It was an old spell - just a step away fromfairy magic. Mr Norrell's library was on the first floor. The sky spoke to him. And all the nursemaidsand kitchenmaids I ever knew when I was a child, always had an aunt, whoknew a woman, whose first cousin's boy had been put into just such a box,and had never been seen again.
Oh! said Toby, blankly, but then he appeared to decide that Stephenwas joking. He picked up the letter and turned itover in his hands. Lascelles laughed. Strange looked out of the window.
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