From that time she began to reckon only upon herself.

Unhappily there was a good deal of shallowness and lack of judgment in her attitude.

Destiny had kept her too long an old maid.

Now one idea after another fluttered through her ambitious and rather over-excited brain.

She cherished designs, she positively desired to rule the province, dreamed of becoming at once the centre of a circle, adopted political sympathies.