And, being there, she touched the harp as he played it, and then a low cry came from her lips.

Again she touched it, and her eyes, though blind, seemed for an instant to flame like fire.

Then, with both her hands she clung to it, and with her lips and her tongue she kissed it, while her whole body quivered like a reed in the wind.
Israel saw what she did, and his very soul trembled at the sight with wild thoughts that did not dare to take the name of hope.

As well as he could in the confusion of his own senses he stepped forward to draw the little maiden back but the wife of the Governor called on him to leave her.
"Leave her!" she cried.

"Let us see what the child will do!" At that moment Ali's playing came to as end, and the boy let the harp pass to Naomi's clinging fingers, and then, half sitting, half kneeling on the ground beside it, the girl took it to herself.