Blog #2 Quarter 2

Well I read the next chapter of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and in this chapter there are some exciting things that happen. First of all Mr. Segundas and Mr. Honeyfoot go to visit Mr. Norrell and he lets them look in his library, and it turns out that in their world there are books of magic (like spells and such) and books about magic (about people doing magic and magical occurrences) . Mr. Norrell has the rarest kind in his library, the books of magic, but he does seem very skeptical of all the authors and doesn't seem to think that a lot of them are very good. However, Mr. Segundas and Mr. Honeyfoot are amazed and then even more so when Mr. Norrell tells them that he can actually DO magic. So they go back and tell the Society of York of their findings, who doesn't really believe them because for some odd reason they can't remember much of their visit. So they send Mr. Norrell a letter who replies with an angry one back and sends a guy named Mr. Robinson to make them sign a contract. It says that if he proves he can do magic they have to disband the Society of York and never call themselves magicians again, all sign except Mr. Segundas.
One thing I don't get is why Mr. Norrell sends Mr. Robinson with the contract when in the chapter we were introduced to his creepy man of business, Childermass. So if Mr. Robinson handles Mr. Norrell's contracts and such, what exactly does Childermass do? He sort of gives off a creepy air when you read about him and I think that so far he's the only character in the book who doesn't have the "Mr." or "Mrs." in front of his/her name, which is a little strange. Also I bet that the reason that Mr. Segundas and Mr. Honeyfoot forgot most of there amazing trip is because Mr. Norrell used a spell on them because they were so awed that I don't think it's possible that they could have forgotten something like that. Also in this chapter I learned a lot more about the main characters. I found out that Mr. Honeyfoot seems to be a real idealist and thinks that everyone wants to do everything for the greater good and such, Mr. Segundas however seems to be more sensible and more of a realist, and Mr. Norrell seems to know just about everything out there for there to know.