She had lessons to give to girls, she had sympathy, pity, anticipation.

That would be a life of happy service.

It might be a fruitful trial of the system he proposed, to keep the boys and girls in company as much as possible, both at lessons and at games.
His was the larger view.

Her lord's view appeared similar to that of her aunt's 'throned Ottoman Turk on his divan.' Matthew Weyburn believed in the bettering of the world; Lord Ormont had no belief like it.
Presently Mrs.Pagnell returned to the charge, and once more she was nipped, and irritated to declare she had never known her niece's temper so provoking.

Aminta was launching a dream of a lass she had seen in a field, near a white hawthorn, standing upright, her left arm aloft round the pole of a rake, the rim of her bonnet tipped on her forehead; an attitude of a rustic.
Britannia with helmet heeling at dignity.