The Blue Castle: Life at Roaring Abel's by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Taesha Glasgow
4.0 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Tonight's bedtime story is the continuation of The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for writing Anne of Green Gables. This romance novel was published in 1926 and is set in a fictional Canadian town. In this episode, Valancy settles in at Roaring Abel's but her family desperately tries to make her leave. It is Chapters 15 - 19 of the book.
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| 0:15.5 | Every week, I will read you an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep. |
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| 1:12.4 | Tonight, I will be continuing the story, The Blue Castle, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. |
| 1:20.7 | So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story. |
| 1:30.9 | Chapter 13. your eyes and let me read you a story. Chapter 15 |
| 1:32.1 | Let us be calm, said Uncle Benjamin. |
| 1:39.7 | Let us be perfectly calm. |
| 1:42.8 | Calm? |
| 1:44.0 | Mrs. Frederick wrung her hands. |
| 1:46.4 | How can I be calm? How could anybody be calm under such a disgrace as this? |
| 1:51.7 | Why in the world did you let her go? asked Uncle James. |
| 1:55.7 | Let her? How could I stop her, James? |
| 1:59.4 | It seems she packed the big valise and sent it away with Roaring Abel when he went home after supper, while Christine and I were out in the kitchen. |
| 2:09.0 | Then Doss herself came down with her little satchel, dressed in her green serge suit. |
| 2:14.6 | I felt a terrible premonition. |
| 2:22.8 | I can't tell you how it was, but I seemed to know that Doss was going to do something dreadful. |
| 2:29.1 | It's a pity you couldn't have had your premonition a little sooner, said Uncle Benjamin dryly. |
| 2:36.8 | I said, Doss, where are you going? And she said, I'm going to look for my blue castle. |
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