But his complexion was spoiled, it is said, and turned to deadly white by certain experiments, which it is neither possible nor seemly for us to understand.

His face is of that long oval shape of which all the Temples are proud, and he had brown eyes: we sometimes tease Constance, saying she is like Adrian." It was indeed true, as I remembered after Mrs.Temple had pointed it out, that Constance had a peculiarly long and oval face.

It gave her, I think, an air of staid and placid beauty, which formed in my eyes, and perhaps in John's also, one of her greatest attractions.
"I do not like even his picture," Mrs.Temple continued, "and strange tales have been narrated of it by idle servants which are not worth repeating.

I have sometimes thought of destroying it; but my late husband, being a Temple, would never hear of this, or even of removing it from its present place in the gallery; and I should be loath to do anything now contrary to his wishes, once so strongly expressed.

It is, besides, very perfect from an artistic point of view, being painted by Battoni, and in his happiest manner." I could never glean more from Mrs.Temple; but what she told me interested me deeply.