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pression of countenance that no single term can describe. It was prepossessing, not from any mere artistic regularity of features, nor felicitous blending of facial characteristics, but it was a speaking countenance, and it spoke of the nobility of the soul within    a tell-tale face, but the tales it told were of a pure heart and a blameless life,   of love and fidelity to his fellow-creatures.

In the day of action no danger could appall him, no confusion rob him of self-possession. In his ordinary intercourse with men he was suave, genial, generous; no man had a more consummate power of being all that is kind and affable without affectation, and without stooping to that familiarity that breeds contempt.