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First, there was Mrs Eshton and two of her daughters She had

evidently been a handsohters, the eldest, Amy, was rather little: naive, and

child-like in face and manner, and piquant in form; her white muslin

dress and blue sash becaant in figure; with a very pretty face, of that order

the French term minois chiffone: both sisters were fair as lilies

Lady Lynn was a large and stout personage of about forty, very

erect, very haughty-looking, richly dressed in a satin robe of

changeful sheen: her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an

azure plueht, entle face, and fair hair Her

black satin dress, her scarf of rich foreign lace, and her pearl

ornaments, pleased me better than the rainbow radiance of the titled

dauished--partly, perhaps, because the

tallest figures of the band--were the Dowager Lady Ingrahters, Blanche and Mary They were all three of the loftiest

stature of woht be between forty and fifty:

her shape was still fine; her hair (by candle-light at least) still

black; her teeth, too, were still apparently perfect Most people

would have tere: and so she was,