Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures

1. Introduction

   8:45

2. Lecture 1: Mr. Caudle has lent five pounds to a friend

   6:22

3. Lecture 2: Mr. Caudle has been at a tavern with a friend, and is “enough to poison a woman” with tobacco smoke

   7:11

4. Lecture 3: Mr. Caudle joins a club – “The Skylarks”

   7:39

5. Lecture 4: Mr. Caudle has been called from his bed to bail Mr. Prettyman from the watch-house

   2:56

6. Lecture 5: Mr. Caudle has remained downstairs till past one, with a friend

   4:19

7. Lecture 6: Mr. Caudle has lent an acquaintance the family umbrella

   6:23

8. Lecture 7: Mr. Caudle has ventured a remonstrance on his day’s dinner: cold mutton and no pudding – Mrs Caudle defends the cold shoulder

   6:28

9. Lecture 8: Caudle has been made a mason – Mrs Caudle indignant and curious

   6:08

10. Lecture 9: Mr Caudle has been to Greenwich fair

    6:02

11. Lecture 10: On Mr. Caudle’s shirt buttons

    6:29

12. Lecture 11: Mrs Caudle suggests the her dear mother should “come and live with them”

    7:40

13. Lecture 12: Mr. Caudle having come home a little late, declares that henceforth “he will have a key”

    7:05

14. Lecture 13: Mrs Caudle has been to see her dear mother – Caudle on the “joyful occasion”, has given a party and issued a card of invitation

    5:38

15. Lecture 14: Mrs Caudle thinks it “high time” that the children should have summer clothing

    7:27

16. Lecture 15: Mr. Caudle again stayed out late. Mrs Caudle, at first injured and violent, melts

    7:18

17. Lecture 16: Baby is to be christened; Mrs Caudle canvasses the merits of probable godfathers

    7:41

18. Lecture 17: Caudle in the course of the day has ventured to question the economy of “washing at home”

    7:11

19. Lecture 18: Caudle, whilst walking with his wife, has been bowed to by a younger and even prettier woman than Mrs Caudle

    6:56

20. Lecture 19: Mrs Caudle thinks “it would look well to keep their wedding-day”

    7:23

21. Lecture 20: “Brother” Caudle has been to a Masonic charitable dinner. Mrs Caudle has hidden the “brother’s” cheque-book

    7:26

22. Lecture 21: Mr. Caudle has not acted “like a husband” at the wedding dinner

    7:47

23. Lecture 22: Caudle comes home in the evening, as Mrs Caudle has “just stepped out, shopping” On her return, at ten, Caudle remonstrates

    7:43

24. Lecture 23: Mrs Caudle “wishes to know if they’re going to the sea-side, or not, this summer – that’s all

    7:41

25. Lecture 24: Mrs Caudle dwells on Caudle’s “cruel neglect” of her on board the “Red Rover”. Mrs Caudle so “ill with the sea”, that they put up at the Dolphin, Herne Bay

    7:47

26. Lecture 25: Mrs Caudle, wearied of Margate, has “a great desire to see France”

    8:10

27. Lecture 26: Mrs Caudle’s first night in France – “shameful indifference” of Caudle at the Boulogne custom house

    7:21

28. Lecture 27: Mrs Caudle returns to her native land. “Unmanly cruelty” of Caudle, who has refused “to smuggle a few things” for her

    7:47

29. Lecture 28: Mrs Caudle has returned home. The house (of course) “not fit to be seen”. Mr Caudle, in self-defence, takes a book

    6:12

30. Lecture 29: Mrs Caudle thinks “the time has come to have a cottage out of town”

    8:17

31. Lecture 30: Mrs Caudle complains of the “Turtle Dovery”. Discovers black beetles. Thinks it “nothing but right” that Caudle should set up a chaise

    7:25

32. Lecture 31: Mrs Caudle complains very bitterly that Mr. Caudle has “broken her confidence”

    8:02

33. Lecture 32: Mrs Caudle discourses of maids-of-all-work and maids in general. Mr. Caudle’s “infamous behaviour” ten years ago

    7:08

34. Lecture 33: Mrs Caudle has discovered that Caudle is a railway director

    7:36

35. Lecture 34: Mrs Caudle, suspecting that Mr. Caudle has made his will, is only “anxious as a wife”, to know its provisions

    7:36

36. Lecture 35: Mrs Caudle “has been told “ that Caudle has “taken to play” at billiards

    7:35

37. Lecture the Last: Mrs Caudle has taken cold; the tragedy of thin shoes

    5:16

38. Postscript

    1:55

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