Her throat, of a pure white, was charming in tone against the blue,--the right color for a fair skin.

A long blue sash with floating ends defined a slender waist which seemed flexible,--a most seductive charm in women.

She wore a rice-straw bonnet, modestly trimmed with ribbons like those of the gown, the strings of which were tied under her chin, setting off the whiteness of the straw and doing no despite to that of her beautiful complexion.
Ursula dressed her own hair naturally (a la Berthe, as it was then called) in heavy braids of fine, fair hair, laid flat on either side of the head, each little strand reflecting the light as she walked.
Her gray eyes, soft and proud at the same time, were in harmony with a finely modeled brow.

A rosy tinge, suffusing her cheeks like a cloud, brightened a face which was regular without being insipid; for nature had given her, by some rare privilege, extreme purity of form combined with strength of countenance.

The nobility of her life was manifest in the general expression of her person, which might have served as a model for a type of trustfulness, or of modesty.