THE BOARDING HOUSE by James Joyce | Short Audio Story in English | Audiobook
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[{'start': '0.160', 'end': '5.440', 'text': 'THE BOARDING HOUSE by James Joyce'}, {'start': '5.440', 'end': '10.240', 'text': 'Mrs Mooney was a butcher’s daughter. She\xa0\nwas a woman who was quite able to keep'}, {'start': '10.240', 'end': '16.320', 'text': 'things to herself: a determined woman. She\xa0\nhad married her father’s foreman and opened'}, {'start': '16.320', 'end': '22.800', 'text': 'a butcher’s shop near Spring Gardens. But\xa0\nas soon as his father-in-law was dead Mr'}, {'start': '22.800', 'end': '29.280', 'text': 'Mooney began to go to the devil. He drank,\xa0\nplundered the till, ran headlong into debt.'}, {'start': '30.000', 'end': '36.080', 'text': 'It was no use making him take the pledge: he\xa0\nwas sure to break out again a few days after.'}, {'start': '36.080', 'end': '44.080', 'text': 'By fighting his wife in the presence of customers\xa0\nand by buying bad meat he ruined his business. One'}, {'start': '44.080', 'end': '49.440', 'text': 'night he went for his wife with the cleaver\xa0\nand she had to sleep in a neighbour’s house.'}, {'start': '49.440', 'end': '54.240', 'text': 'After that they lived apart. She went to the\xa0\npriest and got a separation from him with care'}, {'start': '54.240', 'end': '59.920', 'text': 'of the children. She would give him neither\xa0\nmoney nor food nor house-room; and so he was'}, {'start': '59.920', 'end': '66.080', 'text': 'obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff’s man.\xa0\nHe was a shabby stooped little drunkard with a'}, {'start': '66.080', 'end': '70.320', 'text': 'white face and a white moustache and white\xa0\neyebrows, pencilled above his little eyes,'}, {'start': '70.320', 'end': '74.800', 'text': 'which were pink-veined and raw; and all\xa0\nday long he sat in the bailiff’s room,'}, {'start': '74.800', 'end': '80.640', 'text': 'waiting to be put on a job. Mrs Mooney, who\xa0\nhad taken what remained of her money out of'}, {'start': '80.640', 'end': '87.600', 'text': 'the butcher business and set up a boarding house\xa0\nin Hardwicke Street, was a big imposing woman.'}, {'start': '87.600', 'end': '93.600', 'text': 'Her house had a floating population made up of\xa0\ntourists from Liverpool and the Isle of Man and,'}, {'start': '93.600', 'end': '100.720', 'text': 'occasionally, artistes from the music-halls. Its\xa0\nresident population was made up of clerks from the'}, {'start': '100.720', 'end': '107.120', 'text': 'city. She governed her house cunningly\xa0\nand firmly, knew when to give credit,'}, {'start': '107.120', 'end': '113.680', 'text': 'when to be stern and when to let things pass. All\xa0\nthe resident young men spoke of her as The Madam.'}, {'start': '113.680', 'end': '119.840', 'text': 'Mrs Mooney’s young men paid fifteen shillings\xa0\na week for board and lodgings (beer or stout at'}, {'start': '119.840', 'end': '126.080', 'text': 'dinner excluded). They shared in common tastes\xa0\nand occupations and for this reason they were'}, {'start': '126.080', 'end': '130.880', 'text': 'very chummy with one another. They discussed\xa0\nwith one another the chances of favourites'}, {'start': '130.880', 'end': '136.960', 'text': 'and outsiders. Jack Mooney, the Madam’s son, who\xa0\nwas clerk to a commission agent in Fleet Street,'}, {'start': '136.960', 'end': '143.840', 'text': 'had the reputation of being a hard case.\xa0\nHe was fond of using soldiers’ obscenities:'}, {'start': '143.840', 'end': '150.240', 'text': 'usually he came home in the small hours. When\xa0\nhe met his friends he had always a good one'}, {'start': '150.240', 'end': '154.560', 'text': 'to tell them and he was always sure to\xa0\nbe on to a good thing—that is to say,'}, {'start': '154.560', 'end': '161.920', 'text': 'a likely horse or a likely artiste. He was also\xa0\nhandy with the mits and sang comic songs. On'}, {'start': '161.920', 'end': '167.920', 'text': 'Sunday nights there would often be a reunion in\xa0\nMrs Mooney’s front drawing-room. The music-hall'}, {'start': '167.920', 'end': '173.840', 'text': 'artistes would oblige; and Sheridan played\xa0\nwaltzes and polkas and vamped accompaniments.'