Though only fourteen, she looks twenty, but has something fresh, engaging, and girlish about her.

I fancy it will soon be rubbed out under the drill of the royal household.
I attended not only at the presentation, but at the ball given at the Tuileries directly after.

These are fine shows, as the suite of apartments is very handsome, brilliantly lighted, and the French ladies surpass all others in the art of dress; indeed, it gave me much, pleasure to see them.

Certainly there are many ugly ones, but they are so well dressed, and have such an air of graceful vivacity, that the general effect was that of a flower-garden.

As often happens, several American women were among the most distinguished for positive beauty; one from Philadelphia, who is by many persons considered the prettiest ornament of the dress circle at the Italian Opera, was especially marked by the attention of the king.