Lancelot tilts his head, wrinkles his nose a little.
"Not in the same way," he allows, "a legal document can be binding, can be without a break clause, but you are right -- the binding is not exactly the same in nature. It's fuzzy, though." He hesitates, shifting his grip on Lily as he debates if the next part is worth saying. "That is what Gilbert Norrell is trying to do," he says finally, "by stamping out anything that qualifies as dark magic. Putting a stop to anything that can hold an influence over a person, control them, bind them."
As much as many people may dislike him, his methods, it is the heart and soul of everything he does: bringing about the end of dark magic. Control and manipulation are things that qualify as dark magic.
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"Not in the same way," he allows, "a legal document can be binding, can be without a break clause, but you are right -- the binding is not exactly the same in nature. It's fuzzy, though." He hesitates, shifting his grip on Lily as he debates if the next part is worth saying. "That is what Gilbert Norrell is trying to do," he says finally, "by stamping out anything that qualifies as dark magic. Putting a stop to anything that can hold an influence over a person, control them, bind them."
As much as many people may dislike him, his methods, it is the heart and soul of everything he does: bringing about the end of dark magic. Control and manipulation are things that qualify as dark magic.