Having won a name, standing on firm ground, with promise of a great career, chief of what was then taken for a growing party and is not yet a collapsed, nor will be, though the foot on it is iron, his youth had flown under the tutelage of an extraordinary Mentor, whom to call Athene robs the goddess of her personal repute for wisdom in conduct, but whose head was wise, wise as it was now grey.

Verily she was original; and a grey original should seem remarkable above a blooming blonde.

If originality in woman were our prime request, the grey should bear the palm.

She has gone through the battle, retaining the standard she carried into it, which is a victory.

Alas, that grey, so spirit-touching in Art, should be so wintry in reality! The discovery of a feminine original breathing Spring, softer, warmer than the ancient one, gold instead of snowcrested, and fully as intrepid as devoted, was an immense joy to Alvan.