I am told your ladyship has been greatly distressed by the death of MrsStrange, said Mr Segundus. The grotesque creatures crawled, draggingtheir pipes behind them and dousing the Willises with water. It was verycurious and no one knew what to make of it, but in some ways he was morelike Norrell. But there were also some mysteriouspersons: a male figure in a monklike robe with his hood pulled down over hisface, a female figure in a dark, starry mantle with her arm thrown over hereyes.
The other one, sir? said Stephen. The most important question is, I believe, how soonwe may contrive to bring him back to England, where his friends may care forhim and bring to a rapid end the delusions that beset him. Which I do. Often Fate chuses us as her vessels for prophecy.
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