Vincent van Gogh A Novel Reader

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Coin smiled his golden smile.
'What did you say, Carding?' he said.
'It's the clear air, lord. And they look so close and small. I only said I could almost touch them-’
Coin waved him into silence. He extended one thin arm, rolling back his sleeve in the traditional sign that magic was Wizardry has done nothing for the world.'
'And if I tell you that I intend to dissolve the Orders and close the University? Although, of course, my senior advisors will be accorded all due status.'
Carding's knuckles whitened, but he shrugged.
'There is little to say,' he said. 'What good is a candle at noonday?'about to be performed without trickery. He reached out, and then turned back with his fingers closed around what was, without any shadow of a doubt, a handful of snow.The two wizards observed it in stunned silence as it melted and dripped on to the floor.Coin laughed.'You find it so hard to believe?' he said. 'Shall I pick pearls from rim-most Krull, or sand from the Great Nef? Could your old wizardry do half as much?'It seemed to Spelter that his voice took on a metallic edge. He stared intently at their faces.Finally Carding sighed and said rather quietly, 'No. All my life I have sought magic, and all I found was coloured lights and little tricks and old, dry books.