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Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby (unabridged)

read by David Horovitch

Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby (unabridged)

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Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby (Unabridged)
Work length38:05:38
  • David Horovitch (reader)
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby…
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With a portion of this property…
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From what we have said of this young gentleman…
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Chapter 2: Of Mr. Ralph Nickleby, and his establishments…
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Mr. Nickleby closed an account-book…
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Noggs gave vent to his usual grunt…
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Meanwhile, and pending the arrangement…
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Mr. Ralph Nickleby seconded the resolution…
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Chapter 3: Mr. Ralph Nickleby receives sad tidings…
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Mr. Nickleby looked very indignant…
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Climbing up another perpendicular flight…
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The mutual inspection was at length…
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'There!' said Ralph…
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Chapter 4: Nicholas and his uncle…
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When you walk up this yard…
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The stranger continued.
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Having entered Mr. Snawley's address…
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His father is dead…
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Chapter 5: Nicholas starts for Yorkshire.
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He found that learned gentleman sitting at breakfast…
Track length7:26
If the proprietor of Dotheboys Hall…
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When the guard…
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Chapter 6: In which the occurrence of the accident…
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Expressing himself to this effect…
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THE FIVE SISTERS OF YORK
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Still wasting the precious hours…
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The holy man, who had often urged the same point before…
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With the indifference or abstraction of one…
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They sent abroad, to artists…
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THE BARON OF GROGZWIG
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What a pleasant thing filial piety is…
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The poor baron bore it all as long as he could…
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The baron took another look at his new friend…
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Chapter 7: Mr. and Mrs. Squeers at home
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Pending these little endearments…
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This part of the conversation was rather unintelligible…
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Chapter 8: Of the internal economy of Dotheboys Hall
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Nicholas sighed involuntarily…
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And yet this scene, painful as it was…
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After some half-hour's delay…
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According to half-yearly custom…
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Another boy stood up…
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But, for the present, his resolve was taken…
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Chapter 9: Of Miss Squeers, Mrs. Squeers, Master Squeers…
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Now, a proud usher in a Yorkshire school…
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Miss Squeers glanced at the door…
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It so fell out, that Mrs. Squeers's journey…
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Mr. Browdie was not a gentleman of great conversational powers…
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'I never had such luck, really,' exclaimed coquettish Miss Price…
Track length7:20
Chapter 10: How Mr. Ralph Nickleby provided…
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'It is only his manner, I believe,' observed Kate…
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With an assumption of kindness…
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'The lady's name,' said Ralph…
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A liveried footman opened the door…
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'Now, ma'am,' said Ralph…
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Chapter 11: Newman Noggs inducts Mrs. and Miss Nickleby…
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It was no very easy matter to mistake Newman Noggs…
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Chapter 12: Whereby the reader will be enabled…
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'What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers…
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It is needless to say, that, by this time…
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Here he raised up the brown bonnet…
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The wretched creature, Smike…
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Chapter 13: Nicholas varies the monotony…
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There was, of course, a profound silence…
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'No news of the scamp!' said the schoolmaster…
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The news that Smike had been caught…
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Mrs. Squeers, being out of breath…
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After a brief consideration…
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Nicholas could by no means be prevailed…
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Chapter 14: Having the misfortune to treat…
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Newman Noggs pointed to the bottom of a cupboard…
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'My dear,' said Mr. Kenwigs…
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After a great deal of trouble…
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A gentle murmur seemed to say…
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Chapter 15: Acquaints the reader with the cause and origin…
Track length7:17
With this gentle allusion to the absent Mr. Squeers…
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Newman, who had stood during…
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The worthy gentleman then became…
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This brief explanation over…
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Chapter 16: Nicholas seeks to employ himself in a new capacity…
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'Cook,' said Tom, turning over…
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Tom made no other reply…
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Into Manchester Buildings Nicholas turned…
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The time had been, when this burst of enthusiasm…
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To this, Mr. Gregsbury read the following reply…
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Mr. Gregsbury looked fixedly at Nicholas…
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With this handsome offer…
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Newman hastened, with joyful steps…
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Chapter 17: Follows the fortunes of Miss Nickleby
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'If you will be odiously, demnebly, outrageously jealous…'
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Madame Mantalini's prudence…
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Here Miss Knag paused to take breath…
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There had existed not a little desire in the room…
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Chapter 18: Miss Knag, after doting on Kate Nickleby…
