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http://www.archive.org/download/essays_1002_librivox/essays_14_decleyre_64kb.mp3 | 1,033.98 | 1,044.03 | that therefore the one who sets himself and his egotistic desires against the social ideal is the supreme traitor | 10.05 | 3773 | 2646 | chunk_0194_row_9700000 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,238.31 | 1,254.62 | subdued voices ascended in the early mornings from the paved well of the quadrangle with the stamping of horses and mules led out in pairs to drink at the cistern a tangle of slender bamboo stems drooped its narrow blade-like leaves over the square pool of water | 16.31 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700001 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 41.69 | 54.35 | in course of time the boy at first only puzzled by the angry jeremiads but rather sorry for his dad began to turn the matter over in his mind in such moments as he could spare from play and study | 12.66 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700002 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 624.7 | 642.43 | it affirmed her power without detracting from his dignity that slight girl with her little feet little hands little face attractively overweighted by great coils of hair with a rather large mouth whose mere parting seemed to breathe upon you the fragrance of frankness and generosity | 17.73 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700003 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,226.14 | 1,238.31 | mrs gould loved the patio of her spanish house a broad flight of stone steps was overlooked silently from a niche in the wall by a madonna in blue robes with the crowned child sitting on her arm | 12.17 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700004 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 54.35 | 68.53 | in about a year he had evolved from the lecture of the letters a definite conviction that there was a silver mine in the sulaco province of the republic of costaguana where poor uncle harry had been shot by soldiers a great many years before | 14.18 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700005 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 773.39 | 785.87 | and later in the inhabited corner of the palazzo above the vineyards the marble hills the pines and olives of lucca he also said-the name of gould has been always highly respected in sulaco | 12.48 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700006 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 194.38 | 212.84 | by the time he was twenty charles gould had in his turn fallen under the spell of the san tome mine but it was another form of enchantment more suitable to his youth into whose magic formula there entered hope vigour and self-confidence instead of weary indignation and despair | 18.46 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700007 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 212.84 | 230.7 | left after he was twenty to his own guidance except for the severe injunction not to return to costaguana he had pursued his studies in belgium and france with the idea of qualifying for a mining engineer but this scientific aspect of his labours remained vague and imperfect in his mind | 17.86 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700009 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 246.1 | 264.79 | he visited mines in germany in spain in cornwall abandoned workings had for him strong fascination their desolation appealed to him like the sight of human misery whose causes are varied and profound they might have been worthless but also they might have been misunderstood | 18.69 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700010 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 821.76 | 840.83 | there was no nonsense about him he went to work in his own way because it seemed right just as i feel i must lay hold of that mine in such words he talked to her because his memory was very full of the country of his childhood his heart of his life with that girl and his mind of the san tome concession | 19.07 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700011 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 277.36 | 288.48 | at once her delight in him lingering with half-open wings like those birds that cannot rise easily from a flat level found a pinnacle from which to soar up into the skies | 11.12 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700012 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 264.79 | 277.36 | his future wife was the first and perhaps the only person to detect this secret mood which governed the profoundly sensible almost voiceless attitude of this man towards the world of material things | 12.57 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700013 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 855.36 | 869.49 | the american had his womankind with him but seemed lonely while they were sketching all day long the old doorways and the turreted corners of the mediaeval houses charles gould had with him the inseparable companionship of the mine | 14.13 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700014 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 230.7 | 246.1 | mines had acquired for him a dramatic interest he studied their peculiarities from a personal point of view too as one would study the varied characters of men he visited them as one goes with curiosity to call upon remarkable persons | 15.4 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700015 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 840.83 | 855.36 | he added that he would have to leave her for a few days to find an american a man from san francisco who was still somewhere in europe a few months before he had made his acquaintance in an old historic german town situated in a mining district | 14.53 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700016 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 803.17 | 821.76 | he was of the country and he loved it but he remained essentially an englishman in his ideas he made use of the political cry of his time it was federation but he was no politician he simply stood up for social order out of pure love for rational liberty and from his hate of oppression | 18.59 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700017 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 785.87 | 803.17 | my uncle harry was chief of the state for some time and has left a great name amongst the first families by this i mean the pure creole families who take no part in the miserable farce of governments uncle harry was no adventurer in costaguana we goulds are no adventurers | 17.3 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700018 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 288.48 | 299.02 | they had become acquainted in italy where the future mrs gould was staying with an old and pale aunt who years before had married a middle-aged impoverished italian marquis | 10.54 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700019 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 309.08 | 320.35 | as the youngest of those who fell for