text:  Though not a heroine of so lofty a stamp as Chariclea in whom the spirit of her royal birth is all along apparent she is endowed with a mingled gentleness and firmness which is strongly contrasted with the weakness and pusillanimity of her lover:--her uncomplaining tenderness when she finds Clitophon at Ephesus (as she imagines) the husband of another and the calm dignity with which she vindicates herself from the injurious aspersions of Thersander are represented with great truth and feeling and attach a degree of interest to her which the other personages of the narrative are very far from inspiring