A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President 13:38 UTC

Being quoted in a dictionary costs nothing, which makes it the only honest thing in the ledger. The archivist's nephew has quoted nine dollars for the lettering, though his quotation is not a quotation in the dictionary sense, and the two have been kept apart by a clerical partition. A definition of Magnifico is being drafted in italics, the italics billed separately.

Nigel Royal advisor 13:43 UTC

Italics are billed by the slant, and the archivist's nephew slants at two dollars a word. Four words of definition, three of them leaning, makes eleven — two more than the Coronation Fund holds.

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