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Of such a highly disinterested quality…
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As Miss Knag had never yet known…
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With another sigh Mr. Knag…
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At this high point, Miss Knag's friendship remained…
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The circumstances of the little kingdom…
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Chapter 19: Descriptive of a dinner at Mr. Ralph Nickleby's…
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The blessing seemed to stick in Mr. Ralph Nickleby's throat…
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The coachman gave a tremendous double knock…
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When Ralph had completed the ceremonial of introduction…
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All this while, Kate had sat as silently as she could…
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The book fell from her hand…
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Although this hurried dialogue…
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Chapter 20: Wherein Nicholas at length encounters his uncle…
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'I need look somewhat changed,' he said…
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Kate very well understood…
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There really was no necessity for the good lady…
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The grasp which had detained him relaxed…
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Chapter 21: Madam Mantalini finds herself in a situation…
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Kate busied herself…
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With these remarks, combining great pleasantry…
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Kate was too sick at heart…
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'You are a good temper?' asked Mrs. Wititterly…
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Here, both Mr. and Mrs. Wititterly…
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Chapter 22: Nicholas, accompanied by Smike…
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'I don't know much of these matters,' resumed Nicholas…
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'No,' rejoined the youth…
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By degrees, the prospect receded…
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The two combatants went to work afresh…
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While he was thus engaged…
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There was a pause.
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Chapter 23: Treats of the company…
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As Mrs. Vincent Crummles…
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'Mr. Folair,' said the manager…
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The ladies were gathered in a little knot…
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Mr. Crummles lived in St. Thomas's Street…
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Chapter 24: Of the great bespeak for Miss Snevellicci…
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Nicholas was standing with his back to the curtain…
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'What did you think of that?' asked Mr. Crummles…
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At the stipulated hour next morning…
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The conversation was here interrupted…
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Mrs. Curdle had sat listening to this lucid explanation…
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It was a trying morning…
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Chapter 25: Concerning a young lady from London…
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The arrival of the gifted subject…
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Nicholas had much ado to prevent himself from laughing…
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With these words, Mr. Lillyvick…
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With such expressions of sorrow…
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'It's very soon done, sir, isn't it?' inquired Mr. Folair…
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This desperate threat effectually broke up the party.
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Chapter 26: Is fraught with some danger…
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'Well,' replied Sir Mulberry…
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Ralph ran over this brief summary…
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Mrs. Nickleby was too much flurried…
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What a delight, what a comfort…
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Chapter 27: Mrs. Nickleby becomes acquainted…
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Mr. Pluck, after feigning to be in a condition…
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By degrees these raptures subsided…
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Mrs. Nickleby had scarcely been put away…
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But Sir Mulberry Hawk was not to be…
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The evening came to an end at last…
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Chapter 28: Miss Nickleby, rendered desperate by the persecution…
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At this instant, while the Lady Flabella…
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To judge from the glow…
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That they came at all times and seasons…
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I have always considered you a particularly well-behaved…
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Newman, with a grim smile at this manoeuvre…
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We are connected in business…
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Chapter 29: Of the proceedings of Nicholas…
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Nicholas, in a state of much amazement…
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As Mr. Folair was pretty well known…
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The profoundest deference was paid to Nicholas that night…
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Chapter 30: Festivities are held in honour of Nicholas…
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'Heigho!' sighed Nicholas…
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So these are some of the stories they invent…
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To these good people Nicholas was presented…
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Most public characters have their failings…
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Miss Snevellicci's papa being greatly exalted…
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All this was the occasion of much amusement…
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Chapter 31: Of Ralph Nickleby and Newman Noggs…
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He executed his commission…
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'Damn him!' cried Newman…
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Chapter 32: Relating chiefly to some remarkable conversation…
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With his heart beating violently…
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Nicholas was in a perfect agony…
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It was evident from the tone…
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Chapter 33: In which Mr. Ralph Nickleby is relieved…
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The plated buttons disappeared…
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As Nicholas and his sister were by this time compelled…
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Chapter 34: Wherein Mr. Ralph Nickleby is visited…
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And notwithstanding various blandishments…
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On this repetition of Mr. Mantalini's fatal threat…
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'And what said he?' asked Ralph…
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'He looks well, indeed,' returned Ralph…
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'Are you stopping at your old quarters?' asked Ralph.
