That you might not laugh at my authority, and 'find a dragon in the esve's nest,' she would have had me treat her as guilty." "But I deserved it.

A girl has no right to break the seal in the master's absence," interposed Eveena, much more distressed than gratified by the vindication to which she was so well entitled.
"Let your tongue sleep, Eveena.

So [with a kiss] I blot your first miscalculation, Eunane.

Earth [the Evening Star of Mars] light your dreams." It was with visible reluctance that Eveena followed me into the chamber we had last left; and she expostulated as earnestly as her obedience would permit against the fiat that assigned it to her.
"Choose what room you please, then," I said; "but understand that, so far as my will and my trust can make you, you are the mistress here." "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.

"I should like to be near you still, if I may; but, believe me, I shall not be frozen (hurt) because you think another hand better able to steer the carriage, if mine may sometimes rest in yours." 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.