She had shown a capacity for mastering her strongest feelings, at the moment when they threatened to overcome her, which is very rarely found in a young woman.

How to manage her was a problem for patient resolution to solve.

The banker's obstinacy, rather than his conviction, had encouraged him to hold to the hope of Hugh's marriage, even after his nephew had been refused for the second time.

His headstrong goddaughter had come to visit him of her own accord.

She had not forgotten the days of her childhood, when he had some influence over her--when she had found him kinder to her than her father had ever been.