Hard Pan A Story of Bonanza Fortunes
By Geraldine Bonner
Length6h 50m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Dinner was coming to an end. The Chinaman, soft-footed in his immaculate white, had just finished his circuit of the table, leaving a tiny gold-rimmed coffee-cup at each of the four plates. Into hers Letitia was lowering a lump of sugar, when a thought occurred to her, and she dropped the sugar into the cup with a little splash, and looking across at her vis-ã-vis, said: "Oh, John, I've been going to ask you half a dozen of times, and have always forgotten: did you know that Colonel Ramsay Reed had a daughter?" To see the effect of her question, she stretched forward a plump white hand and tilted to one side one of the pink silk petticoats that veiled the candle-flames. The obstruction removed, she looked with vivacious interest at the person to whom she had addressed her query. He, too, had just dropped his sugar into his coffee, and was stirring it slowly, watching the little maelstrom in the cup. "Colonel Ramsay Reed," he said, without looking up. "Yes, I think I've heard something about his having a daughter. But why do you ask me? Isn't Maud a much better person? She knows everything about everybody." He glanced at his sister-in-law, the dark, brown-eyed woman, very splendid in her white-and-yellow dress, who sat at the head of the small table. It was just a family party—Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Gault, Mrs. Mortimer's sister, Letitia Mason, and Mortimer's brother, John Gault. Mrs. Gault, who seemed to be quite oblivious to the impertinence of her brother-in-law's remark, answered smartly: "I shouldn't be surprised to hear that Colonel Reed had daughters by the dozens. Who knows really anything about those old bonanza men who've lost their bonanzas? They drop out of sight, and nobody ever hears of them again. Colonel Reed was in his glory before I was born.""
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length6 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish
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