More he should know of her on my
return; but at present I confided her to his honour, and
begged he would prove his friendship for me by rendering
her whatever attention she might require in her humble
abode. With these hurried injunctions he promised to
comply; and it has often occurred to me since, although
I did not remark it at the time, that while his voice
and manner were calm, there was a burning glow upon his
handsome cheek, and a suppressed exultation in his eye,
that I had never observed on either before. I then quitted
the room; and hastening to my company with a gloom on--my
brow that indicated the wretchedness of my inward spirit,
was soon afterwards on the march from ----."
Again the warrior seemed agitated with the most violent
emotion; he buried his face in his hands; and the silence
that ensued was longer than any he had previously indulged
in. At length he made an effort to arouse himself; and
again exhibiting his swarthy features, disclosed a brow,
not clouded, as before, by grief, but animated with the
fiercest and most appalling passions, while he thus
impetuously resumed.
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