She was resolute and strenuous, but still.

You could depend on her for every duty; she was as true as steel.

She was kind-hearted and serviceable in all the relations of life.

She had more sense, more knowledge, more conversation, as well as more goodness, than all the partners you have waltzed with this winter put together.
Yet no man was known to have loved her, or even to have offered himself to her in marriage.

It was a great wonder.