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Good evening and welcome to the sleepy book shelf where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

I'm your host, Elizabeth.

It is so wonderful to be with you tonight.

This evening, we are returning to Villette.

But before that, we'll take a moment to relax and get ready for sleep.

Concentrate on how your body feels after today

and where you might be holding any tension.

Take a big stretch and feel those areas fully relax, sinking down into your bed.

Now, let's take some nice deep breath.

Inhale and collect all your thoughts and concerns from the day, and exhale, letting them all go. Once more now.

inhale and exhale.

and exhale.

Lovely. You can continue with this deep breathing as many times as you like

while I recap our last episode.

The annual fate in honor of Madame Beck was in preparation just two months before the end of summer.

Leading the plans was Mademoiselle Saint-Pierre, a Parisian teacher who Lucy hadn't previously gotten along

with. What she lacked in knowledge and empathy she made up for in her ability to control the most unruly

students.

Madam liked to feigned surprise of the fate until the day, but the whole school was in

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