At the early age at which she married--a chit out of a boarding-school--she would have jumped overboard if her papa had ordered.

"And that is always the way with the Esmonds," she said.
The English Warringtons were not over-much flattered by the little American Princess's behaviour to them, and her manner of speaking about them.

Once a year a solemn letter used to be addressed to the Warrington family, and to her noble kinsmen the Hampshire Esmonds; but a Judge's lady with whom Madam Esmond had quarrelled returning to England out of Virginia chanced to meet Lady Warrington, who was in London with Sir Miles attending Parliament, and this person repeated some of the speeches which the Princess Pocahontas was in the habit of making regarding her own and her husband's English relatives, and my Lady Warrington, I suppose, carried the story to my Lady Castlewood; after which the letters from Virginia were not answered, to the surprise and wrath of Madam Esmond, who speedily left off writing also.
So this good woman fell out with her neighbours, with her relatives, and, as it must be owned, with her sons also.
A very early difference which occurred between the Queen and Crown Prince arose out of the dismissal of Mr.Dempster, the lad's tutor and the late Colonel's secretary.

In her father's life Madam Esmond bore him with difficulty, or it should be rather said Mr.Dempster could scarce put up with her.

She was jealous of books somehow, and thought your bookworms dangerous folks, insinuating bad principles.