Alexander had given him this certainty; for when he had seen Korinna by the lake, her soul had long since abandoned its earthly tenement.

Before that, her mortal part was already beyond his reach; and yet he was happy, for the spirit was not lost to him.

Only last night magic forces had brought her before him--his father, too, had been present, and no deception was possible.

He had gone to bed in rapturous excitement, full of delicious hopes, and Korinna had at once appeared to him in a dream, so lovely, so kind, and at the same time so subtle a vision, ready to follow him in his thoughts and strivings.

But just as he had heard a full assurance of her love from her own lips, and was asking her by what name he should call her when the craving to see her again should wax strong in him, old Dido had waked him, to cast him out of elysium into the deepest earthly woes.
But, he added--and he drew himself up proudly--he should soon possess the Magian's art, for there was no kind of learning he could not master; even as a boy he had proved that to his teachers.