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have, when young, a little bloom on their 

 cheeks, but in general a sallow or Moorish 

 cast of face meets the eye ; occasionally you 

 do meet a young lady whose pretensions to 

 beauty would be allowed even in Europe. 

 The one most generally admired is named 

 Bernadina, and is a daughter of a good family. 

 She was about seventeen years of age when 

 I saw her, lively and agreeable, her figure 

 good, and rather above the middle height ; 

 amazingly fine eyes, with whose influence 

 she was perfectly well acquainted ; jet black 

 hair of luxuriant growth, which she kept 

 always neatly and elegantly dressed ; fine 

 regular features, with a charming mixture of 

 red and white, bordering on the most in- 

 teresting species of brunette ; and pearly 

 teeth that shone between her vermilion lips. 

 The women envied her, and the men did 

 right in admiring her, as the fairest speci- 

 men of Nature's work they had ever seen. 



