The knowledge that comes from the blue is not like that--it is more important and miraculous.

Is it not so, senor ?" he ended, appealing to me.
"Is it, then, left for me to decide ?" said I, addressing the girl.
But though her face was towards me, she refused to meet my look and was silent.

Silent, but not satisfied: she doubted still, and had perhaps caught something in my tone that strengthened her doubt.
Old Nuflo understood the expression.

"Look at me, Rima," he said, drawing himself up.

"I am old, and he is young--do I not know best?
I have spoken and have decided it." Still that unconvinced expression, and her face turned expectant to me.
"Am I to decide ?" I repeated.
"Who, then ?" she said at last, her voice scarcely more than a murmur; yet there was reproach in the tone, as if she had made a long speech and I had tyrannously driven her to it.
"Thus, then, I decide," said I."To each of us, as to every kind of animal, even to small birds and insects, and to every kind of plant, there is given something peculiar--a fragrance, a melody, a special instinct, an art, a knowledge, which no other has.