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Quotation from Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

“Robert was not proud of himself for having been so cross, and the others were not proud of him either.”

E. Nesbit (spoken by Narrator)

Five Children and It, Chapter 3 (Project Gutenberg #778)

Portrait of E. Nesbit

The silence after Robert's angry outburst about the Lamb, just before the Psammead grants it.

Citation: "Robert was not proud of himself for having been so cross, and the others were not proud of him either." — E. Nesbit, Five Children and It, Chapter 3 (Project Gutenberg #778). (id five-children-and-it-q5)

Portrait: Nesbit, Unknown author, Public domain.

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