Only "Isabel Miller!" Had she any pretensions to distinction in virtue of her personal appearance?
It is not easy to answer the question.

The women (let us put the worst judges first) had long since discovered that she wanted that indispensable elegance of figure which is derived from slimness of waist and length of limb.

The men (who were better acquainted with the subject) looked at her figure from their point of view; and, finding it essentially embraceable, asked for nothing more.

It might have been her bright complexion or it might have been the bold luster of her eyes (as the women considered it), that dazzled the lords of creation generally, and made them all alike incompetent to discover her faults.

Still, she had compensating attractions which no severity of criticism could dispute.