Heyer: The Convenient Marriage (Abridged)

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1.   One - 00:08:17
2.   There did not seem to be much to say after that. - 00:07:06
3.   Two - 00:06:31
4.   The Earl was absently swinging his eyeglass… - 00:06:41
5.   Three - 00:05:13
6.   In quite another quarter… - 00:06:32
7.   There was an uncomfortable silence. - 00:05:37
8.   Four - 00:05:56
9.   She was too clever a woman to press her point. - 00:05:29
10.   The Viscount, having received in Rome.… - 00:07:34
11.   Five - 00:07:07
12.   It was all very disturbing… - 00:05:35

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1.   Six - 00:04:39
2.   On the top lay a sheet of paper… - 00:04:34
3.   Horatia's gyrations, however… - 00:05:15
4.   She looked a little doubtful. - 00:04:53
5.   Seven - 00:06:01
6.   She came aware that her hand was still reposing in his… - 00:05:50
7.   Eight - 00:08:38
8.   Nine - 00:05:17
9.   Never one to neglect opportunity… - 00:04:44
10.   Somewhere about noon, when he was still in bed… - 00:08:45
11.   Ten - 00:06:28
12.   Having visited both the principals in the late affair… - 00:08:02
13.   Eleven - 00:05:35

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1.   He put his hand to the Mechlin cravat… - 00:06:47
2.   Horatia stood by the table in the middle of the small saloon… - 00:07:35
3.   Twelve - 00:05:37
4.   Horatia gave a gasp… - 00:06:29
5.   Thirteen - 00:07:42
6.   Fourteen - 00:05:40
7.   She was by now really frightened… - 00:06:56
8.   Fifteen - 00:04:53
9.   When, twenty minutes later, the phaeton drew up… - 00:07:20
10.   Sir Roland, meanwhile, had arrived in Half-Moon Street… - 00:04:42
11.   Sixteen - 00:05:13
12.   It was only six miles to Meering… - 00:07:10

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1.   Seventeen - 00:06:41
2.   Rule wiped the sweat from his face… - 00:06:47
3.   Eighteen - 00:07:40
4.   Nineteen - 00:08:35
5.   Twenty - 00:07:36
6.   Twenty-One - 00:07:28
7.   Twenty minutes later they faced one another… - 00:05:21
8.   For once she wasted no time… - 00:04:07
9.   Twenty-Two - 00:05:59
10.   Several secluded paths led to the little temple… - 00:06:01
11.   The ring-brooch lay in the palm of his hand. - 00:07:42

Reviews

Well-worked whimsy (Feb 6, 2011)
Reviewer:Jim D.
I wouldn't have thought having a male reader for a Georgette Heyer novel would work...until I heard Richard Armitage. In this high comedy (about being married, not getting married), Horatia Winwood, the stammering youngster of three sisters, tangles with the Earl of Rule when he proposes to her oldest sister...a match that makes financial and social sense, but would break two hearts. Armitage's... I wouldn't have thought having a male reader for a Georgette Heyer novel would work...until I heard Richard Armitage. In this high comedy (about being married, not getting married), Horatia Winwood, the stammering youngster of three sisters, tangles with the Earl of Rule when he proposes to her oldest sister...a match that makes financial and social sense, but would break two hearts. Armitage's narration is elegant and unhurried, and he makes the various characters' voices sufficiently distinct for the listener. Now this recording is abridged: I know that's an issue for some people. I wish it were all here, but I listened to the first two chapters with the original book in front of me. While a lot of description has been jettisoned, I didn't notice anything of consequence to the plot--such as it is--getting lost. It's a different medium, and as such I found the result most enjoyable.
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