At present he was busy polishing his snuffbox with hishandkerchief. It had occupied the greater part of Mr Norrell's time for the past twoyears and had cost the Government a vast sum of money. For lack of any other occupation, he reassumed his abuse of the newmagician. The members of the old societies.
He was on the point of giving up in despair when therewas a rattle in the lane behind him. Honeyfoot. Books, papers and writing things were thickly scattered over everysurface as usual. Rain spurted from his child-size bicorn hat as if fromtwo little rainspouts; it sank into the capes of his child-size coat, making thecoat fear
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