Like all the older children of Major Pentland she had, since her twentieth year, begun the slow accretion of land: from the savi
ngs of her small wage as teacher and book-agent, she had already purchased one or two pieces of earth. From this excerpt, Eliza can best be described as a
In this excerpt, we are told that Eliza had saved up part of her small wages as a teacher and book-agent in order to purchase land. By the time she was twenty, she had already bought two pieces. This shows that Eliza thought about her future and about the best ways to invest money. It also demonstrates that she is a shrewd investor.