Speaker:
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The book and let's see what we can find.
Speaker:
00:00:31
Take it chapter by chapter, one bite at a time so many adventures and mountains we can climb take it word for wordline by line.
Speaker:
00:01:21
One bite at.
Speaker:
00:01:22
A time my name is Brie Carlyle, and I love to read and wanted to share my passion with listeners like you.
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00:01:29
If you want to know what's coming next and vote on upcoming books, sign up for our newsletter at bite atetimebooks.com.
Speaker:
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You'll also find our new T shirts in the shop.
Speaker:
00:01:40
More to come with quotes from your favorite classic novels.
Speaker:
00:01:44
Be sure to follow my show on your favorite podcast platform so you get all the new episodes.
Speaker:
00:01:50
You can find most of our links in the show notes, but also our website, bite Atetimebooks.com, includes all of the links for our show, including to our patreon to support the show, and YouTube, where we have special behind the narration of the episodes.
Speaker:
00:02:06
We're part of the bite at a Time books Productions network.
Speaker:
00:02:09
If you'd also like to hear what inspired your favorite classic author to write.
Speaker:
00:02:14
Their novels and what was going on in the world at the time, check out Bite at a Time Books Behind the Story podcast.
Speaker:
00:02:21
Wherever you listen to podcasts.
Speaker:
00:02:25
Today we'll be continuing Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Speaker:
00:02:31
Chapter 19 poor Adam.
Speaker:
00:02:35
When Una got home, Faith was lying face downwards on her bed, utterly refusing to be comforted.
Speaker:
00:02:43
Aunt Martha had killed Adam.
Speaker:
00:02:45
He was reposing on a platter in the pantry that very minute, trust and dressed, encircled by his liver and heart and gizzard, aunt Martha heeded Faith's passion of grief and anger, not a wit.
Speaker:
00:02:59
We had to have something for the strange minister's dinner, she said.
Speaker:
00:03:04
You're too big a girl to make such a fuss over an old rooster.
Speaker:
00:03:07
You knew he'd have to be killed sometime.
Speaker:
00:03:10
I'll tell Father when he comes home what you've done?
Speaker:
00:03:13
Sobbed Faith.
Speaker:
00:03:14
Don't you go bothering your poor father.
Speaker:
00:03:17
He has troubles enough, and I'm housekeeper here.
Speaker:
00:03:21
Adam was mine.
Speaker:
00:03:22
Mrs.
Speaker:
00:03:23
Johnson gave him to me.
Speaker:
00:03:24
You had no business to touch him, stormed Faith.
Speaker:
00:03:28
Don't you get sassy now.
Speaker:
00:03:30
The rooster's killed, and there's an end of it.
Speaker:
00:03:32
I ain't going to set no strange minister down to a dinner of cold billion mutton.
Speaker:
00:03:36
I was brought up to no better than that.
Speaker:
00:03:38
If I've come down in the world.
Speaker:
00:03:41
Faith would not go down to supper that night, and she would not go to church the next morning.
Speaker:
00:03:46
But at dinner time, she went to the table, her eyes swollen, was crying, her face sullen.
Speaker:
00:03:53
The Reverend James Perry was a sleek, repiconed man with a bristling white mustache, bushy white eyebrows, and a shining bald head.
Speaker:
00:04:03
He was certainly not handsome, and he was a very tiresome, pompous sort of person.
Speaker:
00:04:09
But if he had looked like the Ark Angel Michael and talked with the tongues of men and angels, faith would still have utterly detested him.
Speaker:
00:04:18
He carved Adam up dexterously, showing off his plump white hands and very handsome diamond ring.
Speaker:
00:04:24
Also, he made jovial remarks alter the performance.
Speaker:
00:04:28
Jerry and Carl giggled, and even Una smiled Wayne Lee, because she thought politeness demanded it.
Speaker:
00:04:36
But Faith only Scowled darkly.
Speaker:
00:04:38
The Reverend James thought her manner shockingly bad.
