Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

teeth His motions were gdache-his
manners i'll at ease, and altogether he
seemed a case of subdued ST. Vitus
dance. Nevertheless, we said to our
selves, that 10 a remarkable man. His
eye followed us ike guilty conscience,
and pervaded the room; now peeping al
us over our shoulder; yet, though you
felt he was looking at you, when you
turned around to out stare him, he was
looking hard at somebody else at the
other end of the room, or up the Chin
ney, or through the crack of the door,
or the key hole-in a word, at every
body except yourself. He talked with a
thick jesty voice-half husky, half soto
voes. His nose was well formed, his
chin rather small and feeble but alto
gether his neat, little frame showed wiry
activity and great powers of endurance.
He had no whiskers-merely few stray
hairs that mounted guard on the side ol
his cheeks, as though to watch the deep
ravines, which premature battle with
the world had created.
Next to him sat the oldest Of the party;
he was dressed in black, his coat but
toned up to his chin-his shirt collar
seemed as though detected in an effort
to escape from the rest of his shirt; and
sat one half on each side of his face, like
boy with his legs astride fence, wait
ing for the bull to get out of the paddock
the same revolt in the linen garment
already alluded to, seemed to have hap
pened TO his wrist bands, for they had
only got to his knuckles, where possibly
they had got their own very soundly
raped, aud told not to go any further.
His hair, which had once evidently been
black as the raven, was now gray and
black, parted over his forehead; it hung
in a thick mass over the collar of his coat;
owing to his hair growing low down, his
forehead seemed low, but it really Was
not. His eyes were dim, fiery brown,
large and expressive; scarcely any whis-
kers his nose was straight and finely
chiseIed his chin was rather small and
dimpled he spoke in a general affected
voice, half mincingly he had sort of
deferential, and yet confident air, as
though accustomed to have his CONVEX
sation listened to with considerable at.
tention; he had self-satisfed laugh, by
no means loud, but still very well de.
fined; altogether we came to the conclu-
sion that he was a rather remarkable
man but what his profession might be,
puzzled US at one time we thought he
might be French Able then scien-
ti6c cook: but amid these disturbing in
huences the thought settled down TO the
gravitating point that he was an author
one of those toilers in Parnassus or Grub
street.
The third had decidedly Hebrew
look. His face was well featured; his
whiskers were black and ample, growing
under his chin; there was slight twitch-
ing of his facial muscles, and half in
sincere smile on his ccuntenance, not
springing from the light of his soul, or
the benevolence of his heat, but manu-
factured by the widening of his mouth,
and an artificial expression of the eye
We noticed that his teeth were good /;
but he did not show them when he smiled
rather closed his lips, as though to
keep the whole thing as compact as pos
sible.
On the side furthest from us sat q
short, middle aged man of rather stumpy
stature, with an evident inclination to
obesity. Seldom has Nature put finer
head upon a pair of human shoulders
than was found upon his. 1t was a
Shaksperian head--rather smaller than
our orthodox notion-a sort of RAzEE
frigate head. He was quite bald, his
hair growing from the top ledge of his
head, and falling in long curls down the
collar of his coat; the color was a light
brown. His eyes were pale gray-blue
his nose slightly aquiline, and his lips
well formed. We have not time to de.
scribe the fifth, but must relate the story
we heard the last described of them re-
late giving the name of the speakers.