"Wives and Daughters", Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling stepsister, Molly finds her situation hard to accept. Intertwined with the story of the Gibsons is that of Squire Hamley and his two sons. As Molly grows up and falls in love, she learns to judge people for what they are, not what they seem. Through Molly's observations the hierarchies, social values, and social changes of early-19th-century English life are made vivid in a novel that is timeless in its representation of human relationships.
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Wives and Daughters
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Length: 26:49 h
Published: 02-14-11
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Wives and Daughters
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Length: 19:25 h
Published: 2019-06-01
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05:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 1: THE DAWN OF A GALA DAY 05:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): This was no unusual instance… 05:39 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): For the first time in her life, Molly Gibson was to be included… 05:39 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'We shall go back to town on Friday the 18th,' said Lady Agnes… 04:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 2: A NOVICE AMONGST THE GREAT FOLK 04:24 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She turned hastily round not to lose another word… 05:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): There was some bread, and some cold chicken, and some jelly… 05:42 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The housemaids came in to arrange the room. 05:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was an obliging girl, and fond of children… 03:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): There was an implied blame running through this speech... 04:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You must go and wish Lady Cumnor good-night, you know…' 04:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Once out into the park Molly struck her pony, and urged him on… 04:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 3: MOLLY GIBSON'S CHILDHOOD 03:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The popularity of this world is as transient as its glory… 04:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Several years before the opening of this story… 05:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed… 04:48 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 4: MR. GIBSON'S NEIGHBOURS 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But somehow things had changed… 05:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Use my purse as freely as if it was your own…' 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He had married a delicate fine London lady… 04:50 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She had not been able for many years to walk beyond her garden… 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Major Coxe was at some unpronounceable station… 04:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 5: CALF-LOVE 04:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After a little more consideration in the same strain… 05:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'To be sure. Come in, Mr. Coxe. I was rather wanting to talk…' 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Would it tend to cure your – well! passion, we'll say…?' 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I only wish Osborne and Roger…' 05:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Don't you like to go? Would you rather not?' 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 6: A VISIT TO THE HAMLEYS 03:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She rose languidly, and wrapping her light shawl round her… 04:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So she began. Molly was not so much absorbed in listening… 04:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly tried to find out in the picture the characteristics… 05:12 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The squire had hitherto been too busy to talk… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly looked out of her chamber window… 03:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She dropped her voice very soft and low… 03:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Mr. Osborne Hamley is very clever, is he not?' Molly asked… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 7: FORESHADOWS OF LOVE PERILS 03:58 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I guess your request. I make it before you do…' 04:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'She's a good girl,' said her father, when she had danced out… 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All that afternoon the squire tried to steer clear of Molly… 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 8: DRIFTING INTO DANGER 04:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And this time she had nearly finished learning the poem… 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He was a tall powerfully-made young man… 05:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After dinner, too, the gentlemen lingered… 04:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Thursday, the 19th, Harriet,' said Lady Cumnor… 04:24 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Do you think what Harriet says is true, Mary?' 04:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'She is at school at Boulogne, I know…' 03:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 9: THE WIDOWER AND THE WIDOW 03:48 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was a very pleasant change… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): A disturbance to the pleasant, even course… 05:09 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson had been far too busy in his profession… 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Ashcombe was a larger estate than that near Hollingford… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 10: A CRISIS 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Could you love her as your daughter?' 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): They were neither of them quite as desirous… 04:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson turned a little paler than he had been before. 04:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Out of the bitterness of her heart she spoke… 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She did not see Roger Hamley returning from the meadows… 05:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She did not take her eyes away from his… 04:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You will have thought me hard,' he burst out at length… 04:58 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was very near crying again. 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 11: MAKING FRIENDSHIP 05:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Because it isn't,' said she, daring all. 03:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'What eyes! So like your dear father's!' 04:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Thank you, my own love.' 04:43 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly followed Mrs. Kirkpatrick into the morning-room… 05:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Kirkpatrick fondled the hand thus placed in hers… 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): An old rhyme Molly had heard Betty use… 03:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Thank you,' said she, her lips trembling… 02:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And the tete-a-tete was merged in a trio. 04:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 12: PREPARING FOR THE WEDDING 05:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But Mr. Gibson, economical as he was… 04:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Her preparations were thus in a very considerable state… 03:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson winced. Jeanie was his first love… 03:48 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Nonsense, sister,' said Miss Browning. 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 13: MOLLY GIBSON'S NEW FRIENDS 05:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You seem to have seen a great deal of Mr. Roger, Molly!' 05:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The next day Molly went with Miss Browning… 05:58 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson and Molly drove over to Ashcombe… 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then they went in to dinner. 03:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 14: MOLLY FINDS HERSELF PATRONIZED 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Before Molly could shape her next question… 05:42 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Preston came into the room just at this time… 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When he had left the room… 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I've brought you the wasps'-nest I promised you…' 04:43 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He looked round the table as he sate down. 05:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Oh, Molly! I thought you'd never come back…' 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 15: THE NEW MAMMA 05:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly bit her lips to prevent herself from saying something… 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): One day he said to Molly, 'I wish you'd ask your mamma…' 04:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Don't get any dainties for me, my dear…' 05:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 16: THE BRIDE AT HOME 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After they were gone, Mrs. Gibson began… 03:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All this time the family at the Towers had been absent… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Just then Squire Hamley came in. 