THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 2 August 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Major Talbot, an old-fashioned Southern gentleman, is in Washington D.C. with his middle-aged daughter Lydia to find a publisher for his book of reminisces. The major loves to talk about the old plantation days, and his stories attract the attention of a young actor named Hargraves, who soon decides to use Major Talbot as the inspiration for a stage character he has created. All goes well until the Major unexpectedly shows up for the play.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. And today a story from one of our |
| 0:36.0 | favorite authors, O Henry, the title The Duplicity of Hargraves. And now our story. |
| 0:45.0 | When Major Pendleton Tobit of Mobile, sir, and his daughter, Miss Lydia Talbot, |
| 0:50.0 | came to Washington to reside. |
| 0:52.0 | They selected for a boarding place, a house that stood |
| 0:55.0 | 50 yards back from one of the quietest avenues. It was an old-fashioned brick |
| 1:00.0 | building with a portico upheld by tall white pillars. The yard was shaded by stately |
| 1:05.8 | locusts in elms, and a katulp a tree in season reined its pink and white blossoms upon the grass. |
| 1:12.4 | rows of highbox bushes lined the fence and walks. |
| 1:16.0 | It was the southern style and aspect of the place that pleased the eyes of the Talbot's. |
| 1:21.0 | In this pleasant private boarding house they engaged rooms, including |
| 1:26.6 | a study for Major Talbot, who is adding the finishing chapters to his book, |
| 1:31.3 | Anecdotes and Reminuses of the Alabama Army, Bench, and Barr. |
| 1:37.0 | Major Talbot was of the old, old South. |
| 1:40.5 | The present day had little interest or excellence in his eyes. |
| 1:44.6 | His mind lived in that period before the Civil War, when the Talbot's own thousands of acres |
| 1:49.4 | of fine cotton land and the slaves to fill them. |
| 1:52.4 | When the family mansion was the scene of |
| 1:54.0 | princely hospitality and drew its guests from the aristocracy of the South. |
| 1:59.6 | Out of that period he had brought all its old pride and scruples of honor and antiquated and punctilious politeness, and, you would think, its wardrobe. |
| 2:10.0 | Such clothes were surely never made within 50 years. The Major was tall, but whenever |
| 2:17.1 | he made that wonderful archaic genuflection he called a bow, the corners of his frock coat swept the floor. |
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