--- title: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6 — The Lilac Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: ‘“Good morning,” said she, bowing politely to the donkey, who lifted her head in surprise. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6 # The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/101/) — ‘Well, the child I rubbed, sure enough; but my right eye began to smart, and I put up my finger and gave it a rub, and then stared, for never in all my life was I so frightened. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/102/) — The beautiful room was a big, rough cave, with water oozing over the edges of the stones and through the clay; and the lady, and the lord, and the child weazened, poverty-bitten creatures--nothing but skin and bone--and the rich dresses were old rags. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/103/) — I didn’t let on that I found any difference, and after a bit says the Dark Man, “Go before me to the hall door, and I will be with you in a few moments, and see you safe home.” - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/104/) — Well, just as I turned into the outside cave, who should I see watching near the door but poor Molly. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/105/) — She looked round all terrified, and says she to me in a whisper, “I’m brought here to nurse the child of the king and queen of the fairies; but there is one chance of saving me. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/106/) — All the court will pass the cross near Templeshambo next Friday night, on a visit to the fairies of Old Ross. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/107/) — If John can catch me by the hand or cloak when I ride by, and has courage not to let go his grip, I’ll be safe. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/108/) — Here’s the king. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/109/) — Don’t open your mouth to answer. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/110/) — I saw what happened with the ointment.” - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/111/) — ‘The Dark Man didn’t once cast his eye towards Molly, and he seemed to have no suspicion of me. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/112/) — When we came out I looked about me, and where do you think we were but in the dyke of the Rath of Cromogue. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/113/) — I was on the horse again, which was nothing but a big rag-weed, and I was in dread every minute I’d fall off; but nothing happened till I found myself in my own cabin. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/114/) — The king slipped five guineas into my hand as soon as I was on the ground, and thanked me, and bade me good night. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/115/) — I hope I’ll never see his face again. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/116/) — I got into bed, and couldn’t sleep for a long time; and when I examined my five guineas this morning, that I left in the table drawer the last thing, I found five withered leaves of oak--bad luck to the giver!’ - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/117/) — Well, you may all think the fright, and the joy, and the grief the poor man was in when the woman finished her story. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/118/) — They talked and they talked, but we needn’t mind what they said till Friday night came, when both were standing where the mountain road crosses the one going to Ross. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/119/) — There they stood, looking towards the bridge of Thuar, in the dead of the night, with a little moonlight shining from over Kilachdiarmid. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/120/) — At last she gave a start, and “By this and by that,” says she, “here they come, bridles jingling and feathers tossing!” - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/121/) — He looked, but could see nothing; and she stood trembling and her eyes wide open, looking down the way to the ford of Ballinacoola. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/122/) — “I see your wife,” says she, “riding on the outside just so as to rub against us. — checked by a teacher - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/123/) — We’ll walk on quietly, as if we suspected nothing, and when we are passing I’ll give you a shove. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/124/) — If you don’t do YOUR duty then, woe be with you!” - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/125/) — Well, they walked on easy, and the poor hearts beating in both their breasts; and though he could see nothing, he heard a faint jingle and trampling and rustling, and at last he got the push that she promised. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/126/) — He spread out his arms, and there was his wife’s waist within them, and he could see her plain; but such a hullabulloo rose as if there was an earthquake, and he found himself surrounded by horrible-looking things, roaring at him and striving to pull his wife away. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/127/) — But he made the sign of the cross and bid them begone in God’s name, and held his wife as if it was iron his arms were made of. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/128/) — Bedad, in one moment everything was as silent as the grave, and the poor woman lying in a faint in the arms of her husband and her good neighbour. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/129/) — Well, all in good time she was minding her family and her business again; and I’ll go bail, after the fright she got, she spent more time on her knees, and avoided fairy men all the days of the week, and particularly on Sunday. 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