He has resigned from the army, and he is here to do South Carolina's bidding." "It is like him," said Madame Delaunay.

"Ah, that Leonidas, he has a great soul!" "I travelled with him from Nashville to Charleston," said Harry, "and I learned to like and admire him." He had established himself at once in the good graces of Madame Delaunay and she gave him a fine room overlooking a garden, which in season was filled with roses and oranges.

Even now, pleasant aromatic odors came to him through the open window.

He had been scarcely an hour in Charleston but he liked it already.

The old city breathed with an ease and grace to which he was unused.