I was sorry to leave her behind, and promised her that, if ever I got rich enough here, I would send and purchase her freedom." "You seem to have taken a strange interest in a slave girl!" Amenche said.
"It was natural that it should be so, Princess.

I was little better than a slave, myself.

At any rate I was a prisoner, and naturally took to the one person who was kind to me.

We were companions and friends, rather than master and attendant; and directly I heard that she was with Cortez, and had gained great influence with him, I naturally went to her." "Is she very beautiful ?" "I used not to think her beautiful at all, when we were at Tabasco together; but she has changed greatly during the months that have passed since I saw her.

Yes, I think she is certainly beautiful now.