Not that she ranged herself with Jane socially or as to scholastic attainments.

In both these, as in natural refinement, propriety and niceness of ideas, she reckoned herself easily to surpass that much canvassed heroine.

The flavour of the evangelical charity-school adhered--incontestably it adhered, and that to Jane's disadvantage.

No extravagance of Protestantism or of applied philanthropy, thank heaven, clouded Theresa's early record.

The genius of Tractarianism had rocked her cradle, and subsequently ruled her studies with a narrowly complacent pedantry all its own.