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Robert's hands had indeed been wet with tears. 'Go away and leave me in peace, do, the Psammead went on. 'I can't think why you don't wish for something sensible something to eat or drink, or good manners, or good tempers. Go along with you, do! It almost snarled as it shook its whiskers, and turned a sulky brown back on them. The most hopeful felt that further parley was vain.
'But it's not so extra precious, said Robert hastily. 'You can get them given to you for nothing if you buy fish in Farringdon Market. 'Oh, said the Psammead very crossly indeed, 'so you presume on my sublime indifference to the things of this disgusting modern world, to fob me off with a travelling equipage that costs you nothing. Very well, I shall go to sand. Please don't wake me.
'Come on, Jane! she said, and ran down to the farm. 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 were going to get that hundred pounds, in two-shilling pieces, out of the Psammead.
Now, about this charm we haven't got over and above too much tin, and if we blue it all on this charm and it turns out to be not up to much well you see what I'm driving at, don't you? 'I see that YOU don't see more than the length of your nose, and THAT'S not far, said the Psammead crossly.
'It'll give the learned gentleman fits, I expect, said Robert, 'when he sees it. But it didn't. 'The dream is growing more and more wonderful, he exclaimed, when the Psammead had been explained to him by Rekh-mara. 'I have dreamed this beast before. 'Now, said Robert, 'Jane has got the half Amulet and I've got the whole. Show up, Jane.
Pussy, I'm going to break something, and you must let me have every penny of money you've got. The Indians will come HERE, don't you see? That spiteful Psammead as good as said so. You see what my plan is? Come on! Jane did not see at all. But she followed her sister meekly into their mother's bedroom.
Look here, Squirrel, let's play fair. It is hateful for poor old Bobs, all alone up there. Let's ask the Sammyadd for another wish, and, if it will, I do really think we ought all to be made the same size." The others agreed, but not gaily; but when they found the Psammead, it wouldn't. "Not I," it said crossly, rubbing its face with its feet.
Why do they just vanish?" "Autre temps autres moeurs," said the creature. "Is that the Ninevite language?" asked Anthea, who had learned no foreign language at school except French. "What I mean is," the Psammead went on, "that in the old days people wished for good solid everyday gifts, Mammoths and Pterodactyls and things, and those could be turned into stone as easy as not.
So the whole party went into the shop, and the shopman's eyes nearly came out of his head when, having given Anthea the largest paper-bag he could find, he saw her hold it open, and the Psammead carefully creep into it. 'Well! he said, 'if that there don't beat cockfighting! But p'raps you've met the brute afore. 'Yes, said Cyril affably, 'he's an old friend of ours.
'If I were you, said the Psammead, 'I should not go out into the Past again till that date. You'll find it safer not to go where you're likely to meet that Egyptian any more just at present. 'Of course we'll do as you say, said Anthea soothingly, 'though there's something about his face that I really do like. 'Still, you don't want to run after him, I suppose, snapped the Psammead.
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