But what are you gazing at?
Oh! my sister--I forgot.

Miriam! this is the Lord Codlingsby." She had been seated at an ivory pianoforte on a mother-of-pearl music-stool, trying a sonata of Herz.

She rose when thus apostrophized.
Miriam de Mendoza rose and greeted the stranger.
The Talmud relates that Adam had two wives--Zillah the dark beauty; Eva the fair one.

The ringlets of Zillah were black; those of Eva were golden.

The eyes of Zillah were night; those of Eva were morning.
Codlingsby was fair--of the fair Saxon race of Hengist and Horsa--they called him Miss Codlingsby at school; but how much fairer was Miriam the Hebrew! Her hair had that deep glowing tinge in it which has been the delight of all painters, and which, therefore, the vulgar sneer at.