The Faded Guest
The name "Aldous" was not spoken with affection, but with the flat, declarative weight of a verdict, as if the speaker were nailing a board over a window to keep the draft out. It came from the mouth of Master Halloway, the village physician, who stood at the threshold of the stone cottage, his breath pluming in the thin, sharp air of the late afternoon. Aldous Blackwood, a man of forty-two...
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