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Good evening. In this episode, I'll be reading chapters 1 and 2 of The Scarlet Pimper

now by Baroness Simusca Orxy. So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we

settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

1. Paris, September 1792

Assurging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the

eye and ear they seem not but savage creatures animated by vile passions and by the lust of

vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset and the place, the west

barricade at the very spot where a decade later a proud tyrant raised an undying monument

to the nation's glory and its own vanity. During the great part of the day, the guillotine

had been kept busy at its ghastly work. All that France had boasted of it in the past

centuries of ancient names and blue blood had paid toll to her desire for liberty and

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