' What? You understand it, yet I will not? You must have grown a great deal cleverer in Italy. And Ipause here merely to observe that if, upon reading the words Colonel and General , you fancy these are two old men sitting at the table, you could notbe more wrong. Mr Norrell was still in the library, still in the chair he had been sitting inwhen Strange had left. Yes, indeed, cried Mr Norrell, eagerly, and I have every intention ofwriting a book just as you advise -- only I fear it will be many years before Ihave leisure enough to undertake it.
The boy saidthat he himself had been taken by Hubert's men while still a baby andabandoned in the forest. A chair and a battered- lookingharpsichord were the only furniture. He wrapped them in a cloth and added them to thevalise. So,thinking that further exercise would certainly do His Majesty no harm,Strange walked on.
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