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Excerpt: "It was the middle of March in the North-West Provinces, and the hot weather had despatched several heralds to Ramghur, announcing its imminent approach. Punkahs were swinging lazily in barrack rooms, the annual ice notice had made a round of the station, many families had quitted the sweltering cantonments for the misty Himalayas, and the brain fever bird had arrived! Moreover, the red-capped tennis boys were on half-pay, the polo ground was abandoned, the club reading-room had cancelled all the ladies' papers, and its long dim verandah presented a melancholy vista of empty chairs. Outside in the gardens, and all over the district, cork trees, acacias, and stately teak upheld their naked branches, as if in agonised appeal to a pitiless blue sky, whilst their leaves, crisp and shrivelled, choked the neighbouring nullahs, or were chased up and down the dusty plains and roads by a howling hot wind. At a corner where two of these roads met, and about a mile from the club, stood a large irregular bungalow, with a thatched roof and walls of a vivid pink complexion, as if it were blushing—as well it might—for its straggling and neglected compound. The gate of this was closed, and through its wooden bars a white-faced shabby little girl was gazing intently. Otherwise the premises appeared to be deserted; the servants were presumably smoking and gossiping in the bazaar, the stables were empty, the very dogs were out. No, there was not a living creature to be seen, except a couple of quarrelsome crows and this solitary child. Although Angel Gascoigne had elevated herself by standing on the second rung of the gate, she was unable to lean comfortably on the top bar, but peered below like some caged creature, for she was remarkably small for her age. Indeed, if any of her acquaintance had been suddenly called upon to name it, they would have answered, "Oh—Angel! She is about six." Nevertheless, it was nine years, and long, long years to Angel, since she had come into the world in a damp little bungalow in distant Dalhousie."
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length10 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I "PATIENCE ON A GATE"
21CHAPTER XXI "THINK IT OVER"
2CHAPTER II IN THE VERANDAH
22CHAPTER XXII "A WHITE ELEPHANT AND A WHITE ROSE"
3CHAPTER III AN EARLY VISIT
23CHAPTER XXIII ANGEL DECLINES A PENNY FOR HER THOUGHTS
4CHAPTER IV ANGEL IN EXCELSIS
24CHAPTER XXIV THE SOOTHSAYER
5CHAPTER V THE LUCKNOW ROAD
25CHAPTER XXV THE CHITACHAR CLUB
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6CHAPTER VI LATE FOR MESS
26CHAPTER XXVI IN ANGEL'S TENT
7CHAPTER VII MRS. DAWSON'S DRESSES
27CHAPTER XXVII "THE SIN"
8CHAPTER VIII THE PICNIC
28CHAPTER XXVIII MAKING FRIENDS
9CHAPTER IX THE BEQUEST
29CHAPTER XXIX LAST YEAR'S NEST
10CHAPTER X A CHALLENGE
30CHAPTER XXX A WHITED SEPULCHRE
11CHAPTER XI WHO IS SHE?
31CHAPTER XXXI FISHING FOR AN INVITATION
12CHAPTER XII ANGEL IMPARTS A SECRET
32CHAPTER XXXII BY PROXY
13CHAPTER XIII ANGEL'S WINGS ARE CLIPPED
33CHAPTER XXXIII EXPLANATION
14CHAPTER XIV PHILIP'S LOVE AFFAIR
34CHAPTER XXXIV A REFUGEE
15CHAPTER XV LOLA
35CHAPTER XXXV A GOOD BILLET
16CHAPTER XVI GRANDMAMMA
36CHAPTER XXXVI JOINT HOSTESS
17CHAPTER XVII THE UNEXPECTED
37CHAPTER XXXVII INTO GARHWAL
18CHAPTER XVIII DINNER FOR TWO
38CHAPTER XXXVIII INTERLOPERS
19CHAPTER XIX THE PARTING GUESTS
39CHAPTER XXXIX TO DIE WITH YOU
20CHAPTER XX A DESTROYING ANGEL
40CHAPTER XL THE INTRUDER
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