He became the victim of its weakness.

Whether he had died or still lingered in the dungeons of Austria was not known.

His property was confiscated; his child became an orphan and a beggar.

She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.

When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub--a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.