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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Moonstone: First Period, Chapter 5

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 21 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

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0:07.6

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0:36.4

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0:52.9

Chapter 5

0:54.8

The first thing I did after we were left together alone was to make a third attempt to get up

1:00.4

from my seat on the sand. Mr. Franklin stopped me. There is one advantage about this hard place,

1:07.1

he said, we've got it all to ourselves. Stay where you are, better edge, I have something to say to you.

1:14.8

While he was speaking, I was looking at him and trying to see something of the boy I've

1:19.7

remembered in the man before me. The man put me out. Look as I might. I could see no more of his

1:27.6

boy's rosy cheeks than of his boy's trim little jacket. His complexion had got pale. His face at

1:35.4

the lower part was covered to my great surprise and disappointment with a curly brown beard and

1:41.6

mustache. He had a lively touch-and-go-way with him, very pleasant and engaging, by admit,

1:48.8

but nothing to compare with his free and easy manners of other times. To make matters worse,

1:55.1

he had promised to be tall and had not kept his promise. He was neat and slim and well-made,

2:02.4

but he wasn't buying intertube up to the middle height. In short, he baffled me altogether.

2:09.4

The years that had passed had buffed nothing of his old self except the bright,

2:14.5

straightforward look in his eyes. There I found our nice boy again, and there I concluded to stop

2:21.8

in my investigation. Welcome back to the old place, Mr. Franklin, I said, all the more welcome,

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