The Honourable Mrs.Morton was now seventy, but no old lady ever showed less signs of advanced age.

It is not to be understood from this that she was beautiful;--but that she was very strong.
What might be the colour of her hair, or whether she had any, no man had known for many years.

But she wore so perfect a front that some people were absolutely deluded.

She was very much wrinkled;--but as there are wrinkles which seem to come from the decay of those muscles which should uphold the skin, so are there others which seem to denote that the owner has simply got rid of the watery weaknesses of juvenility.

Mrs.Morton's wrinkles were strong wrinkles.