}, {'start': '173.840', 'end': '178.320', 'text': 'Polly Mooney, the Madam’s daughter,\xa0\nwould also sing. She sang:'}, {'start': '178.320', 'end': '182.320', 'text': 'I’m a ... naughty girl.\nYou needn’t sham:'}, {'start': '182.320', 'end': '184.160', 'text': 'You know I am.'}, {'start': '184.160', 'end': '190.960', 'text': 'Polly was a slim girl of nineteen; she had light\xa0\nsoft hair and a small full mouth. Her eyes,'}, {'start': '190.960', 'end': '194.800', 'text': 'which were grey with a shade of green\xa0\nthrough them, had a habit of glancing'}, {'start': '194.800', 'end': '201.520', 'text': 'upwards when she spoke with anyone, which made\xa0\nher look like a little perverse madonna. Mrs'}, {'start': '201.520', 'end': '205.760', 'text': 'Mooney had first sent her daughter to be\xa0\na typist in a corn-factor’s office but,'}, {'start': '205.760', 'end': '210.800', 'text': 'as a disreputable sheriff’s man used to come\xa0\nevery other day to the office, asking to be'}, {'start': '210.800', 'end': '216.560', 'text': 'allowed to say a word to his daughter, she had\xa0\ntaken her daughter home again and set her to do'}, {'start': '216.560', 'end': '223.760', 'text': 'housework. As Polly was very lively the intention\xa0\nwas to give her the run of the young men. Besides,'}, {'start': '223.760', 'end': '229.280', 'text': 'young men like to feel that there is a young\xa0\nwoman not very far away. Polly, of course,'}, {'start': '229.280', 'end': '235.520', 'text': 'flirted with the young men but Mrs Mooney, who\xa0\nwas a shrewd judge, knew that the young men were'}, {'start': '235.520', 'end': '243.040', 'text': 'only passing the time away: none of them meant\xa0\nbusiness. Things went on so for a long time and'}, {'start': '243.040', 'end': '247.760', 'text': 'Mrs Mooney began to think of sending Polly back\xa0\nto typewriting when she noticed that something was'}, {'start': '247.760', 'end': '254.080', 'text': 'going on between Polly and one of the young men.\xa0\nShe watched the pair and kept her own counsel.'}, {'start': '254.640', 'end': '259.360', 'text': 'Polly knew that she was being watched,\xa0\nbut still her mother’s persistent silence'}, {'start': '259.360', 'end': '265.360', 'text': 'could not be misunderstood. There had been no\xa0\nopen complicity between mother and daughter,'}, {'start': '265.360', 'end': '271.360', 'text': 'no open understanding but, though people in the\xa0\nhouse began to talk of the affair, still Mrs'}, {'start': '271.360', 'end': '277.200', 'text': 'Mooney did not intervene. Polly began to grow a\xa0\nlittle strange in her manner and the young man was'}, {'start': '277.200', 'end': '284.400', 'text': 'evidently perturbed. At last, when she judged it\xa0\nto be the right moment, Mrs Mooney intervened. She'}, {'start': '284.400', 'end': '292.080', 'text': 'dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with\xa0\nmeat: and in this case she had made up her mind.'}, {'start': '292.080', 'end': '298.640', 'text': 'It was a bright Sunday morning of early summer,\xa0\npromising heat, but with a fresh breeze blowing.'}, {'start': '298.640', 'end': '303.520', 'text': 'All the windows of the boarding house were\xa0\nopen and the lace curtains ballooned gently'}, {'start': '303.520', 'end': '309.920', 'text': 'towards the street beneath the raised sashes.\xa0\nThe belfry of George’s Church sent out constant'}, {'start': '309.920', 'end': '315.840', 'text': 'peals and worshippers, singly or in groups,\xa0\ntraversed the little circus before the church,'}, {'start': '315.840', 'end': '321.360', 'text': 'revealing their purpose by their self-contained\xa0\ndemeanour no less than by the little volumes in'}, {'start': '321.360', 'end': '325.760', 'text': 'their gloved hands. Breakfast was over\xa0\nin the boarding house and the table of'}, {'start': '325.760', 'end': '330.720', 'text': 'the breakfast-room was covered with plates on\xa0\nwhich lay yellow streaks of eggs with