But he's mistaken; I'm not half as bad as I seem.

I'm only what you've made me." Mrs.Hamilton turned away, thinking that if her daughter could so easily give up Walter Hamilton, _she_ would not.

She was resolved upon an alliance between him and Lenora.

And who ever knew _her_ to fail in what she undertook?
She had wrung from her husband the confession that "he believed there was a sort of childish affection between Walter and Kate Kirby, though 'twas doubtful whether it ever amounted to anything." She had also learned that he was rather averse to the match, and though Lenora had not yet been named as a substitute for Kate, she strove in many ways to impress her husband with a sense of her daughter's superior abilities, at the same time taking pains to mortify Margaret by setting Lenora above her.
For this, however, Margaret cared but little, and it was only when her mother ill-treated Willie, which she frequently did, that her spirit was fully roused.
At Mrs.Hamilton's first marriage she had been presented with a handsome glass pitcher, which she of course greatly prized.

One day it stood upon the stand in her room, where Willie was also playing with some spools which Lenora had found and arranged for him.