The Wistful Silence

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Chapter One The cold in the Fens does not ask permission; it simply enters the bones and stays. I stood before the desk of the station master, a man whose face was as weathered and dry as the reeds outside, and held out the leather satchel containing the final draft of my monograph on the local dialect. He did not look at the book. He looked at my hands, then at the window, where the frost was...

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