Harriet always seeking to be a peacemaker, was ever, if peace could not be made, stanchly on Theo's side.

I am afraid that Mrs.Garrow did not love her second daughter at all; and I am inclined to suspect that my marriage was in some degree facilitated by her desire to get Theo out of the house.

She was a very fierce old lady, and did not, I fear, contribute to the happiness of any member of her family.
How well I remember the appearance of Mr.and Mrs.Garrow, and those two girls in my mother's drawing-room in the Via dei Malcontenti.

The two girls, I remember, were dressed exactly alike and very _dowdily_.
They had just arrived in Florence from Tours, I think, where they had passed a year, or perhaps two, since quitting "The Braddons" at Torquay; and everything about them from top to toe was provincial, not to say shabby.

It was a Friday, my mother's reception day, and the room soon filled with gaily dressed and smart people, with more than one pretty girl among them.