And it was a noticeable circumstance that a silence more eloquent than words was uniformly observed by such sons of Mars as listened to the story. Each seemed to assume that he as well as Simmons was made of baser stuff than that which entered into the composition of the magnificent woman who, though importuned and tempted with money, of which she was in sore need, yielded not; who, wronged, never forgot that she was a lady, and whose gracious manner under adverse fortunes gave many a blue-coated poacher a glimpse at a sublimity of character, the existence of which in the human economy, he had not else suspected.