that very cause of which old giorgio viola was a drifting relic as a broken spar is suffered to float away disregarded after a naval victory | 11.27 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700020 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 869.49 | 881.89 | the other man was interested in mining enterprises knew something of costaguana and was no stranger to the name of gould they had talked together with some intimacy which was made possible by the difference of their ages | 12.4 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700021 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 320.35 | 331.57 | the marchesa led a still whispering existence nun-like in her black robes and a white band over the forehead in a corner of the first floor of an ancient and ruinous palace | 11.22 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700022 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 892.74 | 908.02 | seemed to have melted in the rascally crucible of revolutions apart from some ten thousand pounds deposited in england there appeared to be nothing left except the house in sulaco a vague right of forest exploitation in a remote and savage district | 15.28 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700023 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 652.57 | 671.67 | but now he was actually not looking at her at all and his expression was tense and irrational as is natural in a man who elects to stare at nothing past a young girl's head well yes it was iniquitous they corrupted him thoroughly the poor old boy oh why wouldn't he let me go back to him | 19.1 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700024 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 908.02 | 921.97 | and the san tome concession which had attended his poor father to the very brink of the grave he explained those things it was late when they parted she had never before given him such a fascinating vision of herself | 13.95 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700025 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 299.02 | 309.08 | she now mourned that man who had known how to give up his life to the independence and unity of his country who had known how to be as enthusiastic in his generosity | 10.06 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700026 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,254.62 | 1,266.43 | and the fat coachman sat muffled up on the edge holding lazily the ends of halters in his hand barefooted servants passed to and fro issuing from dark low doorways below | 11.81 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700027 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 881.89 | 892.74 | charles wanted now to find that capitalist of shrewd mind and accessible character his father's fortune in costaguana which he had supposed to be still considerable | 10.85 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700028 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 68.53 | 85.43 | there was also connected closely with that mine a thing called the iniquitous gould concession apparently written on a paper which his father desired ardently to tear and fling into the faces of presidents members of judicature and ministers of state | 16.9 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700029 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 921.97 | 941.11 | all the eagerness of youth for a strange life for great distances for a future in which there was an air of adventure of combat a subtle thought of redress and conquest had filled her with an intense excitement which she returned to the giver with a more open and exquisite display of tenderness | 19.14 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700030 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 955.38 | 969.98 | it hurt charles gould to feel that never more by no effort of will would he be able to think of his father in the same way he used to think of him when the poor man was alive his breathing image was no longer in his power | 14.6 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700031 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 969.98 | 984.28 | this consideration closely affecting his own identity filled his breast with a mournful and angry desire for action in this his instinct was unerring action is consolatory | 14.3 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700032 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 368.17 | 381.74 | one of his frequent remarks was i think sometimes that poor father takes a wrong view of that san tome business and they discussed that opinion long and earnestly as if they could influence a mind across half the globe | 13.57 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700033 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 358.17 | 368.17 | charles gould did not open his heart to her in any set speeches he simply went on acting and thinking in her sight this is the true method of sincerity | 10 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700034 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 941.11 | 955.38 | he left her to walk down the hill and directly he found himself alone he became sober that irreparable change a death makes in the course of our daily thoughts can be felt in a vague and poignant discomfort of mind | 14.27 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700035 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 381.74 | 395.79 | but in reality they discussed it because the sentiment of love can enter into any subject and live ardently in remote phrases for this natural reason these discussions were precious to mrs gould in her engaged state | 14.05 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700036 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 984.28 | 999.16 | it is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the fates for his action the mine was obviously the only field | 14.88 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700037 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 331.57 | 342.03 | whose big empty halls downstairs sheltered under their painted ceilings the harvests the fowls and even the cattle together with the whole family of the tenant farmer | 10.46 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700038 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 342.03 | 358.17 | the two young people had met in lucca after that meeting charles gould visited no mines though they went together in a carriage once to see some marble quarries where the work resembled mining in so far that it also was the tearing of the raw material of treasure from the earth | 16.14 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700039 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 395.79 | 410.19 | charles feared that mr gould senior was wasting his strength and making himself ill by his efforts to get rid of the concession i fancy that this is not the kind of handling it requires he mused aloud as if to himself | 14.4 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700040 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,040.05 | 1,057.84 | not one of them could