Description
Vocal Characteristics
Language
English
Voice Age
Young Adult (18-35)
Accents
North American, US General American (GenAm)
Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning the rain patterned dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half extinguished light I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. Chapter one, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife, however little known, the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood. This truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. Dark spruce forest frowned on either side of the frozen waterway. The trees have been stripped by recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other. Black and ominous in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness. A laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx. A laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility