Her eyes were wide and blue, her cheeks pink, and her hair black and softly curling about her face and neck.

The room in which she stood was neat as its keeper.

The walls were whitewashed, and covered with prints, pictures, and some small tanned skins.

Dried grasses and flowers filled the vases on the mantle.

The floor was neatly carpeted with a striped rag carpet, and in the big open fireplace a wood fire roared.