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The boy blessed her with a tremulous voice. Little One pressed on, singing softly to herself, till she came to a frightful chasm, full of water. "How shall I ever cross it!" she cried in alarm. "May I help you, fair Sylphid?" said the grateful boy to whom she had given her last jewel. "I can make a bridge in the twinkling of an eye."
"I like 'The Lost Sylphid' the best," said Prudy; "but was she a great butterfly, do you s'pose? The stories are all just as nice; just like book stories. I shouldn't think anybody made 'em up. Aunt 'Ria can write as good as the big girls to the grammar-school. I promised not to believe a single word; and I sha'n't. Long ago, in fair Burgundy, lived a lad named Cristobal.
"This poor Cesarini may warn me against myself!" thought he. "Better hew wood and draw water than attach ourselves devotedly to an art in which we have not the capacity to excel.... It is to throw away the healthful objects of life for a diseased dream, worse than the Rosicrucians, it is to make a sacrifice of all human beauty for the smile of a sylphid that never visits us but in visions."
"A robe of white, confined loosely to her waist by a vari-colored sash, which drooped gracefully to catch up the folds in front, clung softly to her figure in sylphid revelation of the matchless proportions it could never conceal.
Your mother, if ever you are really jealous, it must be of her! But that she should love me, that is what I doubt and fear. For if you were my brother, Percival, I should be so ambitious for you. A nymph must rise from the stream, a sylphid from the rose, before I could allow another to steal you from my side.
But, if you do not know the way home, pray how can you tell which road to take?" "Oh! I have a guide, a beautiful fairy, called Whisper: she shows me every step of the way. I wish you would go too, little Dorel!" "I think I will not, little Sylphid; for, if you have only a Whisper for a guide, I do not believe you will ever get there; but, oh, you are very, very beautiful!"
And if I think I should feel this only as your sister, what can be precious enough to satisfy a mother?" "You, and you only," answered Percival, with his blithesome laugh, "you, my sweet Helen, much better than nymph or sylphid, about whom, between ourselves, I never cared three straws, even in a poem. How pleased you will be with Laughton!
And if I think I should feel this only as your sister, what can be precious enough to satisfy a mother?" "You, and you only," answered Percival, with his blithesome laugh, "you, my sweet Helen, much better than nymph or sylphid, about whom, between ourselves, I never cared three straws, even in a poem. How pleased you will be with Laughton!
"You fancy you were once a sylphid," said he; "but there are no sylphids, my sweet one, and there is no Summer-land." The child became as dear to the lord and lady as their very heart's blood; and they forgot her foreign birth, and almost believed, as all the world did, that she was their own little daughter. But the child did not forget.
Then, intwining arms with a bright sylphid, she flew with her over the gardens in a trance of delight. "Here," said Little One, "is my own dear garden. I remember the border and the paths right well; but it never bore such golden fruit, it never glowed with such beautiful flowers." "Your fairy, the one you call Whisper, has taken care of it for your sake," said the sister sylphid.
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