. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. to his hands, lest he should be tempted to forget hisprinciples. It is, moreover, said that hesent her back to her parents with presents,that she might marry the man to whom Consuelo ( ( /^ONSUELO was neither Hindoo nor Gipsy, any more than any of the\-^ tribes of Israel. She was of good Spanish blood,—doubtless with atinge of the Moresco ; and though somewhat swarthy, she bad atranquility of manner which was quite foreign to any of the wandering had none of the feverish petulance, alternated by Jits of apathetic langour,which d
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. to his hands, lest he should be tempted to forget hisprinciples. It is, moreover, said that hesent her back to her parents with presents,that she might marry the man to whom Consuelo ( ( /^ONSUELO was neither Hindoo nor Gipsy, any more than any of the\-^ tribes of Israel. She was of good Spanish blood,—doubtless with atinge of the Moresco ; and though somewhat swarthy, she bad atranquility of manner which was quite foreign to any of the wandering had none of the feverish petulance, alternated by Jits of apathetic langour,which distinguishes the Zingarella. She was calm as the water of the at the same time active as the light gondolas that shimmed along theirsurface. As she was growing rapidly and her mother was very poor, her clotheswere always a year too short, which gave to her long legs of fourteen yearsgrowth, a sort of savage grace. Her figure, confined in narrow stays rippedat every seam, was elastic and flexible as a palm-tree. George Sands • CONSUELO. CONTINENCE 257 COPPERFIELD she was betrothed. A silver shield, onwhich this incident was depicted, wasfound in the river Rhone by some fisher-men in the seventeenth century. Een Scipio, or a victor yet more cold,Might have forgot his virtue at her Rowe, Tamerlane, iii. 3 (1702.) Anson, when he took the SenJioraTheresa de Jesus, refused even to see thethree Spanish ladies who formed part ofthe prize, because he was resolved to pre-vent private scandal. The three ladiesconsisted of a mother and her two daugh-ters, the younger of whom was of sur-passing beauty. Conventiial Friars are those who livein convents, contrary to the rule of , who enjoined absolute poverty,without land, books, chapel, or who conform to the rule of thefounder are called Observant Friars. Conversation Sliarp, Richard Sharp,.the critic (1759-1835.) Cook who Killed Himself {The).Vatel killed himself in 1671, because thel
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