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And so lie died at seventy-four, still imagining liemight begin next week, or perhaps the week after that. Wrong again, Magician! I want nothing for myself. Come! Fix your thoughts upon morecheerful objects. But surely, sir, without the Raven King there would be no magic and nomagicians? That is the common opinion, certainly.

Norrell is a little way off. In the houses of the great Englishmagicians fairies were the first among the servants and sat in the best placesafter the magician and his lady. but when his lordship heard Mr Strange's ideas for defeating theFrench by magic he turned to me with a great smile upon his face and said,'You and I, Mr Norrell, had grown stale. It was like thesuperstition which says that one must not walk upon lines between flag stones- or the strange magic called the Doncaster Squares which is performed upona board like a chessboard.