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The Phoenix and the Carpet

CHAPTER 12
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Get the very best that money can buy, and plenty of them.
Don't let's stand to a threepence or so.

I want it to have a jolly good send-off.

It's the only thing that'll make us feel less horrid inside.' It was felt that Robert, as the pet of the Phoenix, ought to have the last melancholy pleasure of choosing the materials for its funeral pyre.
'I'll keep watch if you like,' said Cyril.

'I don't mind.

And, besides, it's raining hard, and my boots let in the wet.


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