He was a slight small man, but wiry and strong; while she was taller than he and very spare and grave.

She wore steel-bowed spectacles, and looked through you when she spoke.

I am sure that if she had ever done so awful a thing as to have put on a man's clothes no one would have seen through her disguise from her form, or even by her voice, which was a ringing tenor and was always heard clear and strong carrying the soprano in the First Congregational Church of Monterey Centre after Elder Thorndyke had succeeded in getting it built.
"Her name is Royall," said Grandma Thorndyke--I may as well begin calling her that now as ever--Royall.

When last seen she was walking eastward on this road, where she is subject to all sorts of dangers from wild weather and wild beasts.

A man on horseback named Gowdy, with a negro, came into Independence looking for her this morning after searching everywhere along the road from some place west back to the settlement.