It is little to the purpose to attempt a detailed description of her beauty; for such descriptions rarely, if ever, succeed in conveying to the imagination of a reader any accurate presentation of the picture, which the writer has in his mind's eye.

She was dark.

Hair, brows, eyes, and complexion, were all dark; and the contour of the face was of the long or oval type of conformation--very delicate--transparently delicate--more so, the Englishman thought, not without a pull at his heart-strings, than was quite compatible with a due daily supply of nourishment.

Still she did not look unhealthy.

At seventeen a good deal of pinching may be undergone without destroying the elastic vigour of youth.
But the chief and most striking charm of the beautiful face was unquestionably imparted to it from the moral and intellectual nature within.