"They were fair-haired girls, very like each other.... They were something below the usual height, being slight and slender in all their proportions.... The two girls were very fair, so that the soft tint of colour which relieved the whiteness of their complexion was rather acknowledged than distinctly seen.... Their eyes were brightly blue; but Bell's were long, and soft, and tender, often hardly daring to raise themselves to your face; while those of Lily wore rounder, but brighter, and seldom kept by any want of courage from fixing themselves where they pleased.... There was about them a dignity of de devoid of all stiffness or pride, and a maidenly modesty which gave itself no airs" - The Small House at Allington