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Legate joined the cheers with the others. "Hurray! Hurray! Jolly old Nerwen! Who would have thought that, eh? "
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...But when he had a moment to stop and think, he began wondering once again. Nerwen's age was truly an accomplishment, but how came?
"It will have to be paid for," he muttered to himself. "It isn't natural, and trouble will come of it!"
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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