It is a very good likeness.

Do you think it pretty ?" "Pretty! The word is a gross injustice.

Say rather exquisitely, ravishingly beautiful." "Thanks, my Wilhelm.

And if you had known me then, you would have loved me and wanted to marry me, would you not ?" "But you would hardly have wanted to marry me, a poor devil of a plebeian, who was badly dressed and did not even know how to dance." "Do not make fun of me, you sweet, bad creature; if I had had as much sense then as I have now, I should have loved you then as I love you now, and I would have belonged to you, even if it had cost me my father's love." She gazed thoughtfully at the picture in which her innocent past confronted her in so angelic a form, and continued in tones of indescribable tenderness: "Why did I not know you sooner?
Is it my fault that you who were made for me should live so far away and wait so long before you came to me?
How I should have rejoiced to be able to offer you the pure young creature of this picture! But I can but give you all I have--my first real love, the virginity of my heart--surely that is something ?" Her hazel eyes pleaded for a great deal of compassion, and her full scarlet lips for a great deal of love, and only a heart of cast iron could have refused her either.
Beyond the salon was a roomy dining-room, hung with magnificent Cordova leather, and from this a glass door led into a pretty little garden with an arbor in the corner, and some old trees.

High, ivy-clad walls inclosed the square green spot of nature.