morsels'}, {'start': '330.720', 'end': '338.000', 'text': 'of bacon-fat and bacon-rind. Mrs Mooney sat\xa0\nin the straw arm-chair and watched the servant'}, {'start': '338.000', 'end': '345.280', 'text': 'Mary remove the breakfast things. She made Mary\xa0\ncollect the crusts and pieces of broken bread to'}, {'start': '345.280', 'end': '350.800', 'text': 'help to make Tuesday’s bread-pudding. When the\xa0\ntable was cleared, the broken bread collected,'}, {'start': '350.800', 'end': '355.840', 'text': 'the sugar and butter safe under lock and\xa0\nkey, she began to reconstruct the interview'}, {'start': '355.840', 'end': '361.680', 'text': 'which she had had the night before with\xa0\nPolly. Things were as she had suspected:'}, {'start': '361.680', 'end': '368.160', 'text': 'she had been frank in her questions and Polly had\xa0\nbeen frank in her answers. Both had been somewhat'}, {'start': '368.160', 'end': '373.520', 'text': 'awkward, of course. She had been made awkward\xa0\nby her not wishing to receive the news in too'}, {'start': '373.520', 'end': '379.840', 'text': 'cavalier a fashion or to seem to have connived\xa0\nand Polly had been made awkward not merely because'}, {'start': '379.840', 'end': '385.680', 'text': 'allusions of that kind always made her awkward\xa0\nbut also because she did not wish it to be thought'}, {'start': '385.680', 'end': '391.360', 'text': 'that in her wise innocence she had divined\xa0\nthe intention behind her mother’s tolerance.'}, {'start': '391.360', 'end': '395.760', 'text': 'Mrs Mooney glanced instinctively at the little\xa0\ngilt clock on the mantelpiece as soon as she'}, {'start': '395.760', 'end': '400.080', 'text': 'had become aware through her revery that\xa0\nthe bells of George’s Church had stopped'}, {'start': '400.080', 'end': '407.520', 'text': 'ringing. It was seventeen minutes past eleven:\xa0\nshe would have lots of time to have the matter'}, {'start': '407.520', 'end': '413.440', 'text': 'out with Mr Doran and then catch short twelve at\xa0\nMarlborough Street. She was sure she would win.'}, {'start': '413.440', 'end': '419.360', 'text': 'To begin with she had all the weight of social\xa0\nopinion on her side: she was an outraged mother.'}, {'start': '419.360', 'end': '423.840', 'text': 'She had allowed him to live beneath her\xa0\nroof, assuming that he was a man of honour,'}, {'start': '423.840', 'end': '430.240', 'text': 'and he had simply abused her hospitality. He\xa0\nwas thirty-four or thirty-five years of age,'}, {'start': '430.240', 'end': '436.080', 'text': 'so that youth could not be pleaded as his\xa0\nexcuse; nor could ignorance be his excuse'}, {'start': '436.080', 'end': '441.600', 'text': 'since he was a man who had seen something of the\xa0\nworld. He had simply taken advantage of Polly’s'}, {'start': '441.600', 'end': '448.960', 'text': 'youth and inexperience: that was evident. The\xa0\nquestion was: What reparation would he make?'}, {'start': '448.960', 'end': '454.720', 'text': 'There must be reparation made in such\xa0\ncases. It is all very well for the man:'}, {'start': '454.720', 'end': '459.440', 'text': 'he can go his ways as if nothing had\xa0\nhappened, having had his moment of pleasure,'}, {'start': '459.440', 'end': '464.560', 'text': 'but the girl has to bear the brunt. Some\xa0\nmothers would be content to patch up such'}, {'start': '464.560', 'end': '470.640', 'text': 'an affair for a sum of money; she had known\xa0\ncases of it. But she would not do so. For her'}, {'start': '470.640', 'end': '474.800', 'text': 'only one reparation could make up for the\xa0\nloss of her daughter’s honour: marriage.'}, {'start': '475.920', 'end': '480.880', 'text': 'She counted all her cards again before\xa0\nsending Mary up to Mr Doran’s room to'}, {'start': '480.880', 'end': '488.560', 'text': 'say that she wished to speak with him. She felt\xa0\nsure she would win. He was a serious young man,'}, {'start': '488.560', 'end': '495.360', 'text': 'not rakish or loud-voiced like the others. If\xa0\nit had been Mr Sheridan or Mr Meade or Bantam'}, {'start': '495.360', 'end': '501.600', 'text': 'Lyons her task would have been much harder.