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*Jonathan Strange to John Segundus, Madrid, Aug. Everyone began speaking at once. Someoneelse might have been quite unsettled by the combination of the disagreeabletask of consulting a magician and this queer, black-and-bloody dissolution ofthe London streets. Excellent! he said.

twelve magicians means twelve practising magicians. Such wasMrs Strange's disappointment at losing The Life of Ralph Stokesey that she sat in tears. Bonifazia and Minichello entered the sitting-room. It was a sad and lonely sound whichmade the hearer think of wild forlorn places, dark skies and emptiness.