Length9h 9m
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Excerpt: "My dear, the girl's a perfect fool. What her poor mother is going to do with her I don't know. As for teaching, I don't believe she knows anything herself. And as for getting married, why, I'm perfectly certain she doesn't know beef from mutton, and couldn't tell the difference between a cabbage and a cauliflower. I should be very sorry for the man who took Chris Abercarne for a wife!" So spoke one of Chris Abercarne's mother's friends to another old lady, who was of exactly the same way of thinking, as a pretty girl, with dark-brown hair and merry dark blue eyes, passed the window of a dull house in a dull road in that part of Hammersmith which calls itself West Kensington. Indeed, matters had come to a serious point with Chris and her mother. The widow of an officer in the army, Mrs. Abercarne, having only the one child, had got on very comfortably for some years, until one of those periodical upheavals of "things in the city" had caused a sudden diminution of her small income, and brought the two ladies face to face with actual instead of conventional, poverty. Poor Mrs. Abercarne felt utterly helpless; and Chris, merry Chris who hitherto had had nothing to do but to laugh and keep her mother and her friends in good spirits, found with surprising suddenness that some aspects of life are no laughing matter."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. THE GREAT MAN OF A LITTLE TOWN.
2CHAPTER II. THE GREAT MAN’S HOUSE.
3CHAPTER III. THE GREAT MAN’S SMILE.
4CHAPTER IV. THE GREAT MAN FROWNS.
5CHAPTER V. MASTER AND MAN.
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6CHAPTER VI. MUSIC HATH CHARMS.
7CHAPTER VII. A PORTRAIT.
8CHAPTER VIII. THE STRANGE FACE IN THE EAST WING.
9CHAPTER IX. MR. BRADFIELD’S “SMART” RELATIONS.
10CHAPTER X. MRS. GRAHAM-SHUTE MANŒUVRES.
11CHAPTER XI. AMATEUR CHARITY.
12CHAPTER XII. AN ALARM.
13CHAPTER XIII. MR. RICHARD SURPRISES CHRIS.
14CHAPTER XIV. STELFOX IS RETICENT.
15CHAPTER XV. THE HANDSOME STRANGER.
16CHAPTER XVI. MR. RICHARD’S MANIA.
17CHAPTER XVII. A STRANGE MANIA.
18CHAPTER XVIII. THE BALL.
19CHAPTER XIX. MR. BRADFIELD RECEIVES A SHOCK.
20CHAPTER XX. MR. BRADFIELD WELCOMES AN OLD FRIEND.
21CHAPTER XXI. MR. MARRABLE’S MERRY CHRISTMAS.
22CHAPTER XXII. LEFT OUT IN THE COLD.
23CHAPTER XXIII. AN AWKWARD QUESTION.
24CHAPTER XXIV. AN AWKWARD QUESTION.
25CHAPTER XXV. AN APPEAL.
26CHAPTER XXVI. A SECRET CORRESPONDENCE.
27CHAPTER XXVII. A HOUSE-WARMING.
28CHAPTER XXVIII. NIGHT ALARMS.
29CHAPTER XXIX. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
30CHAPTER XXX. MR. MARRABLE AGAIN.
31CHAPTER XXXI. BLACKMAIL.
32CHAPTER XXXII. A RESURRECTION.
33CHAPTER XXXIII. A LOVE SCENE.
34CHAPTER XXXIV. MASTER OF THE SITUATION.
35CHAPTER XXXV. STELFOX IS RETICENT NO LONGER.
36CHAPTER XXXVI. VICTORY.
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