COMPLETE CLASSICS The Eustace UNABRIDGED Diamonds Read by David Shaw-Parker

Before Sir Florian Eustace dies, he gives his beloved wife Lizzie a beautiful and expensive diamond necklace valued over £10,000. Dispute soon rages between the Eustace family and the manipulative and conniving Lizzie: it’s claimed that the diamonds are a precious family heirloom, but Lizzie argues they were a gift. Is she lying? As the family’s lawyer determines to reunite them with the jewels, Lizzie resorts to increasingly desperate measures, until one day the jewels are stolen. Who is responsible? The third novel in Trollope’s Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds is a wonderfully absorbing blend of dark cynicism and humour.

David Shaw-Parker trained at RADA and began his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977. His theatre appearances include My Fair Lady, The False Servant and Oedipus Rex at the Royal National Theatre, and The Country Wife, Acorn Antiques, Heavenly Ivy and Uncle Vanya in London’s West End. He has recorded extensively for BBC Radio Total running time: 29:32:21 • 26 CDs and his recordings for Naxos AudioBooks include The Great Poets: John View our catalogue online at n-ab.com/cat Clare, The Pilgrim’s Progress and the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

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1 1-1 The Eustace Diamonds 11:31 24 4-4 Chapter 11 7:54 2 1-2 The match with Sir Florian Eustace... 12:00 25 4-5 It was a Saturday evening... 6:35 3 1-3 Chapter 2 11:37 26 4-6 Chapter 12 8:33 4 1-4 When this was said Lizzie had been a widow... 11:28 27 4-7 During the last few days... 8:14 5 1-5 Chapter 3 11:15 28 4-8 Chapter 13 8:30 6 1-6 Lucy Morris certainly was a treasure... 12:01 29 5-1 Two things, no doubt... 6:36 7 2-1 Chapter 4 11:12 30 5-2 When Eustace left him, Greystock lit his cigar... 8:59 8 2-2 Frank Greystock was at this time... 10:49 31 5-3 Chapter 14 12:24 9 2-3 Chapter 5 9:08 32 5-4 Now, if among Lord Fawn’s merits... 11:23 10 2-4 A few days after it was sent... 11:32 33 5-5 Chapter 15 14:59 11 2-5 They were sitting together one May afternoon... 9:37 34 5-6 The fact that Mr Greystock had proposed... 12:26 12 2-6 Chapter 6 9:27 35 6-1 Chapter 16 9:19 13 2-7 ‘As you are my niece...’ 10:28 36 6-2 Frank made his demand very well... 10:19 14 3-1 Chapter 7 12:32 37 6-3 Chapter 17 12:40 15 3-2 Lucy felt her face tingling with heat... 10:47 38 6-4 Lady Eustace did go to Lady Glencora’s evening... 8:01 16 3-3 Chapter 8 8:32 39 6-5 Chapter 18 12:26 17 3-4 ‘Lady Eustace,’ he said... 7:44 40 6-6 As he thought of it after he had done it... 14:15 18 3-5 Chapter 9 11:06 41 7-1 Chapter 19 12:58 19 3-6 When the girls heard the news... 10:24 42 7-2 ‘After all we must come to facts,’ he said... 13:07 20 3-7 Lizzie was of course at home... 8:47 43 7-3 Chapter 20 13:24 21 4-1 Chapter 10 10:39 44 7-4 Chapter 21 8:23 22 4-2 ‘They are my own, – altogether my own.’ 9:41 45 7-5 The castle stood upon a bluff of land… 11:42 23 4-3 The door was hardly closed behind him... 8:59 46 7-6 She began her reading... 9:31

