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There was the mop lady, who whisked them away
before anybody noticed that they were not supposed to
be there at all. The mop lady put them down on the roof
beside the balloon. "Who are you?" asked Mirabel. "Just
a friend of owl," she said before disappearing down the
stairs with her mop.
The best thing to do, it seemed, was to camp right
there on the roof beside the balloon. Mirabel dreamed of
the ballet all night long.
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