veiled

A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in the window, rose as we entered.

Franz did not doubt that these plans were the same concerning which the count had dropped a few words in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and while the count was speaking the young man watched him closely, hoping to read something of his purpose in his face, but his countenance was inscrutable especially when, as in the present case, it was veiled in a sphinx-like smile.

It was the portrait of a young woman of five or six-and-twenty, with a dark complexion, and light and lustrous eyes, veiled beneath long lashes.

“Come,” he said, “it is only a veiled lady, some foreign princess, perhaps the mother of Cavalcanti.