Georgiana Ford would have had little claim among the fair saints to be accepted by them as one of their order.

Her reputation for coldness was derived from the fact of her having stood a siege from Captain Gambier.
But she loved a creature of earth too well to put up a hand for saintly honours.

The passion of her life centred in devotion to her half-brother.

Those who had studied her said, perhaps with a touch of malignity, that her religious instinct had its source in a desire to gain some place of intercession for him.

Merthyr had leaned upon it too often to doubt the strength of it, whatever its purity might be.