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The York magicians had all looked over the letter and expressed their doubts that any body with such small handwriting could ever make a tolerable magician.
“I do beg your pardon, but … Which is to say … I hope you will excuse my asking so impertinent a question, but is there at your house in Hanover-square someone all dressed in black, with a thin face like a twisted hedge-root?”
Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure – it is, after all, what every body does all the time.”
Gentlemen are often invited to stay in other people’s houses. Rooms hardly ever are.
At first this struck Stephen as a little unusual, but his surprize faded in a moment and if any one had questioned him about it just then, he would have replied that gentlemen often carried fingers about with them in little boxes and that this was just one of many examples he had seen.
What is beauty for, I should like to know, if not to stand as a visible sign of one’s superiority to everyone else?
It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.
he drank very little now – scarcely more than a bottle a day.
There are certainly too many people in London, but it seems a great deal of work to make them leave one at a time.”
The officer called Dalziel stared at Strange with an expression of surprize, as if he thought that once Lord Wellington had told Strange who he was, it was rather ill-bred of him to insist on being someone else.
“So why does Vinculus claim to have this book if his father ate it?’
“Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people,”
While the King and I were talking, it occurred to me that the first step to making you King was to get rid of him!
and even now on some long-forgotten paths, behind the sky, on the other side of the rain, John Uskglass might be riding still, with his company of men and fairies.
But I see no necessity for you to reside permanently in England merely because you are its monarch. A week is the utmost any person of taste could be expected to linger in such a dull country. A week is more than enough!”
For all she knew every Dane, Scot and Frenchman ever born is eerily beautiful.
He had a very young man’s belief in the absolute rightness of his own cause and the absolute wrongness of everyone else’s.
It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.
a smell like old age and half a hundred cats.
But the sound that came out of his mouth was no sound at all; it was the emptied skin of sound without flesh or bones.
And in that moment you and I were smaller than a raven’s eye and presumably as insignificant.
