The Magic World

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Nesbit Edith. The Magic World

I. THE CAT-HOOD OF MAURICE

II. THE MIXED MINE

III. ACCIDENTAL MAGIC; OR DON’T TELL ALL YOU KNOW

IV. THE PRINCESS AND THE HEDGE-PIG

V. SEPTIMUS SEPTIMUSSON

VI. THE WHITE CAT

VII. BELINDA AND BELLAMANT; OR THE BELLS OF CARRILLON-LAND

VIII. JUSTNOWLAND

IX. THE RELATED MUFF

X. THE AUNT AND AMABEL

XI. KENNETH AND THE CARP

XII. THE MAGICIAN’S HEART

Отрывок из книги

The ship was first sighted off Dungeness. She was labouring heavily. Her paint was peculiar and her rig outlandish. She looked like a golden ship out of a painted picture.

‘Blessed if I ever see such a rig – nor such lines neither,’ old Hawkhurst said.

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‘This is all very well,’ said Gustus, ‘but we’ve got our fortune to make, I don’t think. We’ve got to get hold of a tanner – or a bob would be better.’

But this was not possible, because that broken window wasn’t paid for, and Gustus never had any money.

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