be aware beforehand what enormous changes the death of any given individual may produce in the very aspect of the world the latest phase in the history of the mine mrs gould knew from personal experience it was in essence the history of her married life | 17.79 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700041 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,026.6 | 1,040.05 | his thoughts ran upon the means of raising a large amount of capital in san francisco or elsewhere and incidentally there occurred to him also the general reflection that the counsel of the departed must be an unsound guide | 13.45 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700042 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,057.84 | 1,072.13 | the mantle of the goulds hereditary position in sulaco had descended amply upon her little person but she would not allow the peculiarities of the strange garment to weigh down the vivacity of her character | 14.29 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700043 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 422.45 | 434.45 | she would set her quick mind to work upon that and then make the inconsequent retort which he accepted as perfectly sagacious because in fact it was so-well and you you were born there too | 12 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700044 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 434.45 | 452.23 | he knew his answer that's different i've been away ten years dad never had such a long spell and it was more than thirty years ago she was the first person to whom he opened his lips after receiving the news of his father's death it has killed him he said | 17.78 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700045 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 410.19 | 422.45 | and when she wondered frankly that a man of character should devote his energies to plotting and intrigues charles would remark with a gentle concern that understood her wonder you must not forget that he was born there | 12.26 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700046 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 452.23 | 463.61 | he had walked straight out of town with the news straight out before him in the noonday sun on the white road and his feet had brought him face to face with her in the hall of the ruined palazzo | 11.38 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700047 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 999.16 | 1,015.2 | it was imperative sometimes to know how to disobey the solemn wishes of the dead he resolved firmly to make his disobedience as thorough by way of atonement as it well could be the mine had been the cause of an absurd moral disaster | 16.04 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700048 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,015.2 | 1,026.6 | its working must be made a serious and moral success he owed it to the dead man's memory such were the properly speaking emotions of charles gould | 11.4 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700049 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 671.67 | 683.74 | but now i shall know how to grapple with this after pronouncing these words with immense assurance he glanced down at her and at once fell a prey to distress incertitude and fear | 12.07 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700050 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 85.43 | 100.86 | and this desire persisted though the names of these people he noticed seldom remained the same for a whole year together this desire since the thing was iniquitous seemed quite natural to the boy though why the affair was iniquitous he did not know | 15.43 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700051 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 515.02 | 533.22 | it has killed him he repeated he ought to have had many years yet we are a long-lived family she was too startled to say anything he was contemplating with a penetrating and motionless stare the cracked marble urn as though he had resolved to fix its shape for ever in his memory | 18.2 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700052 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 477.93 | 495.22 | and an octagon columnar stand bearing a heavy marble vase ornamented with sculptured masks and garlands of flowers and cracked from top to bottom charles gould was dusty with the white dust of the road lying on his boots on his shoulders on his cap with two peaks | 17.29 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700053 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,086.62 | 1,104.38 | she is simply a phenomenon of imperfect differentiation interestingly barren and without importance dona emilia's intelligence being feminine led her to achieve the conquest of sulaco simply by lighting the way for her unselfishness and sympathy | 17.76 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700054 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,104.38 | 1,118.35 | she could converse charmingly but she was not talkative the wisdom of the heart having no concern with the erection or demolition of theories any more than with the defence of prejudices has no random words at its command | 13.97 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700055 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 495.22 | 515.02 | water dripped from under it all over his face and he grasped a thick oaken cudgel in his bare right hand she went very pale under the roses of her big straw hat gloved swinging a clear sunshade caught just as she was going out to meet him at the bottom of the hill where three poplars stand near the wall of a vineyard | 19.8 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700056 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,072.13 | 1,086.62 | which was the sign of no mere mechanical sprightliness but of an eager intelligence it must not be supposed that mrs gould's mind was masculine a woman with a masculine mind is not a being of superior efficiency | 14.49 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700057 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,118.35 | 1,131.73 | the words it pronounces have the value of acts of integrity tolerance and compassion a woman's true tenderness like the true virility of man is expressed in action of a conquering kind | 13.38 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700058 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,266.43 | 1,285.04 | two laundry girls with baskets of washed linen the baker with the tray of bread made for the day leonarda her own camerista bearing high up swung from her hand raised above her raven black head a bunch of starched under skirts dazzlingly white in the slant of sunshine | 18.61 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700059 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 463.61 | 477.93 | a room magnificent and naked with here and there a long strip of damask black with damp and age hanging down on a bare panel of the wall it was furnished with exactly one gilt armchair with a broken back | 14.32 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700060 