Fatigue and agitation had left her very pale, and she was resting at full length on the cushions with her head pillowed on her mother's knee.

As we approached, however, they all rose, the other ladies greeting me eagerly and warmly, Eveena rising with difficulty and faltering the welcome which the rest had spoken with enthusiastic earnestness.

Forgetting for the moment the prudence which ignorance of Martial customs had hitherto dictated, I lifted to my lips the hand that she, following the example of the rest, but shyly and half reluctantly, laid on my shoulder--a form very different to the distant greeting I had heretofore received, and marking that I was no longer to be treated as a stranger to the family.

My unusual salute brought the colour back to her cheeks, but no one else took notice of it.

I observed, however, that on this occasion, instead of interposing himself between me and the ladies as usual, her father left vacant the place next to her; and I seated myself at her feet.
She would have exchanged her reclining posture for that of the others, but her mother gently drew her down to her former position.
"Eveena," said my host, "I have told our friend, what you know, that there is in this world a society, of which I am a member, whose principles are not those of our countrymen, but resemble rather those which supplied the impulses on which he acted to-day.