For one moment he stared, his little mouth open; then a divine wonder arose in his countenance, and swiftly changed to intense delight.

For a minute he gazed entranced, then she set him down.

Yet a moment he stood looking up at her, lost in contemplation--then ran to us with the face of a prophet that knows a bliss he cannot tell.

Mara rearranged her mufflings, and turned to the other children.
"You must eat and drink before you go to sleep," she said; "you have had a long journey!" She set the bread of her house before them, and a jug of cold water.
They had never seen bread before, and this was hard and dry, but they ate it without sign of distaste.

They had never seen water before, but they drank without demur, one after the other looking up from the draught with a face of glad astonishment.