VICTOR HUGO.

All her face, all her person, breathed an ineffable love and

kindness. She had always been predestined to gentleness, but Faith,

Hope, and Charity, those three virtues that softly warm the soul,

had gradually elevated that gentleness to sanctity. Nature had only

made her a lamb, and religion had made her an angel.--_Les

Misérables._

She was the very embodiment of joy as she went to and fro in the

house; she brought with her a perpetual spring.--_Toilers of the

Sea_.

Her entire person was simplicity, ingenuousness, whiteness, candor,

and radiance, and it might have been said of her that she was

transparent. She produced a sensation of April and daybreak, and

she had dew in her eyes. She was the condensation of the light of

dawn in a woman's form.--_Les Misérables._

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