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It appeared tohim now as it had at first - sinister, unknowable, unEnglish. w Sir Walter Pole and he had clasped each other'shand; how Sir Walter had thanked him most gratefully and how he hadbegged Sir Wal He had pretty well abandoned those pursuits with which gentlemen in theEnglish countryside customarily occupy their time. Then he said, The mattershall not rest here, Mr Norrell.

But just as in a dream where the most extraordinary events arrive completewith their own explanation and become reasonable in an instant, Stephenfound nothing to be surprized at. Then Charles Hcther-Gray published seven different extracts from the letters whichmentioned Eighteen Wonders in t Itis like trying to build a wall out of half a dozen materials. Drawlightconscientiously added these fictions to his edifice of lies.