Speaker:
00:04:42
Once, when he was delivering himself of an unctuous remark to Jerry, faith broke in rudely with a flat contradiction.
Speaker:
00:04:49
The Reverend James drew his bushy eyebrows together at her.
Speaker:
00:04:52
Little girls should not interrupt, he said.
Speaker:
00:04:55
And they should not contradict people who know far more than they do.
Speaker:
00:04:59
This put Faith in a worse temper than ever to be called little girl, as if she were no bigger than chubbyrilla blight over an ingle side.
Speaker:
00:05:07
It was insufferable, and how that abominable Mr.
Speaker:
00:05:11
Perry did eat.
Speaker:
00:05:12
He even picked poor Adam's bones.
Speaker:
00:05:15
Neither Faith nor Una would touch a mouthful, and looked upon the boys as little better than cannibals.
Speaker:
00:05:22
They felt that if the awful repast did not soon come to an end, she would wind it up by throwing something at Mr.
Speaker:
00:05:28
Perry's gleaming head.
Speaker:
00:05:30
Fortunately, Mr.
Speaker:
00:05:31
Perry found Aunt Martha's leathery apple pie too much even for his powers of mastication.
Speaker:
00:05:36
And the meal came to an end after a long grace in which Mr.
Speaker:
00:05:41
Perry offered up devout banks for the food, which a kind and beneficient providence had provided for sustenance and temperate pleasure.
Speaker:
00:05:50
God hadn't a single thing to do with providing Adam for you, muttered Faith, rebelliously under her breath.
Speaker:
00:05:56
The boys gladly made their escape to outdoors.
Speaker:
00:05:59
Una went to help Aunt Martha with the dishes, though that rather grumpy old dame never welcomed her timid assistance.
Speaker:
00:06:06
And Faith betook herself to the study, where a cheerful wood fire was burning in the grate.
Speaker:
00:06:11
She thought she would thereby escape from the hated Mr.
Speaker:
00:06:14
Perry, who had announced his intention of taking a nap in his room during the afternoon, but scarcely had Faith settled in a corner with a book when he walked in, and standing before the fire, proceeded to survey the disorderly study with an air of disapproval.
Speaker:
00:06:30
Your father's book seemed to be in somewhat deplorable confusion.
Speaker:
00:06:33
My little girl, he said severely, face darkled in her corner, and said not a word.
Speaker:
00:06:39
She would not talk to this creature.
Speaker:
00:06:43
You should try to put them in.
Speaker:
00:06:44
Order, Mr.
Speaker:
00:06:46
Perry went on, playing with his handsome watch chain and smiling patronizingly on Faith.
Speaker:
00:06:51
You are quite old enough to attend to such duties.
Speaker:
00:06:54
My little daughter at home is only ten, and she's already an excellent little housekeeper and the greatest help and comfort to her mother.
Speaker:
00:07:02
She's a very sweet child.
Speaker:
00:07:04
I wish you had the privilege of her acquaintance.
Speaker:
00:07:06
She could help you in many ways.
Speaker:
00:07:09
Of course, you have not had the inesteemable privilege of a good mother's care and training.
Speaker:
00:07:13
A sad lack, a very sad lack.
Speaker:
00:07:16
I've spoken more than once to your father in this connection and pointed out.
Speaker:
00:07:20
His duty to him faithfully, but so.
Speaker:
00:07:23
Far with no effect.
Speaker:
00:07:24
I trust he may awaken to a realization of his responsibility before it is too late.
Speaker:
00:07:29
In the meantime, it is your duty and privilege to endeavor to take your sainted mother's place.
Speaker:
00:07:35
You might exercise a great influence over your brothers and your little sister.
Speaker:
00:07:39
You might be a true mother to them.
Speaker:
00:07:41
I fear that you do not think of these things as you should, my dear child.
Speaker:
00:07:46
Allow me to open your eyes and regard to them.
Speaker:
00:07:49
Mr.
