As Kenzi moves a few guards carefully but pointedly move to block her path, and Norrell lofts an eyebrow at her back. The cheek of her!
"A bookshop," he echoes, and this story is a hard one to sell to Gilbert Norrell. After all, he has the largest collection of magical books and books of magic in the United Kingdom. He has such a collection by very carefully keeping tags on book shops and house sales. It would be a surprising thing indeed if this book had bypassed him. "And what book shop was that?" he pushes, "if a book shop is selling fae books then I suppose I will have to look into this."
He sets down his pen, sits back and waits patiently.
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"A bookshop," he echoes, and this story is a hard one to sell to Gilbert Norrell. After all, he has the largest collection of magical books and books of magic in the United Kingdom. He has such a collection by very carefully keeping tags on book shops and house sales. It would be a surprising thing indeed if this book had bypassed him. "And what book shop was that?" he pushes, "if a book shop is selling fae books then I suppose I will have to look into this."
He sets down his pen, sits back and waits patiently.