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'We will both cry quits with him before long,'…
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Chapter 35: Smike becomes known to Mrs. Nickleby and Kate…
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At length the door opened again…
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Mr. Crummles occurred to him more than once…
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He moved away as he said this…
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Passing through a warehouse…
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'But hear this first – hear this first, brother Ned,'…
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'We must. We certainly must have a quarrel…'
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Chapter 36: Private and confidential; relating to family matters…
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In the midst of this general hubbub…
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Hearing this mention of their old friend's name…
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Chapter 37: Nicholas finds further favour in the eyes…
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Nor was this all.
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With this casting down of his gauntlet…
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At a quarter past five o'clock…
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But there was no time to moralise…
Track length6:17
By this time it was past eleven o'clock…
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This was undoubtedly the case…
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'Every time I go to the window,'…
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Chapter 38: Comprises certain particulars…
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Leaving it to pursue its journey…
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Ralph shrugged his shoulders…
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Ralph, who was no common observer…
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The man looked from Squeers to Smike…
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Obedient to this direction…
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Chapter 39: In which another old friend…
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To have seen Miss Squeers now…
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'What do you think?' said that gentleman…
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Now, the fact was, that at that particular moment…
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Chapter 40: In which Nicholas falls in love…
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He was going on, in his enthusiasm…
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'Is there nobody in the house to cheer or help him?'…
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He had abundance of time to ruminate…
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These repeated visits inflamed the curiosity…
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It appeared, on further questioning…
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'Well!' said Nicholas…
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Chapter 41: Containing some romantic passages…
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'Well, I will say,' observed Mrs. Nickleby…
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As Kate rose from her seat…
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Here he broke off to look round…
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Repeating these last words with great rapture…
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One of the hands being then cautiously unclasped…
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Chapter 42: Illustrative of the convivial sentiment…
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'I dinnot know whether thou'd ever dreamt of it…'
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'He's a bad 'un,' said John…
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'This is the hend, is it?'…
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While the foregoing conversation was proceeding…
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Chapter 43: Officiates as a kind of gentleman usher…
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Here a waiter who had been rubbing his hands…
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Nicholas responded to these compliments…
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Notwithstanding all that has been said…
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'Mr. Nickleby,' said brother Charles…
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There was a mighty bustle that night…
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Chapter 44: Mr. Ralph Nickleby cuts an old acquaintance…
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'This Hawk will come back, however,'…
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The sky had been lowering and dark…
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'I am a most miserable and wretched outcast…'
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'I neither revile nor threaten,'…
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'What is the matter here?' said Ralph…
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However, notwithstanding her firmness…
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Chapter 45: Containing matter of a surprising kind
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'Mr. Browdie,' said Kate…
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'There's more to say and hear…'
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This being purely a labour of love…
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'The school was Mr. Squeers's,'…
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'Now,' said Nicholas to the other two…
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Chapter 46: Throws some light upon Nicholas's love…
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By this time brother Charles was in such a very warm state…
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Pursuing this encomium upon the poor follower…
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Then it came out by little and little…
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To the row of houses indicated to him…
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'Ring the bell, ring the bell,' said the sick man…
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Chapter 47: Mr. Ralph Nickleby has some confidential intercourse…
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Such was old Arthur Gride…
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'I wouldn't deceive YOU, you know,'…
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There was enough acerbity and sarcasm…
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'There's something more to be told,' said Ralph…
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Having delivered this observation…
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'Still,' rejoined Ralph…
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It might have moved a very hard…
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Chapter 48: Being for the benefit of Mr. Vincent Crummles…
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Mr. Crummles was unfeignedly glad to see him…
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Nicholas responded to this confidence…
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With this hasty apology…
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The conversation threatened…
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Chapter 49: Chronicles the further proceedings of the Nickleby family…
