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Glenowen,

OR

THE FAIRY PALACE:

A TALE,

By ELEANOR SLEATH.

TELUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS.

LONDON:

Printed for Brack and Co., Leadenhall Strect, and
J. Harris, St. Paul’s Church Yard.

 

1815.
 

 

Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street.
TO ALL

Parents, Guardians, and Friends
oF
YOUNG PERSONS
In early Youth,
4UE FOLLOWING

TALE,

INTENDED TO ENCOURAGE THE PURSUIT OF ALL
USEFUL ACQUIREMENTS, AND TO PROMOTE

THE BENEVOLENT AFFECTIONS,

‘IS RESPECTFULLY
INSCRIBED BY
THE AUTHOR,
GLENOWEN,
&e. Sc.

 

CHAP. I.

“©! my dear, sweet mamma!” cried
Charles Evelynn, “‘ how pale and thin
you look to day : when will you be well, .
and get up, and put on your pretty
bonnet, and go out with me and Rosa
to gather violets in the glen, as you’
used to do?”—* Hush, my dear,” said
a good old-woman, who sat in a corner
by the fire, with little Rosa on her
knee, ‘ you will disturb your poor
mamma.”’—“ I would not disturb her

B2 for
4 GLENOWEN, OR THE

for the world,” cried Charles, tears
starting in his eyes; “ but why does
not she get well again ? She told Rosa
when she was poorly, ‘if she would take
her physic she would not be sick any
more; but my mamma takes - physic,
aud yet she is sick.”

«* Alas, my sweet innocent babes,”
faintly uttered Mrs. Evelynn, “ have
they yet to learn that they will soon be
orphans? Come hither, Charles,” cried
she, in a tone of voice which seemed
to imply no little effort of resolution ;
“you and Rosa, my love, will soon be
left without any earthly friend, except
your dear good nurse, Dame Morgan,
who has promised to take care of, and
be'kind to you: you will love’ her for

her
FAIRY PALACE. 5

her own sake as well as for mine, she
is the best and steadiest of my friends.”

* QO! but you will not leave us mam-
ma,” cried Charles, mournfally.—** It
is the will of God, my little cherub,”
said the now almost exhausted Mrs.
Evelynn, pressing her pale lips to his
ruddy cheek, on which ahot tear now fell.
—‘ You must not, shall not go, mam-
ma,” cried Rosa, springing from her
nurse’s knee; “ no it would break poor
Rosa’s heart. Say, say, my dear mam-
ma! you will not leave us.”— “ This is
too much,” eried Mrs. Evelynn, whose
emotions, as she pressed her little darl-
ings to her heart, seemed to partake
of agony: “QO! spare me this trying

1

scene!

B3. The
6 GLENOWEN, OR THE

The Nurse, or Dame Morgan, as we
shall henceforth call her, was a mourn-
ful spectator of an interview calculated
to interest every tender feeling of ber
nature. Ah, well-a-day,” was utter-
ed more than once, in a tone of the
-kindest sympathy, till alarmed by . the
increased emotions of Mrs. Evelynn,
she took Rosa in her arms, and giving
a hand to Charles, led them slowly and
reluctantly down stairs; promising, if
their mamma was better, they should
be allowed to see her again soon.

Mrs. Evelynn was the widow of a
clergyman of great respectability, whose
death happened about three years before
the commencement of our history.
Having little or no property beside his
church preferment, ‘he had left her at

‘the
FAIRY PALACE. 7

the early age of two and thirty, in cir-
cumstances comparatively indigent,with
two children, one having just passed
the first period of infancy, the other
only three years older, At the- death
of Mr. Evelynn, the living of Glenowen
became the property of a non-resident
clergyman, who allowed Mrs. Evelynn
to continue at the Vicarage during her
pleasure, but between whom and her-
self no intercourse had ever passed.

As Mrs. Evelynn’s disorder had com-
menced with» some very dangerous
symptoms, she was not wholly unpre-
pared for an event, which she was now
persuaded could not be far distant.
Strange as it may appear, although a
lovely and highly accomplished woman,
she had no female-friend to whose care

she
8 GLENOWEN, OR THE

she could commit her orphan children,
except the kind-hearted Bridget, or, as
she was usually called, Dame, and
sometimes, Goody Morgan; a woman
who resided at the same village, and |
who, although belonging to almost the
Jowest class of the Welsh peasantry,
and of course wholly uneducated, was
a striking example of the power of a
virtuous integrity to procure a high
degree of esteem- from those who,
having had superior advantages, are des-
tined to movein the higher ranks of
society. To her, ‘as toa second mother,
Mrs. Evelynn had committed all that,
since the’ death of her husband, was
dear to her on earth, her two lovely
children, well assured that, under her
tuition, though they might-not become
‘shining, they would-at least become

virtuous
FAIRY PALACE. ; 9

virtuous characters. To her hands, as
to a faithful trustee, she gave all she
had herself possessed, as a reserve for
their futwre maintenance and education;
about which she gave particular direc-
tions. . “ You will teach: them,” said
she, ‘* to love God and each other.”
Then giving into her hand a small ivory
casket, she desired her to unlock it,
adding, “ in that box you will find
some writings, which ensure to my
children a sum sufficient for their main-
tenance and education for some years ;
and you will teach them, or have them
taught, to live afterwards by their own
exertions. Dame Morgan promised
faithfally to fulfit the injunctions of her
friend and mistress ; and as her death
seemed now hourly approaching,, she
had of late left her cottage’to become a

constant
10 GLENOWEN, OR THE

constant attendant upon Mrs. Evelynn
and her children.

Charles and Rosa did not fail to
remind their good nurse (the appellation
by which, from her frequent attendance
at the Vicarage, she was always known
to them) of her promise to let them

again visit their mamma, should she be

~ well enough to admit them again to
her chamber. But the agitation Mrs.
Evelynn had: undergone, while antici-
pating the near approach of her disso-
lution, asa ‘separation from her chil-
dren, their artless endearments, and
the various nameless ties that wind
about the human heart, and connect it
but too strongly with this mortal state,
had brought on such an accession of
fever, that the next day she became
delirious
FAIRY PALACE. 11

delirious. At the expiration of some
hours her reason returned: but she was
too weak to bear the least exertion;
and after lauguishing some hours, in a
state of almost constant stupor, expired
without a sigh or a groan.

Mrs. Evelynn’s funeral, the sale of
the furniture, and a few uecessary ar-
rangements, occupied the ensuing week ;
after which Charles and Rosa removed
to the cottage of Dame Morgan, which
was situated at the other end of the
village, and was remarkable only for
its extreme neatness and. simplicity.
To the place, as to the occupier of this
little humble abode, they had been
always fondly attached. It had been
one of Charles’s earliest pleasures to
accompany his mamma ii her almost

daily
12 _ GLENOWEN, OR THE

daily visits to the cottage. From the
frequency of his attendance, it had
“always seemed to him another home,
and the kind old woman herself as
another mother. The little garden
before the door, and the rocky descent
beyond it to a mountain streamlet, had
‘been the scene of many a juvenile
sport—many an infant pastime. ‘The
choicest fruits in her little orchard at
the end of the house and garden, had
been usually reserved for Charles and
Rosa, who’ soon put in her claim to
the éntertainments at the cottage; and
would point, ere she could speak, to
the well known cherry tree, which had
‘so often supplied her with a delicious
treat.

For several days after their arrival at

the cottage, Charles wept incessantly
for
FAIRY PALACE. 13
for his dear mamma; whilst Rosa, too
young to comprehend what was meant
by dying, would often ask why she did
not come to them, and whether she
had indeed left them, and why, and
how long she would stay away? ‘The
tears of her brother seemed to affect
her more.than the cause. She wept
because he wept; often urging him, to
patience, by saying, ‘ do not. ery so,
my dear Charles; I am sure my mamma
won't stay away long, and then we shall
be taken home again to our own pretty
parlour and garden. But I do not care
about that if she would come and hve
with us here; for we love Nurse, and I
am sure she loves us. Don’t you,
Nurse ?”"—“ Ah, that I do, my sweet
child,” cried Dame Morgan ; “and it
would be a sin anda shame if I did not,

c so
14 GLENOWEN, OR THE

so good as your dear mamma was to me.
Ab, well a day! I have had a sad
loss; but she is an angel in heaven,
and will, I hope, watch over me, as
they say angels in heaven do, and sce
that I perform my duty to her poor
dear babes. O! that ever I should
outlive her!” Then stifling -her own
emotions, she redoubled her caresses,
and endeavoured to sooth and amuse
her little favourites ; who appeared truly
sensible .of her attentions, and in a
short tinie ‘became satisfied, and even
chearful.

The good woman never failed to
assure them, that the only proof of
affection they could now shew to the
memory of theirs departed parent, was
to observe those rules which she had

herself
FAIRY PALACE, 13

herself daid down for their future con-
duct ; and which, as they advanced in
age, she was gradually to unfold. In
the first place, it was her desire that
they should be taught to read the
Scriptures, and as soon as they were of
an age to comprehend them, some good
books in explanation of their meaning ;
and in the meantime, that they should
never rise in the morning, or retire to
bed for the night, without first offering
up their prayers to the Almighty ‘for
his mercy and protection.

As the seeds of piety cannot be sown
too soon, or cultivated with too much
care, Dame Morgan did not neglect to
enforce a regular observance of these
precepts; and she had soon the satis-
faction to discover that they had their

cg due
10 ’ GLENOWEN, OR THE

due weight upon the minds of-her in-
fant pupils. Charles, thougl yet only
eight years old, discovered an eagerness
for instruction, that he might be able -
to read the beautiful stories in the
Bible, several of which Dame Morgan
recited from: memory, commenting as
she proceeded on the various scriptural
characters, and recommending to their
imitation such as were distinguished for
any particular virtue. By the example
of the patriarch Abraham, they were
‘taught to place their confidence in God
only; and not to allow ‘themselves to
put any seeming good in competition
with his favour and approbation. By
that of the righteous Joseph, the same
trust and submission to the will of
God, united with a peculiar generosity
in the forgiveness of injuries ; which

seemed
FAIRY PALACE. 17

seemed to place the son of Jacob almost
above the level of humanity. The
prophet Daniel was cited as an instance
of the interposition of divine power in
the preservation of the faithful servant
of the living God, who in defiance of
savage malevolence and the wandate of
an idolatrous and powerful mcnarch,
had dared to confess him openly before
men.

From these, and various other his-
tories preserved in Holy Writ, serving
to elucidate a number of moral virtues
and religious duties, they were ted to
the account of the miraculous nativity
of our blessed Lord; his ministry,
temptations, sufferings, and death.
What a field for the young mind! A
God, descending to earth to redeem a

sinful
18 GLENOWEN, OR THE

sinful and fallen race, condescends
to stand before the tribunal of an
earthly judge; is condemned to suffer
with malefactors—rises again—appears
—and announces his victory over sin
and death!

Charles was delighted with the vari-
ous kinds of information which these
histories conveyed. ‘Lhe BIBLE seem-
ed to him of all others, the book best cal-
culated for amusement, as well as instruc-
tion. In a short time even Rosa began
to listen to Nurse’s pretty stories, and
was anxious to learn her letters that she
might read like her brother.
FAIRY PALACE. 19

CHAP. If.

ae

Cuantes made such a rapid progress
in his learning, that they bad not been
above a year at the cottage, when Dane
Morgan found it necessary to place him
under the care of a master in a neigh-
bouring village, who.undertook to teach
writing and grammar, and was esteemed
at Glenowen as a man of uncommon
learning and genius. His wife, who
had been educated above her condition,
kept a day school, as the board over
the door announced, for young ladies ;
though it consisted of all the female
children in that and the adjacent village,
who were taught to read and to sew.

Thither
20 GLENOWEN, OR THE

Thither it was thought expedient to
send Rosa; Mrs. Haywood being, as
Dame Morgan observed, an English
woman, and what was more, had had,
according to her ideas, a Jady’s educa-
tion, and was therefore, in every respect,
qualified to become the preceptress of
her little charge. Besides, Rosa would
be then near her brother, as a thin
partition wall only divided the boys
from the girls, and they could go and
come back together.

The partial assurances of Dame Mor-
gan, who herself accompanied them
to school, that they were the best
children in the world, and so tractable
and fond of their books that they
would be no trouble to any body, seem-
_ed hardly necessary to ensure them an
affectionate
FAIRY PALACE. 2]

affectionate reception from their new
master and mistress. Their open coun-
tenances, expressive of the greatest
sweetness of disposition, united with the
recollection of their highly respected
parents, of whom they had been so
early deprived, was a ready passport to
their favour. Rosa, pressing her ruby
lips upon the timeworn check of the
good old Dame, promised not to cry
when she left her; whilst Charles,
taking from her hand a basket, well
stored with bread and cheese and apple
pasty, said that he would take care. of |
his sister, and that he knew she would
be a good girl, and not want to go home
till after school hours; and with these
assurances, having returned their affec-
tionate endearments, she returned to
Glenowen.

Rosa
22 GLENOWEN, OR THE

Rosa was not only satisfied but
amused. Her eagerness to acquire in-
struction made the task of learning
easy; and she was soon held up as a
pattern, even to others much older than
herself. ‘The first week she hemmed a
pocket handkerchief so neatly, that it
was shewn throughout the school; and
rapidly improving both in reading and
sewing, our little heroine soon excited
a spirit of emulation amongst the
scholars, which in a short time became
general, without the least mixture of
envy, for Rosa was beloved aby all the
school.

The prevalence of good example was
not. less observable in the apartment
allotted to the boys, and with the same
advantages ; for Charles, though dis-

tinguished
FAIRY PALACE. 23

tinguished by his master, behaved with
so much kindness and good humour to
his associates, that the same generous
-emulation was excited as amongst the
girls, and Charles had not a single
“enemy in the school.

Weeks and months passed away in
the acquisition of useful knowledge.
Charles could read several pages toge-
ther without spelling, and had some
‘little notion of grammar. Rosa had
already thrown aside her easy book,
and could work neater and quicker .
than any girl of her age.

“1 wish I could knit,” said Rosa
one night to Dame Morgan, as she
was just returned from school, “ oh! it
would be so nice if I could make stock-

ings.”
24. _ GLENOWEN, OR TUE

ings.”--~“ You will learn to knit when
you are a little older,” cried Dame,
“© and then you shall knit a-stocking.”

“* A stocking ! but I must have two

stockings ! ”
** Well, you shall knit two when
you are big enough.”

* T am big enough now, and would

do it, if I could, directly.”

‘© Well, you shall try to knit your-
self a pair sometime.”

<¢ Sometime! sometime won’t do—

”»

it must be now.

« Why now, my little Rosa :”
Rosa
FAIRY PALACE, 25

Rosa threw her arms round her
Nurse’s neck, and pressing her rosy face
glowing through tears, close to hers,
said in a voice hardly audible, “ oh ! do
Jet me knit a pair of stockings for poor
little Jessy Stephenson of our school;
she has none to wear, and such bad
shoes, I wish I might give her a pair
of mine; and then her frock is so
ragged and patched.”

“ Well, you shall knit a pair of
stockings as soon as you can,” said
Dame, won by this infantine eloquence ;
and in the meantime we will find an old
frock, and a pair of. stockings .and
shoes, and you shall take them with
you as you go to school.”

