There was a calm and quiet dignity in the expression of the pure and noble brow, which may often have been seen in women of similar character, and of some twenty-five years of age.

But it is rare to find such at seventeen.

Doubtless the having been left alone in the world at so tender an age, had done much towards producing the expression in question.

It was added to, moreover, by the singular grace of the girl's figure and mode of standing there before the stranger, as she had risen from her easel on his presenting her with the Director's note.
She was rather above the middle height, and very slender;--more so, the Englishman thought again, than she ought to have been.

She was very poorly and even insufficiently clad.