Length9h 8m
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Excerpt: "The night was of velvety blackness—one of those soft, warm, dark nights of June when the southwest wind rolls a cloud-curtain over the stars, when the air is heavy with unshed rain, when lamps burn dully, and when a nameless oppression broods over the face of the land. Seated at an open casement looking out into the London night was a woman. Her hands grasped each other over her knee with a tense grip which gave the lie to the calm of her face. Hers was a face to which in repose Rossetti would have woven an adoring sonnet, though not as to another "lazy, laughing, languid Jenny, fond of a kiss, and fond of a guinea," but a sonnet of purity and peace. Yet if the sonnet had been written, and the woman had read, the full scarlet lips which seemed to have gathered into them all the colour from her face, would have parted in scornful laughter. Her eyes, a part of the night into which they gazed, had dull shadows beneath them, painted there by weariness, yet she still sat motionless in a strained attitude of expectation. Her sole companion, seated a few yards away in an easy chair, looked up at her occasionally from a book which he held in his hand and smiled."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length9 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 3, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I "LET THEM GET WHO HAVE THE POWER, AND LET THEM KEEP WHO CAN"
2CHAPTER II CONCERNING THE GREUZE, SOME GENTILES, AND A JEW
3CHAPTER III THE MAKING OF A CRIMINAL
4CHAPTER IV THE REFLECTIONS OF LYNTON HORA
5CHAPTER V THE COMMANDATORE MAKES A DEDUCTION
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6CHAPTER VI WHEREIN A KING'S MESSENGER IS DESPOILED OF HIS DESPATCHES
7CHAPTER VII MERIEL MAKES AN IMPRESSION
8CHAPTER VIII A SUCCESSFUL SPECULATION AND ITS RESULT
9CHAPTER IX CONCERNING A GREAT MAN'S VEXATION
10CHAPTER X A NEW VIEW OF THE FLURSCHEIM ROBBERY
11CHAPTER XI GUY FINDS A NEW HOME
12CHAPTER XII INSPECTOR KENLY'S LODGER
13CHAPTER XIII POISONED WORDS
14CHAPTER XIV THE SHADOW-MAN
15CHAPTER XV INSPECTOR KENLY FINDS A CLUE
16CHAPTER XVI GUY MAKES A RESOLUTION
17CHAPTER XVII STAR-DUST
18CHAPTER XVIII CORNELIUS JESSEL DREAMS OF A FORTUNE
19CHAPTER XIX INSPECTOR KENLY REPORTS
20CHAPTER XX GUY'S LAST THEFT
21CHAPTER XXI EXPECTATION
22CHAPTER XXII TEMPTATION
23CHAPTER XXIII A FRIEND IN ADVERSITY
24CHAPTER XXIV INSPECTOR KENLY CONTEMPLATES ACTION
25CHAPTER XXV THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
26CHAPTER XXVI CAPTAIN MARVEN'S SURPRISE PACKET
27CHAPTER XXVII DUTY CALLS
28CHAPTER XXVIII THE FRUITS OF A CRIMINAL PHILOSOPHY
29L'ENVOI
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