Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius-and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.
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