art-de-vivre
The Long Way Round
A conversation with two custodians about why nothing on their estate happens quickly.
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We sat in the study for most of an afternoon. Neither of them looked at a clock, and neither of them was performing patience for our benefit.
The estate has been in one family since the middle of the nineteenth century. That fact is stated once, early, and then never used again as an argument.
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