "It’s not fair to me. Don’t! Put it away. What is it?", "pos": 465862}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You know, you know—we’d better break off.", "pos": 466309}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why! What has happened?", "pos": 466467}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nothing has happened. We only realise where we are. It’s no good— We agreed on friendship. How often have we agreed for friendship! And yet—it neither stops there, nor gets anywhere else. I can only give friendship—it’s all I’m capable of—it’s a flaw in my make-up. The thing overbalances to one side—I hate a toppling balance. Let us have done.", "pos": 466509}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But what has happened?", "pos": 467656}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nothing—it’s all in myself—it only comes out just now. We’re always like this towards Easter-time.", "pos": 467691}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What do you want?", "pos": 467939}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why—I mustn’t come often—that’s all. Why should I monopolise you when I’m not—You see, I’m deficient in something with regard to you—", "pos": 467974}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But I don’t understand. Yesterday—", "pos": 468391}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I know, you never will! You’ll never believe that I can’t—can’t physically, any more than I can fly up like a skylark—", "pos": 468555}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What?", "pos": 468688}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Love you.", "pos": 468727}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What have they been saying at home?", "pos": 469163}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s not that,", "pos": 469212}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "I’m glad you’ve come. It is such a sunny day. I was just going down the fields for the first time this year.", "pos": 471766}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall I show you the eggs?", "pos": 472204}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Do! They seem such a sign of spring, and so hopeful.", "pos": 472242}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They are quite hot—I think we frightened her off them,", "pos": 472407}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "Ay, poor thing!", "pos": 472473}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Isn’t it a strange warmth!", "pos": 472611}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Blood heat,", "pos": 472671}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Go away, Bill. I don’t want you. Do you think—if I didn’t come up so much—you might get to like somebody else—another man?", "pos": 473357}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But I don’t know any other men. Why do you ask?", "pos": 473854}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, because they say I’ve no right to come up like this—without we mean to marry—", "pos": 473972}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Who says?", "pos": 474249}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother—and the others. They say at this rate everybody will consider me engaged, and I ought to consider myself so, because it’s not fair to you. And I’ve tried to find out—and I don’t think I love you as a man ought to love his wife. What do you think about it?", "pos": 474338}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 474712}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you think we love each other enough to marry?", "pos": 474742}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No. I don’t think so—we’re too young.", "pos": 474835}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I thought perhaps, that you, with your intensity in things, might have given me more—than I could ever make up to you. And even now—if you think it better—we’ll be engaged.", "pos": 474902}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No, I don’t think so,", "pos": 475215}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You see, with me—I don’t think one person would ever monopolise me—be everything to me—I think never.", "pos": 475278}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No. This is your mother. I know she never liked me.", "pos": 475420}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, no, it isn’t. It was for your sake she spoke this time. She only said, if I was going on, I ought to consider myself engaged. And if I ask you to come down any time, you won’t stop away, will you?", "pos": 475569}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Well, what shall we do? I suppose I’d better drop French. I was just beginning to get on with it. But I suppose I can go on alone.", "pos": 475867}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t see that we need. I can give you a French lesson, surely.", "pos": 476020}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Well—and there are Sunday nights. I shan’t stop coming to chapel, because I enjoy it, and it’s all the social life I get. But you’ve no need to come home with me. I can go alone.", "pos": 476099}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right. But if I ask Edgar, he’ll always come with us, and then they can say nothing. And you won’t think about it, and let it trouble you, will you?", "pos": 476280}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Oh no,", "pos": 476662}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because, a man gets across his bicycle—and goes to work—and does all sorts of things. But a woman broods.", "pos": 476823}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No, I shan’t bother,", "pos": 476947}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "How white Paul looks! Miriam, you shouldn’t have let him sit out of doors. Do you think you’ve taken cold, Paul?", "pos": 477047}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, no!", "pos": 477188}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "You’re not going home, are you?", "pos": 477349}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. I said I’d be early.", "pos": 477413}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "But this is early,", "pos": 477476}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well—good-night, all!", "pos": 477701}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Hasn’t Clara come? Yes. She’s reading.", "pos": 485173}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She came this morning?", "pos": 485382}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes. You said you’d bring me that letter from the man at Liberty’s. Have you remembered?", "pos": 485417}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, dash, no! But nag at me till you get it.", "pos": 485553}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t like to nag at you.", "pos": 485611}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do it whether or not. And is she any more agreeable?", "pos": 485641}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You know I always think she is quite agreeable.", "pos": 485710}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You have chosen a fine day,", "pos": 486453}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It happens so,", "pos": 486492}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. I am glad. What have you been doing all morning?", "pos": 486519}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Well, you see. Clara only came with father—and so—she’s not been here very long.", "pos": 486661}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You were at Margaret Bonford’s meeting the other evening,", "pos": 487158}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 487297}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why, how do you know?", "pos": 487314}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I went in for a few minutes before the train came. I think she’s a lovable little woman,", "pos": 487354}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Margaret Bonford! She’s a great deal cleverer than most men.", "pos": 487516}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I didn’t say she wasn’t. She’s lovable for all that.", "pos": 487598}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And, of course, that is all that matters,", "pos": 487683}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I suppose it matters more than her cleverness, which, after all, would never get her to heaven.", "pos": 487805}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It’s not heaven she wants to get—it’s her fair share on earth,", "pos": 487914}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well. I thought she was warm, and awfully nice—only too frail. I wished she was sitting comfortably in peace—", "pos": 488081}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Darning her husband’s stockings,", "pos": 488205}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m sure she wouldn’t mind darning even my stockings. And I’m sure she’d do them well. Just as I wouldn’t mind blacking her boots if she wanted me to. Well. I think I’ll go and see Edgar. Is he on the land?", "pos": 488264}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I believe, he’s gone for a load of coal. He should be back directly.", "pos": 488612}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then. I’ll go and meet him.", "pos": 488698}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Hello! Where are you going?", "pos": 489174}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Came to meet you. Can’t stand ‘Nevermore.’", "pos": 489239}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Who is ‘Nevermore’?", "pos": 489331}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The lady—Mrs. Dawes—it ought to be Mrs. The Raven that quothed ‘Nevermore.’", "pos": 489363}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Don’t you like her?", "pos": 489466}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not a fat lot. Why, do you?", "pos": 489498}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "No! No! I can’t say she’s much in my line. But why do you call her ‘Nevermore’?", "pos": 489541}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, if she looks at a man she says haughtily ‘Nevermore,’ and if she looks at herself in the looking-glass she says disdainfully ‘Nevermore,’ and if she thinks back she says it in disgust, and if she looks forward she says it cynically.", "pos": 489738}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "You think she’s a man-hater?", "pos": 490073}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She thinks she is,", "pos": 490104}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "But you don’t think so?", "pos": 490139}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No,", "pos": 490165}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Wasn’t she nice with you, then?", "pos": 490185}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Could you imagine her nice with anybody?", "pos": 490219}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Do you know a new song to teach me?", "pos": 490622}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "'Mary Morrison'?", "pos": 490836}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What song was that? We have such jolly times. Do you like singing?", "pos": 491463}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "If it is good,", "pos": 491740}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You mean if it is high-class and trained?", "pos": 491794}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I think a voice needs training before the singing is anything,", "pos": 491847}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You might as well insist on having people’s voices trained before you allowed them to talk. Really, people sing for their own pleasure, as a rule.", "pos": 491922}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And it may be for other people’s discomfort.", "pos": 492085}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then the other people should have flaps to their ears,", "pos": 492132}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "And you find life happier now?", "pos": 492354}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Infinitely.", "pos": 492387}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "And you are satisfied?", "pos": 492401}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "So long as I can be free and independent.", "pos": 492426}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Leivers", "text": "And you don’t miss anything in your life?", "pos": 492470}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I’ve put all that behind me.", "pos": 492541}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’ll find you’re always tumbling over the things you’ve put behind you,", "pos": 492642}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What a treat to be a knight, and to have a pavilion here.", "pos": 493532}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And to have us shut up safely?", "pos": 493603}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, singing with your maids at your broidery. I would carry your banner of white and green and heliotrope. I would have ‘W.S.P.U.’ emblazoned on my shield, beneath a woman rampant.", "pos": 493651}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I have no doubt, that you would much rather fight for a woman than let her fight for herself.", "pos": 493850}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I would. When she fights for herself she seems like a dog before a looking-glass, gone into a mad fury with its own shadow.", "pos": 493960}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And you are the looking-glass?", "pos": 494086}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Or the shadow,", "pos": 494154}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I am afraid, that you are too clever.", "pos": 494183}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I leave it to you to be good. Be good, sweet maid, and just let me be clever.", "pos": 494235}
{"speaker": "Limb", "text": "Tell your father, Miss Leivers, that his young beas’es ’as broke that bottom fence three days an’ runnin’.", "pos": 495003}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Which?", "pos": 495151}
{"speaker": "Limb", "text": "Come along a bit, an’ I’ll show you. No hanky-pankyin’,", "pos": 495357}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No,", "pos": 496034}
{"speaker": "Miss Limb", "text": "Oh, good-evening, Miss Leivers. It’s ages since you’ve been down.", "pos": 497089}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Your horse is a fine fellow!", "pos": 497200}
{"speaker": "Miss Limb", "text": "Isn’t he! As loving as any man!", "pos": 497243}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "More loving than most men, I should think,", "pos": 497301}
{"speaker": "Miss Limb", "text": "He’s a nice boy! Are you coming in? Do come in, Mr.—I didn’t catch it.", "pos": 497361}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Morel,", "pos": 497843}
{"speaker": "Miss Limb", "text": "Because if you do you might come and fish any time. We scarcely see a soul from week’s end to week’s end. I should be thankful.", "pos": 497988}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What fish are there in the pond? I shouldn’t mind swimming here,", "pos": 498136}
{"speaker": "Miss Limb", "text": "Do. Come when you like. My brother will be awfully pleased to talk with you. He is so quiet, because there is no one to talk to. Do come and swim.", "pos": 498389}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It’s a fine depth, and so clear.", "pos": 498568}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you swim? Miss Limb was just saying we could come when we liked.", "pos": 498638}
{"speaker": "Miss Limb", "text": "Of course there’s the farm-hands,", "pos": 498721}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She makes me feel uncomfortable,", "pos": 499008}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You mean Miss Limb?", "pos": 499054}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. What’s a matter with her? Is she going dotty with being too lonely?", "pos": 499090}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "It’s not the right sort of life for her. I think it’s cruel to bury her there. I really ought to go and see her more. But—she upsets me.", "pos": 499187}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She makes me feel sorry for her—yes, and she bothers me,", "pos": 499326}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "she wants a man.", "pos": 499431}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But it’s the loneliness sends her cracked,", "pos": 499495}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Do you still think she is disagreeable?", "pos": 500053}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Something’s the matter with her,", "pos": 500180}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ah!", "pos": 500827}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why don’t you get some?", "pos": 501708}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I don’t believe in it. They look better growing.", "pos": 501734}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But you’d like some?", "pos": 501785}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "They want to be left.", "pos": 501808}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t believe they do.", "pos": 501832}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me,", "pos": 501859}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That’s a stiff, artificial notion. They don’t die any quicker in water than on their roots. And besides, they look nice in a bowl—they look jolly. And you only call a thing a corpse because it looks corpse-like.", "pos": 501917}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Whether it is one or not?", "pos": 502142}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It isn’t one to me. A dead flower isn’t a corpse of a flower.", "pos": 502182}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And even so—what right have you to pull them?", "pos": 502269}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because I like them, and want them—and there’s plenty of them.", "pos": 502328}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And that is sufficient?", "pos": 502393}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. Why not? I’m sure they’d smell nice in your room in Nottingham.", "pos": 502419}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And I should have the pleasure of watching them die.", "pos": 502490}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But then—it does not matter if they do die.", "pos": 502545}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I think, if you treat them with reverence you don’t do them any harm. It is the spirit you pluck them in that matters.", "pos": 502816}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But no, you get ’em because you want ’em, and that’s all. Look at these! sturdy and lusty like little trees and like boys with fat legs. Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, If the Lord won’t have you the devil must. I thought you wanted a funeral. Look how they’ve come out of the wood!", "pos": 502968}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 504513}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It makes me think of the wild men of the woods, how terrified they would be when they got breast to breast with the open space.", "pos": 504551}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Do you think they were?", "pos": 504681}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes—those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.", "pos": 504718}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I should think the second,", "pos": 504898}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, you do feel like one of the open space sort, trying to force yourself into the dark, don’t you?", "pos": 504941}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "How should I know?", "pos": 505044}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It has been nice, hasn’t it? Don’t you think so?", "pos": 505757}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There she is, mother!", "pos": 506444}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Ah! So she is!", "pos": 506539}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Look, mother, how big she is above the town! Think, there are streets and streets below her! She looks bigger than the city altogether.", "pos": 507182}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "So she does! Don’t imagine I like it. I don’t like it, I really don’t! Just think of your money wasted!", "pos": 507320}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You never mind my money. You forget I’m a fellow taking his girl for an outing.", "pos": 507812}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Stop it at once, sir! How can I do it?", "pos": 507942}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’ve got nothing to do. Stand still!", "pos": 508000}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "An old thing like me!", "pos": 508107}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You see. I want people to think we’re awful swells. So look ikey.", "pos": 508151}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’ll jowl your head,", "pos": 508230}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Strut! Be a fantail pigeon.", "pos": 508266}
{"speaker": "A man", "text": "Can I show you the town, madam?", "pos": 508507}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No, thank you. I’ve got my son. You go away with you! Ha! that’s the Jew’s House. Now, do you remember that lecture, Paul—? It’s nothing. My heart is only a bit old; one must expect it. Now this is better than I thought it could be! I suppose it is open to anybody?", "pos": 508541}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. Do you think they’d have the damned cheek to send us away.", "pos": 509685}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, I’m sure,", "pos": 509765}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "they would if they heard your language.", "pos": 509798}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why can’t a man have a young mother? What is she old for?", "pos": 510074}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well,", "pos": 510134}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "she can scarcely help it.", "pos": 510162}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And why wasn’t I the oldest son? Look—they say the young ones have the advantage—but look, they had the young mother. You should have had me for your eldest son.", "pos": 510190}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I didn’t arrange it,", "pos": 510354}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come to consider, you’re as much to blame as me.", "pos": 510395}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What are you old for!", "pos": 510489}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why can’t you walk? Why can’t you come with me to places?", "pos": 510546}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At one time,", "pos": 510606}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I could have run up that hill a good deal better than you.", "pos": 510634}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What’s the good of that to me?", "pos": 510695}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s too bad of you to be ill. Little, it is—", "pos": 510794}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ill!", "pos": 510842}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’m a bit old, and you’ll have to put up with it, that’s all.", "pos": 510860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then who does she live with?", "pos": 511125}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "With her mother, on Bluebell Hill.", "pos": 511156}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And have they enough to keep them?", "pos": 511193}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t think so. I think they do lace work.", "pos": 511230}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And wherein lies her charm, my boy?", "pos": 511277}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t know that she’s charming, mother. But she’s nice. And she seems straight, you know—not a bit deep, not a bit.", "pos": 511315}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But she’s a good deal older than you.", "pos": 511435}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She’s thirty, I’m going on twenty-three.", "pos": 511475}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You haven’t told me what you like her for.", "pos": 511518}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because I don’t know—a sort of defiant way she’s got—a sort of angry way.", "pos": 511563}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You don’t look very well, my lad.", "pos": 512111}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I dunno,", "pos": 512147}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I feel anyhow or nohow, ma.", "pos": 512167}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you sure they’re good lodgings?", "pos": 512247}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you team it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.", "pos": 512296}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And so it knocks you up?", "pos": 512492}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I dunno. I want to get married,", "pos": 512529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But,", "pos": 512648}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thought you said you’d wait another year.", "pos": 512670}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, I did say so,", "pos": 512716}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you know,", "pos": 512782}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Annie’s a bit of a spendthrift. She’s saved no more than eleven pounds. And I know, lad, you haven’t had much chance.", "pos": 512808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ve got thirty-three quid,", "pos": 512956}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It doesn’t go far,", "pos": 512995}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I didn’t want, ma!", "pos": 513114}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, my lad, I know. I was only wishing I had. And take away five pounds for the wedding and things—it leaves twenty-nine pounds. You won’t do much on that.", "pos": 513184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But do you really want to get married?", "pos": 513396}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you feel as if you ought?", "pos": 513448}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 513529}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then,", "pos": 513545}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we must all do the best we can for it, lad.", "pos": 513566}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t want Annie to feel handicapped,", "pos": 513669}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My lad,", "pos": 513732}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "you’re steady—you’ve got a decent place. If a man had