The long
residence of Joram in Babylon, together with the very high regard he
cherished for his friend Barzello and his family, gave the features of
the occasion an admixture of Hebrew and Chaldean customs.
Never did the "Rose of Sharon" bloom fairer. Three years have added
ripeness to her beauty, and dignity to her charms. She is no longer the
timid maid of seventeen, but a blooming damsel, having reached her
twentieth year, with a finish stamped on all her words and actions; and
no one who has had the pleasure of her acquaintance can envy such a
choice spirit the heart and hand of one of the most brilliant young men
in the great metropolis.
The "Lily of the Valley" has but one thing to diminish her full share of
enjoyment--and that is by no means a trifling one. Her sweet Perreeza, her
constant companion for the last three years, whom she loves as her own
sister, is about to leave her father's house and take her abode with
another. This, at times, makes her sad. The same cause produces the same
effect on Perreeza.
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