his sword now a maiden kneeling at his feet then rising addressing him in dumb show and pointing upward then placing a crown upon his head leading him to his and bidding him ride forth to conquer a change came o er the scene which seemed enveloped in clouds deepening into a noble purpose absolute darkness � then gradually melting to a soft silvery grey tint by an exquisitely clear light that grew brighter and brighter to an almost dazzling intensity floating figures then appeared � figures not of this earth but heavenly fair majestic and saint like � figures that looked on her with pitying love and tender sweetness and that at length spoke was by this time in a deep sleep or trance whether in the body or out of the body she had gently sunk on the turf like a tired child and lay there with closed eyes relaxed limbs and a smile of sweetness on her lips tears presently from beneath her closed and her hands made a faint movement as if to grasp and retain some receding object then she half raised herself with a start and looked wistfully around and above her nobly won they are gone said she softly and after a pause full of solemnity she covered her face and bent her knees in prayer s breakfast that morning had been two apples and though her mother had given her a of bread to stay her young appetite till the family supper she had privately slipped it into the soldier s nothing is more of wild fancies than crude food or an empty stomach for my part it is my settled belief that at least half the supernatural of famous whether coming in the guise of spirits of darkness or angels of light might be traced td the vegetable diet which filled their brains with and but this by the way when looked about her all her sheep were gone this instantly brought her down from things celestial to things and a noble purpose sticking her into her and up her she sped away after them two long hours passed before the poor girl could get the flock together again it was then full time to drive it to the fold and by the time she had done this and was returning hot and weary to her home the sun had set again she encountered said he as he came up to her fm sorry i spoke ho roughly this morning there s no one for whom i care more then you cannot care much for anybody said but it does not signify nay but i care for you a great deal said and � in short if you ll have me for your husband so you shall i wonder at you said angrily i have no thoughts of marriage and if i had should never marry you go your ways my thoughts were full of heavenly nobly won things and you have brought them down to earth if you were not a i could tell you something tell me by all means said he standing across her path so that she could not pass no it is not for such ears as yours said she trying to push by him � oh there s the bell and i shall be quite too late how and tears of mortification started into her eyes one kiss and then you shall go said t� take that said giving him such a box on the ear that the light flashed from his eyes he could not help laughing but she was in anything but a laughing mood and ran home while he stood looking after her and rubbing his ear why what s the matter said as she shot into the cottage how a noble purpose late you are i wanted you to fetch water from the spring and the milk and feed the pigs and chickens have you done a good day s spinning what s this and she picked up s with the lock of all in a like an s string which he has not taken the trouble to wind up why now troubled me and would not let me pass said colouring oh said with a significant look � but what � you have scarcely spun a quarter of your the sheep strayed mother � the sheep strayed and wherefore i pray you came you to let them stray your back has been turned on them miss while you with that idle girl � no indeed mother i have not seen her all nobly won or with that idle fellow � truly he is an idle fellow said but yet i saw him but two minutes going and coming � j then you ve been dreaming of him may no indeed mother the truth is � and her eyes and voice dropped oh now we are going to have the truth said and then awaiting her communication with some curiosity well � mother if you look in that way i cannot tell you come come said softening however mother i was keeping the sheep when all at once a bright light around me well it was not the light of sun or moon i a noble purpose think but softer yet brighter than either and then i heard a rustling like as of garments and i was ware of � what two bright ladies said with awe two bright ladies and with them a noble gentleman � un way and who was the way i think said faltering that he was the michael cried with will you never have done with such nonsense mother i saw him with these eyes as plainly as i see you now and what might he say to you he told me i should crown the king and raise the siege of this passes patience exclaimed her nobly won mother hark you i have done my 