She has been buried alive here; except parsons and a few decent people whom she is allowed to meet now and then at the houses about here, she has seen nothing of the world.

My grandmother has kept Lesbia as close as a nun.

She is not so fond of Molly, and that young person has wild ways of her own, and gives everybody the slip.
By-the-by, how do you like my little Moll ?' The adjective was hardly accurate about a young lady who measured five feet six, but Maulevrier had not yet grown out of the ideas belonging to that period when Mary was really his little sister, a girl of twelve, with long hair and short petticoats.
Mr.Hammond was slow to reply.

Mary had not made a very strong impression upon him.

Dazzled by her sister's pure and classical beauty, he had no eyes for Mary's homelier charms.