Her politic, wary, and wordly father felt for her an affection the strength of which sometimes surprised him into an unusual emotion.
Her elder brother, who trode the path of ambition with a haughtier step than his father, had also more of human affection.

A soldier, and in a dissolute age, he preferred his sister Lucy even to pleasure and to military preferment and distinction.

Her younger brother, at an age when trifles chiefly occupied his mind, made her the confidante of all his pleasures and anxieties, his success in field-sports, and his quarrels with his tutor and instructors.

To these details, however trivial, Lucy lent patient and not indifferent attention.

They moved and interested Henry, and that was enough to secure her ear.
Her mother alone did not feel that distinguished and predominating affection with which the rest of the family cherished Lucy.