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Katherine, Duchess of Bellamont, was beautiful: small and delicate in structure, with a dazzling complexion, and a smile which, though rare, was of the most winning and brilliant character. Her rich brown hair and her deep blue eye might have become a dryad; but her brow denoted intellect of a high order, and her mouth spoke inexorable resolution.
At all events, it's no use telling bad news too soon, and therefore you'll oblige me by not saying anything on the subject. A few hours will decide our fate." "But the Dryad, she is good four miles to the leeward of us, and the soundings decrease here so rapidly, that in an hour, with the sail she is under, she must go on shore."
Alas! it no longer bares its bosom with so dazzling a prodigality, for it is many a day since it was uprooted. The little dryad long since fled away weeping, fled away, said evil tongues, fled away to the town. Well do I remember our last meeting. Returning home one evening, I met her at the lodge-gate hurrying away.
"You have invaded my kingdom. Mortal, what right have you to the things of the night? They belong to me who know them and love them." "Then have compassion upon me, sweet dryad!" he pleaded, "who am but a pilgrim who cannot see his way. Let me shelter under your protection and be guided aright." She laughed again a ripple of silver that he had not guessed her voice possessed.
On the back seat a little smart groom balanced himself. The Dryad knew the lady, and the old clergyman knew her also. He shook his head gravely when he saw her, and said: "So you went there after all, and it was your ruin, poor Mary!" "That one poor?" thought the Dryad. "Oh, if I were only there, amid all the splendor and pomp!
But with every passing day they did realize that Dryad Anderson's fiercely wistful little face was growing more and more like that of the little statue in the grounds behind the church the stone face of John Anderson's frail bride of a year long since turned a dull, nondescript gray by the sun and weather.
Miss Child, Miss Vedrine will help you out of 'First Love' behind the screen and put you into the 'Young Moon. What" sotto voce "are you laughing at this time?" "Nothing," said the smallest dryad meekly, though she gurgled under her breath. "We'd better go now, and I'll come back," hastily suggested Peter. "Don't bother to change behind the screen for us, please.
The young chestnut tree had also listened to the stories; for the Dryad who lived in it was a child also. She remembered the time when the tree was so little that it only projected a short way above the grass and ferns around. These were as tall as they would ever be; but the tree grew every year, and enjoyed the air and the sunshine, and drank the dew and the rain.
His eyes passed the woman whom he would have wed, and rested upon her companion in the coach. "Thou fair dryad!" he said. "Two days hence we will keep tryst beneath the beech-tree in the woods beyond the glebe house." The man beside him put a hand upon his shoulder and plucked him back, nor would look at Evelyn's drawn and whitened face, but called to the coachman to go on.
She told me that Imagination was her very particular friend; that he was as charming as the God of Love; and that he often, for many an hour, sought repose under the spreading foliage of the tree, which then sighed more musically over the two. He called her his dryad, she said, and the tree his tree.
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