Rosa could scarcely contain hergelf
Dd for
26 GLENOWEN, OR THE

for joy. “Oh! you good, dear, pretty
creature,” said she, “ shall I indeed,
have a frock, and shoes, and knit stock-
ings too! How nice Jessy will look in
them ; and they will keep her so warm ;
and she won’t cry again, and say she is
ashamed to come to school, as she
often does, and that her mammy could
not afford to let her come, if Mrs.
Haywood did not give her her schooling
all for nothing.”

Dame Morgan had heard of James
and Martha Stephenson, but as. she
seldom went from home, and they lived
in another village, she knew them only
by name. Supposing, however, from
Rosa’s account of the wretched appear-
ance of the poor girl, that they were
objects of charity, or at least of pity,

she
FAIRY PALACE. 27

she took a walk over on the following
day to call on the child’s parents, whose
chief, and indeed only misfortune was
that of having a large family of small
children, which they were utterly un-
able to provide for.

“ You shall take the things to Jessy
Stephenson to-morrow,” said Dame. “ I
have seen her parents; they are very
poor, and it is a wretched hovel they live
in; but I believe they are honest, and
it is better to dwell in such a hut with
the blessing of God, than in a palace
with vice and wickedness.”

“May I, oh! may I indeed take them

”

to-morrow,” cried Rosa in a yoice of
rapture; “* what a kind good creature !

D2 Dear,
25 GLENOWEN, OR THE

Dear, dear Nurse, how I love you; and
so will Jessy, when she knows you
have given her these nice things.”
FAIRY PALACE. 29

CHAP. II.

Ts was a happy night for Rosa;
yet she almost thought it a long one.
She was up and drest at five in the
morning. LEvery hour seemed an age
till she could see Jessy... A_ frock,
a petticoat, a pair of stockings and
shoes, and an old bonnet, were quickly
found. What treasures! Rosa wrap-
ped them up in a handkerchief, and
having hastily swallowed her milk and
bread, called to hasten Charles, who
was busy digging in the garden. “ It
is not time to go to school yet,” said
Charles.—‘* But I have got somewhere
else to go first,” cried Rosa, displaying

D3 the
30°  GLENOWEN, OR THE

the contents of her little bundle. “ I
must go to Jessy Stephenson’s, for you
know that it would not be right to give
her the things at school, as the little
girls would thea know that I brought
them, and it will be better not, you
know, Charles.” Charles acceded to
the propriety of Rosa’s scheme. “ I
don’t care,” said he, ‘* if I am at
school an hour too soon, I can get
another lesson, you know, or we can
walk about a little till school hours.”
So off they went, with hearts as light
as health, youth; ‘and innocence could
make them; and soon reached a mean
hut, close to a rock at the end of the
village, wherewant and misery might be
said to have fixed their dwelling, though
chearfulness and content seemed almost
to have excluded. them.

‘ ' Rosa
FAIRY PALACE. 31

Rosa lifted up the latch, called
” and displayed ber bundle.
Jessy flew to the door. ‘* Put on these

“* Jessy,

things, said Rosa, “and come to school. —
Don’t say I brought them, but they are
yours, indeed, quite yours.” So saying,
she flew from the door, not waiting the
expression of the mother’s surprize,- nor
the utterance of the poor girl’s thanks,
who could scarcely speak for joy.

It was owing to the following inci-
dent that Rosa took such a particular
interest in the misfortunes and poverty
of poor Jessy Stephenson. Two little
girls, a few years older than herself, the
daughters of a person of some opulence,
who had lately come into the neigh-
bourhood, to conduct some minery,
had lately been added to the number of

Mrs.
32 GLENOWEN, OR. THE

Mrs, Haywood’s scholars. From the
first day of their arrival, they had eon-
ducted themselves with much _ pride
and haughtiress towards the rest of the
girls, whom they affected to consider
as beings of an inferior order to them-
selves, and to whom they were always
boasting of their father’s riches and their
own imaginary consequence. They
were drest in white muslin frocks and
pink sashes, and wore fine straw bon-
nets tied under the chin with ribbons’
of the same colour. To theirs the
dress of many of the scholars, and the
almost undressof the poor forlorn Jessy,
who, as Rosa had observed, had been
taken by Mrs. Haywood from charity,
formed indeed a sorry contrast. “ I
wont touch her, I declare I wo’nt,”
said the elder of the Miss Willsons;

“ I declare
FAIRY PALACE. 33

“ T declare it’s quite shocking. to be
obliged to sit on the same form with a
charity girl, without stockings! I'll
tell my mamma, that I will. The
board over the door says a school for
young ladies: I hope, ma'am, (to Mrs.
Haywood) you don’t cail that a young
lady, or any one here besides ourselves;
except, indeed, Miss Rosa.”

* Young ladies are those who behave
as such,” cried Mrs. Haywood: and she
would probably have remonstrated with
some warmth upon the impropriety and
general unfeclingness of their conduct,
had she not been restrained by consi-
derations, which rendered it,*in her
opinion, imprudent; for she was well
aware, if she treated them with the

severity
34 GLENQWEN, OR THE

severity they justly merited, they would
immediately quit the school.

“Don’t cry, Jessy,” said Rosa; for
the poor child was but too sensible of
the mortification to which her poverty
had exposed her, and notwithstanding
a kind look from Mrs. Haywood (who
told her not to mind, for she was a good
girl) was sobbing and weeping bitterly :
“I will sit by you, Jessy; for I love
you a great deal better than those
young ladies, and what signifies a fine
frock and sash ?

Jessy’s hand was involuntarily laid
upon Rosa’s. “Don’t care what they.
say,” cried Rosa, “and do dry your
eyes and smile; we will sit together
always, and you shall come and see me

at
FAIRY PALACE. 34

at my dear Dame’s house. Oh! you
can’t think what a pretty house itis, and
how many flowers there are in the
garden! I will ask Nurse, and she will
let you come and play with me.” Jessy
did smile: her tears were hastily dried
away. “Shall I,—shall I indeed,”
said she, ‘‘ come and see you ?»—“* Yes,”
cried Rosa, “and I will tell you where
there is a beautiful Iinnet’s nest; but
we must not disturb the young ones,
~ for Charles says it would be cruel; and
you shall have both your hands full of
cherries out of the orchard. Oh, there.
is such oceans! and as much milk as
you can drink.” The poor girl’s eyes
were again filled with tears; but they
were tears of gratitude and joy.
36 GLENOWEN, OR FHE

CHAP. IV.

-_—

“ Bress us! and well indeed!” were
the exclamations of Charlotte and Maria
Willson, as Jessy, on the same morning
that Rosa had taken the things, entered
in her new habiliments. “Well, pray,
who has cloathed you, child, so neat?
I declare, if you don’t look almost
decent,” said the former, who was re-.
markable for her pertness. Mrs. Hay-
wood looked surprised; but observing
theconfusion, mingled however with joy,
in the countenance of the unassuming
Jessy, made no remark. ‘ Remember,
you have promised to sit by me, Jessy,”
said Rosa, “and so you shall (pulling

her
9

FAIRY PALACE. 37

her gently towards her); you know we
are to be playfeliows.” The poor girl
necded no very pressing invitation to
take the offered seat; and Jessy and
the little Rosa were, from this time,

almest inseparables.

On her return to the Cottage, she
informed Dame Morgan of all that
passed between her friend and the Miss
Willsons, which she had hitherto for-
borne to mentian, and requested her
permission to invite Jessy to the Cot-
tage. ‘With all my heart, my dear,”
said Dame Morgan, ‘for she seems,
by your account, to be a very good
child; and we will try if we cannot
make her amends for the mortifications
she has suffered from those proud
naughty girls. Ah, they are sadly

E brought
38 GLENOWEN, OR THE

brought up, or they would not have
behaved so haughtily. It is a sin and
a shame, that one Christian should
affront another!—and what saith the
Scripture? Charity vaunteth not, is
not puffed up, doth not behave itself
unseemly.”

The next day, which was a holiday,
was fixed for Jessy to be invited to the
Cottage. Rosa was all joy and anima-
tion. Her attentions to her guest were
dictated by that pure benevolence.
which the factitious arts of politeness
so poorly imitate. All her infantine
efforts to amuse were called into action.
Jessy was all her care: she told her —
the prettiest stories—proposed the pret-
tiest plays—and gathered for her the
ripest cherries. What a heart has

this
©

FAIRY PALACE. 39

this child, thought Dame; O! my
pretty Rosa, may Heaven bless thee
with means to indulge through life feel-

ings so kind—so generous !

The gleam of hope and delight which
shot through the equally benevolent
heart of the good old woman, as she
breathed this affectionate ejaculation,
seemed almost prophetic, that her
prayer was accepted, and her wish ap-
proved. “ Yes, she will prosper,” added
she, “ they will both prosper; for doth
not the Psalmist say,—I have been
young and now am old; yet never saw
I the righteous man forsaken, or his

= ad Saas ”
seed begging their bread ?

Rosa having thus stepped forward as
the champion of oppressed innocence,
F 2 seemed
40 GLENOWEN, OR THE

seemed to consider herself as bound by
‘an indispensable obligation, to promote,
as much as possible, the interests of her
new friend. “ I wish Jessy could live
with us,” said she one day, ‘cand not
be obliged to go home, only now and
then, just to see her mammy.’—“ I
wish so, too,” said Charles, ‘*O!”
added Rosa, “* we could make her so
happy. Would you leave your mammy,
Jessy r’—** Yes, if I might live with
you,” cried Jessy, ‘and go and see her
sometimes.” —“ Jessy shall come and
play with you often,” said Dame, “ but
she must not leave her mammy: good
children always stay with their parents ;
you would not have left your dear
Mamma, would you?”

Fé No m dear Mamma left me,”
d
cried
FAIRY PALACE. 4l

cried’ Rosa. “1 can’t remember her
now; but I know were dear Mamma
is.”—-** She is in Heaven,” said Dame
Morgan, casting up her eyes with an
earnest and pensive look. ‘* Yes; and
T know where she was put,” resumed
Rosa; ‘it was down ina deep place in
the chureh-yard.”—‘ Her mortal part
is there,” said Dame, ‘‘ but her soul is
gone to him that gave it..—‘ IT have
seen the place where she was laid,”
cried Charles, “and dear Papa’s grave
is close by." I should know it if I
was to go by myself,” said Rosa, ‘for
Isaw you and Charles, a long while
ago, dressing it, O! with such pretty
flowers !”— You did,” said Dame, not
at all surprised that Rosa should have
recollected this incident, “ and to-mor-
vow the flowers must be renewed, and

E38 you
AQ GLENOWEM, OR THE

you and Charles must dress it.”—** T'o-
morrow,” repeated Rosa; ‘shall we
indeed go to it to-morrow ?”

“Yes, it is two years to-morrow,”
resumed Dame Morgan. “Ah, well
a day! never shall I forget the time,
since” (and a tear fell upon her furrow-
ed cheek), “since you lost the best of
mothers, and I of friends.”

“* And Jessy,” said Rosa.—

“Yes, Jessy may accompany you.”

“ May she? O! then we will get -
the sweetest flowers; and you, Jessy,

shall help to lay them upon poor
Mamma’s grave.”

“Yes,
FAIRY PALACE. 43

‘Yes, and as you strew them,” cried
Dame, ‘‘ you must bless God, that
though he has pleased to leave Charles
and you poor little orphans, that you
are not friendless; and pray,” added
she (still more solemnly) *‘ that he will
enable you to perform your duties, as
those dear parents did, who there lie
buried.”.—* I will pray,” said Charles,
with animation: ‘and I, too,” said

Rosa.
Ad GLENOWEN, OR THE

CHAP. V.

"THe pleasing, mournful task, never
omitted in the Welsh counties by the
friends of the deceased, on the anni-
versary of their funerals, was fulfilled,
according to Dame Morgan’s intention,
and according to the custom of the
country, on the following day. . Charles
and Rosa, contrary to their usual prac-
tice, came home to dinner, attended
by Jessy Stephenson. A quantity of
flowers and evergreens were gathered
ready for the occasion; and in the
evening, after sun-set, Dame Morgan,
attended by the three children, repaired
to the church-yard.

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FAIRY PALACE. Ad

It was a sweet and silent hour. The
song of a lonely bird, mingling at in-
tervals with the lowing of cattle in the
valley, and the sound of a distant water-
fall, alternately swelling and dying
upon the evening, breeze, alone broke
the almost universal stillness that pre-
vailed aronnd. They passed slowly
along tne pathway leading to the
church-yard. The sportive Rosa car-
rying in her hand a basket of eglantine,
pansies, and sweet rosemary, moved
slowly between Dame Morgan and her
brother, who carried some rooted flowers
to grow and bloom upon the grave.

The solemnity of the scene, and of -
thé occasion, had arrested the agile
foot of youth. Rosa, who at other
times could scarcely move without a

bound,
46 GLENOWEN, OR THE

bound, kept pace with her aged atten-
dant. The glowing smile uo longer
dimpled her cheek, or played about
her cherry lips. A soft melancholy had
diffused itself over the open, and usual-
ly highly animated countenance of
Charles. Jessy was respectfully silent ;
whilst Dame, with tears of tender
recollection often stealing to her eyes,
surveyed with mournful satisfaction the

juvenile group that attended her.

Entering the church. yard, they saw
at a little distance before them a majes-
tic female figure, wrapped up in a
large Indian shawl, and covered witha
veil, which entirely concealed bir face,
walking slowly amongst the graves.
She had advanced towards that of Mr.
Evelynn, when she paused, and after

some
FAIRY PALACE. 47

some moments. during which she seem-
ed to betray much emotion, she knelt
upon the grave, and unconscious of
observation, seemed to be indulging in
all the luxury of grief.

Dame Morgan gazed upon her with
astonishinent. Her appearance, for
she seemed to be above the middle
rank of life,—her being alone, evidently
in search of the grave to which the
stone had directed her steps— her grief,
and apparent earnestness, when she
knelt upon it,—were indeed circum-
stances calculated to excite no ordinary
degree of interest ; particularly in one
so nearly concerned, in whatever might
relate to the Evelynn family, as was

Dame Morgan.

Fearful
A8 GLENOWEN, OR THE

Fearful of obtruding upon the sacred-
ness of her sorrow, from whatever
cause it might arise, she made a signal
to her companions to enter the church
porch, where she could notice the beha-
viour of the stranger without being
herself observed. After kneeling some
_ time the lady arose from her posture ;
and sitting down upon the mound of
earth, leaned her cheek upon her hand,
in an attitude of the deepest thought-
fulness; Then, as if roused from her
abstraction by some sudden recollection,
she started from her seat, took a slow,
lingering survey of the grave, on which
she had been sitting, and then walked
slowly behind the church, and disap-
peared.

Unobserved, and probably unseen ;
for
FAIRY PALACE. AQ

for the lady seemed too much engaged
in her own solitary meditations to
notice any passing object, the party left
their concealment in the porch, and pro-
ceeded toward the grave. It had in-
stantly occurred to Dame Morgan, that
the lady must have intimately known
her late highly esteemed pastor; and
nothing but the respect which she con-
ceived due to her appearance could
have prevented her from accosting her. .

