Blushing deeply, she advanced towards him, and greeted him with all the warmth of her affectionate nature.

She had quite recovered her good looks, and Leonard could not but admit that, had he seen her before his heart was plighted to another, it must have been given to her.

Comparisons are ungracious, and tastes differ more perhaps as to beauty than on any other point; but if Amabel and the piper's daughter had been placed together, it would not have been difficult to determine to which of the two the palm of superior loveliness should be assigned.
There was a witchery in the magnificent black eyes of the latter--in her exquisitely-formed mouth and pearly teeth--in her clear nut-brown complexion--in her dusky and luxuriant tresses, and in her light elastic figure, with which more perfect but less piquant charms could not compete.

Such seemed to be the opinion of Doctor Hodges, for as he gazed at her with unaffected admiration, he exclaimed, as if to himself-- "I'faith, if I had to choose between the two, I know which it would be." This exclamation somewhat disconcerted the parties to whom it referred, and the doctor did not relieve their embarrassment by adding, "Well, I perceive I am in the way.

You must have much to say to each other that can in nowise interest me.