No thoroughfare (lydbok) av Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens (forfatter), Wilkie Collins (forfatter), Peter Wickham (innleser)

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"Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain their metallic throats. Some, flippantly begin before the heavy bell of the great cathedral; some, tardily begin three, four, half a dozen, strokes behind it; all are in sufficiently near accord, to leave a resonance in the air, as if the winged father who devours his children, had made a soun…
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Forfattere Charles Dickens (forfatter), Wilkie Collins (forfatter), Peter Wickham (innleser)
Forlag Cappelen Damm
Utgitt 18 november 2015
Lengde 5:20
Sjanger Skjønnlitteratur, Noveller
Språk English
Format mp3
DRM-beskyttelse App-only
ISBN 9788202390761

"Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain their metallic throats. Some, flippantly begin before the heavy bell of the great cathedral; some, tardily begin three, four, half a dozen, strokes behind it; all are in sufficiently near accord, to leave a resonance in the air, as if the winged father who devours his children, had made a sounding sweep with his gigantic scythe in flying over the city.

What is this clock lower than most of the rest, and nearer to the ear, that lags so far behind to-night as to strike into the vibration alone? This is the clock of the Hospital for Foundling Children. Time was, when the Foundlings were received without question in a cradle at the gate. Time is, when inquiries are made respecting them, and they are taken as by favour from the mothers who relinquish all natural knowledge of them and claim to them for evermore."