She was as different from her father as possible in everything else, but in a despotic determination to do exactly as she liked, she resembled him.

Nino was glad that he was not called upon to use his own judgment, and there he sat, content to look at her, twisting his hands together below the table to concentrate his attention and master himself; and he read just what she told him to read, expounding the words and phrases she could not understand.

I dare say that with his hair well brushed, and his best coat, and his eyes on the book, he looked as proper as you please.

But if the high-born young lady had returned the glances he could not refrain from bending upon her now and then, she would have seen a lover, if she could see at all.
She did not see.

The haughty Prussian damsel hardly noticed the man, for she was absorbed by the professor.