diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149874/149874_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149874/149874_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..722060b64c79f6393ad14aaf91ecfeab0c79389a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-clean/2277/149874/149874_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MINNIE'S FLAT AS THE ONE FLOOR RESIDENT APARTMENTS WERE THEN BEING CALLED WAS IN A PART OF WEST VAN BUREN STREET INHABITED BY FAMILIES OF LABOURERS AND CLERKS MEN WHO HAD COME AND WERE STILL COMING WITH THE RUSH OF POPULATION POURING IN AT THE RATE OF FIFTY THOUSAND A YEAR. IT WAS ON THE THIRD FLOOR THE FRONT WINDOWS LOOKING DOWN INTO THE STREET WHERE AT NIGHT THE LIGHTS OF GROCERY STORES WERE SHINING AND CHILDREN WERE PLAYING. TO CARRIE THE SOUND OF THE LITTLE BELLS UPON THE HORSE CARS AS THEY TINKLED IN AND OUT OF HEARING WAS AS PLEASING AS IT WAS NOVEL. SHE GAZED INTO THE LIGHTED STREET WHEN MINNIE BROUGHT HER INTO THE FRONT ROOM AND WONDERED AT THE SOUNDS THE MOVEMENT THE MURMUR OF THE VAST CITY WHICH STRETCHED FOR MILES AND MILES IN EVERY DIRECTION. MISSUS HANSON AFTER THE FIRST GREETINGS WERE OVER GAVE CARRIE THE BABY AND PROCEEDED TO GET SUPPER. HER HUSBAND ASKED A FEW QUESTIONS AND SAT DOWN TO READ THE EVENING PAPER. HE WAS A SILENT MAN AMERICAN BORN OF A SWEDE FATHER AND NOW EMPLOYED AS A CLEANER OF REFRIGERATOR CARS AT THE STOCK YARDS. TO HIM THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF HIS WIFE'S SISTER WAS A MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE. HER PERSONAL APPEARANCE DID NOT AFFECT HIM ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. HIS ONE OBSERVATION TO THE POINT WAS CONCERNING THE CHANCES OF WORK IN CHICAGO. IT'S A BIG PLACE HE SAID. YOU CAN GET IN SOMEWHERE IN A FEW DAYS EVERYBODY DOES. IT HAD BEEN TACITLY UNDERSTOOD BEFOREHAND THAT SHE WAS TO GET WORK AND PAY HER BOARD. HE WAS OF A CLEAN SAVING DISPOSITION AND HAD ALREADY PAID A NUMBER OF MONTHLY INSTALMENTS ON TWO LOTS FAR OUT ON THE WEST SIDE. HIS AMBITION WAS SOME DAY TO BUILD A HOUSE ON THEM. IN THE INTERVAL WHICH MARKED THE PREPARATION OF THE MEAL CARRIE FOUND TIME TO STUDY THE FLAT. SHE HAD SOME SLIGHT GIFT OF OBSERVATION AND THAT SENSE SO RICH IN EVERY WOMAN INTUITION. SHE FELT THE DRAG OF A LEAN AND NARROW LIFE. THE WALLS OF THE ROOMS WERE DISCORDANTLY PAPERED. THE FLOORS WERE COVERED WITH MATTING AND THE HALL LAID WITH A THIN RAG CARPET. ONE COULD SEE THAT THE FURNITURE WAS OF THAT POOR HURRIEDLY PATCHED TOGETHER QUALITY SOLD BY THE INSTALMENT HOUSES. SHE SAT WITH MINNIE IN THE KITCHEN HOLDING THE BABY UNTIL IT BEGAN TO CRY. THEN SHE WALKED AND SANG TO IT UNTIL HANSON DISTURBED IN HIS READING CAME AND TOOK IT. A PLEASANT SIDE TO HIS NATURE CAME OUT HERE HE WAS PATIENT. ONE COULD SEE THAT HE WAS VERY MUCH WRAPPED UP IN HIS OFFSPRING. NOW NOW HE SAID WALKING THERE THERE AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN SWEDISH ACCENT NOTICEABLE IN HIS VOICE. YOU'LL WANT TO SEE THE CITY FIRST WON'T YOU SAID MINNIE WHEN THEY WERE EATING. WELL WE'LL GO OUT SUNDAY AND SEE LINCOLN PARK. CARRIE NOTICED THAT HANSON HAD SAID NOTHING TO THIS. HE SEEMED TO BE THINKING OF SOMETHING ELSE. WELL SHE SAID I THINK I'LL LOOK AROUND TO MORROW I'VE GOT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND IT WON'T BE ANY TROUBLE WHICH WAY IS THE BUSINESS PART. MINNIE BEGAN TO EXPLAIN BUT HER HUSBAND TOOK THIS PART OF THE CONVERSATION TO HIMSELF. IT'S THAT WAY HE SAID POINTING EAST THAT'S EAST. THEN HE WENT OFF INTO THE LONGEST SPEECH HE HAD YET INDULGED IN CONCERNING THE LAY OF CHICAGO. YOU'D BETTER LOOK IN THOSE BIG MANUFACTURING HOUSES ALONG FRANKLIN STREET AND JUST THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER HE CONCLUDED LOTS OF GIRLS WORK THERE. YOU COULD GET HOME EASY TOO IT ISN'T VERY FAR. CARRIE NODDED AND ASKED HER SISTER ABOUT THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. THE LATTER TALKED IN A SUBDUED TONE TELLING THE LITTLE SHE KNEW ABOUT IT WHILE HANSON CONCERNED HIMSELF WITH THE BABY. FINALLY HE JUMPED UP AND HANDED THE CHILD TO HIS WIFE. MINNIE'S MANNER WAS ONE OF TRAINED INDUSTRY AND CARRIE COULD SEE THAT IT WAS A STEADY ROUND OF TOIL WITH HER. SHE BEGAN TO SEE THAT HER RELATIONS WITH DROUET WOULD HAVE TO BE ABANDONED HE COULD NOT COME HERE. SHE READ FROM THE MANNER OF HANSON IN THE SUBDUED AIR OF MINNIE AND INDEED THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE OF THE FLAT A SETTLED OPPOSITION TO ANYTHING SAVE A CONSERVATIVE ROUND OF TOIL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/96099/96099_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/96099/96099_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dbf9636d6d7321be8359fdc922ca78b7e512573e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/96099/96099_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT LIES WITH THOSE THREE OF COURSE THE TWO WOMEN AND THE ITALIAN. AND ALL THREE ARE AT LARGE ADDED THE JUDGE. THAT SHOULD BE AT ONCE REMARKED THE COMMISSARY EAGER AS USUAL FOR DECISIVE ACTION. VERY WELL LET US PROCEED IN THAT WAY. PREPARE THE WARRANTS SAID THE JUDGE TURNING TO HIS CLERK. THE ITALIAN RIPALDI WE SHALL HEAR OF THROUGH YOUR INSPECTOR BLOCK. THAT TOO SIR YOU WILL OF COURSE UNDERTAKE. I WILL CHARGE MYSELF WITH IT CERTAINLY MY MAN SHOULD BE HERE BY NOW AND I WILL INSTRUCT HIM AT ONCE. THE INSPECTOR IS THERE SAID THE GUARD POINTING TO THE OUTER ROOM HE HAS JUST RETURNED. RETURNED YOU MEAN ARRIVED. NO MONSIEUR RETURNED. IT IS BLOCK WHO LEFT AN HOUR OR MORE AGO BLOCK. THEN SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED HE HAS SOME SPECIAL INFORMATION SOME GREAT NEWS. WHEN BLOCK APPEARED IT WAS EVIDENT THAT SOMETHING HAD GONE WRONG WITH HIM. HIS FACE WORE A LOOK OF HOT FLURRIED EXCITEMENT AND HIS MANNER WAS ONE OF ABJECT CRINGING SELF ABASEMENT. WHAT IS IT. ASKED THE LITTLE CHIEF SHARPLY. YOU ARE ALONE WHERE IS YOUR MAN. ALAS MONSIEUR HOW SHALL I TELL YOU. IMPOSSIBLE YOU CANNOT MEAN IT. GONE NOW JUST WHEN WE MOST WANT HIM NEVER. IT IS SO UNHAPPILY. IDIOT TRIPLE IDIOT. YOU SHALL BE DISMISSED DISCHARGED FROM THIS HOUR YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE FORCE. HOW WAS IT EXPLAIN. OF COURSE YOU HAVE BEEN DRINKING. IT IS THAT OR YOUR GREAT GLUTTONY. YOU WERE BEGUILED INTO SOME EATING HOUSE. MONSIEUR YOU SHALL HEAR THE EXACT TRUTH. MY GENTLEMAN MADE HIMSELF MOST PLEASANT. NO DOUBT GROWLED THE CHIEF. I WAS MUCH SURPRISED BUT HE TOLD ME HIS BUSINESS OFTEN BROUGHT HIM HERE. GET ON GET ON COME TO THE ESSENTIAL. MY FAITH MONSIEUR I TOO WAS HUNGRY IT WAS MY REGULAR HOUR. WELL AT ANY RATE FOR MY SINS I ACCEPTED. WE ENTERED THE FIRST RESTAURANT THAT OF THE REUNITED FRIENDS YOU KNOW IT PERHAPS MONSIEUR. IN SPITE OF HIS ANGUISH BLOCK SMACKED HIS FAT LIPS AT THE THOUGHT OF THIS MOST SUCCULENT BUT VERY GREASY DISH. HOW OFTEN MUST I TELL YOU TO GET ON. I DID THINK OF IT MONSIEUR BUT THEN HE THE ITALIAN WAS JUST THE SAME AS MYSELF HE WAS A COLLEAGUE. I HAD NO FEAR OF HIM NOT TILL THE VERY LAST WHEN HE PLAYED ME THIS EVIL TURN. I SUSPECTED NOTHING WHEN HE BROUGHT OUT HIS POCKETBOOK IT WAS STUFFED FULL MONSIEUR I SAW THAT AND MY CONFIDENCE INCREASED CALLED FOR THE RECKONING AND PAID WITH AN ITALIAN BANK NOTE. A MINUTE AFTER MY MAN GOT UP SAYING. THERE MAY BE SOME TROUBLE ABOUT CHANGING THAT BANK NOTE. EXCUSE ME ONE MOMENT PRAY. HE WENT OUT MONSIEUR AND PIFF PAFF HE WAS NO MORE TO BE SEEN. AH NIGAUD ASS YOU ARE TOO FOOLISH TO LIVE. WHY DID YOU NOT FOLLOW HIM. WHY LET HIM OUT OF YOUR SIGHT. BUT MONSIEUR I WAS NOT TO KNOW WAS I. I WAS TO ACCOMPANY HIM NOT TO WATCH HIM. I HAVE DONE WRONG I CONFESS. BUT THEN WHO WAS TO TELL HE MEANT TO RUN AWAY. IT WAS ONLY NOW AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR THAT THE ITALIAN HAD BECOME INCULPATED AND THE QUESTION OF HIS POSSIBLE ANXIETY TO ESCAPE HAD NEVER BEEN CONSIDERED. HE WAS SO ARTFUL WENT ON BLOCK IN FURTHER EXTENUATION OF HIS OFFENCE. HE LEFT EVERYTHING BEHIND. HIS OVERCOAT STICK THIS BOOK HIS OWN PRIVATE MEMORANDUM BOOK SEEMINGLY BOOK \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/96099/96099_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/96099/96099_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a07978b4cbce5932b23e63a1578d37ae5c7dd279 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1630/96099/96099_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HAND IT ME SAID THE CHIEF AND WHEN IT CAME INTO HIS HANDS HE BEGAN TO TURN OVER THE LEAVES HURRIEDLY. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND NOT MORE THAN A WORD HERE AND THERE. IT IS NO DOUBT ITALIAN. NOT PERFECTLY BUT I CAN READ IT ALLOW ME. HE ALSO TURNED OVER THE PAGES PAUSING TO READ A PASSAGE HERE AND THERE AND NODDING HIS HEAD FROM TIME TO TIME EVIDENTLY STRUCK WITH THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MATTER RECORDED. OF COURSE SUCH A CONSUMMATE ASS AS YOU HAVE PROVED YOURSELF WOULD NOT THINK OF SEARCHING THE RESTAURANT OR THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD OR OF MAKING INQUIRIES AS TO WHETHER HE HAD BEEN SEEN OR AS TO WHICH WAY HE HAD GONE. PARDON ME MONSIEUR IS TOO HARD ON ME. I HAVE BEEN UNFORTUNATE A VICTIM TO CIRCUMSTANCES STILL I BELIEVE I KNOW MY DUTY. YES I MADE INQUIRIES AND WHAT IS MORE I HEARD OF HIM. WHERE HOW. HE NEVER SPOKE TO THE MANAGER BUT WALKED OUT AND LET THE CHANGE GO. IT WAS A NOTE FOR A HUNDRED LIRE A HUNDRED FRANCS AND THE RESTAURANT BILL WAS NO MORE THAN SEVENTEEN FRANCS HAH. THAT IS GREATLY AGAINST HIM INDEED. HE WAS MUCH PRESSED IN A GREAT HURRY. DIRECTLY HE CROSSED THE THRESHOLD HE CALLED THE FIRST CAB AND WAS DRIVING AWAY BUT HE WAS STOPPED THE DEVIL. WHY DID THEY NOT KEEP HIM THEN. STOPPED BUT ONLY FOR A MOMENT AND ACCOSTED BY A WOMAN. A WOMAN YES MONSIEUR. HE WISHED TO PASS ON TO LEAVE HER SHE WOULD NOT CONSENT THEN THEY BOTH GOT INTO THE CAB AND WERE DRIVEN AWAY TOGETHER. THE OFFICIALS WERE NOW LISTENING WITH ALL EARS. HER FACE IT WAS A POLICEMAN WHO SAW HER AND HE SAID SHE WAS GOOD LOOKING DARK BRUNETTE BLACK HAIR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/157641/157641_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/157641/157641_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0826bc564deb83a974cbc4e1b75f10afe236e99 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/157641/157641_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE SOCIAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS SMOKING IN EARLY VICTORIAN DAYS AND FOR SOME TIME LATER WAS CURIOUS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIGAR SMOKING AMONG THOSE CLASSES FROM WHICH TOBACCO HAD LONG BEEN PRACTICALLY BANISHED AND THE NATURAL CONSEQUENT SPREAD DOWNWARDS OF THE USE OF CIGARS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INVARIABLE LAW OF FASHION TOGETHER WITH THE CONTINUED DEVOTION TO THE PIPE AMONG THOSE WHOSE LOVE OF TOBACCO HAD NEVER SLACKENED MADE SMOKING A MUCH MORE GENERAL PRACTICE THAN IT HAD BEEN FOR SOME GENERATIONS. IT IS SOMEWHAT SIGNIFICANT THAT DICKENS IN THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP EIGHTEEN FORTY MAKES THAT REPULSIVE DWARF QUILP SMOKE CIGARS. NOW MISSUS QUILP HE SAYS I FEEL IN A SMOKING HUMOUR AND SHALL PROBABLY BLAZE AWAY ALL NIGHT. BUT SIT WHERE YOU ARE IF YOU PLEASE IN CASE I WANT YOU. THE DWARF'S TASTES HOWEVER WERE CATHOLIC. A LITTLE LATER IN THE BOOK THE READER FINDS HIM WHEN ENCAMPED IN THE BACK PARLOUR OF THE OLD MAN'S SHOP SMOKING PIPE AFTER PIPE AND COMPELLING THAT KNAVISH ATTORNEY SAMPSON BRASS TO DO THE SAME. BUT QUILP AND BRASS WERE NOT IN SOCIETY. THERE WERE STILL PLENTY OF ACTIVE OPPONENTS AND DENOUNCERS OF TOBACCO. ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED WAS THE GREAT DUKE OF WELLINGTON WHO ABOMINATED SMOKING AND WAS ANNOYED BY THE INCREASE OF CIGAR SMOKING AMONG OFFICERS OF THE ARMY. THE DUKE'S PREJUDICES WERE STRONGER THAN HIS FACTS. THE LADIES HAD A KEEN SCENT FOR THE ABOMINABLE ODOUR OF TOBACCO AND DISTRUSTED THE MEN WHO SMOKED. HERE IS FITZ BOODLE'S OR THACKERAY'S COMMENT ON IT WHAT IS THIS SMOKING THAT IT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A CRIME. I BELIEVE IN MY HEART THAT WOMEN ARE JEALOUS OF IT AS OF A RIVAL. I WOULD LAY A GUINEA THAT MANY A LADY WHO HAS JUST BEEN KIND ENOUGH TO READ THE ABOVE LINES LAYS DOWN THE BOOK AFTER THIS CONFESSION OF MINE THAT I AM A SMOKER AND SAYS OH THE VULGAR WRETCH AND PASSES ON TO SOMETHING ELSE. GERMANY HAS BEEN PUFFING FOR THREE SCORE YEARS FRANCE SMOKES TO A MAN. PSHA LOOK AT HIS PROGRESS. LATER HIS TOBACCO COMBINED WITH INSOLENCE TO HIS TOBACCO HATING COLONEL CONDUCTED HIM OUT OF THE ARMY INTO THE RETIREMENT OF CIVIL LIFE AND SO ON AND SO ON. THUS THE ODOUR OF TOBACCO WAS NOT BROUGHT INTO THE DRAWING ROOM. THE JOURNALISTS AND BOHEMIANS WHO MET AT THE COGERS WERE ABOVE OR BELOW THE DICTATES OF FASHION AND SMOKING WAS ALWAYS A FEATURE OF THEIR GATHERINGS. THE HOT PIPES AND SMOULDERING MATCHES STAINED THE TABLE TOPS AND BURNT THE CARPETS SO THAT THEY HAD THE OPTION OF ABANDONING EITHER THE PIPE OR THE QUARTERS. BOTH QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE PRINCE CONSORT DETESTED IT SO TOBACCO WAS TABOO WHEREVER THE COURT WAS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/167613/167613_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/167613/167613_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..de835e6a3d56cabbe452e44435cb50e97670dc1a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/167613/167613_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE OFFICERS WERE ABOUT TO TAKE LEAVE BUT PRINCE ANDREW APPARENTLY RELUCTANT TO BE LEFT ALONE WITH HIS FRIEND ASKED THEM TO STAY AND HAVE TEA. SEATS WERE BROUGHT IN AND SO WAS THE TEA. THE OFFICERS GAZED WITH SURPRISE AT PIERRE'S HUGE STOUT FIGURE AND LISTENED TO HIS TALK OF MOSCOW AND THE POSITION OF OUR ARMY ROUND WHICH HE HAD RIDDEN. SO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE POSITION OF OUR TROOPS. PRINCE ANDREW INTERRUPTED HIM. NOT BEING A MILITARY MAN I CAN'T SAY I HAVE UNDERSTOOD IT FULLY BUT I UNDERSTAND THE GENERAL POSITION. WELL THEN YOU KNOW MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE BE IT WHO IT MAY SAID PRINCE ANDREW. OH SAID PIERRE LOOKING OVER HIS SPECTACLES IN PERPLEXITY AT PRINCE ANDREW. I WAS VERY GLAD OF HIS APPOINTMENT THAT'S ALL I KNOW REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. AND TELL ME YOUR OPINION OF BARCLAY DE TOLLY. IN MOSCOW THEY ARE SAYING HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT ABOUT HIM WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HIM. ASK THEM REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW INDICATING THE OFFICERS. PIERRE LOOKED AT TIMOKHIN WITH THE CONDESCENDINGLY INTERROGATIVE SMILE WITH WHICH EVERYBODY INVOLUNTARILY ADDRESSED THAT OFFICER. WE SEE LIGHT AGAIN SINCE HIS SERENITY HAS BEEN APPOINTED YOUR EXCELLENCY SAID TIMOKHIN TIMIDLY AND CONTINUALLY TURNING TO GLANCE AT HIS COLONEL. WHY SO ASKED PIERRE. WELL TO MENTION ONLY FIREWOOD AND FODDER LET ME INFORM YOU. AND AGAIN TIMOKHIN TURNED TO THE PRINCE BUT WE DAREN'T. THEN WHY WAS IT FORBIDDEN. PIERRE PUT THE SAME QUESTION TO PRINCE ANDREW. AT SMOLENSK TOO HE JUDGED CORRECTLY THAT THE FRENCH MIGHT OUTFLANK US AS THEY HAD LARGER FORCES. HE ORDERED US TO RETREAT AND ALL OUR EFFORTS AND LOSSES WENT FOR NOTHING. HE IS UNSUITABLE NOW JUST BECAUSE HE PLANS OUT EVERYTHING VERY THOROUGHLY AND ACCURATELY AS EVERY GERMAN HAS TO HOW CAN I EXPLAIN. SO IT HAS BEEN WITH BARCLAY. WHILE RUSSIA WAS WELL A FOREIGNER COULD SERVE HER AND BE A SPLENDID MINISTER BUT AS SOON AS SHE IS IN DANGER SHE NEEDS ONE OF HER OWN KIN. BUT IN YOUR CLUB THEY HAVE BEEN MAKING HIM OUT A TRAITOR. AND THEY SAY HE'S A SKILLFUL COMMANDER REJOINED PIERRE. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MEANT BY A SKILLFUL COMMANDER REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW IRONICALLY. A SKILLFUL COMMANDER REPLIED PIERRE. PIERRE LOOKED AT HIM IN SURPRISE. AND YET THEY SAY THAT WAR IS LIKE A GAME OF CHESS HE REMARKED. THE RELATIVE STRENGTH OF BODIES OF TROOPS CAN NEVER BE KNOWN TO ANYONE. SUCCESS NEVER DEPENDS AND NEVER WILL DEPEND ON POSITION OR EQUIPMENT OR EVEN ON NUMBERS AND LEAST OF ALL ON POSITION BUT ON WHAT THEN. ON THE FEELING THAT IS IN ME AND IN HIM HE POINTED TO TIMOKHIN AND IN EACH SOLDIER. PRINCE ANDREW GLANCED AT TIMOKHIN WHO LOOKED AT HIS COMMANDER IN ALARM AND BEWILDERMENT. A BATTLE IS WON BY THOSE WHO FIRMLY RESOLVE TO WIN IT. WHY DID WE LOSE THE BATTLE AT AUSTERLITZ. WE'VE LOST SO LET US RUN AND WE RAN. BUT TOMORROW WE SHAN'T SAY IT. THAT'S ALL NONSENSE THERE'S NOTHING OF THE KIND. BUT WHAT AWAITS US TOMORROW. THE FACT IS THAT THOSE MEN WITH WHOM YOU HAVE RIDDEN ROUND THE POSITION NOT ONLY DO NOT HELP MATTERS BUT HINDER. PRINCE ANDREW REPEATED. AND IF YOU LIKE I WILL TELL YOU THAT WHATEVER HAPPENS AND WHATEVER MUDDLES THOSE AT THE TOP MAY MAKE WE SHALL WIN TOMORROW'S BATTLE. THERE NOW YOUR EXCELLENCY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/167613/167613_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/167613/167613_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c9ede680bad8881e5d6d19a44d3395b67a3913a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/167613/167613_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THAT'S THE TRUTH THE REAL TRUTH SAID TIMOKHIN. WHO WOULD SPARE HIMSELF NOW. THE SOLDIERS IN MY BATTALION BELIEVE ME WOULDN'T DRINK THEIR VODKA. IT'S NOT THE DAY FOR THAT THEY SAY. ALL WERE SILENT THE OFFICERS ROSE. PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT OF THE SHED WITH THEM GIVING FINAL ORDERS TO THE ADJUTANT. YES YES ANSWERED PRINCE ANDREW ABSENTLY. ONE THING I WOULD DO IF I HAD THE POWER HE BEGAN AGAIN I WOULD NOT TAKE PRISONERS. WHY TAKE PRISONERS IT'S CHIVALRY. THE FRENCH HAVE DESTROYED MY HOME AND ARE ON THEIR WAY TO DESTROY MOSCOW THEY HAVE OUTRAGED AND ARE OUTRAGING ME EVERY MOMENT THEY ARE MY ENEMIES. IN MY OPINION THEY ARE ALL CRIMINALS. AND SO THINKS TIMOKHIN AND THE WHOLE ARMY. THEY SHOULD BE EXECUTED. SINCE THEY ARE MY FOES THEY CANNOT BE MY FRIENDS WHATEVER MAY HAVE BEEN SAID AT TILSIT. YES YES MUTTERED PIERRE LOOKING WITH SHINING EYES AT PRINCE ANDREW. THE QUESTION THAT HAD PERTURBED PIERRE ON THE MOZHAYSK HILL AND ALL THAT DAY NOW SEEMED TO HIM QUITE CLEAR AND COMPLETELY SOLVED. HE NOW UNDERSTOOD THE WHOLE MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF THIS WAR AND OF THE IMPENDING BATTLE. AS IT IS WE HAVE PLAYED AT WAR THAT'S WHAT'S VILE. THEY TALK TO US OF THE RULES OF WAR OF CHIVALRY OF FLAGS OF TRUCE OF MERCY TO THE UNFORTUNATE AND SO ON IT'S ALL RUBBISH. THEY PLUNDER OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES ISSUE FALSE PAPER MONEY AND WORST OF ALL THEY KILL MY CHILDREN AND MY FATHER AND THEN TALK OF RULES OF WAR AND MAGNANIMITY TO FOES. TAKE NO PRISONERS BUT KILL AND BE KILLED. PRINCE ANDREW WHO HAD THOUGHT IT WAS ALL THE SAME TO HIM WHETHER OR NOT MOSCOW WAS TAKEN AS SMOLENSK HAD BEEN WAS SUDDENLY CHECKED IN HIS SPEECH BY AN UNEXPECTED CRAMP IN HIS THROAT. HE PACED UP AND DOWN A FEW TIMES IN SILENCE BUT HIS EYES GLITTERED FEVERISHLY AND HIS LIPS QUIVERED AS HE BEGAN SPEAKING. IF THERE WAS NONE OF THIS MAGNANIMITY IN WAR WE SHOULD GO TO WAR ONLY WHEN IT WAS WORTH WHILE GOING TO CERTAIN DEATH AS NOW. AND WHEN THERE WAS A WAR LIKE THIS ONE IT WOULD BE WAR. AND THEN THE DETERMINATION OF THE TROOPS WOULD BE QUITE DIFFERENT. WE OUGHT TO ACCEPT THIS TERRIBLE NECESSITY STERNLY AND SERIOUSLY. IT ALL LIES IN THAT GET RID OF FALSEHOOD AND LET WAR BE WAR AND NOT A GAME. AS IT IS NOW WAR IS THE FAVORITE PASTIME OF THE IDLE AND FRIVOLOUS. WHAT IS NEEDED FOR SUCCESS IN WARFARE. WHAT ARE THE HABITS OF THE MILITARY. AND IN SPITE OF ALL THIS IT IS THE HIGHEST CLASS RESPECTED BY EVERYONE. HOW DOES GOD ABOVE LOOK AT THEM AND HEAR THEM. I SEE THAT I HAVE BEGUN TO UNDERSTAND TOO MUCH. AND IT DOESN'T DO FOR MAN TO TASTE OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL AH WELL IT'S NOT FOR LONG HE ADDED. HOWEVER YOU'RE SLEEPY AND IT'S TIME FOR ME TO SLEEP. GO BACK TO GORKI SAID PRINCE ANDREW SUDDENLY. OH NO PIERRE REPLIED LOOKING AT PRINCE ANDREW WITH FRIGHTENED COMPASSIONATE EYES. GO GO BEFORE A BATTLE ONE MUST HAVE ONE'S SLEEP OUT REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW. HE CAME QUICKLY UP TO PIERRE AND EMBRACED AND KISSED HIM. NO HE DOES NOT WANT IT PIERRE CONCLUDED. AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS OUR LAST MEETING. HE SIGHED DEEPLY AND RODE BACK TO GORKI. HE CLOSED HIS EYES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/167613/167613_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/167613/167613_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c16dd7b91332958dc815dade047723f50315ead3 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/167613/167613_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ONE PICTURE SUCCEEDED ANOTHER IN HIS IMAGINATION. ON ONE OF THEM HE DWELT LONG AND JOYFULLY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/173551/173551_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/173551/173551_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f13160dc40600fd6848828c41d7fb46b7f846020 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/173551/173551_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HIS MAJOR DOMO CAME IN A SECOND TIME TO SAY THAT THE FRENCHMAN WHO HAD BROUGHT THE LETTER FROM THE COUNTESS WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO SEE HIM IF ONLY FOR A MINUTE AND THAT SOMEONE FROM BAZDEEV'S WIDOW HAD CALLED TO ASK PIERRE TO TAKE CHARGE OF HER HUSBAND'S BOOKS AS SHE HERSELF WAS LEAVING FOR THE COUNTRY. OH YES IN A MINUTE WAIT OR NO NO OF COURSE GO AND SAY I WILL COME DIRECTLY PIERRE REPLIED TO THE MAJOR DOMO. THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE PASSAGE. HE WENT ALONG THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THIS PASSAGE TO THE STAIRS AND FROWNING AND RUBBING HIS FOREHEAD WITH BOTH HANDS WENT DOWN AS FAR AS THE FIRST LANDING. THE HALL PORTER WAS STANDING AT THE FRONT DOOR. FROM THE LANDING WHERE PIERRE STOOD THERE WAS A SECOND STAIRCASE LEADING TO THE BACK ENTRANCE. HE WENT DOWN THAT STAIRCASE AND OUT INTO THE YARD NO ONE HAD SEEN HIM. WHEN HE FELT HE WAS BEING LOOKED AT HE BEHAVED LIKE AN OSTRICH WHICH HIDES ITS HEAD IN A BUSH IN ORDER NOT TO BE SEEN HE HUNG HIS HEAD AND QUICKENING HIS PACE WENT DOWN THE STREET. HE HIRED THE FIRST CAB HE MET AND TOLD THE DRIVER TO GO TO THE PATRIARCH'S PONDS WHERE THE WIDOW BAZDEEV'S HOUSE WAS. WILL YOU STEP INTO THE STUDY PIERRE NODDED. PIERRE WENT INTO THAT GLOOMY STUDY WHICH HE HAD ENTERED WITH SUCH TREPIDATION IN HIS BENEFACTOR'S LIFETIME. GERASIM OPENED ONE OF THE SHUTTERS AND LEFT THE ROOM ON TIPTOE. THIS WAS THE AUTHENTIC SCOTCH ACTS WITH BAZDEEV'S NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS. HE SAT DOWN AT THE DUSTY WRITING TABLE AND HAVING LAID THE MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE HIM OPENED THEM OUT CLOSED THEM FINALLY PUSHED THEM AWAY AND RESTING HIS HEAD ON HIS HAND SANK INTO MEDITATION. THAT SAME EVENING WITHOUT EVEN ASKING HIMSELF WHAT THEY WERE WANTED FOR HE PROCURED A COACHMAN'S COAT AND CAP FOR PIERRE AND PROMISED TO GET HIM THE PISTOL NEXT DAY. MAKAR ALEXEEVICH CAME TWICE THAT EVENING SHUFFLING ALONG IN HIS GALOSHES AS FAR AS THE DOOR AND STOPPED AND LOOKED INGRATIATINGLY AT PIERRE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/173552/173552_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/173552/173552_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7761139abe75b5b93fe840ce0ca4aa0e06deb922 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/1650/173552/173552_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE MAIN ARMY WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF MOSCOW OR BEYOND IT. AT THAT VERY TIME AT TEN IN THE MORNING OF THE SECOND OF SEPTEMBER NAPOLEON WAS STANDING AMONG HIS TROOPS ON THE POKLONNY HILL LOOKING AT THE PANORAMA SPREAD OUT BEFORE HIM. AT TEN IN THE MORNING OF THE SECOND OF SEPTEMBER THIS WEATHER STILL HELD. THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE MORNING WAS MAGICAL. BUT MY CLEMENCY IS ALWAYS READY TO DESCEND UPON THE VANQUISHED. I MUST BE MAGNANIMOUS AND TRULY GREAT. BUT NO IT CAN'T BE TRUE THAT I AM IN MOSCOW HE SUDDENLY THOUGHT. YET HERE SHE IS LYING AT MY FEET WITH HER GOLDEN DOMES AND CROSSES SCINTILLATING AND TWINKLING IN THE SUNSHINE. BUT I SHALL SPARE HER. ON THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF BARBARISM AND DESPOTISM I WILL INSCRIBE GREAT WORDS OF JUSTICE AND MERCY. IT SEEMED TO NAPOLEON THAT THE CHIEF IMPORT OF WHAT WAS TAKING PLACE LAY IN THE PERSONAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND ALEXANDER. FROM THE HEIGHT OF THE KREMLIN YES THERE IS THE KREMLIN YES I WILL GIVE THEM JUST LAWS I WILL TEACH THEM THE MEANING OF TRUE CIVILIZATION I WILL MAKE GENERATIONS OF BOYARS REMEMBER THEIR CONQUEROR WITH LOVE. I WILL TELL THE DEPUTATION THAT I DID NOT AND DO NOT DESIRE WAR THAT I HAVE WAGED WAR ONLY AGAINST THE FALSE POLICY OF THEIR COURT THAT I LOVE AND RESPECT ALEXANDER AND THAT IN MOSCOW I WILL ACCEPT TERMS OF PEACE WORTHY OF MYSELF AND OF MY PEOPLE. I DO NOT WISH TO UTILIZE THE FORTUNES OF WAR TO HUMILIATE AN HONORED MONARCH. HE WILL HAVE TO BE TOLD ALL THE SAME SAID SOME GENTLEMEN OF THE SUITE BUT GENTLEMEN. THE POSITION WAS THE MORE AWKWARD BECAUSE THE EMPEROR MEDITATING UPON HIS MAGNANIMOUS PLANS WAS PACING PATIENTLY UP AND DOWN BEFORE THE OUTSPREAD MAP OCCASIONALLY GLANCING ALONG THE ROAD TO MOSCOW FROM UNDER HIS LIFTED HAND WITH A BRIGHT AND PROUD SMILE. A SINGLE REPORT OF A SIGNALING GUN FOLLOWED AND THE TROOPS WHO WERE ALREADY SPREAD OUT ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF MOSCOW MOVED INTO THE CITY THROUGH TVER KALUGA AND DOROGOMILOV GATES. FASTER AND FASTER VYING WITH ONE ANOTHER THEY MOVED AT THE DOUBLE OR AT A TROT VANISHING AMID THE CLOUDS OF DUST THEY RAISED AND MAKING THE AIR RING WITH A DEAFENING ROAR OF MINGLING SHOUTS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/185072/185072_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/185072/185072_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83a74ffe84711a23984fd2c0656be5ec34ca6cd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/185072/185072_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE TARRIED AT GENISHAU A FEW DAYS AND CAME UP TO GARDOW WHERE I THEN RESIDED HE WAS APPARENTLY WITHOUT ANY BUSINESS THAT WOULD SUPPORT HIM BUT HE SOON BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH MY SON THOMAS WITH WHOM HE HUNTED FOR A LONG TIME AND MADE HIS HOME WITH HIM AT MY HOUSE WINTER CAME ON AND HE CONTINUED HIS STAY. WHEN ALLEN CAME TO MY HOUSE I HAD A WHITE MAN LIVING ON MY LAND WHO HAD A NANTICOKE SQUAW FOR HIS WIFE WITH WHOM HE HAD LIVED VERY PEACEABLY FOR HE WAS A MODERATE MAN COMMONLY AND SHE WAS A KIND GENTLE CUNNING CREATURE. THE ENRAGED HUSBAND WELL KNOWING THAT HE SHOULD FEEL A BLOW IF HE WAITED TO HEAR THE ORDER REPEATED INSTANTLY RETREATED AND WENT DOWN THE RIVER TO HIS CATTLE. WE PROTECTED THE POOR NANTICOKE WOMAN AND GAVE HER VICTUALS AND ALLEN SYMPATHIZED WITH HER IN HER MISFORTUNES TILL SPRING WHEN HER HUSBAND CAME TO HER ACKNOWLEDGED HIS FORMER ERRORS AND THAT HE HAD ABUSED HER WITHOUT A CAUSE PROMISED A REFORMATION AND SHE RECEIVED HIM WITH EVERY MARK OF A RENEWAL OF HER AFFECTION. THEY WENT HOME LOVINGLY AND SOON AFTER REMOVED TO NIAGARA. THE SAME SPRING ALLEN COMMENCED WORKING MY FLATS AND CONTINUED TO LABOR THERE TILL AFTER THE PEACE IN SEVENTEEN EIGHTY THREE. THE INDIANS WERE SOON ANSWERED BY THE AMERICAN OFFICER THAT THE WAMPUM WAS CORDIALLY ACCEPTED AND THAT A CONTINUANCE OF PEACE WAS ARDENTLY WISHED FOR. THEY HOWEVER RESOLVED TO PUNISH ALLEN FOR HIS OFFICIOUSNESS IN MEDDLING WITH THEIR NATIONAL AFFAIRS BY PRESENTING THE SACRED WAMPUM WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND WENT ABOUT DEVISING MEANS FOR HIS DETECTION. THE PARTY CAME ON BUT BEFORE IT ARRIVED AT GARDOW ALLEN GOT NEWS OF ITS APPROACH AND FLED FOR SAFETY LEAVING THE HORSE AND GOODS THAT HE HAD BROUGHT FROM PHILADELPHIA AN EASY PREY TO HIS ENEMIES. HE HAD NOT BEEN LONG ABSENT WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT GARDOW WHERE THEY MADE DILIGENT SEARCH FOR HIM TILL THEY WERE SATISFIED THAT THEY COULD NOT FIND HIM AND THEN SEIZED THE EFFECTS WHICH HE HAD LEFT AND RETURNED TO NIAGARA. MY SON THOMAS WENT WITH THEM WITH ALLEN'S HORSE AND CARRIED THE GOODS. ALLEN ON FINDING THAT HIS ENEMIES HAD GONE CAME BACK TO MY HOUSE WHERE HE LIVED AS BEFORE BUT OF HIS RETURN THEY WERE SOON NOTIFIED AT NIAGARA AND NETTLES WHO MARRIED PRISCILLA RAMSAY WITH A SMALL PARTY OF INDIANS CAME ON TO TAKE HIM. HE HOWEVER BY SOME MEANS FOUND THAT THEY WERE NEAR AND GAVE ME HIS BOX OF MONEY AND TRINKETS TO KEEP SAFELY TILL HE CALLED FOR IT AND AGAIN TOOK TO THE WOODS. NETTLES CAME ON DETERMINED AT ALL EVENTS TO TAKE HIM BEFORE HE WENT BACK AND IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH HIS DESIGN HE WITH HIS INDIANS HUNTED IN THE DAY TIME AND LAY BY AT NIGHT AT MY HOUSE AND IN THAT WAY THEY PRACTISED FOR A NUMBER OF DAYS. ALLEN WATCHED THE MOTION OF HIS PURSUERS AND EVERY NIGHT AFTER THEY HAD GONE TO REST CAME HOME AND GOT SOME FOOD AND THEN RETURNED TO HIS RETREAT. IT WAS IN THE FALL AND THE WEATHER WAS COLD AND RAINY SO THAT HE SUFFERED EXTREMELY. SOME NIGHTS HE SAT IN MY CHAMBER TILL NEARLY DAY BREAK WHILE HIS ENEMIES WERE BELOW AND WHEN THE TIME ARRIVED I ASSISTED HIM TO ESCAPE UNNOTICED. NETTLES AT LENGTH ABANDONED THE CHASE WENT HOME AND ALLEN ALL IN TATTERS CAME IN. BY RUNNING IN THE WOODS HIS CLOTHING HAD BECOME TORN INTO RAGS SO THAT HE WAS IN A SUFFERING CONDITION ALMOST NAKED. ALLEN MADE HIS TROWSERS HIMSELF AND THEN BUILT A RAFT ON WHICH HE WENT DOWN THE RIVER TO HIS OWN PLACE AT MOUNT MORRIS. ABOUT THAT TIME HE MARRIED A SQUAW WHOSE NAME WAS SALLY. FORTUNATELY FOR HIM IT SO HAPPENED THAT JUST AS THEY ARRIVED AT THE FORT A HOUSE TOOK FIRE AND HIS KEEPERS ALL LEFT HIM TO SAVE THE BUILDING IF POSSIBLE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186222/186222_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186222/186222_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b116bb68bb29885e6525290f9d4fc5765a10ae9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186222/186222_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SHE WEARS HER NEW GOWN IN A DOWDY MANNER AND ONE CAN READ HER FACE EASILY. THERE'S LITTLE DANGER IN THIS QUARTER I'M SURE SO I MAY AS WELL BE FRIENDS WITH THE POOR CHILD. AH WHY NOT. ENQUIRED THE OTHER AS IF IN WONDER. BETH HESITATED. SHE ASKED NO. NOR I. THE LETTER ASKING ME TO VISIT HER WAS THE FIRST I HAVE EVER RECEIVED FROM HER. EVEN MY MOTHER HER OWN SISTER DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH HER. BUT SINCE SHE ASKED ME TO VISIT HER WE JUDGED SHE HAD SOFTENED AND MIGHT WISH TO BECOME FRIENDLY AND SO I ACCEPTED THE INVITATION. I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE ALSO INVITED. SURELY TWO GIRLS WILL HAVE A BETTER TIME IN THIS LONELY OLD PLACE THAN ONE COULD HAVE ALONE. WELL QUERIED LOUISE EVIDENTLY AMUSED IT'S PLAIN TO ME THAT AUNT JANE HAS INVITED US HERE TO CHOOSE WHICH ONE OF US SHALL INHERIT HER MONEY AND ELMHURST. OH YES SHE HAS CORRECTED LOUISE. YOU MEAN PATRICIA DOYLE YES. I HAVEN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA. LOUISE SPOKE AS CALMLY AS IF SHE HAD NOT MAILED PATRICIA'S DEFIANT LETTER TO AUNT JANE OR DISCOVERED HER COUSIN'S IDENTITY IN THE LITTLE HAIR DRESSER FROM MADAME BORNE'S ESTABLISHMENT. HAS AUNT JANE MENTIONED HER CONTINUED BETH. THEN WE MAY CONCLUDE SHE'S LEFT OUT OF THE ARRANGEMENT SAID BETH CALMLY. YOU'LL FIGHT FOR YOUR CHANCE AND FIGHT MIGHTY HARD. WHY MY DEAR COUSIN I DON'T WANT AUNT JANE'S MONEY. MY MOTHER AND I ARE AMPLY PROVIDED FOR AND I AM ONLY HERE TO FIND REST FROM MY SOCIAL DUTIES AND TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH MY DEAD FATHER'S SISTER THAT IS ALL. OH. NOW TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR PEOPLE ARE YOU POOR. POOR AS POVERTY SAID BETH GLOOMILY. MY FATHER TEACHES MUSIC AND MOTHER SCOLDS HIM CONTINUALLY FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO EARN ENOUGH MONEY TO KEEP OUT OF DEBT. HASN'T AUNT JANE HELPED YOU. WE'VE NEVER SEEN A CENT OF HER MONEY ALTHOUGH FATHER HAS TRIED AT TIMES TO BORROW ENOUGH TO HELP HIM OUT OF HIS DIFFICULTIES. SHE SEEMS LIKE SUCH A DEAR KINDLY OLD LADY SAID LOUISE MUSINGLY. I EVEN KISSED HER WHEN SHE ASKED ME TO AND IT SENT A SHIVER ALL DOWN MY BACK. LOUISE LAUGHED WITH GENUINE AMUSEMENT. YOU MUST DISSEMBLE COUSIN ELIZABETH SHE ADVISED AND TEACH OUR AUNT TO LOVE YOU. FOR MY PART I AM FOND OF EVERYONE AND IT DELIGHTS ME TO FUSS AROUND INVALIDS AND ASSIST THEM. I OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN A TRAINED NURSE YOU KNOW BUT OF COURSE THERE'S NO NECESSITY OF MY EARNING A LIVING. I SUPPOSE NOT SAID BETH. YOU SAY YOU LIKE TO CARE FOR INVALIDS AND I DON'T. BETH'S FACE GREW HARD AGAIN. YOU'RE DECEIVING ME SHE DECLARED ANGRILY. YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE ME THINK YOU DON'T WANT ELMHURST WHEN YOU'RE AS ANXIOUS TO GET IT AS I AM. THEY CALL ME BETH SULLENLY. THEN MY DEAR BETH LET ME BEG YOU NOT TO BORROW TROUBLE OR TO DOUBT ONE WHO WISHES TO BE YOUR FRIEND. I COULDN'T LIVE IN THIS OUT OF THE WAY CORNER OF THE WORLD YOU KNOW. BUT SUPPOSE SHE LEAVES IT TO YOU PERSISTED BETH. YOU WOULDN'T REFUSE IT I IMAGINE. LOUISE SEEMED TO MEDITATE. BUT I'LL NOT INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH YOUR CHANCES AND I'LL PROMISE TO SING YOUR PRAISES TO OUR AUNT PERSISTENTLY. IS THERE MUCH MORE ASKED BETH. I HAVEN'T ANY LIST OF AUNT JANE'S POSSESSIONS SO I DON'T KNOW BUT YOU SHALL HAVE ELMHURST IF I GET IT BECAUSE THE PLACE WOULD BE OF NO USE TO ME. IT'S A MAGNIFICENT ESTATE SAID BETH LOOKING AT HER COUSIN DOUBTFULLY. NOW SHALL WE BE FRIENDS SHE ASKED LIGHTLY. NOW WILL YOU ABANDON ALL THOSE NAUGHTY SUSPICIONS AND LET ME LOVE YOU. BETH HESITATED. THE SUGGESTION SEEMED PREPOSTEROUS. SUCH GENEROSITY SAVORED OF PLAY ACTING AND LOUISE'S MANNER WAS TOO AIRY TO BE GENUINE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186223/186223_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186223/186223_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09461cccdf39d8abbadc6a164c8cd9ae72dfa063 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/186223/186223_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IN ONE CORNER OF THE LITTLE ROOM KENNETH FORBES SQUATTED UPON A BENCH WITH AN EMPTY PINE BOX HELD CARELESSLY IN HIS LAP. WHILE DUNCAN WORKED THE BOY WAS BUSY WITH HIS PENCIL BUT NEITHER HAD SPOKEN FOR AT LEAST A HALF HOUR. FINALLY THE AGED COACHMAN WITHOUT LOOKING UP ENQUIRED. WHAT YOUNG LADIES. THE BOY LOOKED ASTONISHED AND LEANED OVER THE BOX IN HIS LAP EAGERLY. HOW MANY DON TWO LAD. GIRLS WITH AN ACCENT OF HORROR. HE DID NOT KNOW ONE OF THEM BY NAME AND CARED LITTLE HOW MUCH THEY MIGHT SPECULATE UPON HIS PECULIAR POSITION AT THE BIG HOUSE. THEN RIDING SLOWLY UP THE HEDGE BORDERED ROAD HIS TROUBLES ONCE MORE ASSAILED HIM AND HE WONDERED IF THERE WAS NOT SOME SPOT UPON THE BROAD EARTH TO WHICH HE COULD FLY FOR RETIREMENT UNTIL THE GIRLS HAD LEFT ELMHURST FOR GOOD. NORA SHIED AND HE LOOKED UP TO DISCOVER THAT HE HAD NEARLY RUN DOWN A PEDESTRIAN A STOUT LITTLE MAN WITH A BUNDLE UNDER HIS ARM WHO HELD UP ONE HAND AS IF TO ARREST HIM. SORRY TO TROUBLE YOU SIR REMARKED THE LITTLE MAN IN A CHEERY VOICE BUT I AIN'T JUST CERTAIN ABOUT MY WAY. WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO ASKED THE BOY. TO JANE MERRICK'S PLACE THEY CALL IT ELMHURST I GUESS. IT'S STRAIGHT AHEAD SAID KENNETH AS THE MARE WALKED ON. HIS QUESTIONER ALSO STARTED AND PACED BESIDE HIM FAR FROM HERE. HE SPOKE WITH AN EASY FAMILIARITY THAT MADE IT DIFFICULT NOT TO RESPOND WITH EQUAL FRANK CORDIALITY AND THERE WAS A SHREWD EXPRESSION UPON HIS WRINKLED SMOOTH SHAVEN FACE THAT STAMPED HIM A MAN WHO HAD SEEN LIFE IN MANY OF ITS PHASES. KNOW JANE MERRICK ASKED THE STRANGER. THE BOY NODDED LIKE HER. I HATE HER HE SAID SAVAGELY. THE MAN LAUGHED A BIT UNEASILY. THEN IT'S THE SAME JANE AS EVER HE RESPONDED WITH A SHAKE OF HIS GRIZZLED HEAD. DO YOU KNOW I SORT O HOPED SHE'D REFORMED AND I'D BE GLAD TO SEE HER AGAIN THEY TELL ME SHE'S GOT MONEY. THE BOY LOOKED AT HIM IN SURPRISE. SHE OWNS ELMHURST AND HAS MORTGAGES ON A DOZEN FARMS AROUND HERE AND PROPERTY IN NEW YORK AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN THE BANK HE SAID. AUNT JANE'S RICH AUNT JANE. ECHOED THE MAN QUICKLY WHAT'S YOUR NAME LAD. KENNETH FORBES A SHAKE OF THE HEAD. SHE'S NEVER MARRIED HAS SHE. NO SHE WAS ENGAGED TO MY UNCLE TOM WHO OWNED ELMHURST. SO WHEN MY PARENTS DIED AUNT JANE TOOK ME FOR UNCLE TOM'S SAKE AND KEEPS ME OUT OF CHARITY. I SEE QUITE SOBERLY THIS TIME. THEY DID NOT SPEAK AGAIN FOR SOME MOMENTS. FINALLY THE STRANGER ASKED. ARE JANE'S SISTERS LIVING JULIA AND VIOLET. HA WHO ARE THEY. THE STRANGER WHISTLED. DON'T LIKE GIRLS I TAKE IT. NO I HATE THEM. ANOTHER LONG PAUSE THEN THE BOY SUDDENLY TURNED QUESTIONER. YOU KNOW AUNT MISS MERRICK SIR. I USED TO WHEN WE WERE BOTH YOUNGER. ANY RELATION SIR. JUST A BROTHER THAT'S ALL. KENNETH STOPPED SHORT AND THE MARE STOPPED AND THE LITTLE MAN WITH A WHIMSICAL SMILE AT THE BOY'S ASTONISHMENT ALSO STOPPED. SHE HAD TWO BUT WILL'S DEAD YEARS AGO I'M TOLD I'M THE OTHER. JOHN MERRICK THAT'S ME. I WENT WEST A LONG TIME AGO BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I GUESS. YOU WERE THE TINSMITH. THE SAME BAD PENNIES ALWAYS RETURN THEY SAY. I'VE COME BACK TO LOOK UP THE FAMILY AND FIND HOW MANY ARE LEFT. BUT I'M SORRY YOU CAME TO AUNT JANE FIRST WHY. THEY KEPT TRACK OF HER BECAUSE SHE SUDDENLY BECAME RICH AND A GREAT LADY AND THAT WAS A SURPRISING THING TO HAPPEN TO A MERRICK. WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN A POOR LOT YOU KNOW. THE BOY GLANCED AT THE BUNDLE PITYINGLY AND THE LITTLE MAN CAUGHT THE LOOK AND SMILED HIS SWEET CHEERY SMILE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/61735/61735_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/61735/61735_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ffb8fa81d048d9d357094fc6a7acf721681cd658 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4153/61735/61735_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE SAGITTARY CORRESPONDENCE COULD NOT LAST FOR LONG. THEY ARE BUT LUKEWARM LOVERS WHO CAN CONTENT THEMSELVES WITH A DIALOGUE CARRIED ON AT BOWSHOT DISTANCE. HEARTS BRIMFUL OF PASSION MUST BEAT AND BURN TOGETHER IN CLOSE PROXIMITY EACH FEELING THE PULSATION OF THE OTHER. IF THERE BE AN ELYSIUM ON EARTH IT IS THIS. MAURICE GERALD WAS NOT THE MAN NOR LOUISE POINDEXTER THE WOMAN TO SHUN SUCH A CONSUMMATION. HIS OWN DAUGHTER HIS ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE BEST BLOOD OF SOUTHERN ARISTOCRACY BEAUTIFUL ACCOMPLISHED EVERYTHING TO SECURE HIM A SPLENDID ALLIANCE HOLDING NIGHTLY ASSIGNATION WITH A HORSE HUNTER. COULD HE HAVE BUT DREAMT IT WHEN SLUMBERING UPON HIS SOFT COUCH THE DREAM WOULD HAVE STARTLED HIM FROM HIS SLEEP LIKE THE CALL OF THE ETERNAL TRUMPET. HE COULD WELL CONCEDE SO MUCH TO HER CAPRICE SINCE HER STAYING AT HOME COULD BE NO DISADVANTAGE TO THE CAUSE THAT HAD PROMPTED HIM TO THE STERN COUNSEL. HER READY OBEDIENCE HAD ALMOST INFLUENCED HIM TO REGRET THE PROHIBITION. IT IS ALREADY KNOWN THAT THIS ROAD PASSED THE HACIENDA OF CASA DEL CORVO AT SOME DISTANCE FROM THE HOUSE AND ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE RIVER. IT IS ALSO KNOWN THAT AT THE SAME PLACE IT TRAVERSED A STRETCH OF OPEN PRAIRIE WITH ONLY A PIECE OF COPSEWOOD MIDWAY BETWEEN TWO EXTENSIVE TRACTS OF CHAPPARAL. ON REACHING THE COPSE HE DISMOUNTED LED HIS HORSE IN AMONG THE UNDERWOOD HITCHED HIM BY LOOPING HIS BRIDLE REIN AROUND THE TOPMOST TWIGS OF AN ELASTIC BOUGH THEN DETACHING A LONG ROPE OF TWISTED HORSEHAIR FROM THE HORN OF HIS SADDLE AND INSERTING HIS ARM INTO ITS COIL HE GLIDED OUT TO THE EDGE OF THE ISLAND ON THAT SIDE THAT LAY TOWARDS THE HACIENDA. BEFORE FORSAKING THE SHADOW OF THE COPSE HE CAST A GLANCE TOWARDS THE SKY AND AT THE MOON SAILING SUPREMELY OVER IT. IT WAS A GLANCE OF INQUIRY ENDING IN A LOOK OF CHAGRIN WITH SOME MUTTERED PHRASES THAT RENDERED IT MORE EMPHATIC. NO USE WAITING FOR THAT BEAUTY TO GO TO BED. SHE'S MADE UP HER MIND SHE WON'T GO HOME TILL MORNING HA HA. THE DROLL CONCEIT WHICH HAS SO OFT AMUSED THE NOCTURNAL INEBRIATE OF GREAT CITIES APPEARED TO PRODUCE A LIKE AFFECT UPON THE NIGHT PATROLLER OF THE PRAIRIE AND FOR A MOMENT THE SHADOW LATE DARKENING HIS BROW DISAPPEARED. IT RETURNED ANON AS HE STOOD GAZING ACROSS THE OPEN SPACE THAT SEPARATED HIM FROM THE RIVER BOTTOM BEYOND WHICH LAY THE HACIENDA OF CASA DEL CORVO CLEARLY OUTLINED UPON THE OPPOSITE BLUFF IF THERE SHOULD BE ANY ONE STIRRING ABOUT THE PLACE. IT'S NOT LIKELY AT THIS HOUR UNLESS IT BE THE OWNER OF A BAD CONSCIENCE WHO CAN'T SLEEP. TROTH THERE'S ONE SUCH WITHIN THOSE WALLS. IF HE BE ABROAD THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE OF HIS SEEING ME ON THE OPEN GROUND NOT THAT I SHOULD CARE A STRAW IF IT WERE ONLY MYSELF TO BE COMPROMISED. BY SAINT PATRICK I SEE NO ALTERNATIVE BUT RISK IT. IT'S NO USE WAITING UPON THE MOON DEUCE TAKE HER. SHE DON'T GO DOWN FOR HOURS AND THERE'S NOT THE SIGN OF A CLOUD IT WON'T DO TO KEEP HER WAITING. NO I MUST CHANCE IT IN THE CLEAR LIGHT HERE GOES. SAYING THIS WITH A SWIFT BUT STEALTHY STEP THE DISMOUNTED HORSEMAN GLIDED ACROSS THE TREELESS TRACT AND SOON READIED THE ESCARPMENT OF THE CLIFF THAT FORMED THE SECOND HEIGHT OF LAND RISING ABOVE THE CHANNEL OF THE LEONA. HE DID NOT STAY TEN SECONDS IN THIS CONSPICUOUS SITUATION BUT BY A PATH THAT ZIGZAGGED DOWN THE BLUFF AND WITH WHICH HE APPEARED FAMILIAR HE DESCENDED TO THE RIVER BOTTOM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/13259/13259_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/13259/13259_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2a90f8207bfc46386282a3be0e0e2e8bb2f5fa2 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/13259/13259_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE CHURCH BELLS WERE RINGING AND PEOPLE ON THE AVENUE GOING BY TO SERVICE TURNED CURIOUS INQUIRING LOOKS UP AT THE GREAT HOUSE AND THEN WENT ON TALKING OF THE RECENT EVENTS WHICH HAD SO STRANGELY ENTERED INTO AND MADE HISTORY IN THE CITY. ONLY THIS WAS WITH A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE. AND ALL THROUGH HIS IMPASSIONED APPEAL THIS MORNING THERE WAS A NOTE OF SADNESS AND REBUKE AND STERN CONDEMNATION THAT MADE MANY OF THE MEMBERS PALE WITH SELF ACCUSATION OR WITH INWARD ANGER. FOR RAYMOND HAD AWAKENED THAT MORNING TO THE FACT THAT THE CITY HAD GONE FOR LICENSE AFTER ALL. THE RUMOR AT THE RECTANGLE THAT THE SECOND AND THIRD WARDS HAD GONE NO LICENSE PROVED TO BE FALSE. IT WAS TRUE THAT THE VICTORY WAS WON BY A VERY MEAGER MAJORITY. BUT THE RESULT WAS THE SAME AS IF IT HAD BEEN OVERWHELMING. RAYMOND HAD VOTED TO CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER YEAR THE SALOON. THE CHRISTIANS OF RAYMOND STOOD CONDEMNED BY THE RESULT. MORE THAN A HUNDRED PROFESSING CHRISTIAN DISCIPLES HAD FAILED TO GO TO THE POLLS AND MANY MORE THAN THAT NUMBER HAD VOTED WITH THE WHISKEY MEN. FOR THAT HAD BEEN THE FACT IN RAYMOND FOR YEARS THE SALOON RULED. NO ONE DENIED THAT WHAT WOULD JESUS DO. AND THIS WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN BRUTALLY STRUCK DOWN BY THE VERY HAND THAT HAD ASSISTED SO EAGERLY TO WORK HER EARTHLY RUIN WHAT OF HER. ALL THIS WITH A VOICE THAT RANG AND TREMBLED AND BROKE IN SOBS OF ANGUISH FOR THE RESULT DID HENRY MAXWELL POUR OUT UPON HIS PEOPLE THAT SUNDAY MORNING. AND MEN AND WOMEN WEPT AS HE SPOKE. PRESIDENT MARSH SAT THERE HIS USUAL ERECT HANDSOME FIRM BRIGHT SELF CONFIDENT BEARING ALL GONE HIS HEAD BOWED UPON HIS BREAST THE GREAT TEARS ROLLING DOWN HIS CHEEKS UNMINDFUL OF THE FACT THAT NEVER BEFORE HAD HE SHOWN OUTWARD EMOTION IN A PUBLIC SERVICE. NO MAN HAD GIVEN OR SUFFERED MORE TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC OPINION THAT WEEK THAN NORMAN. WHAT IF HE HAD BEGUN TO DO AS JESUS WOULD HAVE DONE LONG AGO. WHO COULD TELL WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY THIS TIME. WHEN HAD THE FIRST CHURCH YIELDED TO SUCH A BAPTISM OF TEARS. WHAT HAD BECOME OF ITS REGULAR PRECISE CONVENTIONAL ORDER OF SERVICE UNDISTURBED BY ANY VULGAR EMOTION AND UNMOVED BY ANY FOOLISH EXCITEMENT. THEY HAD BEEN LIVING SO LONG ON THEIR SURFACE FEELINGS THAT THEY HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN THE DEEPER WELLS OF LIFE. NOW THAT THEY HAD BROKEN THE SURFACE THE PEOPLE WERE CONVICTED OF THE MEANING OF THEIR DISCIPLESHIP. MISTER MAXWELL DID NOT ASK THIS MORNING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO JOIN THOSE WHO HAD ALREADY PLEDGED TO DO AS JESUS WOULD. BUT WHEN THE CONGREGATION HAD FINALLY GONE AND HE HAD ENTERED THE LECTURE ROOM IT NEEDED BUT A GLANCE TO SHOW HIM THAT THE ORIGINAL COMPANY OF FOLLOWERS HAD BEEN LARGELY INCREASED. THE MEETING WAS TENDER IT GLOWED WITH THE SPIRIT'S PRESENCE IT WAS ALIVE WITH STRONG AND LASTING RESOLVE TO BEGIN A WAR ON THE WHISKEY POWER IN RAYMOND THAT WOULD BREAK ITS REIGN FOREVER. SINCE THE FIRST SUNDAY WHEN THE FIRST COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS HAD PLEDGED THEMSELVES TO DO AS JESUS WOULD DO THE DIFFERENT MEETINGS HAD BEEN CHARACTERIZED BY DISTINCT IMPULSES OR IMPRESSIONS. TODAY THE ENTIRE FORCE OF THE GATHERING SEEMED TO BE DIRECTED TO THIS ONE LARGE PURPOSE. IT WAS A MEETING FULL OF BROKEN PRAYERS OF CONTRITION OF CONFESSION OF STRONG YEARNING FOR A NEW AND BETTER CITY LIFE. AND ALL THROUGH IT RAN ONE GENERAL CRY FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE SALOON AND ITS AWFUL CURSE. BUT IF THE FIRST CHURCH WAS DEEPLY STIRRED BY THE EVENTS OF THE LAST WEEK THE RECTANGLE ALSO FELT MOVED STRANGELY IN ITS OWN WAY. EVERY ONE IN THE RECTANGLE KNEW THAT LOREEN WAS AT THIS MOMENT LYING IN THE PAGE MANSION UP ON THE AVENUE. EXAGGERATED REPORTS OF THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE CASKET HAD ALREADY FURNISHED MATERIAL FOR EAGER GOSSIP. THE RECTANGLE WAS EXCITED TO KNOW THE DETAILS OF THE FUNERAL. THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DOING SO WERE NOT FREQUENT. GRAY AND HIS WIFE WERE BESIEGED BY INQUIRERS WHO WANTED TO KNOW WHAT LOREEN'S FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES WERE EXPECTED TO DO IN PAYING THEIR LAST RESPECTS TO HER. FOR HER ACQUAINTANCE WAS LARGE AND MANY OF THE RECENT CONVERTS WERE AMONG HER FRIENDS. GRAY HAD GONE UP TO VIRGINIA'S AND AFTER TALKING IT OVER WITH HER AND MAXWELL THE ARRANGEMENT HAD BEEN MADE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/13259/13259_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/13259/13259_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bea677f69af341091e045853d7ad71194c7c8453 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/13259/13259_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I AM AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN OPPOSED TO LARGE PUBLIC FUNERALS SAID GRAY WHOSE COMPLETE WHOLESOME SIMPLICITY OF CHARACTER WAS ONE OF ITS GREAT SOURCES OF STRENGTH BUT THE CRY OF THE POOR CREATURES WHO KNEW LOREEN IS SO EARNEST THAT I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO REFUSE THIS DESIRE TO SEE HER AND PAY HER POOR BODY SOME LAST LITTLE HONOR WHAT DO YOU THINK MISTER MAXWELL. I WILL BE GUIDED BY YOUR JUDGMENT IN THE MATTER. I AM SURE THAT WHATEVER YOU AND MISS PAGE THINK BEST WILL BE RIGHT. I FEEL AS YOU DO REPLIED MISTER MAXWELL. UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES I HAVE A GREAT DISTASTE FOR WHAT SEEMS LIKE DISPLAY AT SUCH TIMES BUT THIS SEEMS DIFFERENT. THE PEOPLE AT THE RECTANGLE WILL NOT COME HERE TO SERVICE. YES SAID VIRGINIA POOR SOUL. I DO NOT KNOW BUT THAT SOME TIME I SHALL KNOW SHE GAVE HER LIFE FOR MINE. WE CERTAINLY CANNOT AND WILL NOT USE THE OCCASION FOR VULGAR DISPLAY. LET HER FRIENDS BE ALLOWED THE GRATIFICATION OF THEIR WISHES I SEE NO HARM IN IT. SO THE ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE WITH SOME DIFFICULTY FOR THE SERVICE AT THE TENT AND VIRGINIA WITH HER UNCLE AND ROLLIN ACCOMPANIED BY MAXWELL RACHEL AND PRESIDENT MARSH AND THE QUARTET FROM THE FIRST CHURCH WENT DOWN AND WITNESSED ONE OF THE STRANGE THINGS OF THEIR LIVES. IT HAPPENED THAT THAT AFTERNOON A SOMEWHAT NOTED NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT WAS PASSING THROUGH RAYMOND ON HIS WAY TO AN EDITORIAL CONVENTION IN A NEIGHBORING CITY. HE HEARD OF THE CONTEMPLATED SERVICE AT THE TENT AND WENT DOWN. HIS DESCRIPTION OF IT WAS WRITTEN IN A GRAPHIC STYLE THAT CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF VERY MANY READERS THE NEXT DAY. THE OCCASION WAS CAUSED BY THE KILLING OF A WOMAN DURING AN ELECTION RIOT LAST SATURDAY NIGHT. SHE WAS A COMMON STREET DRUNKARD AND YET THE SERVICES AT THE TENT WERE AS IMPRESSIVE AS ANY I EVER WITNESSED IN A METROPOLITAN CHURCH OVER THE MOST DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN. IN THE FIRST PLACE A MOST EXQUISITE ANTHEM WAS SUNG BY A TRAINED CHOIR. IT STRUCK ME OF COURSE BEING A STRANGER IN THE PLACE WITH CONSIDERABLE ASTONISHMENT TO HEAR VOICES LIKE THOSE ONE NATURALLY EXPECTS TO HEAR ONLY IN GREAT CHURCHES OR CONCERTS AT SUCH A MEETING AS THIS. SHE HAD A MOST WONDERFUL MANNER IN SINGING AND EVERYBODY WAS WEEPING BEFORE SHE HAD SUNG A DOZEN WORDS. I UNDERSTAND MISS WINSLOW SINGS IN THE FIRST CHURCH OF RAYMOND AND COULD PROBABLY COMMAND ALMOST ANY SALARY AS A PUBLIC SINGER. SHE WILL PROBABLY BE HEARD FROM SOON. SUCH A VOICE COULD WIN ITS WAY ANYWHERE. THE SERVICE ASIDE FROM THE SINGING WAS PECULIAR. MISTER MAXWELL SPOKE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEAD WOMAN HAD BEEN FULLY PREPARED TO GO BUT HE SPOKE IN A PECULIARLY SENSITIVE MANNER OF THE EFFECT OF THE LIQUOR BUSINESS ON THE LIVES OF MEN AND WOMEN LIKE THIS ONE. RAYMOND OF COURSE BEING A RAILROAD TOWN AND THE CENTRE OF THE GREAT PACKING INTERESTS FOR THIS REGION IS FULL OF SALOONS. I CAUGHT FROM THE MINISTER'S REMARKS THAT HE HAD ONLY RECENTLY CHANGED HIS VIEWS IN REGARD TO LICENSE HE CERTAINLY MADE A VERY STRIKING ADDRESS AND YET IT WAS IN NO SENSE INAPPROPRIATE FOR A FUNERAL. THEN FOLLOWED WHAT WAS PERHAPS THE QUEER PART OF THIS STRANGE SERVICE. THEN WHILE THE SINGING WAS GOING ON ONE ROW OF WOMEN STOOD UP AND WALKED SLOWLY PAST THE CASKET AND AS THEY WENT BY EACH ONE PLACED A FLOWER OF SOME KIND UPON IT. THEN THEY SAT DOWN AND ANOTHER ROW FILED PAST LEAVING THEIR FLOWERS. ALL THE TIME THE SINGING CONTINUED SOFTLY LIKE RAIN ON A TENT COVER WHEN THE WIND IS GENTLE. IT WAS ONE OF THE SIMPLEST AND AT THE SAME TIME ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE SIGHTS I EVER WITNESSED. THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A HUNDRED OF THESE WOMEN AND I WAS TOLD MANY OF THEM HAD BEEN CONVERTED AT THE MEETINGS JUST RECENTLY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/18416/18416_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/18416/18416_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6903c9dda820cc8aaffcc0bcc9d43db68f88bf6f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/18416/18416_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT WOULD BE SO NICE TO HAVE CHARLOTTE HAVE SOME WITH ME STILL NO ANSWER. SO PHRONSIE WENT UP AND DOWN SILENTLY BY HIS SIDE FOR A FEW MORE TURNS THEN SHE SPOKE AGAIN. DOES IT MAKE YOU SORRY GRANDPAPA DEAR TO HAVE ME WANT CHARLOTTE TO HAVE THE MONEY WITH ME SHE ASKED TIMIDLY. NO NO CHILD ANSWERED MISTER KING HASTILY AND YET I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. BUT IT WAS NO USE AND MISTER KING CAUGHT HER IN TIME TO SEE THE QUICK DROPS ROLL DOWN PHRONSIE'S CHEEK AND TO FEEL THEM FALL ON HIS HAND OH DEAR ME HE CRIED IN GREAT DISTRESS THERE THERE CHILD YOU SHALL GIVE AWAY THE WHOLE IF YOU WISH I'VE ENOUGH FOR YOU WITHOUT IT ONLY DON'T CRY PHRONSIE. IT SHALL BE JUST A SECRET BETWEEN YOU AND ME. I WON'T GRANDPAPA SAID PHRONSIE OBEDIENTLY AND PATTING HIS BROAD BACK WITH HER SOFT HAND. AND MEANTIME SAID MISTER KING QUITE SATISFIED WHY CHARLOTTE IS HAVING PRETTY GOOD TIMES I THINK POLLY IS LOOKING OUT FOR THAT. POLLY IS MAKING HER HAVE BEAUTIFUL TIMES SAID PHRONSIE HAPPILY OH VERY BEAUTIFUL TIMES INDEED GRANDPAPA. I WAS WRITING A NOTE TO MISSUS FARGO SAID PHRONSIE PUTTING UP HER LIPS FOR A KISS. SURE AS I CAN BE PHRONSIE SAID OLD MISTER KING SMILING GOOD BY DEAR. CAN'T STOP UNCLE SAID PICKERING HASTILY. BESIDES WHAT WOULD BE THE USE YOU NEVER SEE ANYTHING ENCOURAGING ABOUT ME OR MY CAREER AND I BELIEVE I AM GOING TO THE DOGS. INDEED YOU ARE NOT PICKERING CRIED MISTER CABOT QUICKLY THE COLOR RISING TO HIS CHEEK. THERE THERE MY SISTER'S BOY SHALL NEVER SAY THAT BUT COME IN COME IN. HE LAID HOLD OF PICKERING'S ARM AND GENTLY FORCED HIM INTO THE LITTLE ROOM. NOT TO BE UNGRACIOUS THE YOUNG MAN THREW HIMSELF INTO A CHAIR. WELL WHAT IS IT UNCLE DO OUT WITH IT I'M IN NO MOOD FOR A LECTURE THOUGH THIS MORNING. I'M NOT GOING TO LECTURE YOU MY BOY SAID MISTER CABOT CLOSING THE DOOR THEN GOING TO THE MANTEL TO LEAN ONE ELBOW ON IT A FAVORITE ATTITUDE OF HIS WHILE HE SCANNED HIS NEPHEW. BUT SOMETHING WORSE THAN COMMON HAS COME TO YOU CAN I HELP IN ANY WAY. NO NO DON'T ASK ME EJACULATED PICKERING STRIKING HIS KNEE WITH ONE GLOVE AND TURNING APPREHENSIVELY IN HIS CHAIR. OH HANG IT UNCLE WHY CAN'T YOU LET ME ALONE. HE TURNED AWAY HIS HEAD NOW A BREAK COMING IN HIS VOICE. NOT WORTH IT EITHER HE ADDED RELAPSING INTO HIS GLOOM. THEN HE SHOVED HIS CHAIR SO THAT HE COULD NOT LOOK HIS UNCLE IN THE FACE AND BENT A STEADY GLANCE OUT OF THE WINDOW. MISTER CABOT GAVE A NERVOUS START THAT CARRIED HIM AWAY FROM THE MANTEL A STEP OR TWO. BUT WHEN HE WAS THERE HE FELT SO MUCH WORSE THAT HE SOON GOT BACK INTO THE OLD POSITION. I DON'T SEE PICKERING HE RESUMED WHY YOU SHOULDN'T GET ALONG YOU'RE THROUGH COLLEGE. WHICH IS A WONDER INTERPOLATED PICKERING. WELL I CAN'T SAY BUT THAT I WAS A GOOD DEAL DISTURBED AT ONE TIME SAID MISTER CABOT FRANKLY BUT NEVER MIND THAT NOW YOU ARE THROUGH AND HE HEAVED A SIGH OF RELIEF AND NICELY ESTABLISHED WITH VAN METRE AND CARTWRIGHT IT'S THE BEST LAW FIRM IN THE TOWN PICKERING. MISTER CABOT BROUGHT HIS ELBOW OFF FROM THE MANTEL ENOUGH TO SMITE HIS PALMS TOGETHER SMARTLY IN ENTHUSIASM I GOT YOU IN THERE. I KNOW YOU DID UNCLE SAID PICKERING YOU'VE DONE EVERYTHING THAT'S GOOD. ONLY I REPEAT I'M NOT WORTH IT AND HE DRUMMED ON THE CHAIR ARM. