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Three footmen - Alfred, Geoffrey and Robert - remained in the room. By Christmas the FairyHost was at York. Then he and Strange peered at the ceiling and the walls. So when Mr Norrell went out of the room Mr Lawrence asked Mr Strange what the matter was.

He is everything I despise. He is a magician. Precisely! declared the gentleman triumphantly. There wassomething odd about it, as if it were coming from two places at once, as ifthere were an echo.