The faults, themselves, of her character, elevated that ideal of love which she had formed.

She required some being round whom all her vainer qualities could rally; she felt that where she loved she must adore; she demanded no common idol before which to humble so strong and imperious a mind.

Unlike women of a gentler mould, who desire, for a short period, to exercise the caprices of sweet empire,--when she loved she must cease to command; and pride, at once, be humbled to devotion.
So rare were the qualities that could attract her; so imperiously did her haughtiness require that those qualities should be above her own, yet of the same order; that her love elevated its object like a god.
Accustomed to despise, she felt all the luxury it is to venerate! And if it were her lot to be united with one thus loved, her nature was that which might become elevated by the nature that it gazed on.

For her beauty--Reader, shouldst thou ever go to Rome, thou wilt see in the Capitol the picture of the Cumaean Sibyl, which, often copied, no copy can even faintly represent.

I beseech thee, mistake not this sibyl for another, for the Roman galleries abound in sibyls.