[The Magic City by Edith Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Magic City CHAPTER I 25/43
Bricks alone always do. Philip explored again.
He found the library.
He made several journeys. He brought up twenty-seven volumes bound in white vellum with marbled boards, a set of Shakespeare, ten volumes in green morocco.
These made pillars and cloisters, dark, mysterious, and attractive.
More Noah's Ark animals added an Egyptian-looking finish to the building. 'Lor', ain't it pretty!' said the parlour-maid, who came to call him to tea.
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