She was not good; she was not original: she used to repeat sounding phrases from books: she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own. She advocated a high tone of sentiment; but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her.
Elle affectait le sentiment, et ne connaissait ni la sympathie ni la pitié; il n'y avait en elle ni tendresse ni franchise; sa nature se manifestait quelquefois par la manière dont elle laissait percer son antipathie contre la petite Adèle.