She had read a good deal of Matthew Henry, the "Life and Labors of Mary Lyon" and the "Life of Isabella Graham," the "Works of Josephus," "Hume's History of England," and Milton's "Paradise Lost." She had tried to read Mrs.Sigourney's "Poems" and Pollok's "Course of Time," but had not enjoyed them much.

She was not imaginative.

She had plenty of feeling, but no sentiment, for sentiment is feeling that has been thought over; and her life was too entirely objective to allow her to think of her own feelings.

Her highest qualities, as Albert inventoried them, were good sense, good taste, and absolute truthfulness and simplicity of character.

These were the qualities that he saw in her after a brief acquaintance.