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And now, by whatever authority this wand bestows on me, I so abjure and command you!" I thought there was a sneer of disdain on the lip through which the answer seemed to come, "Vain and ignorant, it is but a shadow you command.
Presently her eye fell on Denis and Percy. "I think we should be wise to get into our hut," exclaimed Percy. "I don't like the look of that hideous creature." Before, however, they could do so she was up to them, and flourishing her magical wand she struck them both on the shoulders. Although the blows did not hurt them, the effects were likely to prove disastrous.
And since I knew not his whereabout, yet was vaguely aware that, according to any conceivable theory by which the wand could be supposed to carry its imagined virtues to definite goals in distant space, it should be pointed in the direction of the object it was intended to affect, so I slowly moved the wand as if describing a circle; and thus, in some point of the circle east, west, north, or south the direction could not fail to be true.
He carried a silver wand which he asserted to be a badge of office given him by the government, and entered into secret leagues with corrupt magistrates. After a time he called himself a gentleman, and wore a sword, the first use of which was to cut off his wife's ear.
As it continued, it increased in strength, until it became absolutely deafening. Then suddenly upon a sign from the necromancer, it ceased, and the man of mystery arose and pointed menacingly with his wand at Mole.
A walking stick served him as a wand, and this he waved three times slowly and majestically, while he repeated in solemn tones this singular legend "Hokus-pokus, popalorum, Stickstun, stickstun, cockalorum jig." Thereupon the curtain went back, and lo! Sunday appeared sitting upon a throne of state, robed in a long crimson mantle, which made him look like an emperor.
Then Leonardo designed that famous series of allegories in his sketch-book, in which Duke Lodovico is represented alternately as Fortune, driving the squalid figure of Poverty away with a golden wand, and throwing his ducal mantle over a helpless youth who flies before the ugly hag; or as supreme Wisdom, wearing the spectacles which can pierce through all disguises, and pronouncing sentence between Envy on the one hand and Justice on the other.
'e goin' fall in love wid you an' you goin' 'ave dad sadizfagzion to rif-use de biggis' hand in Noo-'leans. An' you will be h-even, ha, ha! Bud me you wand to know wad I thing aboud 'im? I thing 'e is one egcellen' drug-cl ah, ha, ha!" Clotilde replied with a smile of grieved incredulity.
For many minutes she sat there by the piano, thinking not of the gift that seemed to be coming back, but of the queer lame duck who took his lameness so much to heart. She saw no harm in such employment. She wished she were a fairy godmother, so that she could by a wave of her wand make his wings whole once more. Up in his room David, too, was thinking earnestly.
And I had grown cold, and hot again, and he was but halfway on his progress up the crowded room, when the inner door opened, half a dozen voices cried "The Queen! The Queen!" and an usher with a silver wand passed down the room and ranked the company on either side not without some struggling, and once a fierce oath, and twice a smothered outcry.
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