The Gilded Decay of Ravensworth Manor
The first time Ariadne Vane coughed blood, it was on the tablecloth at Lord Ashford's dinner party, and she did not wipe it away. She let it spread across the white linen like a crimson flower blooming in slow motion, and the guests around the table stopped talking and stared, and she smiled, a thin, beautiful smile that showed the pink of her gums and the gold of her teeth, and said, "How...
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