CHAPTER V On the Carpet-2

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And in the morning there was bread and milk again, and the two of them had it in the blue room without Mr. Noah. 'Well,' said Lucy, looking up from the bowl of white floating cubes, 'do you think you're getting to like me any better?' 'No,' said Philip, brief and stern like the skipper in the song. 'I wish you would,' said Lucy. 'Well, I can't,' said Philip; 'but I do want to say one thing. I'm sorry I bunked and left you. And I did come back.' 'I know you did,' said Lucy. 'I came back to fetch you,' said Philip, 'and now we'd better get along home.' 'You've got to do seven deeds of power before you can get home,' said Lucy. 'Oh! I remember, Perrin told me,' said he. 'Well,' Lucy went on, 'that'll take ages. No one can go out of this place twice unless he's a King-Deliverer. You'v

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