Excerpt from The Fortunes of the Colville Family, or a Cloud With Its Silver Lining But if you want something pretty - nay, we may as well tell the whole truth, and say at once bewitching - to look at, cast your eyes (you won't be in a hurry to remove them again) upon the figure seated at mamma's right hand, and recognising her facsimile (with twenty summers taken off her age, and barely eighteen left), declare whether that is not nice, rather. The expression is not the same, we confess: more of the woman and less of the angel, you will say. We admit it; but then, how could that little rosebud of a mouth look any thing but petulant? Those violet eyes express - well, it's difficult to tell what they don't express that is good, and fresh, and piquant, and gay, and - must we add? A little bit coquettish also - why, the very dimple on her chin - such a well modelled chin - has something pert and saucy about it. There' you've seen enough of the little beauty: you'll be falling in love with her directly' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.