For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.
He had a very young man's belief in the absolute rightness of his own cause and the absolute wrongness of everyone else's.
He shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended houses where young ladies were raised from the dead and consider...
I suppose a magician might, he admitted, but a gentleman never could.
It had so happened that, in the course of his labours on behalf of the little stone figure and the girl with the ivy-leaves in her hair, Mr Honeyfoot had discovered something. He believed that he had...
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.
The Duke of York remarked that King Ferdinand of Spain had sent a letter to the Prince Regent complaining that many parts of his kingdom had been rendered entirely unrecognizable by the English magici...
The sky spoke to him.It was a language he had never heard before. He was not even certain there were words. Perhaps it only spoke to him in the black writing the birds made. He was small and unprotect...
There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense rare in a magician.
They had come in secret, having an idea that Dr Greysteel, and perhaps even Mr Strange, might try to prevent them going, or else insist upon accompanying them — and they had no wish for male companion...
To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment
With characteristic exuberance Tom named this curiously constructed house Castel des Tours saunz Nowmbre, which means the Castle of Innumerable Towers. David Montefiore had counted the innumerable tow...
Yes, agreed Childermass, very great harm! For while he was in the pantry he ate three meat-pies.And two cream cheeses, added Lucas.Mr. Norrell was forced to admit to himself that this did not seem muc...
A book of magic should be written by a practising magician, rather than a theoretical magician or a historian of magic.
Ah, but, sir, said Lascelles, it is precisely by passing judgements upon other people’s work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the ea...
All magicians lie and this one more than most,
And all the nursemaids and kitchen maids I ever knew when I was a child, always had a aunt, who knew a woman, whose first cousin's boy had been put into just such a box, and had never been seen again.
And are you married, sir? Mrs Winstanley asked Tom. Oh no, madam! said Tom.Yes, David reminded him. You are, you know.Tom made a motion with his hand to suggest that it was a situation susceptible to...
And how to describe a London party? Candles in lustres of cut-glass are placed everywhere about the house in dazzling profusion; elegant mirrors triple and quadruple the light until night outshines da...
Arabella, like a sweet, compliant woman and good wife, put all thoughts of her new curtains aside for the moment and assured both gentlemen that in such a cause it was no trouble to her to wait.
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