The dress was asombre grayish beige, untrimmed and unbraided, and she wore a small turban of the same dull hue, relieved only by a suspicion of white feather in the side.

In spite of her feeling of haste, she paused a moment and looked fearfully through the vestibule to the wide,sombre hall beyond, her thoughts in a whirl.

There was a faint glimmering of the coming day in the sky; but it rather aggrevated than relieved the gloom of the scene: thesombre light only serving to pale that which the street lamps afforded, without shedding any warmer or brighter tints upon the wet house-tops, and dreary streets.

Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which you divine silent valleys; there is mystery in theirsombre depths, down which murmur and plash cool streams, and you feel that in those umbrageous places life from immemorial times has been led according to immemorial ways.

The Grève had then that sinister aspect which it preserves to-day from the execrable ideas which it awakens, and from thesombre town hall of Dominique Bocador, which has replaced the Pillared House.

With the sun hanging low on its western limit, the expanse of the grass-lands framed in the coun- ter-scarps of the rising ground took on a gorgeous andsombre aspect.

It had been not so livid then, and its eyes not sosombre.

By entering into harmony with his environment, Ssu-K`ung T`u allowed his splendid vitality to find expression, and after the lapse of a thousand years these glowing pages torn from the book of life have drifted towards us like rose-leaves down asombre stream.