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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Moonstone: Second Period, Third Narrative, Chapter 8

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 33 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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keep beginning. Chapter 8

0:54.5

Late that evening, I was surprised at my lodgings by a visit from Mr. Brough.

1:00.0

There is a noticeable change in the lawyer's manner that had lost its usual confidence and spirit.

1:06.1

He shook hands with me for the first time in his life in silence.

1:10.6

Are you going back to Hampstead, I asked, by way of saying something?

1:14.6

I've just left Hampstead, he answered. I know, Mr. Franklin, that you've got at the truth at last,

1:20.6

but I tell you plainly, if I could have foreseen the price that was to be paid for it,

1:26.2

I should have preferred leaving you in the dark. You have seen Rachel?

1:31.2

I have come here after taking her back to Portland Place. It was impossible to let her return in

1:36.7

the carriage by herself. I can hardly hold you responsible, considering that you saw her in my house,

1:43.1

and by my permission, for the shock that this unlucky interview has inflicted on her.

1:49.0

All I can do is to provide against repetition of the mischief. She is young. She has a resolute spirit.

1:56.2

She will get over this, with time and rest to help her. I want to be assured that you will do nothing

2:02.4

to hinder her recovery. May I depend on your making no second attempt to see her,

2:08.2

except my sanction and approval. After what she has suffered, and after what I have suffered,

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