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wings yet?”
Dora and Henry did look different, Alex
realised. Less clean. Their hair looked like it hadn’t been washed in a week. Perhaps it hadn’t. And they smelled, a bit, or Dora did at least. Perhaps deodorant hadn’t been invented in 1912 either. There was an ingrained sort of grubbiness about them too. Henry had dirt under his fingernails, and grass stains on the knees of his knickerbockers. There was a sort of grubbiness to the whole house, actually. There was a heavy, lingering smell of coal smoke and a sharp, thick sort of smell which it took Alex a moment to realise was tobacco, as well as the ordinary country smells of grass, and flowers, and heavy summer air from the open
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