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,131.73 | 1,147.22 | the ladies of sulaco adored mrs gould they still look upon me as something of a monster mrs gould had said pleasantly to one of the three gentlemen from san francisco she had to entertain in her new sulaco house just about a year after her marriage | 15.49 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700061 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 583.84 | 599.38 | and then they stopped everywhere there were long shadows lying on the hills on the roads on the enclosed fields of olive trees the shadows of poplars of wide chestnuts of farm buildings of stone walls | 15.54 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700062 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 564.26 | 583.84 | almost like a lost child crying in the degraded grandeur of the noble hall while he stood by her again perfectly motionless in the contemplation of the marble urn afterwards they went out for a long walk which was silent till he exclaimed suddenly yes but if he had only grappled with it in a proper way | 19.58 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700063 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,191.12 | 1,206.38 | she would in her own words have been for them something of a monster however the goulds were in essentials a reticent couple and their guests departed without the suspicion of any other purpose but simple profit in the working of a silver mine | 15.26 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700064 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,161.22 | 1,179.03 | these facts caused them to be well disposed towards his wife an unmistakable enthusiasm pointed by a slight flavour of irony made her talk of the mine absolutely fascinating to her visitors and provoked them to grave and indulgent smiles in which there was a good deal of deference | 17.81 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700065 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 549.39 | 564.26 | he caught hold of her hand raised it to his lips and at that she dropped her parasol to pat him on the cheek murmured poor boy and began to dry her eyes under the downward curve of her hat-brim very small in her simple white frock | 14.87 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700066 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 599.38 | 612.93 | and in mid-air the sound of a bell thin and alert was like the throbbing pulse of the sunset glow her lips were slightly parted as though in surprise that he should not be looking at her with his usual expression | 13.55 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700067 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 533.22 | 549.39 | it was only when turning suddenly to her he blurted out twice i've come to you-i've come straight to you without being able to finish his phrase that the great pitifulness of that lonely and tormented death in costaguana came to her with the full force of its misery | 16.17 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700068 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,179.03 | 1,191.12 | perhaps had they known how much she was inspired by an idealistic view of success they would have been amazed at the state of her mind as the spanish-american ladies had been amazed at the tireless activity of her body | 12.09 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700069 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,147.22 | 1,161.22 | they were her first visitors from abroad and they had come to look at the san tome mine she jested most agreeably they thought and charles gould besides knowing thoroughly what he was about had shown himself a real hustler | 14 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700070 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 126.37 | 140.69 | he had been made several times already to pay heavy fines for neglecting to work the mine he reported besides other sums extracted from him on account of future royalties on the ground that a man with such a valuable concession in his pocket | 14.32 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700071 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 708.42 | 724.43 | it vanished completely even to the very sound of the bell when her feet touched the ground again the bell was still ringing in the valley she put her hands up to her hair breathing quickly and glanced up and down the stony lane it was reassuringly empty | 16.01 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700072 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 698.02 | 708.42 | she did she would and immediately the future hostess of all the europeans in sulaco had the physical experience of the earth falling away from under her | 10.4 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700073 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 612.93 | 624.7 | his usual expression was unconditionally approving and attentive he was in his talks with her the most anxious and deferential of dictators an attitude that pleased her immensely | 11.77 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700074 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 30.73 | 41.69 | is not at the age of fourteen a matter of prime importance as to its main statement but in its form it is calculated to excite a certain amount of wonder and attention | 10.96 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700075 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 115.83 | 126.37 | in the end the growing youth attained to as close an intimacy with the san tome mine as the old man who wrote these plaintive and enraged letters on the other side of the sea | 10.54 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700076 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,297.4 | 1,313.25 | with its wrought-iron railings and a border of flowers whence like the lady of the mediaeval castle she could witness from above all the departures and arrivals of the casa to which the sonorous arched gateway lent an air of stately importance | 15.85 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700077 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 683.74 | 698.02 | the only thing he wanted to know now he said was whether she did love him enough whether she would have the courage to go with him so far away he put these questions to her in a voice that trembled with anxiety for he was a determined man | 14.28 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700078 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 724.43 | 738.63 | meantime charles stepping with one foot into a dry and dusty ditch picked up the open parasol which had bounded away from them with a martial sound of drum taps he handed it to her soberly a little crestfallen | 14.2 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700079 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,206.38 | 1,226.14 | mrs gould had out her own carriage with two white mules to drive them down to the harbour whence the ceres was to carry them off into the olympus of plutocrats captain mitchell had snatched at the occasion of leave-taking