"It is heaven itself!" exclaimed Huldbrand, embracing the beautiful girland kissing her fervently.

The very aged fisherman meanwhile had come to the edge of the stream, andshouted across to the two young people; "Why, sir knight, I havereceived you as one honest-hearted man is wont to receive another,and now here you are caressing my foster-child in secret, andletting me run hither and thither through the evening in anxioussearch of her."