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Tonight, I'll be reading chapters 12 and 13 of The Scarlet Pimpa Now by Emma Ortsy.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 12

The Scrap of Paper

Marguerite suffered intensely, though she laughed and chatted,

though she was more admired, more surrounded, more fetid than any woman there.

She felt like one condemned to death, living her last day upon this earth.

Her nerves were in a state of painful tension, which had increased a hundred fold during that

brief hour which she had spent in her husband's company between the opera and the ball.

The short ray of hope that she might find in this good-natured, lazy individual,

...