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE PICKERING CRIED HIS UNCLE DARTING IN FRONT OF THE CHAIR AND ITS RESTLESS OCCUPANT DON'T SAY THAT AGAIN. I'VE BEEN A LAZY DOG ALL MY LIFE AND A GOOD FOR NAUGHT BUT I HOPE I'VE NOT SUNK TO THAT. OH NOTHING NOTHING I'M SURE I DIDN'T MEAN CRIED MISTER CABOT STARTING BACK SUDDENLY IN ASTONISHMENT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/55228/55228_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/55228/55228_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8a970d5f58003ff0537f912fcbb994b1d523a924 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4323/55228/55228_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +GOOD HEAVENS IS KATE IN THIS TOO BERTRAM'S VOICE WAS SAVAGE NOW. WELL SHE WROTE A LETTER. HUMPH WELL DEARIE I DON'T KNOW YET WHAT YOU FOUND BUT I DO KNOW YOU WOULDN'T HAVE FOUND IT AT ALL IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR KATE AND I WISH I HAD HER HERE THIS MINUTE. I WAS SCARED BLUE BILLY WITH JEALOUSY OF ARKWRIGHT. BILLY LAUGHED GAYLY BUT SHE SHIFTED HER POSITION AND DID NOT MEET HER LOVER'S EYES. ARKWRIGHT NONSENSE SHE CRIED. AND YOU NEVER DID THINK FOR A MINUTE BILLY THAT YOU CARED FOR HIM. BERTRAM'S GAZE SEARCHED BILLY'S FACE A LITTLE FEARFULLY. HE HAD NOT BEEN SLOW TO MARK THAT SWIFT LOWERING OF HER EYELIDS. BUT BILLY LOOKED HIM NOW STRAIGHT IN THE FACE IT WAS A LEVEL FRANK GAZE OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. NEVER DEAR SHE SAID FIRMLY. BILLY WAS SO GLAD BERTRAM HAD TURNED THE QUESTION ON HER LOVE INSTEAD OF ARKWRIGHT'S. THERE HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN ANY ONE BUT YOU. THANK GOD FOR THAT BREATHED BERTRAM AS HE DREW THE BRIGHT HEAD NEARER AND HELD IT CLOSE. AFTER A MINUTE BILLY STIRRED AND SIGHED HAPPILY. AREN'T LOVERS THE BEAT'EM FOR IMAGINING THINGS SHE MURMURED THEY CERTAINLY ARE. YOU SEE I WASN'T IN LOVE WITH MISTER ARKWRIGHT. I SEE I HOPE. AND AND YOU DIDN'T CARE SPECIALLY FOR FOR MISS WINTHROP. BILLY PUT A SOFT FINGER ON HIS LIPS. BERTRAM KISSED THE FINGER AND SUBSIDED HUMPH HE COMMENTED. THERE WAS A LONG SILENCE THEN A LITTLE BREATHLESSLY BILLY ASKED. AND YOU DON'T AFTER ALL LOVE ME JUST TO PAINT. WELL WHAT IS THAT IS THAT KATE TOO DEMANDED BERTRAM GRIMLY. THERE WAS ANOTHER SILENCE THEN SUDDENLY BERTRAM STIRRED. BILLY I'M GOING TO MARRY YOU TO MORROW HE ANNOUNCED DECISIVELY. BILLY LIFTED HER HEAD AND SAT BACK IN PALPITATING DISMAY. I DON'T KNOW AS I CAN TRUST YOU OUT OF MY SIGHT TILL THEN YOU'LL READ SOMETHING OR HEAR SOMETHING OR GET A LETTER FROM KATE AFTER BREAKFAST TO MORROW MORNING THAT WILL SET YOU SAVING ME AGAIN AND I DON'T WANT TO BE SAVED THAT WAY. I'M GOING TO MARRY YOU TO MORROW I'LL GET HE STOPPED SHORT WITH A SUDDEN FROWN CONFOUND THAT LAW I FORGOT. GREAT SCOTT BILLY I'LL HAVE TO TRUST YOU FIVE DAYS AFTER ALL THERE'S A NEW LAW ABOUT THE LICENSE WE'VE GOT TO WAIT FIVE DAYS AND MAYBE MORE COUNTING IN THE NOTICE AND ALL BILLY LAUGHED SOFTLY. FIVE DAYS INDEED SIR. I WONDER IF YOU THINK I CAN GET READY TO BE MARRIED IN FIVE DAYS. DON'T WANT YOU TO GET READY RETORTED BERTRAM PROMPTLY I SAW MARIE GET READY AND I HAD ALL I WANTED OF IT. IF YOU REALLY MUST HAVE ALL THOSE MILES OF TABLECLOTHS AND NAPKINS AND DOILIES AND LACE RUFFLINGS WE'LL DO IT AFTERWARDS NOT BEFORE BUT. BESIDES I NEED YOU TO TAKE CARE OF ME CUT IN BERTRAM CRAFTILY. BERTRAM DO YOU REALLY. THE TENDER GLOW ON BILLY'S FACE TOLD ITS OWN STORY AND BERTRAM'S EAGER EYES WERE NOT SLOW TO READ IT. SWEETHEART SEE HERE DEAR HE CRIED SOFTLY TIGHTENING HIS GOOD LEFT ARM. AND FORTHWITH HE BEGAN TO TELL HER HOW MUCH HE DID INDEED NEED HER. BILLY MY DEAR. IT WAS AUNT HANNAH'S PLAINTIVE VOICE AT THE DOORWAY A LITTLE LATER. WE MUST GO HOME AND WILLIAM IS HERE TOO AND WANTS TO SEE YOU. BILLY ROSE AT ONCE AS AUNT HANNAH ENTERED THE ROOM. YES AUNT HANNAH I'LL COME BESIDES SHE GLANCED AT BERTRAM MISCHIEVOUSLY I SHALL NEED ALL THE TIME I'VE GOT TO PREPARE FOR MY WEDDING YOUR WEDDING. YOU MEAN IT'LL BE BEFORE OCTOBER. AUNT HANNAH GLANCED FROM ONE TO THE OTHER UNCERTAINLY. SOMETHING IN THEIR SMILING FACES SENT A QUICK SUSPICION TO HER EYES. YES NODDED BILLY DEMURELY. YES I KNOW THAT IS A GOOD WHILE CUT IN BERTRAM AIRILY. WE WANTED IT TO MORROW BUT WE HAD TO WAIT ON ACCOUNT OF THE NEW LICENSE LAW \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a489804b56439b6ab079aa1ac3ec04c9876d919f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +JASPER'S DELICATE CASE. ONLY WHEN HE RECEIVED MISS RUPERT'S AMIABLY WORDED REFUSAL TO BECOME HIS WIFE WAS JASPER AWARE HOW FIRMLY HE HAD COUNTED ON HER ACCEPTING HIM. HE TOLD DORA WITH SINCERITY THAT HIS PROPOSAL WAS A PIECE OF FOOLISHNESS SO FAR FROM HAVING ANY REGARD FOR MISS RUPERT HE FELT TOWARDS HER WITH SOMETHING OF ANTIPATHY AND AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS CONSCIOUS OF ARDENT EMOTIONS IF NOT LOVE FOR ANOTHER WOMAN WHO WOULD BE NO BAD MATCH EVEN FROM THE COMMERCIAL POINT OF VIEW. YET SO STRONG WAS THE EFFECT UPON HIM OF CONTEMPLATING A LARGE FORTUNE THAT IN DESPITE OF REASON AND DESIRE HE LIVED IN EAGER EXPECTATION OF THE WORD WHICH SHOULD MAKE HIM RICH. AND FOR SEVERAL HOURS AFTER HIS DISAPPOINTMENT HE COULD NOT OVERCOME THE IMPRESSION OF CALAMITY. A PART OF THAT IMPRESSION WAS DUE TO THE ENGAGEMENT WHICH HE MUST NOW FULFIL. HE HAD PLEDGED HIS WORD TO ASK MARIAN TO MARRY HIM WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY. TO SHUFFLE OUT OF THIS DUTY WOULD MAKE HIM TOO IGNOBLE EVEN IN HIS OWN EYES. BUT EVENTS HAD ENMESHED HIM CIRCUMSTANCES HAD PROVED FATAL. BECAUSE IN HIS SALAD DAYS HE DALLIED WITH A GIRL WHO HAD INDEED MANY CHARMS STEP BY STEP HE HAD COME TO THE NECESSITY OF SACRIFICING HIS PROSPECTS TO THAT RAW ATTACHMENT. AND TO MAKE IT MORE IRRITATING THIS HAPPENED JUST WHEN THE WAY BEGAN TO BE MUCH CLEARER BEFORE HIM. UNABLE TO THINK OF WORK HE LEFT THE HOUSE AND WANDERED GLOOMILY ABOUT REGENT'S PARK. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS RECOLLECTION THE CONFIDENCE WHICH WAS WONT TO INSPIRIT HIM GAVE WAY TO AN ATTACK OF SULLEN DISCONTENT. HE FELT HIMSELF ILL USED BY DESTINY AND THEREFORE BY MARIAN WHO WAS FATE'S INSTRUMENT. IT WAS NOT IN HIS NATURE THAT THIS MOOD SHOULD LAST LONG BUT IT REVEALED TO HIM THOSE DARKER POSSIBILITIES WHICH HIS EGOISM WOULD DEVELOP IF IT CAME SERIOUSLY INTO CONFLICT WITH OVERMASTERING MISFORTUNE. A HOPE A CRAVEN HOPE INSINUATED ITSELF INTO THE CRACKS OF HIS INFIRM RESOLVE. HE WOULD NOT EXAMINE IT BUT CONSCIOUS OF ITS EXISTENCE HE WAS ABLE TO GO HOME IN SOMEWHAT BETTER SPIRITS. HE WROTE TO MARIAN. IF POSSIBLE SHE WAS TO MEET HIM AT HALF PAST NINE NEXT MORNING AT GLOUCESTER GATE. HE HAD REASONS FOR WISHING THIS INTERVIEW TO TAKE PLACE ON NEUTRAL GROUND. EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO DO SOME WORK THERE ARRIVED A LETTER WHICH HE OPENED WITH IMPATIENT HAND THE WRITING WAS MISSUS REARDON'S AND HE COULD NOT GUESS WHAT SHE HAD TO COMMUNICATE. DOUBTLESS YOU CAN OBTAIN MORE DETAILS THAN ARE GIVEN IN THIS BARE REPORT OF THE DISCOVERY OF HIS BODY. WILL YOU LET ME HEAR OR COME AND SEE ME. HE READ AND WAS ASTONISHED. I SUPPOSE THERE WAS NO ALTERNATIVE BETWEEN THAT AND STARVATION. I SCARCELY THOUGHT OF BIFFEN AS LIKELY TO KILL HIMSELF. IF REARDON HAD DONE IT I SHOULDN'T HAVE FELT THE LEAST SURPRISE. MISTER WHELPDALE WILL BE BRINGING US INFORMATION NO DOUBT SAID DORA WHO AS SHE SPOKE THOUGHT MORE OF THAT GENTLEMAN'S VISIT THAN OF THE EVENT THAT WAS TO OCCASION IT. REALLY ONE CAN'T GRIEVE. THERE SEEMED NO POSSIBILITY OF HIS EVER EARNING ENOUGH TO LIVE DECENTLY UPON. BUT WHY THE DEUCE DID HE GO ALL THE WAY OUT THERE. CONSIDERATION FOR THE PEOPLE IN WHOSE HOUSE HE LIVED I DARE SAY BIFFEN HAD A GOOD DEAL OF NATIVE DELICACY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a3751827c08f177ba467db62594acc5459cbc26 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +LEAVING HER JASPER MADE A RAPID THOUGH CAREFUL TOILET AND WAS PRESENTLY ON HIS WAY TO WESTBOURNE PARK. IT WAS HIS HOPE THAT HE SHOULD REACH MISSUS YULE'S HOUSE BEFORE ANY ORDINARY AFTERNOON CALLER COULD ARRIVE AND SO HE DID HE HAD NOT BEEN HERE SINCE THAT EVENING WHEN HE ENCOUNTERED REARDON ON THE ROAD AND HEARD HIS REPROACHES. TO HIS GREAT SATISFACTION AMY WAS ALONE IN THE DRAWING ROOM HE HELD HER HAND A TRIFLE LONGER THAN WAS NECESSARY AND RETURNED MORE EARNESTLY THE LOOK OF INTEREST WITH WHICH SHE REGARDED HIM. I WAS IGNORANT OF THIS AFFAIR WHEN YOUR LETTER CAME HE BEGAN AND I SET OUT IMMEDIATELY TO SEE YOU. I HOPED YOU WOULD BRING ME SOME NEWS. WHAT CAN HAVE DRIVEN THE POOR MAN TO SUCH EXTREMITY. POVERTY I CAN ONLY SUPPOSE. BUT I WILL SEE WHELPDALE I HADN'T COME ACROSS BIFFEN FOR A LONG TIME. WAS HE STILL SO VERY POOR. ASKED AMY COMPASSIONATELY. I'M AFRAID SO HIS BOOK FAILED UTTERLY. OH IF I HAD IMAGINED HIM STILL IN SUCH DISTRESS SURELY I MIGHT HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO HELP HIM. WITH AMY'S SORROW WAS MINGLED A SUGGESTION OF TENDERNESS WHICH CAME OF HER KNOWLEDGE THAT THE DEAD MAN HAD WORSHIPPED HER. PERCHANCE HIS DEATH WAS IN PART ATTRIBUTABLE TO THAT HOPELESS LOVE. HE SENT ME A COPY OF HIS NOVEL SHE SAID AND I SAW HIM ONCE OR TWICE AFTER THAT. BUT HE WAS MUCH BETTER DRESSED THAN IN FORMER DAYS AND I THOUGHT. HAVING THIS SUBJECT TO CONVERSE UPON PUT THE TWO MORE QUICKLY AT EASE THAN COULD OTHERWISE HAVE BEEN THE CASE. JASPER WAS CLOSELY OBSERVANT OF THE YOUNG WIDOW HER FINISHED GRACES MADE A STRONG APPEAL TO HIS ADMIRATION AND EVEN IN SOME DEGREE AWED HIM. HE SAW THAT HER BEAUTY HAD MATURED AND IT WAS MORE DISTINCTLY THAN EVER OF THE TYPE TO WHICH HE PAID REVERENCE. AMY MIGHT TAKE A FOREMOST PLACE AMONG BRILLIANT WOMEN. IT GRIEVED ME VERY MUCH SAID AMY TO HEAR OF THE MISFORTUNE THAT BEFELL MY COUSIN THE LEGACY AFFAIR. WHY YES IT WAS A PITY. ESPECIALLY NOW THAT HER FATHER IS THREATENED WITH BLINDNESS. IS IT SO SERIOUS. I HEARD INDIRECTLY THAT HE HAD SOMETHING THE MATTER WITH HIS EYES BUT I DIDN'T KNOW. THEY MAY BE ABLE TO OPERATE BEFORE LONG AND PERHAPS IT WILL BE SUCCESSFUL. THIS EXPLAINS THE THE DELAY. FELL FROM AMY'S LIPS AS SHE SMILED. JASPER MOVED UNCOMFORTABLY IT WAS A VOLUNTARY GESTURE. THE WHOLE SITUATION EXPLAINS IT HE REPLIED WITH SOME SHOW OF IMPULSIVENESS. INDEED BUT THERE IS HER MOTHER. NO COMPANION FOR HER FATHER AS I THINK YOU KNOW. EVEN IF MISTER YULE RECOVERS HIS SIGHT IT IS NOT AT ALL LIKELY THAT HE WILL BE ABLE TO WORK AS BEFORE. OUR DIFFICULTIES ARE SO GRAVE THAT. HE PAUSED AND LET HIS HAND FAIL DESPONDENTLY. I HOPE IT ISN'T AFFECTING YOUR WORK YOUR PROGRESS. I HAVE A GOOD DEAL OF WILL YOU REMEMBER AND WHAT I HAVE SET MY MIND UPON NO DOUBT I SHALL SOME DAY ACHIEVE. BUT ONE MAKES MISTAKES. THERE WAS SILENCE. THE LAST THREE YEARS HE CONTINUED HAVE MADE NO SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN MY POSITION. RECALL WHERE I STOOD WHEN YOU FIRST KNEW ME. JUST NOW I AM IN NEED OF A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT. YOU DON'T NOTICE ANY FALLING OFF IN MY WORK RECENTLY. NO INDEED. DO YOU SEE MY THINGS IN THE CURRENT AND SO ON GENERALLY. I DON'T THINK I MISS MANY OF YOUR ARTICLES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d9c1205a37c0f3181f1a860ca427a04b4019fffa --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SOMETIMES I BELIEVE I HAVE DETECTED YOU WHEN THERE WAS NO SIGNATURE. AND DORA HAS BEEN DOING WELL. HER STORY IN THAT GIRLS PAPER HAS ATTRACTED ATTENTION. AND I COULD SO EASILY PUT HER AT REST BY RENOUNCING ALL CLAIM UPON HER. I SURMISE THAT THAT YOU YOURSELF WOULD ALSO BE PUT AT REST BY SUCH A DECISION. DON'T LOOK AT ME WITH THAT IRONICAL SMILE HE PLEADED. WHAT YOU HAVE SAID IS TRUE. AND REALLY WHY SHOULD I NOT BE GLAD OF IT. I COULDN'T GO ABOUT DECLARING THAT I WAS HEARTBROKEN IN ANY EVENT I MUST BE CONTENT FOR PEOPLE TO JUDGE ME ACCORDING TO THEIR DISPOSITION AND JUDGMENTS ARE PRETTY SURE TO BE UNFAVOURABLE WHAT CAN I DO. IN EITHER CASE I MUST TO A CERTAIN EXTENT BE IN THE WRONG. TO TELL THE TRUTH I WAS WRONG FROM THE FIRST. THE CASE IS TOO DELICATE I FEAR FOR MY ADVICE. WELL I'LL GO BACK TO MY SCRIBBLING. IT WAS GOOD OF YOU TO TAKE THE TROUBLE TO COME WHILST YOU HAVE SO MUCH ON YOUR MIND. AGAIN JASPER HELD THE WHITE SOFT HAND FOR A SUPERFLUOUS MOMENT. THE NEXT MORNING IT WAS HE WHO HAD TO WAIT AT THE RENDEZVOUS HE WAS PACING THE PATHWAY AT LEAST TEN MINUTES BEFORE THE APPOINTED TIME. WHEN MARIAN JOINED HIM SHE WAS PANTING FROM A HURRIED WALK AND THIS AFFECTED JASPER DISAGREEABLY HE THOUGHT OF AMY REARDON'S AIR OF REPOSE AND HOW IMPOSSIBLE IT WOULD BE FOR THAT REFINED PERSON TO FALL INTO SUCH DISORDER. HE OBSERVED TOO WITH MORE DISGUST THAN USUAL THE SIGNS IN MARIAN'S ATTIRE OF ENCROACHING POVERTY HER UNSATISFACTORY GLOVES HER MANTLE OUT OF FASHION. YET FOR SUCH FEELINGS HE REPROACHED HIMSELF AND THE REPROACH MADE HIM ANGRY. THEY WALKED TOGETHER IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS WHEN THEY MET HERE BEFORE. MARIAN COULD NOT MISTAKE THE AIR OF RESTLESS TROUBLE ON HER COMPANION'S SMOOTH COUNTENANCE. SHE HAD DIVINED THAT THERE WAS SOME GRAVE REASON FOR THIS SUMMONS AND THE PANTING WITH WHICH SHE HAD APPROACHED WAS HALF CAUSED BY THE ANXIOUS BEATS OF HER HEART. JASPER'S LONG SILENCE AGAIN WAS OMINOUS. HE BEGAN ABRUPTLY. YOU'VE HEARD THAT HAROLD BIFFEN HAS COMMITTED SUICIDE NO. SHE REPLIED LOOKING SHOCKED POISONED HIMSELF. YOU'LL FIND SOMETHING ABOUT IT IN TODAY'S TELEGRAPH. HE GAVE HER SUCH DETAILS AS HE HAD OBTAINED THEN ADDED. THERE ARE TWO OF MY COMPANIONS FALLEN IN THE BATTLE. I OUGHT TO THINK MYSELF A LUCKY FELLOW MARIAN WHAT. YOU ARE BETTER FITTED TO FIGHT YOUR WAY JASPER. MORE OF A BRUTE YOU MEAN. YOU KNOW VERY WELL I DON'T. YOU HAVE MORE ENERGY AND MORE INTELLECT. SHE LOOKED AT HIM INQUIRINGLY BUT SAID NOTHING. I HAVE MADE UP MY MIND ABOUT OUR AFFAIRS HE WENT ON PRESENTLY. THE WORDS WERE SO UNEXPECTED THAT THEY BROUGHT A FLUSH TO HER CHEEKS AND NECK NOW. YES. WILL YOU MARRY ME AND LET US TAKE OUR CHANCE. HER HEART THROBBED VIOLENTLY. WELL NOW THERE'S THE POINT. YOU FEEL YOURSELF INDISPENSABLE TO YOUR FATHER AT PRESENT. NOT INDISPENSABLE BUT WOULDN'T IT SEEM VERY UNKIND. I SHOULD BE SO AFRAID OF THE EFFECT UPON HIS HEALTH JASPER. IT WOULD BE DREADFUL IF I WERE THE CAUSE OF. SHE PAUSED AND LOOKED UP AT HIM TOUCHINGLY. I UNDERSTAND THAT BUT LET US FACE OUR POSITION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..944dfac796b4d12ef747e504747bfb7843796cad --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SUPPOSE HE DOES NOT REGAIN HIS SIGHT COULD YOU THEN LEAVE HIM. DEAR I CAN'T FEEL IT WOULD BE MY DUTY TO RENOUNCE YOU BECAUSE MY FATHER HAD BECOME BLIND. AND IF HE CAN SEE PRETTY WELL I DON'T THINK I NEED REMAIN WITH HIM. HAS ONE THING OCCURRED TO YOU. WILL HE CONSENT TO RECEIVE AN ALLOWANCE FROM A PERSON WHOSE NAME IS MISSUS MILVAIN. I CAN'T BE SURE SHE REPLIED MUCH TROUBLED. AND IF HE OBSTINATELY REFUSES WHAT THEN WHAT IS BEFORE HIM. MARIAN'S HEAD SANK AND SHE STOOD STILL. WHY HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND SO JASPER SHE INQUIRED AT LENGTH. BECAUSE I HAVE DECIDED THAT THE INDEFINITELY LONG ENGAGEMENT WOULD BE UNJUST TO YOU AND TO MYSELF. SUCH ENGAGEMENTS ARE ALWAYS DANGEROUS SOMETIMES THEY DEPRAVE THE CHARACTER OF THE MAN OR WOMAN. SHE LISTENED ANXIOUSLY AND REFLECTED. EVERYTHING HE WENT ON WOULD BE SIMPLE ENOUGH BUT FOR YOUR DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES. AS I HAVE SAID THERE IS THE VERY SERIOUS DOUBT WHETHER YOUR FATHER WOULD ACCEPT MONEY FROM YOU WHEN YOU ARE MY WIFE. I THOUGHT YOU FELT SURE OF THAT. I'M NOT VERY SURE OF ANYTHING TO TELL THE TRUTH I AM HARASSED. I CAN'T GET ON WITH MY WORK. I AM VERY VERY SORRY. IT ISN'T YOUR FAULT MARIAN AND WELL THEN THERE'S ONLY ONE THING TO DO. LET US WAIT AT ALL EVENTS TILL YOUR FATHER HAS UNDERGONE THE OPERATION. EXCEPT JASPER THAT IF FATHER IS HELPLESS I MUST FIND MEANS OF ASSURING HIS SUPPORT. AFTER A SILENCE MARIAN REGARDED HIM STEADILY. THEY ARE MANY I KNOW. DO YOU THINK THEM INSURMOUNTABLE. UPON MY WORD THEY ALMOST SEEM SO JASPER EXCLAIMED DISTRACTEDLY. THEY WERE NOT SO GREAT WHEN WE SPOKE OF MARRIAGE A FEW YEARS HENCE. A FEW YEARS HE ECHOED IN A CHEERLESS VOICE. THAT IS JUST WHAT I HAVE DECIDED IS IMPOSSIBLE MARIAN YOU SHALL HAVE THE PLAIN TRUTH. I DON'T TRUST MYSELF. I DIDN'T MEAN THAT. TO FACE DIFFICULTIES YES. WHILST THEY SPOKE THE SKY HAD GROWN DARK WITH A HEAVY CLOUD AND NOW SPOTS OF RAIN BEGAN TO FALL. BUT SHALL YOU FACE THEM WILLINGLY. PUT UP YOUR UMBRELLA MARIAN. WHAT DO I CARE FOR A DROP OF RAIN SHE EXCLAIMED WITH PASSIONATE SADNESS WHEN ALL MY LIFE IS AT STAKE HOW AM I TO UNDERSTAND YOU. EVERY WORD YOU SPEAK SEEMS INTENDED TO DISHEARTEN ME. DO YOU NO LONGER LOVE ME. WHY NEED YOU CONCEAL IT IF THAT IS THE TRUTH. IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN BY SAYING YOU DISTRUST YOURSELF. IF YOU DO SO THERE MUST BE REASON FOR IT IN THE PRESENT COULD I DISTRUST MYSELF. CAN I FORCE MYSELF IN ANY MANNER TO BELIEVE THAT I SHALL EVER CEASE TO LOVE YOU. JASPER OPENED HIS UMBRELLA. WE MUST SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN MARIAN. WE CAN'T STAND AND TALK IN THE RAIN CONFOUND IT. CURSED CLIMATE WHERE YOU CAN NEVER BE SURE OF A CLEAR SKY FOR FIVE MINUTES. I CAN'T GO TILL YOU HAVE SPOKEN MORE PLAINLY JASPER. HOW AM I TO LIVE AN HOUR IN SUCH UNCERTAINTY AS THIS. DO YOU LOVE ME OR NOT. DO YOU WISH ME TO BE YOUR WIFE OR ARE YOU SACRIFICING YOURSELF. I DO WISH IT. HER EMOTION HAD AN EFFECT UPON HIM AND HIS VOICE TREMBLED. THERE IS NO NATURAL LAW THAT A CHILD SHOULD SURRENDER EVERYTHING FOR HER PARENTS. YOU KNOW SO MUCH MORE OF THE WORLD THAN I DO CAN'T YOU ADVISE ME \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0004.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5bf912628ab0960e9fb3fe6c0937a127f88a0b48 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0004.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IS THERE NO WAY OF PROVIDING FOR MY FATHER. GOOD GOD THIS IS FRIGHTFUL MARIAN I CAN'T STAND IT. LIVE AS YOU ARE DOING LET US WAIT AND SEE. AT THE COST OF LOSING YOU. I WILL BE FAITHFUL TO YOU. AND YOUR VOICE SAYS YOU PROMISE IT OUT OF PITY. HE HAD MADE A PRETENCE OF HOLDING HIS UMBRELLA OVER HER BUT MARIAN TURNED AWAY AND WALKED TO A LITTLE DISTANCE AND STOOD BENEATH THE SHELTER OF A GREAT TREE HER FACE AVERTED FROM HIM. MOVING TO FOLLOW HE SAW THAT HER FRAME WAS SHAKEN BY SOUNDLESS SOBBING. WHEN HIS FOOTSTEPS CAME CLOSE TO HER SHE AGAIN LOOKED AT HIM. IN WHAT CAN THERE BE MORE SELFISHNESS. I FEEL AS IF I COULD HOLD YOU TO YOUR PROMISE AT ANY COST THOUGH YOU HAVE MADE ME UNDERSTAND THAT YOU REGARD OUR ENGAGEMENT AS YOUR GREAT MISFORTUNE. I HAVE FELT IT FOR WEEKS OH FOR MONTHS. BUT I COULDN'T SAY A WORD THAT WOULD SEEM TO INVITE SUCH MISERY AS THIS. YOU DON'T LOVE ME JASPER AND THAT'S AN END OF EVERYTHING. I SHOULD BE SHAMED IF I MARRIED YOU. WHETHER I LOVE YOU OR NOT I FEEL AS IF NO SACRIFICE WOULD BE TOO GREAT THAT WOULD BRING YOU THE HAPPINESS YOU DESERVE DESERVE. SHE REPEATED BITTERLY WHY DO I DESERVE IT. BECAUSE I LONG FOR IT WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS DESERVING. HAPPINESS OR MISERY COME TO US BY FATE. IS IT IN MY POWER TO MAKE YOU HAPPY. NO BECAUSE IT ISN'T IN YOUR POWER TO CALL DEAD LOVE TO LIFE AGAIN. I THINK PERHAPS YOU NEVER LOVED ME. BUT IF YOU HAD SAID YOU LOVED ME BEFORE THAT I SHOULD HAVE IT ALWAYS TO REMEMBER. YOU WILL DO ME NO WRONG IF YOU CHARGE ME WITH BASENESS HE REPLIED GLOOMILY. IF I BELIEVE ANYTHING I BELIEVE THAT I DID LOVE YOU. BUT I KNEW MYSELF AND I SHOULD NEVER HAVE BETRAYED WHAT I FELT IF FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I COULD HAVE BEEN HONOURABLE. THIS IS WRETCHEDNESS TO BOTH OF US JASPER ADDED LET US PART NOW MARIAN. LET ME SEE YOU AGAIN. I CAN'T SEE YOU AGAIN. WHAT CAN YOU SAY TO ME MORE THAN YOU HAVE SAID NOW. I SHOULD FEEL LIKE A BEGGAR COMING TO YOU. I MUST TRY AND KEEP SOME LITTLE SELF RESPECT IF I AM TO LIVE AT ALL. THEN LET ME HELP YOU TO THINK OF ME WITH INDIFFERENCE. REMEMBER ME AS A MAN WHO DISREGARDED PRICELESS LOVE SUCH AS YOURS TO GO AND MAKE HIMSELF A PROUD POSITION AMONG FOOLS AND KNAVES INDEED THAT'S WHAT IT COMES TO. IT IS YOU WHO REJECT ME AND RIGHTLY. ONE WHO IS SO MUCH AT THE MERCY OF A VULGAR AMBITION AS I AM IS NO FIT HUSBAND FOR YOU. SOON ENOUGH YOU WOULD THOROUGHLY DESPISE ME AND THOUGH I SHOULD KNOW IT WAS MERITED MY PERVERSE PRIDE WOULD REVOLT AGAINST IT. IT IS MEN OF MY KIND WHO SUCCEED THE CONSCIENTIOUS AND THOSE WHO REALLY HAVE A HIGH IDEAL EITHER PERISH OR STRUGGLE ON IN NEGLECT. MARIAN HAD OVERCOME HER EXCESS OF EMOTION. THERE IS NO NEED TO DISPARAGE YOURSELF SHE SAID. WHAT CAN BE SIMPLER THAN THE TRUTH. YOU LOVED ME OR THOUGHT YOU DID AND NOW YOU LOVE ME NO LONGER. IT IS A THING THAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY EITHER IN MAN OR WOMAN AND ALL THAT HONOUR DEMANDS IS THE COURAGE TO CONFESS THE TRUTH. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME AS SOON AS YOU KNEW THAT I WAS BURDENSOME TO YOU \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0005.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0005.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ddb67af15c63b2d7257fad8d14c218323fefca7c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4515/11057/11057_0005.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MARIAN WILL YOU DO THIS WILL YOU LET OUR ENGAGEMENT LAST FOR ANOTHER SIX MONTHS BUT WITHOUT OUR MEETING DURING THAT TIME. BUT TO WHAT PURPOSE. THAT SEEMS TO ME CHILDISH. IT IS EASY FOR YOU TO CONTEMPLATE MONTHS OF POSTPONEMENT. THERE MUST BE AN END NOW I CAN BEAR IT NO LONGER. THE RAIN FELL UNCEASINGLY AND WITH IT BEGAN TO MINGLE AN AUTUMNAL MIST. JASPER DELAYED A MOMENT THEN ASKED CALMLY. ARE YOU GOING TO THE MUSEUM YES. GO HOME AGAIN FOR THIS MORNING MARIAN YOU CAN'T WORK. I MUST AND I HAVE NO TIME TO LOSE. GOOD BYE SHE GAVE HIM HER HAND. THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER FOR AN INSTANT THEN MARIAN LEFT THE SHELTER OF THE TREE OPENED HER UMBRELLA AND WALKED QUICKLY AWAY. JASPER DID NOT WATCH HER HE HAD THE FACE OF A MAN WHO IS SUFFERING A SEVERE HUMILIATION. A FEW HOURS LATER HE TOLD DORA WHAT HAD COME TO PASS AND WITHOUT EXTENUATION OF HIS OWN CONDUCT. HIS SISTER SAID VERY LITTLE FOR SHE RECOGNISED GENUINE SUFFERING IN HIS TONES AND ASPECT. BUT WHEN IT WAS OVER SHE SAT DOWN AND WROTE TO MARIAN. I FEEL FAR MORE DISPOSED TO CONGRATULATE YOU THAN TO REGRET WHAT HAS HAPPENED. A FEW WEEKS AGO HE ACTUALLY PROPOSED TO A WOMAN FOR WHOM HE DOES NOT PRETEND TO HAVE THE SLIGHTEST AFFECTION BUT WHO IS VERY RICH AND WHO SEEMED LIKELY TO BE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO MARRY HIM. YESTERDAY MORNING HE RECEIVED HER FINAL ANSWER A REFUSAL. I AM NOT SURE THAT I WAS RIGHT IN KEEPING THIS A SECRET FROM YOU BUT I MIGHT HAVE DONE HARM BY INTERFERING. YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THOUGH SURELY YOU NEED NO FRESH PROOF HOW UTTERLY UNWORTHY HE IS OF YOU. DEAREST MARIAN DO NOT CEASE TO THINK OF ME AS YOUR FRIEND BECAUSE MY BROTHER HAS DISGRACED HIMSELF. IF YOU CAN'T SEE ME AT LEAST LET US WRITE TO EACH OTHER. YOU ARE THE ONLY FRIEND I HAVE OF MY OWN SEX AND I COULD NOT BEAR TO LOSE YOU. AND MUCH MORE OF THE SAME TENOR. SEVERAL DAYS PASSED BEFORE THERE CAME A REPLY. IT WAS WRITTEN WITH UNDISTURBED KINDNESS OF FEELING BUT IN FEW WORDS. FOR THE PRESENT WE CANNOT SEE EACH OTHER BUT I AM VERY FAR FROM WISHING THAT OUR FRIENDSHIP SHOULD COME TO AN END. I MUST ONLY ASK THAT YOU WILL WRITE TO ME WITHOUT THE LEAST REFERENCE TO THESE TROUBLES TELL ME ALWAYS ABOUT YOURSELF AND BE SURE THAT YOU CANNOT TELL ME TOO MUCH. I HOPE YOU MAY SOON BE ABLE TO SEND ME THE NEWS WHICH WAS FORESHADOWED IN OUR LAST TALK THOUGH FORESHADOWED IS A WRONG WORD TO USE OF COMING HAPPINESS ISN'T IT. THAT PAPER I SENT TO MISTER TRENCHARD IS ACCEPTED AND I SHALL BE GLAD TO HAVE YOUR CRITICISM WHEN IT COMES OUT DON'T SPARE MY STYLE WHICH NEEDS A GREAT DEAL OF CHASTENING. I HAVE BEEN THINKING COULDN'T YOU USE YOUR HOLIDAY IN SARK FOR A STORY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/14911/14911_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/14911/14911_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d610d4bc0278cb8297d6a395fad212d1fb1ac20 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/4570/14911/14911_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT IS JUST AS IT SHOULD BE AND IF MORE PEOPLE TAKE UP BEAGLING IT MAY NOT BE IN THE LEAST SURPRISING. NOSE BLACK BROAD AND NOSTRILS WELL EXPANDED. EYES BROWN DARK HAZEL OR HAZEL NOT DEEP SET NOR BULGY AND WITH A MILD EXPRESSION. EARS LONG SET ON LOW FINE IN TEXTURE AND HANGING IN A GRACEFUL FOLD CLOSE TO THE CHEEK. NECK MODERATELY LONG SLIGHTLY ARCHED THE THROAT SHOWING SOME DEWLAP. SHOULDERS CLEAN AND SLIGHTLY SLOPING. BODY SHORT BETWEEN THE COUPLINGS WELL LET DOWN IN CHEST RIBS FAIRLY WELL SPRUNG AND WELL RIBBED UP WITH POWERFUL AND NOT TUCKED UP LOINS. FORE LEGS QUITE STRAIGHT WELL UNDER THE DOG OF GOOD SUBSTANCE AND ROUND IN THE BONE. FEET ROUND WELL KNUCKLED UP AND STRONGLY PADDED. STERN MODERATE LENGTH SET ON HIGH THICK AND CARRIED GAILY BUT NOT CURLED OVER THE BACK. COLOUR ANY RECOGNISED HOUND COLOUR. COAT SMOOTH VARIETY SMOOTH VERY DENSE AND NOT TOO FINE OR SHORT. HEIGHT NOT EXCEEDING SIXTEEN INCHES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dbdc4b2b6382e233b6e0c134af0b873b2539d3a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59150/59150_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT THE SECRET OF DOSTOEVSKY'S APPEAL IS SOMETHING MORE THAN THE MULTITUDE AND THRILL OF HIS INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERS. SO INCONGRUOUS INDEED IS THE SENSATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF HIS STORIES WITH THE IMMENSE AND SOMBRE GENIUS THAT BROODS OVER THEM THAT MISTER MURRY IS INCLINED TO REGARD THE INCIDENTS AS A SORT OF WILD SPIRITUAL ALGEBRA RATHER THAN AS EVENTS OCCURRING ON THE PLANE OF REALITY. DOSTOEVSKY HE DECLARES IS NOT A NOVELIST. WHAT HE IS IS MORE DIFFICULT TO DEFINE. MISTER MURRY BOLDLY FACES THE DIFFICULTY AND ATTEMPTS THE DEFINITION. TO HIM DOSTOEVSKY'S WORK IS THE RECORD OF A GREAT MIND SEEKING FOR A WAY OF LIFE IT IS MORE THAN A RECORD OF STRUGGLE IT IS THE STRUGGLE ITSELF. DOSTOEVSKY HIMSELF IS A MAN OF GENIUS LIFTED OUT OF THE LIVING WORLD AND UNABLE TO DESCEND TO IT AGAIN. AND THOSE VOICES TAKE SHAPE IN CERTAIN UNFORGETTABLE FRAGMENTS OF DIALOGUE THAT HAVE BEEN SPOKEN BY ONE SPIRIT TO ANOTHER IN SOME UGLY MEAN TAVERN SET IN SURROUNDING DARKNESS. THEY HAVE NO PHYSICAL BEING. ULTIMATELY THEY ARE THE CREATIONS NOT OF A MAN WHO DESIRED TO BE BUT OF A SPIRIT WHICH SOUGHT TO KNOW. THEY ARE THE IMAGINATIONS OF A GOD TORMENTED MIND. BECAUSE THEY ARE POSSESSED THEY ARE NO LONGER MEN AND WOMEN. THIS IS ALL IN A MEASURE TRUE. DOSTOEVSKY WAS NO REALIST. NOR ON THE OTHER HAND WAS HE A NOVELIST OF HORRORS FOR HORRORS SAKE. NONE THE LESS HE REMAINS A NOVELIST WHO DRAMATIZED HIS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF ACTIONS PERFORMED BY HUMAN BEINGS. CLEARLY HE BELIEVED THAT HUMAN BEINGS THOUGH NOT ORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS WERE CAPABLE OF PERFORMING THE ACTIONS HE NARRATES WITH SUCH ENERGY. MISTER MURRY WILL HAVE IT THAT THE ACTIONS IN THE NOVELS TAKE PLACE IN A TIMELESS WORLD LARGELY BECAUSE DOSTOEVSKY HAS THE HABIT OF CROWDING AN IMPOSSIBLE ROUT OF INCIDENTS INTO A SINGLE DAY. BUT SURELY THE GREEKS TOOK THE SAME LICENSE WITH EVENTS. THIS HABIT OF PACKING INTO A FEW HOURS ACTIONS ENOUGH TO FILL A LIFETIME SEEMS TO ME IN DOSTOEVSKY TO BE A NOVELIST'S DEVICE RATHER THAN THE RESULT OF A SPIRITUAL ESCAPE INTO TIMELESSNESS. TO SAY THIS IS NOT TO DENY THE SPIRITUAL CONTENT OF DOSTOEVSKY'S WORK THE ANGUISH OF THE IMPRISONED SOUL AS IT BATTLES WITH DOUBT AND DENIAL AND DESPAIR. THERE IS IN DOSTOEVSKY A SUGGESTION OF CALIBAN TRYING TO DISCOVER SOME BETTER GOD THAN SETEBOS. AT THE SAME TIME ONE WOULD BE GOING A GREAT DEAL TOO FAR IN ACCEPTING THE DESCRIPTION OF HIMSELF AS A CHILD OF UNBELIEF. THE ULTIMATE ATTITUDE OF DOSTOEVSKY IS AS CHRISTIAN AS THE APOSTLE PETER'S LORD I BELIEVE HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF. AND BEYOND THE DARK NIGHT OF SUFFERING AND DISSIPATING THE NIGHT DOSTOEVSKY STILL SEES THE LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN COMPASSION. HIS WORK IS ALL EARTHQUAKE AND ECLIPSE AND DEAD STARS APART FROM THIS. OR EVEN BY THE COMPASSION OF OTHERS LIKE PRINCE MYSHKIN IN THE IDIOT. BUT THE TRUTH IS IT IS BY NO MEANS EASY TO SYSTEMATIZE THE CREED OF A CREATURE AT WAR WITH LIFE AS DOSTOEVSKY WAS A MAN TORTURED BY THE ETERNAL CONFLICT OF THE DEVILISH AND THE DIVINE IN HIS OWN BREAST. HIS WORK LIKE HIS FACE BEARS THE MARK OF THIS TERRIBLE CONFLICT. THE NOVELS ARE THE PERFECT IMAGE OF THE MAN. AS TO THE MAN HIMSELF THE VICOMTE DE VOGUEE DESCRIBED HIM AS HE SAW HIM IN THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE. SHORT LEAN NEUROTIC WORN AND BOWED DOWN WITH SIXTY YEARS OF MISFORTUNE FADED RATHER THAN AGED WITH A LOOK OF AN INVALID OF UNCERTAIN AGE WITH A LONG BEARD AND HAIR STILL FAIR AND FOR ALL THAT STILL BREATHING FORTH THE CAT LIFE. THE FACE WAS THAT OF A RUSSIAN PEASANT A REAL MOSCOW MUJIK WITH A FLAT NOSE SMALL SHARP EYES DEEPLY SET SOMETIMES DARK AND GLOOMY SOMETIMES GENTLE AND MILD \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78a41c12da98821f801937fdfcaaefd103bb72f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT HAS ABOUT AS MUCH TRUTH IN IT AS THE STATEMENT THAT MILTON WAS GREATER AS A CONTROVERSIALIST THAN AS A POET OR THAT LAMB'S PLAYS ARE BETTER THAN HIS ESSAYS. MISTER HARDY HAS UNDOUBTEDLY MADE AN ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE POETRY OF HIS TIME. BUT HE HAS GIVEN US NO VERSE THAT MORE THAN HINTS AT THE HEIGHT AND DEPTH OF THE TRAGIC VISION WHICH IS EXPRESSED IN JUDE THE OBSCURE. HE IS NOT BY TEMPERAMENT A SINGER. HIS MUSIC IS A STILL SMALL VOICE UNEVENLY MATCHED AGAINST HIS CONSCIOUSNESS OF MIDNIGHT AND STORM. IT IS A FLUTTER OF WINGS IN THE RAIN OVER A TOMB. HIS SENSE OF BEAUTY IS FRAIL AND MIDGE LIKE COMPARED WITH HIS SENSE OF EVERLASTING FRUSTRATION. THE CONCEPTIONS IN HIS NOVELS ARE INFINITELY MORE POETIC THAN THE CONCEPTIONS IN HIS VERSE. IN TESS AND JUDE DESTINY PRESIDES WITH SOMETHING OF THE GRANDEUR OF THE ANCIENT GODS. EXCEPT IN THE DYNASTS AND A FEW OF THE LYRICS THERE IS NONE OF THIS BROODING MAJESTY IN HIS VERSE. AND EVEN IN THE DYNASTS MAJESTIC AS THE SCHEME OF IT IS THERE SEEMS TO ME TO BE MORE CREATIVE IMAGINATION IN THE PROSE PASSAGES THAN IN THE POETRY. TRUTH TO TELL MISTER HARDY IS NEITHER SUFFICIENTLY ARTICULATE NOR SUFFICIENTLY FASTIDIOUS TO BE A GREAT POET. HE DOES NOT EXPRESS LIFE EASILY IN BEAUTIFUL WORDS OR IN IMAGES. THERE IS SCARCELY A MAGICAL IMAGE IN THE HUNDRED OR SO POEMS IN THE BOOK OF HIS SELECTED VERSE. THUS HE WRITES IN I FOUND HER OUT THERE OF ONE WHO. WOULD SIGH AT THE TALE OF SUNK LYONESSE AS A WIND TUGGED TRESS FLAPPED HER CHEEK LIKE A FLAIL. THERE COULD NOT BE AN UGLIER AND MORE PROSAIC EXAGGERATION THAN IS CONTAINED IN THE IMAGE IN THE LAST LINE. AND PROSE INTRUDES IN THE CHOICE OF WORDS AS WELL AS IN IMAGES. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE THE USE OF THE WORD DOMICILED IN THE PASSAGE IN THE SAME POEM ABOUT. THAT WESTERN SEA AS IT SWELLS AND SOBS WHERE SHE ONCE DOMICILED. WHEN WE AS STRANGERS SOUGHT THEIR CATERING CARE VEILED SMILES BESPOKE THEIR THOUGHT OF WHAT WE WERE. THEY WARMED AS THEY OPINED US MORE THAN FRIENDS THAT WE HAD ALL RESIGNED FOR LOVE'S DEAR ENDS. CATERING CARE IS AN APPALLING PHRASE. I DO NOT WISH TO OVER EMPHASIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FLAWS OF THIS KIND. BUT AT A TIME WHEN ALL THE WORLD IS EAGER TO DO HONOUR TO MISTER HARDY'S POEMS IT IS SURELY WELL TO REFRAIN FROM DOING EQUAL HONOUR TO HIS FAULTS. WE SHALL NOT APPRECIATE THE SPLENDID INTERPRETATION OF EARTH IN THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE MORE HIGHLY FOR PERSUADING OURSELVES THAT. INTERMISSIVE AIM AT THE THING SUFFICETH. IS A LINE OF GOOD POETRY. SIMILARLY THE CRITIC IF HE IS TO ENJOY THE BEST OF MISTER HARDY MUST ALSO BE RESOLUTE NOT TO SHUT HIS EYES TO THE WORST IN SUCH A VERSE AS THAT WITH WHICH A BROKEN APPOINTMENT BEGINS. YOU DID NOT COME AND MARCHING TIME DREW ON AND WORE ME NUMB YET LESS FOR LOSS OF YOUR DEAR PRESENCE THERE THAN THAT I THUS FOUND LACKING IN YOUR MAKE THAT HIGH COMPASSION WHICH CAN OVERBEAR RELUCTANCE FOR PURE LOVING KINDNESS SAKE GRIEVED I WHEN AS THE HOPE HOUR STROKED ITS SUM YOU DID NOT COME. THERE ARE HINTS OF THE GRAND STYLE OF LYRIC POETRY IN THESE LINES BUT PHRASES LIKE IN YOUR MAKE AND AS THE HOPE HOUR STROKED ITS SUM ARE DISCORDS THAT BRING IT TUMBLING TO THE LEVELS OF VICTORIAN COMMONPLACE. WHAT ONE DOES BLESS MISTER HARDY FOR HOWEVER BOTH IN HIS VERSE AND IN HIS PROSE IS HIS BLEAK SINCERITY. HE WRITES OUT OF THE REALITY OF HIS EXPERIENCE. HE HAS A TEMPERAMENT SENSITIVE BEYOND THAT OF ALL BUT A FEW RECENT WRITERS TO THE PAIN AND PASSION OF HUMAN BEINGS. ESPECIALLY IS HE SENSITIVE TO THE PAIN AND PASSION OF FRUSTRATED LOVERS. AT LEAST HALF HIS POEMS I FANCY ARE POEMS OF FRUSTRATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c78692ed8df502d7c12b8314a368fe52e861c323 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AND THEY HOLD US UNDER THE SPELL OF REALITY LIKE A TRAGEDY IN A NEIGHBOUR'S HOUSE EVEN WHEN THEY LEAVE US MOST MOURNFUL OVER THE EMPTINESS OF THE WORLD. ONE CAN SEE HOW VERY MOURNFUL MISTER HARDY'S GENIUS IS IF ONE COMPARES IT WITH THAT OF BROWNING HIS MASTER IN THE ART OF THE DRAMATIC LYRIC. BROWNING IS ALSO A POET OF FRUSTRATED LOVERS. ONE CAN REMEMBER POEM AFTER POEM OF HIS WITH A THEME THAT MIGHT EASILY HAVE SERVED FOR MISTER HARDY TOO LATE CRISTINA THE LOST MISTRESS THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER THE STATUE AND THE BUST TO NAME A FEW. BUT WHAT A SENSE OF TRIUMPH THERE IS IN BROWNING'S TRAGEDIES. EVEN WHEN HE WRITES OF THE FEEBLE HEARTED AS IN THE STATUE AND THE BUST HE LEAVES US WITH THE FEELING THAT WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF WEAKNESS IN A WORLD IN WHICH COURAGE PREVAILS. HIS WORLD IS A PLACE OF OPULENCE NOT OF POVERTY. COMPARE THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER WITH MISTER HARDY'S THE PHANTOM HORSEWOMAN AND YOU WILL SEE A VAST ENERGY AND BEAUTY ISSUING FROM LOSS IN THE ONE WHILE IN THE OTHER THERE IS LITTLE BUT A SAD SHADOW. TO HAVE LOVED EVEN FOR AN HOUR IS WITH BROWNING TO LIVE FOR EVER AFTER IN THE INHERITANCE OF A MIGHTY ACHIEVEMENT. TO HAVE LOVED FOR AN HOUR IS IN MISTER HARDY'S IMAGINATION TO HAVE DEEPENED THE SADNESS EVEN MORE THAN THE BEAUTY OF ONE'S MEMORIES. NOT THAT MISTER HARDY'S IS QUITE SO MISERABLE A GENIUS AS IS COMMONLY SUPPOSED. IT IS FALSE TO PICTURE HIM AS ALWAYS ON HIS KNEES BEFORE THE GRAVE WORM. HIS FAITH IN BEAUTY AND JOY MAY BE ONLY A THIN FLAME BUT IT IS NEVER EXTINGUISHED. HIS BEAUTIFUL LYRIC I LOOK INTO MY GLASS IS THE CRY OF A SOUL DARK BUT NOT UTTERLY DARKENED. I LOOK INTO MY GLASS AND VIEW MY WASTING SKIN AND SAY WOULD GOD IT CAME TO PASS MY HEART HAD SHRUNK AS THIN. FOR THEN I UNDISTREST BY HEARTS GROWN COLD TO ME COULD LONELY WAIT MY ENDLESS REST WITH EQUANIMITY. BUT TIME TO MAKE ME GRIEVE PART STEALS LETS PART ABIDE AND SHAKES THIS FRAGILE FRAME AT EVE WITH THROBBINGS OF NOONTIDE. THAT IS CERTAINLY WORLDS APART FROM THE UNQUENCHABLE JOY OF BROWNING'S ALL THE BREATH AND THE BLOOM OF THE WORLD IN THE BAG OF ONE BEE BUT IT IS ALSO FAR REMOVED FROM THE LO YOU MAY ALWAYS END IT WHERE YOU WILL OF THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT. AND DESPAIR IS BY NO MEANS TRIUMPHANT IN WHAT IS PERHAPS THE MOST ATTRACTIVE OF ALL MISTER HARDY'S POEMS THE OXEN. CHRISTMAS EVE AND TWELVE OF THE CLOCK NOW THEY ARE ALL ON THEIR KNEES AN ELDER SAID AS WE SAT IN A FLOCK BY THE EMBERS IN HEARTHSIDE EASE. WE PICTURED THE MEEK MILD CREATURES WHERE THEY DWELT IN THEIR STRAWY PEN NOR DID IT OCCUR TO ONE OF US THERE TO DOUBT THEY WERE KNEELING THEN. SO FAIR A FANCY FEW WOULD WEAVE IN THESE YEARS. YET I FEEL IF SOME ONE SAID ON CHRISTMAS EVE COME SEE THE OXEN KNEEL IN THE LONELY BARTON BY YONDER COOMB OUR CHILDHOOD USED TO KNOW I SHOULD GO WITH HIM IN THE GLOOM HOPING IT MIGHT BE SO. THE MOOD OF FAITH HOWEVER OR RATHER OF DELIGHT IN THE MEMORY OF FAITH IS NOT MISTER HARDY'S PREVAILING MOOD. AT THE SAME TIME HIS UNFAITH RELATES TO THE DURATION OF LOVE RATHER THAN TO HUMAN DESTINY. HE BELIEVES IN THE WORLD'S AMENDMENT. HE CAN ENTER UPON A WAR WITHOUT IRONICAL DOUBTS AS WE SEE IN THE SONG MEN WHO MARCH AWAY. MORE THAN THIS HE CAN LOOK FORWARD BEYOND WAR TO THE COMING OF A NEW PATRIOTISM OF THE WORLD. HOW LONG HE CRIES IN A POEM WRITTEN SOME YEARS AGO. HOW LONG O RULING TEUTONS SLAVS AND GAELS MUST YOUR WROTH REASONINGS TRADE ON LIVES LIKE THESE THAT ARE AS PUPPETS IN A PLAYING HAND \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..376236795c476568ea975ea101475d6f863ccefe --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6123/59186/59186_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHEN SHALL THE SANER SOFTER POLITIES WHEREOF WE DREAM HAVE SWAY IN EACH PROUD LAND AND PATRIOTISM GROWN GODLIKE SCORN TO STAND BONDSLAVE TO REALMS BUT CIRCLE EARTH AND SEAS. BUT PERHAPS HIS CHARACTERISTIC ATTITUDE TO WAR IS TO BE FOUND NOT IN LINES LIKE THESE BUT IN THAT MELANCHOLY POEM THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN IN WHICH THE SOULS OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS RETURN TO THEIR COUNTRY AND QUESTION A SENIOR SOUL FLAME AS TO HOW THEIR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES HAVE KEPT THEIR DOUGHTY DEEDS IN REMEMBRANCE. AND GENERAL HOW HOLD OUT OUR SWEETHEARTS SWORN LOYAL AS DOVES. MANY MOURN MANY THINK IT IS NOT UNATTRACTIVE TO PRINK THEM IN SABLE FOR HEROES. SOME FICKLE AND FLEET HEARTS HAVE FOUND THEM NEW LOVES. AND OUR WIVES QUOTH ANOTHER RESIGNEDLY DWELL THEY ON OUR DEEDS. DEEDS OF HOME THAT LIVE YET FRESH AS NEW DEEDS OF FONDNESS OR FRET ANCIENT WORDS THAT WERE KINDLY EXPRESSED OR UNKINDLY THESE THESE HAVE THEIR HEEDS. MISTER HARDY HAS TOO BITTER A SENSE OF REALITY TO BELIEVE MUCH IN THE GLORY OF WAR. HIS IMAGINATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN CURIOUSLY INTERESTED IN SOLDIERS BUT THAT IS MORE BECAUSE THEY HAVE ADDED A TOUCH OF COLOUR TO THE TRAGIC GAME OF LIFE THAN BECAUSE HE IS ON THE SIDE OF THE MILITARY SHOW. ONE HAS ONLY TO READ THE DYNASTS ALONG WITH BARRACK ROOM BALLADS TO SEE THAT THE ATTITUDE OF MISTER HARDY TO WAR IS THE ATTITUDE OF THE BROODING ARTIST IN CONTRAST WITH THAT OF THE MUSIC HALL POLITICIAN. NOT THAT MISTER KIPLING DID NOT TELL US SOME TRUTHS ABOUT THE FATE OF OUR FELLOWS BUT HE RELATED THEM TO AN ATMOSPHERE THAT SAVOURED OF BEER AND TOBACCO RATHER THAN OF ETERNITY. THE REAL WORLD TO MISTER HARDY IS THE WORLD OF ANCIENT HUMAN THINGS IN WHICH WAR HAS COME TO BE A HIDEOUS IRRELEVANCE. ONLY A MAN HARROWING CLODS IN A SLOW SILENT WALK WITH AN OLD HORSE THAT STUMBLES AND NODS HALF ASLEEP AS THEY STALK. ONLY THIN SMOKE WITHOUT FLAME FROM THE HEAPS OF COUCH GRASS YET THIS WILL GO ONWARD THE SAME THOUGH DYNASTIES PASS. YONDER A MAID AND HER WIGHT COME WHISPERING BY WAR'S ANNALS WILL FADE INTO NIGHT ERE THEIR STORY DIE. IT MAY BE THOUGHT ON THE OTHER HAND THAT MISTER HARDY'S POEMS ABOUT WAR ARE NO MORE EXPRESSIVE OF TRAGIC FUTILITY THAN HIS POEMS ABOUT LOVE. FUTILITY AND FRUSTRATION ARE EVER RECURRING THEMES IN BOTH. HIS LOVERS LIKE HIS SOLDIERS ROT IN THE GRAVE DEFEATED OF THEIR GLORY. LOVERS ARE ALWAYS SEVERED BOTH IN LIFE AND IN DEATH. RAIN ON THE WINDOWS CREAKING DOORS WITH BLASTS THAT BESOM THE GREEN AND I AM HERE AND YOU ARE THERE AND A HUNDRED MILES BETWEEN. IN BEYOND THE LAST LAMP WE HAVE THE SAME MOURNFUL CRY OVER SEVERANCE. THERE ARE FEW SADDER POEMS THAN THIS WITH ITS TRISTFUL REFRAIN EVEN IN THE WORKS OF MISTER HARDY. IT IS TOO LONG TO QUOTE IN FULL BUT ONE MAY GIVE THE LAST VERSES OF THIS LYRIC OF LOVERS IN A LANE. WHEN I RE TROD THAT WATERY WAY SOME HOURS BEYOND THE DROOP OF DAY STILL I FOUND PACING THERE THE TWAIN JUST AS SLOWLY JUST AS SADLY HEEDLESS OF THE NIGHT AND RAIN. ONE COULD BUT WONDER WHO THEY WERE AND WHAT WILD WOE DETAINED THEM THERE. THOUGH THIRTY YEARS OF BLUR AND BLOT HAVE SLID SINCE I BEHELD THAT SPOT AND SAW IN CURIOUS CONVERSE THERE MOVING SLOWLY MOVING SADLY THAT MYSTERIOUS TRAGIC PAIR ITS OLDEN LOOK MAY LINGER ON ALL BUT THE COUPLE THEY HAVE GONE. WHITHER WHO KNOWS INDEED AND YET TO ME WHEN NIGHTS ARE WEIRD AND WET WITHOUT THOSE COMRADES THERE AT TRYST CREEPING SLOWLY CREEPING SADLY THAT LOVE LANE DOES NOT EXIST \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/53049/53049_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/53049/53049_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09a92e4225453b3de02712af2c960240f223c8ed --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/53049/53049_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IF YOUR BLACK SKIRT WERE SPONGED AND PRESSED AND RE HUNG IT WOULD DO VERY WELL. THAT PUCKER CAME OFTEN ENOUGH WITHOUT BEING BROUGHT THERE BY EXTRA WORRIES. I'D BETTER BE PUTTING MY GREY MATTER INTO THAT ALGEBRA INSTEAD OF WASTING IT PLOTTING FOR A PARTY DRESS THAT I CERTAINLY CAN'T GET. IT'S A SAD THING FOR A BODY TO LACK BRAINS WHEN SHE WANTS TO BE A TEACHER ISN'T IT. IF I COULD ONLY ABSORB ALGEBRA AND HISTORY AS I CAN MUSIC WHAT A BLESSING IT WOULD BE. SHE WANTED PENELOPE TO GO TO THAT PARTY. PENELOPE HAS STUDIED SO HARD ALL WINTER AND SHE HASN'T GONE ANYWHERE THOUGHT THE OLDER SISTER WISTFULLY. SHE IS GETTING DISCOURAGED OVER THOSE EXAMINATIONS AND SHE NEEDS JUST A GOOD JOLLY TIME TO HEARTEN HER UP. IF IT COULD ONLY BE MANAGED BUT DORIS DID NOT SEE HOW IT COULD. INDEED SHE COULD NOT HAVE DONE EVEN THAT MUCH IF THEY HAD NOT OWNED THEIR LITTLE COTTAGE. NEXT YEAR IT WOULD BE EASIER IF PENELOPE GOT THROUGH HER EXAMINATIONS SUCCESSFULLY BUT JUST NOW THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOT A SPARE PENNY IT IS HARD TO BE POOR. DORIS DREAMED OF PRETTY DRESSES ALL THAT NIGHT AND THOUGHT ABOUT THEM ALL THE NEXT DAY. SO IT MUST BE CONFESSED DID PENELOPE THOUGH SHE WOULD NOT HAVE ADMITTED IT FOR THE WORLD. THE EXPRESSMAN BROUGHT THIS PARCEL AN HOUR AGO AND THERE'S A LETTER FOR YOU FROM AUNT ADELLA ON THE CLOCK SHELF AND I THINK THEY BELONG TO EACH OTHER HURRY UP AND FIND OUT. I SUPPOSE IT CAN'T BE ANYTHING ELSE SMILED DORIS. SHE KNEW THAT PENELOPE HAD STARTED OUT TO SAY A NEW DRESS. SHE CUT THE STRINGS AND REMOVED THE WRAPPINGS. DORIS HUNTER I BELIEVE IT'S AN OLD QUILT. SHE LAUGHED A LITTLE SHAKILY. LISTEN PENELOPE MY DEAR DORIS. THERE IS A BIT OF THE WEDDING DRESS OF EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY IN IT. LOVE TO PENELOPE AND YOURSELF. YOUR AFFECTIONATE AUNT ADELLA HUNTER. I DON'T SEE ITS BEAUTY SAID PENELOPE WITH A GRIMACE. IT MAY HAVE BEEN PRETTY ONCE BUT IT IS ALL FADED NOW. THE PATTERN IS WHAT THEY CALL LITTLE THOUSANDS ISN'T IT. TELL ME DORRIE DOES IT ARGUE A LACK OF PROPER RESPECT FOR MY ANCESTORS THAT I CAN'T FEEL VERY ENTHUSIASTIC OVER THIS HEIRLOOM ESPECIALLY WHEN GRANDMOTHER HUNTER DIED YEARS BEFORE I WAS BORN. IT WAS VERY KIND OF AUNT ADELLA TO SEND IT SAID DORIS DUTIFULLY. OH VERY AGREED PENELOPE DROLLY. WHY THE WRONG SIDE IS EVER SO MUCH PRETTIER THAN THE RIGHT EXCLAIMED PENELOPE. WHAT LOVELY OLD TIMEY STUFF AND NOT A BIT FADED. THAT WAS A DRESS GRANDMOTHER HUNTER HAD WHEN SHE WAS A GIRL SAID DORIS ABSENTLY. I REMEMBER HEARING AUNT ADELLA SPEAK OF IT. I DECLARE IT IS AS GOOD AS NEW. WELL LET US GO AND HAVE TEA SAID PENELOPE I'M DECIDEDLY HUNGRY. BESIDES I SEE THE POVERTY PUCKER COMING. IT IS SOMETHING TO POSSESS AN HEIRLOOM AFTER ALL. I WONDER IF GRANDMOTHER HUNTER'S REPROACHFUL SPIRIT WILL FOREVER HAUNT ME IF I DO IT. IF AUNT ADELLA SAW ME NOW SHE LAUGHED SOFTLY TO HERSELF AS SHE WORKED. IN THE THREE FOLLOWING EVENINGS DORIS MADE THE WAIST \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/53049/53049_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/53049/53049_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e155fde502b8d60f72c93b6ae7ff3f91471e6c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/53049/53049_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT WILL BE SUCH A NICE SURPRISE FOR HER THE SISTER MUSED JUBILANTLY. PENELOPE WAS SURPRISED AS MUCH AS THE TENDER SISTERLY HEART COULD WISH WHEN DORIS FLASHED OUT UPON HER TRIUMPHANTLY ON THE EVENING OF THE PARTY WITH THE BLACK SKIRT NICELY PRESSED AND RE HUNG AND THE PRETTIEST WAIST IMAGINABLE A WAIST THAT WAS A POSITIVE CREATION OF DAINTY ROSE BESPRINKLED SILK WITH A GIRDLE AND KNOTS OF BLACK VELVET. DORIS HUNTER YOU ARE A VERITABLE LITTLE WITCH. SO PENELOPE WENT TO BLANCHE'S PARTY AND HER DRESS WAS THE ADMIRATION OF EVERY GIRL THERE. PENELOPE THOUGHT HER ALTOGETHER CHARMING. SHE LOOKS AS IF SHE HAD JUST STEPPED OUT OF THE FRAME OF SOME LOVELY OLD PICTURE SHE SAID TO HERSELF. I WISH SHE BELONGED TO ME I'D JUST LOVE TO HAVE A GRANDMOTHER LIKE HER. IF MY SISTER DORIS LIVES TO BE SEVENTY YEARS OLD AND WEARS HER HAIR IN PRETTY WHITE PUFFS SHE WILL LOOK EXACTLY AS MISSUS FAIRWEATHER DOES NOW. MISSUS FAIRWEATHER ASKED TO HAVE PENELOPE INTRODUCED TO HER AND WHEN THEY FOUND THEMSELVES ALONE TOGETHER SHE SAID GENTLY MY DEAR I AM GOING TO ASK A VERY IMPERTINENT QUESTION. MY AUNT ADELLA GAVE ME GAVE US THE MATERIAL SHE STAMMERED. I AM NAMED AFTER HER MISSUS FAIRWEATHER SUDDENLY PUT HER ARM ABOUT PENELOPE AND DREW THE YOUNG GIRL TO HER HER LOVELY OLD FACE AGLOW WITH DELIGHT AND TENDERNESS. THEN YOU ARE MY GRANDNIECE SHE SAID. YOUR GRANDMOTHER WAS MY HALF SISTER. WHEN I SAW YOUR DRESS I FELT SURE YOU WERE RELATED TO HER I SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT ROSEBUD SILK IF I CAME ACROSS IT IN THIBET. PENELOPE WAS FOUR YEARS OLDER THAN I WAS BUT WE WERE DEVOTED TO EACH OTHER. ODDLY ENOUGH OUR BIRTHDAYS FELL ON THE SAME DAY AND WHEN PENELOPE WAS TWENTY AND I SIXTEEN MY FATHER GAVE US EACH A SILK DRESS OF THIS VERY MATERIAL I HAVE MINE YET. SOON AFTER THIS OUR MOTHER DIED AND OUR HOUSEHOLD WAS BROKEN UP. THIS WAS LONG AGO YOU KNOW WHEN TRAVELLING AND CORRESPONDENCE WERE NOT THE EASY MATTER OF COURSE THINGS THEY ARE NOW. AFTER A FEW YEARS I LOST TOUCH WITH MY HALF SISTER. I MARRIED OUT WEST AND HAVE LIVED THERE ALL MY LIFE I NEVER KNEW WHAT HAD BECOME OF PENELOPE. MY DEAR I AM A VERY LONELY OLD WOMAN WITH NOBODY BELONGING TO ME. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW DELIGHTED I AM TO FIND THAT I HAVE TWO GRANDNIECES PENELOPE HAD LISTENED SILENTLY LIKE A GIRL IN A DREAM. NOW SHE PATTED MISSUS FAIRWEATHER'S SOFT OLD HAND AFFECTIONATELY. IT SOUNDS LIKE A STORYBOOK SHE SAID GAILY. MISSUS FAIRWEATHER DID GO TO SEE DORIS THE VERY NEXT DAY AND QUITE WONDERFUL THINGS CAME TO PASS FROM THAT INTERVIEW. DORIS AND PENELOPE FOUND THEIR LIVES AND PLANS CHANGED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. PENELOPE WAS TO HAVE AT LAST HER LONGED FOR MUSICAL EDUCATION AND DORIS WAS TO BE THE HOME GIRL. YOU MUST TAKE THE PLACE OF MY OWN DEAR LITTLE GRANDDAUGHTER SAID AUNT ESTHER. SHE DIED SIX YEARS AGO AND I HAVE BEEN SO LONELY SINCE. WHEN MISSUS FAIRWEATHER HAD GONE DORIS AND PENELOPE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/65525/65525_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/65525/65525_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fd5cbf854c25d48137036d3b4d961ed196890aeb --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/65525/65525_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SHE HAD MILKED EIGHT COWS AND PUMPED WATER FOR THE MILK CANS AFTERWARD IN THE FAG END OF A HOT SUMMER DAY. THIS MONTHLY LETTER WAS THE ONLY PLEASURE AND STIMULANT IN HER LIFE. AS SHE SLIPPED INTO HER BLUE PRINT AFTERNOON DRESS HER AUNT CALLED TO HER FROM BELOW. SIDNEY RAN OUT TO THE DARK LITTLE ENTRY AND LEANED OVER THE STAIR RAILING. AUNT JANE WAS STANDING AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS WITH A LAMP IN ONE HAND AND A YEAR OLD BABY CLINGING TO THE OTHER. SHE WAS A BIG SHAPELESS WOMAN WITH A ROUND GOOD NATURED FACE CHEERFUL AND VULGAR AS A SUNFLOWER WAS AUNT JANE AT ALL TIMES AND OCCASIONS. I WANT TO RUN OVER AND SEE HOW MISSUS BRIXBY IS THIS EVENING SIDDY AND YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF THE BABY TILL I GET BACK. SIDNEY SIGHED AND WENT DOWNSTAIRS FOR THE BABY. ALL HER DAYS WERE ALIKE AS FAR AS HARD WORK AND DULLNESS WENT BUT SHE ACCEPTED THEM CHEERFULLY AND UNCOMPLAININGLY. BUT SHE DID RESENT HAVING TO LOOK AFTER THE BABY WHEN SHE WANTED TO WRITE HER LETTER. SHE GOT OUT HER BOX OF PAPER AND SAT DOWN BY THE LITTLE TABLE AT THE WINDOW WITH A SMALL KEROSENE LAMP AT HER ELBOW. THE ROOM WAS SMALL A MERE BOX ABOVE THE KITCHEN WHICH SIDNEY SHARED WITH TWO SMALL COUSINS. HER BED AND THE COT WHERE THE LITTLE GIRLS SLEPT FILLED UP ALMOST ALL THE AVAILABLE SPACE. JUST AT THAT PARTICULAR ANGLE ONE EYE APPEARED TO BE AS LARGE AS AN ORANGE WHILE THE OTHER WAS THE SIZE OF A PEA AND THE MOUTH ZIGZAGGED FROM EAR TO EAR. SIDNEY HATED THAT MIRROR AS VIRULENTLY AS SHE COULD HATE ANYTHING. IT SEEMED TO HER TO TYPIFY ALL THAT WAS UNLOVELY IN HER LIFE. HER MOTHER HAD DIED THE DAY AFTER AND SIDNEY THEREUPON HAD COME INTO THE HANDS OF GOOD AUNT JANE WITH THOSE BOOKS FOR HER DOWRY SINCE NOTHING ELSE WAS LEFT AFTER THE EXPENSES OF THE DOUBLE FUNERAL HAD BEEN PAID. ONE OF THE BOOKS HAD SIDNEY RICHMOND'S NAME PRINTED ON THE TITLE PAGE INSTEAD OF WRITTEN ON THE FLYLEAF. PRESENTLY SHE BEGAN TO WRITE WITH A FLUSH OF REAL EXCITEMENT ON HER FACE. HER SOUL AND UNDERSTANDING WERE ELSEWHERE. FOUR YEARS BEFORE WHEN SIDNEY WAS SIXTEEN STILL CALLING HERSELF A SCHOOLGIRL BY REASON OF THE FACT THAT SHE COULD BE SPARED TO ATTEND SCHOOL FOUR MONTHS IN THE WINTER WHEN WORK WAS SLACK SHE HAD BEEN MUCH INTERESTED IN THE MAPLE LEAF DEPARTMENT OF THE MONTREAL WEEKLY HER UNCLE TOOK. ONLY ONE ANSWER CAME TO ELLEN DOUGLAS AND THAT WAS FORWARDED TO HER BY THE LONG SUFFERING EDITOR OF THE MAPLE LEAF. IT WAS FROM JOHN LINCOLN OF THE BAR N RANCH ALBERTA. HE WROTE THAT ALTHOUGH HIS AGE DEBARRED HIM FROM MEMBERSHIP IN THE CLUB HE WAS TWENTY AND THE LIMIT WAS EIGHTEEN HE READ THE LETTERS OF THE DEPARTMENT WITH MUCH INTEREST AND OFTEN HAD THOUGHT OF ANSWERING SOME OF THE REQUESTS FOR CORRESPONDENTS. HE NEVER HAD DONE SO BUT ELLEN DOUGLAS'S LETTER WAS SO INTERESTING THAT HE HAD DECIDED TO WRITE TO HER. WOULD SHE BE KIND ENOUGH TO CORRESPOND WITH HIM. HE WAS TWO YEARS OUT FROM THE EAST AND HAD NOT YET FORGOTTEN TO BE HOMESICK AT TIMES. SIDNEY LIKED THE LETTER AND ANSWERED IT. SINCE THEN THEY HAD WRITTEN TO EACH OTHER REGULARLY. THERE WAS NOTHING SENTIMENTAL HINTED AT OR IMPLIED IN THE CORRESPONDENCE. SHE NEVER EXPECTED TO MEET JOHN LINCOLN NOR DID SHE WISH TO DO SO. IN THE CORRESPONDENCE ITSELF SHE FOUND HER PLEASURE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/65525/65525_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/65525/65525_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..764e3489c9f3984d31ea92ff8c6e19a06efac714 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/65525/65525_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +JOHN LINCOLN WROTE BREEZY ACCOUNTS OF RANCH LIFE AND ADVENTURES ON THE FAR WESTERN PLAINS SO ALIEN AND REMOTE FROM SNUG HUMDRUM PLAINFIELD LIFE THAT SIDNEY ALWAYS HAD THE SENSATION OF CROSSING A GULF WHEN SHE OPENED A LETTER FROM THE BAR N AS FOR SIDNEY'S OWN LETTER THIS IS THE WAY IT READ AS SHE WROTE IT. THE EVERGREENS PLAINFIELD DEAR MISTER LINCOLN. I LOVE LIFE AND ITS BLOOM AND BRILLIANCY I LOVE MEETING NEW PEOPLE I LOVE THE RIPPLE OF MUSIC THE HUM OF LAUGHTER AND CONVERSATION. ON MY WAY HOME AFTER THE BRADDON PEOPLE HAD LEFT US SOMEBODY ASKED ME HOW I LIKED PAUL MOORE. THE MAN I HAD BEEN TALKING WITH WAS PAUL MOORE THE GREAT NOVELIST. AS IT WAS I HAD CONTRADICTED HIM TWICE AND HE HAD LAUGHED AND LIKED IT BUT HIS BOOKS WILL ALWAYS HAVE A NEW MEANING TO ME HENCEFORTH THROUGH THE INSIGHT HE HIMSELF HAS GIVEN ME. IT IS SUCH MEETINGS AS THESE THAT GIVE LIFE ITS SPARKLE FOR ME. YOU WILL BE WEARY OF MY RHAPSODIES OVER HER. SHE HAS SYMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING FOR MY EVERY MOOD. I LOVE LIFE SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME SUCH A FRIENDSHIP. I HAD A DELIGHTFUL RUN AWAY. THE REST OF THE FOLKS WERE JUST COMING DOWNSTAIRS WHEN I GOT BACK TO BREAKFAST. YOURS SINCERELY SIDNEY RICHMOND. AUNT JANE CAME HOME PRESENTLY AND CARRIED AWAY HER SLEEPING BABY SIDNEY SAID HER PRAYERS WENT TO BED AND SLEPT SOUNDLY AND SERENELY SHE MAILED HER LETTER THE NEXT DAY AND A MONTH LATER AN ANSWER CAME. IT IS SIX YEARS SINCE I WAS HOME AND IT SEEMS LIKE THREE TIMES SIX. I SHALL GO BY THE C P R WHICH PASSES THROUGH PLAINFIELD AND I MEAN TO STOP OFF FOR A DAY. YOU WILL LET ME CALL AND SEE YOU WON'T YOU. SIDNEY DID NOT SLEEP THAT NIGHT BUT TOSSED RESTLESSLY ABOUT OR CRIED IN HER PILLOW. NOTHING SAID SIDNEY SHARPLY. SIDNEY HAD NEVER SPOKEN SHARPLY TO HER AUNT BEFORE. THE GOOD WOMAN SHOOK HER HEAD. I'LL FIX YOU A DOSE OF QUININE. ANY DAY ANY HOUR MIGHT BRING JOHN LINCOLN TO PLAINFIELD. BUT HE WOULD FIND OUT THE TRUTH JUST THE SAME SHE WOULD LOSE HIS FRIENDSHIPS AND RESPECT JUST AS SURELY. SIDNEY TROD THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR AND FOUND THAT ITS THORNS PIERCED TO BONE AND MARROW. OH JIM CONWAY'S PLACE SAID CALEB. YOU SEE THAT ROAD OUT THAR. AND THERE WAS NO HARBOUR OR GLIMPSE OF DISTANT SEA VISIBLE. HAD THE HOTEL KEEPER MADE A MISTAKE. THERE IS NO OTHER JAMES CONWAY IN PLAINFIELD SAID THE GIRL. THIS IS HIS PLACE NOBODY CALLS IT THE EVERGREENS BUT MYSELF. