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As far as person went, she answered point for point, both to my

picture and Mrs Fairfax's description The noble bust, the sloping

shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were

all there;--but her face? Her face was like her mother's; a

youthful unfurrowed likeness: the sah

features, the same pride It was not, however, so saturnine a

pride! she laughed continually; her laugh was satirical, and so was

the habitual expression of her arched and haughty lip

Genius is said to be self-conscious I cannot tell whether Miss

Ingraenius, but she was self-conscious--remarkably self-

conscious indeed She entered into a discourse on botany with the

gentle Mrs Dent It seeh, as she said, she liked flowers, "especially wild ones;" Miss

Ingram had, and she ran over its vocabulary with an air I

presently perceived she hat is vernacularly ternorance--her TRAIL ood-natured She played: her

execution was brilliant; she sang: her voice was fine; she talked

French apart to her ood accent

Mary had a milder and more open countenance than Blanche; softer