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Charlotte herself usually hid her feelings behind a mysterious Mona Lisa smile. In
“After all, she was falsifying an official document. That’s not a small offense.” Mum tilted her chin. “We told her our family belonged to a satanic cult with a pathological belief in horoscopes. We said a child born on the seventh of October would be subject to severe reprisals and we’d have to give her up to the cult for use in satanic rituals. She believed us. And as she had a soft heart, and what you might call a prejudice against Satanists, she entered the wrong birth date on the certificate.” “Satanic rituals! What impertinence!” The man by the mantelpiece hissed the words like a snake,
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Gideon. “But now the whole world’s before you. You can study abroad, you can go on long journeys, while I can’t be away from that damn … from the chronograph for more than a day, and I spend my nights in the safety of the year 1953. Believe me, I’d happily change places with you!”
I know they won’t shrink from anything to achieve their ends. You can’t trust any of them. Any of them, Gwyneth.” I sighed. None of what she’d told me seemed the least bit useful.
And quite by chance, they all had questions to ask about the future. The boy told us it would be a good idea to buy shares in Apple, whatever that may be. FROM THE ANNALS OF THE GUARDIANS 4 AUGUST 1953 REPORT: ROBERT PEEL, INNER CIRCLE
“In full, Qua redit nescitis horam. “You know not the hour of your return,” said Dr. White. “Rather a flowery translation!” said Mr. George.
You’re the greatest girl I know. Apart from me, maybe.
Everyone Needs a hype friend like Lesley
