The Fulchcrs were well-bred enough to seem interested in what I was doing, but at theend of the evening they asked me if E might be able to shew them their aunt who lives inCarlisle. None of the gentlemen who found quarters for the generals and toldthe rest of the soldiers which damp field they were to sleep in, had made anyprovision for the magician and his servant. I never in my life saw any thing so delightful, so complete. So he stuck hishead round the partition and looked into the next box.
But that is Norrell's fault. During her ladyship's previous illness no doctor had ever attended her andnaturally doctors everywhere resented this as an insult to their profession. It is you! How glad I am to see you! Come! Shake hands with me. Their object has been to expose false magic, not find newmagicians.
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