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Bella the Goldsmith had become a wealthy dwarf. She could afford to buy expensive food and clothes. She had given up her gold-smithing and had become a shopkeeper: a jeweller. Like most jewellers, Bella was rich. The reason for Bella’s change of fortune was the beauty of Emily’s work. The girl was turning out three masterpieces a day. Whenever Bella worried that her good luck, in the form of Emily’s work, would run out, she had only to mention Adam, and the girl would immerse herself in her task. It seemed that working was the only way for her to blot out her worries. Now the only real concern was when Success would decide to arrive.
Pixies, goblins, brownies and even different types of elves came to Bella’s workshop to buy dragonfly brooches of exquisitely haunting beauty. Elves: the
