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'You must ask the first Air Spirit you meet to show you the star where the Queen lives, and then you must get there the best way you can, Tom replied. 'When you have found her you must ask her for the Diamond Waterdrop. But be very careful not to sit down, however much you may be tempted to do so; for if you do, your little brother Hector never can be saved.
She had not gone far when she met an Air Spirit, carrying its nose in the air as, of course, all Air Spirits do. 'Can you tell me which star the Queen sits in? Hilda asked. 'What do you want of the Queen? inquired the Air Spirit superciliously. 'I want to ask her where the Diamond Waterdrop is, answered Hilda.
'The first thing to be done, said Tom, looking at the children with his yellow eyes, which burned as brightly as lamps in the gloom of the forest, 'the first thing to be done is, of course, to get the Golden Ivy-seed and the Diamond Waterdrop. After that the rest is easy. 'And where are the Golden Ivy-seed and the Diamond Waterdrop to be found? inquired the two children hopefully.
Lighter than the smallest centre of quivering life in the waterdrop, hidden and uncared for as the pulse of anguish in the breast of the tiniest bird that has fluttered down to its nest with the long-sought food, and has found the nest torn and empty.
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