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the spell for makin’ a man lose memory an’ wander away an’ be lost?’
‘So they’re both alive still,’ said Nan, and they all sighed with relief.
‘The spell said to put the figure of the lost man in a far place, but why was the little boy there too?’ ‘Might be for convenience’ sake,’ said Ezra, ‘if the two of ’em was made at the same time.
‘There are more little figures, Ezra.’ ‘Let’s look at ’em,’ said Ezra, and Nan noticed that his eyes were twinkling.
‘It’s us!’ gasped Timothy.
there ain’t no ’arm come to ee, for about the same time Emma made ’er figures I made mine.
‘Where are they now, Ezra?’ ‘In a good an’ lucky place,’
But don’t ee tell your uncle. ’E’d say it were superstition. I reckon the cleverest men be ignorant at times.’
Haha
Nan asked, ‘Is everything coming right, Ezra?’ ‘Everythin’ be comin’ right, maid,’ said Ezra. ‘But what is it that’s coming right?’ asked Robert. ‘When ’tis come right you’ll know,’ said Ezra.
Haha
‘The more the merrier’, wrote Father,
Ambrose’s voice announcing in trumpet tones above their clamour, ‘With no proverb do I more profoundly disagree.’
Haha
the Valley of the Kings,
‘What’s amnesia?’ asked Robert. ‘Is it measles?’ ‘Certainly not,’ said Uncle Ambrose. ‘Amnesia is loss of memory and you should know that at your age. Where was I? If there is one thing I dislike more than a boy, it is an interrupting boy.
Haha
Haha
Haha
Uncle Ambrose sounded pompous and Nan privately thought there was more in this than met the eye.
He cleared his throat and Hector on his shoulder cleared his throat and scratched behind his ear in a self-conscious way.
Haha
Haha
After his nap he and Nan set forth,
Yay!
‘What a very beautiful house,’ said Uncle Ambrose, and he stopped still to look at it where it stood deep in the wild overgrown garden, shuttered, lovely, and blind.
Moses
Nan felt a pang of sorrow, realising for the first time that every gain carries with it corresponding loss.
Moses was happier, but he had swept away the cobwebs.
Lady ...
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Abednego,
Gertrude
He wasn’t missing much, she thought.
Haha
he led the conversation round to his youngest brother, the children’s father.
‘These children, sir, are working havoc with my habits.’ ‘With mine too, ma’am,’ said Uncle Ambrose with deep sympathy.
Haha
‘But I hope you feel the benefit?’
‘I believe that I do,’ said L...
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He was susceptible to witches. Is Emma Cobley still alive?’
‘In these enlightened days,’ said Uncle Ambrose politely but firmly, ‘we have learnt that spells and charms and so on are mere superstition. Those who fear them fear no more than a bad dream.’
‘How fortunate we are then that we now live in days in which bad dreams have lost their power,’
Haha
The man in the fountain was grave, serene, and still, but not sad today,
sharp staccato cries of delight
special songs of delight,
particularly delighting
wishing her to ...
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Haha
ecstatically.
The world of the spirit too has many mansions. We live upon a staircase.’
delight.
my mother’s room is as bright as a picture in my mind, and the picture in my mother’s room is a picture within a picture.
Can you carry love and music away with you from a mere dream?’
was sitting by my fire at evening. It was a dying fire, but suddenly the flames leapt up like the fires of spring and they were all the colours of the rainbow.
The little boy and Daft Davie were the same person, Lady Alicia’s son Francis,
‘Nan, you are the most wonderful little girl in the world,’ he said. ‘She will not remain so if you cause her head to swell,’ said Uncle Ambrose severely.
Haha
‘Vengeance, sir, is cruel, stupid, useless, and vulgar.
