Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host.

Every week, I will read you an old story to help you relax, but the stressful day behind you and drift off to sleep.

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Two night. procedures and game-specific rules apply. Players must be 18 or over. Tonight, I continue the story, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

This was very uncomfortable, I was half afraid. However, the only thing to be done being to knock

at the door, I knocked, and was told from within to enter. I entered, therefore,

and found myself in a pretty large room, well-lighted with waxed candles. No glimpse of daylight was

to be seen in it. There was a dressing-room, as I supposed from the furniture, though much of it was of forms and uses

then quite unknown to me. But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded-looking

glass, and that I made out first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table.

Whether I should have made out this object so soon, if there had been no fine lady sitting at

it, I cannot say.

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