Do I make myself understood ?" "Yes, I think I understand your distinction; but I am not quite sure if it applies.

To most things that affect the spirits she is not more sensitive than other girls, perhaps less so; but she is certainly very impressionable in some things." "In what ?" "She is more moved than any one I ever knew by objects in external nature, rural scenery, rural sounds, by music, by the books that she reads,--even books that are not works of imagination.

Perhaps in all this she takes after her poor father, but in a more marked degree,--at least, I observe it more in her; for he was very silent and reserved.
And perhaps also her peculiarities have been fostered by the seclusion in which she has been brought up.

It was with a view to make her a little more like girls of her own age that our friend, Mrs.Poyntz, induced me to come here.

Lilian was reconciled to this change; but she shrank from the thoughts of London, which I should have preferred.