Judge her by the standard set up in the illustrated gift-books and the print-shop windows--and the sentence must have inevitably followed.

"She has not a single good feature in her face." There was nothing individually remarkable about Miss Silvester, seen in a state of repose.

She was of the average height.

She was as well made as most women.

In hair and complexion she was neither light nor dark, but provokingly neutral just between the two.