Not that Restoration
levity and Restoration manners were chargeable to Miss Priscilla.
She never forgot her parentage; but there were the same kind of
prettiness, the same sideways look, the same simper about the lips,
and there were the same flat unilluminated eyes. She had darkish
brown hair, which fell in rather formal curls on her shoulder, and
she was commonly thought to be "delicate." Like her sister and
brother, she had never been to school, on account of the "mixture,"
but had been taught by her mother. Her accomplishments included
Scripture and English history, arithmetic, geography, the use of the
globes, and dates. She had a very difficult part to play in Cowfold,
for she was obliged to visit freely all Tanner's Lane, but at the
same time to hold herself above it and not to form any exclusive
friendships. These would have been most injudicious, because, in the
first place, they would have excited jealousy, and, in the next
place, the minister's daughter could not be expected to be very
intimate with anybody belonging to the congregation. She was not
particularly popular with the majority, and was even thought to be
just a bit of a fool.
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