[The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Phoenix and the Carpet CHAPTER 10 20/27
'_I_ opened the box myself. This morning I found I had not enough small change for the Mothers' Independent Unity Measles and Croup Insurance payments.
I suppose this is NOT a dream, is it ?' 'Dream? No, indeed.
Search the house.
I insist upon it.' The curate, still pale and trembling, searched the house, which, of course, was blamelessly free of burglars. When he came back he sank wearily into his chair. 'Aren't you going to let us go ?' asked Robert, with furious indignation, for there is something in being held by a strong lady that sets the blood of a boy boiling in his veins with anger and despair.
'We've never done anything to you.
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