Her face matched the attractions of her form and her mind matched the beauty of her face.
She possessed a nature almost Puritanic in its abhorrence of sin, and in the strength of its moral convictions.

She feared to do wrong more than she feared any man.

With this supremacy of the moral sense there went along singular firmness of purpose and independence of character.

When a mere slip of a girl she was called upon to choose between regard for her religious convictions and regard for her family.

It happened in this wise.