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Gaspar read on of the fair and lovely maiden, of the handsome young knight and his love, of the water sprite, grim old Kuhlehorn, and the cottage where Undine dwelt, of the knight's marriage, and then of proud, beautiful Bertha. The rippling of the lake and the singing of the birds seemed like an accompaniment to the words, so full of pathos.
"The road to the north," he said, "lies along the river bank; therefore, you can easily keep him company." The Water Sprite bowed, and dancing over the dewy grass to the river, threw herself into it.
Carleton, for what you did!" "I was afraid I had made a mistake, Elfie." "Oh, no, you didn't." "Do you think you feel any easier after it, Elfie?" "Oh yes! indeed I do," said she looking up again, "thank you, Mr. Carleton." A gentle kind pressure of his arm answered her thanks. "I ought to be a good sprite to you, Mr. Carleton," Fleda said after musing a little while, "you are so very good to me!"
'My quaint Ariel, said Prospero to the little sprite when he made him free, 'I shall miss you; yet you shall have your freedom. 'Thank you, my dear master, said Ariel; 'but give me leave to attend your ship home with prosperous gales, before you bid farewell to the assistance of your faithful spirit; and then, master, when I am free, how merrily I shall live! Here Ariel sung this pretty song: Where the bee sucks there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I crouch when owls do cry.
In her dark red cloak with tendrils of the deep golden hair showing at the edge of her hood, she seemed to John a very sprite of the snows, and the blue eyes said clearly to the gray: "I know!" And the gray answered back in the same language: "I know!" Nevertheless John would not let words betray him.
Did he feel, as his little daughter did, that safety lay in silence? Did he fear to speak lest the tears might come? It had been decided that Sprite should accept Mr. Sherwood's invitation, and spend the Winter at Avondale, enjoying the early Winter months at Sherwood Hall, and the latter part of the season as the guest of Uncle John Atherton and his little niece, Rose.
'Malicious Sprite, she cried, 'why do you begrudge me my playmates the greatest delight of my lonely hours? Isn't this solitary life in such a desert bad enough without your turning the castle into a hospital for the aged? Give my maidens back their youth and health this very minute, or I will never love you!
With a voice in which a thrill of happiness made wondrous music, little Sprite sang: "Bright is the sky above us, Blue is the sea below. Seagulls are hovering 'round us Fluttering to and fro. Faith is the sky above us, The sea is the earth below. Gulls are the friends who love us, Following where'er we go.
"I thought they would live with us." "I don't know why," said Sir Eustace with a touch of sharpness, and then softening almost immediately, "It's practically the same thing, my sprite of the woods. But I wish you to be mistress in your own home when we do settle down, which won't be at present.
So it was that they spent that day in leisure approach the patient Croesus, with his burden, always in the lead, and Czar, like a merry sprite, playing here and there. Several times they stopped to rest beside the road, while provident Croesus gathered a few mouthfuls of grass or weeds. Many times they halted to enjoy the scene that changed with every step.
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