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The book lay there in appearance only. Oh, but, sir! protested Drawlight. But only wait until you have heardthe rest of what Mr Strange has to say. Once the racing water bore him up high and for an instant he saw thesunlit quayside (a place he did not recogni

Then he spoke to the gondoliero and the gondola moved away into thedarkness. A lady and gentlemanwalking along together suddenly sprouted twigs in every direction andbecame an elder-bush, a dog became a shaggy clump of dry bracken. Frank's expression and attitude all declared him to be tussling with somegreat perplexity. With as little ceremony as a parent whocleans something from a child's face, the man licked his finger and daubed asort of symbol on each of Childermass's eye-lids, on his lips and over his heart.