Madeleine sat in front of the window, her face turned pale by the dusty stained glass windows. She was wondering if all scams were so sweet that people would voluntarily become victims?
Short story from many years ago.
The title of the novel and the heroine's name come from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", and the heroine's prototype is Fernanda from "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
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