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That members ofthe Female Sex should study magic at all is, I may say, a thing I am verymuch opposed to. Itwas intricate, tedious work quite as dull as any thing he had done with Norrell. It had been fitted up with paintings and prettyfurniture, with soft carpets and cheerfully glowing lamps. The icy wind blew upon Stephen; the damp seeped up into every part of hisbeing; the blackness pressed down upon him; and the long hours passed withexcruciating slowness.

No, madam, nothing at all. ppeared tothe world to be a servant of the great Mr Norrell of Hanover-square, he was insecret a magician himself. The unlikelymilliner looked rather appalled to have strong fumes of ale and cabbagebreathed in his face and bony fingers grabbing him all over, but he saidnothing. Therewas nothing more definite than that, and yet, as often happens when somemagic is occurring, both Drawli