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a reaction in me, that, for a moment, I could hardly believe that there

was a Fairy Land; and that all I had passed through since I left hoination, operating on

a tooue phantoh which my actual steps

had led irl as

sitting in the chimney-corner, with a little book open on her knee, froreat inquiring eyes upon

ain She went on with her reading, as

soon as she saw that I observed her looking atover her shoulder, saw that she was reading "The History of

Graciosa and Percinet"

"Very iood-huh "We are in the very hottest corner of Fairy Land

here Ha! ha! Storht, sir"

"Was it, indeed?" I rejoined "It was not so with ht I

never saw" "Indeed! Where were you last night?"