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Cousin Phillis by Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell abridged and read in six parts by JOHN WESTBROOK
1: The Meeting
Paul Manning , a young railway clerk, is away from home working in the county town of Eltham where a branch line is under construction. His work takes him to the village of Healhbridge, and there he visits his mother's cousin who is married to the independent minister of Heathbridge, Ebenezer Holman. At Hope Farm, which is owned and worked by the minister, Paul meets their beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, his cousin Phillis.

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Cousin Phillis
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Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell
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John Westbrook
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Paul Manning
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Ebenezer Holman.
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