Her features, the cut of her lips, her full chin could have stood as a model beside any antique statue.

And then those sparkling eyes, that vividly red complexion, those coal-black eyebrows--they made an ideal beauty of her.

And the picturesque Roumanian costume enhanced her charms.

Her black hair, twisted into a double plait, was bound round with a flaming-red scarf, and on her head she wore a round hat, trimmed with pearls and garnished in front with a row of gold pieces which reached down to her marble-white forehead.
Moreover, her fine cambric shirt embellished with bright flowers and gold ornaments fitted so closely as to betray the outlines of her harmonious figure.

Wound ten times round her neck she wore a necklace of gold coins extending down to her bosom.