She doesn't think she's so much." "I like Norah, too," added Mrs.Cowperwood.

"She's really very sweet, and to me she's prettier." "Oh, indeed, I think so, too." It was curious, though, that it was Aileen who commanded nearly all their attention and fixed their minds on her so-called idiosyncrasies.
All they said was in its peculiar way true; but in addition the girl was really beautiful and much above the average intelligence and force.

She was running deep with ambition, and she was all the more conspicuous, and in a way irritating to some, because she reflected in her own consciousness her social defects, against which she was inwardly fighting.

She resented the fact that people could justly consider her parents ineligible, and for that reason her also.

She was intrinsically as worth while as any one.