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24 _ THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. CHAPTER III. PASSION EXULTANT! AFTER his first year’s training Martin became curlous in manner. His mind wandered. His interest in study slackened. No progress was made. He was subject to shaking fits, which weakened the by no means strong frame. Huis face twitched, and the expression changed in a sudden, almost un- natural fashion. One: minute his heavy brow was bent as if in sinister thought ; the hand instinctively - stole up to the mouth, and tried to hide that tell- tale organ. The blue eyes wandered as if frightened to fix their gaze on any object, and at such a time he looked the incarnation of evil. Another minute and this was changed. The brow, though heavy, looked that of a clever, not a base man, the blue eyes looked straight at their object, and if he spoke, the beautiful voice disarmed suspicion and adverse criticism. Had a man possessing a knowledge of physiognomy studied Martin’s face and its changes of expression, he would have arrived at one of two con- clusions—either that he was a clever dissembler or a man possessed of fierce passions not yet quite under his control; a man who might turn out a saint, but would stop short of no crime if evil got the upper Eomicbooks.com