He wants neither a singing animal, nor a drawing animal, nor a dancing animal: he wants a talking animal.
But to talk they are never taught; all they know of conversation is slander, and that "comes by nature." But Constance _did_ talk _beautifully_; not like a pedant, or a blue, or a Frenchwoman.

A child would have been as much charmed with her as a scholar; but _both_ would have been charmed.

Her father's eloquence had descended to her; but in him eloquence commanded, in her it won.

There was another trait she possessed in common with her father: Vernon (as most disappointed men are wont) had done the world injustice by his accusations.

It was not his poverty and his distresses alone which had induced his party to look coolly on his declining day.