Laboulaye's Fairy Book

by Édouard Laboulaye · language: en

A YOUNG GIRL FELL FROM THE BRANCHES " 112 HE INSTANTLY GAVE HER THE WATER, WHEN, LO!

A BEAUTIFUL, SLENDER YOUNG GIRL STOOD BEFORE HIM " 126 PAZZA, THOUGH SHE LOVED THE PRINCE, WAS A VERY STERN " 154 SCHOOLMISTRESS THE MOST RENOWNED PHYSICIANS OF THE FACULTY MET ONE EVENING IN CONSULTATION AT THE PALACE " 178 INTRODUCTION By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN There was once a green book, deliciously thick, with gilt-edged pages and the name of the author in gilt script on the front cover.

Like an antique posy ring, it was a "box of jewels, shop of rarities"; it was a veritable Pandora's box, and if you laid warm, childish hands upon it and held it pressed close to your ear, you could hear, as Pandora did, soft rustlings, murmurings, flutterings, and whisperings from the fairy folk within.

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