The Faded Masquerade
The iron breath of the coal furnace in the cellar of the Whitmore estate, a sound that had once been the heartbeat of the house, now lay silent and cold beneath the floorboards, replaced by the hollow, whistling wind that threaded through the cracks in the foundation stones, carrying with it the scent of wet earth and the distant, metallic tang of the slag heaps that bordered the village like a...
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