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The Story of the Amulet by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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and it is here, and now, the name of power having been spoken, I
also am here.'

This is what the voice said. I think it must have meant Napoleon
by the small man, the conqueror. Because I know I have been told
that he took an army to Egypt, and that afterwards a lot of wise
people went grubbing in the sand, and fished up all sorts of
wonderful things, older than you would think possible. And of
these I believe this charm to have been one, and the most
wonderful one of all.

Everyone listened: and everyone tried to think. It is not easy
to do this clearly when you have been listening to the kind of
talk I have told you about.

At last Robert said--

'Can you take us into the Past--to the shrine where you and the
other thing were together. If you could take us there, we might
find the other part still there after all these thousands of
years.'

'Still there? silly!' said Cyril. 'Don't you see, if we go back
into the Past it won't be thousands of years ago. It will be NOW
for us--won't it?' He appealed to the Psammead, who said--

'You're not so far off the idea as you usually are!'

'Well,' said Anthea, 'will you take us back to when there was a
shrine and you were safe in it--all of you?'
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