But as soon as he arrived there his mood changed. I could not bear the way they mockedme. A heap of shining guineas was lying there. Thecarriage became a holly bush and the coachman and the footmen becamean owl and two nightingales which promptly flew away.
Mr Norrell sighed again. Aman who marries for the first time at the age of forty-two knows only too wellthat almost all his acquaintance are better qualified to manage his domesticaffairs than him. Thomas °r an, ^e and William Lanchester both had a deep disgust for this particular sort of magicwith the King to employ some other means. The butcher's boy, the baker and the lamplighter were entirelyastonished.
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