\xa0\nShe did not think he would face publicity.'}, {'start': '501.600', 'end': '508.400', 'text': 'All the lodgers in the house knew something of\xa0\nthe affair; details had been invented by some.'}, {'start': '508.400', 'end': '514.240', 'text': 'Besides, he had been employed for thirteen years\xa0\nin a great Catholic wine-merchant’s office and'}, {'start': '514.240', 'end': '520.960', 'text': 'publicity would mean for him, perhaps, the loss\xa0\nof his job. Whereas if he agreed all might be'}, {'start': '520.960', 'end': '527.600', 'text': 'well. She knew he had a good screw for one thing\xa0\nand she suspected he had a bit of stuff put by.'}, {'start': '527.600', 'end': '533.360', 'text': 'Nearly the half-hour! She stood up and\xa0\nsurveyed herself in the pier-glass. The'}, {'start': '533.360', 'end': '538.080', 'text': 'decisive expression of her great florid\xa0\nface satisfied her and she thought of'}, {'start': '538.080', 'end': '542.720', 'text': 'some mothers she knew who could not\xa0\nget their daughters off their hands.'}, {'start': '542.720', 'end': '549.440', 'text': 'Mr Doran was very anxious indeed this Sunday\xa0\nmorning. He had made two attempts to shave'}, {'start': '549.440', 'end': '553.600', 'text': 'but his hand had been so unsteady\xa0\nthat he had been obliged to desist.'}, {'start': '554.160', 'end': '559.280', 'text': 'Three days’ reddish beard fringed his jaws and\xa0\nevery two or three minutes a mist gathered on'}, {'start': '559.280', 'end': '565.040', 'text': 'his glasses so that he had to take them off and\xa0\npolish them with his pocket-handkerchief. The'}, {'start': '565.040', 'end': '571.520', 'text': 'recollection of his confession of the night before\xa0\nwas a cause of acute pain to him; the priest had'}, {'start': '571.520', 'end': '578.320', 'text': 'drawn out every ridiculous detail of the affair\xa0\nand in the end had so magnified his sin that he'}, {'start': '578.320', 'end': '585.840', 'text': 'was almost thankful at being afforded a loophole\xa0\nof reparation. The harm was done. What could he do'}, {'start': '585.840', 'end': '592.480', 'text': 'now but marry her or run away? He could not brazen\xa0\nit out. The affair would be sure to be talked of'}, {'start': '592.480', 'end': '599.200', 'text': 'and his employer would be certain to hear of\xa0\nit. Dublin is such a small city: everyone knows'}, {'start': '599.200', 'end': '605.920', 'text': 'everyone else’s business. He felt his heart leap\xa0\nwarmly in his throat as he heard in his excited'}, {'start': '605.920', 'end': '612.160', 'text': 'imagination old Mr Leonard calling out in his\xa0\nrasping voice: “Send Mr Doran here, please.”'}, {'start': '612.160', 'end': '619.520', 'text': 'All his long years of service gone for nothing!\xa0\nAll his industry and diligence thrown away! As a'}, {'start': '619.520', 'end': '625.120', 'text': 'young man he had sown his wild oats, of course;\xa0\nhe had boasted of his free-thinking and denied'}, {'start': '625.120', 'end': '630.320', 'text': 'the existence of God to his companions in\xa0\npublic-houses. But that was all passed and'}, {'start': '630.320', 'end': '636.240', 'text': 'done with ... nearly. He still bought a copy of\xa0\nReynolds’s Newspaper every week but he attended'}, {'start': '636.240', 'end': '643.040', 'text': 'to his religious duties and for nine-tenths of the\xa0\nyear lived a regular life. He had money enough to'}, {'start': '643.040', 'end': '649.920', 'text': 'settle down on; it was not that. But the family\xa0\nwould look down on her. First of all there was her'}, {'start': '649.920', 'end': '655.920', 'text': 'disreputable father and then her mother’s boarding\xa0\nhouse was beginning to get a certain fame. He had'}, {'start': '655.920', 'end': '661.840', 'text': 'a notion that he was being had. He could imagine\xa0\nhis friends talking of the affair and laughing.'}, {'start': '661.840', 'end': '668.880', 'text': 'She was a little vulgar; sometimes she said\xa0\n“I seen” and “If I had’ve known.” But what'}, {'start': '668.880', 'end': '674.480', 'text': 'would grammar matter if he really loved her?