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 to the astonished scenes in equivocal terms.

Without a counselor at hand to whisper cautious interpretation what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognized for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then wakens, 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.

Self-interest with her was high, but not strong.