Excerpt from Paul's Sister, Vol. 1 of 3 You will soon tire of that, ' she returned, smiling, nevertheless, herself, both because the words were sweet. And because she knew they were true. She was Of a wonderful fair ness, the face a perfect oval, the eyes a deep grey, not often seen with such colouring as hers, the hair brown. She was tall, and moved with extraordinary grace; it was no wonder if her husband found nothing in all the court so beautiful to look at. Just now, as her eyes, swept with long lashes, rested upon a small figure standing on a pedestal near, a far-away look stole into them, and they became inexpressibly soft and lovely, but the next moment the dissatisfied look touched them again. 'paul, ' she said anxiously, 'tell me really, do you not care for these things?' 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.