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"How do you know that?"

"You could not have got so far into this wood if it were not so; and I

a to find out some trace of it in your countenance I think I

see it"

"What do you see?"

"Oh, never mind: I may be mistaken in that"

"But how then do you come to live here?"

"Because I too have fairy blood in ht I could perceive,

notwithstanding the coarseness of her features, and especially the

heaviness of her eyebrows, a sorace, and yet it was an expression that strangely contrasted with

the form of her features I noticed too that her hands were delicately

forh broork and exposure

"I should be ill," she continued, "if I did not live on the borders of

the fairies' country, and now and then eat of their food And I see by

your eyes that you are not quite free of the sah, from