His poor nature has no idea that the joys and sorrows of love have so sweet a resemblance, and are so closely linked that no power can separate them.

Amid tears a smile shines forth, and a smile allures tears from their secret chambers." She looked up at Huldbrand, smiling and weeping; and he again experienced within his heart all the charm of his old love.

She felt this, and pressing him more tenderly to her, she continued amid tears of joy:-- "As the disturber of our peace was not to be dismissed with words, I have been obliged to shut the door upon him.

And the only door by which he obtains access to us is that fountain.

He is cut off by the adjacent valleys from the other water-spirits in the neighborhood, and his kingdom only commences further off on the Danube, into which some of his good friends direct their course.