Episode 19 | GSMC Classics: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Embark on the thrilling conclusion of GSMC Classics: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Episode 19, where the reckoning of souls unfolds in a gripping finale that will leave you breathless. As the epic saga reaches its climax, listeners are plunged into the heart of darkness for a showdown between good and evil unlike any other.

In this riveting adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless novel, the tension reaches its peak as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde face off in a battle for the soul of one man. With the fate of London hanging in the balance, Dr. Jekyll must confront the darkest corners of his psyche and make a choice that will define him for eternity.

But as the story hurtles towards its dramatic conclusion, shocking twists and devastating betrayals threaten to derail Dr. Jekyll's quest for redemption. With danger lurking around every corner and time running out, he must muster all his strength and courage to confront the demons that haunt him and emerge victorious against all odds.

With expertly crafted sound design and masterful storytelling, GSMC Classics: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde delivers an immersive audio experience that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. From the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London to the eerie confines of Dr. Jekyll's laboratory, every moment is filled with tension, suspense, and the timeless struggle between light and darkness.

Join us as we witness the culmination of one of literature's most enduring tales and explore the timeless themes of identity, morality, and the nature of humanity. Whether you're a fan of classic literature or simply love a good mystery, this podcast promises to captivate and enthrall.

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Golden State Media Concepts presents the GSMCClassic Series with episodes of some of your
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we time travel to some of yourclassic favorites from yesteryear. The GSMC Podcast
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on the Golden State Media Concepts PodcastNetwork. Ladies and gentlemen, we now

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present George Edwards in Doctor Jekyll andMister Hyde. When I don't know not
of all this, I'm telling you, if it hadn't have been for Billy
Peddler, who was coming home frommarket and heard the goings on, he

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got off his horse and went totake a peep through the wind, and
he seen hid Fair tear the ringfrom off her hand. I was wondering
how you do so much the betmuch as missus meser, I can tell
you that so it seems speaking afinger rings, let be a right queer

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one you wear now? He ifyou'll excuse me for re market on it,
Yes, sir, yes, itis rather unusual. It belonged to
my father, Oh did it?Now? I had a thought run through
my head when I seen it,but I must have been mistaken. Why
what don't you think? Well,Billy Peddler told me about the ring that

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I took off the wider Coal's hand. He'd seen, awaren not afore,
you know, and i'd a swornthat were the same as you, Bewarin.
Now, yes, you're you're quiteright er. I did wear it.
I I lent it to him fora while, and he were a
friend of yours, well not exactlya friend, but I had a good

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deal to do with him. Ina way. I was responsible for him.
Now. That's why I've come downhere now to try and see what
can be done to make up forwhat he did. He'll take more in
the power of mortal man to undowhat I did. Oh, but I
can do something, surely thurs arestill alive, and and young Samway may

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be living. But there's a sightof bitterness and suffering that can't be wiped
away. Maybe you don't know thefull story, then tell me. I
know hide sight of it, butI'd like to hear another well, as
I was saying, after Ide hadFoster to her knees afore him and made

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her Beggie's pardon. Oh, youngThurzer run out of the house and down
the road like one demented. Shewas smarting from the bows her mire had
fetched her. And then there werethe time she took the knife tide.
When she were sobbing and crying toherself as she run out of the place

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and didn't seem to rightly know whatshe were at. Billy Peddler called to
her. She never heeded him.Her stopped until she came to Young Sam's
place and banged on the door.Thurser, lord of mercyless, what become

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over here? Oh hush, nowcome your seldom tell us what it's all
about. Let me dry your eyes, Lord Severs, what's this on your
face? Did someone strike you?Mother? She beat me some something cruel?
And why because I took to herabout the way she's going on.

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I couldn't stand it any longer,Samon. That's the truth of it.
Very ashamed I be, And shestruck you with a pastick. I be
black and blue. Oh I cansee your face, poor lass. Come
Let me bathe that cut above youreyron and fetch your summer to drink.
No, no, I couldn't toucha thing or just to drink a milk

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or maybe some tea to help tocalm. Here. Come, now,
that's a good glass, histerranfather besitting in the kitchen. We'll go into
them and tell them what it isthat's happened to you. Oh no,
I shouldn't have come. I shouldhe be shame? What did your father
say when he hears about it?Don't you take no notice of him?

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He's an old man with a bittertongue. It's me you've got to take
heat of. And I'll say youdid right to come here? Where else?
Should you go? Nowhere else?Since since mothers took to carry an
I'm so brazen. There bein't hardlyno one as will speak to me.
Oh, we'll change all that,you and me. He'll be wed.

