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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 431

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ine first beheld SirPellias he was filledwith a great fear, forhe thought it was aspirit that he beheld.But when he perceivedthat Sir Pellias wasalive there came intohis bosom a joy asgreat as that fear hadbeen; wherefore hemade haste toward SirPellias, and he leapedfrom off his horse, cry-ing out,… … And when he spake it was in a voice very thinand of a silvery clearness, as though it camefrom a considerable distance, and he said, Touch me not, for I am not as I was afore-time, being not all human, but part fay. Butas for what thou askest, I do forgive theewhatsoever injury I may have suffered…

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