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It is this magic, Frank. Closeyour eyes and take hold of my arm. And I wish I could explain it to you. You do not mean to tell me that you have hada box in your possession for weeks and not tried to open i

He brought the glass to MrStrange who drank it straight down and asked for another. There were a hundred other forms of magic he couldhave used, but none were so quick or so direct and, like most great magicians, the Raven Kingwas nothing if not practical. MrNorrell passed his hand across his brow, as if in surprize at his own words. Africa! Your ancestral soil, my dear Stephen! But, thought Stephen, my ancestors did not live here, I am sure.