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"But hush, mum's the word, sir!" he broke off, and winking violently with a side-ways motion of the head, he took up his pitch-fork. Wherefore, glancing round, Bellew saw Anthea coming towards them, fresh and sweet as the morning. Her hands were full of flowers, and she carried her sun-bonnet upon her arm.
But the eyes of Rekh-mara and the learned gentleman met, and were kind to each other, and promised each other many things, secret and sacred and very beautiful. Anthea saw the look. 'Oh, but, she said, without at all meaning to say it, 'dear Jimmy's soul isn't at all like Rekh-mara's. I'm certain it isn't. I don't want to be rude, but it ISN'T, you know.
"Some of it," was the cautious reply. Everyone now turned out its pockets on the lead roof of the tower, where visitors for the last hundred and fifty years had cut their own and their sweethearts' initials with penknives in the soft lead. There was five-and-seven-pence halfpenny altogether, and even the upright Anthea admitted that that was too much to pay for four people's dinners.
The one you've got is a good many years older, but at any rate it's not the other one. What did you say when you wished? 'I forget, said Jane. 'I don't, said the Psammead. 'You said, "Take us where YOU are" and it did, so you see it was the same half. 'I see, said Anthea. 'But you mark my words, the Psammead went on, 'you'll have trouble with that Priest yet.
You quite understand about holding on to the charm as you go through, don't you, Pussy? 'I wish I hadn't got to be last, said Jane. 'You shall carry the Psammead if you like, said Anthea. 'That is, she added, remembering the beast's queer temper, 'if it'll let you. The Psammead, however, was unexpectedly amiable. 'I don't mind, it said, 'who carries me, so long as it doesn't drop me.
"Bring up thy tribe, that we may hold pow-wow in state before them, as becomes great chiefs." "We'll bring them up right enough," said Anthea, "with their bows and arrows, and tomahawks and scalping-knives, and everything you can think of, if you don't look sharp and go."
'Oh but can we fly?'Jane said, standing anxiously first on one foot and then on the other. 'Look out! said Cyril; 'you're treading on my wing. 'Does it hurt? asked Anthea with interest; but no one answered, for Robert had spread his wings and jumped up, and now he was slowly rising in the air.
The creature hesitated, then bowed low before them on the damp floor of the dungeon. 'Speak, it said, in a harsh, grating voice like large rusty keys being turned in locks. 'The servant of the Great Ones is YOUR servant. What is your need that you call on the name of Nisroch? 'We want to go home, said Robert. 'No, no, cried Anthea; 'we want to be where Jane is.
If only we could disguise you a little. 'I know, said Anthea suddenly. 'Mother's old theatre cloak, and there are a lot of her old hats in the big box. The blue silk, lace-trimmed cloak did indeed hide some of the Queen's startling splendours, but the hat fitted very badly.
Suddenly there was a loud and bitter cry. 'They're in! They're in! The hedge is down! The headman disappeared behind the deer-skin curtain. 'He's gone to hide it, said Anthea. 'Oh, Psammead dear, how could you leave us! Suddenly there was a shriek from inside the hut, and the headman staggered out white with fear and fled out through the maze. The children were as white as he. 'Oh! What is it?
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