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Good evening

and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf,

where we put down our worries from the day

and pick up a good book.

I'm Elizabeth, your host.

Thank you for coming tonight.

This evening we are beginning the final story from My Man Jeeves.

So, lie down and settle in.

Let your body find comfort.

Gently close your eyes and begin by taking a deep breath in through your nose, filling first

your belly, then your ribs, then your chest, and then exhale completely.

Once more, a deep inhale filling belly, ribs and chest, and then let go of any stress as you breathe out again.

You can keep breathing like this or return to your natural rhythm of breathing, perhaps noticing how it's a bit deeper now.

Reggie Pepper was invited by his former fiancée,

Elizabeth Yerdsley, nay, Shulbred, sister of his old university friend Bill, to visit her and her artist husband, Clarence, in the country, lured by false promises of golf and billiards.

Upon arrival, he discovered Clarence's artistic temperament had been tormented by having to dine

daily beneath one of his father's paintings, the Venus, a wedding gift Clarence detested, but could not remove without offending the old man.

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