Paul she eyed rather wistfully.

On the whole, she scorned the male sex.

But here was a new specimen, quick, light, graceful, who could be gentle and who could be sad, and who was clever, and who knew a lot, and who had a death in the family.

The boy's poor morsel of learning exalted him almost sky-high in her esteem.
Yet she tried hard to scorn him, because he would not see in her the princess but only the swine-girl.

And he scarcely observed her.
Then he was so ill, and she felt he would be weak.