The Last Observer at Whitby Abbey

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The pipe came out of his pocket before he knew he was reaching for it. Thomas Hargreave, who had suffered from a violent coughing illness for thirty years, who had not touched tobacco since his wife's funeral in 1863, pulled the briar from his waistcoat, filled it with trembling hands, and struck a match against the rough stone of the observatory tower. The smoke entered lungs that should not...

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