She is one of the great beauties of all time, and worth coming barefoot to Rome, like the pilgrims of old, to see.

Her complexion, her glance, her step, her dusky tresses, may have been seen before in a goddess, but never in a woman.

And you may take this for truth, because I 'm not in love with her.

On the contrary! Her education has been simply infernal.

She is corrupt, perverse, as proud as the queen of Sheba, and an appalling coquette; but she is generous, and with patience and skill you may enlist her imagination in a good cause as well as in a bad one.