The latter hecontinued to demonstrate by making Stephen extravagant gifts and bysending him strange pieces of good fortune. Oh, madam! cried Drawlight. Ah, God! I take the liberty of observing, sir, that I am sinking by degrees. The whole adventure had confirmed something he had longsuspected: that there was more magic in England than Mr Norrell admitted.
onable people he met there, but allthat they meant by this was that he talked well, danced well, and hunted andgambled as much as a gentleman should. But he could hardly explain this to the other Ministers - he whohad persuaded them to employ a magician for the first time in two hundredyears!At half-past three he returned to Harley-street. He had persuaded the editors ofall the other magical publications over which he had any influence to publisharticles expla Ah! Is it not? said the Nottinghamshire gentleman pleasantly.
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