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The squire was put out; and when he was put out… 04:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 17: TROUBLE AT HAMLEY HALL 03:58 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): That sore had not yet healed over… 05:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Don't you know, at all, how the money has gone?' 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Osborne's name was never mentioned… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly dreaded the squire's anger… 05:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It is not to be supposed that Molly had remained… 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 18: MR. OSBORNE'S SECRET 05:08 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I don't believe my father could raise the money…' 05:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So Molly hung about the house, trying to do all she could… 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After a while he said… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She mounted on the ladder to get to a particular shelf… 04:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'The drawing-room must be refurnished…' 04:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 19: CYNTHIA'S ARRIVAL 04:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She settled herself to her work again… 04:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly went into her own room, waiting to show Cynthia… 04:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Day after day the course of these small frivolities… 03:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I was a trouble, I daresay.' 04:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia might well say she did not consider herself… 01:39 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia herself appeared extremely indifferent… 05:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 20: MRS. GIBSON'S VISITORS 05:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Just at this moment, Molly heard the familiar sound… 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I believe in senior wranglers,' said Cynthia… 05:06 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): They were talking of France. 05:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 21: THE HALF-SISTERS 05:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Ah, Roger!' he said one day. 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Gibson took up arms on behalf of her own daughter… 05:43 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly caught a few words occasionally in intervals… 05:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He made a face of dismay, and then went off to his duties. 05:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I'm very glad I yawned in his face,' said Mr. Gibson. 05:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 22: THE OLD SQUIRE'S TROUBLES 05:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The remarks had come round… 03:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You see, all you public schoolboys…' 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): About five minutes elapsed, spent by the hungry squire… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Osborne was strongly tempted to get up and leave… 04:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I thought master wasn't justly himself, Mr. Osborne…' 04:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 23: OSBORNE HAMLEY REVIEWS HIS POSITION 04:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then he bethought him of his poems – would they sell…? 04:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When Roger came home Osborne did not let a day pass… 03:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): As yet, Roger had never seen his brother's wife… 03:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Not he,' said the squire, taking the pipe out of his mouth… 04:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 24: MRS. GIBSON'S LITTLE DINNER 05:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'How could you talk such nonsense, Cynthia?' 05:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Osborne had instinctively gone to stand behind Cynthia… 05:06 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 25: HOLLINGFORD IN A BUSTLE 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lady Harriet came to call on her old governess… 05:26 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Off went Mrs. Gibson rather unwillingly… 05:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia took the utmost pains in dressing Molly… 04:24 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 26: A CHARITY BALL 05:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Probably Mr. Roscoe would have felt more aggrieved… 04:50 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Just at this moment the band… 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Preston made no reply. 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I should have felt honoured if you had accepted…' 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lady Harriet, who was rather different to Miss Piper… 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I don't know about popularity or votes,' said Molly… 03:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Nonsense; it would grieve papa beyond measure…' 04:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): This piece of news was of great interest to Molly… 05:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 27: FATHER AND SONS 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): M. Geoffroi St H – was in England now… 04:08 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'How go the poems, old fellow?' 04:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All these prejudices were strengthened by his grief. 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 28: RIVALRY 04:12 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I should like it very much,' said Osborne… 04:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But Cynthia had come across too many varieties of flirtation… 03:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Now the first person out of the house… 04:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): For some reason or other, unknown to the Gibsons… 04:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Mr. Roger Hamley,' was announced. 05:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Ah! London is the true place…' 04:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 29: BUSH-FIGHTING 05:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And now both Osborne and Roger had left… 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'May I ask where you do spend your time…?' 04:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then there was lunch, when everyone was merry… 05:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Why?' said Osborne, roused to a little curiosity… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Nonsense! I wish you wouldn't talk so, Cynthia!' 04:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But she felt how different Roger's relation to her was. 04:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 30: OLD WAYS AND NEW WAYS 05:09 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'But I'm a deal nearer Heaven to-day, I am.' 05:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): In those days people used to speak… 05:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Mr. Preston, I can hardly understand what you mean…' 05:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 31: A PASSIVE COQUETTE 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): In the first instance… 04:21 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was dejected, she knew not why. 03:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It may be all very pleasant… 03:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The squire dwelt so much upon… 05:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 32: COMING EVENTS 04:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You must be married again,' said Roger… 04:42 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So runs the round of life from day to day. 04:30 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Lady Harriet is coming here this morning…' 05:09 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lady Harriet was sorry to miss Molly… 04:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Lady Harriet! I think you might have known…' 03:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'It seems to me a very laudable and useful object…' 03:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly went the long walk to the Holly Farm… 04:56 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 33: BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS 04:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was a manly, feeling, sensible letter… 04:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Come, squire, I must not hear anything…' 03:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was all very fine giving the squire this good advice… 04:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 34: A LOVER'S MISTAKE 04:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I have been watching for you, dear…' 04:06 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): With a gulp and a fit of resolution… 05:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The little pendule on the chimney-piece… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Why, Molly!' said Cynthia… 05:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 35: THE MOTHER'S MANOEUVRE 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She looked as if she was going to cry again… 05:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Don't you know that all professional conversations…?' 05:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Shall I tell you what I should do?' said Mr. Gibson… 05:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia looked extremely annoyed. 04:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'No!' he said at last, with a sigh. 