"I am ashamed that a child of mine should be so silly.

To stand looking at yourself that way! You needn't think you are so pretty, because you are not.

You don't begin to be as good-looking as Amy Long." Maria felt a cold chill strike her.

She had herself had doubts as to her superior beauty when Amy Long was concerned.
"You don't begin to be as good-looking as your aunt Maria was at your age, and you know yourself how she looks now.

Nobody would dream for a minute of calling her even ordinary-looking," her mother continued in a pitiless voice.
Maria shuddered.