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"As I am a sinner," exclaimed Asa, usually one of the most phlegmatic
of the youths, "the girl is blown away by the wind!"
Something like a sensation was exhibited among them, which might have
denoted that the influence of the laughing blue eyes, flaxen hair, and
glowing cheeks of Ellen, had not been lost on the dull natures of the
young men; and looks of amazement, mingled slightly with concern,
passed from one to the other as they gazed, in dull wonder, at the
point of the naked rock.
"It might well be!" added another; "she sat on a slivered stone, and I
have been thinking of telling her she was in danger for more than an
hour."
"Is that a riband of the child, dangling from the corner of the hill
below?" cried Ishmael; "ha! who is moving about the tent? have I not
told you all--"
"Ellen! 'tis Ellen!" interrupted the whole body of his sons in a
breath; and at that instant she re-appeared to put an end to their
different surmises, and to relieve more than one sluggish nature from
its unwonted excitement.


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