"What a queer name! What does it mean?"
"It is Indian. I have heard that it means, the whole name, — 'He that catches the clouds.'"
"That is beautiful! —"
"You must be tremendously strong," she added presently, as if not satisfied that she had said enough, — "for you lifted me as if I had been no more than a featherweight."
"You did not seem much more," he said.
"Strong! —" said Asahel —
But Elizabeth escaped from Asahel's exposition of the subject, into her room.
She had regained her good-humour, and everybody at the table said she had improved fifty per cent. since her coming to Shahweetah. Which opinion Mr. Haye confirmed when he came a day or two afterward.
CHAPTER X.
Cam. Be advised. Flo. I am; and by my fancy: if my reason Will thereto he obedient, I have reason; If not, my senses, better pleased with madness, Do bid it welcome. WINTER'S TALE.