The particulars of her character and conduct, which I gleaned in this way, more than sufficed to convince me that the poor major's plan for the careful training of his daughter's disposition, though plausible enough in theory, was little better than a total failure in practice.

Miss Jessie, to use the expressive common phrase, took after her aunt.

She was as generous, as impulsive, as light-hearted, as fond of change, and gayety, and fine clothes--in short, as complete and genuine a woman as Lady Westwick herself.

It was impossible to reform the "Queen of Hearts," and equally impossible not to love her.

Such, in few words, was my fellow-guardian's report of his experience of our handsome young ward.
So the time passed till the year came of which I am now writing--the ever-memorable year, to England, of the Russian war.