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"The lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbours."

"Oh, he's a nature god," she said. "Sometimes he manifests himself as an oak tree, or half a man and half a goat, but mainly I see him in his aspect as a bloody nuisance."

"There were more old people. The world was full of them," said the wizard.
"Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people. Funny really. I mean, you'd expect it to be the other way round."