Of the two, Emmeline, the younger, was the more like her; but no one who was a judge of outline could imagine that Emmeline, at her mother's age, would ever have her mother's beauty.
Nevertheless, they were fine, handsome girls, more popular in the neighbourhood than any of their neighbours, well educated, sensible, feminine, and useful; fitted to be the wives of good men.
And what shall I say of Miss Letty?
She was ten years older than her brother, and as strong as a horse.

She was great at walking, and recommended that exercise strongly to all young ladies as an antidote to every ill, from love to chilblains.

She was short and dapper in person; not ugly, excepting that her nose was long, and had a little bump or excrescence at the end of it.

She always wore a bonnet, even at meal times; and was supposed by those who were not intimately acquainted with the mysteries of her toilet, to sleep in it; often, indeed, she did sleep in it, and gave unmusical evidence of her doing so.

She was not illnatured; but so strongly prejudiced on many points as to be equally disagreeable as though she were so.