Chapter 28: Guildenstern Academy: Part one

William took residence with four other young gentlemen and a young lady who had been granted special dispensation to study at the college as her father was the Dean.

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He quickly became friends with a group who called themselves the “young romantics”.

Rosencrantz, whose room was next to William’s, was a philosopher who wanted to travel the world and capture the beauty of life in art.

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Heath was an anxious young man who wanted to build the machines of the future. “Steam is the future,” he’d tell a disinterested William. “We can harness the power of the sun to build machines of im…immense power.”

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Romeo was the least complicated of the three. He liked women. All women.

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The four would study together and talk philosophy late into the night.

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Meanwhile, back at home, the estate seemed very empty with only Simon and Marissa living there. Marissa had grown too old to have more children, but she longed to hear their laughter echoing down the halls.

When she discovered that a man killed in an accident at the docks had a young daughter who he’d been raising alone, she knew she had to take her in.

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Her name was Adelina.

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Marissa soon came to love the little girl as her own.

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