Chapter 11 · free to read
She hid one book under another. It seemed reasonable to check what she had hidden under the floor.
Forty years of knife-work. Cut, not written — so that no ink could ever be lifted off it and no glass could ever copy it.
Twelve marks a year. Twelve. Not three hundred and sixty-five.
Five hundred. Four hundred and eighty-six spent by her. Fourteen spent by us in nine days.
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