M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and sinners, vol. 3 | Audiobook
🌐 Listen and download this audiobook on 3ords.com: https://3ords.com/en/book/lucius-davo... 🎧 Use our Telegram bot: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g75877 📚 TOP-3 similar books: • Charles Dickens - Hard Times | Audiobook • Philip Sidney - The Countess of Pembroke's... • Herbert Quick - Aladdin & Co.: A Romance o... 📚 Lucius Davoren; or, Publicans and sinners, vol. 3 ✍️ Author: M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon 📖 Excerpt from the book: CHAPTER XIII. HOW GEOFFREY ENJOYED THE GARDEN-PARTY. While Lucius Davoren was thus occupied at the east end of London, Geoffrey Hossack was making the best of an existence which he had made up his mind to consider utterly joyless, so long as adverse fate denied him the one desire of his heart. For him in vain warm August skies were deeply blue, and the bosky dells and glades of the New Forest still untouched by autumn’s splendid decay. For him vainly ran the bright river between banks perfumed with wild flowers. He beheld these things from the lofty standpoint of discontent, and in his heart called Nature a poor creature. ‘I would rather be mewed up in Whitecross-street prison, or in the Venetian Piombi, with Janet for my wife, than enjoy all that earth can give of natural beauty or artificial splendour without her,’ he said to himself, when his cousins had bored him into a misanthropical mood by their insistence upon the charms of rural life, as exemplified at Hillersdon Grange. ‘I’m afraid you have no soul for Nature,’ said Belle, when she had kept Geoffrey on his feet for an hour in the cramped old-fashioned hot-houses, where she went in desperately for ferns and orchids, and imitated Lady Baker on a small scale. ‘I’m afraid not—for Nature in flower-pots,’ answered Geoffrey, with an unsympathetic yawn. ‘I daresay these Calopogons, and Gymnadenia, and what’s-its-names are very grand, but I’ve seen finer growing wild in the valleys on the southern side of the Rocky Mountains. You English people only get nature in miniature—a poor etiolated creature. You have no notion of the goddess Gea in her Titanic vigour, as she appears on “the other side.” ‘Meaning America?’ said Belle contemptuously, as if that western continent were something too vulgar for her serious consideration. The sun shone upon Lady Baker’s fête as gaily as if fine weather had been a matter within her ladyship’s power of provision, like the luncheon from Gunter’s, or the costumes for the tableaux viv ... 🏷 Tags: Lucius Davoren,Braddon,Mary Elizabeth,psychological fiction,domestic fiction,audiobook,classic literature,Victorian novel,19th century literature,English fiction,dramatic story,listen online,full audiobook,historical fiction,romance and drama,family secrets,classic romance #its3ords #audiobook #book #books #audiobooks 🎧 Listen on Telegram: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g75877 🌐 Listen on website: https://3ords.com/en/book/lucius-davo... 📢 Our channel: https://t.me/its3ords ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This content is produced automatically with speech synthesis technology and may contain inaccuracies. This audiobook is narrated using an AI-generated voice. The voice does not represent any real person. We do not collaborate with or have any affiliation with any actors, announcers, or celebrities. 3ords.com is a technical platform intended for the automated processing and presentation of textual materials in audio form. The platform may contain materials, authors, rights holders or mentioned persons who hold special legal statuses under the laws of various countries. The platform performs no editorial selection of works and expresses neither agreement nor disagreement with the authors' opinions. Materials may be supplied by users or obtained from openly available internet sources. All works belong to their lawful rights holders. 3ords.com claims no rights to these materials and is not their author, publisher or rights holder. The project is informational and educational in nature and receives no commercial benefit. We encourage you to support authors and buy official editions. ❗ Upon a lawful claim from a rights holder, or if prohibited materials are discovered, the content will be removed immediately on request. Contact: [email protected]