She promises to be a most attractive, not to say beautiful, girl.

I have seen that for years; and if her face is not her fortune, her face and her brains together will be, if I observe and contrive aright.

That she should be, every inch of her, an accomplished and refined woman, was indispensable for the fulfilment of her destiny, and for moving onwards and upwards with us; and she'll do it, you will see.

I'd half starve myself rather than take her away from that school now.' They looked round the school they were in.

To Cornelius it was natural and familiar enough, but to Joshua, with his limited human sympathies, who had just dropped in from a superior sort of place, the sight jarred unpleasantly, as being that of something he had left behind.