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All the same the crowd made way a little. The Queen met Robert on the pavement, and Cyril joined them, the Psammead bag still on his arm. 'Here, he whispered; 'here's the Psammead; you can get wishes. 'I wish you'd come in a different dress, if you HAD to come, said Robert; 'but it's no use my wishing anything. 'No, said the Queen.
'No; only thank you kindly for all you've done for us, and I hope you'll have a good long sleep, and I hope we shall see you again some day. 'Is that a wish? it said in a weak voice. 'Yes, please, said the two girls together. Then for the last time in this story they saw the Psammead blow itself out and collapse suddenly.
She knew that the farmer was going into Rochester that afternoon. In fact it had been arranged that he was to take the four children with him. They had planned this in the happy hour when they believed that they we're going to get that hundred pounds, in two-shilling pieces, out of the Psammead. They had arranged to pay the farmer two shillings each for the ride.
'Is it that thing something like a horse-shoe? asked Cyril. 'And red, like the common sealing-wax you do up parcels with? 'Yes, that's it, said the Psammead. 'Now, you do just as you did before. Ask the price of other things. That blue buckle would do. Then the man will get the tray out of the window. I think you'd better be the one, it said to Anthea. 'We'll wait out here.
The other children followed, and the black crowd of angry gentlemen stood on the steps watching them. It was when the little party of disgraced children, with the Queen who had disgraced them, had reached the middle of the courtyard that her eyes fell on the bag where the Psammead was. She stopped short.
All the children were quite crushed by this terrible tale. They looked at the Psammead in horror. Suddenly the Lamb perceived that something brown and furry was near him. 'Poof, poof, poofy, he said, and made a grab. 'It's not a pussy, Anthea was beginning, when the Sand-fairy leaped back. 'Oh, my left whisker! it said; 'don't let him touch me. He's wet.
It fell on to a ship miles away that managed to escape and got to Egypt. I could have told you that. 'I wish you had, said Anthea, and her voice was still rather shaky. 'Why didn't you? 'You never asked me, said the Psammead very sulkily. 'I'm not the sort of chap to go shoving my oar in where it's not wanted.
'I wish I was dressed no, I don't I wish THEY were dressed properly, then they wouldn't be so silly. The Psammead blew itself out till the bag was a very tight fit for it; and suddenly every man, woman, and child in that crowd felt that it had not enough clothes on.
'Well, even if there WASN'T, I will be bound by the wordless oath of your strangely upright land, and having said that I will be your friend I will be it. 'Then that's all right, said the Psammead; 'and there's the tea-bell. What are you going to do with your distinguished partner? He can't go down to tea like that, you know.
And Imogen, clinging with black-clothed arms to the bare neck, answered 'Oh, yes, mother, I know YOU right 'nough. 'What is it? What do they say? the learned gentleman asked anxiously. 'You wished to come where someone wanted the child, said the Psammead. 'The child says this is her mother. 'And the mother? 'You can see, said the Psammead. 'But is she really? Her child, I mean?
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