It is very extraordinary, thought
Dame, to whom the more she thought
of it the more extraordinary it really
did seem ; for I never heard our good
Vicar, or his sweet lady, say he had
ever a very near female relation or parti-
cular friend ; and if she is neither, why
should she kneel down upon the green

FE sod
50 GLENOWEN, OR THE

sod, and cry, and take on so; and
then sit upon it, and look as if she was
quite melancholy? There must be
some mystery in it, thought Dame:
and a mystery there certainly was ; but
such a one as all the sagacity of the
good old Dame could not enable her to
develop.

The graves were now drest, and they
were preparing to quit the burial ground,
when the stranger appeared again at the
otherend of the church. On_perceiv-
ing them, she pulled her veil over her
face, and seemed to be regarding them
attentively. As they drew near, her
veil was replaced; and with a quick
step she regained the path she had

quitted, and disappeared as before.
The
FAIRY PALACE. 51

The children, who saw nothing in the
incident, but that a fine lady, such a
lady as they had never before seen, had
been walking in the church-yard, and
had sat and kneeled down upon dear
Papa’s grave, performed their task with-
out either curiosity or enquiry, and
went home without once recurring to
the subject.

On the following morning, Charles,
deeply impressed by the ceremony of
the preceding evening, spoke affect-
ingly of his parents, whose loss he de-
plored with tears; and enquired of
Dame Morgan what be must do when
he wasa man? “ I have no friend,”
said he, * but you; and if Tam with-
out money, and can do nothing, how
am I to maintain my dear sister, who

F2 has
52 GLENOWEN, OR THE

has neither father, nor mother, and
can have nobody to take care of and
provide for her but myself? "—‘“ You
must learn to get your living, .my dear,”
said Dame; ‘but you are too young at
present, and must think of nothing but
your books, till you are.of an age to
learn some trade or profession.” ~ “And
what trae or profession shall I learn ¢”
asked Charles.

«* That must be thought of hereafter,”
replied the Dame.—“ I would do any
thing,” said Charles, “ and work very
hard, if I knew how; and should
think nothing [ could do too much to
make you and my dear Rosa happy.”"—
«« Aye, you are a good boy,” said Dame,
** and Pll warrant will do all you can
for your poor sister. You must be a

friend
FAIRY. PALACE. 53

friend to her, Charles; for when I am
gone, she may have no friend but
you.”

“And I will be a. friend to her,”
said Charles, energetically, his eyes
glistening with tears, “* and love her
always as I do now, and get money for
her, that she may not be obliged to
work for her living, when Papa and
Mamma’s money is all-gone.”—* You
shall learn to maintain yourself and her
too, when you have done school, my
love,” said Dame, delighted with this
proof of fraternal solicitude; “ and,
in the meantime, rest assured that God
will, in his mercy, assist your endea-
vours, and prosper your undertakings,
so long as you trust in him, as I hope
you do, and endeavour to perform your

FS duty.”
54 GLENOWEN, OR THE

duty.” Charles seemed satisfied with
these assurances ; and resolved to pro- |
secute his studies with the greatest di-
ligence, that he might sooner have it in
his power to realize some plan for the
maintenance of himself and Rosa; as
also to assist his worthy old friend,
should her increasing age and infirmities
render such assistance necessary.
FAIRY PALACE. 55

CHAP. VI.

—-

Dunrrine the day, and in the evening,
Dame Morgan made various enquiries
in the village concerning the mysterious
strauger, but could gain no satisfactory
information. She had been seen by
several of the villagers; but who she
was, and were she came from, were
questions that no one could answer,
The fruitless wish that she had had
courige to address her, was several times.
repeated: for if she had such a great re-
gard for my poor master, why might
she not, thought Dame, have a like re-
gard for his children? But perhaps

the poor lady may have had troubles,
and
56 GLENOWEN, OR THE

and so has got a little wrong in her
head ; so it might be all chance and no
meaning after all.

These, and such like meditations,
employed the mind of Dame Morgan,
. till her attention was at length en-
grossed by a new, and not less interest-
ing subject. The gentleman who had
had the curacy of Glenowen since the
death of Mr. Evelyun, had recently
been inducted to a small living in a
neighbouring county. As he possessed
_ not the mild virtues of his predecessor,
he was but little liked in the viliage.
- A person of the name of Lloyd had
succeeded him, and now resided at the
Vicarage. This young man (for he
was only three and twenty) was alike
remarkable for strict. attention to the

duties
FAIRY PALACE. 57

duties of his office, and for his mild
and engaging manners. He had often
seen Charles, in his way to and from
school, and in the village; and know-
ing him to be the son of a former in-
cumbent, became highly interested in
his favour. Charles’s respectful bow
was at first answered with a “ howdo
you do, iny good boy?” afterward with
a pat on the cheek ; and at last with a
cordial shake of the hand, and an in-
vitation to the Vicarage.

His first visit there was succeeded by’

a call from Mr. Lloyd, anda kind offer
to Dame Morgan to teach Charles
Latin, which he was now, he said, of
an age to learn, as also in some other
parts of education, free of all expense.
“ God, in Heaven, bless and reward
you !
58 GLENOWEN, OR THE

you ! my dear sir,” was Dame’s laconic
answer: smoothing her apron, and
making a courtsey almost down to the
ground.

“¢ It were a pity he should not have
these kind of advantages,” continued
the good Curate, “ for he is one of the

1}?

finest lads I ever saw !

« The finest in this county and the
next too,” said Dame, whose vanity
was not a little incited ; ‘° and it werea
pity, as your Reverence says,” (for
_ Dame could not at that instant find
another word which she considered as
sufficiently respectful) * that he should
not be made a scholard.”

* You will then entrust him to my
care,”
FAIRY PALACE. 59

care,” said Mr. Lloyd, extending his
hand to the old woman, who could
hardly help raising it to her lips, as
she exclaimed: ‘* You are the very
model of my dear master; he would have
done just so. Aye, well, be was a
friend and a father to the whole village ;
and so God will provide friends for his
children.” Mr. Lloyd then toformed
her, that he was about to leave home
for'a few days; but that, on the Monday
following, he would expect his pupil ;
and with these words departed.

¢* Well, this is a fine thing, indeed,”
said Dame, as soon as Mr. Lloyd had
left the Cottage; ‘‘all this learning,
and for nothing.” And though some-
what past the age for castle-building,
she was in danger of falling, in some

degree,
60 GLENOWEN, OR THE

degree, into this juvenile propensity ;
for she had already, in imagination,
conducted the young pupil, by no very
gradual advances, to a rich benefice
(having concluded he must be a clergy-
man), and would probably, in a few
minutes, have elevated him to the see
of Canterbury ; had not Rosa at that
moment entered, glowing with ruddy
health, the pure blood dancing in her
veins, and her eyes sparkling with de-
light, while she exhibited, with a look
of self-complacency, a part of a worst-
ed stocking which she had been knit-
ting for Jessy Stephenson, and had now
brought with her from school. Mrs.
Haywood had commended it :—it was
indeed very well executed ; and_per-
haps no high-bred belle ever displayed
a costly ornament, or a new  birth-

night
FAIRY PALACE. 61

night dress, with half the real satis-
faction with which Rosa exhibited this
humble effort of infantine ingenuity.

‘You have done your work very
well,” said Dame, examining it atten-
tively.“ And I can widen and narrow
too,” cried Rosa, “and I shall seon

make a stocking my own sclf.”

Charles now entered with his satchel,
and was emptying out his books upou
the table, when Dame observed that he
would now have occasion for some of
another kind; and then acquainted
him, in a few words, with Mr. Lloyd’s
visit and proposal, and informed him
he was to become his pupil on the fol-
lowing Monday. Charles, though he
felt some regret at the thoughts of
Icaving his old master and some of his

G schoolfcllows,
62 GLENOWEN, OR THE

schoolfellows, was nevertheless fully
satisfied with the arrangement :—* but
what,” said he, ‘‘is to be done with
Rosa ?”—* Rosa is getting a great girl
now,” said Dame, ‘and will go back-
wards and forwards from school with
the other scholars in the village.”—-* O!
yes, I can do very well,” said Rosa,
“and so don’t mind about me, Charles.”

Rosa was so forward with her book,
that she was already advanced to. a
higher class; and Mrs. Haywood, asa
reward for ber diligence, made her a
present of a book of fairy tales, with
which she was highly delighted. Jt
contained the stories of Cinderella, the
White Cat, the Oger with his seven
Jeague boots, and also an abridgment

of two or three of the most popular
stories
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

G3 herself
64 GLENOWEN, OR THE

herself do. To that system of evasion
often employed by children, asa means
of averting impending punishment, she
had never had occasion to resort; for
ske seldom deserved reproof, much less
correction ; but when she did, always
willingly submitted to it. She had now
began to write under the instruction of
Mr. Haywood, who undertook this de-
partment in the school; and this, with
knitting, sewing, and reading in the
Testament, in classes with the other
girls, occupied so much of her time, that
her book. of fairy tales was necessarily
reserved for hours of leisure, and form-
ed an agreeable entertainment after her
return from school.

Whatever might be her opinion
concerning the wonders of enchant-
ment,
FAIRY PALACE. 65

ment, that there were really such
beings as fairies Rosa had never doubt-
ed; that they:possessed the extraordi-
nary powers the authors of the various
tales ascribed to them, she probably
did doubt, for she had supposed their
influence over mortals to have been
more limited, These, however, were
probably the fairics of other countries,
or of ancient days, and Rosa continued

to read with interest and avidity.

Wales may, with propriety, be term-
ed the present scene of fairy-land. In
the vicinity of Glenowen was a druidi-
cal stone, where the fairies were reported
by the villagers to make rings, and
perform their midnight revels. She
had often passed by this stone, nay
she could scarcely go to and from school

2

G3 without
66 GLENOWEN, OR THE

without passing it, and had frequently
stopped in the evening with Charles,
and some little girls, who were her
schoolfellows, to play and dance round
it, as the fairies were said to do, often
wishing for a sight of these wonderful
little elves, whom she almost believed
she should sometime see. No wonder
then that Rosa should have believed in
the existence of fairies, interwoven, as
they were, with the traditions of her
country She had been told also, that
there are two kinds, one henevolent,
the other malignant ; and that rewards
and punishments were awarded by them
to the merits or demerits of those with
whom they interfered. Probably from
the supposed supernatural agency of
this extraordinary race of beings, these
stones are said to have acquired the

peculiar
FAIRY PALACE. 67

peculiar property of curing some dis-
eases incident to children. Rosa had
once seen one. of Jessy’s sisters drawn
through the Tolmen ; and the cure, in
cases of recovery, is, no doubt, ascribed
to the power of the benevolent sprite
who is supposed to preside in it, as the
failure of the experiment is to the ma-
licious interference of the evil one.
68 GLENOWEN, OR THE

CHAP. VI.

or

Cartes, on the appointed day, com-
menced his pupilage at the Vicarage ;
and in the course of a few weeks, made
such ‘an astonishing proficiency in the
rudiments of the Latin tongue, under
the tuition of his new friend, as really to
surprise the good curate, who declared
that he was more than repayed for the
pains he bestowed, by the excellent
talents, and extraordinary diligence, of
his young scholar. “ You have an
excellent memory,” said he to Charles,
“ 9 great natural advantage; but this,
without industry, and that ardent thirst
for information, without which know-

ledge
FAIRY PALACE. 69

“

ledge is seldom acquired, would not
have enabled you to make so rapid a
progress.” One day, on his-baviug got
off two or three pages of the Latin
Syntax in a very short space of time,
and recited them with uncommon ac-
curacy, Mr. Lloyd made him a present
of a five shilling piece, which he meant,
he said, as a reward for his present
good conduct, and also as a stimulant
to future exertion.

Five shillings to Charles, who had
never before been master of more than
a single halfpenny at a time, the weekly
allowance regularly paid by Dame Mor-
gan to himself and Rosa, to buy plums
and gingerbread at the neighbouring
shop, was indeed a noble present ; but
had it been given him merely as a pre-

sent,
70 GLENOWEN, OR THE

sent, the value, im his eyes, would have
been greatly diminished. It was the re-
ward of duty, of industry—-of virtuous
emulation ; and who, having been thus
situated, does not know the delight that
communicates to the heart, when a
consciousness of desert accompanies the
gift of friendship or of love ?

Charles experienced this feeling in
its fullest extent, and resolved, by a
strict attention to his studies, to conti-
nue to merit the favours of his generous
and revered patron.

But what was to be done with the
five shilliogs? Might it net purchase
some pleasure for bis dear Rosa? She
had often wished for a doll, that she
might dress and undress it. “ If I
1 had
FAIRY PALACE. 71

had a doll,” said she, one day, to her
brother, * T could cut out clothes for
it; and I should then learn to make
my own frocks and petticoats, and
all my things myself; and that, you
know, Charles, would be so nice: but
I won’t ask dear Nurse, for she has a
many things to buy, and not, perhaps,
a great deal of money ; and so I won't

think about it any more”

What a happiness to Charles to be
able to purchase this little useful play-
thing; to tell Rosa too, who would so
sweetly sympathize in all his pleasures,
that it.had been given to him asareward,
and by one of the best and kindest of
his friends. He could not wait her
return from school, or go himself home,
till] he had seen her; but, as was some-

times
72 GLENOWEN, OR THE

times his custom, went a part of the
way to mect her. His impatience to
communicate his own happiness, and
to tell Rosa about the doll, made him
forget he was too early. The evening
was however fine, and he resolved to

walk on, till he should meet her.

~He had proceeded about half way
down the village, when he perceived,
at a little distance before him, a poor
emaciated figure in a sailor's jacket,
hobbling along the side of the road,
with as much expedition as an enfeebled
frame and a wooden leg would admit
of. Before Charles could overtake him
he stopped, as if overcome with fatigue,
groaned heavily, and on perceiving him
threw himself on a bank beneath a
hedge, faintly exclaiming, ‘“ for the

love
FAIRY PALACE. 13

love of God, young gentleman, a little

'”

water

Charles ran, or rather flew, toa run-
ning stream by the side of the road,
and filling his hat with water, presented
it to the poor Sailor, who was nearly
fainting. He lifted it to his parched
lips; but in a moment, as if wholly
exhausted, sunk back, heaved another
groan, and fell senseless upon the bank.

Alarmed at his appearance, and
almost doubting whether he still breath-
ed, Charles looked wishfully around, in .
hopes of seeing somebody who might
assist him in the care of the poor Sailor.
Nobody was to be seen. He listened
in anxious hope of hearing some sound
which might convince him he was with-

H in,
74 -  GLENOWEN, OR THE

in reach of help. None, however, was
to be heard; the bleating of sheep,
and the lowing of the distant herd,
were alone to be distinguished. What
was to be doner He could not leave
him whilst he procured assistance, lest
he might die in the interval. Again he
ran to the brook, and again filling his
hat with water, sprinkled it upon his
face and hands. In a few minutes the
Sailor opened his eyes. Charles sup-
ported him as well as he was able; and
shortly after had the satisfaction of see-
ing Rosa, attended by two little girls, her
schoolfellows, coming along the road.

