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member that Iam a fairy,” said she ;
“and, consequently, that I can accom-
plish all things by my power and skill.”
Finding all further inquiries useless,
they re-entered the carriage, and had
proceeded a considerable way on their
road, when the Fairy calling to the
postilion, instructed him to direct his
course to a little village, which appear-
ed on the brow of a gentle acclivity,
situated about a mile from the palace.

Thither they soon arrived.. The
postilion, without Further orders, stop-
ped at the gate of a white cottage en-
crusted with ivy, with a flower gar-
den before it, into which they were
alighting, when, oh joy! oh rapture!
Dame Morgan appeared, hastening
from the porched door, to meet—to_

embrace