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There could be no doubt regarding the complete emptiness of the Reverend Ezekiel Cairnes, if the breakfast he devoured from our stock of cold provisions was evidence I have been commonly blessed with robust appetite, yet where that man found space within his ribs to store away all he ate in that hour re, except total inability to address hie, held De Noyan quiet as our liht, and long before the latter heaved a sigh of profound satisfaction the gallant soldier had fallen fast asleep But Madame remained in her place opposite, apparently fascinated by that vivid red crop of hair, now thoroughly dried in the sun, and standing erect above his odd, pear-shaped head I had whispered in her ear what the fellow clai a most devout Catholic, and he the first specimen of his class she had ever met, she studied him with no small amount of curiosity and abhorrence

I can clearly recall the picture, as these two, so widely different, sat facing each other in silence, the golden sunshine checkered over the away to the southward, and De Noyan resting upon his back, with face turned up toward the clear blue sky The woman, with her soft silken hair sent face lighted by eyes of deepest brown, looking, what in truth she was, the aristocratic daughter of a gentleman of France, one whose home had ever been as those of love and courtesy Even there, in the heart of that wilderness, the social training of years re with untasted food, out of respect to this stranger guest And he, with shoulders so abnorarb, ate serenely on, unconscious of her glances, e hands in the operation, his little gi a cone, blazing like a fire whenever a ray of sun chanced to fall across it I noticed he occasionally stole shy glances at her, nor could I wonder, for, in spite of fatigue and exposure, Madaood to look upon

"The Lord God of Hosts be praised; ay! with harps, cyive praise unto His holy na his wide ret over the debris in his front "Once again hath He abundantly supplied His elect with that which upbuildeth and giveth strength to the flesh Now my bodily requirements have been duly attended to, it behooves me to minister likewise unto the spiritual, and then seek repose Friends, will you not both join with race? It hath been said that I possess much unction in prayer"