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Show XX " . . . t o wit, the aforementioned property. Unless and until these charges hath been paid in full, that is, by the last day of TwelfthMonth, along with certain interest payments, taxes, handling fees, and other penalties hereunto outlined, this property will be dp;f su [in;vo [ni;vo divuopmj pm ujt houfu xxxxxxxxxxxxxxerr. . . . " from Late notice from the BauerNetwork's Tax Division received by Clarence Kettering, member of the Yeofolk in Rasher Commendium Back in New Oxbridge, at about the same time the Needlesmith women were wending their way into Round Valley, their Graces, Managers Jensen, Andrus, and Ivan, were drinking dry d'bolo wine in the ChapelRefectory and watching the progress of their guests, Vice Manager Brandon and Assistant Vice Manager Phrapp. The two men were walking deferentially across the tiled floor toward them. Phrapp was dressed in his usual brown. Brandon's outer garment was a red silk longdoublet, over which was thrown a furred cloak, for it had been blowing snow when they left their sanctums five minutes before. Brandon held a briefcase under his arm, and was sweating and undoing his hood. In the time it had taken Phrapp and Brandon to get to the ChapelRefectory; the Twins had come out in force and it had grown full warm. Phrapp, who was stoic in the extreme about BauerWorlde's weather, appeared unruffled in his brown longdoublet and cloak and was looking around in polite interest at the inside of the Refectory which he had never 190 |
