Excerpt from Monte-Cristo's Daughter: Sequel to Alexander Dumas' Great Novel, the "Count of Monte-Cristo, " and Conclusion of "Edmond Dantes"

Zuleika was fifteen years -of age, but looked much Older, having the early maturity of the Greeks, whose ardent blood, on her dead mother's side, ¿owed in her youthful veins. She had attained her full height, and was tall and well-developed. She strongly resem bled her mother, possessing brilliant beauty of the dreamy, 'voluptuous oriental type. Her hair was abundant and black as night. She had dark, ¿ashing eyes, pearly teeth, full ruby lips and feet and hands that were of fairylike diminutiveness, as well as mira cles of grace and dainty Shapeliness. In temperament she was more like Haydee than the Count, though she possessed her father's quick decis1on and firmness, with the addition of much of his enthusiasm.

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