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MY NEW PROPERTY 173
towards good, that it radiates to immeasurable distance.
The wave theory that rules our knowledge of the dis-
tribution of light and sound, may well be taken to
typify, if it does not not 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 a prince he was
! it's 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