[ ... What a nasty aura that book puts off. How worrisome. He slowly raises a hand to his mouth, as if looking at something particularly unpleasing to the eyes. ]

... And just how many people have opened this book, my good sir? Because if it is a fair number of people, I am rather... concerned.

[ Well... he himself is cursed, it is little surprise, he supposes, even his objects have ended up such. ]