Emma, Part 11 of 29
The Sleepy Bookshelf: Audiobooks for Sleep
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Tonight, Elizabeth reads Volume II, Chapters III-IV of “Emma” by Jane Austen, first published in 1815.
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| 0:00.0 | The Sleepy Bookshelf should have something for everyone. If we are missing your favourite |
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| 0:17.6 | Good evening and welcome to the Sleepy Bookshelf, where we put down our worries from the day |
| 0:26.5 | and pick up a good book. I'm your host, Elizabeth. Thank you for being with me tonight. |
| 0:38.0 | This evening we are returning to Emma, but before that, let's take a moment to relax and |
| 0:48.4 | get ready for sleep. |
| 0:54.4 | Concentrate on how your body feels and where you are holding any tension. Take a big |
| 1:03.3 | stretch and allow those areas to fully relax and sink into your bed. |
| 1:14.8 | Now take some nice deep breaths. Inhale and collect all your thoughts and concerns from |
| 1:26.2 | the day. And exhale, letting them all go. Once more, inhale and exhale. |
| 1:43.8 | Lovely. Previously, Emma was trying to steer her conversation with Harriet away from |
| 1:57.8 | Mr. Elton by stopping to visit Mrs. and Miss Bates on their way home from their walk. |
| 2:06.1 | She really liked to do this in case she bumped into anyone undesirable and because she |
| 2:12.0 | hated hearing Miss Bates, read aloud her latest correspondence from her niece Jane Fairfax. |
| 2:22.0 | The latter was a near mess because Jane was all Miss Bates wanted to talk of, given |
| 2:27.7 | her niece's imminent visit to Hybury. Jane was Miss Bates's sisters orphan who had been |
| 2:37.0 | adopted by her father's military comrade, Colonel Campbell. She had grown up in wealth |
| 2:44.3 | and opulence, educated to a high degree with the view of eventually becoming a teacher |
| 2:51.0 | to support herself. Emma did not know why she disliked her so much and on meeting her |
| 2:59.1 | again for the first time in two years, found her in fact very elegant. However, after |
| 3:07.0 | spending the evening with her at Hartfield, she remembered how cold and closed off Jane was. |
| 3:14.8 | She wouldn't even give away any information of Mr. Frank Churchill, whom it was known |
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