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"Lady Eleanor is of middle height, and somewhat beyond the
_embonpoint_ as to plumpness; her face round and fair, with the glow
of luxuriant health. She has not fine features, but they are
agreeable; enthusiasm in her eye, hilarity and benevolence in her
smile. Exhaustless is her fund of historic and traditionary
knowledge, and of every thing passing in the present eventful period.
She expresses all she feels with an ingenuous ardour, at which, the
cold-spirited beings stare. I am informed that both these ladies
read and speak most of the modern languages. Of the Italian poets,
especially of Dante, they are warm admirers. Miss Ponsonby, somewhat
taller than her friend, is neither slender nor otherwise, but very
graceful. Easy, elegant, yet pensive, is her address and manner.

"Her voice, like lovers' watched, is kind and low."

A face rather long than round, a complexion clear but without bloom,
with a countenance which, from its soft melancholy, has a peculiar
interest. If her features are not beautiful, they are very sweet and
feminine. Though the pensive spirit within permits not her lovely
dimples to give mirth to her smile, they increase its sweetness, and,
consequently, her power of engaging the affections. We see, through
her veil of shading reserve, that all the talents and accomplishments
which enrich the mind of Lady Eleanor, exist, with equal powers, in
this her charming friend."

We commend these pen and ink portraits to the notice of our readers
without controversy; and the more especially, as they may gratify their
curiosity still more in this matter, by purchasing from our Publisher a
well-executed engraving representing, with all due fidelity, excellent
likenesses of the "Ladies of Llangollen;" each, as _Hamlet_ would say,
"in her habit as she lived."

Among the treasured relics which the cottage now contains, we were shewn
the veritable crutch-headed walking stick, on which Lady Eleanor used to
support her aged steps, when rambling through the village on errands of
mercy, or sauntering among the pleasure grounds of her mountain-home; and
we also saw and handled the broad-brimmed hat worn by Miss Ponsonby,
whose head we should judge to have been small and finely formed. O for
the genius of a Seward, to have written an ode to that venerable
head-dress! and in good truth, one might almost fancy we h