"Mr Norrell had worked himself up into such a frenzy of anxiety over Vinculus's supposed magic powers that this explanation had at first little power to soothe him. "Oh!" he said. "But still I am certain that he means me harm. Indeed he has done me great harm already."
"Yes," agreed Childermass, "very great harm! For while he was in the pantry he ate three meat-pies."
"And two cream cheeses," added Lucas.
Mr Norrell was forced to admit to himself that this did not seem much like the action of a great magician."
— Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
