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Sep 11, 2026
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
At last the countess sent for Weston, reviling him and calling him treacherous villain, for had he given those things sent, Overbury had not been now alive, vowing she would be revenged on him.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
Upon the very fear whereof, he then gave those poisons after scent, without acquainting the lieutenant.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
Yet for all this schooling of Weston, and his assurance given of his future fidelity to the Countess, she would not trust him single any more, but put another coadjutor to him, one Franklin, a very villain than Weston, and truly they themselves may be deemed very ill that could seek out such wicked instruments.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
These two villains, out of a desire to see the success of their hellish employment, coming shortly after it into Overbury's chamber, found him in infinite torment, with contention between the strength of nature and the working of the poison.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
And it being very like nature had gotten the better in that contention by the thrusting out of Boyle's botches and blains, they fearing it might come to light, upon the judgment of physicians, that foul play had been offered him, consented to stifle him with the bedclothes which accordingly was performed and so ended he his miserable life with the assurance of the conspirators that he died by poison none thinking much less knowing otherwise but these two murderers section five of the court and character of king james whereunto is now added the court of king charles by anthony weldon the court of king james part four now was all as they believed quiet and in the depth of security and the earl and countess began to carry their loves more openly and impudently but they understanding that the world did talk very loudly and broadly of this adulterous meeting, it must from that ground proceed to an adulterous marriage, as well to the wronging a young nobleman as to the dishonour and shame of themselves.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
Yet, forsooth, to make up the full measure of Baudry, and to justify Neil's discourse that all things in the former marriage conduced to a nullity, a search must be made to find whether there had been a penetration, and a jury of grave matrons were found fit for that purpose, with their spectacles ground to lessen, not to make the letter larger, who, after their inspection, gave their false verdict that she was intact a virgo, which was thought very strange for the world took notice that her way was very near beaten and so plain as by regia via and in truth so it was and a way more common than that before somerset did ever travel that way besides the world took notice they too had long lived in adultery yet have this old kettle a trick for that also The Lady of Essex, for modesty's sake, makes humble suit to the Reverend Bordy Bishops, who were also plotters in this stratagem, that she might not appear bare-faced for blushing, but desired to come veiled with a taffety over her face.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
This, by all means, was thought so reasonable for a pretty, modest lady, that the Bordy Bishops and purblind ladies, which had forgotten modesty themselves, could not think it worthy the denial.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
One Mistress Fiennes, near Kinswoman to Old Kettle, was dressed up in the Countess's clothes, at that time too young to be other than Burgoyne Tactor, though within two years after had the old ladies made their inspection, the orifice would not have appeared so small to have delivered such a verdict as they did, and a just one, upon their views, though upon some of their knowledges it was not that lady they were to give verdict upon.
Patrick EatonNARRATOR
And then his here.
Patrick EatonNARRATOR
Alas, looking upwards he can eye from his burning marl the azure realms once his and cousin Countess du Marsan and so many Richelieus, Polignacs, and other happy angels, male and female, all blissfully gyrating there while he.
Patrick EatonNARRATOR
Nevertheless, hope in the human breast, though not in the diabolic, springs eternal.
Patrick EatonNARRATOR
The outcast Rohan bends all his thoughts, faculties, prayers, purposes to one object.
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Patrick EatonNARRATOR
Chapter five, The Artist.
Patrick EatonNARRATOR
If the reader has hitherto, in our too figurative language, seen only the figurative hook and the figurative eye, which Bamer and Rohan, far apart, were respectively fashioning for each other, he shall now see the cunning milliner, an actual, unmetaphorical milliner, by whom these two individuals, with their two implements, are brought into contact and hooked together into stupendous artificial Siamese twins, after which the whole notice and solution will naturally combine and unfold itself.
Patrick EatonNARRATOR
Jean de Saint-Remy, by courtesy or otherwise Countess styled also of Valois and even of France, has now, in this year of grace 1783, known the world for some seven and twenty summers, and had crooks in her lot.
Patrick EatonNARRATOR
She boasts herself descended by what is called natural generation from the blood royal of France.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
Besides Archbishop Brown, and Staples, Bishop of Meath, its members were the Chancellor, Reed, and the Treasurer, Brabazon, both English, with the judges Almer, Luttrell, Bath, Cusack, and Howth, all proselytes at least in form to the new opinions.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
The Earl of Ormond, with sixteen of his household, having been poisoned at a banquet in Ely House, London, in October before Henry's death, the influence of that great house was wielded during the minority of his successor by Sir Francis Bryan, an English adventurer, who married the widowed Countess.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
This lady being, moreover, daughter and heir-general to James, Earl of Desmond, brought Bryan powerful connections in the South.
Sabella DentonNARRATOR
which he was not slow to turn to a politic account.
