Then, it must not be supposed her intelligence was childish; she was as intelligent as she was fair, and she was fairer than all the world; and is so still, unless the envious fates and hard-hearted sisters three have cut for her the thread of life.
¡Pues digamos agora que la discreción era mocosa! Así era discreta como bella, y era la más bella del mundo, y lo es, si ya los hados invidiosos y las parcas endurecidas no la han cortado la estambre de la vida.