She constantly evinced these nice perceptions and delicate instincts.
The league of acquaintanceship thus struck up was not hastily dissolved; on the contrary, it appeared that time and circumstances served rather to cement than loosen it.

Ill-assimilated as the two were in age, sex, pursuits, &c., they somehow found a great deal to say to each other.

As to Paulina, I observed that her little character never properly came out, except with young Bretton.

As she got settled, and accustomed to the house, she proved tractable enough with Mrs.Bretton; but she would sit on a stool at that lady's feet all day long, learning her task, or sewing, or drawing figures with a pencil on a slate, and never kindling once to originality, or showing a single gleam of the peculiarities of her nature.

I ceased to watch her under such circumstances: she was not interesting.