Sentence:  The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been <WSD>handsome</WSD>, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Striking, impressive and elegantly proportioned, though not typically beautiful.