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If you followed Theophilius back to his lodgings, you might chance to see on his bed-stand a worn and weather-beaten tome. And if you secreted yourself inside his lodgings at night, (impracticalities aside - let us, for now, imagine some convenient vantage-point; a closet, say, which still permitted light to enter in) you might also chance to see him lift up and open that tome with reverence, intoning the words within in a clear and practiced rumble of authority. | If you followed Theophilius back to his lodgings, you might chance to see on his bed-stand a worn and weather-beaten tome. And if you secreted yourself inside his lodgings at night, (impracticalities aside - let us, for now, imagine some convenient vantage-point; a closet, say, which still permitted light to enter in) you might also chance to see him lift up and open that tome with reverence, intoning the words within in a clear and practiced rumble of authority. | ||
- | The work in question was Astartus’ //Almanack of the Nobilyte//, and it had been Theo’s bedfellow since the fateful day he’d found that strange man’s body in the interior of Thys. | + | The work in question was Astartus’ //Almanack of the Nobilyte//, and it had been Theo’s bedfellow since the fateful day he’d found that poor child’s body in the interior of Thys. |
Astartus had this to say on the definition of what constituted a noble: ‘//One of refined Taste, and great Dignitie, owing to their Blod, whom the lesser Classes & sundry Creatures serve willinglie and with great Fervor//’. And that, of course, was why Pig was so important. Theo could affect Dignitie and Taste and make a very good show of it, for sure. But unless he had a lesser someone serving him willinglie, he might as well just be any old nobody. He might as well //still// be any old nobody. | Astartus had this to say on the definition of what constituted a noble: ‘//One of refined Taste, and great Dignitie, owing to their Blod, whom the lesser Classes & sundry Creatures serve willinglie and with great Fervor//’. And that, of course, was why Pig was so important. Theo could affect Dignitie and Taste and make a very good show of it, for sure. But unless he had a lesser someone serving him willinglie, he might as well just be any old nobody. He might as well //still// be any old nobody. |