A long one but a fun one today (remember that you can speed up the recording by clicking on the 1x) from Alexander Pushkin:
Frugal, ambitious unscrupulous was the German officer of the Engineers, disinclined at the gaming tables to risk the necessary for the superfluous. Yet even he couldn’t resist the countess’s secret of the three infallible — and fatal —cards.
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