![]() A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revelers. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly beneath us. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Voice Age: Look at the crowds of water-gazers there. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs-commerce surrounds it with her surf. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword, I quietly take to the ship. ![]() This is my substitute for pistol and ball. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet, and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Some years ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Only assume an accent if prompted by the description of a character’s vocal traits. Narrate this passage in your natural accent. ![]() Try to assign personality traits to the characters that will feed into their vocal inflections of how they say things. ![]() Try your hand at character reads by giving each character their own distinctive voice. Have fun with these fiction literature scripts. Both are pulled from literature found in the public domain, meaning they’re copyright free and available for public uses such as this. One lengthy one intended for practicing, and one shorter one intended to give narrators a passage to record for their narration demo to showcase their abilities. You’ll find two sample scripts provided here. ![]()
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