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Keen enough in his perceptions, he was able to recognize that here was a

pure and ith,

beauty, and goodness Given such a spirit, it was not unnatural that,

turning fros as a flower turns from shadow

to the full face of the sun, she should have taken aarm, and have created out of these a

him with all heroic attributes; at one

and the saht-errant without

fear and without reproach, and keeping him by her side--the side of a

child--in her own private wonderland He saw that she had done this, and

he was ashamed He did not tell her that that eleven-years-distant

fortnight was to him but a half-remembered incident of a crowded life, and

that to all intents and purposes she herself had been forgotten For one

thing, it would have hurt her; for another, he saw no reason why he should

tell her Upon occasion he could be as ruthless as a stone; if he were so

now he knew it not, but in deceiving her deceived hih, he was of course quietly assured that he could

bend this woodland creature--half child, half dryad--to the for To do so was in his power, but not his pleasure He meant to

leave her as she was; to accept the adoration of the child, but to atteirl was of the h he had brought her body thence, he would

not have her spirit leave the cli earth, the dreamlike summits, for