Charles called to them to make haste.
They ran, and soon came to the place
~where the Sailor lay. Hardly had
they time for inquiry, when Charles

spied
FAIRY PALACE. 75

spied at some distance a cart with a
man in it; and desiring Rosa and the
other girls to remain with the Sailor,
ran up to the cart, and finding it was
going to Glenowen, he requested the
man to stop, and take in a poor sick
Sailor, who had fallen sick upon the
road, and was lying under-yon hedge.

‘© And who will take him in when ~
he gets there,” said the man, “ if he
is nothing, as I suppose, but a strolling

”

vagabond ?
* You may take him to the White
Horse,” cried Charles, “* and when he

has had rest and food, he will, perhaps,
be better.”

“ The White Horse, the Lord help
H 2 thee,
76 GLENOWEN, OR THE

thee, my good young master!” return-
ed the countryman, “ why, what think
you will they have to say to him at the
White Horse? Why, young man,
they would not even look at him there.”

“ What, not when he has fought
for his King and Country ? ” exclaimed
Charles, colouring highly ; “and when
he has been wounded, and bled for
them, and has lost a limb, too, in their
service ?”

“No matter for that,” cried the
peasant, “itis not what he has lost,
but what he has got, that must recom-
mend him there; and if he has no
rino, however sick or sorry, they'll be
no room for him there.”

« But
FAIRY PALACE. V7

“ But I have money,” said Charles,
pulling out his five shilling piece, which
at this moment was indeed a treasure.

* Oh! oh! well, if you are willing
resumed the country-

to pay the piper,’
man, jocularly, “ Ill warrant they'll
make him dance ; and so (jumping from
the cart) we will lift his honour In,
if you please :—but, stop, what am I

to have for carrying him ?”

“ J will pay for that too,” said
Charles. - :

“ No, I'll be hanged if you do,
young master! I know who you are,
though, mayhap, you don’t know me.
You are the son, aye, and the own son,
{ see, of as good a man as ever trod on

H 3 leather,
78 GLENOWEN, OR THE

leather, let the other be who he will;
and so no more, I'll take him! And
if it be as how you please to.make way,
uke shewing your crown piece to old
Rogers, at the White Horse, he'll be

taken as good care on as need be.”

By this time they had reached the
place where the Sailor lay, attended by
Rosa and her companions. In a few
minutes he was placed in the cart, and
-followed by the rest of the party pro-
ceeded to Glenowen.

Charles’s promises, and the sight of
the crown piece, were sufficient to pro-
cure the poor vagrant a ready admission
into the little inn in the village, where
he obtained all the care and attention
necessary to his situation. The next

morning
FAIRY PALACE, 79

morning Charles called at the White
Horse, and had the satisfaction of hear-
ing that he was considerably refreshed,
and was anxiously waiting to thank the
young gentleman, who he believed, he
said, had saved his life, for his great
humanity and kindness. Dame Mor-
gan, who had heard the whole story
from Charles and Rosa, went herself
to call upon the Sailor and offer her
little services.

In a village like Glenowen, hardly
any incident can occur, ‘but the know-
ledge of it becomes general. ~The man
who drove the cart related what he
himself knew of it, and Mr. Lloyd,
happening to be within hearing of the
rumour, got possession of the circum-
stances from common report, before

Charles
80 GLENOWEN, OR THE

Charles had thought, or leisure to
inform him that there was a sick sailor -
in the village, whose situation required
attention and support. To the calls of
humanity Mr. Lloyd was always feel-
ingly alive. He wished to relieve dis-
tress, but he feared to encourage vice.
“ Y will call,” said he, “ at the inn,
and sce this sailor."—He did so, and
drew from him the little narrative of his

misfortunes.

‘They were not, as he himself obsery-
ed, uncommon. He had fought, been
wounded, had lost a leg, and been dis-
charged ; and was now on his way to
his own parish, which was only at a
few miles distance, and which he had
meant to have reached that night, when

he had been prevented by fatigue, and:
the
FAIRY PALACE. 81

the calls of unsatisfied hunger, from
executing his design.

Mr. Lloyd listened with interest and
pity to this short but mournful recital ;
_ and at parting put a guinea into his
hand, with a promise that he should
either see, or hear from bim shortly.
The grateful joy of the Sailor was ex-
pressed rather by actions than in words.
He pressed the hand that was held out
to him—watered it with his tears,—
and having invoked the Almighty to
shower down blessings upon bis youth-
ful’ benefactor, who appeared to take
leave of him, departed on his way.

‘© IT cannot buy you the pretty doll I
intended, now,” said Charles, looking
affectionately at his sister; “ but I

know,
82 GLENOWEN, OR THE

know, Rosa, you are not sorry that
I cannot.”

* No, I, 1 am very glad. I should
not have loved the doll at all, Charles,”
said Rosa; “ nay, I think I should
quite have hated it, if it had been
bought with the crown piece, and the
poor man left to faint upon the road.”

When Mr. Lloyd next saw Charles,
he inquired what he had done with the
' five shilling piece which he had given
him. Charles hesitated, blushed, and
was about to answer; when Mr Lloyd,
taking another dollar from his purse,
added, “© I know not whether to be
most pleased with the use you have
made of the money, in applying it to
so charitable a purpose, or with the

peculiar
FAIRY PALACE. 83

peculiar delicacy with which you have
endeavoured to conceal from me the
manner of its disposal. ‘Take this ;
and whilst you can so laudably employ
it, may you always have sufficient to
gratify the generous and benevolent
feelings of your nature.”

Charles’s heart was quite full, as Mr.
Lloyd thus addressed him. Hardly
could he express his thanks, or give
utterance to his feelings. Rosa and the
doll were again presented to his imagi-
nation; and he flew to the Cottage,
eager to inform his sister, and Dame
Morgan, of this new instance of the
kindness and generosity of his worthy
and beloved tutor.
GLENOWEN, OR THE

CHAP. VIII.

————

Ow the following evening, as Charles
was busily engaged in one of his Latin
exercises, a man entered the Cottage
with a large deal box, which he left
near the door and was retiring. “See !
what have we here!” exclaimed Dame
Morgan, “‘ a box! Who sent it? It
cannot be for us, good man, pray where
did it come from ?”—* I know no more
than you do,” answered the man, and
instantly departed. ‘ There is a direc-
tion upon it.” said Charles. Dame
drew it to the window, for it was almost
dusk; and putting on her spectacles,
which she had first carefully wiped,

read
FAIRY PALACE. 85

read (for it was luckily in a print hand)
For Cuar es AnD Rosa Evetynn. “ It
4s for us, most assuredly,” said Dame,
** but who can have sent it?”—** I
suppose we may then open it,” said
Charles, who ran for a hammer; and
with a few strokes knocked off the lid.

osa at this instant returned from
school; and hearing the sound of the
instrument with which Charles had
opened the box, ran in to see what was
going forward. Rosa was surprised
when she found there was a box, of
which they yet knew not the contents,
directed to her brother and herself;
but who may describe the astonishment
.of Dame Morgan, when removing a
fine damask napkin, she found six
cambric frocks, the finest and most
1 beautiful
86 GLENOWEN, OR THE

beautiful she had ever seen ; two others
of the most costly muslin, trimmed
with rich lace; an equal number of
petticoats ; a complete set of the finest
linen, with every other necessary ar-
ticle of dress, beside two white cam-
bric bonnets, quilted and drawn in the
prettiest and most becoming manner ;
two tippets of the same material as the
bonnets, trimmed with muslin; half a
dozen pairs of green and red Morocco
shoes; several handsome sashes; as
many pairs of gloves ; and indeed, upon
the whole, a number of the most com-
plete, elegant, and costly dresses.
Attached to one of the frocks was a
paper, on which was written in a
small and delicate hand-writing, “ This,
with the rest of the things under the
fist napkin, for Rosa Evelynn,—the

little
FAIRY PALACE. 87

little girl, who despises no one, and
belives well to every body.” Under
these was a vapkin of the same kind as
beiore ; and upon it a paper, on which
was written in the same hand, for
Charles Evelynn,—the good boy, who
loves his book better than play, who
is kind and obliging to every one, and
whom every body loves. With this
were six of the finest nankeen jackets
and trowsers ; a dozen of holland shirts;
the same number of cotton stockings;
six pair of shoes, and two hats.

Another damask napkin was placed
under the things directed for Charles,
and again a paper, on which was insert-
ed, “ For Dame Morgan,—the excel-
lent woman, who has so well performea

12 her
88 GLENOWEN, OR THE

her duty to the children of her deceased
friend.”

** Bless me,” cried Dame, who had
turned pale with astonishment, while
examining these costly gifts,—“ why
here are pieces of stuff, and cotton, and
silk, for gowns; and muslin, I warrant,
for caps, and aprons, and ruffles ; and
two grand flowered shawls.  Alack,
alack, what must I do with all these
fine things? Yet here they are for
certain; but what have we here?
taking out a small silk bag, directed
to herself. ‘* A purse, as I live,” she
exclaimed, sinking upon a chair, almost
breathless with agitation, “ and in it,
if I can count, twenty good golden
guineas.”

Dame
FAIRY PALACE. 89

Dame Morgan iad never before been
in possession of a sum of money to half
the amount; no wonder, then, that
she was overcome with the sight of so
much riches, and such splendid presents.
For a while she seemed to doubt the
evidences of her senses. Was she
awake? Might if not be a dream?
And she almost expected the box and

its contents to vanish from her view.

Charles had examined the various
suits of apparel, intended for himself
and Rosa, with a sort of wild curiosity.
Rosa, after the first moment of surprise
was over, remained silent. Her cheek
became unusually pale; her heart throb-
bed with agitation; and for some rea-
son, she seemed fearful of touching,
and even looking at the different arti-

18 cles
90 GLENOWEN, OR THE

cles of dress, which were one by one
held out to her view.

In vain did Dame Morgan endea-
vour to form some conjecture as to the
donor of this extraordinary gift—not
the slightest clue was afforded her,
which could lead, however remotely,
to the discovery. She even doubted
whether she had a right to appropriate,
what it seemed hardly possible could
be really theirs. Would it not, she
considered, be right to consult a friend
. upon the subject ;—and to whom could
she with so much propriety apply as to
Mr. Lloyd, who, as Charles’s friend
and tutor, ought certainly to be in-.
formed of the circumstance?

To him, therefore, she communi-
cated
FAIRY PALACE. gl

cated the strange event, and the per-
plexity into which she had fallen ; and
requested his advice, in respect to
whether she ought or not to make use
of the money and things contained in
the box. Mr. Lloyd's decided opinion
was, that as the box was sent to her,
and the different articles contained in it
were directed to herself and the children,
they were certainly their own, though
the name of the giver should remain
tor ever undiscovered.

This declaration from a man of Mr.
Lloyd’s high character and strict prin-
ciples, was sufficient to satisfy Dame’s
conscientious scruples ; and though her
curiosity was still awake, her feelings
were chiefly those of pleasure. ‘“ Well,
see what it is to be good children,”

said
92 GLENOWEN, OR THE

said she, to Charles and Rosa, on the
following day, “ they bring a blessing
both upon themselves and others. Who-
ever has sent all these fine things must
have heard of you, if they, have not
seen you ; and since Mr. Lloyd thinks
they are as much ours as if we had
bought them, for he told me so him-
self, why I don’t see why you may’nt
wear the jackets and trowsers, Charles,
and you, Rosa, the pretty frocks, with-
out our thinking any more about the
matter.”

Thus saying, she took out one of the
cambric dresses intended for Rosa, and
being anxious to see how her darling
looked in her new clothes, would have’
tried it upon her. .But Rosa shrunk
_ back,—-trembled, and it was not till
: after
FAIRY PALACE. 93

after repeated persuasions, that she
could be prevailed upon to wear it,
even for a moment.

« Are you not pleased with these
nice things?” asked Dame. “* Yes,”
answered Rosa, hesitatingly, and not
with her usual animation. ‘“‘ Who do
you think can have sent them, Rosa %”

— I know who sent them,” said Rosa,
looking at her very earnestly.—‘* You
know!” repeated Dame with a strong
emphasis, “ is it possible the child can
- know ?”—* I think,” said Rosa, “ it
was a fairy.”—“ A fairy!” echoed the
Dame. “ Well, it was a good fairy
then ; and so now we will see how you
look in this pretty bonnet? There,”
said she, and she tried it on, “* and now

you are a little fairy yourself !”
It
G4 GLENOWEN, OR THE

It was plain from Rosa’s answer,
when she was asked who she thought
had sent the box of presents, that her
pale countenance, and the agitation
she shewed, both when the box was
opened, and when Dame first attempt-
ed to put on the frock, that a sort
of superstitious terror had crept upon
her senses. She had heard and read of
fairies ; but she had never before been
the object of their peculiar attention :
and had this attention been confined
exclusively to herself, she would proba-
bly have been more terrified than she
was.

The next day being Sunday, Rosa,
though not without some uneasy ap-
prehension, suffered herself to be dressed
in some of her new clothes. Charles

had
FAIRY PALACE. 95

had put on one of the suits of nankeen ;
and was not a little pleased to shew him-
self to Mr. Lloyd, whom they over-
took in the churchyard. He smiled
on seeing him, and after some kind in-
quiries to Dame Morgan, took Rosa’s
hand, and led her through the church
porch. This was the first time that
Mr. Lloyd had seemed particularly to
notice Rosa; but the fondness which
Charles had often expressed for his
sister—the high character she bore in
the village, the willing obedience with
which she always yielded to the wishes
of those to whom it was her duty to |
submit, and her humble and modest
manners, conspired to render her not
only an object of admiration, but of
affection. His calls at the cottage be-
came more and more frequent; and he

never
¢

96 GLENOWEN, OR THE

never went from home without bring-
ing her an orange, a paper of sweet-
meats, or some other little present, and
would listen with almost paternal inte-
rest to the praises which Dame in her
absence frequently bestowed upon her.

Some weeks passed on without any
material occurrence. The summer holi-.
days had commenced ; but Rosa’s time,
for she was never idle, was nearly as
much occupied as when she went to
school. Jessy was still her constant
companion ; for there was seldom a
day passed in which the two children
did not see each other, and she was often
whole days at Glenowen. Rosa had
finished one of her stockings at school;
the other was begun, and this, with.
a little of Dame Morgan’s instruction,

was
FAIRY PALACE. 97

was tobecompletedat home. As Rosa
now constantly wore the clothes which
had been sent to her in this mysterious
manner, she besought, and obtained per-
mission of her good Nurse, to be allow-
ed to give her old ones to Jessy, which,
though, neither very numerous nor very
costly, formed a useful and highly va-
luable present.
98 GLENOWEN, OR THE

CHAP. IX.

