He could not say positively wherein her beauty consisted, therefore he was always tempted to look at her in the hope of finding out.

There was nothing insistent and nothing obvious about it.

Some women, for instance, irritated your admiration by the capricious prettiness of one or two features, or fatigued it by the monotonous regularity of all.

The beauty of others was vulgarized by the flamboyance of some irrelevant detail, such as hair.

Lucia's hair was merely dark; and it made, as hair should make, the simplest adornment for her head, the most perfect setting for her face.