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Wow. Talk about the surveillance state.
Ebeneezor Prim,
Pimple,
the little indigo page,
Bawdy Bess.
Haha
Miss Primrose Crabapple’s
tuftaffities,
grograines,
silk mohair and ferre...
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Haha
Dame Marigold
Dame Marigold was one of those women who, though they walk blindfold through the fields and woods, if you place them between four walls have eyes as sharp as a naturalist’s for the objects that surround them.
Doctor Leer.
he was forever hopping about and tapping on the walls. It was almost as if he were looking for something,
Miss Primrose
in her most treacly voice
“I may not be a woman, but, at any rate, I am a mother
Question
Simile
Miss Primrose began to writhe and to gibber.
She had never liked the smell of Endymion Leer’s personality.
Haha - not so stupid as others have thought.
Master Nathaniel
Luke Hempen
Endymion Leer?
Master Ambrose had had a vision of Duke Aubrey.
“I fear counter orders.
Willy Wisp gave young Chanticleer fruit without my knowledge.
“Those who go by the Milky Way often leave footprints.
Very creepy, in context
mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones,
Moongrass
Ambrose seeing a vision! An unknown Chief! Footprints on the Milky Way!
Reality was beginning to become very shadowy and menacing.
Facts. Obscure, but still facts.
Haha
Haha
The dry style of the Law was such a magnificent medium for narrative.
Simile
Diggory Carp,
the past was dim and evil, a heap of rotting leaves. The past was silent and belonged to the Silent People
Mere suspicions are hard to communicate.
Simile
Haha
Master Nathaniel
Haha
red-haired youth,
Willie Wisp!
free to throb like a schoolboy’s with the lust of adventure
Master Nathaniel met Master Ambrose
it annoyed him that his duty should be regarded in the light of a boyish escapade.
Haha
A house with old furniture has no need of guests to be haunted.
Master Nathaniel was very sensitive to the silent things
It was as if that silent population was drawing him, by an irresistible magnetism, into the zone of its influence.