needed me I’d have married him on his last week’s wages. She may find it a bit hard to start humbly. Young girls are like that. They look forward to the fine home they think they’ll have. But I had expensive furniture. It’s not everything.", "pos": 513752}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You’re not sorry she’s married, mother, are you?", "pos": 515300}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’m not sorry she’s married—but—it seems strange that she should go from me. It even seems to me hard that she can prefer to go with her Leonard. That’s how mothers are—I know it’s silly.", "pos": 515361}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And shall you be miserable about her?", "pos": 515551}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When I think of my own wedding day,", "pos": 515591}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I can only hope her life will be different.", "pos": 515650}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you can trust him to be good to her?", "pos": 515696}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, yes. They say he’s not good enough for her. But I say if a man is genuine, as he is, and a girl is fond of him—then—it should be all right. He’s as good as she.", "pos": 515739}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "So you don’t mind?", "pos": 515907}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I would never have let a daughter of mine marry a man I didn’t feel to be genuine through and through. And yet, there’s a gap now she’s gone.", "pos": 515928}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At any rate, mother, I s’ll never marry,", "pos": 516230}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ay, they all say that, my lad. You’ve not met the one yet. Only wait a year or two.", "pos": 516282}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I shan’t marry, mother. I shall live with you, and we’ll have a servant.", "pos": 516368}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ay, my lad, it’s easy to talk. We’ll see when the time comes.", "pos": 516447}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What time? I’m nearly twenty-three.", "pos": 516511}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes, you’re not one that would marry young. But in three years’ time—", "pos": 516549}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shall be with you just the same.", "pos": 516621}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We’ll see, my boy, we’ll see.", "pos": 516658}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you don’t want me to marry?", "pos": 516690}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I shouldn’t like to think of you going through your life without anybody to care for you and do—no.", "pos": 516724}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you think I ought to marry?", "pos": 516826}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Sooner or later every man ought.", "pos": 516860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you’d rather it were later.", "pos": 516895}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It would be hard—and very hard. It’s as they say:", "pos": 516929}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A son’s my son till he takes him a wife, But my daughter’s my daughter the whole of her life.", "pos": 516981}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And you think I’d let a wife take me from you?", "pos": 517078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, you wouldn’t ask her to marry your mother as well as you,", "pos": 517127}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She could do what she liked; she wouldn’t have to interfere.", "pos": 517212}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She wouldn’t—till she’d got you—and then you’d see.", "pos": 517275}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I never will see. I’ll never marry while I’ve got you—I won’t.", "pos": 517329}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I shouldn’t like to leave you with nobody, my boy,", "pos": 517394}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You’re not going to leave me. What are you? Fifty-three! I’ll give you till seventy-five. There you are, I’m fat and forty-four. Then I’ll marry a staid body. See!", "pos": 517462}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go to bed,", "pos": 517656}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "go to bed.", "pos": 517678}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And we’ll have a pretty house, you and me, and a servant, and it’ll be just all right. I s’ll perhaps be rich with my painting.", "pos": 517691}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will you go to bed!", "pos": 517821}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And then you s’ll have a pony-carriage. See yourself—a little Queen Victoria trotting round.", "pos": 517843}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I tell you to go to bed,", "pos": 517938}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nay, tha doesna. I’ll gi’e thee a smoke kiss if ter’s a mind.", "pos": 520769}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wanted a whiff, no kiss at all,", "pos": 520833}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, an’ tha s’lt ha’e a whiff,", "pos": 520883}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "along wi’ t’ kiss.", "pos": 520927}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I want a draw at thy fag,", "pos": 520948}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ll gi’e thee a smoke kiss,", "pos": 521135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tha’rt a knivey nuisance, Arty Morel,", "pos": 521175}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ha’e a smoke kiss?", "pos": 521239}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Shonna!", "pos": 521328}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ve non got it,", "pos": 521969}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Liar!", "pos": 522064}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "’S true as I’m here!", "pos": 522083}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You brazen imp!", "pos": 522136}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Tha tickled me, Beat,", "pos": 522611}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are a little cat, Beat,", "pos": 523216}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well, you shouldn’t be brazen,", "pos": 523286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did it, pore fing!", "pos": 523473}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Kiss?", "pos": 523545}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Daren’t I?", "pos": 523569}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go on!", "pos": 523593}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You touched! You touched!", "pos": 526710}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No! I didn’t touch, did I? Wasn’t I clear?", "pos": 526750}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "I couldn’t say,", "pos": 526828}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But you touched. You’re beaten.", "pos": 526885}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I did not touch!", "pos": 526932}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "As plain as anything,", "pos": 526962}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Box his ears for me!", "pos": 526997}
{"speaker": "Edgar", "text": "Nay. I daren’t. You must do it yourself.", "pos": 527040}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And nothing can alter the fact that you touched,", "pos": 527100}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I think you are despicable!", "pos": 527311}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And I knew you couldn’t jump that heap,", "pos": 527404}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s not religious to be religious. I reckon a crow is religious when it sails across the sky. But it only does it because it feels itself carried to where it’s going, not because it thinks it is being eternal. I don’t believe God knows such a lot about Himself. God doesn’t know things, He is things. And I’m sure He’s not soulful.", "pos": 528278}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "May I speak of our old, worn love, this last time. It, too, is changing, is it not? Say, has not the body of that love died, and left you its invulnerable soul? You see, I can give you a spirit love, I have given it you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun—as a mystic monk to a mystic nun. Surely you esteem it best. Yet you regret—no, have regretted—the other. In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses—rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense. Ours is not an everyday affection. As yet we are mortal, and to live side by side with one another would be dreadful, for somehow with you I cannot long be trivial, and, you know, to be always beyond this mortal state would be to lose it. If people marry, they must live together as affectionate humans, who may be commonplace with each other without feeling awkward—not as two souls. So I feel it. Ought I to send this letter?—I doubt it. But there—it is best to understand. Au revoir.", "pos": 529676}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You are a nun—you are a nun. Our intimacy would have been all-beautiful but for one little mistake. Was the mistake mine?", "pos": 530882}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I am glad you answered; you are so calm and natural you put me to shame. What a ranter I am! We are often out of sympathy. But in fundamentals we may always be together I think. I must thank you for your sympathy with my painting and drawing. Many a sketch is dedicated to you. I do look forward to your criticisms, which, to my shame and glory, are always grand appreciations. It is a lovely joke, that. Au revoir.", "pos": 531306}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, mother!", "pos": 532862}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Hurrah, my boy! I knew we should do it! His picture’s got first prize, Fred, and is sold for twenty guineas.", "pos": 532978}
{"speaker": "Fred", "text": "My word, that’s something like!", "pos": 533347}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And Major Moreton has bought it!", "pos": 533439}
{"speaker": "Fred", "text": "It looks like meanin’ something, that does, Mrs. Morel,", "pos": 533485}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother!", "pos": 533889}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Didn’t I say we should do it!", "pos": 533913}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You didn’t think, mother—", "pos": 534038}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No, my son—not so much—but I expected a good deal.", "pos": 534088}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But not so much,", "pos": 534141}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No—no—but I knew we should do it.", "pos": 534169}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Twenty guineas, mother! That’s just what you wanted to buy Arthur out. Now you needn’t borrow any. It’ll just do.", "pos": 534399}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Indeed, I shan’t take it all,", "pos": 534515}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But why?", "pos": 534557}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Because I shan’t.", "pos": 534568}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well—you have twelve pounds, I’ll have nine.", "pos": 534588}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "They tell me Paul’s got first prize for his picture, and sold it to Lord Henry Bentley for fifty pound.", "pos": 534862}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, what stories people do tell!", "pos": 534968}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Ha! I said I wor sure it wor a lie. But they said tha’d told Fred Hodgkisson.", "pos": 535014}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "As if I would tell him such stuff!", "pos": 535109}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Ha!", "pos": 535146}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s true he has got the first prize,", "pos": 535210}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Has he, beguy!", "pos": 535303}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But as for fifty pounds—such nonsense! Major Moreton bought it for twenty guineas, that’s true.", "pos": 535369}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Twenty guineas! Tha niver says!", "pos": 535492}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, and it was worth it.", "pos": 535543}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Ay! I don’t misdoubt it. But twenty guineas for a bit of a paintin’ as he knocked off in an hour or two! And when does he handle th’ money?", "pos": 535571}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That I couldn’t tell you. When the picture is sent home, I suppose.", "pos": 535827}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Yes, an’ that other lad ’ud ’a done as much if they hadna ha’ killed ’im,", "pos": 536173}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother, I want an evening suit.", "pos": 536448}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, I was afraid you would. There’s that one of William’s, that I know cost four pounds ten and which he’d only worn three times.", "pos": 536482}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Should you like me to wear it, mother?", "pos": 536696}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes. I think it would fit you—at least the coat. The trousers would want shortening. The tailor can make it right. It’s beautiful stuff. I never could find in my heart to let your father wear the trousers, and very glad I am now.", "pos": 536747}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Go along with you! What do they want to know me for?", "pos": 538077}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They do! If they want to know me—and they say they do—then they want to know you, because you are quite as clever as I am.", "pos": 538144}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Go along with you, child!", "pos": 538293}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You know. I don’t want to belong to the well-to-do middle class. I like my common people best. I belong to the common people.", "pos": 539379}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But if anyone else said so, my son, wouldn’t you be in a tear. You know you consider yourself equal to any gentleman.", "pos": 539532}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "In myself, not in my class or my education or my manners. But in myself I am.", "pos": 539652}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Very well, then. Then why talk about the common people?", "pos": 539747}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because—the difference between people isn’t in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people—life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.", "pos": 539805}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s all very well, my boy. But, then, why don’t you go and talk to your father’s pals?", "pos": 540011}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But they’re rather different.", "pos": 540101}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Not at all. They’re the common people. After all, whom do you mix with now—among the common people? Those that exchange ideas, like the middle classes. The rest don’t interest you.", "pos": 540133}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But—there’s the life—", "pos": 540316}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I don’t believe there’s a jot more life from Miriam than you could get from any educated girl—say Miss Moreton. It is you who are snobbish about class.", "pos": 540340}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "My boy, all your cleverness, your breaking away from old things, and taking life in your own hands, doesn’t seem to bring you much happiness.", "pos": 541175}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What is happiness! It’s nothing to me! How am I to be happy?", "pos": 541345}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That’s for you to judge, my lad. But if you could meet some good woman who would make you happy—and you began to think of settling your life—when you have the means—so that you could work without all this fretting—it would be much better for you.", "pos": 541454}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You mean easy, mother. That’s a woman’s whole doctrine for life—ease of soul and physical comfort. And I do despise it.", "pos": 541849}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, do you! And do you call yours a divine discontent?", "pos": 541983}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. I don’t care about its divinity. But damn your happiness! So long as life’s full, it doesn’t matter whether it’s happy or not. I’m afraid your happiness would bore me.", "pos": 542062}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You never give it a chance. But it does matter! And you ought to be happy, you ought to try to be happy, to live to be happy. How could I bear to think your life wouldn’t be a happy one!", "pos": 542237}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Your own’s been bad enough, mater, but it hasn’t left you so much worse off than the folk who’ve been happier. I reckon you’ve done well. And I am the same. Aren’t I well enough off?", "pos": 542510}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’re not, my son. Battle—battle—and suffer. It’s about all you do, as far as I can see.", "pos": 542694}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But why not, my dear? I tell you it’s the best—", "pos": 542786}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It isn’t. And one ought to be happy, one ought.", "pos": 542836}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Never mind, Little. So long as you don’t feel life’s paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness.", "pos": 543122}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But I want you to be happy,", "pos": 543300}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Eh, my dear—say rather you want me to live.", "pos": 543353}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, my lad, you did it yourself, now you must make the best of it.", "pos": 544907}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I thought it couldn’t be your voice,” she said.”", "pos": 546493}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "If you’re coming in you won’t have to mind the work. I know we’re about blocked up. But sit you down. Will you drink a bottle of stout? Clara, get him a bottle of stout. You look as if you could do with it. Haven’t you never any more colour than that?", "pos": 547499}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s only a thick skin I’ve got that doesn’t show the blood through. Well, here’s health!", "pos": 547993}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "And thank you. And light yourself a cigarette, so long as you don’t set the house on fire,", "pos": 548242}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Thank you,", "pos": 548401}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Nay, you needn’t thank me. I s’ll be glad to smell a bit of smoke in th’ ’ouse again. A house o’ women is as dead as a house wi’ no fire, to my thinkin’. I’m not a spider as likes a corner to myself. I like a man about, if he’s only something to snap at.", "pos": 548426}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "I’ve heard a bit about you from Clara. You’re in Jordan’s, aren’t you?", "pos": 549471}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 549597}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Ay, well, and I can remember when Thomas Jordan used to ask me for one of my toffies.", "pos": 549604}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Did he? And did he get it?", "pos": 549692}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Sometimes he did, sometimes he didn’t—which was latterly. For he’s the sort that takes all and gives naught, he is—or used to be.", "pos": 549737}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I think he’s very decent,", "pos": 549869}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Yes; well, I’m glad to hear it.", "pos": 549908}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "And you’ve been going with Miriam Leivers?", "pos": 550589}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well—", "pos": 550656}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Yes, she’s a nice girl. She’s very nice, but she’s a bit too much above this world to suit my fancy.", "pos": 550677}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She is a bit like that,", "pos": 550797}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "She’ll never be satisfied till she’s got wings and can fly over everybody’s head, she won’t,” she said.”", "pos": 550834}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you like jennying?", "pos": 551127}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What can a woman do!", "pos": 551161}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Is it sweated?", "pos": 551206}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "More or less. Isn’t all woman’s work? That’s another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market.", "pos": 551223}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Now then, you shut up about the men. If the women wasn’t fools, the men wouldn’t be bad uns, that’s what I say. No man was ever that bad wi’ me but what he got it back again. Not but what they’re a lousy lot, there’s no denying it.", "pos": 551354}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But they’re all right really, aren’t they?” he asked.”", "pos": 551607}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Well, they’re a bit different from women,” she answered.”", "pos": 551662}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Would you care to be back at Jordan’s?", "pos": 551720}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I don’t think so,", "pos": 551777}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Yes, she would! thank her stars if she could get back. Don’t you listen to her. She’s for ever on that ’igh horse of hers, an’ it’s back’s that thin an’ starved it’ll cut her in two one of these days.", "pos": 551810}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you will go with Mrs. Hodgkisson to Hucknall? I say, Susan, I heard a whisper of your getting married. What about it?", "pos": 552936}
{"speaker": "Susan", "text": "Who’s been talking to you?", "pos": 553565}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nobody. I merely heard a whisper that you were thinking—", "pos": 553607}
{"speaker": "Susan", "text": "Well, I am, though you needn’t tell anybody. What’s more, I wish I wasn’t!", "pos": 553666}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nay, Susan, you won’t make me believe that.", "pos": 553743}
{"speaker": "Susan", "text": "Shan’t I? You can believe it, though. I’d rather stop here a thousand times.", "pos": 553789}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, Susan?", "pos": 553888}
{"speaker": "Susan", "text": "That’s why!", "pos": 553952}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And must you? Ah, I’m sorry. But you’ll see it’ll turn out all right. You’ll make the best of it,", "pos": 553966}
{"speaker": "Susan", "text": "There’s nothing else for it.", "pos": 554257}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yea, there’s making the worst of it. Try and make it all right. Would you, care to come back to Jordan’s?", "pos": 554288}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Why?", "pos": 554609}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, because Susan is thinking of leaving,” he said.”", "pos": 554653}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Have you said anything about it?", "pos": 554894}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Except to you, not a word.", "pos": 554929}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I will apply when the advertisement is out,” she said.”", "pos": 554990}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You will apply before that. I will let you know exactly when.", "pos": 555046}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You are affected in that piece,", "pos": 556497}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What of this?", "pos": 556641}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "H’m! It doesn’t interest me much.", "pos": 556688}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because you don’t understand it,", "pos": 556759}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Then why ask me about it?", "pos": 556807}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because I thought you would understand.", "pos": 556835}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You read French, do you?", "pos": 558441}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What did you say?", "pos": 558852}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I did not know you read French,", "pos": 558959}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Did you not?", "pos": 559015}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Rotten swank! You don’t like Spiral work,” he said.”", "pos": 559074}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Oh, well, all work is work,", "pos": 559335}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What would you prefer to do?” he asked.”", "pos": 559500}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "There is so little likelihood of my ever being given a choice, that I haven’t wasted time considering.", "pos": 559586}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Pah! You only say that because you’re too proud to own up what you want and can’t get.", "pos": 559691}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You know me very well,", "pos": 559821}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I know you think you’re terrific great shakes, and that you live under the eternal insult of working in a factory. What was I so impudent to Clara for? Serve her right; she stinks with silent pride. Have one? I bought a handful to sweeten me up. There is always about you, a sort of waiting. Whatever I see you doing, you’re not really there: you are waiting—like Penelope when she did her weaving. I’ll call you Penelope,", "pos": 559866}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Would it make any difference?", "pos": 561261}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That doesn’t matter, so long as it pleases me. Here, I say, you seem to forget I’m your boss. It just occurs to me.", "pos": 561342}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And what does that mean?", "pos": 561460}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It means I’ve got a right to boss you.", "pos": 561505}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Is there anything you want to complain about?", "pos": 561546}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, I say, you needn’t be nasty,", "pos": 561594}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I don’t know what you want,", "pos": 561646}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I want you to treat me nicely and respectfully.", "pos": 561707}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Call you ‘sir’, perhaps?", "pos": 561757}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, call me ‘sir’. I should love it.", "pos": 561803}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Then I wish you would go upstairs, sir.", "pos": 561843}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’re too blessed superior for anything,", "pos": 561958}
