To me all those grinning white masks were needless torture to the mourners; but here again we are brought to recognise that taste is a matter of education.

A female masked was not a rare sight in Venice, for few of that sex went upon the canals without using the customary means of concealment; but it would seem by their hesitating manner that the menials of Don Camillo did not view the entrance of her who now appeared with the usual indifference.

" "The mask on the case is a portrait, I suppose?" "Yes; in fact, it is rather more.

The mouth was big and big-lipped, the eyes large, dark, melancholy and slightly sunken, and the mask was a network of wrinkles.

Hand me thy cap and gown; the mask Is for my purpose quite first rate.

"Why the mask?" "Is that a necessary question, sir?" replied the aviator, while a buzz of curiosity and suspicion rose.

But they were still as death; the mask that had been assumed to shield envy, hypercriticism, and falsehood, there was neither elevation of moral purpose, courage, nor honor, to lay aside.

As Mask can be? Strat.