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Good evening.

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

I'm your host, Andrew.

I'm here to help calm your mind

and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight I'll be reading The Secret Garden. Chapter 7. The Key to the Garden.

And Chapter 8 The Robin Who Showed the Way, by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

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

sleep.

Chapter 7, The Key to the Garden

Two days after this, when Mary opened her eyes, she sat upright in bed immediately and called to Martha.

Look at the more, night by the wind. The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant deep blue sky arched high over the moorland. Never, never had Mary dreamt to the sky so blue. In India, skies were hot and blazing. This was of a deep cool blue which almost seemed to sparkle like the waters of some lovely bottomless lake,

and here and there, high, high in the arched blueness, floated small clouds of snow-white fleece. The far-reaching world of the moor itself looked softly blue instead of

gloomy purple black or awful dreary grey.

I, said Martha with a cheerful grin,

to storms over for a bit.

It does like this at this time at a year.

It goes off in a night like it was pretending it had never been here and it

never meant to come again that's because to springtime's on its way. It's a long way off yet, but it's common.

I thought perhaps it always rained or looked dark in England, Mary said.

Eh no, said Martha, sitting up on her heels among her black lead brushes.

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