1928
First performed: May 21, 1924
To my son
KEITH MACKAYE
IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR COMRADESHIP
IN THE MOUNTAINS
PERSONS
LARK FIDDLER
TILDY, his wife
HODGE, a kind of business man
STEPTOE, another kind
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Lark's Cabin, in the Kentucky mountains, at the present time
Interior of a log cabin in the mountains. Twilight .
Through the open door ( at back, right ) a glimpse of gray palings and dim forest beyond .
From a dark corner of the cabin ( left ) rises a stifled moaning .
Then all is very still again .
After a little, voices are heard outside, a wooden gate creaks, and the dim shape of a man appears in the doorway .
He knocks. No answer .
He knocks again, peering in .
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The moaning recurs, very faintly. The man calls, louder
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Again no answer .
In the dorway appears another man, who speaks in disgruntled tones
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He hands him a cloth bag
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He takes from his pocket two little parcels, wrapped in pink and blue paper
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Ruminatingly, takes up a dark object from a shelf, and feels it over
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The dark object emits a faint twang
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In the middle of his song, old LARK himself looms in the doorway, a hatless, dishevelled, shambling, mountainy figure, with a cow-bell, swung by a string round his neck, jangling under his unshorn chin. In one hand he swings a big tin pail .
Standing a moment, he peers into the cabin and calls:
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Setting his pail on a table, he holds both fists over it, milking the air with his fingers as he looks out of doors and calls again:
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The dim object on the floor answers him feebly
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His head shaking with solemnity
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Solemnly unnoosing his neck from the dangling cowbell , LARK squats down beside TILDY, and tinkles the bell toward her, with deep earnestness
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Tossing aside the bell with a sweeping gesture of disgust, he inverts the tin pail and sits on it
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Assisting her very slowly toward the hickory chair , LARK sings aloud, as she clutches his arm, limping :]
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He goes to the fireplace, stirs up some coals with fresh sticks, dippers some water into an iron pipkin, and shoves it amid the fire. Then reaching with shaky hands to a shelf, he rummages forth some dried roots. Meanwhile he whistles the tune he has been singing, and talks to TILDY.]
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Goes to a shelf and takes down the fiddle
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Feebly
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Unhearing
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Lowering his fiddle, gazes on it, grief-stricken
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Tartly
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A sharp rap sounds on the door-jamb, and a shadowy FIGURE peers in calling
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Starting up
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Timorously
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[HODGE enters with STEPTOE.]
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Coming forward
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With feeble surprise
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Leaning forward
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To LARK]
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Handing him a match
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Lighting the charred lamp-wick, which smokes duskily
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Shutting the door, and referring to the lamp
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Bending over her, solicitous
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[STEPTOE takes LARK'S place at the fire, and pays assiduous little attentions to TILDY in pantomime . LARK rises from his squatting position
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Bewilderedly, sitting with HODGE at the table
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Floundering to his feet, calls out excitedly
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Responding to a meaningful look from STEPTOE]
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Calming TILDY]
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Picking up his fiddle
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Glancing at STEPTOE, HODGE taps his own forehead, questioning . STEPTOE laughs furtively
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Glancing up solemnly
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Testily
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Grimacing, turns to LARK]
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Hazily
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Slowly
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Whistling
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Lifting his bag from under the table
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Untying the bag, he inverts it, slowly pouring out upon the table, near the lamp-flame, a heap of shining coins .
LARK and TILDY stare for a moment, dumfounded
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Biting a large coin
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Taking up his fiddle again, begins slowly
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Risen half to her feet, supporting herself on her chair-arms, her body trembling, speaks tensely low:
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With a triumphant gesture
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Rising
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He starts to scoop up the coins on the table, but stops suddenly as STEPTOE strikes a hand heavily on his shoulder, scowling upon him
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Staring
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Turning toward them
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He takes from his pocket a sheet of paper
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Looking on from a distance, stifles a guffaw with his hat
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Peering forward, eagerly curious
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Undoes the package, wonderingly
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As he reaches her a necklace, strung with many-colored glass
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Overcome, she presses them against her breast
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Raptly, holding up the beads
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Under his breath, looking on
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Extricating his hands from LARK'S clutch
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He gives TILDY a small blue package, which she hands, in dazed dumbness, to LARK.]
