The Convent of Ashes
I. The spring of 1847 did not arrive in London so much as it was permitted to. The fog that clung to the Thames refused to lift, and the soot from a thousand factory chimneys turned the weak sunlight into a bruised yellow thing. Eleanor Ashworth stood at the window of her father's townhouse in Bloomsbury and watched the street below, where the carriages of the well-to-do rolled over...
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