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the old superstition that when the Silent People returned to Dorimare they could only speak in riddles and snatches of rhyme.
Diggory Carp? Question
Portunus,
A sudden longing seized him to hold Ranulph again in his arms.
he had invented a role to play at the farm, and was already beginning to identify himself with it.
“Do you mean little Master Ranulph Chanticleer and Luke Hempen? Why, of course I saw them! It was they who told me to come along here
Oh no - more misdirection, even if not intentional.
he just gives me the creeps,
This became a very modern phrase.
“The old women round about say that he’s trying to tell one his name.
Diggory Carp.”
And if he’d been unfairly treated, as they say he was, it would make him all the more spiteful, I should think.
the old stone herm in our orchard … he’s so fond of dancing round it.”
Hazel
The widow,
in her eyes there was the gleam of a rather disquieting smile.
Was it possible that he had really once been Diggory Carp, and that he had returned to his old haunts to try and give a message?
the metaphysical possibilities of the situation occupied him before the practical ones.
Haha
the spiritual balm he had always found in silent things was simply the assurance that the passions and agonies of man were without meaning, roots, or duration
There had been times when he had shuddered in the company of the silent things.
Perhaps the strongest instinct in Hazel was that of hospitality
shining in space like suns, moons, and stars
like apples — the golden apples of the West?
Peter Pease.”
The moon was on the wane, but still sufficiently full to give a good light. She was, indeed, an orchard thief, for no fruit being left to rob, she had robbed the leaves of all their color.
his archaic smile had gained a new significance.
“my thirst for revenge has made me forget both decency and manners.
Jeremiah Gibberty,
Clementina,
Ralph Baldbreeches,
Christopher Pugwalker,
Peter Pease,
a dumpy fellow, with nut-brown hair, a pug-nose freckled like a robin’s egg, and one eye brown, the other blue.
Marjory Beach,
Partly because
partly because
I should like to be very far on my wanderings down the Milky Way before Clementina mounts Duke Aubrey’s wooden horse;
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Hazel
Master Nathaniel
Marjory Beach!
Peter Pease,
he was a wonderfully clever doctor and did a powerful lot of good.”
Dr. Leer,
they - editor!
Ben;
Haha
the expressionless falsetto of the Law,
to the end that the dead, the living, and those not yet born, may rest quietly in their graves, their bed, and the womb, I arrest you for the murder of your late husband,
a person can’t be tried twice for the same crime.”
