`` What 's your name ? and who are your parents ? '' asked Miss Fairbairn . `` I 've got no parents ; and my name is Lorelei , '' answered the mermaiden . `` You mean Luly ; mind your pronunciation , child , '' said Miss Fairbairn , who corrected every one she met in something or other . `` Where do you live ? '' `` I have n't got any home now , '' said Lorelei , smiling at the lady 's tone . `` Yes , you have : my home is yours ; and you are going to stay with me always , '' cried Fancy , heartily . `` She is my little sister , Miss Fairbairn : I found her ; and I 'm going to keep her , and make her happy . '' `` Your uncle wo n't like it , my dear . '' And Miss Fairbairn shook her head gravely . `` Aunt will ; and Uncle wo n't mind , if I learn my lessons well , and remember the multiplication table all right . He was going to give me some money , so I might learn to keep accounts ; but I 'll tell him to keep the money , and let me have Lorelei instead . '' `` Oh , how silly ! '' cried the boy who did n't like bare feet . `` No , she is n't ; for , if she 's kind to the girl , maybe she 'll get some of her pretty things , '' said the vain little girl . `` Keeping accounts is a very useful and important thing . I keep mine ; and mamma says I have great arth-met-i-cal talent , '' added the pale child , who studied too much . `` Come , children ; it 's time for dinner . Fancy , you can take the girl to the house ; and your uncle will do what he thinks best about letting you keep her , '' said Miss Fairbairn , piling them into the basket-wagon .
Fancy kept XXXXX close beside her ; and as soon as they reached the great hotel , where they all were staying with mothers and fathers , uncles or aunts , she took her to kind Aunt Fiction , who was interested at once in the friendless child so mysteriously found .
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