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He paid visits to all the British familiesin the city and warned them not speak to Drawlight. No, no! said Norrell, interrupting hastily, I do not. It was, hetold them with a cold smile, an act of charity. It seemed to him thatAbsalom's garden was exerting a strange kind of influence on him.

The flowerpots upon his windowsill contained no flowers, butonly ruby-and-pearl crosses, carved jewels and the insignia of long-deadmilitary orders. himself to its destruction and was later made a saint. Then it came to him in an instant: the magician was dead! Perhaps in hismadness he had killed himself! The sense of joy and relief was overwhelming. Jeremy Johns learnt this from some friends of the two men,whereupon he instantly took the first horse he could lay his hand