Being a woman of a high courage, she soon got over the first startling effect of what I had to communicate.

Her mind seemed to be far more perturbed about her daughter than about the heathen rogues and their conspiracy.
"You know how odd Rachel is, and how differently she behaves sometimes from other girls," my lady said to me.

"But I have never, in all my experience, seen her so strange and so reserved as she is now.

The loss of her jewel seems almost to have turned her brain.

Who would have thought that horrible Diamond could have laid such a hold on her in so short a time ?" It was certainly strange.