The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Taesha Glasgow
4 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Need help drifting off to sleep? Settle in with tonight's bedtime story - The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. Published in 1905, it follows Lily Bart, a beautiful but poor woman in New York's high city. In this episode, Lily misses her train and decides to spend some time with Selden. Certain that no one will see her, she takes the risk. Will she regret it?
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. Every week, I will read you |
| 0:17.1 | an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep. |
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| 1:09.1 | Tonight, I will be reading The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. |
| 1:19.0 | So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story. |
| 1:30.9 | Chapter 1 Selden paused in surprise. |
| 1:36.8 | In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station, his eyes had been refreshed by |
| 1:41.5 | the sight of Miss Lily Bart. |
| 1:44.5 | It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country, |
| 1:51.2 | but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? |
| 1:56.3 | If she had appeared to be catching a terrain, he might have inferred that he had come on her |
| 2:00.8 | in the active transition between one and another of the country houses, which disputed her |
| 2:06.9 | presence after the close of the Newport season. But her desultory air perplexed him. |
| 2:15.0 | She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the platform or the street, |
| 2:20.5 | and wearing an ear of a resolution which might, as he surmised, be the mask of a very definite purpose. |
| 2:28.2 | It struck him at once that she was waiting for someone, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. |
| 2:34.5 | There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement |
| 2:39.4 | of interest. It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest |
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