"The Magic City!" she repeated.
She laughed in derision of such violence that she fell to coughing.
"The Magic City!" she reiterated. "The Magic City!"
CHAPTER IX.[ToC]
For one mad moment, such as comes to the bravest, Seth's impulse was to throw himself beneath the wheels of the car that was taking Celia away from him.
In another he would have lain a crushed and shapeless mass in their wake; but as he shut his eyes for the leap there came to him distinctly, pitifully, wailingly, the cry of the child.