complexion is still fresh and beautiful with the beauty of an her proud lips and her head thrown a little backward as she walks give an expression of which is not contradicted by the cold gray eye the rising full over tne low tight of her blue dress sets off the majestic form of her bust and she the lawn as if she were one of sir s stately ladies who had suddenly stepped from her frame to enjoy the evening cool put the cushions lower that we may not have so much sun upon us she called out in a tone of authority when still at some distance obeyed and they sat down making two bright patches of red and white and blue on the green background of the and the lawn hich would look none the less pretty in a picture because one of the women hearts was rather cold and the other rather sad and ft charming picture would have made that evening if some english had been there to paint it the house of gray tinted stone with the flickering of golden light across the many shaped panes in the windows and a great leaning one of the towers and breaking with its dark boughs the too formal of the front the broad gravel walk winding on the right by a row of tall pines towards the pool � on the left out among grassy surmounted by of trees where the red trunk of the scotch fir in the descending sunlight against the bright green of and the great pool where a pair of are swimming lazily with one leg tucked under a wing and when the open water lilies lie calmly accepting the kisses of the fluttering light the lawn with its smooth sloping down to the and of the park from which it is by a little stream that winds away � from the pool and a wooden bridge in the distant pleasure ground and on this lawn our two ladies whose part in the landscape the painter standing at a point of view in the park would represent with a few little of red and white and blue se n from the great windows of the dining room they had much more of outline and were distinctly visible to the three gentlemen their there j as two fair women in whom all three had a personal interest these gentlemen were a group worth considering attentively but any one entering that dining room for the first time would perhaps have had his attention even more strongly arrested by the room itself which was so bare of furniture that it impressed one with its beauty like a cathedral a piece of stretched from door to door a bit of worn carpet under the dining table and a in a deep recess did not detain the eye for a moment from the lofty ceiling with its richly carved all of white relieved here and there by touches of gold oh one side this lofty was supported by pillars and arches beyond which a lower ceiling a miniature copy of the higher one covered the square which with its three large pointed windows formed the central feature of the building the room looked less like a place to dine in than a piece of space simply for the sake of beautiful outline and the small dining table with the party round it seemed an odd and insignificant accident rather than any thing connected with the original purpose of the apartment but examined closely that group was from insignificant for the eldest who was reading in the newspaper the last of the french and mr s love with comments to his companions was as fine a specimen of tbe old english gentleman as could well have been found in those days of and his dark eyes sparkled under brows made more prominent by eyebrows but any apprehension of severity excited by these penetrating eyes and by a somewhat i by the good natured lines about the mouth which all its teeth and its of expression in spite of sixty the forehead a little from the projecting brows and its outline was made conspicuous by the arrangement of the powdered hair drawn backward and gathered into a he sat in a small hard chair which did not admit the approach to a and which showed to advantage the of his back and the breadth of his chest in fact sir was a splendid old gentleman as any one may see who enters the saloon at where his portrait taken when he was fifty hangs side by side with that of his wife the stately lady seated on the lawn looking at sir you would at ence have been inclined to hope that he had a full grown son and heir but perhaps you would have wished that it not prove to be tbe young man on his right hand in whom a certain resemblance to the in the of the nose and brow seemed to indicate a family relationship if this young man had been less elegant in his person he would have been remarked for the elegance of his but the of his slim well figure were so striking that no one but a tailor could notice the of his velvet coat and his small white bands with their blue veins and fingers quite the beauty of his lace the face however � it was difficult to say why � was certainly not pleasing nothing could be more delicate than the complexion � its bloom set off by the powdered hair � than the overhanging eyelids which gave an indolent expression to the eyes nothing more finely cut than the transparent and the short upper lip perhaps the chin and lower jaw were too small for an but the defect was on the side of that delicacy and which was the characteristic of the whole person and which 