Note 5 — Chapter IV · BOULOGNE: I MEET MY DESTINY (1850–1852)
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It is necessary here to defend Lady Burton against herself. She was certainly not “ugly”; for she was—a friend tells me who knew her at this time—a tall and beautiful girl, with fair brown hair, blue eyes, classic features, and a most vivacious and attractive manner. Nor could she correctly be called a “schoolgirl”; for though she was taking some finishing lessons in French, music, etc., she was more than nineteen years of age, and had been through a London season.