Her complexion, was dark but clear, and her eyebrows high and
well-arched. Her mouth was drawn in, raised slightly on one side,--a
conformation more particularly apparent when engaged in scolding the
maids, or in other similar but indispensable occupations.
Her gait was firm, and her person upright. Her age--ungallant historians
we must be--was verging closely upon sixty; yet her hair, turned crisp
and full behind her head-dress, showed slight symptoms of the chill
which hoar and frosty age, sooner or later, never fails to impart.
Elizabeth Tempest was young, but of a staid and temperate aspect, almost
approaching to that of melancholic. Her complexion, pale and sallow; her
eye full, dark, and commanding, though occasionally more languor was on
it than eyes of that colour are wont to express. She wore a long jacket
of russet colour, and a crimson boddice. Her hair, turned back from her
brow, hung in dark heavy ringlets below the neck, which, though not of
alabaster, was exquisitely modelled. In person she was tall and
well-shapen, and her whole manner displayed a mind of no ordinary
proportions. She was well-skilled in household duties, her mother having
an especial desire that her daughter should be as notable and thrifty as
herself in domestic arrangements.
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