Her eyes were full of fire.

Her words seemed addressed rather to herself than to Cuthbert, and they excited his ardent curiosity.
"And who is Esther?
and dost thou know her?
thou speakest as if thou didst." "All of us forest gipsies know Esther well.

She is one of us, though she has left the forest to dwell in cities.

According to the language of men, she is my aunt.

She is sister to old Miriam, whom thou sawest in the forest mill, and who would have done thee to death an I had not interposed to save thee.