But she had vivacity both of lips and shoulders.

The shoulders were bony; the lips were sharp and red, like winter-berries in the morning-time.

Freshness was not absent from her aspect.

The critical objection was that it seemed a plastered freshness and not true bloom; or rather it was a savage and a hard, not a sweet freshness.

Hence perhaps the name which distinguished her la Lazzeruola (crab apple).