Hello everyone. Welcome to another episode of Sleep and Relax ASMR. This is a special holiday

addition and the

and the voice you will be hearing is Lori

who is a fan and listener of the show and she'll be reading a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. So we thought it'd be nice to introduce a different voice

and to have a listener contribute to the show.

So thanks to Lori for actually doing these and I'm sure you guys will love them.

So let's get started.

Hello everyone and we're going to continue our reading of the Christmas Carol. We have just

finished chapter one of Marley's Ghost and we are going to start chapter two.

So let's go ahead and get started.

Chapter 2, the First of the Three Spirits.

When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark that looking out of bed he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber

He was endeavoring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes when the chimes of a neighboring church struck the four

quarters so he listened for the hour.

To his great astonishment, the heavy bell went on from six to seven and from seven to eight and regularly up to twelve then stopped.

Twelve. It was past two when he went to bed. The clock was wrong. An icicle must have gotten into the works.

Twelve.

He touched the spring of his repeater to correct this most preposterous clock.

Its rapid little pulse beat 12 and stopped.

Why, it is impossible, said Scrooge, that I can have slept through a whole day and far into another night.

It isn't possible that anything has happened to the sun and this is 12 at noon.

The idea be an alarming one, he scrambled out of bed and groped his way to the window.

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