n, her
shoulder dislocated, and much injury inflicted by the fall. She lived,
and she still lives, but no longer as the Beauty of the Village. Her
fine shape injured by the blow, and her fair face disfigured by the
smallpox, she can no longer boast the surpassing loveliness which
obtained for her the title of the Rose of Aberleigh. And yet she
has gained more than she has lost, even in mere attraction; the vain
coquettish girl is become a sweet and gentle woman; gaiety has been
replaced by sensibility, and the sauciness of conscious power, by the
modest wish to please. In her long and dangerous illness, her slow
and doubtful convalescence, Hannah learnt the difficult lesson to
acknowledge and to amend her own faults; and when, after many scruples
on the score of her changed person and impaired health, she became the
happy wife of James Meadows, she brought to him, in a corrected temper
and purified heart, a dowry far more precious in his mind than the
transient beauty which had been her only charm in the eyes of Edward
Forester.

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