18 The Fairy Godmothers.

charm, and prevented her forgetting herfelf fufi-
ciently to allow her to be quite at eafe and happy,
and fhe would glance at herfelf in the mirror, and
put back the hair from her brow, left Mrs. I-know-
not-who, who was juft then entering the room,
fhould not think her quite as lovely as Mrs. Some-
body-elfe did, who had very foolifhly been faying
fo rather in a loud tone to her Mamma.

At laft the fatal time arrived to go to bed.
Aurora was much too fenfible to cry, or be crofs,
you muft know, but as fhe clofed the door of the
drawing-room and left the gay company, a figh
very heavy for fo young a heart to have breathed,
efcaped her, and it was flowly fhe retraced her
fteps up ftairs. She was in reality tired, for it
was later than her ufual bed-time, and when fhe ©
wert into her-room.fhe threw herfelf on the chair
and yawned. ‘he young Nurfe who attended to
undrefs her, afked her if fhe had enjoyed herfelf.
“Oh yes!” was her ready anfwer. ‘“‘All is fo
bright, and gay, and entertaining among thofe la-
dies, and they are fo good-natured to me,” —(an-
other figh coupled with the recolleétion of, and
how much they admire me!) —“ But I do fo hate
being a little girl, and having to go to bed. I
with the time would come quicker for me to be
grown up, and be down ftairs altogether, and talk,
and enjoy myfelf all the evening!” Oh, Aurora,
Aurora, with that diffatisfied face where is your
beauty? with that difcontented mind where 1s
your happinefs.