He then saw Ursula in the slight disarray naturally caused by the jolting of the vehicle; her cap was rumpled and half off; the hair, unbound, had fallen each side of her face, which glowed from the heat of the night; in this situation, dreadful for women to whom dress is a necessary auxiliary, youth and beauty triumphed.

The sleep of innocence is always lovely.

The half-opened lips showed the pretty teeth; the shawl, unfastened, gave to view, beneath the folds of her muslin gown and without offence to her modesty, the gracefulness of her figure.

The purity of the virgin spirit shone on the sleeping countenance all the more plainly because no other expression was there to interfere with it.

Old Minoret, who presently woke up, placed his child's head in the corner of the carriage that she might be more at ease; and she let him do it unconsciously, so deep was her sleep after the many wakeful nights she had spent in thinking of Savinien's trouble.
"Poor little girl!" said the doctor to his neighbour, "she sleeps like the child she is." "You must be proud of her," replied Savinien; "for she seems as good as she is beautiful." "Ah! she is the joy of the house.