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Grey, Lady Selina

The only daughter of Lord Cashel.

"She has a most exaggerated conception of her own station and dignity, and of what was due to her, and expected from her ... She was plain, red-headed, and in no ways attractive ... But she was true, industrious, and charitable. ... She truly loved her family, and tried hard to love her neighbours, in which [she] would have succeeded but for the immeasurable height from which she looked down on them. ... The specific gravity of Lady Selina could not be calculated. It was beyond the power of figures, even in algebraic denominations, to describe her moral weight." - The Kellys and The O'Kellys