The Faded Portrait

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The count of the coins was a ritual of arithmetic that I performed with the precision of a man measuring the depth of a well, six gold florins resting in the palm of my left hand, their weight a cold, familiar anchor against the heat of the afternoon. I stood in the yard of the manor house, the autumn air biting at my exposed neck, watching the geese huddle in the mud, their honking a low,...

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