Spooner of Spoon Hall Adelaide Palliser was a tall, fair girl, exquisitely made, with every feminine grace of motion, highly born, and carrying always the warranty of her birth in her appearance; but with no special loveliness of face.

Let not any reader suppose that therefore she was plain.

She possessed much more than a sufficiency of charm to justify her friends in claiming her as a beauty, and the demand had been generally allowed by public opinion.

Adelaide Palliser was always spoken of as a girl to be admired; but she was not one whose countenance would strike with special admiration any beholder who did not know her.

Her eyes were pleasant and bright, and, being in truth green, might, perhaps with propriety, be described as grey.