Her hair was dark, and dressed in the simplest manner, without even a reminder of the hideous occipital structure then in favor--especially with shop women, who in general choose for imitation and exorbitant development whatever is ugliest and least lady-like in the fashion of the hour.

It had a natural wave in it, which broke the too straight lines it would otherwise have made across a forehead of sweet and composing proportions.

Her features were regular--her nose straight--perhaps a little thin; the curve of her upper lip carefully drawn, as if with design to express a certain firmness of modesty; and her chin well shaped, perhaps a little too sharply defined for her years, and rather large.

Everything about her suggested the repose of order satisfied, of unconstrained obedience to the laws of harmonious relation.

The only fault honest criticism could have suggested, merely suggested, was the presence of just a possible _nuance_ of primness.