The House of Brief Ends In Hidden Truths
A bedraggled clerk in Red Lead Lane becomes entangled with the tale of Rudolf Elbert Virgil the ninth Count of Brief. A dying man reveals a century old secret of a hidden doorway and a family legacy while a wary narrator weighs proof and danger in a world of impostors.
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Rudolf Elbert Virgil
Brief
Innsbruck
England
London
Ferdinand
South America
Australia
Elizabeth Virgil
Gering
Percy Elbert Virgil
Elizabeth
London Glassworks Keeps Time with Ancient Glassmaking Methods
A London correspondent visits Whitefriars Works near London, still using historic glassblowing methods from Tudor to Georgian times. Workers sit in chairs around fires, shaping sand and potash into fine flint glass, with a museum of century-spanning pieces on display.
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London
Boston Globe
Whitefriars Works
Tudor Street
Fleet Street
Samuel Pepys
Duke of York’s Playhouse
Europe
Fontainbleau
Song of the Shepherd and steadfast faith in Psalms
A lesson from Psalm 23 and 27 celebrates Davidic provision and protection. It urges trust in the Lord as shepherd and light, outlining no want no weakness no wandering no worry and no fear with a call to praise. It frames faith as strength out of weakness and victory over opponents through divine shelter.
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God
David
Lord
Christ
Ideal Hot Dish Mats From Cable Cord
Ruth Wyeth Spears describes making hot dish mats from white cotton cable cord once used for corset strings and similar notions. The project uses braided cords, circles sewn in, and alternating rows to form a flat mat, with instructions and a sales pitch for Sewing Book 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ideal
Notion
Not As You Think There Is No Greater Fool
A quotation from Marguerite de Valois on wisdom and folly challenges self deception. It contrasts the fool who overestimates wit with the sage who doubts their own wisdom. The adage is framed as a reflective, cautionary line.
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Innsbruck
Ferdinand
Marguerite de Valois
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Dornford Yates
Oxford
Red Lead Lane
Matthew Gering
Exon
House of Brief
Knights of Old
Richard Exon
Brief’s
Harold L. Lundquist
Moody Bible
Chicago
By Ruth Wyeth Spears
Arika
Mabel Schott
Rome
Adlerika
Ydia E. Pinkham
Pinkhim
Pinkham
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