Certainly, there was no physical defect. By its perfect shape, its vigour, and its natural dexterityin the use of all its untriedlimbs, the infant was worthy to have been brought forth in Eden; worthy to have been left there, to be the playthingof the angels after theworld's first parents were driven out. The child had a native grace which does not invariably coexistwith faultless beauty; its attire, however simple, always impressed the beholder as if it were the very garbthat precisely became it best. But little Pearl was not cladin rusticweeds. Her mother, with a morbidpurpose that may be better understood hereafter, had bought the richest tissues that could be procured, and allowed her imaginative facultyits full play in the arrangement and decorationof the dresses which the child wore, before the public eye. So magnificentwas the small figure, when thus arrayed, and such was the splendourof Pearl's own proper beauty, shining through the gorgeous robes which might have extinguisheda paler loveliness, that there was an absolute circle of radiancearound her, on the darksome cottage floor. And yet a russetgown, torn and soiled with the child's rude play, made a picture of her just as perfect. Pearl's aspect was imbuedwith a spell of infinite variety; in this one child there were many children, comprehending the full scopebetween the wild-flower prettiness of a peasant-baby, and the pomp, in little, of an infant princess. Throughout all, however, there was a trait of passion, a certain depth of hue, which she never lost; and if, in any of her changes, she had grown fainter or paler, she would have ceased to be herself- it would have been no longer Pearl!
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