Her form was exquisitely symmetrical, ..The brilliancy of her eyes, the superb arch of her eyebrows, her well-formed aquiline nose, her teeth as white as pearl, and the profusion of her sable tresses, which, arranged in its own little spiral of twisted curls, fell down upon as much of a lovely neck and bosom as a simarre of the richest Persian silk-all these constituted a combination of loveliness which yielded not to the most beautiful maidens who surrounded her.

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