[Illustration: A TABLEAU OF THE DAY.

Leaning opposite in the narrow stairway, Casimer had time to study the little tableau in many lights, and in spite of the dark glasses, to convey warm glances of admiration, of which, however, the young coquette seemed utterly unconscious.

She put a hand to the knob, turned it, and swung the door openall on impulsethen faltered, transfixed by the tableau before the fireplace.

He broke the awkward tableau by saying: "Well, boy, aren't you glad to see me?"

After a tableau like the last, it is natural that Claude Duval should find a certain want of excitement in the next scene, where he appears as a respectable householder in the apartments of his lawful spouse.

" M. Rey gives us this flattering tableau as a social picture of Morocco.

Returning from the drive on the morning of Mrs. McLean's last recorded remark, Mr. Raleigh, who had remained to give the horses in charge to a servant, was about to pass, when the tableau within the drawing-room caught his attention and altered his course.

I am far from pleading for the conventional tableau at the end of each act, with all the characters petrified, as it were, in penny-plain-twopence-coloured attitudes.