Young people who fall out of line through weakness of the active faculties are often confounded with those who step out of it through strength of the intellectual ones.
The girls kept coming in, one after another, or in pairs or groups, until the schoolroom was nearly full.

Then there was a little pause, and a light step was heard in the passage.

The lady-teacher's eyes turned to the door, and the master's followed them in the same direction.
A girl of about seventeen entered.

She was tall and slender, but rounded, with a peculiar undulation of movement, such as one sometimes sees in perfectly untutored country-girls, whom Nature, the queen of graces, has taken in hand, but more commonly in connection with the very highest breeding of the most thoroughly trained society.

She was a splendid scowling beauty, black-browed, with a flash of white teeth which was always like a surprise when her lips parted.