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During her entry, and at various ti to the reader on the platfor subject of study for several neighbouring eyes

Her face was exceedingly attractive, though artistically less perfect than her figure, which approached unusually near to the standard of faultlessness But even this feature of hers yielded the pal and delightful to an extreree

Indeed, motion was her speciality, whether shown on its ression, orof her fingers, the pouting of her lip The carriage of her head--lide--was as delicate as that of a netic needle And this flexibility and elasticity had never been taught her by rule, nor even been acquired by observation, but, nullo cultu, had naturally developed itself with her years In childhood, a stone or stalk in the hich had been the inevitable occasion of a fall to her playht on her feet after the narrowest escape by oscillations and whirls for the preservation of her balance At mixed Christmas parties, when she numbered but twelve or thirteen years, and was heartily despised on that account by lads who deehtness in the dance covered this incompleteness in her womanhood, and compelled the self-same youths in spite of resolutions to seize upon her childish figure as a partner whom they could not afford to contemn And in later years, when the instincts of her sex had shown her this point as the best and rarest feature in her external self, she was not found wanting in attention to the cultivation of finish in its details

Her hair rested gaily upon her shoulders in curls and was of a shining corn yellow in the high lights, deepening to a definite nut-brown as each curl wound round into the shade She had eyes of a sapphire hue, though rather darker than the gem ordinarily appears; they possessed the affectionate and liquid sparkle of loyalty and good faith as distinguishable frohtness which see theain a view of her--or indeed of any fascinating woory, is as difficult as to appreciate the effect of a landscape by exploring it at night with a lantern --or of a full chord ofthe notes in succession

Nevertheless it may readily be believed fro phases of her aspect, these were particularly striking:-During pleasant doubt, when her eyes brightened stealthily and smiled (as eyes will sle instant expressed clearly the whole round of degrees of expectancy which lie over the wide expanse between Yea and Nay