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yesterday
Martin GiesenNARRATOR
verily said owain she is the woman that i love best verily said the maiden she shall also love thee not a little and with that the maid arose and kindled a fire and filled a pot with water and placed it to warm and she brought a towel of white linen and placed it around owain's neck and she took a goblet of ivory and a silver basin and filled them with warm water wherewith she washed owain's head then she opened a wooden casket and drew forth a razor whose haft was of ivory and upon which were two ribbits of gold and she shaved his beard and she dried his head and his throat with the towel then she rose up from before owain and brought him to eat and truly owain had never so good a meal nor was he ever so well served when he had finished his repast the maiden arranged his couch come here said she and sleep and i will go and woo for thee and owain went to sleep and the maiden shut the door of the chamber after her and went towards the castle when she came there she found nothing but mourning and sorrow and the countess in her chamber could not bear the sight of any one through grief luned came and saluted her but the countess answered her not and the maiden bent down towards her and said what aileth thee that thou answerest no one to-day linhead said the countess what change hath befallen thee that thou hast not come to visit me in my grief it was wrong in thee and i having made thee rich it was wrong in thee that thou didst not come to see me in my distress that was wrong in thee Truly, said Lynette, I thought thy good sense was greater than I find it to be.
Martin GiesenNARRATOR
Is it well for thee to mourn after that good man, or for anything else that thou canst not have? I declare to heaven, said the Countess, that in the whole world there is not a man equal to him.
Martin GiesenNARRATOR
not so said linnet for an ugly man would be as good as or better than he i declare to heaven said the countess that were it not repugnant to me to cause to be put to death one whom i have brought up i would have thee executed for making such a comparison to me as it is i will banish thee
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I am glad,
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Read by Cathy Barratt.
Algie PagNARRATOR
Countess of Salisbury.
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Read by Elizabeth Klett.
Algie PagNARRATOR
Narrator.
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Ron AltmanVOICE_ACTOR
But wherefore comes Sir William Montague? How stands the league between the Scot and us?
Jess MillsVOICE_ACTOR
Crack'd and dissever'd, my renowned lord.
Jess MillsVOICE_ACTOR
The treacherous king no sooner was inform'd Of your withdrawing of your army back, But straight, forgetting of his former oath, He made invasion on the bordering towns: Berwick is won, Newcastle spoil'd and lost; And now the tyrant hath begirt with siege The castle of Roxburgh, where inclosed The Countess Salisbury is like to perish.
Ron AltmanVOICE_ACTOR
perish.That is thy daughter Warwick, is it not? Whose husband hath in Britain served so long about the planting of Lord Mountford there.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Does that answer your question?" "Thank heaven," exclaimed my visitor.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
"I am the Countess," she hesitated a minute, then resumed somewhat incoherently.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
"I am the Countess D, but I must ask you to respect my confidences because the honor of our house depends upon it.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
I would not come for help to you, a stranger, except that a disaster impends which only you can avert.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Unknown to you, your name and influence have been used by an unprincipled gang of blackmailers in an attempt to extort secrets from my younger sister, Rosika.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
His daughter's narrative told of the disappearance of women and young girls in the blackness of night, and how the Count had organized searching parties to fool the peasants into believing that he was earnestly trying to find the women and girls who had disappeared, whereas these poor creatures in the dungeons of his castles were undergoing...
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
But I must not forget my oath.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Suffice it to say that the mother of the Count's two daughters died from shame and terror, and the two girls, my fair visitor and her sister, Rosika, learning from the ravings of their dying father the truth that they already half suspected, shut themselves off in part of the castle and lived apart from the world, until recently when they had gone to Hermenstadt, where love entered the life of my visitor, the Countess D. "You see well, Mr. Houdini," the Countess continued, "that all my dreams of love and happiness will be over if these terrible secrets are found out.
Colleen McMahonNARRATOR
All titles are given in full by the servants of those who bear them.
Colleen McMahonNARRATOR
Thus, the Duke and Duchess of A, the Marquis and Marchioness of B, the Earl and Countess of C, Viscount and Viscountess D, Lord and Lady E, etc.
Colleen McMahonNARRATOR
But a Marchioness, a Countess, or a Viscountess, when giving her name to be announced at a morning call, would style herself Lady A only.
Colleen McMahonNARRATOR
A gentleman or lady should never give his or her visiting card to the servant when the mistress of the house is at home.
Colleen McMahonNARRATOR
A servant should not knock at the drawing-room door when announcing visitors.
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Rachel MarieNARRATOR
But if she has not been presented at home, she must be introduced by some other lady who has been presented at the Vice-Regal court.
Rachel MarieNARRATOR
In writing unofficially to the Governor-General of India, it would not be correct to use the title of Viceroy, and the proper superscription is, His Excellency the Right Honourable, or if a Duke, His Excellency the Duke of, or if a Marquis, His Excellency the Most Honourable Marquis of, etc.
