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The Story of the Amulet

CHAPTER 9
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I remember hearing something about a flood here.

Look here, you'-- it turned to Anthea; 'let's get home.

The prospect's too wet for my whiskers.' The girls obediently went to find their brothers, who were leaning on the balcony railings.
'Where's the learned gentleman ?' asked Anthea.
'There he is--below,' said the priest, who had come with them.

'Your High Ji-jimmy is with the Kings.' The ten Kings were no longer alone.

The learned gentleman--no one had noticed how he got there--stood with them on the steps of an altar, on which lay the dead body of the black bull.


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