Such sudden reverses, such overwhelming sorrows, mature characters with wonderful rapidity.

Rosa, though formed by nature and habit to cling to others, soon began to form plans for future support.

Her inexperienced mind foresaw few of the difficulties involved in the career her friends had suggested.

She merely expected to study and work hard; but that seemed a trifle, if she could avoid for herself and her sister the publicity which their father had so much dreaded.
Floracita, too, seemed like a tamed bird.

She was sprightly as ever in her motions, and quick in her gestures; but she would sit patiently at her task of embroidery, hour after hour, without even looking up to answer the noisy challenges of the parrot.