Length16h 28m
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Excerpt: "The fortunes of the House of Egremont had their first great bloom through the agency of a platter of beans; and through a platter of beans more than a hundred years later the elder branch was ousted from one of the greatest estates in England, became wanderers and gentlemen adventurers throughout Europe, fought in quarrels not their own, served sovereigns of foreign countries, knew the dazzling heights of glory, and fell into the mire of penury and disrepute. An Egremont had the ear of kings, and another Egremont mounted the gallows. They mated sometimes with princes and dukes, and sometimes they were thought fit to mate with the daughters of their gaolers. Some of them were great at play, and met and vanquished the best players of Europe on the field of the cloth of green; other Egremonts were ascetics and wore hair shirts next their skins, and fasted and prayed extremely. They seemed the favorite playthings of destiny, which had a showman's way of exhibiting them in all the ups and downs, the glories and shames, of human vicissitudes."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length16 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ILLUSTRATIONS
2CHAPTER I IN WHICH ROGER EGREMONT MAKES HIS BOW TO THE WORLD
3CHAPTER II ROGER EGREMONT MAKES INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCE WITH TWO PERSONS, WHO EXERCISE GREAT BUT WIDELY DIFFERING INFLUENCES UPON HIS LIFE,—TO WIT, THE DEVIL AND MISS BESS LUKENS.
4CHAPTER III ONCE MORE AT EGREMONT
5CHAPTER IV SHOWING HOW ROGER EGREMONT FALLS INTO GOOD COMPANY
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6CHAPTER V THE EASTER TUESDAY MASQUERADE ON THE TERRACE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT
7CHAPTER VI “YOUR LOVER IS EVER IN A BAD WAY WHEN THE OTHER WOMAN APPEARS.”
8CHAPTER VII IN WHICH ROGER EGREMONT MEETS WITH BOTH GOOD AND ILL FORTUNE
9CHAPTER VIII WHEREIN THE PRINCESS MICHELLE IS PUT IN THE WAY OF SECURING THE DESTINY OF WHICH SHE HAS LONG DREAMED
10CHAPTER IX “I WISH YOU TO COME WITH ME”
11CHAPTER X HO! FOR ORLAMUNDE
12CHAPTER XI THE JOURNEY, AND SOME CONFIDENCES MADE BY ROGER EGREMONT TO THE PRINCESS MICHELLE.
13CHAPTER XII “YOU HAVE BROUGHT ME TO THE GATE OF PARADISE AND HAVE SHOWN ME THE GLORY OF THE BEAUTY WITHIN—AND THEN HAVE THRUST ME AWAY!”
14CHAPTER XIII THE PALACE OF MONPLAISIR—THE ABODE OF THE MOST HIGH, MOST MIGHTY, AND MOST PUISSANT PRINCE OF ORLAMUNDE.
15CHAPTER XIV ROGER EGREMONT HAS A LITTLE ADVENTURE IN A GARDEN AT NEERWINDEN AND BECOMES A MAJOR IN THE FINEST BRIGADE IN THE WORLD.
16CHAPTER XV IN WHICH AN EGREMONT HAS THE HAPPINESS OF RETURNING TO HIS NATIVE LAND—AND WHAT BEFELL HIM THERE
17CHAPTER XVI ONCE MORE IN THE SALOON OF THE SWANS
18CHAPTER XVII IN WHICH CAPTAIN ROGER EGREMONT ACTS AS COACHMAN, AND LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE DUKE OF BERWICK AS FOOTMAN
19CHAPTER XVIII ROGER EGREMONT HAS HIS LAST FIGHT WITH THE DEVIL
20CHAPTER XIX IF A MAN GIVETH HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS, HE CAN DO NO MORE
21CHAPTER XX “HUGO STEIN IS MY ENEMY, AND I AM HIS, AS LONG AS WE BOTH SHALL LIVE”
22CHAPTER XXI WHEREIN IS SET FORTH THE CONCLUSION OF A MAN WHO ALWAYS FEARED GOD AND ALWAYS TOOK HIS OWN PART
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