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more unkind wifhes, however flight. They come
like evil winds to our Fairy ifland. You kept me
away long enough by thofe ; and when you wifhed
me with you, to get your child out of his folly,
I was very angry, and thought I wouldn’t come ;
but your, and your hufband’s with was fo ftrong
and earneft, it haunted me day and night; and I
had no comfort till I had refolved to help you.
And here, Madeline, you have fomething to for-
give me. My remedy has been’‘a harfh, a very
harfh one for fo flight a fault; but at firft I in-
tended it to laft only a few days. Afterwards,
however, feeing how it was acting upon him, and
upon you all, for good, I let it work its full effec:
and I think it has been greatly blefled! Now,
farewell! ‘Time is flying, and I muft begone.”

And thus the Fairy and Madeline walked to the
window, which the latter reopened, and there was
the full moon failing in the cloudlefs fky, and
lighting up the lovely, and, this evening, calm and
unruffled fea.

The coufins embraced ; and in a few minutes
the Fairy had difappeared in the diftance. Made-
line lingered awhile at the cafement, thinking ten-
derly of the gentle-hearted Fairy, and watching
the horizon. At laft the outline of the Fairy’s
home appeared clear and bright againft the dark
blue heaven, and then fubfided gently by degrees.
And Madeline clofed the window, grateful and
happy, and went after her boy. But fhe had not
far to go; for he was coming along the paflages