What is even happening here, in this confusing morass of nothingness? There’s a mansion of some kind, but also a… is that a chair, in which the wealthy were carried around the city? Why is the chair man so impeccably dressed? And what is that woman (who we must assume is Nell) wearing? Is she secretly also Florence Nightingale? This one is a disaster. The sky is pretty, though. D
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