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Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults

Sleep Story 8 - The Awkward Age by Henry James: Chapter 1- Lady Julia

Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults

Teddy

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.5547 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Tonight I will read another story from an old book. The story is not all that interesting and aims to help you sleep. Say goodbye to insomnia and hello to boring bedtime stories to help make you sleepy. The Awkward Age, continued

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

0:15.7

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

0:23.3

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

0:27.5

My name is Sherlock Holmes.

0:29.4

It's an unusual name.

0:31.2

Introducing young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.

0:34.9

What's game I would play today?

0:36.4

Discover the origins. It's leaving. Those days aren are surely behind me. Of crime's most iconic mind. There has been a break-in. Astoned. You should be a detective. Starring Hero Finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth. If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you. Young Sherlock, new original series.

0:55.7

Watch now only on Prime Video.

1:03.0

Tonight's episode is going to revisit the book by Henry James called The Awkward Age.

1:13.6

I've had a few comments on this book and some of you like it.

1:20.2

I enjoyed reading it and it's quite easy to listen to as you try and go to sleep or try to relax.

1:28.3

The readings we're going to look at tonight come from the first book, Lady Julia.

1:37.3

I hope you enjoy it.

1:40.3

And if you like it, please feel free to leave a comment on the podcast that you're listening to in the app

1:49.8

and also to like the app I'd love to hear it from you to see if there's anything else that you'd like me to read or do or if you enjoy the book that's also good to hear from you.

2:06.6

In the meantime, I'm going to read the book.

2:09.6

Hope you enjoy it.

2:11.6

Speak soon. Have a good night.

2:28.5

Save when it happened to rain Vanderbank always walked home.

2:37.0

But he usually took a handsome when the rain was moderate and adopted the preference of the philosopher when it was heavy. On this occasion, he therefore recognized as the servant opened the door

2:45.6

a congruity between the weather and the four-wheeler that in an empty street under the glazed radiance waited and trickled and blackly glittered

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