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Created on 2015-07-02 23:13:18 (#2421362), last updated 2015-11-27 (536 weeks ago)

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Name:John Childermass
Birthdate:Dec 28
Location:United Kingdom


Yet within Mr Norrell's dry little heart there was as lively an ambition to bring back magic to England, and it was with the intention of bringing that ambition to a long-postponed fulfilment that Mr Norrell now proposed to go to London.

Childermass assured him that the time was propitious and Childermass knew the world. Childermass knew what games the children on street-corners are playing - games that all other grown-ups have long since forgotten. Childermass knew what old people by firesides are thinking of, though no one has asked them in years. Childermass knew what young men hear in the rattling of the drums and the tooting of the pipes that makes them leave their homes and go to be soldiers - and he knew the half-eggcupful of glory and the barrelful of misery that await them. And all that Childermass knew made him smile; and some of what he knew made him laugh out loud; and none of what he knew wrung from him so much as ha'pennyworth of pity.

So when Childermass told his master, "Go to London. Go now," Mr Norrell believed him.

- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

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