But, the Colonel gone, there was nobody else whom she was disposed to obey,--and so I am rather glad for my part that I did not live a hundred years ago at Castlewood in Westmorland County in Virginia.

I fancy, one would not have been too happy there.

Happy, who is happy?
Was not there a serpent in Paradise itself?
and if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to him?
The management of the house of Castlewood had been in the hands of the active little lady long before the Colonel slept the sleep of the just.
She now exercised a rigid supervision over the estate; dismissed Colonel Esmond's English factor and employed a new one; built, improved, planted, grew tobacco, appointed a new overseer, and imported a new tutor.

Much as she loved her father, there were some of his maxims by which she was not inclined to abide.

Had she not obeyed her papa and mamma during all their lives, as a dutiful daughter should?
So ought all children to obey their parents, that their days might be long in the land.