Oh, but you are wrong! declared Mr Norrell. Instead anawkwardly phrased letter had arrived in which the Dean made manyelaborate apologies and said how he had recently been struck by theinappropriateness of clergymen employing magicians. Tell him I need him to count them and that he must send me thereckoning within the hour. His genius for magic is so great and his materialsso poor and the end of it will be that he comes to believe that all things arepermitted to a magician be they house-breaking, theft or deception.
There is not much that Mr Norrell does not regard as full of hazards, saidStrange in tones of some irritation. He satdown upon the hillside and heard all their complaints and accusations; and when he had heardthe It is their fate to haveimages of all their worst fears constantly before their eyes. Openness and honesty, Mr Strange.
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