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27 I'll reach conclusion and corollary.
 * Dar. (looking at ). Oh, fairyhood!

How wonderfully like our Phyllon!
 * Sel. (looking at ).Yes.

And see—how strangely like our Ethais. Thou hast a gallant carriage, gentle knight. (Sighing)
 * Zay. How very, very like our Ethais.
 * Eth. It's little wonder that I'm like myself;

Why, I am he.
 * Sel. No, not our Ethais. (Sighing.)
 * Eth. In truth, I am the Ethais of all

Who are as gentle and as fair as thou.
 * Sel. That's bravely said; thou hast a silver tongue;

Why! what can gods be like if these be men. (During this dialogue,  shows by her manner that she takes great interest in ) Say, dost thou come from earth or heaven?
 * Eth. (gallantly ptttting Jiis arm round them). I think I've come from earth to heaven.
 * Sel. (to  with delight). Oh! didst thou hear?

He comes from earth to heaven! No, Ethais, We are but fairies—this, our native home. Our fairy-land rests on a cloud which floats Hither and thither, as the breezes will; At times a mighty city's at our feet, At times a golden plain, and then the sea, Dotted with ships and rocks and sunny isles. We see the world; yet saving that it is