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And i'd like to see the manor woman had scorn my wife. Come
along, now, don't be feared. We'll tell the old man and I'll
not stand for any of his goingson. Where you're in concerned? Oh,
what what's the matter last my wrist? You took my wrist? I
shall risp be hurt too. Letme look at it. Oh how come

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you by this? Where'd you getthese bruises? And these finger marks?
Who Sammy, it were him.He haven't broke him? Do you mean
hide fair? Mad I? Ican't tell you about it, but I
tried to kill him, Sam,I tried to drive a knife into him.
I hated him that much, Lordhave mercy, and he did this

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to you. He grabbed me bythe wrist and made me drop the knife,
and then he forced me down onmy knees and made me beg his
pardon and thank him first kindness tomother. Bye crity. I'll choke the
curve for this. It becairs afather. She's in trouble. Come a

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long last, Dry your tears,Yest'll take care of your and I'll be
off to deal with Hyde. Willlook out for him, Sam he do
anything, he'll not do what he'sdone to you, and get clear of
it. Come here's the kitchen andgo in and bide with Hester. Why
sir, that is a long timesince she last come here, says a

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life. What's happened to you?Fetch some water and a piece of clean
rag history. Thursday's in no stateto be worried. It's help, she
needs its themaining are it? Andif she come by the bruises neck cut
on her she she had trouble withher mother, had murther Why did she
come here? For where else shouldshe go? We're sticking her own face,
not go dragging eating folks into thesame. And it's grace they're not

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responsible far other. Shame on youto speak the So it's all right.
I shouldn't have came. I'm sorry, I'll go. You stop where you
are, no, not while i'mhere. You won't send her? And
I went on a pass. Wouldyou let her go back to that house?

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Would you see what's been done toher? What's they're gonna do with
me? It's got a lot todo with me. Thursday is my last
and I'll not stand by and seeher treated the old, not by you
nor anybody else. And it's theworse for you because I don't have one
of her kind in my house solong as I'm master. What of her
kind? What do you mean?It's Samuel birds that will come on an

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act neist. A father was awaster and a drunkard, and her mother
and let's say no more of her? Who stop it? Stop? I
never should have come here. Yougo after sam and fetch her back.
If he does, I slang thedoor in both their faces. Are you
take a chance on that? I'mgone for thuser, father Ben, ashamed

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of yourself speaking to the poor laughlike that, and her in such a
past? Who brought her to it? Is it her fault? Would she
ever offered a decent, right,living, respectable girl, no matter what
her mother might have done? Thebad blunt in that brood? Now know
it in mine. You've never wantedSam to marry her, and this suits
your pire. It proves what Isay, there's bad blunt, and it

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will show, even though you waittill you're forty, like the widow calls
and tether her. I ever comesto any wrong, it'll be you who
helped to drive her there. Well, what's that you say? She's in
mortal trouble and you've driven her out, and you'd call yourself a crew.
I'm such a master, I haveno title. Mind talk to me that
way. I'll not stand by andsee a poor lass driven out when she's

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so far me to help. Youcan get your own supper. I'm going
off to help Sam Pinder and bringher back. Were the beginning of the
old man's sickness. When they comeback, they found him lying on the
floor of his kitchen, and weredays afore he spoke, and he hasn't

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never set foot to the ground fromthat day to this. Oh, it
were a black time all round thatnight, and all of it on accounter
that devil Eyde. Tell me,didn't you say his esther were coming down
to see you sometime this evening?Yes, she promised she would when I
was out at their place today.Well she be coming. Now, get

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her to tell you what happened thatnight out on the moors. She and
Sam were there. She can tellyour first hand, which is more than
I can do. I wonder willshe ask her? No, I'll go
out here and leave the two yearalone. It will be easier for her
that way. Well, good night, dear, and thank you kindly for

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the batty in the ale. Thankyou for telling me so much. I'm
very indebted to you, to mefor gossiping. I must tell me daughter
that I doubt if she believe itall. Good Night, good night,
jeremy, good night. I wantyou to believe that I do anything in

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my power to set the rights thewrongs you and your brother and Thursa have
suffered at the hands of Hide.The blackest day in my whole life was
when I first set eyes on hishideous form and face. Did you ever
see the light of it? If? Air maid, my blood run cold?

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Oh how could Thursa's mother? Ohwell that's all past an gone now
she's dead, this three years past, and all her folly's were dead.
Aye. She caught a chill thatwild night we were searching on the moors,
the Thursta soaked to the bone.She were nought we could do would
make her come inside to cease tosearch. She were ill a long time

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after that and never rightly got overit. And where was Thursa? Found
At the bottom of one of theold tin workings. She'd been there two
days before, Sam caught a glimpseore. But how did she get there?
The night were awful wild, Iguess she didn't rightly know what she
were about, and stumbled as sheran along. She'd tried to save herself,

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poor lass, and hung on toa bit of a bush as she
slipped down the side. That's howSam got track o her. He seated
where it had pulled out by theroofs, and he climbed down to look.
But she wasn't killed, not killed, but mortal hurt her back.
It were She's lay like a logever since, and Sam went off to

