FAIRY PALACE. 63

stories from the Arabian Nights’ en-
tertainment, among which was the
celebrated one of the Good Prince
Amhed and the Fairy Peribanou.

This was a kind of mental banquet
entirely new to Rosa. She was totally
unacquainted with fiction ; she had in-
deed no idea of it; nor would it have
been easy to convince her, that such a
species of writing was really in exist-
ence, or what could be its use or inten-
tion. Being of a very lively imagina-
tion, she was inclined to believe not
only every thing she read, but every
thing she heard, never suspecting a
falsehood, because she was herself whol-
Jy incapable of uttering one wilfully,
and was never inclined to suspect others
of doing that which she would not

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