sylph

On finding himself the object of our attention, the man vanished with the swiftness of a sylph.

But no sylph came again; no form rivaled the zephyr before me.

One word again made me a captive: that word was now "Lafontaine;" and at the same moment I saw the sylph bounding to my side.

"Wait in this spot until I return," was all that I heard, before he and the sylph had waltzed away far down the hall.

Fanciful as it may seem, the little sylph bore a striking resemblance to the flower from which she sprung.