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson's face relaxed now… 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 36: DOMESTIC DIPLOMACY 04:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Well, then, you won't go!' said Mr. Gibson… 05:30 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Do you think she's worthy of him?' asked her father… 06:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 37: A FLUKE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT 05:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After a fortnight's time… 05:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson went upstairs to the drawing-room… 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): "'Not guilty, but we recommend the prisoner…"' 03:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But Cynthia, instead of replying to this question… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): For a long time Molly had been surprised… 05:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then Cynthia's ways and manners about Roger… 04:56 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 38: MR. KIRKPATRICK, Q.C. 05:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Dear-ah-me!' said the old lady… 04:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'She was so sorry for what she'd done…' 03:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When the two gentlemen met… 03:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'If you want us to sympathize with you…' 03:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'But then she must have got the money somewhere.' 05:26 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 39: SECRET THOUGHTS OOZE OUT 06:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Ah,' said Mrs. Gibson… 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): To return to the squire. Occupied as he now was… 05:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Osborne! Do you know anything about this…?' 03:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But after his father had left the room… 03:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And then she plunged into the tete-a-tete… 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 40: MOLLY GIBSON BREATHES FREELY 04:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): In general, it is the people who are left behind… 04:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Gibson wrote twice during her week's absence… 05:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly did not answer all at once. 05:08 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 41: GATHERING CLOUDS 04:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Whenever anything had gone wrong… 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She knew that Cynthia withheld from her… 04:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I can't understand you, Cynthia,' she said at length. 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'As far as I can judge of London,' said Miss Browning… 05:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I shall not stand on warning you, Molly.' 04:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 42: THE STORM BURSTS 04:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So she went up to the top of the hill… 03:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Cynthia,' said he, suddenly changing his tone… 02:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I am quite puzzled by you both,' said Molly. 03:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You do not call it love…' 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When she went into the drawing-room before dinner… 04:26 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 43: CYNTHIA'S CONFESSION 04:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then she paused, and sate still for a minute or two… 05:01 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He had twenty pounds in his pocket… 03:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): '…I cannot tell you all the ins and outs…' 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Oh, at first he pretended not to believe…' 03:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia began to cry, out of weariness of body… 05:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 44: MOLLY GIBSON TO THE RESCUE 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It did strike Molly that Cynthia… 05:21 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You should not speak so…' 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You are very simple, Miss Gibson,' said he… 04:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia was on the watch for her return… 04:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 45: CONFIDENCES 04:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She was startled from her meditations… 03:50 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You and I must go on the next journey…' 04:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'But there is something between Cynthia and Roger…' 05:21 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I hope you did not want to see him…?' 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 46: HOLLINGFORD GOSSIPS 04:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly went upstairs to get ready… 04:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All through the evening Molly's thoughts wandered… 04:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I'm sure I don't want to hear of clandestine meetings…' 04:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Why, who told you?' said Mrs. Goodenough… 05:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 47: SCANDAL AND ITS VICTIMS 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The operation on Lady Cumnor… 05:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): For a good while the Miss Brownings… 04:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Miss Browning's distress was overcoming her anger… 04:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Well!' she said at length, rising up… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Go on, can't you?' said he… 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 48: AN INNOCENT CULPRIT 04:30 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He could not help relenting at her words… 04:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was a great relief to Mr. Gibson… 04:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I think the world would get on tolerably well…' 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then Molly knew that her stepmother… 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 49: MOLLY GIBSON FINDS A CHAMPION 04:26 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Well, I think the least you can do…' 04:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The next day Lady Harriet rode over to Hollingford… 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lady Harriet, meanwhile, was riding homewards… 04:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'No, my lord. I have no intentions…' 05:12 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 50: CYNTHIA AT BAY 05:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Refused him – and you never told me…' 04:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The second and the last day of her stay at the Towers… 05:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Once in her own room, Lady Harriet… 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Well! I don't like it, at any rate. It is not pleasant…' 05:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Gibson, too, had been awed into silence… 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 51: 'TROUBLES NEVER COME ALONE' 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'And now, Mr. Gibson…' 04:56 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Molly, Roger will marry you!' 03:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So down into the cluster of collected women… 04:50 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After a moment's pause… 05:01 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 52: SQUIRE HAMLEY'S SORROW 04:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Forgetting, apparently, what time of night it was… 05:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I do try to say, God's will be done, sir,' said the squire… 04:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Osborne evidently had bound him down to secrecy…' 05:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Little by little he led the squire… 04:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly had no doubt that Osborne… 03:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But Molly kept her pleading eyes fixed on Cynthia. 04:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 53: UNLOOKED-FOR ARRIVALS 05:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Give it me,' said the squire, his voice breaking now… 05:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'So you always say, daughter. Time will show.' 04:08 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): There was a 'lingerie' shop, kept by a Frenchwoman… 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Robinson had been aware that there was some mystery… 03:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So Molly and the woman lifted her up… 03:24 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): By-and-by the squire said in a whisper… 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 54: MOLLY GIBSON'S WORTH IS DISCOVERED 04:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Worn out by the contending emotions of the day… 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was well that Molly was such a favourite… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): From time to time her father rode up to the window… 05:12 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Really, Clare, I spend so much time in your house…' 05:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I am afraid she has been very ill?' asked Cynthia. 04:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 55: AN ABSENT LOVER RETURNS 05:09 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'If a young man of twenty-four…' 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Gibson could hardly wait… 04:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The little trap thus set for news… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All the rest of the day she alluded to Cynthia… 05:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 56: 'OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW.' 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Someone was thinking about her at the same time… 04:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And Roger ran downstairs at full speed… 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): In the evening Mr. Henderson came. 02:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick sent all manner… 05:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 57: BRIDAL VISITS AND ADIEUX 05:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Had Roger indeed been asked to the Towers and declined? 05:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was sitting in the drawing-room… 03:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly's heart sank within her at the prospect. 03:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So Molly was driven off in state the next day… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was only too glad to allow Lady Harriet… 05:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 58: REVIVING HOPES AND BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS 04:21 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): On Saturday they were more fortunate… 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): His tone of voice was changed in speaking of her… 03:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lord Hollingford remembered his sister's words… 04:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was about six weeks since Cynthia's engagement… 03:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Now, as Mrs. Gibson was not quite sure… 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 59: MOLLY GIBSON AT HAMLEY HALL 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was nearly lunch-time… 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly made a point of turning the conversation… 04:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I don't even call her pretty,' said the squire… 05:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Roger came in from his walk… 04:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 60: ROGER HAMLEY'S CONFESSION 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then there was a silence – for a while. 03:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Just then they heard Mr. Gibson's step downstairs. 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): One evening after dinner… 05:48 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'My dear boy!' said Mr. Gibson… 04:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson gave Roger's message to his wife… 03:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When she came to a sense of the present… 04:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Oh, ho! So that's your reason, is it, my dear.' 05:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Concluding remarks by the Editor… 03:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was so at all times… 04:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Viewed in this light, Cynthia is a more important…
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Gaskell, E.: Wives and Daughters (Unabridged)
by Patience Tomlinson
Length: 27:29 h
Published: 2010-03-30
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05:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 1: THE DAWN OF A GALA DAY 05:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): This was no unusual instance… 05:39 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): For the first time in her life, Molly Gibson was to be included… 05:39 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'We shall go back to town on Friday the 18th,' said Lady Agnes… 04:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 2: A NOVICE AMONGST THE GREAT FOLK 04:24 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She turned hastily round not to lose another word… 05:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): There was some bread, and some cold chicken, and some jelly… 05:42 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The housemaids came in to arrange the room. 05:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was an obliging girl, and fond of children… 03:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): There was an implied blame running through this speech... 04:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You must go and wish Lady Cumnor good-night, you know…' 04:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Once out into the park Molly struck her pony, and urged him on… 04:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 3: MOLLY GIBSON'S CHILDHOOD 03:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The popularity of this world is as transient as its glory… 04:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Several years before the opening of this story… 05:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed… 04:48 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 4: MR. GIBSON'S NEIGHBOURS 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But somehow things had changed… 05:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Use my purse as freely as if it was your own…' 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He had married a delicate fine London lady… 04:50 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She had not been able for many years to walk beyond her garden… 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Major Coxe was at some unpronounceable station… 04:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 5: CALF-LOVE 04:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After a little more consideration in the same strain… 05:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'To be sure. Come in, Mr. Coxe. I was rather wanting to talk…' 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Would it tend to cure your – well! passion, we'll say…?' 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I only wish Osborne and Roger…' 05:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Don't you like to go? Would you rather not?' 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 6: A VISIT TO THE HAMLEYS 03:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She rose languidly, and wrapping her light shawl round her… 04:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So she began. Molly was not so much absorbed in listening… 04:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly tried to find out in the picture the characteristics… 05:12 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The squire had hitherto been too busy to talk… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly looked out of her chamber window… 03:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She dropped her voice very soft and low… 03:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Mr. Osborne Hamley is very clever, is he not?' Molly asked… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 7: FORESHADOWS OF LOVE PERILS 03:58 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I guess your request. I make it before you do…' 04:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'She's a good girl,' said her father, when she had danced out… 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All that afternoon the squire tried to steer clear of Molly… 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 8: DRIFTING INTO DANGER 04:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And this time she had nearly finished learning the poem… 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He was a tall powerfully-made young man… 05:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After dinner, too, the gentlemen lingered… 04:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Thursday, the 19th, Harriet,' said Lady Cumnor… 04:24 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Do you think what Harriet says is true, Mary?' 04:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'She is at school at Boulogne, I know…' 03:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 9: THE WIDOWER AND THE WIDOW 03:48 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was a very pleasant change… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): A disturbance to the pleasant, even course… 05:09 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson had been far too busy in his profession… 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Ashcombe was a larger estate than that near Hollingford… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 10: A CRISIS 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Could you love her as your daughter?' 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): They were neither of them quite as desirous… 04:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson turned a little paler than he had been before. 04:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Out of the bitterness of her heart she spoke… 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She did not see Roger Hamley returning from the meadows… 05:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She did not take her eyes away from his… 04:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You will have thought me hard,' he burst out at length… 04:58 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was very near crying again. 