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The Magic City

CHAPTER XI
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You came out of the unknown.

You may be the Deliverer or the Destroyer.

But I am a judge of faces--always was from a boy--and I cannot believe that this countenance of apple-cheeked innocence is that of a Destroyer.' Philip was angry and Lucy was furious.

So he said nothing.

And she said: 'Apple-cheeked yourself!' which was very rude.
'I see that you are annoyed,' said the captain in the dark, where, of course, he could see nothing; 'but in calling your friend apple-cheeked I was merely offering the highest compliment in my power.


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