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The Phoenix and the Carpet

CHAPTER 4
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He found the others and said-- 'It's no use; she's like a lioness robbed of its puppies.

We must watch where it goes--and--Anthea, I don't care what you say.

It's our own carpet.

It wouldn't be burglary.

It would be a sort of forlorn hope rescue party--heroic and daring and dashing, and not wrong at all.' The children still wandered among the gay crowd--but there was no pleasure there for them any more.


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