She had never been able to recall anything approaching to tenderness in his former treatment of herself.

There had remained only a general impression of roughness and loudness; and now he scarcely ever noticed her, but to make her the object of a coarse joke.
Her disappointment in her mother was greater: _there_ she had hoped much, and found almost nothing.

Every flattering scheme of being of consequence to her soon fell to the ground.

Mrs.Price was not unkind; but, instead of gaining on her affection and confidence, and becoming more and more dear, her daughter never met with greater kindness from her than on the first day of her arrival.

The instinct of nature was soon satisfied, and Mrs.Price's attachment had no other source.