"But only in sleep."
"It would be strange enough though," said Lewis, "if there really were such things as fairies."
"There are such, of a certainty," replied the other; "but it is all a fable, that their whole pleasure is to make men happy. They plant those wishes in our bosoms which we ourselves do not know of; those over-wrought pretensions—that super-human covetousness of super-human gifts; so that in our desponding delirium we afterwards despise the beautiful earth with all its glorious stores."
Lewis answered with a pressure of the hand.
THE ELVES.
