The Chink in the Armour
A beautiful young widow learns the dangers of gambling and the mysteries of love and friendship on a long vacation in suburban Paris.
Sylvia Bailey, a beautiful young widow, and her friend Anna visit a fortune teller in Paris and receive ominous warnings: for Anna, that she’ll have an incredible streak of fortune at gambling but shortly lose her life, and for Sylvia that she’ll meet a great lover but somehow be strangled by her beloved pearl necklace, a piece of exceedingly great value purchased against her lawyer’s advice with much of the wealth her late husband bequeathed her. The fortune teller implores them not to leave Paris soon, and certainly not together, but, ignoring the advice, they make their way to the picturesque town of Lacville.
- Listening time
- about 9 h 24 min
- Length
- 87,090 words
- Public domain
- the author died in 1947
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
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- 499 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Just Added
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How it begins.
She had become quite accustomed to finding one or more cards—cards from dressmakers, cards from corset-makers, cards from hairdressers—lying on her sitting-room table, but there had never been a card quite like this card. Although it was pink, it looked more like a visiting-card than a tradesman’s advertisement, and she took it up with some curiosity. It was inscribed “Madame Cagliostra,” and underneath the name were written the words “Diseuse de la Bonne Aventure,” and then, in a corner, in very small black letters, the address, “5, Rue Jolie, Montmartre.”
The Chink in the Armour · Marie Belloc Lowndes
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