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We travelled on together all that day She left ht caain we travelled

till evening The third day she cah we had talked about a great s connected

with Fairy Land, and the life she had led hitherto, I had never been

able to learn anything about the globe This day, however, as ent

on, the shadow glided round and inwrapt the e

her But an to

waver as with an inward light, and to shoot out flashes of rew irresistible I put out both an to sound as before The sound rapidly increased, till it grew

a low telobe trembled, and quivered, and

throbbed between my hands I had not the heart to pull it away froh I held it in spite of her attempts to take it from me;

yes, I shame to say, in spite of her prayers, and, at last, her tears

Thein, intensity and colobe vibrated and heaved; till at last it burst in our hands, and

a black vapour broke upwards from out of it; then turned, as if blown

sideways, and enveloped theeven the shadow in its

blackness She held fast the fragments, which I abandoned, and fled from

me into the forest in the direction whence she had colobe; lobe is broken!" I followed her, in the hope of co her; but

had not pursued her far, before a sudden cold gust of wind bowed the