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South Africa. He never forgave hisfather for driving her out that night,
and never a word that he hasspoken to him since. It's all but
broke poor father's heart. He bea hard man, but Sam were his
only son and the light of hiseyes. Well, there's something I can
do. I can bring Sam backfrom South Africa and give your father back

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his son. Ay, but whatabout poor Thursday. I'm a doctor,
a surgeon. I've done many thingsto help people who've been crippled. I
can't say tle i've seen her,but it may be possible to make her
well again. Don't hope for toomuch, but perhaps I can do something.
I'd go down on my knees andgive thanks every day of my life

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if you could do something for Sam. It were that that drove him off
to South Africa as much as anything. He was set on marrying her,
cripple or no cripple, And whenshe wouldn't hear of it, he couldn't
stick the place no more. Verywell, and that is my task.

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I must bring your brother back andgive him further well and strong again ladies

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and gentlemen. We now present GeorgeEdwards in Doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde.

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Are you serious? How can sucha thing be done? They do say
it where her spine that got hurt? It were a terrible fall she had
right down to the bottom of theold teen words. Have any really good
doctors seen her? Just the bestwe had in Bodman's a very pretty little
town. But I don't suppose itboasts anything very outstanding in the way of

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a bone specialist. Oh no,they're paying no one. They are tall
as you could rightly call a specialist. Just doctor Lesbidge and him not so
young neither, and that gives mefresh hope. I have a friend in
London who's performed miracles on people who'vebeen thought to be crippled for life.
When do you think I could seeher? Well, she'd be living with

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around about nine miles from here.Maybe you could hire a landlord's horse and
trap and drive across. Will youcome with me? Nay, I couldn't
be leaving father for so long.He's asleep now, or I'd never have
got away as it is. Butdo you think she'd talked to me and
let me examine her. If shehadn't you to tell her I was a
friend, Why, for sure,she's only got to look at your face

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for one thing? Is it aface that you would trust? Hester,
It's it's a face the like ofwhich I've never seen afore, like a
picture I once seen somewhere. Women, you were a little child, so
kind, so sad, so sobeautiful. Thank you, Hester, my

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dear, thank you. You can'tpossibly know what it means to hear that
from you. Why from me youhave known? Hide? Hide? What
has he got to do? WiYe, don't speak of him? Just
let me for debt very well.Then I'll not mention him again. And

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now, if you'd like to goback to your father, i'll walk along
the road with you. Nat'd beright kindy, but there'll bey ain't any
need. It's bright moonlight, andI hain't far to go, but I
feel the need of a little walker. It's rather stuffy in this little room
with such a big fire. That'sif you don't mind my coming with you,
of course I don't. I'd beglad o your company. Let's go

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them. I'll just put on hiscoat and scarf. By the way,
I think I'd rather you didn't sayanything to the people in the village about
my trying to get further cured andSam brought back from South Africa and you
can rely on me. I'll keepmum and no mistake good. Shall we

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go? Then there? I wantyou to trust me. I've come all

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the way from London to try andhelp you, but without your assistance,
I well, I can't do anything. Why should you be troubling yourself about
me, doctor Jacob, Well,that's a question I can't answer. But
does it really matter. I've heardyour story in a curious way. I
am compelled to hold myself responsible forthings that I did. I want to

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try and put them right. Isn'tthat enough? Responsible for hide? Then
I pity You've a lord of guiltlaid on your soul that'll wear to the
ground. Yes, I know someone once said those words to me a
long time ago. No one butmyself knows how true they are. I'm

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sorry. I never meant to hurtyo. Please don't look that way.
You make me feel fair ashamed ofmyself. So kind ye are herne me
talkin' toy like that? Then you'lllet me do what I can for you.
If I've been ungrateful, it's becauseI daren't let myself have hope.
You cannot dream what it's like tolie here year after year with nothing to

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hope for her but dyin'. Well, that's all past. I feel sure
that something can be done for you, if you'll let me look at your
back and see where the injury was. How did it happen? Did you
lose your way and stumbled into theold man? No? I did not
lose my way. I knew whereI were right enough. Then what happened?

