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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Well, then," she answered, "give me the little octagon beside your own:" the smallest and simplest, but to my taste the prettiest, room in the house. Leading her into the room she had chosen, and having installed her among the cushions that were to form her couch, I silenced decisively her renewed protest. "Let me answer you on this point, once and for ever, Eveena.
"I have seen," I repeated, as Eunané still looked earnestly into my face, "and Eveena has seen at the same moment, one long ages since departed this world the Teacher of this belief, the Founder of that Society which holds it, the ancestor of her own house in bodily form before us." "It is true," said Eveena, in answer to Eunané's appealing look.
But, angered at a hint which placed Eveena on their own level, I forgot how far the speaker's experience and inexperience alike palliated the impertinence. That the insinuation shocked none of those around me was evident.
As, holding this, I turned again to her, Eveena repeated: "Punish, but don't question me!" "My own," I said, "you are far more punished already than you deserve or I can bear to see. How did you get this?"
I turned the conversation, then, by inviting Esmo into my own apartment; and I was touched indeed by the eager delight, even stronger than I had expected, with which Eveena welcomed her father, and inquired into the minutest details of the home life from which she had been, as it seemed to her, so long separated.
"Can you not imagine, or make Eveena tell you, Clasfempta, why women once purchased think it best to give smiles and kisses freely to one who can command their tears? Or do you fancy that their smiles are more loyal and sincere when won by kindness than...." "By fear? Sweeter, Enva, at any rate. Well, if I do not offend your feelings, I need not hesitate to disregard another of your customs."
"Nonsense!" he answered. "There is no danger here; less probably than in an ordinary drive, certainly less than in a balloon. Don't spoil her, my friend. If you begin by yielding to so silly a caprice as this, you will end by breaking her heart before the two years are out." "Do go on," whispered Eveena.
As we passed the threshold, Eveena gently and tacitly but decisively assigned to her protégée her own place beside me, and put her right hand in my left.
This instinct, and no conscious resolve to overcome the influence that held me spell-bound, enabled me to proceed; and I led Eveena forward by actual if gentle force, till we reached the lower step of the platform.
It was an hour before Eveena seemed in a condition to be removed, and perhaps I was not very urgent to hurry her away. I had done no more than any man, the lowest and meanest on Earth, must have done under the circumstances.
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