upon entering of whichthe fairy made her horses slacken in
their speedand having travelled about a mile and a halfthrough rows of
elms and beech treesthey came to a thick grove of firsinto which there
seemed to be no entrance. For there was not any opening to a pathand
the underwood consisting chiefly of rose-busheswhite-thorneglantine
and other flowering shrubswas so thickthat it appeared impossible to
attempt forcing through them. But alighting out of the car (which
immediately disappeared) the fairy (bidding the queen follow her) pushed
her way through a large bush of jessaminewhose tender branches gave
way for their passage and then closed againso as to leave no traces of an
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entrance into this charming grove.
Having gone a little way through an extreme narrow paththey came
into an opening (quite surrounded by these firs and sweet underwood) not
very largebut in which was contained everything that is necessary
towards making life comfortable. At the end of a green meadow was a
plain neat housebuilt more for convenience than beautyfronting the
rising sun; and behind it was a small gardenstored only with fruits and
useful herbs. Sybella conducted her guests into this
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