Speaker:
00:07:49
Perry's oily complacent voice trickled on.
Speaker:
00:07:53
He was in his element.
Speaker:
00:07:55
Nothing suited him better than to lay down the law, patronize and exhort.
Speaker:
00:08:00
He had no idea of stopping, and he did not stop.
Speaker:
00:08:04
He stood before the fire, his feet planted firmly on the rug, and poured out a flood of pompous platitudes.
Speaker:
00:08:12
They'd heard not a word.
Speaker:
00:08:14
She was really not listening to him at all, but she was watching his.
Speaker:
00:08:18
Long black coattails with impished delight growing.
Speaker:
00:08:21
In her brown eyes.
Speaker:
00:08:22
Mr.
Speaker:
00:08:23
Perry was standing very near the fire.
Speaker:
00:08:27
His coattails began to scorch.
Speaker:
00:08:29
His coattails began to smoke.
Speaker:
00:08:31
He still posed on, wrapped up in his own eloquence.
Speaker:
00:08:35
The coattail smoked worse.
Speaker:
00:08:37
A tiny spark flew up from the.
Speaker:
00:08:38
Burning wood and alighted in the middle of one.
Speaker:
00:08:41
It clung and caught and spread into a smoldering flame.
Speaker:
00:08:45
Faith could restrain herself no longer and broke into a stifled giggle.
Speaker:
00:08:49
Mr.
Speaker:
00:08:50
Perry stopped short, angered over this impertinence.
Speaker:
00:08:54
Suddenly he became conscious that a wreak of burning cloth filled the room.
Speaker:
00:08:58
He whirled around and saw nothing.
Speaker:
00:09:00
Then he clapped his hands to his coattails and brought them around in front of him.
Speaker:
00:09:04
There was already quite a hole in one of them, and this was his new suit.
Speaker:
00:09:09
Faith shook with helpless laughter over his pose and expression.
Speaker:
00:09:13
Did you see my coattails burning?
Speaker:
00:09:15
He demanded angrily.
Speaker:
00:09:17
Yes, sir, said Faith Demurely.
Speaker:
00:09:20
Why didn't you tell me?
Speaker:
00:09:22
He demanded, glaring at her.
Speaker:
00:09:24
You said it wasn't good manners to interrupt, sir, said Faith, more demerily still.
Speaker:
00:09:30
If I was your father, I would give you a spanking that you would.
Speaker:
00:09:34
Remember all your life.
Speaker:
00:09:35
Miss, said a very angry reverend gentleman as he stalked out of the study.
Speaker:
00:09:41
The coat of Mr.
Speaker:
00:09:42
Meredith's second best suit would not fit Mr.
Speaker:
00:09:44
Perry, so he had to go to the evening service with his singed coattail.
Speaker:
00:09:49
But he did not walk up the aisle with his usual consciousness of the honor he was conferring on the building.
Speaker:
00:09:54
He never would agree to an exchange of pulpits with Mr.
Speaker:
00:09:57
Meredith again, and he was barely civil to the latter when they met a few minutes at the station the next morning.
Speaker:
00:10:04
But Faith felt a certain gloomy satisfaction.
Speaker:
00:10:07
Adam was partially avenged.
Speaker:
00:10:10
Thank you for joining Bite Out of Time books today while we read a bite of one of your favorite classics.
Speaker:
00:10:16
Again.
Speaker:
00:10:17
My name is Brie Carlyle, and I.
Speaker:
00:10:19
Hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite of Rainbow Valley.
Speaker:
00:10:24
Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter at bite atetimebooks.com and check out the shop.
Speaker:
00:10:30
You can check out the show notes or our website, biteattatimebooks.com, for the rest of the links for our show.
Speaker:
00:11:16
Thank you.
Speaker:
00:11:24
Take a look and a book and let's see what we can find.
Speaker:
00:11:32
Take a chapter by chapter, one, mine at a time.
Speaker:
00:11:41
Yes, after the mountains we can climb.