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Watching
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Sinking on a chair, bends over the table, his bowed shoulders heaving with big sobs
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To himself
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Who has seized his fiddle and is feverishly putting in the new strings, glances up with a momentary wave of the hand
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Handing TILDY a tin plate, with the sheet of paper and a fountain-pen
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Examining the fountain-pen
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60 chars
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As she signs her mark on the paper
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13 chars
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9 words
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1 sentence
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44 chars
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Taking the signed paper and the pen
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14 words
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2 sentences
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70 chars
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2 sentences
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64 chars
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23 words
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5 sentences
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112 chars
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27 words
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3 sentences
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Rubbing his chin
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2 sentences
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27 chars
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10 words
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1 sentence
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43 chars
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23 words
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3 sentences
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As STEPTOE sweeps the coins back into the bag , HODGE slumps down into a chair, with a groan
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12 chars
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29 words
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2 sentences
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139 chars
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Taking the gold coin
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1 sentence
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37 chars
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Looking at his sheet of paper
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12 words
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1 sentence
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64 chars
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Calling
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13 words
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3 sentences
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70 chars
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With quick dexterity places the paper under LARK'S nose, and hands him the pen, pointing
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11 chars
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With difficulty breaking from his absorption in the fiddle-stringing , LARK peers from the paper to STEPTOE'S face
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9 words
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1 sentence
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48 chars
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4 words
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1 sentence
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26 chars
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1 sentence
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37 chars
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3 words
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31 words
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5 sentences
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153 chars
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With a loud chuckle of mirth, he turns again to his fiddle stringing
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12 words
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2 sentences
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62 chars
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Flourishes it in admiring meditation
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22 words
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2 sentences
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135 chars
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5 words
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1 sentence
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45 chars
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Signing the paper, rises and hands it to STEPTOE]
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11 words
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2 sentences
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58 chars
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1 sentence
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Shrugging, with a grunt
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3 sentences
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35 chars
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Pocketing the paper, takes up the bag, moves toward the door, and calls to LARK and TILDY]
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5 words
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1 sentence
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28 chars
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Waving his fiddle-bow
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11 words
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4 sentences
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55 chars
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9 words
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1 sentence
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18 words
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2 sentences
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He begins to test chords with his bow
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4 sentences
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132 chars
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Calling
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3 words
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2 sentences
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18 chars
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15 words
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4 sentences
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90 chars
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They go out quickly
Hastening to the door with his fiddle
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14 words
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5 sentences
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82 chars
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He pauses, listening .
There is a long moment of silence
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27 words
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5 sentences
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131 chars
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Gazing outdoors
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26 words
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3 sentences
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141 chars
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1 sentence
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45 chars
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Comes in, brooding
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2 sentences
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43 chars
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He closes the door slowly
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32 chars
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Sits down, gazing on his fiddlestrings, entranced
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1 sentence
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20 chars
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Gazing on her beads
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11 words
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1 sentence
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56 chars
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Thrumming the strings faintly
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5 words
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1 sentence
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33 chars
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17 words
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1 sentence
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84 chars
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Solemnly she puts the necklace over her head, circling it down to lay low on her bosom
Thrumming more loud
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13 words
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1 sentence
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66 chars
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Glancing up
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6 words
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1 sentence
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33 chars
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Suddenly starting up, shakes his body fiercely, as a stallion, rolled over and risen again, snorts his lips trumpeting a neigh-call
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97 words
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7 sentences
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479 chars
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He strikes a fiery chord
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4 words
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25 chars
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Standing in a rapture of fierce gladness , LARK clutches his fiddle, and begins to play strains of a wild march tune, while seated near him, in the light of the hearth and the guttering flame of the lamp-wick , TILDY listens, fingering her pieded beads
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