All the others paled before her, as do the stars when the moon rises among them.

She was evidently young, and yet she did not suggest youth.

One would almost imagine that she had never had a childhood or a girlhood, but was rather a direct creation of metropolitan society.

Her exquisitely turned shoulders and arms were bare, and the diamonds about her neck were a circlet of fire.

The complexion of her fair oval face was singularly pure, and the color came and went so easily as to prove that it owed nothing to art.