text:  She is described as "cypress-waisted rose-cheeked fragrant as amber and sweet as sugar a stealer of hearts who unites the magic of talismans with loveliness transcending that of the _peris!_ When she bent the soft arch of her eyebrows she pierced the heart through and through with the arrows of her eyelashes; and when she smiled the heart of the most rigid ascetic was intoxicated! She was gorgeously arrayed and covered all over with jewels--and the _tout-ensemble_ of her appearance was such as would have riveted the gaze of the inhabitants of the spheres--what then more can a mere mortal say?"[9] [9] The sober prose of the Parsees presents as usual an amusing contrast with the highflown rhapsodies of the Moslem; their remarks on the same lady are comprised in the pithy observation--"We should not have taken her for more than twenty-six years of age; but we are told she is near fifty