1 47 7-7 Chapter 22 4:48 105 17-1 Chapter 52 14:00 48 8-1 The letter she received on the Sunday morning... 9:58 106 17-2 When that had come she was relieved... 12:37 49 8-2 Chapter 23 11:58 107 17-3 Chapter 53 13:52 50 8-3 ‘Frank, I don’t care twopence for his honesty…’ 13:37 108 17-4 ‘Didn’t somebody once give some one...’ 14:09 51 8-4 Chapter 24 8:03 109 17-5 Chapter 54 14:18 52 8-5 When he had first kissed his cousin... 11:30 110 18-1 On the next day Lady Glencora actually did call… 8:22 53 8-6 Chapter 25 10:14 111 18-2 Chapter 55 11:19 54 8-7 When Mr Camperdown had thrice read this… 7:07 112 18-3 Chapter 56 13:09 55 9-1 Chapter 26 14:12 113 18-4 This was considered by Mrs Hittaway... 11:45 56 9-2 ‘They are here, – in the castle...’ 14:17 114 18-5 Chapter 57 12:46 57 9-3 Chapter 27 14:23 115 18-6 ‘Take ’em to Benjamin,’ said Bunfit… 13:20 58 9-4 Chapter 28 13:32 116 19-1 Chapter 58 10:11 59 9-5 ‘John,’ he said, opening his door. 14:49 117 19-2 Chapter 59 11:07 60 10-1 Chapter 29 9:18 118 19-3 Lord Fawn was to call upon Lady Eustace... 11:46 61 10-2 Amelia left the culprit... 11:44 119 19-4 Chapter 60 14:53 62 10-3 Chapter 30 8:30 120 19-5 Fawn Court, 3rd March, 18 –… 13:50 63 10-4 Days passed by, and nothing was said... 13:36 121 20-1 Chapter 61 13:35 64 10-5 Chapter 31 11:00 122 20-2 Exactly at the hour named Lord Fawn came... 12:10 65 10-6 ‘I don’t think John Eustace has ever said a word…’ 8:51 123 20-3 Lizzie was still standing, waiting for an answer... 10:17 66 10-7 ‘You have been saved, then, from a greater evil.’ 9:21 124 20-4 Chapter 62 8:07 67 11-1 Chapter 32 14:47 125 20-5 ‘I don’t know that I want to know any more…’ 8:48 68 11-2 Chapter 33 8:45 126 20-6 Chapter 63 9:06 69 11-3 What were they to do? 14:36 127 20-7 He asked for her, and was shown at once... 8:51 70 11-4 Chapter 34 8:34 128 21-1 Chapter 64 14:20 71 11-5 ‘Perhaps you consider yourself pretty.’ 10:57 129 21-2 Chapter 65 11:58 72 11-6 Chapter 35 6:15 130 21-3 ‘You must do something handsome…’ 9:30 73 12-1 And so also has the reading world taught itself... 10:11 131 21-4 Chapter 66 12:28 74 12-2 At Bobsborough he met his constituents... 8:33 132 21-5 She could surely still do better... 9:38 75 12-3 Chapter 36 10:21 133 21-6 Chapter 67 7:06 76 12-4 Lucinda Roanoke was undoubtedly… 10:39 134 22-1 At last he wrote his letter... 13:53 77 12-5 Chapter 37 10:33 135 22-2 Chapter 68 11:20 78 12-6 On that Monday the meet was comparatively... 9:40 136 22-3 When three o’clock came she had not started... 11:47 79 12-7 Lord George was constant and patient... 8:21 137 22-4 Chapter 69 10:52 80 13-1 Chapter 38 11:17 138 22-5 This happened on the Sunday, on which day... 11:30 81 13-2 When Lord George and Lizzie had mounted... 12:03 139 22-6 More than once in the night Mrs Carbuncle... 8:00 82 13-3 Morgan, knowing well the horse he rode... 13:20 140 23-1 Chapter 70 14:26 83 13-4 Volume 2. Chapter 39 11:19 141 23-2 Chapter 71 11:47 84 13-5 Chapter 40 9:45 142 23-3 ‘But the thieves thought that the diamonds…’ 14:14 85 13-6 Chapter 41 12:52 143 23-4 Chapter 72 9:29 86 14-1 Mrs Carbuncle, in her great anxiety... 8:47 144 23-5 Lizzie, in her fears, had been very punctual... 9:00 87 14-2 Chapter 42 13:36 145 24-1 Chapter 73 10:53 88 14-3 Chapter 43 11:23 146 24-2 This epistle Lizzie did send... 9:27 89 14-4 On the great subject of the diamonds... 12:43 147 24-3 ‘Yes; – Lady Eustace; it is so.’ 11:04 90 14-5 Chapter 44 13:21 148 24-4 Chapter 74 8:10 91 14-6 Late in the evening Lord George strolled out... 12:41 149 24-5 She was handed to a chair... 8:41 92 15-1 Chapter 45 8:26 150 24-6 Chapter 75 7:09 93 15-2 The box had been found... 12:51 151 24-7 ‘Then came the robbery...’ 8:22 94 15-3 Chapter 46 8:29 152 25-1 Chapter 76 11:19 95 15-4 No doubt the dean and Mrs Greystock... 12:01 153 25-2 Such was the state of mind... 8:54 96 15-5 ‘People seem to think it possible,’ said Lizzie... 8:56 154 25-3 Travellers again entered the carriage... 10:30 97 15-6 Chapter 47 11:14 155 25-4 Chapter 77 12:13 98 15-7 Travellers’, 29 Jan., 186 –… 11:19 156 25-5 She would not condescend to alter her dress... 11:54 99 16-1 Chapter 48 14:49 157 26-1 Chapter 78 11:02 100 16-2 Chapter 49 10:40 158 26-2 ‘And now, gentlemen of the jury...’ 12:28 101 16-3 There was a young detective in the force... 12:26 159 26-3 Chapter 79 10:55 102 16-4 Chapter 50 11:26 160 26-4 The conversation was at first, of course… 13:15 103 16-5 ‘I wish the diamonds had been thrown…’ 10:12 161 26-5 Chapter 80 14:22 104 16-6 Chapter 51 14:00

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