S02E42 The Grey Woman by Mrs Gaskell Part Two

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Brief NotesTrusty Amanate is someone she can talk to.The expedition by candlelight through the castle passagesThe withheld lettersShe is a prisonerAnna bites out a chunk of her hand to keep her fear from overcoming her while she’s under the table. She later breaks one of her front teeth. She’s rough.The spying servantsThe Chauffeurs are not drivers but robbers. The gendarmes are gendarmes though.A rollicking boys own story, but for girls because it includes love.Amante is fearless, she can beard Lefebvre, but she is scared of the servants as she knows about them. Her husband buys her gifts and makes her a flower garden. So, he must love her in his own way. I think he probably does, or why entertain her?We find the reason for M. De La Tourelle’s frequent absences. He is not away at some distant estate at all.If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In Here https://www.patreon.com/barcud (Become A Patreon) For Bonus StoriesOr https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (buy me a coffee) , if you’d like to keep me working. https://bit.ly/somecomeback (Music) by The Heartwood InstituteSupport the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Grey
0:08.0	Die's, Don't They?
0:10.5	Everybody come back.
0:12.6	Isn't that so?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.1	How do the dead come back, mother?
0:20.0	What's the secret?
0:21.1	The Grey Woman
0:22.3	By Elizabeth Gaskell.
0:25.9	Portion 2.
0:28.0	A Norman woman, a aunt by name, was sent her Les Roche by the Paris milliner to become my maid.
0:34.5	She was tall, handsome, though upwards of 40 and somewhat gaunt. But on first seeing her,
0:40.7	I liked her. She was neither rude nor familiar in her manners, and had a pleasant look of
0:46.0	straightforwardness about her that I had missed in all the inhabitants of the chateau, and had
0:51.3	foolishly sat down in my mind as a national want. Amantz was directed by
0:56.9	Monsieur de la Tourelle to sit in my boudoir and to be always within call. He also gave her many
1:04.1	instructions as to her duties and matters which, perhaps strictly, belonged to my department
1:09.8	of management,
1:13.4	but I was young and inexperienced,
1:15.9	and thankful to be spared the responsibility.
1:19.6	I dare say it was true what Monsieur de Litterelle said,
1:21.7	before many weeks had elapsed,
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