See how her hair grows thick on her little head, and how it curls in great rings.

My lady, her poor mother, was once a beauty, but she was no such beauty as this one will be, for she has her father's long limbs and fine shoulders, and the will to make every man look her way." "Yes," said the housekeeper, who was an elderly woman, "there will be doings--there will be doings when she is a ripe young maid.

She will take her way, and God grant she mayn't be _too_ like her father and follow his." It was true that she had no resemblance to her plain sisters, and bore no likeness to them in character.

The two elder children, Anne and Barbara, were too meek-spirited to be troublesome; but during Clorinda's infancy Mistress Margery Wimpole watched her rapid growth with fear and qualms.
She dare not reprove the servants who were ruining her by their treatment, and whose manners were forming her own.

Sir Jeoffry's servants were no more moral than their master, and being brought up as she was among them, their young mistress became strangely familiar with many sights and sounds it is not the fortune of most young misses of breeding to see and hear.