The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The ink was still wet on the ledger when Eleanor raised her eyes, the smell of iron and tallow cutting through the stale air of the counting house, a scent that had become so intimately woven into the fabric of her days that she could no longer distinguish the odor of the city’s industry from the musk of her own skin. She looked at Mr. Alderman Thorne, who sat across the oak table with his...

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