{"speaker": "Pussy", "text": "Hey, haven’t you got a chocolate for anybody?", "pos": 562555}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Sorry, Pussy. I meant to have offered them; then I went and forgot ’em.", "pos": 562603}
{"speaker": "Pussy", "text": "I think you did,", "pos": 562691}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’ll bring you some this afternoon. You don’t want them after they’ve been lying about, do you?", "pos": 562724}
{"speaker": "Pussy", "text": "Oh, I’m not particular,", "pos": 562822}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh no. They’ll be dusty. Sorry I left these things littering about. They’ll be dirty now. You should have taken them. I wonder why you didn’t. I meant to have told you I wanted you to. Will you take some? These are fresh. Oh, take several—for luck. Here you are, Pussy. Don’t be greedy!", "pos": 562862}
{"speaker": "The girls", "text": "Are they all for her?", "pos": 563657}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Of course they’re not,", "pos": 563711}
{"speaker": "Pussy", "text": "Come out! I can have first pick, can’t I, Paul?", "pos": 563804}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Be nice with ’em,", "pos": 563867}
{"speaker": "The girls", "text": "You are a dear,", "pos": 563911}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Tenpence. Do you mind going on with your work,", "pos": 563946}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "Paul, Paul, I want you. I want you. Come on. Come before you begin on the letters.", "pos": 565074}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "You didn’t think we’d forgot you?", "pos": 565882}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why?", "pos": 565942}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "'Why,' he says! 'Why!' Why, look here!", "pos": 565999}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, kisses for my birthday. How did you know?", "pos": 566161}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "Yes, you want to know, don’t you? There’s one from everybody—except Lady Clara—and two from some. But I shan’t tell you how many I put.", "pos": 566223}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, I know, you’re spooney,", "pos": 566395}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "There you are mistaken! I could never be so soft.", "pos": 566434}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You always pretend to be such a hard-hearted hussy. And you know you’re as sentimental—", "pos": 566546}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "I’d rather be called sentimental than frozen meat,", "pos": 566650}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you say such nasty things about me?", "pos": 566766}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "No, my duck. No, my duck, because you don’t think yourself a fine figure in marble and us nothing but dirt. I’m as good as you, aren’t I, Paul?", "pos": 566819}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, we’re not better than one another, are we?", "pos": 567067}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "But I’m as good as you, aren’t I, Paul?", "pos": 567129}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Of course you are. If it comes to goodness, you’re better.", "pos": 567195}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "I thought I’d get here before the others—won’t they say I’m deep! Now shut your eyes—", "pos": 567322}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And open your mouth, and see what God sends you. I’m going to look. No, Fanny,", "pos": 567420}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "From us all,", "pos": 567844}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, but—", "pos": 567881}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "Are they the right sort?", "pos": 567892}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Jove! they’re the best in the catalogue.", "pos": 567960}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "But they’re the right sorts?", "pos": 568003}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "They’re off the little list I’d made to get when my ship came in.", "pos": 568045}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "They was all on thorns to do it; they all paid their shares, all except the Queen of Sheba.", "pos": 568194}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And wouldn’t she join?", "pos": 568318}
{"speaker": "Fanny", "text": "She didn’t get the chance; we never told her; we wasn’t going to have her bossing this show. We didn’t want her to join. I can give you a kiss to-day. You’ve looked so white, it’s made my heart ache.", "pos": 568355}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You have stayed to dinner!", "pos": 568916}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes; and I seem to have dined on old surgical-appliance stock. I must go out now, or I shall feel stale india-rubber right through.", "pos": 568983}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are going anywhere?", "pos": 569164}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You feel as if you could scoop up the folk like tadpoles, and have a handful of them,", "pos": 570239}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes; it is not necessary to get far off in order to see us proportionately. The trees are much more significant.", "pos": 570360}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Bulk only,", "pos": 570475}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It is comforting, to think the town goes no farther. It is only a little sore upon the country yet.", "pos": 571235}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "A little scab. But the town’s all right, it’s only temporary. This is the crude, clumsy make-shift we’ve practised on, till we find out what the idea is. The town will come all right.", "pos": 571356}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I feel better,", "pos": 572039}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Thank you. Great compliment!", "pos": 572066}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Oh, my brother!", "pos": 572111}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "H’m! that’s snatching back with the left hand what you gave with the right, and no mistake. But what was the matter with you? I know you were brooding something special. I can see the stamp of it on your face yet.", "pos": 572142}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I think I will not tell you,", "pos": 572414}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right, hug it,", "pos": 572455}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No, it was the girls.", "pos": 572518}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What about ’em?", "pos": 572554}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "They have been plotting something for a week now, and to-day they seem particularly full of it. All alike; they insult me with their secrecy.", "pos": 572584}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do they?", "pos": 572728}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I should not mind, if they did not thrust it into my face—the fact that they have a secret.", "pos": 572760}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Just like women,", "pos": 572898}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It is hateful, their mean gloating. They can have all the secrets in the world, but they might refrain from glorying in them, and making me feel more out of it than ever. It is—it is almost unbearable.", "pos": 572926}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I will tell you what it’s all about. It’s my birthday, and they’ve bought me a fine lot of paints, all the girls. They’re jealous of you merely because I sometimes bring you a book. But, you see, it’s only a trifle. Don’t bother about it, will you—because well, what would they say if they saw us here now, in spite of their victory? She is wanting somebody to take her hands—for all she is so contemptuous of us,", "pos": 573348}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Is that two o’clock striking?", "pos": 575080}
{"speaker": "The postman", "text": "Mr. Paul Morel. A lady’s handwriting! Don’t let the girls see it.", "pos": 575438}
{"speaker": "C.D.", "text": "You will allow me to send you this, and so spare me my isolation. I also sympathise and wish you well.—C.D.", "pos": 575687}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Good Lord! Mrs. Dawes. She can’t afford it. Good Lord, who ever’d have thought it!", "pos": 575815}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "How old were you when you married?", "pos": 577053}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Twenty-two.", "pos": 577108}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It is eight years ago?", "pos": 577188}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 577213}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And when did you leave him?", "pos": 577220}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Three years ago.", "pos": 577250}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Five years! Did you love him when you married him?", "pos": 577269}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I thought I did—more or less. I didn’t think much about it. And he wanted me. I was very prudish then.", "pos": 577374}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you sort of walked into it without thinking?", "pos": 577479}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes. I seemed to have been asleep nearly all my life.", "pos": 577530}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Somnambule? But—when did you wake up?", "pos": 577586}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I don’t know that I ever did, or ever have—since I was a child.", "pos": 577626}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You went to sleep as you grew to be a woman? How queer! And he didn’t wake you?", "pos": 577692}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No; he never got there,", "pos": 577774}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Got where?", "pos": 577911}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "At me. He never really mattered to me.", "pos": 577934}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But why did you leave him? Was he horrid to you?", "pos": 578156}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "He—he sort of degraded me. He wanted to bully me because he hadn’t got me. And then I felt as if I wanted to run, as if I was fastened and bound up. And he seemed dirty.", "pos": 578230}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I see. And was he always dirty?", "pos": 578402}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "A bit. And then he seemed as if he couldn’t get at me, really. And then he got brutal—he was brutal!", "pos": 578471}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And why did you leave him finally?", "pos": 578596}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Because—because he was unfaithful to me—", "pos": 578633}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But did you—were you ever—did you ever give him a chance?", "pos": 578808}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Chance? How?", "pos": 578868}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "To come near to you.", "pos": 578883}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I married him—and I was willing—", "pos": 578906}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I believe he loves you,", "pos": 578987}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It looks like it,", "pos": 579022}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Did you leave him out of count all along?", "pos": 579171}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "He left me,", "pos": 579215}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And I suppose he couldn’t make himself mean everything to you?", "pos": 579239}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "He tried to bully me into it.", "pos": 579304}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Come on. Let’s go and get some tea.", "pos": 579422}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Were you horrid with Baxter Dawes?", "pos": 582032}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "In what way?", "pos": 582126}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, I don’t know. But weren’t you horrid with him? Didn’t you do something that knocked him to pieces?", "pos": 582141}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What, pray?", "pos": 582246}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Making him feel as if he were nothing—I know,", "pos": 582260}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You are so clever, my friend. Will you come in to the concert on Sunday afternoon?", "pos": 582323}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I promised to go up to Willey Farm,", "pos": 582660}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Oh, very well.", "pos": 582710}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You don’t mind, do you?", "pos": 582727}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Why should I?", "pos": 582763}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You know. Miriam and I have been a lot to each other ever since I was sixteen—that’s seven years now.", "pos": 582819}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It’s a long time,", "pos": 582934}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; but somehow she—it doesn’t go right—", "pos": 582969}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "How?", "pos": 583013}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She seems to draw me and draw me, and she wouldn’t leave a single hair of me free to fall out and blow away—she’d keep it.", "pos": 583033}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But you like to be kept.", "pos": 583158}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No. I don’t. I wish it could be normal, give and take—like me and you. I want a woman to keep me, but not in her pocket.", "pos": 583185}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But if you love her, it couldn’t be normal, like me and you.", "pos": 583319}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; I should love her better then. She sort of wants me so much that I can’t give myself.", "pos": 583382}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Wants you how?", "pos": 583475}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Wants the soul out of my body. I can’t help shrinking back from her.", "pos": 583492}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And yet you love her!", "pos": 583563}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, I don’t love her. I never even kiss her.", "pos": 583587}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 583634}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know.", "pos": 583658}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I suppose you’re afraid,", "pos": 583674}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m not. Something in me shrinks from her like hell—she’s so good, when I’m not good.", "pos": 583711}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "How do you know what she is?", "pos": 583799}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I do! I know she wants a sort of soul union.", "pos": 583830}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But how do you know what she wants?", "pos": 583877}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’ve been with her for seven years.", "pos": 583915}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And you haven’t found out the very first thing about her.", "pos": 583953}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What’s that?", "pos": 584013}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "That she doesn’t want any of your soul communion. That’s your own imagination. She wants you.", "pos": 584028}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But she seems—", "pos": 584169}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You’ve never tried,", "pos": 584196}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shall come home when I like. I am old enough.", "pos": 588461}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Must she keep you till this time?", "pos": 588522}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It is I who stay,", "pos": 588558}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And she lets you? But very well,", "pos": 588591}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I am twenty-four, almost.", "pos": 590200}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes. What makes you say it?", "pos": 590294}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Sir Thomas More says one can marry at twenty-four.", "pos": 590388}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Does it need Sir Thomas More’s sanction?", "pos": 590471}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No; but one ought to marry about then.", "pos": 590514}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ay,", "pos": 590555}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can’t marry you, not now, because we’ve no money, and they depend on me at home. But I want to marry now—", "pos": 590602}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You want to marry?", "pos": 590776}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "A woman—you know what I mean. Now, at last, I must,", "pos": 590811}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ay,", "pos": 590892}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you love me?", "pos": 590912}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why are you ashamed of it,", "pos": 590953}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You wouldn’t be ashamed before your God, why are you before people?", "pos": 590995}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Nay. I am not ashamed.", "pos": 591065}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are, and it’s my fault. But you know I can’t help being—as I am—don’t you?", "pos": 591113}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I know you can’t help it,", "pos": 591217}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I love you an awful lot—then there is something short.", "pos": 591258}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Where?", "pos": 591315}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, in me! It is I who ought to be ashamed—like a spiritual cripple. And I am ashamed. It is misery. Why is it?", "pos": 591354}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 591468}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And I don’t know. Don’t you think we have been too fierce in our what they call purity? Don’t you think that to be so much afraid and averse is a sort of dirtiness? You recoiled away from anything of the sort, and I took the motion from you, and recoiled also, perhaps worse.", "pos": 591500}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes, it is so.", "pos": 591883}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There is between us, all these years of intimacy. I feel naked enough before you. Do you understand?", "pos": 591912}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I think so,", "pos": 592026}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you love me?", "pos": 592054}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Don’t be bitter,", "pos": 592086}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Nay. I am not bitter.", "pos": 592442}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What are you thinking about?", "pos": 593182}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I was thinking, all the while, I love you. I have been obstinate.", "pos": 593275}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 593376}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That’s all,", "pos": 593397}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Kiss me,", "pos": 593705}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I am glad I came back to you. I feel so simple with you—as if there was nothing to hide. We will be happy?", "pos": 593864}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 593973}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Some sort of perversity in our souls, makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want. We have to fight against that.", "pos": 594026}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 594166}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Sometime you will have me?", "pos": 594452}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Not now,", "pos": 594548}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No,", "pos": 594627}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I love to feel your arm there! It rests me so.", "pos": 594670}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "We belong to each other,", "pos": 594873}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 594909}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then why shouldn’t we belong to each other altogether?", "pos": 594916}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But—", "pos": 594973}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I know it’s a lot to ask, but there’s not much risk for you really—not in the Gretchen way. You can trust me there?", "pos": 594994}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Oh, I can trust you. It’s not that—it’s not that at all—but—", "pos": 595123}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What?", "pos": 595222}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t know!", "pos": 595288}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You don’t think it ugly?", "pos": 595397}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No, not now. You have taught me it isn’t.", "pos": 595434}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are afraid?", "pos": 595478}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes, I am only afraid,", "pos": 595524}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Never mind. You should please yourself.", "pos": 595583}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You shall have me. Won’t you be late? Good-bye!", "pos": 595706}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Oh! isn’t it wonderful? How high you are!", "pos": 599753}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Clouds are on fire,", "pos": 600154}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Beautiful! Haven’t you got enough?", "pos": 600185}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nearly. It is like being on a ship up here.", "pos": 600543}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And how long will you stay?", "pos": 600589}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "While the sunset lasts.", "pos": 600619}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "They are lovely,", "pos": 601054}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’ve torn my sleeve,", "pos": 601110}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I shall have to mend it. How warm!", "pos": 601187}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall we stay out?", "pos": 601380}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Won’t it rain?", "pos": 601410}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, let us walk a little way. Shall we go in among the trees?", "pos": 601438}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Do you want to?", "pos": 601590}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. I like the darkness. I wish it were thicker—good, thick darkness.", "pos": 601608}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The rain!", "pos": 602651}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes—is it coming on you? We must go,", "pos": 602672}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 603179}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "The rain is coming in on us,", "pos": 603504}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It is a pity. It is a pity,", "pos": 603574}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What?", "pos": 603600}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "To have to go. I feel so still.", "pos": 603608}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Still!", "pos": 603642}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Stiller than I have ever been in my life. The fir-trees are like presences on the darkness: each one only a presence. A sort of hush: the whole night wondering and asleep: I suppose that’s what we do in death—sleep in wonder. Let us stay here awhile. I feel so strange and still, along with everything.", "pos": 603665}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ay,", "pos": 604428}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort—to live effortless, a kind of curious sleep—that is very beautiful, I think; that is our after-life—our immortality.", "pos": 604521}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes?", "pos": 604711}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes—and very beautiful to have.", "pos": 604718}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You don’t usually say that.", "pos": 604752}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No.", "pos": 604782}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Your face is bright, like a transfiguration. I have never seen anything more beautiful than this,", "pos": 607509}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And the water singing to itself as it runs—do you love it?", "pos": 607911}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t you think it’s a great day? And our day—just between us. Will you come?", "pos": 608042}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are sure you want me?", "pos": 609175}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes, quite sure.", "pos": 609252}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "When I come to you, you don’t really want me, do you?", "pos": 610419}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ah, yes!", "pos": 610526}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nay,", "pos": 610576}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You see, you see—as we are—how can I get used to you? It would come all right if we were married.", "pos": 610614}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You mean, now, it is always too much shock?", "pos": 610822}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes—and—", "pos": 610868}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are always clenched against me.", "pos": 610879}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You see. I’m not used to the thought—", "pos": 610951}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are lately,", "pos": 611003}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But all my life. Mother said to me: ‘There is one thing in marriage that is always dreadful, but you have to bear it.’ And I believed it.", "pos": 611030}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And still believe it,", "pos": 611170}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No! I believe, as you do, that loving, even in that way, is the high-water mark of living.", "pos": 611203}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That doesn’t alter the fact that you never want it.", "pos": 611317}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No. Don’t say so! You don’t understand. Don’t I want your children?", "pos": 611371}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But not me.", "pos": 611529}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "How can you say so? But we must be married to have children—", "pos": 611543}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall we be married, then? I want you to have my children.", "pos": 611606}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "We are too young,", "pos": 611732}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Twenty-four and twenty-three—", "pos": 611772}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Not yet,", "pos": 611804}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "When you will. I shan’t go so much to Miriam’s, mother.", "pos": 611863}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You please yourself,", "pos": 612279}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What about Clara? I hear nothing of her lately.", "pos": 613666}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I walked with her about twenty minutes yesterday,” he replied.", "pos": 613716}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And what did she talk about?", "pos": 613780}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know. I suppose I did all the jawing—I usually do. I think I was telling her about the strike, and how the women took it.", "pos": 613811}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 613943}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Half a minute. Hold your arm still. I think Clara has such beautiful arms,” he said.", "pos": 615099}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes! When did you draw them?", "pos": 615401}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "On Tuesday, in the work-room. You know, I’ve got a corner where I can work. Often I can do every single thing they need in the department, before dinner. Then I work for myself in the afternoon, and just see to things at night.", "pos": 615432}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 615662}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Come, my boy. I’m sure it’s time you went to bed.", "pos": 618273}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shall break off with Miriam, mother,", "pos": 618385}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But I thought—", "pos": 618675}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well. I don’t love her. I don’t want to marry her—so I shall have done.", "pos": 618703}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But. I thought lately you had made up your mind to have her, and so I said nothing.", "pos": 618792}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I had—I wanted to—but now I don’t want. It’s no good. I shall break off on Sunday. I ought to, oughtn’t I?", "pos": 618910}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know best. You know I said so long ago.", "pos": 619019}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can’t help that now. I shall break off on Sunday.", "pos": 619065}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well. I think it will be best. But lately I decided you had made up your mind to have her, so I said nothing, and should have said nothing. But I say as I have always said, I don’t think she is suited to you.", "pos": 619119}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "On Sunday I break off,", "pos": 619349}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Never mind, my son. You will be so much better when it is all over.", "pos": 619865}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I have been thinking, we ought to break off.", "pos": 621102}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why?", "pos": 621160}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because it’s no good going on.", "pos": 621190}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why is it no good?", "pos": 621223}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It isn’t. I don’t want to marry. I don’t want ever to marry. And if we’re not going to marry, it’s no good going on.", "pos": 621244}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But why do you say this now?", "pos": 621363}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because I’ve made up my mind.", "pos": 621394}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And what about these last months, and the things you told me then?", "pos": 621426}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can’t help it! I don’t want to go on.", "pos": 621495}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You don’t want any more of me?", "pos": 621537}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I want us to break off—you be free of me, I free of you.", "pos": 621570}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And what about these last months?", "pos": 621629}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know. I’ve not told you anything but what I thought was true.", "pos": 621665}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Then why are you different now?", "pos": 621737}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m not—I’m the same—only I know it’s no good going on.", "pos": 621771}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You haven’t told me why it’s no good.", "pos": 621829}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because I don’t want to go on—and I don’t want to marry.", "pos": 621869}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "How many times have you offered to marry me, and I wouldn’t?", "pos": 621928}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I know; but I want us to break off.", "pos": 621991}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I have said you were only fourteen—you are only four! You are a child of four,", "pos": 622385}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right; if I’m a child of four, what do you want me for? I don’t want another mother.”", "pos": 622584}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And have you told your people?” she asked.", "pos": 622726}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I have told my mother.", "pos": 622770}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Then what do you want?", "pos": 622839}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, I want us to separate. We have lived on each other all these years; now let us stop. I will go my own way without you, and you will go your way without me. You will have an independent life of your own then. And, we shall always be more or less each other’s work. You have done a lot for me, I for you. Now let us start and live by ourselves.", "pos": 622875}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What do you want to do?", "pos": 623728}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nothing—only to be free,", "pos": 623765}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And what have I to tell my mother?” she asked.", "pos": 623912}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I told my mother, that I was breaking off—clean and altogether.", "pos": 623960}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I shall not tell them at home,” she said.", "pos": 624041}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You please yourself. Tell them you wouldn’t and won’t marry me, and have broken off. It’s true enough.", "pos": 624094}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Always—it has always been so! It has been one long battle between us—you fighting away from me.", "pos": 624482}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But we’ve had some perfect hours, some perfect times, when we were together!” he pleaded.", "pos": 624701}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Never! never! It has always been you fighting me off.", "pos": 624792}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not always—not at first!", "pos": 624861}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Always, from the very beginning—always the same!", "pos": 624900}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You ought to marry a man who worships you, then you could do as you liked with him. Plenty of men will worship you, if you get on the private side of their natures. You ought to marry one such. They would never fight you off.", "pos": 625792}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Thank you! But don’t advise me to marry someone else any more. You’ve done it before.", "pos": 626031}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Very well. I will say no more.", "pos": 626131}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "When did you think of this?", "pos": 626332}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I thought definitely on Thursday night.", "pos": 626373}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I knew it was coming. And have you said anything to Clara?” she asked.", "pos": 626415}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No; but I shall tell her now.", "pos": 626610}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Do you remember the things you said this time last year, in my grandmother’s house—nay last month even?", "pos": 626663}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. I do! And I meant them! I can’t help that it’s failed.", "pos": 626769}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "It has failed because you want something else.", "pos": 626842}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It would have failed whether or not. You never believed in me.", "pos": 626891}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "We will go and have tea here?” he asked.", "pos": 628808}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes. And we shall not see each other?", "pos": 628850}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No—or rarely,", "pos": 629124}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Nor write?", "pos": 629153}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "As you will. We’re not strangers—never should be, whatever happened. I will write to you now and again. You please yourself.", "pos": 629199}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I see!", "pos": 629341}
{"speaker": "Girl in Pub", "text": "Have a chocolate?", "pos": 630222}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right. Give me a hard one—nut. I don’t like creams.", "pos": 630286}
{"speaker": "Girl in Pub", "text": "Here you are, then, here’s an almond for you.", "pos": 630357}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are nice!", "pos": 630514}
{"speaker": "Girl in Pub", "text": "Well, we thought you looked overcast, and they dared me offer you a chocolate.", "pos": 630539}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t mind if I have another—another sort. I told her,", "pos": 630636}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’m glad,", "pos": 630897}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I said we’d have done altogether,", "pos": 630976}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That’s right, my son. It’s hard for her now, but best in the long run. I know. You weren’t suited for her.", "pos": 631021}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’ve had such a lark with some girls in a pub,", "pos": 631184}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Now have some supper,", "pos": 631451}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She never thought she’d have me, mother, not from the first, and so she’s not disappointed.", "pos": 631527}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’m afraid, she doesn’t give up hopes of you yet.", "pos": 631621}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, perhaps not.", "pos": 631692}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’ll find it’s better to have done,", "pos": 631722}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 631772}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, leave her alone,", "pos": 631809}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother. I s’ll make a painter that they’ll attend to.", "pos": 633114}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Very well, my boy, we’ll see,", "pos": 633267}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You shall see, my pigeon! You see if you’re not swanky one of these days!", "pos": 633309}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’m quite content, my boy,", "pos": 633385}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But you’ll have to alter. Look at you with Minnie!", "pos": 633426}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And what about Minnie?", "pos": 633529}
{"speaker": "Minnie", "text": "Eh, Mrs. Morel! I was going to do that,", "pos": 633613}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "when you went out in the rain for some coal. That looks a lot like your being able to manage servants!", "pos": 633654}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, it was only the child’s niceness. You can’t do two things at once, can you? She was busy washing up,", "pos": 633770}
{"speaker": "Minnie", "text": "It could easy have waited a bit. Now look how your feet paddle!", "pos": 633973}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes—brazen young baggage!", "pos": 634040}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, Queen of Sheba!", "pos": 635060}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But why?", "pos": 635103}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I think it suits you. You’ve got a new frock on.", "pos": 635125}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And what of it?", "pos": 635197}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Suits you—awfully! I could design you a dress.", "pos": 635215}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "How would it be?", "pos": 635264}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "More so!", "pos": 635507}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Good-night,", "pos": 636133}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall we go a walk on Monday?", "pos": 636267}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Shall you tell Miriam?", "pos": 636336}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I have broken off with her,", "pos": 636388}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "When?", "pos": 636427}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Last Sunday.", "pos": 636435}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You quarrelled?", "pos": 636450}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No! I had made up my mind. I told her quite definitely I should consider myself free. We will walk a little while. Which way shall we go?", "pos": 636468}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I don’t mind.", "pos": 637152}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then we’ll go up the steps. Come along,", "pos": 637168}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Good-night,", "pos": 637707}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And this afternoon. You will come?", "pos": 640082}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I think so,", "pos": 640142}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You will meet me at the Fountain at two o’clock,", "pos": 641006}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I can’t be there till half-past.", "pos": 641066}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes!", "pos": 641101}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I will try at a quarter past.", "pos": 641145}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are late,", "pos": 641632}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Only five minutes,", "pos": 641657}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’d never have done it to you. You want some flowers. That’s a fine colour!", "pos": 641692}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I’d rather have had something softer,", "pos": 642024}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you feel like a blot of vermilion walking down the street?", "pos": 642086}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Why, did you leave Miriam?", "pos": 644647}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because I wanted to leave her,", "pos": 644737}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Why?", "pos": 644779}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because I didn’t want to go on with her. And I didn’t want to marry.", "pos": 644786}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You didn’t want to marry Miriam, or you didn’t want to marry at all?", "pos": 644969}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Both, both!", "pos": 645051}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And what did she say?", "pos": 645152}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Miriam? She said I was a baby of four, and that I always had battled her off.", "pos": 645189}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But you have really been going with her for some time?", "pos": 645306}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 645374}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And now you don’t want any more of her?", "pos": 645381}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No. I know it’s no good.", "pos": 645423}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Don’t you think you’ve treated her rather badly?", "pos": 645470}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; I ought to have dropped it years back. But it would have been no good going on. Two wrongs don’t make a right.", "pos": 645532}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "How old are you?", "pos": 645650}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Twenty-five.", "pos": 645682}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And I am thirty,", "pos": 645697}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I know you are.", "pos": 645726}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I shall be thirty-one—or am I thirty-one?", "pos": 645744}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I neither know nor care. What does it matter!", "pos": 645788}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You press the vein in my arm, holding it so tightly. It has scarcely altered since little Kirke White used to come,", "pos": 646446}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, did you hate Baxter Dawes? Will you go down to the river?", "pos": 647775}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It is slippery. Never mind,", "pos": 648376}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s risky, or messy, at any rate. Shall we go back?", "pos": 648894}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Not for my sake,", "pos": 648960}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All right. You see, I can’t help you; I should only hinder. Give me that little parcel and your gloves. Your poor shoes!", "pos": 648997}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I’ll go again,", "pos": 649186}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I’ll be damned! Mind! Come now. It doesn’t matter. It’s a swindle!", "pos": 649782}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But there’s a rut where a man has been, so if we go on I guess we shall find the path again.", "pos": 650270}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Let us try going forward,", "pos": 650583}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Now they ought to be drowned,", "pos": 651581}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It’s impossible!", "pos": 651877}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Stop a minute,", "pos": 652347}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Your flowers are smashed. Why dost look so heavy? Nay! Never thee bother! But tha shouldna worrit!", "pos": 653433}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No, I don’t worry!", "pos": 653970}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yea, tha does! Dunna thee worrit,", "pos": 654026}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No!", "pos": 654086}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Now we’re back at the ordinary level. And now I’ll clean thy boots and make thee fit for respectable folk. What am I supposed to be doing, cleaning shoes or dibbling with love? Answer me that!", "pos": 654310}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Just whichever I please,", "pos": 654818}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m your boot-boy for the time being, and nothing else! T-t-t-t! I tell you, nothing gets done when there’s a woman about. There you are, you see! Aren’t I a great hand at restoring you to respectability? Stand up! There, you look as irreproachable as Britannia herself!", "pos": 654858}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "I could wish you’d had something of a better day,", "pos": 655793}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nay! We’ve been saying how nice it is.", "pos": 655871}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "Have you been saying so!", "pos": 656090}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Truly!", "pos": 656165}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "Then I’m sure the day’s good enough. I don’t know whether you’d like some radishes as well, but I’ve got some in the garden—and a cucumber.", "pos": 656186}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I should like some radishes. If she knew!", "pos": 656461}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, she doesn’t know; and it shows we’re nice in ourselves, at any rate. You look quite enough to satisfy an archangel, and I’m sure I feel harmless—so—if it makes you look nice, and makes folk happy when they have us, and makes us happy—why, we’re not cheating them out of much!", "pos": 656589}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "I don’t know whether—", "pos": 657092}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Oh, how pretty!", "pos": 657165}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall she have them all?", "pos": 657219}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "Yes, she shall have them all. You have got enough for your share.", "pos": 657289}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ah, but I shall ask her to give me one!", "pos": 657390}
{"speaker": "old lady", "text": "Then she does as she pleases,", "pos": 657443}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You don’t feel criminal, do you?", "pos": 657620}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Criminal! No.", "pos": 657698}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But you seem to feel you have done a wrong?", "pos": 657726}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No. I only think, ‘If they knew!’", "pos": 657772}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If they knew, they’d cease to understand. As it is, they do understand, and they like it. What do they matter? Here, with only the trees and me, you don’t feel not the least bit wrong, do you? Not sinners, are we?", "pos": 657820}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No,", "pos": 658171}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You like your little bit of guiltiness, I believe,", "pos": 658215}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I believe Eve enjoyed it, when she went cowering out of Paradise.", "pos": 658277}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You are late!", "pos": 658853}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; I’ve been down Clifton Grove with Clara.", "pos": 658961}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But won’t people talk?", "pos": 659041}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why? They know she’s a suffragette, and so on. And what if they do talk!", "pos": 659076}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Of course, there may be nothing wrong in it. But you know what folks are, and if once she gets talked about—", "pos": 659151}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I can’t help it. Their jaw isn’t so almighty important, after all.", "pos": 659281}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I think you ought to consider her.", "pos": 659356}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "So I do! What can people say?—that we take a walk together. I believe you’re jealous.", "pos": 659393}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You know I should be glad if she weren’t a married woman.", "pos": 659481}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, my dear, she lives separate from her husband, and talks on platforms; so she’s already singled out from the sheep, and, as far as I can see, hasn’t much to lose. No; her life’s nothing to her, so what’s the worth of nothing? She goes with me—it becomes something. Then she must pay—we both must pay! Folk are so frightened of paying; they’d rather starve and die.", "pos": 659541}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Very well, my son. We’ll see how it will end.", "pos": 659913}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Very well, my mother. I’ll abide by the end.", "pos": 659961}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "We’ll see!", "pos": 660008}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And she’s—she’s awfully nice, mother; she is really! You don’t know!", "pos": 660021}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "That’s not the same as marrying her.", "pos": 660092}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s perhaps better.", "pos": 660131}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Should you like to know her?", "pos": 660240}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes. I should like to know what she’s like.", "pos": 660285}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But she’s nice, mother, she is! And not a bit common!", "pos": 660357}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I never suggested she was.", "pos": 660413}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But you seem to think she’s—not as good as—She’s better than ninety-nine folk out of a hundred, I tell you! She’s better, she is! She’s fair, she’s honest, she’s straight! There isn’t anything underhand or superior about her. Don’t be mean about her!", "pos": 660442}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I am sure I am not mean about her. She may be quite as you say, but—", "pos": 660715}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You don’t approve,", "pos": 660786}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And do you expect me to?", "pos": 660820}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes!—yes!