. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. ancing. She was not tall, but seemed to be, so proudly ereSt did she holdher slender figure. She was brown, but it was evident that by daylight herskin must have that lovely golden gleam peculiar to Spanish and Romanbeauties. Her tiny foot was Andalusian, too, for it fitted both snugly andeasily iftto its dainty shoe. She danced, she turned, she twirled upon anantique Persian carpet thrown carelessly beneath her feet; and every timeher radiant figure passed, as she turned, her great black eyes sent forthlightning flashes. Upon her every e
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. ancing. She was not tall, but seemed to be, so proudly ereSt did she holdher slender figure. She was brown, but it was evident that by daylight herskin must have that lovely golden gleam peculiar to Spanish and Romanbeauties. Her tiny foot was Andalusian, too, for it fitted both snugly andeasily iftto its dainty shoe. She danced, she turned, she twirled upon anantique Persian carpet thrown carelessly beneath her feet; and every timeher radiant figure passed, as she turned, her great black eyes sent forthlightning flashes. Upon her every eye was riveted, every mouth gaped wide ; and in verytruth as she danced to the tune of the tambourine which her round and grace-ful arms held high above her head, slender, quick and a£live as any waSp,with smooth-fitting golden bodice, her many-colored full skirt, her bareshoulders, her shapely legs, from which her skirts now and then swungaway, her black hair, her eyes of flame, she seemed more than mortalcreature. yi£lor Hugos Notre Dame de ESMERALDA. EETANAX 391 ESPRIELLA a manner of kind that whoso handleth them heshall have so much courage that he shall neverbe weary, and he shall not think on joy norsorrow that he hath had, but only on the thinghe beholdeth before him.—Sir T. Malory, Historyof Prince Arthur, iii. 84, (1470). Erudite {Most). Marcus TerentiusVaiTO is called the most erudite of theRomans ( 116-27). Erythre, modesty personified, thevirgin page of Parthenia or maiden ofchastity, in The P-myle Island, by PhineasFletcher (1633). Fully described in cantoX. (Greek, cruthros, red, from eruthriao, to blush.) Erysichthon [Erri. sik. thon], a grand-son of Neptune, who was punished byCeres with insatiable hunger, for cuttingdown some trees in a grove sacred to thatgoddess. (See Erisichthon.) Escalus, an ancient, kind-hearted lordin the deputation of the duke of Vienna.—Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603). Escalus, Prince of Verona.—Shake-speare,
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