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Updated: May 3, 2025
If fairies nowadays condescended to exchange their offspring with those of mortals, and if the popular tradition did not represent a fairy changeling as an ugly peevish creature, with none of the grace of its parents, I should be half inclined to suspect that Lilian was one of the elfin people.
Deprived now of their human props, how the angry fragments leap and tumble and chase one another through the echoing abyss below! These reverberations seem freighted with elfin voices that jeer the insensate rocks for their baffled scheme of mischief.
Then loud and clear blew she her horn and rode away. Thus Thomas parted from the Elfin Queen. On earth seven slow long years had passed away since Thomas had been seen in the little village of Ercildoune, and the villagers rubbed their eyes and stared with open mouth as they saw him once again in their midst.
Now lightly tread As if by elfin minstrels led, And fling no sound upon the air Shall rudely wake my slumbering fair. Softly!
And now my heart was cold, indeed for what hope was there left with Larry mad, wild drunk! The silence was unbroken elfin women and dwarfs glancing furtively at each other. But now Yolara arose, face set, eyes flashing grey. "Hear you, the Council, and you, Lugur and all who are here!" she cried. "Now I, the priestess of the Shining One, take, as is my right, my mate. And this is he!"
"It is very kind of you, madame," said Colonel Menard, "to give me this chance of speaking to you alone." "I do so, monsieur the colonel, because I myself have something to say." The little elfin voice disregarded Wachique and the page. They were part of the furniture of the room, and did not count as listeners. "You understand that I wish to propose for mademoiselle?" Tante-gra'mère nodded.
The time was now arrived for Goldsmith to apply for orders, and he presented himself accordingly before the Bishop of Elfin for ordination. We have stated his great objection to clerical life, the obligation to wear a black coat; and, whimsical as it may appear, dress seems in fact to have formed an obstacle to his entrance into the church.
The mother read her olden soul the pure soul that was hers of yore in her infant's eyes. One day when Hyldreda was following the child in its play, she noticed it disappear through what seemed the outlet of the fairy-palace, which outlet she herself had never been able to find. She forgot that her boy was of elfin as well as of mortal race.
Swift and sure-treading as only foresters might, they descended the steep, and lured by some elfin fancy, Beltane must needs come to stand beside the pool and to stare down into those silent waters, very dark by reason of that great tree 'neath whose writhen branches Tostig the outlaw had fought and died; so stood Beltane awhile lost in contemplation, what time Roger, drawing ever nearer his master's elbow, shivered and crossed himself full oft.
Name of God, I suffer every day, every night. And why? because! You listen to her. She still kick and kick and kick. And I sit here and think 'Where will it all end? Another five pounds and I am ruined. "It is ten years ago I meet her. Ah, so beautiful, so sweet, so light like this." And the great Salvini traced the wavering elfin proportions of the Lucia of his youth in the air with his hands.
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