That school offered her for her powers too limited a sphere; she ought to have swayed a nation: she should have been the leader of a turbulent legislative assembly.

Nobody could have browbeaten her, none irritated her nerves, exhausted her patience, or over-reached her astuteness.

In her own single person, she could have comprised the duties of a first minister and a superintendent of police.

Wise, firm, faithless; secret, crafty, passionless; watchful and inscrutable; acute and insensate--withal perfectly decorous--what more could be desired?
The sensible reader will not suppose that I gained all the knowledge here condensed for his benefit in one month, or in one half-year.

No! what I saw at first was the thriving outside of a large and flourishing educational establishment.