Some promptly recognized the necessity and took the undesirable features as part of the duty they had assumed.

Others were querulous, wishing some one else to stand first in the breach, leaving them time for drill, equipment, and preparation.

One figure impressed itself very strongly on my memory.

A sturdy form, a head with more than ordinary marks of intelligence, but a bearing with more of swagger than of self-poised courage, yet evidently a man of some importance in his own community, stood before the seat of the governor, the bright lights of the chandelier over the table lighting strongly both their figures.

The officer was wrapped in a heavy blanket or carriage lap-robe, spotted like a leopard skin, which gave him a brigandish air.