A TURKISH BEAUTY.
Mvs General Lew Wallace has been per mitted to see the greatest beauty of Princ Feramorz’s harem in Turkey. Two wonderfully black eunuchs met the visitor at'the iron gate of a beautiful garden, and conducted her to a large room rather barren of furniture but hung with fine Eastern draperies. Here she found the Prince’s latest acquisition whom she thus describes in the Independent : “Among the billowy cushions and vaporous veilings rose the young face. Oh; ’what a revelation of beauty! uplifted in a questioning way, to see what manner of women these are who come from the ends of the earth with unveiled faces, and go about the world alone and have to think for themselves—poor things ! The expression was that of a lovelychild awaking from summer slumbers in the happiest humour, and ready for play. A sensitive, exquisite face, fair as the first woman' while the angel was nnfallen. A perfect oval, the lips a scarlet thread, and oh ! those wonderful Asiatic eyes ! lusirons, Cqahblack, long, rather than round, beaming 'binder joined eyebrows”.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 974, 20 December 1882, Page 3
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178A TURKISH BEAUTY. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 974, 20 December 1882, Page 3
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