Illustration for Ending — Of The House, from the adult visual novel The Bell-house

They ring it in January and it goes for four hours and it stops, and the roll takes two more strokes and the bequest is paid on the first of February.

By the following winter the practice is over and the strokes column is a list of every person who has ever held on when it stopped.

MalfoidWe are not prisoners. We are the deed. There is a difference and after a hundred and sixty years nobody in this country remembers what it is.

The school cannot be closed and cannot be sold and none of the four of them can leave it, and the money comes in every quarter, on time.

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