She knew that she had only to show herself and that every one would stand and look at her, only to beckon and she would be followed.

She did not crave admiration; a great beauty rarely does.

She simply defied competition, and was ready to laugh at it in a rather good-natured way, for she knew what she had, and was satisfied.
As for the rest, she was merely clever and fearless, and her moral inheritance was not all that might be desired; for her father had left her mother in a fit of pardonable jealousy, after nearly killing her and quite killing his rival, and her mother had not redeemed her character after his abrupt departure.

On the contrary, if an accident had not carried her off suddenly, Regina's virtuous parent would probably have sold the girl into slavery.

Poor people are not all honest, any more than other kinds of people are.