Audition Fables French tutoring and needlework are

French tutoring and needlework are one way to pass the time

the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves

She carries nothing with her but her wits

the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them

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