“My beloved, my greatly beloved!”
Then from beyond the alder-trees, which were wrapped in haze, rose the ruddy moon; and the frogs in the ponds, having learned, evidently, that the lady had returned, she whom they had seen so often at the shore, called in the midst of the evening silence, in one great chorus,—
“Glad! glad!”
THE END.
[1] Third, or ring finger.
[2] Kremen means flint in Polish.
[3] He had received an inheritance some time before.
[4] An Italian wine.
[5] Polish noble.
[6] River-maiden among the Slavs.