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Do you remember very much? Whyshouldn't I? Is it like that
i'd forget? No? No,I suppose not. But I was just
interested to know if the fall hadcaused you for to get any of the
things that happened just before the accident. It uh sometimes, does you know?
I remember everything? At night whenI lie here in the dark,

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I can even see his face andhear his voice. You mean, hight
You didn't suspect that he were there, did you? I told no one
what were the use he'd gone?No one had seen hide Nahara he marked
that night, and some poor ladhe wouldn't lie out of his mind as

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it were. He blamed Hyde forwhat had happened, and because of him,
if he'd never set foot in MarstonBridge. Me and Sam had been
with this three year past, andpoor mother, Oh well, let her
rest in peace. And you've keptthe secret all this time, Aye,

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but you shouldn't. It's bad foryou. You say you see his face
and hear his voice when you liehere in the dark, Aye, clear
as can be it is. Ican hear the wind blowing and feel a
bit of rain in the face.And I'm stumbling across the moors, not
heiden where I'm going, half mad. We're hurt and sorrow. How long

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I wanted there? I have noway of know one. They told me
afterwards that they were searching for mewere lanterns. But I never seen him.
And all at once as I camealong the little path near the top
of the mind Shaft, I've seensomeone standing afore me here, give me
a turn? It did? Whobe you? Is it? Pasan?

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Where Will? What are you doingout here alone? Hight? What were
you doing here? I'm on myway to the nearest railway station. I
have a kind of idea. I'mnot very welcome at Marston Bridge, much
longer welcome. You were never welcome. You were hated from the first moment
you said put on the place youare thinking of Sham's dog, that and

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all the other things you did.You'll be hated round this place as long
as any of us remains alive toremember you don't come? Is it so
bad as that? Won't show?Mother? Think a little kindly of me
sometimes? How can your marketer likethat? Haven't you done enough? We
out laughing at our shame. Mydear child, you take these things too
hard. That's what comes up livingin a little place like Marston Bridge.

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If you were in London, forinstance. But I'm not. I'm in
Marston Bridge and I've got to livethere the rest of my life and suffer
the punishment that you brought on us. What punishment will you have to supper?
I were turned out of Sam's house. This very nice you were,
That's splendid. I never hope foranything so good as that. Good?

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Is that what you call it?Good? Broken hearts and broken lives of
you know? Pitty? No mercyat all, and that hearty you all
pity and mercy, not a grainof it. Don't you know what I
am? I'm evil, pure evil. Never before in the entire history of

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man has there ever been another creaturelike myself. HeLEX helf has nothing to
rival me, mad I can tellit. It's too dark to see your
face, but I can guess theway it looks. It's not a pleasant
face. No one likes my face. I love to see the way they
shudder and turns sick. How wouldyou like to have it close to yours,

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my dear m? How would youlike to feel my cheek against you?
And stop stopping? Get away fromme? Not you've given me a
kiss? Do you think it wasyour mother? I really wanted? No,
No, it was you, youbeast. You think they called me
I die before? Oh no,you wouldn't. Life is very sweet,

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my child. And what's a kiss? Soon over and you'll find it's not
so bad. Come now, thisis sensible. Never never, If you
knew the way I hate you,and I'll take it to myself, I'd
have let you off rightly if you'dbeen civil. Now you're paid daily for

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the things you've said. No,I will not, you would have.
I'll fix some sink your teeth intome? Would ook? So you got
away? Look out where you're going, My dear god, she's gone a

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little fool shamferon is dark. Thatbrute hates me. I'd better go,
or it beyond my tracks. Let'ssee what way? Uh, there's a
glimpse of the moon. I'll haveto keep it on my right and then

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i'll strike the road. Where's mystick and bag? Ah? There there
are. That's good, that's verygood. The ground is stony here.
No one i'll see my footsteps.He'll never know that anyone was here besides

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the girl. That's good. That'sgood. Show your lantern here, Ted
badger's onto something here. He neverbark that way for nothing? Were hey

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by the edge of the old timworking mercy? Don't say? Look?
See that little bush there, almosttorn out by the roof. Dioways here
might if someone had grabbed it.Look that's a piece of something flopping in
the wind. It's a bit ofcloth her dress. She's here. Oh
she's fallen down the shop. Yeah, wait a minute, Tom, you're

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never going down are like? Nowshe's down there? Thurs is down there?
You must have rocks, man,and more like it's so ef like
to go without. Do you thinkthat I can stop hearing her down there
out there. Any lad us knowsthe way you feel. But there'd be
no use until you going down headfirst in the young chap. How she
might be dead. There's water downthere. Oh wait a minute, can

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you hear me? It's she,she's answered. We're coming last, We're
coming down for you. You gofor ropes, You go for ropes,
tend and billy, I'll wait here. I'll stop here and call from time
to time. It'll give her heartto wait and hurry, hurry, take
your courage last. As soon aswe have ropes and lanterns, we'll get

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you up. I won't be love, I promise you. Hard and by
and bye. I see them comingdown the curtains. When they got to
me and started to carry me upto the tax I don't remember anymore.

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The pain must have been terrible.It were worse nor anything I ever dreamed
a body could endure. There mightbe more pain for you before you get
well again. I need to tearme limb from lim if I could walk
again and be like out the pope. And there is something I've got to
do. You shall walk through Marstonbridging back to your own home, and
then perhaps you'll not lye in thedark anymore and see the face of Edward

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