This consideration had not entered in before, and it did not now for long affect the glow of Carrie's enthusiasm.
Disposed as she then was to calculate upon that vague basis which allows the subtraction of one sum from another without any perceptible diminution, she was happy.
When Hanson came home at seven o'clock, he was inclined to be a little crusty-his usual demeanor before supper.

This never showed so much in anything he said as in a certain solemnity of countenance and the silent manner in which he slopped about.

He had a pair of yellow carpet slippers which he enjoyed wearing, and these he would immediately substitute for his soiled pair of shoes.

This, and washing his face with the aid of common washing soap until it glowed a shiny red, constituted his only preparation for his evening meal.

He would then get his evening paper and read in silence.
For a young man, this was rather a morbid turn of character, and so affected Carrie.