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Mrs. Desfrayne felt much as Alnaschar is described to have felt when he found his radiant visions at an end. She had built up a perfect Aladdin's Palace of bright and fairy enjoyment, and now it had faded completely.
She was endowed with a lively imagination, and had rapidly conjured up dreams as charming as they were baseless, like a boarding-school girl building up a delicious _château d'Espagne_ with enameled bits of painted cardboard.