Ah! still be patient.' 'Am I not?
have I not been ?' 'Yes; and can you regret it ?' 'No; but we separate!' 'Would you have us be two feet high for ever ?' she answered smiling.
'One foot high, or under earth, if it might be together!' 'Poor little gnomes!' said she.
The homeliness of our resting-place arrested her for an instant, and perhaps a touch of comic pity for things of such diminutive size as to see nothing but knees where a man stood.

Our heads were hidden.
'Adieu! no pledge is needed,' she said tenderly.
'None!' I replied.
She returned to the upper world with a burning blush.
Schwartz had borne himself with extraordinary discretion by forbearing to spread alarm at the palace.

He saluted his young mistress in the regulation manner while receiving her beneath a vast umbrella, the holiday peasant's invariable companion in these parts.

A forester was in attendance carrying shawls, clogs, and matting.

The boat was turned and launched.
'Adieu, Harry Richmond.