\xa0\nHe could not make up his mind whether to like'}, {'start': '674.480', 'end': '680.080', 'text': 'her or despise her for what she had done.\xa0\nOf course he had done it too. His instinct'}, {'start': '680.080', 'end': '687.920', 'text': 'urged him to remain free, not to marry. Once\xa0\nyou are married you are done for, it said.'}, {'start': '687.920', 'end': '691.440', 'text': 'While he was sitting helplessly on\xa0\nthe side of the bed in shirt and'}, {'start': '691.440', 'end': '696.000', 'text': 'trousers she tapped lightly at his\xa0\ndoor and entered. She told him all,'}, {'start': '696.000', 'end': '699.920', 'text': 'that she had made a clean breast of it to\xa0\nher mother and that her mother would speak'}, {'start': '699.920', 'end': '705.600', 'text': 'with him that morning. She cried and\xa0\nthrew her arms round his neck, saying:'}, {'start': '705.600', 'end': '710.960', 'text': '“O Bob! Bob! What am I to\xa0\ndo? What am I to do at all?”'}, {'start': '710.960', 'end': '715.440', 'text': 'She would put an end to herself, she said.'}, {'start': '715.440', 'end': '719.920', 'text': 'He comforted her feebly, telling her\xa0\nnot to cry, that it would be all right,'}, {'start': '719.920', 'end': '725.040', 'text': 'never fear. He felt against his\xa0\nshirt the agitation of her bosom.'}, {'start': '725.040', 'end': '729.440', 'text': 'It was not altogether his fault that\xa0\nit had happened. He remembered well,'}, {'start': '729.440', 'end': '735.840', 'text': 'with the curious patient memory of the celibate,\xa0\nthe first casual caresses her dress, her breath,'}, {'start': '735.840', 'end': '741.840', 'text': 'her fingers had given him. Then late one night\xa0\nas he was undressing for bed she had tapped at'}, {'start': '741.840', 'end': '748.800', 'text': 'his door, timidly. She wanted to relight her\xa0\ncandle at his for hers had been blown out by'}, {'start': '748.800', 'end': '756.560', 'text': 'a gust. It was her bath night. She wore a loose\xa0\nopen combing-jacket of printed flannel. Her white'}, {'start': '756.560', 'end': '762.400', 'text': 'instep shone in the opening of her furry slippers\xa0\nand the blood glowed warmly behind her perfumed'}, {'start': '762.400', 'end': '770.160', 'text': 'skin. From her hands and wrists too as she lit\xa0\nand steadied her candle a faint perfume arose.'}, {'start': '770.160', 'end': '775.360', 'text': 'On nights when he came in very late\xa0\nit was she who warmed up his dinner.'}, {'start': '775.360', 'end': '779.760', 'text': 'He scarcely knew what he was eating,\xa0\nfeeling her beside him alone, at night,'}, {'start': '779.760', 'end': '787.120', 'text': 'in the sleeping house. And her thoughtfulness! If\xa0\nthe night was anyway cold or wet or windy there'}, {'start': '787.120', 'end': '793.760', 'text': 'was sure to be a little tumbler of punch ready\xa0\nfor him. Perhaps they could be happy together....'}, {'start': '793.760', 'end': '797.520', 'text': 'They used to go upstairs together\xa0\non tiptoe, each with a candle,'}, {'start': '797.520', 'end': '801.600', 'text': 'and on the third landing exchange\xa0\nreluctant good-nights. They used to'}, {'start': '801.600', 'end': '807.840', 'text': 'kiss. He remembered well her eyes, the\xa0\ntouch of her hand and his delirium....'}, {'start': '807.840', 'end': '813.440', 'text': 'But delirium passes. He echoed her\xa0\nphrase, applying it to himself:'}, {'start': '813.440', 'end': '821.440', 'text': '“What am I to do?” The instinct of the celibate\xa0\nwarned him to hold back. But the sin was there;'}, {'start': '821.440', 'end': '827.600', 'text': 'even his sense of honour told him that\xa0\nreparation must be made for such a sin.'}, {'start': '827.600', 'end': '832.640', 'text': 'While he was sitting with her on the side of\xa0\nthe bed Mary came to the door and said that'}, {'start': '832.640', 'end': '839.040', 'text': 'the missus wanted to see him in the parlour.