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## TKE SK.#UT##OY.
same politeness. The latter, on his part, was not pa#icularly
e#ed with the rather slothful conversation of these gentlemen;
but fo one who had once moved in the ]taute çolée, if is an easy
t#g to keep the whed of conversation moving, even #o#d
t# ever so heavily.
After theoe #v# ai Berg, the attention of the society was
dmwn fo three new passengers who came on bo#d. They were
conducted by a gentlem#, whose mere outward appear#ce was
cMculated fo #sp#e interest. His companions were a pale and
sickly looking httle boy of abou# rive or six ye#s, and a sm#
dog, who continually kept a watchful eye upon his youth#l
toaster.
The stranger appeared #o be q#te a distance beyond those
bords which separate the dreams of youth from the experience
of the more mat#e man. He was apparently abou# thirty, or
perhaps more. His brow was hOt unwrin#ed, and a mour#ul
expression, comb#ed with a look of resi#ation, lay upon Hs
countenance, and caused the sharp points of the saine fo stand
out more pro#en#. What added still more fo his melancholy
expression were his jet black eyes, and #s piercing glance,
gerber with #s long black hair, which, separated # the centre in
front, f#ling do# on bo#h sides of his head, fluttered like a
of mo#ing badges over his robust shoulders. The #ess of the
man, # we# # that of the boy, was black, and #ve room #o
conclusion that they were probably mo#ning for a dear relative.
’" Tbat is ce#a#ly an Ita#an," w#spered a #oup of chatte#ng
friends. "One can perceîve i#, by the colour of #s skin and his
black whiskem." Thh pres#ption, however, was contra#cted
by another, who was of ophion that his eyes lacked that ###d
#e, or that bfight #arkle ##ch #th#hes the inhabitants
of the South.
D##g a.ll th# t#e the stranger remMned lean#g ag## one
of the wheelhouses. He had taken his boy # his a##s, fo poin#
out some object fo l#, #d the dog sat fait#uHy by the# side,
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