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To leave her alone is impossible; and if I cannot report that she is fully cared for in other hands, no command, nothing short of actual compulsion, will keep Eveena away from her." The girl looked up with a steady frank courage and unaffected readiness I had not expected. "I owe you much, Clasfempta, and still more perhaps to Eveena.
"Or my own punishment," Eveena answered. "Spare me such words, Eveena, unless you mean to make me yet more ashamed of the compulsion I did employ. I never spoke, I never thought" "Forgive me, dearest. Will it vex you to find how clearly your flower-bird has learned to read your will through your eyes?
With every tone, look, and caress that could express affection and sympathy, Eveena answered "Do what seems your duty, and do not think that I misunderstand your motive or feel the shadow of humiliation or unkindness.
"What is it?" I asked. "You seem to have some wish that I cannot conjecture; and you can trust by this time my anxiety to gratify every desire of yours, reasonable or not if indeed you ever were unreasonable." "She is so sad, so lonely," Eveena answered, "and she is so fond of Eunané." "You don't mean that you want me to make her an offer!" I exclaimed in extreme amazement.
This reading might have afforded many opportunities of private converse with Eveena, but that Eivé, whose knowledge was by no means proportionate to her intelligence, entreated permission to listen to the books I selected; and Eveena, though not partial to her childish companion and admirer, persuaded me not to refuse.
Checked as it was, however, that appetite seemed a new astonishment to our attendants; the need of food among their race being proportionate to their inferior size and strength. When we rose, I asked Ergimo what was to become of Eveena, as the officers were evidently waiting to conduct me into the presence of their Sovereign, where it would not be appropriate for her to appear.
Till now, while still enjoying the liberty allowed to maidens in this respect, Eveena, by the arrangement of her veil, had always given to her costume a reserve wholly unexceptionable, even according to the rules enforced by the customs of Western Europe on young girls not yet presented in the marriage market of society.
It conveyed, however, a real if not sufficient consolation to Eveena; the idea it implied being not wholly unfamiliar to a daughter of the Star. I was surprised that, almost shrinking from my last embrace, Eveena suddenly dropped her veil around her; till, turning, I saw that Ergimo was standing at the top of the ladder leading to the deck, and just in sight.
I was too much vexed to make any other reply to Ergimo's argument than the single word, "I shall go." Really angry with her for the first and last time, but not choosing to express my displeasure in the presence of a third person, I hurried Eveena down the ladder into our cabin. "Tell me," I said, "what, according to your own rules of feminine reserve and obedience, you deserve?
"'They that would his power command Know who holds his heart in hand: Silken tress is surest band. "'Well they judge Kargynda's mood, Steel to peril, pain, and blood, Surely through his mate subdued. "'Love can make the strong a slave, Fool the wise and quell the brave ... Love by sacrifice can save." "She again!" I exclaimed involuntarily. "You hear," murmured Eveena.
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