What had the child done, that her own father--" "He is the wildest of all the wild Hoogstratens.

Perhaps you may have seen men like him in Italy--in this country you might seek long for such a hurricane.

You must not think him an evil-disposed man, but a word that goes against the grain, a look askance will rob him of his senses, and things are done which he repents as soon as they are over.

The signorina received her scar in the same way.

She was a mere child, and of course ought not to have touched fire-arms, nevertheless she did whenever she could, and once a pistol went off and the bullet struck one of the best hunting-dogs.