He was listening intently, and striving apparently after them; but to him only the things of sense were real; and he was not able to comprehend how lasting pleasure was to flow from the intellectual and spiritual.

He did not answer, and she lapsed into silence; all the fine enthusiasm that had filled her countenance so full of a living beauty giving place to a cold, calm exterior.

She had hoped to quicken her husband's sluggish perceptions, and to create in his mind an incipient love for the pure and beautiful things after which her own mind was beginning to aspire.
In her intercourse with refined and intellectual persons, Mrs.
Dexter had made the acquaintance of a lady named Mrs.De Lisle.

Her residence was not far from Mrs.Dexter's and they met often for pleasant and profitable conversation.

In Mrs.De Lisle, Mrs.Dexter found a woman of not only superior attainments, but one possessing great purity of mind, and a high religious sense of duty.