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 11: MAKING FRIENDSHIP 05:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Because it isn't,' said she, daring all. 03:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'What eyes! So like your dear father's!' 04:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Thank you, my own love.' 04:43 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly followed Mrs. Kirkpatrick into the morning-room… 05:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Kirkpatrick fondled the hand thus placed in hers… 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): An old rhyme Molly had heard Betty use… 03:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Thank you,' said she, her lips trembling… 02:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And the tete-a-tete was merged in a trio. 04:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 12: PREPARING FOR THE WEDDING 05:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But Mr. Gibson, economical as he was… 04:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Her preparations were thus in a very considerable state… 03:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson winced. Jeanie was his first love… 03:48 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Nonsense, sister,' said Miss Browning. 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 13: MOLLY GIBSON'S NEW FRIENDS 05:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You seem to have seen a great deal of Mr. Roger, Molly!' 05:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The next day Molly went with Miss Browning… 05:58 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson and Molly drove over to Ashcombe… 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then they went in to dinner. 03:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 14: MOLLY FINDS HERSELF PATRONIZED 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Before Molly could shape her next question… 05:42 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Preston came into the room just at this time… 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When he had left the room… 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I've brought you the wasps'-nest I promised you…' 04:43 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He looked round the table as he sate down. 05:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Oh, Molly! I thought you'd never come back…' 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 15: THE NEW MAMMA 05:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly bit her lips to prevent herself from saying something… 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): One day he said to Molly, 'I wish you'd ask your mamma…' 04:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Don't get any dainties for me, my dear…' 05:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 16: THE BRIDE AT HOME 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After they were gone, Mrs. Gibson began… 03:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All this time the family at the Towers had been absent… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Just then Squire Hamley came in. 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The squire was put out; and when he was put out… 04:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 17: TROUBLE AT HAMLEY HALL 03:58 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): That sore had not yet healed over… 05:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Don't you know, at all, how the money has gone?' 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Osborne's name was never mentioned… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly dreaded the squire's anger… 05:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It is not to be supposed that Molly had remained… 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 18: MR. OSBORNE'S SECRET 05:08 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I don't believe my father could raise the money…' 05:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So Molly hung about the house, trying to do all she could… 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After a while he said… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She mounted on the ladder to get to a particular shelf… 04:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'The drawing-room must be refurnished…' 04:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 19: CYNTHIA'S ARRIVAL 04:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She settled herself to her work again… 04:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly went into her own room, waiting to show Cynthia… 04:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Day after day the course of these small frivolities… 03:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I was a trouble, I daresay.' 04:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia might well say she did not consider herself… 01:39 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia herself appeared extremely indifferent… 05:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 20: MRS. GIBSON'S VISITORS 05:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Just at this moment, Molly heard the familiar sound… 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I believe in senior wranglers,' said Cynthia… 05:06 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): They were talking of France. 05:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 21: THE HALF-SISTERS 05:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Ah, Roger!' he said one day. 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Gibson took up arms on behalf of her own daughter… 05:43 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly caught a few words occasionally in intervals… 05:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He made a face of dismay, and then went off to his duties. 05:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I'm very glad I yawned in his face,' said Mr. Gibson. 05:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 22: THE OLD SQUIRE'S TROUBLES 05:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The remarks had come round… 03:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You see, all you public schoolboys…' 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): About five minutes elapsed, spent by the hungry squire… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Osborne was strongly tempted to get up and leave… 04:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I thought master wasn't justly himself, Mr. Osborne…' 04:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 23: OSBORNE HAMLEY REVIEWS HIS POSITION 04:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then he bethought him of his poems – would they sell…? 04:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When Roger came home Osborne did not let a day pass… 03:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): As yet, Roger had never seen his brother's wife… 03:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Not he,' said the squire, taking the pipe out of his mouth… 04:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 24: MRS. GIBSON'S LITTLE DINNER 05:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'How could you talk such nonsense, Cynthia?' 05:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Osborne had instinctively gone to stand behind Cynthia… 05:06 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 25: HOLLINGFORD IN A BUSTLE 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lady Harriet came to call on her old governess… 05:26 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Off went Mrs. Gibson rather unwillingly… 05:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia took the utmost pains in dressing Molly… 04:24 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 26: A CHARITY BALL 05:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Probably Mr. Roscoe would have felt more aggrieved… 04:50 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Just at this moment the band… 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Preston made no reply. 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I should have felt honoured if you had accepted…' 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lady Harriet, who was rather different to Miss Piper… 05:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I don't know about popularity or votes,' said Molly… 03:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Nonsense; it would grieve papa beyond measure…' 04:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): This piece of news was of great interest to Molly… 05:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 27: FATHER AND SONS 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): M. Geoffroi St H – was in England now… 04:08 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'How go the poems, old fellow?' 04:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All these prejudices were strengthened by his grief. 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 28: RIVALRY 04:12 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I should like it very much,' said Osborne… 04:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But Cynthia had come across too many varieties of flirtation… 03:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Now the first person out of the house… 04:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): For some reason or other, unknown to the Gibsons… 04:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Mr. Roger Hamley,' was announced. 05:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Ah! London is the true place…' 04:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 29: BUSH-FIGHTING 05:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And now both Osborne and Roger had left… 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'May I ask where you do spend your time…?' 04:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then there was lunch, when everyone was merry… 05:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Why?' said Osborne, roused to a little curiosity… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Nonsense! I wish you wouldn't talk so, Cynthia!' 04:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But she felt how different Roger's relation to her was. 04:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 30: OLD WAYS AND NEW WAYS 05:09 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'But I'm a deal nearer Heaven to-day, I am.' 05:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): In those days people used to speak… 05:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Mr. Preston, I can hardly understand what you mean…' 05:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 31: A PASSIVE COQUETTE 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): In the first instance… 04:21 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was dejected, she knew not why. 03:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It may be all very pleasant… 03:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The squire dwelt so much upon… 05:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 32: COMING EVENTS 04:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You must be married again,' said Roger… 04:42 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So runs the round of life from day to day. 04:30 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Lady Harriet is coming here this morning…' 05:09 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lady Harriet was sorry to miss Molly… 04:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Lady Harriet! I think you might have known…' 03:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'It seems to me a very laudable and useful object…' 03:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly went the long walk to the Holly Farm… 04:56 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 33: BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS 04:40 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was a manly, feeling, sensible letter… 04:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Come, squire, I must not hear anything…' 03:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was all very fine giving the squire this good advice… 04:15 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 34: A LOVER'S MISTAKE 04:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I have been watching for you, dear…' 04:06 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): With a gulp and a fit of resolution… 05:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The little pendule on the chimney-piece… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Why, Molly!' said Cynthia… 05:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 35: THE MOTHER'S MANOEUVRE 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She looked as if she was going to cry again… 05:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Don't you know that all professional conversations…?' 05:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Shall I tell you what I should do?' said Mr. Gibson… 05:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia looked extremely annoyed. 04:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'No!' he said at last, with a sigh. 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson's face relaxed now… 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 36: DOMESTIC DIPLOMACY 04:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Well, then, you won't go!' said Mr. Gibson… 05:30 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Do you think she's worthy of him?' asked her father… 06:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 37: A FLUKE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT 05:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After a fortnight's time… 05:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson went upstairs to the drawing-room… 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): "'Not guilty, but we recommend the prisoner…"' 03:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But Cynthia, instead of replying to this question… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): For a long time Molly had been surprised… 05:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then Cynthia's ways and manners about Roger… 04:56 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 38: MR. KIRKPATRICK, Q.C. 05:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Dear-ah-me!' said the old lady… 04:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'She was so sorry for what she'd done…' 03:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When the two gentlemen met… 03:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'If you want us to sympathize with you…' 03:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'But then she must have got the money somewhere.' 05:26 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 39: SECRET THOUGHTS OOZE OUT 06:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Ah,' said Mrs. Gibson… 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): To return to the squire. Occupied as he now was… 05:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Osborne! Do you know anything about this…?' 03:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But after his father had left the room… 03:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And then she plunged into the tete-a-tete… 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 40: MOLLY GIBSON BREATHES FREELY 04:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): In general, it is the people who are left behind… 04:54 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Gibson wrote twice during her week's absence… 05:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly did not answer all at once. 05:08 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 41: GATHERING CLOUDS 04:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Whenever anything had gone wrong… 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She knew that Cynthia withheld from her… 04:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I can't understand you, Cynthia,' she said at length. 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'As far as I can judge of London,' said Miss Browning… 05:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I shall not stand on warning you, Molly.' 04:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 42: THE STORM BURSTS 04:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So she went up to the top of the hill… 03:27 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Cynthia,' said he, suddenly changing his tone… 02:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I am quite puzzled by you both,' said Molly. 03:31 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You do not call it love…' 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When she went into the drawing-room before dinner… 04:26 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 43: CYNTHIA'S CONFESSION 04:51 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then she paused, and sate still for a minute or two… 05:01 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He had twenty pounds in his pocket… 03:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): '…I cannot tell you all the ins and outs…' 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Oh, at first he pretended not to believe…' 03:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia began to cry, out of weariness of body… 05:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 44: MOLLY GIBSON TO THE RESCUE 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It did strike Molly that Cynthia… 05:21 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You should not speak so…' 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You are very simple, Miss Gibson,' said he… 04:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Cynthia was on the watch for her return… 04:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 45: CONFIDENCES 04:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): She was startled from her meditations… 03:50 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'You and I must go on the next journey…' 04:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'But there is something between Cynthia and Roger…' 05:21 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I hope you did not want to see him…?' 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 46: HOLLINGFORD GOSSIPS 04:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly went upstairs to get ready… 04:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All through the evening Molly's thoughts wandered… 04:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I'm sure I don't want to hear of clandestine meetings…' 04:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Why, who told you?' said Mrs. Goodenough… 05:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 47: SCANDAL AND ITS VICTIMS 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The operation on Lady Cumnor… 05:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): For a good while the Miss Brownings… 04:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Miss Browning's distress was overcoming her anger… 04:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Well!' she said at length, rising up… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Go on, can't you?' said he… 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 48: AN INNOCENT CULPRIT 04:30 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): He could not help relenting at her words… 04:34 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was a great relief to Mr. Gibson… 04:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I think the world would get on tolerably well…' 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then Molly knew that her stepmother… 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 49: MOLLY GIBSON FINDS A CHAMPION 04:26 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Well, I think the least you can do…' 04:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The next day Lady Harriet rode over to Hollingford… 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lady Harriet, meanwhile, was riding homewards… 04:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'No, my lord. I have no intentions…' 05:12 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 50: CYNTHIA AT BAY 05:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Refused him – and you never told me…' 04:47 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The second and the last day of her stay at the Towers… 05:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Once in her own room, Lady Harriet… 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Well! I don't like it, at any rate. It is not pleasant…' 05:38 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Gibson, too, had been awed into silence… 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 51: 'TROUBLES NEVER COME ALONE' 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'And now, Mr. Gibson…' 04:56 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Molly, Roger will marry you!' 03:52 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So down into the cluster of collected women… 04:50 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): After a moment's pause… 05:01 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 52: SQUIRE HAMLEY'S SORROW 04:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Forgetting, apparently, what time of night it was… 05:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I do try to say, God's will be done, sir,' said the squire… 04:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Osborne evidently had bound him down to secrecy…' 05:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Little by little he led the squire… 04:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly had no doubt that Osborne… 03:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): But Molly kept her pleading eyes fixed on Cynthia. 