Other friends of Strange appeared to condole with Mr Murray and givevent to some of the fury they felt at what Mr Norrell had done. Strange had attended one or two, but until tonight Dr Greysteelhad never troubled about them. They heardnothing until he started to rant and then they came immediately. Curiously, Mr Norrell seemed to guess his thoughts anyway.
At seven o'clock Childermass arrived. There, written in the dust with raindrops, was the followingmissive:Bruxelles, 15th June, 1815The 3rd Division to move upon Quatre Bras immediately. I am, thought Strange, the first English magician to enter Faerie inalmost three hundred years. I cannot make headnor tail of it.
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