 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 ページ
...15. One extract more may complete Mrs. Bray's lively account of this remarkable young woman : — ' She is very modest, and seems imbued with a deep sense...thing, — in her smile, her cap, her little straw honnet, and her curtsy, — yet there is nothing vulgar about her. The elevated feelings of her character... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1857 - 170 ページ
...this, and said she was afraid Mrs. Bray would think her mazed. " She is very modest," says Mrs. Bray, " and seems imbued with a deep sense of religious feeling,...not coarsely ; and though a perfect country girl in everything, — in her smile, her cap, her little straw bonnet, her courtesy, — yet there is nothing... | |
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... she could read and amuse her mind, in her leisure hours, with making verses, and with her flower-garden, and that made her quite happy : she did not want one." I do not think there is any danger that this poor girl's head will be turned by any notice... 