"Patricia C. Wrede - Magician 1 - Mairelon the Magicia" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wrede Patricia C)

"He thought he'd gammoned me proper," Kim said. She
took a perverse pleasure in betraying the toff who'd gotten

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her into this. "But if it was just a bet, why'd he let me talk
him up to five pounds? And why was he so nattered over that
wicher-bubber?"

"Wicher-bubber?" Mairelon said, looking startled, and not
altogether pleased. "You mean a silver bowl?"

"That's what I said. The toff wanted me to look for it."
"Did he ask you to steal it?" Mairelon demanded, his ex-
pression tense.

"No, but I ain't saying he wouldn't of been right pleased if
I'd a nicked it for him."

There'" Hunch said- "What was I telling you? 'E's a thief."

"Look, cully, if i was a sharper, would I be telling you
straight out?" Kirn said, exasperated. "All I said was, I'd keep
an eye out for it, and that's truth!"

"So all you agreed to do was come in, look around, and let
him know whether you saw this bowl?" Mairelon said.

"That's it," Kirn said. Hunch snorted, and she glared at
him- "There wouldn't be no harm done, after all; just lookin'
about. But he ought to of said somethin' about you being a
real magician with fancy locks and exploding chests."

"What did this toff of yours look like?"

"A real swell. Top hat, and gloves better'n the ones Jamie
sells, and a silk cravat." Kirn shook her head in wonder that


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was only partly simulated. "A top hat, at the Dog and Bull."

"What color was his hair?"

"Muddy. Thin, too."

"His hair or himself?"