She's only seventeen or eighteen, I suppose; but I never know how old--or at least how young--girls are, and I'm not sure.

An aunt, at any rate, has of course nothing to conceal.
She IS extremely pretty--with extraordinary red hair and a complexion to match; great rarities I believe, in that race and latitude.

She gave me the portrait--frame and all.

The frame is Neapolitan enough and little Aggie's charming." Then Vanderbank subjoined: "But not so charming as little Nanda." "Little Nanda ?--have you got HER ?" The old man was all eagerness.
"She's over there beside the lamp--also a present from the original." II Mr.Longdon had gone to the place--little Nanda was in glazed white wood.

He took her up and held her out; for a moment he said nothing, but presently, over his glasses, rested on his host a look intenser even than his scrutiny of the faded image.