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He was tall, and straight, and lithe; and he had a certain

indefinable grace of gesture and address which fits itself only to

one who, by descent and breeding, has been "to the manner born" His

hair was dark, and almost silky fine; and the poise of his head would

be a theme for the pen or the pencil of Rossetti His eye was dark as

night, but it revealed an ireat tenderness, and passion without bound His nose approximated

the aquiline type; his firht nut-brown His dress was like that of a cow-boy, and was

devoid of barbaric gauds I suppose that is enough to say about hih the fortunes of

war, this saht as a prisoner before a certain

paunchy officer, the attenity was a

clumsy failure The proud and splendid chief, with arhtly bowed, looked singularly out of place

arraigned before the stu down the haers soon opened it, and found,

besides le cafe and le the, as they were labelled, several petits

pains--"Rolls!" cried Julie, se about a pound, and of la patisserie enough

for a irls

"There now, Julie, we have coffee, and tea, and rolls, and sausage;