Instead of honouring us and giving us the preference, she patronises the young folks, and every maiden of sixteen can turn up her nose at us venerable matrons.

Besides my natural disqualifications, the sharp air and the violent storms to which I had been subjected had disfigured my face very much.

They had affected me more than the burning heat of the East.

I was very brown, my lips were cracked, and my nose, alas, even began to rebel against its ugly colour.

It seemed anxious to possess a new, dazzling white, tender skin, and was casting off the old one in little bits.
The only circumstance which reinstated me in the good opinion of the young girls was, that having brushed my hair unusually far out of my face, a white space became visible.