Her noble words, flowing in musical cadence and vibrant with internal force, seemed to issue from some great instrument of elemental power.

Even her tone was new to us all; so that we listened as to some new and strange being from a new and strange world.

Her father's face was full of delight.
I knew now its cause.

I understood the happiness that had come into his life, on his return to the world that he knew, from that prolonged sojourn in the world of dreams.

To find in his daughter, whose nature he had never till now known, such a wealth of affection, such a splendour of spiritual insight, such a scholarly imagination, such...
The rest of his feeling was of hope! The two other men were silent unconsciously.