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HE SAID PERPLEXEDLY. OH SIDNEY THREW OUT HER HANDS IN A BURST OF PASSIONATE PROTEST. NO AND YOU NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND I CAN'T MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND. I DON'T UNDERSTAND SAID JOHN LINCOLN AGAIN. CAN YOU BE SIDNEY RICHMOND THE SIDNEY RICHMOND WHO HAS WRITTEN TO ME FOR FOUR YEARS I AM. THEN THOSE LETTERS WERE ALL LIES SAID SIDNEY BLUNTLY AND DESPERATELY. THERE WAS NOTHING TRUE IN THEM NOTHING AT ALL. THIS IS MY HOME WE ARE POOR. EVERYTHING I TOLD YOU ABOUT IT AND MY LIFE WAS JUST IMAGINATION. THEN WHY DID YOU WRITE THEM HE ASKED BLANKLY. WHY DID YOU DECEIVE ME. OH I DIDN'T MEAN TO DECEIVE YOU I NEVER THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/65525/65525_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/65525/65525_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91aa84c4118f1e0251228cb75bdb0e69fe8d34be --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6267/65525/65525_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHEN YOU ASKED ME TO WRITE TO YOU I WANTED TO BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT TO A STRANGER. I JUST COULDN'T WRITE YOU ABOUT MY LIFE HERE NOT BECAUSE IT WAS HARD BUT IT WAS SO UGLY AND EMPTY. SO I WROTE INSTEAD OF THE LIFE I WANTED TO LIVE THE LIFE I DID LIVE IN IMAGINATION. AND WHEN ONCE I HAD BEGUN I HAD TO KEEP IT UP. I FOUND IT SO FASCINATING TOO. THOSE LETTERS MADE THAT OTHER LIFE SEEM REAL TO ME I NEVER EXPECTED TO MEET YOU. THESE LAST FOUR DAYS SINCE YOUR LETTER CAME HAVE BEEN DREADFUL TO ME. OH PLEASE GO AWAY AND FORGIVE ME IF YOU CAN. I KNOW I CAN NEVER MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND HOW IT CAME ABOUT SIDNEY TURNED AWAY AND HID HER BURNING FACE AGAINST THE COOL WHITE BARK OF THE BIRCH TREE BEHIND HER. IT WAS WORSE THAN SHE HAD EVEN THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. HE WAS SO HANDSOME SO MANLY SO EARNEST EYED. OH WHAT A FRIEND TO LOSE. JOHN LINCOLN OPENED THE GATE AND WENT UP TO HER. PLEASE DON'T DISTRESS YOURSELF SO SIDNEY HE SAID UNCONSCIOUSLY USING HER CHRISTIAN NAME. I THINK I DO UNDERSTAND. I'M NOT SUCH A DULL FELLOW AS YOU TAKE ME FOR. AFTER ALL THOSE LETTERS WERE TRUE OR RATHER THERE WAS TRUTH IN THEM. YOU REVEALED YOURSELF MORE FAITHFULLY IN THEM THAN IF YOU HAD WRITTEN TRULY ABOUT YOUR NARROW OUTWARD LIFE. THIS YOUNG MAN WAS CERTAINLY GOOD AT UNDERSTANDING. YOU YOU'LL FORGIVE ME THEN SHE STAMMERED. YES IF THERE IS ANYTHING TO FORGIVE. AND FOR MY OWN PART I AM GLAD YOU ARE NOT WHAT I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6455/66379/66379_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6455/66379/66379_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..40f46366bc2bcfd86a96623321fd2d1ecf261749 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6455/66379/66379_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HALLO COLONEL HOW D'YE SELL YOUR WOOD THIS TIME. WHY CAPTING WE MUST CHARGE YOU THREE AND A QUARTER THIS TIME THE D L. SUPPER WAS OVER AND I RETIRED TO MY UPPER BERTH SITUATED ALONGSIDE AND OVERLOOKING THE BRAG TABLE WHERE THE CAPTAIN WAS DEEPLY ENGAGED HAVING NOW THE OTHER PILOT AS HIS PRINCIPAL OPPONENT. HEAD HER IN SHORE THEN AND TAKE IN SIX CORDS IF IT'S GOOD SEE TO IT THOMPSON I CAN'T VERY WELL LEAVE THE GAME NOW IT'S GETTING RIGHT WARM. THIS PILOT'S BEATING US ALL TO SMASH THE WOODING COMPLETED WE PADDLED ON AGAIN. THEY WERE ANXIOUS TO LEARN THE GAME AND THEY DID LEARN IT. STILL WITH ALL THESE DISADVANTAGES THEY CONTINUED PLAYING THEY WANTED TO LEARN THE GAME. OH PRETTY GLIBLY SIR REPLIED THE MATE WE CAN SCARCELY TELL WHAT HEADWAY WE ARE MAKING FOR WE ARE OBLIGED TO KEEP THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER AND THERE IS THE SHADOW OF A FOG RISING. THIS WOOD SEEMS RATHER BETTER THAN THAT WE TOOK IN AT YELLOW FACE'S BUT WE'RE NEARLY OUT AGAIN AND MUST BE LOOKING OUT FOR MORE. I SAW A LIGHT JUST AHEAD ON THE RIGHT SHALL WE HAIL. YES YES REPLIED THE CAPTAIN RING THE BELL AND ASK EM WHAT'S THE PRICE OF WOOD UP HERE. I'VE GOT YOU AGAIN HERE'S DOUBLE KINGS. DEAL SIR IF YOU PLEASE BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME. THE OTHER PILOT'S VOICE WAS AGAIN HEARD ON DECK HOW MUCH HAVE YOU. ONLY ABOUT TEN CORDS SIR WAS THE REPLY OF THE YOUTHFUL SALESMAN. THE CAPTAIN HERE TOLD THOMPSON TO TAKE SIX CORDS WHICH WOULD LAST TILL DAYLIGHT AND AGAIN TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE GAME. THE PILOTS HERE CHANGED PLACES WHEN DID THEY SLEEP. WOOD TAKEN IN THE CARAVAN AGAIN TOOK HER PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREAM PADDLING ON AS USUAL DAY AT LENGTH DAWNED. I HAD RISEN AND WENT OUT WITH THE CAPTAIN TO ENJOY A VIEW OF THE BLUFFS. THERE IT IS EXCLAIMED THE CAPTAIN STOP HER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6455/67804/67804_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6455/67804/67804_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b54b5e705753794918961bfc0ea4e37f2b9cd34 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6455/67804/67804_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I ACCOMPANY MY GRANDDAUGHTER TO THIS THIS ENTERTAINMENT HER LADYSHIP RESPONDED. IT IS SCARCELY A JOYOUS OCCASION TO MY MIND. NO NEED TO DRESS YOURSELF LIKE THAT IF IT ISN'T EJACULATED MISTER BINNIE. IF I WERE SURE THIS WAS THE SAME MAN I'D GO MYSELF. WHEN I FIND A FELLOW WHO'S NEITHER KNAVE NOR FOOL I STICK TO HIM BELIEVE I'LL SEND TO FIND OUT. THE ONLY TIME HE HAD MADE ANY COMMENT UPON HER WAS THE FIRST TIME HE SAW HER IN THE DRESS SHE HAD COPIED FROM OCTAVIA'S NICE GOWN THAT HE BLURTED OUT DIDN'T GET IT HERE I'LL WAGER. DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT HE SAID GRUFFLY. NO SHE ANSWERED I AM NOT AFRAID AT ALL. I SHALL NOT BE AFRAID AGAIN. IN FACT SHE HAD PERFECTLY CONFOUNDED HER LADYSHIP BY HER DEMEANOR. I BEG YOU WILL NOT SPEAK TO ME OF THAT AGAIN SHE SAID I WILL NOT LISTEN. AND TURNING ABOUT SHE WALKED OUT OF THE ROOM. AND NOTHING MORE HAD BEEN SAID ON THE SUBJECT SINCE. BEFORE BREAKFAST MISS BELINDA WAS STARTLED BY THE ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER TELEGRAM WHICH RAN AS FOLLOWS. ARRIVED TO DAY PER RUSSIA BE WITH YOU TOMORROW EVENING. FRIEND WITH ME MARTIN BASSETT. WELL REMARKED OCTAVIA I SUPPOSE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN ADVANTAGE. OCTAVIA WAS A MARKED FIGURE UPON THE GROUNDS AT THAT GARDEN PARTY ANOTHER DRESS MY DEAR REMARKED MISSUS BURNHAM. AND WHAT A CHARMING COLOR SHE HAS I DECLARE SHE IS USUALLY PALER. PERHAPS WE OWE THIS TO LORD LANSDOWNE. SHE'S PRETTIER THAN EVER TO DAY AND IS ENJOYING HERSELF. SHE WAS ENJOYING HERSELF MISTER FRANCIS BAROLD OBSERVED IT RATHER GLOOMILY AS HE STOOD APART. AND THEN HAD COME LORD LANSDOWNE WHO IN CROSSING THE LAWN TO SHAKE HANDS WITH HIS HOST HAD BEEN OBSERVED TO KEEP HIS EYE FIXED UPON ONE PARTICULAR POINT BURMISTONE HE SAID AFTER HAVING SPOKEN HIS FIRST WORDS WHO IS THAT TALL GIRL IN WHITE. AND IN TEN MINUTES LADY THEOBALD MISSUS BURNHAM MISTER BAROLD AND DIVERS OTHERS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION SAW HIM STANDING AT OCTAVIA'S SIDE EVIDENTLY WITH NO INTENTION OF LEAVING IT. NOT LONG AFTER THIS FRANCIS BAROLD FOUND HIS WAY TO MISS BELINDA WHO WAS VERY BUSY AND RATHER NERVOUS YOUR NIECE IS EVIDENTLY ENJOYING HERSELF HE REMARKED. OCTAVIA IS MOST HAPPY TO DAY ANSWERED MISS BELINDA. VERY FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTAND OCTAVIA SAID MISS BELINDA I'M NOT SURE THAT I FOLLOW ALL HER MOODS MYSELF. SHE IS NOT AS FRIVOLOUS AS SHE APPEARS TO THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW HER WELL. BAROLD STOOD GNAWING HIS MUSTACHE AND MADE NO REPLY HE WAS NOT VERY COMFORTABLE. HE FELT HIMSELF ILL USED BY FATE AND RATHER WISHED HE HAD RETURNED TO LONDON FROM BROADOAKS INSTEAD OF LOITERING IN SLOWBRIDGE. HE HAD AMUSED HIMSELF AT FIRST BUT IN TIME HE HAD BEEN SURPRISED TO FIND HIS AMUSEMENT LOSE SOMETHING OF ITS ZEST. IT'S DEUCEDLY BAD FORM ON HIS PART HE SAID MENTALLY WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY IT. OCTAVIA ON THE CONTRARY DID NOT ASK WHAT HE MEANT BY IT. WHERE HE EJACULATED I SAY WHAT A NAME. I HAD NOT OBSERVED IT ANSWERED HER LADYSHIP. BUT SHE GLARED AT BAROLD AS HE PASSED AND BECKONED TO HIM WHERE IS LUCIA SHE DEMANDED. I SAW HER WITH BURMISTONE HALF AN HOUR AGO HE ANSWERED COLDLY HAVE YOU ANY MESSAGE FOR MY MOTHER I SHALL RETURN TO LONDON TO MORROW LEAVING HERE EARLY SHE TURNED QUITE PALE. WHAT HAS HAPPENED SHE ASKED RIGIDLY HE LOOKED SLIGHTLY SURPRISED NOTHING WHATEVER HE REPLIED. I HAVE REMAINED HERE LONGER THAN I INTENDED. SHE BEGAN TO MOVE THE MANACLES ON HER RIGHT WRIST. SHE HAD NOT BROUGHT LUCIA UP UNDER HER OWN EYE FOR NOTHING \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/56885/56885_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/56885/56885_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7cf66f9dddcddf73c165d62959f16a0d5d118f35 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/56885/56885_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +KANTICHANDRA WAS YOUNG YET AFTER HIS WIFE'S DEATH HE SOUGHT NO SECOND PARTNER AND GAVE HIS MIND TO THE HUNTING OF BEASTS AND BIRDS. HIS BODY WAS LONG AND SLENDER HARD AND AGILE HIS SIGHT KEEN HIS AIM UNERRING. HE HAD NO LACK OF IDLE FOLLOWERS. IN THE MONTH OF AGRAHAYAN KANTI HAD GONE OUT SHOOTING NEAR THE SWAMP OF NYDIGHI WITH A FEW SPORTING COMPANIONS. THEY WERE IN BOATS AND AN ARMY OF SERVANTS IN BOATS ALSO FILLED THE BATHING GHATS. THE VILLAGE WOMEN FOUND IT WELL NIGH IMPOSSIBLE TO BATHE OR TO DRAW WATER. ALL DAY LONG LAND AND WATER TREMBLED TO THE FIRING OF THE GUNS AND EVERY EVENING MUSICIANS KILLED THE CHANCE OF SLEEP. ONE MORNING AS KANTI WAS SEATED IN HIS BOAT CLEANING A FAVOURITE GUN HE SUDDENLY STARTED AT WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS THE CRY OF WILD DUCK LOOKING UP HE SAW A VILLAGE MAIDEN COMING TO THE WATER'S EDGE WITH TWO WHITE DUCKLINGS CLASPED TO HER BREAST. THE LITTLE STREAM WAS ALMOST STAGNANT MANY WEEDS CHOKED THE CURRENT. THE GIRL PUT THE BIRDS INTO THE WATER AND WATCHED THEM ANXIOUSLY. IN ANOTHER MOMENT SHE HAD LEFT THE RIVER BANK AND DISAPPEARED INTO THE BAMBOO THICKET HARD BY. LOOKING ROUND KANTI SAW ONE OF HIS MEN POINTING AN UNLOADED GUN AT THE DUCKS. KANTI WENT ON CLEANING HIS GUN. THE ELDER MAN WELCOMED HIM WITH EAGER HOSPITALITY AND OFFERING HIM A SEAT ON THE BENCH WENT INSIDE AND FETCHED WITH HIS OWN HANDS A LITTLE BRASS PLATE OF SUGAR WAFERS AND A BELL METAL VESSEL FULL OF WATER. AFTER KANTI HAD EATEN AND DRUNK THE BRAHMIN BEGGED HIM TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF KANTI GAVE HIS OWN NAME HIS FATHER'S NAME AND THE ADDRESS OF HIS HOME AND THEN SAID IN THE USUAL WAY IF I CAN BE OF ANY SERVICE SIR I SHALL DEEM MYSELF FORTUNATE. IT IS MY DAUGHTER SUDHA WHO IS GROWING UP KANTI SMILED AS HE THOUGHT OF HER BABYISH FACE AND FOR WHOM I HAVE NOT YET BEEN ABLE TO FIND A WORTHY BRIDEGROOM. SO SAYING KANTI REPEATED HIS SALUTE AND WENT BACK. HE THEN SENT SOME OF HIS MEN INTO THE VILLAGE TO INQUIRE AND IN ANSWER HEARD NOTHING BUT PRAISE OF THE BEAUTY AND VIRTUES OF THE BRAHMIN'S DAUGHTER. WHEN NEXT DAY THE OLD MAN CAME TO THE BOAT ON HIS PROMISED VISIT KANTI BENT LOW IN SALUTATION AND BEGGED THE HAND OF HIS DAUGHTER FOR HIMSELF. AS YOU ARE SO GENEROUSLY TAKING HER ON TRUST MAY SHE NEVER CAUSE YOU A MOMENT'S REGRET THIS IS MY BLESSING. THE BRICK BUILT MANSION OF THE MAZUMDARS HAD BEEN BORROWED FOR THE WEDDING CEREMONY WHICH WAS FIXED FOR NEXT MAGH AS KANTI DID NOT WISH TO DELAY. IN DUE TIME THE BRIDEGROOM ARRIVED ON HIS ELEPHANT WITH DRUMS AND MUSIC AND WITH A TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION AND THE CEREMONY BEGAN. WHEN THE BRIDAL COUPLE WERE COVERED WITH THE SCARLET SCREEN FOR THE RITE OF THE AUSPICIOUS VISION KANTI LOOKED UP AT HIS BRIDE. IN THAT BASHFUL DOWNCAST FACE CROWNED WITH THE WEDDING CORONET AND BEDECKED WITH SANDAL PASTE HE COULD SCARCELY RECOGNISE THE VILLAGE MAIDEN OF HIS FANCY AND IN THE FULNESS OF HIS EMOTION A MIST SEEMED TO BECLOUD HIS EYES. AS HE DID SO HE STARTED BACK. THE LIGHT OF THE LAMPS SEEMED TO GROW DIM AND DARKNESS TO TARNISH THE FACE OF THE BRIDE HERSELF. AT FIRST HE FELT ANGRY WITH HIS FATHER IN LAW THE OLD SCOUNDREL HAD SHOWN HIM ONE GIRL AND MARRIED HIM TO ANOTHER. BUT ON CALMER REFLECTION HE REMEMBERED THAT THE OLD MAN HAD NOT SHOWN HIM ANY DAUGHTER AT ALL THAT IT WAS ALL HIS OWN FAULT HE THOUGHT IT BEST NOT TO SHOW HIS ARRANT FOLLY TO THE WORLD AND TOOK HIS PLACE AGAIN WITH APPARENT CALMNESS. HE COULD SWALLOW THE POWDER HE COULD NOT GET RID OF ITS TASTE. CLOSE UPON IT FOLLOWED THE GIRL HE HAD SEEN BEFORE. OH THE MAD GIRL CRIED THE WOMEN AS THEY MADE SIGNS TO HER TO LEAVE THE ROOM. THE GIRL SWAYED BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS BUT GAVE NO REPLY. ALL THE WOMEN IN THE ROOM BEGAN TO TITTER. THE INCREASING LAUGHTER IN THE ROOM BETOKENED AN AMUSING JOKE. KANTI NOW RECEIVED A SECOND SHOCK A BLACK SCREEN LIFTED FROM BEFORE HIS EYES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/62797/62797_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/62797/62797_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b93976a5a9004cd3ca582ff99f37d45e7c88013b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/62797/62797_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +OUT OF CURIOSITY HE HUNG ONE OF THEM OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE. HE GAVE A FEAST IN HONOUR OF HIS ACQUISITION OF WEALTH. HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY OUTCASTED FOR HIS MESALLIANCE WITH THE LOW CASTE FEMALE WHILE THOSE WHO ATE WITH HIM WERE PUT UNDER A BAN AND THUS ACQUIRED THE NICKNAME. THE VILLAGE GODDESS AT NANGAVARAM IN THE TRICHINOPOLY DISTRICT IS CALLED SATTANDI AMMAN AND HER IDOL REPRESENTS HER IN THE ACT OF WEAVING A GARLAND OF SCORPIONS. IT IS GENERALLY SUPPOSED THAT NO SCORPION CAN LIVE IN THIS VILLAGE AND THAT THE SACRED ASHES FROM SATTANDI AMMAN'S SHRINE ARE A SPECIFIC FOR SCORPION STINGS. BENEATH THE FLOOR OF THE MANTAPAM THERE IS A LARGE NUMBER OF SCORPIONS. THE IMMUNITY MAY POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF INNATE IDIOSYNCRATIC PECULIARITY IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PERFORMER OR MORE PROBABLY REPRESENTED THE OUTCOME OF ARTIFICIAL EXEMPTION ACQUIRED AT THE EXPENSE OF REPEATED INOCULATIONS WITH THE VIRUS AND CORRESPONDING DEVELOPMENT OF ITS ANTITOXIN. IN A LETTER TO A MEDICAL OFFICER A NATIVE WROTE THAT WHEN A PREGNANT WOMAN IS STUNG BY A SCORPION THE CHILD WHICH IS IN THE WOMB AT THE TIME OF SUCH STINGING WHEN DELIVERED DOES NOT SUFFER FROM THE STING OF A SCORPION IF EVER IT IS STUNG DURING ITS LIFETIME. ON THAT DAY THE SAKUNA PAKSHI BATHES CUTS OFF HIS LOIN CLOTH AND GOES STARK NAKED TO A SELECTED SPOT WHERE HE GATHERS THE ROOTS. IN CASES OF SCORPION STING DOMMARA MEDICINE MEN RUB UP PATENT BOLUSES WITH HUMAN MILK OR JUICE OF THE MILK HEDGE PLANT EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI AND APPLY THEM TO THE PARTS. THE EXCREMENT OF LIZARDS FED ON SCORPIONS AND THE UNDIGESTED FOOD IN THE STOMACH OF A FRESHLY KILLED GOAT DRIED AND REDUCED TO POWDER ARE ALSO BELIEVED TO BE EFFECTIVE REMEDIES. THE WHIP SCORPION THELYPHONUS IS BELIEVED TO BE VENOMOUS SOME NATIVES STATING THAT IT STINGS LIKE A SCORPION OTHERS THAT IT EJECTS A SLIMY FLUID WHICH BURNS AND PRODUCES BLISTERS. WHEN THE UMBILICAL CORD OF A KONDH BABY SLOUGHS OFF A SPIDER IS BURNT IN THE FIRE AND ITS ASHES ARE PLACED IN A COCOANUT SHELL MIXED WITH CASTOR OIL AND APPLIED BY MEANS OF A FOWL'S FEATHER TO THE NAVEL. THEY THEN CALL THE DEAD MAN BY HIS NAME AND EAGERLY WAIT TILL SOME INSECT SETTLES ON THE CLOTH. A LIGHT IS THEN PLACED ON THE SANDED FLOOR AND COVERED WITH A NEW POT. AFTER SOME TIME THE POT IS REMOVED AND THE SAND EXAMINED FOR ANY MARKS WHICH MAY BE LEFT ON IT. A DEVIL IN THE DISGUISE OF A DUNG BEETLE OF LARGE SIZE IS BELIEVED TO HAUNT THE HOUSE WHEREIN A BABY HAS BEEN NEWLY BORN AND THE IMPACT OF THE INSECT AGAINST THE INFANT WILL BRING ABOUT ITS INSTANT DEATH. ARRIVING AT HIS HOME HE RETIRED TO REST AND WAS FOUND DEAD IN THE MORNING. BLOOD WAS DESCRIBED AS OOZING OUT OF HIS EYES. MAKE THE PATIENT SUCK THE MILK OF THE BREAST OF A WOMAN WHOSE BABY IS MORE THAN EIGHTY DAYS OLD. THE ANTIDOTE WAS SAID TO BE SALT AND WATER AND THE LEAVES OF THE GOA GUAVA TREE. HIS CAMP BOY TOLD HIM OF A CASE IN WHICH DEATH WAS SAID TO HAVE RESULTED FROM EATING ONE OF THESE ANIMALS COOKED WITH SOME JAK FRUIT. A FEW YEARS AGO A SCARE AROSE IN CONNECTION WITH AN INSECT WHICH WAS SAID TO HAVE TAKEN UP ITS ABODE IN IMPORTED GERMAN GLASS BANGLES WHICH COMPETE WITH THE INDIGENOUS INDUSTRY OF THE GAZULA BANGLE MAKERS THE INSECT WAS REPORTED TO LIE LOW IN THE BANGLE TILL IT WAS PURCHASED WHEN IT WOULD COME OUT AND NIP THE WEARER AFTER WARNING HER TO GET HER AFFAIRS IN ORDER BEFORE SUCCUMBING \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/62797/62797_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/62797/62797_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..885a7d06509ca57d9d5de69160441311d30959ee --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/62797/62797_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A SPECIMEN OF A BROKEN BANGLE FROM WHICH THE INSECT WAS SAID TO HAVE BURST FORTH WAS SENT TO ME. BUT THE INSECT WAS NOT FORTHCOMING \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/94831/94831_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/94831/94831_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dc44202596a69c77a1e106e9ccfed963a019ddcd --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/94831/94831_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NO THIS IS A NEW PATENTED PROCESS. SAM DREW A SQUARE OF TIN FROM THE BOX. I DON'T SEE ANY PICTURE GROWLED SNUGGERS LOOKING AT THE SQUARE BLANKLY. IT'S A LITTLE FRESH YET. THE BOYS GATHERED AROUND SET UP A SHOUT. YOUR GIRL WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH THAT PICTURE PELEG I'M CERTAIN OF IT. SAM ROVER I'LL GIT SQUARE SEE IF I DON'T. AND HE STARTED TO WALK OFF WHY WHAT'S THE MATTER. DEMANDED SAM INNOCENTLY ISN'T IT A GOOD PICTURE. I'LL PICTURE YOU. I THOUGHT I WAS DOING MY BEST. SHOW ME OFF FOR A DONKEY. IF IT WASN'T AGAINST THE RULES I'D I'D WOLLOP YOU. A DONKEY OH PELEG I DID NOTHING OF THE KIND. HERE IS YOUR PICTURE ON MY WORD OF HONOR. IT'S A DONKEY'S HEAD I SAY. AND I SAY IT'S YOUR PICTURE. I GUESS I KNOW A DONKEY'S HEAD WHEN I SEE IT MASTER ROVER. I DIDN'T EXPECT NO SUCH JOKE FROM YOU THOUGH YOUR BROTHER TOM MIGHT HAVE PLAYED IT. BOYS ISN'T THIS A GOOD PICTURE. DEMANDED SAM SHOWING UP THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TIN SQUARE. WHY SPLENDID CAME FROM THE CROWD. PELEG THERE IS SOME MISTAKE HERE. OH YOU CAN'T JOKE ME NO MORE. RETURNED THE UTILITY MAN BUT JUST LOOK PLEADED SAM. ISN'T THAT A GOOD PICTURE OF YOU. IF YOU DON'T SAY SO YOURSELF I'LL GIVE YOU FIVE DOLLARS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/97061/97061_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/97061/97061_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62e7e2c55279328fb747febf6faadb31a3b58248 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/6467/97061/97061_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SHE HUMBLY BOWING DOWN SAID LET MY LORD PARDON HIS SERVANT FOR THE INJURY WHICH SHE HAS UNCONSCIOUSLY CAUSED. I AM AN APSARAS BORN FROM THE RAYS OF THE MOON. ONE DAY AS I WAS FLYING THROUGH THE AIR WEARING A WHITE DRESS A SWAN MISTAKING ME FOR A LOTUS FLOWER ATTACKED ME. IN HIS ANGER HE CURSED ME SAYING O WICKED ONE FOR THIS OFFENCE YOU ARE CONDEMNED TO BE CHANGED INTO A PIECE OF UNCONSCIOUS METAL. WHEN HOWEVER I ENTREATED FORGIVENESS HE WAS SO FAR APPEASED THAT HE MODIFIED THE CURSE AND GRANTED THAT I SHOULD STILL RETAIN CONSCIOUSNESS AND REMAIN AS A FETTER ON YOUR FEET FOR TWO MONTHS ONLY. THE CHANGE TOOK PLACE IMMEDIATELY AND I FELL TO THE GROUND TURNED INTO A SILVER CHAIN. ON HIS WAY HE SAW THE SILVER FETTER DESCENDED TO THE GROUND PICKED IT UP AND CONTINUED HIS FLIGHT. HAVING MADE HIMSELF INVISIBLE HE ENTERED WITHOUT DIFFICULTY THE APARTMENT OF THE PRINCESS AND WAS ASTONISHED AND ENRAGED ON FINDING HER LYING IN YOUR ARMS. YOU HAVE IN CONSEQUENCE SUFFERED ALL THIS MISERY. NOW MY TRANSFORMATION IS ENDED AND YOU ARE SO FAR FREE TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU IN ATONEMENT FOR THE SUFFERING WHICH I HAVE CAUSED. HELP CHANDAVARMA IS MURDERED. KILLED BY AN ASSASSIN WHO STABBED HIM AS HE WAS ABOUT TO TAKE THE HAND OF THE PRINCESS AND THAT MAN IS NOW MOVING ABOUT THE PALACE CUTTING DOWN ALL WHO ATTEMPT TO SEIZE HIM. RAJAVAHANA WHEN HE HEARD THIS WITHOUT LOSING A MOMENT AND BEFORE THE GUARDS HAD PERCEIVED HIS FEET TO BE UNFETTERED WITH A SUDDEN SPRING LEAPT ON THE ELEPHANT INTENDED FOR HIS DESTRUCTION AND HAVING THRUST OFF THE DRIVER URGED THE BEAST AT A RAPID PACE PUSHING ASIDE THE CROWD RIGHT AND LEFT AS HE WENT. HAVING GOT INTO THE COURTYARD HE SHOUTED WITH A LOUD VOICE WHO IS THE BRAVE MAN THAT HAS DONE THIS GREAT DEED HARDLY TO BE ACCOMPLISHED BY A MERE MORTAL. THE SLAYER OF CHANDAVARMA HEARING THIS CAME OUT OF THE PALACE AND QUICKLY MOUNTING THE ELEPHANT WHO HELD DOWN HIS TRUNK TO RECEIVE HIM PLACED HIMSELF BEHIND THE PRINCE. GREAT WAS THEIR MUTUAL ASTONISHMENT AND JOY WHEN THEY RECOGNISED EACH OTHER THE PRINCE EXCLAIMING IS IT POSSIBLE. IS IT REALLY YOU MY DEAR FRIEND APAHARAVARMA WHO HAVE DONE THIS DEED. THROUGH THESE THEY FORCED THEIR WAY EMPLOYING WITH GOOD EFFECT THE WEAPONS PLACED ON THE ELEPHANT FOR THE USE OF CHANDAVARMA. BEFORE HOWEVER THEY HAD GONE FAR THEY HEARD THE NOISE OF BATTLE AT A DISTANCE AND SAW THE SOLDIERS IN FRONT OF THEM SCATTERED IN ALL DIRECTIONS. WE HAVE JUST NOW ENCOUNTERED AND UTTERLY DEFEATED THE ENEMY SO THAT THERE IS NO FEAR OF ANY FURTHER RESISTANCE. RAJAVAHANA AGREED TO THIS. THEY WENT A LITTLE FURTHER AND DISMOUNTED AT A PLEASANT COOL BANK SHADED BY A LARGE BANIAN TREE AND CLOSE TO THE GANGES. WHEN THEY HAD BEEN FOR SOME TIME SEATED THERE DHANAMITTRA RETURNED ACCOMPANIED BY UPAHARAVARMA PRAMATI MITRAGUPTA MANTRAGUPTA VISRUTA PRAHARAVARMA KING OF MITHILA KAMAPALA LORD OF BENARES AND SINHAVARMA KING OF ANGA \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96252/96252_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96252/96252_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..126062238d6ed9f789a676958cff57a318684347 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7641/96252/96252_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IF IT WERE SO VIRTUE COULD BE TAUGHT AND BY HERE EXPRESSING IN ABSTRACT LANGUAGE ITS NATURE AND THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH LIES AT ITS FOUNDATION WE SHOULD MAKE EVERY ONE WHO COMPREHENDS THIS EVEN ETHICALLY BETTER. BUT THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE CASE. ON THE CONTRARY ETHICAL DISCOURSES AND PREACHING WILL JUST AS LITTLE PRODUCE A VIRTUOUS MAN AS ALL THE SYSTEMS OF AESTHETICS FROM ARISTOTLE DOWNWARDS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN PRODUCING A POET. FALSE DOGMAS DO NOT DISTURB IT TRUE ONES WILL SCARCELY ASSIST IT. IT WOULD IN FACT BE A BAD LOOK OUT IF THE CARDINAL FACT IN THE LIFE OF MAN HIS ETHICAL WORTH THAT WORTH WHICH COUNTS FOR ETERNITY WERE DEPENDENT UPON ANYTHING THE ATTAINMENT OF WHICH IS SO MUCH A MATTER OF CHANCE AS IS THE CASE WITH DOGMAS RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES AND PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES. ALL COMMUNICABLE KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER CAN ONLY AFFECT THE WILL AS A MOTIVE. THUS WHEN DOGMAS LEAD IT WHAT THE MAN REALLY AND IN GENERAL WILLS REMAINS STILL THE SAME. HE HAS ONLY RECEIVED DIFFERENT THOUGHTS AS TO THE WAYS IN WHICH IT IS TO BE ATTAINED AND IMAGINARY MOTIVES GUIDE HIM JUST LIKE REAL ONES. FOR THESE ARE CAREFUL ONLY FOR THEMSELVES FOR THEIR OWN EGOISM JUST LIKE THE BANDIT FROM WHOM THEY ARE ONLY DISTINGUISHED BY THE ABSURDITY OF THEIR MEANS. IN THE CASE OF GOOD DEEDS HOWEVER THE DOER OF WHICH APPEALS TO DOGMAS WE MUST ALWAYS DISTINGUISH WHETHER THESE DOGMAS REALLY ARE THE MOTIVES WHICH LEAD TO THE GOOD DEEDS OR WHETHER AS WAS SAID ABOVE THEY ARE MERELY THE ILLUSIVE ACCOUNT OF THEM WITH WHICH HE SEEKS TO SATISFY HIS OWN REASON WITH REGARD TO A GOOD DEED WHICH REALLY FLOWS FROM QUITE A DIFFERENT SOURCE A DEED WHICH HE DOES BECAUSE HE IS GOOD THOUGH HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HOW TO EXPLAIN IT RIGHTLY AND YET WISHES TO THINK SOMETHING WITH REGARD TO IT. BUT THIS DISTINCTION IS VERY HARD TO MAKE BECAUSE IT LIES IN THE HEART OF A MAN. THEREFORE WE CAN SCARCELY EVER PASS A CORRECT MORAL JUDGMENT ON THE ACTION OF OTHERS AND VERY SELDOM ON OUR OWN. THE DEEDS AND CONDUCT OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND OF A NATION MAY BE VERY MUCH MODIFIED THROUGH DOGMAS EXAMPLE AND CUSTOM. BUT IN THEMSELVES ALL DEEDS OPERA OPERATA ARE MERELY EMPTY FORMS AND ONLY THE DISPOSITION WHICH LEADS TO THEM GIVES THEM MORAL SIGNIFICANCE. THIS DISPOSITION HOWEVER MAY BE QUITE THE SAME WHEN ITS OUTWARD MANIFESTATION IS VERY DIFFERENT. WITH AN EQUAL DEGREE OF WICKEDNESS ONE MAN MAY DIE ON THE WHEEL AND ANOTHER IN THE BOSOM OF HIS FAMILY. IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT A PERFECT STATE OR PERHAPS INDEED A COMPLETE AND FIRMLY BELIEVED DOCTRINE OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS AFTER DEATH MIGHT PREVENT EVERY CRIME POLITICALLY MUCH WOULD BE GAINED THEREBY MORALLY NOTHING ONLY THE EXPRESSION OF THE WILL IN LIFE WOULD BE RESTRICTED. THUS GENUINE GOODNESS OF DISPOSITION DISINTERESTED VIRTUE AND PURE NOBILITY DO NOT PROCEED FROM ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE. WE WHO HERE SEEK THE THEORY OF VIRTUE AND HAVE THEREFORE ALSO TO EXPRESS ABSTRACTLY THE NATURE OF THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH LIES AT ITS FOUNDATION WILL YET BE UNABLE TO CONVEY THAT KNOWLEDGE ITSELF IN THIS EXPRESSION. WE CAN ONLY GIVE THE CONCEPT OF THIS KNOWLEDGE AND THUS ALWAYS START FROM ACTION IN WHICH ALONE IT BECOMES VISIBLE AND REFER TO ACTION AS ITS ONLY ADEQUATE EXPRESSION. BEFORE WE SPEAK OF THE GOOD PROPER IN OPPOSITION TO THE BAD WHICH HAS BEEN EXPLAINED WE MUST TOUCH ON AN INTERMEDIATE GRADE THE MERE NEGATION OF THE BAD THIS IS JUSTICE. TO THIS EXTENT THEREFORE HE SEES THROUGH THE PRINCIPIUM INDIVIDUATIONIS THE VEIL OF MAYA SO FAR HE SETS THE BEING EXTERNAL TO HIM ON A LEVEL WITH HIS OWN HE DOES IT NO INJURY. ONE WILL THEREFORE WISH TO RENDER TO OTHERS AS MUCH AS ONE RECEIVES FROM THEM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105815/105815_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105815/105815_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..104926ca005e6b7d4319dc8041b6492c64ad43f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105815/105815_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEN CHRISTIAN TOOK LEAVE OF HIS FRIEND WHO BADE HIM GOD SPEED. HE NOW WENT ON TILL HE CAME TO THE HOUSE AT THE DOOR OF WHICH HE WAS TO KNOCK THIS HE DID TWO OR THREE TIMES. AT LAST ONE CAME TO THE DOOR AND SAID WHO IS THERE. CHRISTIAN I HAVE COME TO SEE THE GOOD MAN OF THE HOUSE. CHRISTIAN SIR I AM COME FROM THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION AND AM ON MY WAY TO MOUNT ZION. I WAS TOLD BY THE MAN THAT STANDS AT THE GATE THAT IF I CAME HERE YOU WOULD SHOW ME GOOD THINGS THAT WOULD HELP ME. THEN INTERPRETER TOOK CHRISTIAN TO A ROOM AND BADE HIS MAN BRING A LIGHT AND THERE HE SAW ON THE WALL THE PRINT OF ONE WHO HAD A GRAVE FACE WHOSE EYES WERE CAST UP TO THE SKY AND THE BEST OF BOOKS WAS IN HIS HAND THE LAW OF TRUTH WAS ON HIS LIPS AND THE WORLD WAS AT HIS BACK. HE STOOD AS IF HE WOULD PLEAD FOR MEN AND A CROWN OF GOLD HUNG NEAR HIS HEAD. CHRISTIAN WHAT DOES THIS MEAN. INTERPRETER I HAVE SHOWN YOU THIS PRINT FIRST FOR THIS IS HE WHO IS TO BE YOUR SOLE GUIDE WHEN YOU CAN NOT FIND YOUR WAY TO THE LAND TO WHICH YOU GO SO TAKE GOOD HEED TO WHAT I HAVE SHOWN YOU LEST YOU MEET WITH SOME WHO WOULD FEIGN TO LEAD YOU RIGHT BUT THEIR WAY GOES DOWN TO DEATH. THEN HE TOOK HIM TO A LARGE ROOM THAT WAS FULL OF DUST FOR IT HAD NOT BEEN SWEPT AND INTERPRETER TOLD HIS MAN TO SWEEP IT. NOW WHEN HE DID SO SUCH CLOUDS OF DUST FLEW UP THAT IT MADE CHRISTIAN CHOKE. CHRISTIAN WHAT MEANS THIS. THE DUST IS HIS FIRST SIN AND THE VICE THAT IS IN HIM. NOW AS SOON AS YOU SAW THE FIRST OF THESE SWEEP THE DUST DID SO FLY THAT THE ROOM COULD NOT BE MADE CLEAN BY HIM THIS IS TO SHOW YOU THAT THE LAW AS IT WORKS DOES NOT CLEANSE THE HEART FROM SIN BUT GIVES STRENGTH TO SIN SO AS TO ROUSE IT UP IN THE SOUL. THEN YOU NEXT SAW THE MAID COME IN TO LAY THE DUST SO IS SIN MADE CLEAN AND LAID LOW BY FAITH IN THE BOOK. NOW SAID CHRISTIAN LET ME GO HENCE. WELL SAID INTERPRETER KEEP ALL THINGS SO IN THY MIND THAT THEY MAY BE A GOAD IN THY SIDES AND MAY FAITH GUIDE THEE. THEN I SAW IN MY DREAM THAT THE HIGH WAY WHICH CHRISTIAN WAS TO TREAD HAD A WALL ON EACH SIDE AND THE NAME OF THAT WALL WAS SALVATION. JUST AS CHRISTIAN CAME UP TO THE CROSS HIS LOAD SLID FROM HIS BACK CLOSE TO THE MOUTH OF THE TOMB WHERE IT FELL IN AND I SAW IT NO MORE. THEN WAS CHRISTIAN GLAD AND SAID WITH A GAY HEART HE GIVES ME REST BY HIS GRIEF AND LIFE BY HIS DEATH. YET HE STOOD STILL FOR A WHILE FOR HE WAS STRUCK WITH AWE TO THINK THAT THE SIGHT OF THE CROSS SHOULD THUS EASE HIM OF HIS LOAD. THREE OR FOUR TIMES DID HE LOOK ON THE CROSS AND THE TOMB AND THE TEARS ROSE TO HIS EYES. AS HE STOOD THUS AND WEPT LO THREE BRIGHT ONES CAME TO HIM AND ONE OF THEM SAID PEACE BE TO THEE THOU HAST GRACE FROM THY SINS. CHRISTIAN GAVE THREE LEAPS FOR JOY AND SANG AS HE WENT AH WHAT A PLACE IS THIS BLEST CROSS BLEST TOMB. NAY BLEST IS THE LORD THAT WAS PUT TO SHAME FOR ME. HE WENT ON THUS TILL HE CAME TO A VALE WHERE HE SAW THREE MEN WHO WERE IN A SOUND SLEEP WITH CHAINS ON THEIR FEET. THE NAME OF ONE WAS SIMPLE ONE SLOTH AND THE THIRD PRESUMPTION. WAKE RISE AND COME WITH ME. TRUST ME AND I WILL HELP YOU OFF WITH YOUR CHAINS. WITH THAT THEY CAST THEIR EYES UP TO LOOK AT HIM AND SIMPLE SAID I WOULD FAIN TAKE MORE SLEEP. PRESUMPTION SAID LET EACH MAN LOOK TO HIS OWN. AND SO THEY LAY DOWN TO SLEEP ONCE MORE. THEN I SAW IN MY DREAM THAT TWO MEN LEAPT FROM THE TOP OF THE WALL AND MADE GREAT HASTE TO COME UP TO HIM. THEIR NAMES WERE FORMALIST AND HYPOCRISY. CHRISTIAN SIRS WHENCE COME YOU AND WHERE DO YOU GO \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105815/105815_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105815/105815_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..35de722b87f502b86b539cb377168ff87cbb6fde --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105815/105815_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +FORMALIST AND HYPOCRISY WE WERE BORN IN THE LAND OF VAIN GLORY AND ARE ON OUR WAY TO MOUNT ZION FOR PRAISE. CHRISTIAN WHY CAME YOU NOT IN AT THE GATE. KNOW YOU NOT THAT HE THAT COMES NOT IN AT THE DOOR BUT CLIMBS UP TO GET IN THE SAME IS A THIEF. CHRISTIAN BUT WHAT WILL THE LORD OF THE TOWN TO WHICH WE ARE BOUND THINK OF IT IF WE GO NOT IN THE WAY OF HIS WILL. THEY TOLD CHRISTIAN THAT HE HAD NO NEED FOR CARE ON THAT SCORE FOR LONG USE HAD MADE IT LAW AND THEY COULD PROVE THAT IT HAD BEEN SO FOR YEARS. YES SAID THEY NO DOUBT OF IT. AND IF WE GET IN THE ROAD AT ALL PRAY WHAT ARE THE ODDS. IS NOT OUR CASE AS GOOD AS YOURS. CHRISTIAN I WALK BY THE RULE OF MY LORD BUT YOU WALK BY THE RULE OF YOUR OWN LUSTS. THE LORD OF THE WAY WILL COUNT YOU AS THIEVES AND YOU WILL NOT BE FOUND TRUE MEN IN THE END. I SAW THEN THAT THEY ALL WENT ON TILL THEY CAME TO THE FOOT OF THE HILL OF DIFFICULTY WHERE THERE WAS A SPRING. NOW WHEN CHRISTIAN GOT AS FAR AS THE SPRING OF LIFE HE DRANK OF IT AND THEN WENT UP THE HILL. I THEN SAW CHRISTIAN GO UP THE HILL WHERE AT FIRST I COULD SEE HIM RUN THEN WALK AND THEN GO ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES SO STEEP WAS IT. NOW HALF WAY UP WAS A CAVE MADE BY THE LORD OF THAT HILL THAT THOSE WHO CAME BY MIGHT REST THERE. AT THIS CHRISTIAN GAVE A START AND SPED ON HIS WAY AND WENT AT A QUICK PACE. TIMOROUS SAID THAT ZION WAS THE HILL THEY MEANT TO CLIMB BUT THAT WHEN THEY HAD GOT HALF WAY THEY FOUND THAT THEY MET WITH MORE AND MORE RISK SO THAT GREAT FEAR CAME ON THEM AND ALL THEY COULD DO WAS TO TURN BACK. YES SAID MISTRUST FOR JUST IN FRONT OF US THERE LAY TWO BEASTS OF PREY IN OUR PATH WE KNEW NOT IF THEY SLEPT OR NOT BUT WE THOUGHT THAT THEY WOULD FALL ON US AND TEAR OUR LIMBS. CHRISTIAN YOU ROUSE MY FEARS. WHERE MUST I FLY TO BE SAFE. YET HE THOUGHT ONCE MORE OF WHAT HE HAD HEARD FROM THE MEN AND THEN HE FELT IN HIS CLOAK FOR HIS SCROLL THAT HE MIGHT READ IT AND FIND SOME PEACE. HE FELT FOR IT BUT FOUND IT NOT. AT LAST THOUGHT HE I SLEPT IN THE CAVE BY THE SIDE OF THE HILL. SO HE FELL DOWN ON HIS KNEES TO PRAY THAT GOD WOULD GIVE HIM GRACE FOR THIS ACT AND THEN WENT BACK TO LOOK FOR HIS SCROLL. BUT AS HE WENT WHAT TONGUE CAN TELL THE GRIEF OF CHRISTIAN'S HEART. OH FOOL THAT I AM SAID HE TO SLEEP IN THE DAY TIME SO TO GIVE WAY TO THE FLESH AS TO USE FOR EASE THAT REST WHICH THE LORD OF THE HILL HAD MADE BUT FOR THE HELP OF THE SOUL. THUS THEN WITH TEARS AND SIGHS HE WENT BACK AND WITH MUCH CARE DID HE LOOK ON THIS SIDE AND ON THAT FOR HIS SCROLL. AT LENGTH HE CAME NEAR TO THE CAVE WHERE HE HAD SAT AND SLEPT. HOW FAR THOUGHT CHRISTIAN HAVE I GONE IN VAIN. SUCH WAS THE LOT OF THE JEWS FOR THEIR SIN THEY WERE SENT BACK BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA AND I AM MADE TO TREAD THOSE STEPS WITH GRIEF WHICH I MIGHT HAVE TROD WITH JOY HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THIS SLEEP. HOW FAR MIGHT I HAVE BEEN ON MY WAY BY THIS TIME. I AM MADE TO TREAD THOSE STEPS THRICE WHICH I NEED NOT TO HAVE TROD BUT ONCE YEA NOW TOO I AM LIKE TO BE LOST IN THE NIGHT FOR THE DAY IS WELL NIGH SPENT. O THAT I HAD NOT SLEPT. NOW BY THIS TIME HE HAD COME TO THE VALE ONCE MORE WHERE FOR A SPELL HE SAT DOWN AND WEPT BUT AT LAST AS HE CAST A SAD GLANCE AT THE FOOT OF THE BENCH HE SAW HIS SCROLL WHICH HE CAUGHT UP WITH HASTE AND PUT IN HIS CLOAK. WORDS ARE TOO WEAK TO TELL THE JOY OF CHRISTIAN WHEN HE HAD GOT BACK HIS SCROLL. HE LAID IT UP IN THE BREAST OF HIS COAT AND GAVE THANKS TO GOD. WITH WHAT A LIGHT STEP DID HE NOW CLIMB THE HILL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105815/105815_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105815/105815_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6dd7d9faf499e49c63767eb4fbdbaff798979c8d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105815/105815_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT ERE HE GOT TO THE TOP THE SUN WENT DOWN ON CHRISTIAN AND HE SOON SAW THAT TWO WILD BEAST STOOD IN HIS WAY. AH THOUGHT HE THESE BEASTS RANGE IN THE NIGHT FOR THEIR PREY AND IF THEY SHOULD MEET WITH ME IN THE DARK HOW SHOULD I FLY FROM THEM. I SEE NOW THE CAUSE OF ALL THOSE FEARS THAT DROVE MISTRUST AND TIMOROUS BACK. THE NAME OF THE MAN WHO KEPT THE LODGE OF THAT HOUSE WAS WATCHFUL AND WHEN HE SAW THAT CHRISTIAN MADE A HALT AS IF HE WOULD GO BACK HE CAME OUT TO HIM AND SAID IS THY STRENGTH SO SMALL. FEAR NOT THE TWO WILD BEASTS FOR THEY ARE BOUND BY CHAINS AND ARE PUT HERE TO TRY THE FAITH OF THOSE THAT HAVE IT AND TO FIND OUT THOSE THAT HAVE NONE. KEEP IN THE MIDST OF THE PATH AND NO HARM SHALL COME TO THEE. THEN I SAW IN MY DREAM THAT STILL HE WENT ON IN GREAT DREAD OF THE WILD BEASTS HE HEARD THEM ROAR YET THEY DID HIM NO HARM BUT WHEN HE HAD GONE BY THEM HE WENT ON WITH JOY TILL HE CAME AND STOOD IN FRONT OF THE LODGE WHERE WATCHFUL DWELT. CHRISTIAN SIR WHAT HOUSE IS THIS MAY I REST HERE TO NIGHT. WATCHFUL WHAT IS YOUR NAME. CHRISTIAN MY NAME IS NOW CHRISTIAN BUT AT FIRST IT WAS GRACELESS. WATCHFUL HOW IS IT YOU CAME SO LATE THE SUN IS SET. CHRISTIAN THEN TOLD HIM WHY IT WAS. SO HE RANG A BELL AT THE SOUND OF WHICH THERE CAME OUT AT THE DOOR A GRAVE AND FAIR MAID WHOSE NAME WAS DISCRETION. WHEN WATCHFUL TOLD HER WHY CHRISTIAN HAD COME THERE SHE SAID WHAT IS YOUR NAME. THEN CHRISTIAN BENT DOWN HIS HEAD AND WENT WITH THEM TO THE HOUSE. PIETY COME GOOD CHRISTIAN SINCE OUR LOVE PROMPTS US TO TAKE YOU IN TO REST LET US TALK WITH YOU OF ALL THAT YOU HAVE SEEN ON YOUR WAY. CHRISTIAN WITH A RIGHT GOOD WILL AND I AM GLAD THAT YOU SHOULD ASK IT OF ME. PRUDENCE AND FIRST SAY WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES YOU WISH SO MUCH TO GO TO MOUNT ZION. THERE THEY SAY IS NO DEATH AND THERE I SHALL DWELL WITH SUCH AS LOVE THE LORD. CHARITY HAVE YOU A WIFE AND BABES CHRISTIAN YES I HAVE. CHARITY AND WHY DID YOU NOT BRING THEM WITH YOU. CHRISTIAN THEN WEPT AND SAID OH HOW GLAD SHOULD I HAVE BEEN TO DO SO. BUT THEY WOULD NOT COME WITH ME NOR HAVE ME LEAVE THEM. CHARITY AND DID YOU PRAY TO GOD TO PUT IT IN THEIR HEARTS TO GO WITH YOU. CHRISTIAN YES AND THAT WITH MUCH WARMTH FOR YOU MAY THINK HOW DEAR THEY WERE TO ME. THUS DID CHRISTIAN TALK WITH THESE FRIENDS TILL IT GREW DARK AND THEN HE TOOK HIS REST IN A LARGE ROOM THE NAME OF WHICH WAS PEACE THERE HE SLEPT TILL BREAK OF DAY AND THEN HE SANG A HYMN. THEY TOLD HIM THAT HE SHOULD NOT LEAVE TILL THEY HAD SHOWN HIM ALL THE RARE THINGS THAT WERE IN THAT PLACE. AND THEY BROUGHT OUT THE JAW BONE OF AN ASS WITH WHICH SAMSON DID SUCH GREAT FEATS AND THE SLING AND STONE WITH WHICH DAVID SLEW GOLIATH OF GATH. THEN I SAW IN MY DREAM THAT CHRISTIAN ROSE TO TAKE HIS LEAVE OF DISCRETION AND OF PRUDENCE PIETY AND CHARITY BUT THEY SAID THAT HE MUST STAY TILL THE NEXT DAY THAT THEY MIGHT SHOW HIM THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS SO THEY TOOK HIM TO THE TOP OF THE HOUSE AND BADE HIM LOOK TO THE SOUTH WHICH HE DID AND LO A GREAT WAY OFF HE SAW A RICH LAND FULL OF HILLS WOODS VINES SHRUBS AND STREAMS. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS LAND SAID CHRISTIAN. THEN THEY TOLD HIM IT WAS IMMANUEL'S LAND. THEN THEY GAVE HIM A SWORD AND PUT ON HIM A COAT OF MAIL WHICH WAS PROOF FROM HEAD TO FOOT LEST HE SHOULD MEET SOME FOE IN THE WAY AND THEY WENT WITH HIM DOWN THE HILL. OF A TRUTH SAID CHRISTIAN IT IS AS GREAT A TOIL TO COME DOWN THE HILL AS IT WAS TO GO UP. SO THOUGH HE WENT WITH GREAT CARE YET HE CAUGHT A SLIP OR TWO \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105817/105817_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105817/105817_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7e7fe0896ea0c0d0eb3f3d8376d0c887b3f03b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/105817/105817_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MORE THAN THIS HE HATH BEEN HEARD TO RAIL ON YOU MY LORD WHO ARE NOW HIS JUDGE. JUDGE THY JUST DOOM WOULD BE TO DIE ON THE SPOT STILL LET US HEAR WHAT THOU HAST TO SAY. THEN THE JUDGE TO SUM UP THE CASE SPOKE THUS YOU SEE THIS MAN WHO HAS MADE SUCH A STIR IN OUR TOWN. YOU HAVE HEARD WHAT THESE GOOD MEN HAVE SAID OF HIM WHICH HE OWNS TO BE TRUE. IT RESTS NOW TO YOU TO SAVE HIS LIFE OR HANG HIM. THUS WHILE ONE LOST HIS LIFE FOR THE TRUTH A NEW MAN ROSE FROM HIS DEATH TO TREAD THE SAME WAY WITH CHRISTIAN. ON EACH SIDE OF IT WERE GREEN TREES THAT BORE FRUIT AND IN A FIELD THROUGH WHICH IT RAN THEY LAY DOWN TO SLEEP. COME GOOD HOPEFUL SAID CHRISTIAN LET US WALK ON THE GRASS. HOPEFUL BUT WHAT IF THIS PATH SHOULD LEAD US WRONG. CHRISTIAN HOW CAN IT LOOK DOTH IT NOT GO BY THE WAY SIDE. SO THEY SET OFF THROUGH THE FIELD. WHERE ARE WE NOW SAID HOPEFUL. THEN WAS CHRISTIAN MUTE AS HE THOUGHT HE HAD LED HIS FRIEND OUT OF THE WAY. AND NOW LIGHT WAS SEEN TO FLASH FROM THE SKY AND RAIN CAME DOWN IN STREAMS. CHRISTIAN WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THIS PATH SHOULD LEAD US WRONG. HOPEFUL I HAD MY FEARS FROM THE FIRST AND SO GAVE YOU A HINT CHRISTIAN GOOD FRIEND I GRIEVE THAT I HAVE BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE RIGHT PATH. HOPEFUL SAY NO MORE NO DOUBT IT IS FOR OUR GOOD. CHRISTIAN WE MUST NOT STAND THUS LET US TRY TO GO BACK. THEN THEY HEARD A VOICE SAY SET THINE HEART TO THE HIGH WAY THE WAY THOU HAST BEEN TURN ONCE MORE. NOR COULD THEY WITH ALL THEIR SKILL GET BACK THAT NIGHT. SO THEY FOUND A SCREEN FROM THE RAIN AND THERE THEY SLEPT TILL BREAK OF DAY. WHENCE ARE YOU SAID HE AND WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE. THEN SAID GIANT DESPAIR YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO FORCE YOUR WAY IN HERE THE GROUND ON WHICH YOU LIE IS MINE. THEY HAD NOT MUCH TO SAY AS THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE IN FAULT. HERE THEY WERE KEPT FOR THREE DAYS AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT NOR FOOD NOR A DROP TO DRINK ALL THAT TIME AND NO ONE TO ASK THEM HOW THEY DID. NOW GIANT DESPAIR HAD A WIFE WHOSE NAME WAS DIFFIDENCE AND HE TOLD HER WHAT HE HAD DONE. AND BY THIS ACT WE KILL OUR SOULS AS WELL. MY FRIEND CHRISTIAN YOU TALK OF EASE IN THE GRAVE BUT CAN A MAN GO TO BLISS WHO TAKES HIS OWN LIFE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/245712/245712_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/245712/245712_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c6e2c97157b8c7ccbf44cf479672842b0e77367f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/245712/245712_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +OF THE MASTERSHIP BELONGING TO MAN IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE IN FOUR ARTICLES. WE NEXT CONSIDER THE MASTERSHIP WHICH BELONGED TO MAN IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE. UNDER THIS HEAD THERE ARE FOUR POINTS OF INQUIRY. ONE WHETHER MAN IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE WAS MASTER OVER THE ANIMALS. TWO WHETHER HE WAS MASTER OVER ALL CREATURES. FOUR WHETHER IN THAT STATE MAN WOULD HAVE BEEN MASTER OVER MEN. BUT THE ANGELS NEED NOT HAVE INTERVENED THUS IF MAN HIMSELF WERE MASTER OVER THE ANIMALS. THEREFORE IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN HAD NO MASTERSHIP OF THE ANIMALS. THEREFORE ALL ANIMALS WERE NOT BROUGHT UNDER THE MASTERSHIP OF MAN. THEREFORE AT LEAST BEFORE SIN IT WAS UNFITTING FOR MAN TO MAKE USE OF HIS MASTERSHIP. THEREFORE IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE BEFORE MAN HAD DISOBEYED NOTHING DISOBEYED HIM THAT WAS NATURALLY SUBJECT TO HIM. SECONDLY THIS IS PROVED BY THE ORDER OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE WHICH ALWAYS GOVERNS INFERIOR THINGS BY THE SUPERIOR. THIRDLY THIS IS PROVED FROM A PROPERTY OF MAN AND OF OTHER ANIMALS. NOW WHATEVER IS PARTICIPATED IS SUBJECT TO WHAT IS ESSENTIAL AND UNIVERSAL. THEREFORE THE SUBJECTION OF OTHER ANIMALS TO MAN IS PROVED TO BE NATURAL. NOW AN ANGEL IS NATURALLY HIGHER THAN MAN. THEY WOULD NOT HOWEVER ON THIS ACCOUNT HAVE BEEN EXCEPTED FROM THE MASTERSHIP OF MAN AS NEITHER AT PRESENT ARE THEY FOR THAT REASON EXCEPTED FROM THE MASTERSHIP OF GOD WHOSE PROVIDENCE HAS ORDAINED ALL THIS. BUT MAN NEEDED ANIMALS IN ORDER TO HAVE EXPERIMENTAL KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR NATURES. THIS IS SIGNIFIED BY THE FACT THAT GOD LED THE ANIMALS TO MAN THAT HE MIGHT GIVE THEM NAMES EXPRESSIVE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE NATURES. SO ALL ANIMALS WOULD HAVE OBEYED MAN OF THEIR OWN ACCORD AS IN THE PRESENT STATE SOME DOMESTIC ANIMALS OBEY HIM. OBJECTION ONE IT WOULD SEEM THAT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN WOULD NOT HAVE HAD MASTERSHIP OVER ALL OTHER CREATURES. MUCH LESS THEREFORE WOULD IT HAVE OBEYED MAN IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE. NOW THESE DO NOT NATURALLY OBEY REASON AS WE CAN SEE IN THE CASE OF ANY ONE MAN. THEREFORE SINCE IT IS BY HIS REASON THAT MAN IS COMPETENT TO HAVE MASTERSHIP IT SEEMS THAT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN HAD NO DOMINION OVER PLANTS. NOW IN MAN REASON HAS THE POSITION OF A MASTER AND NOT OF A SUBJECT. SO IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN HAD MASTERSHIP OVER THE ANIMALS BY COMMANDING THEM. OBJECTION ONE IT WOULD SEEM THAT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN EQUAL. BUT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE THERE WAS NO SIN THEREFORE ALL WERE EQUAL. NOW IN THAT STATE THERE WAS AMONG MEN AN ABUNDANCE OF LOVE WHICH IS THE BOND OF PEACE. THEREFORE ALL WERE EQUAL IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE. I ANSWER THAT WE MUST NEEDS ADMIT THAT IN THE PRIMITIVE STATE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN SOME INEQUALITY AT LEAST AS REGARDS SEX BECAUSE GENERATION DEPENDS UPON DIVERSITY OF SEX AND LIKEWISE AS REGARDS AGE FOR SOME WOULD HAVE BEEN BORN OF OTHERS NOR WOULD SEXUAL UNION HAVE BEEN STERILE. MOREOVER AS REGARDS THE SOUL THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN INEQUALITY AS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND KNOWLEDGE. FOR MAN WORKED NOT OF NECESSITY BUT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL BY VIRTUE OF WHICH MAN CAN APPLY HIMSELF MORE OR LESS TO ACTION DESIRE OR KNOWLEDGE HENCE SOME WOULD HAVE MADE A GREATER ADVANCE IN VIRTUE AND KNOWLEDGE THAN OTHERS. THERE MIGHT ALSO HAVE BEEN BODILY DISPARITY. INEQUALITY MIGHT ALSO ARISE ON THE PART OF NATURE AS ABOVE DESCRIBED WITHOUT ANY DEFECT OF NATURE. OBJECTION ONE IT WOULD SEEM THAT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MASTER OVER MAN. THEREFORE IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE MAN WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO MAN. BUT AMONG THE ANGELS SOME RULE OVER OTHERS AND SO ONE ORDER IS CALLED THAT OF DOMINATIONS. IN ANOTHER SENSE MASTERSHIP IS REFERRED IN A GENERAL SENSE TO ANY KIND OF SUBJECT AND IN THIS SENSE EVEN HE WHO HAS THE OFFICE OF GOVERNING AND DIRECTING FREE MEN CAN BE CALLED A MASTER. BUT A MAN IS THE MASTER OF A FREE SUBJECT BY DIRECTING HIM EITHER TOWARDS HIS PROPER WELFARE OR TO THE COMMON GOOD. SUCH A KIND OF MASTERSHIP WOULD HAVE EXISTED IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE BETWEEN MAN AND MAN FOR TWO REASONS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/245712/245712_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/245712/245712_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..56a999faa9cae9ae99f0521f4890b4a6873aa733 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/245712/245712_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +FIRST BECAUSE MAN IS NATURALLY A SOCIAL BEING AND SO IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE HE WOULD HAVE LED A SOCIAL LIFE. NOW A SOCIAL LIFE CANNOT EXIST AMONG A NUMBER OF PEOPLE UNLESS UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF ONE TO LOOK AFTER THE COMMON GOOD FOR MANY AS SUCH SEEK MANY THINGS WHEREAS ONE ATTENDS ONLY TO ONE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/245715/245715_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/245715/245715_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9415e16f0d187d75caff71008c80076cf0f348c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/7697/245715/245715_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT MAN IS NOBLER THAN OTHER ANIMALS. BUT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO WEAKNESS OF OLD AGE. THEREFORE NEITHER WOULD THERE HAVE BEEN SUCH WEAKNESS IN INFANCY. ON THE CONTRARY EVERYTHING GENERATED IS FIRST IMPERFECT BUT IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE CHILDREN WOULD HAVE BEEN BEGOTTEN BY GENERATION. THEREFORE FROM THE FIRST THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPERFECT IN BODILY SIZE AND POWER. I ANSWER THAT BY FAITH ALONE DO WE HOLD TRUTHS WHICH ARE ABOVE NATURE AND WHAT WE BELIEVE RESTS ON AUTHORITY. WHEREFORE IN MAKING ANY ASSERTION WE MUST BE GUIDED BY THE NATURE OF THINGS EXCEPT IN THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE NATURE AND ARE MADE KNOWN TO US BY DIVINE AUTHORITY. BUT IN GENERATION THE ACTIVE FORCE IS IN THE MALE. THEREFORE IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE THERE WAS NO NEED FOR WOMEN TO BE BORN ON THE CONTRARY NATURE'S PROCESS IN GENERATION WOULD HAVE BEEN IN HARMONY WITH THE MANNER IN WHICH IT WAS ESTABLISHED BY GOD \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/8173/294714/294714_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8173/294714/294714_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e8e312a9f8e74ea97bae0d9aa03af2064242f682 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8173/294714/294714_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THANKS TO THE HAPPY ACCIDENT OF MY POSITION THE ONE CERTAIN WAY OF PROTECTING HER LAY EASILY WITHIN MY REACH. I COULD OFFER TO LEND THE SCOUNDREL THE MONEY THAT HE WANTED AT AN HOUR'S NOTICE AND HE WAS THE MAN TO ACCEPT MY PROPOSAL QUITE AS EASILY AS I COULD MAKE IT. YOU ARE QUITE MISTAKEN I REPLIED. I AM ONLY DOUBTING WHETHER YOUR PLAN FOR RELIEVING MISTER VAN BRANDT OF HIS EMBARRASSMENTS IS QUITE SO SIMPLE AS YOU SUPPOSE. ARE YOU AWARE OF THE DELAYS THAT ARE LIKELY TO TAKE PLACE BEFORE IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO BORROW MONEY ON YOUR POLICY OF INSURANCE. