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The Story of the Amulet

CHAPTER 8
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But perhaps I have hypnotized myself.

I will see a doctor the moment I have corrected the last proofs of my book.' 'Yes, do!' said Anthea, 'and thank you so very much.' She took the sovereign and ran down to the others.
And now from the window of a four-wheeled cab the Queen of Babylon beheld the wonders of London.

Buckingham Palace she thought uninteresting; Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament little better.

But she liked the Tower, and the River, and the ships filled her with wonder and delight.
'But how badly you keep your slaves.

How wretched and poor and neglected they seem,' she said, as the cab rattled along the Mile End Road.
'They aren't slaves; they're working-people,' said Jane.
'Of course they're working.


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