[The Magic City by Edith Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Magic City CHAPTER XII 6/27
And here they come.' Surrounded by a guard with drawn swords the Pretenderette advanced slowly. 'Hail, woman!' said Caesar. 'Hail, whoever you are!' said the Pretenderette very sulkily. 'I hail,' said Caesar, 'your courage.' Philip and Lucy looked at each other.
Yes, the Pretenderette had courage: they had not thought of that before.
All the attempts she had made against them--she alone in a strange land--yes, these needed courage. 'And I demand to know how you came here ?' 'When I found he'd been at his building again,' she said, pointing a contemptuous thumb at Philip, 'I was just going to pull it down, and I knocked down a brick or two with my sleeve, and not thinking what I was doing I built them up again; and then I got a bit giddy and the whole thing seemed to begin to grow--candlesticks and bricks and dominoes and everything, bigger and bigger and bigger, and I looked in.
It was as big as a church by this time, and I saw that boy losing his way among the candlestick pillars, and I followed him and I listened.
And I thought I could be as good a Deliverer as anybody else.
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