The second was a Parisienne, externally refined--at heart, corrupt--without a creed, without a principle, without an affection: having penetrated the outward crust of decorum in this character, you found a slough beneath.

She had a wonderful passion for presents; and, in this point, the third teacher--a person otherwise characterless and insignificant--closely resembled her.

This last-named had also one other distinctive property--that of avarice.

In her reigned the love of money for its own sake.

The sight of a piece of gold would bring into her eyes a green glisten, singular to witness.