00:00:25
The book and let's see what we can find.
Speaker:
00:00:31
Take it chapter by chapter, one bite at a time so many adventures and mountains we can climb take it word for wordline by line.
Speaker:
00:01:21
One bite at.
Speaker:
00:01:22
A time my name is Brie Carlyle, and I love to read and wanted to share my passion with listeners like you.
Speaker:
00:01:29
If you want to know what's coming next and vote on upcoming books, sign up for our newsletter at bite atetimebooks.com.
Speaker:
00:01:37
You'll also find our new T shirts in the shop.
Speaker:
00:01:40
More to come with quotes from your favorite classic novels.
Speaker:
00:01:44
Be sure to follow my show on your favorite podcast platform so you get all the new episodes.
Speaker:
00:01:50
You can find most of our links in the show notes, but also our website, bite Atetimebooks.com, includes all of the links for our show, including to our patreon to support the show, and YouTube, where we have special behind the narration of the episodes.
Speaker:
00:02:06
We're part of the bite at a Time books Productions network.
Speaker:
00:02:09
If you'd also like to hear what inspired your favorite classic author to write.
Speaker:
00:02:14
Their novels and what was going on in the world at the time, check out Bite at a Time Books Behind the Story podcast.
Speaker:
00:02:21
Wherever you listen to podcasts.
Speaker:
00:02:25
Today we'll be continuing Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Speaker:
00:02:31
Chapter 19 poor Adam.
Speaker:
00:02:35
When Una got home, Faith was lying face downwards on her bed, utterly refusing to be comforted.
Speaker:
00:02:43
Aunt Martha had killed Adam.
Speaker:
00:02:45
He was reposing on a platter in the pantry that very minute, trust and dressed, encircled by his liver and heart and gizzard, aunt Martha heeded Faith's passion of grief and anger, not a wit.
Speaker:
00:02:59
We had to have something for the strange minister's dinner, she said.
Speaker:
00:03:04
You're too big a girl to make such a fuss over an old rooster.
Speaker:
00:03:07
You knew he'd have to be killed sometime.
Speaker:
00:03:10
I'll tell Father when he comes home what you've done?
Speaker:
00:03:13
Sobbed Faith.
Speaker:
00:03:14
Don't you go bothering your poor father.
Speaker:
00:03:17
He has troubles enough, and I'm housekeeper here.
Speaker:
00:03:21
Adam was mine.
Speaker:
00:03:22
Mrs.
Speaker:
00:03:23
Johnson gave him to me.
Speaker:
00:03:24
You had no business to touch him, stormed Faith.
Speaker:
00:03:28
Don't you get sassy now.
Speaker:
00:03:30
The rooster's killed, and there's an end of it.
Speaker:
00:03:32
I ain't going to set no strange minister down to a dinner of cold billion mutton.
Speaker:
00:03:36
I was brought up to no better than that.
Speaker:
00:03:38
If I've come down in the world.
Speaker:
00:03:41
Faith would not go down to supper that night, and she would not go to church the next morning.
Speaker:
00:03:46
But at dinner time, she went to the table, her eyes swollen, was crying, her face sullen.
Speaker:
00:03:53
The Reverend James Perry was a sleek, repiconed man with a bristling white mustache, bushy white eyebrows, and a shining bald head.
Speaker:
00:04:03
He was certainly not handsome, and he was a very tiresome, pompous sort of person.
Speaker:
00:04:09
But if he had looked like the Ark Angel Michael and talked with the tongues of men and angels, faith would still have utterly detested him.
Speaker:
00:04:18
He carved Adam up dexterously, showing off his plump white hands and very handsome diamond ring.
Speaker:
00:04:24
Also, he made jovial remarks alter the performance.
Speaker:
00:04:28
Jerry and Carl giggled, and even Una smiled Wayne Lee, because she thought politeness demanded it.
Speaker:
00:04:36
But Faith only Scowled darkly.
Speaker:
00:04:38
The Reverend James thought her manner shockingly bad.
