ABSTRACT
Eleanora Douglas, eldest daughter of Charles Douglas, Esq. of Tay Bank, possessed tolerable features, and, in her youth, a better complexion. Her countenance was inclined to agreeableness if she was in good humour, but, as she was variable in her temper, so was she in the expression of her face –now all softness and insinuation, a minute after, scorn, rage, and fury. Miss Eleanora had not many offers of marriage but from men whom she deemed her inferiors; even those proposals were, for what reason people cannot devise, from persons slightly acquainted with her qualifications, and, indeed, before these had fully displayed themselves. Among the many who were, at different times, the subjects of Miss Nell's eloquence, Emily was one. Nell hated that young lady most bitterly, for the following good and substantial reasons. James was often much enraged at her attacks on his abilities.
