Then be comforted! I dare say I shallbe so again. Too muchtalk of other kings is bound to make the Government nervous. We are surrounded by armies. If, in a crowded drawing-room or ballroom, Strange contrived toescape for a quarter of an hour, Mr Norrell would send Drawlight after him todiscover where he had gone and whom he was talking to.
(He had been told the entire French Army hated the Englishmagician with a vivid, Latin passion. Halfway across a bridge he tumbled without warning into dazzlinglight. The two magicians sat upon the floor amid the books and feathers, and fora little while they said nothing at all. Oh, madam! cried Drawlight.
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