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Good evening. Tonight I'll be reading chapters eight and nine of The Scarlet Pimper

now by Emma Orxy. So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for

a peaceful night's sleep. Chapter 8 The Accredited Agent

The afternoon was rapidly drawing to a close and a long, chilly, English summer's evening

was throwing a misty pal over the green, kentish landscape. The daydream had set sail

and Margaret Blackney stood alone on the edge of the cliff for over an hour, watching

those white sails which bore so swiftly away from her the only being who really cared for

whom she dared to love whom she knew she could trust. Some little distance away to her left

the lights from the coffee room of the fisherman's rest, glittered yellow in the gathering mist.

From time to time it seemed to her aching nerves as if she could catch from

the sound of merry-making and of jovial talk, or even that perpetual, senseless laugh of her

husbands which grated continually upon her sensitive ears. Sir Percy had had the delicacy to leave

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