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"'Oh,' returned the fairy, 'that does not signify! Here is a

talisman will re 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left

hand, and I am yours, and you are mine; and we shall leave earth,

and ain at the , Adele, is in n: but I ain"

"But what has mademoiselle to do with it? I don't care for the

fairy: you said it was mademoiselle you would take to thee; and she, on her part,

evinced a fund of genuine French scepticis Mr

Rochester "un vraihim that she made no

account whatever of his "contes de fee," and that "du reste, il n'y

avait pas de fees, et quand meme il y en avait:" she was sure they

would never appear to his, or offer to live

with him in theone to o to a certain silk warehouse: there I was

ordered to choose half-a-dozen dresses I hated the business, I

begged leave to defer it: no--it should be gone through with now

By dint of entreaties expressed in energetic whispers, I reduced the

half-dozen to two: these however, he vowed he would select hiay stores: he fixed

on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye, and a superb pink