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The children could not tell at first what it was. 'I know, said Anthea suddenly. 'They're not worried; that's what it is. And it was. Everybody looked calm, no one seemed to be in a hurry, no one seemed to be anxious, or fretted, and though some did seem to be sad, not a single one looked worried.
Then he drew back and spoke in a low voice to one of the sailors. 'Now we shall know about your precious cream-jug fish, said Cyril. 'But we never SAID come to Tyre, said Jane. 'The Amulet heard us talking, I expect. I think it's MOST obliging of it, said Anthea. 'And the Amulet's here too, said Robert. 'We ought to be able to find it in a little ship like this.
And immediately Small Porges' pen began to scratch, and his tongue to writhe and twist as before. "I'm building all my hopes, this year, on the hops," said Anthea, sinking her head upon her hand, "if they should fail " "Well?" enquired Bellew, with his gaze upon the soft curve of her throat. "I daren't think of it!" "Then don't let us talk of something else "
The Phoenix perched on the fender, and its conversation, as usual, was entertaining and instructive like school prizes are said to be. But it seemed a little absent-minded, and even a little sad. 'Don't you feel well, Phoenix, dear? asked Anthea, stooping to take an iron off the fire. 'I am not sick, replied the golden bird, with a gloomy shake of the head; 'but I am getting old.
Do you agree to that?" "Yes, oh yes!" said Jane and Anthea. The boys nodded. They did not believe the Sand-fairy could do it. You can always make girls believe things much easier than you can boys. It stretched out its eyes farther than ever, and swelled and swelled and swelled. "I do hope it won't hurt itself," said Anthea. "Or crack its skin," Robert said anxiously.
"Why then you must know, in the first place," he began in his slow, even voice, "that it is a place I have sought for in all my wanderings, and I have been pretty far afield, but I sought it so long, and so vainly, that I began to think it was like the El Dorado of the old Adventurers, and had never existed at all." "Yes?" said Anthea, busy with her plaiting.
Do you remember the day I dreamed you brought me the Babylonish ring? 'We remember it all, said Robert. 'Did you leave Fitzroy Street because you were too rich for it? 'Oh, no! he said reproachfully. 'You know I should never have done such a thing as that. Of course, I left when your old Nurse died and what's the matter! 'Old Nurse DEAD? said Anthea. 'Oh, NO!
They looked over the front of the box. Could they climb down? It would be possible, certainly; but would they be much better off? 'Look at the people, moaned Anthea; 'we couldn't get through. And, indeed, the crowd round the doors looked as thick as flies in the jam-making season. 'I wish we'd never seen the Phoenix, cried Jane.
'Our one chance, cried Anthea dramatically; 'the last lone-lorn forlorn hope. Come on. At a brisk trot she led the way to the sand-pit. Oh, joy! there was the Psammead, basking in a golden sandy hollow and preening its whiskers happily in the glowing afternoon sun. The moment it saw them it whisked round and began to burrow it evidently preferred its own company to theirs.
When she came to think it over afterwards, she could not help seeing that she had acted with the most far-seeing promptitude, just like a born general. She fetched a little box from her corner drawer, and went to find Martha, who was laying the cloth and not in the best of tempers. 'Look here, said Anthea. 'I've broken the toilet-jug in mother's room.
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