Japhet in Search of a Father
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You are Japhet Newland, raised by the Foundling Hospital and apprenticed to the apothecary Mr Cophagus, whose habit of trailing off mid-sentence becomes the shape of your new home. Chores in the shop teach caution before ambition, and a fellow foundling, Timothy Oldmixon, trades his own history for the surname the record gave you. Then a well-dressed woman starts watching both shop windows for days, and finally enters to ask your name, and who gave it to you.
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