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The Phoenix and the Carpet

CHAPTER 11
13/27

Be good and you will be happy.

Is this zone torrid enough for the abandonment of great-coats, Bobs?
No?
Well, then, I should say you were sickening for something--mumps or measles or thrush or teething.

Goodbye.' He went, and Robert was at last able to remove his coat, mop his perspiring brow, and release the crushed and dishevelled Phoenix.

Robert had to arrange his damp hair at the looking-glass at the back of the box, and the Phoenix had to preen its disordered feathers for some time before either of them was fit to be seen.
They were very, very early.

When the lights went up fully, the Phoenix, balancing itself on the gilded back of a chair, swayed in ecstasy.
'How fair a scene is this!' it murmured; 'how far fairer than my temple! Or have I guessed aright?
Have you brought me hither to lift up my heart with emotions of joyous surprise?
Tell me, my Robert, is it not that this, THIS is my true temple, and the other was but a humble shrine frequented by outcasts ?' 'I don't know about outcasts,' said Robert, 'but you can call this your temple if you like.


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