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- He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is…
- Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and…
- He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and…
- Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old…
- Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day…
- When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all…
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