BO to speak, none of the scars of the contest. The pnnpeiity
of the family began before he was bom, and be had been
carefnily educated. In fact, his father would gladly hare
^yen him a nnirersity truning. Like most men who had
educated themselves, Mr. Harris had a sort of snperatition
in regard to an academic coarse, an idea that it imparted
BDbtile and myeteriouB facnlties as well as attainments. But
the Bon was too much like the parents from whose origi-
nal nature he had sprung to consent, and Jie decided to
enter ioto the business of his father ; decided with so much
inherited decision that there was nothing for his father to
do but to yield, and with a secret satisfaction, too, to his
choice. Speaking Russian, Glerman, and French ; having
had all the advantage of travel and association with the best
society ; kept by his intimacy with his mother and sister
from wild courses, young Harris was, with his open brow and
fine eyes and &ank ways, the most popular of men.
Mary Harris was some three years younger than her
brother. Strange to say, she was, as has been said, most like
her father, except that his features, eyes, very character, had
been so refined and transformed in her that people wondered
at her loveliness even while they were struck with her like-
ness to her mgged parent. Dearly as she loved her mother,
she seemed to cling even more closely to him ; while her
brother retained for his mother an almost childlike affection.