—if you’d anything about you, you’d be glad! Do you want to see her?", "pos": 660868}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I said I did.", "pos": 660948}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then I’ll bring her—shall I bring her here?", "pos": 660964}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You please yourself.", "pos": 661010}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then I will bring her here—one Sunday—to tea. If you think a horrid thing about her, I shan’t forgive you.", "pos": 661033}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "As if it would make any difference!", "pos": 661162}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, but it feels so fine, when she’s there! She’s such a queen in her way.", "pos": 661230}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And what have you been doing lately?", "pos": 662149}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I—oh, not much! I made a sketch of Bestwood from the garden, that is nearly right at last. It’s the hundredth try.", "pos": 662188}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You’ve not been out, then, lately?", "pos": 662337}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; I went up Clifton Grove on Monday afternoon with Clara.", "pos": 662374}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "It was not very nice weather, was it?", "pos": 662437}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But I wanted to go out, and it was all right. The Trent is full.", "pos": 662492}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And did you go to Barton?", "pos": 662559}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No; we had tea in Clifton.", "pos": 662598}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Did you! That would be nice.", "pos": 662627}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It was! The jolliest old woman! She gave us several pom-pom dahlias, as pretty as you like.", "pos": 662658}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What made her give them you?", "pos": 662845}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because she liked us—because we were jolly, I should think.", "pos": 662899}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Were you late home?", "pos": 662997}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I caught the seven-thirty.", "pos": 663060}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ha! And how is Clara?", "pos": 663089}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Quite all right, I think.", "pos": 663174}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "That’s good! By the way, what of her husband? One never hears anything of him.", "pos": 663202}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He’s got some other woman, and is also quite all right,", "pos": 663318}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "At least, so I think.", "pos": 663388}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I see—you don’t know for certain. Don’t you think a position like that is hard on a woman?", "pos": 663412}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Rottenly hard!", "pos": 663505}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "It’s so unjust! The man does as he likes—", "pos": 663522}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then let the woman also,", "pos": 663581}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "How can she? And if she does, look at her position!", "pos": 663617}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What of it?", "pos": 663671}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Why, it’s impossible! You don’t understand what a woman forfeits—", "pos": 663685}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, I don’t. But if a woman’s got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it’s thin tack, and a donkey would die of it! You see, she never knew the fearful importance of marriage. She thought it was all in the day’s march—it would have to come—and Dawes—well, a good many women would have given their souls to get him; so why not him? Then she developed into the femme incomprise, and treated him badly, I’ll bet my boots.", "pos": 663753}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And she left him because he didn’t understand her?", "pos": 664452}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I suppose so. I suppose she had to. It isn’t altogether a question of understanding; it’s a question of living. With him, she was only half-alive; the rest was dormant, deadened. And the dormant woman was the femme incomprise, and she had to be awakened.", "pos": 664505}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And what about him.", "pos": 664762}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know. I rather think he loves her as much as he can, but he’s a fool.", "pos": 664784}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "It was something like your mother and father,", "pos": 664864}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; but my mother, I believe, got real joy and satisfaction out of my father at first. I believe she had a passion for him; that’s why she stayed with him. After all, they were bound to each other.", "pos": 664925}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 665126}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That’s what one must have, I think, the real, real flame of feeling through another person—once, only once, if it only lasts three months. See, my mother looks as if she’d had everything that was necessary for her living and developing. There’s not a tiny bit of feeling of sterility about her.", "pos": 665146}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No,", "pos": 665458}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And with my father, at first, I’m sure she had the real thing. She knows; she has been there. You can feel it about her, and about him, and about hundreds of people you meet every day; and, once it has happened to you, you can go on with anything and ripen.", "pos": 665477}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "What happened, exactly?", "pos": 665737}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s so hard to say, but the something big and intense that changes you when you really come together with somebody else. It almost seems to fertilise your soul and make it that you can go on and mature.", "pos": 665777}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And you think your mother had it with your father?", "pos": 665983}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; and at the bottom she feels grateful to him for giving it her, even now, though they are miles apart.", "pos": 666036}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And you think Clara never had it?", "pos": 666145}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m sure.", "pos": 666181}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Have you told your mother about Clara?", "pos": 667099}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, and she is coming to tea on Sunday.", "pos": 667370}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "To your house?", "pos": 667413}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; I want mater to see her.", "pos": 667430}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I may call in as I go to chapel,", "pos": 667689}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 667773}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I thought you weren’t coming,", "pos": 668967}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I was sure you weren’t coming. And I wondered, when I was in the train, whatever I should do if you weren’t there!", "pos": 669460}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What a pity there is a coal-pit here where it is so pretty!", "pos": 670683}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you think so? You see, I am so used to it I should miss it. No; and I like the pits here and there. I like the rows of trucks, and the headstocks, and the steam in the daytime, and the lights at night. When I was a boy, I always thought a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night was a pit, with its steam, and its lights, and the burning bank,—and I thought the Lord was always at the pit-top. Don’t you want to come home?", "pos": 670757}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes, I want to come,", "pos": 671366}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother—Clara,", "pos": 672674}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "He has told me a good deal about you,", "pos": 672742}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I hope you don’t mind my coming,", "pos": 672827}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I was pleased when he said he would bring you,", "pos": 672876}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s such a pretty day, mother! And we saw a jay.", "pos": 673077}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Perhaps you’ll leave your things in the parlour,", "pos": 673380}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Oh, thank you,", "pos": 673474}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I leave my things lying about,", "pos": 673725}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You have gone to live down Sneinton Boulevard? When I was a girl—girl, I say!—when I was a young woman we lived in Minerva Terrace.", "pos": 674401}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Oh, did you! I have a friend in number 6.", "pos": 674554}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "This is Mrs. Dawes, father. Oh, indeed! I am very glad to see you—I am, I assure you. But don’t disturb yourself. No, no make yourself quite comfortable, and be very welcome. And may you have come far?", "pos": 675618}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Only from Nottingham,", "pos": 676093}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "From Nottingham! Then you have had a beautiful day for your journey.", "pos": 676127}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You will let me help you wash up,", "pos": 677971}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Eh, there are so few, it will only take a minute,", "pos": 678019}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s the end of the run with these chaps.", "pos": 678572}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Count your money,", "pos": 679266}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I’m well off,", "pos": 679381}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "How much? Pf! Can I turn them into gold?", "pos": 679416}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I’m afraid not,", "pos": 679485}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Hello, Miriam!", "pos": 679653}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You said you’d come!", "pos": 679684}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes. Had you forgotten? It seems strange to see you here.", "pos": 679707}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes, it seems strange to be here.", "pos": 679826}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "This is pretty, isn’t it?", "pos": 679886}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I like it very much,", "pos": 679927}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Have you come down alone?", "pos": 680033}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes; I went to Agatha’s to tea. We are going to chapel. I only called in for a moment to see Clara.", "pos": 680073}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You should have come in here to tea,", "pos": 680175}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Do you like the chrysanthemums?", "pos": 680283}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; they are very fine. Which sort do you like best?", "pos": 680327}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I don’t know. The bronze, I think.", "pos": 680411}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t think you’ve seen all the sorts. Come and look. Come and see which are your favourites, Clara.", "pos": 680448}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What! is that Miriam?", "pos": 681347}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; she said she’d call and see Clara.", "pos": 681396}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You told her, then?", "pos": 681438}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; why shouldn’t I?", "pos": 681487}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "There’s certainly no reason why you shouldn’t,", "pos": 681511}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why can’t I do as I like?", "pos": 681671}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You’ve not seen Mrs. Morel before?", "pos": 681699}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No; but she’s so nice!", "pos": 681764}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes, in some ways she’s very fine.", "pos": 681789}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I should think so.", "pos": 681860}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Had Paul told you much about her?", "pos": 681881}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "He had talked a good deal.", "pos": 681917}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ha! When will you want it back?", "pos": 681946}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "When you like,", "pos": 682047}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "When will you come up to Willey Farm?", "pos": 682147}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I couldn’t say,", "pos": 682205}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Mother asked me to say she’d be pleased to see you any time, if you cared to come.", "pos": 682238}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Thank you; I should like to, but I can’t say when.", "pos": 682323}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Oh, very well!", "pos": 682376}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’re sure you won’t come in?", "pos": 682512}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No, thanks.", "pos": 682554}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "We are going to chapel.", "pos": 682568}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Ah, I shall see you, then!", "pos": 682594}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 682647}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What I hate is the bloodhound quality in Miriam.", "pos": 683069}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, yes; doesn’t it make you hate her, now!", "pos": 683120}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But it serves her right,", "pos": 684289}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You still keep on with Miriam,", "pos": 684896}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Only talk. There never was a great deal more than talk between us,", "pos": 684947}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Your mother doesn’t care for her,", "pos": 685034}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, or I might have married her. But it’s all up really! If I was with her now, we should be jawing about the ‘Christian Mystery’, or some such tack. Thank God, I’m not!", "pos": 685082}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But you can’t really give her up,", "pos": 685343}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t give her up, because there’s nothing to give,", "pos": 685391}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "There is for her.", "pos": 685456}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know why she and I shouldn’t be friends as long as we live. But it’ll only be friends. What are you drawing away for? Why do you want to walk alone? Because I said I would be friends with Miriam! I tell you it’s only words that go between us. Damn it! What do you want now?", "pos": 685476}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You’d better run after Miriam,", "pos": 686153}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Stand up! stand up! We will go over the fields,", "pos": 686672}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Like treading among the stars,", "pos": 687413}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What time is it?", "pos": 687574}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It doesn’t matter,", "pos": 687593}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes it does—yes! I must go!", "pos": 687634}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s early yet,", "pos": 687664}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What time is it?", "pos": 687691}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know.", "pos": 687790}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I can’t see,", "pos": 688119}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then don’t bother.", "pos": 688144}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes; I’m going!", "pos": 688165}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Wait! I’ll look! I’ll strike a match.", "pos": 688207}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What is it?", "pos": 688561}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You can’t do it,", "pos": 688594}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What time is it?", "pos": 688751}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Two minutes to nine,", "pos": 688808}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And can I get from here to the station in fourteen minutes?", "pos": 688878}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No. At any rate—", "pos": 688940}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But can’t I do it?", "pos": 689042}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If you hurry. But you could easily walk it, Clara; it’s only seven miles to the tram. I’ll come with you.", "pos": 689076}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No; I want to catch the train.", "pos": 689205}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But why?", "pos": 689238}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I do—I want to catch the train.", "pos": 689249}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Very well. Come along, then. There she is! She’s over the viaduct. You’ll just do it.", "pos": 689311}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, I must say your boots are in a nice state! She caught the train then?", "pos": 690230}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 690422}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I hope her feet weren’t so filthy. Where on earth you dragged her I don’t know!", "pos": 690429}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Did you like her?", "pos": 690555}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, I liked her. But you’ll tire of her, my son; you know you will. Have you been running?", "pos": 690604}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "We had to run for the train.", "pos": 690776}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’ll go and knock yourself up. You’d better drink hot milk.", "pos": 690807}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "This is how she serves me, is it?", "pos": 691161}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall I book seats?", "pos": 691790}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes. And put on an evening suit, will you? I’ve never seen you in it.", "pos": 691831}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But, good Lord, Clara! Think of me in evening suit at the theatre!", "pos": 691903}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Would you rather not?", "pos": 691989}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I will if you want me to; but I s’ll feel a fool.", "pos": 692024}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Then feel a fool for my sake, once, won’t you?", "pos": 692096}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I suppose I s’ll have to.", "pos": 692182}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "What are you taking a suitcase for?", "pos": 692210}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Clara asked me,", "pos": 692288}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And what seats are you going in?", "pos": 692315}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Circle—three-and-six each!", "pos": 692350}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, I’m sure!", "pos": 692379}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s only once in the bluest of blue moons,", "pos": 692433}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I s’ll have to walk home!", "pos": 695608}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It is too late?", "pos": 695666}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I love you! You look beautiful in that dress. It doesn’t matter,", "pos": 695743}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Won’t you, come home for the night? I can sleep with mother.", "pos": 696227}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What will your mother say?", "pos": 696346}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "She won’t mind.", "pos": 696385}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’re sure?", "pos": 696403}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Quite!", "pos": 696418}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall I come?", "pos": 696427}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "If you will.", "pos": 696443}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Very well.", "pos": 696458}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Who have you got there? It’s Mr. Morel; he has missed his train. I thought we might put him up for the night, and save him a ten-mile walk.", "pos": 696962}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "H’m. That’s your lookout! If you’ve invited him, he’s very welcome as far as I’m concerned. You keep the house!", "pos": 697117}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If you don’t like me, I’ll go away again,", "pos": 697257}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Nay, nay, you needn’t! Come along in! I dunno what you’ll think of the supper I’d got her. More chips you can’t have.", "pos": 697310}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s a shame to bother you,", "pos": 697584}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Oh, don’t you be apologetic! It doesn’t do wi’ me! You treated her to the theatre, didn’t you?", "pos": 697623}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well?", "pos": 697762}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Well, and what’s an inch of bacon! Take your coat off. My sirs! but you two’s a pair of bright beauties, I must say! What’s all that get-up for?", "pos": 697798}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I believe we don’t know,", "pos": 698145}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "There isn’t room in this house for two such bobby-dazzlers, if you fly your kites that high! And look at that blossom! What does she reckon she did it for?", "pos": 698199}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You like to see it, don’t you?", "pos": 698690}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Me like to see it! What should I like to see her make a fool of herself for?", "pos": 698863}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’ve seen people look bigger fools,", "pos": 698969}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Oh, ay! and when was that?", "pos": 699052}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "When they made frights of themselves,", "pos": 699111}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "They’re fools either road,", "pos": 699253}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No. Folk ought to look as well as they can.", "pos": 699333}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "And do you call that looking nice! That—that looks as if it wasn’t properly dressed!", "pos": 699408}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I believe you’re jealous that you can’t swank as well,", "pos": 699550}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Me! I could have worn evening dress with anybody, if I’d wanted to!", "pos": 699625}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And why didn’t you want to? Or did you wear it?", "pos": 699721}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Me! No, I didn’t! And when I was in service, I knew as soon as one of the maids came out in bare shoulders what sort she was, going to her sixpenny hop!", "pos": 699923}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Were you too good to go to a sixpenny hop?", "pos": 700103}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "There’s a nice crozzly bit!", "pos": 700323}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t give me the best!", "pos": 700363}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "She’s got what she wants,", "pos": 700398}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But do have some!", "pos": 700542}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No thanks!", "pos": 700644}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why won’t you? They say Sarah Bernhardt’s fifty,", "pos": 700667}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Fifty! She’s turned sixty!", "pos": 700913}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, you’d never think it! She made me want to howl even now.", "pos": 700968}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "I should like to see myself howling at that bad old baggage! It’s time she began to think herself a grandmother, not a shrieking catamaran—", "pos": 701044}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "A catamaran is a boat the Malays use,", "pos": 701219}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "And it’s a word as I use,", "pos": 701268}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My mother does sometimes, and it’s no good my telling her,", "pos": 701310}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "I s’d think she boxes your ears,", "pos": 701380}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She’d like to, and she says she will, so I give her a little stool to stand on.", "pos": 701451}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "That’s the worst of my mother. She never wants a stool for anything.", "pos": 701533}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "But she often can’t touch that lady with a long prop,", "pos": 701618}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I s’d think she doesn’t want touching with a prop. I shouldn’t.", "pos": 701705}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "It might do the pair of you good to give you a crack on the head with one,", "pos": 701785}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why are you so vindictive towards me? I’ve not stolen anything from you.", "pos": 701898}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "No; I’ll watch that. Why, I’d forgot all about them! Where have they sprung from?", "pos": 701984}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Out of my drawer.", "pos": 702297}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "H’m! You bought ’em for Baxter, an’ he wouldn’t wear ’em, would he? Said he reckoned to do wi’out trousers i’ bed. He couldn’t bear ’em, them pyjama things.", "pos": 702317}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, it’s everyone to his taste. My mother loves me in them. She says I’m a pierrot. It is funny, but it takes hours to settle down to sleep after the theatre.", "pos": 702574}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "It’s about time you did,", "pos": 702994}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Are you tired?", "pos": 