Eleanor counted her savings for the seventh time.

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Forty-seven pounds and thirteen shillings, wrapped in brown paper and hidden in the false bottom of her mother's trunk. She had learned to count by feel more than by sight, her fingers moving over the coins with the practiced precision of a blind woman reading braille. Seven pounds in half-crowns, twelve in shillings, the rest in silver sixpences and coppers that had been accumulated over seven...

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