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The Story of Vain Lamorna.
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Lamorna, as she looked at her own face in the water.

“How much my cheek is marked! But I don't mind it if you don’t, dear Erick;” and Erick kissed the scar, and told her he loved her all the better for it.

The water elves made a great festival when they heard this, and danced till morning.

“Anyhow, that is one good thing we have done in the past year,” they said. “We have cured Vain Lamorna,”

“Ah, a terrible thing is vanity !” said the Shawl-pin solemnly. “I have suffered from it myself.

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