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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Moonstone: First Period, Chapter 22

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Donate to Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Childhood should be fun. Don't let bed wetting spoil that.

0:07.0

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0:12.0

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0:18.0

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0:48.0

No, said the sergeant, looking to see what my next professional engagement is.

0:53.0

Oh, I said, you think it's all over then here.

0:57.0

I think, answered sergeant Cough, that Lady Verinder is one of the cleverest women in England.

1:03.0

I also think a rose much better worth looking at than a diamond.

1:07.0

Where is the gardener, Mr. Betteridge?

1:10.0

There is no getting a word more out of him on the matter of the moonstone.

1:14.0

He had lost all interest in his own inquiry, and he would persist in looking for the gardener.

1:20.0

An hour afterwards, I heard them at high words in the conservatory with the dog rose once more at the bottom of the dispute.

1:28.0

In the meantime, it was my business to find out whether Mr. Franklin persisted in his resolution to leave us by the afternoon train.

1:37.0

After having been informed of the conference in my lady's room and of how it had ended,

1:42.0

he immediately decided on waiting to hear the news from Frizzing Hall.

1:46.0

This very natural alteration in his plans, which with ordinary people,

1:51.0

would have led to nothing in particular proved Mr. Franklin's case to have one objectionable result.

1:58.0

It left him unsettled with a legacy of idle time on his hands, and in doing so,

2:04.0

it led out all the foreign sides of his character, one on the top of another, like rats out of a bag.

2:11.0

Now, as an Italian Englishman, now as a German Englishman, and now as a French Englishman,

2:18.0

he had drifted in and out of all the sitting-rooms in the house with nothing to talk of but Miss Rachel's treatment of him,

2:24.0

and with nobody to address himself to but me.

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