management of bodily machinery.

The stranger said hardly anything during
his visit, which did not exceed half an
hour; and the host himself could scarcely
muster courage enough to utter the few
necessary salutations and courtesies: and,
indeed, such was the nervous terror which
the presence of Vanderhausen inspired,
that very little would have made all his
entertainers fly bellowing from the room.

They had not so far lost all self-
possession, however, as to fail to observe two
strange peculiarities of their visitor.

During his stay he did not once suffer
his eyelids to close, nor even to move in
the slightest degree; and further, there
was a death-like stillness in his whole
person, owing to the total absence of the
heaving motion of the chest, caused by the
process of respiration.

These two peculiarities, though when
told they may appear trifling, produced a
very striking and unpleasant effect when
seen and observed. Vanderhausen at
length relieved the painter of Leyden of
his inauspicious presence; and with no