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 towards good, that it radiates to immeasurable distance. The wave theory that rules our knowledge of the distribution of light and sound, may well be taken to typify, if it does not notnot [sic] control the light of divine love, and the beating in unison of human hearts.

I think that during these days I must have looked, as well as felt, miserable; for even Andy did not make any effort to either irritate or draw me. On the Sunday evening, when I was on the strand behind the hotel, he lounged along, in his own mysterious fashion, and after looking at me keenly for a few moments, came up close, and said to me in a grave, pitying half-whisper:—

"Don't be afther breakin' yer harrt, yer 'an'r. Divil mend the fairy girrul. Sure isn't she vanished intirely? Mark me now! there's no sahtisfaction at all, at all, in them fairy girruls. Faix! but I would'nt like to see a fine young gintleman like yer 'an'r, become like Yeoha, the Sigher, as they called him in the ould times."

"And who might that gentleman be, Andy?" I asked, with what appearance of cheerful interest I could muster up.

"Begor! it's a prince he was that married onto a fairy girrul, what wint an' was tuk off be a fairy man what lived in the same mountain as she done herself. Sure thim fairy girruls has mostly a fairy man iv their own somewheres, that they love betther nor they does mortials. Jist you take me advice, Master Art, fur ye might do worser! Go an take a luk at Miss