The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit & E. Nesbit & Robin McKinley

Author:E. Nesbit & E. Nesbit & Robin McKinley [Nesbit, E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141340876
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

‘Get away now,’ said the Phoenix softly, breaking in on the radiant dream.

So the children crept away, and out through the little shrine, and the lady and the priest were so tearfully, talkatively happy that they never noticed that the guardian angels had gone.

The ‘garden angels’ ran down the hill to the lady’s little house, where they had left the carpet on the veranda, and they spread it out and said ‘Home,’ and no one saw them disappear, except little Henri, who had flattened his nose into a white button against the window-glass, and when he tried to tell his aunt she thought he had been dreaming. So that was all right.

‘It is much the best thing we’ve done,’ said Anthea, when they talked it over at tea-time. ‘In the future we’ll only do kind actions with the carpet.’

‘Ahem!’ said the Phoenix.

‘I beg your pardon?’ said Anthea.

‘Oh, nothing,’ said the bird. ‘I was only thinking!’

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