“Celina’s height scarce reaches to Guerrabella’s shoulder; her figure is fragile and dainty; and though her cheek lacks bloom, the lines are soft and graceful, and the face pensive and poetic.  The mouth is small and well curved, and the air of repose that rests upon the imaginative brow resembles the Muse of Meditation.  The serenity that is uniformly spread over her unique countenance is in strong contrast to the animated, vivacious features of her cousin.  Celina’s head is fashioned after a classic model, and the mass of amber-hued hair which crowns it might be taken for an aureola.  Her pansy-like eyes are full of sweet, poetic vision.  The brow is marked by delicately defined eyebrows, and the eyelashes are long and silken.  ’Tis a melodic countenance, foreshadowing that dream-world from which our young heroine has never for a moment awakened.  Too petite, some might deem her, for womanly perfection; but physical symmetry, ease, and a dignified bearing elevate the fairy figure to the true standard.  She moves about with an airy grace, and nothing earthly is lighter than her footfall.  Her small, delicate hands grace the keyboard, and music in her has an enchanting interpreter.

“Guerrabella participates in the family passion for literature.  She possesses great intellectual independence, and her preferences are decided, usually inclining to the bold and strong.  She is fond of Macaulay’s ‘Heroic Lays of Many Lands;’ she rejoices in Becky Sharp; and there is a tradition that she learned to read in the works of Thackeray, spelling out the words of that magnificent novel, Henry Esmond.

“Celina has explored the treasures of classic lore in music and literature.  Homer, Herodotus, Plato, she has read, with Tasso and his chivalrous lays, and Spenser and his stately verse.  In music, Glueck and Gretry, Beethoven and Boieldieu’s dulcet tones have helped to fashion her musical mind.

“But we must not dismiss our heroines without indicating the toilettes that most become them.  Velvets and rich brocade befit the Lady Lela’s superb figure.  Scarlet is her color, and diamonds her essential ornament.  The moss-rose should be her favorite flower.

“Soft gray or pale azure of light fabrics do best agree with Majoli’s sylph-like form.  Pearls and feathers are consonant to her artistic taste.  Her emblematic flower is the lily, of sacred and legendary lore.

“All shades and fabrics of whatever texture harmonize with Guerrabella’s style.  Ample should be the folds that habit her majestic figure, and brilliant the gems that are to rival her flashing, sparkling eyes:  yet we might indicate couleur de rose as best blending with her own exquisite tints, and the opal with its mysterious light as in some way prefiguring her genius and high destiny.

“And how shall we vest our mignonne—­Celina?  Gossamer tissues, fabrics of airy texture—­a magic web for the daintiest Lady in our Land.  No color of human invention; their dyes would oppress her. White with a gleam of moonlight upon it; a reflection of the aura of her hair, or the first pale beams of the morning.  Other gems would I not but those wondrous starlike eyes, to light up a face radiant with thought and sensibility.”