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT SHE SAID SADLY. WILL YOU LET ME ASK THE ADVICE OF MY LAWYERS. THEY ARE TRUSTWORTHY AND EXPERIENCED MEN AND I AM SURE THEY CAN BE OF USE TO YOU. CAUTIOUSLY AS I HAD EXPRESSED MYSELF HER DELICACY TOOK THE ALARM. PROMISE THAT YOU WON'T ASK ME TO BORROW MONEY OF YOU FOR MISTER VAN BRANDT SHE REJOINED AND I WILL ACCEPT YOUR HELP GRATEFULLY. I COULD HONESTLY PROMISE THAT. MY ONE CHANCE OF SAVING HER LAY IN KEEPING FROM HER KNOWLEDGE THE COURSE THAT I HAD NOW DETERMINED TO PURSUE. I ROSE TO GO WHILE MY RESOLUTION STILL SUSTAINED ME. KISS ME SHE WHISPERED BEFORE YOU GO. IT IS ONLY YOUR GOODNESS THAT OVERPOWERS ME \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/115543/115543_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/115543/115543_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d529b4c5e897cbae67004ca9ecccaa3b0ff2cfd --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/115543/115543_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MEANWHILE THE OXEN TETHERED CLOSE BY WERE EATING THEIR SUPPERS OF CHOPPED STRAW. AS SUPPER WAS BEING EATEN ANOTHER PARTY STOPPED AT THE PARAO AND CAMPED NOT FAR AWAY. WHEN THE LITTER WAS PUT DOWN A YOUNG BOY STEPPED OUT LOOKING VERY PROUD AND HAUGHTY. HIS SERVANTS AT ONCE SPREAD A HANDSOME RUG ON THE GROUND FOR HIM TO SIT ON AND RUSHED ABOUT WAITING ON HIM TAKING GOOD CARE TO KEEP EVERY ONE AT A DISTANCE. YES AND HOW HE ORDERS EVERY ONE ABOUT HIM. AROUND THE LITTLE BRAHMIN'S NECK WAS A THIN CORD OR THREAD WHICH WAS THE SIGN OF HIS HIGH CASTE. JUST THEN A LITTLE BOY FROM ONE OF THE WAGONS CREPT UP NEAR AND SALAAMED BEFORE HIM UNTIL HIS HEAD TOUCHED THE GROUND AWAY. THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT THE LITTLE BOY WHO CREPT MEEKLY BACK TO HIS CART. MEANWHILE THE HAUGHTY LITTLE BRAHMIN ATE HIS SUPPER WITH HIS HEAD TURNED AWAY SO NO ONE COULD SEE HIM EAT AND THEN GROWING TIRED OF RESPECTFUL GLANCES OF THE CROWD AROUND HIM HE GOT INTO HIS LITTER AGAIN AND THE SERVANTS FASTENED THE CURTAINS TIGHTLY AROUND HIM. EVERYBODY SLEPT SOUNDLY IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE SERVANTS WAS BEATING A DRUM MOST OF THE NIGHT WHICH THEY REALLY BELIEVED WAS THE WAY TO KEEP OFF EVIL SPIRITS. OH THE THIEVES HE CRIED. THEY ARE AS BAD AS THE BEGGARS. THEY DID NOT SEE THE LITTLE BRAHMIN AGAIN. WHAT ART THOU GUARDING SO CAREFULLY SHRIYA ASKED HER BROTHER. HE AND CHOLA WERE WALKING BESIDE THE WAGON FOR A CHANGE. THE LATTICES WERE RAISED SO SHRIYA AND HER MOTHER AND AUNT COULD ENJOY THE FRESH AIR. THEY ARE MY DOLLS SAID THE LITTLE GIRL SADLY AS SHE PATTED THE BUNDLE BESIDE HER. I TAKE THEM AS AN OFFERING TO THE HOLY RIVER POOR LITTLE WOMAN. MUST THOU SACRIFICE THY TOYS TOO. SMILED HER UNCLE AS HE PATTED HER HEAD \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/84205/84205_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/84205/84205_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8ea27a3c917e6650a419b43dc57947b31fd0ae5 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/dev-other/8254/84205/84205_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEN HE BEGAN TO WALK UP AND DOWN SLOWLY EVIDENTLY DEEP IN THOUGHT. THERE HE SAID I'VE MADE UP MY MIND. IT IS VERY EVIDENT THAT WE MAY WAIT HERE TILL OUR STORES ARE EXHAUSTED AND BE AS FAR OFF THE OPPORTUNITY WE SEEK AS EVER. THE INDIANS CAN WAIT WE CANNOT AND THEY SEEM TO KNOW IT. GOING TO GIVE UP YOUNG CHRIS'S PLAN SAID GRIGGS SLOWLY. NO I'M GOING TO PUT IT IN FORCE AT ONCE WE START TO NIGHT. A THRILL OF EXCITEMENT RAN THROUGH CHRIS AND HIS HEART BEGAN TO BEAT. THEN HE WAS LISTENING SO TO SPEAK WITH ALL HIS MIGHT. BUT ALL THE SAME WE CAN BE MAKING OUR PREPARATIONS. THE BARRELS CAN BE FILLED WITH WATER AND EVERY ONE'S BOTTLE. PROVISIONS CAN BE PACKED IN OUR WALLETS IN FACT EVERYTHING HELD READY FOR A START. FINALLY JUST AT DUSK THE ANIMALS CAN BE DRIVEN IN FOR FOOD AND WATER AND. EXACTLY REPLIED THE DOCTOR. BUT BEFORE ANY MORE IS SAID GRIGGS I WANT TO OFFER YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO DRAW BACK. WHAT FOR SAID GRIGGS SHARPLY. BECAUSE IT IS A VERY RISKY THING TO DO. YOU PROPOSE OFFERING YOURSELF FOR A MARK TO THE INDIANS ARROWS AND. NOT A BIT OF IT SIR I'M GOING TO TAKE CARE THEY DON'T HIT ME. YES YES BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. I MEAN TO DO A BIT TO CARRY OUT YOUNG CHRIS'S PLAN AND SHUT UP THE REDSKINS FOR A WEEK OR TWO PERHAPS A MONTH WHILE WE GET RIGHT AWAY. THERE IS A HORRIBLE SIDE TO IT GRIGGS. WOULD BE IF WE LET THEM GET THE BETTER OF US SIR. YOU MEAN THE SHUTTING UP THE ENEMY HERE TO STARVE. EJACULATED GRIGGS SO SHARPLY THAT THE BOYS STARTED SERVE EM RIGHT IF THEY DID SIR. WHAT BUSINESS HAVE THEY TO WANT OUR SCALPS BUT WE SHOULDN'T SHUT THEM UP TO STARVE. THEY'D HAVE WEEKS OF WORK BEFORE THEY COULD GET THEIR HORSES OUT BUT WITHOUT HORSES THEY'D BE OUT IN A WEEK. STARVE NONSENSE. THEY'D HAVE THE WATER THEY CAN MAKE FIRES AND COOK THEIR HORSES. IT TAKES A DEAL TO STARVE A REDSKIN. BUT THERE I DON'T WANT TO MAKE SPEECHES IT'S ALL SETTLED GENTLEMEN. BUT YOU'VE GOT TO TELL THE LOOKOUT WHAT'S COMING OFF. NOW EVERY ONE UNDERSTANDS THAT HE IS TO BE READY WITHOUT SHOWING ANY WATCHFUL INDIAN SCOUT THAT THERE IS SOMETHING ON THE WAY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1221/135766/135766_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1221/135766/135766_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9a6a4dea6850bcede038143afef42879c647fdee --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1221/135766/135766_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WE HAVE AS YET HARDLY SPOKEN OF THE INFANT THAT LITTLE CREATURE WHOSE INNOCENT LIFE HAD SPRUNG BY THE INSCRUTABLE DECREE OF PROVIDENCE A LOVELY AND IMMORTAL FLOWER OUT OF THE RANK LUXURIANCE OF A GUILTY PASSION. HOW STRANGE IT SEEMED TO THE SAD WOMAN AS SHE WATCHED THE GROWTH AND THE BEAUTY THAT BECAME EVERY DAY MORE BRILLIANT AND THE INTELLIGENCE THAT THREW ITS QUIVERING SUNSHINE OVER THE TINY FEATURES OF THIS CHILD. HER PEARL FOR SO HAD HESTER CALLED HER NOT AS A NAME EXPRESSIVE OF HER ASPECT WHICH HAD NOTHING OF THE CALM WHITE UNIMPASSIONED LUSTRE THAT WOULD BE INDICATED BY THE COMPARISON. BUT SHE NAMED THE INFANT PEARL AS BEING OF GREAT PRICE PURCHASED WITH ALL SHE HAD HER MOTHER'S ONLY TREASURE. HOW STRANGE INDEED. MAN HAD MARKED THIS WOMAN'S SIN BY A SCARLET LETTER WHICH HAD SUCH POTENT AND DISASTROUS EFFICACY THAT NO HUMAN SYMPATHY COULD REACH HER SAVE IT WERE SINFUL LIKE HERSELF. GOD AS A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF THE SIN WHICH MAN THUS PUNISHED HAD GIVEN HER A LOVELY CHILD WHOSE PLACE WAS ON THAT SAME DISHONOURED BOSOM TO CONNECT HER PARENT FOR EVER WITH THE RACE AND DESCENT OF MORTALS AND TO BE FINALLY A BLESSED SOUL IN HEAVEN. YET THESE THOUGHTS AFFECTED HESTER PRYNNE LESS WITH HOPE THAN APPREHENSION. SHE KNEW THAT HER DEED HAD BEEN EVIL SHE COULD HAVE NO FAITH THEREFORE THAT ITS RESULT WOULD BE GOOD. DAY AFTER DAY SHE LOOKED FEARFULLY INTO THE CHILD'S EXPANDING NATURE EVER DREADING TO DETECT SOME DARK AND WILD PECULIARITY THAT SHOULD CORRESPOND WITH THE GUILTINESS TO WHICH SHE OWED HER BEING. CERTAINLY THERE WAS NO PHYSICAL DEFECT. BY ITS PERFECT SHAPE ITS VIGOUR AND ITS NATURAL DEXTERITY IN THE USE OF ALL ITS UNTRIED LIMBS THE INFANT WAS WORTHY TO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FORTH IN EDEN WORTHY TO HAVE BEEN LEFT THERE TO BE THE PLAYTHING OF THE ANGELS AFTER THE WORLD'S FIRST PARENTS WERE DRIVEN OUT. THE CHILD HAD A NATIVE GRACE WHICH DOES NOT INVARIABLY CO EXIST WITH FAULTLESS BEAUTY ITS ATTIRE HOWEVER SIMPLE ALWAYS IMPRESSED THE BEHOLDER AS IF IT WERE THE VERY GARB THAT PRECISELY BECAME IT BEST. BUT LITTLE PEARL WAS NOT CLAD IN RUSTIC WEEDS. HER MOTHER WITH A MORBID PURPOSE THAT MAY BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD HEREAFTER HAD BOUGHT THE RICHEST TISSUES THAT COULD BE PROCURED AND ALLOWED HER IMAGINATIVE FACULTY ITS FULL PLAY IN THE ARRANGEMENT AND DECORATION OF THE DRESSES WHICH THE CHILD WORE BEFORE THE PUBLIC EYE. SO MAGNIFICENT WAS THE SMALL FIGURE WHEN THUS ARRAYED AND SUCH WAS THE SPLENDOUR OF PEARL'S OWN PROPER BEAUTY SHINING THROUGH THE GORGEOUS ROBES WHICH MIGHT HAVE EXTINGUISHED A PALER LOVELINESS THAT THERE WAS AN ABSOLUTE CIRCLE OF RADIANCE AROUND HER ON THE DARKSOME COTTAGE FLOOR. AND YET A RUSSET GOWN TORN AND SOILED WITH THE CHILD'S RUDE PLAY MADE A PICTURE OF HER JUST AS PERFECT. PEARL'S ASPECT WAS IMBUED WITH A SPELL OF INFINITE VARIETY IN THIS ONE CHILD THERE WERE MANY CHILDREN COMPREHENDING THE FULL SCOPE BETWEEN THE WILD FLOWER PRETTINESS OF A PEASANT BABY AND THE POMP IN LITTLE OF AN INFANT PRINCESS. THROUGHOUT ALL HOWEVER THERE WAS A TRAIT OF PASSION A CERTAIN DEPTH OF HUE WHICH SHE NEVER LOST AND IF IN ANY OF HER CHANGES SHE HAD GROWN FAINTER OR PALER SHE WOULD HAVE CEASED TO BE HERSELF IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NO LONGER PEARL. THIS OUTWARD MUTABILITY INDICATED AND DID NOT MORE THAN FAIRLY EXPRESS THE VARIOUS PROPERTIES OF HER INNER LIFE. HER NATURE APPEARED TO POSSESS DEPTH TOO AS WELL AS VARIETY BUT OR ELSE HESTER'S FEARS DECEIVED HER IT LACKED REFERENCE AND ADAPTATION TO THE WORLD INTO WHICH SHE WAS BORN. THE CHILD COULD NOT BE MADE AMENABLE TO RULES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1180/1180_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1180/1180_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..23fa9476ef0d0b357bf53fee4c97ac118997de79 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1180/1180_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +JUST AT DAWN NEXT MORNING UNC NUNKIE LAID HIS HAND TENDERLY ON OJO'S HEAD AND AWAKENED HIM. COME HE SAID OJO DRESSED. HE WORE BLUE SILK STOCKINGS BLUE KNEE PANTS WITH GOLD BUCKLES A BLUE RUFFLED WAIST AND A JACKET OF BRIGHT BLUE BRAIDED WITH GOLD. HIS SHOES WERE OF BLUE LEATHER AND TURNED UP AT THE TOES WHICH WERE POINTED. HIS HAT HAD A PEAKED CROWN AND A FLAT BRIM AND AROUND THE BRIM WAS A ROW OF TINY GOLDEN BELLS THAT TINKLED WHEN HE MOVED. THIS WAS THE NATIVE COSTUME OF THOSE WHO INHABITED THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF THE LAND OF OZ SO UNC NUNKIE'S DRESS WAS MUCH LIKE THAT OF HIS NEPHEW. INSTEAD OF SHOES THE OLD MAN WORE BOOTS WITH TURNOVER TOPS AND HIS BLUE COAT HAD WIDE CUFFS OF GOLD BRAID. THE BOY NOTICED THAT HIS UNCLE HAD NOT EATEN THE BREAD AND SUPPOSED THE OLD MAN HAD NOT BEEN HUNGRY. OJO WAS HUNGRY THOUGH SO HE DIVIDED THE PIECE OF BREAD UPON THE TABLE AND ATE HIS HALF FOR BREAKFAST WASHING IT DOWN WITH FRESH COOL WATER FROM THE BROOK. UNC PUT THE OTHER PIECE OF BREAD IN HIS JACKET POCKET AFTER WHICH HE AGAIN SAID AS HE WALKED OUT THROUGH THE DOORWAY COME. OJO WAS WELL PLEASED HE WAS DREADFULLY TIRED OF LIVING ALL ALONE IN THE WOODS AND WANTED TO TRAVEL AND SEE PEOPLE. FOR A LONG TIME HE HAD WISHED TO EXPLORE THE BEAUTIFUL LAND OF OZ IN WHICH THEY LIVED. WHEN THEY WERE OUTSIDE UNC SIMPLY LATCHED THE DOOR AND STARTED UP THE PATH. NO ONE WOULD DISTURB THEIR LITTLE HOUSE EVEN IF ANYONE CAME SO FAR INTO THE THICK FOREST WHILE THEY WERE GONE. AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN THAT SEPARATED THE COUNTRY OF THE MUNCHKINS FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE GILLIKINS THE PATH DIVIDED. ONE WAY LED TO THE LEFT AND THE OTHER TO THE RIGHT STRAIGHT UP THE MOUNTAIN. UNC NUNKIE TOOK THIS RIGHT HAND PATH AND OJO FOLLOWED WITHOUT ASKING WHY. HE KNEW IT WOULD TAKE THEM TO THE HOUSE OF THE CROOKED MAGICIAN WHOM HE HAD NEVER SEEN BUT WHO WAS THEIR NEAREST NEIGHBOR. ALL THE MORNING THEY TRUDGED UP THE MOUNTAIN PATH AND AT NOON UNC AND OJO SAT ON A FALLEN TREE TRUNK AND ATE THE LAST OF THE BREAD WHICH THE OLD MUNCHKIN HAD PLACED IN HIS POCKET. THEN THEY STARTED ON AGAIN AND TWO HOURS LATER CAME IN SIGHT OF THE HOUSE OF DOCTOR PIPT. THERE WAS A PRETTY GARDEN AROUND THE HOUSE WHERE BLUE TREES AND BLUE FLOWERS GREW IN ABUNDANCE AND IN ONE PLACE WERE BEDS OF BLUE CABBAGES BLUE CARROTS AND BLUE LETTUCE ALL OF WHICH WERE DELICIOUS TO EAT. PATHS OF BLUE GRAVEL DIVIDED THE VEGETABLE AND FLOWER BEDS AND A WIDER PATH LED UP TO THE FRONT DOOR. THE PLACE WAS IN A CLEARING ON THE MOUNTAIN BUT A LITTLE WAY OFF WAS THE GRIM FOREST WHICH COMPLETELY SURROUNDED IT. UNC KNOCKED AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE AND A CHUBBY PLEASANT FACED WOMAN DRESSED ALL IN BLUE OPENED IT AND GREETED THE VISITORS WITH A SMILE. I AM MY DEAR AND ALL STRANGERS ARE WELCOME TO MY HOME. HE IS VERY BUSY JUST NOW SHE SAID SHAKING HER HEAD DOUBTFULLY. BUT COME IN AND LET ME GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO EAT FOR YOU MUST HAVE TRAVELED FAR IN ORDER TO GET OUR LONELY PLACE. WE HAVE REPLIED OJO AS HE AND UNC ENTERED THE HOUSE. WE HAVE COME FROM A FAR LONELIER PLACE THAN THIS A LONELIER PLACE. AND IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY SHE EXCLAIMED. THEN IT MUST BE SOMEWHERE IN THE BLUE FOREST. IT IS GOOD DAME MARGOLOTTE. DEAR ME SHE SAID LOOKING AT THE MAN YOU MUST BE UNC NUNKIE KNOWN AS THE SILENT ONE THEN SHE LOOKED AT THE BOY. AND YOU MUST BE OJO THE UNLUCKY SHE ADDED. YES SAID UNC. I NEVER KNEW I WAS CALLED THE UNLUCKY SAID OJO SOBERLY BUT IT IS REALLY A GOOD NAME FOR ME. I DO NOT KNOW HOW BUT YOU MUST KEEP THE MATTER IN MIND AND PERHAPS THE CHANCE WILL COME TO YOU SHE REPLIED. OJO HAD NEVER EATEN SUCH A FINE MEAL IN ALL HIS LIFE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1180/1180_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1180/1180_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a6aa433adfbbf5b6701c5202ff06d9a545efaca --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1180/1180_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THERE WAS A SAVORY STEW SMOKING HOT A DISH OF BLUE PEAS A BOWL OF SWEET MILK OF A DELICATE BLUE TINT AND A BLUE PUDDING WITH BLUE PLUMS IN IT. WHEN THE VISITORS HAD EATEN HEARTILY OF THIS FARE THE WOMAN SAID TO THEM. DO YOU WISH TO SEE DOCTOR PIPT ON BUSINESS OR FOR PLEASURE UNC SHOOK HIS HEAD. WE ARE TRAVELING REPLIED OJO AND WE STOPPED AT YOUR HOUSE JUST TO REST AND REFRESH OURSELVES. THE WOMAN SEEMED THOUGHTFUL. THERE WAS A ROW OF WINDOWS EXTENDING NEARLY AROUND THE SIDES OF THE CIRCULAR ROOM WHICH RENDERED THE PLACE VERY LIGHT AND THERE WAS A BACK DOOR IN ADDITION TO THE ONE LEADING TO THE FRONT PART OF THE HOUSE. BEFORE THE ROW OF WINDOWS A BROAD SEAT WAS BUILT AND THERE WERE SOME CHAIRS AND BENCHES IN THE ROOM BESIDES. AT ONE END STOOD A GREAT FIREPLACE IN WHICH A BLUE LOG WAS BLAZING WITH A BLUE FLAME AND OVER THE FIRE HUNG FOUR KETTLES IN A ROW ALL BUBBLING AND STEAMING AT A GREAT RATE. THE MAGICIAN WAS STIRRING ALL FOUR OF THESE KETTLES AT THE SAME TIME TWO WITH HIS HANDS AND TWO WITH HIS FEET TO THE LATTER WOODEN LADLES BEING STRAPPED FOR THIS MAN WAS SO VERY CROOKED THAT HIS LEGS WERE AS HANDY AS HIS ARMS. UNC NUNKIE CAME FORWARD TO GREET HIS OLD FRIEND BUT NOT BEING ABLE TO SHAKE EITHER HIS HANDS OR HIS FEET WHICH WERE ALL OCCUPIED IN STIRRING HE PATTED THE MAGICIAN'S BALD HEAD AND ASKED WHAT. AH IT'S THE SILENT ONE REMARKED DOCTOR PIPT WITHOUT LOOKING UP AND HE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT I'M MAKING. WELL WHEN IT IS QUITE FINISHED THIS COMPOUND WILL BE THE WONDERFUL POWDER OF LIFE WHICH NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO MAKE BUT MYSELF. IT TAKES ME SEVERAL YEARS TO MAKE THIS MAGIC POWDER BUT AT THIS MOMENT I AM PLEASED TO SAY IT IS NEARLY DONE YOU SEE I AM MAKING IT FOR MY GOOD WIFE MARGOLOTTE WHO WANTS TO USE SOME OF IT FOR A PURPOSE OF HER OWN. SIT DOWN AND MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE UNC NUNKIE AND AFTER I'VE FINISHED MY TASK I WILL TALK TO YOU. YOU MUST KNOW SAID MARGOLOTTE WHEN THEY WERE ALL SEATED TOGETHER ON THE BROAD WINDOW SEAT THAT MY HUSBAND FOOLISHLY GAVE AWAY ALL THE POWDER OF LIFE HE FIRST MADE TO OLD MOMBI THE WITCH WHO USED TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY OF THE GILLIKINS TO THE NORTH OF HERE. PERHAPS THE POWDER OF LIFE COULDN'T EITHER SAID OJO. YES IT IS PERFECTION SHE DECLARED. THE FIRST LOT WE TESTED ON OUR GLASS CAT WHICH NOT ONLY BEGAN TO LIVE BUT HAS LIVED EVER SINCE. SHE'S SOMEWHERE AROUND THE HOUSE NOW A GLASS CAT EXCLAIMED OJO ASTONISHED. YES SHE MAKES A VERY PLEASANT COMPANION BUT ADMIRES HERSELF A LITTLE MORE THAN IS CONSIDERED MODEST AND SHE POSITIVELY REFUSES TO CATCH MICE EXPLAINED MARGOLOTTE. ALSO SHE HAS A PRETTY BLOOD RED HEART BUT IT IS MADE OF STONE A RUBY I THINK AND SO IS RATHER HARD AND UNFEELING. I THINK THE NEXT GLASS CAT THE MAGICIAN MAKES WILL HAVE NEITHER BRAINS NOR HEART FOR THEN IT WILL NOT OBJECT TO CATCHING MICE AND MAY PROVE OF SOME USE TO US. WHAT DID OLD MOMBI THE WITCH DO WITH THE POWDER OF LIFE YOUR HUSBAND GAVE HER ASKED THE BOY. SHE BROUGHT JACK PUMPKINHEAD TO LIFE FOR ONE THING WAS THE REPLY. I SUPPOSE YOU'VE HEARD OF JACK PUMPKINHEAD HE IS NOW LIVING NEAR THE EMERALD CITY AND IS A GREAT FAVORITE WITH THE PRINCESS OZMA WHO RULES ALL THE LAND OF OZ. NO I'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM REMARKED OJO. I'M AFRAID I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE LAND OF OZ. YOU SEE I'VE LIVED ALL MY LIFE WITH UNC NUNKIE THE SILENT ONE AND THERE WAS NO ONE TO TELL ME ANYTHING. THAT IS ONE REASON YOU ARE OJO THE UNLUCKY SAID THE WOMAN IN A SYMPATHETIC TONE. THE MORE ONE KNOWS THE LUCKIER HE IS FOR KNOWLEDGE IS THE GREATEST GIFT IN LIFE. BUT TELL ME PLEASE WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO WITH THIS NEW LOT OF THE POWDER OF LIFE WHICH DOCTOR PIPT IS MAKING. HE SAID HIS WIFE WANTED IT FOR SOME ESPECIAL PURPOSE. SO I DO SHE ANSWERED. OH A PATCHWORK GIRL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1180/1180_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1180/1180_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..471a48730d8b84b46f66b170694ddf3dd5dc66c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1180/1180_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I THINK I MUST SHOW YOU MY PATCHWORK GIRL SAID MARGOLOTTE LAUGHING AT THE BOY'S ASTONISHMENT FOR SHE IS RATHER DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN. BUT FIRST I WILL TELL YOU THAT FOR MANY YEARS I HAVE LONGED FOR A SERVANT TO HELP ME WITH THE HOUSEWORK AND TO COOK THE MEALS AND WASH THE DISHES. NO SERVANT WILL COME HERE BECAUSE THE PLACE IS SO LONELY AND OUT OF THE WAY SO MY CLEVER HUSBAND THE CROOKED MAGICIAN PROPOSED THAT I MAKE A GIRL OUT OF SOME SORT OF MATERIAL AND HE WOULD MAKE HER LIVE BY SPRINKLING OVER HER THE POWDER OF LIFE. YET THAT TASK WAS NOT SO EASY AS YOU MAY SUPPOSE. AT FIRST I COULDN'T THINK WHAT TO MAKE HER OF BUT FINALLY IN SEARCHING THROUGH A CHEST I CAME ACROSS AN OLD PATCHWORK QUILT WHICH MY GRANDMOTHER ONCE MADE WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG. A BED QUILT MADE OF PATCHES OF DIFFERENT KINDS AND COLORS OF CLOTH ALL NEATLY SEWED TOGETHER. THE PATCHES ARE OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES SO A PATCHWORK QUILT IS A VERY PRETTY AND GORGEOUS THING TO LOOK AT. SOMETIMES IT IS CALLED A CRAZY QUILT BECAUSE THE PATCHES AND COLORS ARE SO MIXED UP. WE NEVER HAVE USED MY GRANDMOTHER'S MANY COLORED PATCHWORK QUILT HANDSOME AS IT IS FOR WE MUNCHKINS DO NOT CARE FOR ANY COLOR OTHER THAN BLUE SO IT HAS BEEN PACKED AWAY IN THE CHEST FOR ABOUT A HUNDRED YEARS. WHEN I FOUND IT I SAID TO MYSELF THAT IT WOULD DO NICELY FOR MY SERVANT GIRL FOR WHEN SHE WAS BROUGHT TO LIFE SHE WOULD NOT BE PROUD NOR HAUGHTY AS THE GLASS CAT IS FOR SUCH A DREADFUL MIXTURE OF COLORS WOULD DISCOURAGE HER FROM TRYING TO BE AS DIGNIFIED AS THE BLUE MUNCHKINS ARE. YES FOR A MUNCHKIN. ALL OUR COUNTRY IS BLUE YOU KNOW. BUT IN OTHER PARTS OF OZ THE PEOPLE FAVOR DIFFERENT COLORS. AT THE EMERALD CITY WHERE OUR PRINCESS OZMA LIVES GREEN IS THE POPULAR COLOR. BUT ALL MUNCHKINS PREFER BLUE TO ANYTHING ELSE AND WHEN MY HOUSEWORK GIRL IS BROUGHT TO LIFE SHE WILL FIND HERSELF TO BE OF SO MANY UNPOPULAR COLORS THAT SHE'LL NEVER DARE BE REBELLIOUS OR IMPUDENT AS SERVANTS ARE SOMETIMES LIABLE TO BE WHEN THEY ARE MADE THE SAME WAY THEIR MISTRESSES ARE. UNC NUNKIE NODDED APPROVAL. I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT A GOOD JOB I DID AND SHE WENT TO A TALL CUPBOARD AND THREW OPEN THE DOORS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1181/1181_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1181/1181_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9182339bf9dee7dcd2925ad5f6122e688dd19185 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/1181/1181_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AMIABILITY IS ALSO GOOD AND TRUTH. SHE POURED INTO THE DISH A QUANTITY FROM EACH OF THESE BOTTLES. I THINK THAT WILL DO SHE CONTINUED FOR THE OTHER QUALITIES ARE NOT NEEDED IN A SERVANT. UNC NUNKIE WHO WITH OJO STOOD BESIDE HER TOUCHED THE BOTTLE MARKED CLEVERNESS. LITTLE SAID HE A LITTLE CLEVERNESS. WELL PERHAPS YOU ARE RIGHT SIR SAID SHE AND WAS ABOUT TO TAKE DOWN THE BOTTLE WHEN THE CROOKED MAGICIAN SUDDENLY CALLED TO HER EXCITEDLY FROM THE FIREPLACE. QUICK MARGOLOTTE COME AND HELP ME. SHE RAN TO HER HUSBAND'S SIDE AT ONCE AND HELPED HIM LIFT THE FOUR KETTLES FROM THE FIRE. THEIR CONTENTS HAD ALL BOILED AWAY LEAVING IN THE BOTTOM OF EACH KETTLE A FEW GRAINS OF FINE WHITE POWDER. VERY CAREFULLY THE MAGICIAN REMOVED THIS POWDER PLACING IT ALL TOGETHER IN A GOLDEN DISH WHERE HE MIXED IT WITH A GOLDEN SPOON. WHEN THE MIXTURE WAS COMPLETE THERE WAS SCARCELY A HANDFUL ALL TOLD. THAT SAID DOCTOR PIPT IN A PLEASED AND TRIUMPHANT TONE IS THE WONDERFUL POWDER OF LIFE WHICH I ALONE IN THE WORLD KNOW HOW TO MAKE. WHEN IT HAS BECOME COOLED I WILL PLACE IT IN A SMALL BOTTLE BUT MEANTIME I MUST WATCH IT CAREFULLY LEST A GUST OF WIND BLOW IT AWAY OR SCATTER IT. UNC NUNKIE MARGOLOTTE AND THE MAGICIAN ALL STOOD LOOKING AT THE MARVELOUS POWDER BUT OJO WAS MORE INTERESTED JUST THEN IN THE PATCHWORK GIRL'S BRAINS. THINKING IT BOTH UNFAIR AND UNKIND TO DEPRIVE HER OF ANY GOOD QUALITIES THAT WERE HANDY THE BOY TOOK DOWN EVERY BOTTLE ON THE SHELF AND POURED SOME OF THE CONTENTS IN MARGOLOTTE'S DISH. NO ONE SAW HIM DO THIS FOR ALL WERE LOOKING AT THE POWDER OF LIFE BUT SOON THE WOMAN REMEMBERED WHAT SHE HAD BEEN DOING AND CAME BACK TO THE CUPBOARD. LET'S SEE SHE REMARKED I WAS ABOUT TO GIVE MY GIRL A LITTLE CLEVERNESS WHICH IS THE DOCTOR'S SUBSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENCE' A QUALITY HE HAS NOT YET LEARNED HOW TO MANUFACTURE. TAKING DOWN THE BOTTLE OF CLEVERNESS SHE ADDED SOME OF THE POWDER TO THE HEAP ON THE DISH. OJO BECAME A BIT UNEASY AT THIS FOR HE HAD ALREADY PUT QUITE A LOT OF THE CLEVERNESS POWDER IN THE DISH BUT HE DARED NOT INTERFERE AND SO HE COMFORTED HIMSELF WITH THE THOUGHT THAT ONE CANNOT HAVE TOO MUCH CLEVERNESS. MARGOLOTTE NOW CARRIED THE DISH OF BRAINS TO THE BENCH. RIPPING THE SEAM OF THE PATCH ON THE GIRL'S FOREHEAD SHE PLACED THE POWDER WITHIN THE HEAD AND THEN SEWED UP THE SEAM AS NEATLY AND SECURELY AS BEFORE. MY GIRL IS ALL READY FOR YOUR POWDER OF LIFE MY DEAR SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND BUT THE MAGICIAN REPLIED. THIS POWDER MUST NOT BE USED BEFORE TO MORROW MORNING BUT I THINK IT IS NOW COOL ENOUGH TO BE BOTTLED. HE SELECTED A SMALL GOLD BOTTLE WITH A PEPPER BOX TOP SO THAT THE POWDER MIGHT BE SPRINKLED ON ANY OBJECT THROUGH THE SMALL HOLES. VERY CAREFULLY HE PLACED THE POWDER OF LIFE IN THE GOLD BOTTLE AND THEN LOCKED IT UP IN A DRAWER OF HIS CABINET. AT LAST SAID HE RUBBING HIS HANDS TOGETHER GLEEFULLY I HAVE AMPLE LEISURE FOR A GOOD TALK WITH MY OLD FRIEND UNC NUNKIE. SO LET US SIT DOWN COSILY AND ENJOY OURSELVES. I KNOW BUT THAT RENDERS YOUR UNCLE A MOST AGREEABLE COMPANION AND GOSSIP DECLARED DOCTOR PIPT. MOST PEOPLE TALK TOO MUCH SO IT IS A RELIEF TO FIND ONE WHO TALKS TOO LITTLE. OJO LOOKED AT THE MAGICIAN WITH MUCH AWE AND CURIOSITY. DON'T YOU FIND IT VERY ANNOYING TO BE SO CROOKED HE ASKED. NO I AM QUITE PROUD OF MY PERSON WAS THE REPLY. I SUPPOSE I AM THE ONLY CROOKED MAGICIAN IN ALL THE WORLD. SOME OTHERS ARE ACCUSED OF BEING CROOKED BUT I AM THE ONLY GENUINE. HE WAS REALLY VERY CROOKED AND OJO WONDERED HOW HE MANAGED TO DO SO MANY THINGS WITH SUCH A TWISTED BODY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/134647/134647_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/134647/134647_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24cf6d6fb59a88557985cfc4bb4808552c041132 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/134647/134647_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE GRATEFUL APPLAUSE OF THE CLERGY HAS CONSECRATED THE MEMORY OF A PRINCE WHO INDULGED THEIR PASSIONS AND PROMOTED THEIR INTEREST. CONSTANTINE GAVE THEM SECURITY WEALTH HONORS AND REVENGE AND THE SUPPORT OF THE ORTHODOX FAITH WAS CONSIDERED AS THE MOST SACRED AND IMPORTANT DUTY OF THE CIVIL MAGISTRATE. THE EDICT OF MILAN THE GREAT CHARTER OF TOLERATION HAD CONFIRMED TO EACH INDIVIDUAL OF THE ROMAN WORLD THE PRIVILEGE OF CHOOSING AND PROFESSING HIS OWN RELIGION. BUT THIS INESTIMABLE PRIVILEGE WAS SOON VIOLATED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH THE EMPEROR IMBIBED THE MAXIMS OF PERSECUTION AND THE SECTS WHICH DISSENTED FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WERE AFFLICTED AND OPPRESSED BY THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY. CONSTANTINE EASILY BELIEVED THAT THE HERETICS WHO PRESUMED TO DISPUTE HIS OPINIONS OR TO OPPOSE HIS COMMANDS WERE GUILTY OF THE MOST ABSURD AND CRIMINAL OBSTINACY AND THAT A SEASONABLE APPLICATION OF MODERATE SEVERITIES MIGHT SAVE THOSE UNHAPPY MEN FROM THE DANGER OF AN EVERLASTING CONDEMNATION. NOT A MOMENT WAS LOST IN EXCLUDING THE MINISTERS AND TEACHERS OF THE SEPARATED CONGREGATIONS FROM ANY SHARE OF THE REWARDS AND IMMUNITIES WHICH THE EMPEROR HAD SO LIBERALLY BESTOWED ON THE ORTHODOX CLERGY. SOME OF THE PENAL REGULATIONS WERE COPIED FROM THE EDICTS OF DIOCLETIAN AND THIS METHOD OF CONVERSION WAS APPLAUDED BY THE SAME BISHOPS WHO HAD FELT THE HAND OF OPPRESSION AND PLEADED FOR THE RIGHTS OF HUMANITY. TWO IMMATERIAL CIRCUMSTANCES MAY SERVE HOWEVER TO PROVE THAT THE MIND OF CONSTANTINE WAS NOT ENTIRELY CORRUPTED BY THE SPIRIT OF ZEAL AND BIGOTRY. BEFORE HE CONDEMNED THE MANICHAEANS AND THEIR KINDRED SECTS HE RESOLVED TO MAKE AN ACCURATE INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF THEIR RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES. THE ADVANTAGE WHICH CAECILIAN MIGHT CLAIM FROM THE PRIORITY OF HIS ORDINATION WAS DESTROYED BY THE ILLEGAL OR AT LEAST INDECENT HASTE WITH WHICH IT HAD BEEN PERFORMED WITHOUT EXPECTING THE ARRIVAL OF THE BISHOPS OF NUMIDIA. FROM THEIR MUTUAL REPROACHES AS WELL AS FROM THE STORY OF THIS DARK TRANSACTION IT MAY JUSTLY BE INFERRED THAT THE LATE PERSECUTION HAD IMBITTERED THE ZEAL WITHOUT REFORMING THE MANNERS OF THE AFRICAN CHRISTIANS. THAT DIVIDED CHURCH WAS INCAPABLE OF AFFORDING AN IMPARTIAL JUDICATURE THE CONTROVERSY WAS SOLEMNLY TRIED IN FIVE SUCCESSIVE TRIBUNALS WHICH WERE APPOINTED BY THE EMPEROR AND THE WHOLE PROCEEDING FROM THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE FINAL SENTENCE LASTED ABOVE THREE YEARS. THE HONORS AND ESTATES OF THE CHURCH WERE ATTRIBUTED TO HIS SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS AND IT WAS NOT WITHOUT DIFFICULTY THAT CONSTANTINE WAS SATISFIED WITH INFLICTING THE PUNISHMENT OF EXILE ON THE PRINCIPAL LEADERS OF THE DONATIST FACTION. AS THEIR CAUSE WAS EXAMINED WITH ATTENTION PERHAPS IT WAS DETERMINED WITH JUSTICE. PERHAPS THEIR COMPLAINT WAS NOT WITHOUT FOUNDATION THAT THE CREDULITY OF THE EMPEROR HAD BEEN ABUSED BY THE INSIDIOUS ARTS OF HIS FAVORITE OSIUS. THEY ASSERTED WITH CONFIDENCE AND ALMOST WITH EXULTATION THAT THE APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION WAS INTERRUPTED THAT ALL THE BISHOPS OF EUROPE AND ASIA WERE INFECTED BY THE CONTAGION OF GUILT AND SCHISM AND THAT THE PREROGATIVES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WERE CONFINED TO THE CHOSEN PORTION OF THE AFRICAN BELIEVERS WHO ALONE HAD PRESERVED INVIOLATE THE INTEGRITY OF THEIR FAITH AND DISCIPLINE. THIS RIGID THEORY WAS SUPPORTED BY THE MOST UNCHARITABLE CONDUCT. BISHOPS VIRGINS AND EVEN SPOTLESS INFANTS WERE SUBJECTED TO THE DISGRACE OF A PUBLIC PENANCE BEFORE THEY COULD BE ADMITTED TO THE COMMUNION OF THE DONATISTS. IF THEY OBTAINED POSSESSION OF A CHURCH WHICH HAD BEEN USED BY THEIR CATHOLIC ADVERSARIES THEY PURIFIED THE UNHALLOWED BUILDING WITH THE SAME ZEALOUS CARE WHICH A TEMPLE OF IDOLS MIGHT HAVE REQUIRED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/134647/134647_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/134647/134647_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b41d71cbbed8302945d69846e6bbd333d2c0b41 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1284/134647/134647_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +PROSCRIBED BY THE CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL POWERS OF THE EMPIRE THE DONATISTS STILL MAINTAINED IN SOME PROVINCES PARTICULARLY IN NUMIDIA THEIR SUPERIOR NUMBERS AND FOUR HUNDRED BISHOPS ACKNOWLEDGED THE JURISDICTION OF THEIR PRIMATE. BUT THE INVINCIBLE SPIRIT OF THE SECT SOMETIMES PREYED ON ITS OWN VITALS AND THE BOSOM OF THEIR SCHISMATICAL CHURCH WAS TORN BY INTESTINE DIVISIONS. A FOURTH PART OF THE DONATIST BISHOPS FOLLOWED THE INDEPENDENT STANDARD OF THE MAXIMIANISTS. FROM THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE TO THAT OF CLOVIS AND THEODORIC THE TEMPORAL INTERESTS BOTH OF THE ROMANS AND BARBARIANS WERE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE THEOLOGICAL DISPUTES OF ARIANISM. WHEN HE HAD ELEVATED HIS MIND TO THE SUBLIME CONTEMPLATION OF THE FIRST SELF EXISTENT NECESSARY CAUSE OF THE UNIVERSE THE ATHENIAN SAGE WAS INCAPABLE OF CONCEIVING HOW THE SIMPLE UNITY OF HIS ESSENCE COULD ADMIT THE INFINITE VARIETY OF DISTINCT AND SUCCESSIVE IDEAS WHICH COMPOSE THE MODEL OF THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD HOW A BEING PURELY INCORPOREAL COULD EXECUTE THAT PERFECT MODEL AND MOULD WITH A PLASTIC HAND THE RUDE AND INDEPENDENT CHAOS. THE VAIN HOPE OF EXTRICATING HIMSELF FROM THESE DIFFICULTIES WHICH MUST EVER OPPRESS THE FEEBLE POWERS OF THE HUMAN MIND MIGHT INDUCE PLATO TO CONSIDER THE DIVINE NATURE UNDER THE THREEFOLD MODIFICATION OF THE FIRST CAUSE THE REASON OR LOGOS AND THE SOUL OR SPIRIT OF THE UNIVERSE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1320/122612/122612_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1320/122612/122612_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f5206fc01fa705b1ac11b323b081e42641743ab0 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1320/122612/122612_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE WONDERFUL HAD HE SPOKEN WITHOUT A BIDDING. NO NO YOUR YOUNG WHITE WHO GATHERS HIS LEARNING FROM BOOKS AND CAN MEASURE WHAT HE KNOWS BY THE PAGE MAY CONCEIT THAT HIS KNOWLEDGE LIKE HIS LEGS OUTRUNS THAT OF HIS FATHERS BUT WHERE EXPERIENCE IS THE MASTER THE SCHOLAR IS MADE TO KNOW THE VALUE OF YEARS AND RESPECTS THEM ACCORDINGLY. SEE SAID UNCAS POINTING NORTH AND SOUTH AT THE EVIDENT MARKS OF THE BROAD TRAIL ON EITHER SIDE OF HIM THE DARK HAIR HAS GONE TOWARD THE FOREST. HOUND NEVER RAN ON A MORE BEAUTIFUL SCENT RESPONDED THE SCOUT DASHING FORWARD AT ONCE ON THE INDICATED ROUTE WE ARE FAVORED GREATLY FAVORED AND CAN FOLLOW WITH HIGH NOSES. THE FELLOW IS STRICKEN WITH A JUDGMENT AND IS MAD. THE SPIRITS OF THE SCOUT AND THE ASTONISHING SUCCESS OF THE CHASE IN WHICH A CIRCUITOUS DISTANCE OF MORE THAN FORTY MILES HAD BEEN PASSED DID NOT FAIL TO IMPART A PORTION OF HOPE TO THE WHOLE PARTY. THEIR ADVANCE WAS RAPID AND MADE WITH AS MUCH CONFIDENCE AS A TRAVELER WOULD PROCEED ALONG A WIDE HIGHWAY. IF A ROCK OR A RIVULET OR A BIT OF EARTH HARDER THAN COMMON SEVERED THE LINKS OF THE CLEW THEY FOLLOWED THE TRUE EYE OF THE SCOUT RECOVERED THEM AT A DISTANCE AND SELDOM RENDERED THE DELAY OF A SINGLE MOMENT NECESSARY. THEIR PROGRESS WAS MUCH FACILITATED BY THE CERTAINTY THAT MAGUA HAD FOUND IT NECESSARY TO JOURNEY THROUGH THE VALLEYS A CIRCUMSTANCE WHICH RENDERED THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF THE ROUTE SURE. FALSE TRAILS AND SUDDEN TURNINGS WERE FREQUENT WHEREVER A BROOK OR THE FORMATION OF THE GROUND RENDERED THEM FEASIBLE BUT HIS PURSUERS WERE RARELY DECEIVED AND NEVER FAILED TO DETECT THEIR ERROR BEFORE THEY HAD LOST EITHER TIME OR DISTANCE ON THE DECEPTIVE TRACK. BY THE MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON THEY HAD PASSED THE SCAROONS AND WERE FOLLOWING THE ROUTE OF THE DECLINING SUN. AFTER DESCENDING AN EMINENCE TO A LOW BOTTOM THROUGH WHICH A SWIFT STREAM GLIDED THEY SUDDENLY CAME TO A PLACE WHERE THE PARTY OF LE RENARD HAD MADE A HALT. EXTINGUISHED BRANDS WERE LYING AROUND A SPRING THE OFFALS OF A DEER WERE SCATTERED ABOUT THE PLACE AND THE TREES BORE EVIDENT MARKS OF HAVING BEEN BROWSED BY THE HORSES. AT A LITTLE DISTANCE HEYWARD DISCOVERED AND CONTEMPLATED WITH TENDER EMOTION THE SMALL BOWER UNDER WHICH HE WAS FAIN TO BELIEVE THAT CORA AND ALICE HAD REPOSED. BUT WHILE THE EARTH WAS TRODDEN AND THE FOOTSTEPS OF BOTH MEN AND BEASTS WERE SO PLAINLY VISIBLE AROUND THE PLACE THE TRAIL APPEARED TO HAVE SUDDENLY ENDED. IT WAS EASY TO FOLLOW THE TRACKS OF THE NARRAGANSETTS BUT THEY SEEMED ONLY TO HAVE WANDERED WITHOUT GUIDES OR ANY OTHER OBJECT THAN THE PURSUIT OF FOOD. BEFORE FOLLOWING THE CLEW HE COMMUNICATED HIS SUCCESS TO HIS COMPANIONS AND WHILE THE LATTER WERE CONSULTING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCE THE YOUTH REAPPEARED LEADING THE TWO FILLIES WITH THEIR SADDLES BROKEN AND THE HOUSINGS SOILED AS THOUGH THEY HAD BEEN PERMITTED TO RUN AT WILL FOR SEVERAL DAYS. WHAT SHOULD THIS PROVE SAID DUNCAN TURNING PALE AND GLANCING HIS EYES AROUND HIM AS IF HE FEARED THE BRUSH AND LEAVES WERE ABOUT TO GIVE UP SOME HORRID SECRET. THAT OUR MARCH IS COME TO A QUICK END AND THAT WE ARE IN AN ENEMY'S COUNTRY RETURNED THE SCOUT. HAD THE KNAVE BEEN PRESSED AND THE GENTLE ONES WANTED HORSES TO KEEP UP WITH THE PARTY HE MIGHT HAVE TAKEN THEIR SCALPS BUT WITHOUT AN ENEMY AT HIS HEELS AND WITH SUCH RUGGED BEASTS AS THESE HE WOULD NOT HURT A HAIR OF THEIR HEADS. NO NO I HAVE HEARD THAT THE FRENCH INDIANS HAD COME INTO THESE HILLS TO HUNT THE MOOSE AND WE ARE GETTING WITHIN SCENT OF THEIR CAMP WHY SHOULD THEY NOT. THE MORNING AND EVENING GUNS OF TY MAY BE HEARD ANY DAY AMONG THESE MOUNTAINS FOR THE FRENCHERS ARE RUNNING A NEW LINE ATWEEN THE PROVINCES OF THE KING AND THE CANADAS. IT IS TRUE THAT THE HORSES ARE HERE BUT THE HURONS ARE GONE LET US THEN HUNT FOR THE PATH BY WHICH THEY PARTED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1580/141083/141083_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1580/141083/141083_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..911c7e60a7dd9b3d7026f25065a1725b0cee1bc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1580/141083/141083_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +EXACTLY NOW MISTER SOAMES LET US HAVE A LOOK AT YOUR SERVANT BANNISTER. HE WAS A LITTLE WHITE FACED CLEAN SHAVEN GRIZZLY HAIRED FELLOW OF FIFTY. HE WAS STILL SUFFERING FROM THIS SUDDEN DISTURBANCE OF THE QUIET ROUTINE OF HIS LIFE. HIS PLUMP FACE WAS TWITCHING WITH HIS NERVOUSNESS AND HIS FINGERS COULD NOT KEEP STILL. WE ARE INVESTIGATING THIS UNHAPPY BUSINESS BANNISTER SAID HIS MASTER YES SIR. I UNDERSTAND SAID HOLMES THAT YOU LEFT YOUR KEY IN THE DOOR YES SIR. IT WAS MOST UNFORTUNATE SIR. BUT I HAVE OCCASIONALLY DONE THE SAME THING AT OTHER TIMES. IT WAS ABOUT HALF PAST FOUR THAT IS MISTER SOAMES TEA TIME. HOW LONG DID YOU STAY. WHEN I SAW THAT HE WAS ABSENT I WITHDREW AT ONCE. DID YOU LOOK AT THESE PAPERS ON THE TABLE. NO SIR CERTAINLY NOT. HOW CAME YOU TO LEAVE THE KEY IN THE DOOR. I HAD THE TEA TRAY IN MY HAND. I THOUGHT I WOULD COME BACK FOR THE KEY THEN I FORGOT. HAS THE OUTER DOOR A SPRING LOCK NO SIR. THEN IT WAS OPEN ALL THE TIME YES SIR. ANYONE IN THE ROOM COULD GET OUT YES SIR. WHEN MISTER SOAMES RETURNED AND CALLED FOR YOU YOU WERE VERY MUCH DISTURBED YES SIR. I NEARLY FAINTED SIR. SO I UNDERSTAND. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU BEGAN TO FEEL BAD WHERE WAS I SIR. WHY HERE NEAR THE DOOR. THAT IS SINGULAR BECAUSE YOU SAT DOWN IN THAT CHAIR OVER YONDER NEAR THE CORNER. WHY DID YOU PASS THESE OTHER CHAIRS. I DON'T KNOW SIR IT DIDN'T MATTER TO ME WHERE I SAT. I REALLY DON'T THINK HE KNEW MUCH ABOUT IT MISTER HOLMES. HE WAS LOOKING VERY BAD QUITE GHASTLY. YOU STAYED HERE WHEN YOUR MASTER LEFT. ONLY FOR A MINUTE OR SO. THEN I LOCKED THE DOOR AND WENT TO MY ROOM. WHOM DO YOU SUSPECT. OH I WOULD NOT VENTURE TO SAY SIR. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY GENTLEMAN IN THIS UNIVERSITY WHO IS CAPABLE OF PROFITING BY SUCH AN ACTION NO SIR I'LL NOT BELIEVE IT. THANK YOU THAT WILL DO SAID HOLMES OH ONE MORE WORD. NO SIR NOT A WORD. YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF THEM NO SIR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1580/141084/141084_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1580/141084/141084_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce2183945d4b42c63ca8fe036a3194a370af97df --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1580/141084/141084_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +YOUR THREE BIRDS ARE ALL IN THEIR NESTS SAID HOLMES LOOKING UP. HALLOA WHAT'S THAT. ONE OF THEM SEEMS RESTLESS ENOUGH. IT WAS THE INDIAN WHOSE DARK SILHOUETTE APPEARED SUDDENLY UPON HIS BLIND. HE WAS PACING SWIFTLY UP AND DOWN HIS ROOM. I SHOULD LIKE TO HAVE A PEEP AT EACH OF THEM SAID HOLMES IS IT POSSIBLE. NO DIFFICULTY IN THE WORLD SOAMES ANSWERED. THIS SET OF ROOMS IS QUITE THE OLDEST IN THE COLLEGE AND IT IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR VISITORS TO GO OVER THEM. COME ALONG AND I WILL PERSONALLY CONDUCT YOU. NO NAMES PLEASE SAID HOLMES AS WE KNOCKED AT GILCHRIST'S DOOR. A TALL FLAXEN HAIRED SLIM YOUNG FELLOW OPENED IT AND MADE US WELCOME WHEN HE UNDERSTOOD OUR ERRAND. THERE WERE SOME REALLY CURIOUS PIECES OF MEDIAEVAL DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE WITHIN. HOLMES WAS SO CHARMED WITH ONE OF THEM THAT HE INSISTED ON DRAWING IT IN HIS NOTEBOOK BROKE HIS PENCIL HAD TO BORROW ONE FROM OUR HOST AND FINALLY BORROWED A KNIFE TO SHARPEN HIS OWN. THE SAME CURIOUS ACCIDENT HAPPENED TO HIM IN THE ROOMS OF THE INDIAN A SILENT LITTLE HOOK NOSED FELLOW WHO EYED US ASKANCE AND WAS OBVIOUSLY GLAD WHEN HOLMES'S ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES HAD COME TO AN END. I COULD NOT SEE THAT IN EITHER CASE HOLMES HAD COME UPON THE CLUE FOR WHICH HE WAS SEARCHING. THE OUTER DOOR WOULD NOT OPEN TO OUR KNOCK AND NOTHING MORE SUBSTANTIAL THAN A TORRENT OF BAD LANGUAGE CAME FROM BEHIND IT. I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE YOU CAN GO TO BLAZES ROARED THE ANGRY VOICE. A RUDE FELLOW SAID OUR GUIDE FLUSHING WITH ANGER AS WE WITHDREW DOWN THE STAIR. OF COURSE HE DID NOT REALIZE THAT IT WAS I WHO WAS KNOCKING BUT NONE THE LESS HIS CONDUCT WAS VERY UNCOURTEOUS AND INDEED UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES RATHER SUSPICIOUS. CAN YOU TELL ME HIS EXACT HEIGHT. HE ASKED REALLY MISTER HOLMES I CANNOT UNDERTAKE TO SAY. HE IS TALLER THAN THE INDIAN NOT SO TALL AS GILCHRIST. I SUPPOSE FIVE FOOT SIX WOULD BE ABOUT IT. THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT SAID HOLMES. AND NOW MISTER SOAMES I WISH YOU GOOD NIGHT. YOU DON'T SEEM TO REALIZE THE POSITION. TO MORROW IS THE EXAMINATION. I MUST TAKE SOME DEFINITE ACTION TO NIGHT. I CANNOT ALLOW THE EXAMINATION TO BE HELD IF ONE OF THE PAPERS HAS BEEN TAMPERED WITH THE SITUATION MUST BE FACED. YOU MUST LEAVE IT AS IT IS. I SHALL DROP ROUND EARLY TO MORROW MORNING AND CHAT THE MATTER OVER. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT I MAY BE IN A POSITION THEN TO INDICATE SOME COURSE OF ACTION. MEANWHILE YOU CHANGE NOTHING NOTHING AT ALL. VERY GOOD MISTER HOLMES. YOU CAN BE PERFECTLY EASY IN YOUR MIND. I WILL TAKE THE BLACK CLAY WITH ME ALSO THE PENCIL CUTTINGS GOOD BYE. WHEN WE WERE OUT IN THE DARKNESS OF THE QUADRANGLE WE AGAIN LOOKED UP AT THE WINDOWS. THE INDIAN STILL PACED HIS ROOM THE OTHERS WERE INVISIBLE. THE FOUL MOUTHED FELLOW AT THE TOP. HE IS THE ONE WITH THE WORST RECORD. THERE IS NOTHING IN THAT. MANY MEN DO IT WHEN THEY ARE TRYING TO LEARN ANYTHING BY HEART. HE LOOKED AT US IN A QUEER WAY. SO WOULD YOU IF A FLOCK OF STRANGERS CAME IN ON YOU WHEN YOU WERE PREPARING FOR AN EXAMINATION NEXT DAY AND EVERY MOMENT WAS OF VALUE. NO I SEE NOTHING IN THAT PENCILS TOO AND KNIVES ALL WAS SATISFACTORY. BUT THAT FELLOW DOES PUZZLE ME WHO. WHY BANNISTER THE SERVANT WHAT'S HIS GAME IN THE MATTER. HE IMPRESSED ME AS BEING A PERFECTLY HONEST MAN. WHY SHOULD A PERFECTLY HONEST MAN WELL WELL HERE'S A LARGE STATIONER'S WE SHALL BEGIN OUR RESEARCHES HERE. MY FRIEND DID NOT APPEAR TO BE DEPRESSED BY HIS FAILURE BUT SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS IN HALF HUMOROUS RESIGNATION. NO GOOD MY DEAR WATSON. THIS THE BEST AND ONLY FINAL CLUE HAS RUN TO NOTHING. WHAT WITH YOUR ETERNAL TOBACCO WATSON AND YOUR IRREGULARITY AT MEALS I EXPECT THAT YOU WILL GET NOTICE TO QUIT AND THAT I SHALL SHARE YOUR DOWNFALL NOT HOWEVER BEFORE WE HAVE SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF THE NERVOUS TUTOR THE CARELESS SERVANT AND THE THREE ENTERPRISING STUDENTS. HOLMES MADE NO FURTHER ALLUSION TO THE MATTER THAT DAY THOUGH HE SAT LOST IN THOUGHT FOR A LONG TIME AFTER OUR BELATED DINNER \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1580/141084/141084_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1580/141084/141084_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..63d7d5dc9683a6474037b5ce73729b3c672f2cad --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1580/141084/141084_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AT EIGHT IN THE MORNING HE CAME INTO MY ROOM JUST AS I FINISHED MY TOILET. HAVE YOU ANYTHING POSITIVE TO TELL HIM. I THINK SO YOU HAVE FORMED A CONCLUSION. YES MY DEAR WATSON I HAVE SOLVED THE MYSTERY. BUT WHAT FRESH EVIDENCE COULD YOU HAVE GOT AHA. IT IS NOT FOR NOTHING THAT I HAVE TURNED MYSELF OUT OF BED AT THE UNTIMELY HOUR OF SIX. I HAVE PUT IN TWO HOURS HARD WORK AND COVERED AT LEAST FIVE MILES WITH SOMETHING TO SHOW FOR IT. LOOK AT THAT HE HELD OUT HIS HAND. ON THE PALM WERE THREE LITTLE PYRAMIDS OF BLACK DOUGHY CLAY. AND ONE MORE THIS MORNING. WELL COME ALONG AND PUT FRIEND SOAMES OUT OF HIS PAIN. THE UNFORTUNATE TUTOR WAS CERTAINLY IN A STATE OF PITIABLE AGITATION WHEN WE FOUND HIM IN HIS CHAMBERS. IN A FEW HOURS THE EXAMINATION WOULD COMMENCE AND HE WAS STILL IN THE DILEMMA BETWEEN MAKING THE FACTS PUBLIC AND ALLOWING THE CULPRIT TO COMPETE FOR THE VALUABLE SCHOLARSHIP. HE COULD HARDLY STAND STILL SO GREAT WAS HIS MENTAL AGITATION AND HE RAN TOWARDS HOLMES WITH TWO EAGER HANDS OUTSTRETCHED THANK HEAVEN THAT YOU HAVE COME. I FEARED THAT YOU HAD GIVEN IT UP IN DESPAIR WHAT AM I TO DO SHALL THE EXAMINATION PROCEED. YES LET IT PROCEED BY ALL MEANS. BUT THIS RASCAL HE SHALL NOT COMPETE. YOU KNOW HIM I THINK SO. IF THIS MATTER IS NOT TO BECOME PUBLIC WE MUST GIVE OURSELVES CERTAIN POWERS AND RESOLVE OURSELVES INTO A SMALL PRIVATE COURT MARTIAL. YOU THERE IF YOU PLEASE SOAMES WATSON YOU HERE. I'LL TAKE THE ARMCHAIR IN THE MIDDLE. I THINK THAT WE ARE NOW SUFFICIENTLY IMPOSING TO STRIKE TERROR INTO A GUILTY BREAST KINDLY RING THE BELL. YOU WILL KINDLY CLOSE THE DOOR SAID HOLMES NOW BANNISTER WILL YOU PLEASE TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT YESTERDAY'S INCIDENT. THE MAN TURNED WHITE TO THE ROOTS OF HIS HAIR. NOTHING AT ALL SIR. WELL THEN I MUST MAKE SOME SUGGESTIONS TO YOU. BANNISTER'S FACE WAS GHASTLY. NO SIR CERTAINLY NOT. IT IS ONLY A SUGGESTION SAID HOLMES SUAVELY. I FRANKLY ADMIT THAT I AM UNABLE TO PROVE IT. BANNISTER LICKED HIS DRY LIPS. THERE WAS NO MAN SIR. AH THAT'S A PITY BANNISTER. UP TO NOW YOU MAY HAVE SPOKEN THE TRUTH BUT NOW I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE LIED. THE MAN'S FACE SET IN SULLEN DEFIANCE. THERE WAS NO MAN SIR. COME COME BANNISTER. NO SIR THERE WAS NO ONE. IN THAT CASE YOU CAN GIVE US NO FURTHER INFORMATION WOULD YOU PLEASE REMAIN IN THE ROOM. AN INSTANT LATER THE TUTOR RETURNED BRINGING WITH HIM THE STUDENT. HIS TROUBLED BLUE EYES GLANCED AT EACH OF US AND FINALLY RESTED WITH AN EXPRESSION OF BLANK DISMAY UPON BANNISTER IN THE FARTHER CORNER. JUST CLOSE THE DOOR SAID HOLMES. WE CAN BE PERFECTLY FRANK WITH EACH OTHER. WE WANT TO KNOW MISTER GILCHRIST HOW YOU AN HONOURABLE MAN EVER CAME TO COMMIT SUCH AN ACTION AS THAT OF YESTERDAY. THE UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN STAGGERED BACK AND CAST A LOOK FULL OF HORROR AND REPROACH AT BANNISTER. NO NO MISTER GILCHRIST SIR I NEVER SAID A WORD NEVER ONE WORD CRIED THE SERVANT. NO BUT YOU HAVE NOW SAID HOLMES. FOR A MOMENT GILCHRIST WITH UPRAISED HAND TRIED TO CONTROL HIS WRITHING FEATURES. THE NEXT HE HAD THROWN HIMSELF ON HIS KNEES BESIDE THE TABLE AND BURYING HIS FACE IN HIS HANDS HE HAD BURST INTO A STORM OF PASSIONATE SOBBING. COME COME SAID HOLMES KINDLY IT IS HUMAN TO ERR AND AT LEAST NO ONE CAN ACCUSE YOU OF BEING A CALLOUS CRIMINAL. WELL WELL DON'T TROUBLE TO ANSWER LISTEN AND SEE THAT I DO YOU NO INJUSTICE. FROM THE MOMENT MISTER SOAMES THAT YOU SAID TO ME THAT NO ONE NOT EVEN BANNISTER COULD HAVE TOLD THAT THE PAPERS WERE IN YOUR ROOM THE CASE BEGAN TO TAKE A DEFINITE SHAPE IN MY MIND. THE PRINTER ONE COULD OF COURSE DISMISS. HE COULD EXAMINE THE PAPERS IN HIS OWN OFFICE. THE INDIAN I ALSO THOUGHT NOTHING OF. IF THE PROOFS WERE IN A ROLL HE COULD NOT POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT THEY WERE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1826/1826_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1826/1826_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c688a07d45dd510920a02bddec3879fd62e4924d --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1826/1826_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MISS MARY TAYLOR DID NOT TAKE A COLLEGE COURSE FOR THE PURPOSE OF TEACHING NEGROES. NOT THAT SHE OBJECTED TO NEGROES AS HUMAN BEINGS QUITE THE CONTRARY. IN THE DEBATE BETWEEN THE SENIOR SOCIETIES HER DEFENCE OF THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT HAD BEEN NOT ONLY A NOTABLE BIT OF REASONING BUT DELIVERED WITH REAL ENTHUSIASM. NEVERTHELESS WHEN THE END OF THE SUMMER CAME AND THE ONLY OPENING FACING HER WAS THE TEACHING OF CHILDREN AT MISS SMITH'S EXPERIMENT IN THE ALABAMA SWAMPS IT MUST BE FRANKLY CONFESSED THAT MISS TAYLOR WAS DISAPPOINTED. HER DREAM HAD BEEN A POST GRADUATE COURSE AT BRYN MAWR BUT THAT WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION UNTIL MONEY WAS EARNED. SHE HAD PICTURED HERSELF EARNING THIS BY TEACHING ONE OR TWO OF HER SPECIALTIES IN SOME PRIVATE SCHOOL NEAR NEW YORK OR BOSTON OR EVEN IN A WESTERN COLLEGE. THE SOUTH SHE HAD NOT THOUGHT OF SERIOUSLY AND YET KNOWING OF ITS DELIGHTFUL HOSPITALITY AND MILD CLIMATE SHE WAS NOT AVERSE TO CHARLESTON OR NEW ORLEANS. JOHN TAYLOR WHO HAD SUPPORTED HER THROUGH COLLEGE WAS INTERESTED IN COTTON. HAVING CERTAIN SCHEMES IN MIND HE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT THE SMITH SCHOOL WAS IN THE MIDST OF THE ALABAMA COTTON BELT. BETTER GO HE HAD COUNSELLED SENTENTIOUSLY. MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING USEFUL DOWN THERE. SHE HAD BEEN NOT A LITTLE DISMAYED BY THE OUTLOOK AND HAD PROTESTED AGAINST HIS BLUNT INSISTENCE. BUT JOHN THERE'S NO SOCIETY JUST ELEMENTARY WORK. JOHN HAD MET THIS OBJECTION WITH HUMPH AS HE LEFT FOR HIS OFFICE. NEXT DAY HE HAD RETURNED TO THE SUBJECT. BEEN LOOKING UP TOOMS COUNTY. FIND SOME CRESSWELLS THERE BIG PLANTATIONS RATED AT TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. SOME OTHERS TOO BIG COTTON COUNTY. YOU OUGHT TO KNOW JOHN IF I TEACH NEGROES I'LL SCARCELY SEE MUCH OF PEOPLE IN MY OWN CLASS. NONSENSE BUTT IN SHOW OFF. GIVE EM YOUR GREEK AND STUDY COTTON. AT ANY RATE I SAY GO. AND SO HOWSOEVER RELUCTANTLY SHE HAD GONE. THE TRIAL WAS ALL SHE HAD ANTICIPATED AND POSSIBLY A BIT MORE. SHE WAS A PRETTY YOUNG WOMAN OF TWENTY THREE FAIR AND RATHER DAINTILY MOULDED. HERE SHE WAS TEACHING DIRTY CHILDREN AND THE SMELL OF CONFUSED ODORS AND BODILY PERSPIRATION WAS TO HER AT TIMES UNBEARABLE. THEN THERE WAS THE FACT OF THEIR COLOR IT WAS A FACT SO INSISTENT SO FATAL SHE ALMOST SAID AT TIMES THAT SHE COULD NOT ESCAPE IT. THEORETICALLY SHE HAD ALWAYS TREATED IT WITH DISDAINFUL EASE. WHAT'S THE MERE COLOR OF A HUMAN SOUL'S SKIN SHE HAD CRIED TO A WELLESLEY AUDIENCE AND THE AUDIENCE HAD APPLAUDED WITH ENTHUSIASM. BUT HERE IN ALABAMA BROUGHT CLOSELY AND INTIMATELY IN TOUCH WITH THESE DARK SKINNED CHILDREN THEIR COLOR STRUCK HER AT FIRST WITH A SORT OF TERROR IT SEEMED OMINOUS AND FORBIDDING. SHE FOUND HERSELF SHRINKING AWAY AND GRIPPING HERSELF LEST THEY SHOULD PERCEIVE. SHE COULD NOT HELP BUT THINK THAT IN MOST OTHER THINGS THEY WERE AS DIFFERENT FROM HER AS IN COLOR. SHE GROPED FOR NEW WAYS TO TEACH COLORED BRAINS AND MARSHAL COLORED THOUGHTS AND THE RESULT WAS PUZZLING BOTH TO TEACHER AND STUDENT. WITH THE OTHER TEACHERS SHE HAD LITTLE COMMERCE. SHE APPEALED TO MISS TAYLOR'S RUDDIER AND DAINTIER VISION BUT DIMLY AND DISTANTLY AS SOME MEMORY OF THE PAST. THE OTHER TEACHERS WERE INDISTINCT PERSONALITIES ALWAYS VERY BUSY AND VERY TIRED AND TALKING SCHOOL ROOM WITH THEIR MEALS. MISS TAYLOR WAS SOON STARVING FOR HUMAN COMPANIONSHIP FOR THE LIGHTER TOUCHES OF LIFE AND SOME OF ITS WARMTH AND LAUGHTER. SHE WANTED A GLANCE OF THE NEW BOOKS AND PERIODICALS AND TALK OF GREAT PHILANTHROPIES AND REFORMS. SHE FELT OUT OF THE WORLD SHUT IN AND MENTALLY ANAEMIC GREAT AS THE NEGRO PROBLEM MIGHT BE AS A WORLD PROBLEM IT LOOKED SORDID AND SMALL AT CLOSE RANGE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1826/1826_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1826/1826_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..633c4ed4761e6d591dd2ca2c07682e6a6f1b0f34 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1826/1826_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NOW FOR ONE LITTLE HALF HOUR SHE HAD BEEN A WOMAN TALKING TO A BOY NO NOT EVEN THAT SHE HAD BEEN TALKING JUST TALKING THERE WERE NO PERSONS IN THE CONVERSATION JUST THINGS ONE THING COTTON. SHE STARTED THINKING OF COTTON BUT AT ONCE SHE PULLED HERSELF BACK TO THE OTHER ASPECT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1836/1836_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1836/1836_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a97b1509b06e01da8fc3079216ffb85ffcc9fab --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1836/1836_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE HON CHARLES SMITH MISS SARAH'S BROTHER WAS WALKING SWIFTLY UPTOWN FROM MISTER EASTERLY'S WALL STREET OFFICE AND HIS FACE WAS PALE. AT LAST THE COTTON COMBINE WAS TO ALL APPEARANCES AN ASSURED FACT AND HE WAS SLATED FOR THE SENATE. THE PRICE HE HAD PAID WAS HIGH HE WAS TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF THE NEW TRUST AND SUNDRY FAVORABLE MEASURES WERE ALREADY DRAFTED AND REPOSING IN THE SAFE OF THE COMBINE'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT. AMONG OTHERS WAS ONE RELATING TO CHILD LABOR ANOTHER THAT WOULD EFFECT CERTAIN CHANGES IN THE TARIFF AND A PROPOSED LAW PROVIDING FOR A COTTON BALE OF A SHAPE AND DIMENSIONS DIFFERENT FROM THE CUSTOMARY THE LAST CONSTITUTING A PARTICULARLY CLEVER ARTIFICE WHICH UNDER THE GUISE OF CONVENIENCE IN HANDLING WOULD NECESSITATE THE INSTALLATION OF ENTIRELY NEW GIN AND COMPRESS MACHINERY TO BE SUPPLIED OF COURSE BY THE TRUST. AS MISTER SMITH DREW NEAR MISSUS GREY'S MURRAY HILL RESIDENCE HIS FACE HAD MELTED TO A CYNICAL SMILE. AFTER ALL WHY SHOULD HE CARE. HE HAD TRIED INDEPENDENCE AND PHILANTHROPY AND FAILED. WHY SHOULD HE NOT BE AS OTHER MEN. HE HAD SEEN MANY OTHERS THAT VERY DAY SWALLOW THE GOLDEN BAIT AND PROMISE EVERYTHING THEY WERE GENTLEMEN. WHY SHOULD HE POSE AS BETTER THAN HIS FELLOWS THERE WAS YOUNG CRESSWELL. DID HIS ARISTOCRATIC AIR PREVENT HIS SUCCUMBING TO THE LURE OF MILLIONS AND PROMISING THE INFLUENCE OF HIS FATHER AND THE WHOLE FARMER'S LEAGUE TO THE NEW PROJECT. MISTER SMITH SNAPPED HIS FINGERS AND RANG THE BELL THE DOOR OPENED SOFTLY. THE DARK WOODWORK OF THE OLD ENGLISH WAINSCOTING GLOWED WITH THE CRIMSON FLAMING OF LOGS IN THE WIDE FIREPLACE. THERE WAS JUST THE TOUCH OF EARLY AUTUMN CHILL IN THE AIR WITHOUT THAT MADE BOTH THE FIRE AND THE TABLE WITH ITS SOFT LINEN GOLD AND SILVER PLATE AND TWINKLING GLASSES A WARMING SATISFYING SIGHT. MISSUS GREY WAS A PORTLY WOMAN INCLINED TO THINK MUCH OF HER DINNER AND HER CLOTHES BOTH OF WHICH WERE ALWAYS RICH AND COSTLY. SHE WAS NOT HERSELF A NOTABLY INTELLIGENT WOMAN SHE GREATLY ADMIRED INTELLIGENCE OR WHATEVER LOOKED TO HER LIKE INTELLIGENCE IN OTHERS. HER MONEY TOO WAS TO HER AN EVER WORRYING MYSTERY AND SURPRISE WHICH SHE FOUND HERSELF ALWAYS SCHEMING TO HUSBAND SHREWDLY AND SPEND PHILANTHROPICALLY A DIFFICULT COMBINATION. AS SHE AWAITED HER GUESTS SHE SURVEYED THE TABLE WITH BOTH SATISFACTION AND DISQUIETUDE FOR HER SOCIAL FUNCTIONS WERE FEW TONIGHT THERE WERE SHE CHECKED THEM OFF ON HER FINGERS SIR JAMES CREIGHTON THE RICH ENGLISH MANUFACTURER AND LADY CREIGHTON MISTER AND MISSUS VANDERPOOL MISTER HARRY CRESSWELL AND HIS SISTER JOHN TAYLOR AND HIS SISTER AND MISTER CHARLES SMITH WHOM THE EVENING PAPERS MENTIONED AS LIKELY TO BE UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY A SELECTION OF GUESTS THAT HAD BEEN DETERMINED UNKNOWN TO THE HOSTESS BY THE MEETING OF COTTON INTERESTS EARLIER IN THE DAY. MISSUS GREY'S CHEF WAS HIGH PRICED AND EFFICIENT AND HER BUTLER WAS THE ENVY OF MANY CONSEQUENTLY SHE KNEW THE DINNER WOULD BE GOOD. TO HER INTENSE SATISFACTION IT WAS FAR MORE THAN THIS. IT WAS A MOST AGREEABLE COUPLE OF HOURS ALL SAVE PERHAPS MISTER SMITH UNBENT THE ENGLISHMAN ESPECIALLY AND THE VANDERPOOLS WERE MOST GRACIOUS BUT IF THE GENERAL PLEASURE WAS OWING TO ANY ONE PERSON PARTICULARLY IT WAS TO MISTER HARRY CRESSWELL. MISSUS GREY HAD MET SOUTHERNERS BEFORE BUT NOT INTIMATELY AND SHE ALWAYS HAD IN MIND VIVIDLY THEIR CRUELTY TO POOR NEGROES A SUBJECT SHE MADE A POINT OF INTRODUCING FORTHWITH. SHE WAS THEREFORE MOST AGREEABLY SURPRISED TO HEAR MISTER CRESSWELL EXPRESS HIMSELF SO CORDIALLY AS APPROVING OF NEGRO EDUCATION. REALLY NOW YOU DO NOT MEAN TO SAY THAT THERE IS A DANGER OF OF AMALGAMATION DO YOU HE SANG MISTER CRESSWELL EXPLAINED. NO OF COURSE THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE DANGER BUT WHEN PEOPLE WERE