But there was within her--as her long, square chin, her short nose and the strength of her brow revealed--the force of inflexibility--which is met with in characters of an absolute uprightness.

Love, with her, could be stifled by disgust, or, rather, she considered it degrading to continue to love one whom she scorned, and, at that moment, it was supreme scorn which reigned in her heart.

She had, in the highest degree, the great virtue which is found wherever there is nobility, and of which the English have made the basis of their moral education--the religion, the fanaticism of loyalty.

She had always grieved on discovering the wavering nature of Boleslas.

But if she had observed in him, with sorrow, any exaggerations of language, any artificial sentiment, a dangerous suppleness of mind, she had pardoned him those defects with the magnanimity of love, attributing them to a defective training.