As to her person, it is only sufficient to say that she was a tall, beautiful girl, of exceeding grace and wonderful proportions.

There was, however, a softness about her appearance of constitutional delicacy that seemed to be incompatible with a strong mind, or perhaps we should rather say that was identical with an excess of feeling.

This was exhibited in the tenderness of her attachment to Agnes Hamilton, and in the agonizing grief which she experienced at her death--a grief which had well-nigh become fatal to a girl of her fragile organization.

The predominant trait, however, in her character was timidity and a terror of a hundred trifles, which, in the generality of her sex, would occasion only indifference or laughter.

On that very morning, for instance, she had not recovered from her painful apprehensions of the thunder-storm which had occurred on the preceding night.