Length12h 59m
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Excerpt: "The vast, grey expanse of the desert lay still as a picture in the heat of the early afternoon. The silence of waste places held it. It was gaunt and sterile, clad with a drab growth of sage, flat as a table, and with the white scurf of the alkali breaking through its parched skin. It was the earth, lean, sapless, and marked with disease. A chain of purple hills looked down on its dead level, over which a wagon road passed like a scar across a haggard face. From the brazen arch of the sky heat poured down and was thrown back from the scorched surface of the land. It was August in the Utah Desert in the early fifties In the silence and deadness of the scene there was one point of life. The canvas top of an emigrant wagon made a white spot on the monotone of grey. At noon there had been but one shadow in the desert and this was that beneath the wagon which was stationary in the road. Now the sun was declining from the zenith and the shadow was broadening; first a mere edge, then a substantial margin of shade. In it two women were crouched watching a child that lay gasping. Some distance away beside his two horses, a man sat on the ground, his hat over his eyes. One of the thousand tragedies the desert had seen was being enacted. Crushed between that dead indifference of earth and sky, its participators seemed to feel the hopelessness of movement or plaint and sat dumb, all but the child, who was dying with that solemn aloofness to surroundings, of which only those who are passing know the secret. His loud breathing sounded like a defiance in the silence of that savagely unsympathising nature. The man, the women, the horses, were like part of the picture in their mute immobility, only the dying child dared defy it."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length12 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PROLOGUE
2CHAPTER I THE DESERT
3CHAPTER II STRIKING A BARGAIN
4CHAPTER III HE RIDES AWAY
5CHAPTER IV THE ENCHANTED WINTER
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6MARIPOSA LILY
7CHAPTER I HIS SPLENDID DAUGHTER
8CHAPTER II THE MILLIONAIRE
9CHAPTER III RETROSPECT
10CHAPTER IV A GALA NIGHT
11CHAPTER V TRIAL FLIGHTS
12CHAPTER VI THE VISION AND THE DREAM
13CHAPTER VII THE REVELATION
14CHAPTER VIII ITS EFFECT
15CHAPTER IX HOW COULD HE
16CHAPTER X THE PALE HORSE
17CHAPTER XI BREAKS IN THE RAIN
18CHAPTER XII DRIFT AND CROSSCUT
19CHAPTER XIII THE SEED OF BANQUO
20CHAPTER XIV VAIN PLEADINGS
21CHAPTER XV THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
22CHAPTER XVI REBELLIOUS HEARTS
23CHAPTER XVII FRIEND AND BROTHER
24CHAPTER XVIII WITH ME TO HELP
25CHAPTER XIX NOT MADE IN HEAVEN
26CHAPTER XX THE WOMAN TALKS
27CHAPTER XXI THE MEETING IN THE RAIN
28CHAPTER XXII A NIGHT’S WORK
29CHAPTER XXIII THE LOST VOICE
30CHAPTER XXIV A BROKEN TOOL
31CHAPTER XXV HAVE YOU COME AT LAST
32EPILOGUE: CHAPTER I THE PRIMA DONNA
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