Her black eyes looked resolute, almost fierce, above her straight, well-formed nose.

Yet evidently circumstance clave fast to her.

She had never risen above it, and was now plainly subjected to it.
About thirty yards from her, on the farther side of the main street, and just opposite the mouth of the lane, a child, apparently about six, but in reality about eight, was down on his knees raking with both hands in the grey dirt of the kennel.

At the woman's cry he lifted his head, ceased his search, raised himself, but without getting up, and looked at her.

They were notable eyes out of which he looked--of such a deep blue were they, and having such long lashes; but more notable far from their expression, the nature of which, although a certain witchery of confidence was at once discoverable, was not to be determined without the help of the whole face, whose diffused meaning seemed in them to deepen almost to speech.