There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human.

The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye.

Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman.

A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms.

Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.
Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis.