It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house-the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in. (Susanna Clarke)

It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house-the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

Susanna Clarke

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