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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Age of Innocence- Chapter 4

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Avery Trufelman reads a chapter a day of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Shopped Amazon for last minute gifts

0:02.5

Great deals for everyone on your list

0:04.9

Gifts for mom and gifs for dad

0:07.4

Even for your sister and your brother chat

0:09.9

Ah shoot, we didn't realize you were supposed to get a gift for our dog, what her guy

0:14.7

We almost forgot about her, then to start to curve

0:17.2

We didn't expect to get a gift from her

0:19.8

Or our cousin might forget his name

0:22.1

He got us something nice, better as it would hate

0:24.6

For last minute deals I give some people

0:26.3

You forgot to get past the free shipping at Amazon

0:29.8

Chapter 4

0:31.8

In the course of the next day, the first of the usual betrothal visits were exchanged

0:37.4

The New York ritual was precise and inflexible in such matters

0:40.5

And in conformity with it, Newland archer first went with his mother and sister to call

0:44.6

on Mrs. Welland

0:45.9

After which he and Mrs. Welland and May drove out to old Mrs. Manson Mingots to receive

0:50.8

that venerable ancestors' blessing

0:54.1

A visit to the Mrs. Manson Mingot was always an amusing episode to the young man

0:58.6

The house in itself was already an historic document, though not, of course, as venerable

1:02.6

as certain other old family houses in University Place in Lower Fifth Avenue

1:07.0

Those were of the purest 1830, with a grim harmony of cabbage rose garlanded carpets

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