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“Bright yellow leaves flowed swiftly upon the dark, almost-black water, making patterns as they went. To Mr. Segundus the patterns looked a little like magical writing. 'But then,' he thought, 'So m...”
“For the rest of the night he sat by himself under the elm-tree. Until this moment it had never seemed to him that his magicianship set him apart from other men. But now he had glimpsed the wrong si...”
“Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?”
“It was as if a door had opened somewhere. Or possibly a series of doors. There was a sensation as of a breeze blowing into the house and bringing with it the half-rememberedscents of childhood. The...”
“Ha!" he thought. That will teach me to meddle with magic meant for kings! Norrell is right. Some magic is not meant for ordinary magicians. Presumably John Uskglass knew what to do with this horrib...”
“For a moment or two before the spell took effect, he was aware of all the sounds around him: rain splashing on metal and leather, and running down canvas; horses shuffling and snorting; Englishmen ...”
“He had discovered that it was easier far easier than any one could have supposed to make oneself mad, but like all magic it was full of obstacles and frustrations. Even if he succeeded in summoni...”
“That will teach me to meddle with magic meant for kings! Norrell is right. Some magic is not meant for ordinary magicians. Presumably John Uskglass knew what to do with this horrible knowledge. I d...”
“I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first and everything else second- and Jonathan is the same. Books and magic are all either of them real...”
“It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.”
“It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs.”
“[A] smile is the most becomingornament that any lady can wear.”
“For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.”
“Yet it is trueskin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in ...”
“I was always amazed at Cambridge how quickly people appeared to take offence at everything I said, but now I see plainly that it was not my words they hated - it was this fairy face. The dark alche...”
“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”
“Besides, said Mr Norrell, I really have no desire to write reviews of other people's books. Modern publications upon magic are the most pernicious things in the world, full of misinformation and wr...”
“Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!""Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I supp...”
“For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.”
“The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to go...”
