A STUDY OF CHARACTER. IQI 



be aged as it was to imagine that he had ever 

 been in immature youth. There was in him a 

 mysterious perpetuity. 



After some years, when Mrs. Stowe made her 

 winter home in Florida, Calvin came to live with 

 us. From the first moment, he fell into the 

 ways of the house and assumed a recognized 

 position in the family, I say recognized, be- 

 cause after he became known he was always 

 inquired for by visitors, and in the letters to the 

 other members of the family he always received 

 a message. Although the least obtrusive of be- 

 ings, his individuality always made itself felt. 



His personal appearance had much to do with 

 this, for he was of royal mould, and had an air 

 of high breeding. He was large, but he had 

 nothing of the fat grossness of the celebrated 

 Angora family; though powerful, he was exqui- 

 sitely proportioned, and as graceful in every 

 movement as a young leopard. When he stood 



