Plain Tales from the Hills : Large Print

Later, cholera came into the Kotgarth Valley and carried off Sonoo and Jadeh, and Lispethbecame half-servant, half-companion to the wife of the then Chaplain of Kotgarth.

This wasafter the reign of the Moravian missionaries, but before Kotgarth had quite forgotten hertitle of "Mistress of the Northern Hills."Whether Christianity improved Lispeth, or whether the gods of her own people wouldhave done as much for her under any circumstances, I do not know; but she grew verylovely.

When a Hill girl grows lovely, she is worth traveling fifty miles over bad ground tolook upon.

Lispeth had a Greek face-one of those faces people paint so often, and see soseldom.

She was of a pale, ivory color and, for her race, extremely tall.

Also, she possessedeyes that were wonderful; and, had she not been dressed in the abominable print-clothsaffected by Missions, you would, meeting her on the hill-side unexpectedly, have thoughther the original Diana of the Romans going out to slay.