As for Khethila, she was almost old enough, but she was quiet and thoughtful. With some fortune, since Father would really have preferred that I follow him as a factor but had acknowledged that I had little interest, I'd be out of the house before Culthyn was old enough to leave the nursery and eat with us. Younger brothers were worse than vermin, because one could squash vermin and then bathe, something one could not do with younger brothers. Two weeks ago, Rousel couldn't even have pronounced "pedant," but he'd heard Master Sesiphus use it, and now he applied it to me as often as he could. Stop being such a pedant, Rhenn." The heels of his shoes clattered on the back stairs leading down to the pantry off the dining chamber. " 'Starved' means great physical deprivation and lack of nourishment. You're merely hungry," I pointed out, carefully placing a paperweight over the work on my table desk. Rousel leapt up from his table desk in the sitting room that adjoined our bedchambers, disarraying the stack of papers that represented a composition doubtless due in the morning. The bell announcing dinner rang twice, just twice, and no more, for it never did. Commerce weighs value, yet such weight is but an image, and, as such, is an illusion.
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