eva "evangeline" st. clare is st. clare and marie's angelic daughter. she enters the story when tom saves her from drowning when he was going to be sold. eva asks her father to buy tom. she says, "i want to make him happy". through her, tom becomes st. clare's leading coachman and eva's "especial attendant (helper)...tom had...orders to let everything else go, and attend to miss eva whenever she wanted him,—orders which our readers may fancy (imagine) were far from disagreeable to him." she is very beautiful: "her form was the perfection of childish beauty...her face was remarkable less for its perfect beauty of features than for a singular (strange) and dreamy earnestness (seriousness) of expression...all marked her out (made her different) from the other children, and made every one turn and look after her".