that a listless, indifferent expreaaion, which at firat made tltoa
Bay " he h:)S eleepy eyes,'' hud vanisbed from those orgaii!>, aa
if a veil had been withdrawn, leaving them clear and keen,
with a cheerful, wide-awake nature looking out. Thus,
although his habitual repose of manner remained, it no longer
impressed the people as somothtng foreign and uncomfortable ;
and the general feeling towards him, in spite of thu attacks of
Mr. Grindle and the indnuations of Seth Wattles, was respect-
ful and friendly. Bute, who was a fonfirraeJ favorite among
the people, would suffer no word to be aaid against his master,
and wont so far as to lake a respectable man by the throat, in
the oyster-cellar under the Ptolemy House, for epeokiug of
him as a " stuck-up aristocrat."

That part of a man's life which springs from his physical
teraperament seemed, in Woodbury's case, to have stood still
during his sojourn abroad. After tho tropical torpidity of his
system had been shaken oS; he went batik ten years in the
sudden refreshment of his sensations. The delicate cuticle of
youth, penetrated with the finer nerves which acknowledge
every touch of maturing existence as a pleasure, was partially
restored. The sadness engendered by hard experience, the
scorn which the encounter with human meanness and selfislt
uess left behind, the half-contemptuous pity which the pride
of shallow brains provoked — these were features of hia nature,
which, impressed while it was yet plastic, wore now loo firmly
set to be erased ; but they were overlaid for the time by the
joyous rush of physical aenaation. His manner lost that first
gravity which suggested itself even in his most relaxed and
playful moods ; he became gay, l>rilliant, and bantering, and
was the life of the oirclea in which lie moved. As the owner
of Lakeside, alt circles, of course, were open to hiin ; but Ue
soon discovered the most congcidal society aud selected It,
without regard to ihe distinctions which previuledln I'tolemy.