Oe day, Rosa having been playing in
the orchard with a ball which one of
her schoolfellows bad quilted for her,
had hastily entered the Cottage, when
she drew back, somewhat abashed, on
perceiving a woman of rather a genteel
appearance, compared with the gene-
rality of the inhabitants of Glenowen,
talking with Dame Morgan and Charles,
who had just arrived from the vicarage.
* Come in, my dear,” said Dame,
recalling her, “ and make one of your
pretty courtsies to this lady, who has
been so good as to step in to see me.”
Rosa instantly obeyed, though with a

face
FAIRY PALACE. 99

face all over blushes. ‘ What a sweet
creature!” said the stranger, (for such she
was both to Charles and Rosa) almost
ina whisper: “ this is the good girl I
have heard so much of; and that it is
which makes her so pretty, for naughty
children are always ugly, because they
are always pouting and disagreeable.”
Thus saying, she held out her hand to
Rosa, who in obedience to an expres-
sive glance from Dame Morgan, in-
stantly offered hers, and with an air
of such innocent frankness, that the
lady seemed greatly delighted. “ That
is so prettily done,” said she, with a
smile, ‘* that I feel I must love you
very much.” She then kissed her
cheek, desiring her always to continue
as amiable and obliging as she had
now proved herself; and asked her if

K 2 she
100 GLENOWEN, OR THE

she would go and see her at her own
home? ‘ Yes,” said Rosa, unhesita-
tingly, “ if Nurse pleases, and Charles
may go with me; but then we don’t
know where you live.”

“ Will you go home with me, if I
come here for you to-morrow morn-
ing t” resumed the stranger, “and you
shall then know where I live.”

Rosa looked at Dame for her answer.

“ Tell the lady, if she will indeed be
so good,” said she, ‘* as to fetch you
and Charles. you will be very happy
to go with her.” Rosa repeated her
Nurse’s words. The stranger then
kissed her affectionately, and fixing an
early hour on the following day, desired
they
FAIRY PALACE. 101

they would be in readiness to attend
her, and soon af.erwards took her leave.

When the stranger was departed,
Charles and Rosa made many inquiries
of Dame Morgan concerning her;
which the good woman either could
not, or did not answer.

The lady was punctual to her ap-
pointment. “ You must prepare,” said
she, as soon as she had entered and
taken a seat, “‘ for a long walk, and a
mountainous one; but when weare tired
we can sit down and rest ourselves, and
take a view of the mountains. I have
brought a few things which may serve to
refresh us when we are weary.” Thus
saying, she displayed a very pretty
work-basket, formed in wicker-work,

K 3 filled
102 GLENOWEN, OR THE

filled with dried fruits, oranges, and
other sweetmeats. “ I shall only run
away with them for the day,” said she
to Dame, so you may expect your little
friends home in the evening.” —© I can
depend upon you to bring or send them
safe to me’again,” answered the Dame,
with a low courtesy. Then desiring
Charles and Rosa to behave prettily to
the lady, who was so kind to them,
she took her leave, watching them
from the cottage window till they were
completely out of sight.

“© We have a distance of some miles
to go,” said the stranger, “ but I will
take care you shall not be tired.”—“ I
can walk many miles,” said Charles;
“and I too,”said Resa; and they tripped
lightly along.

The
FAIRY PALACE. 103

The little village of Glenowen spread
along the base of a mountain. barren
and rocky, but neither so high or steep
as many in Caernarvonshire, where the
summit of one forms the baseof another,
and thus piled, mountain above moun-
tain, presents a scene of almost alpine
magnificence to the eye of the travel-
ler. ‘Their way lay amongst eminen-
ces; but they were, for the most part,
easy of ascent; and they had walked
near two miles, without once complain-
ing of fatigue, when their guide pro-
posed to stop, and take a little re-
freshment from their store: observing,
that they had only to wind round
the foot of another mountain, and
having reached the valley beneath,
should soon be within reach of the |
place of their destination. Charles

seated
104 GLENOWEN, OR THE

seated himself ona point of rock; and
Ross and their attendant havinz placed
themselves by his side, they. enjoyed a
delicious treat of dried cherries, figs,
plums, oranges, and sweetmeats; and
being refreshed and invigorated by the
pure breeze, which wafted health and
sweetness, proceeded on their way.

As they descended from the moun-
tains, and saw spreading before them a
rich and extensive vale, Charles, to
whom the scene was quite new, burst
out into an exclamation of delight at
its fertility and beauty. Woods, wind»
ing streams, and the sweetest acclivi-
ties, their gentle slopes tufted with
groves or ornamented with plantations,
formed indeed a decided contrast to the
scenes presented to them at Glenowen,

and
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and those they had already passed. It
seemed an Elysium ina wild; for what
they now beheld was in the highest
state of cultivation, and ornamented in
some parts by the hand of taste. It
appeared the land of wonders—for a
new wonder awaited them.

Having descended into the valley, an
elegant chariot, drawn: by two beauti-
ful bay horses, appeared in view. It
came forward, met them—stopped. -A
servant, in a rich livery, descended from
behind the carriage. The door was
opened, the servant let down the step,,
and stopped, awaiting their entrauce.

“© What does this mean?” exclaim-
ed Charles, almost wild with astonish-
ment. Rosa looked wonder-struck. She

had
106 GLENOWEN, OR THE

had never before seen a carriage; and
had she not read her fairy tales, she
would probably not have known that
such a luxury bad been invented. The
stranger entered it, and desired Charles
to follow her; Rosa was lifted in; and
with a rapidity which seemed to them
like that of lightning, they were borne
along the valley.

Charles’s sensations were those of un-
mixed delight. “© What horses—how
swift—how beautiful!” there was no
end of his exclamations. Rosa was
silent. Again asensation of awe seem-
ed to creep through her frame. She
looked several times at her new compa-
nion for a solution of what she was thus
eager to understand. ‘“ How does my
little Rosa like riding in a carriage?”

said
FAIRY PALACE. 107

said the stranger, who now broke silence.
“ [Ts it acoach? ” asked Rosa timidly,
thinking as she spoke of Cinderella’s
coach, which was, perhaps, the only
one she had ever heard of.

“ No, it is not a coach, it is a cha-
riot”.

«© A chariot!” repeated Rosa, “ Why
then docs it not fly in the air? f
thought chariots always flew in the air?’
The stranger laughed aloud. ‘ I have
seen a chariot,” said Rosa, “ in Nurse’s

Bible, and it flies in the air.”

Again her companion laughed, still
more heartily than before ; for she now
found it was the fiery chariot in which
the prophet Elijah was taken up into hea-

ven,
108 GLENOWEN, OR THE

ven, thathad given Rosa the idea of a fly-
ing chariot,--an idea notaltogether unna-
tural, as she had never before seen one.

*¢ Then you will not be much surpri-
sed if these horses, instead of running
should fly away with us?” resumed the
lady. “ I-don’t know,” said Rosa, “ but
I think I should not much.”—* Not
much,” exclaimed Charles—** not much
surprised, Rosa! yes, you would be
surprised, and frightened too, to see
the horses flying in the air like birds :
taking us we should: not know where:
perhaps into the moon ; for that is not
such a great way off, Mr. Lloyd says,
as the sun is; and is filled, for what
we know, with people, as this world
is, who live and walk about it as wedo
here,”

how
FAIRY PALACE. 109

‘© How can that be, Charles,” said
Rosa, ‘ people in the moon! Indeed,
Charles, I cannot think so; for how
can people live in that round yellow
ball in the sky ¢”—* OQ! it appears to
us, Mr. Lloyd says,” resumed Charles,
“not at allas it really is. And if
there are people in it, as there are here,
this world may look to them just as the
moon does to us, ‘nothing more than a
round ball in the sky, as you say it is,
Rosa. But I will tell you a great deal
more about the moon and the stars too,”
continued Charles, ** to-morrow; and
shew you a great round thing, which
I cannot yet understand, but which
Mr. Lloyd calls a globe.”--* Yes,
pray do, Charles,” said Rosa; “ for I
should Jove dearly to know all about it.’
110 GLENOWEN, OR THE

CHAP. X.

———s

lr Rosa thought deeply enough upon
the subject, to suppose the surprise she
had now felt was incapable of increase,
she had reason to retract the opinion,
when having driven about two miles
through the vale, the carriage stopped,
and she saw what it was impossible for
her to believe any other than that
_ beautiful fairy palace, inhabited by the
- Fairy Peribanou, about which she had
lately been reading.

A universal trembling seized her, as
her attendant, whom she now believed
herself to be either that fairy, or one

of
FAIRY PALACE. 1ii

of her train, alighted from the carriage ;
and but from a sensation of awe, which
this ideainspired, would have given way
to her terrors, when having crossed a
court, she found herself an inhabitant
of that very palace, and amidst, if not
all the dreariness, all the beauties of
enchantment.

The building was of white stone,
supported by pillars, and surrounded
with a verandah. «The windows, which
were pointed at the top in the gothic
stile, and filled with painted glass, ex-
hibiting various figures and devices, as-
sisted the representation which Rosa
perceived to that of the palace of the
fairy; for as the beams of the sun
lighted. up their rich colouring, she
imagined they were ornamented with

ome, precious
112 GLENOWEN, OR THE

”W

precious stones. “ Is this your house?
said Charles to his companion, gazing
around him with a look of eager admi-
ration, as they entered the colonnade.
“ It is not my house,” replied the
stranger; “* but it is the house in
which I live.” It is not the fairy her-
self then, thought Rosa; yet she too
may be a fairy.

They entered a hall, spacious, lofty,
and corresponding with the general
magnificence. The floor was of marble;
—the walls were gilt and empannelled ;
and from the center of the ceiling was
suspended, by a magnificent gilt chain,
a lustre of cut glass, of various hues,
which Rosa imagined, like the colours
in the windows, to be made of precious
stones. Her fears were about to yield

to
FAIRY PALACE. 113

to her admiration, when a new object
caught her eye; and grasping the arm
of her brother, every faculty seemed
enchained by fear and apprehension.
This was a preserved eagle with ex-
tended wings, which was sitting on the
dome of a shrine, in which was seated
an image of the famous Hindé god,
the four-faced Brahma.

From the hall they were conducted
by Rosa’s attendant fairy, through
folding doors, gilt and empannelled,
to correspond with the walls, to an
elegant saloon, where the same brilliant
effect of precious stones was produced
by two magnificent lustres, suspended
like that in the hall by gilt chains, and
depending from a ceiling, richly carved,
and ornamented with the representation

L3 of
114 GLENOWEN, OR THE

of fruits and flowers. The walls were
covered with pictures and reflecting
mirrors, whilst awnings of pale green
silk diffused a softened light, through
windows descending to the ground, and
opening into a shrubbery, leading to a
smooth extensive lawn, and ornamented
above and below with drapery of Chi-
nese silk.

Stands of flowers, intermingled with
Indian vases, containing the most deli,
cious sweets, filled the room with odours,
and perfumed the breath of the zephyr,
as it sported amid the shrubs and plants
that waved about the windows, which
opened as doors, and formed an entrance

into the shrubbery.

Scarcely had our orphans time to ex-
press
FAIRY PALACE. 115

press their astonishment at objects so
new, and to them so surprising, when
a lady, very elegantly dressed, and ofa
most commanding appearance, entered
the saloon. “ It is the fairy,” said
Rosa; and her cheek was instantly
suffused with crimson. The lady gazed
upon them a moment or two in silence;
and then turning to their companion
said, “is this the lovely boy and girl of
whom I have heard so much, and whom
I have been so long anxious to see?”
As she uttered these words in the most
soft and engaging manner, Charles
bowed respectively. Rosa courtsied, as
she had been taught to do to strangers,
but dare scarcely raise her eyes from
the ground. Those of the lady, while
she spoke, were fixed earnestly upon
Charles. ‘“‘ O heavens !” exclaimed she;

and
116 GLENOWEN, OR THE

and fora moment or two she seemed
greatly agitated. At length, seeming
to recollect herself, she added, “‘~and

9

what is your name, my dear?’

“¢ Charles Evelynn,” was the answer.
“ Charles?” repeated she; ‘ and

yours, my little girl ?”—

“¢ Rosa.”—* Rosa ?—Was this the
name of your Mamma ?”

Charles answered for her in. the affir-
mative. ‘“ My Mamma’s name,” said
he, “ was like my sister’s, they were
both named Rosa.” The lady sighed;
as though her mind was saddened by
some painful recollections; and with
her handkerchief to her eyes, walked

‘pensively to the other end of the room.
“ Charles
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FAIRY PALACE. 117

** Charles—Charles,” said Rosa, fr a
voice low and tremulous, “ you should
not talk so to a fairy.,—“ I don’t
know yet that she is a fairy,” said .
Charles ;** and if she is, ] am sure she
will not hurt us.”

Their attendant, who was still in the
room, laughed and whispered to the
lady, who, from her dignified look and
superior air, scemed to be her mistress.
_ Who do you say I am ® said the lady
atlength, endeavouring to. hide an arch
smile that curled about her lip. Rosa
trembled, and cast an intreating look at
Charles, but made noanswer. “ Why;
I will know,” said the lady, sportively.
** Forshame, Rosa,” cried Charles,
why do you not speak ?”

“ Come,
118 GLENOWEN, OR.THE

“Come, come,” said she, laughing,
_* T will not be angry, even though
you should take me for the great Mogul;

so once again, my pretty Rosa, _who
am 1?”

‘« Vl tell you who I think you are,”
said Rosa, gaining confidence from the
lively manners of the stranger; ‘* you
are the good, sweet, beautiful fairy
Peribanou, that sent me this pretty
frock (holding it up as she spoke), and
dear Nurse the yellow half-pennies, and
that sent for us to see you in a pretty
house drawn by horses: and this is
your fine palace, which I have read
about so many times in my beautiful
book of Fairy Tales.”

“ You are a most extraordinary
little
FAIRY PALACE. 119

little girl to have made this important
discovery so soon,” said the lady, laugh-
ing; “ and though I shall not practice
my fairy arts in transformations, I shall,
probably, by my fascinations, so en-
chain you to this spot, that you will
not easily be liberated.” Rosa looked
alarmed, unable to comprehend the
words of the stranger, whom we shall
henceforth call the fairy Peribanou
(signifying the celestial fairy). She
clung to her brother, and hiding her
face upon his shoulder, softly exclaimed,
. © O! my dear Charles, do not—pray
do not let me be chained.”

‘© He cannot contend with fairies,”
said Peribanou, again laughing at Rosa’s
mistake. “ But did you not say I was
a good fairy ?”—* Yes,” said Rosa,

timidly
120 GLENOWEN, OR THE

.timidly, “ you are a good fairy.”—
‘© What then,” resumed Peribanou,
‘* have you to fear from me, if I am
good ; for the good, whether fairies or
mere mortals, always. consider the
happiness and welfare of others: If
you do this, you are good ; and because
I know you do, and are good, I have
offered you my protection: for it is to
the good only that I can give it.” As
she spoke thus, she kissed her cheek ;
and then bidding her not to be alarmed
for she should always love her, and be
kind to her, she spoke aside to her at-
tendant, who withdrew; and in a few
moments a pannel of the wainscot flew
,open, and discovered another room,
smaller, but not less elegant than the
‘saloon.

The
FAIRY PALACE. 121

The fairy arose from the sofa on
which she had been sitting, and taking
a hand of each, led Charles and Rosa
through the opened pannel, to a table,
covered with ices, creams, sweetmeats,
fruits, and indeed every thing that could
be tempting to a youthful palate.
* Will you not love me for all these
nice things ?” said the fairy, presenting
Rosa with some of the choicest of

them 3

* T do love you,” saidRosa; “ but I
must go home again to dear Nurse,
who is so good to us, and loves us so
_ dearly, though she has not such nice
things to give us.” ‘“ Generous, grate-
ful little creature,” cried Peribanou,
** you shall go home again to your
kind Nurse; but you will sometimes

M come
122 GLENOWEN, OR THE

come and see me with your brother ;
you will not forget the Palace of the
Fairy.”