703060}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Not the least bit,", "pos": 703096}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall we have a game at cribbage?", "pos": 703150}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I’ve forgotten it.", "pos": 703195}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I’ll teach you again. May we play crib, Mrs. Radford?", "pos": 703216}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "You’ll please yourselves, but it’s pretty late.", "pos": 703288}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "A game or so will make us sleepy. Fifteen two, fifteen four, fifteen six, and two’s eight—!", "pos": 703350}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Isn’t it nigh on time you two was thinking o’ bed?", "pos": 704519}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Half a minute. We’ll stop, then,", "pos": 704647}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Well, I’m glad you’ve finished. Here, take your things and this is your candle. Your room’s over this; there’s only two, so you can’t go far wrong. Well, good-night. I hope you’ll rest well.", "pos": 705096}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m sure I shall; I always do,", "pos": 705349}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Yes; and so you ought at your age,", "pos": 705391}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Will you unfasten my dress?", "pos": 706483}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Now then! aren’t you coming up?", "pos": 706571}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No, not yet,", "pos": 706605}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Oh, very well then! If it’s not late enough, stop a bit longer. Only you needn’t come waking me up when I’ve got to sleep.", "pos": 706649}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I shan’t be long,", "pos": 706774}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Sorry!", "pos": 708814}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My hands are so cold,", "pos": 708954}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I like it,", "pos": 708991}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Come you to my room. Yes! Why not?", "pos": 710652}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Do you think you’re going to sleep till Doomsday?", "pos": 711520}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It ought only to be about five o’clock,", "pos": 711602}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Well, it’s half-past seven, whether or not. Here, I’ve brought you a cup of tea.", "pos": 711653}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What’s it so late for!", "pos": 711834}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "It’s no good your scratching your head. It won’t make it no earlier. Here, an’ how long d’you think I’m going to stand waiting wi’ this here cup?", "pos": 712023}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, dash the cup!", "pos": 712183}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "You should go to bed earlier,", "pos": 712212}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I went to bed before you did,", "pos": 712306}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Yes, my Guyney, you did!", "pos": 712347}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Fancy, having tea brought to bed to me! My mother’ll think I’m ruined for life.", "pos": 712389}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Don’t she never do it?", "pos": 712500}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She’d as leave think of flying.", "pos": 712545}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Ah, I always spoilt my lot! That’s why they’ve turned out such bad uns,", "pos": 712579}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’d only Clara. And Mr. Radford’s in heaven. So I suppose there’s only you left to be the bad un.", "pos": 712677}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "I’m not bad; I’m only soft. I’m only a fool, I am! What’s the good, of your whittling and worrying and twistin’ and too-in’ at that painting of yours? What good does it do you, I should like to know? You’d better be enjoyin’ yourself.", "pos": 712790}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, but. I made over thirty guineas last year.", "pos": 713288}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Did you! Well, that’s a consideration, but it’s nothing to the time you put in.", "pos": 713355}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And I’ve got four pounds owing. A man said he’d give me five pounds if I’d paint him and his missis and the dog and the cottage. And I went and put the fowls in instead of the dog, and he was waxy, so I had to knock a quid off. I was sick of it, and I didn’t like the dog. I made a picture of it. What shall I do when he pays me the four pounds?", "pos": 713437}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Nay! you know your own uses for your money,", "pos": 713785}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But I’m going to bust this four pounds. Should we go to the seaside for a day or two?", "pos": 713850}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Who?", "pos": 713938}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You and Clara and me.", "pos": 713945}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "What, on your money!", "pos": 713969}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 714022}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "You wouldn’t be long in breaking your neck at a hurdle race!", "pos": 714033}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "So long as I get a good run for my money! Will you?", "pos": 714106}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "Nay; you may settle that atween you.", "pos": 714160}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you’re willing?", "pos": 714199}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Radford", "text": "You’ll do as you like, whether I’m willing or not.", "pos": 714253}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What’ll you have?", "pos": 715494}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Nowt wi’ a bleeder like you!", "pos": 715531}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Did you learn all that at th’ theatre th’ other night?", "pos": 716386}
{"speaker": "one of Paul's associates", "text": "Why, what about th’ theatre?", "pos": 716549}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Oh, him in a bob-tailed evening suit, on the lardy-da!", "pos": 716681}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "That’s comin’ it strong. Tart an’ all?", "pos": 716794}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Tart, begod!", "pos": 716861}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "Go on; let’s have it!", "pos": 716888}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "You’ve got it, an’ I reckon Morelly had it an’ all.", "pos": 716937}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "Well, I’ll be jiggered! An’ was it a proper tart?", "pos": 717005}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Tart, God blimey—yes!", "pos": 717083}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "How do you know?", "pos": 717107}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Oh. I reckon he spent th’ night—", "pos": 717126}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "But who was she? D’you know her?", "pos": 717228}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I should shay sho,", "pos": 717288}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "Then spit it out,", "pos": 717361}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "It’s a wonder he hasn’t let on himself. He’ll be braggin’ of it in a bit.", "pos": 717452}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "Come on, Paul, it’s no good. You might just as well own up.", "pos": 717539}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Own up what? That I happened to take a friend to the theatre?", "pos": 717620}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "Oh well, if it was all right, tell us who she was, lad,", "pos": 717684}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "She was all right,", "pos": 717759}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "Strike me—! One o’ that sort? Paul, boy, I’m surprised at you. And do you know her, Baxter?", "pos": 717871}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Just a bit, like!", "pos": 717991}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh well. I’ll be going!", "pos": 718039}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "Nay, you don’t get off as easy as that, my lad. We’ve got to have a full account of this business.", "pos": 718135}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then get it from Dawes!", "pos": 718247}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "You shouldn’t funk your own deeds, man,", "pos": 718282}
{"speaker": "the barmaid", "text": "Oh, Mr. Morel!", "pos": 718435}
{"speaker": "the chucker-out", "text": "Now, then!", "pos": 718674}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Come out! Come out, you—,", "pos": 718733}
{"speaker": "the barmaid", "text": "That’s enough, Dawes,", "pos": 719046}
{"speaker": "the chucker-out", "text": "Come on, you’d better be getting on.", "pos": 719089}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "That’s the little sod as started it!", "pos": 719266}
{"speaker": "the barmaid", "text": "Why, what a story, Mr. Dawes! You know it was you all the time.", "pos": 719354}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "All right,", "pos": 719608}
{"speaker": "the barmaid", "text": "Serve him jolly well right!", "pos": 719818}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "But it’s a nasty thing to get a glass of beer in your eyes,", "pos": 719866}
{"speaker": "the barmaid", "text": "I tell you I was glad he did. Will you have another, Mr. Morel?", "pos": 719952}
{"speaker": "one", "text": "He’s a man as doesn’t care for anything, is Baxter Dawes,", "pos": 720089}
{"speaker": "the barmaid", "text": "Pooh! is he? He’s a loud-mouthed one, he is, and they’re never much good. Give me a pleasant-spoken chap, if you want a devil!", "pos": 720159}
{"speaker": "the mutual friend", "text": "Well, Paul, my lad, you’ll have to take care of yourself now for a while.", "pos": 720308}
{"speaker": "the barmaid", "text": "You won’t have to give him a chance over you, that’s all,", "pos": 720403}
{"speaker": "a friend", "text": "Can you box?", "pos": 720481}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not a bit,", "pos": 720512}
{"speaker": "a friend", "text": "I might give you a turn or two,", "pos": 720556}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Thanks, I haven’t time.", "pos": 720607}
{"speaker": "the barmaid", "text": "Go along with him, Mr. Jenkinson,", "pos": 720670}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jenkinson", "text": "Good-night all! Half a minute, old man. You an’ me’s going the same road, I believe.", "pos": 720797}
{"speaker": "the barmaid", "text": "Mr. Morel doesn’t like it. You’ll see, we shan’t have him in much more. I’m sorry; he’s good company. And Baxter Dawes wants locking up, that’s what he wants. I’m sorry.", "pos": 720929}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "That’s him to a ‘T’, like a navvy! He’s not fit for mixing with decent folk.", "pos": 722291}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yet you married him", "pos": 722382}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I did! But how was I to know?", "pos": 722456}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I think he might have been rather nice", "pos": 722501}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You think I made him what he is!", "pos": 722552}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh no! he made himself. But there’s something about him—", "pos": 722602}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And what are you going to do?", "pos": 722834}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "How?", "pos": 722877}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "About Baxter.", "pos": 722884}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There’s nothing to do, is there?", "pos": 722900}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You can fight him if you have to, I suppose?", "pos": 722947}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No; I haven’t the least sense of the ‘fist’. It’s funny. With most men there’s the instinct to clench the fist and hit. It’s not so with me. I should want a knife or a pistol or something to fight with.", "pos": 723004}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Then you’d better carry something", "pos": 723209}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nay I’m not daggeroso.", "pos": 723256}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But he’ll do something to you. You don’t know him.", "pos": 723296}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right we’ll see.", "pos": 723349}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And you’ll let him?", "pos": 723384}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Perhaps, if I can’t help it.", "pos": 723406}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And if he kills you?", "pos": 723437}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I should be sorry, for his sake and mine.", "pos": 723470}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You do make me angry!", "pos": 723545}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That’s nothing afresh.", "pos": 723584}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But why are you so silly? You don’t know him.", "pos": 723621}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And don’t want.", "pos": 723669}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes, but you’re not going to let a man do as he likes with you?", "pos": 723687}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What must I do?", "pos": 723753}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I should carry a revolver I’m sure he’s dangerous.", "pos": 723793}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I might blow my fingers off.", "pos": 723859}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No; but won’t you?", "pos": 723899}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No.", "pos": 723933}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Not anything?", "pos": 723939}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No.", "pos": 723955}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And you’ll leave him to—?", "pos": 723961}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 723989}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You are a fool!", "pos": 723996}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Fact!", "pos": 724014}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I could shake you! Let a man like him do as he likes with you.", "pos": 724052}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You can go back to him if he triumphs.", "pos": 724161}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Do you want me to hate you?", "pos": 724211}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I only tell you.", "pos": 724252}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And you say you love me!", "pos": 724286}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ought I to slay him to please you? But if I did, see what a hold he’d have over me.", "pos": 724347}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Do you think I’m a fool!", "pos": 724444}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not at all. But you don’t understand me, my dear. The man in righteousness arrayed, The pure and blameless liver, Needs not the keen Toledo blade, Nor venom-freighted quiver,", "pos": 724486}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I wish I could understand you", "pos": 724821}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There’s simply nothing to understand.", "pos": 724864}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Sorry! I’ll stop your whistle, my jockey! You’re goin’ to answer for that job of the other night.", "pos": 725120}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Go and tell Fanny I want order 097, quick! Six and five’s eleven and seven’s one-and-six Five and ninepence! What’s that?", "pos": 725437}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I’m going to show you what it is. Yer crawlin’ little—, yer daresn’t face me proper!", "pos": 725764}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right Yes! Er—yes! I’ll come down directly. I’ve got a visitor just now.", "pos": 726149}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Yer little devil! I’ll visitor you, inside of two minutes! Think I’m goin’ to have you whipperty-snappin’ round?", "pos": 726502}
{"speaker": "office-boy", "text": "Fanny says you could have had it last night if you’d let her know.", "pos": 726729}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right Get it off.", "pos": 726807}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "By God, I’ll stop your gallop!", "pos": 727012}
{"speaker": "office-boy", "text": "Hey! Hey!", "pos": 727107}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "What’s a-matter, what’s a-matter?", "pos": 727236}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I’m just goin’ ter settle this little—, that’s all.", "pos": 727311}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 727389}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "What I say", "pos": 727432}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "What’s it all about?", "pos": 727539}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Couldn’t say.", "pos": 727585}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Couldn’t yer, couldn’t yer!", "pos": 727658}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "Have you finished? Get off about your business, and don’t come here tipsy in the morning.", "pos": 727770}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Tipsy! Who’s tipsy? I’m no more tipsy than you are!", "pos": 727938}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "We’ve heard that song before Now you get off, and don’t be long about it. Comin’ here with your rowdying. Get out before you’re turned out!", "pos": 728003}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Why, who’ll turn me out?", "pos": 728426}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "Get off my premises—get off!", "pos": 728600}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Come off!", "pos": 728667}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "What do you think I took the case up for?", "pos": 729789}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well, I’m sorry if I said the wrong thing.", "pos": 729846}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Why need my name have been dragged in?", "pos": 729918}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Better speak it openly than leave it to be whispered.", "pos": 729969}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "There was no need for anything at all.", "pos": 730025}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "We are none the poorer.", "pos": 730080}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You may not be.", "pos": 730129}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you?", "pos": 730157}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I need never have been mentioned.", "pos": 730178}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jordan", "text": "And what do you think of it all?", "pos": 730428}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I think he’s a fool.", "pos": 730478}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Have you ever considered where it will end?", "pos": 730555}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No things work out of themselves.", "pos": 730618}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "They do, in a way one doesn’t like, as a rule.", "pos": 730670}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And then one has to put up with them.", "pos": 730736}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You’ll find you’re not as good at ‘putting up’ as you imagine. Do you ever ask her opinion?", "pos": 730785}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What of?", "pos": 730953}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Of you, and the whole thing.", "pos": 730964}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t care what her opinion of me is. She’s fearfully in love with me, but it’s not very deep.", "pos": 730995}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But quite as deep as your feeling for her.", "pos": 731094}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes You know, mother, I think there must be something the matter with me, that I can’t love. When she’s there, as a rule, I do love her. Sometimes, when I see her just as the woman, I love her, mother; but then, when she talks and criticises, I often don’t listen to her. Perhaps; and I love her better than Miriam. But why don’t they hold me?", "pos": 731177}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But you wouldn’t want to marry Clara?", "pos": 731731}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No; at first perhaps I would. But why—why don’t I want to marry her or anybody? I feel sometimes as if I wronged my women, mother.", "pos": 731781}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "How wronged them, my son?", "pos": 731914}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know.", "pos": 731942}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And as for wanting to marry, there’s plenty of time yet.", "pos": 732040}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But no, mother. I even love Clara, and I did Miriam; but to give myself to them in marriage I couldn’t. I couldn’t belong to them. They seem to want me, and I can’t ever give it them.", "pos": 732118}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "You haven’t met the right woman.", "pos": 732304}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And I never shall meet the right woman while you live.", "pos": 732339}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "We’ll see, my son.", "pos": 732481}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Will you always stay at Jordan’s?", "pos": 734698}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No. No; I s’ll leave Nottingham and go abroad—soon.", "pos": 734745}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Go abroad! What for?", "pos": 734833}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I dunno! I feel restless.", "pos": 734856}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But what shall you do?", "pos": 734884}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shall have to get some steady designing work, and some sort of sale for my pictures first. I am gradually making my way. I know I am.", "pos": 734909}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And when do you think you’ll go?", "pos": 735058}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know. I shall hardly go for long, while there’s my mother.", "pos": 735093}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You couldn’t leave her?", "pos": 735162}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not for long.", "pos": 735188}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And if you made a nice lot of money, what would you do?", "pos": 735374}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Go somewhere in a pretty house near London with my mother.", "pos": 735443}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I see.", "pos": 735504}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I could still come and see you. I don’t know. Don’t ask me what I should do; I don’t know. Don’t ask me anything about the future. I don’t know anything. Be with me now, will you, no matter what it is? Clara,", "pos": 735537}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But what do you always want to be kissing and embracing for? Surely there’s a time for everything.", "pos": 741689}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Do I always want to be kissing you?", "pos": 741856}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Always, even if I come to ask you about the work. I don’t want anything to do with love when I’m at work. Work’s work—", "pos": 741904}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And what is love? Has it to have special hours?", "pos": 742025}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; out of work hours.", "pos": 742088}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And you’ll regulate it according to Mr. Jordan’s closing time?", "pos": 742114}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; and according to the freedom from business of any sort.", "pos": 742179}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It is only to exist in spare time?", "pos": 742242}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That’s all, and not always then—not the kissing sort of love.", "pos": 742279}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And that’s all you think of it?", "pos": 742343}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s quite enough.", "pos": 742377}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I’m glad you think so.", "pos": 742398}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s very fine,", "pos": 745250}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Now don’t get sentimental. There are some fine waves this morning. Aren’t you coming?", "pos": 745277}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "In a minute,", "pos": 745600}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Oo, it will be so cold!", "pos": 746194}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Go, then!", "pos": 746382}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But you’ll come in?", "pos": 746511}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "In a minute. Not much more than a big white pebble on the beach, not much more than a clot of foam being blown and rolled over the sand. Look how little she is! She’s lost like a grain of sand in the beach—just a concentrated speck blown along, a tiny white foam-bubble, almost nothing among the morning. Why does she absorb me? What is she, after all? Here’s the seacoast morning, big and permanent and beautiful; there is she, fretting, always unsatisfied, and temporary as a bubble of foam. What does she mean to me, after all? She represents something, like a bubble of foam represents the sea. But what is she? It’s not her I care for.", "pos": 746533}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But she is magnificent, and even bigger than the morning and the sea. Is she—? Is she—?", "pos": 748742}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What are you looking at?", "pos": 748912}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You. What is she? What is she? You, go with your mother to Sutton. I am so dull.", "pos": 748949}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It seems, it seemed as if you only loved me at night—as if you didn’t love me in the daytime.", "pos": 749813}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The night is free to you. In the daytime I want to be by myself.", "pos": 750075}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But why? Why, even now, when we are on this short holiday?", "pos": 