This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...running on familiar lines with an agreeable sense of security. But no fay ever born could guess what an Irish Fairy maid would say on any single subject, therefore answers to her remarks have to be improvised, and quickly, too, before she makes others. Now the English Elf did not improvise readily, so ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...running on familiar lines with an agreeable sense of security. But no fay ever born could guess what an Irish Fairy maid would say on any single subject, therefore answers to her remarks have to be improvised, and quickly, too, before she makes others. Now the English Elf did not improvise readily, so his usual agreeable sense of security was strangely absent to-night, and it was not restored by the discovery he made that he had been once or twice unaccountably amusing when he was not intending it. He could almost have believed that the Irish Fairy maids were laughing at him, were it not that the idea seemed too preposterous, for in the first place he was not in the least ridiculous--that he knew--and in the second place, in spite of anything they said their eyes remained so soft. The more he looked at their eyes, the more he determined not to do their dispositions the injustice of supposing that they could be amused at his expense. And yet he doubted. Plainly it behoved him to dance that night in an impressive manner, and with his correctest grace, and here he was successful. All Fairies, of course, can dance with each other as naturally as they can speak with each other, though they neither dance nor speak alike, but there are certain figures both of speech and of movement common to the Fairies of all nations. For instance, they all use " No fun!" as an expression of hopeless condemnation; they all stamp with both feet when they lose their tiny tempers; they all swear " by the light of the Moon! " and they all dance the Circlet when they meet on the merry Ring at night. So Rose Red joined them in perfect understanding, and went through the motions of the Circlet with a feeling of being entirely at home, such as he had not experienced...
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