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The Magic City

CHAPTER II
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It was extremely painful.

He rolled over in his agony, and saw the foot of an enormous giant quite close to him.

The foot had a large, flat, ugly shoe, and seemed to come out of grey, low-hanging, swaying curtains.
There was a gigantic column too, black against the grey.

The ladder bridge, cast down, lay on the ground not far from him.
Pain and fear overcame Philip, and he ceased to hear or feel or know anything.
When he recovered consciousness he found himself under the table in the drawing-room.

The swelling feeling was over, and he did not seem to be more than his proper size.
He could see the flat feet of the nurse and the lower part of her grey skirt, and a rattling and rumbling on the table above told him that she was doing as she had said she would, and destroying his city.


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