How much more improper to address them to a Tish, who has never presumed to solicit your affections, and who can never regard you with other sentiments than those of reverence and awe!" Aph-Lin made me a covert sing of approbation, but said nothing.

"Be not so cruel!" exclaimed Zee, still in sonorous accents.

"Can love command itself where it is truly felt?
Do you suppose that a maiden Gy will conceal a sentiment that it elevates her to feel?
What a country you must have come from!" Here Aph-Lin gently interposed, saying, "Among the Tish-a the rights of your sex do not appear to be established, and at all events my guest may converse with you more freely if unchecked by the presence of others." To this remark Zee made no reply, but, darting on me a tender reproachful glance, agitated her wings and fled homeward.
"I had counted, at least, on some aid from my host," I said bitterly, "in the perils to which his own daughter exposes me." "I gave you the best aid I could.

To contradict a Gy in her love affairs is to confirm her purpose.

She allows no counsel to come between her and her affections.".