Her neck is long, almost too long: but all defects are forgotten in the first look at her face.

We can see it fully, for her bonnet lies beside her on the rock.
The masque, though thin, is perfect.

The brow, like that of Greek statue, looks lower than it really is, for the hair springs from below the bend of the forehead.

The brain is very long, and sweeps backward and upward in grand curves, till it attains above the ears a great expanse and height.

She should be a character more able to feel than to argue; full of all a woman's veneration, devotion, love of children,--perhaps, too, of a woman's anxiety.
The nose is slightly aquiline; the sharp-cut nostrils indicate a reserve of compressed strength and passion; the mouth is delicate; the lips, which are full and somewhat heavy, not from coarseness, but rather from languor, show somewhat of both the upper and the under teeth.