[The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Phoenix and the Carpet CHAPTER 10 21/27
It's all the carpet.
It dropped us on the leads. WE couldn't help it.
You know how it carried you over to the island, and you had to marry the burglar to the cook.' 'Oh, my head!' said the curate. 'Never mind your head just now,' said Robert; 'try to be honest and honourable, and do your duty in that state of life!' 'This is a judgement on me for something, I suppose,' said the Reverend Septimus, wearily, 'but I really cannot at the moment remember what.' 'Send for the police,' said Miss Selina. 'Send for a doctor,' said the curate. 'Do you think they ARE mad, then,' said Miss Amelia. 'I think I am,' said the curate. Jane had been crying ever since her capture.
Now she said-- 'You aren't now, but perhaps you will be, if--And it would serve you jolly well right, too.' 'Aunt Selina,' said the curate, 'and Aunt Amelia, believe me, this is only an insane dream.
You will realize it soon.
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