[The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of the Amulet CHAPTER 14 20/36
Wish to be with it, and that it shall be under your hand.' It was the simplest thing in the world! And yet none of them had ever thought of it. 'Come,' cried Rekh-mara, leaping up.
'Come NOW!' 'May--may I come ?' the learned gentleman timidly asked.
'It's only a dream, you know.' 'Come, and welcome, oh brother,' Rekh-mara was beginning, but Cyril and Robert with one voice cried, 'NO.' 'You weren't with us in Atlantis,' Robert added, 'or you'd know better than to let him come.' 'Dear Jimmy,' said Anthea, 'please don't ask to come.
We'll go and be back again before you have time to know that we're gone.' 'And he, too ?' 'We must keep together,' said Rekh-mara, 'since there is but one perfect Amulet to which I and these children have equal claims.' Jane held up the Amulet--Rekh-mara went first--and they all passed through the great arch into which the Amulet grew at the Name of Power. The learned gentleman saw through the arch a darkness lighted by smoky gleams.
He rubbed his eyes.
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