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The Portent

George MacDonald

Novelsabout 4 h 15 min of listening

A young Scottish tutor, gifted with a supernatural sense, discovers a haunting connection to a somnambulant noblewoman while residing at a remote English estate.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Dedication
  3. The Portent
  4. I: My Boyhood
  5. II: The Second Hearing
  6. III: My Old Nurses Story
  7. IV: Hilton Hall
  8. V: Lady Alice
  9. VI: My Quarters
  10. VII: The Library
  11. VIII: The Somnambulist
  12. IX: The First Waking
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  1. X: Love and Power
  2. XI: A New Pupil
  3. XII: Confession
  4. XIII: Questioning
  5. XIV: Jealousy
  6. XV: The Chamber of Ghosts
  7. XVI: The Clanking Shoe
  8. XVII: The Physician
  9. XVIII: Old Friends
  10. XIX: Old Constancy
  11. XX: Margaret
  12. XXI: Hilton
  13. XXII: The Sleeper
  14. XXIII: My Old Room
  15. XXIV: Prison-Breaking
  16. XXV: New Entrenchments
  17. XXVI: Escape
  18. XXVII: Freedom
  19. Colophon
  20. Uncopyright

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Source: Standard Ebooks. CC0 1.0 (Standard Ebooks edition); the text is in the public domain

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