Can it be so ?" "The other self, who now sleeps, knows of him," replied the ancient Indian.

"He is a well-looking youth, and I think he has a desire towards her we call Miriam." "And does she love him ?" inquired the princess.
"A maiden's heart is a riddle, even to herself," said Kamaiakan.
"But there is a sympathy that makes me feel her heart in my own," rejoined Semitzin.

"Love is a thing that pierces through time, and through barriers which separate the mind and memory of the past from the present.

I--as you know, Kamaiakan--was never wedded; the fate of our people, and my early end, kept that from me.

But the thought of that youth is here,"-- she put her hand on her bosom,--"and it seems to me that, were we to meet, I should know him.