Moreover, adds my father, each of them, so to speak, has the aspect, which belongs to his character.

Agricola is dark, tall, and strong, with a gay and bold air; Gabriel, on the contrary, is weak, fair, timid as a girl, and his face wears an expression of angelic mildness." The orphans looked at each other in surprise; then, as they turned towards the soldier their ingenuous countenances, Rose said to him; "Have you heard, Dagobert?
Father says, that your Gabriel is fair, and has the face of an angel.

Why, 'tis exactly like ours!" "Yes, yes, I heard very well; it is that which surprised me, in your dream." "I should like to know, if he has also blue eyes," said Rose.
"As for that, my children, though the general says nothing about it, I will answer for it: your fair boys have always blue eyes.

But, blue or black, he will not use them to stare at young ladies; go on, and you will see why." Blanche resumed: "His face wears an expression of angelic mildness.

One of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, where he went with Agricola and other children of his quarter, struck with his intelligence and good disposition, spoke of him to a person of consequence, who, becoming interested in the lad, placed him in a seminary for the clergy, and, since the last two years, Gabriel is a priest.