NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
of his thought. Some of those who have be- 
lieved they knew him most completely have 
found, even after the course of years, that they 
have not yet crossed the threshold. 
A slight, lithe figure, which would appear 
frail if it were not so well in proportion and so 
closely knit, a figure full of nervous strength; 
hair slowly whitening, with a brown mus- 
tache slightly streaked with gray; intense blue 
eyes that are full of fire, or a-glint with earn- 
estness, or twinkling with merriment, or sad 
or gay or somber, as the mood passes; a sensi- 
tive mouth and chin; the bronze of the west- 
erm sun upon his cheeks. It is the face of a 
poet, or a philosopher, or a sagacious man 
of affairs, or, in the nobler sense, a fine, true 
mystic; for all of these, and more, he is bound 
into one. 
He is quick of movement, soft and gentle of 
speech, a rare conversationalist when in the 
mood, though rather inclined to draw others 
out than to advance his own views. Once 
started upon some subject of deep interest, 
however, and assured that his auditors are in 
sympathy, his words come swift at the bidding 
of his swifter thoughts. Sometimes in conver- 
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