Sometimes they make three, and sometimes five.

It seems as if the parental traits at one time showed separate, at another blended,--that occasionally, the force of two natures is represented in the derivative one by a diagonal of greater value than either original line of living movement,--that sometimes there is a loss of vitality hardly to be accounted for, and again a forward impulse of variable intensity in some new and unforeseen direction.
So it was with this child.

She had glanced off from her parental probabilities at an unexpected angle.

Instead of taking to classical learning like her father, or sliding quietly into household duties like her mother, she broke out early in efforts that pointed in the direction of Art.

As soon as she could hold a pencil she began to sketch outlines of objects round her with a certain air and spirit.