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 face of a priest or a judge, slender and sinewy, made up of tact, reserve and reflective shyness, exceedingly serious; only round his eyes there is a smile in the kindly wrinkles with the intentness of their foldings. He has a wife who is very similar to him, and his books are the perfect and wise works of a sensitive and somewhat sad observer.

This is Mr. G . K. Chesterton; I have drawn him flying, partly because I was able to have only a rather fugitive impression of him, and then because of his celestial exuber ance. Unhappily at that particular moment he was perhaps a trifle subdued by a situation