Speaker:
00:04:42
Once, when he was delivering himself of an unctuous remark to Jerry, faith broke in rudely with a flat contradiction.
Speaker:
00:04:49
The Reverend James drew his bushy eyebrows together at her.
Speaker:
00:04:52
Little girls should not interrupt, he said.
Speaker:
00:04:55
And they should not contradict people who know far more than they do.
Speaker:
00:04:59
This put Faith in a worse temper than ever to be called little girl, as if she were no bigger than chubbyrilla blight over an ingle side.
Speaker:
00:05:07
It was insufferable, and how that abominable Mr.
Speaker:
00:05:11
Perry did eat.
Speaker:
00:05:12
He even picked poor Adam's bones.
Speaker:
00:05:15
Neither Faith nor Una would touch a mouthful, and looked upon the boys as little better than cannibals.
Speaker:
00:05:22
They felt that if the awful repast did not soon come to an end, she would wind it up by throwing something at Mr.
Speaker:
00:05:28
Perry's gleaming head.
Speaker:
00:05:30
Fortunately, Mr.
Speaker:
00:05:31
Perry found Aunt Martha's leathery apple pie too much even for his powers of mastication.
Speaker:
00:05:36
And the meal came to an end after a long grace in which Mr.
Speaker:
00:05:41
Perry offered up devout banks for the food, which a kind and beneficient providence had provided for sustenance and temperate pleasure.
Speaker:
00:05:50
God hadn't a single thing to do with providing Adam for you, muttered Faith, rebelliously under her breath.
Speaker:
00:05:56
The boys gladly made their escape to outdoors.
Speaker:
00:05:59
Una went to help Aunt Martha with the dishes, though that rather grumpy old dame never welcomed her timid assistance.
Speaker:
00:06:06
And Faith betook herself to the study, where a cheerful wood fire was burning in the grate.
Speaker:
00:06:11
She thought she would thereby escape from the hated Mr.
Speaker:
00:06:14
Perry, who had announced his intention of taking a nap in his room during the afternoon, but scarcely had Faith settled in a corner with a book when he walked in, and standing before the fire, proceeded to survey the disorderly study with an air of disapproval.
Speaker:
00:06:30
Your father's book seemed to be in somewhat deplorable confusion.
Speaker:
00:06:33
My little girl, he said severely, face darkled in her corner, and said not a word.
Speaker:
00:06:39
She would not talk to this creature.
Speaker:
00:06:43
You should try to put them in.
Speaker:
00:06:44
Order, Mr.
Speaker:
00:06:46
Perry went on, playing with his handsome watch chain and smiling patronizingly on Faith.
Speaker:
00:06:51
You are quite old enough to attend to such duties.
Speaker:
00:06:54
My little daughter at home is only ten, and she's already an excellent little housekeeper and the greatest help and comfort to her mother.
Speaker:
00:07:02
She's a very sweet child.
Speaker:
00:07:04
I wish you had the privilege of her acquaintance.
Speaker:
00:07:06
She could help you in many ways.
Speaker:
00:07:09
Of course, you have not had the inesteemable privilege of a good mother's care and training.
Speaker:
00:07:13
A sad lack, a very sad lack.
Speaker:
00:07:16
I've spoken more than once to your father in this connection and pointed out.
Speaker:
00:07:20
His duty to him faithfully, but so.
Speaker:
00:07:23
Far with no effect.
Speaker:
00:07:24
I trust he may awaken to a realization of his responsibility before it is too late.
Speaker:
00:07:29
In the meantime, it is your duty and privilege to endeavor to take your sainted mother's place.
Speaker:
00:07:35
You might exercise a great influence over your brothers and your little sister.
Speaker:
00:07:39
You might be a true mother to them.
Speaker:
00:07:41
I fear that you do not think of these things as you should, my dear child.
Speaker:
00:07:46
Allow me to open your eyes and regard to them.
Speaker:
00:07:49
Mr.
