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Tonight I'll be reading chapters 5-8 of Anna Karenina, part 1 by Leo Tolstoy.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's

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Chapter 5

Stepan Akadjavic had learned easily at school, thanks to his excellent abilities, but he

had been idle and mischievous and therefore was one of the lowest in his class, but in spite

of his habitually dissipated mode of life.

His inferior grade in the service and his comparative youth he occupied the honourable

and lucrative position of president of one of the government boards at Moscow.

This post he had received through his sister Anna's husband, Alexey Alexandrovich Karenin,

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