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Welcome to send me to sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew.

I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

I hope you can all bear with my voice while I'm getting over this cold and don't mind too much that this episode will be just a little shorter than usual.

Tonight I'll be reading Chapter 21 of the Scarlet Pimpanel by Emma Walksy.

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

Chapter 21 Suspense

It was late into the night when she at last reached the fisherman's rest.

She had done the whole journey in less than eight hours thanks to innumerable changes of horses and various coaching states.

For which she always paid lavishly, thus subtaining the very best and swiftest that could be had.

Her coachman, too, had been indefatigable.

The promise of special and rich reward had no doubt helped to keep him up and he had literally burned the ground beneath his mistress's coach wheels.

The arrival of Lady Blakeney in the middle of the night caused a considerable flutter at the fisherman's rest.

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