Lastly, with head up and eyes also wide, like those of a stag which sees some new thing, there came a young woman, whose presence was such as had never yet been seen in the hotel at Ellisville.

Tall as the older lady by her side, erect, supple, noble, evidently startled but not afraid, there was that about this girl which was new to Ellisville, which caused the eye of every man to fall upon her and the head of every woman to go up a degree the higher in scorn and disapprobation.

This was a being of another world.
There was some visitation here.

Mortal woman, woman of the Plains, never yet grew like this.

Nor had gowns like these--soft, clinging, defining, draping--ever occurred in history.