cried Fancy , kissing the cool cheek of her new friend , and putting her arms about her neck . `` Call me by my German cousin 's pretty name , -- Lorelei , '' answered the mermaid , kissing back as warmly as she could . `` Will you come home and live with me , dear Lorelei ? '' asked Fancy , still holding her fast . `` If you will promise to tell no one who and what I am , I will stay with you as long as you love and believe in me . As soon as you betray me , or lose your faith and fondness , I shall vanish , never to come back again , '' answered Lorelei . `` I promise : but wo n't people wonder who you are ? and , if they ask me , what shall I say ? '' said Fancy . `` Tell them you found me on the shore ; and leave the rest to me . But you must not expect other people to like and believe in me as you do . They will say hard things of me ; will blame you for loving me ; and try to part us . Can you bear this , and keep your promise faithfully ? '' `` I think I can . But why wo n't they like you ? '' said Fancy , looking troubled . `` Because they are not like you , dear , '' answered the mermaid , with salt tears in her soft eyes . `` They have not your power of seeing beauty in all things , of enjoying invisible delights , and living in a world of your own . Your Aunt Fiction will like me ; but your Uncle Fact wo n't . He will want to know all about me ; will think I 'm a little vagabond ; and want me to be sent away somewhere , to be made like other children .
I shall XXXXX out of his way as much as I can ; for I 'm afraid of him . ''
Call asked holding keep live loving say seeing think vanish