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What is your concern with me?
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We seek, Sire, to enter your service.
:49:04
I need no servants.
:49:06
Oh, but surely, Sire, a magician, a fine cook, a -
:49:10
You are losing my interest, and that is very dangerous.
:49:14
My "court" consists of four men-at-arms.
:49:20
Four? But the pleasures of the court, Sire, the music, the talk, the
hunts and the balls and the great feasts -
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They are nothing to me. I have known them all, and they have not made
me happy.
:49:32
I will keep nothing near me that does not make me happy!
:49:38
I also keep one magician.
:49:40
Oh, a magician, huh? What's his name?
:49:43
He is called Mabruk. He is known in his trade as "the magician's
magician".
:49:51
I can see no reason at all to replace him with some vagrant,
nameless, clownish -
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I can. He doesn't, this marvelous Mabruk, doesn't make you happy.
:50:02
Molly, be still.
:50:04
And how would you know?
:50:06
Well, just look at you!
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Molly!
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Did you hear that, Mabruk?
:50:14
What does your majesty wish of me?
:50:17
Schmendrick, my dear boy, how nice to see you!
:50:21
He has come to take your place. He is now my royal magician.
:50:27
See?
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Shhh!
:50:28
The legendary Schmendrick? "The Runeless Wonder?"
:50:33
I realize your majesty is a great collector of - oddities, but-
:50:40
The woman is right. A master magician has not made me happy.
:50:45
I will see what an incompetent one can do. You may go, Mabruk.
:50:49
I am not packed off as easily as that!