She had been a slight, pliant sort of
creature, as ready with a strong yielding to fate and as
unbreakable as a willow. She had glimmering lengths of straight,
fair hair, which she wore softly looped round a long, lovely face.
She had blue eyes full of soft pleading, little slender, clinging
hands, and a wonderful grace of motion and attitude.
"Luella Miller used to sit in a way nobody else could if they sat
up and studied a week of Sundays," said Lydia Anderson, "and it was
a sight to see her walk. If one of them willows over there on the
edge of the brook could start up and get its roots free of the
ground, and move off, it would go just the way Luella Miller used
to. She had a green shot silk she used to wear, too, and a hat
with green ribbon streamers, and a lace veil blowing across her
face and out sideways, and a green ribbon flyin' from her waist.
That was what she came out bride in when she married Erastus
Miller. Her name before she was married was Hill. There was
always a sight of "l's" in her name, married or single. Erastus
Miller was good lookin', too, better lookin' than Luella.
Sometimes I used to think that Luella wa'n't so handsome after all.
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