where are you ? '' And Tom cried , `` Oh , Ellie , where are you ? '' For neither of them could see each other -- not the least . Little Ellie vanished quite away , and Tom heard her voice calling him , and growing smaller and smaller , and fainter and fainter , till all was silent . Who was frightened then but Tom ? He swam up and down among the rocks , into all the halls and chambers , faster than ever he swam before , but could not find her . He shouted after her , but she did not answer ; he asked all the other children , but they had not seen her ; and at last he went up to the top of the water and began crying and screaming for Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid -- which perhaps was the best thing to do -- for she came in a moment . `` Oh ! '' said Tom . `` Oh dear , oh dear ! I have been naughty to Ellie , and I have killed her -- I know I have killed her . '' `` Not quite that , '' said the fairy ; `` but I have sent her away home , and she will not come back again for I do not know how long . '' And at that Tom cried so bitterly that the salt sea was swelled with his tears , and the tide was .3,954,620,819 of an inch higher than it had been the day before : but perhaps that was owing to the waxing of the moon . It may have been so ; but it is considered right in the new philosophy , you know , to give spiritual causes for physical phenomena -- especially in parlour-tables ; and , of course , physical causes for spiritual ones , like thinking , and praying , and knowing right from wrong . And so they odds it till it comes even , as folks say down in Berkshire . `` How cruel of you to send Ellie away ! '' sobbed Tom . `` However , I will find her again , if I go to the world 's end to look for her . '' The fairy did not slap Tom , and tell him to hold his tongue : but she took him on her lap very kindly , just as her sister would have done ; and put him in mind how it was not her fault , because she was wound up inside , like watches , and could not help doing things whether she liked or not . And then she told him how he had been in the nursery long enough , and must go out now and see the world , if he intended ever to be a man ; and how he must go all alone by himself , as every one else that ever was born has to go , and see with his own eyes , and smell with his own nose , and make his own bed and lie on it , and burn his own fingers if he put them into the fire .
And then she told him how many fine things there were to be seen in the world , and what an odd , curious , pleasant , orderly , respectable , well-managed , and , on the whole , successful -LRB- as , indeed , might have been expected -RRB- sort of a place it was , XXXXX people would only be tolerably brave and honest and good in it ; and then she told him not to be afraid of anything he met , for nothing would harm him if he remembered all his lessons , and did what he knew was right .
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