The Wistful Voyage

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The debtors' parlor smelled of damp wool and the rotting silt that crept up from the river, a smell that settled into the pores and refused to wash out. I was thirty-five, holding a monograph on structural load-bearing that felt heavier than the brick it described, and Lord Vane, who wore his wealth like a second skin, called my work frivolous with a wave of his hand that dismissed the years of...

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