Audiobook Dictation: “This I read with great attention…”

This I read with great attention, while they sat silent. "We have already lighted our fires, and our sailors are weighing the anchors. Will twelve o'clock suit you?" "To-day!" I shouted. "If so, you must be content to take my dead body. "Half-past ten," said the captain, looking at his watch. "No doubt,--knowing nothing of the forms of our government, or--" "They, of course, must all be altered." It is quite impossible.