The Moonstone: First Period, Chapters 16 and 17

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

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🗓️ 3 May 2020

⏱️ 38 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	Chapter 16.
0:03.0	We found my lady with no light in the room, but the reading lamp.
0:07.0	The shade was screwed down so as to overshadow her face.
0:10.8	Instead of looking up at us in her usual, straightforward way, she sat close at the table
0:16.0	and kept her eyes fixed, obscenantly, on an open book.
0:20.1	Officer, she said,
0:22.1	Is it important to the inquiry you are conducting to know beforehand if any person now in this
0:28.0	house wishes to leave it?
0:30.7	Most important, my lady.
0:32.4	I have to tell you then that Miss Verinder proposes going to stay with her aunt, Mrs. Abel
0:37.2	White of Frizzing Hall, which is arranged to leave us the first thing tomorrow morning.
0:42.6	Sergeant Cough looked at me.
0:44.7	I made a step forward to speak to my mistress and feeling my heart fail me, if I must own
0:50.3	it, took a step back again and said nothing.
0:54.8	May I ask your lady ship, when Miss Verinder informed you that she was going to her aunts
1:00.0	inquire the sergeant?
1:02.2	About an hour since, answered my mistress.
1:05.9	Sergeant Cough looked at me once more.
1:08.0	They say old people's hearts are not very easily moved.
1:11.9	My heart couldn't have thumped much harder than it did now if I had been five and twenty
1:16.3	again.
1:17.8	I have no claim, my lady, says the sergeant, to control Miss Verinder's actions.
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