Though naturally extremely handsome, his features at this moment were so distorted by passion that they looked almost hideous.

In person he was slight and finely-formed; and the richness of his attire proclaimed him of rank.
The lady who, unperceived, had witnessed his violent emotion was remarkably beautiful.

Her figure was superb; and she had the whitest neck and arms imaginable, and the smallest and most delicately-formed hands.

Her features derived something of haughtiness from a slightly aquiline nose and a short curled upper lip.

Her eyes were magnificent--large, dark, and almost Oriental in shape and splendour.
Jetty brows, and thick, lustrous, raven hair, completed the catalogue of her charms.