750156}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know. Love-making stifles me in the daytime.", "pos": 750229}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "But it needn’t be always love-making,", "pos": 750284}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It always is, when you and I are together. Do you ever want to marry me?", "pos": 750334}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Do you me?", "pos": 750475}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, yes; I should like us to have children. But you don’t really want a divorce from Baxter, do you?", "pos": 750501}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No. I don’t think I do.", "pos": 750724}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why?", "pos": 750781}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I don’t know.", "pos": 750788}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you feel as if you belonged to him?", "pos": 750804}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No; I don’t think so.", "pos": 750845}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What, then?", "pos": 750869}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I think he belongs to me,", "pos": 750883}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you never really intended to belong to me?", "pos": 751012}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes, I do belong to you,", "pos": 751070}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, because you don’t want to be divorced. I consider you treated Baxter rottenly,", "pos": 751111}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Why?", "pos": 751548}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I suppose you thought he was a lily of the valley, and so you put him in an appropriate pot, and tended him according. You made up your mind he was a lily of the valley and it was no good his being a cow-parsnip. You wouldn’t have it.", "pos": 751565}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I certainly never imagined him a lily of the valley.", "pos": 751802}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You imagined him something he wasn’t. That’s just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what’s good for a man, and she’s going to see he gets it; and no matter if he’s starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she’s got him, and is giving him what’s good for him.", "pos": 751857}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And what are you doing?", "pos": 752139}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m thinking what tune I shall whistle,", "pos": 752176}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You think I want to give you what’s good for you?", "pos": 752293}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I hope so; but love should give a sense of freedom, not of prison. Miriam made me feel tied up like a donkey to a stake. I must feed on her patch, and nowhere else. It’s sickening!", "pos": 752356}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And would you let a woman do as she likes?", "pos": 752539}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; I’ll see that she likes to love me. If she doesn’t—well, I don’t hold her.", "pos": 752584}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "If you were as wonderful as you say—,", "pos": 752666}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I should be the marvel I am. Love’s a dog in a manger,", "pos": 752721}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And which of us is the dog?", "pos": 752874}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh well, you, of course.", "pos": 752915}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But we walk side by side, and yet I’m in London arguing with an imaginary Orpen; and where are you? Who was that?", "pos": 754784}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It was Baxter,", "pos": 755058}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He looks shady,", "pos": 755802}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "His true commonness comes out,", "pos": 755905}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you hate him?", "pos": 755952}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You talk, about the cruelty of women; I wish you knew the cruelty of men in their brute force. They simply don’t know that the woman exists.", "pos": 755981}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t I?", "pos": 756136}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No,", "pos": 756156}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t I know you exist?", "pos": 756176}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "About me you know nothing, about me!", "pos": 756202}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No more than Baxter knew?", "pos": 756261}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Perhaps not as much.", "pos": 756299}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But you know me pretty well. Did you know Baxter as well as you know me?", "pos": 756452}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "He wouldn’t let me,", "pos": 756568}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And I have let you know me?", "pos": 756600}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It’s what men won’t let you do. They won’t let you get really near to them,", "pos": 756630}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And haven’t I let you?", "pos": 756718}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes, but you’ve never come near to me. You can’t come out of yourself, you can’t. Baxter could do that better than you.", "pos": 756743}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You begin to value Baxter now you’ve not got him,", "pos": 756964}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No; I can only see where he was different from you. Do you think it’s worth it—the—the sex part?", "pos": 757025}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The act of loving, itself?", "pos": 757251}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes; is it worth anything to you?", "pos": 757280}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But how can you separate it? It’s the culmination of everything. All our intimacy culminates then.", "pos": 757316}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Not for me. I feel, as if I hadn’t got you, as if all of you weren’t there, and as if it weren’t me you were taking—", "pos": 757428}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Who, then?", "pos": 757765}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Something just for yourself. It has been fine, so that I daren’t think of it. But is it me you want, or is it It? When I had Baxter, actually had him, then I did feel as if I had all of him,", "pos": 757778}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And it was better?", "pos": 758103}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes, yes; it was more whole. I don’t say you haven’t given me more than he ever gave me.", "pos": 758134}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Or could give you.", "pos": 758225}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes, perhaps; but you’ve never given me yourself.", "pos": 758246}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If I start to make love to you. I just go like a leaf down the wind.", "pos": 758328}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And leave me out of count,", "pos": 758410}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And then is it nothing to you?", "pos": 758449}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It’s something; and sometimes you have carried me away—right away—I know—and—I reverence you for it—but—", "pos": 758519}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t ‘but’ me,", "pos": 758626}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Good-evening!", "pos": 762163}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good-evening!", "pos": 762188}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Paul Morel?", "pos": 762234}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’ve got yer, have I?", "pos": 762314}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shall miss my train,", "pos": 762357}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You’re going to get it from me now,", "pos": 762479}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are yer goin’ to take that top-coat off,", "pos": 762601}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "or are you goin’ to lie down to it?", "pos": 762653}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But. I don’t know how to fight.", "pos": 762724}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All right, then,", "pos": 762769}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I mustn’t lie here, it’s silly. I said I was going to get up. Why don’t I?", "pos": 766600}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s not much, mother. It was Baxter Dawes.", "pos": 767964}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Tell me where it hurts you,", "pos": 768021}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know—my shoulder. Say it was a bicycle accident, mother.", "pos": 768069}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your mother’s nearly frightened me out of my wits—fainted away,", "pos": 768229}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And now I should have done with them all,", "pos": 768380}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I will, mother.", "pos": 768442}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And don’t think about it, only try to go to sleep. The doctor won’t be here till eleven.", "pos": 768480}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She makes me tired, mother.", "pos": 768876}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes; I wish she wouldn’t come,", "pos": 768906}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You know, I don’t care about them, mother,", "pos": 769030}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I’m afraid you don’t, my son,", "pos": 769084}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Is my mother ill?", "pos": 772097}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Yes; she’s not very well. Don’t upset her.", "pos": 772126}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Is she in bed?", "pos": 772171}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 772188}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother!", "pos": 772560}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I thought you were never coming,", "pos": 772579}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother—mother—mother!", "pos": 772748}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Don’t cry,", "pos": 772820}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you won’t be any worse, mother?", "pos": 785447}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No, my son.", "pos": 785485}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You promise me?", "pos": 785499}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes; I won’t be any worse.", "pos": 785517}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’ll see, she’ll never be better.", "pos": 785890}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Oh, you don’t know!", "pos": 785948}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I do,", "pos": 785989}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Try and forget it, dear, try and forget it.", "pos": 786048}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I will,", "pos": 786106}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Don’t think of it, Paul! Don’t think of it, my darling!", "pos": 786386}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My father’s come,", "pos": 787132}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Has he?", "pos": 787181}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "How dun I find thee, lass?", "pos": 787270}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, I’m middlin’,", "pos": 787365}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I see tha art,", "pos": 787400}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Have you gone on all right?", "pos": 787551}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Yis, ’Er’s a bit behint-hand now and again, as yer might expect.", "pos": 787653}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Does she have your dinner ready?", "pos": 787735}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Well, I’ve ’ad to shout at ’er once or twice,", "pos": 787788}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And you must shout at her if she’s not ready. She will leave things to the last minute.", "pos": 787845}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Annie. I saw a lizard dart on that rock!", "pos": 788932}
{"speaker": "Dr. Ansell", "text": "By the way, we’ve got a man in the fever hospital here who comes from Nottingham—Dawes. He doesn’t seem to have many belongings in this world.", "pos": 790208}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Baxter Dawes!", "pos": 790412}
{"speaker": "Dr. Ansell", "text": "That’s the man—has been a fine fellow, physically, I should think. Been in a bit of a mess lately. You know him?", "pos": 790444}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He used to work at the place where I am.", "pos": 790559}
{"speaker": "Dr. Ansell", "text": "Did he? Do you know anything about him? He’s just sulking, or he’d be a lot better than he is by now.", "pos": 790602}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know anything of his home circumstances, except that he’s separated from his wife and has been a bit down, I believe. But tell him about me, will you? Tell him I’ll come and see him.", "pos": 790706}
{"speaker": "Dr. Ansell", "text": "I said to him, ‘Do you know a man from Nottingham named Morel?’ and he looked at me as if he’d jump at my throat. So I said: ‘I see you know the name; it’s Paul Morel.’ Then I told him about your saying you would go and see him. ‘What does he want?’ he said, as if you were a policeman.", "pos": 790967}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And did he say he would see me?", "pos": 791278}
{"speaker": "Dr. Ansell", "text": "He wouldn’t say anything—good, bad or indifferent,", "pos": 791324}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 791397}
{"speaker": "Dr. Ansell", "text": "That’s what I want to know. There he lies and sulks, day in, day out. Can’t get a word of information out of him.", "pos": 791408}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you think I might go?", "pos": 791524}
{"speaker": "Dr. Ansell", "text": "You might.", "pos": 791563}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "A visitor to see you, Jim Crow. Caw! He can only say ‘Caw!’ I have brought you a gentleman to see you. Now say ‘Thank you,’ and show some manners.", "pos": 792121}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Dr. Ansell told me you were here. So I thought I’d come in,", "pos": 792590}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "Say ‘Caw!’ Say ‘Caw!’ Jim Crow.", "pos": 792797}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He is getting on all right?", "pos": 792851}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "Oh yes! He lies and imagines he’s going to die, and it frightens every word out of his mouth.", "pos": 792899}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And you must have somebody to talk to,", "pos": 793013}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "That’s it! Only two old men and a boy who always cries. It is hard lines! Here am I dying to hear Jim Crow’s voice, and nothing but an odd ‘Caw!’ will he give!", "pos": 793069}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "So rough on you!", "pos": 793252}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "Isn’t it?", "pos": 793283}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I suppose I am a godsend,", "pos": 793311}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "Oh, dropped straight from heaven!", "pos": 793351}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Have you had a bad time?", "pos": 793648}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "What are you doing in Sheffield?", "pos": 793723}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My mother was taken ill at my sister’s in Thurston Street. What are you doing here?", "pos": 793768}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I couldn’t say for sure,", "pos": 793917}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Dr. Ansell told me you were here. Typhoid’s pretty bad, I know,", "pos": 794099}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "What did you come for?", "pos": 794251}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because Dr. Ansell said you didn’t know anybody here. Do you?", "pos": 794276}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I know nobody nowhere,", "pos": 794340}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "it’s because you don’t choose to, then. We s’ll be taking my mother home as soon as we can,", "pos": 794396}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "What’s a-matter with her?", "pos": 794530}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She’s got a cancer. But we want to get her home. We s’ll have to get a motor-car.", "pos": 794610}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Why don’t you ask Thomas Jordan to lend you his?", "pos": 794756}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s not big enough,", "pos": 794819}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Then ask Jack Pilkington; he’d lend it you. You know him.", "pos": 794906}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I think I s’ll hire one,", "pos": 794966}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "You’re a fool if you do,", "pos": 795004}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Did you get a job here?", "pos": 795143}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I was only here a day or two before I was taken bad,", "pos": 795179}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You want to get in a convalescent home,", "pos": 795249}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I’m goin’ in no convalescent home,", "pos": 795334}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My father’s been in the one at Seathorpe, an’ he liked it. Dr. Ansell would get you a recommend. The seaside would be all right just now. Sun on those sandhills, and the waves not far out. By Gad! it’s all right when you know you’re going to walk again, and swim!", "pos": 795380}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Is she far gone?", "pos": 795989}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She’s going like wax. Well, I’ll be going. I’ll leave you this half-crown.", "pos": 796018}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I don’t want it,", "pos": 796186}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Well. I’ll try and run in when I’m back in Sheffield. Happen you might like to see my brother-in-law? He works in Pyecrofts.", "pos": 796275}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I don’t know him,", "pos": 796413}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He’s all right. Should I tell him to come? He might bring you some papers to look at. Did you know Baxter was in Sheffield Hospital with typhoid?", "pos": 796445}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No,", "pos": 797169}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He’s getting better. I went to see him yesterday—the doctor told me.", "pos": 797197}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Is he very bad?", "pos": 797303}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He has been. He’s mending now. What did he say to you? Oh, nothing! He seems to be sulking. Won’t you be nice with me? What’s the matter?", "pos": 797341}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Don’t!", "pos": 797823}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Is it Baxter that upsets you?", "pos": 797916}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I have been vile to him!", "pos": 797968}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’ve said many a time you haven’t treated him well,", "pos": 798005}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I’ve treated him—no, I’ve treated him badly. And now you treat me badly. It serves me right.", "pos": 798150}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "How do I treat you badly?", "pos": 798257}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "It serves me right. I never considered him worth having, and now you don’t consider me. But it serves me right. He loved me a thousand times better than you ever did.", "pos": 798294}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He didn’t!", "pos": 798479}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "He did! At any rate, he did respect me, and that’s what you don’t do.", "pos": 798508}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It looked as if he respected you!", "pos": 798580}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "He did! And I made him horrid—I know I did! You’ve taught me that. And he loved me a thousand times better than ever you do.", "pos": 798625}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right,", "pos": 798752}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Did you sleep, my dear?", "pos": 800418}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 800454}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not very well?", "pos": 800475}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Well, yes!", "pos": 800492}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Has it been bad?", "pos": 800627}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No. It hurt a bit, but nothing to mention.", "pos": 800656}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s a sunny day,", "pos": 800893}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It’s a beautiful day.", "pos": 800922}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you think you’ll be carried down?", "pos": 800946}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I shall see.", "pos": 800985}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Didn’t you get up, pigeon?", "pos": 801326}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No,", "pos": 801355}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I think he gives you too much,", "pos": 801412}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I think he does,", "pos": 801454}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Doesn’t it tickle you?", "pos": 801632}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "It does,", "pos": 801690}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You want your hair doing in a plait. Lie still.", "pos": 801872}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I try to think of the nice times—when we went to Mablethorpe, and Robin Hood’s Bay, and Shanklin. After all, not everybody has seen those beautiful places. And wasn’t it beautiful! I try to think of that, not of the other things.", "pos": 804465}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Take me!", "pos": 805581}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’d nearly forgotten,", "pos": 806624}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I’d thought quite,", "pos": 806657}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No. Shall we go to the seaside for the week-end?", "pos": 806691}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "What is it dear?", "pos": 807064}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nothing! Don’t those windmill sails look monotonous? She will never give in,", "pos": 807094}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "No,", "pos": 807485}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There are different ways of dying. My father’s people are frightened, and have to be hauled out of life into death like cattle into a slaughter-house, pulled by the neck; but my mother’s people are pushed from behind, inch by inch. They are stubborn people, and won’t die.", "pos": 807504}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 807779}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And she won’t die. She can’t. Mr. Renshaw, the parson, was in the other day. ‘Think!’ he said to her; ‘you will have your mother and father, and your sisters, and your son, in the Other Land.’ And she said: ‘I have done without them for a long time, and can do without them now. It is the living I want, not the dead.’ She wants to live even now.", "pos": 807798}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Oh, how horrible!", "pos": 808147}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And she looks at me, and she wants to stay with me. She’s got such a will, it seems as if she would never go—never!", "pos": 808204}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Don’t think of it!", "pos": 808349}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And she was religious—she is religious now—but it is no good. She simply won’t give in. And do you know, I said to her on Thursday: ‘Mother, if I had to die, I’d die. I’d will to die.’ And she said to me, sharp: ‘Do you think I haven’t? Do you think you can die when you like?’ And I don’t want her to eat, and she knows it. When I ask her: ‘Shall you have anything’ she’s almost afraid to say ‘Yes.’ ‘I’ll have a cup of Benger’s,’ she says. ‘It’ll only keep your strength up,’ I said to her. ‘Yes’—and she almost cried—‘but there’s such a gnawing when I eat nothing, I can’t bear it.’ So I went and made her the food. It’s the cancer that gnaws like that at her. I wish she’d die!", "pos": 808383}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Come! I’m going.", "pos": 809430}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You shouldn’t get up. I wanted to come. Here! I brought you some sweets. Hardly any different. I was at Skegness. I wanted a change. I went with Clara,", "pos": 809921}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I knew as much,", "pos": 810564}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It was an old promise,", "pos": 810602}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "You have it your own way,", "pos": 810638}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nay, she’s tired of me. Since August she’s been getting tired of me. I s’ll go abroad when my mother’s dead,", "pos": 810752}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Abroad!", "pos": 811039}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; I don’t care what I do. I s’ll have to begin a new start of some sort, and you as well, I suppose. I dunno where. Things have to happen. It’s no good doing anything—at least—no, I don’t know. Give me some toffee.", "pos": 811065}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "What made that scar on your mouth?", "pos": 811469}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I had a bicycle accident,", "pos": 811586}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "You shouldn’t ha’ laughed at me. When? That night on Woodborough Road, when you and her passed me—you with your hand on her shoulder.", "pos": 811668}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I never laughed at you. I never knew you were there till the very second when you passed,", "pos": 811827}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "It was that as did me,", "pos": 811989}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I never laughed, except as I’m always laughing.", "pos": 812061}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "When she’s dead, that fire will go out.", "pos": 812709}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Paul! How late you are!", "pos": 812981}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not very,", "pos": 813101}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Why, what time is it?", "pos": 813122}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s only just gone eleven.", "pos": 813186}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh! I thought it was later.", "pos": 813262}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Can’t you sleep, my pigeon?", "pos": 813372}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "No, I can’t,", "pos": 813411}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Never mind, Little! Never mind, my love. I’ll stop with you half an hour, my pigeon; then perhaps it will be better.", "pos": 813438}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Now go to bed,", "pos": 813802}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Will you sleep?", "pos": 813883}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes, I think so.", "pos": 813911}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You feel better, my Little, don’t you?", "pos": 813930}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 813971}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "How is she?", "pos": 814403}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "The same—the same! The doctor says she can’t last, but I know she will. She’ll be here at Christmas.", "pos": 814428}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall I give you some milk?", "pos": 815704}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "A little,", "pos": 815744}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You slept a bit later this morning, little one,", "pos": 816289}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Did I?", "pos": 816360}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes; it’s nearly eight o’clock.", "pos": 816407}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Can’t you give her something to put an end to it?", "pos": 816984}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "She can’t last many days now, Mr. Morel,", "pos": 817096}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "I can’t bear it much longer; we shall all go mad. Go and sit with her while we have breakfast, Minnie,", "pos": 817167}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Have the men been saying their hands are sore, Minnie?", "pos": 818401}
