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The Phoenix and the Carpet

CHAPTER 1
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That's all.' 'I wish they taught magic at school,' Jane sighed.

'I believe if we could do a little magic it might make something happen.' 'I wonder how you begin ?' Robert looked round the room, but he got no ideas from the faded green curtains, or the drab Venetian blinds, or the worn brown oil-cloth on the floor.

Even the new carpet suggested nothing, though its pattern was a very wonderful one, and always seemed as though it were just going to make you think of something.
'I could begin right enough,' said Anthea; 'I've read lots about it.

But I believe it's wrong in the Bible.' 'It's only wrong in the Bible because people wanted to hurt other people.

I don't see how things can be wrong unless they hurt somebody, and we don't want to hurt anybody; and what's more, we jolly well couldn't if we tried.


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