She's a lovely creature! with brown velvet eyes, her forehead all covered with little round curls." "What! a friz ?" "Well, if you like to call it so.

Lovely ears and a little soft nose, the whole surmounted by a pair of short brown horns." "Good heavens! the woman ?" "Why, no! the cow, of course!" "Oh, I see; the friz and the brown eyes belong to a cow then,--but what of her mistress?
My dear fellow, don't waste all your poetry on the cow." "As I haven't much to spare, you think.

Well, her mistress is--Valmai!" and Cardo lifted his hat as he spoke.
Gwynne Ellis took two or three long puffs at his pipe, and looked curiously at Cardo, who stood looking over at the glimmering light in one of the windows at Dinas.
"Cardo Wynne, I am beginning to understand you; I have mistaken the whole situation.

Here have I been thinking myself the only man in the place capable of appreciating its beauties properly--the only poetic and artistic temperament amongst you all--and I gradually awake to find myself but a humdrum, commonplace man of the world, who has dropped into a nest of sweet things: earth, sea, and sky combining to form pictures of beauty; picturesque rural life; an interesting and mysterious host; an idyllic cow; a friend who, though unable, or perhaps unwilling, to express his enthusiasm, yet thoroughly feels the poetry of life; and, better than all, I find myself in close touch with a real romantic love affair! Now, don't deny it, my dear fellow; I see it all--I read it in your eyes--I know all about it.

The pretty cow's lovely mistress; and her name is--Valmai! How tender! My Welsh is rather rusty, but I know that means 'sweet as May.' Oh, Cardo Wynne, what a lucky dog you are!" Cardo was still silent, and his friend continued, pointing to Dinas: "And there she dwells (haven't I seen your eyes attracted there continually?
Of course, there's the glimmer of her lamp!) high on the breezy cliff, with the pure sea wind blowing around her, the light and joy of her father's home, and soon to fly across the valley and lighten up another home." "Oh, stop, stop, for mercy's sake!" said Cardo.