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Given time, he could work out almost any problem.Ět the moment, he was staring with distaste at a wad of oily rags his mother had given him. Thomas spoke rarely, and he might not be the quickest thinker, but he did think. His siblings joked that this had addled his wits, but Gideon did not agree. Thomas was only thirteen, but he’d beaten grown men at arm wrestling and once in a fit of rage had broken down a door with his head. Gideon had little doubt Thomas could’ve carried the dining table by himself, though it weighed several hundred pounds and was a good eight feet long. His younger son, Thomas, was built more like a barrel maker or a barrel itself He tended to creep into places where he should not be, silent and cold-eyed, always watching, ready to strike if attacked. His frame was long and wiry, rather snakelike, and in fact when he annoyed his siblings (which was often) they called him “the last snake in Ireland.” Gideon chided the younger siblings when they said such things, but as much as he loved his elder son, he couldn’t help agreeing there was a disquieting quality to him. He had Olivia’s raven hair and Gideon’s furrowed brow and preoccupied scowl. People outside the family tended to find him … unsettling. He griped constantly about the sacrifices he’d made, coming home from his studies at Oxford to help his parents, but truth be told, he hadn’t done well at university. Most young men his age would’ve been married with families of their own by now, but Luke was not one for domestic bliss. He was the tallest and oldest of their children - twenty-three now, a man full grown, as he never tired of reminding them.
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Luke - never one for manual labor - winced as he picked a splinter from his palm. Luke and Thomas must’ve just carried the massive table outside. Atched, cherishing the sight of his family and dreading what he had to tell them.