Strange stared thoughtfully at her for several seconds, so that Arabella mistakenly supposed he must be considering what she had just said. But when he spoke it was only to say in a tone of gentle rep...
Such nonsense! declared Dr Greysteel. Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner, said Strange. That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in m...
The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to gover...
The York magicians had all looked over the letter and expressed their doubts that any body with such small handwriting could ever make a tolerable magician.
The backs of their heads were hollowed out; their faces were nothing but thin masks at the front. Within each hollow a candle was burning. This was so plain to him now, that he wondered he had never n...
The first ten books Mr. Segundus looked at were worthless — books of sermons and moralizing from the last century, or descriptions of persons whom no one living cared about. The next fifty were very m...
The idea of forty precious volumes being taken into a country in a state of war where they might get burnt, blown up, drowned or dusty was almost too horrible to contemplate. Mr Norrell did not know a...
Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably searching out those passages which were full of advice for magicians who wished to awak...
To Strange’s unnautical eye, it looked very much as if the ship had simply lain down and gone to sleep. He felt that if he had been the Captain he would have spoken to her sternly and made her get up...
Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.
Why do pretty women always have such herds of relatives?
In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person’s acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.)
Perhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss?
After all, he thought, what can a magician do against a lead ball? Between the pistol firing and his heart exploding, there is no time for magic.
But, curiously, though Mr. Norrell was able to work feats of the most breath-taking wonder, he was only able to describe them in his usual dry manner, so that Sit Walter was left with the impression t...
But, though French, she was also very brave...
Country gentlemen who read in their newspapers the speeches of this or that Minister would mutter to themselves that he was certainly a clever fellow. But the country gentlemen were not made comfortab...
For the next hour and a half he tried all the magic he could think of. He cast spells of remembering, spells of finding, spells of awakening, spells to concentrate the mind, spells to dispel nightmare...
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
I hope you will write occasionally? Some token of your impressions? Oh! I shall not spare you. It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to...
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