Palfrey, Miss Penelope

The pretty blue-eyed girl who is on the point of marrying Edward Freely when it is discovered that he is the disgraced David Faux. "Her yellowish flaxen hair did not curl naturally, I admit, but its bright, crisp ringlets were such smooth, perfect miniature tubes. . . . She wore them in a crop, for in those days . . . young ladies wore crops long after they were twenty, and Penelope was not yet nineteen. Like the waxen ideal, she had round blue eyes, and round nostrils in her little nose, and teeth such as the ideal would be seen to have if it ever showed them. Altogether she was a small round thing, as neat as a pink and white double daisy, and as guileless.

<em>Brother Jacob</em>

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