Ebenezar squinted up at me. “Well. First you said, ‘I am a sorry excuse, Merlin, a sad long day held me. I need me a different laundress.” ’ I blinked. “What?” “That’s what the Merlin said. Then you said ‘Excuses to you for my being dressed and I also make lately.” ’ I felt my face heat up. Most of the room was still staring at me as though I was some sort of raving lunatic, and it dawned on me that many of the wizards in the room probably did not speak English. As far as they were concerned, I probably sounded like one. “Goddamned correspondence course. Maybe you should translate for me,” I
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