FAIRY PALACE. 187

“ Tt was there I first beheld the
objects of my present solicitude; I
saw, but did not know them. The
imterest they excited led to various
enquiries; and forming an intimacy
with Mr. Lloyd, 2 was soon, by his
means in possession of every event and
incident which happened at your cot-
tage. The line of reading into which
Rosa had accidentally fallen, had pre-
pared her mind to imagine that what-
ever was uncommon must necessarily
be supernatural: I was amused by her
fancies, and determined to humour
them. The box which I sent to Gle-
nowen, containing various articles of
dress, which I wished to present to my
already adopted children, I conceive,
(said she, with a look so arch, that
Fuseli, had he seen it, might have

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