Though Peribanou had conversed
chiefly with Rosa, mostly for the pur-
pose of quieting her fears, on perceiving
that every thing around her seemed
supernatural, her eyes were often fixed
on Charles, with a look of the most
affecting interest; and having won
Rosa to that sort of confidence which
served to render her easy respecting the
future, she addressed to him several
inquiries concerning his deceased pa-
rents, his family and his friends, of
which, however, she seemed to khow
more than himself; a circumstance '
which served to confirm Charles in the
opinion of what he before only slightly

suspected,
FAIRY PALACE. 123

suspected, that she was indeed a
fairy.

Having partaken of a luxurious re-
past, Peribanou and her attendant,
whoin the former introduced to her
young guests by the name of Perisanda,
which denotes a fairy of inferior qua-
lity or powers, conducted them through
the shrubbery to a garden filled with
the most beautiful flowers.

“ JT have shewn you my palace,”
said the fairy, “‘ and [ shall now ex-
hibit the wonders of the rest of my do-
main.” So saying she led thein through
a little valley by the side of a moun-
tain, from whence a brook, whose mur-
murs had been heard at some distance,

took its rise, and entered by a passaye
M 2 in
124 GLENOWEN, OR THE

in a rock into a grotto, ornamented
with shells, opening on one side into
a small cavern, and looking down into
a basin, about twenty feet wide and
thirty or forty high, into which a plen-
tiful cascade fell perpendicularly from
an opening above, and which admitted
light to the whole. The effect of this
rush of water into the basin beneath
was awfully grand. Charles listened to
its tremendous roar with sensations not
unmingled with terror; whilst Rosa,
with renewed fear, clung to her brother,
and in a moment after screamed aloud:
for in the grotto, which was partly in
shade, she discovered two monstrous
snakes, and would have flown from the
place, had not Peribanou assured her’
they had not the power to hurt her, and
desired Charles to touch them. “ You

need
FAIRY PALACE. 125

need not be afraid,” said she, “ for
they are rendered harmless by my
power. Do not you observe,” added
she, “ that they are under the influ-
ance of an enchantment? They are
fascinated, and have not the power to
stir from the spot, till by the move-
ment of a’ wand, I give the signal for
them to move.”

Charles, encouraged by the declara-
tion of the fairy, that they could not,
or should not harm him, ventured to
touch them. _‘“ How beautiful they
are,” said he ; for their scales were lu-
minous, and they seemed as if formed
of rings of gold.

Having examined the shells, and
other curiosities in the grotto, they re-
M 3 ~ turned
126 GLENOWEN, OR THE

turned to the flower-garden ; when the
fairy led them through a wicket-gate,
and opening the door of a little detach-
ed building, discovered a variety of the
most beautiful singing birds; some
flying about the room, others perched
upon wires placed across, and forming
altogether a delicious concert. The
building consisted of two apartments.
Another door was opened, and wonder
succeeded to wonder, when they be-
held a number of others of an extraor-
dinary size, adorned with the most
brilliant plumage of scarlet, green, and
purple, walking upon the tesselated
pavement, their crested heads proudly .
elevated, as if conscious of superior
beauty and value.

The fairy took one up, and spoke
to
FAIRY PALACE. 127

to it. It seemed to know her, perched
upon her finger, listened, and then
imitated her words. It was long before
Charles and Rosa could tear themselves
from a place, so captivating to their
youthful fancies. ‘“ Will you come
and live with me!” said Peribanou to
Rosa, “ and have all these pretty things?”
—‘ Yes, if dear Nurse might come
too.”"—** She cannot forget this old
woman,” said the Fairy, ‘“‘ so I must be
contented to have her for a rival.”—“ I
would come,” said’ Charles, “ if I
might see good Dame Morgan some-
times.”—-“ And leave your sister?”
cried Peribanou.

“ Q! no, I can never leave Rosa.”

« Why
128 GLENOWEN, OR THE

i Why not,” said the Fairy, “ why

cannot you leave Rosa ?”

«“ Because I am always to be her
friend,” returned Charles, “ and must
live with her, and take care of her, for
she has no papa or mamma; and I
mustilove her, and be as kind to her as
they would be if they were now alive.”

“© What sweet affection,” said Peri-
banou; “ and how much do I admire

you for this amiable disposition towards
your sister.”

They now returned through the
shrubbery to the saloon, and were amu-
sing themselves with the pictures on the
- walls, when Rosa, having accidentally
got a sight of herself in a convex mir-

ror,
FAIRY PALACE. 129

ror, which was placed opposite to where
she stood, gave a violent scream. Charles,
who had been intent on the examina-
tion of the pictures, imagining she had
received some hurt, flew, and caught
her in his arms ;_ whilst the fairy, de-
manding the cause of her alarm, for
she was evidently unhurt, endeavoured
to pacify her.

‘© What is the matter, Rosa ?” cried
Charles, ‘ indeed—indeed you must
speak.”"—* O! am J a fairy myself;
a little fairy, and shall I never be big
again ?” cried Rosa.

Her alarm was now sufficiently ac-
counted for. The fairies (for Perisan-
da had now entered) laughed heartily ;
increasing, by their loud expressions of ,

mirth,
130 GLENOWEN, OR THE

mirth, the perplexity of poor Rosa,
who continued terrified and embarras-
sed. “ You are a fairy, to be sure,”
said Peribanou, recovering from the fit
of laughter into which Rosa’s alarm
had thrown her; but I will make you
big again directly.” So saying, she
took her to a large mirror at the other
end of the room; adding, “ you see I
can do any thing: now you area great
girl, as before: but whenever you look
in that glass (pointing to the convex

>

mirror), you will be a little fairy again,’

* T will not look in it any more,”
cried Rosa; ‘* and don’t you look,
Charles.” Charles promised he would
not; for though he perceived no dimi-
nution of size in Rosa, its effects being,
as he supposed, confined to herself, he

concluded
FAIRY PALACE. 131

concluded from the words of the Fairy,
that it was a magical one, and probably,
had he wished it, would have wanted
courage to have looked in it.

At rather a late hour in the afternoon,
dinner was served in the saloon. It
consisted of varieus delicacies ; and was
succeeded by a desert of fruits, which
the Fairy assured them were of celestial
origin, and were only to be tasted by
fairies, or such as they particularly
distinguished. Several of Peribanou’s
attendants, somewhat whimsically at-
tired, passed in and out of the room
during dinner. “ I wonder,” said
Charles to Rosa in a whisper, “‘ whether
they are all fairies?” After the desert
was taken away, and the attendants
withdrawn, Peribanow condueted her

guests
132 GLENOWEN, OR THE

guests through the hall and along a
corridore, to a magnificent chamber
looking out upon the lawn. To the
right was a door leading to a boudoir.
She opened it, and bade them follow
her.

The first object that struck the eye
of Charles, on entering, was a large
new wooden horse, with a long flowing
mane, richly caparisoned, and covered
with embroidered trappings. Charles
was in an extacy. “ What a beauti-
ful creature |” he exclaimed... “* Mount
him,” said the Fairy. Charles placed
his foot in the stirrup, which was of
silver, and vaulted into his seat. “ What
grace—what agility!” thought the
Fairy, gazing on him for some mo-
ments with a sort of rapt attention.

She
FAIRY PALACE. 133

She turned round, and perceived Rosa
looking earnestly into a cradle, at a
large wax doll, which was partly con-
cealed. from her view by half-drawn
curtains of pale blue silk, fringed with
silver. Its eyes were closed; and so
exactly did it imitate nature, that Rosa
looked again and again, yet hardly
venturing to move the curtain, to see if
it really was a doll, or, what it so faith-
fully represented, a sleeping infant.

Peribanou perceived her perplexity,
and softly undrawing the curtain, said
she would awaken it. She took it out
of the cradle, and as she presented it
to Rosa, it slowly opened its eyes.

« It is a baby!” exclaimed Rosa,
clapping her’ hands in extasy, “ and
N what
134 GLENOWEN, OR THE

what a pretty creature!” Charles, who
had now alighted froinhis horse, shared
in Rosa’s astonishment, as the Fairy
again closed, and then opened its eyes.
« Yet it is not alive,” said he: * itis
a doll; but it is an enchanted one. O!
what a wonderful little creature !”

» Can it speak too?” asked Rosa.

“* No,” cried the Fairy; “ it would
be improper to allow dolls to speak,
because they have no sense, and would
be sure, therefore, to talk foolishly.”

° B wonder ener it can. eat 2” said
Rosa.

* No, that too would be improper,”
cried Peribanou, “ because they cannot
get
’ FAIRY PALACE. 135

get their own living, and as they can-
not work, it would be wrong to give
them the power of taking food. You
have a doll, would you like yours. to
eat >?”

“Ol yes, vastly, if it was not wrong.”

“And can you dress your doll, and
work for it yourself ?” demanded the
Fairy."— No, not yet; 1 have not
had it long euough,” said Rosa. “ True;
you have only had it a little time,” re-
sumed the Fairy, who, to the utter as-
tonisliment of Charles, gave the whole
account of the manner in which he had
received and disposed of the five-shil-
ling piece, iucluding the incident of the -
sick Sailor, which she concluded with
the highest commendation and praise of

N g the
136 GLENOWEN, OR THE

the humane and generous conduct of

Charles.

“ Faries know every thing,” thought
Charles, “ or how could she know all °
this? Rosa was right. I am sure she
is a fairy.”

Peribanou then asked Charles which
he would chuse; the horse, or the doll
and cradle? Charles hesitated. ‘ Say
which you will have,” resumed the
Fairy ; ‘‘ and whichever you chuse is
- yours.”—“ J should like the doll and
cradle best,” said he, “ if I might
give it to Rosa.”—“ Excellent boy,”
said the Fairy, “ must I forever be
praising you?”

* You must not have it to give to me,

Charles,”
FAIRY PALACE. 137

Charles,” said Rosa. “ O! pray—
- pray, let him have the horse.”

“ No,” replied the Fairy, “ he shall
have the doll and the cradle; he has
chosen them, and they are his: and
then to you, Rosa, I shall give the
horse.” —“ Mc, the horse,” reiterated
Rosa, “‘ me that fine great horse! O !
but then may I giveit to Charles?”

** It is yours,” cried Peribanou ; “ I
have given it to you, and you may
bestow it on whom you will, The
doll and the cradle are the property
of your brother, and consequently at
his disposal.”

Rosa was in raptures. Could she—
had she, at length, the power to make
N3 such
138 GLENOWEN, OR THE

such a beautiful present to her brother
-——that dear brother, who loved her
with such affection, that he was ready
to make any sacrifice for her happiness:
what transport ! And could Charles be
less delighted, when he could present
to his beloved sister a curiosity almost
beyond all value, and which would be
the wonder and admiration of the whole
village.

The Fairy then shewed Rosa a spring,
so contrived, as when touched to make
the doll open and shut its eyes. “ And
can I do it myself,” said Rosa, “ that
am not a fairy r” Peribanou replied that
she could, and obliged her to make the
experiment. “ What beautiful eyes it
has,” cried Rosa, “ and how blue they
are! I wonder if it can see with them :

and
9

FAIRY PALACE. 139

and what a sweet cap and sash, and
frock, and shoes, and what a fine great
cradle to lie in. O! you pretty, sweet
creature, how I shall love you!”

The doll was now replaced in the
cradle, and ordered to be packed up
with the horse, and conveyed to Gleno-
wen; and the fairy and her young
guests returned to the saloon.

Coffee was then served, after which
the carriage drew to the door; and
Perisanda appearing to attend them
home, they took a grateful and affec-
tionate leave of the fairy Peribanou,
and departed for Glenowen.

« Suppose,” said Rosa to Charles,

as they w e driven along the vale,
“* these
140 GLENOWEN, OR THE

“© these pretty horses should once have
been mice, like Cinderella’s, and should
turn to mice again before we get to
Nurse’s house.”—** It would be as likely
that the nice clothes we wear, which [
am sure the Fairy sent to us, might
be changed, lke Cinderella’s, to dirty
rags,” said Charles: ‘* but, you see,
they do not; for they are just as they
were when we had them on first. Nor
would Cinderella’s haye been changed,
if she had not disobeyed the Fairy,
who was so good as to give her all those
pretty things.”

Perisanda laughed repeatedly at the
conversation which occasionally passed
between Charles and his sister; and
having asked them several questions,
relative to what they had. seen and

thought
FAIRY PALACE, 141

thought at the Fairy’s palace, she en-
tertained them and herself as they
drove along : when having reached the
pass in the mountains, they alighted,
the road not admitting of a carriage,
and proceeded, amused and unwearied*
on their way to the Cottage.

The servant who attended, convey-
ing the horse and cradle, with a few
little presents to Dame Morgan, was
to accompany them to Glenowen, and
escort Perisanda back from the moun-
tains to the edge of the vale, where the
carriage was to remain stationary as
before.

«© You will go with me when I come
for you again ?” said Perisanda. ‘* Oh!

yes!” exclaimed Charles and Rosa at
the
142 GLENOWEN, OR THE

the same instant, “ we shall always
love to see the dear, kind, good lady,
fairy Peribanou ; and you, good natured
lady, Perisanda,” continued Charles,
“‘ and Rosa will never be frightened
any more.”—*‘* No, that I sha’nt,” said
Rosa, “ I am not at all frightened
now.”—‘“ Nor would not, if you were
to be made into a little fairy again
yourself,” resumed he smiling, and di-
recting an arch look at Perisanda ; who
joined in the: pretty sarcasm with a
look equally affectionate toward Rosa.

‘They bad now arrived at the Cottage.
Dame Morgan met them at the door.
Perisanda spoke with her for some
minutes apart, while Charles and Rosa
were employed in assisting the servant
to unpack their fairy presents.  Peri-

sanda
FAIRY. PALACE, 143

sanda at length entered the room, and
having received and returned the affec-
tionate caresses of Charles and Rosa,

hastily departed.

Rosa sprung imto her Nurse’s arms,
and with breathless haste related all
the marvellous events that had befallen
them at the Fairy’s palace. The doll—
the cradle—the horse, with its magni-
ficent trappings, were exposed to the
wondering eyes:of the astonished Dame.
‘© Who would ever,” said: she, “ have
thought of your getting acquainted with
a fairy? It must be owing to your
being such extraordinary good children,
that this uncommon good luck has
happened: to: you.”—~“ What will: Jessy
Stephenson say,” cried: Rosa, “ to: the
doll in the eradle? She musti think it

the
144 GLENOWEN, OR THE

the most beautiful thing in the world.
And how surprised she will look when
it. opens and shuts its pretty blue eyes:
and now I have got a new doll, Jessy
shall have the old one, and all its
clothes ; for she longs for a doll, and
it will make her so happy. Amd you
will not be angry with me, Charles,
if I part with it, now I have got ano-
ther?”

** No, I should be very wrong to be
angry with you, Rosa,” cried Charles,
‘*¢ when it will make the poor little girl
so happy; sopray, dear Rosa, give it

her.”

