One of nature's gentlemen!" This was a trifle sententious, and Rowland turned to the bust of Miss Light.

Like every one else in Rome, by this time, Miss Blanchard had an opinion on the young girl's beauty, and, in her own fashion, she expressed it epigrammatically.

"She looks half like a Madonna and half like a ballerina," she said.
Mr.Leavenworth and Roderick came to an understanding, and the young sculptor good-naturedly promised to do his best to rise to his patron's conception.

"His conception be hanged!" Roderick exclaimed, after he had departed.

"His conception is sitting on a globe with a pen in her ear and a photographic album in her hand.