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This Iago-like tab and the alave to his countenance at times a sinister, Machiavellian expression that was irresistible and which, to , seriously marred an otherwise fine face Of course due allowance ainst any forainst any landscape Browne ever painted, --I don't care if it's as big as a cyclorama,--that if he had kno completely Gwen shared my views,--how she disliked the appearance of bewhiskered men,--that delicately nurtured little imperial would soon have been reduced to a tender nose a case of love frolances and an attentiveness so usted Maitland, who repeatedly measured his rival with the apparent cold precision of a h underneath

This singular self-poise is one of Maitland's most noticeable characteristics and is, I think, rather rehtning-like rapidity of thought No doubt some small portion of it is the result of acquire of this sort; still I cannot but think that the larger part of it is native to him Born of well-to-do parents, he had never had the splendid tuition of early poverty As soon as he had left college he had studied law, and had been adratify the wishes of his father than to further any desires of his own, but he had soon found the profession, so distasteful to him that he practically abandoned it in favour of scientific research True, he still occasionally took a legal case when it turned upon scientific points which interested him, but, as he once confessed to me, he sed, at such ti of science which enshrouded it This legal training could, therefore, it seee in his character, which leads me to think that the self-control he exhibited, despite the angry disgust hich I knone's so apparent attentions to Gwen inspired him, must, for the most part, have been native to hi worthy of record occurred until evening; at least nothing which at the tih I afterward ree He appeared singularly preoccupied, and on one occasion started nervously when I coughed behind hireeable dreaht and left his nerves soht no more of it