A short oaken staff, hooked under the hand, completed the description of her costume.

Even on a first glance there appeared to be something repulsive in her features, which had evidently been much exposed to sun and storm.

By a closer inspection one might detect upon their hard angular outline, a character of cruelty and intrepidity.

Though her large cheek-bones stood widely asunder, yet her gray piercing eyes were very near each other; her nose was short and sadly disfigured by a scar that ran tranversely across it, and her chin, though pointed, was also deficient in length.

Altogether, her whole person had something peculiar and marked about it--so much so, indeed, that it was impossible to meet her without feeling she was a female of no ordinary character and habits.
Lamh Laudher had been, as we have said, advancing slowly along the craggy road which led towards the town, when she issued from an adjoining cabin and approached him.