THE YOUNGEST MISS PIPER by BRET HARTE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 19 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone the one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host |
| 0:35.5 | John Hagadorn. Today another great short story from Brett Hart, this one titled |
| 0:41.2 | The Youngest Miss Piper. |
| 0:45.0 | I do not think that any of us who enjoyed the acquaintance of the Piper girls |
| 0:50.0 | or the hospitality of Judge Piper, their father, ever cared for the youngest sister. |
| 0:56.3 | Not on account of her extreme youth, for the eldest Miss Piper confessed to 26, and the |
| 1:01.5 | youth of the youngest sister was established solely I think by one big |
| 1:06.0 | braid down her back. Neither was it because she was the plainest for the beauty of the |
| 1:11.1 | Piper girls was a recognized general distinction and the youngest |
| 1:15.0 | Miss Piper was not entirely devoid of the family charms. |
| 1:19.1 | Nor was it from any lack of intelligence, nor from any defective social quality, for her |
| 1:24.4 | precocity was astounding, and her good-humored frankness |
| 1:28.4 | alarming. Neither do I think it could be said that a slight deafness, which might impart an embarrassing publicity to any statement. |
| 1:37.0 | The reverse of our general feeling that might be confided by any one to a privateer was a sufficient reason for he was pointed out |
| 1:45.2 | that she always understood everything that Tom Sparrow told her in his ordinary tone of voice. |
| 1:57.0 | Briefly it was very possible that Delaware, the youngest Miss Piper, did not like us. Yet it was fondly believed by us that the other sisters failed to show that indifference to our existence shown by Miss Delaware. |
| 2:04.0 | Although the heart burnings, misunderstandings, jealousies, hopes and fears, |
| 2:09.0 | and finally the chivalrous resignation with which we at last accepted the long foregone conclusion |
| 2:14.9 | that they were not for us, and far beyond our reach, is not a part of this voracious chronicle, |
| 2:21.5 | enough that none of the flirtations of her elder sisters affected or were shared |
| 2:26.0 | by the youngest Miss Piper. |
| 2:28.5 | She moved in this heartbreaking atmosphere with sublime indifference, treating her sister's affairs with what we considered rank simplicity or appalling |
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