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

I'm your host, Elizabeth. day and pick up a good book.

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This evening we are returning to withering heights. But first, we will calm our minds and bodies with some breathing.

Begin by breathing in softly through your nose, feeling the fullness expand in your chest, your ribs stretching open

like wings. Hold it and now slowly exhale for six, five, four, three, two, one.

Continue this breathing, in for four.

Hold it a second and out for eight.

With each round, imagine letting go a little more, the chatter of your mind fading, your body loosening,

and continue this rhythm until you feel your heartbeat slow, and the breath becomes like a calm tide.

Kathy turned 16, but her birthday was rarely celebrated in the Grange, as it was also the anniversary of her mother's death,

and her father often took himself away to grieve. Once Mr. Linton was in his chambers,

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