This want had in some respects made her childish; for it hindered her from expressing herself in firm tones, and caused her to blush and hesitate when she spoke.

But in some respects it had the opposite effect, and made her older than her age, for she was thoughtful, silent, and patient of endurance.
Latterly, since this dreary famine-time had come upon them, an intimacy had sprung up between Clara and the Castle Richmond girls, and in a measure, too, between Clara and Herbert Fitzgerald.

Lady Desmond had seen this with great pleasure.

Though she had objected to Owen Fitzgerald for her daughter, she had no objection to the Fitzgerald name.

Herbert was his father's only son, and heir to the finest property in the county--at any rate, to the property which at present was the best circumstanced.