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Y our poor mother, forsaken,

forlorn,
abandoned,
and
wandered with you a great many
miles from this scene of desolation;
fear added to her haste: she settled
in the cottage where you were
brought ____ to her fear of the Giant
up, and it was entirely owing
that she has never mentioned your father to you.
"I became your father's guardian at his birth; but
fairies have laws to which they are subject as well as
mortals. A short time before the Giant went to your
father's, I transgressed; my punishment was a
suspension of power for a limited time: an
unfortunate __________
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