The Wonder

braided and frogged; it had the air of belonging to an older fashion, but the material of it was new. And her bonnet, trimmed with jet ornaments gro

eeks, the shadows under eyes gloomy and retrospective-these were marks of the town;

Its great bald head shone resplen

a'am," said the rubicund ma

yebrows, her head trembled slightly and set t

r," she

leaning forward. His action had an air of deliberate courage;

ome magnificent enter the lion's den in a travelling circus. The failure on my right was,

s, all interest. None of these three had, so far as I had observed, fallen under the spell of inspection by the infant, but I noticed that the man-an artis

isle of the carriage, indefinitely focussed on some point outside th

wn that this child was male, the conformation of the skull alone should have told me that. It was its dress that gave me cause t