He tells how her guardian
sylph brings a morning dream to warn her of coming danger.
Suddenly a door opened, the draught caught up the little Dancer, and off she flew like a
sylph to the Tin-soldier in the stove, burst into flames--and that was the end of her!
Then, indeed, does the tuckered
sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumber- room full of old chairs and tables upside down.
And as if he had guessed correctly, nearly at that very moment the prisoner heard in the lobby a step light as that of a
sylph, and the rustling of a gown, and a well-known voice, which said to him, --
Mrs Veneering, always charmed by this rattling
sylph, cries.
"And, Miss Eyre, so much was I flattered by this preference of the Gallic
sylph for her British gnome, that I installed her in an hotel; gave her a complete establishment of servants, a carriage, cashmeres, diamonds, dentelles, &c.
would that I were she who might watch over you, she who would have no need of mysterious springs, to summon and cause to appear, like a
sylph, the man she loves, to look at him for an hour, and then see him disappear in the darkness of a mystery, still more strange at his going out than at his coming in.
"The Blood Drinker,"' added Mr Crummles with a prophetic sigh, '"The Blood Drinker" will die with that girl; and she's the only
sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, LIKE a
sylph.'
Not that Rosamond was in the least like a kitten: she was a
sylph caught young and educated at Mrs.
She was a Fairy, a
Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.
He found her that evening in the garden, wandering about in the warm starlight like an indolent
sylph, and swinging to and fro the largest fan he had ever beheld.
In the evening after we had come to an anchor the deck was illuminated with lanterns, and this picturesque band of
sylphs, tricked out with flowers, and dressed in robes of variegated tappa, got up a ball in great style.