And in that peculiar shortness of the lower face she was the very echo of her mother.

But the mouth was smaller, the lips less full, and the dimple less exaggerated.
It was a fairer face to look upon,--fairer, perhaps, than her mother's had ever been; but it was less expressive, and in it there was infinitely less capability for anger, and perhaps less capability for the agonising extremes of tenderness.

But Kate was taller than her mother, and seemed by her mother's side to be slender.

Nevertheless she was strong and healthy; and though she did not willingly join in those longer walks, or expose herself to the weather as did her mother, there was nothing feeble about her, nor was she averse to action.

Life at Ardkill Cottage was dull, and therefore she also was dull.