The cheeks were very full but firm, and the well shaped, boldly modeled nose stood in exactly the right proportion to the rather large face.
The light brown eyes with their remarkably small pupils were conspicuously lively, and flashed and sparkled incessantly on all sides.

Their expression was extremely intelligent and generally mocking, and if you looked long at them you gained the somewhat uncomfortable impression that that cold clear glance could, on occasion, stab a heart as cruelly as would a dagger.

But her most striking feature was her mouth--a sudden dash of violent coral-red in the opalescent white of her face.

This brutal effect of color exercised a peculiar fascination and riveted the attention.

The eye lingered upon those lips--so voluptuously, so sinfully full, so burning, blood-red that in the chastest mind, even a woman's, they must suggest the image of vampire-like kisses.