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But there were other persons associated…
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As the hearers did not echo this sentiment…
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The good lady's surprise…
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Frank Cheeryble and Tim Linkinwater…
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It happened that Miss La Creevy…
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Frank was not at all confident of his power…
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Chapter 50: Involves a serious catastrophe
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Fitted up with three tables…
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This officer was busily plying his vocation…
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Such was the ascendancy he had acquired…
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Here, they encountered another party…
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What a contrast, when they reached the street…
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Chapter 51: The project of Mr. Ralph Nickleby and his friend…
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'The bottle-green,' said old Arthur…
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Mrs. Sliderskew appeared to approve highly…
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In good fellowship…
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'He is an idle ruffian,' said Ralph…
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Chapter 52: Nicholas despairs of rescuing Madeline Bray…
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You read me a good lesson, Newman…
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Deploring the evil-mindedness…
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The features of Mr. Lillyvick…
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Immediately upon the utterance…
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Newman had been a silent spectator…
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Chapter 53: Containing the further progress of the plot…
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Bray and his daughter were sitting there alone.
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The father was too much absorbed…
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Long before Nicholas ceased to speak…
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'Well-a-day!' he chuckled…
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'Thieves! Thieves!' shrieked the usurer…
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Long habit of weighing and noting well…
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Chapter 54: The crisis of the project and its result
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'What a man it is!' cried Arthur Gride…
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You see what a dry, shrivelled…
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As the brother and sister stood side by side…
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They all stood still…
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Chapter 55: Of family matters, cares, hopes…
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To this, Mrs. Nickleby only replied…
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Who, slowly recovering from a disorder so severe…
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At other times, when Nicholas came home at night…
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'I think it my duty, Nicholas…'
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Mrs. Nickleby shook her head…
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Chapter 56: Ralph Nickleby, baffled by his nephew…
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On their way, Ralph sat in the furthest corner…
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'There is something missing…'
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Striving, as it would seem…
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'How often have I told you,' said Ralph…
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Mr. Squeers, after following with his eye…
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Chapter 57: How Ralph Nickleby's auxiliary…
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'The pigs is well,' said Mr. Squeers…
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'Do you see this? This is a bottle.'
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'He's a treacherous old goat,' said Peg…
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If the old woman had not been very deaf…
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Chapter 58: In which one scene…
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In a fortnight's time, he became too ill…
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On a fine, mild autumn day…
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Chapter 59: The plots begin to fail…
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Of all men alive…
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With these words, uttered with great emphasis…
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At length he felt it was hopeless to remain…
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'As nobody bids me to a seat,' said Ralph…
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Ralph had put a great command upon himself…
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The robbery, partly owing to the inquisitiveness…
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Chapter 60: The dangers thicken…
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'What document was it that you had?' asked Ralph…
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He went home, and was glad…
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The brothers conferred apart for a short time…
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In the midst of a dead silence…
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He went on, from this point…
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Chapter 61: Wherein Nicholas and his sister forfeit…
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Nicholas coloured again…
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I have thought of this for weeks…
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Here, Tim stopped and glanced anxiously…
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'Mr. Nickleby,' said brother Charles…
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Chapter 62: Ralph makes one last appointment…
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While he was thus engaged…
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But one tender thought…
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He listened to the man's retreating footsteps…
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Chapter 63: The brothers Cheeryble…
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The old butler received them…
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'I hardly dared to hope –'
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Tim sat down beside Miss La Creevy…
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By this time, the apoplectic butler was nearly in fits…
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Chapter 64: An old acquaintance is recognised…
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Mr. Mantalini turned round…
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The entrance of Mrs. Browdie…
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Before that estimable lady could recover herself…
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Chapter 65: Conclusion
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