Charles Edward Pearce - Madame Flirt | Audiobook

🌐 Listen and download this audiobook on 3ords.com: https://3ords.com/en/book/madame-flirt 🎧 Use our Telegram bot: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g18547 📚 TOP-3 similar books:    • Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, a F...      • Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent: A Simple...      • Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility — Part...   📚 Madame Flirt ✍️ Author: Charles Edward Pearce 📖 Excerpt from the book: "As pretty a wench as man ever clapped eyes on. Wake up, Lance, and look at her." The portly man of genial aspect sitting in the corner of the bow window of the Maiden Head Inn at the High Street end of Dyott Street in the very heart of St. Giles, clapped his sleeping friend on the shoulder and shook him. The sleeper, a young man whose finely drawn features were clouded with the dregs of wine, muttered something incoherently, and with an impatient twist shifted his body in the capacious arm-chair. "Let him alone, Mr. Gay. When a man's in his cups he's best by himself. 'Twill take him a day's snoring to get rid of his bout. The landlord here tells me he walked with the mob from Newgate to Tyburn and back and refreshed himself at every tavern on the way, not forgetting, I warrant you, to fling away a guinea at the Bowl, the Lamb, and the 'Black Jack' over yonder, and drink to the long life of the daring rogue in the cart and the health of the hangman to boot." "Long life indeed, my lord. A couple of hours at most. Not that the length of life is to be measured by years. I don't know but what it's possible to cram one's whole existence into a few hours, thanks to that thief of time," rejoined John Gay pointing to the bottle on the table. The poet's placid face saddened. John Gay had always taken life as a pleasure, but there is no pleasure without pain as he had come to discover. Maybe at that moment a recollection of his follies gave his conscience a tinge. Of Gay it might be said that he had no enemies other than himself. "Oh, the passing hour is the best doubtless, since we never know whether the next may not be the worst," laughed Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke. "I'll wager Jack Sheppard's best was when the noose was round his neck. The rascal will trouble nervous folks no more. After all he was of some use. See that drunken rabble. But for the brave show he made at Tyburn yesterday, would those ladies and gentlemen be merry making, think you, and would the tavern ... 🏷 Tags: Madame Flirt,Charles Edward Pearce,fiction,ballad opera,historical fiction,classic literature,audio book,full audiobook,listen online,historical romance,18th century fiction,English literature,dramatic fiction,historical drama,free audiobook,classic novel #its3ords #audiobook #book #books #audiobooks 🎧 Listen on Telegram: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g18547 🌐 Listen on website: https://3ords.com/en/book/madame-flirt 📢 Our channel: https://t.me/its3ords ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This content is produced automatically with speech synthesis technology and may contain inaccuracies. This audiobook is narrated using an AI-generated voice. The voice does not represent any real person. We do not collaborate with or have any affiliation with any actors, announcers, or celebrities. 3ords.com is a technical platform intended for the automated processing and presentation of textual materials in audio form. The platform may contain materials, authors, rights holders or mentioned persons who hold special legal statuses under the laws of various countries. The platform performs no editorial selection of works and expresses neither agreement nor disagreement with the authors' opinions. Materials may be supplied by users or obtained from openly available internet sources. All works belong to their lawful rights holders. 3ords.com claims no rights to these materials and is not their author, publisher or rights holder. The project is informational and educational in nature and receives no commercial benefit. We encourage you to support authors and buy official editions. ❗ Upon a lawful claim from a rights holder, or if prohibited materials are discovered, the content will be removed immediately on request. Contact: LibertyStartups@proton.me