Fairy Gifts; Or, a Wallet of Wonders

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE CHARMED RUBY. ERRY Molly had never been seen to cry since she was a baby in arms, and not then, it is confidently asserted by those who know her. I think Corner- town would have considered itself in a bad way if Molly had ever done anything else than go singing down the street with a voice like a skylark, or else laughing at everything that most people grumble about; and Molly's laugh was really like a burst of music, so no wonder she was the idol of Cornertown. But everything goes by contraries in this world, especially in places patronized by the Fairies; and Molly's mother not only cried a good deal, but scolded a good deal too, at all times and seasons, except when Molly's father was at home, who scolded a good deal more. But, bless you !?Molly never cared for that, but went on skipping about and singing just as merrily as ever, quite a treasure in the house, as you, in common with every other sensible person, will observe; but no?people never know when they are well off, and Molly's mother not only failed to appreciate her daughter's cheerfulness, but took it as a personal insult directed against herself. ' All very well for a heartless creature like you, Molly, with no sense of all I have gone through and given up for your sake, when I might have been rich and happy for life.' Molly knew very well what her mother had given up, or rather what had given up her mother; she had heard it often enough, and had formed her own opinion on the matter long ago. This was how it was: Molly's mother had had two great misfortunes in her life. One was, that she had been very beautiful, and the other that she had been, in consequence, adopted by her Fairy Godmother, who had given up Fairydom and settled down as an old woman with a long nose. Now, Molly wasnot in the ...

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