The days slipped by in a rhythm of industrious labor. The maids and butlers of the Vanderbilt mansion completed their daily chores with practiced efficiency, and then, without pause, streamed out to the backyard. There, they spent the rest of their daylight hours tending to the bubbling vats, producing row after row of soap and shampoo.
David, meanwhile, was consumed by his own project.
The most difficult part was already behind him. In the
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