Her features were not as regularly perfect as Hypatia's, nor her stature so commanding; but her face shone with a clear and joyful determination, and with a tender and modest thoughtfulness, such as he had never beheld before united in one countenance; and as she stepped along, firmly and lightly, by her father's side, looping up her scattered tresses as she went, laughing at the struggles of her noisy burden, and looking up with rapture at her father's gradually brightening face, Raphael could not help stealing glance after glance, and was surprised to find them returned with a bright, honest, smiling gratitude, which met full-eyed, as free from prudery as it was from coquetry....

'A lady she is,' said he to himself; 'but evidently no city one.

There is nature--or something else, there, pure and unadulterated, without any of man's additions or beautifications.' And as he looked, he began to feel it a pleasure such as his weary heart had not known for many a year, simply to watch her....
'Positively there is a foolish enjoyment after all in making other fleas smile....

Ass that I am! As if I had not drunk all that ditch-water cup to the dregs years ago!' They went on for some time in silence, till the officer, turning to him-- 'And may I ask you, my quaint preserver, whom I would have thanked before but for this foolish faintness, which is now going off, what and who you are ?' 'A flea, sir--a flea--nothing more.' 'But a patrician flea, surely, to judge by your language and manners ?' 'Not that exactly.

True, I have been rich, as the saying is; I may be rich again, they tell me, when I am fool enough to choose.' 'Oh if we were but rich!' sighed the girl.
'You would be very unhappy, my dear young lady.