That 's what I have been afraid of all along . '' `` No , he wo n't -- I know as much as that . Nobody can turn water - babies into sweeps , or hurt them at all , as long as they are good . '' `` Ah , '' said naughty Tom , `` I see what you want ; you are persuading me all along to go , because you are tired of me , and want to get rid of me . '' Little Ellie opened her eyes very wide at that , and they were all brimming over with tears . `` Oh , Tom , Tom ! '' she said , very mournfully -- and then she cried , `` Oh , Tom ! 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 , XXXXX 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 .
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