FAIRY PALACE. 163

CHAP. XII.

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Near three weeks had at length
elapsed, since Charles and Rosa’s last
visit to the Fairy Peribanou, when’ the
former was thrown into a state of the
greatest terror and anxicty by the fol-
lowing incident. Charles and Rosa of-
ten amused themselves in the evenings;
after school hours, in collecting what-
ever they considered as at all curious,
or pretty, either of flowers or stones
among the neighbouring rocks. One
evening, while they were thus employed,
Charles's attention was engrossed by ob;
serving a paper kite, which some boys
in the valley below had thrown up a

considerable