"He took my hand and led me down the stair again, and through a narrow passage, and through another, and another, and another. I don't know how there could be room for so many passages in such a little house. The heart of it must be ever so much farther from the sides than they are from each other. How could it have an inside that was so independent of its outside..."
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Text From the story "Nanny's Dream" in At the Back of the North Wind, Blackie & Son, London, 1886, by George MacDonald.