[The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Phoenix and the Carpet CHAPTER 4 9/32
'I saw something in a book the other day about the wishes of the departed being sacred.' 'That means when they've departed farther off,' said Cyril.
'India's coral or Greenland's icy, don't you know; not Bournemouth.
Besides, we don't know what her wishes are.' 'She SAID'-- Anthea was very much inclined to cry--'she said, "Get Indian things for my bazaar;" but I know she thought we couldn't, and it was only play.' 'Let's get them all the same,' said Robert.
'We'll go the first thing on Saturday morning.' And on Saturday morning, the first thing, they went. There was no finding the Phoenix, so they sat on the beautiful wishing carpet, and said-- 'We want Indian things for mother's bazaar.
Will you please take us where people will give us heaps of Indian things ?' The docile carpet swirled their senses away, and restored them on the outskirts of a gleaming white Indian town.
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