to remark to mrs gould in a low confidential mutter this marks an epoch | 19.76 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700080 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 100.86 | 115.83 | afterwards with advancing wisdom he managed to clear the plain truth of the business from the fantastic intrusions of the old man of the sea vampires and ghouls which had lent to his father's correspondence the flavour of a gruesome arabian nights tale | 14.97 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700081 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 1,285.04 | 1,297.4 | then the old porter would hobble in sweeping the flagstones and the house was ready for the day all the lofty rooms on three sides of the quadrangle opened into each other and into the corredor | 12.36 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700082 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 140.69 | 157.17 | could not refuse his financial assistance to the government of the republic the last of his fortune was passing away from him against worthless receipts he wrote in a rage whilst he was being pointed out as an individual who had known how to secure enormous advantages from the necessities of his country | 16.48 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700083 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 738.63 | 753.93 | they turned back and after she had slipped her hand on his arm the first words he pronounced were its lucky that we shall be able to settle in a coast town you've heard its name it is sulaco i am so glad poor father did get that house | 15.3 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700084 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 157.17 | 176.46 | and the young man in europe grew more and more interested in that thing which could provoke such a tumult of words and passion he thought of it every day but he thought of it without bitterness it might have been an unfortunate affair for his poor dad and the whole story threw a queer light upon the social and politica... | 19.29 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700085 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 753.93 | 773.39 | he bought a big house there years ago in order that there should always be a casa gould in the principal town of what used to be called the occidental province i lived there once as a small boy with my dear mother for a whole year while poor father was away in the united states on business you shall be the new mistress... | 19.46 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700086 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/nostromo_1003_librivox/nostromo_07_conrad_64kb.mp3 | 176.46 | 194.38 | the view he took of it was sympathetic to his father yet calm and reflective his personal feelings had not been outraged and it is difficult to resent with proper and durable indignation the physical or mental anguish of another organism even if that other organism is one's own father | 17.92 | 4733 | 2699 | chunk_0194_row_9700087 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_09_donne_64kb.mp3 | 221.87 | 237.73 | they come to present executions upon the people whose commotion was indeed but a symptom but an accident of the main disease but this symptom grown so violent would allow no time for a consultation | 15.86 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700088 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_07_donne_64kb.mp3 | 202.02 | 215.21 | there is scarce any thing that hath not killed somebody a hair a feather hath done it nay that which is our best antidote against it hath done it | 13.19 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700089 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_09_donne_64kb.mp3 | 203.47 | 221.87 | is it not so in states too sometimes the insolency of those that are great puts the people into commotions the great disease and the greatest danger to the head is the insolency of the great ones and yet they execute martial law | 18.4 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700090 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_09_donne_64kb.mp3 | 832.27 | 850.57 | the eye of a serpent no eye in nature that nourishes us by looking upon us but thine eye o lord does so look therefore upon me o lord in this distress and that will recall me from the borders of this bodily death | 18.3 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700091 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_01_donne_64kb.mp3 | 643.81 | 661.79 | i may hear and hearken to that voice o thou man of god there is death in the pot and so refrain from that which i was so hungerly so greedily flying to | 17.98 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700092 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_01_donne_64kb.mp3 | 66.87 | 80.74 | we study health and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building | 13.87 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700093 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_09_donne_64kb.mp3 | 850.57 | 868.87 | look upon me and that will raise me again from that spiritual death in which my parents buried me when they begot me in sin and in which i have pierced even to the jaws of hell by multiplying such heaps of actual sins upon that foundation | 18.3 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700094 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_01_donne_64kb.mp3 | 661.79 | 681.39 | a faithful ambassador is health says thy wise servant solomon thy voice received in the beginning of a sickness of a sin is true health if i can see that light betimes and hear that voice early | 19.6 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700095 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_08_donne_64kb.mp3 | 543.51 | 561.92 | and when that religious empress placilla the wife of theodosius was told that she diminished herself too much in those personal assistances and might do enough in sending relief she said she would send in that capacity as a christian | 18.41 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700096 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_01_donne_64kb.mp3 | 47.68 | 66.87 | variable and therefore miserable condition of man this minute i was well and am ill this minute i am surprised with a sudden change and alteration to worse and can impute it to no cause nor call it by any name | 19.19 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700097 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_07_donne_64kb.mp3 | 215.21 | 228.53 | the best cordial hath been deadly poison men have died of joy and almost forbidden their friends to weep for them when they have seen them die laughing | 13.32 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700098 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/devotions_emerg-occs_0905_librivox/devotions_08_donne_64kb.mp3 | 529.62 | 543.51 | the holy king st louis in france and our maud is celebrated for that that personally they visited hospitals and assisted in the cure even of loathsome diseases | 13.89 | 1469 | 2732 | chunk_0194_row_9700099 |
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