Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
speaker
2,747 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
"'I will tell you the meaning of it,' cried the lady, sweeping into the room with a proud set face."
You have forced me against my own judgment to tell you, and now we must both make the best of it.
My husband died at Atlanta.
My child survived.'
"'Your child?'
She drew a large silver locket from her bosom.
"'You have never seen this open.'
"'I understood that it did not open.'
She touched a spring, and the front hinged back.
There was a portrait within of a man strikingly handsome and intelligent-looking,
but bearing unmistakable signs upon his features of his African descent.
"'This is John Hebron, of Atlanta,' said the lady, "'and a nobler man never walked the earth.
I cut myself off from my race in order to wed him, but never once, while he lived, did I for an instant regret it.
It was our misfortune that our only child took after his people rather than mine.
It is often so in such matches.'
and little Lucy is darker far than ever her father was.
But dark or fair, she is my own dear little girlie, and her mother's pet.'
The little creature ran across at the words, and nestled up against the lady's dress.
"'When I left her in America,' she continued, "'it was only because her health was weak, and the change might have done her harm.
She was given to the care of a faithful Scotchwoman who had once been our servant.'
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