A snood or fillet of blue ribbon confined her luxuriant hair.

In form she was rather above the usual height of women, and slender as became her age; though with a perceptible tendency towards greater fullness with increasing years.
There is rather curiously a great resemblance between this miniature, and a picture I have in my possession of the first wife of a celebrated New England poet.

He himself being named for one of the Judges who sat in the Special Court appointed for the trial of the alleged witches, it would be curious if the beautiful and angelic wife of his youth were allied by blood to one of those who had the misfortune to come under the ban of witchcraft.
Being both beautiful and an heiress, Dulcibel naturally attracted the attention of her near neighbor in the village, Jethro Sands.

Jethro was quite a handsome young man after a certain style, though, as his life proved, narrow minded, vindictive and avaricious.

Still he had a high reputation as a young man with the elders of the village; for he had early seen how advantageous it was to have a good standing in the church, and was very orthodox in his faith, and very regular in his attendance at all the church services.