The next morning put Jessy in pos-
session of Rosa’s intended presents.
The fairy = were produced and

shewn
FAIRY PALACE. 145

shewn tg her, and the remainder of the
day chiefly occupied by a long narra-
tion of the wonders they had seen in
the Fairy’s Palace, with many anxious
anticipations, respecting the time when
they should be again permitted to visit
her.
146 GLENGWEN, OR THE

CHAP. NI.

 

Carus and Rosa, however deliglited
with their presents, and the entertain-
ment afforded them at the palace of the
Fairy, did not suffer their minds to be
so entirely engrossed by them, as
to neglect more serious occupations.
Charles applied himself to his exercises
with renewed diligence, and Rosa con~
tinued to make fresh advances in the
use of her needle, and in such attain-
ments as the books she was reading:
might afford. The idea that the Fairy
was supernaturally acquainted with
whatever she did or thought, acted like
a talisman upon her mind, and rendered

her
FAIRY PALACE. 147

her anxious to avoid whatever might
offend, and do whatever might be
pleasics to so kind and amiable a being,
Whos. superior power appeared to be
the consequence of superior excellence:
* Wiaat would the Fairy Peribanou
say to this, or that, ?” was a question
ofien addressed by Rosa to herself,
and sometimes to_ Dame Morgan. ‘“ If
I please the Fairy, and you, my dear
Nurse,” said she one day, ‘* I cannot,
_you know, do wrong.”—‘ The Fairy
will always give you good instruction,”
said Dame Morgan, “ and you will
please me if you will attend to it, as I
think aud hope you will; but it is to
God Almighty that you are to give an.
accotiat of your actions, and not to the
Fairy. God sees and knows ‘every
thing—you are always in his presence,

02 though
148 GLENOWEN, OR THE

though you cannot see him, and must
endeavour therefore to recommend your-
self to him. The Fairy is only one of
his creatures, any more than you or I.”

“© God made the Fairy, to be sure,”
said Rosa, “ because he made every
body, and all that we see and hear, as
you have often told me, my dear Dame;
but will not God and the Fairy be
pleased with the same thing ?”

« No doubt they will,” said Dame;

“ but you must study to pleaseGod, and
lim only, because he is the greatest
and the best ; and then you are sure to
be loved by all good people, because
you will be worthy of their love, and
without this you cannot. ‘The Fairy is
very kind to you, and will do every
thing
FAIRY PALACE, 149.

thing she can to make you happy in
this world; but God Almighty will
take care of you after you are dead and
buricd, and make you better and bap-
pier than you can be here, if you
think of him, aud pray to him, as you
ought, and endeavour as your Cate-
chism says, to do your duty in that
state of life in which it has pleased
God to call you. Is not this more than
the Fairy, or I, or any one can do for
you; and ought you to think of pleas-
great and good.God, who is about our
paths, and about our beds, and spieth
out all our ways.”

‘© To be sure I ought to think of him
most,” replied Rosa, “ and I will.
It was, indeed, sadly naughty to think

OS | more
150 GLENOWEN, OR THE

more of. the Fairy than of God Ab
mighty, who made this great world,
and all the people and things in it,
the trees, the birds, and the pretty
flowers. O! I cannot love him too
much for all his goodness, and I will
try to please him, and make him love
me as I do him, when I think about
it!”

* Ina little time you will be able to
read and understand your Bible, my
dear,” cried Dame; “ it is the word of
‘God: you will then know your duty,
and why you ought to do it; and may
he, in his mercy, give you grace to
perform all that he commands.”

Here the good old woman paused,
and looked tenderly at her young charge,
who
FAIRY PALACE. 151

who returning the endearing glance
with a gentle caress, added: my dear
Nurse, pray to God Almighty to make
me asgood as you are, andthen Iam sure
he will love me, and make me happy
when I die, and will let me sce you
and my dear Mamma in another world,

when we rise again to be angels in héa-.

ven, as you say we shall be if we are
good.”—“ THe will make you both wiser
and better, I trust, than I am,” rejoined
the Dame, “ and so order our ways,
that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom, and both be partakers together
of the happiness he has promised to
those who serve and obey him as they
ought, in spirit and in truth.”

From this time Rosa carefully avoided
the error into which she had fallen.

The
152 GLENOWEN, OR THE

The superstitious veneration she had
entertained toward the ‘Fairy, she now
perceived was inconsistent with the:
duty she owed to the author and pre-
server of her being. Young as she
was, she felt the force of the arguments
employed for her instruction, and having
an understanding beyond her years,
she resolved to use them to her advan-
tage. Let those who have heard with-
out profiting by useful instruction,
think of Rosa and blush; and let such
as:have neglected opportunities of im-
planting useful precepts.in the ductile
mind of youth, think of Dame Morgan
and blush also. | . .

A few weeks elapsed, spent in the
usual employments, when-Charles and
Rosa received a second invitation from

their
FAIRY PALACE. 153

their new friend, through the lady
Perisanda, who conveyed them in the
same manner as before to the mansion
of the Fairy. The invitation was for
a visit of two days. Dame Morgan
having consented, it was gladly accept-
ed, as well by Charles as his sister, the
fears of the latter being nearly, if not
entirely overcome, by the extreme love
and confidence. which she experienced
for the Fairy and her amiable attendant,
the kind Perisanda. This confidence
was increased by the reception they met
with on their arrival; for Peribanou re-
ceived them with so many marks of
tenderness and affection, that a stranger
would have supposed her to have been
their mother.

The palace of the Fairy, formerly
the
154 GLENOWEN, OR THE

the scene of wonders, was now become
the seat of delight. Curiosity stil]
found ample scope for exercise: tor,
as yet, every thing had the charm of
noyelty. New objects, and these of
the most fascinating kind, constantly
solicited their admiration The grot-
toes, the aviaries, the sloping lawns aad
hanging groves, from which proceeded
strains of the most delicious music,
produced by unseen hands, which now
rose and filled the adjoining woods
with an enchanting melody, and then
sunk away in tones of the most languish-
ing softness, by turns arrested their
attention, and filled them with admira-
tion ! .

Peribanou attended them in all their
ranbles, mingling instruction with
amusement
FAIRY PALACE. 155

amusement as she contitiued to convetse
with them What she seetned most to
admire itt the character of her young
friends, was the extraordinary affection
which they entertained toward each
other. Charles, as being sume years older
than his sister, thotigh still so young,
seemed to consider himself as her na-
tural protector. He appeared not to
have a thought or a wish independent
of his dear Rosa, whose welfare and
happiness were even dearet t6 him that
his own. The sentiments he expres-
sed oft this subject, iti his conversation
with the Fairy, affected her even to
teats. ‘ Think and act always as you
do iow, my dear boy,” said she, pres:
sing his haiids in hets with 4 peculiar
energy; “ and you will obtain the as-
sistanée and approbation of your hea-

venly
156 GLENOWEN, OR THE

venly friend; and through him, of an
earthly one who never will forsake you.”
Then smiling with an assumed vivacity
she added: “ you know [am a fairy,
and can foretel events : nor is this all’;
as a fairy, I must also bestow rewards,
where they are so justly merited! ”

She then opened an Indian cabinet,
which occupied a recess, and took from
thence a beautiful little gold repeating
watch, which she presented to Charles.
«© Whenever you look at this,” said
she, ‘* you will doubtless recollect
the conversation which has passed be-
tween us this day. ‘The promises you
have voluntarily made, in respect to
your dear sister, will, of course, occur ;
you must be her protector, her bro-
ther, her friend ; such are your engage-

ments ;
FAIRY PALACE. 157

nents : and being made in my presence,
you must consider them as sacred and
inviolable.”—* I do,” said Charles,
sinking upon his knees before the
Fairy ; “© and when: I cease to regard
them, may I cease to live. Never shall
Rosa suffer any misfortune which it is
in my power to avert.”

“ Rise,” said the Fairy, with an in-
dulgent smile, ‘‘ I have the fullest con-
fidence in your promises. Dear, O!
most dear relic,” added she, ‘ of a
friend never to be forgotten.” She was
silent and thoughtful, and so wrapt
in her own contemplations, as to be
seemingly insensible of the admiration
with which Charles and Rosa were ex-
amining the watch, which the latter
pronounced to be an enchanted one,

p and
158 GLENOWEN, OR THE

aiid the most sweet thing in all the
world.

The hours passed rapidly away. Af-
ter a day spetit in varied amusement,
Charles and Rosa, accompanied by at-
tendant fairies, were conducted to
chambers decorated in the most splen-
did anditasteful manner. How delight-
fulit is to live in this sweet place,
thought Rosa, and to have all these
pretty things. I wish I too were a
faity.

Charles slept soundly till six a clock,
whet impatient of further repose, he
arose; and having recommended him-
self, a8 usual, to the protection of hea-
ven in his prayers, a duty he never
omitted, took a stroll upon the lawn,

where
~

FAIRY PALACE. 149

where he was soon joined by Rosa,
who proposed a walk to the ayiary,
“ Tam not afraid,” said she, of being
lost ; for I am sure I know the way ; it
is only along the shrubbery, as the Fairy
ealls it, through the wicket gate, and
we are there directly ; so pray, dear
Charles, let us go and look through the
window at the pretty birds, that talk
and whistle so delightfully,” She passed
rapidly along, and soon reached the
wicket gate, when they saw a man with
a wooden leg, but very decently dres-
sed, stop at the door of the aviary, with
a basket upon his arm, seemingly to con-
vey food for the birds. ** We can go in
if we please now,” said Charles, “ for the
door will be unlocked, and I dare say
this good man will admit us.” “ Hush,
Charles,” said Rosa: “ perhaps he is a

P-2 fairy.”
160 GLENOWEN, OR THE

fairy.” The man had just put the key
into the lock, when hearing Charles’s
voice, he turned round ; and but for the
impediment which his wooden leg pre-
sented, in the excess of his gratitude
would have thrown himself at the feet of
his little generous benefactor. It was the
poor Sailor wio had fallen ill upon the
road near the village of Glenowen, and
whom the timely assistance afforded by
Charles, some months ago, had _res-
cued from want—from misery—from
death. “ My friend—iny noble young
master!” exclaimed he, weeping for
_ joy, “ and do J indeed see you again !

A thousand—thousand blessings upon
you for what you once did for me, when
[had no friend but you, and for the
comforts I enjoy in this place. ‘To
you,” added he with increased emo-

tion,
FAJRY PALACE. 161

tion, “ to you I owe every thing.”
Nothing could exceed the joy of Charles
and Rosa, on finding the object of their
former solicitude under circumstances
of comparative happiness. They were ©
both eager in their inquiries as to the
manner in which he bad gained admit-

dance into the family of the Fairy

Peribanou; a question which he was

about to resolve, when Perisanda appear-

ed, to inform them that the Fairy had

left her room, and was waiting for them

in the breakfast parlour, where they

were iramediately to.attend her. Charles

took leave of his poor old friend with a

hearty shake by the hand, and then

hastened to obey the summons.

This day, like the former one, passed
hastily to its close. In the evening
P38 Charles
162 GLENOWEN, OR THE

Charles and Rosa repaired to Glenowen,
having previously been informed by the
Fairy, that they were to return, at the
expiration of a month, and remain
some days at the palace. Charles’s
watch, and some pretty Chinese toys
wrought in ivory, which the Fairy at
parting gave to Rosa, were exhibited to
Dame on their arrival; and also to
Jessy Stephenson, who being still the
object of Rosa’s affection and bounty,
was allowed to partake in the pretty
presents she had received, Rosa having
asked permission of the Fairy to bestow
- some of them on her little friend.
FAIRY PALACE. 163

CHAP. XII.

—_——-

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
164 - GLENOWEN, OR THE

considerable height in the air. Hager
to partake of an amusement of which
he was particularly fond, and for the
moment utterly unconscious of any dan-
ger which might threaten Rosa, should
she offer to descend without his assis-
tance, he ran to join the playful group,
but was almost instantly recalled to a
sense of his own imprudence, and cul-
pable neglect of his sister ; for scarcely
had he reached the valley, when he was
alarmed by a loud shriek, and in an in-
stant perceived that Rosa had fallen se-
veral feet down the rock. A scream
from Charles re-echoed that of the un-
fortunate Rosa —- it was a scream of
agony. He flew with an almost incredi-
ble swiftness to the spot where she lay.
“ Rosa—my sweet Rosa!” was at first
all he could: utter; till perceiving her

face
FAIRY PALACE. 165

face was covered with blood (for her nose
had bled profusely), he called aloud for
assistance. One of the boys, who had
been flying the kite, being aware of the
accident, came with the utmost speed,
and assisted Charles to convey the pale
and almost lifeless Rosa to the cottage
of Dame Morgan, which was fortu-
nately at no great distance.

The good old woman’s fears were
only to be equalled by those of Charles.
The surgeon of the village was ordered
to attend; proper remedies were ap-
plied ; and Rosa was soon pronounced
to be in no danger from the accident,
though it was necessary she should be
kept quiet and attended with great
care.

Charles,
166 GLENOWEN, OR THE

Charles, who accused himself as the
cause of this disaster, from his certain-
ly culpable neglect of his sister, gave
way, at the instant, to all the agonies
of remorse and anguish. He was con-
stantly with her ; and even after Rosa
was so much recovered as to feel little
‘or no inconvenience from the accident,
he could scarcely admit of consolation.

* I am unworthy,” said he, * of
the charge committed; I have indeed
proved myself most unworthy! Noble
Peribanou, your present, which I have
already forfeited all just claim to the
possession of, shall be returned. I will
not add meanness to my other fault—
I wili not keep whiat ought no longer to
be mine.—-I will go myself—-I will re-
turn it ta your hands.” But how was

this
FAIRY PALACE. 167

this to be done? Would not Rosa,—
would not the good old Dame herself
object to his going alone to the Fairy’s
Palace? What course was he to take?
“* I cannot,” said he, “ stay till Iam
sent for, Iam not worthy to come be-
neath her roof as an invited guest. No,
I will go like a culprit, as 1 am, acknow-
ledge my fault, return the watch, and
obtain, if I can, her forgiveness,”

After due consideration, he resolved
to write a note, which Rosa could read,
and another to Mr. Lloyd, explaining
the treason of his absence, and to set
off on the following morning.

He executed his scheme according to
his intention, and the next day, as early
as sun-rise, commenced his journey.

He
168 GLENOWEN, OR THE

He had no difficulty in finding the road,
and after a walk of near two hours,
descending from a neighboring height,
saw, with a beating heart, the beau-
tiful Fairy Palace in the vale below,
with all its charming accompaniments
of wood and water. It wasa picture of
sweet repose, forming a striking con-
trast with his own feelings, while he
contemplated, in imagination, his own
unworthiness, and anticipated the an-
ger of the, he believed, justly offended
Fairy.

He hastened forward, eager to un-
burthen his mind of the load of care
that oppressed it. He arrived and en-
tered the gates. —None of the domestics
were about. His heart beat quicker
and quicker as he reached the portal.

He
FAIRY PALACE. 169

He rang the door bell—a step was
heard in the hall—he was admitted ;
and in a few moments Charles, with
the repeating watch in his hand, was
at the feet of the Fairy Peribanou.

