Although it was evident that the homeless travellers had literally stripped themselves of all superfluities and had determined to go forth with the merest necessaries of decency, there was something in the manner in which they wore their humble costumes that distinctly marked their birth and breeding.

The old man's features were not changed; but it was difficult to say whether they expressed pleasure, pain, or indifference.

Lenora seemed strong and resolute, although she was about to quit the place of her birth and separate herself, perhaps forever, from all she had loved from infancy,--from those aged groves beneath whose shadows the dawn of love first broke upon her heart,--from that remembered tree at whose feet the timid avowal of Gustave's passion had fallen on her ear.

But a sense of duty possessed and ruled her heart.

Reason in her was not overmastered by sensibility; and, when she saw her father tottering at her side, all her energy was rallied in the effort to sustain him.
They did not linger at the door, but, crossing the garden rapidly, directed their steps toward the farm-house, which they entered to bid its occupants farewell.