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Often they gave the country servants messages to pass on to the butcher's boy,the baker and the lamplighter. ors (whichwere in any case only a few sorts and hardly any that Mr Norrell approved)were performed using ordinary mirrors. That evening she said to Strange, One person at least is delighted that youhave turned your attention to the study of John Uskglass and his fairy-subjects. When itis as plain as Pandemonium that you do not.

All of England could be laidwaste in a moment. I confess to being a little fretfulthat I have heard nothing as yet of how the first volume was received. But how does one work up a little madness? Imeet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before towonder how they got mad. They forgot that they had been tricked, forgot that they had wasted a weekand that for a week the British had been slipping into ports on t