The Indian strain showed itself in the perfect gracefulness of a very slender and elastic figure, and in the exquisite elegance and beauty of the modelling of the extremities.
That is not the description of a beautiful girl.

But it is the fact that the face and figure very accurately so described were eminently attractive to me physically, as well as the mind and intelligence, which informed them, were spiritually.

They were much more attractive to me than those of many a splendidly beautiful girl, the immense superiority of whose beauty nobody knew better than I.Why should this have been so?
That is one of the mysteries to the solution of which no moral or physical or psychical research has ever brought us an iota nearer.
I am giving here an account of the first impression my future wife made on me.

I had no thought of wooing and winning her, for, as I have said, I was not in a position to marry.

Meanwhile she was becoming acclimatised to Florentine society.