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The Magic City

CHAPTER I
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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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