He had become so used to the look of her mother in her face that it now and then gave him an instant of unspeakable joy.

But the sound of his own voice calling her "Prudence" would shock him from this as with an icy blast of truth.
When the children of Amalon came to play with her, the little Nephis, Moronis, Lehis, and Juabs, he saw she was a creature apart from them, of another fashion of mind and body.

He saw, too, that with some native intuition she seemed to divine this, and to assume command even of those older than herself.

Thus Wish Wright and his brother, Welcome, both her seniors by several years, were her awe-bound slaves; and the twin daughters of Zebedee Bloom obeyed her least whim without question, even when it involved them in situations more or less delicate.

With her quick ear for rhythm she had been at once impressed by their names--impressed to a degree that savoured of fascination.