Vastness seems always the most necessary agent in provoking youthful wonder, and satisfying it.

His astonishment, when they did meet, was, in all probability, not of a kind to lessen the partisan in his estimation.

That a frame so slight, and seemingly so feeble, coupled with so much gentleness, and so little pretension, should provoke a respect so general, and fears, on one side, so impressive, was well calculated to compel inquiry as to the true sources of this influence.

Such an inquiry was in no way detrimental to a reputation founded, like Marion's, on the successful exercise of peculiar mental endowments.

The young officer, as soon as his business was dispatched, prepared to depart, but Marion gently detained him, as he said, for dinner, which was in preparation.