If I do not marry you they will kill me; if I try to escape again they win kill me.

Let me go free." "I cannot! I cannot!" she cried.

"You have taught me many of the ways of your people, but you cannot change my nature." "Why cannot you free me ?" "I love you, and I will not live without you." "Then come and go to my home and live there with me," said Isaac, taking the weeping maiden in his arms.

"I know that my people will welcome you." "Myeerah would be pitied and scorned," she said, sadly, shaking her head.
Isaac tried hard to steel his heart against her, but he was only mortal and he failed.

The charm of her presence influenced him; her love wrung tenderness from him.