SUDDENLY THRUST BEYOND THEIR NATURAL STATION FILLED WITH WILD IDEAS AND IMPOSSIBLE AMBITIONS IT MEANT TERRIBLE DANGER TO SOUTHERN WHITE WOMEN. BUT YOU BELIEVE IN SOME EDUCATION ASKED MARY TAYLOR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1836/1836_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1836/1836_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..722c0503db0e4682cbc24c13df5a2c65318d6597 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1836/1836_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I BELIEVE IN THE TRAINING OF PEOPLE TO THEIR HIGHEST CAPACITY THE ENGLISHMAN HERE HEARTILY SECONDED HIM. BUT CRESSWELL ADDED SIGNIFICANTLY CAPACITY DIFFERS ENORMOUSLY BETWEEN RACES. THE VANDERPOOLS WERE SURE OF THIS AND THE ENGLISHMAN INSTANCING INDIA BECAME QUITE ELOQUENT MISSUS GREY WAS MYSTIFIED BUT HARDLY DARED ADMIT IT THE GENERAL TREND OF THE CONVERSATION SEEMED TO BE THAT MOST INDIVIDUALS NEEDED TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE SHARPEST SCRUTINY BEFORE BEING ALLOWED MUCH EDUCATION AND AS FOR THE LOWER RACES IT WAS SIMPLY CRIMINAL TO OPEN SUCH USELESS OPPORTUNITIES TO THEM. THEN MARY TAYLOR WHOSE CONSCIENCE WAS UNCOMFORTABLE SAID BUT MISTER CRESSWELL YOU SURELY BELIEVE IN SCHOOLS LIKE MISS SMITH'S. DECIDEDLY RETURNED MISTER CRESSWELL WITH ENTHUSIASM IT HAS DONE GREAT GOOD. MISSUS GREY WAS GRATIFIED AND MURMURED SOMETHING OF MISS SMITH'S SACRIFICE. POSITIVELY HEROIC ADDED CRESSWELL AVOIDING HIS SISTER'S EYES. OF COURSE MARY TAYLOR HASTENED TO ENCOURAGE THIS TURN OF THE CONVERSATION THERE ARE MANY POINTS ON WHICH MISS SMITH AND I DISAGREE BUT I THINK EVERYBODY ADMIRES HER WORK. BUT WE'RE NOT ER EXACTLY WELCOMED. THAT IS VERY WRONG VERY WRONG COMMENTED THE ENGLISHMAN WARMLY A SENTIMENT IN WHICH MISSUS GREY HASTENED TO AGREE. MISSUS GREY WANTED TO HEAR THE INCIDENT BUT THE YOUNG MAN WAS POLITELY RELUCTANT. MARY TAYLOR HOWEVER RELATED THE TALE OF ZORA TO MISSUS GREY'S PRIVATE EAR LATER. FORTUNATELY SAID MISTER VANDERPOOL NORTHERNERS AND SOUTHERNERS ARE ARRIVING AT A BETTER MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING ON MOST OF THESE MATTERS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1837/1837_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1837/1837_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fe263d708552d364bab7bbd71c06e71356b91eb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1837/1837_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE KNEW THE SILVER FLEECE HIS AND ZORA'S MUST BE RUINED. IT WAS THE FIRST GREAT SORROW OF HIS LIFE IT WAS NOT SO MUCH THE LOSS OF THE COTTON ITSELF BUT THE FANTASY THE HOPES THE DREAMS BUILT AROUND IT. IF IT FAILED WOULD NOT THEY FAIL. BUT IF HIS OWN DESPAIR WAS GREAT HIS PAIN AT THE PLIGHT OF ZORA MADE IT ALMOST UNBEARABLE. HE DID NOT SEE HER IN THESE SEVEN DAYS. HE PICTURED HER HUDDLED THERE IN THE SWAMP IN THE CHEERLESS LEAKY CABIN WITH WORSE THAN NO COMPANIONS. AH THE SWAMP THE CRUEL SWAMP. IT WAS A FEARFUL PLACE IN THE RAIN ITS OOZING MUD AND FETID VAPORS ITS CLINGING SLIMY DRAPERIES HOW THEY TWINED ABOUT THE BONES OF ITS VICTIMS AND CHILLED THEIR HEARTS. YET HERE HIS ZORA HIS POOR DISAPPOINTED CHILD WAS IMPRISONED CHILD. THE REVELATION OF HIS LOVE LIGHTED AND BRIGHTENED SLOWLY TILL IT FLAMED LIKE A SUNRISE OVER HIM AND LEFT HIM IN BURNING WONDER. HE PANTED TO KNOW IF SHE TOO KNEW OR KNEW AND CARED NOT OR CARED AND KNEW NOT. SHE WAS SO STRANGE AND HUMAN A CREATURE. TO HER ALL THINGS MEANT SOMETHING NOTHING WAS AIMLESS NOTHING MERELY HAPPENED. WAS THIS RAIN BEATING DOWN AND BACK HER LOVE FOR HIM OR HAD SHE NEVER LOVED. THE WORLD WAS WATER VEILED IN MISTS. THEN OF A SUDDEN AT MIDDAY THE SUN SHOT OUT HOT AND STILL NO BREATH OF AIR STIRRED THE SKY WAS LIKE BLUE STEEL THE EARTH STEAMED. PERHAPS IF THE WATER HAD BUT DRAINED FROM THE COTTON IT WAS SO STRONG AND TALL BUT PSHAW. WHERE WAS THE USE OF IMAGINING. THE LAGOON HAD BEEN LEVEL WITH THE DYKES A WEEK AGO AND NOW. HE COULD ALMOST SEE THE BEAUTIFUL SILVER FLEECE BEDRAGGLED DROWNED AND ROLLING BENEATH THE BLACK LAKE OF SLIME. HE MUST AT LEAST SEE THE GRAVE OF HIS HOPE AND ZORA'S AND OUT OF IT RESURRECT NEW LOVE AND STRENGTH. PERHAPS SHE TOO MIGHT BE THERE WAITING WEEPING. HE STARTED AT THE THOUGHT HE HURRIED FORTH SADLY. THE RAIN DROPS WERE STILL DRIPPING AND GLEAMING FROM THE TREES FLASHING BACK THE HEAVY YELLOW SUNLIGHT. HE SPLASHED AND STAMPED ALONG FARTHER AND FARTHER ONWARD UNTIL HE NEARED THE RAMPART OF THE CLEARING AND PUT FOOT UPON THE TREE BRIDGE. THEN HE LOOKED DOWN THE LAGOON WAS DRY. HE STOOD A MOMENT BEWILDERED THEN TURNED AND RUSHED UPON THE ISLAND A GREAT SHEET OF DAZZLING SUNLIGHT SWEPT THE PLACE AND BENEATH LAY A MIGHTY MASS OF OLIVE GREEN THICK TALL WET AND WILLOWY. THE SQUARES OF COTTON SHARP EDGED HEAVY WERE JUST ABOUT TO BURST TO BOLLS. AND UNDERNEATH THE LAND LAY CAREFULLY DRAINED AND BLACK. FOR ONE LONG MOMENT HE PAUSED STUPID AGAPE WITH UTTER AMAZEMENT THEN LEANED DIZZILY AGAINST A TREE. THE SWAMP THE ETERNAL SWAMP HAD BEEN DRAINED IN ITS DEEPEST FASTNESS BUT HOW HOW. HE GAZED ABOUT PERPLEXED ASTONISHED. WHAT A FIELD OF COTTON WHAT A MARVELLOUS FIELD. BUT HOW HAD IT BEEN SAVED. HE SKIRTED THE ISLAND SLOWLY STOPPING NEAR ZORA'S OAK. HERE LAY THE READING OF THE RIDDLE WITH INFINITE WORK AND PAIN SOME ONE HAD DUG A CANAL FROM THE LAGOON TO THE CREEK INTO WHICH THE FORMER HAD DRAINED BY A LONG AND CROOKED WAY THUS ALLOWING IT TO EMPTY DIRECTLY. THE CANAL WENT STRAIGHT A HUNDRED YARDS THROUGH STUBBORN SOIL AND IT WAS OOZING NOW WITH SLIMY WATERS. HE SAT DOWN WEAK BEWILDERED AND ONE THOUGHT WAS UPPERMOST ZORA. AND WITH THE THOUGHT CAME A LOW MOAN OF PAIN. THERE SHE LAY WET BEDRAGGLED MOTIONLESS GRAY PALLID BENEATH HER DARK DRAWN SKIN HER BURNING EYES SEARCHING RESTLESSLY FOR SOME LOST THING HER LIPS A MOANING. THE EARTH STAGGERED BENEATH HIM AS HE STUMBLED ON THE MUD SPLASHED AND SUNLIGHT GLISTENED HE SAW LONG SNAKES SLITHERING ACROSS HIS PATH AND FEAR STRUCK BEASTS FLEEING BEFORE HIS COMING \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1837/1837_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1837/1837_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..608262313bfcf28a7bc97ee500833549c3a60c47 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/1995/1837/1837_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE PAUSED FOR NEITHER PATH NOR WAY BUT WENT STRAIGHT FOR THE SCHOOL RUNNING IN MIGHTY STRIDES YET GENTLY LISTENING TO THE MOANS THAT STRUCK DEATH UPON HIS HEART ONCE HE FELL HEADLONG BUT WITH A GREAT WRENCH HELD HER FROM HARM AND MINDED NOT THE PAIN THAT SHOT THROUGH HIS RIBS. THE YELLOW SUNSHINE BEAT FIERCELY AROUND AND UPON HIM AS HE STUMBLED INTO THE HIGHWAY LURCHED ACROSS THE MUD STREWN ROAD AND PANTED UP THE PORCH. THE YEARS OF THE DAYS OF HER DYING WERE TEN. THE BOY THAT ENTERED THE DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH EMERGED A MAN A SILENT MAN AND GRAVE WORKING FURIOUSLY AND HAUNTING DAY AND NIGHT THE LITTLE WINDOW ABOVE THE DOOR. AT LAST OF ONE GRAY MORNING WHEN THE EARTH WAS STILLEST THEY CAME AND TOLD HIM SHE WILL LIVE. THE HOPE AND DREAM OF HARVEST WAS UPON THE LAND. THE COTTON CROP WAS SHORT AND POOR BECAUSE OF THE GREAT RAIN BUT THE SUN HAD SAVED THE BEST AND THE PRICE HAD SOARED. SO THE WORLD WAS HAPPY AND THE FACE OF THE BLACK BELT GREEN AND LUXURIANT WITH THICKENING FLECKS OF THE COMING FOAM OF THE COTTON. UP IN THE SICK ROOM ZORA LAY ON THE LITTLE WHITE BED. THE NET AND WEB OF ENDLESS THINGS HAD BEEN CRAWLING AND CREEPING AROUND HER SHE HAD STRUGGLED IN DUMB SPEECHLESS TERROR AGAINST SOME MIGHTY GRASPING THAT STROVE FOR HER LIFE WITH GNARLED AND CREEPING FINGERS BUT NOW AT LAST WEAKLY SHE OPENED HER EYES AND QUESTIONED. THE SILVER FLEECE HOW WAS IT THE SUN THE SWAMP. THEN FINDING ALL WELL SHE CLOSED HER EYES AND SLEPT. AT LAST THERE CAME A DAY WHEN THEY LET HER WALK DOWN TO THE PORCH AND SHE FELT THE FLICKERING OF HER STRENGTH AGAIN. YET SHE LOOKED DIFFERENT HER BUXOM COMELINESS WAS SPIRITUALIZED HER FACE LOOKED SMALLER AND HER MASSES OF HAIR BROUGHT LOW ABOUT HER EARS HEIGHTENED HER GHOSTLY BEAUTY HER SKIN WAS DARKLY TRANSPARENT AND HER EYES LOOKED OUT FROM VELVET VEILS OF GLOOM. FOR A WHILE SHE LAY IN HER CHAIR IN HAPPY DREAMY PLEASURE AT SUN AND BIRD AND TREE. BLES DID NOT KNOW YET THAT SHE WAS DOWN BUT SOON HE WOULD COME SEARCHING FOR HE CAME EACH HOUR AND SHE PRESSED HER LITTLE HANDS AGAINST HER BREAST TO STILL THE BEATING OF HER HEART AND THE BURSTING WONDER OF HER LOVE. THEN SUDDENLY A PANIC SEIZED HER. SHE ROSE WITH A FLEETING GLANCE GATHERED THE SHAWL ROUND HER THEN GLIDING FORWARD WAVERING TREMULOUS SLIPPED ACROSS THE ROAD AND INTO THE SWAMP. THE DARK MYSTERY OF THE SWAMP SWEPT OVER HER THE PLACE WAS HERS. SHE HAD BEEN BORN WITHIN ITS BORDERS WITHIN ITS BORDERS SHE HAD LIVED AND GROWN AND WITHIN ITS BORDERS SHE HAD MET HER LOVE. ON SHE HURRIED UNTIL SWEEPING DOWN TO THE LAGOON AND THE ISLAND LO THE COTTON LAY BEFORE HER. A GREAT WHITE FOAM WAS SPREAD UPON ITS BROWN AND GREEN THE WHOLE FIELD WAS WAVING AND SHIVERING IN THE SUNLIGHT. A LOW CRY OF PLEASURE BURST FROM HER LIPS SHE FORGOT HER WEAKNESS AND PICKING HER WAY ACROSS THE BRIDGE STOOD STILL AMID THE COTTON THAT NESTLED ABOUT HER SHOULDERS CLASPING IT LOVINGLY IN HER HANDS. HE HEARD THAT SHE WAS DOWN STAIRS AND RAN TO MEET HER WITH BEATING HEART. THE CHAIR WAS EMPTY BUT HE KNEW. YET IT WAS FAR AND HE FEARED AND RAN WITH STARTLED EYES. SHE STOOD ON THE ISLAND ETHEREAL SPLENDID LIKE SOME TALL DARK AND GORGEOUS FLOWER OF THE STORIED EAST. THE GREEN AND WHITE OF THE COTTON BILLOWED AND FOAMED ABOUT HER BREASTS THE RED SCARF BURNED UPON HER NECK THE DARK BROWN VELVET OF HER SKIN PULSED WARM AND TREMULOUS WITH THE UPRUSHING BLOOD AND IN THE MIDNIGHT DEPTHS OF HER GREAT EYES FLAMED THE MIGHTY FIRES OF LONG CONCEALED AND NEW BORN LOVE. HE DARTED THROUGH THE TREES AND PAUSED A TALL MAN STRONGLY BUT SLIMLY MADE. HE THREW UP HIS HANDS IN THE OLD WAY AND HALLOOED HAPPILY SHE CROONED BACK A LOW MOTHER MELODY AND WAITED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/960/960_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/960/960_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5e56ad8cf10ddff03194d53f518fcf2e4ee6858a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/960/960_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT HE HAS NOT AS YET DEFINED THIS INTERMEDIATE TERRITORY WHICH LIES SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MEDICINE AND MATHEMATICS AND HE WOULD HAVE FELT THAT THERE WAS AS GREAT AN IMPIETY IN RANKING THEORIES OF PHYSICS FIRST IN THE ORDER OF KNOWLEDGE AS IN PLACING THE BODY BEFORE THE SOUL. IT IS TRUE HOWEVER THAT THE TIMAEUS IS BY NO MEANS CONFINED TO SPECULATIONS ON PHYSICS. THE DEEPER FOUNDATIONS OF THE PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY SUCH AS THE NATURE OF GOD THE DISTINCTION OF THE SENSIBLE AND INTELLECTUAL THE GREAT ORIGINAL CONCEPTIONS OF TIME AND SPACE ALSO APPEAR IN IT. THEY ARE FOUND PRINCIPALLY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE DIALOGUE. WE ARE LED BY PLATO HIMSELF TO REGARD THE TIMAEUS NOT AS THE CENTRE OR INMOST SHRINE OF THE EDIFICE BUT AS A DETACHED BUILDING IN A DIFFERENT STYLE FRAMED NOT AFTER THE SOCRATIC BUT AFTER SOME PYTHAGOREAN MODEL. AS IN THE CRATYLUS AND PARMENIDES WE ARE UNCERTAIN WHETHER PLATO IS EXPRESSING HIS OWN OPINIONS OR APPROPRIATING AND PERHAPS IMPROVING THE PHILOSOPHICAL SPECULATIONS OF OTHERS. IN ALL THREE DIALOGUES HE IS EXERTING HIS DRAMATIC AND IMITATIVE POWER IN THE CRATYLUS MINGLING A SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS PURPOSE WITH TRUE PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE IN THE PARMENIDES OVERTHROWING MEGARIANISM BY A SORT OF ULTRA MEGARIANISM WHICH DISCOVERS CONTRADICTIONS IN THE ONE AS GREAT AS THOSE WHICH HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY SHOWN TO EXIST IN THE IDEAS. THERE IS A SIMILAR UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE TIMAEUS IN THE FIRST PART HE SCALES THE HEIGHTS OF TRANSCENDENTALISM IN THE LATTER PART HE TREATS IN A BALD AND SUPERFICIAL MANNER OF THE FUNCTIONS AND DISEASES OF THE HUMAN FRAME. WITH HERACLEITUS HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE PERPETUAL FLUX LIKE ANAXAGORAS HE ASSERTS THE PREDOMINANCE OF MIND ALTHOUGH ADMITTING AN ELEMENT OF NECESSITY WHICH REASON IS INCAPABLE OF SUBDUING LIKE THE PYTHAGOREANS HE SUPPOSES THE MYSTERY OF THE WORLD TO BE CONTAINED IN NUMBER. MANY IF NOT ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THE PRE SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY ARE INCLUDED IN THE TIMAEUS. IT IS A COMPOSITE OR ECLECTIC WORK OF IMAGINATION IN WHICH PLATO WITHOUT NAMING THEM GATHERS UP INTO A KIND OF SYSTEM THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF PHILOSOPHY WHICH PRECEDED HIM. IF WE ALLOW FOR THE DIFFERENCE OF SUBJECT AND FOR SOME GROWTH IN PLATO'S OWN MIND THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE TIMAEUS AND THE OTHER DIALOGUES WILL NOT APPEAR TO BE GREAT. IT IS PROBABLE THAT THE RELATION OF THE IDEAS TO GOD OR OF GOD TO THE WORLD WAS DIFFERENTLY CONCEIVED BY HIM AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF HIS LIFE. IN ALL HIS LATER DIALOGUES WE OBSERVE A TENDENCY IN HIM TO PERSONIFY MIND OR GOD AND HE THEREFORE NATURALLY INCLINES TO VIEW CREATION AS THE WORK OF DESIGN. THE CREATOR IS LIKE A HUMAN ARTIST WHO FRAMES IN HIS MIND A PLAN WHICH HE EXECUTES BY THE HELP OF HIS SERVANTS. THUS THE LANGUAGE OF PHILOSOPHY WHICH SPEAKS OF FIRST AND SECOND CAUSES IS CROSSED BY ANOTHER SORT OF PHRASEOLOGY GOD MADE THE WORLD BECAUSE HE WAS GOOD AND THE DEMONS MINISTERED TO HIM. THE IDEAS ALSO REMAIN BUT THEY HAVE BECOME TYPES IN NATURE FORMS OF MEN ANIMALS BIRDS FISHES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/960/960_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/960/960_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a43d17835a1fd17ddd0d6c575c592bd5f5af2a30 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/960/960_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE STYLE AND PLAN OF THE TIMAEUS DIFFER GREATLY FROM THAT OF ANY OTHER OF THE PLATONIC DIALOGUES. THE LANGUAGE IS WEIGHTY ABRUPT AND IN SOME PASSAGES SUBLIME. BUT PLATO HAS NOT THE SAME MASTERY OVER HIS INSTRUMENT WHICH HE EXHIBITS IN THE PHAEDRUS OR SYMPOSIUM. NOTHING CAN EXCEED THE BEAUTY OR ART OF THE INTRODUCTION IN WHICH HE IS USING WORDS AFTER HIS ACCUSTOMED MANNER. BUT IN THE REST OF THE WORK THE POWER OF LANGUAGE SEEMS TO FAIL HIM AND THE DRAMATIC FORM IS WHOLLY GIVEN UP. HE COULD WRITE IN ONE STYLE BUT NOT IN ANOTHER AND THE GREEK LANGUAGE HAD NOT AS YET BEEN FASHIONED BY ANY POET OR PHILOSOPHER TO DESCRIBE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA. THE EARLY PHYSIOLOGISTS HAD GENERALLY WRITTEN IN VERSE THE PROSE WRITERS LIKE DEMOCRITUS AND ANAXAGORAS AS FAR AS WE CAN JUDGE FROM THEIR FRAGMENTS NEVER ATTAINED TO A PERIODIC STYLE. AND HENCE WE FIND THE SAME SORT OF CLUMSINESS IN THE TIMAEUS OF PLATO WHICH CHARACTERIZES THE PHILOSOPHICAL POEM OF LUCRETIUS. THERE IS A WANT OF FLOW AND OFTEN A DEFECT OF RHYTHM THE MEANING IS SOMETIMES OBSCURE AND THERE IS A GREATER USE OF APPOSITION AND MORE OF REPETITION THAN OCCURS IN PLATO'S EARLIER WRITINGS. THE SENTENCES ARE LESS CLOSELY CONNECTED AND ALSO MORE INVOLVED THE ANTECEDENTS OF DEMONSTRATIVE AND RELATIVE PRONOUNS ARE IN SOME CASES REMOTE AND PERPLEXING. THE GREATER FREQUENCY OF PARTICIPLES AND OF ABSOLUTE CONSTRUCTIONS GIVES THE EFFECT OF HEAVINESS. THE DESCRIPTIVE PORTION OF THE TIMAEUS RETAINS TRACES OF THE FIRST GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION FOR THE GREAT MASTER OF LANGUAGE WAS SPEAKING ON A THEME WITH WHICH HE WAS IMPERFECTLY ACQUAINTED AND HAD NO WORDS IN WHICH TO EXPRESS HIS MEANING. PLATO HAD NOT THE COMMAND OF HIS MATERIALS WHICH WOULD HAVE ENABLED HIM TO PRODUCE A PERFECT WORK OF ART. HIS SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE ETERNAL HIS THEORIES OF CREATION HIS MATHEMATICAL ANTICIPATIONS ARE SUPPLEMENTED BY DESULTORY REMARKS ON THE ONE IMMORTAL AND THE TWO MORTAL SOULS OF MAN ON THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BODILY ORGANS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE ON SIGHT HEARING SMELL TASTE AND TOUCH. HE SOARS INTO THE HEAVENS AND THEN AS IF HIS WINGS WERE SUDDENLY CLIPPED HE WALKS UNGRACEFULLY AND WITH DIFFICULTY UPON THE EARTH. THE GREATEST THINGS IN THE WORLD AND THE LEAST THINGS IN MAN ARE BROUGHT WITHIN THE COMPASS OF A SHORT TREATISE. FOR HE HAS GLIMPSES OF THE TRUTH BUT NO COMPREHENSIVE OR PERFECT VISION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/961/961_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/961/961_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9775642385067fc4d0d8d32d40f2a29d0a4936fe --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/961/961_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SOCRATES BEGINS THE TIMAEUS WITH A SUMMARY OF THE REPUBLIC. HE LIGHTLY TOUCHES UPON A FEW POINTS THE DIVISION OF LABOUR AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE CITIZENS INTO CLASSES THE DOUBLE NATURE AND TRAINING OF THE GUARDIANS THE COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY AND OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. BUT HE MAKES NO MENTION OF THE SECOND EDUCATION OR OF THE GOVERNMENT OF PHILOSOPHERS. AND NOW HE DESIRES TO SEE THE IDEAL STATE SET IN MOTION HE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW SHE BEHAVED IN SOME GREAT STRUGGLE. AND THEREFORE TO YOU I TURN TIMAEUS CITIZEN OF LOCRIS WHO ARE AT ONCE A PHILOSOPHER AND A STATESMAN AND TO YOU CRITIAS WHOM ALL ATHENIANS KNOW TO BE SIMILARLY ACCOMPLISHED AND TO HERMOCRATES WHO IS ALSO FITTED BY NATURE AND EDUCATION TO SHARE IN OUR DISCOURSE. HERMOCRATES WE WILL DO OUR BEST AND HAVE BEEN ALREADY PREPARING FOR ON OUR WAY HOME CRITIAS TOLD US OF AN ANCIENT TRADITION WHICH I WISH CRITIAS THAT YOU WOULD REPEAT TO SOCRATES. I WILL IF TIMAEUS APPROVES I APPROVE. LISTEN THEN SOCRATES TO A TALE OF SOLON'S WHO BEING THE FRIEND OF DROPIDAS MY GREAT GRANDFATHER TOLD IT TO MY GRANDFATHER CRITIAS AND HE TOLD ME. THE NARRATIVE RELATED TO ANCIENT FAMOUS ACTIONS OF THE ATHENIAN PEOPLE AND TO ONE ESPECIALLY WHICH I WILL REHEARSE IN HONOUR OF YOU AND OF THE GODDESS. CRITIAS WHEN HE TOLD THIS TALE OF THE OLDEN TIME WAS NINETY YEARS OLD I BEING NOT MORE THAN TEN. THE OCCASION OF THE REHEARSAL WAS THE DAY OF THE APATURIA CALLED THE REGISTRATION OF YOUTH AT WHICH OUR PARENTS GAVE PRIZES FOR RECITATION. SOME POEMS OF SOLON WERE RECITED BY THE BOYS. THEY HAD NOT AT THAT TIME GONE OUT OF FASHION AND THE RECITAL OF THEM LED SOME ONE TO SAY PERHAPS IN COMPLIMENT TO CRITIAS THAT SOLON WAS NOT ONLY THE WISEST OF MEN BUT ALSO THE BEST OF POETS. AND WHAT WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE POEM SAID THE PERSON WHO MADE THE REMARK. THE SUBJECT WAS A VERY NOBLE ONE HE DESCRIBED THE MOST FAMOUS ACTION IN WHICH THE ATHENIAN PEOPLE WERE EVER ENGAGED. BUT THE MEMORY OF THEIR EXPLOITS HAS PASSED AWAY OWING TO THE LAPSE OF TIME AND THE EXTINCTION OF THE ACTORS. TELL US SAID THE OTHER THE WHOLE STORY AND WHERE SOLON HEARD THE STORY. THE CITIZENS HAVE A FRIENDLY FEELING TOWARDS THE ATHENIANS BELIEVING THEMSELVES TO BE RELATED TO THEM. HITHER CAME SOLON AND WAS RECEIVED WITH HONOUR AND HERE HE FIRST LEARNT BY CONVERSING WITH THE EGYPTIAN PRIESTS HOW IGNORANT HE AND HIS COUNTRYMEN WERE OF ANTIQUITY. THEREUPON AN AGED PRIEST SAID TO HIM O SOLON SOLON YOU HELLENES ARE EVER YOUNG AND THERE IS NO OLD MAN WHO IS A HELLENE. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE ASKED. IN MIND REPLIED THE PRIEST I MEAN TO SAY THAT YOU ARE CHILDREN THERE IS NO OPINION OR TRADITION OF KNOWLEDGE AMONG YOU WHICH IS WHITE WITH AGE AND I WILL TELL YOU WHY. LIKE THE REST OF MANKIND YOU HAVE SUFFERED FROM CONVULSIONS OF NATURE WHICH ARE CHIEFLY BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE TWO GREAT AGENCIES OF FIRE AND WATER. FOR THERE OCCURS AT LONG INTERVALS A DERANGEMENT OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES AND THEN THE EARTH IS DESTROYED BY FIRE. NOW THE NILE IS OUR SAVIOUR FROM FIRE AND AS THERE IS LITTLE RAIN IN EGYPT WE ARE NOT HARMED BY WATER WHEREAS IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHEN A DELUGE COMES THE INHABITANTS ARE SWEPT BY THE RIVERS INTO THE SEA \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/961/961_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/961/961_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6687e03f316998261153bbb3118081fcb6ab6ad8 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/2961/961/961_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE MEMORIALS WHICH YOUR OWN AND OTHER NATIONS HAVE ONCE HAD OF THE FAMOUS ACTIONS OF MANKIND PERISH IN THE WATERS AT CERTAIN PERIODS AND THE RUDE SURVIVORS IN THE MOUNTAINS BEGIN AGAIN KNOWING NOTHING OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD. BUT IN EGYPT THE TRADITIONS OF OUR OWN AND OTHER LANDS ARE BY US REGISTERED FOR EVER IN OUR TEMPLES. THE GENEALOGIES WHICH YOU HAVE RECITED TO US OUT OF YOUR OWN ANNALS SOLON ARE A MERE CHILDREN'S STORY. THE MEMORY OF THEM WAS LOST BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WRITTEN VOICE AMONG YOU. FOR IN THE TIMES BEFORE THE GREAT FLOOD ATHENS WAS THE GREATEST AND BEST OF CITIES AND DID THE NOBLEST DEEDS AND HAD THE BEST CONSTITUTION OF ANY UNDER THE FACE OF HEAVEN. SOLON MARVELLED AND DESIRED TO BE INFORMED OF THE PARTICULARS. NINE THOUSAND YEARS HAVE ELAPSED SINCE SHE FOUNDED YOURS AND EIGHT THOUSAND SINCE SHE FOUNDED OURS AS OUR ANNALS RECORD. MANY LAWS EXIST AMONG US WHICH ARE THE COUNTERPART OF YOURS AS THEY WERE IN THE OLDEN TIME. I WILL BRIEFLY DESCRIBE THEM TO YOU AND YOU SHALL READ THE ACCOUNT OF THEM AT YOUR LEISURE IN THE SACRED REGISTERS. OBSERVE AGAIN WHAT CARE THE LAW TOOK IN THE PURSUIT OF WISDOM SEARCHING OUT THE DEEP THINGS OF THE WORLD AND APPLYING THEM TO THE USE OF MAN. THE SPOT OF EARTH WHICH THE GODDESS CHOSE HAD THE BEST OF CLIMATES AND PRODUCED THE WISEST MEN IN NO OTHER WAS SHE HERSELF THE PHILOSOPHER AND WARRIOR GODDESS SO LIKELY TO HAVE VOTARIES. AND THERE YOU DWELT AS BECAME THE CHILDREN OF THE GODS EXCELLING ALL MEN IN VIRTUE AND MANY FAMOUS ACTIONS ARE RECORDED OF YOU. THE MOST FAMOUS OF THEM ALL WAS THE OVERTHROW OF THE ISLAND OF ATLANTIS. THIS MIGHTY POWER WAS ARRAYED AGAINST EGYPT AND HELLAS AND ALL THE COUNTRIES BORDERING ON THE MEDITERRANEAN. THEN YOUR CITY DID BRAVELY AND WON RENOWN OVER THE WHOLE EARTH. FOR AT THE PERIL OF HER OWN EXISTENCE AND WHEN THE OTHER HELLENES HAD DESERTED HER SHE REPELLED THE INVADER AND OF HER OWN ACCORD GAVE LIBERTY TO ALL THE NATIONS WITHIN THE PILLARS. A LITTLE WHILE AFTERWARDS THERE WERE GREAT EARTHQUAKES AND FLOODS AND YOUR WARRIOR RACE ALL SANK INTO THE EARTH AND THE GREAT ISLAND OF ATLANTIS ALSO DISAPPEARED IN THE SEA. THIS IS THE EXPLANATION OF THE SHALLOWS WHICH ARE FOUND IN THAT PART OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. BUT I WOULD NOT SPEAK AT THE TIME BECAUSE I WANTED TO REFRESH MY MEMORY. I HAD HEARD THE OLD MAN WHEN I WAS A CHILD AND THOUGH I COULD NOT REMEMBER THE WHOLE OF OUR YESTERDAY'S DISCOURSE I WAS ABLE TO RECALL EVERY WORD OF THIS WHICH IS BRANDED INTO MY MIND AND I AM PREPARED SOCRATES TO REHEARSE TO YOU THE ENTIRE NARRATIVE. THE IMAGINARY STATE WHICH YOU WERE DESCRIBING MAY BE IDENTIFIED WITH THE REALITY OF SOLON AND OUR ANTEDILUVIAN ANCESTORS MAY BE YOUR CITIZENS. THAT IS EXCELLENT CRITIAS AND VERY APPROPRIATE TO A PANATHENAIC FESTIVAL THE TRUTH OF THE STORY IS A GREAT ADVANTAGE. THEN NOW LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU THE ORDER OF OUR ENTERTAINMENT FIRST TIMAEUS WHO IS A NATURAL PHILOSOPHER WILL SPEAK OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD GOING DOWN TO THE CREATION OF MAN AND THEN I SHALL RECEIVE THE MEN WHOM HE HAS CREATED AND SOME OF WHOM WILL HAVE BEEN EDUCATED BY YOU AND INTRODUCE THEM TO YOU AS THE LOST ATHENIAN CITIZENS OF WHOM THE EGYPTIAN RECORD SPOKE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5694/5694_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5694/5694_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b1482ce652d8c6f14cd3f08c3f91eac7ae8acae --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5694/5694_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ONE PORTION OF THE SERVANT CLASS CHIEFLY THOSE PERSONS WHOSE OCCUPATION IS VICARIOUS LEISURE COME TO UNDERTAKE A NEW SUBSIDIARY RANGE OF DUTIES THE VICARIOUS CONSUMPTION OF GOODS. THE MOST OBVIOUS FORM IN WHICH THIS CONSUMPTION OCCURS IS SEEN IN THE WEARING OF LIVERIES AND THE OCCUPATION OF SPACIOUS SERVANTS QUARTERS. ANOTHER SCARCELY LESS OBTRUSIVE OR LESS EFFECTIVE FORM OF VICARIOUS CONSUMPTION AND A MUCH MORE WIDELY PREVALENT ONE IS THE CONSUMPTION OF FOOD CLOTHING DWELLING AND FURNITURE BY THE LADY AND THE REST OF THE DOMESTIC ESTABLISHMENT. BUT ALREADY AT A POINT IN ECONOMIC EVOLUTION FAR ANTEDATING THE EMERGENCE OF THE LADY SPECIALISED CONSUMPTION OF GOODS AS AN EVIDENCE OF PECUNIARY STRENGTH HAD BEGUN TO WORK OUT IN A MORE OR LESS ELABORATE SYSTEM. THE BEGINNING OF A DIFFERENTIATION IN CONSUMPTION EVEN ANTEDATES THE APPEARANCE OF ANYTHING THAT CAN FAIRLY BE CALLED PECUNIARY STRENGTH. IT IS TRACEABLE BACK TO THE INITIAL PHASE OF PREDATORY CULTURE AND THERE IS EVEN A SUGGESTION THAT AN INCIPIENT DIFFERENTIATION IN THIS RESPECT LIES BACK OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE PREDATORY LIFE. THIS MOST PRIMITIVE DIFFERENTIATION IN THE CONSUMPTION OF GOODS IS LIKE THE LATER DIFFERENTIATION WITH WHICH WE ARE ALL SO INTIMATELY FAMILIAR IN THAT IT IS LARGELY OF A CEREMONIAL CHARACTER BUT UNLIKE THE LATTER IT DOES NOT REST ON A DIFFERENCE IN ACCUMULATED WEALTH. THE UTILITY OF CONSUMPTION AS AN EVIDENCE OF WEALTH IS TO BE CLASSED AS A DERIVATIVE GROWTH. IT IS AN ADAPTION TO A NEW END BY A SELECTIVE PROCESS OF A DISTINCTION PREVIOUSLY EXISTING AND WELL ESTABLISHED IN MEN'S HABITS OF THOUGHT. IN THE EARLIER PHASES OF THE PREDATORY CULTURE THE ONLY ECONOMIC DIFFERENTIATION IS A BROAD DISTINCTION BETWEEN AN HONOURABLE SUPERIOR CLASS MADE UP OF THE ABLE BODIED MEN ON THE ONE SIDE AND A BASE INFERIOR CLASS OF LABOURING WOMEN ON THE OTHER. ACCORDING TO THE IDEAL SCHEME OF LIFE IN FORCE AT THE TIME IT IS THE OFFICE OF THE MEN TO CONSUME WHAT THE WOMEN PRODUCE. SUCH CONSUMPTION AS FALLS TO THE WOMEN IS MERELY INCIDENTAL TO THEIR WORK IT IS A MEANS TO THEIR CONTINUED LABOUR AND NOT A CONSUMPTION DIRECTED TO THEIR OWN COMFORT AND FULNESS OF LIFE. UNPRODUCTIVE CONSUMPTION OF GOODS IS HONOURABLE PRIMARILY AS A MARK OF PROWESS AND A PERQUISITE OF HUMAN DIGNITY SECONDARILY IT BECOMES SUBSTANTIALLY HONOURABLE TO ITSELF ESPECIALLY THE CONSUMPTION OF THE MORE DESIRABLE THINGS. THE CONSUMPTION OF CHOICE ARTICLES OF FOOD AND FREQUENTLY ALSO OF RARE ARTICLES OF ADORNMENT BECOMES TABU TO THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND IF THERE IS A BASE SERVILE CLASS OF MEN THE TABU HOLDS ALSO FOR THEM. WITH A FURTHER ADVANCE IN CULTURE THIS TABU MAY CHANGE INTO SIMPLE CUSTOM OF A MORE OR LESS RIGOROUS CHARACTER BUT WHATEVER BE THE THEORETICAL BASIS OF THE DISTINCTION WHICH IS MAINTAINED WHETHER IT BE A TABU OR A LARGER CONVENTIONALITY THE FEATURES OF THE CONVENTIONAL SCHEME OF CONSUMPTION DO NOT CHANGE EASILY. IN THE NATURE OF THINGS LUXURIES AND THE COMFORTS OF LIFE BELONG TO THE LEISURE CLASS. UNDER THE TABU CERTAIN VICTUALS AND MORE PARTICULARLY CERTAIN BEVERAGES ARE STRICTLY RESERVED FOR THE USE OF THE SUPERIOR CLASS. THE CEREMONIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE DIETARY IS BEST SEEN IN THE USE OF INTOXICATING BEVERAGES AND NARCOTICS. IF THESE ARTICLES OF CONSUMPTION ARE COSTLY THEY ARE FELT TO BE NOBLE AND HONORIFIC. THEREFORE THE BASE CLASSES PRIMARILY THE WOMEN PRACTICE AN ENFORCED CONTINENCE WITH RESPECT TO THESE STIMULANTS EXCEPT IN COUNTRIES WHERE THEY ARE OBTAINABLE AT A VERY LOW COST. FROM ARCHAIC TIMES DOWN THROUGH ALL THE LENGTH OF THE PATRIARCHAL REGIME IT HAS BEEN THE OFFICE OF THE WOMEN TO PREPARE AND ADMINISTER THESE LUXURIES AND IT HAS BEEN THE PERQUISITE OF THE MEN OF GENTLE BIRTH AND BREEDING TO CONSUME THEM. DRUNKENNESS AND THE OTHER PATHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE FREE USE OF STIMULANTS THEREFORE TEND IN THEIR TURN TO BECOME HONORIFIC AS BEING A MARK AT THE SECOND REMOVE OF THE SUPERIOR STATUS OF THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO AFFORD THE INDULGENCE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5694/5694_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5694/5694_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e92d7b05539e24cd203e3541e9d8adb0456490f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5694/5694_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT DURING THE EARLIER QUASI PEACEABLE STAGE WHEN SO MANY OF THE TRADITIONS THROUGH WHICH THE INSTITUTION OF A LEISURE CLASS HAS AFFECTED THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF LATER TIMES WERE TAKING FORM AND CONSISTENCY THIS PRINCIPLE HAS HAD THE FORCE OF A CONVENTIONAL LAW. IT HAS SERVED AS THE NORM TO WHICH CONSUMPTION HAS TENDED TO CONFORM AND ANY APPRECIABLE DEPARTURE FROM IT IS TO BE REGARDED AS AN ABERRANT FORM SURE TO BE ELIMINATED SOONER OR LATER IN THE FURTHER COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT. THE QUASI PEACEABLE GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE THEN NOT ONLY CONSUMES OF THE STAFF OF LIFE BEYOND THE MINIMUM REQUIRED FOR SUBSISTENCE AND PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY BUT HIS CONSUMPTION ALSO UNDERGOES A SPECIALISATION AS REGARDS THE QUALITY OF THE GOODS CONSUMED. IN THE PROCESS OF GRADUAL AMELIORATION WHICH TAKES PLACE IN THE ARTICLES OF HIS CONSUMPTION THE MOTIVE PRINCIPLE AND PROXIMATE AIM OF INNOVATION IS NO DOUBT THE HIGHER EFFICIENCY OF THE IMPROVED AND MORE ELABORATE PRODUCTS FOR PERSONAL COMFORT AND WELL BEING. BUT THAT DOES NOT REMAIN THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THEIR CONSUMPTION. THE CANON OF REPUTABILITY IS AT HAND AND SEIZES UPON SUCH INNOVATIONS AS ARE ACCORDING TO ITS STANDARD FIT TO SURVIVE. SINCE THE CONSUMPTION OF THESE MORE EXCELLENT GOODS IS AN EVIDENCE OF WEALTH IT BECOMES HONORIFIC AND CONVERSELY THE FAILURE TO CONSUME IN DUE QUANTITY AND QUALITY BECOMES A MARK OF INFERIORITY AND DEMERIT. THIS GROWTH OF PUNCTILIOUS DISCRIMINATION AS TO QUALITATIVE EXCELLENCE IN EATING DRINKING ET CETERA. PRESENTLY AFFECTS NOT ONLY THE MANNER OF LIFE BUT ALSO THE TRAINING AND INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY OF THE GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE. HE IS NO LONGER SIMPLY THE SUCCESSFUL AGGRESSIVE MALE THE MAN OF STRENGTH RESOURCE AND INTREPIDITY. IN ORDER TO AVOID STULTIFICATION HE MUST ALSO CULTIVATE HIS TASTES FOR IT NOW BECOMES INCUMBENT ON HIM TO DISCRIMINATE WITH SOME NICETY BETWEEN THE NOBLE AND THE IGNOBLE IN CONSUMABLE GOODS. HE BECOMES A CONNOISSEUR IN CREDITABLE VIANDS OF VARIOUS DEGREES OF MERIT IN MANLY BEVERAGES AND TRINKETS IN SEEMLY APPAREL AND ARCHITECTURE IN WEAPONS GAMES DANCERS AND THE NARCOTICS. CLOSELY RELATED TO THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE GENTLEMAN MUST CONSUME FREELY AND OF THE RIGHT KIND OF GOODS THERE IS THE REQUIREMENT THAT HE MUST KNOW HOW TO CONSUME THEM IN A SEEMLY MANNER. HIS LIFE OF LEISURE MUST BE CONDUCTED IN DUE FORM. HENCE ARISE GOOD MANNERS IN THE WAY POINTED OUT IN AN EARLIER CHAPTER. HIGH BRED MANNERS AND WAYS OF LIVING ARE ITEMS OF CONFORMITY TO THE NORM OF CONSPICUOUS LEISURE AND CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION. AS WEALTH ACCUMULATES ON HIS HANDS HIS OWN UNAIDED EFFORT WILL NOT AVAIL TO SUFFICIENTLY PUT HIS OPULENCE IN EVIDENCE BY THIS METHOD. THE AID OF FRIENDS AND COMPETITORS IS THEREFORE BROUGHT IN BY RESORTING TO THE GIVING OF VALUABLE PRESENTS AND EXPENSIVE FEASTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS. PRESENTS AND FEASTS HAD PROBABLY ANOTHER ORIGIN THAN THAT OF NAIVE OSTENTATION BUT THEY REQUIRED THEIR UTILITY FOR THIS PURPOSE VERY EARLY AND THEY HAVE RETAINED THAT CHARACTER TO THE PRESENT SO THAT THEIR UTILITY IN THIS RESPECT HAS NOW LONG BEEN THE SUBSTANTIAL GROUND ON WHICH THESE USAGES REST. COSTLY ENTERTAINMENTS SUCH AS THE POTLATCH OR THE BALL ARE PECULIARLY ADAPTED TO SERVE THIS END. THE COMPETITOR WITH WHOM THE ENTERTAINER WISHES TO INSTITUTE A COMPARISON IS BY THIS METHOD MADE TO SERVE AS A MEANS TO THE END. HE CONSUMES VICARIOUSLY FOR HIS HOST AT THE SAME TIME THAT HE IS WITNESS TO THE CONSUMPTION OF THAT EXCESS OF GOOD THINGS WHICH HIS HOST IS UNABLE TO DISPOSE OF SINGLE HANDED AND HE IS ALSO MADE TO WITNESS HIS HOST'S FACILITY IN ETIQUETTE. IN THE GIVING OF COSTLY ENTERTAINMENTS OTHER MOTIVES OF MORE GENIAL KIND ARE OF COURSE ALSO PRESENT. THE CUSTOM OF FESTIVE GATHERINGS PROBABLY ORIGINATED IN MOTIVES OF CONVIVIALITY AND RELIGION THESE MOTIVES ARE ALSO PRESENT IN THE LATER DEVELOPMENT BUT THEY DO NOT CONTINUE TO BE THE SOLE MOTIVES. BUT THE ECONOMIC EFFECT OF THESE SOCIAL AMENITIES IS NOT THEREFORE LESSENED EITHER IN THE VICARIOUS CONSUMPTION OF GOODS OR IN THE EXHIBITION OF DIFFICULT AND COSTLY ACHIEVEMENTS IN ETIQUETTE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5694/5694_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5694/5694_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e0ce75b617134c88b53833d60057ec301981f5be --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5694/5694_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AS WEALTH ACCUMULATES THE LEISURE CLASS DEVELOPS FURTHER IN FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE AND THERE ARISES A DIFFERENTIATION WITHIN THE CLASS. THERE IS A MORE OR LESS ELABORATE SYSTEM OF RANK AND GRADES. THIS DIFFERENTIATION IS FURTHERED BY THE INHERITANCE OF WEALTH AND THE CONSEQUENT INHERITANCE OF GENTILITY. HENCE RESULTS A CLASS OF IMPECUNIOUS GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE INCIDENTALLY REFERRED TO ALREADY. THEY BECOME HIS COURTIERS OR RETAINERS SERVANTS AND BEING FED AND COUNTENANCED BY THEIR PATRON THEY ARE INDICES OF HIS RANK AND VICARIOUS CONSUMER OF HIS SUPERFLUOUS WEALTH. MANY OF THESE AFFILIATED GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE ARE AT THE SAME TIME LESSER MEN OF SUBSTANCE IN THEIR OWN RIGHT SO THAT SOME OF THEM ARE SCARCELY AT ALL OTHERS ONLY PARTIALLY TO BE RATED AS VICARIOUS CONSUMERS. SO MANY OF THEM HOWEVER AS MAKE UP THE RETAINER AND HANGERS ON OF THE PATRON MAY BE CLASSED AS VICARIOUS CONSUMER WITHOUT QUALIFICATION. MANY OF THESE AGAIN AND ALSO MANY OF THE OTHER ARISTOCRACY OF LESS DEGREE HAVE IN TURN ATTACHED TO THEIR PERSONS A MORE OR LESS COMPREHENSIVE GROUP OF VICARIOUS CONSUMER IN THE PERSONS OF THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN THEIR SERVANTS RETAINERS ET CETERA. AS REGARDS FEASTS AND LARGESSES THIS IS OBVIOUS ENOUGH AND THE IMPUTATION OF REPUTE TO THE HOST OR PATRON HERE TAKES PLACE IMMEDIATELY ON THE GROUND OF COMMON NOTORIETY. AS THE GROUP WHOSE GOOD ESTEEM IS TO BE SECURED IN THIS WAY GROWS LARGER MORE PATENT MEANS ARE REQUIRED TO INDICATE THE IMPUTATION OF MERIT FOR THE LEISURE PERFORMED AND TO THIS END UNIFORMS BADGES AND LIVERIES COME INTO VOGUE. THE WEARING OF UNIFORMS OR LIVERIES IMPLIES A CONSIDERABLE DEGREE OF DEPENDENCE AND MAY EVEN BE SAID TO BE A MARK OF SERVITUDE REAL OR OSTENSIBLE. THE WEARERS OF UNIFORMS AND LIVERIES MAY BE ROUGHLY DIVIDED INTO TWO CLASSES THE FREE AND THE SERVILE OR THE NOBLE AND THE IGNOBLE. THE SERVICES PERFORMED BY THEM ARE LIKEWISE DIVISIBLE INTO NOBLE AND IGNOBLE. OF COURSE THE DISTINCTION IS NOT OBSERVED WITH STRICT CONSISTENCY IN PRACTICE THE LESS DEBASING OF THE BASE SERVICES AND THE LESS HONORIFIC OF THE NOBLE FUNCTIONS ARE NOT INFREQUENTLY MERGED IN THE SAME PERSON. BUT THE GENERAL DISTINCTION IS NOT ON THAT ACCOUNT TO BE OVERLOOKED. SO THOSE OFFICES WHICH ARE BY RIGHT THE PROPER EMPLOYMENT OF THE LEISURE CLASS ARE NOBLE SUCH AS GOVERNMENT FIGHTING HUNTING THE CARE OF ARMS AND ACCOUTREMENTS AND THE LIKE IN SHORT THOSE WHICH MAY BE CLASSED AS OSTENSIBLY PREDATORY EMPLOYMENTS. ON THE OTHER HAND THOSE EMPLOYMENTS WHICH PROPERLY FALL TO THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASS ARE IGNOBLE SUCH AS HANDICRAFT OR OTHER PRODUCTIVE LABOR MENIAL SERVICES AND THE LIKE. BUT A BASE SERVICE PERFORMED FOR A PERSON OF VERY HIGH DEGREE MAY BECOME A VERY HONORIFIC OFFICE AS FOR INSTANCE THE OFFICE OF A MAID OF HONOR OR OF A LADY IN WAITING TO THE QUEEN OR THE KING'S MASTER OF THE HORSE OR HIS KEEPER OF THE HOUNDS. THE TWO OFFICES LAST NAMED SUGGEST A PRINCIPLE OF SOME GENERAL BEARING. WHENEVER AS IN THESE CASES THE MENIAL SERVICE IN QUESTION HAS TO DO DIRECTLY WITH THE PRIMARY LEISURE EMPLOYMENTS OF FIGHTING AND HUNTING IT EASILY ACQUIRES A REFLECTED HONORIFIC CHARACTER. IN THIS WAY GREAT HONOR MAY COME TO ATTACH TO AN EMPLOYMENT WHICH IN ITS OWN NATURE BELONGS TO THE BASER SORT IN THE LATER DEVELOPMENT OF PEACEABLE INDUSTRY THE USAGE OF EMPLOYING AN IDLE CORPS OF UNIFORMED MEN AT ARMS GRADUALLY LAPSES. VICARIOUS CONSUMPTION BY DEPENDENTS BEARING THE INSIGNIA OF THEIR PATRON OR MASTER NARROWS DOWN TO A CORPS OF LIVERIED MENIALS. IN A HEIGHTENED DEGREE THEREFORE THE LIVERY COMES TO BE A BADGE OF SERVITUDE OR RATHER SERVILITY. SOMETHING OF A HONORIFIC CHARACTER ALWAYS ATTACHED TO THE LIVERY OF THE ARMED RETAINER BUT THIS HONORIFIC CHARACTER DISAPPEARS WHEN THE LIVERY BECOMES THE EXCLUSIVE BADGE OF THE MENIAL. THE LIVERY BECOMES OBNOXIOUS TO NEARLY ALL WHO ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR IT. WE ARE YET SO LITTLE REMOVED FROM A STATE OF EFFECTIVE SLAVERY AS STILL TO BE FULLY SENSITIVE TO THE STING OF ANY IMPUTATION OF SERVILITY. THIS ANTIPATHY ASSERTS ITSELF EVEN IN THE CASE OF THE LIVERIES OR UNIFORMS WHICH SOME CORPORATIONS PRESCRIBE AS THE DISTINCTIVE DRESS OF THEIR EMPLOYEES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5695/5695_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5695/5695_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b5358be6c995c1b748789da4b2c5f16f2b867059 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5695/5695_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IN A GENERAL WAY THOUGH NOT WHOLLY NOR CONSISTENTLY THESE TWO GROUPS COINCIDE. THE DEPENDENT WHO WAS FIRST DELEGATED FOR THESE DUTIES WAS THE WIFE OR THE CHIEF WIFE AND AS WOULD BE EXPECTED IN THE LATER DEVELOPMENT OF THE INSTITUTION WHEN THE NUMBER OF PERSONS BY WHOM THESE DUTIES ARE CUSTOMARILY PERFORMED GRADUALLY NARROWS THE WIFE REMAINS THE LAST. BUT AS WE DESCEND THE SOCIAL SCALE THE POINT IS PRESENTLY REACHED WHERE THE DUTIES OF VICARIOUS LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION DEVOLVE UPON THE WIFE ALONE. IN THE COMMUNITIES OF THE WESTERN CULTURE THIS POINT IS AT PRESENT FOUND AMONG THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS. AND HERE OCCURS A CURIOUS INVERSION. IT IS A FACT OF COMMON OBSERVANCE THAT IN THIS LOWER MIDDLE CLASS THERE IS NO PRETENSE OF LEISURE ON THE PART OF THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD. THROUGH FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES IT HAS FALLEN INTO DISUSE. BUT THE MIDDLE CLASS WIFE STILL CARRIES ON THE BUSINESS OF VICARIOUS LEISURE FOR THE GOOD NAME OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND ITS MASTER. IN DESCENDING THE SOCIAL SCALE IN ANY MODERN INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITY THE PRIMARY FACT THE CONSPICUOUS LEISURE OF THE MASTER OF THE HOUSEHOLD DISAPPEARS AT A RELATIVELY HIGH POINT. THE HEAD OF THE MIDDLE CLASS HOUSEHOLD HAS BEEN REDUCED BY ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES TO TURN HIS HAND TO GAINING A LIVELIHOOD BY OCCUPATIONS WHICH OFTEN PARTAKE LARGELY OF THE CHARACTER OF INDUSTRY AS IN THE CASE OF THE ORDINARY BUSINESS MAN OF TODAY. BUT THE DERIVATIVE FACT THE VICARIOUS LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION RENDERED BY THE WIFE AND THE AUXILIARY VICARIOUS PERFORMANCE OF LEISURE BY MENIALS REMAINS IN VOGUE AS A CONVENTIONALITY WHICH THE DEMANDS OF REPUTABILITY WILL NOT SUFFER TO BE SLIGHTED. IT IS BY NO MEANS AN UNCOMMON SPECTACLE TO FIND A MAN APPLYING HIMSELF TO WORK WITH THE UTMOST ASSIDUITY IN ORDER THAT HIS WIFE MAY IN DUE FORM RENDER FOR HIM THAT DEGREE OF VICARIOUS LEISURE WHICH THE COMMON SENSE OF THE TIME DEMANDS. THE LEISURE RENDERED BY THE WIFE IN SUCH CASES IS OF COURSE NOT A SIMPLE MANIFESTATION OF IDLENESS OR INDOLENCE. IT ALMOST INVARIABLY OCCURS DISGUISED UNDER SOME FORM OF WORK OR HOUSEHOLD DUTIES OR SOCIAL AMENITIES WHICH PROVE ON ANALYSIS TO SERVE LITTLE OR NO ULTERIOR END BEYOND SHOWING THAT SHE DOES NOT OCCUPY HERSELF WITH ANYTHING THAT IS GAINFUL OR THAT IS OF SUBSTANTIAL USE. THE EFFECTS ARE PLEASING TO US CHIEFLY BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO FIND THEM PLEASING. PRETTY MUCH ALL THAT IS HERE INSISTED ON IS THAT AS REGARDS THESE AMENITIES OF LIFE THE HOUSEWIFE'S EFFORTS ARE UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF TRADITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN SHAPED BY THE LAW OF CONSPICUOUSLY WASTEFUL EXPENDITURE OF TIME AND SUBSTANCE. IF BEAUTY OR COMFORT IS ACHIEVED AND IT IS A MORE OR LESS FORTUITOUS CIRCUMSTANCE IF THEY ARE THEY MUST BE ACHIEVED BY MEANS AND METHODS THAT COMMEND THEMSELVES TO THE GREAT ECONOMIC LAW OF WASTED EFFORT. THE REQUIREMENT OF VICARIOUS CONSUMPTION AT THE HANDS OF THE WIFE CONTINUES IN FORCE EVEN AT A LOWER POINT IN THE PECUNIARY SCALE THAN THE REQUIREMENT OF VICARIOUS LEISURE. AT A POINT BELOW WHICH LITTLE IF ANY PRETENSE OF WASTED EFFORT IN CEREMONIAL CLEANNESS AND THE LIKE IS OBSERVABLE AND WHERE THERE IS ASSUREDLY NO CONSCIOUS ATTEMPT AT OSTENSIBLE LEISURE DECENCY STILL REQUIRES THE WIFE TO CONSUME SOME GOODS CONSPICUOUSLY FOR THE REPUTABILITY OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND ITS HEAD. SO THAT AS THE LATTER DAY OUTCOME OF THIS EVOLUTION OF AN ARCHAIC INSTITUTION THE WIFE WHO WAS AT THE OUTSET THE DRUDGE AND CHATTEL OF THE MAN BOTH IN FACT AND IN THEORY THE PRODUCER OF GOODS FOR HIM TO CONSUME HAS BECOME THE CEREMONIAL CONSUMER OF GOODS WHICH HE PRODUCES. BUT SHE STILL QUITE UNMISTAKABLY REMAINS HIS CHATTEL IN THEORY FOR THE HABITUAL RENDERING OF VICARIOUS LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION IS THE ABIDING MARK OF THE UNFREE SERVANT. THIS VICARIOUS CONSUMPTION PRACTICED BY THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE MIDDLE AND LOWER CLASSES CAN NOT BE COUNTED AS A DIRECT EXPRESSION OF THE LEISURE CLASS SCHEME OF LIFE SINCE THE HOUSEHOLD OF THIS PECUNIARY GRADE DOES NOT BELONG WITHIN THE LEISURE CLASS. IT IS RATHER THAT THE LEISURE CLASS SCHEME OF LIFE HERE COMES TO AN EXPRESSION AT THE SECOND REMOVE. ACCORDINGLY BOTH OF THESE METHODS ARE IN VOGUE AS FAR DOWN THE SCALE AS IT REMAINS POSSIBLE AND IN THE LOWER STRATA IN WHICH THE TWO METHODS ARE EMPLOYED BOTH OFFICES ARE IN GREAT PART DELEGATED TO THE WIFE AND CHILDREN OF THE HOUSEHOLD \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5695/5695_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5695/5695_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6023c327fa399c31446f248f98f1b98769e78d7b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5695/5695_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +LOWER STILL WHERE ANY DEGREE OF LEISURE EVEN OSTENSIBLE HAS BECOME IMPRACTICABLE FOR THE WIFE THE CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION OF GOODS REMAINS AND IS CARRIED ON BY THE WIFE AND CHILDREN. THE MAN OF THE HOUSEHOLD ALSO CAN DO SOMETHING IN THIS DIRECTION AND INDEED HE COMMONLY DOES BUT WITH A STILL LOWER DESCENT INTO THE LEVELS OF INDIGENCE ALONG THE MARGIN OF THE SLUMS THE MAN AND PRESENTLY ALSO THE CHILDREN VIRTUALLY CEASE TO CONSUME VALUABLE GOODS FOR APPEARANCES AND THE WOMAN REMAINS VIRTUALLY THE SOLE EXPONENT OF THE HOUSEHOLD'S PECUNIARY DECENCY. NO CLASS OF SOCIETY NOT EVEN THE MOST ABJECTLY POOR FORGOES ALL CUSTOMARY CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION. THE LAST ITEMS OF THIS CATEGORY OF CONSUMPTION ARE NOT GIVEN UP EXCEPT UNDER STRESS OF THE DIREST NECESSITY. VERY MUCH OF SQUALOR AND DISCOMFORT WILL BE ENDURED BEFORE THE LAST TRINKET OR THE LAST PRETENSE OF PECUNIARY DECENCY IS PUT AWAY. THERE IS NO CLASS AND NO COUNTRY THAT HAS YIELDED SO ABJECTLY BEFORE THE PRESSURE OF PHYSICAL WANT AS TO DENY THEMSELVES ALL GRATIFICATION OF THIS HIGHER OR SPIRITUAL NEED. FROM THE FOREGOING SURVEY OF THE GROWTH OF CONSPICUOUS LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION IT APPEARS THAT THE UTILITY OF BOTH ALIKE FOR THE PURPOSES OF REPUTABILITY LIES IN THE ELEMENT OF WASTE THAT IS COMMON TO BOTH. IN THE ONE CASE IT IS A WASTE OF TIME AND EFFORT IN THE OTHER IT IS A WASTE OF GOODS. BOTH ARE METHODS OF DEMONSTRATING THE POSSESSION OF WEALTH AND THE TWO ARE CONVENTIONALLY ACCEPTED AS EQUIVALENTS. THE CHOICE BETWEEN THEM IS A QUESTION OF ADVERTISING EXPEDIENCY SIMPLY EXCEPT SO FAR AS IT MAY BE AFFECTED BY OTHER STANDARDS OF PROPRIETY SPRINGING FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE. ON GROUNDS OF EXPEDIENCY THE PREFERENCE MAY BE GIVEN TO THE ONE OR THE OTHER AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. THE QUESTION IS WHICH OF THE TWO METHODS WILL MOST EFFECTIVELY REACH THE PERSONS WHOSE CONVICTIONS IT IS DESIRED TO AFFECT. USAGE HAS ANSWERED THIS QUESTION IN DIFFERENT WAYS UNDER DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES. SO LONG AS THE COMMUNITY OR SOCIAL GROUP IS SMALL ENOUGH AND COMPACT ENOUGH TO BE EFFECTUALLY REACHED BY COMMON NOTORIETY ALONE THAT IS TO SAY SO LONG AS THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT TO WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL IS REQUIRED TO ADAPT HIMSELF IN RESPECT OF REPUTABILITY IS COMPRISED WITHIN HIS SPHERE OF PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE AND NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP SO LONG THE ONE METHOD IS ABOUT AS EFFECTIVE AS THE OTHER. EACH WILL THEREFORE SERVE ABOUT EQUALLY WELL DURING THE EARLIER STAGES OF SOCIAL GROWTH. BUT WHEN THE DIFFERENTIATION HAS GONE FARTHER AND IT BECOMES NECESSARY TO REACH A WIDER HUMAN ENVIRONMENT CONSUMPTION BEGINS TO HOLD OVER LEISURE AS AN ORDINARY MEANS OF DECENCY. