The features were noble and striking, but worn and haggard, with black, careless locks tangled into a maze of curls, and a fixed, speculative, dreamy stare in his large and hollow eyes.

All his movements were peculiar, sudden, and abrupt, as the impulse seized him; and in gliding through the streets, or along the beach, he was heard laughing and talking to himself.

Withal, he was a harmless, guileless, gentle creature, and would share his mite with any idle lazzaroni, whom he often paused to contemplate as they lay lazily basking in the sun.
Yet was he thoroughly unsocial.

He formed no friends, flattered no patrons, resorted to none of the merry-makings so dear to the children of music and the South.

He and his art seemed alone suited to each other,--both quaint, primitive, unworldly, irregular.