As friends andcounsellors of England's most eminent magician their acquaintance hadbeen solicited by all the wealthiest and most fashionable people in thekingdom. Sometime in the early hours of the following morning he woke - or half-woke. Looking up, he happened to observe a small man who wassheltering from the wind in the doorway opposite. Yet to my shame other people werequicker-witted than me.
These London houses are shockingly built, said the magician. The lamp burnt day and night and was a continualaffront to Bonifazia, the elderly Italian maid who came with the house andwho was an even more economical person than Aunt Greysteel herself. ere they would easily beable to find the wood by following secret signs chalked on trees and boulders. Aunt Greysteel was very shocked that Dr Greysteel should be spyingthrough chinks in doorways and attempted to make him stop by pokingat him with her umbrella.
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