Charley also was peculiarly well suited to give her 'ample verge and room enough' to show off all her perfections.
Her most peculiar merit consisted, perhaps, in her power of stopping herself suddenly, while going on at the rate of a hunt one way, and without any pause or apparent difficulty going just as fast the other way.

This was done by a jerk which must, one would be inclined to think, have dislocated all her bones and entirely upset her internal arrangements.

But no; it was done without injury, or any disagreeable result either to her brain or elsewhere.

We all know how a steamer is manoeuvred when she has to change her course, how we stop her and ease her and back her; but Miss Golightly stopped and eased and backed all at once, and that without collision with any other craft.

It was truly very wonderful, and Katie ought to have looked at her.
Katie soon found occasion to cast off her fear that her evening's happiness would be destroyed by a dearth of partners.