Polly in Villette is a mere foil to Lucy.

" "Polly is a good girl; she understands.

"Polly! is this the right way?"

But I can't see nothing else for it, sir; that is, if Polly won't let me risk it in the Mary Ann.' 'Duncan,' she said solemnly, 'if thee went to sea in the Mary Ann, and she went to the bottom, I could never say, "The will of the Lord be done," for I don't believe it would be God's will for thee to go in that rotten old thing.' 'Polly is right, Duncan,' I said; 'you must never go in the Mary Ann again.'

"What's a dewlap?" "Polly!

Therefore, though he was perplexed by letters from Australia, and though his Aunt Polly was a great nuisance, he determined to persevere at once.

'Our Polly is a sad slut, nor heeds what we have taught her.

"Isn't she game!" Polly and David were ahead.

"But Polly's only a child.

"Your Aunt Polly," he said, "was a remarkable woman, with a wonderful imagination, which seems to have grown more vivid as her memory and judgment weakened.