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Updated: June 28, 2025
'Now that I look in your eyes, it seems as if I must have always known you! said Calladon. 'And I know you the same way, said Callia. 'But how did you get here? he asked. 'What a funny question! as if I had ever been anywhere else!
You may choose what it shall be; but I will tell you beforehand that, if you choose to be made beautiful again as you were before, it shall be done. 'I would rather be made happy. replied Calladon, 'and it would make me happy if I could see Callia once more. 'So be it! said the tall man, kindly. 'Come with me!
After this had gone on for some time, however, Callia suddenly gave a shriek. 'What is the matter? asked Calladon. 'The snake! the snake! cried Callia. 'It is winding itself all round me! 'And round me too! screamed Calladon. 'Oh, what shall we do? In fact, the mud with which they had covered themselves had become alive, and was coiling itself tightly about them in the form of serpents.
The next instant the walls closed together again, but a faint illumination still remained, in which Calladon and Callia again seemed to themselves to resume their natural form. But even then, Calladon caught a glimpse of himself in the enchanted mirror; and there was once more the crook-backed, grisly-faced dwarf that had frightened him in Cada, now made more ugly yet by the serpent-mud of Bra.
But Calladon was staring at the mirror which still hung round Callia's neck, and he looked as if he had seen a ghost. 'Tell me, Callia, he said; 'tell me quick! Am I the same as I was before? 'Just the same, except that you look very much scared at something. Calladon gave a shudder. 'Then the glass tells what is false, said he.
The alabaster wall would burst asunder, and the flame of the lamp would burn up the world. 'Where did the lamp come from? asked Calladon. 'It was here before Abracadabra or the world existed, the Master replied, smiling; 'and it will burn for ever. 'Could not I put it out? 'No; but you might wander away from it into the darkness outside, said the Master, in a graver tone.
'Perhaps it is a ruby, or a black diamond. Such things are very precious. 'We had better take what we can get, then, said Callia; 'we shall not find anything like this in Abra of that I am sure. How foolish you were, Calladon, never to have thought of coming in here before. It is ten times better than the other place!
But Hilda's hair is golden still, and her eyes are blue. If you were to take three hoops, the second half as large round as the first, and the third half as large round as the second, and lay them on the floor one inside the other, you would have a ground-plan of the house in which Calladon lived.
'She will not suggest either good or evil to you; but if your thoughts are good she will know it, and will help you to carry them out; and if your thoughts are evil, she will think evil too, and will give you the means of doing it. 'Does she know all this? Calladon asked.
'Oh, no; only the Master said that I was to look in it every once in a while, to find out what I really am. 'You really are the handsomest and dearest boy in the world, and so the mirror will tell you, said Callia; and she held it up before him as she spoke. Calladon looked; and certainly the mirror did show him the image of a very charming little face and figure.
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