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UNOPENED PARCELS. 125 yet there is no image more vividly pictured on my brain even now than that of his face as I saw it in that supreme moment when the sound of his breath was in my ears and I felt his strong arm stretched out to save me. Of what followed I know nothing, but I was told afterwards that it was fortunate for us both that he was unusually powerful; that otherwise our chances of life would have been small. It will not surprise you, f dare say, Honor," continued my father, to hear that after this adventure I was taken with a fit of hero-worship for my preserver. Such attacks-engouements the French call them-are not so common among schoolboys as young ladies. Still even schoolboys are not all formed internally to one model, however rigidly they may conform to a style in externals, and my hero-worship was, I assure you, as ardent as any girl's could be. In my eyes its object was the personification of everything great and noble, both in mind and body, and there was foundation enough for the faith in fact to prevent the charm ever being broken by any rude shock of disap-