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The Magic City

CHAPTER XII
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Fancy going through the rest of your life hearing all the voices of the world through an ear that has been pinched by Caesar! 'Oh, thank you! thank you!' said Philip; 'how splendid you are.

I'll swot up my Latin like anything next term, so as to read about you.' 'Are they all in ?' Lucy asked.

'I do hope nobody was hurt.' Caesar smiled.
'A most unreasonable wish, my child, after a great battle!' he said.
'But for once the unreasonable is the inevitable.

Nobody was hurt.

You see it was necessary to get every man back into the book just as he left it, or what would the schoolmasters have done?
There remain now only my own guard who have in charge the false woman who let loose the barbarians.


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