A Romance of Two Worlds
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You play a musician too exhausted and sleepless for your own work, sent to Cannes with the Everards when a doctor's remedies run out. There you meet the painter Raffaello Cellini, whose studio holds a decanter he forbids you to touch — a liquid he calls daily medicine and, for anyone unprepared, instant death — and a curtained canvas he calls the Angel of Life. A sitting for your portrait leaves you faint, certain you saw the curtain lift on its own, unsure whether it really did.
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- The Water That Would KillLondon and Cannes