04:37 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 53: UNLOOKED-FOR ARRIVALS 05:13 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Give it me,' said the squire, his voice breaking now… 05:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'So you always say, daughter. Time will show.' 04:08 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): There was a 'lingerie' shop, kept by a Frenchwoman… 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Robinson had been aware that there was some mystery… 03:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So Molly and the woman lifted her up… 03:24 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): By-and-by the squire said in a whisper… 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 54: MOLLY GIBSON'S WORTH IS DISCOVERED 04:10 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Worn out by the contending emotions of the day… 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was well that Molly was such a favourite… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): From time to time her father rode up to the window… 05:12 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Really, Clare, I spend so much time in your house…' 05:19 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I am afraid she has been very ill?' asked Cynthia. 04:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 55: AN ABSENT LOVER RETURNS 05:09 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'If a young man of twenty-four…' 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mrs. Gibson could hardly wait… 04:28 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): The little trap thus set for news… 05:23 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): All the rest of the day she alluded to Cynthia… 05:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 56: 'OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW.' 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Someone was thinking about her at the same time… 04:14 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): And Roger ran downstairs at full speed… 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): In the evening Mr. Henderson came. 02:57 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick sent all manner… 05:00 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 57: BRIDAL VISITS AND ADIEUX 05:03 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Had Roger indeed been asked to the Towers and declined? 05:17 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was sitting in the drawing-room… 03:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly's heart sank within her at the prospect. 03:45 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): So Molly was driven off in state the next day… 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly was only too glad to allow Lady Harriet… 05:11 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 58: REVIVING HOPES AND BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS 04:21 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): On Saturday they were more fortunate… 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): His tone of voice was changed in speaking of her… 03:32 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Lord Hollingford remembered his sister's words… 04:20 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was about six weeks since Cynthia's engagement… 03:46 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Now, as Mrs. Gibson was not quite sure… 05:25 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 59: MOLLY GIBSON AT HAMLEY HALL 05:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was nearly lunch-time… 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Molly made a point of turning the conversation… 04:29 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'I don't even call her pretty,' said the squire… 05:44 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Roger came in from his walk… 04:35 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): CHAPTER 60: ROGER HAMLEY'S CONFESSION 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Then there was a silence – for a while. 03:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Just then they heard Mr. Gibson's step downstairs. 05:05 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): One evening after dinner… 05:48 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'My dear boy!' said Mr. Gibson… 04:16 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Mr. Gibson gave Roger's message to his wife… 03:18 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): When she came to a sense of the present… 04:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): 'Oh, ho! So that's your reason, is it, my dear.' 05:59 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Concluding remarks by the Editor… 03:33 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): It was so at all times… 04:04 Wives and Daughters (Unabridged): Viewed in this light, Cynthia is a more important…
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Gaskell, E.: Wives and Daughters (Abridged)
by Patience Tomlinson
Length: 10:15 h
Published: 2010-03-30
Tracks:
05:25 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): THE DAWN OF AS GALA DAY 03:38 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): After the proper amount of exhibition… 03:20 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Ah, yes! as soon as we have got over the school…' 04:55 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): A NOVICE AMONG THE GREAT FOLK 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): At length she saw the pretty lady coming back… 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly - only child as she was… 05:02 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Mrs. Kirkpatrick came gliding up… 03:16 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MOLLY GIBSON'S CHILDHOOD 02:48 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Mr. Gibson's domestic affections… 03:29 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MR. GIBSON'S NEIGHBOURS 03:14 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Perhaps the man of all others… 02:54 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): If Roger did not do well at Cambridge it was his own fault. 05:34 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): CALF-LOVE 02:13 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Mr. Coxe hung his head a little, and meditated. 04:12 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): A Visit To The Hamleys 04:44 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Ah! But it was not a lesson. I remember the painter…' 02:32 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly was so deep in one of Sir Walter Scott's novels… 02:22 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): FORESHADOWS OF LOVE PERILS 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): So Mr. Gibson rode round to the stables… 04:04 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): DRIFTING INTO DANGER 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): During this absence of Molly's… 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): THE WIDOWER AND THE WIDOW 02:07 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): But the first day on which Mr. Gibson paid his visit… 04:04 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): A CRISIS 04:56 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): It was the next morning before Mr. Gibson arrived… 04:46 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): For a minute or two he thought it would be kinder… 03:40 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): To their surprise, Molly came in, trying hard to look as usual. 03:30 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MAKING FRIENDSHIP 04:30 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): It is a question whether Mrs. Kirkpatrick or Molly wished… 03:03 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Mrs. Kirkpatrick led her into Lady Cumnor's presence… 03:45 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly had held up all the day bravely… 03:12 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): PREPARING FOR THE WEDDING 04:50 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MOLLY GIBSON'S NEW FRIENDS 03:51 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Mr. Preston must have heard her step… 03:57 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MOLLY FINDS HERSELF PATRONISED 03:56 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'I used to think I managed her…' 02:31 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Then the carriage came round… 02:45 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): All the gentlemen were gone… 04:14 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): THE NEW MAMMA 04:26 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): For some time the murmurs and grumblings… 04:21 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): THE BRIDE AT HOME 03:48 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Squire Hamley came in. 