"And
the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure, similar
in every detail to the earthly women of my past life. She did not see me
at first, but just as she was disappearing through the portal of the building
which was to be her prison she turned, and her eyes met mine. Her face
was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled
and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a
mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming
coiffure. Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the
crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips
shone with a strangely enhancing effect.
She was as destitute
of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for
her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel
have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure.
As her gaze rested
on me her eyes opened wide in astonishment, and she made a little sign
with her free hand; a sign which I did not, of course, understand."
A
Princess of Mars: Pages 80-81
