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But her forehead was contracted from time to time, as if by some

painful emotion; now, her large black eye was fixed steadfastly

on your face with an expression of haughty curiosity, then

hastily bent down as if to discover some hidden thought; in

certain moments an attentive observer would have deemed that they

solicited affection, sympathy, and pity; at others, he would have

received a transient revelation of hatred, matured by a cruel

disposition; when motionless and inattentive, some would have

imagined them to express haughty aversion, others would have

suspected the labouring of concealed thought, the effort to

overcome some secret feeling of her soul, which had more power

over it than all surrounding objects. Her cheeks were delicately

formed, but extremely pale and thin; her lips, hardly suffused

with a feeble tinge of the rose, seemed to soften into the pallid

hue of the cheeks; their movements, like those of her eyes, were

sudden, animated, and full of expression and mystery.