Nature seemed to have given the more tender soul to Elfonzo, and the stronger and more courageous to Ambulinia.

A deep feeling spoke from the eyes of Elfonzo--such a feeling as can only be expressed by those who are blessed as admirers, and by those who are able to return the same with sincerity of heart.

He was a few years older than Ambulinia: she had turned a little into her seventeenth.

He had almost grown up in the Cherokee country, with the same equal proportions as one of the natives.

But little intimacy had existed between them until the year forty-one--because the youth felt that the character of such a lovely girl was too exalted to inspire any other feeling than that of quiet reverence.