Pearl, the Child of the Angels

By its perfect shape, its vigour and its natural dexterity in the use of all its untried limbs, the infant was worthy to have been brought forth. The child had a native grace which does not invariably coexist with faultless beauty. In this one child, there were many children comprehending the full scope between the wild flower prettiness of a peasant baby and the pomp in little of an infant princess. Hester could only account for the child's character, and even then, most vaguely and imperfectly, by recalling what she herself had been during that momentous period.