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The Phoenix and the Carpet

CHAPTER 11
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Hush! the music is beginning.' I am not going to tell you about the play.

As I said before, one can't tell everything, and no doubt you saw 'The Water Babies' yourselves.

If you did not it was a shame, or, rather, a pity.
What I must tell you is that, though Cyril and Jane and Robert and Anthea enjoyed it as much as any children possibly could, the pleasure of the Phoenix was far, far greater than theirs.
'This is indeed my temple,' it said again and again.

'What radiant rites! And all to do honour to me!' The songs in the play it took to be hymns in its honour.

The choruses were choric songs in its praise.


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