The Story of the Amulet

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Эдит Несбит. The Story of the Amulet

CHAPTER 1. THE PSAMMEAD

CHAPTER 2. THE HALF AMULET

CHAPTER 3. THE PAST

CHAPTER 4. EIGHT THOUSAND YEARS AGO

CHAPTER 5. THE FIGHT IN THE VILLAGE

CHAPTER 6. THE WAY TO BABYLON

CHAPTER 7. ‘THE DEEPEST DUNGEON BELOW THE CASTLE MOAT’

CHAPTER 8. THE QUEEN IN LONDON

CHAPTER 9. ATLANTIS

CHAPTER 10. THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL AND JULIUS CAESAR

CHAPTER 11. BEFORE PHARAOH

CHAPTER 12. THE SORRY-PRESENT AND THE EXPELLED LITTLE BOY

CHAPTER 13. THE SHIPWRECK ON THE TIN ISLANDS

CHAPTER 14. THE HEART’S DESIRE

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Long ago—that is to say last summer—the children, finding themselves embarrassed by some wish which the Psammead had granted them, and which the servants had not received in a proper spirit, had wished that the servants might not notice the gifts which the Psammead gave. And when they parted from the Psammead their last wish had been that they should meet it again. Therefore they HAD met it (and it was jolly lucky for the Psammead, as Robert pointed out). Now, of course, you see that the Psammead’s being where it was, was the consequence of one of their wishes, and therefore was a Psammead-wish, and as such could not be noticed by the servants. And it was soon plain that in the Psammead’s opinion old Nurse was still a servant, although she had now a house of her own, for she never noticed the Psammead at all. And that was as well, for she would never have consented to allow the girls to keep an animal and a bath of sand under their bed.

When breakfast had been cleared away—it was a very nice breakfast with hot rolls to it, a luxury quite out of the common way—Anthea went and dragged out the bath, and woke the Psammead.

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‘Now then!’ said Cyril.

But the Psammead had to have a plate of sand fetched for it, for it was quite faint. When it had refreshed itself a little it said—

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