They are all cast in a common mould, the products of a system which teaches early self-reliance, hardihood, and manliness--a fine type upon the whole; less refined and less intellectual, perhaps, than their brothers of the land, but full of truth and energy and heroism.

In figure he was straight, tall, and well-knit, with keen grey eyes, and the sharp prompt manner of a man who has been accustomed both to command and to obey.
"You had my note ?" he said, as he entered the room.

"I have to go again, Laura.

Isn't it a bore?
Old Smithers is short-handed, and wants me back at once." He sat down by the girl, and put his brown hand across her white one.

"It won't be a very large order this time," he continued.
"It's the flying squadron business--Madeira, Gibraltar, Lisbon, and home.