| This is the opening monologue of Roderick for testing purposes for tokenization. | |
| Source: http://dailyscript.com/scripts/BarryLyndon.html | |
| My father, who was well-known to the | |
| best circles in this kingdom under | |
| the name of roaring Harry James, was | |
| killed in a duel, when I was fifteen | |
| years old. | |
| My mother, after her husband's | |
| death, and her retirement, lived in | |
| such a way as to defy slander. She | |
| refused all offers of marriage, | |
| declaring that she lived now for her | |
| son only, and for the memory of her | |
| departed saint. | |
| My mother was the most beautiful | |
| women of her day. But if she was | |
| proud of her beauty, to do her | |
| justice, she was still more proud of | |
| her son, and has said a thousand | |
| times to me that I was the | |
| handsomest fellow in the world. | |
| The good soul's pleasure was to | |
| dress me; and on Sundays and | |
| Holidays, I turned out in a velvet | |
| coat with a silver-hilted sword by | |
| my side, and a gold garter at my | |
| knee as fine as any lord in the | |
| land. As we walked to church on | |
| Sundays, even the most envious souls | |
| would allow that there was not a | |
| prettier pair in the kingdom. | |
| My uncle's family consisted of ten | |
| children, and one of them was the | |
| cause of all my early troubles; this | |
| was the belle of the family, my | |
| cousin, Miss Dorothy Dugan, by name. | |
| Ah! That first affair, how well one | |
| remembers it! What a noble | |
| discovery it is that the boy makes | |
| when he finds himself actually and | |
| truly in love with some one! A lady | |
| who is skilled in dancing or singing | |
| never can perfect herself without a | |
| deal of study in private. So it is | |
| with the dear creatures who are | |
| skilled in coquetting. Dorothy, for | |
| instance, was always practicing, and | |
| she would take poor me to rehearse | |
| her accomplishments upon... | |