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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Moonstone: First Period, Chapter 4

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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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

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0:07.6

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1:19.5

Slyider and the day. Before I had time to dose off again after my daughter Pinaripy had left me,

1:25.7

I was disturbed by a rattling of plates and dishes in the Servants Hall, which meant that dinner was

1:32.8

ready. Taking my own meals in my own sitting-room I had nothing to do with the Servants dinner,

1:38.4

except to wish them a good stomach to it all round, previous to composing myself once more in my

1:45.4

chair. I was just stretching my legs when out bounced another woman on me, not my daughter again,

1:53.1

only Nancy, the kitchen maid, this time. I was straight in her way out, and I observed, as she

2:00.3

asked me to let her buy, that she had a sulky face, a thing which, as head of the Servants,

2:06.8

I never allow, on principle, to pass me without inquiry.

2:12.0

What are you turning your back on your dinner for, I asked? What's wrong now, Nancy?

2:17.8

Nancy tried to push by, without answering, upon which I rose up, and took her by the ear.

2:24.1

She's a nice plump young lass, and it is customary with me to adopt that manner of showing that I

2:29.7

personally approve of a girl. What's wrong now, I said once more? Rosanna's laid again for dinner,

2:37.5

says Nancy, and I'm sent to fetch her in. All the hard work falls on my shoulders in this house,

2:43.2

let me alone, Mr. Betteridge. The person here mentioned, as Rosanna, was our second housemaid,

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