{"speaker": "Minnie", "text": "Not as I know of, Mrs. Morel,", "pos": 818547}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "But I’ll bet they are sore. But, at any rate, there’ll be something to buy in with this week. Your father’s pit things will want well airing, Annie,", "pos": 818593}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "She’ll live over Christmas,", "pos": 819005}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She won’t. I s’ll give her morphia.", "pos": 819078}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Which?", "pos": 819137}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All that came from Sheffield,", "pos": 819158}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Ay—do!", "pos": 819201}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Don’t walk about, Paul.", "pos": 819383}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, my dear,", "pos": 819488}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "What are you doing?", "pos": 819679}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I s’ll put ’em in her night milk.", "pos": 819713}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Oh, it is bitter, Paul!", "pos": 820227}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s a new sleeping draught the doctor gave me for you. He thought it would leave you in such a state in the morning.", "pos": 820288}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "And I hope it won’t. But it is horrid!", "pos": 820419}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I know—I tasted it. But I’ll give you some clean milk afterwards.", "pos": 820599}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I think so,", "pos": 820678}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Has she had it?", "pos": 820951}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes—and she said it was bitter.", "pos": 820986}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Oh!", "pos": 821020}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And I told her it was a new draught. Where’s that milk?", "pos": 821082}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "I wonder why nurse didn’t come to settle me down?", "pos": 821165}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "She said she was going to a concert, my love,", "pos": 821265}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Did she? Annie, that draught was horrid!", "pos": 821328}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Was it, my love? Well, never mind. Let us settle you down. Perhaps nurse will be so late.", "pos": 821463}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Ay, try.", "pos": 821641}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There. There!—now you’ll sleep.", "pos": 821903}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes. I didn’t think you could do the bed so nicely,", "pos": 821971}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’ll sleep, my love,", "pos": 822226}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Morel", "text": "Yes. Good-night.", "pos": 822260}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall we sit up?", "pos": 822523}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "I s’ll lie with her as I always do. She might wake up.", "pos": 822553}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All right. And call me if you see any difference.", "pos": 822624}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Yes. Paul, Paul!", "pos": 822676}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes?", "pos": 823120}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Come and look at her.", "pos": 823153}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She’s going!", "pos": 823454}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 823483}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "How long has she been like it?", "pos": 823502}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "I only just woke up. Isn’t it awful!", "pos": 823535}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She may last like this. You go to my bed. I’ll sit up.", "pos": 824436}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "No,", "pos": 824626}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "I’ll stop with you.", "pos": 824642}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’d rather you didn’t,", "pos": 824664}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Hush!", "pos": 825390}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Had I better stop a-whoam?", "pos": 825485}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No. No. Go to work. Go to work. She’ll last through to-morrow.", "pos": 825528}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I don’t think so.", "pos": 825577}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 825597}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Am I to go?", "pos": 825886}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 825909}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Just the same,", "pos": 827349}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Isn’t it awful! Doesn’t she look awful! If she looks like that!", "pos": 827504}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Drink some tea,", "pos": 827629}
{"speaker": "Neighbours", "text": "How is she?", "pos": 827739}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nurse, she’ll last like this for days?", "pos": 827944}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "She can’t, Mr. Morel. She can’t. Isn’t it dreadful! Who would have thought she could stand it? Go down now, Mr. Morel, go down.", "pos": 827999}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Paul—Paul—she’s gone!", "pos": 828429}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My love—my love—oh, my love! My love—oh, my love!", "pos": 828683}
{"speaker": "Nurse", "text": "She’s better, Mr. Morel, she’s better.", "pos": 828819}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Ay—poor thing! Well, call at the surgery about six for the certificate.", "pos": 829076}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You noticed the blinds were down?", "pos": 829511}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "No,", "pos": 829564}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Why—has she gone?", "pos": 829579}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 829599}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "When wor that?", "pos": 829606}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "About twelve this morning.", "pos": 829623}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 829652}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Have you seen her?", "pos": 829862}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "No,", "pos": 829921}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mother, mother!", "pos": 831461}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I thought tha wor niver comin’, lad.", "pos": 831980}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I didn’t think you’d sit up. I forgot you’d be alone, father,", "pos": 832019}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Dost want owt to eat?", "pos": 832313}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No.", "pos": 832350}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Sithee—I made thee a drop o’ hot milk. Get it down thee; it’s cold enough for owt.", "pos": 832356}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My dear! My dear!", "pos": 832750}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "Have you seen her?", "pos": 833443}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 833508}
{"speaker": "Annie", "text": "And don’t you think she looks nice?", "pos": 833524}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 833562}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "I have been dreaming of thy mother,", "pos": 835355}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Have you, father? When I dream of her it’s always just as she was when she was well. I dream of her often, but it seems quite nice and natural, as if nothing had altered.", "pos": 835419}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You know Clara’s coming down for the day to-morrow?", "pos": 836601}
{"speaker": "Walter Morel", "text": "Yes. Yes, you told me,", "pos": 836694}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I told the landlady your wife was coming,", "pos": 836775}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Did you? Let me fill you up,", "pos": 836828}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You sit still,", "pos": 837015}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Say when,", "pos": 837104}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Thanks! But you’ve no business to get up.", "pos": 837125}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "It does me good, lad. I begin to think I’m right again, then.", "pos": 837189}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You are about right, you know.", "pos": 837270}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I am, certainly I am,", "pos": 837303}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And Len says he can get you on in Sheffield. It’s funny, starting again. I feel in a lot bigger mess than you.", "pos": 837355}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "In what way, lad?", "pos": 837610}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s as if I was in a tangled sort of hole, rather dark and dreary, and no road anywhere.", "pos": 837630}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I know—I understand it. But you’ll find it’ll come all right.", "pos": 837750}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I suppose so,", "pos": 837859}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "You’ve not done for yourself like I have,", "pos": 837932}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "How old are you?", "pos": 838120}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Thirty-nine,", "pos": 838151}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You’ll just be in your prime. You don’t look as if much life had gone out of you.", "pos": 838389}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "It hasn’t. The go is there.", "pos": 838533}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "We’ve both got plenty of life in us yet to make things fly,", "pos": 838602}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Yes, begod!", "pos": 838816}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And I don’t see, why you shouldn’t go on where you left off.", "pos": 838873}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "What—", "pos": 838949}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes—fit your old home together again.", "pos": 838983}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Couldn’t be done,", "pos": 839062}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why? Because you don’t want?", "pos": 839127}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Perhaps.", "pos": 839158}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You mean you don’t want her?", "pos": 839241}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I hardly know,", "pos": 839354}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I believe she wants you,", "pos": 839409}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Do you?", "pos": 839447}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. She never really hitched on to me—you were always there in the background. That’s why she wouldn’t get a divorce. That’s how women are with me. They want me like mad, but they don’t want to belong to me. And she belonged to you all the time. I knew.", "pos": 839503}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Perhaps I was a fool,", "pos": 839935}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You were a big fool,", "pos": 839968}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "But perhaps even then you were a bigger fool,", "pos": 840003}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do you think so? At any rate, I’m clearing out to-morrow,", "pos": 840110}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I see,", "pos": 840227}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Aren’t you getting cold?", "pos": 840524}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I was lookin’ at these legs,", "pos": 840564}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What’s up with ’em? They look all right,", "pos": 840614}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "They look all right. But there’s some water in ’em yet.", "pos": 840685}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And what about it?", "pos": 840743}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Come and look. Look here. Look at the water under here.", "pos": 840764}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Where? It’s nothing,", "pos": 841005}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "You feel,", "pos": 841134}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "H’m!", "pos": 841209}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Rotten, isn’t it?", "pos": 841225}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why? It’s nothing much.", "pos": 841257}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "You’re not much of a man with water in your legs.", "pos": 841283}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I can’t see as it makes any difference. I’ve got a weak chest.", "pos": 841335}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I suppose the rest of me’s all right,", "pos": 841442}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You ought to look better than this,", "pos": 842175}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Oh, I’m all right now.", "pos": 842223}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Shall we go to the lodging straight off, or somewhere else?", "pos": 842317}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "We may as well go home,", "pos": 842392}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Sit down, Jack,", "pos": 842644}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I don’t want that chair,", "pos": 842671}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Sit down!", "pos": 842710}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I should think you’re cold. Come nearer to the fire.", "pos": 842950}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Thank you, I’m quite warm. When are you going back?", "pos": 843031}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Well, the rooms are taken until to-morrow, so he wants me to stop. He’s going back to-night.", "pos": 843169}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And then you’re thinking of going to Sheffield?", "pos": 843264}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 843314}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Are you fit to start work?", "pos": 843321}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I’m going to start.", "pos": 843350}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You’ve really got a place?", "pos": 843372}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Yes—begin on Monday.", "pos": 843401}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "You don’t look fit. Why don’t I? And have you got lodgings in Sheffield?", "pos": 843424}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 843560}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "And can you manage all right?", "pos": 843652}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I s’d think so. I s’ll have to!", "pos": 843695}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shall go by the four-twenty. I wish you’d take your boots off. There’s a pair of slippers of mine.", "pos": 843767}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Thank you,", "pos": 843932}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Are you coming then or later?", "pos": 847777}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "I don’t know,", "pos": 847809}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m meeting my father in Nottingham at seven-fifteen,", "pos": 847835}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Then,", "pos": 847900}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shall see you both later,", "pos": 848157}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "I suppose so. An’ perhaps—one day—I s’ll be able to pay you back the money as—", "pos": 848215}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I shall come for it, you’ll see. I s’ll be on the rocks before I’m very much older.", "pos": 848310}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Ay—well—", "pos": 848412}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Good-bye,", "pos": 848435}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Good-bye,", "pos": 848465}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "It’s a nasty day for travelling,", "pos": 848616}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 848665}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "It’s raining yet,", "pos": 849066}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Is it?", "pos": 849095}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "You won’t go to-night, shall you? I shouldn’t go in this rain,", "pos": 849118}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Do you want me to stay?", "pos": 849246}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 849330}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Do you want me, Baxter?", "pos": 849562}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Do you want to come back to me?", "pos": 849636}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Take me back! Take me back, take me back!", "pos": 849816}
{"speaker": "Baxter Dawes", "text": "Do you want me again?", "pos": 850012}
{"speaker": "Clara", "text": "Then,", "pos": 854060}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She’s dead. What was it all for—her struggle? You’re alive. She’s not. She is—in you. You’ve got to keep alive for her sake. You’ve got to carry forward her living, and what she had done, go on with it. But you can go on with your painting. Or else you can beget children. They both carry on her effort. Painting is not living. Then live. Marry whom? As best you can. Miriam? Mater, my dear—", "pos": 854856}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I mustn’t,", "pos": 857175}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I didn’t know—", "pos": 858990}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nor I. What are you doing in town?", "pos": 859021}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I’m staying at Cousin Anne’s.", "pos": 859132}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ha! For long?", "pos": 859164}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No; only till to-morrow.", "pos": 859180}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Must you go straight home?", "pos": 859207}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No, no; it’s not necessary.", "pos": 859293}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You will just have supper with me, then I’ll bring you back.", "pos": 859712}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Very well,", "pos": 859786}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Aren’t they beautiful?", "pos": 860456}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. What will you drink—coffee?", "pos": 860481}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I should like it,", "pos": 860527}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Then excuse me a moment.", "pos": 860557}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There’s nothing new in it, and nothing very interesting. H’m! I’d forgotten that. It’s not bad, is it?", "pos": 861419}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No. I don’t quite understand it.", "pos": 861694}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There’s some not bad stuff in there,", "pos": 861844}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Not at all bad,", "pos": 861892}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "By the way, didn’t I hear something about your earning your own living?", "pos": 862090}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes. And what of it? I’m merely going to the farming college at Broughton for three months, and I shall probably be kept on as a teacher there.", "pos": 862175}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I say—that sounds all right for you! You always wanted to be independent.", "pos": 862373}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 862449}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why didn’t you tell me?", "pos": 862455}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I only knew last week.", "pos": 862481}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But I heard a month ago,", "pos": 862506}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Yes; but nothing was settled then.", "pos": 862542}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I should have thought, you’d have told me you were trying. I suppose you’re glad,", "pos": 862579}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Very glad.", "pos": 862828}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes—it will be something.", "pos": 862841}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I think it will be a great deal. Why do you think it won’t?", "pos": 862897}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, I don’t think it won’t be a great deal. Only you’ll find earning your own living isn’t everything.", "pos": 863033}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No. I don’t suppose it is.", "pos": 863138}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I suppose work can be nearly everything to a man, though it isn’t to me. But a woman only works with a part of herself. The real and vital part is covered up.", "pos": 863207}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "But a man can give all himself to work?", "pos": 863379}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, practically.", "pos": 863432}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And a woman only the unimportant part of herself?", "pos": 863452}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "That’s it.", "pos": 863504}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Then, if it’s true, it’s a great shame.", "pos": 863572}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It is. But I don’t know everything,", "pos": 863626}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And how are things with you?", "pos": 864158}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "About all right,", "pos": 864200}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Nay. And you have broken off with Clara?", "pos": 864260}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 864672}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "You know. I think we ought to be married.", "pos": 864738}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why?", "pos": 864885}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "See, how you waste yourself! You might be ill, you might die, and I never know—be no more then than if I had never known you.", "pos": 864901}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And if we married?", "pos": 865041}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "At any rate, I could prevent you wasting yourself and being a prey to other women—like—like Clara.", "pos": 865072}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "A prey? I’m not sure, that marriage would be much good.", "pos": 865173}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I only think of you,", "pos": 865346}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I know you do. But—you love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.", "pos": 865382}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "And what will you do otherwise?", "pos": 865591}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t know—go on, I suppose. Perhaps I shall soon go abroad.", "pos": 865636}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Will you have me, to marry me?", "pos": 867032}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "Do you want it?", "pos": 867625}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not much,", "pos": 867668}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And without marriage we can do nothing?", "pos": 868210}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "No. No, I think not.", "pos": 868353}
{"speaker": "Miriam", "text": "I think I must go,", "pos": 869478}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’ll come along with you,", "pos": 869576}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Have them!", "pos": 870221}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mother!", "pos": 873094}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "mother!", "pos": 873117}