The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

Francesco Vitale remembers the weight of the sherd before he remembers the sound it made, a jagged piece of white porcelain that held the last of the medicinal broth, the liquid dark and viscous as old blood in the bottom of the cup, and he is forty-two years old now, standing in the counting room of the merchant house on fifty-eight of Candlewick Row, where the air is dry and smells of drying...

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