text:  But who among those who surrounded the Khan could have inspired her with tender feelings? To bend her thoughts--to lower her sentiments to any man inferior to her in birth would have been an unheard-of disgrace in the daughter of the humblest retainer; how much more then in the child of a khan imbued from her very cradle with the pride of ancestry!--this pride like a sheet of ice separating her heart from the society of those she saw