There aredifficulties peculiar to any magic involving John Uskglass. Here was no terrible magic - only the everyday world - thewonderful, beautiful everyday world. One couldalways speak to Strange as if he were an ordinary person. I am told that he has already written to your lordshipabout this matter .
When you and I summon fairies - I mean, he added hastily, if we were so ill-advised as to do such a thing - then,providing we cast our spells correctly, the fairies will appear promptly. Two minutes later it was being reported throughout the churchthat both magicians had threatened each other with a kind of magicalexcommunication. Why! You could be made Archbishop of Canterbury tomorrow and he wouldthink nothing of it! No one would. But the ground appearsto be swallowing me up.
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