Length9h 12m
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Excerpt: "One sultry September afternoon, some years ago, my brother Ronald and I, being tired and dusty, found a temporary resting-place on the parapet of a little old bridge that spanned a sleepy stream. Through a thin silk blouse a comforting sun beat upon my back, and I was serenely conscious of an unusual sense of happiness and well-being - though I owed little to my surroundings. In all England it would have been difficult to find a more featureless and monotonous outlook than the prospect that lay stretched before us. A series of flat, marshy fields, exhibiting here a space of willowy green, and there a patch of black soil, enclosed by ragged hedges or deep, dark dykes. Occasionally a few lonely and distorted trees, or a humped-up cluster of red roofs, varied the scene, which gradually faded until sky and horizon seemed to melt away into one pale blur. "What a region!" exclaimed Ronnie, as he tossed away the stump of a cigarette."
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I THE BRIDGE OF DREAMS
16CHAPTER XVI AN UNWELCOME VISITOR
2CHAPTER II BEKE
17CHAPTER XVII A COMPROMISE
3CHAPTER III A MEETING ON THE MARSHES
18CHAPTER XVIII THE RESIDENCY BALL
4CHAPTER IV A DANCE AT “THE PLOUGH”
19CHAPTER XIX “YES—OR NO?”
5CHAPTER V THE GREAT INVASION
20CHAPTER XX CLOUDS
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6CHAPTER VI IN AUNT MINA’S SHOES
21CHAPTER XXI RONNIE’S CONFESSION
7CHAPTER VII THE FAMILY SKELETON
22CHAPTER XXII PUNISHMENT
8CHAPTER VIII “AN OPEN DOOR”
23CHAPTER XXIII A HAVEN
9CHAPTER IX OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN
24CHAPTER XXIV THE FLIGHT
10CHAPTER X THE “ASPHODEL”
25CHAPTER XXV AT BANGALORE
11CHAPTER XI A HILL STATION
26CHAPTER XXVI WITHIN THE PRECINCTS
12CHAPTER XII THE NOTORIOUS MRS. DE LACY
27CHAPTER XXVII DARK DAYS
13CHAPTER XIII A FRESH START
28CHAPTER XXVIII HYDER ALI’S GARDEN
14CHAPTER XIV THE CLUB
29CHAPTER XXIX THE ORDER OF RELEASE
15CHAPTER XV A RENEWED FRIENDSHIP
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