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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Moonstone: Second Period, Fourth Narrative, June 24th–June 25th

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 50 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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0:50.0

June 24. Mr. Blake and I took a long drive in an open carriage. We both felt,

0:59.1

been officially, the blessed influence of the soft summer air. I dined with him at the hotel.

1:05.6

To my great relief, for I found him in an overwrought, over-excited state this morning,

1:11.6

he had two hours sound sleep on the sofa after dinner. If he has another bad night now,

1:17.2

I am not afraid of the consequences. June 25. Monday. The day of the experiment,

1:25.0

it is five o'clock in the afternoon, we have just arrived at the house. The first and foremost

1:30.4

question is the question of Mr. Blake's health. So far as it is possible for me to judge,

1:36.7

he promises, physically speaking, to be quite as susceptible to the action of the opium tonight,

1:42.5

as he was at this time last year. He is, this afternoon, in a state of nervous sensitiveness,

1:49.3

which just stops short of nervous irritation. Me changes color readily. His hand is not quite steady,

1:56.8

and he starts at chance noises at an unexpected appearances of persons and things.

2:02.9

These results have all been produced by deprivation of sleep, which is in its turn the nervous

2:08.7

consequence of a sudden cessation in the habit of smoking, after that habit has been carried to

2:14.7

an extreme. Here the same causes it work again, which operated last year, and here are apparently

2:22.0

the same effects. Will the parallel still hold good when the final test has been tried? The events

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