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Rh whose small size was rendered more remarkable by the peculiar-shaped boot. A crimson scarf, flung over one shoulder, adroitly hid the defect in her figure; and round her throat was a neckcloth edged with point lace, and fastened with a crimson riband. She was delicately fair, with an aquiline nose, and a mouth the size of which was forgotten in its white teeth and pleasant smile. She wore a peruke of very fair golden hair; and herein was shown the lurking spirit of female vanity: her own tresses had been very beautiful; in some whim she had had them shaven off, but the colour of the peruke had been most assiduously assorted to them. Her eyes, large, blue, bright, and restless, were her most remarkable feature, perhaps from their constant employ; they seemed perpetually on the watch, and she also had a custom of fixing them with singular intentness on the person to whom she spoke. It was said this habit had somewhat startled the Bishop of Amiens, whom she selected for her confessor; instead of the downcast eyes to which he had been accustomed, the royal penitent, who then knelt at his feet, fixed her clear piercing orbs full on his face, till the good lather was all but stared out of countenance. She was small and slight; and the impression she gave, as she lounged on her two