Arrival

[abitofboth]

There is someone in the library. He is a dark, not-quite-respectable someone, dressed in rather ragged but not poor clothing of the early nineteenth century. His dark hair hangs about his twisted root of a face, and he is looking through a pile of letters with a frown. Something causes him, however, to look up. He raises an eyebrow, as if to indicate that he is unimpressed, but folds the letters and slips them into his coat. He stands, and determines to discover where he is, as this library is most notably not the one he had been sitting in a few moments ago.

Typist: Late bandwagon jumping? John Childermass, from Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Taken from just before Drawlight's return to England.