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170 great wonder that your fairy lover did not tell you I'd give you that dressing? Be off now, and you have something to tell him that he did not know before. And if I ever see you coming near my house again I'll give you a greater adventure than that to tell to your fairy lover." Nell was frightened lest the woman should curse them. But Edmund used to say that he would care no more for that than if she were to sing to them.

—I heard some one say that the fairies are the fallen angels and the demons of the air,