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"A creature not too bright or good / For human nature's daily food. " / WORDSWORTH.
It seemed a very long time to the next afternoon, and if Liddy hadn't been the most unnoticing old woman in the world, she would certainly have seen that there was something unusual in our heads. We could think of nothing but our new friend the fairy, or "the other princess," as Gerald would call her. Who could she be? where had she come from? how -- and this, perhaps, was the thing we wondered most about -- how in the world did she know all about us, or our names, even down to our pet names, any way?