"the contact of
her presence, if you lived with her, was irresistible; the attraction of her
person, joining with the charm of her conversation, and the character that
attended all she said or did, was something bewitching. It was a pleasure
merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many
strings, she could pass from one language to another; so that there were few of
the barbarian nations that she answered by an interpreter; to most of
them".