Rachel MarieNARRATOR
To the wife of a Viceroy the address should be, Her Excellency the Duchess of, Her Excellency the Marchioness of, Her Excellency the Countess of, or Her Excellency the Lady Blank, if the wife of a Baron.
Jessa MillsVOICE_ACTOR
The treacherous king no sooner was informed of your withdrawing of your army back, but straight, forgetting of his former oath, he made invasion on the bordering towns.
Jessa MillsVOICE_ACTOR
Barwick is won, Newcastle spoiled and lost, and now the tyrant hath begirt with siege the castle of Roxborough, where enclosed the Countess Salisbury is like to perish.
Ron AltmanVOICE_ACTOR
that is thy daughter warwick is it not whose husband hath in britain served so long about the planting of lord mountford there it is my lord ignoble david hast thou none to grieve but silly ladies with thy threatening arms but i will make you shrink your snaily horns first therefore audley this shall be thy grace go levy footmen for our wars in france and ned take muster of our men-at-arms in every shire elect a several band let them be soldiers of a lusty spirit such as dread nothing but dishonours blot but wary therefore since we do commence a famous war and with so mighty a nation derby be thou ambassador for us unto our father-in-law the earl of hainault make him acquainted with our enterprise and likewise will him with our own allies that are in flanders to solicit to the emperor of elamain in our name myself whilst you are jointly thus employed will with these forces that i have at hand march and once more repulse the traitorous scot but sirs be resolute we shall have wars on every side and ned thou must begin now to forget thy study and thy books and urge thy shoulders to an armour's weight
David GoldfarbVOICE_ACTOR
as cheerful sounding to my youthful spleen this tumult is of war's increasing broils as at the coronation of a king the joyful clamors of the people are when ave caesar they pronounce aloud within this school of honor i shall learn either to sacrifice my foes to death or in a rightful quarrel spend my breath then cheerfully forward each a several way in great affairs tis not to use delay
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Elizabeth ClattVOICE_ACTOR
my lord and father i have sought for you my mother and the peers importune you to keep in presence of his majesty and do your best to make his highness
Algy PugNARRATOR
merry
Noel BadrianVOICE_ACTOR
how shall i enter this graceless arrant i must not call her child for where's the father that will in such a suit seduce his child then wife of salisbury shall i so begin No, he's my friend, and where is found the friend that will do friendship such endamagement? To the Countess.
Noel BadrianVOICE_ACTOR
Neither my daughter nor my dear friend's wife.
Noel BadrianVOICE_ACTOR
I'll say it is my duty to persuade, but not her honesty to give consent.
Algy PugNARRATOR
Enter Countess.
Noel BadrianVOICE_ACTOR
see where she comes was never father had against his child an embassage so bad
Elizabeth ClattVOICE_ACTOR
my lord and father i have sought for you my mother and the peers importune you to keep in presence of his majesty and do your best to make his highness merry
Noel BadrianVOICE_ACTOR
aside how shall i enter this graceless arrant i must not call her child for where's the father that will in such a suit seduce his child Then, wife of Salisbury, shall I so begin? No, he's my friend, and where is found a friend that will do friendship such endamagement? To the Countess.
Noel BadrianVOICE_ACTOR
Neither my daughter nor my dear friend's wife.
Noel BadrianVOICE_ACTOR
I am not Warwick, as thou think'st I am, but an attorney from the court of hell that thus have housed my spirit in his form to do a message to thee from the king.
Stav NisserVOICE_ACTOR
She endeavored to conceal from herself the particular interest she felt in his adventures, but so unequal were her efforts to the strength of her emotions that when Alan related the scene of Dunbain Cavern, Her cheek grew pale, and she relapsed into a fainting fit.
Stav NisserVOICE_ACTOR
This circumstance alarmed the penetration of the Countess, but the known weakness of her daughter's frame appeared a probable cause of the disorder, and repressed her first apprehension.
Stav NisserVOICE_ACTOR
It gave to Alan a mixed delight of hope and fear, such as he had never known before.
Stav NisserVOICE_ACTOR
For the first time he dared to acknowledge to his own heart that he loved.
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Stav NisserVOICE_ACTOR
allan came he came in the trembling expectation of receiving the decision of the countess and in the intention of offering to engage in any enterprise however hazardous for the enlargement of the earl he repelled with instant force every idea of mary's becoming the wife of malcolm the thought was too full of agony to be endured and he threw the sensation from his heart as a poison which would destroy the pulse of life to preserve mary from a misery so exquisite and to save the life of the earl he was willing to encounter any hazard to meet death itself as an evil which appeared less dreadful than either of the former.
Stav NisserVOICE_ACTOR
He came prepared with this resolution, and it served to support that fortitude which affliction had disturbed, though it could not subdue.
Stav NisserVOICE_ACTOR
When he came again to the Countess, his distress was heightened by the scene before him.
Stav NisserVOICE_ACTOR
He beheld her leaning on a sofa, pale and silent.
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