The Wistful Show
The ledger of the Ashworth Estate, kept in a cold room that smelled of damp wool and old ink, records a debt of forty-seven shillings and sixpence for the repair of the millstone, a sum that has not been paid in three years, nor has the interest stopped accruing like frost on the windowpane. You are Thomas, the son of the manager, and you are twelve years old, which is old enough to know that...
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