As a night lamp, this contrivance cannot be excelled; a soft dreamy light being shed through the transparent rind.
As the evening advanced, other members of the household, whom as yet we had not seen, began to drop in.

There was a slender young dandy in a gay striped shirt, and whole fathoms of bright figured calico tucked about his waist, and falling to the ground.

He wore a new straw hat also with three distinct ribbons tied about the crown; one black, one green, and one pink.

Shoes or stockings, however, he had none.
There were a couple of delicate, olive-cheeked little girls--twins--with mild eyes and beautiful hair, who ran about the house, half-naked, like a couple of gazelles.

They had a brother, somewhat younger--a fine dark boy, with an eye like a woman's.