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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Moonstone: Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 10

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 35 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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0:54.8

How the interval of suspense in which I was now condemned might have affected other men in my

1:00.2

position, I cannot pretend to say. The influence of the two-hours probation upon my temperament was

1:07.7

simply this. I felt physically incapable of remaining still in any one place, and morally incapable

1:14.8

of speaking to anyone human being until I at first heard all that Ezra Jennings had to say to me.

1:21.3

In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Abel White,

1:26.8

I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Beteridge himself.

1:31.2

Returning to Frizzin Hall, I left a note for Beteridge, telling him that I had been

1:36.0

unexpectedly called away for a few hours, but that he might certainly expect me to return

1:41.7

towards three o'clock in the afternoon. I requested him in the interval to order his dinner

1:47.2

at the usual hour and to amuse himself as he pleased. He had, as I well knew, hosts of friends

1:54.0

in Frizzin Hall, and he would be at no loss how to fill up his time until I returned to the hotel.

2:00.5

This done, I made the best of my way out of the town again, and roamed the lonely

2:05.3

moreland country which surrounds Frizzin Hall until my watch told me that it was time, at last,

2:12.0

to return to Mr. Candie's house. I found Ezra Jennings ready and waiting for me. He was sitting

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