Georgy was one of the women who have "no characters at all," but Georgy's daughter was open to the charge of eccentricity rather than of inanity.

She was a creature of fancies and impulses She had written wild verses in the secrecy of her own chamber at midnight, and had torn her poetic effusions into a thousand fragments the morning after their composition.

She played and sang very sweetly, and danced admirably, and did everything in a wild way of her own, which was infinitely more charming than the commonplace perfection of other women.

She was not a beauty according to those established rules which everybody believes in until they meet a woman who sins against them all and yet is beautiful.

Miss Halliday had thick black eyebrows, and large gray eyes which people were apt to mistake for black.