Your garb and manner were restricted by rule; your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself disadvantageously conspicuous by some solecism or blunder; yet when addressed, you lifted a keen, a daring, and a glowing eye to your interlocutor's face: there was penetration and power in each glance you gave; when plied by close questions, you found ready and round answers.
Le vostre maniere rivelavano una severa educazione, avevate spesso l'aria diffidente e nonostante che aveste sentimenti raffinati, non avevate nessuna conoscenza della società e temevate sempre di dire qualche errore o qualche sciocchezza. "Ma appena vi si dirigeva la parola direttamente, alzavate in faccia a lui un occhio penetrante, ardito e vivace; vi era nel vostro sguardo la potenza e la penetrazione.