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE DURING THE LATER PEACEABLE ECONOMIC STAGE. THE MODERN ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY WORKS IN THE SAME DIRECTION ALSO BY ANOTHER LINE. THE EXIGENCIES OF THE MODERN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM FREQUENTLY PLACE INDIVIDUALS AND HOUSEHOLDS IN JUXTAPOSITION BETWEEN WHOM THERE IS LITTLE CONTACT IN ANY OTHER SENSE THAN THAT OF JUXTAPOSITION. THE ONLY PRACTICABLE MEANS OF IMPRESSING ONE'S PECUNIARY ABILITY ON THESE UNSYMPATHETIC OBSERVERS OF ONE'S EVERYDAY LIFE IS AN UNREMITTING DEMONSTRATION OF ABILITY TO PAY. IN THE MODERN COMMUNITY THERE IS ALSO A MORE FREQUENT ATTENDANCE AT LARGE GATHERINGS OF PEOPLE TO WHOM ONE'S EVERYDAY LIFE IS UNKNOWN IN SUCH PLACES AS CHURCHES THEATERS BALLROOMS HOTELS PARKS SHOPS AND THE LIKE. IT IS EVIDENT THEREFORE THAT THE PRESENT TREND OF THE DEVELOPMENT IS IN THE DIRECTION OF HEIGHTENING THE UTILITY OF CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION AS COMPARED WITH LEISURE. IT IS ALSO NOTICEABLE THAT THE SERVICEABILITY OF CONSUMPTION AS A MEANS OF REPUTE AS WELL AS THE INSISTENCE ON IT AS AN ELEMENT OF DECENCY IS AT ITS BEST IN THOSE PORTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY WHERE THE HUMAN CONTACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL IS WIDEST AND THE MOBILITY OF THE POPULATION IS GREATEST. SO IT COMES FOR INSTANCE THAT THE AMERICAN FARMER AND HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS ARE NOTORIOUSLY LESS MODISH IN THEIR DRESS AS WELL AS LESS URBANE IN THEIR MANNERS THAN THE CITY ARTISAN'S FAMILY WITH AN EQUAL INCOME. IT IS NOT THAT THE CITY POPULATION IS BY NATURE MUCH MORE EAGER FOR THE PECULIAR COMPLACENCY THAT COMES OF A CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION NOR HAS THE RURAL POPULATION LESS REGARD FOR PECUNIARY DECENCY. BUT THE PROVOCATION TO THIS LINE OF EVIDENCE AS WELL AS ITS TRANSIENT EFFECTIVENESS IS MORE DECIDED IN THE CITY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5695/5695_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5695/5695_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..063644ac0cf40093a44f054d2f194a6c0a023e03 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5695/5695_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THIS METHOD IS THEREFORE MORE READILY RESORTED TO AND IN THE STRUGGLE TO OUTDO ONE ANOTHER THE CITY POPULATION PUSH THEIR NORMAL STANDARD OF CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION TO A HIGHER POINT WITH THE RESULT THAT A RELATIVELY GREATER EXPENDITURE IN THIS DIRECTION IS REQUIRED TO INDICATE A GIVEN DEGREE OF PECUNIARY DECENCY IN THE CITY. THE REQUIREMENT OF CONFORMITY TO THIS HIGHER CONVENTIONAL STANDARD BECOMES MANDATORY. THE STANDARD OF DECENCY IS HIGHER CLASS FOR CLASS AND THIS REQUIREMENT OF DECENT APPEARANCE MUST BE LIVED UP TO ON PAIN OF LOSING CASTE. CONSUMPTION BECOMES A LARGER ELEMENT IN THE STANDARD OF LIVING IN THE CITY THAN IN THE COUNTRY. AMONG THE COUNTRY POPULATION ITS PLACE IS TO SOME EXTENT TAKEN BY SAVINGS AND HOME COMFORTS KNOWN THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP SUFFICIENTLY TO SERVE THE LIKE GENERAL PURPOSE OF PECUNIARY REPUTE. THESE HOME COMFORTS AND THE LEISURE INDULGED IN WHERE THE INDULGENCE IS FOUND ARE OF COURSE ALSO IN GREAT PART TO BE CLASSED AS ITEMS OF CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION AND MUCH THE SAME IS TO BE SAID OF THE SAVINGS. AMONG THE LATTER EVERYBODY'S AFFAIRS ESPECIALLY EVERYBODY'S PECUNIARY STATUS ARE KNOWN TO EVERYBODY ELSE. CONSIDERED BY ITSELF SIMPLY TAKEN IN THE FIRST DEGREE THIS ADDED PROVOCATION TO WHICH THE ARTISAN AND THE URBAN LABORING CLASSES ARE EXPOSED MAY NOT VERY SERIOUSLY DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF SAVINGS BUT IN ITS CUMULATIVE ACTION THROUGH RAISING THE STANDARD OF DECENT EXPENDITURE ITS DETERRENT EFFECT ON THE TENDENCY TO SAVE CANNOT BUT BE VERY GREAT. ALSO THIS OCCUPATION REQUIRES MORE THAN THE AVERAGE OF INTELLIGENCE AND GENERAL INFORMATION AND THE MEN EMPLOYED IN IT ARE THEREFORE ORDINARILY MORE READY THAN MANY OTHERS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ANY SLIGHT VARIATION IN THE DEMAND FOR THEIR LABOR FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER. THE INERTIA DUE TO THE HOME FEELING IS CONSEQUENTLY ALSO SLIGHT AT THE SAME TIME THE WAGES IN THE TRADE ARE HIGH ENOUGH TO MAKE MOVEMENT FROM PLACE TO PLACE RELATIVELY EASY. THE RESULT IS A GREAT MOBILITY OF THE LABOR EMPLOYED IN PRINTING PERHAPS GREATER THAN IN ANY OTHER EQUALLY WELL DEFINED AND CONSIDERABLE BODY OF WORKMEN. THESE MEN ARE CONSTANTLY THROWN IN CONTACT WITH NEW GROUPS OF ACQUAINTANCES WITH WHOM THE RELATIONS ESTABLISHED ARE TRANSIENT OR EPHEMERAL BUT WHOSE GOOD OPINION IS VALUED NONE THE LESS FOR THE TIME BEING. THE HUMAN PROCLIVITY TO OSTENTATION REENFORCED BY SENTIMENTS OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP LEADS THEM TO SPEND FREELY IN THOSE DIRECTIONS WHICH WILL BEST SERVE THESE NEEDS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5696/5696_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5696/5696_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..303d6de89c9004952b9e27dbc8d2da20f18b943b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3570/5696/5696_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +UNDER THE SIMPLE TEST OF EFFECTIVENESS FOR ADVERTISING WE SHOULD EXPECT TO FIND LEISURE AND THE CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION OF GOODS DIVIDING THE FIELD OF PECUNIARY EMULATION PRETTY EVENLY BETWEEN THEM AT THE OUTSET. LEISURE MIGHT THEN BE EXPECTED GRADUALLY TO YIELD GROUND AND TEND TO OBSOLESCENCE AS THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GOES FORWARD AND THE COMMUNITY INCREASES IN SIZE WHILE THE CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION OF GOODS SHOULD GRADUALLY GAIN IN IMPORTANCE BOTH ABSOLUTELY AND RELATIVELY UNTIL IT HAD ABSORBED ALL THE AVAILABLE PRODUCT LEAVING NOTHING OVER BEYOND A BARE LIVELIHOOD. BUT THE ACTUAL COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT FROM THIS IDEAL SCHEME LEISURE HELD THE FIRST PLACE AT THE START AND CAME TO HOLD A RANK VERY MUCH ABOVE WASTEFUL CONSUMPTION OF GOODS BOTH AS A DIRECT EXPONENT OF WEALTH AND AS AN ELEMENT IN THE STANDARD OF DECENCY DURING THE QUASI PEACEABLE CULTURE. FROM THAT POINT ONWARD CONSUMPTION HAS GAINED GROUND UNTIL AT PRESENT IT UNQUESTIONABLY HOLDS THE PRIMACY THOUGH IT IS STILL FAR FROM ABSORBING THE ENTIRE MARGIN OF PRODUCTION ABOVE THE SUBSISTENCE MINIMUM. THE EARLY ASCENDENCY OF LEISURE AS A MEANS OF REPUTABILITY IS TRACEABLE TO THE ARCHAIC DISTINCTION BETWEEN NOBLE AND IGNOBLE EMPLOYMENTS. LEISURE IS HONORABLE AND BECOMES IMPERATIVE PARTLY BECAUSE IT SHOWS EXEMPTION FROM IGNOBLE LABOR. THE ARCHAIC DIFFERENTIATION INTO NOBLE AND IGNOBLE CLASSES IS BASED ON AN INVIDIOUS DISTINCTION BETWEEN EMPLOYMENTS AS HONORIFIC OR DEBASING AND THIS TRADITIONAL DISTINCTION GROWS INTO AN IMPERATIVE CANON OF DECENCY DURING THE EARLY QUASI PEACEABLE STAGE. THIS ALIEN FACTOR IS THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP. OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES PERMITTING THAT INSTINCT DISPOSES MEN TO LOOK WITH FAVOR UPON PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY AND ON WHATEVER IS OF HUMAN USE. IT DISPOSES THEM TO DEPRECATE WASTE OF SUBSTANCE OR EFFORT. THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP IS PRESENT IN ALL MEN AND ASSERTS ITSELF EVEN UNDER VERY ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES. IT IS ONLY LESS PROMPTLY AND WITH LESS CONSTRAINING FORCE THAT IT REACHES SUCH SUBSTANTIAL VIOLATIONS OF ITS REQUIREMENTS AS ARE APPRECIATED ONLY UPON REFLECTION. SO LONG AS ALL LABOR CONTINUES TO BE PERFORMED EXCLUSIVELY OR USUALLY BY SLAVES THE BASENESS OF ALL PRODUCTIVE EFFORT IS TOO CONSTANTLY AND DETERRENTLY PRESENT IN THE MIND OF MEN TO ALLOW THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP SERIOUSLY TO TAKE EFFECT IN THE DIRECTION OF INDUSTRIAL USEFULNESS BUT WHEN THE QUASI PEACEABLE STAGE WITH SLAVERY AND STATUS PASSES INTO THE PEACEABLE STAGE OF INDUSTRY WITH WAGE LABOR AND CASH PAYMENT THE INSTINCT COMES MORE EFFECTIVELY INTO PLAY IT THEN BEGINS AGGRESSIVELY TO SHAPE MEN'S VIEWS OF WHAT IS MERITORIOUS AND ASSERTS ITSELF AT LEAST AS AN AUXILIARY CANON OF SELF COMPLACENCY. BUT THE FACT THAT IT MAY UNDER STRESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES EVENTUATE IN INANITIES NO MORE DISPROVES THE PRESENCE OF THE INSTINCT THAN THE REALITY OF THE BROODING INSTINCT IS DISPROVED BY INDUCING A HEN TO SIT ON A NESTFUL OF CHINA EGGS. THIS LATTER DAY UNEASY REACHING OUT FOR SOME FORM OF PURPOSEFUL ACTIVITY THAT SHALL AT THE SAME TIME NOT BE INDECOROUSLY PRODUCTIVE OF EITHER INDIVIDUAL OR COLLECTIVE GAIN MARKS A DIFFERENCE OF ATTITUDE BETWEEN THE MODERN LEISURE CLASS AND THAT OF THE QUASI PEACEABLE STAGE. AT THE EARLIER STAGE AS WAS SAID ABOVE THE ALL DOMINATING INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY AND STATUS ACTED RESISTLESSLY TO DISCOUNTENANCE EXERTION DIRECTED TO OTHER THAN NAIVELY PREDATORY ENDS. THE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE HAS CHANGED IN SOME MEASURE AND THE ENERGY WHICH FORMERLY FOUND A VENT IN PREDATORY ACTIVITY NOW IN PART TAKES THE DIRECTION OF SOME OSTENSIBLY USEFUL END. OSTENSIBLY PURPOSELESS LEISURE HAS COME TO BE DEPRECATED ESPECIALLY AMONG THAT LARGE PORTION OF THE LEISURE CLASS WHOSE PLEBEIAN ORIGIN ACTS TO SET THEM AT VARIANCE WITH THE TRADITION OF THE OTIUM CUM DIGNITATE BUT THAT CANON OF REPUTABILITY WHICH DISCOUNTENANCES ALL EMPLOYMENT THAT IS OF THE NATURE OF PRODUCTIVE EFFORT IS STILL AT HAND AND WILL PERMIT NOTHING BEYOND THE MOST TRANSIENT VOGUE TO ANY EMPLOYMENT THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY USEFUL OR PRODUCTIVE. THE CONSEQUENCE IS THAT A CHANGE HAS BEEN WROUGHT IN THE CONSPICUOUS LEISURE PRACTICED BY THE LEISURE CLASS NOT SO MUCH IN SUBSTANCE AS IN FORM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/3575/170457/170457_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3575/170457/170457_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37fede6455d6ef97fa9f1b75393c7dc5d9d999df --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3575/170457/170457_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I OFTEN PLAN THE PLEASANT LIFE WHICH WE MIGHT LEAD TOGETHER STRENGTHENING EACH OTHER IN THAT POWER OF SELF DENIAL THAT HALLOWED AND GLOWING DEVOTION WHICH THE FIRST SAINTS OF GOD OFTEN ATTAINED TO. MY EYES FILL WITH TEARS WHEN I CONTRAST THE BLISS OF SUCH A STATE BRIGHTENED BY HOPES OF THE FUTURE WITH THE MELANCHOLY STATE I NOW LIVE IN UNCERTAIN THAT I EVER FELT TRUE CONTRITION WANDERING IN THOUGHT AND DEED LONGING FOR HOLINESS WHICH I SHALL NEVER NEVER OBTAIN SMITTEN AT TIMES TO THE HEART WITH THE CONVICTION THAT GHASTLY CALVINISTIC DOCTRINES ARE TRUE DARKENED IN SHORT BY THE VERY SHADOWS OF SPIRITUAL DEATH. IF CHRISTIAN PERFECTION BE NECESSARY TO SALVATION I SHALL NEVER BE SAVED MY HEART IS A VERY HOTBED FOR SINFUL THOUGHTS AND WHEN I DECIDE ON AN ACTION I SCARCELY REMEMBER TO LOOK TO MY REDEEMER FOR DIRECTION. I FORGET GOD AND WILL NOT GOD FORGET ME. AND MEANTIME I KNOW THE GREATNESS OF JEHOVAH I ACKNOWLEDGE THE PERFECTION OF HIS WORD I ADORE THE PURITY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH MY THEORY IS RIGHT MY PRACTICE HORRIBLY WRONG. THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS CAME AND SHE AND ANNE RETURNED TO THE PARSONAGE AND TO THAT HAPPY HOME CIRCLE IN WHICH ALONE THEIR NATURES EXPANDED AMONGST ALL OTHER PEOPLE THEY SHRIVELLED UP MORE OR LESS. INDEED THERE WERE ONLY ONE OR TWO STRANGERS WHO COULD BE ADMITTED AMONG THE SISTERS WITHOUT PRODUCING THE SAME RESULT. EMILY AND ANNE WERE BOUND UP IN THEIR LIVES AND INTERESTS LIKE TWINS. THE FORMER FROM RESERVE THE LATTER FROM TIMIDITY AVOIDED ALL FRIENDSHIPS AND INTIMACIES BEYOND THEIR FAMILY. EMILY WAS IMPERVIOUS TO INFLUENCE SHE NEVER CAME IN CONTACT WITH PUBLIC OPINION AND HER OWN DECISION OF WHAT WAS RIGHT AND FITTING WAS A LAW FOR HER CONDUCT AND APPEARANCE WITH WHICH SHE ALLOWED NO ONE TO INTERFERE. HER LOVE WAS POURED OUT ON ANNE AS CHARLOTTE'S WAS ON HER. E WAS EAGERLY WELCOMED BY CHARLOTTE FREELY ADMITTED BY EMILY AND KINDLY RECEIVED BY ANNE WHENEVER SHE COULD VISIT THEM AND THIS CHRISTMAS SHE HAD PROMISED TO DO SO BUT HER COMING HAD TO BE DELAYED ON ACCOUNT OF A LITTLE DOMESTIC ACCIDENT DETAILED IN THE FOLLOWING LETTER. DECEMBER TWENTY NINTH EIGHTEEN THIRTY SEVEN. I AM SURE YOU WILL HAVE THOUGHT ME VERY REMISS IN NOT SENDING MY PROMISED LETTER LONG BEFORE NOW BUT I HAVE A SUFFICIENT AND VERY MELANCHOLY EXCUSE IN AN ACCIDENT THAT BEFELL OUR OLD FAITHFUL TABBY A FEW DAYS AFTER MY RETURN HOME. SHE WAS GONE OUT INTO THE VILLAGE ON SOME ERRAND WHEN AS SHE WAS DESCENDING THE STEEP STREET HER FOOT SLIPPED ON THE ICE AND SHE FELL IT WAS DARK AND NO ONE SAW HER MISCHANCE TILL AFTER A TIME HER GROANS ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF A PASSER BY. SHE WAS LIFTED UP AND CARRIED INTO THE DRUGGIST'S NEAR AND AFTER THE EXAMINATION IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT SHE HAD COMPLETELY SHATTERED AND DISLOCATED ONE LEG. UNFORTUNATELY THE FRACTURE COULD NOT BE SET TILL SIX O'CLOCK THE NEXT MORNING AS NO SURGEON WAS TO BE HAD BEFORE THAT TIME AND SHE NOW LIES AT OUR HOUSE IN A VERY DOUBTFUL AND DANGEROUS STATE. OF COURSE WE ARE ALL EXCEEDINGLY DISTRESSED AT THE CIRCUMSTANCE FOR SHE WAS LIKE ONE OF OUR OWN FAMILY. SINCE THE EVENT WE HAVE BEEN ALMOST WITHOUT ASSISTANCE A PERSON HAS DROPPED IN NOW AND THEN TO DO THE DRUDGERY BUT WE HAVE AS YET BEEN ABLE TO PROCURE NO REGULAR SERVANT AND CONSEQUENTLY THE WHOLE WORK OF THE HOUSE AS WELL AS THE ADDITIONAL DUTY OF NURSING TABBY FALLS ON OURSELVES. UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES I DARE NOT PRESS YOUR VISIT HERE AT LEAST UNTIL SHE IS PRONOUNCED OUT OF DANGER IT WOULD BE TOO SELFISH OF ME. AUNT WISHED ME TO GIVE YOU THIS INFORMATION BEFORE BUT PAPA AND ALL THE REST WERE ANXIOUS I SHOULD DELAY UNTIL WE SAW WHETHER MATTERS TOOK A MORE SETTLED ASPECT AND I MYSELF KEPT PUTTING IT OFF FROM DAY TO DAY MOST BITTERLY RELUCTANT TO GIVE UP ALL THE PLEASURE I HAD ANTICIPATED SO LONG \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/3575/170457/170457_0005.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3575/170457/170457_0005.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..712fed77b70b39325c313af0116d3e08b50ff5dc --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/3575/170457/170457_0005.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I DOUBT WHETHER BRANWELL WAS MAINTAINING HIMSELF AT THIS TIME. FOR SOME UNEXPLAINED REASON HE HAD GIVEN UP THE IDEA OF BECOMING A STUDENT OF PAINTING AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND HIS PROSPECTS IN LIFE WERE UNCERTAIN AND HAD YET TO BE SETTLED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13751/13751_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13751/13751_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..786c70f0161f6201527c05185e6c0ce22c6c208a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13751/13751_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ON THE SIXTH OF APRIL EIGHTEEN THIRTY THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS WAS FORMALLY ORGANIZED AND THUS TOOK ON A LEGAL EXISTENCE. AT THAT TIME THERE MAY HAVE BEEN AND PROBABLY WERE MANY TIMES THAT NUMBER WHO HAD PROFESSED ADHERENCE TO THE NEWLY RESTORED FAITH BUT AS THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW GOVERNING THE FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES WERE SATISFIED BY THE APPLICATION OF SIX ONLY THE SPECIFIED NUMBER FORMALLY TOOK PART. SUCH WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH SOON TO BE SO UNIVERSALLY MALIGNED. ITS ORIGIN WAS SMALL A GERM AN INSIGNIFICANT SEED HARDLY TO BE THOUGHT OF AS LIKELY TO AROUSE OPPOSITION. WHAT WAS THERE TO FEAR IN THE VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION OF SIX MEN AVOWEDLY DEVOTED TO PEACEFUL PURSUITS AND BENEVOLENT PURPOSES. AT FIRST BUT A FAMILY AFFAIR OPPOSITION TO THE WORK HAS INVOLVED SUCCESSIVELY THE TOWN THE COUNTY THE STATE THE COUNTRY AND TODAY THE MORMON QUESTION HAS BEEN ACCORDED EXTENDED CONSIDERATION AT THE HANDS OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND INDEED MOST CIVILIZED NATIONS HAVE TAKEN COGNIZANCE OF THE SAME. LET US OBSERVE THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BEGINNING AND THE PRESENT PROPORTIONS OF THE CHURCH. INSTEAD OF BUT SIX REGULARLY AFFILIATED MEMBERS AND AT MOST TWO SCORE OF ADHERENTS THE ORGANIZATION NUMBERS TODAY MANY HUNDRED THOUSAND SOULS. IN PLACE OF A SINGLE HAMLET IN THE SMALLEST CORNER OF WHICH THE MEMBERS COULD HAVE CONGREGATED THERE NOW ARE ABOUT SEVENTY STAKES OF ZION AND ABOUT SEVEN HUNDRED ORGANIZED WARDS EACH WARD AND STAKE WITH ITS FULL COMPLEMENT OF OFFICERS AND PRIESTHOOD ORGANIZATIONS. THE PRACTISE OF GATHERING ITS PROSELYTES INTO ONE PLACE PREVENTS THE BUILDING UP AND STRENGTHENING OF FOREIGN BRANCHES AND INASMUCH AS EXTENSIVE AND STRONG ORGANIZATIONS ARE SELDOM MET WITH ABROAD VERY ERRONEOUS IDEAS EXIST CONCERNING THE STRENGTH OF THE CHURCH. NEVERTHELESS THE MUSTARD SEED AMONG THE SMALLEST OF ALL SEEDS HAS ATTAINED THE PROPORTIONS OF A TREE AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR ARE NESTING IN ITS BRANCHES THE ACORN IS NOW AN OAK OFFERING PROTECTION AND THE SWEETS OF SATISFACTION TO EVERY EARNEST PILGRIM JOURNEYING ITS WAY FOR TRUTH. FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH THE SPIRIT OF EMIGRATION RESTED UPON THE PEOPLE. THEIR EYES WERE FROM THE FIRST TURNED IN ANTICIPATION TOWARD THE EVENING SUN NOT MERELY THAT THE WORK OF PROSELYTING SHOULD BE CARRIED ON IN THE WEST BUT THAT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CHURCH SHOULD BE THERE ESTABLISHED. THE BOOK OF MORMON HAD TAUGHT THE PEOPLE THE TRUE ORIGIN AND DESTINY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS AND TOWARD THIS DARK SKINNED REMNANT OF A ONCE MIGHTY PEOPLE THE MISSIONARIES OF MORMONISM EARLY TURNED THEIR EYES AND WITH THEIR EYES WENT THEIR HEARTS AND THEIR HOPES. WITHIN THREE MONTHS FROM THE BEGINNING THE CHURCH HAD MISSIONARIES AMONG THE LAMANITES. IT IS NOTABLE THAT THE INDIAN TRIBES HAVE GENERALLY REGARDED THE RELIGION OF THE LATTER DAY SAINTS WITH FAVOR SEEING IN THE BOOK OF MORMON STRIKING AGREEMENT WITH THEIR OWN TRADITIONS. THE FIRST WELL ESTABLISHED SEAT OF THE CHURCH WAS IN THE PRETTY LITTLE TOWN OF KIRTLAND OHIO ALMOST WITHIN SIGHT OF LAKE ERIE AND HERE SOON ROSE THE FIRST TEMPLE OF MODERN TIMES. AMONG THEIR MANY OTHER PECULIARITIES THE LATTER DAY SAINTS ARE CHARACTERIZED AS A TEMPLE BUILDING PEOPLE AS HISTORY PROVES THE ISRAEL OF ANCIENT TIMES TO HAVE BEEN. IN THE DAYS OF THEIR INFANCY AS A CHURCH WHILE IN THE THRALL OF POVERTY AND AMIDST THE PERSECUTION AND DIREFUL THREATS OF LAWLESS HORDES THEY LAID THE CORNERSTONE AND IN LESS THAN THREE YEARS THEREAFTER THEY CELEBRATED THE DEDICATION OF THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE A STRUCTURE AT ONCE BEAUTIFUL AND IMPOSING \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13751/13751_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13751/13751_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f49462052f8310ccc19fb0f6dc1a8885c45b68bd --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13751/13751_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN GOADED TO DESPERATION. THE MILITIA WAS ORDERED OUT AND THE MORMONS WERE DISARMED. THE MOB WAS UNRESTRAINED IN ITS EAGERNESS FOR REVENGE. THE MORMONS ENGAGED ABLE LAWYERS TO INSTITUTE AND MAINTAIN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THEIR FOES AND THIS STEP THE RIGHT TO WHICH ONE WOULD THINK COULD BE DENIED NO AMERICAN CITIZEN CALLED FORTH SUCH AN UPROAR OF POPULAR WRATH AS TO AFFECT ALMOST THE ENTIRE STATE. IT WAS WINTER BUT THE INCLEMENCY OF THE YEAR ONLY SUITED THE BETTER THE PURPOSE OF THE OPPRESSOR. HOMES WERE DESTROYED MEN TORN FROM THEIR FAMILIES WERE BRUTALLY BEATEN TARRED AND FEATHERED WOMEN WITH BABES IN THEIR ARMS WERE FORCED TO FLEE HALF CLAD INTO THE SOLITUDE OF THE PRAIRIE TO ESCAPE FROM MOBOCRATIC VIOLENCE. THEIR SUFFERINGS HAVE NEVER YET BEEN FITLY CHRONICLED BY HUMAN SCRIBE. MAKING THEIR WAY ACROSS THE RIVER MOST OF THE REFUGEES FOUND SHELTER AMONG THE MORE HOSPITABLE PEOPLE OF CLAY COUNTY AND AFTERWARD ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES IN CALDWELL COUNTY THEREIN FOUNDING THE CITY OF FAR WEST. COUNTY AND STATE JUDGES THE GOVERNOR AND EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WERE APPEALED TO IN TURN FOR REDRESS. THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE ANDREW JACKSON WHILE EXPRESSING SYMPATHY FOR THE PERSECUTED PEOPLE DEPLORED HIS LACK OF POWER TO INTERFERE WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OR NON ADMINISTRATION OF STATE LAWS THE NATIONAL OFFICIALS COULD DO NOTHING THE STATE OFFICIALS WOULD DO NAUGHT. A SINGLE SCENE OF THE BLOODY DRAMA IS KNOWN AS THE HAUN'S MILL MASSACRE. A SMALL SETTLEMENT HAD BEEN FOUNDED BY MORMON FAMILIES ON SHOAL CREEK AND HERE ON THE THIRTIETH OF OCTOBER EIGHTEEN THIRTY EIGHT A COMPANY OF TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY FELL UPON THE HAPLESS SETTLERS AND BUTCHERED A SCORE. NO RESPECT WAS PAID TO AGE OR SEX GREY HEADS AND INFANT LIPS THAT SCARCELY HAD LEARNED TO LISP A WORD VIGOROUS MANHOOD AND IMMATURE YOUTH MOTHER AND MAIDEN FARED ALIKE IN THE SCENE OF CARNAGE AND THEIR BODIES WERE THROWN INTO AN OLD WELL. IN OCTOBER EIGHTEEN THIRTY EIGHT THE GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI THE SAME LILBURN W BOGGS ISSUED HIS INFAMOUS EXTERMINATING ORDER AND CALLED UPON THE MILITIA OF THE STATE TO EXECUTE IT. THE LANGUAGE OF THIS DOCUMENT SIGNED BY THE EXECUTIVE OF A SOVEREIGN STATE OF THE UNION DECLARED THAT THE MORMONS MUST BE DRIVEN FROM THE STATE OR EXTERMINATED. BE IT SAID TO THE HONOR OF SOME OF THE OFFICERS ENTRUSTED WITH THE TERRIBLE COMMISSION THAT WHEN THEY LEARNED ITS TRUE SIGNIFICANCE THEY RESIGNED THEIR AUTHORITY RATHER THAN HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT THEY DESIGNATED A COLD BLOODED BUTCHERY. BUT TOOLS WERE NOT WANTING AS INDEED THEY NEVER HAVE BEEN FOR MURDER AND ITS KINDRED OUTRAGES. WHAT THE HEART OF MAN CAN CONCEIVE THE HAND OF MAN WILL FIND A WAY TO EXECUTE. THE AWFUL WORK WAS CARRIED OUT WITH DREAD DISPATCH. OH WHAT A RECORD TO READ WHAT A PICTURE TO GAZE UPON HOW AWFUL THE FACT. AN OFFICIAL EDICT OFFERING EXPATRIATION OR DEATH TO A PEACEABLE COMMUNITY WITH NO CRIME PROVED AGAINST THEM AND GUILTY OF NO OFFENSE OTHER THAN THAT OF CHOOSING TO DIFFER IN OPINION FROM THE MASSES. AMERICAN SCHOOL BOYS READ WITH EMOTIONS OF HORROR OF THE ALBIGENSES DRIVEN BEATEN AND KILLED WITH A PAPAL LEGATE DIRECTING THE BUTCHERY AND OF THE VAUDOIS HUNTED AND HOUNDED LIKE BEASTS AS THE EFFECT OF A ROYAL DECREE AND THEY YET SHALL READ IN THE HISTORY OF THEIR OWN COUNTRY OF SCENES AS TERRIBLE AS THESE IN THE EXHIBITION OF INJUSTICE AND INHUMAN HATE. IN THE DREAD ALTERNATIVE OFFERED THEM THE PEOPLE DETERMINED AGAIN TO ABANDON THEIR HOMES BUT WHITHER SHOULD THEY GO \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13751/13751_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13751/13751_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87ea2ebaf01cbf359cd69369d99fff064b4997de --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13751/13751_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ALREADY THEY HAD FLED BEFORE THE LAWLESS OPPRESSOR OVER WELL NIGH HALF A CONTINENT ALREADY WERE THEY ON THE FRONTIERS OF THE COUNTRY THAT THEY HAD REGARDED AS THE LAND OF PROMISED LIBERTY. THIS TIME THEIR FACES WERE TURNED TOWARD THE EAST AND A HOST NUMBERING FROM TEN TO TWELVE THOUSAND INCLUDING MANY WOMEN AND CHILDREN ABANDONED THEIR HOMES AND FLED BEFORE THEIR MURDEROUS PURSUERS REDDENING THE SNOW WITH BLOODY FOOTPRINTS AS THEY JOURNEYED. THEY CROSSED THE MISSISSIPPI AND SOUGHT PROTECTION ON THE SOIL OF ILLINOIS. THERE THEIR SAD CONDITION EVOKED FOR A TIME GENERAL COMMISERATION. THE PRESS OF THE STATE DENOUNCED THE TREATMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE MISSOURIANS AND VINDICATED THE CHARACTER OF THE MORMONS AS PEACEABLE AND LAW ABIDING CITIZENS. COLLEGE PROFESSORS PUBLISHED EXPRESSIONS OF THEIR HORROR OVER THE CRUEL CRUSADE STATE OFFICIALS INCLUDING EVEN THE GOVERNOR GAVE SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE OF THEIR SYMPATHY AND GOOD FEELING. THIS LULL IN THE STORM OF OUTRAGE THAT HAD SO LONG RAGED ABOUT THEM OFFERED A STRANGE CONTRAST TO THEIR USUAL TREATMENT. I STATED THAT PROFESSIONAL MEN AND EVEN COLLEGE PROFESSORS RAISED THEIR VOICES IN COMMISERATION OF THE MORMON SITUATION AND IN DENOUNCING THE MORMON OPPRESSORS. PROFESSOR TURNER OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE WROTE. WHO BEGAN THE QUARREL WAS IT THE MORMONS. IS IT NOT NOTORIOUS ON THE CONTRARY THAT THEY WERE HUNTED LIKE WILD BEASTS FROM COUNTY TO COUNTY BEFORE THEY MADE ANY RESISTANCE. DID THEY EVER AS A BODY REFUSE OBEDIENCE TO THE LAWS WHEN CALLED UPON TO DO SO UNTIL DRIVEN TO DESPERATION BY REPEATED THREATS AND ASSAULTS BY THE MOB. DID THE STATE EVER MAKE ONE DECENT EFFORT TO DEFEND THEM AS FELLOW CITIZENS IN THEIR RIGHTS OR TO REDRESS THEIR WRONGS. LET THE CONDUCT OF ITS GOVERNORS AND ATTORNEYS AND THE FATE OF THEIR FINAL PETITIONS ANSWER. LET BOASTING MURDERERS OF BEGGING AND HELPLESS INFANCY ANSWER. HAS THE STATE EVER REMUNERATED EVEN THOSE KNOWN TO BE INNOCENT FOR THE LOSS OF EITHER THEIR PROPERTY OR THEIR ARMS. DID EITHER THE PULPIT OR THE PRESS THROUGH THE STATE RAISE A NOTE OF REMONSTRANCE OR ALARM. LET THE CLERGYMEN WHO ABETTED AND THE EDITORS WHO ENCOURAGED THE MOB ANSWER. AS A SAMPLE OF THE PRESS COMMENTS AGAINST THE BRUTALITY OF THE MISSOURIANS I QUOTE A PARAGRAPH FROM THE QUINCY ARGUS MARCH SIXTEENTH EIGHTEEN THIRTY NINE. WE SAY WE KNOW OF NO LANGUAGE SUFFICIENTLY STRONG FOR THE EXPRESSION OF OUR SHAME AND ABHORRENCE OF HER RECENT CONDUCT. SHE HAS WRITTEN HER OWN CHARACTER IN LETTERS OF BLOOD AND STAINED IT BY ACTS OF MERCILESS CRUELTY AND BRUTALITY THAT THE WATERS OF AGES CANNOT EFFACE. IT WILL BE OBSERVED THAT AN ORGANIZED MOB AIDED BY MANY OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY OFFICERS OF MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR BOGGS AT THEIR HEAD HAVE BEEN THE PROMINENT ACTORS IN THIS BUSINESS INCITED TOO IT APPEARS AGAINST THE MORMONS BY POLITICAL HATRED AND BY THE ADDITIONAL MOTIVES OF PLUNDER AND REVENGE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9cea9be7b9fe0e9d378e018a0faeab4212498de8 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE TROOPS ONCE IN UTAH HAD TO BE PROVISIONED AND EVERYTHING THE SETTLERS COULD SPARE WAS EAGERLY BOUGHT AT AN UNUSUAL PRICE. THE GOLD CHANGED HANDS. THEN IN THEIR HASTY DEPARTURE THE SOLDIERS DISPOSED OF EVERYTHING OUTSIDE OF ACTUAL NECESSITIES IN THE WAY OF ACCOUTERMENT AND CAMP EQUIPAGE. THE ARMY FOUND THE PEOPLE IN POVERTY AND LEFT THEM IN COMPARATIVE WEALTH. AND WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF THIS HURRIED DEPARTURE OF THE MILITARY FOR MANY MONTHS OMINOUS RUMBLINGS HAD BEEN HEARD INDICATIONS OF THE GATHERING STORM WHICH WAS SOON TO BREAK IN THE AWFUL FURY OF CIVIL STRIFE. IT COULD NOT BE DOUBTED THAT WAR WAS IMMINENT ALREADY THE CONFLICT HAD BEGUN AND A PICKED PART OF THE ARMY WAS AWAY IN THE WESTERN WILDS DOING NOTHING FOR ANY PHASE OF THE PUBLIC GOOD. BUT A WORD FURTHER CONCERNING THE EXPEDITION IN GENERAL. THE SENDING OF TROOPS TO UTAH WAS PART OF A FOUL SCHEME TO WEAKEN THE GOVERNMENT IN ITS IMPENDING STRUGGLE WITH THE SECESSIONISTS. HE WAS UNJUSTLY CHARGED WITH FAVORING SECESSION BUT THE CHARGE WAS SOON DISPROVED. THE SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS OF THIS OFFICER TO DISARM THE NORTH WHILE ACCUMULATING THE MUNITIONS OF WAR IN THE SOUTH TO SCATTER THE FORCES BY LOCATING THEM IN WIDELY SEPARATED AND REMOTE STATIONS AND IN OTHER WAYS TO DISPOSE OF THE REGULAR ARMY IN THE MANNER BEST CALCULATED TO FAVOR THE ANTICIPATED REBELLION ARE MATTERS OF HISTORY. IT IS ALSO TOLD HOW AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE REBELLION HE ALLIED HIMSELF WITH THE CONFEDERATE FORCES ACCEPTING THE RANK OF BRIGADIER GENERAL. IT WAS THROUGH FLOYD'S ADVICE THAT BUCHANAN ORDERED THE MILITARY EXPEDITION TO UTAH OSTENSIBLY TO INSTALL CERTAIN FEDERAL OFFICIALS AND TO REPRESS AN ALLEGED INFANTILE REBELLION WHICH IN FACT HAD NEVER COME INTO EXISTENCE BUT IN REALITY TO FURTHER THE INTERESTS OF THE SECESSIONISTS. WHEN THE HISTORY OF THAT GREAT STRUGGLE WITH ITS ANTECEDENT AND ITS CONSEQUENT CIRCUMSTANCES IS WRITTEN WITH A PEN THAT SHALL INDITE NAUGHT BUT TRUTH WHEN PREJUDICE AND PARTISANSHIP ARE LIVED DOWN IT MAY APPEAR THAT JEFFERSON DAVIS RATHER THAN JAMES BUCHANAN WAS THE PRIME CAUSE OF THE GREAT MISTAKE. HE LEFT UTAH IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE REBELLION TURNED HIS ARMS AGAINST THE FLAG HE HAD SWORN TO DEFEND DOFFED THE BLUE DONNED THE GREY AND FELL A REBEL ON THE FIELD OF SHILOH. CHANGES MANY AND GREAT FOLLOWED IN BEWILDERING SUCCESSION IN UTAH. THE PEOPLE WERE BESOUGHT TO TAKE SIDES WITH THE SOUTH IN THE AWFUL SCENES OF CRUEL STRIFE IT WAS OPENLY STATED IN THE EAST THAT UTAH HAD ALLIED HERSELF WITH THE CAUSE OF SECESSION AND BY OTHERS THAT THE DESIGN WAS TO MAKE SALT LAKE CITY THE CAPITAL OF AN INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT. AND SURELY SUCH CONJECTURES WERE PARDONABLE ON THE PART OF ALL WHOSE IGNORANCE AND PREJUDICE STILL NURSED THE DELUSION OF MORMON DISLOYALTY. MOREOVER HAD THE PEOPLE BEEN INCLINED TO REBELLION WHAT GREATER OPPORTUNITY COULD THEY HAVE WISHED. ALREADY A NORTH AND A SOUTH WERE TALKED OF WHY NOT SET UP ALSO A WEST. A SUPREME OPPORTUNITY HAD COME AND HOW WAS IT USED. IT WAS AT THIS VERY TIME THAT THE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH LINE WHICH HAD BEEN APPROACHING FROM THE ATLANTIC AND THE PACIFIC WAS COMPLETED AND THE FIRST TREMOR FELT IN THAT NERVE OF STEEL CARRIED THESE WORDS FROM BRIGHAM YOUNG. UTAH HAS NOT SECEDED BUT IS FIRM FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF OUR COUNTRY THE MORMON PEOPLE SAW IN THEIR TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES AND IN THE OUTRAGES TO WHICH THEY HAD BEEN SUBJECTED ONLY THE MAL ADMINISTRATION OF LAWS AND THE SUBVERSION OF JUSTICE THROUGH HUMAN INCAPACITY AND HATRED. NEVER EVEN FOR A MOMENT DID THEY QUESTION THE SUPREME AUTHORITY AND THE INSPIRED ORIGIN OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THEIR LAND \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..034e5576f1023ecd523287f3543dcbb81c6da93a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEY KNEW NO NORTH NO SOUTH NO EAST NO WEST THEY STOOD POSITIVELY BY THE CONSTITUTION AND WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO IN THE BLOODY STRIFE BETWEEN BROTHERS UNLESS INDEED THEY WERE SUMMONED BY THE AUTHORITY TO WHICH THEY HAD ALREADY ONCE LOYALLY RESPONDED TO FURNISH MEN AND ARMS FOR THEIR COUNTRY'S NEED. EVERY READER OF RECENT AND CURRENT HISTORY HAS LEARNED OF HER RAPID GROWTH OF HER REPEATED APPEALS FOR THE RECOGNITION TO WHICH SHE HAD SO LONG BEEN ENTITLED IN THE SISTERHOOD OF STATES OF THE PROMPT REFUSALS WITH WHICH HER PLEAS WERE PERSISTENTLY MET THOUGH OTHER TERRITORIES WITH SMALLER AND MORE ILLITERATE POPULATIONS MORE RESTRICTED RESOURCES AND IN EVERY WAY WEAKER CLAIMS WERE ALLOWED TO ASSUME THE HABILIMENTS OF MATURITY WHILE UTAH LUSTY LARGE AND STRONG WAS KEPT IN SWADDLING CLOTHES. BUT THE CRIES OF THE VIGOROUS INFANT WERE AT LENGTH HEEDED AND IN ANSWER TO THE SEVENTH APPEAL OF THE KIND UTAH'S STAR WAS ADDED TO THE NATION'S GALAXY. BUT LET US TURN MORE PARTICULARLY TO THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH ITSELF. WHEN BRIGHAM YOUNG PASSED FROM EARTH HE WAS MOURNED OF THE PEOPLE AS DEEPLY AS WAS MOSES OF ISRAEL. AND HAD HE NOT PROVED HIMSELF A MOSES AYE AND A JOSHUA TOO. HE HAD LED THE PEOPLE INTO THE LAND OF HOLY PROMISE AND HAD DIVIDED UNTO THEM THEIR INHERITANCES. HE WAS A MAN WITH CLEAR TITLE AS ONE OF THE SMALL BROTHERHOOD WE CALL GREAT. AS CARPENTER FARMER PIONEER CAPITALIST FINANCIER PREACHER APOSTLE PROPHET IN EVERYTHING HE WAS A LEADER AMONG MEN. EVEN THOSE WHO OPPOSED HIM IN POLITICS AND IN RELIGION RESPECTED HIM FOR HIS TALENTS HIS MAGNANIMITY HIS LIBERALITY AND HIS MANLINESS AND YEARS AFTER HIS DEMISE MEN WHO HAD REFUSED HIM HONOR WHILE ALIVE BROUGHT THEIR MITES AND THEIR GOLD TO ERECT A MONUMENT OF STONE AND BRONZE TO THE MEMORY OF THIS MAN WHO NEEDS IT NOT. WITH HIS DEATH CLOSED ANOTHER EPOCH IN THE HISTORY OF HIS PEOPLE AND A SUCCESSOR AROSE ONE WHO WAS CAPABLE OF LEADING AND JUDGING UNDER THE CHANGED CONDITIONS. THAT PLURAL MARRIAGE HAS BEEN PRACTISED BY A LIMITED PROPORTION OF THE PEOPLE UNDER SANCTION OF CHURCH ORDINANCE HAS NEVER SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SYSTEM BEEN DENIED. BUT THAT PLURAL MARRIAGE IS A VITAL TENET OF THE CHURCH IS NOT TRUE. WHAT THE LATTER DAY SAINTS CALL CELESTIAL MARRIAGE IS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CHURCH AND IS IN VERY GENERAL PRACTISE BUT OF CELESTIAL MARRIAGE PLURALITY OF WIVES WAS AN INCIDENT NEVER AN ESSENTIAL. YET THE TWO HAVE OFTEN BEEN CONFUSED IN THE POPULAR MIND. WE BELIEVE IN A LITERAL RESURRECTION AND AN ACTUAL HEREAFTER IN WHICH FUTURE STATE SHALL BE RECOGNIZED EVERY SANCTIFIED AND AUTHORIZED RELATIONSHIP EXISTING HERE ON EARTH OF PARENT AND CHILD BROTHER AND SISTER HUSBAND AND WIFE. WE BELIEVE FURTHER THAT CONTRACTS AS OF MARRIAGE TO BE VALID BEYOND THE VEIL OF MORTALITY MUST BE SANCTIONED BY A POWER GREATER THAN THAT OF EARTH. WITH THE SEAL OF THE HOLY PRIESTHOOD UPON THEIR WEDDED STATE THESE PEOPLE BELIEVE IMPLICITLY IN THE PERPETUITY OF THAT RELATIONSHIP ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE GRAVE. THEY MARRY NOT WITH THE SADDENING LIMITATION UNTIL DEATH DO YOU PART BUT FOR TIME AND FOR ALL ETERNITY. TO THEM MARRIAGE IS NOT CAN NEVER BE A CIVIL COMPACT ALONE ITS SIGNIFICANCE REACHES BEYOND THE GRAVE ITS OBLIGATIONS ARE ETERNAL AND THE LATTER DAY SAINTS ARE NOTABLE FOR THE SANCTITY WITH WHICH THEY INVEST THE MARITAL STATE. IT HAS BEEN MY PRIVILEGE TO TREAD THE SOIL OF MANY LANDS TO OBSERVE THE CUSTOMS AND STUDY THE HABITS OF MORE NATIONS THAN ONE AND I HAVE YET TO FIND THE PLACE AND MEET THE PEOPLE WHERE AND WITH WHOM THE PURITY OF MAN AND WOMAN IS HELD MORE PRECIOUS THAN AMONG THE MALIGNED MORMONS IN THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS OF THE WEST \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7864590f5f465f04b72f9b4dc5fadffcae7c2d97 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THERE I FIND THIS MEASURE OF JUST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES THAT THE SINS OF MAN SHALL NOT BE VISITED UPON THE HEAD OF WOMAN. AT THE INCEPTION OF PLURAL MARRIAGE AMONG THE LATTER DAY SAINTS THERE WAS NO LAW NATIONAL OR STATE AGAINST ITS PRACTISE. THIS STATEMENT ASSUMES AS GRANTED A DISTINCTION BETWEEN BIGAMY AND THE MORMON INSTITUTION OF PLURAL MARRIAGE. IN EIGHTEEN SIXTY TWO A LAW WAS ENACTED WITH THE PURPOSE OF SUPPRESSING PLURAL MARRIAGE AND AS HAD BEEN PREDICTED IN THE NATIONAL SENATE PRIOR TO ITS PASSAGE IT LAY FOR MANY YEARS A DEAD LETTER. FEDERAL JUDGES AND UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS IN UTAH WHO WERE NOT MORMONS NOR LOVERS OF MORMONISM REFUSED TO ENTERTAIN COMPLAINTS OR PROSECUTE CASES UNDER THE LAW BECAUSE OF ITS MANIFEST INJUSTICE AND INADEQUACY. BUT OTHER LAWS FOLLOWED MOST OF WHICH AS THE LATTER DAY SAINTS BELIEVE WERE AIMED DIRECTLY AT THEIR RELIGIOUS CONCEPTION OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT AND NOT AT SOCIAL IMPROPRIETY NOR SEXUAL OFFENSE. AT LAST THE EDMUNDS TUCKER ACT TOOK EFFECT MAKING NOT THE MARRIAGE ALONE BUT THE SUBSEQUENT ACKNOWLEDGING OF THE CONTRACT AN OFFENSE PUNISHABLE BY FINE OR IMPRISONMENT OR BOTH. UNDER THE SPELL OF UNRIGHTEOUS ZEAL THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY OF UTAH ANNOUNCED AND PRACTISED THAT MOST INFAMOUS DOCTRINE OF SEGREGATION OF OFFENSES WITH ACCUMULATING PENALTIES. I WHO WRITE HAVE LISTENED TO JUDGES INSTRUCTING GRAND JURIES IN SUCH TERMS AS THESE THAT ALTHOUGH THE LAW OF CONGRESS DESIGNATED AS AN OFFENSE THE ACKNOWLEDGING OF MORE LIVING WIVES THAN ONE BY ANY MAN AND PRESCRIBED A PENALTY THEREFOR AS CONGRESS HAD NOT SPECIFIED THE LENGTH OF TIME DURING WHICH THIS UNLAWFUL ACKNOWLEDGING MUST CONTINUE TO CONSTITUTE THE OFFENSE GRAND JURIES MIGHT INDICT SEPARATELY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE PERIOD DURING WHICH THE FORBIDDEN RELATIONSHIP EXISTED. THIS MEANT THAT FOR AN ALLEGED MISDEMEANOR FOR WHICH CONGRESS PRESCRIBED A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF SIX MONTHS IMPRISONMENT AND A FINE OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A MAN MIGHT BE IMPRISONED FOR LIFE AYE FOR MANY TERMS OF A MAN'S NATURAL LIFE DID THE COURT'S POWER TO ENFORCE ITS SENTENCES EXTEND SO FAR AND MIGHT BE FINED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. BEFORE THIS TRAVESTY ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW COULD BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURT OF LAST RESORT AND THERE MEET WITH THE REVERSAL AND REBUKE IT DESERVED MEN WERE IMPRISONED UNDER SENTENCES OF MANY YEARS DURATION. THE PEOPLE CONTESTED THESE MEASURES ONE BY ONE IN THE COURTS PRESENTING IN CASE AFTER CASE THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF THE SUBJECT AND URGING THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE MEASURE. THEN THE CHURCH WAS DISINCORPORATED AND ITS PROPERTY BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL CONFISCATED AND ESCHEATED TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND ALTHOUGH THE PERSONAL PROPERTY WAS SOON RESTORED REAL ESTATE OF GREAT VALUE LONG LAY IN THE HANDS OF THE COURT'S RECEIVER AND THE MORMON CHURCH HAD TO PAY THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT HIGH RENTAL ON ITS OWN PROPERTY. BUT THE PEOPLE HAVE SUSPENDED THE PRACTISE OF PLURAL MARRIAGE AND THE TESTIMONY OF THE GOVERNORS JUDGES AND DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OF THE TERRITORY AND LATER THAT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE STATE HAVE DECLARED THE SINCERITY OF THE RENUNCIATION. AS THE PEOPLE HAD ADOPTED THE PRACTISE UNDER WHAT WAS BELIEVED TO BE DIVINE APPROVAL THEY SUSPENDED IT WHEN THEY WERE JUSTIFIED IN SO DOING. IN WHATEVER LIGHT THIS PRACTISE HAS BEEN REGARDED IN THE PAST IT IS TODAY A DEAD ISSUE FORBIDDEN BY ECCLESIASTICAL RULE AS IT IS PROHIBITED BY LEGAL STATUTE. AND THE WORLD IS LEARNING TO ITS MANIFEST SURPRISE THAT PLURAL MARRIAGE AND MORMONISM ARE NOT SYNONYMOUS TERMS. AND SO THE STORY OF MORMONISM RUNS ON ITS FINALE HAS NOT YET BEEN WRITTEN THE CURRENT PRESS PRESENTS CONTINUOUSLY NEW STAGES OF ITS PROGRESS NEW DEVELOPMENTS OF ITS PLAN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b9a66e672f6b0bb02bbb214636d3dbf14af319e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4077/13754/13754_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +TODAY THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IS STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE AND THE PEOPLE ARE CONFIDENT THAT IT IS AT ITS WEAKEST STAGE FOR ALL TIME TO COME. IT LIVES AND THRIVES BECAUSE WITHIN IT ARE THE ELEMENTS OF THRIFT AND THE FORCES OF LIFE. IT EMBRACES A BOUNDLESS LIBERALITY OF BELIEF AND PRACTISE TRUE TOLERATION IS ONE OF ITS ESSENTIAL FEATURES IT MAKES LOVE FOR MANKIND SECOND ONLY TO LOVE FOR DEITY. ITS CREED PROVIDES FOR THE PROTECTION OF ALL MEN IN THEIR RIGHTS OF WORSHIP ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES OF CONSCIENCE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2273/2273_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2273/2273_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..80ad7861d33d9b682aa982e3e3c2a6514158a2fa --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/4446/2273/2273_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT WAS VERY JOLLY HE MURMURED LAZILY AS MARIE CAME IN TO TAKE AWAY THE COFFEE. HILDA LAUGHED AND WENT OVER TO THE PIANO. WELL WE ARE NEITHER OF US TWENTY NOW YOU KNOW. HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT MY NEW PLAY. MAC IS WRITING ONE REALLY FOR ME THIS TIME YOU SEE I'M COMING ON. I'VE SEEN NOTHING ELSE WHAT KIND OF A PART IS IT. SHALL YOU WEAR YELLOW GOWNS I HOPE SO. NO IT ISN'T A DRESS UP PART. HE DOESN'T SEEM TO FANCY ME IN FINE FEATHERS. HE SAYS I OUGHT TO BE MINDING THE PIGS AT HOME AND I SUPPOSE I OUGHT. BUT HE'S GIVEN ME SOME GOOD IRISH SONGS LISTEN. SHE SAT DOWN AT THE PIANO AND SANG. WHEN SHE FINISHED ALEXANDER SHOOK HIMSELF OUT OF A REVERIE. SING THE HARP THAT ONCE HILDA YOU USED TO SING IT SO WELL. NONSENSE OF COURSE I CAN'T REALLY SING EXCEPT THE WAY MY MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER DID BEFORE ME. MOST ACTRESSES NOWADAYS LEARN TO SING PROPERLY SO I TRIED A MASTER BUT HE CONFUSED ME JUST. ALEXANDER LAUGHED ALL THE SAME SING IT HILDA. HILDA STARTED UP FROM THE STOOL AND MOVED RESTLESSLY TOWARD THE WINDOW. IT'S REALLY TOO WARM IN THIS ROOM TO SING DON'T YOU FEEL IT. ALEXANDER WENT OVER AND OPENED THE WINDOW FOR HER. AREN'T YOU AFRAID TO LET THE WIND LOW LIKE THAT ON YOUR NECK CAN'T I GET A SCARF OR SOMETHING. ASK A THEATRE LADY IF SHE'S AFRAID OF DRAFTS HILDA LAUGHED. BUT PERHAPS AS I'M SO WARM GIVE ME YOUR HANDKERCHIEF. THERE JUST IN FRONT. THERE THAT WILL DO IT LOOKS LIKE A BIB. ISN'T LONDON A TOMB ON SUNDAY NIGHT. ALEXANDER CAUGHT THE AGITATION IN HER VOICE. HE STOOD A LITTLE BEHIND HER AND TRIED TO STEADY HIMSELF AS HE SAID IT'S SOFT AND MISTY SEE HOW WHITE THE STARS ARE. FOR A LONG TIME NEITHER HILDA NOR BARTLEY SPOKE. HE FELT A TREMOR RUN THROUGH THE SLENDER YELLOW FIGURE IN FRONT OF HIM. SHE CAUGHT HIS HANDKERCHIEF FROM HER THROAT AND THRUST IT AT HIM WITHOUT TURNING ROUND. HERE TAKE IT YOU MUST GO NOW BARTLEY GOOD NIGHT. BARTLEY LEANED OVER HER SHOULDER WITHOUT TOUCHING HER AND WHISPERED IN HER EAR YOU ARE GIVING ME A CHANCE YES. TAKE IT AND GO THIS ISN'T FAIR YOU KNOW GOOD NIGHT. ALEXANDER UNCLENCHED THE TWO HANDS AT HIS SIDES. WITH ONE HE THREW DOWN THE WINDOW AND WITH THE OTHER STILL STANDING BEHIND HER HE DREW HER BACK AGAINST HIM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5142/36377/36377_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5142/36377/36377_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eadff2d0cc7b2dbbf2950420252cbab384a9484a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5142/36377/36377_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MY SPIRITS SANK AS I LOOKED ROUND ME SUPPER TIME WAS STILL AN EVENT IN THE FUTURE I LIGHTED THE CANDLES AND TOOK FROM MY PORTMANTEAU WHAT I FIRMLY BELIEVE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST FRENCH NOVEL EVER PRODUCED AT MORWICK FARM. IT WAS ONE OF THE MASTERLY AND CHARMING STORIES OF DUMAS THE ELDER. IN FIVE MINUTES I WAS IN A NEW WORLD AND MY MELANCHOLY ROOM WAS FULL OF THE LIVELIEST FRENCH COMPANY. THE SOUND OF AN IMPERATIVE AND UNCOMPROMISING BELL RECALLED ME IN DUE TIME TO THE REGIONS OF REALITY. I LOOKED AT MY WATCH NINE O'CLOCK. AMBROSE MET ME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS AND SHOWED ME THE WAY TO THE SUPPER ROOM. MISTER MEADOWCROFT'S INVALID CHAIR HAD BEEN WHEELED TO THE HEAD OF THE TABLE ON HIS RIGHT HAND SIDE SAT HIS SAD AND SILENT DAUGHTER. SHE SIGNED TO ME WITH A GHOSTLY SOLEMNITY TO TAKE THE VACANT PLACE ON THE LEFT OF HER FATHER. THE DOOR OPENED AGAIN WHILE I WAS STILL STUDYING THE TWO BROTHERS WITHOUT I HONESTLY CONFESS BEING VERY FAVORABLY IMPRESSED BY EITHER OF THEM. A NEW MEMBER OF THE FAMILY CIRCLE WHO INSTANTLY ATTRACTED MY ATTENTION ENTERED THE ROOM. A LITTLE CRACKED THAT IN THE POPULAR PHRASE WAS MY IMPRESSION OF THE STRANGER WHO NOW MADE HIS APPEARANCE IN THE SUPPER ROOM. MISTER MEADOWCROFT THE ELDER HAVING NOT SPOKEN ONE WORD THUS FAR HIMSELF INTRODUCED THE NEWCOMER TO ME WITH A SIDE GLANCE AT HIS SONS WHICH HAD SOMETHING LIKE DEFIANCE IN IT A GLANCE WHICH AS I WAS SORRY TO NOTICE WAS RETURNED WITH THE DEFIANCE ON THEIR SIDE BY THE TWO YOUNG MEN. PHILIP LEFRANK THIS IS MY OVERLOOKER MISTER JAGO SAID THE OLD MAN FORMALLY PRESENTING US. HE IS NOT WELL HE HAS COME OVER THE OCEAN FOR REST AND CHANGE OF SCENE. MISTER JAGO IS AN AMERICAN PHILIP. I HOPE YOU HAVE NO PREJUDICE AGAINST AMERICANS. MAKE ACQUAINTANCE WITH MISTER JAGO SIT TOGETHER. THEY POINTEDLY DREW BACK FROM JOHN JAGO AS HE APPROACHED THE EMPTY CHAIR NEXT TO ME AND MOVED ROUND TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TABLE. WAS THE YOUNG LADY NAOMI COLEBROOK I LOOKED AT AMBROSE AND SAW THE ANSWER IN HIS FACE NAOMI COLEBROOK AT LAST. A PRETTY GIRL AND SO FAR AS I COULD JUDGE BY APPEARANCES A GOOD GIRL TOO DESCRIBING HER GENERALLY I MAY SAY THAT SHE HAD A SMALL HEAD WELL CARRIED AND WELL SET ON HER SHOULDERS BRIGHT GRAY EYES THAT LOOKED AT YOU HONESTLY AND MEANT WHAT THEY LOOKED A TRIM SLIGHT LITTLE FIGURE TOO SLIGHT FOR OUR ENGLISH NOTIONS OF BEAUTY A STRONG AMERICAN ACCENT AND A RARE THING IN AMERICA A PLEASANTLY TONED VOICE WHICH MADE THE ACCENT AGREEABLE TO ENGLISH EARS. OUR FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF PEOPLE ARE IN NINE CASES OUT OF TEN THE RIGHT IMPRESSIONS. FOR ONCE IN A WAY I PROVED A TRUE PROPHET. AMBROSE MADE ROOM FOR NAOMI TO SIT BETWEEN HIS BROTHER AND HIMSELF. THE ONLY CHEERFUL CONVERSATION WAS THE CONVERSATION ACROSS THE TABLE BETWEEN NAOMI AND ME. HE LOOKED UP AT NAOMI DOUBTINGLY FROM HIS PLATE AND LOOKED DOWN AGAIN SLOWLY WITH A FROWN. WHEN I ADDRESSED HIM HE ANSWERED CONSTRAINEDLY. BY WAY OF MAKING MY FIRST EVENING AT THE FARM ALL THE MORE EMBARRASSING TO ME AS A STRANGER I DISCOVERED BEFORE LONG THAT THE FATHER AND SONS WERE TALKING INDIRECTLY AT EACH OTHER THROUGH MISTER JAGO AND THROUGH ME. EVERY TIME SHE TOOK A PROMINENT PART IN THIS WAY IN KEEPING THE PEACE MELANCHOLY MISS MEADOWCROFT LOOKED SLOWLY ROUND AT HER IN STERN AND SILENT DISPARAGEMENT OF HER INTERFERENCE. A MORE DREARY AND MORE DISUNITED FAMILY PARTY I NEVER SAT AT THE TABLE WITH. ENVY HATRED MALICE AND UNCHARITABLENESS ARE NEVER SO ESSENTIALLY DETESTABLE TO MY MIND AS WHEN THEY ARE ANIMATED BY A SENSE OF PROPRIETY AND WORK UNDER THE SURFACE BUT FOR MY INTEREST IN NAOMI AND MY OTHER INTEREST IN THE LITTLE LOVE LOOKS WHICH I NOW AND THEN SURPRISED PASSING BETWEEN HER AND AMBROSE I SHOULD NEVER HAVE SAT THROUGH THAT SUPPER. I WISH YOU GOOD NIGHT SHE LAID HER BONY HANDS ON THE BACK OF MISTER MEADOWCROFT'S INVALID CHAIR CUT HIM SHORT IN HIS FAREWELL SALUTATION TO ME AND WHEELED HIM OUT TO HIS BED AS IF SHE WERE WHEELING HIM OUT TO HIS GRAVE. DO YOU GO TO YOUR ROOM IMMEDIATELY SIR IF NOT MAY I OFFER YOU A CIGAR PROVIDED THE YOUNG GENTLEMEN WILL PERMIT IT SO PICKING HIS WORDS WITH PAINFUL DELIBERATION AND POINTING HIS REFERENCE TO THE YOUNG GENTLEMEN WITH ONE SARDONIC SIDE LOOK AT THEM MISTER JOHN JAGO PERFORMED THE DUTIES OF HOSPITALITY ON HIS SIDE I EXCUSED MYSELF FROM ACCEPTING THE CIGAR. YOU WERE QUITE RIGHT TO SAY NO AMBROSE BEGAN NEVER SMOKE WITH JOHN JAGO HIS CIGARS WILL POISON YOU \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..30f2c0adce5dfe85f366013e60975ef4dc08647c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ELEVEN O'CLOCK HAD STRUCK IT WAS A FINE CLEAR NIGHT THEY WERE THE ONLY PERSONS ON THE ROAD AND THEY SAUNTERED LEISURELY ALONG TO AVOID PAYING THE PRICE OF FATIGUE FOR THE RECREATION PROVIDED FOR THE TOLEDANS IN THEIR VALLEY OR ON THE BANKS OF THEIR RIVER. SECURE AS HE THOUGHT IN THE CAREFUL ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN THAT CITY AND THE CHARACTER OF ITS WELL DISPOSED INHABITANTS THE GOOD HIDALGO WAS FAR FROM THINKING THAT ANY DISASTER COULD BEFAL HIS FAMILY. THIS YOUNG CAVALIER WHOSE REAL NAME WE SHALL FOR GOOD REASONS CONCEAL UNDER THAT OF RODOLFO WAS ABROAD THAT NIGHT WITH FOUR OF HIS COMPANIONS INSOLENT YOUNG ROISTERERS LIKE HIMSELF AND HAPPENED TO BE COMING DOWN A HILL AS THE OLD HIDALGO AND HIS FAMILY WERE ASCENDING IT. THE TWO PARTIES THE SHEEP AND THE WOLVES MET EACH OTHER. RODOLFO AND HIS COMPANIONS WITH THEIR FACES MUFFLED IN THEIR CLOAKS STARED RUDELY AND INSOLENTLY AT THE MOTHER THE DAUGHTER AND THE SERVANT MAID. THE OLD HIDALGO INDIGNANTLY REMONSTRATED THEY ANSWERED HIM WITH MOCKS AND JEERS AND PASSED ON. BUT RODOLFO HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE GREAT BEAUTY OF LEOCADIA THE HIDALGO'S DAUGHTER AND PRESENTLY HE BEGAN TO ENTERTAIN THE IDEA OF ENJOYING IT AT ALL HAZARDS. IN A MOMENT HE COMMUNICATED HIS THOUGHTS TO HIS COMPANIONS AND IN THE NEXT MOMENT THEY RESOLVED TO TURN BACK AND CARRY HER OFF TO PLEASE RODOLFO FOR THE RICH WHO ARE OPEN HANDED ALWAYS FIND PARASITES READY TO ENCOURAGE THEIR BAD PROPENSITIES AND THUS TO CONCEIVE THIS WICKED DESIGN TO COMMUNICATE IT APPROVE IT RESOLVE ON RAVISHING LEOCADIA AND TO CARRY THAT DESIGN INTO EFFECT WAS THE WORK OF A MOMENT. THEY DREW THEIR SWORDS HID THEIR FACES IN THE FLAPS OF THEIR CLOAKS TURNED BACK AND SOON CAME IN FRONT OF THE LITTLE PARTY WHO HAD NOT YET DONE GIVING THANKS TO GOD FOR THEIR ESCAPE FROM THOSE AUDACIOUS MEN. HER FATHER SHOUTED HER MOTHER SHRIEKED HER LITTLE BROTHER CRIED THE SERVANT MAID TORE HER OWN FACE AND HAIR BUT THE SHOUTS AND SHRIEKS WERE DISREGARDED THE WAILINGS MOVED NO PITY THE CLAWING AND SCRATCHING WAS OF NO AVAIL FOR ALL WAS LOST UPON THE LONELINESS OF THE SPOT THE SILENCE OF THE NIGHT AND THE CRUEL HEARTS OF THE RAVISHERS. FINALLY THE ONE PARTY WENT OFF EXULTING AND THE OTHER WAS LEFT IN DESOLATION AND WOE. RODOLFO ARRIVED AT HIS OWN HOUSE WITHOUT ANY IMPEDIMENT AND LEOCADIA'S PARENTS REACHED THEIRS HEART BROKEN AND DESPAIRING. MEANWHILE RODOLFO HAD LEOCADIA SAFE IN HIS CUSTODY AND IN HIS OWN APARTMENT. WHEN LEOCADIA FAINTED IN HIS ARMS HE HAD BANDAGED HER EYES IN ORDER THAT SHE MIGHT NOT NOTICE THE STREETS THROUGH WHICH SHE PASSED OR THE HOUSE INTO WHICH HE TOOK HER AND BEFORE SHE RECOVERED HER SENSES HE EFFECTED HIS GUILTY PURPOSE. APATHY AND DISGUST COMMONLY FOLLOW SATIATED LUST. RODOLFO WAS NOW IMPATIENT TO GET RID OF LEOCADIA AND MADE UP HIS MIND TO LAY HER IN THE STREET INSENSIBLE AS SHE WAS. WHO TOUCHES ME AM I IN BED. MOTHER DEAR FATHER DO YOU HEAR ME. ALAS TOO WELL I PERCEIVE THAT YOU CANNOT HEAR ME AND THAT I AM IN THE HANDS OF ENEMIES. WHOEVER THOU ART SHE EXCLAIMED SUDDENLY SEIZING RODOLFO'S HAND IF THY SOUL IS CAPABLE OF PITY GRANT ME ONE PRAYER HAVING DEPRIVED ME OF HONOUR NOW DEPRIVE ME OF LIFE. LET ME NOT SURVIVE MY DISGRACE. IN MERCY KILL ME THIS MOMENT. IT IS THE ONLY AMENDS I ASK OF YOU FOR THE WRONG YOU HAVE DONE ME. CONFUSED BY THE VEHEMENCE OF HER REPROACHES RODOLFO KNEW NOT WHAT TO SAY OR DO AND ANSWERED NOT A WORD. THIS SILENCE SO ASTONISHED LEOCADIA THAT SHE BEGAN TO FANCY SHE WAS DREAMING OR HAUNTED BY A PHANTOM BUT THE HANDS SHE GRASPED WERE OF FLESH AND BLOOD. THIS IS BUT A SMALL RECOMPENSE FOR SO GRIEVOUS A WRONG BUT IT IS THE GREATEST WHICH I CAN ASK OR YOU CAN GRANT ME \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71a3abb103333f3ecf6a38512a37502c1a6ce490 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BEAR IN MIND MY CHILD THAT AN OUNCE OF PUBLIC DISHONOUR OUTWEIGHS A QUINTAL OF SECRET INFAMY AND SINCE BY THE BLESSING OF GOD YOU CAN LIVE IN HONOUR BEFORE THE PUBLIC EYE LET IT NOT DISTRESS YOU SO MUCH TO BE DISHONOURED IN YOUR OWNSELF IN SECRET. REAL DISHONOUR CONSISTS IN SIN AND REAL HONOUR IN VIRTUE. THERE ARE THREE WAYS OF OFFENDING GOD BY THOUGHT WORD AND DEED BUT SINCE NEITHER IN THOUGHT NOR IN WORD NOR IN DEED HAVE YOU OFFENDED LOOK UPON YOURSELF AS A PERSON OF UNSULLIED HONOUR AS I SHALL ALWAYS DO WHO WILL NEVER CEASE TO REGARD YOU WITH THE AFFECTION OF A FATHER. THUS DID THIS HUMANE AND RIGHT MINDED FATHER COMFORT HIS UNHAPPY DAUGHTER AND HER MOTHER EMBRACING HER AGAIN DID ALL SHE COULD TO SOOTHE HER FEELINGS. IN SPITE OF ALL THEIR TENDERNESS HER ANGUISH WAS TOO POIGNANT TO BE SOON ALLAYED AND FROM THAT FATAL NIGHT SHE CONTINUED TO LIVE THE LIFE OF A RECLUSE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF HER PARENTS. RODOLFO MEANWHILE HAVING RETURNED HOME AND HAVING MISSED THE CRUCIFIX GUESSED WHO HAD TAKEN IT BUT GAVE HIMSELF NO CONCERN ABOUT IT. RODOLFO HAD LONG CONTEMPLATED A VISIT TO ITALY AND HIS FATHER WHO HIMSELF HAD BEEN THERE ENCOURAGED HIM IN THAT DESIGN TELLING HIM THAT NO ONE COULD BE A FINISHED GENTLEMAN WITHOUT SEEING FOREIGN COUNTRIES. FOR THIS AND OTHER REASONS RODOLFO READILY COMPLIED WITH THE WISHES OF HIS FATHER WHO GAVE HIM AMPLE LETTERS OF CREDIT ON BARCELONA GENOA ROME AND NAPLES. IN FINE HE WENT AWAY WITH AS LITTLE THOUGHT OR CONCERN ABOUT WHAT HAD PASSED BETWEEN HIM AND THE BEAUTIFUL LEOCADIA AS THOUGH IT HAD NEVER HAPPENED. SHE MEANWHILE PASSED HER LIFE WITH HER PARENTS IN THE STRICTEST RETIREMENT NEVER LETTING HERSELF BE SEEN BUT SHUNNING EVERY EYE LEST IT SHOULD READ HER MISFORTUNE IN HER FACE. WHAT SHE HAD THUS DONE VOLUNTARILY AT FIRST SHE FOUND HERSELF IN A FEW MONTHS CONSTRAINED TO DO BY NECESSITY FOR SHE DISCOVERED THAT SHE WAS PREGNANT TO THE GRIEVOUS RENEWAL OF HER AFFLICTION. TIME ROLLED ON THE HOUR OF HER DELIVERY ARRIVED IT TOOK PLACE IN THE UTMOST SECRECY HER MOTHER TAKING UPON HER THE OFFICE OF MIDWIFE AND SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A SON ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EVER SEEN. THE BABE WAS CONVEYED WITH THE SAME SECRECY TO A VILLAGE WHERE HE REMAINED TILL HE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD WHEN HIS GRANDFATHER BROUGHT HIM UNDER THE NAME OF NEPHEW TO HIS OWN HOUSE WHERE HE WAS REARED IF NOT IN AFFLUENCE AT LEAST MOST VIRTUOUSLY. THE BOY WHO WAS NAMED LUIS AFTER HIS GRANDFATHER WAS REMARKABLY HANDSOME OF A SWEET DOCILE DISPOSITION AND HIS MANNERS AND DEPORTMENT EVEN AT THAT TENDER AGE WERE SUCH AS SHOWED HIM TO BE THE SON OF SOME NOBLE FATHER. HIS GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER WERE SO DELIGHTED WITH HIS GRACE BEAUTY AND GOOD BEHAVIOUR THAT THEY CAME AT LAST TO REGARD THEIR DAUGHTER'S MISCHANCE AS A HAPPY EVENT SINCE IT HAD GIVEN THEM SUCH A GRANDSON. WHEN THE BOY WALKED THROUGH THE STREETS BLESSINGS WERE SHOWERED UPON HIM BY ALL WHO SAW HIM BLESSINGS UPON HIS BEAUTY UPON THE MOTHER THAT BORE HIM UPON THE FATHER THAT BEGOT HIM UPON THOSE WHO BROUGHT HIM UP SO WELL. ONE DAY WHEN THE BOY WAS SENT BY HIS GRANDFATHER WITH A MESSAGE TO A RELATION HE PASSED ALONG A STREET IN WHICH THERE WAS A GREAT CONCOURSE OF HORSEMEN. MANY GENTLEMEN FOLLOWED HIM GREATLY DISTRESSED AT THE SAD ACCIDENT WHICH HAD BEFALLEN THE GENERAL FAVOURITE FOR IT WAS SOON ON EVERYBODY'S LIPS THAT THE SUFFERER WAS LITTLE LUIS. THE NEWS SPEEDILY REACHED THE EARS OF HIS GRANDPARENTS AND HIS SUPPOSED COUSIN WHO ALL HURRIED IN WILD DISMAY TO LOOK FOR THEIR DARLING. THE GENTLEMAN WHO HAD HUMANELY TAKEN CHARGE OF HIM BEING OF EMINENT RANK AND WELL KNOWN THEY EASILY FOUND THEIR WAY TO HIS HOUSE AND ARRIVED THERE JUST AS LUIS WAS UNDER THE SURGEON'S HANDS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b09743ca164c493b45d2599b971f6cb67286cc1a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE MASTER AND MISTRESS BEGGED THEM NOT TO CRY OR RAISE THEIR VOICES IN LAMENTATION FOR IT WOULD DO THE LITTLE PATIENT NO GOOD. PRETTY WELL HE SAID ONLY HIS HEAD AND HIS BODY PAINED HIM A GOOD DEAL. THE SURGEON DESIRED THEM NOT TO TALK TO HIM BUT LEAVE HIM TO REPOSE. THE GENTLEMAN REPLIED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO THANK HIM FOR THE FACT BEING THAT WHEN HE SAW THE BOY KNOCKED DOWN HIS FIRST THOUGHT WAS THAT HE SAW UNDER THE HORSES HEELS THE FACE OF A SON OF HIS OWN WHOM HE TENDERLY LOVED. IT WAS THIS THAT IMPELLED HIM TO TAKE THE BOY UP AND CARRY HIM TO HIS OWN HOUSE WHERE HE SHOULD REMAIN ALL THE TIME HE WAS IN THE SURGEON'S HANDS AND BE TREATED WITH ALL POSSIBLE CARE. THE LADY OF THE HOUSE SPOKE TO THE SAME EFFECT AND WITH NO LESS KINDNESS AND CORDIALITY. THE DAMASK HANGINGS WERE NO LONGER THERE BUT SHE RECOGNISED IT BY OTHER TOKENS. THE BED SHE TOO WELL REMEMBERED WAS THERE AND ABOVE ALL THE CABINET ON WHICH HAD STOOD THE IMAGE SHE HAD TAKEN AWAY WAS STILL ON THE SAME SPOT. FINALLY TO CORROBORATE ALL THE OTHER INDICATIONS AND CONFIRM THE TRUTH OF HER DISCOVERY BEYOND ALL QUESTION SHE COUNTED THE STEPS OF THE STAIRCASE LEADING FROM THE ROOM TO THE STREET AND FOUND THE NUMBER EXACTLY WHAT SHE HAD EXPECTED FOR SHE HAD HAD THE PRESENCE OF MIND TO COUNT THEM ON THE FORMER OCCASION WHEN SHE DESCENDED THEM BLINDFOLD. ON HER RETURN HOME SHE IMPARTED HER DISCOVERY TO HER MOTHER WHO IMMEDIATELY MADE INQUIRIES AS TO WHETHER THE GENTLEMAN IN WHOSE HOUSE HER GRANDSON LAY EVER HAD A SON. SHE MADE ALL THIS KNOWN TO HER HUSBAND AND IT WAS FINALLY SETTLED BETWEEN THE THREE THAT THEY SHOULD NOT MOVE IN THE MATTER FOR THE PRESENT BUT WAIT TILL THE WILL OF HEAVEN HAD DECLARED ITSELF RESPECTING THE LITTLE PATIENT. LUIS WAS OUT OF DANGER IN A FORTNIGHT IN A MONTH HE ROSE FROM HIS BED AND DURING ALL THAT TIME HE WAS VISITED DAILY BY HIS MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER AND TREATED BY THE MASTER AND MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE AS IF HE WAS THEIR OWN CHILD. DONA ESTAFANIA THE KIND GENTLEMAN'S WIFE OFTEN OBSERVED IN CONVERSATION WITH LEOCADIA THAT THE BOY SO STRONGLY RESEMBLED A SON OF HERS WHO WAS IN ITALY SHE NEVER COULD LOOK AT HIM WITHOUT THINKING HER SON WAS ACTUALLY BEFORE HER. SENORA SHE SAID WHEN MY PARENTS HEARD OF THE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT THAT HAD BEFALLEN THEIR NEPHEW THEY FELT AS IF THE SKY HAD FALLEN UPON THEIR HEADS. BUT AS THE PROVERB SAYS WITH THE DISEASE GOD SENDS THE REMEDY. IN CONFIRMATION OF ALL THIS SHE DREW FORTH FROM HER BOSOM THE CRUCIFIX SHE HAD TAKEN AWAY WITH HER AND THUS ADDRESSED IT LORD WHO WAST WITNESS OF THE VIOLENCE DONE TO ME BE THOU THE JUDGE OF THE AMENDS WHICH ARE MY DUE. THEN TURNING TO DONA ESTAFANIA THIS BOY SENORA SHE SAID TOWARDS WHOM YOU HAVE MANIFESTED THE EXTREME OF YOUR GREAT KINDNESS AND COMPASSION IS YOUR OWN GRANDSON. THUS SAYING AND PRESSING THE CRUCIFIX TO HER BREAST SHE FELL FAINTING INTO THE ARMS OF DONA ESTAFANIA WHO AS A GENTLEWOMAN TO WHOSE SEX PITY IS AS NATURAL AS CRUELTY IS TO MAN INSTANTLY PRESSED HER LIPS TO THOSE OF THE FAINTING GIRL SHEDDING OVER HER SO MANY TEARS THAT THERE NEEDED NO OTHER SPRINKLING OF WATER TO RECOVER LEOCADIA FROM HER SWOON. WHILST THE TWO WERE IN THIS SITUATION DONA ESTAFANIA'S HUSBAND ENTERED THE ROOM LEADING LITTLE LUIS BY THE HAND. ON SEEING HIS WIFE ALL IN TEARS AND LEOCADIA FAINTING HE EAGERLY INQUIRED THE CAUSE OF SO STARTLING A SPECTACLE. THE BOY HAVING EMBRACED HIS MOTHER CALLING HER HIS COUSIN AND HIS GRANDMOTHER CALLING HER HIS BENEFACTRESS REPEATED HIS GRANDFATHER'S QUESTION. I HAVE GREAT THINGS TO TELL YOU SENOR SAID DONA ESTAFANIA TO HER HUSBAND THE CREAM AND SUBSTANCE OF WHICH IS THIS THE FAINTING GIRL BEFORE YOU IS YOUR DAUGHTER AND THAT BOY IS YOUR GRANDSON \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0004.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..616e6f4c1b71b3383b55d18a23d3028321af9777 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0004.