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It was clearly old, the leather binding a bit worn and cracked.
The cover read "The Gentleman's Magazine" by Sylvanus Urban. January - June Edition, 1849.
There was a slip of parchment forcing the book to open to a page 481. A passage highlighted.
"The seize quartiers is the most difficult and certainly most satisfactory test of the purity of blood."
The parchment was simply signed "M".