various times and in several countries,
attended, teased, and kissed. Both physically
and mentally, she was very fine-wrought.
Her bones were small; her body and limbs
were slender, but beautifully fashioned. She
was supple and vigorous. Grace is a product
of brain as well as an effect of bodily
symmetry: Grace had the quality on both
counts. She answered to one's conception
of Mahomet's houris, assuming that the
conception is not of a fat person. Her head
was small, but well proportioned,--compact
as to the forehead, rather broad across the
cheek-bones, thence tapering to the chin.
Her eyes were blue, but of an Eastern
strangeness of shape and setting; they were
subject to great and sudden changes of
expression, depending, apparently, on the
varying state of her emotions, and betraying
an intensity more akin to the Oriental
temperament than to ours. There was in her
something subtle and fierce; yet overlaying
it, like a smooth and silken skin, were the
conventional polish and bearing of an
American school graduate. She was, in
deed, noticeably artificial and self-conscious
in manner and in the intonations of her
speech; though it was an aesthetic delight
to see her move or pose, and the quality of
her voice was music's self. But Freeman,