So that, year after year, when Captain Franks would ask Mrs.Mountain, in his pleasant way, whether she was going back with him that voyage?
she would decline, and say that she proposed to stay a year more.
And when suitors came to Madam Warrington, as come they would, she would receive their compliments and attentions kindly enough, and asked more than one of these lovers whether it was Mrs.Mountain he came after?
She would use her best offices with Mountain.

Fanny was the best creature, was of a good English family, and would make any gentleman happy.

Did the Squire declare it was to her and not her dependant that he paid his addresses; she would make him her gravest curtsey, say that she really had been utterly mistaken as to his views, and let him know that the daughter of the Marquis of Esmond lived for her people and her sons, and did not propose to change her condition.

Have we not read how Queen Elizabeth was a perfectly sensible woman of business, and was pleased to inspire not only terror and awe, but love in the bosoms of her subjects?
So the little Virginian princess had her favourites, and accepted their flatteries, and grew tired of them, and was cruel or kind to them as suited her wayward imperial humour.

There was no amount of compliment which she would not graciously receive and take as her due.