A Little Princess | Part 4 of 15 (Voice Only)
Send Me To Sleep
Send Me To Sleep
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | tired of annoying ads like this one. Listen to send me to sleep ad free by signing up to a seven-day |
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| 0:25.0 | Thanks so much for your support. And now a few ads before tonight's story. Welcome to send me to sleep, the place to find relaxing stories for a good |
| 0:35.4 | night's rest. My name's Andrew. Thanks for joining me. Tonight I'll |
| 0:42.3 | be reading Part 4, Chapter 5 Continued and 6 of A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett. |
| 0:52.3 | In the previous chapters, Sarah continues to strengthen her friendship with Ermengarde |
| 1:00.0 | and begins mothering younger students like Lottie through her imaginative stories. |
| 1:07.0 | Sarah's storytelling becomes very popular with the pupils as she recites stories to them aloud by the hearth. |
| 1:13.6 | One of Sarah's stories attracts the attention of a shy new scullery maid, who is embarrassed and runs away before Sarah has a chance to talk to her. |
| 1:32.5 | Now that we're caught up with the story so far, let's get ourselves ready for sleep. Start by taking a deep, relaxing bread. And settle your body in whatever way feels most comfortable. |
| 1:48.6 | Now let any thoughts of the day drift away from your mind and simply follow the sound of my voice. |
| 2:00.1 | So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful |
| 2:11.6 | night's sleep. Who is that little girl who makes the fires? |
| 2:21.4 | She asked Mariette that night. |
| 2:25.4 | Mariette broke forth into a flow of description. |
| 2:30.4 | Ah, indeed, Mademoiselle Sarah might well ask. |
| 2:35.0 | She was a forlorn little thing who had just taken the place of scullery-made, |
| 2:40.9 | though, as to being scullery-made, she was everything else besides. |
| 2:46.9 | She blacked boots and grates, and carried heavy coal scuttles up and downstairs, and scrubbed |
| 2:54.5 | floors and cleaned windows, and was ordered about by everybody. |
| 3:01.4 | She was fourteen years old, but was so stunted in growth that she looked about twelve. In truth, Mariette was sorry for her. |
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