The Lost Girl
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You are Alvina Houghton, arranging silk in a shop window that can no longer pretend to prosper, while your mother rests ill behind the counter and your father dreams past both of them. When the doctor warns that the house needs steadiness, your father produces an auctioneer's notice instead: an old assembly hall he means to reopen for moving pictures and music. By nightfall he has already bought it, and presses the key into your hand before he has told your mother he spent anything at all.
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- The Last Bright WindowManchester House