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The Sparrow's Gambit

The Price of the First Drum

Chapter 44 · for subscribers

I had six years of walking slowly in that house and nine days of standing on a horse-block calling forty women an army, and I went home through my own front gate in a laundry hamper with a Secretariat rope over the lid, because the alternative was being struck off a list by a woman with a wet brush.

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