Her astonishment was excessive, but
before she had time to inquire the
cause of his suden appearance, — his
emotion, and the looks of deep contri-
tion expressed on his countenance,
Charles had made a full confession of
his fault, and all the circumstances at-
tending it. Rosa had been hurt; but
not dangerously—she was recovered,
and all solicitude was at an end, as soon
as excited, by the assurances which the
Fairy received from him that Rosa had
suffered no material injury.

Qa “« But
170 GLENOWEN, OR THE

“ But I neglected to take the care of
her I ought to have done,” said Charles,
sobbing violently, ‘* and which I pro-
mised I would do, most sacredly pro-
mised, and no longer deserve to retain
this your most precious gift. Take
then, oh noble Peribanou! the watch I
have so justly forfeited; and forgive, if
you can, a fault I am resolved never to
repeat.”

“Generous and most excellent youth,”
exclaimed Peribanou, in a tone of rap-
ture, ‘ the fault, of which you confess
yourself to have been guilty, has served
only to elucidate a principle of innate
virtue, which, by increasing my esteem,
renders you still dearer to my heart.
Take back the watch ; and with it, not
my forgiveness, for I have nothing to

forgive,
FAIRY PALACE. 171

forgive, but my sincerest admiration !
Act always thus, my dear Charles, and
you will be an honour to your friends
and to human nature; for in you I per-
ceive a rectitude of heart and principle,
rarely, I fear, yery rarely to be met
with, bearing on it the stamp of real
merit,”

Charles’s countenance beamed with
an expression of joy and gratitude, as
the Fairy thus addressed him, What
a change was wrought in his feelings in
the course of a féw hours—of a few
minutes. Scarcely could he contain:
his joy—hardly give utterance to his
feelings. ‘* You shall not leave me,”
said the Fairy, “ since you have really
ventured hither alone. The time fixed
for your intended visit draws near—I

a2 have
172 GLENOWEN, OR THE.

have na engagement at present, Rosa

is well enough to leave home, and I

will send for her immediately. Charles .
listened with pleasure to this proposal.

Peribanou gave her orders accordingly,

and in the space of two hours, Rosa—

the delighted Rosa, was in the arms of
her dear brother; for whom she had

been suffering the most uneasy appre-

hensions ever since he had left her,

whilst the Fairy saluted her with the

most endearing caresses.
FAIRY PALACE. ]

“Tt
MO

CHAP. XIII.

 

Every interview increased the affec-
tion which the Fairy Peribanou indul-
ged for her young favourites. After a
residence of a few days they seemed
quite necessary to her happiness, and
to form almost the whole of her amuse-
ment. Time flew rapidly away. Near
a fortnight had passed without the least
mention being made of their return to
Glenowen, when Rosa began to he un-
easy about her dear Nurse, whose pre-
sence only seemed wanting to complete
her happiness. Charles also expressed
the most anxious wish to see her.
* Will you promise to come back with

a3 me,
174 GLENOWEN, OR THE

me, if I take you to her?” said the
Fairy. “ O! yes,” instantly replied
Rosa, ‘* if dear Dame is well, and
can be happy without usa little longer.”
— Well, we will hear what she says,
to-morrow,” replied the Fairy, “ when
I will convey you to her cottage.”

The appointed time arrived, the
Fairy and her young guests departed
for Glenowen. Rosa was in high spirits
at the thoughts of again beholding her
dear Nurse; and as they came within
view of her cottage, looked anxiously
into the garden, in hopes of seeing her
amongst the trees. They entered the
rustic gate and advanced towards the
door. Rosa lifted up the latch; the
door was locked. ‘* Dame—my dear

Dame,” said she.—All was silent. She
knocked
FAIRY PALACE. 175

knocked—no-one answered to the sum-
mons. Charles looked through the
window; the cheerful fire which used
to blaze upon the hearth was extin-
guised,—the furniture was displaced,
and the house had the appearance of

being wholly uninhabited.

“« She is gone,” vociferated Rosa, in
a voice of agony—* she is indecd gone ;
and we do not know whither.” Charles,
who was little less affected than was
Rosa at this extraordinary event, ran out
to make inquiries amongst the neigh-
bours relative to the Dame; but of
them he could learn little, and nothing
satisfactory. She had been seen by one,
one day, and by another, another day ;
but when she went, and whither she
was gone, remained a mystery, and

had
176 GLENOWEN, OR THE

had already been a subject of some sur-
prise to several in the neighbourhood.
* Charles,” said Rosa, “ we had left
our dear Dame, and now she is gone
away, and we do not know where to
find her: perhaps,” added she, yielding
to a fresh burst of grief, “ she is dead,
and we shall never see her again; for
you know, Charles, she is very old.
How cruel were we to leave her so long!”

The idea that some accident or dis-
aster might have befallen her in the
interval of their absence, brought with
it such an accession of agony, that
Peribanou was for some time unable to
pacify her, though she more than once
assured her that no exertions should be
spared for the discovery of her worthy
old friend: ‘“ besides, you must re-

member
FAIRY PALACE, 177

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
178 GLENQWEN, OR THE

embrace her darling children. Rosa
uttered a scream of surprise, and ran
to salute the good old Dame, while
Charles, no less enraptured, eagerly
returned. the kiss of benevolent affec-
tion.

*“ God bless you, my noble lady,
for this and all your kindnesses,” said
Dame Morgan, Straitening the folds of
her apron and courtsying almost to the
ground, “ Ob! that I should be ho-
noured with a visit from your ladyship!”

“ J hepe your little home is fitted
up to your fancy, good Mrs. Morgan,”
said the Fairy, in a soft and obliging
tone of voice.—* O bless you, my lady,
it 18 a perfect paradise,” rejoined the
Dame, “ every thing is so neat and so

convenient 3
FAIRY PALACE. 179

econvenitnt; and that mice young lass
you sent to wait upon me, that your
ladyship had brought up at your own
house, will be a great comfort to me
in my old age, she is so obliging and so
orderly. Oh! that it should ever be my
blessed lot to live as I do, quite like a
lady.”

** Dear, dear Dame,” cried Rosa,
‘“‘is this indeed your home? What a
beautiful place it is; and what sweet
flowers and trees grow about it! and
will you never go back again to Glen-
owehi~-and shall Charles and. I live
with you here in this nice pretty house?”

« [do not know that I shall exactly
agree to that,” said the Fairy, smiling.
“ Mrs. Morgan has hitherto been my
rival; whether she is always to continue.

so,
1E0 GLENOWEN, OR THE

_ so, remains to be proved. At all events,
I must request that she will accompany
us to the palace, when further arrange-
ments will be made.”

Rosa’s eyes sparkled with delight at
the Fairy’s proposal, which Dame Mor-
gan at first modestly declined ; but on
Peribanou’s assuring her that she had
particular reasons for desiring it, and
could not admit of an excuse, she con-
sented to accompany them. Dame
Morgan withdrew to prepare herself for
the excursion, and in afew moments
appeared very handsomely dressed in
one of the gowns and shawls, which to_
gether with various presents for Charles
and Rosa had formerly been sent to her
tu Glenowen. After a short time spent
at the cottage, the party aroset o depart,

and
FAIRY PALACE. 181

and re-entering the carriage, soon arri-
ved at the Palace:—that scene of en-
chantment and Fairyism, of which
Dame Morgan had already heard so

much,

As soon as they had entered it and
were seated, Peribanou, addressing her-
self to Charles and Rosa, said: “ it is
now time that I should enter upon an
explanation of some circumstances which
must once, my dear young friends,
have greatly surprised you. It is time
I should lay aside my assumed charac-
ter, and appear to you under one more
real, but not Jess endearing, than that
of the Fairy Peribanou. You, my wor-
thy friend,” added she, addressing her-
self to Dame Morgan, “ have already
been made acquainted, by means of my

R confidential
182 GLENOWEN, OR THE

confidential woman, with some of the
principal events of my life; but it is
necessary that Charles and Rosa should
also know something of my story.”

«* My father’s name, as you have
doubtless been informed, was Appowen.
He was a clergyman of respectable fami-
ly and good connexions; but owing to
some unfortunate circumstances, which
happened after the death of my mo-
ther, whom he did not many years sur-

vive, he left me, his only child, almost
- wholly dependant upon the bounty of
an uncle, my father’s elder brother.
Mr. Appowen was captain of a mer-
chant ship trading te India. I should
have told you that it was during the
lifetime of my father that I became
acquainted with Mr. Evelynn, He:

was
FAIRY PALACE. 183

was one of my. father’s pupils, and we
had been together almost from our
childhood. JI had no brother; but
Charles Evelynn supplied to me the
place of a brother and a_ friend.
The most perfect confidence and affec-
tion subsisted between us. My uncle
disapproved of our attachment, and
cruelly formed a scheme to separate us
for ever. Absolutely forbidding me
-either to see or write to him, he took me
with him to Portsmouth ; and fabricat-
ing a report of Charles’s marriage with
a lady whom I had formerly known and
once highly esteemed, persuaded me to
accompany him to Calcutta.

“ Thad not been long in India before

I reccived offers of marriage, in my un-
ele’s opinion, at least, highly eligible.
I refused several whom he approved, ~
R 2 and
184 GLENOWEN, OR THE

and was in danger of entirely forfeiting »
his protection, when I had the good
fortune to attract the notice of Mr.
Macdonald, a Scotchman of a noble fa-
mily, and with the possession of a large
fortune chiefly acquired in India.
. Mr. Macdonald was near twenty years
my senior, a circumstance which, under
so many advantages, was entirely dis-
regarded ; for he was one of the best
and most amiable of human beings.
My affection for him daily increased.
Some years passed on in uninterrupted
tranquillity. Of my uncle I had no
reason to complain. Highly gratified
with my advancement, he united with
Mr. Macdonald in every scheme which
could in any way promote my happiness,
or contribute to my amusement. Death
at length deprived me of the best of
husbands
FAIRY PALACE. 185

husbands and the sincerest of friends.
I was for some time inconsolable. I
was the mistress of immense wealth,
for, with the exception of a few legacies,
he had bequeathed me the whole of his
property : but I had lost my adviser—
my protector—my friend, a loss which

I felt nothing could supply.

‘“« My first resolve was to return to
England, the hot climate of India being
uncongenial to my constitution. Pre-
vious to my embarkation, I wrote to
Mrs. Lloyd, a ‘relation of, mine in
Glamorganshire, to procure me a situ-
ation in this country. By her I was
informed of the death of Mr. Evelynn,
the event of whose marriage, .I heard
also, did not take place till near two
years after mine with Mr. Macdonald.

R 3 E grieved
186 GLENOWEN, OR THE

I grieved that I had been thus deceived ;
and wept to. think how much—how
very much I must have suffered in his
esteem, from my seeming total deser-
tion of him.

“ On my return to England, an
event which had been unexpectedly de-
‘layed for near two years, I learnt that
the son of my friend and correspon-
dent, Mrs. Lloyd, officiated as curate
in the identical village of which Charles
Evelynn had been pastor. —_I_ was also
informed of the death of Mrs. Evelynn,
and the situation of their orphan chil-
dren. When settled in my new abode,
I repaired to Glenowen; I visited the
_grave of the friend and brother of my
youth.

It
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

copied
188 GLENOWEN, OR THE

copied into the countenance of one
of his attendant fairies in the train. of
Oberon) to be a most happy effort
of imagination.

“© Accident often favoured me, where
foresight might have failed. So here
have I been,” added she, laughing,
** for several months, Queen of my
Fairy Palace, commanding, and or-
dering every thing by my supreme
power. But it is time that my ambi-
tious flights should, at length, find
their level: so here I am, my. dear
Charles, and my pretty Rosa, no longer
the Fairy Peribanou, but the com-
paratively humble Mrs. Macdonald.
My air-blown wand has fiown from
my hand, and melted into its original
element; my Fairy Palace is. trans-

, formed
FAIRY PALACE. £89.

formed into a’ mere ornamented villa
far more fit for ‘the residence of a
private gentlewoman, than for’ one ‘of
those kind of semi-deities called Fairies.
My male attendant train is not indeed,
like -Cinderella’s, - become. mice, but
, men; and my female | ones, mere ‘woe
men: But will you love me as well as
‘Mrs. Macdonald, as you did when 4
was the Fairy Peribanou pregin

nae: “Yes, oh! yes, and | more,” cried
Chatles, who had been: listening with
great earnestness, and apparent inte rest,
to’ Mrs. Macdonald’s: narration, **: be-.
cause yaw were the friend of out dea?
papa.” —6 And: because. you love our
nurse,” said Rosa, 6 and will “et~ her -
come and see us when we are here.”

AP tiie ab Bice bs glad. Lot.

Mrs.
190 GLENOWEN, OR THE

Mrs. Macdonald, as we shall hence-
forth call her, now informed Dame
Morgan, that it was her intention, as
it had always been, as soon as she
should have gained the affection and
confidence of Charles and Rosa, to take
them entirely under her own protection.
She should provide for them, she said,
as her children, and have them educat-
edaccordingly. Dame Morgan wept for
joy. “ They shall visit you frequent-
ly,” resumed Mrs. Macdonald ; “ and
here is something,” said she, “ with my
signature” (giving a written paper in-
to her hands) “ which will immediately
entitle you to an income, mere than
sufficient for your comfort: added. to
this, your cottage is your own. _It is
the just reward of your fidelity; and
may every blessing attend you.”

Dame
YAIRY PALACE. ~ G1

Dame Morgan’s emotions did not,
for some moments, allow her, to ar-
ticulate. ‘ May heaven preserve and
bless you, my dear and honoured lady!”
she at length uttered, and then burst
into a fresh flood of tears.

Charles and Rosa were now desired
to consider the residence of Mrs. Mac-
donald as their future home, an ar-
rangement highly delightful to them ;
particularly as Dame Morgan’s cottage
was within the distance of a walk.

The next day, in the evening, Mrs.
Macdonald and the children accompa-
nied Dame Morgan to her new abode ;
and early on the following morning a
servant was dispatched for Jessy Ste-
phenson, whom Mrs. Macdonald en-

gaged
192. GLENOWEN, OR THE

- gaged to attend upon Rosa, as her
maid and companion. Charles now
stationary at the Palace, or, as we
shall henceforth call it, the Villa of
_ Mrs. Macdonald, renewed his acquain-
tance with the poor sailor; and learnt
that it was through his friend, Mr..
Lloyd, and in consequence of the late
adventure, that he had obtained his
situation as a domestic in Mrs. Mac-
donald’s family. Mr. Lloyd still con-
tinued his office as Charles’s tutor,
which occasioned him to spend most of
his time at Mrs.Macdonald’s, whoallow-
ed him. an ample salary for his atten-
dance.

Perhaps no situation could be more
completely happy than that in which
Providence had now placed these once

apparently
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apparently unfortunate orphans, Charles
and Rosa Evelynn. Their sweet and
amiable dispositions ensured them the
love and esteem of all who were in any
way connected with them. Their names
are still remembered in Carnarvonshire;
and it is still usual in the country, when
particular blessings are desired, to say,
“* may you be as deserving, and as
‘* fortunate, as THE ORPHANS oF GLEN.
“© OWEN.”

FINIS.

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