Now and again she would have a war of words with the priest, and that, I think, she liked.

She was intensely combative, if ground for a combat arose; and would fight on any subject with any human being--except her daughter.

And yet with the priest she never quarrelled; and though she was rarely beaten in her contests with him, she submitted to him in much.

In matters touching her religion she submitted to him altogether.
Kate O'Hara was in face very like her mother;--strangely like, for in much she was very different.

But she had her mother's eyes,--though hers were much softer in their lustre, as became her youth,--and she had her mother's nose, but without that look of scorn which would come upon her mother's face when the nostrils were inflated.