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THIS TRUTH WHICH I HAVE LEARNED FROM HER LIPS IS CONFIRMED BY HIS FACE IN WHICH WE HAVE BOTH BEHELD THAT OF OUR SON. UNLESS YOU SPEAK MORE FULLY SENORA I CANNOT UNDERSTAND YOU REPLIED HER HUSBAND. JUST THEN LEOCADIA CAME TO HERSELF AND EMBRACING THE CROSS SEEMED CHANGED INTO A SEA OF TEARS AND THE GENTLEMAN REMAINED IN UTTER BEWILDERMENT UNTIL HIS WIFE HAD REPEATED TO HIM FROM BEGINNING TO END LEOCADIA'S WHOLE STORY AND HE BELIEVED IT THROUGH THE BLESSED DISPENSATION OF HEAVEN WHICH HAD CONFIRMED IT BY SO MANY CONVINCING TESTIMONIES. HE EMBRACED AND COMFORTED LEOCADIA KISSED HIS GRANDSON AND THAT SAME DAY HE DESPATCHED A COURIER TO NAPLES WITH A LETTER TO HIS SON REQUIRING HIM TO COME HOME INSTANTLY FOR HIS MOTHER AND HE HAD CONCLUDED A SUITABLE MATCH FOR HIM WITH A VERY BEAUTIFUL LADY. RODOLFO'S TWO COMRADES PROPOSED TO TAKE LEAVE OF HIM AT ONCE AND RETIRE TO THEIR OWN HOMES BUT ESTAFANIA WOULD NOT SUFFER THEM TO DEPART FOR THEIR PRESENCE WAS NEEDFUL FOR THE EXECUTION OF A SCHEME SHE HAD IN HER HEAD. IT WAS NEARLY NIGHT WHEN RODOLFO ARRIVED AND WHILST PREPARATIONS WERE MAKING FOR SUPPER ESTAFANIA TOOK HER SON'S COMPANIONS ASIDE BELIEVING THAT THEY WERE TWO OF THE THREE WHOM LEOCADIA MENTIONED AS HAVING BEEN WITH RODOLFO ON THE NIGHT OF HER ABDUCTION. SHE EARNESTLY ENTREATED THEM TO TELL HER IF THEY REMEMBERED THAT HER SON HAD CARRIED OFF A YOUNG WOMAN ON SUCH A NIGHT SO MANY YEARS AGO FOR THE HONOUR AND THE PEACE OF MIND OF ALL HIS RELATIONS DEPENDED ON THEIR KNOWING THE TRUTH OF THAT MATTER. SO PERSUASIVE WERE HER ENTREATIES AND SO STRONG HER ASSURANCES THAT NO HARM WHATEVER COULD RESULT TO THEM FROM THE INFORMATION SHE SOUGHT THEY WERE INDUCED TO CONFESS THAT ONE SUMMER'S NIGHT THE SAME SHE HAD MENTIONED THEMSELVES AND ANOTHER FRIEND BEING OUT ON A STROLL WITH RODOLFO THEY HAD BEEN CONCERNED IN THE ABDUCTION OF A GIRL WHOM RODOLFO CARRIED OFF WHILST THE REST OF THEM DETAINED HER FAMILY WHO MADE A GREAT OUTCRY AND WOULD HAVE DEFENDED HER IF THEY COULD. ALL DOUBTS WHICH COULD POSSIBLY HAVE REMAINED ON THE CASE HAVING BEEN REMOVED BY THIS CONFESSION ESTAFANIA DETERMINED TO PURSUE HER SCHEME. WELL SAID RODOLFO STARING AT THE PORTRAIT IF THE PAINTER OF THIS PORTRAIT HAS FLATTERED THE ORIGINAL AS MUCH AS PAINTERS USUALLY DO THEN BEYOND ALL DOUBT THE LADY MUST BE THE VERY INCARNATION OF UGLINESS. FOR GOD'S SAKE MY LADY MOTHER GIVE ME A WIFE WHO WOULD BE AN AGREEABLE COMPANION NOT ONE WHO WILL DISGUST ME SO THAT WE MAY BOTH BEAR EVENLY AND WITH MUTUAL GOOD WILL THE YOKE IMPOSED ON US BY HEAVEN INSTEAD OF PULLING THIS WAY AND THAT WAY AND FRETTING EACH OTHER TO DEATH. IF THIS LADY IS WELL BORN DISCREET AND RICH AS YOU SAY SHE WILL EASILY FIND A HUSBAND OF A DIFFERENT HUMOUR FROM MINE. SOME LOOK FOR NOBLE BLOOD IN A WIFE SOME FOR UNDERSTANDING OTHERS FOR MONEY AND OTHERS AGAIN FOR BEAUTY AND OF THE LATTER CLASS I AM ONE. AS FOR HIGH BIRTH THANK HEAVEN AND MY ANCESTORS I AM WELL ENOUGH OFF IN THAT RESPECT AS FOR UNDERSTANDING PROVIDED A WOMAN IS NEITHER A DOLT NOR A SIMPLETON THERE IS NO NEED OF HER HAVING A VERY SUBTLE WIT IN POINT OF WEALTH I AM AMPLY PROVIDED BY MY PARENTS BUT BEAUTY IS WHAT I COVET WITH NO OTHER ADDITION THAN VIRTUE AND GOOD BREEDING. IF MY WIFE BRINGS ME THIS I WILL THANK HEAVEN FOR THE GIFT AND MAKE MY PARENTS HAPPY IN THEIR OLD AGE. ESTAFANIA WAS DELIGHTED TO HEAR RODOLFO SPEAK THUS FOR THE SENTIMENTS HE EXPRESSED WERE JUST SUCH AS BEST ACCORDED WITH THE SUCCESS OF THE SCHEME SHE HAD IN HAND. SHE TOLD HIM THAT SHE WOULD ENDEAVOUR TO MARRY HIM IN CONFORMITY WITH HIS INCLINATION AND THAT HE NEED NOT MAKE HIMSELF UNEASY FOR THERE WOULD BE NO DIFFICULTY IN BREAKING OFF THE MATCH WHICH SEEMED SO DISTASTEFUL TO HIM. RODOLFO THANKED HER AND SUPPER BEING READY THEY WENT TO JOIN THE REST OF THE PARTY AT TABLE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0005.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0005.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0769792e25a4486e0ac9aea77ac11d277dc80c93 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0005.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE FATHER AND MOTHER RODOLFO AND HIS TWO COMPANIONS HAD ALREADY SEATED THEMSELVES WHEN DONA ESTAFANIA SAID IN AN OFF HAND WAY SINNER THAT I AM HOW WELL I BEHAVE TO MY GUEST. GO SHE SAID TO A SERVANT AND ASK THE SENORA. DONA LEOCADIA TO HONOUR OUR TABLE WITH HER PRESENCE AND TELL HER SHE NEED NOT STAND ON ANY PUNCTILIO FOR ALL HERE ARE MY SONS AND HER SERVANTS. ALL THIS WAS PART OF HER SCHEME WITH THE WHOLE OF WHICH LEOCADIA HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY MADE ACQUAINTED. THE SEASON BEING WINTER SHE WAS DRESSED IN A ROBE AND TRAIN OF BLACK VELVET WITH GOLD AND PEARL BUTTONS HER GIRDLE AND NECKLACE WERE OF DIAMONDS HER HEAD WAS UNCOVERED AND THE SHINING BRAIDS AND RINGLETS OF HER THICK CHESTNUT HAIR SPANGLED WITH DIAMONDS DAZZLED THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDERS. HER BEARING WAS GRACEFUL AND ANIMATED SHE LED HER SON BY THE HAND AND BEFORE HER WALKED TWO MAIDS WITH WAX LIGHTS AND SILVER CANDLESTICKS. ALL ROSE TO DO HER REVERENCE AS IF SOMETHING FROM HEAVEN HAD MIRACULOUSLY APPEARED BEFORE THEM BUT GAZING ON HER ENTRANCED WITH ADMIRATION NOT ONE OF THEM WAS ABLE TO ADDRESS A SINGLE WORD TO HER. AH SAID RODOLFO TO HIMSELF AS HE GAZED ON THE LOVELY BEING BEFORE HIM COULD I FIND BUT HALF THAT BEAUTY IN THE WIFE MY MOTHER HAS CHOSEN FOR ME I SHOULD THINK MYSELF THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD. GOOD GOD WHAT IS IT I BEHOLD. IS IT SOME ANGEL IN HUMAN SHAPE THAT SITS BEFORE ME. THE HOPES HER MOTHER HAD GIVEN HER OF BEING HIS WIFE BEGAN TO DROOP AND THE FEAR CAME STRONG UPON HER THAT SUCH BLISS WAS NOT FOR ONE SO LUCKLESS AS HERSELF. SHE REFLECTED HOW NEAR SHE STOOD TO THE CRISIS WHICH WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER SHE WAS TO BE BLESSED OR UNHAPPY FOR EVER AND RACKED BY THE INTENSITY OF HER EMOTIONS SHE SUDDENLY CHANGED COLOUR HER HEAD DROPPED AND SHE FELL FORWARD IN A SWOON INTO THE ARMS OF THE DISMAYED ESTAFANIA. THEY UNLACED HER AND SPRINKLED HER FACE WITH COLD WATER BUT FAR FROM COMING TO HER SENSES THE FULNESS OF HER CONGESTED BOSOM HER TOTAL INSENSIBILITY AND THE ABSENCE OF ALL PULSE GAVE SUCH MORTAL INDICATIONS THAT THE SERVANTS BEGAN IMPRUDENTLY TO CRY OUT THAT SHE WAS DEAD. THIS SHOCKING NEWS REACHED THE EARS OF HER PARENTS WHOM DONA ESTAFANIA HAD CONCEALED IN ANOTHER ROOM THAT THEY MIGHT MAKE THEIR APPEARANCE AT THE RIGHT MOMENT. HIS MOTHER HAD LEFT HER TO HIM AS BEING HER DESTINED PROTECTOR BUT WHEN SHE SAW THAT HE TOO WAS INSENSIBLE SHE WAS NEAR MAKING A THIRD AND WOULD HAVE DONE SO HAD HE NOT COME TO HIMSELF. KNOW THEN SON OF MY HEART THAT THIS FAINTING LADY IS YOUR REAL BRIDE I SAY REAL BECAUSE SHE IS THE ONE WHOM YOUR FATHER AND I HAVE CHOSEN FOR YOU AND THE PORTRAIT WAS A PRETENCE. JUST AT THE MOMENT WHEN THE TEARS OF THE PITYING BEHOLDERS FLOWED FASTEST AND THEIR EJACULATIONS WERE MOST EXPRESSIVE OF DESPAIR LEOCADIA GAVE SIGNS OF RECOVERY AND BROUGHT BACK GLADNESS TO THE HEARTS OF ALL. WHEN SHE CAME TO HER SENSES AND BLUSHING TO FIND HERSELF IN RODOLFO'S ARMS WOULD HAVE DISENGAGED HERSELF NO SENORA HE SAID THAT MUST NOT BE STRIVE NOT TO WITHDRAW FROM THE ARMS OF HIM WHO HOLDS YOU IN HIS SOUL. THIS WAS DONE FOR THE EVENT TOOK PLACE AT A TIME WHEN THE CONSENT OF THE PARTIES WAS SUFFICIENT FOR THE CELEBRATION OF A MARRIAGE WITHOUT ANY OF THE PRELIMINARY FORMALITIES WHICH ARE NOW SO PROPERLY REQUIRED. NOR WAS RODOLFO LESS SURPRISED THAN THEY AND THE BETTER TO ASSURE HIMSELF OF SO WONDERFUL A FACT HE BEGGED LEOCADIA TO GIVE HIM SOME TOKEN WHICH SHOULD MAKE PERFECTLY CLEAR TO HIM THAT WHICH INDEED HE DID NOT DOUBT SINCE IT WAS AUTHENTICATED BY HIS PARENTS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0006.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0006.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef335964916048d77e4cdd7df034d6e3c4b3a01b --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5639/40744/40744_0006.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ONCE WHEN I RECOVERED FROM A SWOON REPLIED LEOCADIA I FOUND MYSELF SENOR IN YOUR ARMS WITHOUT HONOUR BUT FOR THAT I HAVE HAD FULL COMPENSATION SINCE ON MY RECOVERY FROM MY THIS DAY'S SWOON I FOUND MYSELF IN THE SAME ARMS BUT HONOURED. AT LAST THEY SAT DOWN TO A MERRY SUPPER TO THE SOUND OF MUSIC FOR THE PERFORMERS WHO HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY ENGAGED WERE NOW ARRIVED. RODOLFO SAW HIS OWN LIKENESS IN HIS SON'S FACE AS IN A MIRROR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32865/32865_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32865/32865_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ffb5e166bf56ab45781faaa9f9b7f42c3b4e37b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32865/32865_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +CHAPTER TEN THE ACE OF HEARTS. WHO SHOULD I FIND IN THE DRAWING ROOM TALKING FLUENTLY AND SMILING AFTER HIS WONT TO OLD LADY CHELFORD WHO SEEMED TO RECEIVE HIM VERY GRACIOUSLY FOR HER AT LEAST BUT CAPTAIN STANLEY LAKE. I CAN'T QUITE DESCRIBE TO YOU THE ODD AND UNPLEASANT SORT OF SURPRISE WHICH THAT VERY GENTLEMANLIKE FIGURE STANDING AMONG THE BRANDON HOUSEHOLD GODS AT THIS MOMENT COMMUNICATED TO ME. I GLANCED ROUND FOR WYLDER BUT HE WAS NOT THERE. YOU KNOW CAPTAIN LAKE. SAID LORD CHELFORD ADDRESSING ME. AND LAKE TURNED ROUND UPON ME A LITTLE ABRUPTLY HIS ODD YELLOWISH EYES A LITTLE LIKE THOSE OF THE SEA EAGLE AND THE GHOST OF HIS SMILE THAT FLICKERED ON HIS SINGULARLY PALE FACE WITH A STERN AND INSIDIOUS LOOK CONFRONTED ME. THE CHURCH YARD METEOR EXPIRED THERE WAS NOTHING IN A MOMENT BUT HIS ORDINARY SMILE OF RECOGNITION. YOU'RE SURPRISED TO SEE ME HERE HE SAID IN HIS VERY PLEASING LOW TONES. I LIGHTED ON HIM IN THE VILLAGE AND I KNEW MISS BRANDON WOULD NOT FORGIVE ME IF I ALLOWED HIM TO GO AWAY WITHOUT COMING HERE. HE HAD HIS HAND UPON LAKE'S SHOULDER. THEY ARE COUSINS YOU KNOW WE ARE ALL COUSINS. I'M BAD AT GENEALOGIES. MY MOTHER COULD TELL US ALL ABOUT IT WE BRANDONS LAKES WYLDERS AND CHELFORDS. AT THIS MOMENT MISS BRANDON ENTERED WITH HER BRILLIANT COUSIN RACHEL. THE BLONDE AND THE DARK IT WAS A DAZZLING CONTRAST. SO CHELFORD LED STANLEY LAKE BEFORE THE LADY OF THE CASTLE. I THOUGHT OF THE FAIR BRUNNISENDE WITH THE CAPTIVE KNIGHT IN THE HANDS OF HER SENESCHAL BEFORE HER AND I FANCIED HE SAID SOMETHING OF HAVING FOUND HIM TRESPASSING IN HER TOWN AND BROUGHT HIM UP FOR JUDGMENT. WHATEVER LORD CHELFORD SAID MISS BRANDON RECEIVED IT VERY GRACIOUSLY AND EVEN WITH A MOMENTARY SMILE. I WONDER SHE DID NOT SMILE OFTENER IT BECAME HER SO. BUT HER GREETING TO CAPTAIN LAKE WAS MORE THAN USUALLY HAUGHTY AND FROZEN AND HER FEATURES I FANCIED PARTICULARLY PROUD AND PALE. IT SEEMED TO ME TO INDICATE A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN MERE INDIFFERENCE SOMETHING OF AVERSION AND NEARER TO A POSITIVE EMOTION THAN ANYTHING I HAD YET SEEN IN THAT EXQUISITELY APATHETIC FACE. HOW WAS IT THAT THIS MAN WITH THE YELLOW EYES SEEMED TO GLEAM FROM THEM AN INFLUENCE OF PAIN OR DISTURBANCE WHEREVER ALMOST HE LOOKED. SHAKE HANDS WITH YOUR COUSIN MY DEAR SAID OLD LADY CHELFORD PEREMPTORILY. THE LITTLE SCENE TOOK PLACE CLOSE TO HER CHAIR AND UPON THIS STAGE DIRECTION THE LITTLE PIECE OF BY PLAY TOOK PLACE AND THE YOUNG LADY COLDLY TOUCHED THE CAPTAIN'S HAND AND PASSED ON. YOUNG AS HE WAS STANLEY LAKE WAS AN OLD MAN OF THE WORLD NOT TO BE DISCONCERTED AND NEVER SAW MORE THAN EXACTLY SUITED HIM. WAITING IN THE DRAWING ROOM I HAD SOME ENTERTAINING TALK WITH MISS LAKE. HER CONVERSATION WAS LIVELY AND RATHER BOLD NOT AT ALL IN THE COARSE SENSE BUT SHE STRUCK ME AS HAVING FORMED A SYSTEM OF ETHICS AND VIEWS OF LIFE BOTH GOOD HUMOURED AND SARCASTIC AND HAD CARRIED INTO HER RUSTIC SEQUESTRATION THE MELANCHOLY AND PRECOCIOUS LORE OF HER EARLY LONDON EXPERIENCE. WHEN LORD CHELFORD JOINED US I PERCEIVED THAT WYLDER WAS IN THE ROOM AND SAW A VERY CORDIAL GREETING BETWEEN HIM AND LAKE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32865/32865_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32865/32865_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb81566d937ff504de0e448d99edd1fa1aeba07e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32865/32865_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE CAPTAIN APPEARED QUITE EASY AND CHEERFUL BUT MARK I THOUGHT NOTWITHSTANDING HIS LAUGHTER AND GENERAL JOLLITY WAS UNCOMFORTABLE AND I SAW HIM ONCE OR TWICE WHEN STANLEY'S EYE WAS NOT UPON HIM GLANCE SHARPLY ON THE YOUNG MAN WITH AN UNEASY AND NOT VERY FRIENDLY CURIOSITY. AT DINNER LAKE WAS EASY AND AMUSING. THAT MEAL PASSED OFF RATHER PLEASANTLY AND WHEN WE JOINED THE LADIES IN THE DRAWING ROOM THE GOOD VICAR'S ENTHUSIASTIC LITTLE WIFE CAME TO MEET US IN ONE OF HER HONEST LITTLE RAPTURES. NOW HERE'S A THING WORTH YOUR LOOKING AT. SHE ARRESTED THE FILE OF GENTLEMEN JUST BY A LARGE LAMP BEFORE WHOSE EFFULGENCE SHE PRESENTED THE SUBJECT OF HER EULOGY ONE OF THOSE COSTLY TRIFLES WHICH ANNOUNCE THE APPROACH OF HYMEN AS FLOWERS SPRING UP BEFORE THE ROSY STEPS OF MAY. EXQUISITE INDEED SAID LORD CHELFORD. IS THIS YOURS MISSUS WYLDER. MINE INDEED LAUGHED POOR LITTLE MISSUS DOROTHY. AND SHE WINKED SLYLY AND LAUGHED WITH A LITTLE NOD AT WYLDER OH. I'M GLAD YOU LIKE IT SAYS WYLDER CHUCKLING BENIGNANTLY ON IT OVER HIS SHOULDER. I BELIEVE I HAVE A LITTLE TASTE THAT WAY THOSE ARE ALL REAL YOU KNOW THOSE JEWELS. OH YES OF COURSE. HAVE YOU SEEN IT CAPTAIN LAKE. AND HE PLACED IT IN THAT GENTLEMAN'S FINGERS WHO NOW TOOK HIS TURN AT THE LAMP AND CONTEMPLATED THE LITTLE PARALLELOGRAM WITH A GLEAM OF SLY AMUSEMENT. WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT ASKED WYLDER A LITTLE SNAPPISHLY. I WAS THINKING IT'S VERY LIKE THE ACE OF HEARTS ANSWERED THE CAPTAIN SOFTLY SMILING ON. WYLDER WAS LAUGHING RATHER REDLY WITH THE UPPER PART OF HIS FACE VERY SURLY I THOUGHT. NEVER MIND WYLDER IT'S THE WINNING CARD SAID LORD CHELFORD LAYING HIS HAND ON HIS SHOULDER. WHEREUPON LAKE LAUGHED QUIETLY STILL LOOKING ON THE ACE OF HEARTS WITH HIS SLY EYES. AND WYLDER LAUGHED TOO MORE SUDDENLY AND NOISILY THAN THE HUMOUR OF THE JOKE SEEMED QUITE TO CALL FOR AND GLANCED A GRIM LOOK FROM THE CORNERS OF HIS EYES ON LAKE BUT THE GALLANT CAPTAIN DID NOT SEEM TO PERCEIVE IT AND AFTER A FEW SECONDS MORE HE HANDED IT VERY INNOCENTLY BACK TO MISSUS DOROTHY ONLY REMARKING. SERIOUSLY IT IS VERY PRETTY AND APPROPRIATE. DO YOU KNOW LAKE OH I REALLY CAN'T TELL BUT HE'LL SOON TIRE OF COUNTRY LIFE. I DON'T THINK HE'S MUCH OF A SPORTSMAN HA ISN'T HE. MY COUSIN THE DEVIL'S COUSIN EVERYONE'S COUSIN. I DON'T KNOW WHO'S MY COUSIN OR WHO ISN'T NOR YOU DON'T WHO'VE BEEN FOR TEN YEARS OVER THOSE D D PAPERS BUT I THINK HE'S THE NASTIEST DOG I EVER MET. I TOOK A DISLIKE TO HIM AT FIRST SIGHT LONG AGO AND THAT NEVER HAPPENED ME BUT I WAS RIGHT. WYLDER LOOKED CONFOUNDEDLY ANGRY AND FLUSTERED STANDING WITH HIS HEELS ON THE EDGE OF THE RUG HIS HANDS IN HIS POCKETS JINGLING SOME SILVER THERE AND GLANCING FROM UNDER HIS RED FOREHEAD STERNLY AND UNSTEADILY ACROSS THE ROOM. HE'S NOT A MAN FOR COUNTRY QUARTERS. HE'LL SOON BE BACK IN TOWN OR TO BRIGHTON I SAID. IF HE DOESN'T I WILL THAT'S ALL. JUST TO GET HIM OFF THIS UNPLEASANT GROOVE WITH A LITTLE JOLT I SAID. BY THE BYE WYLDER YOU KNOW THE PICTURES HERE WHO IS THE TALL MAN WITH THE LONG PALE FACE AND WILD PHOSPHORIC EYES. I WAS ALWAYS AFRAID OF HIM IN A LONG PERUKE AND DARK RED VELVET COAT FACING THE HALL DOOR. I HAD A HORRID DREAM ABOUT HIM LAST NIGHT THAT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32865/32865_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32865/32865_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ebaee26a149c8e9162101afc22fffef0a77ec6b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32865/32865_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +OH I KNOW THAT'S LORNE BRANDON. HE WAS ONE OF OUR FAMILY DEVILS HE WAS. ALL THE TIME HE WAS TALKING TO ME HIS ANGRY LITTLE EYES WERE FOLLOWING LAKE. HE WAS GOING TO MARRY THE GAMEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER IT WAS THOUGHT AND HE AND THE OLD BOY WHO WAS FOR HIGH BLOOD AND ALL THAT WERE AT LOGGERHEADS ABOUT IT. IT WAS NOT PROVED ONLY THOUGHT LIKELY WHICH SHOWED WHAT A NICE CHARACTER HE WAS BUT HE MIGHT HAVE DONE WORSE. I FORGET ALL THE OTHER GOOD THINGS HE DID BUT HE ENDED BY SHOOTING HIMSELF THROUGH THE HEAD IN HIS BED ROOM AND THAT WAS NOT THE WORST THING EVER HE DID. AND WYLDER LAUGHED AGAIN AND BEGAN TO WHISTLE VERY LOW NOT I FANCY FOR WANT OF THOUGHT BUT AS A SORT OF ACCOMPANIMENT THERETO FOR HE SUDDENLY SAID. WHO LAKE YES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32866/32866_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32866/32866_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f12a448a5c20fbbbba288deb1e4a005cd05897c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32866/32866_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MISS LAKE DECLINED THE CARRIAGE TO NIGHT. HER BROTHER WAS TO SEE HER HOME AND THERE WAS A LEAVE TAKING AND THE YOUNG LADIES WHISPERED A WORD OR TWO AND KISSED AFTER THE MANNER OF THEIR KIND. TO CAPTAIN LAKE MISS BRANDON'S ADIEUX WERE AS COLD AND HAUGHTY AS HER GREETING. OLD WOMEN ALWAYS LIKE RASCALS. AND HE ADDED SOMETHING STILL LESS COMPLIMENTARY. I SUPPOSE THE BALANCE OF ATTRACTION AND REPULSION WAS OVERCOME BY MISS LAKE MUCH AS HE DISLIKED STANLEY FOR WYLDER FOLLOWED THEM OUT WITH LORD CHELFORD TO HELP THE YOUNG LADY INTO HER CLOAK AND GOLOSHES AND I FOUND MYSELF NEAR MISS BRANDON FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT EVENING AND MUCH TO MY SURPRISE SHE WAS FIRST TO SPEAK AND THAT RATHER STRANGELY. YOU SEEM TO BE VERY SENSIBLE MISTER DE CRESSERON PRAY TELL ME FRANKLY WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ALL THIS. I MEAN OF THE THE FAMILY ARRANGEMENTS IN WHICH AS MISTER WYLDER'S FRIEND YOU SEEM TO TAKE AN INTEREST SHE SAID. THERE CAN HARDLY BE A SECOND OPINION MISS BRANDON I THINK IT A VERY WISE MEASURE I REPLIED MUCH SURPRISED. VERY WISE EXACTLY. BUT DON'T THESE VERY WISE THINGS SOMETIMES TURN OUT VERY FOOLISHLY. DO YOU REALLY THINK YOUR FRIEND MISTER WYLDER CARES ABOUT ME. I TAKE THAT FOR GRANTED IN THE NATURE OF THINGS IT CAN HARDLY BE OTHERWISE I REPLIED A GOOD DEAL STARTLED AND PERPLEXED BY THE CURIOUS AUDACITY OF HER INTERROGATORY. IT WAS VERY FOOLISH OF ME TO EXPECT FROM MISTER WYLDER'S FRIEND ANY OTHER ANSWER YOU ARE VERY LOYAL MISTER DE CRESSERON. AND WITHOUT AWAITING MY REPLY SHE MADE SOME REMARK WHICH I FORGET TO LADY CHELFORD WHO SAT AT A LITTLE DISTANCE AND APPEARING QUITE ABSORBED IN HER NEW SUBJECT SHE PLACED HERSELF CLOSE BESIDE THE DOWAGER AND CONTINUED TO CHAT IN A LOW TONE. I WAS VEXED WITH MYSELF FOR HAVING MANAGED WITH SO LITTLE SKILL A CONVERSATION WHICH OPENED SO ODDLY AND FRANKLY MIGHT HAVE PLACED ME ON RELATIONS SO NEARLY CONFIDENTIAL WITH THAT SINGULAR AND BEAUTIFUL GIRL. I OUGHT TO HAVE REJOICED BUT WE DON'T ALWAYS SEE WHAT MOST CONCERNS OUR PEACE. IN THE MEANTIME I HAD FORMED A NEW IDEA OF HER. SHE WAS SO UNRESERVED IT SEEMED AND YET IN THIS DIRECTNESS THERE WAS SOMETHING ALMOST CONTEMPTUOUS. BY THIS TIME LORD CHELFORD AND WYLDER RETURNED AND DISGUSTED RATHER WITH MYSELF I RUMINATED ON MY WANT OF GENERAL SHIP. IN THE MEANTIME MISS LAKE WITH HER HAND ON HER BROTHER'S ARM WAS WALKING SWIFTLY UNDER THE TREES OF THE BACK AVENUE TOWARDS THAT FOOTPATH WHICH THROUGH WILD COPSE AND BROKEN CLUMPS NEAR THE PARK EMERGES UPON THE STILL DARKER ROAD WHICH PASSES ALONG THE WOODED GLEN BY THE MILLS AND SKIRTS THE LITTLE PALING OF THE RECLUSE LADY'S GARDEN. THEY HAD NOT WALKED FAR WHEN LAKE SUDDENLY SAID. AND HE MADE A LITTLE DIP OF HIS CANE TOWARDS BRANDON HALL OVER HIS SHOULDER. I DON'T THINK THEY PRETEND TO LIKE ONE ANOTHER IT IS QUITE UNDERSTOOD. IT WAS ALL YOU KNOW OLD LADY CHELFORD'S ARRANGEMENT AND DORCAS IS SO SUPINE I BELIEVE SHE WOULD ALLOW HERSELF TO BE GIVEN AWAY BY ANYONE AND TO ANYONE RATHER THAN BE AT THE LEAST TROUBLE SHE PROVOKES ME. BUT I THOUGHT SHE LIKED SIR HARRY BRACTON HE'S A GOOD LOOKING FELLOW AND QUEEN'S BRACTON IS A VERY NICE THING YOU KNOW. YES SO THEY SAID BUT THAT WOULD I THINK HAVE BEEN WORSE. SOMETHING MAY BE MADE OF MARK WYLDER. HE HAS SOME SENSE AND CAUTION HAS NOT HE BUT SIR HARRY IS WICKEDNESS ITSELF. WHY WHAT HAS SIR HARRY DONE. THAT IS THE WAY YOU WOMEN RUN AWAY WITH THINGS. IF A FELLOW'S BEEN A LITTLE BIT WILD HE'S BEELZEBUB AT ONCE. BRACTON'S A VERY GOOD FELLOW I CAN ASSURE YOU \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32866/32866_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32866/32866_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..008a58dc01135abbceabf0aa48f1c767a4506777 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32866/32866_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE FACT IS CAPTAIN LAKE AN ACCOMPLISHED PLAYER MADE A PRETTY LITTLE REVENUE OF SIR HARRY'S BILLIARDS WHICH WERE WILD AND NOISY AND LIKING HIS MONEY THOUGHT HE LIKED HIMSELF A CONFUSION NOT UNCOMMON. I DON'T KNOW AND CAN'T SAY HOW YOU FINE GENTLEMEN DEFINE WICKEDNESS ONLY AS AN OBSCURE FEMALE I SPEAK ACCORDING TO MY LIGHTS AND HE IS GENERALLY THOUGHT THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THIS COUNTY. WELL YOU KNOW RADIE WOMEN LIKE WICKED FELLOWS IT IS CONTRAST I SUPPOSE BUT THEY DO AND I'M SURE FROM WHAT BRACTON HAS SAID TO ME I KNOW HIM INTIMATELY THAT DORCAS LIKES HIM AND I CAN'T CONCEIVE WHY THEY ARE NOT MARRIED. IT IS VERY HAPPY FOR HER AT LEAST THEY ARE NOT SAID RACHEL AND A LONG SILENCE ENSUED. THEIR WALK CONTINUED SILENT FOR THE GREATER PART NEITHER WAS QUITE SATISFIED WITH THE OTHER BUT RACHEL AT LAST SAID. STANLEY YOU MEDITATE SOME INJURY TO MARK WYLDER. I RADIE HE ANSWERED QUIETLY WHY ON EARTH SHOULD YOU THINK SO. I SAW YOU TWICE WATCH HIM WHEN YOU THOUGHT NO ONE OBSERVED YOU AND I KNOW YOUR FACE TOO WELL STANLEY TO MISTAKE. NOW THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE RADIE FOR I REALLY DON'T THINK I ONCE THOUGHT OF HIM ALL THIS EVENING EXCEPT JUST WHILE WE WERE TALKING. YOU KEEP YOUR SECRET AS USUAL STANLEY SAID THE YOUNG LADY. REALLY RADIE YOU'RE QUITE MISTAKEN. YOU'RE A VERY ODD GIRL WHY WON'T YOU BELIEVE ME. MISS RACHEL ONLY GLANCED ACROSS HER MUFFLERS ON HIS FACE. THERE WAS A BRIGHT MOONLIGHT BROKEN BY THE SHADOWS OF OVERHANGING BOUGHS AND WITHERED LEAVES AND THE MOTTLED LIGHTS AND SHADOWS GLIDED ODDLY ACROSS HIS PALE FEATURES. BUT SHE SAW THAT HE WAS SMILING HIS SLY SLEEPY SMILE AND SHE SAID QUIETLY. WELL STANLEY I ASK NO MORE BUT YOU DON'T DECEIVE ME. I DON'T TRY TO IF YOUR FEELINGS INDEED HAD BEEN DIFFERENT AND THAT YOU HAD NOT MADE SUCH A POINT YOU KNOW. DON'T INSULT ME STANLEY BY TALKING AGAIN AS YOU DID THIS MORNING. WHAT I SAY IS ALTOGETHER ON YOUR OWN ACCOUNT. MARK MY WORDS YOU'LL FIND HIM TOO STRONG FOR YOU AYE AND TOO DEEP. I SEE VERY PLAINLY THAT HE SUSPECTS YOU AS I DO. YOU SAW IT TOO FOR NOTHING OF THAT KIND ESCAPES YOU. WHATEVER YOU MEDITATE HE PROBABLY ANTICIPATES IT YOU KNOW BEST AND YOU WILL FIND HIM PREPARED. YOU HAVE GIVEN HIM TIME ENOUGH. YOU WERE ALWAYS THE SAME CLOSE DARK AND CROOKED AND WISE IN YOUR OWN CONCEIT. I AM VERY UNEASY ABOUT IT WHATEVER IT IS I CAN'T HELP IT. REALLY RADIE YOU'RE ENOUGH TO FRIGHTEN A POOR FELLOW YOU WON'T MIND A WORD I SAY AND GO ON PREDICTING ALL MANNER OF MISCHIEF BETWEEN ME AND WYLDER THE VERY NATURE OF WHICH I CAN'T SURMISE. WOULD YOU DISLIKE MY SMOKING A CIGAR RADIE. OH NO ANSWERED THE YOUNG LADY WITH A LITTLE LAUGH AND A HEAVY SIGH FOR SHE KNEW IT MEANT SILENCE AND HER DARK AUGURIES GREW DARKER. TO MY MIND THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING INEXPRESSIBLY AWFUL IN FAMILY FEUDS. MORTAL HATRED SEEMS TO DEEPEN AND DILATE INTO SOMETHING DIABOLICAL IN THESE PERVERTED ANIMOSITIES. THE MYSTERY OF THEIR ORIGIN THEIR CAPACITY FOR EVOLVING LATENT FACULTIES OF CRIME AND THE STEADY VITALITY WITH WHICH THEY SURVIVE THE HEARSE AND SPEAK THEIR DEEP MOUTHED MALIGNITIES IN EVERY NEW BORN GENERATION HAVE ASSOCIATED THEM SOMEHOW IN MY MIND WITH A SPELL OF LIFE EXCEEDING AND DISTINCT FROM HUMAN AND A SPECIAL SATANIC ACTION. MY CHAMBER AS I HAVE MENTIONED WAS UPON THE THIRD STOREY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32866/32866_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32866/32866_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d048b6ec2269698fe3a4d972bf821c56395ddac8 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32866/32866_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IT WAS ONE OF MANY OPENING UPON THE LONG GALLERY WHICH HAD BEEN THE SCENE FOUR GENERATIONS BACK OF THAT UNNATURAL AND BLOODY MIDNIGHT DUEL WHICH HAD LAID ONE SCION OF THIS ANCIENT HOUSE IN HIS SHROUD AND DRIVEN ANOTHER A FUGITIVE TO THE MORAL SOLITUDES OF A CONTINENTAL BANISHMENT. MUCH OF THE DAY AS I TOLD YOU HAD BEEN PASSED AMONG THE GRISLY RECORDS OF THESE OLD FAMILY CRIMES AND HATREDS. THEY HAD BEEN AN ILL CONDITIONED AND NOT A HAPPY RACE. WHEN I HEARD THE SERVANT'S STEP TRAVERSING THAT LONG GALLERY AS IT SEEMED TO THE IN HASTE TO BE GONE AND WHEN ALL GREW QUITE SILENT I BEGAN TO FEEL A DISMAL SORT OF SENSATION AND LIGHTED THE PAIR OF WAX CANDLES WHICH I FOUND UPON THE SMALL WRITING TABLE. HOW WONDERFUL AND MYSTERIOUS IS THE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT. THE FLOOR MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE SHOWED THE GREAT AGE OF THE ROOM. IT WAS WARPED AND ARCHED ALL ALONG BY THE WALL BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE WINDOW. THE PORTION OF IT WHICH THE CARPET DID NOT COVER SHOWED IT TO BE OAK DARK AND RUGGED. MY BED WAS UNEXCEPTIONABLY COMFORTABLE BUT IN MY THEN MOOD I COULD HAVE WISHED IT A GREAT DEAL MORE MODERN. ITS FOUR POSTS WERE LIKE THE REST OF IT OAK WELL NIGH BLACK FANTASTICALLY TURNED AND CARVED WITH A GREAT URN LIKE CAPITAL AND BASE AND SHAPED MIDWAY LIKE A GIGANTIC LANCE HANDLE. ITS CURTAINS WERE OF THICK AND FADED TAPESTRY. I WAS ALWAYS A LOVER OF SUCH ANTIQUITIES BUT I CONFESS AT THAT MOMENT I WOULD HAVE VASTLY PREFERRED A SPRIGHTLY MODERN CHINTZ AND A TRUMPERY LITTLE FRENCH BED IN A CORNER OF THE BRANDON ARMS. THERE WAS A GREAT LOWERING PRESS OF OAK AND SOME SHELVES WITH WITHERED GREEN AND GOLD LEATHER BORDERS. ALL THE FURNITURE BELONGED TO OTHER TIMES. BUT THERE WAS A SILENCE AND DESERTION IN THIS PART OF THE MANSION WHICH SOMEHOW MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS MYSELF A SOLITARY INTRUDER ON THIS LEVEL OF THE VAST OLD HOUSE. I SHAN'T TROUBLE YOU ABOUT MY TRAIN OF THOUGHTS OR FANCIES BUT I BEGAN TO FEEL VERY LIKE A GENTLEMAN IN A GHOST STORY WATCHING EXPERIMENTALLY IN A HAUNTED CHAMBER. MY CIGAR CASE WAS A RESOURCE I WAS NOT A BIT AFRAID OF BEING FOUND OUT. I DID NOT EVEN TAKE THE PRECAUTION OF SMOKING UP THE CHIMNEY. I BOLDLY LIGHTED MY CHEROOT. I PEEPED THROUGH THE DENSE WINDOW CURTAIN THERE WERE NO SHUTTERS. A COLD BRIGHT MOON WAS SHINING WITH CLEAR SHARP LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. EVERYTHING LOOKED STRANGELY COLD AND MOTIONLESS OUTSIDE. THE SOMBRE OLD TREES LIKE GIGANTIC HEARSE PLUMES BLACK AND AWFUL. THE CHAPEL LAY FULL IN VIEW WHERE SO MANY OF THE STRANGE AND EQUIVOCAL RACE UNDER WHOSE ANCIENT ROOF TREE I THEN STOOD WERE LYING UNDER THEIR TOMBSTONES. SOMEHOW I HAD GROWN NERVOUS. A LITTLE BIT OF PLASTER TUMBLED DOWN THE CHIMNEY AND STARTLED ME CONFOUNDEDLY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32879/32879_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32879/32879_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..527fcb81449fb285aea4277674ca4d67621cadf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32879/32879_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +DORCAS BRANDON PAYS RACHEL A VISIT. IT WAS NOT VERY MUCH PAST ELEVEN THAT MORNING WHEN THE PONY CARRIAGE FROM BRANDON DREW UP BEFORE THE LITTLE GARDEN WICKET OF REDMAN'S FARM. ENQUIRED THIS GRAND AND BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY. WELL SHE WAS BETTER THOUGH SHE HAD HAD A BAD NIGHT. SHE WAS UP AND DRESSED AND THIS MOMENT COMING DOWN AND WOULD BE VERY HAPPY TO SEE MISS BRANDON IF SHE WOULD STEP INTO THE DRAWING ROOM. MISS BRANDON TOOK OLD TAMAR'S HAND GENTLY AND PRESSED IT. I SUPPOSE SHE WAS GLAD AND TOOK THIS WAY OF SHOWING IT AND TALL BEAUTIFUL GRACEFUL IN RUSTLING SILKS SHE GLIDED INTO THE TINY DRAWING ROOM SILENTLY AND SATE DOWN SOFTLY BY THE WINDOW LOOKING OUT UPON THE FLOWERS AND THE FALLING LEAVES MOTTLED IN LIGHT AND SHADOW. SO THERE CAME A STEP AND A LITTLE RUSTLING OF FEMININE DRAPERIES THE SMALL DOOR OPENED AND RACHEL ENTERED WITH HER HAND EXTENDED AND A PALE SMILE OF WELCOME. WOMEN CAN HIDE THEIR PAIN BETTER THAN WE MEN AND BEAR IT BETTER TOO EXCEPT WHEN SHAME DROPS FIRE INTO THE DREADFUL CHALICE. BUT POOR RACHEL LAKE HAD MORE THAN THAT STOICAL HYPOCRISY WHICH ENABLES THE TORTURED SPIRITS OF HER SEX TO LIFT A PALE FACE THROUGH THE FLAMES AND SMILE. SHE WAS SANGUINE SHE WAS GENIAL AND COMPANIONABLE AND HER SPIRITS ROSE AT THE SIGHT OF A FRIENDLY FACE. THIS TRANSIENT SPRING AND LIGHTING UP ARE BEAUTIFUL A GLAMOUR BEGUILING OUR SENSES. IT WAKENS UP THE FROZEN SPIRIT OF ENJOYMENT AND LEADS THE SAD FACULTIES FORTH ON A WILD FORGETFUL FROLIC. RACHEL DEAR I'M SO GLAD TO SEE YOU SAID DORCAS PLACING HER ARMS GENTLY ABOUT HER NECK AND KISSING HER TWICE OR THRICE. THERE WAS SOMETHING OF SWEETNESS AND FONDNESS IN HER TONES AND MANNER WHICH WAS NEW TO RACHEL AND COMFORTING AND SHE RETURNED THE GREETING AS KINDLY AND FELT MORE LIKE HER FORMER SELF. YOU HAVE BEEN MORE ILL THAN I THOUGHT DARLING AND YOU ARE STILL FAR FROM QUITE RECOVERED. RACHEL'S PALE AND SHARPENED FEATURES AND DILATED EYE STRUCK HER WITH A PAINFUL SURPRISE. I SHALL SOON BE AS WELL AS I AM EVER LIKELY TO BE THAT IS QUITE WELL ANSWERED RACHEL. YOU HAVE BEEN VERY KIND. I'VE HEARD OF YOUR COMING HERE AND SENDING SO OFTEN. THEY SAT DOWN SIDE BY SIDE AND DORCAS HELD HER HAND. MAYBE RACHEL DEAR YOU WOULD LIKE TO DRIVE A LITTLE. NO DARLING NOT YET IT IS VERY GOOD OF YOU. YOU HAVE BEEN SO ILL MY POOR RACHEL. ILL AND TROUBLED DEAR TROUBLED IN MIND AND MISERABLY NERVOUS. POOR RACHEL HER NATURE RECOILED FROM DECEIT AND SHE TOLD AT ALL EVENTS AS MUCH OF THE TRUTH AS SHE DARED. DORCAS'S LARGE EYES RESTED UPON HER WITH A GRAVE ENQUIRY AND THEN MISS BRANDON LOOKED DOWN IN SILENCE FOR A WHILE ON THE CARPET AND WAS THINKING A LITTLE STERNLY MAYBE AND WITH A LOOK OF PAIN STILL HOLDING RACHEL'S HAND SHE SAID WITH A SAD SORT OF REPROACH IN HER TONE. RACHEL DEAR YOU HAVE NOT TOLD MY SECRET. NO INDEED DORCAS NEVER AND NEVER WILL AND I THINK THOUGH I HAVE LEARNED TO FEAR DEATH I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN LET STANLEY EVEN SUSPECT IT. SHE SPOKE WITH A SUDDEN ENERGY WHICH PARTOOK OF FEAR AND PASSION AND FLUSHED HER THIN CHEEK AND MADE HER LANGUID EYES FLASH. THANK YOU RACHEL MY COUSIN RACHEL MY ONLY FRIEND. I OUGHT NOT TO HAVE DOUBTED YOU AND SHE KISSED HER AGAIN. CHELFORD HAD A NOTE FROM MISTER WYLDER THIS MORNING ANOTHER NOTE HIS COMING DELAYED AND SOMETHING OF HIS HAVING TO SEE SOME PERSON WHO IS ABROAD CONTINUED DORCAS AFTER A LITTLE PAUSE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32879/32879_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32879/32879_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c23490b8684297eef4267f8fd9b869d823e0e3f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32879/32879_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +YOU HAVE HEARD OF COURSE OF MISTER WYLDER'S ABSENCE. YES SOMETHING EVERYTHING SAID RACHEL HURRIEDLY LOOKING FROWNINGLY AT A FLOWER WHICH SHE WAS TWIRLING IN HER FINGERS. HE CHOSE AN UNLUCKY MOMENT FOR HIS DEPARTURE. I MEANT TO SPEAK TO HIM AND END ALL BETWEEN US AND I WOULD NOW WRITE BUT THERE IS NO ADDRESS TO HIS LETTERS. I THINK LADY CHELFORD AND HER SON BEGIN TO THINK THERE IS MORE IN THIS ODDLY TIMED JOURNEY OF MISTER WYLDER'S THAN FIRST APPEARED. WHEN I CAME INTO THE PARLOUR THIS MORNING I KNEW THEY WERE SPEAKING OF IT. IF HE DOES NOT RETURN IN A DAY OR TWO CHELFORD I AM SURE WILL SPEAK TO ME AND THEN I SHALL TELL HIM MY RESOLUTION. YES SAID RACHEL. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HIS ABSENCE I THINK THEY ARE PUZZLED TOO. CAN YOU CONJECTURE WHY HE IS GONE. RACHEL MADE NO ANSWER BUT ROSE WITH A DREAMY LOOK AS IF GAZING AT SOME DISTANT OBJECT AMONG THE DARK MASSES OF FOREST TREES AND STOOD BEFORE THE WINDOW SO LOOKING ACROSS THE TINY GARDEN. I DON'T THINK RACHEL DEAR YOU HEARD ME SAID DORCAS. CAN I CONJECTURE WHY HE IS GONE. MURMURED RACHEL STILL GAZING WITH A WILD KIND OF APATHY INTO DISTANCE CAN I. YES WE SOMETIMES CONJECTURE RIGHT AND SOMETIMES WRONG THERE ARE MANY THINGS BEST NOT CONJECTURED ABOUT AT ALL SOME INTERESTING SOME ABOMINABLE SOME THAT PASS ALL COMPREHENSION I NEVER MEAN TO CONJECTURE IF I CAN HELP IT AGAIN. AND THE WAN ORACLE HAVING SPOKEN SHE SATE DOWN IN THE SAME SORT OF ABSTRACTION AGAIN BESIDE DORCAS AND SHE LOOKED FULL IN HER COUSIN'S EYES. I MADE YOU A VOLUNTARY PROMISE DORCAS AND NOW YOU WILL MAKE ME ONE. OF MARK WYLDER I SAY THIS HIS NAME HAS BEEN FOR YEARS HATEFUL TO ME AND RECENTLY IT HAS BECOME FRIGHTFUL AND YOU WILL PROMISE ME SIMPLY THIS THAT YOU WILL NEVER ASK ME TO SPEAK AGAIN ABOUT HIM. BE HE NEAR OR BE HE FAR I REGARD HIS VERY NAME WITH HORROR. DORCAS RETURNED HER GAZE WITH ONE OF HAUGHTY AMAZEMENT AND RACHEL SAID. WELL DORCAS YOU PROMISE. YOU SPEAK TRULY RACHEL YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO MY PROMISE I GIVE IT. I'M ONLY DISAPPOINTED RACHEL I THOUGHT YOU WOULD HAVE TRUSTED ME AS I DID YOU. IT IS AN ANTIPATHY AN ANTIPATHY I CANNOT GET OVER DEAR DORCAS YOU MAY THINK IT A MADNESS BUT DON'T BLAME ME. REMEMBER I AM NEITHER WELL NOR HAPPY AND FORGIVE WHAT YOU CANNOT LIKE IN ME. I HAVE VERY FEW TO LOVE ME NOW AND I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LOVE ME AS I HAVE BEGUN TO LOVE YOU. AND SHE THREW HER ARMS ROUND HER COUSIN'S NECK AND BRAVE RACHEL AT LAST BURST INTO TEARS. DORCAS IN HER STRANGE WAY WAS MOVED. I LIKE YOU STILL RACHEL I'M SURE I'LL ALWAYS LIKE YOU. YOU RESEMBLE ME RACHEL YOU ARE FEARLESS AND INFLEXIBLE AND GENEROUS. THAT SPIRIT BELONGS TO THE BLOOD OF OUR STRANGE RACE ALL OUR WOMEN WERE SO. YES RACHEL I DO LOVE YOU. I WAS WOUNDED TO FIND YOU HAD THOUGHTS YOU WOULD NOT TRUST TO ME BUT I HAVE MADE THE PROMISE AND I'LL KEEP IT AND I LOVE YOU ALL THE SAME. THANK YOU DORCAS DEAR. I LIKE TO CALL YOU COUSIN KINDRED IS SO PLEASANT. THANK YOU FROM MY HEART FOR YOUR LOVE YOU WILL NEVER KNOW PERHAPS HOW MUCH IT IS TO ME. THE YOUNG QUEEN LOOKED ON HER KINDLY BUT SADLY THROUGH HER LARGE STRANGE EYES CLOUDED WITH A PRESAGE OF FUTURITY AND SHE KISSED HER AGAIN AND SAID. RACHEL DEAR I HAVE A PLAN FOR YOU AND ME WE SHALL BE OLD MAIDS YOU AND I AND LIVE TOGETHER LIKE THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN CARELESS AND HAPPY RECLUSES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32879/32879_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32879/32879_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f414b418871cdb1ed63946d34aec91c6fb5a53a --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/5683/32879/32879_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I'LL LET BRANDON AND ABDICATE. AT SIGHT OF THIS CASTLE OR COTTAGE IN THE AIR RACHEL LIGHTED UP. THE LITTLE WHIM HAD SOMETHING TRANQUILLISING AND BALMY. IT WAS ESCAPE FLIGHT FROM GYLINGDEN FLIGHT FROM BRANDON FLIGHT FROM REDMAN'S FARM THEY AND ALL THEIR HATED ASSOCIATIONS WOULD BE FAR BEHIND AND THAT AWFUL PAGE IN HER STORY NOT TORN OUT INDEED BUT GUMMED DOWN AS IT WERE AND NO LONGER GLARING AND GLOWERING IN HER EYES EVERY MOMENT OF HER WAKING LIFE. SO SHE SMILED UPON THE PICTURE PAINTED ON THE CLOUDS IT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT HAD INTERESTED HER FOR DAYS IT WAS A HOPE. SHE SEIZED IT SHE CLUNG TO IT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/61/70968/70968_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/61/70968/70968_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e65f55bfa8f58635d7a5b4fc6cd7af5b237b39d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/61/70968/70968_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ROBIN STARTED BACK ANGRILY AND FACED THE SQUIRE. HE BEGAN A CONFUSED COMPLAINT AGAINST THE WIZARD WHO HAD VANISHED BEHIND THE CURTAIN ON THE LEFT. MASTER MONTFICHET SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS INDULGENTLY. GIVE NOT SO EARNEST A MIND TO THESE MUMMERIES CHILD. TWAS ALL A TRICK WHAT DID YOU SEE. A GOLDEN FORTUNE AND A HAPPY LIFE. HE WAS LIKE UNTO MY FATHER IN A WAY AND YET WAS NOT MY FATHER. ALSO THERE WAS A STRIPLING PAGE WHO TURNED INTO A MAID. VERY BEAUTIFUL SHE WAS AND I WOULD KNOW HER AGAIN IN ANY GUISE. AH MASTER ROBIN HAVE YOU EYES FOR THE MAIDS ALREADY. THIS WAS SO SWEET A LADY SIR AND IN SOME MANNER I DO THINK SHE DIED. AND THE MAN SHOT AN ARROW MEANING ME TO SEE WHERE IT FELL SINCE THERE WOULD BE HER GRAVE. THAT IS WHAT I THINK HE MEANT. BUT THEN THE PICTURE WAS GONE AS QUICKLY AS IT CAME. SISTER NELL DO YOU HEAR THESE MARVELS. TAKE YOUR PLACE AND LET US SEE WHAT THE CRYSTAL CAN SHOW TO YOU. THESE THINGS ARE TRUE THAT THE GLASS MIRROR SHOWS LORDING ANSWERED THE WIZARD REAPPEARING. THE CRYSTAL CANNOT LIE. HE SPOKE UNWITTINGLY IN A NATURAL KEY. ROBIN TURNED ROUND UPON HIM VERY SHREWDLY. FRIEND WIZARD SAID THE YOUTH HALF AT RANDOM HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED AT ARCHERY IN THAT GREENWOOD WHICH YOUR GLASS SHOWED US SO PRETTILY. LIKE AS NOT YOUNG MASTER THOUGH I AM AN OLD MAN. REMEMBER THAT THE CRYSTAL CANNOT LIE. IT TELLS ME NOW THAT YOU AND I WILL MEET IN RIVALRY TO SHOOT TOGETHER FOR A STRANGE PRIZE THE FREEDOM OF SHERWOOD. THE WIZARD HASTILY DREW NEAR AND PRETENDED TO PEER INTO THE GLASS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO HE WHISPERED FIERCELY. KEEP YOUR SECRET FOR I WILL NOT BETRAY YOU. AT THIS MOMENT THERE UPROSE WITHOUT THE BOOTH A MOST DEAFENING TUMULT. FORTHWITH ALL RAN TO THE OPENING OF THE TENT TO SEE WHAT MIGHT BE AMISS BUT MASTER WILL WHO PEEPED OUT FIRST NEEDED NO MORE THAN ONE GLANCE. HE GAVE WAY TO THE OTHERS VERY READILY AND RETREATED UNPERCEIVED BY THE SQUIRE AND MISTRESS FITZOOTH TO THE REAR OF THE TENT. CRIES OF A NOTTINGHAM A NOTTINGHAM. RENT THE AIR AND ADDED TO THE CLANGOR OF BELLS AND TRUMPETINGS. AS THE SQUIRE AND ROBIN LOOKED FORTH THEY BEHELD A FLYING CROWD OF MEN AND WOMEN ALL RUNNING AND SHOUTING. BEFORE THEM FLED THE STROLLER AND HIS THREE SONS CAPLESS AND TERRIFIED. THE OLD MAN'S TRIANGLE HAD BEEN TORN FROM HIM AND WAS BEING JANGLED NOW BY NOTTINGHAM FINGERS. THERE IS TROUBLE BEFORE US COME ROBIN SAID MONTFICHET AS HE STEPPED OUT WITH THE LAD CLOSE AT HIS HEELS. WHAT IS THE TUMULT AND RIOTING CRIED OUT THE SQUIRE AUTHORITATIVELY AND HE BLEW TWICE ON A SILVER WHISTLE WHICH HUNG AT HIS BELT. THE STROLLERS RUSHED AT ONCE TOWARD THE OLD MAN AND FACED THEIR ENEMIES RESOLUTELY WHEN THEY HAD GAINED HIS SIDE. THEY WERE OUT OF BREATH AND THEIR STORY WAS A CONFUSED ONE. THE LITTLE TUMBLER RECOVERED FIRST. NAY WE REFUSED THEIR REQUEST MOST POLITELY MOST NOBLE SAID THE LITTLE STROLLER. AND THEN THEY BECAME VEXED AND WOULD HAVE SNATCHED YOUR PURSE FROM US. I COULD NOT SEE MY BOY INJURED EXCELLENCE FOR BUT DOING HIS DUTY AS ONE OF CUMBERLAND'S SONS. SO I DID PUSH THIS FELLOW. IT IS ENOUGH SAID GEORGE GAMEWELL SHARPLY AND HE TURNED UPON THE CROWD. SHAME ON YOU CITIZENS CRIED HE I BLUSH FOR MY FELLOWS OF NOTTINGHAM. IS THIS HOW YOU PLAY AN ENGLISH GAME TO FORCE YOUR RIVALS TO LOSE TO YOU ANY WAY CUMBERLAND HAS WON MY PURSE THE TEST WAS FAIRLY SET AND FAIRLY WERE WE CONQUERED. SURELY WE CAN SUBMIT WITH GOOD GRACE. TIS FINE FOR YOU TO TALK OLD MAN ANSWERED THE LEAN SULLEN APPRENTICE. BUT I WRESTLED WITH THIS FELLOW AND DO KNOW THAT HE PLAYED UNFAIRLY IN THE SECOND BOUT. SPOKE THE SQUIRE LOSING ALL PATIENCE AND IT WAS TO YOU THAT I GAVE ANOTHER PURSE IN CONSOLATION. GO YOUR WAYS ERE I CAUSE YOU TO BE MORE SOUNDLY WHIPPED THAN YOUR DESERTS WHICH SHOULD BRING HEAVY ENOUGH PUNISHMENT FOR SURE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/61/70970/70970_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/61/70970/70970_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c7c60506a4aa70b06d7b92e88f949baf2f6eb73f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/61/70970/70970_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WHEN HE HAD REACHED HIS CHAMBER AGAIN CAME THE SUSPICION OF WARRENTON. ROBIN UNFASTENED HIS TUNIC SLOWLY AND THOUGHTFULLY. PRESENTLY HE CROSSED THE FLOOR OF HIS ROOM WITH DECIDED STEP. WILL CRIED HE SOFTLY AND STUTELEY WHO HAD CHOSEN HIS COUCH ACROSS THE DOOR OF HIS YOUNG MASTER'S CHAMBER SPRANG UP AT ONCE IN ANSWER. WE WILL GO OUT TOGETHER TO THE BOWER THERE IS A WAY DOWN TO THE COURT FROM MY WINDOW. REST AND BE STILL UNTIL I WARN YOU. STUTELEY REPLIED IN A WORD TO HIM AND BLOWING OUT HIS TAPER ROBIN RETURNED TO HIS BED AND FLUNG HIMSELF UPON IT IN PATIENT EXPECTATION. THE HOURS PASSED WEARILY BY AND MOVEMENT COULD YET BE HEARD ABOUT THE HALL. THRICE HE GOT UP FROM HIS BED AND HIS STOCK OF PATIENCE WAS SLIPPING FROM HIM. AT LAST ALL WAS QUIET AND BLACK IN THE COURTYARD OF GAMEWELL. WILL WHISPERED ROBIN OPENING HIS DOOR AS HE SPOKE ARE YOU READY. STUTELEY NODDED AS HE ENTERED ON POINTED TOES. FROM THE WINDOW EXPLAINED ROBIN PUSHING HIM TOWARDS THE LATTICE. A DENSE IVY CLUNG TO AND COVERED THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE. TO ONE OF LIGHT AND AGILE BODY IT GAVE FAIR FOOTING. ROBIN HAD HANDS AND FEET IN IT IN A MOMENT AND CAUTIOUSLY ADROITLY CAME TO THE GROUND AND SIGNALLED TO WILL STUTELEY. IT WAS NECESSARY FOR THEM TO CLIMB OVER THE STABLES AT THEIR LEFT HAND. SOME DOGS HEARING THESE QUIET STEALTHY FOOTFALLS BEGAN TO BAY FURIOUSLY AND BOTH THE YOUTHS STAYED THEMSELVES UNTIL THE BEASTS WENT GRUMBLING AND SUSPICIOUS BACK TO THE KENNELS. THEY THEN RENEWED THEIR JOURNEY AND UNDER THE BETTER LIGHT MADE A SAFE CROSSING OF THE STABLE ROOFS. THEY MANAGED AT LENGTH TO WIN THE GARDENS AND THEN RACED ACROSS THE OPEN GROUND TO GAIN THE SHELTER OF THE YEW TREES BORDERING THE BOWER. THE PLEASANCE IN THE SOFT MOONLIGHT LOOKED GHOSTLY ENOUGH THE STATUES AND STONE ORNAMENTS PLACED ABOUT THE PLACE SEEMED TO BE INSTINCT WITH LIFE AND TO WAVE SIGNALS OF HORROR TO WILL'S STARTING EYES. AT LAST THEY APPROACHED THE HUT AND ROBIN SAW IN THE BRIGHT MOONLIGHT THAT THE DOOR GAPED BLACK AT THEM. THERE WAS NO SIGN TO BETRAY EITHER WARRENTON OR GEOFFREY TO HIM. ROBIN ENTERED THE HUT DRAGGING THE UNWILLING ESQUIRE AFTER HIM. A DRAUGHT OF CHILL AIR PUFFED IN THEIR FACES AS THEY ENTERED AND A GREAT OWL BLUNDERED SCREAMINGLY OUT INTO THE NIGHT THE RUSH AND NOISE OF IT STARTLING WILL TO A COLD ECSTASY OF TERROR. BE NOT SO FOOLISH FRIEND SAID FITZOOTH CROSSLY. HIS VOICE TOOK HIS FATHER'S TONE AS ALWAYS HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS ANGERED. THEY MOVED THEREAFTER CAUTIOUSLY ABOUT THE HUT GROPING BEFORE AND ABOUT THEM TO FIND SOMETHING TO SHOW THAT WARRENTON HAD FULFILLED HIS MISSION. PRESENTLY WILL STUMBLED AND FELL PULLING DOWN ROBIN ATOP OF HIM. ROBIN PUTTING OUT HIS HAND TO SAVE HIMSELF FOUND THAT HIS FINGERS GRASPED NOTHING BUT AIR. THEY WERE UPON THE VERGE OF AN OPEN TRAP IN THE FAR CORNER OF THE HUT AND STUTELEY HAD TRIPPED OVER THE EDGE OF THE REVERSED FLAP MOUTH OF THIS PIT. FITZOOTH'S HAND RESTED AT LAST UPON THE TOP RUNG OF A LADDER AND SLOWLY THE TRUTH CAME TO HIM. QUICKLY HE DREW HIMSELF UP AND WHISPERED THE DISCOVERY TO THE OTHER. WILL WOULD HAVE GONE DOWN FIRST INTO THE PIT HAD NOT ROBIN STAYED HIM. STUTELEY WAS ANXIOUS THAT HIS YOUNG MASTER SHOULD COME TO NO HARM AND WHERE A DANGER APPEARED AN EARTHLY ONE HE WAS QUITE WILLING TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF IT. ROBIN CAREFULLY DESCENDED THE LADDER AND FOUND HIMSELF SOON UPON FIRM ROCKY GROUND. STUTELEY WAS BY HIS SIDE IN A FLASH AND THEN THEY BOTH BEGAN FEELING ABOUT THEM TO ASCERTAIN THE SHAPE AND CHARACTER OF THIS VAULT. HARDLY HAD THEY COMMENCED WHEN ROBIN'S QUICK EARS TOOK WARNING. SOUND OF A QUIET APPROACH WAS PLAIN. FROM THE BLACKNESS BEHIND THE LIGHT THEY HEARD A VOICE WARRENTON'S. SAVE ME MASTERS BUT YOU STARTLED ME RARELY. CRIED HE WAVING THE LANTHORN BEFORE HIM TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE WERE NO GHOSTS IN FRONT OF HIM. I HAVE BUT THIS MINUTE LEFT MASTER MONTFICHET HAVING CARRIED HIS HORSE TO HIM IN SAFETY. HE RIDES INTO NOTTINGHAM TO MORROW UNATTENDED. I WOULD THAT I MIGHT BE SQUIRE TO HIM. DID YOU INDEED BRING HORSE AND ARMS DOWN THIS LADDER WARRENTON. ENQUIRED ROBIN WITH HIS SUSPICIONS STILL UPON HIM. TRULY SUCH A HORSE SHOULD BE WORTH MUCH IN NOTTINGHAM FAIR \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/61/70970/70970_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/61/70970/70970_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6ea9dd465f533e7f03af6f1787dc610ba06d65c --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/61/70970/70970_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I WOULD DEARLY HAVE LOVED TO SEE SO BRAVE A BUSINESS. NAY NAY LORDING ANSWERED WARRENTON WITH A HALF LAUGH. SEE AND AGAIN HE WAVED HIS LIGHT SHOWING THEM WHERE THE UNDERGROUND PASSAGE FOR SUCH IT WAS SLOPED UPWARD TO ANOTHER AND LARGER TRAP NOW CLOSED. WARRENTON SPOKE THUS WITH SIGNIFICANCE TO SHOW ROBIN THAT HE WAS NOT TO THINK GEOFFREY'S CLAIMS TO THE ESTATE WOULD BE PASSED BY. ROBIN FITZOOTH SAW THAT HIS DOUBTS OF WARRENTON HAD BEEN UNFAIR AND HE BECAME ASHAMED OF HIMSELF FOR HARBORING THEM. GIVE ME YOUR HAND WARRENTON AND HELP ME TO CLIMB THESE STEPS SAID HE OPENLY. TIS DARK FOR ALL YOUR LAMP AND I FAIN WOULD FEEL FRIENDLY ASSISTANCE SUCH AS YOU CAN GIVE. HIS TONES RANG PLEASANTLY ON WARRENTON'S EARS AND FORTHWITH A GOOD FELLOWSHIP WAS HERALDED BETWEEN THEM. THIS WAS TO MEAN MUCH TO THE YOUNG HERO OF LOCKSLEY IN THE TIME TO COME FOR WARRENTON'S HELP AND TUITION WERE TO MAKE ROBIN FITZOOTH SOMETHING FAR BETTER THAN THE CLEVER BOWMAN HE WAS ALREADY. THIS NIGHT IN A WAY SAW THE BEGINNING OF ROBIN'S FORTUNES AND STRANGE ADVENTUROUS AFTER LIFE. THE OLD SERVANT TOLD HIM QUIETLY AS THEY CREPT BACK TO GAMEWELL THAT THIS PASSAGE WAY LED FROM THE HUT IN THE PLEASANCE TO SHERWOOD AND THAT GEOFFREY FOR THE TIME WAS HIDING WITH THE OUTLAWS IN THE FOREST. OUR MASTER IS TO BE RECOGNIZED BY US AS THE SCARLET KNIGHT AT NOTTINGHAM FAIR SHOULD ONE ASK OF US LORDING WARRENTON TOLD HIM. HE IMPLORES US TO BE DISCREET AS THE GRAVE IN THIS MATTER FOR IN SOOTH HIS LIFE IS IN THE HOLLOW OF OUR HANDS. THE OLD SERVANT SPOKE NO MORE. THEY REGAINED THEIR APARTMENT APPARENTLY WITHOUT DISTURBING THE HOUSEHOLD OF GAMEWELL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e7e91c5ad623f8946bd8c612ac1ed8e50502494 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +OUT IN THE WOODS STOOD A NICE LITTLE FIR TREE. THE PLACE HE HAD WAS A VERY GOOD ONE THE SUN SHONE ON HIM AS TO FRESH AIR THERE WAS ENOUGH OF THAT AND ROUND HIM GREW MANY LARGE SIZED COMRADES PINES AS WELL AS FIRS. BUT THE LITTLE FIR WANTED SO VERY MUCH TO BE A GROWN UP TREE. HE DID NOT THINK OF THE WARM SUN AND OF THE FRESH AIR HE DID NOT CARE FOR THE LITTLE COTTAGE CHILDREN THAT RAN ABOUT AND PRATTLED WHEN THEY WERE IN THE WOODS LOOKING FOR WILD STRAWBERRIES. THE CHILDREN OFTEN CAME WITH A WHOLE PITCHER FULL OF BERRIES OR A LONG ROW OF THEM THREADED ON A STRAW AND SAT DOWN NEAR THE YOUNG TREE AND SAID OH HOW PRETTY HE IS WHAT A NICE LITTLE FIR. BUT THIS WAS WHAT THE TREE COULD NOT BEAR TO HEAR. AT THE END OF A YEAR HE HAD SHOT UP A GOOD DEAL AND AFTER ANOTHER YEAR HE WAS ANOTHER LONG BIT TALLER FOR WITH FIR TREES ONE CAN ALWAYS TELL BY THE SHOOTS HOW MANY YEARS OLD THEY ARE. OH. THEN WOULD THE BIRDS BUILD NESTS AMONG MY BRANCHES AND WHEN THERE WAS A BREEZE I COULD BEND WITH AS MUCH STATELINESS AS THE OTHERS. NEITHER THE SUNBEAMS NOR THE BIRDS NOR THE RED CLOUDS WHICH MORNING AND EVENING SAILED ABOVE HIM GAVE THE LITTLE TREE ANY PLEASURE. IN WINTER WHEN THE SNOW LAY GLITTERING ON THE GROUND A HARE WOULD OFTEN COME LEAPING ALONG AND JUMP RIGHT OVER THE LITTLE TREE. OH THAT MADE HIM SO ANGRY. BUT TWO WINTERS WERE PAST AND IN THE THIRD THE TREE WAS SO LARGE THAT THE HARE WAS OBLIGED TO GO ROUND IT. TO GROW AND GROW TO GET OLDER AND BE TALL THOUGHT THE TREE THAT AFTER ALL IS THE MOST DELIGHTFUL THING IN THE WORLD. IN AUTUMN THE WOOD CUTTERS ALWAYS CAME AND FELLED SOME OF THE LARGEST TREES. THIS HAPPENED EVERY YEAR AND THE YOUNG FIR TREE THAT HAD NOW GROWN TO A VERY COMELY SIZE TREMBLED AT THE SIGHT FOR THE MAGNIFICENT GREAT TREES FELL TO THE EARTH WITH NOISE AND CRACKING THE BRANCHES WERE LOPPED OFF AND THE TREES LOOKED LONG AND BARE THEY WERE HARDLY TO BE RECOGNISED AND THEN THEY WERE LAID IN CARTS AND THE HORSES DRAGGED THEM OUT OF THE WOOD. WHERE DID THEY GO TO. WHAT BECAME OF THEM. HAVE YOU NOT MET THEM ANYWHERE. I MAY CONGRATULATE YOU FOR THEY LIFTED THEMSELVES ON HIGH MOST MAJESTICALLY. BUT HOW DOES THE SEA LOOK IN REALITY WHAT IS IT LIKE. REJOICE IN THY GROWTH SAID THE SUNBEAMS. REJOICE IN THY VIGOROUS GROWTH AND IN THE FRESH LIFE THAT MOVETH WITHIN THEE. AND THE WIND KISSED THE TREE AND THE DEW WEPT TEARS OVER HIM BUT THE FIR UNDERSTOOD IT NOT. THESE YOUNG TREES AND THEY WERE ALWAYS THE FINEST LOOKING RETAINED THEIR BRANCHES THEY WERE LAID ON CARTS AND THE HORSES DREW THEM OUT OF THE WOOD. WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO ASKED THE FIR. ASKED THE FIR TREE TREMBLING IN EVERY BOUGH. AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS THEN. WE DID NOT SEE ANYTHING MORE IT WAS INCOMPARABLY BEAUTIFUL \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4bcec2557ff312d0843cb6f3bdc6a5995622a761 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/672/122797/122797_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +BUT IT WAS ONLY FOR A MOMENT THEN THEY SHOUTED THAT THE WHOLE PLACE RE ECHOED WITH THEIR REJOICING THEY DANCED ROUND THE TREE AND ONE PRESENT AFTER THE OTHER WAS PULLED OFF. A STORY. A STORY CRIED THE CHILDREN DRAWING A LITTLE FAT MAN TOWARDS THE TREE. HE SEATED HIMSELF UNDER IT AND SAID NOW WE ARE IN THE SHADE AND THE TREE CAN LISTEN TOO. BUT I SHALL TELL ONLY ONE STORY. NOW WHICH WILL YOU HAVE THAT ABOUT IVEDY AVEDY OR ABOUT HUMPY DUMPY WHO TUMBLED DOWNSTAIRS AND YET AFTER ALL CAME TO THE THRONE AND MARRIED THE PRINCESS. THERE WAS SUCH A BAWLING AND SCREAMING THE FIR TREE ALONE WAS SILENT AND HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF AM I NOT TO BAWL WITH THE REST. AM I TO DO NOTHING WHATEVER. FOR HE WAS ONE OF THE COMPANY AND HAD DONE WHAT HE HAD TO DO. THEY WANTED TO HEAR ABOUT IVEDY AVEDY TOO BUT THE LITTLE MAN ONLY TOLD THEM ABOUT HUMPY DUMPY. THE FIR TREE STOOD QUITE STILL AND ABSORBED IN THOUGHT THE BIRDS IN THE WOOD HAD NEVER RELATED THE LIKE OF THIS. HUMPY DUMPY FELL DOWNSTAIRS AND YET HE MARRIED THE PRINCESS. THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD. THOUGHT THE FIR TREE AND BELIEVED IT ALL BECAUSE THE MAN WHO TOLD THE STORY WAS SO GOOD LOOKING WELL WELL. AND HE LOOKED FORWARD WITH JOY TO THE MORROW WHEN HE HOPED TO BE DECKED OUT AGAIN WITH LIGHTS PLAYTHINGS FRUITS AND TINSEL. I WON'T TREMBLE TO MORROW THOUGHT THE FIR TREE. I WILL ENJOY TO THE FULL ALL MY SPLENDOR. AND THE WHOLE NIGHT THE TREE STOOD STILL AND IN DEEP THOUGHT. IN THE MORNING THE SERVANT AND THE HOUSEMAID CAME IN. BUT THEY DRAGGED HIM OUT OF THE ROOM AND UP THE STAIRS INTO THE LOFT AND HERE IN A DARK CORNER WHERE NO DAYLIGHT COULD ENTER THEY LEFT HIM. WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS THOUGHT THE TREE. AND HE LEANED AGAINST THE WALL LOST IN REVERIE. TIME ENOUGH HAD HE TOO FOR HIS REFLECTIONS FOR DAYS AND NIGHTS PASSED ON AND NOBODY CAME UP AND WHEN AT LAST SOMEBODY DID COME IT WAS ONLY TO PUT SOME GREAT TRUNKS IN A CORNER OUT OF THE WAY. THERE STOOD THE TREE QUITE HIDDEN IT SEEMED AS IF HE HAD BEEN ENTIRELY FORGOTTEN. TIS NOW WINTER OUT OF DOORS THOUGHT THE TREE. THE EARTH IS HARD AND COVERED WITH SNOW MEN CANNOT PLANT ME NOW AND THEREFORE I HAVE BEEN PUT UP HERE UNDER SHELTER TILL THE SPRING TIME COMES. HOW THOUGHTFUL THAT IS. HOW KIND MAN IS AFTER ALL. IF IT ONLY WERE NOT SO DARK HERE AND SO TERRIBLY LONELY. NOT EVEN A HARE. AND OUT IN THE WOODS IT WAS SO PLEASANT WHEN THE SNOW WAS ON THE GROUND AND THE HARE LEAPED BY YES EVEN WHEN HE JUMPED OVER ME BUT I DID NOT LIKE IT THEN. SQUEAK SQUEAK. AND THEN ANOTHER LITTLE ONE CAME. THEY SNUFFED ABOUT THE FIR TREE AND RUSTLED AMONG THE BRANCHES. I AM BY NO MEANS OLD SAID THE FIR TREE. THERE'S MANY A ONE CONSIDERABLY OLDER THAN I AM. THEY WERE SO EXTREMELY CURIOUS. I KNOW NO SUCH PLACE SAID THE TREE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/7127/75947/75947_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/7127/75947/75947_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..be22ed54a749aa89a74e668cb73e612f77f7d786 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/7127/75947/75947_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +LA VALLIERE MORE REFINED AND MORE BASHFUL ALLOWED HER DRESS TO FLOW AROUND HER RETARDED ALSO BY THE LAMENESS OF HER FOOT IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE SHE CALLED OUT TO HER COMPANIONS TO HALT