"What a woman! What a woman!"
"What sort of a woman is she?"
"Have you seen her?"
"No."
"Nor I."
"Nor I."
"They say she is very tall and very slender."
"They told me she was above the ordinary height."
"One thing is sure, she is a brunette, because Moser-Hartmann praises her black eyes and black eyebrows."
"All I can say is," replied Ulrik, "that in this letter from Venice, which place the marquise has recently left for France, as I am informed, she is poetically called the 'blonde star,' so I think she must be a blonde."