And see, too--where, centring in herself interest and action of the rapidly shifting scenery--ever again a beautiful granddaughter of Eve steps--free and fearless, and bouyant and bounding--our fancy-laid boards!--Ah! but how much unresembling the sweet maid!--_Outwardly_, for lofty-piled is the roof that ceils over the superb head of the modern Amazon, Swanhilda--more unlike _within_. Instead of the clear truth, the soul's gentle purity, the "plain and holy Innocence" of the poor fairy-beloved mountain child--SHE, in whose person and fortunes you are invited--for the next fifty minutes--to forget your own--harbours, fondly harbours, ill housemates of her virginal breast! a small, resolute, well-armed and well confederated garrison of unwomanly faults. Pride is there!--The iron-hard and the iron-cold! There Scorn--edging repulse with insult!--and envenoming insult with despair!--leaps up, in eager answer to the beseeching sighs, tears, and groans of earth-bent Adoration. And there is the indulged Insolency of a domineering--and as you will precipitately augur--an _indomitable_ Will! And there is exuberant SELF-POWER, that, from the innermost mind, oozing up, out, distilling, circulating along nerve and vein, effects a magical metamorphosis! turns the nymph into a squire of arms; usurping even the clamorous and blood-sprinkled joy of man--the tempestuous and terrible CHASE, which, in the bosom of peace, imaging war, shows in the rougher lord of creation himself, as harsh, wild, and turbulent! Oh, how much other than yon sweet lily of the high Lusatian valleys, the shade-loving Flower, the good Maud--herself looked upon with love by the glad eyes of men, women, children, Fairies, and Angels! oh, other indeed! And yet, have you, in this thickly clustered enumeration of unamiable qualities, implicitly heard the CALL which must fasten, which has fastened, upon the gentle Maud's _haughty_ antithesis--the serviceable regard, and--the FAVOUR, even of THE FAIRIES. The FAVOUR!!