\xa0\nHe stood up to put on his coat and waistcoat,'}, {'start': '839.040', 'end': '844.640', 'text': 'more helpless than ever. When he was dressed\xa0\nhe went over to her to comfort her. It would'}, {'start': '844.640', 'end': '852.560', 'text': 'be all right, never fear. He left her crying\xa0\non the bed and moaning softly: “O my God!”'}, {'start': '852.560', 'end': '857.920', 'text': 'Going down the stairs his glasses became so\xa0\ndimmed with moisture that he had to take them'}, {'start': '857.920', 'end': '864.400', 'text': 'off and polish them. He longed to ascend through\xa0\nthe roof and fly away to another country where he'}, {'start': '864.400', 'end': '870.240', 'text': 'would never hear again of his trouble, and\xa0\nyet a force pushed him downstairs step by'}, {'start': '870.240', 'end': '878.240', 'text': 'step. The implacable faces of his employer and\xa0\nof the Madam stared upon his discomfiture. On'}, {'start': '878.240', 'end': '883.360', 'text': 'the last flight of stairs he passed Jack\xa0\nMooney who was coming up from the pantry'}, {'start': '883.360', 'end': '890.160', 'text': 'nursing two bottles of Bass. They saluted\xa0\ncoldly; and the lover’s eyes rested for a'}, {'start': '890.160', 'end': '897.680', 'text': 'second or two on a thick bulldog face and a\xa0\npair of thick short arms. When he reached the'}, {'start': '897.680', 'end': '904.160', 'text': 'foot of the staircase he glanced up and saw Jack\xa0\nregarding him from the door of the return-room.'}, {'start': '904.160', 'end': '910.400', 'text': 'Suddenly he remembered the night when one of the\xa0\nmusic-hall artistes, a little blond Londoner,'}, {'start': '910.400', 'end': '915.840', 'text': 'had made a rather free allusion to Polly.\xa0\nThe reunion had been almost broken up on'}, {'start': '915.840', 'end': '921.440', 'text': 'account of Jack’s violence. Everyone tried\xa0\nto quiet him. The music-hall artiste,'}, {'start': '921.440', 'end': '926.400', 'text': 'a little paler than usual, kept smiling\xa0\nand saying that there was no harm meant:'}, {'start': '926.400', 'end': '930.480', 'text': 'but Jack kept shouting at him that if\xa0\nany fellow tried that sort of a game'}, {'start': '930.480', 'end': '936.640', 'text': 'on with his sister he’d bloody well put\xa0\nhis teeth down his throat, so he would.'}, {'start': '936.640', 'end': '942.080', 'text': 'Polly sat for a little time on the side of the\xa0\nbed, crying. Then she dried her eyes and went'}, {'start': '942.080', 'end': '947.840', 'text': 'over to the looking-glass. She dipped the end of\xa0\nthe towel in the water-jug and refreshed her eyes'}, {'start': '947.840', 'end': '955.200', 'text': 'with the cool water. She looked at herself in\xa0\nprofile and readjusted a hairpin above her ear.'}, {'start': '955.200', 'end': '960.000', 'text': 'Then she went back to the bed again and sat\xa0\nat the foot. She regarded the pillows for a'}, {'start': '960.000', 'end': '965.680', 'text': 'long time and the sight of them awakened\xa0\nin her mind secret amiable memories. She'}, {'start': '965.680', 'end': '970.160', 'text': 'rested the nape of her neck against\xa0\nthe cool iron bed-rail and fell into'}, {'start': '970.160', 'end': '975.200', 'text': 'a revery. There was no longer any\xa0\nperturbation visible on her face.'}, {'start': '975.200', 'end': '981.520', 'text': 'She waited on patiently, almost cheerfully,\xa0\nwithout alarm, her memories gradually giving place'}, {'start': '981.520', 'end': '988.560', 'text': 'to hopes and visions of the future. Her hopes\xa0\nand visions were so intricate that she no longer'}, {'start': '988.560', 'end': '994.240', 'text': 'saw the white pillows on which her gaze was fixed\xa0\nor remembered that she was waiting for anything.'}, {'start': '994.240', 'end': '999.040', 'text': 'At last she heard her mother calling. She\xa0\nstarted to her feet and ran to the banisters.'}, {'start': '999.040', 'end': '1000.720', 'text': '“Polly! Polly!”'}, {'start': '1000.720', 'end': '1001.760', 'text': '“Yes, mamma?”'}, {'start': '1001.760', 'end': '1005.360', 'text': '“Come down, dear. Mr Doran wants to speak to you.”'}, {'start': '1005.360', 'end': '1008.640', 'text': 'Then she remembered what she had been waiting for.'}]