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🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 163 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to tonight's episode of Down to Sleep. This is the podcast of softly spoken |
0:06.5 | stories to help you get a good night's rest. I hope that you have found this podcast useful. If |
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0:25.3 | You can also leave me a positive review on whatever app you're listening on or just hit that follow button. It all really helps the podcast grow. Thank you so much. Let's go ahead and get into |
0:31.6 | tonight's episode, which is a complete reading of Jacqueline Hyde. I've put these episodes together from all of the readings on Patreon, |
0:39.3 | and here now for you is the complete audiobook. I hope that it helps you sleep. Enjoy. |
0:47.3 | Chapter 1. Story of the Door |
0:50.3 | Mr. Utterson, the lawyer, was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile, |
0:57.6 | cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse, backward in sentiment, lean, long, dusty, dreary, |
1:05.0 | and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human |
1:13.1 | beaconed from his eye, something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which |
1:18.6 | spoke not only in those silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the |
1:24.1 | acts of his life. He was austere with himself, drank gin when he was alone, |
1:29.8 | to mortify a taste for vintages, and though he enjoyed the theatre, he had not crossed the doors |
1:36.3 | of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others, sometimes wondering, |
1:43.2 | almost with envy at the high pressure |
1:44.9 | of spirits involved in their misdeeds, and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to |
1:49.7 | reprove. |
1:51.0 | I inclined to Kane's heresy, he used to say quaintly. |
1:54.8 | I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. |
1:58.2 | In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance |
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