Speaker:
00:07:49
Perry's oily complacent voice trickled on.
Speaker:
00:07:53
He was in his element.
Speaker:
00:07:55
Nothing suited him better than to lay down the law, patronize and exhort.
Speaker:
00:08:00
He had no idea of stopping, and he did not stop.
Speaker:
00:08:04
He stood before the fire, his feet planted firmly on the rug, and poured out a flood of pompous platitudes.
Speaker:
00:08:12
They'd heard not a word.
Speaker:
00:08:14
She was really not listening to him at all, but she was watching his.
Speaker:
00:08:18
Long black coattails with impished delight growing.
Speaker:
00:08:21
In her brown eyes.
Speaker:
00:08:22
Mr.
Speaker:
00:08:23
Perry was standing very near the fire.
Speaker:
00:08:27
His coattails began to scorch.
Speaker:
00:08:29
His coattails began to smoke.
Speaker:
00:08:31
He still posed on, wrapped up in his own eloquence.
Speaker:
00:08:35
The coattail smoked worse.
Speaker:
00:08:37
A tiny spark flew up from the.
Speaker:
00:08:38
Burning wood and alighted in the middle of one.
Speaker:
00:08:41
It clung and caught and spread into a smoldering flame.
Speaker:
00:08:45
Faith could restrain herself no longer and broke into a stifled giggle.
Speaker:
00:08:49
Mr.
Speaker:
00:08:50
Perry stopped short, angered over this impertinence.
Speaker:
00:08:54
Suddenly he became conscious that a wreak of burning cloth filled the room.
Speaker:
00:08:58
He whirled around and saw nothing.
Speaker:
00:09:00
Then he clapped his hands to his coattails and brought them around in front of him.
Speaker:
00:09:04
There was already quite a hole in one of them, and this was his new suit.
Speaker:
00:09:09
Faith shook with helpless laughter over his pose and expression.
Speaker:
00:09:13
Did you see my coattails burning?
Speaker:
00:09:15
He demanded angrily.
Speaker:
00:09:17
Yes, sir, said Faith Demurely.
Speaker:
00:09:20
Why didn't you tell me?
Speaker:
00:09:22
He demanded, glaring at her.
Speaker:
00:09:24
You said it wasn't good manners to interrupt, sir, said Faith, more demerily still.
Speaker:
00:09:30
If I was your father, I would give you a spanking that you would.
Speaker:
00:09:34
Remember all your life.
Speaker:
00:09:35
Miss, said a very angry reverend gentleman as he stalked out of the study.
Speaker:
00:09:41
The coat of Mr.
Speaker:
00:09:42
Meredith's second best suit would not fit Mr.
Speaker:
00:09:44
Perry, so he had to go to the evening service with his singed coattail.
Speaker:
00:09:49
But he did not walk up the aisle with his usual consciousness of the honor he was conferring on the building.
Speaker:
00:09:54
He never would agree to an exchange of pulpits with Mr.
Speaker:
00:09:57
Meredith again, and he was barely civil to the latter when they met a few minutes at the station the next morning.
Speaker:
00:10:04
But Faith felt a certain gloomy satisfaction.
Speaker:
00:10:07
Adam was partially avenged.
Speaker:
00:10:10
Thank you for joining Bite Out of Time books today while we read a bite of one of your favorite classics.
Speaker:
00:10:16
Again.
Speaker:
00:10:17
My name is Brie Carlyle, and I.
Speaker:
00:10:19
Hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite of Rainbow Valley.
Speaker:
00:10:24
Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter at bite atetimebooks.com and check out the shop.
Speaker:
00:10:30
You can check out the show notes or our website, biteattatimebooks.com, for the rest of the links for our show.
Speaker:
00:11:16
Thank you.
Speaker:
00:11:24
Take a look and a book and let's see what we can find.
Speaker:
00:11:32
Take a chapter by chapter, one, mine at a time.
Speaker:
00:11:41
Yes, after the mountains we can climb.
