In a word, the face and the figure were not in harmony: the figure prevented you from pronouncing her to be masculine; the face took from the figure the charm of feminacy.

It was the head of the young Augustus upon the form of Agrippina.

One touch more, and we close a description which already perhaps the reader may consider frivolously minute.

If you had placed before the mouth and lower part of the face a mask or bandage, the whole character of the upper face would have changed at once,--the eye lost its glittering falseness, the brow its sinister contraction; you would have pronounced the face not only beautiful, but sweet and womanly.

Take that bandage suddenly away and the change would have startled you, and startled you the more because you could detect no sufficient defect or disproportion in the lower part of the countenance to explain it.