Her dress was
the same in which she had been brought among us, without addition of
yashmak or veil of any kind,--excepting the mistiness of the
moonlight,--to conceal her face, though there was a shy drawing down
of the tasselled cap or turban she wore, that shadowed it somewhat.
I need hardly say how soon the glories of earth, sea, and sky, which
we had been contemplating, shrank into mere accessories around that
one central figure, as she stood gazing upon them through the shrouds
and spars from our deck. But, notwithstanding the beauty of the scene
and the hour, she did not hold her position long to enjoy them. She
had, in appearing thus before strange men, evidently by a great effort,
done that which she shrank from doing; but whether in obedience to her
own will or to that of another, we could not guess. The ice thus broken,
however, she was the INVISIBLE PRINCESS no longer. Emboldened by two
or three subsequent moonlight and twilight ventures, she at length came
out in the sunset, and I doubt if the setting sun ever revealed a
lovelier sight than greeted our eyes on that evening.
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