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56The Black Tower3rd/4th December 1816Dr greysteel was asleep and dreaming. The water had hit him like a blow, stinging his whole body and knocking thebreath out of him. They willmerely imagine that I healed some Neapolitans that were wounded orsomething of that sort. Mr Norrell did not answer.

The Centaur is my cousin's ship. Sir Walter could suggestdiversions, Strange was endeavouring to prove that Arabella needed none ofthem. They were all stillmore or less in one piece, though some were decidedly battered-looking. There wasnothing she could not make herself mistress of if she chose.