Begum's Fortune - Jules Verne

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Narrator (reading Jules Verne — likely the episode's primary reader) 1:30
CHAPTER I. Enter Mr. Sharp. really these english newspapers are very well written said the worthy doctor to himself as he leaned back in a great leathern easy-chair doctor saracen had all his life been given to soliloquising one of the many results of absence of mind he was a man of fifty or thereabouts his features were refined clear lively eyes shone through his steel spectacles and the expression of his countenance although grave was genial he was one of those people looking at whom one says at the first glance there is an honest man notwithstanding the early hour and the easy style of his dress the doctor had already shaved and put on a white cravat scattered near him on the carpet and on sundry chairs in the living room of his hotel at brighton lay copies of the times the daily telegraph and the daily news it was not much more than ten o'clock
Narrator (reading Jules Verne — likely the episode's primary reader) 3:09
yet the doctor had been out walking in the town had visited an hospital returned to his hotel and read in the principal london journals the full report of a paper communicated by him two evenings previously at a meeting of the great international hygienic conference on the comte globules du sang or blood corpuscle an instrument he had invented and which even in england keeps its french name before him stood a breakfast tray covered with a snowy napkin on which were placed a well-dressed cutlet a cup of hot and fragrant tea and a plate of that buttered toast which english cooks thanks to english bakers can make to perfection yes he repeated these journals are really admirably well written there is no denying the fact here is the speech of the president the reply by dr sikogna of naples my own paper in full all as it were caught in the air seized and photographed at once
Narrator (reading Jules Verne — likely the episode's primary reader) 4:22
dr saracen of douai rose and addressed the meeting the honourable member spoke in french and said my auditors will permit me to express myself in my own language which i am sure they understand far better than i speak theirs five columns in small print i cannot decide which reports best the times or the telegraph each seems so exact and so precise dr saracen had reached this point in his meditations when one of the waiters of the establishment a gentleman most correctly dressed in black entered and presenting a card inquired whether monsieur was at home to a visitor this appellation of monsieur the english consider it necessary to bestow indiscriminately on every frenchman in the same way they would think it a breach of all the rules of civility did they fail to address an italian as signor and a german as herr perhaps on the whole the custom is a good one it certainly has the advantage of at once indicating nationalities
Narrator (reading Jules Verne — likely the episode's primary reader) 5:41
considerably surprised to hear of a visitor in a country where he was acquainted with no one the doctor took the card and read with increased perplexity the following address mr sharp solicitor ninety three southampton row london

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