To drive away any one dear to her.

And moreover, into an ill-omened wood.

The forest and its mysteries might have waited long enough for me!" "Yesterday morning." continued the knight, smiling kindly at Undine, "I set out on my enterprise.

The stems of the trees caught the red tints of the morning light which lay brightly on the green turf, the leaves seemed whispering merrily with each other, and in my heart I could have laughed at the people who could have expected anything to terrify them in this pleasant spot.

'I shall soon have trotted through the forest there and back again,' I said to myself, with a feeling of easy gayety, and before I had even thought of it I was deep within the green shades, and could no longer perceive the plain which lay behind me.