In a Precious Vow by Sara Adrien EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Edinburgh, 1819.
Peter Primrose had learned one particularly hard truth about life by
the age of two and twenty: catching a liar was important, but it was
crucial never to be caught as one.
He’d learned this from experience when, as a boy, he’d eaten his
mother’s entire tray of shortbread meant for guests and replaced it with
dried toast. A lousy lie could exist in words or acts, but the punishment was
the same: no dessert for a week. That, in turn, was particularly painful—as
being caught a liar should be—when it was raspberry harvest season and
Mother made Cranachan, a delicious dessert with smashed raspberries,
whipped cream, toasted oats, and a splash of whiskey, a rare treat for young
boys. Too bad.
Peter had been on the flip side of lies when his twin sister, Liora, had
sneaked around the house with Aaron Klonimus—now her devoted husband
and the father of their little daughter. Peter had caught Aaron with a lie by
omission, namely not telling him that he and Liora were in love. Once Liora
got pregnant, there was no denying it; the rest was history.
Peter’s strength did not lie in history, as his memory failed him when it
came to facts. Numbers were much easier to retain, especially when he
could compute them. And that’s what Peter liked about life: using clear
information to calculate a result that was always true, solving riddles. He
turned geometric shapes in every possible way to change his perspective
and find new ways to devise mathematical theorems. Mathematics tickled
his intellect, it was fun. The result remained the same regardless of who
repeated the calculation. Every time. Over and over. If only this were true
for other aspects of life. No lies ever existed in mathematics.
Lies occasionally snuck in at the University of Edinburgh’s Department
of Mathematics where Peter studied and worked as a research assistant.
There was the daily encounter with Aurelia Seligman, the strawberry-blond,
doe-eyed daughter of Ephraim Seligman, Assistant Professor to the
Department Chair, Stefan Van Stout. Since Peter had started as a research
assistant to Van Stout, he’d primarily worked with Professor Seligman,
who’d become his mentor.
Professor Seligman’s office, in front of Van Stout’s, also served as a
small classroom with three doors: one to the hall, one to Van Stout’s larger
office, and one to the file storage. Besides a desk, there was a large
blackboard on the wall opposite the window, which overlooked the
University of Edinburgh campus, or at least some of its trees.
Cabinets in the file storage held organized ledgers and papers, tightly
bound by old ribbons or twine. No, ‘organized’ was an understatement.
Despite the enormous stack of files, the filing was brilliant. Over months,
Aurelia Seligman, the young and beautiful daughter of the esteemed
professor, had developed a sorting system that combined chronological and
alphabetical methods. There were published articles by faculty members,
Van Stout’s correspondence with mathematics departments from other
European universities, old exams, dissertations, and half-solved riddles.
And that was just the tip of the iceberg; more wisdom was crammed into the
tiny storage room than the entire Edinburgh University Library
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