text: " "It afforded therefore some mortification to this astutious princess --this daughter of Herodias with more than all her mother's cunning and cruelty in her soul --to perceive that the Spanish warriors who on that occasion beheld for the first time the assembled nobility of Brabant and Namur were more struck by the Teutonic charms of these fair-haired daughters of the north (so antipodal to all we are accustomed to see in our sunburned provinces ) than by the mannered graces of her pleasure-worn Parisian belles