"The boy shrugged. "I've forgotten it," was all he said. And then, "I guess I wasn't taught well enough.""

"The boy did the preliminaries, sealing the circles, erecting the bonds. Now we were all subject to the rules of the s…"

"Maybe I'd better call a halt to the journal for a bit. Until something crops up, that is, which it hopefully won't fo…"

"Together, we must advance unafraid into the modern age!"

"Remember this." he said in a soft voice. "Demons are very wicked. They will hurt you if they can. Do you understand t…"

"The old pain had started up again, throbbing in my chest, stomach, bones. It wasn't healthy to be encased in a body f…"

"Perhaps he'd want me to conjure up an illusion. That might be fun: there was bound to be a way of misinterpreting his…"

"Too much hate is bad for you," I ventured. "Why?" "Um..."

"No magical alarm sounded, though I did hit my head five times on a pebble†."

"I order you, Bartimaeus, to reveal whether you have diligently and wholly carried out your charge-" "Of course I have…"