AND LEFT BEHIND SHE OBLIGED THEM BOTH TO WAIT FOR HER. AT THIS MOMENT A MAN CONCEALED IN A DRY DITCH PLANTED WITH YOUNG WILLOW SAPLINGS SCRAMBLED QUICKLY UP ITS SHELVING SIDE AND RAN OFF IN THE DIRECTION OF THE CHATEAU. THE THREE YOUNG GIRLS ON THEIR SIDE REACHED THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE PARK EVERY PATH OF WHICH THEY WELL KNEW. THE DITCHES WERE BORDERED BY HIGH HEDGES FULL OF FLOWERS WHICH ON THAT SIDE PROTECTED THE FOOT PASSENGERS FROM BEING INTRUDED UPON BY THE HORSES AND CARRIAGES. IN FACT THE SOUND OF MADAME'S AND THE QUEEN'S CARRIAGES COULD BE HEARD IN THE DISTANCE UPON THE HARD DRY GROUND OF THE ROADS FOLLOWED BY THE MOUNTED CAVALIERS. DISTANT MUSIC REACHED THEM IN RESPONSE AND WHEN THE SOFT NOTES DIED AWAY THE NIGHTINGALE WITH THROAT OF PRIDE POURED FORTH HIS MELODIOUS CHANTS AND HIS MOST COMPLICATED LEARNED AND SWEETEST COMPOSITIONS TO THOSE WHO HAD MET BENEATH THE THICK COVERT OF THE WOODS. NEAR THE SONGSTER IN THE DARK BACKGROUND OF THE LARGE TREES COULD BE SEEN THE GLISTENING EYES OF AN OWL ATTRACTED BY THE HARMONY. IN THIS WAY THE FETE OF THE WHOLE COURT WAS A FETE ALSO FOR THE MYSTERIOUS INHABITANTS OF THE FOREST FOR CERTAINLY THE DEER IN THE BRAKE THE PHEASANT ON THE BRANCH THE FOX IN ITS HOLE WERE ALL LISTENING. ONE COULD REALIZE THE LIFE LED BY THIS NOCTURNAL AND INVISIBLE POPULATION FROM THE RESTLESS MOVEMENTS THAT SUDDENLY TOOK PLACE AMONG THE LEAVES. OUR SYLVAN NYMPHS UTTERED A SLIGHT CRY BUT REASSURED IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS THEY LAUGHED AND RESUMED THEIR WALK. BENEATH THIS OAK THE GARDENERS HAD PILED UP THE MOSS AND TURF IN SUCH A MANNER THAT NEVER HAD A SEAT MORE LUXURIOUSLY RESTED THE WEARIED LIMBS OF MAN OR MONARCH \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/7729/102255/102255_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/7729/102255/102255_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2308169c04b160442d1061a1638e70a898635b25 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/7729/102255/102255_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE FREE STATE HOTEL A STONE BUILDING IN DIMENSIONS FIFTY BY SEVENTY FEET THREE STORIES HIGH AND HANDSOMELY FURNISHED PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED ONLY FOR LODGING ROOMS ON THAT DAY FOR THE FIRST TIME OPENED ITS TABLE ACCOMMODATIONS TO THE PUBLIC AND PROVIDED A FREE DINNER IN HONOR OF THE OCCASION. THE MARSHAL AND HIS POSSE INCLUDING SHERIFF JONES WENT AMONG OTHER INVITED GUESTS AND ENJOYED THE PROFFERED HOSPITALITY. AS HE HAD PROMISED TO PROTECT THE HOTEL THE REASSURED CITIZENS BEGAN TO LAUGH AT THEIR OWN FEARS. TO THEIR SORROW THEY WERE SOON UNDECEIVED. THE MILITARY FORCE PARTLY RABBLE PARTLY ORGANIZED HAD MEANWHILE MOVED INTO THE TOWN. HE PLANTED A COMPANY BEFORE THE HOTEL AND DEMANDED A SURRENDER OF THE ARMS BELONGING TO THE FREE STATE MILITARY COMPANIES. HALF AN HOUR LATER TURNING A DEAF EAR TO ALL REMONSTRANCE HE GAVE THE PROPRIETORS UNTIL FIVE O'CLOCK TO REMOVE THEIR FAMILIES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY FROM THE FREE STATE HOTEL. ATCHISON WHO HAD BEEN HARANGUING THE MOB PLANTED HIS TWO GUNS BEFORE THE BUILDING AND TRAINED THEM UPON IT. THE INMATES BEING REMOVED AT THE APPOINTED HOUR A FEW CANNON BALLS WERE FIRED THROUGH THE STONE WALLS. IN THIS INCIDENT CONTRASTING THE CREATIVE AND THE DESTRUCTIVE SPIRIT OF THE FACTIONS THE EMIGRANT AID SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS FINDS ITS MOST HONORABLE AND TRIUMPHANT VINDICATION. THE WHOLE PROCEEDING WAS SO CHILDISH THE MISERABLE PLOT SO TRANSPARENT THE OUTRAGE SO GROSS AS TO BRING DISGUST TO THE BETTER CLASS OF BORDER RUFFIANS WHO WERE WITNESSES AND ACCESSORIES. RELOCATED FOOTNOTE GOVERNOR ROBINSON BEING ON HIS WAY EAST THE STEAMBOAT ON WHICH HE WAS TRAVELING STOPPED AT LEXINGTON MISSOURI. AN UNAUTHORIZED MOB INDUCED THE GOVERNOR WITH THAT PERSUASIVENESS IN WHICH THE BORDER RUFFIANS HAD BECOME ADEPTS TO LEAVE THE BOAT DETAINING HIM AT LEXINGTON ON THE ACCUSATION THAT HE WAS FLEEING FROM AN INDICTMENT. IN A FEW DAYS AN OFFICER CAME WITH A REQUISITION FROM GOVERNOR SHANNON AND TOOK THE PRISONER BY LAND TO WESTPORT AND AFTERWARDS FROM THERE TO KANSAS CITY AND LEAVENWORTH. HERE HE WAS PLACED IN THE CUSTODY OF CAPTAIN MARTIN OF THE KICKAPOO RANGERS WHO PROVED A KIND JAILER AND MATERIALLY ASSISTED IN PROTECTING HIM FROM THE DANGEROUS INTENTIONS OF THE MOB WHICH AT THAT TIME HELD LEAVENWORTH UNDER A REIGN OF TERROR. CAPTAIN MARTIN SAID I SHALL GIVE YOU A PISTOL TO HELP PROTECT YOURSELF IF WORSE COMES TO WORST. IN THE EARLY MORNING OF THE NEXT DAY MAY TWENTY NINTH A COMPANY OF DRAGOONS WITH ONE EMPTY SADDLE CAME DOWN FROM THE FORT AND WHILE THE PRO SLAVERY MEN STILL SLEPT THE PRISONER AND HIS ESCORT WERE ON THEIR WAY ACROSS THE PRAIRIES TO LECOMPTON IN THE CHARGE OF OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274381/274381_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274381/274381_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5407ac272b7f10444cad5e0121d5045617eab79 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274381/274381_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +IN THE SECOND INSURRECTION A GREAT MILITARY COMMAND WAS INTRUSTED TO HIM BY THE COVENANTERS AND HE WAS THE FIRST THAT PASSED THE TWEED AT THE HEAD OF THEIR TROOPS IN THE INVASION OF ENGLAND. HE FOUND MEANS HOWEVER SOON AFTER TO CONVEY A LETTER TO THE KING AND BY THE INFIDELITY OF SOME ABOUT THAT PRINCE HAMILTON AS WAS SUSPECTED A COPY OF THIS LETTER WAS SENT TO LEVEN THE SCOTTISH GENERAL. BEING ACCUSED OF TREACHERY AND A CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE ENEMY MONTROSE OPENLY AVOWED THE LETTER AND ASKED THE GENERALS IF THEY DARED TO CALL THEIR SOVEREIGN AN ENEMY AND BY THIS BOLD AND MAGNANIMOUS BEHAVIOR HE ESCAPED THE DANGER OF AN IMMEDIATE PROSECUTION. AS HE WAS NOW FULLY KNOWN TO BE OF THE ROYAL PARTY HE NO LONGER CONCEALED HIS PRINCIPLES AND HE ENDEAVORED TO DRAW THOSE WHO HAD ENTERTAINED LIKE SENTIMENTS INTO A BOND OF ASSOCIATION FOR HIS MASTER'S SERVICE. THOUGH THROWN INTO PRISON FOR THIS ENTERPRISE AND DETAINED SOME TIME HE WAS NOT DISCOURAGED BUT STILL CONTINUED BY HIS COUNTENANCE AND PROTECTION TO INFUSE SPIRIT INTO THE DISTRESSED ROYALISTS. AMONG OTHER PERSONS OF DISTINCTION WHO UNITED THEMSELVES TO HIM WAS LORD NAPIER OF MERCHISTON SON OF THE FAMOUS INVENTOR OF THE LOGARITHMS THE PERSON TO WHOM THE TITLE OF A GREAT MAN IS MORE JUSTLY DUE THAN TO ANY OTHER WHOM HIS COUNTRY EVER PRODUCED. BEING ACCUSED BY LORD RAE NOT WITHOUT SOME APPEARANCE OF PROBABILITY OF A CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE KING CHARLES WAS SO FAR FROM HARBORING SUSPICION AGAINST HIM THAT THE VERY FIRST TIME HAMILTON CAME TO COURT HE RECEIVED HIM INTO HIS BED CHAMBER AND PASSED ALONE THE NIGHT WITH HIM. BUT SUCH WAS THE DUKE'S UNHAPPY FATE OR CONDUCT THAT HE ESCAPED NOT THE IMPUTATION OF TREACHERY TO HIS FRIEND AND SOVEREIGN AND THOUGH HE AT LAST SACRIFICED HIS LIFE IN THE KING'S SERVICE HIS INTEGRITY AND SINCERITY HAVE NOT BEEN THOUGHT BY HISTORIANS ENTIRELY FREE FROM BLEMISH. WHILE THE FORMER FORETOLD THAT THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS WERE SECRETLY FORMING A UNION WITH THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT AND INCULCATED THE NECESSITY OF PREVENTING THEM BY SOME VIGOROUS UNDERTAKING THE LATTER STILL INSISTED THAT EVERY SUCH ATTEMPT WOULD PRECIPITATE THEM INTO MEASURES TO WHICH OTHERWISE THEY WERE NOT PERHAPS INCLINED. UNHAPPILY FOR THE ROYAL CAUSE HAMILTON'S REPRESENTATIONS MET WITH MORE CREDIT FROM THE KING AND QUEEN THAN THOSE OF MONTROSE AND THE COVENANTERS WERE ALLOWED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION TO PROCEED IN ALL THEIR HOSTILE MEASURES. MONTROSE THEN HASTENED TO OXFORD WHERE HIS INVECTIVES AGAINST HAMILTON'S TREACHERY CONCURRING WITH THE GENERAL PREPOSSESSION AND SUPPORTED BY THE UNFORTUNATE EVENT OF HIS COUNSELS WERE ENTERTAINED WITH UNIVERSAL PROBATION. HIS BROTHER LANERIC WHO WAS ALSO PUT UNDER CONFINEMENT FOUND MEANS TO MAKE HIS ESCAPE AND TO FLY INTO SCOTLAND \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274381/274381_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274381/274381_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..56169954bd55d31c1e5cb4c281d57f3fbda13d4f --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274381/274381_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE KING'S EARS WERE NOW OPEN TO MONTROSE'S COUNSELS WHO PROPOSED NONE BUT THE BOLDEST AND MOST DARING AGREEABLY TO THE DESPERATE STATE OF THE ROYAL CAUSE IN SCOTLAND. THOUGH THE WHOLE NATION WAS SUBJECTED BY THE COVENANTERS THOUGH GREAT ARMIES WERE KEPT ON FOOT BY THEM AND EVERY PLACE GUARDED BY A VIGILANT ADMINISTRATION HE UNDERTOOK BY HIS OWN CREDIT AND THAT OF THE FEW FRIENDS WHO REMAINED TO THE KING TO RAISE SUCH COMMOTIONS AS WOULD SOON OBLIGE THE MALECONTENTS TO RECALL THOSE FORCES WHICH HAD SO SENSIBLY THROWN THE BALANCE IN FAVOR OF THE PARLIAMENT. FIVE HUNDRED MEN MORE WHO HAD BEEN LEVIED BY THE COVENANTERS WERE PERSUADED TO EMBRACE THE ROYAL CAUSE AND WITH THIS COMBINED FORCE HE HASTENED TO ATTACK LORD ELCHO WHO LAY AT PERTH WITH AN ARMY OF SIX THOUSAND MEN ASSEMBLED UPON THE FIRST NEWS OF THE IRISH INVASION. MONTROSE INFERIOR IN NUMBER TOTALLY UNPROVIDED WITH HORSE ILL SUPPLIED WITH ARMS AND AMMUNITION HAD NOTHING TO DEPEND ON BUT THE COURAGE WHICH HE HIMSELF BY HIS OWN EXAMPLE AND THE RAPIDITY OF HIS ENTERPRISES SHOULD INSPIRE INTO HIS RAW SOLDIERS. HAVING RECEIVED THE FIRE OF THE ENEMY WHICH WAS ANSWERED CHIEFLY BY A VOLLEY OF STONES HE RUSHED AMIDST THEM WITH HIS SWORD DRAWN THREW THEM INTO CONFUSION PUSHED HIS ADVANTAGE AND OBTAINED A COMPLETE VICTORY WITH THE SLAUGHTER OF TWO THOUSAND OF THE COVENANTERS. THIS VICTORY THOUGH IT AUGMENTED THE RENOWN OF MONTROSE INCREASED NOT HIS POWER OR NUMBERS. DREADING THE SUPERIOR POWER OF ARGYLE WHO HAVING JOINED HIS VASSALS TO A FORCE LEVIED BY THE PUBLIC WAS APPROACHING WITH A CONSIDERABLE ARMY MONTROSE HASTENED NORTHWARDS IN ORDER TO ROUSE AGAIN THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLEY AND THE GORDONS WHO HAVING BEFORE HASTILY TAKEN ARMS HAD BEEN INSTANTLY SUPPRESSED BY THE COVENANTERS. HE WAS JOINED ON HIS MARCH BY THE EARL OF AIRLY WITH HIS TWO YOUNGER SONS SIR THOMAS AND SIR DAVID OGILVY THE ELDEST WAS AT THAT TIME A PRISONER WITH THE ENEMY. HE ATTACKED AT ABERDEEN THE LORD BURLEY WHO COMMANDED A FORCE OF TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED MEN. ARGYLE REENFORCED BY THE EARL OF LOTHIAN WAS BEHIND HIM WITH A GREAT ARMY THE MILITIA OF THE NORTHERN COUNTIES MURRAY ROSS CAITHNESS TO THE NUMBER OF FIVE THOUSAND MEN OPPOSED HIM IN FRONT AND GUARDED THE BANKS OF THE SPEY A DEEP AND RAPID RIVER. IN ORDER TO ELUDE THESE NUMEROUS ARMIES HE TURNED ASIDE INTO THE HILLS AND SAVED HIS WEAK BUT ACTIVE TROOPS IN BADENOCH. AFTER SOME MARCHES AND COUNTERMARCHES ARGYLE CAME UP WITH HIM AT FAIVY CASTLE. THIS NOBLEMAN'S CHARACTER THOUGH CELEBRATED FOR POLITICAL COURAGE AND CONDUCT WAS VERY LOW FOR MILITARY PROWESS AND AFTER SOME SKIRMISHES IN WHICH HE WAS WORSTED HE HERE ALLOWED MONTROSE TO ESCAPE HIM. BY QUICK MARCHES THROUGH THESE INACCESSIBLE MOUNTAINS THAT GENERAL FREED HIMSELF FROM THE SUPERIOR FORCES OF THE COVENANTERS. SUCH WAS THE SITUATION OF MONTROSE THAT VERY GOOD OR VERY ILL FORTUNE WAS EQUALLY DESTRUCTIVE TO HIM AND DIMINISHED HIS ARMY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274381/274381_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274381/274381_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8f92c67a22cacc8d8d044201c0bdb6a9a7ef9981 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274381/274381_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +AFTER EVERY VICTORY HIS SOLDIERS GREEDY OF SPOIL BUT DEEMING THE SMALLEST ACQUISITION TO BE UNEXHAUSTED RICHES DESERTED IN GREAT NUMBERS AND WENT HOME TO SECURE THE TREASURES WHICH THEY HAD ACQUIRED. TIRED TOO AND SPENT WITH HASTY AND LONG MARCHES IN THE DEPTH OF WINTER THROUGH SNOWY MOUNTAINS UNPROVIDED WITH EVERY NECESSARY THEY FELL OFF AND LEFT THEIR GENERAL ALMOST ALONE WITH THE IRISH WHO HAVING NO PLACE TO WHICH THEY COULD RETIRE STILL ADHERED TO HIM IN EVERY FORTUNE. WITH THESE AND SOME REENFORCEMENTS OF THE ATHOLEMEN AND MACDONALDS WHOM HE HAD RECALLED MONTROSE FELL SUDDENLY UPON ARGYLE'S COUNTRY AND LET LOOSE UPON IT ALL THE RAGE OF WAR CARRYING OFF THE CATTLE BURNING THE HOUSES AND PUTTING THE INHABITANTS TO THE SWORD. THIS SEVERITY BY WHICH MONTROSE SULLIED HIS VICTORIES WAS THE RESULT OF PRIVATE ANIMOSITY AGAINST THE CHIEFTAIN AS MUCH AS OF ZEAL FOR THE PUBLIC CAUSE ARGYLE COLLECTING THREE THOUSAND MEN MARCHED IN QUEST OF THE ENEMY WHO HAD RETIRED WITH THEIR PLUNDER AND HE LAY AT INNERLOCHY SUPPOSING HIMSELF STILL AT A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE FROM THEM. THE EARL OF SEAFORTH AT THE HEAD OF THE GARRISON OF INVERNESS WHO WERE VETERAN SOLDIERS JOINED TO FIVE THOUSAND NEW LEVIED TROOPS OF THE NORTHERN COUNTIES PRESSED THE ROYALISTS ON THE OTHER SIDE AND THREATENED THEM WITH INEVITABLE DESTRUCTION. BY A QUICK AND UNEXPECTED MARCH MONTROSE HASTENED TO INNERLOCHY AND PRESENTED HIMSELF IN ORDER OF BATTLE BEFORE THE SURPRISED BUT NOT AFFRIGHTENED COVENANTERS. AFTER A VIGOROUS RESISTANCE THEY WERE DEFEATED AND PURSUED WITH GREAT SLAUGHTER. AND THE POWER OF THE CAMPBELLS THAT IS ARGYLE'S NAME BEING THUS BROKEN THE HIGHLANDERS WHO WERE IN GENERAL WELL AFFECTED TO THE ROYAL CAUSE BEGAN TO JOIN MONTROSE'S CAMP IN GREAT NUMBERS. SEAFORTH'S ARMY DISPERSED OF ITSELF AT THE VERY TERROR OF HIS NAME. AND LORD GORDON ELDEST SON OF HUNTLEY HAVING ESCAPED FROM HIS UNCLE ARGYLE WHO HAD HITHERTO DETAINED HIM NOW JOINED MONTROSE WITH NO CONTEMPTIBLE NUMBER OF HIS FOLLOWERS ATTENDED BY HIS BROTHER THE EARL OF ABOINE. THE COUNCIL AT EDINBURGH ALARMED AT MONTROSE'S PROGRESS BEGAN TO THINK OF A MORE REGULAR PLAN OF DEFENCE AGAINST AN ENEMY WHOSE REPEATED VICTORIES HAD RENDERED HIM EXTREMELY FORMIDABLE. HIS CONDUCT AND PRESENCE OF MIND IN THIS EMERGENCE APPEARED CONSPICUOUS. IN THIS BATTLE THE VALOR OF YOUNG NAPIER SON TO THE LORD OF THAT NAME SHONE OUT WITH SIGNAL LUSTRE. MONTROSE WEAK IN CAVALRY HERE LINED HIS TROOPS OF HORSE WITH INFANTRY AND AFTER PUTTING THE ENEMY'S HORSE TO ROUT FELL WITH UNITED FORCE UPON THEIR FOOT WHO WERE ENTIRELY CUT IN PIECES THOUGH WITH THE LOSS OF THE GALLANT LORD GORDON ON THE PART OF THE ROYALISTS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274384/274384_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274384/274384_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af6b22d6d4b09d95a79280a96ebb9fd20f8a6550 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274384/274384_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HE RODE BEFORE A PORTMANTEAU AND CALLED HIMSELF ASHBURNHAM'S SERVANT. HE PASSED THROUGH HENLEY SAINT ALBANS AND CAME SO NEAR TO LONDON AS HARROW ON THE HILL. HE ONCE ENTERTAINED THOUGHTS OF ENTERING INTO THAT CITY AND OF THROWING HIMSELF ON THE MERCY OF THE PARLIAMENT. BUT AT LAST AFTER PASSING THROUGH MANY CROSS ROADS HE ARRIVED AT THE SCOTTISH CAMP BEFORE NEWARK. THE PARLIAMENT HEARING OF HIS ESCAPE FROM OXFORD ISSUED RIGOROUS ORDERS AND THREATENED WITH INSTANT DEATH WHOEVER SHOULD HARBOR OR CONCEAL HIM. THE SCOTTISH GENERALS AND COMMISSIONERS AFFECTED GREAT SURPRISE ON THE APPEARANCE OF THE KING AND THOUGH THEY PAID HIM ALL THE EXTERIOR RESPECT DUE TO HIS DIGNITY THEY INSTANTLY SET A GUARD UPON HIM UNDER COLOR OF PROTECTION AND MADE HIM IN REALITY A PRISONER. THEY INFORMED THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT OF THIS UNEXPECTED INCIDENT AND ASSURED THEM THAT THEY HAD ENTERED INTO NO PRIVATE TREATY WITH THE KING. THEY APPLIED TO HIM FOR ORDERS TO BELLASIS GOVERNOR OF NEWARK TO SURRENDER THAT TOWN NOW REDUCED TO EXTREMITY AND THE ORDERS WERE INSTANTLY OBEYED. IT WAS THE MODE OF THAT AGE TO MAKE THE PULPIT THE SCENE OF NEWS AND ON EVERY GREAT EVENT THE WHOLE SCRIPTURE WAS RANSACKED BY THE CLERGY FOR PASSAGES APPLICABLE TO THE PRESENT OCCASION. HAVE WE EATEN AT ALL OF THE KING'S COST. OR HATH HE GIVEN US ANY GIFT. AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL ANSWERED THE MEN OF JUDAH AND SAID WE HAVE TEN PARTS IN THE KING AND WE HAVE ALSO MORE RIGHT IN DAVID THAN YE WHY THEN DID YE DESPISE US THAT OUR ADVICE SHOULD NOT BE FIRST HAD IN BRINGING BACK OUR KING. AND THE WORDS OF THE MEN OF JUDAH WERE FIERCER THAN THE WORDS OF THE MEN OF ISRAEL. ANOTHER PREACHER AFTER REPROACHING HIM TO HIS FACE WITH HIS MISGOVERNMENT ORDERED THIS PSALM TO BE SUNG. WHY DOST THOU TYRANT BOAST THYSELF THY WICKED DEEDS TO PRAISE. THE KING STOOD UP AND CALLED FOR THAT PSALM WHICH BEGINS WITH THESE WORDS. HAVE MERCY LORD ON ME I PRAY FOR MEN WOULD ME DEVOUR. THE GOOD NATURED AUDIENCE IN PITY TO FALLEN MAJESTY SHOWED FOR ONCE GREATER DEFERENCE TO THE KING THAN TO THE MINISTER AND SUNG THE PSALM WHICH THE FORMER HAD CALLED FOR. CHARLES HAD VERY LITTLE REASON TO BE PLEASED WITH HIS SITUATION. THE TERMS GIVEN TO MOST OF THEM WERE HONORABLE AND FAIRFAX AS FAR AS IT LAY IN HIS POWER WAS VERY EXACT IN OBSERVING THEM. FAR FROM ALLOWING VIOLENCE HE WOULD NOT EVEN PERMIT INSULTS OR TRIUMPH OVER THE UNFORTUNATE ROYALISTS AND BY HIS GENEROUS HUMANITY SO CRUEL A CIVIL WAR WAS ENDED IN APPEARANCE VERY CALMLY BETWEEN THE PARTIES. ORMOND HAVING RECEIVED LIKE ORDERS DELIVERED DUBLIN AND OTHER FORTS INTO THE HANDS OF THE PARLIAMENTARY OFFICERS. MONTROSE ALSO AFTER HAVING EXPERIENCED STILL MORE VARIETY OF GOOD AND BAD FORTUNE THREW DOWN HIS ARMS AND RETIRED OUT OF THE KINGDOM. THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER A MAN PAST EIGHTY FOUR WAS THE LAST IN ENGLAND THAT SUBMITTED TO THE AUTHORITY OF THE PARLIAMENT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274384/274384_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274384/274384_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b5ad8c3d1648eda3c52205fd0bdb58308b24480 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8224/274384/274384_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THEY WERE STILL ANSWERED THAT THEY MADE USE OF THIS SCANDALOUS EXPEDIENT FOR OBTAINING THEIR WAGES AND THAT AFTER TAKING ARMS WITHOUT ANY PROVOCATION AGAINST THEIR SOVEREIGN WHO HAD EVER LOVED AND CHERISHED THEM THEY HAD DESERVEDLY FALLEN INTO A SITUATION FROM WHICH THEY COULD NOT EXTRICATE THEMSELVES WITHOUT EITHER INFAMY OR IMPRUDENCE. THE INFAMY OF THIS BARGAIN HAD SUCH AN INFLUENCE ON THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT THAT THEY ONCE VOTED THAT THE KING SHOULD BE PROTECTED AND HIS LIBERTY INSISTED ON. BUT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTERPOSED AND PRONOUNCED THAT AS HE HAD REFUSED TO TAKE THE COVENANT WHICH WAS PRESSED ON HIM IT BECAME NOT THE GODLY TO CONCERN THEMSELVES ABOUT HIS FORTUNES. AFTER THIS DECLARATION IT BEHOVED THE PARLIAMENT TO RETRACT THEIR VOTE. INTELLIGENCE CONCERNING THE FINAL RESOLUTION OF THE SCOTTISH NATION TO SURRENDER HIM WAS BROUGHT TO THE KING AND HE HAPPENED AT THAT VERY TIME TO BE PLAYING AT CHESS. SUCH COMMAND OF TEMPER DID HE POSSESS THAT HE CONTINUED HIS GAME WITHOUT INTERRUPTION AND NONE OF THE BYSTANDERS COULD PERCEIVE THAT THE LETTER WHICH HE PERUSED HAD BROUGHT HIM NEWS OF ANY CONSEQUENCE. THE ENGLISH COMMISSIONERS WHO SOME DAYS AFTER CAME TO TAKE HIM UNDER THEIR CUSTODY WERE ADMITTED TO KISS HIS HANDS AND HE RECEIVED THEM WITH THE SAME GRACE AND CHEERFULNESS AS IF THEY HAD TRAVELLED ON NO OTHER ERRAND THAN TO PAY COURT TO HIM. ON HIS JOURNEY THE WHOLE COUNTRY FLOCKED TO BEHOLD HIM MOVED PARTLY BY CURIOSITY PARTLY BY COMPASSION AND AFFECTION. IF ANY STILL RETAINED RANCOR AGAINST HIM IN HIS PRESENT CONDITION THEY PASSED IN SILENCE WHILE HIS WELL WISHERS MORE GENEROUS THAN PRUDENT ACCOMPANIED HIS MARCH WITH TEARS WITH ACCLAMATIONS AND WITH PRAYERS FOR HIS SAFETY. THE PARLIAMENT THOUGH EARNESTLY APPLIED TO BY THE KING REFUSED TO ALLOW HIS CHAPLAINS TO ATTEND HIM BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT TAKEN THE COVENANT. THE KING REFUSED TO ASSIST AT THE SERVICE EXERCISED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTORY BECAUSE HE HAD NOT AS YET GIVEN HIS CONSENT TO THAT MODE OF WORSHIP. DURING THE TIME THAT THE KING REMAINED IN THE SCOTTISH ARMY AT NEWCASTLE DIED THE EARL OF ESSEX THE DISCARDED BUT STILL POWERFUL AND POPULAR GENERAL OF THE PARLIAMENT. HIS DEATH IN THIS CONJUNCTURE WAS A PUBLIC MISFORTUNE. FULLY SENSIBLE OF THE EXCESSES TO WHICH AFFAIRS HAD BEEN CARRIED AND OF THE WORSE CONSEQUENCES WHICH WERE STILL TO BE APPREHENDED HE HAD RESOLVED TO CONCILIATE A PEACE AND TO REMEDY AS FAR AS POSSIBLE ALL THOSE ILLS TO WHICH FROM MISTAKE RATHER THAN ANY BAD INTENTIONS HE HAD HIMSELF SO MUCH CONTRIBUTED \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8230/279154/279154_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8230/279154/279154_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..740766e79c91e3f1920e5257bb988d98721eef44 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8230/279154/279154_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +LIKE ALL SCEPTICAL HYPOTHESES IT IS LOGICALLY TENABLE BUT UNINTERESTING. ALL THAT I AM DOING IS TO USE ITS LOGICAL TENABILITY AS A HELP IN THE ANALYSIS OF WHAT OCCURS WHEN WE REMEMBER. THE BEHAVIOURIST WHO ATTEMPTS TO MAKE PSYCHOLOGY A RECORD OF BEHAVIOUR HAS TO TRUST HIS MEMORY IN MAKING THE RECORD. HABIT IS A CONCEPT INVOLVING THE OCCURRENCE OF SIMILAR EVENTS AT DIFFERENT TIMES IF THE BEHAVIOURIST FEELS CONFIDENT THAT THERE IS SUCH A PHENOMENON AS HABIT THAT CAN ONLY BE BECAUSE HE TRUSTS HIS MEMORY WHEN IT ASSURES HIM THAT THERE HAVE BEEN OTHER TIMES. AND THE SAME APPLIES TO IMAGES. IF WE ARE TO KNOW AS IT IS SUPPOSED WE DO THAT IMAGES ARE COPIES ACCURATE OR INACCURATE OF PAST EVENTS SOMETHING MORE THAN THE MERE OCCURRENCE OF IMAGES MUST GO TO CONSTITUTE THIS KNOWLEDGE. FOR THEIR MERE OCCURRENCE BY ITSELF WOULD NOT SUGGEST ANY CONNECTION WITH ANYTHING THAT HAD HAPPENED BEFORE. CAN WE CONSTITUTE MEMORY OUT OF IMAGES TOGETHER WITH SUITABLE BELIEFS. BUT I DO NOT THINK SUCH AN INFERENCE IS WARRANTED. WHAT RESULTS FORMALLY FROM OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST THROUGH IMAGES OF WHICH WE RECOGNIZE THE INACCURACY IS THAT SUCH IMAGES MUST HAVE TWO CHARACTERISTICS BY WHICH WE CAN ARRANGE THEM IN TWO SERIES OF WHICH ONE CORRESPONDS TO THE MORE OR LESS REMOTE PERIOD IN THE PAST TO WHICH THEY REFER AND THE OTHER TO OUR GREATER OR LESS CONFIDENCE IN THEIR ACCURACY. WE WILL TAKE THE SECOND OF THESE POINTS FIRST. OUR CONFIDENCE OR LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN THE ACCURACY OF A MEMORY IMAGE MUST IN FUNDAMENTAL CASES BE BASED UPON A CHARACTERISTIC OF THE IMAGE ITSELF SINCE WE CANNOT EVOKE THE PAST BODILY AND COMPARE IT WITH THE PRESENT IMAGE. IT MIGHT BE SUGGESTED THAT VAGUENESS IS THE REQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC BUT I DO NOT THINK THIS IS THE CASE. WE SOMETIMES HAVE IMAGES THAT ARE BY NO MEANS PECULIARLY VAGUE WHICH YET WE DO NOT TRUST FOR EXAMPLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF FATIGUE WE MAY SEE A FRIEND'S FACE VIVIDLY AND CLEARLY BUT HORRIBLY DISTORTED. IN SUCH A CASE WE DISTRUST OUR IMAGE IN SPITE OF ITS BEING UNUSUALLY CLEAR. I THINK THE CHARACTERISTIC BY WHICH WE DISTINGUISH THE IMAGES WE TRUST IS THE FEELING OF FAMILIARITY THAT ACCOMPANIES THEM. SOME IMAGES LIKE SOME SENSATIONS FEEL VERY FAMILIAR WHILE OTHERS FEEL STRANGE. FAMILIARITY IS A FEELING CAPABLE OF DEGREES. IN AN IMAGE OF A WELL KNOWN FACE FOR EXAMPLE SOME PARTS MAY FEEL MORE FAMILIAR THAN OTHERS WHEN THIS HAPPENS WE HAVE MORE BELIEF IN THE ACCURACY OF THE FAMILIAR PARTS THAN IN THAT OF THE UNFAMILIAR PARTS. I THINK IT IS BY THIS MEANS THAT WE BECOME CRITICAL OF IMAGES NOT BY SOME IMAGELESS MEMORY WITH WHICH WE COMPARE THEM. I SHALL RETURN TO THE CONSIDERATION OF FAMILIARITY SHORTLY. I COME NOW TO THE OTHER CHARACTERISTIC WHICH MEMORY IMAGES MUST HAVE IN ORDER TO ACCOUNT FOR OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST. THEY MUST HAVE SOME CHARACTERISTIC WHICH MAKES US REGARD THEM AS REFERRING TO MORE OR LESS REMOTE PORTIONS OF THE PAST. IT MAY INCREASE AS T INCREASES OR DIMINISH AS T INCREASES. THE QUESTION WHICH OF THESE OCCURS IS NOT OF ANY IMPORTANCE FOR THE THEORETIC SERVICEABILITY OF THE CHARACTERISTIC IN QUESTION. IN ACTUAL FACT THERE ARE DOUBTLESS VARIOUS FACTORS THAT CONCUR IN GIVING US THE FEELING OF GREATER OR LESS REMOTENESS IN SOME REMEMBERED EVENT. THERE MAY BE A SPECIFIC FEELING WHICH COULD BE CALLED THE FEELING OF PASTNESS ESPECIALLY WHERE IMMEDIATE MEMORY IS CONCERNED. BUT APART FROM THIS THERE ARE OTHER MARKS \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8230/279154/279154_0005.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8230/279154/279154_0005.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca97b9d53bd7062f06eb7922b7e993778fe9f572 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8230/279154/279154_0005.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +WE RECOGNIZE OUR FRIEND JONES WE KNOW CATS AND DOGS WHEN WE SEE THEM AND SO ON. HERE WE HAVE A DEFINITE INFLUENCE OF PAST EXPERIENCE BUT NOT NECESSARILY ANY ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST. WHEN WE SEE A CAT WE KNOW IT IS A CAT BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CATS WE HAVE SEEN BUT WE DO NOT AS A RULE RECOLLECT AT THE MOMENT ANY PARTICULAR OCCASION WHEN WE HAVE SEEN A CAT. RECOGNITION IN THIS SENSE DOES NOT NECESSARILY INVOLVE MORE THAN A HABIT OF ASSOCIATION THE KIND OF OBJECT WE ARE SEEING AT THE MOMENT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WORD CAT OR WITH AN AUDITORY IMAGE OF PURRING OR WHATEVER OTHER CHARACTERISTIC WE MAY HAPPEN TO RECOGNIZE IN THE CAT OF THE MOMENT. WE ARE OF COURSE IN FACT ABLE TO JUDGE WHEN WE RECOGNIZE AN OBJECT THAT WE HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE BUT THIS JUDGMENT IS SOMETHING OVER AND ABOVE RECOGNITION IN THIS FIRST SENSE AND MAY VERY PROBABLY BE IMPOSSIBLE TO ANIMALS THAT NEVERTHELESS HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF RECOGNITION IN THIS FIRST SENSE OF THE WORD. THIS KNOWLEDGE IS MEMORY IN ONE SENSE THOUGH IN ANOTHER IT IS NOT. IT DOES NOT INVOLVE A DEFINITE MEMORY OF A DEFINITE PAST EVENT BUT ONLY THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SOMETHING HAPPENING NOW IS SIMILAR TO SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED BEFORE. IT DIFFERS FROM THE SENSE OF FAMILIARITY BY BEING COGNITIVE IT IS A BELIEF OR JUDGMENT WHICH THE SENSE OF FAMILIARITY IS NOT. I DO NOT WISH TO UNDERTAKE THE ANALYSIS OF BELIEF AT PRESENT SINCE IT WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF THE TWELFTH LECTURE FOR THE PRESENT I MERELY WISH TO EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT RECOGNITION IN OUR SECOND SENSE CONSISTS IN A BELIEF WHICH WE MAY EXPRESS APPROXIMATELY IN THE WORDS THIS HAS EXISTED BEFORE. THERE ARE HOWEVER SEVERAL POINTS IN WHICH SUCH AN ACCOUNT OF RECOGNITION IS INADEQUATE TO BEGIN WITH IT MIGHT SEEM AT FIRST SIGHT MORE CORRECT TO DEFINE RECOGNITION AS I HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE THAN AS THIS HAS EXISTED BEFORE. I AM NOT SURE THAT THERE IS ANYTHING SUBSTANTIAL IN THIS POINT. THE DEFINITION OF MY EXPERIENCE IS DIFFICULT BROADLY SPEAKING IT IS EVERYTHING THAT IS CONNECTED WITH WHAT I AM EXPERIENCING NOW BY CERTAIN LINKS OF WHICH THE VARIOUS FORMS OF MEMORY ARE AMONG THE MOST IMPORTANT. THUS IF I RECOGNIZE A THING THE OCCASION OF ITS PREVIOUS EXISTENCE IN VIRTUE OF WHICH I RECOGNIZE IT FORMS PART OF MY EXPERIENCE BY DEFINITION RECOGNITION WILL BE ONE OF THE MARKS BY WHICH MY EXPERIENCE IS SINGLED OUT FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD. OF COURSE THE WORDS THIS HAS EXISTED BEFORE ARE A VERY INADEQUATE TRANSLATION OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS WHEN WE FORM A JUDGMENT OF RECOGNITION BUT THAT IS UNAVOIDABLE WORDS ARE FRAMED TO EXPRESS A LEVEL OF THOUGHT WHICH IS BY NO MEANS PRIMITIVE AND ARE QUITE INCAPABLE OF EXPRESSING SUCH AN ELEMENTARY OCCURRENCE AS RECOGNITION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8455/210777/210777_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8455/210777/210777_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..66684fc3d70c4e2072daf8bd682f2f45b45d0b80 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8455/210777/210777_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +THE NEW GOVERNOR. SO SAID I TO MYSELF BECAUSE OF JACK AND HIS LOVE ALL THE ASPIRATIONS OF MY LIFE ARE TO BE CRUSHED. IT WAS FOR THAT THAT I WEPT. I WEPT TO THINK THAT A SPIRIT OF HONESTY SHOULD AS YET HAVE PREVAILED SO LITTLE IN THE WORLD. I REMAINED THERE ALONE FOR MANY HOURS BUT I MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BEFORE I LEFT THE CHAMBERS I HAD GRADUALLY BROUGHT MYSELF TO LOOK AT THE MATTER IN ANOTHER LIGHT. HAD EVA CRASWELLER NOT BEEN GOOD LOOKING HAD JACK BEEN STILL AT COLLEGE HAD SIR KENNINGTON OVAL REMAINED IN ENGLAND HAD MISTER BUNNIT AND THE BAR KEEPER NOT SUCCEEDED IN STOPPING MY CARRIAGE ON THE HILL SHOULD I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN ARRANGING FOR THE FINAL DEPARTURE OF MY OLD FRIEND. THAT WAS THE QUESTION WHICH I OUGHT TO ASK MYSELF. HAD CRASWELLER DEPARTED AND HAD THE SYSTEM THEN BEEN STOPPED SHOULD I NOT HAVE APPEARED A MURDERER EVEN TO MYSELF. BUT THOUGH I HAVE BEEN STRONG ENOUGH TO ORIGINATE THE IDEA I HAVE NOT BEEN STRONG ENOUGH TO BEAR THE TERRIBLE HARSHNESS OF THE OPINIONS OF THOSE AROUND ME WHEN I SHOULD HAVE EXERCISED AGAINST THOSE DEAR TO ME THE MANDATES OF THE NEW LAW. IF I COULD IN THE SPIRIT HAVE LEAPED OVER A SPACE OF THIRTY YEARS AND BEEN MYSELF DEPOSITED IN DUE ORDER I COULD SEE THAT MY MEMORY WOULD HAVE BEEN EMBALMED WITH THOSE WHO HAD DONE GREAT THINGS FOR THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS. SUCH HAD BEEN MY AMBITION SUCH HAD BEEN MY HOPE. HAD THE TELEGRAPH BEEN INVENTED IN THE DAYS OF ANCIENT ROME WOULD THE ROMANS HAVE ACCEPTED IT OR HAVE STONED WHEATSTONE. ON ARRIVING AT HOME AT MY OWN RESIDENCE I FOUND THAT OUR SALON WAS FILLED WITH A BRILLIANT COMPANY. WE DID NOT USUALLY USE THE ROOM BUT ON ENTERING THE HOUSE I HEARD THE CLATTER OF CONVERSATION AND WENT IN. HE ROSE TO MEET ME AND I SAW THAT HE WAS A HANDSOME TALL MAN ABOUT FORTY WITH A DETERMINED FACE AND A WINNING SMILE. MISTER PRESIDENT SAID HE I AM IN COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY'S GUNBOAT THE JOHN BRIGHT AND I HAVE COME TO PAY MY RESPECTS TO THE LADIES. I AM SURE THE LADIES HAVE GREAT PLEASURE IN SEEING YOU. I LOOKED ROUND THE ROOM AND THERE WITH OTHER OF OUR FAIR CITIZENS I SAW EVA. AS I SPOKE I MADE HIM A GRACIOUS BOW AND I THINK I SHOWED HIM BY MY MODE OF ADDRESS THAT I DID NOT BEAR ANY GRUDGE AS TO MY INDIVIDUAL SELF. I HAVE COME TO YOUR SHORES MISTER PRESIDENT WITH THE PURPOSE OF SEEING HOW THINGS ARE PROGRESSING IN THIS DISTANT QUARTER OF THE WORLD. THINGS WERE PROGRESSING CAPTAIN BATTLEAX PRETTY WELL BEFORE THIS MORNING. WE HAVE OUR LITTLE STRUGGLES HERE AS ELSEWHERE AND ALL THINGS CANNOT BE DONE BY ROSE WATER. WE ARE QUITE SATISFIED NOW CAPTAIN BATTLEAX SAID MY WIFE. QUITE SATISFIED SAID EVA. I AM SURE WE ARE ALL DELIGHTED TO HEAR THE LADIES SPEAK IN SO PLEASANT A MANNER SAID FIRST LIEUTENANT CROSSTREES AN OFFICER WITH WHOM I HAVE SINCE BECOME PARTICULARLY INTIMATE. THEN THERE WAS A LITTLE PAUSE IN THE CONVERSATION AND I FELT MYSELF BOUND TO SAY SOMETHING AS TO THE VIOLENT INTERRUPTION TO WHICH I HAD THIS MORNING BEEN SUBJECTED. AND YET THAT SOMETHING MUST BE PLAYFUL IN ITS NATURE. I MUST BY NO MEANS SHOW IN SUCH COMPANY AS WAS NOW PRESENT THE STRONG FEELING WHICH PERVADED MY OWN MIND. YOU WILL PERCEIVE CAPTAIN BATTLEAX THAT THERE IS A LITTLE DIFFERENCE OF OPINION BETWEEN US ALL HERE AS TO THE CEREMONY WHICH WAS TO HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED THIS MORNING. THE LADIES IN COMPLIANCE WITH THAT SOFTNESS OF HEART WHICH IS THEIR CHARACTERISTIC ARE ON ONE SIDE AND THE MEN BY WHOM THE WORLD HAS TO BE MANAGED ARE ON THE OTHER. NO DOUBT IN PROCESS OF TIME THE LADIES WILL FOLLOW. THEIR MASTERS SAID MISSUS NEVERBEND. THIS WAS A PRETTY LITTLE SPEECH ENOUGH AND RECEIVED THE EAGER COMPLIMENTS OF THE OFFICERS OF THE JOHN BRIGHT \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8455/210777/210777_0003.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8455/210777/210777_0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..49bade3fe964a562e55d3d4dd3b08e81e19b7a97 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8455/210777/210777_0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I CAN AFFORD TO SMILE BECAUSE I AM ABSOLUTELY POWERLESS BEFORE YOU BUT I DO NOT THE LESS FEEL THAT IN A MATTER IN WHICH THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD IS CONCERNED I OR RATHER WE HAVE BEEN PUT DOWN BY BRUTE FORCE. YOU HAVE COME TO US THREATENING US WITH ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION. WHETHER YOUR GUN BE LOADED OR NOT MATTERS LITTLE. IT IS CERTAINLY LOADED SAID CAPTAIN BATTLEAX. THEN YOU HAVE WASTED YOUR POWDER AND SHOT. TO SPEAK THE TRUTH CAPTAIN BATTLEAX I DO NOT THINK THAT YOU EXCEL US MORE IN COURAGE THAN YOU DO IN THOUGHT AND PRACTICAL WISDOM. THEREFORE I FEEL MYSELF QUITE ABLE AS PRESIDENT OF THIS REPUBLIC TO RECEIVE YOU WITH A COURTESY DUE TO THE SERVANTS OF A FRIENDLY ALLY. VERY WELL PUT SAID SIR FERDINANDO. I SIMPLY BOWED TO HIM. A DOZEN IF IT SUITS YOU TO ASK THEM. CAPTAIN BATTLEAX CANNOT REMAIN HERE LONG WITH THAT EXPENSIVE TOY WHICH HE KEEPS LOCKED UP SOMEWHERE AMONG HIS COCKED HATS AND WHITE GLOVES. I CAN ASSURE YOU HE HAS NOT EVEN ALLOWED ME TO SEE THE TRIGGER SINCE I HAVE BEEN ON BOARD. BUT TWO HUNDRED FIFTY TON SWIVELLERS DO COST MONEY AND THE JOHN BRIGHT MUST STEAM AWAY AND PLAY ITS PART IN OTHER QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. I THOUGHT FOR A LITTLE WHAT ANSWER IT WOULD BEST BECOME ME TO GIVE TO THIS QUESTION BUT I PAUSED ONLY FOR A MOMENT OR TWO. I SHALL PROCEED AT ONCE TO CARRY OUT THE FIXED PERIOD. I FELT THAT MY HONOUR DEMANDED THAT TO SUCH A QUESTION I SHOULD MAKE NO OTHER REPLY. AND THAT IN OPPOSITION TO THE WISHES AS I UNDERSTAND OF A LARGE PROPORTION OF YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS. YOU HAVE ONLY ONE HOUSE IN YOUR CONSTITUTION SAID SIR FERDINANDO. ONE HOUSE I HOLD TO BE QUITE SUFFICIENT. I WAS PROCEEDING TO EXPLAIN THE THEORY ON WHICH THE BRITANNULAN CONSTITUTION HAD BEEN FORMED WHEN SIR FERDINANDO INTERRUPTED ME. AT ANY RATE YOU WILL ADMIT THAT A SECOND CHAMBER IS NOT THERE TO GUARD AGAINST THE SUDDEN ACTION OF THE FIRST. AND YOU ARE I AM AWARE SUFFICIENTLY POPULAR WITH THE PEOPLE HERE TO ENABLE YOU TO DO SO. I THINK I AM I SAID WITH A MODEST ACQUIESCENCE IN AN ASSERTION WHICH I FELT TO BE SO MUCH TO MY CREDIT. THEN SAID SIR FERDINANDO THERE IS NOTHING FOR IT BUT THAT HE MUST TAKE YOU WITH HIM. THERE CAME UPON ME A SUDDEN SHOCK WHEN I HEARD THESE WORDS WHICH EXCEEDED ANYTHING WHICH I HAD YET FELT. ME THE PRESIDENT OF A FOREIGN NATION THE FIRST OFFICER OF A PEOPLE WITH WHOM GREAT BRITAIN WAS AT PEACE THE CAPTAIN OF ONE OF HER GUNBOATS MUST CARRY ME OFF HURRY ME AWAY A PRISONER WHITHER I KNEW NOT AND LEAVE THE COUNTRY UNGOVERNED WITH NO PRESIDENT AS YET ELECTED TO SUPPLY MY PLACE. AND I LOOKING AT THE MATTER FROM MY OWN POINT OF VIEW WAS A HUSBAND THE HEAD OF A FAMILY A MAN LARGELY CONCERNED IN BUSINESS I WAS TO BE CARRIED AWAY IN BONDAGE I WHO HAD DONE NO WRONG HAD DISOBEYED NO LAW WHO HAD INDEED BEEN CONSPICUOUS FOR MY ADHERENCE TO MY DUTIES. I THE PRESIDENT OF A FREE REPUBLIC THE ELECTED OF ALL ITS PEOPLE THE CHOSEN DEPOSITORY OF ITS OFFICIAL LIFE I WAS TO BE KIDNAPPED AND CARRIED OFF IN A SHIP OF WAR BECAUSE FORSOOTH I WAS DEEMED TOO POPULAR TO RULE THE COUNTRY. AND THIS WAS TOLD TO ME IN MY OWN ROOM IN THE EXECUTIVE CHAMBERS IN THE VERY SANCTUM OF PUBLIC LIFE BY A STOUT FLORID GENTLEMAN IN A BLACK COAT OF WHOM I HITHERTO KNEW NOTHING EXCEPT THAT HIS NAME WAS BROWN \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/287645/287645_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/287645/287645_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5fd0a608358848988dc055682cb015bd5de7b8ea --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/287645/287645_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +COLORED WITNESSES HAD NO RIGHT TO TESTIFY AND THE DOCTOR WAS MUTE CONSEQUENTLY THE GUILTY ESCAPED WHOLLY UNPUNISHED. ANOTHER CASE SAID JOHN WESLEY WAS A LITTLE GIRL HALF GROWN WHO WAS WASHING WINDOWS UP STAIRS ONE DAY AND UNLUCKILY FELL ASLEEP IN THE WINDOW AND IN THIS POSITION WAS FOUND BY HER MISTRESS IN A RAGE THE MISTRESS HIT HER A HEAVY SLAP KNOCKED HER OUT OF THE WINDOW AND SHE FELL TO THE PAVEMENT AND DIED IN A FEW HOURS FROM THE EFFECTS THEREOF. THE MISTRESS PROFESSED TO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT SIMPLY SAID SHE WENT TO SLEEP AND FELL OUT HERSELF. AS USUAL NOTHING WAS DONE IN THE WAY OF PUNISHMENT. THESE WERE SPECIMENS OF THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION. JOHN HOWEVER HAD NOT ONLY OBSERVED SLAVERY FROM A DOMESTIC STAND POINT HE HAD ALSO WATCHED MASTER AND MISTRESS ABROAD AS VISITORS AND GUESTS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES NOTICED NOT ONLY HOW THEY TREATED WHITE PEOPLE BUT ALSO HOW THEY TREATED BLACK PEOPLE. BESIDES THEY WERE MEMBERS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND JOHN THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE VERY WILLING THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE GREAT SAINTS. RESPECTING WORK JOHN BORE WITNESS THAT THEY WERE VERY SHARP. WITH JOHN'S INTELLIGENCE LARGE OBSERVATION GOOD MEMORY AND EXCELLENT NATURAL ABILITIES WITH THE AMOUNT OF DETAIL THAT HE POSSESSED NOTHING MORE WOULD HAVE BEEN NEEDED FOR A THRILLING BOOK THAN THE FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF SLAVE LIFE AS HE HAD BEEN CONVERSANT WITH IT UNDER THE JOHNSONS IN MARYLAND. AS THE OTHER TWO COMPANIONS OF JOHN WESLEY WERE ADVERTISED IN THE BALTIMORE SUN WE AVAIL OURSELVES OF THE LIGHT THUS PUBLICLY AFFORDED. TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD RAN AWAY FROM THE SUBSCRIBER LIVING ON THE YORK TURNPIKE EIGHT MILES FROM BALTIMORE CITY ON SUNDAY APRIL ELEVENTH MY NEGRO MAN JACOB AGED TWENTY YEARS FIVE FEET TEN INCHES HIGH CHESTNUT COLOR SPARE MADE GOOD FEATURES. HIS STATEMENT IS HERE TRANSFERRED FROM THE RECORD BOOK MY MASTER SAID JACOB WAS A FARMER A VERY ROUGH MAN HARD TO SATISFY. I NEVER KNEW OF BUT ONE MAN WHO COULD EVER PLEASE HIM. HE WORKED ME VERY HARD HE WANTED TO BE BEATING ME ALL THE TIME. THIS WAS A LUXURY WHICH JACOB HAD NO APPETITE FOR CONSEQUENTLY HE COULD NOT RESIST SIGNIFYING HIS UNWILLINGNESS TO YIELD ALTHOUGH RESISTANCE HAD TO BE MADE AT SOME PERSONAL RISK AS HIS MASTER HAD NO MORE REGARD FOR A COLORED MAN THAN HE HAD FOR A STONE UNDER HIS FEET. SHE WAS A CROSS WOMAN AND AS MUCH OF A BOSS AS HE WAS. SHE WAS A LARGE HOMELY WOMAN THEY WERE COMMON WHITE PEOPLE WITH NO REPUTATION IN THE COMMUNITY. SUBSTANTIALLY THIS WAS JACOB'S UNVARNISHED DESCRIPTION OF HIS MASTER AND MISTRESS. AS TO HIS AGE AND ALSO THE NAME OF HIS MASTER JACOB'S STATEMENT VARIED SOMEWHAT FROM THE ADVERTISEMENT. FOR INSTANCE JACOB TAYLOR WAS NOTICED ON THE RECORD BOOK AS BEING TWENTY THREE YEARS OF AGE AND THE NAME OF HIS MASTER WAS ENTERED AS WILLIAM POLLIT BUT AS JACOB HAD NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO LEARN TO READ HE MIGHT HAVE FAILED IN GIVING A CORRECT PRONUNCIATION OF THE NAME. WHEN ASKED WHAT FIRST PROMPTED HIM TO SEEK HIS FREEDOM HE REPLIED OH MY SENSES. OF STARTING I DIDN'T KNOW THE WAY TO COME. I WAS AFRAID OF BEING OVERTAKEN ON THE WAY. HE FLED FROM NEAR BALTIMORE WHERE HE LEFT BROTHERS AND OTHER RELATIVES IN CHAINS. I WILL PAY TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD IF DELIVERED TO ME OR LODGED IN JAIL SO I CAN GET HIM AGAIN. HE BORE VOLUNTARY TESTIMONY TO CARMAN IN THE FOLLOWING WORDS HE WAS A VERY GOOD MAN HE FED AND CLOTHED WELL AND GAVE SOME MONEY TOO OCCASIONALLY. YET THOMAS HAD NO IDEA OF REMAINING IN SLAVERY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/294828/294828_0000.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/294828/294828_0000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b52ef59777daf06ad535c434038c581cf7fca4e --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/294828/294828_0000.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +CHAPTER THREE AS MASTER WISHES. THREE SECONDS BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF J B HOBSON'S LETTER I NO MORE DREAMED OF CHASING THE UNICORN THAN OF TRYING FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE. THREE SECONDS AFTER READING THIS LETTER FROM THE HONORABLE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY I UNDERSTOOD AT LAST THAT MY TRUE VOCATION MY SOLE PURPOSE IN LIFE WAS TO HUNT DOWN THIS DISTURBING MONSTER AND RID THE WORLD OF IT. EVEN SO I HAD JUST RETURNED FROM AN ARDUOUS JOURNEY EXHAUSTED AND BADLY NEEDING A REST. I WANTED NOTHING MORE THAN TO SEE MY COUNTRY AGAIN MY FRIENDS MY MODEST QUARTERS BY THE BOTANICAL GARDENS MY DEARLY BELOVED COLLECTIONS. BUT NOW NOTHING COULD HOLD ME BACK. I FORGOT EVERYTHING ELSE AND WITHOUT ANOTHER THOUGHT OF EXHAUSTION FRIENDS OR COLLECTIONS I ACCEPTED THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT'S OFFER. BESIDES I MUSED ALL ROADS LEAD HOME TO EUROPE AND OUR UNICORN MAY BE GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO TAKE ME TOWARD THE COAST OF FRANCE. THAT FINE ANIMAL MAY EVEN LET ITSELF BE CAPTURED IN EUROPEAN SEAS AS A PERSONAL FAVOR TO ME AND I'LL BRING BACK TO THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AT LEAST HALF A METER OF ITS IVORY LANCE. CONSEIL WAS MY MANSERVANT. A DEVOTED LAD WHO WENT WITH ME ON ALL MY JOURNEYS A GALLANT FLEMISH BOY WHOM I GENUINELY LIKED AND WHO RETURNED THE COMPLIMENT A BORN STOIC PUNCTILIOUS ON PRINCIPLE HABITUALLY HARDWORKING RARELY STARTLED BY LIFE'S SURPRISES VERY SKILLFUL WITH HIS HANDS EFFICIENT IN HIS EVERY DUTY AND DESPITE HIS HAVING A NAME THAT MEANS COUNSEL NEVER GIVING ADVICE NOT EVEN THE UNSOLICITED KIND. FROM RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH SCIENTISTS IN OUR LITTLE UNIVERSE BY THE BOTANICAL GARDENS THE BOY HAD COME TO KNOW A THING OR TWO. IN CONSEIL I HAD A SEASONED SPECIALIST IN BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION AN ENTHUSIAST WHO COULD RUN WITH ACROBATIC AGILITY UP AND DOWN THE WHOLE LADDER OF BRANCHES GROUPS CLASSES SUBCLASSES ORDERS FAMILIES GENERA SUBGENERA SPECIES AND VARIETIES. BUT THERE HIS SCIENCE CAME TO A HALT. CLASSIFYING WAS EVERYTHING TO HIM SO HE KNEW NOTHING ELSE WELL VERSED IN THE THEORY OF CLASSIFICATION HE WAS POORLY VERSED IN ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATION AND I DOUBT THAT HE COULD TELL A SPERM WHALE FROM A BALEEN WHALE. AND YET WHAT A FINE GALLANT LAD. FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS CONSEIL HAD GONE WITH ME WHEREVER SCIENCE BECKONED. NOT ONCE DID HE COMMENT ON THE LENGTH OR THE HARDSHIPS OF A JOURNEY. NEVER DID HE OBJECT TO BUCKLING UP HIS SUITCASE FOR ANY COUNTRY WHATEVER CHINA OR THE CONGO NO MATTER HOW FAR OFF IT WAS. HE WENT HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE IN PERFECT CONTENTMENT. THE LAD WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD AND HIS AGE TO THAT OF HIS EMPLOYER WAS AS FIFTEEN IS TO TWENTY. PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR THIS UNDERHANDED WAY OF ADMITTING I HAD TURNED FORTY. HE WAS A FANATIC ON FORMALITY AND HE ONLY ADDRESSED ME IN THE THIRD PERSON TO THE POINT WHERE IT GOT TIRESOME. CONSEIL I REPEATED WHILE FEVERISHLY BEGINNING MY PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE. TO BE SURE I HAD CONFIDENCE IN THIS DEVOTED LAD. ORDINARILY I NEVER ASKED WHETHER OR NOT IT SUITED HIM TO GO WITH ME ON MY JOURNEYS BUT THIS TIME AN EXPEDITION WAS AT ISSUE THAT COULD DRAG ON INDEFINITELY A HAZARDOUS UNDERTAKING WHOSE PURPOSE WAS TO HUNT AN ANIMAL THAT COULD SINK A FRIGATE AS EASILY AS A WALNUT SHELL. THERE WAS GOOD REASON TO STOP AND THINK EVEN FOR THE WORLD'S MOST EMOTIONLESS MAN. WHAT WOULD CONSEIL SAY. CONSEIL I CALLED A THIRD TIME CONSEIL APPEARED. DID MASTER SUMMON ME HE SAID ENTERING. WE'RE DEPARTING IN TWO HOURS. AS MASTER WISHES CONSEIL REPLIED SERENELY. WE HAVEN'T A MOMENT TO LOSE \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/294828/294828_0001.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/294828/294828_0001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8ccd8d02c8b339e4b37f9b0b8c0881483b4c4c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8463/294828/294828_0001.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +PACK AS MUCH INTO MY TRUNK AS YOU CAN MY TRAVELING KIT MY SUITS SHIRTS AND SOCKS DON'T BOTHER COUNTING JUST SQUEEZE IT ALL IN AND HURRY. WHAT ABOUT MASTER'S COLLECTIONS CONSEIL VENTURED TO OBSERVE. WE'LL DEAL WITH THEM LATER WHAT. THE ARCHAEOTHERIUM HYRACOTHERIUM OREODONTS CHEIROPOTAMUS AND MASTER'S OTHER FOSSIL SKELETONS. THE HOTEL WILL KEEP THEM FOR US. WHAT ABOUT MASTER'S LIVE BABIRUSA. THEY'LL FEED IT DURING OUR ABSENCE. ANYHOW WE'LL LEAVE INSTRUCTIONS TO SHIP THE WHOLE MENAGERIE TO FRANCE. THEN WE AREN'T RETURNING TO PARIS CONSEIL ASKED. YES WE ARE CERTAINLY I REPLIED EVASIVELY BUT AFTER WE MAKE A DETOUR. WHATEVER DETOUR MASTER WISHES OH IT'S NOTHING REALLY. A ROUTE SLIGHTLY LESS DIRECT THAT'S ALL. WE'RE LEAVING ON THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN. AS MASTER THINKS BEST CONSEIL REPLIED PLACIDLY. YOU SEE MY FRIEND IT'S AN ISSUE OF THE MONSTER THE NOTORIOUS NARWHALE. WE'RE GOING TO RID THE SEAS OF IT. THE AUTHOR OF A TWO VOLUME WORK IN QUARTO ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE GREAT OCEAN DEPTHS HAS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT SETTING SAIL WITH COMMANDER FARRAGUT. IT'S A GLORIOUS MISSION BUT ALSO A DANGEROUS ONE. WE DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WILL TAKE US. THESE BEASTS CAN BE QUITE UNPREDICTABLE. BUT WE'RE GOING JUST THE SAME. WE HAVE A COMMANDER WHO'S GAME FOR ANYTHING. WHAT MASTER DOES I'LL DO CONSEIL REPLIED. BUT THINK IT OVER BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO HIDE ANYTHING FROM YOU. A QUARTER OF AN HOUR LATER OUR TRUNKS WERE READY. THE HOTEL ELEVATOR DROPPED US OFF IN THE MAIN VESTIBULE ON THE MEZZANINE. I WENT DOWN A SHORT STAIR LEADING TO THE GROUND FLOOR. I LEFT INSTRUCTIONS FOR SHIPPING MY CONTAINERS OF STUFFED ANIMALS AND DRIED PLANTS TO PARIS FRANCE. I OPENED A LINE OF CREDIT SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE BABIRUSA AND CONSEIL AT MY HEELS I JUMPED INTO A CARRIAGE. OUR BAGGAGE WAS IMMEDIATELY CARRIED TO THE DECK OF THE FRIGATE I RUSHED ABOARD. I ASKED FOR COMMANDER FARRAGUT. ONE OF THE SAILORS LED ME TO THE AFTERDECK WHERE I STOOD IN THE PRESENCE OF A SMART LOOKING OFFICER WHO EXTENDED HIS HAND TO ME. PROFESSOR PIERRE ARONNAX HE SAID TO ME. THE SAME I REPLIED COMMANDER FARRAGUT. IN PERSON WELCOME ABOARD PROFESSOR YOUR CABIN IS WAITING FOR YOU. I BOWED AND LETTING THE COMMANDER ATTEND TO GETTING UNDER WAY I WAS TAKEN TO THE CABIN THAT HAD BEEN SET ASIDE FOR ME. THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAD BEEN PERFECTLY CHOSEN AND FITTED OUT FOR ITS NEW ASSIGNMENT. IT WAS A HIGH SPEED FRIGATE FURNISHED WITH SUPERHEATING EQUIPMENT THAT ALLOWED THE TENSION OF ITS STEAM TO BUILD TO SEVEN ATMOSPHERES. UNDER THIS PRESSURE THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN REACHED AN AVERAGE SPEED OF EIGHTEEN POINT THREE MILES PER HOUR A CONSIDERABLE SPEED BUT STILL NOT ENOUGH TO COPE WITH OUR GIGANTIC CETACEAN. THE FRIGATE'S INTERIOR ACCOMMODATIONS COMPLEMENTED ITS NAUTICAL VIRTUES. I WAS WELL SATISFIED WITH MY CABIN WHICH WAS LOCATED IN THE STERN AND OPENED INTO THE OFFICERS MESS. WE'LL BE QUITE COMFORTABLE HERE I TOLD CONSEIL. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO MASTER CONSEIL REPLIED AS COMFORTABLE AS A HERMIT CRAB INSIDE THE SHELL OF A WHELK. I LEFT CONSEIL TO THE PROPER STOWING OF OUR LUGGAGE AND CLIMBED ON DECK TO WATCH THE PREPARATIONS FOR GETTING UNDER WAY. JUST THEN COMMANDER FARRAGUT WAS GIVING ORDERS TO CAST OFF THE LAST MOORINGS HOLDING THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO ITS BROOKLYN PIER. AND SO IF I'D BEEN DELAYED BY A QUARTER OF AN HOUR OR EVEN LESS THE FRIGATE WOULD HAVE GONE WITHOUT ME AND I WOULD HAVE MISSED OUT ON THIS UNEARTHLY EXTRAORDINARY AND INCONCEIVABLE EXPEDITION WHOSE TRUE STORY MIGHT WELL MEET WITH SOME SKEPTICISM \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284447/284447_0002.txt b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284447/284447_0002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b15da6117e34f3d928e6507aefbddb8d20f7d732 --- /dev/null +++ b/librispeech-long/test-clean/8555/284447/284447_0002.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +SO THEY SEIZED CAP'N BILL AND TIED HIM INTO THE FRAME SO THAT HE COULDN'T MOVE A JOT IN ANY DIRECTION. THEN THEY ROLLED THE FRAME UNDERNEATH THE GREAT KNIFE AND HANDED THE BOOLOOROO THE CORD THAT RELEASED THE BLADE. BUT WHILE THIS WAS GOING ON TROT HAD CREPT UP AND FASTENED ONE END OF HER ROPE TO THE FRAME IN WHICH CAP'N BILL WAS CONFINED. THEN SHE STOOD BACK AND WATCHED THE BOOLOOROO AND JUST AS HE PULLED THE CORD SHE PULLED ON HER ROPE AND DRAGGED THE FRAME ON ITS ROLLERS AWAY SO THAT THE GREAT KNIFE FELL WITH A CRASH AND SLICED NOTHING BUT THE AIR HUH. EXCLAIMED THE BOOLOOROO THAT'S QUEER. ROLL HIM UP AGAIN SOLDIERS. THE SOLDIERS AGAIN ROLLED THE FRAME IN POSITION HAVING FIRST PULLED THE GREAT KNIFE ONCE MORE TO THE TOP OF THE DERRICK. THE IMMENSE BLADE WAS SO HEAVY THAT IT TOOK THE STRENGTH OF SEVEN BLUESKINS TO RAISE IT. WHEN ALL WAS IN READINESS THE KING PULLED THE CORD A SECOND TIME AND TROT AT THE SAME INSTANT PULLED UPON HER ROPE. THE SAME THING HAPPENED AS BEFORE. CAP'N BILL ROLLED AWAY IN HIS FRAME AND THE KNIFE FELL HARMLESSLY. NOW INDEED THE BOOLOOROO WAS AS ANGRY AS HE WAS AMAZED. HE JUMPED DOWN FROM THE PLATFORM AND COMMANDED THE SOLDIERS TO RAISE THE GREAT KNIFE INTO POSITION. WHEN THIS HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED THE BOOLOOROO LEANED OVER TO TRY TO DISCOVER WHY THE FRAME ROLLED AWAY SEEMINGLY OF ITS OWN ACCORD AND HE WAS THE MORE PUZZLED BECAUSE IT HAD NEVER DONE SUCH A THING BEFORE. AS HE STOOD BENT NEARLY DOUBLE HIS BACK WAS TOWARD THE BILLYGOAT WHICH IN THEIR INTEREST AND EXCITEMENT THE SOLDIERS WERE HOLDING IN A CARELESS MANNER. AT ONCE THE GOAT GAVE A LEAP ESCAPED FROM THE SOLDIERS AND WITH BOWED HEAD RUSHED UPON THE BOOLOOROO. BEFORE ANY COULD STOP HIM HE BUTTED HIS MAJESTY SO FURIOUSLY THAT THE KING SOARED FAR INTO THE AIR AND TUMBLED IN A HEAP AMONG THE BENCHES WHERE HE LAY MOANING AND GROANING. THE GOAT'S WARLIKE SPIRIT WAS ROUSED BY THIS SUCCESSFUL ATTACK. FINDING HIMSELF FREE HE TURNED AND ASSAULTED THE SOLDIERS BUTTING THEM SO FIERCELY THAT THEY TUMBLED DOWN IN BUNCHES AND AS SOON AS THEY COULD RISE AGAIN RAN FRANTICALLY FROM THE ROOM AND ALONG THE CORRIDORS AS IF A FIEND WAS AFTER THEM. SIX TIMES THE GOAT BUTTED AND EACH TIME HE TIPPED OVER A CHAIR AND SENT A HAUGHTY PRINCESS GROVELING UPON THE FLOOR WHERE THE LADIES GOT MIXED UP IN THEIR LONG BLUE TRAINS AND FLOUNCES AND LACES AND STRUGGLED WILDLY UNTIL THEY RECOVERED THEIR FOOTING. THEN THEY SPED IN GREAT HASTE FOR THE DOOR AND THE GOAT GAVE A FINAL BUTT THAT SENT THE ROW OF ROYAL LADIES ALL DIVING INTO THE CORRIDOR IN ANOTHER TANGLE WHEREUPON THEY SHRIEKED IN A MANNER THAT TERRIFIED EVERYONE WITHIN SOUND OF THEIR VOICES. AS THE ROOM OF THE GREAT KNIFE WAS NOW CLEARED OF ALL BUT CAP'N BILL WHO WAS TIED IN HIS FRAME AND OF TROT AND THE MOANING BOOLOOROO WHO LAY HIDDEN BEHIND THE BENCHES THE GOAT GAVE A VICTORIOUS BLEAT AND STOOD IN THE DOORWAY TO FACE ANY ENEMY THAT MIGHT APPEAR TROT HAD BEEN AS SURPRISED AS ANYONE AT THIS SUDDEN CHANGE OF CONDITIONS BUT SHE WAS QUICK TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES IT AFFORDED. FIRST SHE RAN WITH HER ROPE TO THE GOAT AND AS THE ANIMAL COULD NOT SEE HER SHE EASILY SUCCEEDED IN TYING THE ROPE AROUND ITS HORNS AND FASTENING THE LOOSE END TO A PILLAR OF THE DOORWAY. NEXT SHE HURRIED TO CAP'N BILL AND BEGAN TO UNBIND HIM AND AS SHE TOUCHED THE SAILOR SHE BECAME VISIBLE. HE NODDED CHEERFULLY THEN AND SAID. I HAD A NOTION IT WAS YOU MATE AS SAVED ME FROM THE KNIFE. BUT IT WERE A PRETTY CLOSE CALL AN I HOPE IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN. I COULDN'T SHIVER MUCH BEIN BOUND SO TIGHT BUT WHEN I'M LOOSE I MEAN TO HAVE JUS ONE GOOD SHIVER TO RELIEVE MY FEELIN'S. COME AND GET THE BOOLOOROO SHE SAID GOING TOWARD THE BENCHES. THE SAILOR FOLLOWED AND PULLED OUT THE BOOLOOROO WHO WHEN HE SAW THE TERRIBLE GOAT WAS CAPTURED AND TIED FAST QUICKLY RECOVERED HIS COURAGE HI THERE \ No newline at end of file