She now acutely felt her aunt's, her cousin's, dislike; and her uncle's gentleness was not less galling.

In her softly rounded youthful face there was revealed definitely for the first time an underlying expression of strength, of what is often confused with its feeble counterfeit, obstinacy--that power to resist circumstances which makes the unusual and the firm character.
The young mobility of her features suggested the easy swaying of the baby sapling in the gentlest breeze.

Singularly at variance with it was this expression of tenacity.

Such an expression in the face of the young infallibly forecasts an agitated and agitating life.

It seemed amazingly out of place in Susan because theretofore she had never been put to the test in any but unnoted trifles and so had given the impression that she was as docile as she was fearful of giving annoyance or pain and indifferent to having her own way.