Her hair is black; dressed, in these later days (as it was dressed years since to please her father), in broad ripples drawn back from the forehead, and gathered into a simple knot behind (like the hair of the Venus de Medicis), so as to show the neck beneath.

Her complexion is pale: except in moments of violent agitation there is no color to be seen in her face.

Her eyes are of so dark a blue that they are generally mistaken for black.

Her eyebrows are well enough in form, but they are too dark and too strongly marked.

Her nose just inclines toward the aquiline bend, and is considered a little too large by persons difficult to please in the matter of noses.