imagine to yourself a don quixote of eighteen ; a don quixote without her corselet , without her coat of mail , without her cuisses ; a don quixote clothed in a wooden doublet , the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure ; face long and brown ; high cheek bones , a sign of sagacity ; the maxillary muscles enormously developed , an infallible sign by which a gascon may always be detected , even without her cap -- and our young woman wore a cap set off with a sort of feather ; the eye open and intelligent ; the nose hooked , but finely chiseled .