She also was very lovely, being like her brother; but somewhat less dark and with features less absolutely regular.

But she had in her countenance a full measure of that sweetness of expression which seems to imply that consideration of self is subordinated to consideration for others.
This sweetness was altogether lacking to her brother.

And her face was a true index of her character.

Again, who shall say why the brother and sister had become so opposite to each other; whether they would have been thus different had both been taken away as infants from their father's and mother's training, or whether the girl's virtues were owing altogether to the lower place which she had held in her parent's heart?
She, at any rate, had not been spoilt by a title, by the command of money, and by the temptations of too early acquaintance with the world.

At the present time she was barely twenty-one years old, and had not seen much of London society.