form hovered the whole night before his eyes, and he took care not to sleep, in order not to lose for a moment the recollection of the events of the day before.
Miss Libussa, on her part, enjoyed a sweet sleep; for isolation from the impressions of the outer senses, which disturb the clearer presentiments of the future, is indispensable to the gift of divination. The ardent imagination of the sleeping daughter of the Elf interwove the image of the young stranger with all the significant visions which appeared to her that night in her dreams. She found him where she did not look for him, in situations of which she could not understand the relation they could have to the stranger. On first awaking, when the beautiful prophetess was in the habit of deciphering her visions of the night, she was disposed to consider them as errors of a night-dream, proceeding from the disturbance of the ordinary march of fantasy, and to pay no further attention to them. But a vague feeling told her, that the creations of her imagination were not an empty dream, but alluded to certain events which the future would disclose, and that her prophetic fantasy of last night had disclosed to her more of the secret decrees of fate than ever. Through the same channel she became
