Her beauty was something marvelous.

She seemed to gain both grace and dignity in her new attire.

Shortly afterward, with her mother's permission, I sent her for six months to one of the most fashionable schools in Paris.

The change wrought in her was magical; she learned as much in that time as some girls would have learned in a couple of years.

Every little grace of manner seemed to come naturally to her; she acquired a tone that twenty years spent in the best of society does not give to some.