Take absinthe in the parlour

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From: Horatia's Parlour

On certain evenings, the curtains are drawn and a chamber orchestra conveyed into Mrs Chapman's. The lanterns are replaced with candlelight and the tea with absinthe of the most searing green.

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"Mr Pages! However did we miss that you were there..."

[…] Impromptu groups discuss literature, poetry and […] pamphlets […] one looming figure careens from group to group […]

[…] Mr Pages […] seems to have a particular interest in the house, though it disguises it with bilious pronouncements upon modern literature […]

Description summary:
The last paragraph changes during the various Festivals throughout the year.

Current Festival	Last paragraph
London's Season: The Feast of the Exceptional Rose	Mr Pages interrogates the various visitors with many intimate and probing details on their love lives. It seems best to slip away when it produces its ivory pencil sharpener.
London's Season: Whitsun	As a final flourish, and in a rare display of whimsy, Mr Pages sweeps its arms wide as it turns to leave, depositing a series of duck's eggs in everybody's drinks, to general consternation.
London's Season: Hallowmas	Mr Pages is gone by the time you look back. It is considered poor form for the Masters to involve themselves in the rituals of Hallowmas. Of course, they may just want you to think that, to avoid the charge that they are rather poor at disguises.
London's Season: Christmas	Mr Pages is busy feeding books of seasonal cheer to the fire as you leave. "Sentimush," it explains firmly, as another story about a little matchstick girl goes up in smoke.

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•  A sudden change in the air, a slithering sound from below, a whisper, a sigh. (Sets An Unearthly Whisper from Below to 1 - Something moves behind the public spaces of Mrs Chapman's Boarding House)
•  You've gained (see below) x Journal of Infamy

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