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It happened, that the action turned his face to that side of the

court which was on his left. About on a level with his eyes,

there sat, in that corner of the Judge's bench, two persons upon

whom his look immediately rested; so immediately, and so much to

the changing of his aspect, that all the eyes that were turned

upon him, turned to them.

The spectators saw in the two figures, a young lady of little

more than twenty, and a gentleman who was evidently her father; a

man of a very remarkable appearance in respect of the absolute

whiteness of his hair, and a certain indescribable intensity of

face: not of an active kind, but pondering and self-communing.

When this expression was upon him, he looked as if he were old;

but when it was stirred and broken up--as it was now, in a

moment, on his speaking to his daughter--he became a handsome

man, not past the prime of life.