All the gloomy emotions that had oppressed her but a short
time before had now completely vanished; and the young, fresh heart,
superior still to despair and woe, basked as happily again in its native
atmosphere of joy as a bird in the sunlight of morning and spring.
Then, when after an interval of delay their former tranquility had
returned to them, how softly and lightly the quiet hours of the
remaining night flowed onward to the two watchers in the lonely house!
How gladly the delighted girl disclosed her hidden thoughts, and poured
forth her innocent confessions, to the dweller among other nations and
the child of other impressions than her own! All the various reflections
aroused in her mind by the natural objects she had secretly studied, by
the mighty imagery of her Bible lore, by the gloomy histories of saints'
visions and martyrs' sufferings, which she had learnt and pondered over
by her father's side, were now drawn from their treasured places in her
memory, and addressed to the ear of the Goth.
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