The Secret Dispatch, Or, The Adventures of Captain Balgonie
By James Grant
Length6h 13m
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Excerpt: ""Heaven aid me! here am I now—which way shall I turn—advance or retire?" exclaimed Balgonie, as his horse came plunging down almost on its knees, amid wild gorse and matted jungle. A cold day in the middle of April had passed away; a pale and cheerless sun, that had cast no heat on the leafless scenery and the half-frozen marshes that border the Louga in Western Russia, had sunk, and the darkness of a stormy night came on rapidly. The keen blast of the north, that swept the arid scalps of the Dudenhof (the only range of hills that traverses the ancient Ingria), was bellowing through a gorge, where the Louga poured in foam upon its passage to the Gulf of Finland, between steep banks that were covered by gloomy pines, when the speaker, a mounted officer in Russian uniform, who seemed too surely to have lost his way, reined up a weary and mud-covered horse on the margin of the stream, and by the light that yet lingered on the tops of the tall pines, and gilded faintly the metal-covered domes of a distant building on the opposite bank, looked hopelessly about him for the means of crossing the dangerous river."
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length6 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE.
2CHAPTER I. THE LOST TRAVELLER.
3CHAPTER II. THE CASTLE OF LOUGA.
4CHAPTER III. NATALIE.
5CHAPTER IV. CORPORAL PODATCHKINE.
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6CHAPTER V. THE DAGGER OF BERNIKOFF.
7CHAPTER VI. THE PALATINE.
8CHAPTER VII. THE SOLDIER OF THE CZARINA.
9CHAPTER VIII. IN LOVE.
10CHAPTER IX. DELUDED.
11CHAPTER X. THE CORPORAL IN HIS OWN TRAP.
12CHAPTER XI. OLGA, THE GIPSY.
13CHAPTER XII. ST. PETERSBURG.
14CHAPTER XIII. WHAT THE SECRET DISPATCH CONTAINED.
15CHAPTER XIV. CHARLIE'S FIRST DAY IN SCHLUSSELBERG.
16CHAPTER XV. THE IMPERIAL PRISONER.
17CHAPTER XVI. THE TRATKIR.
18CHAPTER XVII. THE WOOD OF THE HONEY TREE.
19CHAPTER XVIII. DOUBT AND DREAD.
20CHAPTER XIX. THE NIGHT OF THE 15TH SEPTEMBER.
21CHAPTER XX. MORNING OF THE 16TH SEPTEMBER.
22CHAPTER XXI. UNDERGROUND.
23CHAPTER XXII. OVER THEIR WINE.
24CHAPTER XXIII. WILL HE SUCCEED?
25CHAPTER XXIV. CONCLUSION.
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