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It is this magic, Frank. Hetook up the little box and opened it. It was asblack as sin, extremely fine-grained, and it oozed black water. It wasone of the peculiarities of his strange, enchanted life that it did not matterwhere he went, no one remarked upon the incongruity of a negro servantpossessing the finest horse in the kingdom.

Suddenly he rose fromthe table. Soon he was asked to give lessons to the youngladies' older brothers, many of whom began to picture themselves as magicians. That is lost, replied Norrell. For several weeks in January and February 1811 it seemed as if MrNorrell's opposition would prevent Strange's going to war.