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NORTH WIND.
AND as she stood looking towards London, Diamond saw that she was trembling.
"Are you cold, North Wind ?" he asked.
"No, Diamond," she answered, looking down upon him with a smile; "I am only getting ready to sweep one of my rooms.

Those careless, greedy, untidy children make it in such a mess." As she spoke he could have told by her voice, if he had not seen with his eyes, that she was growing larger and larger.

Her head went up and up towards the stars; and as she grew, still trembling through all her body, her hair also grew--longer and longer, and lifted itself from her head, and went out in black waves.

The next moment, however, it fell back around her, and she grew less and less till she was only a tall woman.