Sylvie e Bruno (original 1889; edition 1978)

Thou delicious JFay (?)-- The guardian of a Sprite that likes to tease thee--Loving in earnest, chiding but in play The Merry mocking Bruno!  Who, that sees thee, Can fail to love thee, Darling even as I?--My sweetest Sylvie, we must say "Good-bye!

The Warden, a tall dignified man with a grave but very pleasant face, was seated before a writing-table, which was covered with papers, and holding on his knee one of the sweetest and loveliest little maidens it has ever been my lot to see.

The vision was fast slipping from my eager gaze:  but it seemed to me, in that last bewildering moment, that not Sylvie but an angel was looking out through those trustful brown eyes, and that not Sylvie's but an angel's voice was whispering "It is Love."

This is only "Sylvie & Bruno" (the first book) - not "Sylvie & Bruno Concluded" or "The Complete Sylvie & Bruno" - please don't combine with either of those