Bring It Close
“It was a modern way of thinking, as only the well off could afford three meals in the one day. For the poor, breakfast at dawn and a dinner half way through the day had to suffice, with perhaps a hunk of bread and maybe some cheese before going to bed with the sundown. But the rich could afford tallow and beeswax for candles and so could dine by artificial light. With the day extended into the night, and it being a long time between breakfast and the evening pleasantry of dinner, the partaking ...of a midday meal had become a popularity.The house at Archbell Point had been in subdued mourning, the grieving made all the worse by Eden’s refusal to acknowledge Perdita as kindred. She had shamed him in the eyes of the community and the Lord, and as Governor and temporary spiritual leader, he had refused to permit her burial in holy ground. She had an unmarked pauper’s grave outside the church walls and none save Tiola and Nicholas Page had attended her burial. A pall of gloom hung over the house as if it were a suffocating fog.MoreLess
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