Her limbs were long, and most divinely moulded, and of a strength that caused admiration and amazement in all beholders.

Her father taught her to follow him in the hunting-field, and when she appeared upon her horse, clad in her little breeches and top-boots and scarlet coat, child though she was, she set the field on fire.

She learned full early how to coquet and roll her fine eyes; but it is also true that she was not much of a languisher, as all her ogling was of a destructive or proudly-attacking kind.

It was her habit to leave others to languish, and herself to lead them with disdainful vivacity to doing so.

She was the talk, and, it must be admitted, the scandal, of the county by the day she was fifteen.