She had to fight constantly her love of finery inherited from her mother, and her love of good times inherited from her father.

So she established a bank account, and to date had not drawn a check against it; which speaks well for her will power, an attribute cultivated, not inherited.
Kitty was as pleasing to the eye as a basket of fruit.

Her beauty was animated.

There was an expression in her eyes and on her lips that spoke of laughter always on tiptoe.

An enviable inheritance, this, the desire to laugh, to be searching always for a vent to laughter; it is something money cannot buy, something not to be cultivated; a true gift of the gods.