He stipulated for the privilege of restoring both trinkets upon suitable occasions.
But if thus gayly the damsel sported with Samoa; how different his emotions toward her?
The fate to which she had been destined, and every nameless thing about her, appealed to all his native superstitions, which ascribed to beings of her complexion a more than terrestrial origin.

When permitted to approach her, he looked timid and awkwardly strange; suggesting the likeness of some clumsy satyr, drawing in his horns; slowly wagging his tail; crouching abashed before some radiant spirit.
And this reverence of his was most pleasing to me, Bravo! thought I; be a pagan forever.

No more than myself; for, after a different fashion, Yillah was an idol to both.
But what of my Viking?
Why, of good Jarl I grieve to say, that the old-fashioned interest he took in my affairs led him to look upon Yillah as a sort of intruder, an Ammonite syren, who might lead me astray.

This would now and then provoke a phillipic; but he would only turn toward my resentment his devotion; and then I was silent.
Unsophisticated as a wild flower in the germ, Yillah seemed incapable of perceiving the contrasted lights in which she was regarded by our companions.

And like a true beauty seemed to cherish the presumption, that it was quite impossible for such a person as hers to prove otherwise than irresistible to all.
She betrayed much surprise at my Vikings appearance.