"It is not that I am overjoyed at the match," she explained, with great frankness.

"I think Sarah is a fool to marry a boy.

But I have observed she is a fool who always knows her own mind.

The fancies of some girls of that age are not worth attending to." "Miss Sarah is a young lady of character," said John, gravely.
"Ay, she will settle him," said Lady Tintern.

Her small, grim face relaxed into a witchlike smile.
"The lad is a good lad.