The book The Household of Bouverie Or the Elixir of Gold was written by author Catherine Ann Ware Warfield Here you can read free online of The Household of Bouverie Or the Elixir of Gold book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Household of Bouverie Or the Elixir of Gold a good or bad book?
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He exacted refinement in every woman, before he could acknowledge beauty. In Mrs. Quintilian he found both, or rather admitted both, per- haps for the sake of the indispensable quality he made his " sine qua non. " Yet, perhaps, I do her injustice hi denying her either attribute even by insinuation so, to the analysis! Her figure not above the middle height, yet justly and nobly proportioned, with +hat mixture of strength and slenderness that imparts such grace and vitality to movement, was ter...minated by fine extremities. The face, oval in form, and regular in outline, was of a clear, healthful pallor, seldom relieved by color at the time of which I write, whatever its early tints might have been. The skin was smooth and finely grained with a slight marble-like gleam across the nose and temples. The mouth, too large perhaps, yet expressive of sweetness as well as melancholy power when in repose, was sus- ceptible of a fine smile, revealing sound but not remarkable teeth, and the lips possessed the peculiarity of varying in tint according to the character of the excitement that ruled the spirit within.
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