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): TROUBLE AT HAMLEY HALL 04:01 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): The squire asked Molly every day… 03:08 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Mr. Osborne's Secret 03:06 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): The last afternoon of her stay at the Hall came. 05:22 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): CYNTHIA'S ARRIVAL 04:34 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): A woman will have this charm… 05:28 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Well, then mamma had to go out as a governess…' 05:20 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MRS. GIBSON'S VISITOR'S 04:31 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly went back to her seat by Cynthia. 04:26 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): THE HALF-SISTERS 03:38 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'We've had our unexpected visitor, too,' said Mr. Gibson. 03:37 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): OSBORNE HAMLEY REVIEWS HIS POSITION 02:49 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MRS. GIBSON'S LITTLE DINNER 03:51 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Ah, Mr. Gibson, I have found out…' 02:47 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): HOLLINGFORD IN A BUSTLE 03:24 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): The afternoon of the day on which the ball was to take place… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): A CHARITY BALL 04:42 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Meanwhile Miss Piper and Miss Phoebe… 04:59 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Mr. Preston was looking intently and angrily… 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Lady Harriet, spied the Gibson party… 03:05 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly felt innocent enough, and made no reply. 02:58 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): She put her arm in her brother's as she spoke… 04:12 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): RIVALRY 04:42 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Oh, but you must be with us! We must wait…' 04:58 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): For some reason or other, unknown to the Gibsons… 04:07 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'I believe I have been very thoughtless…' 05:07 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): BUSH-FIGHTING 05:47 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Presently, Osborne came upstairs… 04:43 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Again Cynthia was lost in thought… 04:50 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): OLD WAYS AND NEW WAYS 04:23 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): COMING EVENTS 04:42 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Lady Harriet was sorry to miss Molly… 03:25 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Cynthia now joined the party, pretty and elegant… 02:00 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS 02:59 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): ‘What's this I hear about Roger?' said Mr. Gibson… 04:27 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'I wish I could tell his mother,' said the squire… 04:05 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): A LOVER'S MISTAKE 03:18 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Cynthia did not seem inclined to repeat her saying… 04:59 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): THE MOTHER'S MANOEUVRE 04:52 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'I knew,' said she through sobs and tears… 05:15 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Has mamma told you?' said she… 03:12 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'He's not the eldest son,' continued the squire… 03:49 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Your Molly is one in a thousand…' 03:17 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MR. KIRKPATRICK , Q.C. 03:04 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MOLLY GIBSON BREATHES FREELY 04:04 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'You see a great deal of Mr. Preston, don't you, Molly!' 03:50 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): GATHERING CLOUDS 03:01 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'I'm afraid I'm not as much struck by the wonder of the thing…' 03:44 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): THE STORM BURSTS 04:12 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly left the path and went straight… 04:07 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'I am quite puzzled by you both,' said Molly. 05:39 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): CYNTHIA'S CONFESSION 05:35 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): He sate down on the table… 05:50 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'So now you understand it all, Molly.' 03:46 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MOLLY GIBSON TO THE RESCUE 04:43 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): It was a cloudy blustering day… 03:23 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Does she say that to you in cold blood?' 03:41 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Cynthia was on the watch for her return… 03:29 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): CONFIDENCES 04:56 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'No one here! What a blessing!' 03:55 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly thought for a minute or two… 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly enjoyed her house to herself to the full… 04:59 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): HOLLINGFORD GOSSIPS 05:16 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): SCANDAL AND ITS VICTIMS 05:45 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Molly Gibson has lost her character, sister. That's it.' 04:45 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): AN INNOCENT CULPRIT 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'You say you were not acting for yourself…' 04:19 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): I hate to have you mixed up in mysteries.' 02:59 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MOLLY GIBSON FINDS A CHAMPION 04:16 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): At length he burst in. 04:28 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Lady Harriet, was riding homewards… 01:55 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): And he rode home, and told his wife… 04:53 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): CYNTHIA AT BAY 03:44 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): When she looked back upon her visit… 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): At last she said, 'Molly knows it all.' 03:54 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'TROUBLES NEVER COME ALONE' 03:50 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'But here you are, just in such a position before me, Cynthia!' 03:34 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): She laid her hand on the hot damp skin of the horse's shoulder… 04:04 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): SQUIRE HAMLEY'S SORROW 03:11 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Here's Molly,' said Mr. Gibson, choking a little himself… 03:27 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Some months ago Osborne called.' 04:29 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'Someone must write to Mrs. Osborne Hamley.' 04:18 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): UNLOOKED-FOR ARRIVALS 04:27 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): The writing this letter was rather difficult work for Molly… 04:49 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Her arms relaxed, her figure swayed… 04:43 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MOLLY GIBSON'S WORTH IS DISCOVERED 04:17 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): After this, long days passed over… 04:26 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): When they came within two miles of Hollingford… 03:08 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly's delight at seeing her showed itself… 05:17 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): AN ABSENT LOVER RETURNS 03:49 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly went on with her questions on other subjects. 03:18 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'I was so sorry to hear how ill you had been!' 05:11 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW.' 04:18 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Now Roger spoke to Molly - spoke hurriedly, spoke hoarsely. 04:03 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): BRIDAL VISITS AND ADIEUX 03:36 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'The squire?' asked Mrs. Gibson in some surprise. 05:14 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly was sitting in the drawing-room pale and trembling… 04:33 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): When Molly arrived at the Towers… 04:47 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): REVIVING HOPES AND BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS 04:29 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Molly stood up. 04:00 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): MOLLY GIBSON AT HAMLEY HALL 04:36 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): It so happened that on Molly's last morning… 04:51 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): ROGER HAMLEY'S CONFESSION 04:17 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): One evening after dinner… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): 'My dear boy!' said Mr. Gibson… 03:33 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Mr. Gibson gave Roger's message to his wife… 04:41 Wives and Daughters (Abridged): Having married Cynthia, as her mother put it…
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