towards her master sprang alone from a sense of gratitude. Thus too
did the monarch translate her behaviour to him, for he was well
versed in human nature, young as he was, and could appreciate the
promptings of a young and trusting spirit, such as she exhibited in
all her intercourse with him.

As exhibited in our illustration, the Sultan would often seek her
side in the harem, his tall, manly form contrasting strongly with
her gentle and delicate proportions, and he would regard her thus
with tender solicitude, too fully realizing her misfortune not to
pity and respect her, and he felt too that these frequent meetings
were binding his heart in a tender bondage to her. Sultan Mahomet
was a fine specimen of a Turk; in features he was markedly handsome,
and his long, flowing beard gave to him the appearance of more age
than was rightfully his. His physical developments were manly, and
to look upon he was "every inch a king." Lalla was no less beautiful
as a female; indeed she was far handsomer as it related to such a
comparison, and those who saw them so often together in the harem
could not but think what a noble pair they were, and seemingly
worthy of each other.

She possessed all that soft delicacy of appearance that reminds the
sterner sex how frail and dependent is woman, while she bore in her
face that sweet and winning expression of intellect, that, in other
climes more favored by civilization, and where cultivation adds so
much to the charms of her sex, would alone have marked her as
beautiful. Her eyes, which were surpassing in their dreamy
loveliness, were enhanced in beauty by a languid plaintiveness that
a realizing sense of her misfortunes had imparted to the expression
of her face, while her whole manner bore that subdued and quiet air