The fog on the Essex marshes had a quality that belonged to no season. It was neither winter nor spring, but something in between--the way grief is neither pain nor peace but the space between them.
Lord Edmund Ashworth stood in the conservatory of Ashworth Hall and watched the white aspen bloom on a rose bush that had belonged to his grandmother. The fungus was beautiful in the way that all terminal things are beautiful: precisely structured, luminously white, growing with the unhurried certainty of something that knows it has all the time there is. He pressed his palm against the glass....
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