[The Magic City by Edith Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Magic City CHAPTER XII 7/27
And the motor veil that I was going to catch the 2.37 train in was a fine disguise.' 'You tried to injure the children,' Caesar reminded her. 'I don't want to say anything to make you let me off,' said the Pretenderette, 'but at the beginning I didn't think any of it was real. I thought it was a dream.
You can let your evil passions go in a dream and it don't hurt any one.' 'It hurts you,' Caesar said. 'Oh! that's no odds,' said the Pretenderette scornfully. 'You sought to injure and confound the children at every turn,' said Caesar, 'even when you found that things were real.' 'I saw there was a chance of being Queen,' said the Pretenderette, 'and I took it.
Seems to me you've no occasion to talk if you're Julius Caesar, the same as the bust in the library.
You took what you could get right enough in your time, when all's said and done.' 'I hail,' said Caesar again, 'your courage.' 'You needn't trouble,' she said, tossing her head; 'my game's up now, and I'll speak my mind if I die for it.
You don't understand.
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