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If only they hadn’t moved to fancier lodgings in a more elegant section of London, she wouldn’t be burdened with having to learn a myriad of rules for keeping a proper home. Surely her domestic misman...
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Summer had somehow passed along into autumn, as it will, and with October came a good bit of rain. And rain, isn’t at all bad – as long, that is, as you’re not caught out in it. The blue skies and whi...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton staggered back and collapsed into his chair. The note Arthur Findlay had passed to him fluttered to the floor. The other men turned away, took their seats, examined their fi...
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