With a gesture of awful suffering this girl had just thrown back her head, a head of extraordinary beauty, enveloped by superb black hair.
"La Pierina!" said Pierre.

"Ah! poor girl." Victorine made a gesture of compassion and tolerance.
"What would you have ?" said she, "I let her come up.

I don't know how she heard of the trouble, but it's true that she is always prowling round the house.

She sent and asked me to come down to her, and you should have heard her sob and entreat me to let her see her Prince once more! Well, she does no harm to anybody there on the floor, looking at them both with her beautiful loving eyes full of tears.

She's been there for half an hour already, and I had made up my mind to turn her out if she didn't behave properly.