05/03/2026 22:05

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In the middle of November the Admiralty invited Mr Norrell andMr Strange to Portsmouth to review the Channel Fleet, an honourusually reserved for admirals, heroes and kings. She tookas little notice of him as a cat takes of any body who does not interest it. There is not somuch as a spot of mud on his coat and none on his boots. You must come again, sir.

Sometimes it seems to me thatall of London resembles nothing so much as cold pease porridge, both incolour and consistency. He continued to polishsilver, train the footmen in the duties of service à la française, admonish thecooks, order flowers, linen, knives and Only Strangeseemed at all comfortable with these descriptions of eerie, silent halls,unending pathways and vast, dark landscapes. You will take some madeira, Iam sure.