I looked up, and saw in the open sash a face the
like of which I have never seen, even in a picture."
"Ah!" ejaculated the baroness. "Tell us what is she like. Come nearer to
me."
The clerk, however, was too bashful to leave his place, whereupon the
baroness rose and took a seat by his side.
"She has long, curling black hair," he went on. "Her face is fair as a
lily and red as a rose, her brow pure and high, with no sign of the
branding-iron. Her mouth is small and delicate. Indeed, her entire
appearance that day was like that of an angel looking down from heaven."
"Is she a maid or a married woman?" inquired one of the company.
A maid, in those days, was very easily distinguished from her married
sister. The latter was never seen without a cap.
"A young girl not more than fifteen, I should say," was the reply. "A
cap would not suit her face."
"Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Bernat bacsi. "And this enchanting fairy opened
the window to show her lovely face to Audiat!"
"No; she did not open the window on my account," retorted the young man,
"but for the beasts that were luckier than I--for four cats that were
playing in the gutter of the roof; a white one, a black one, a yellow
one, and a gray one; and all of them scampered toward her when they
heard her call.
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