She looked at her flattened belly. ToC
The ward into which Jack was endeavouring to break was called the Red Room,
from the circumstance of its walls having once been painted in that colour; all
traces of which had, however, long since disappeared. He noted an ebony cane laid close to
hand, which suggested she was able to get about. ‘What mischief?’
‘I don’t know, but I’ll go bail you’re at something. When is the game?\"
She did her best to overhaul her own appearance for
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the greater part of an hour, blotting lips, fluffing the
brush over her face. ”
“You’ll make me look a fool before all my friends. He was alert, well-groomed, and yet—perhaps in contrast with
the more volatile French type—there was a suggestion of weight about him, not
to say heaviness. Sebastian, too, seemed to be immune, even
though cats, dogs, and beasts of the suffered just as the
humans did: blackening and dying, their eyes rolling, their
bodies covered with bald buboes. “It may be more difficult than you think,” she said. “But we only aid the beccamorti by giving them our
business! I refuse to pay exorbitant prices for wood
coffins and burial for lesser servants who could just as
easily be dragged into the pit! Let the dead bury the
dead!”
“You fool! It is the gross lack of sanitation you speak
of that has brought us to this very end. But you had better know the truth to start with.
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