And if high principles without asperity, female gentleness without weakness, a love of laughter without malice, and a true loving heart, can qualify a woman to be a parson's wife, then was Fanny Monsell qualified to fill that station.
In person she was somewhat larger than common.

Her face would have been beautiful but that her mouth was large.

Her hair, which was copious, was of a bright brown; her eyes also were brown, and, being so, were the distinctive feature of her face, for brown eyes are not common.

They were liquid, large, and full either of tenderness or of mirth.

Mark Robarts still had his accustomed luck, when such a girl as this was brought to Framley for his wooing.