She drove out with Miss Crawley that day.

It was before the latter's illness.

At dinner she was unusually brilliant and lively; but she would take no notice of the hints, or the nods, or the clumsy expostulations of the humiliated, infatuated guardsman.
Skirmishes of this sort passed perpetually during the little campaign--tedious to relate, and similar in result.

The Crawley heavy cavalry was maddened by defeat, and routed every day.
If the Baronet of Queen's Crawley had not had the fear of losing his sister's legacy before his eyes, he never would have permitted his dear girls to lose the educational blessings which their invaluable governess was conferring upon them.

The old house at home seemed a desert without her, so useful and pleasant had Rebecca made herself there.