"Much better," said Clodagh, and they never did.
And a happy home old Grey Rocks proved. It was but seldom they cared to
leave it. But when they did "want to wander," and with good management
their joint means were enough to enable them to do so now and then, you
may be sure that their only luggage was the two well-tested trunks,
whose marvellous properties never failed. Clodagh, of course, in her
heart had her own secret belief as to the identity of her benefactor or
benefactress, but the mysterious "fairy lady" she never saw again. And
whether her visits to the Marristons at the Priory continued or not, I
cannot say.
Nor can I tell you the after history of the cousins, though something
whispers to me that their lives were happy. But it all happened a long
time ago. I cannot go over to Grey Rocks, for I do not know, to tell the
truth, in what part of old Ireland it stands. Possibly still, in some
forgotten corner of a deserted attic are hidden away the enchanted
trunks, no one guessing their fairy powers! Who can say, though I am
sure most of us wish that they, or others of their kind, belonged to us.
How delightful it would be!
THE END
End of Project Gutenberg's Fairies Afield, by Mary Louisa Molesworth
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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