Word: yung
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...Yung was at his wits' end. He had never before seen any one in a faint, and he had a very dim idea of what it was necessary to do. He thought, however, that he ought to sprinkle the girl's face with water. He looked around him to find a stream...
WHEN the departure of the philosopher left him time to think, Yung pondered over the two great events of the last hour; Loe's confession, and Mnag's proposal. The former filled him with a thrilling joy which almost drove the latter from his mind. How could he think of the philosopher's proposition, when his brain kept singing, "She is mine! mine...
...Yung decided to take the girl to this place; he accordingly bent down and carefully raised her in his arms. The unaccustomed burden made the youth's heart flutter. He gazed down on her face, relaxed as in sleep; at the sight of its innocent beauty, his heart thrilled...
...never seen a girl's face so closely before. Even Loe's beauty was known to him more by imagination than by experience. Every one called her the belle of the country; and the fanciful Yung had fixed to her his ideal of female loveliness. Here was that ideal realized in another woman, and that woman in his arms...
...Before Yung reached the cave, his passion for Loe was almost quite transferred to the stranger; and when, after a vigorous sprinkling with cold water from the brook, she opened her eyes, his enthralment was complete...