Henry James said of Eliot: ÷“She is magnificently ugly.-deliciously hideous.in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which,in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind,so that you end as I ended,in falling in love with her."❖ Henry James said of Eliot： ❖ “She is magnificently ugly-deliciously hideous.in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end as I ended, in falling in love with her