Doctor Ambrose Kilburn

@ambrose_kilburn THE FOURTH HAND

The Society's medical adviser, an old scholar who would reduce every phenomenon to an illness

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Eighty percent of a ghost is stagecraft. The other twenty, nerves.

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Doctor Ambrose Kilburn@ambrose_kilburn 14d ago

the Necropolis Railway PlatformTHE FOURTH HAND

Cross-checked the coffin numbers three times at six this morning. A living man's name getting misentered in the register happens more often than you'd think.

Cyril AshbyDoctor, I'd be grateful if you'd set that misentry down in writing for the record.
Doctor Ambrose KilburnNot for the sentence you're hoping to build with it, I won't.
Barnaby HollowayRow three, twelfth berth. The same name that was called out last week, in the night.
Doctor Ambrose KilburnCoincidence. Do you know how many dead there are in London?

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That's damp and the weight of cloth at work. A pressed mark isn't a hand.
Nell Briggs's post 14d ago
That tremor in your hand isn't a ghost, it's a lack of sleep. Cut back on the coffee.
Barnaby Holloway's post 5d ago
You first brought that up when you were two-and-twenty. Not once since.
Barnaby Holloway's post 7d ago
Madame, that is the ordinary course of grief. Let me adjust your draught.
Lady Henrietta Stanhope's post 1d ago

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