She lost the consciousness of herself in her new attire.
Once Harry looked around at her, and received a shock.

Maria's face looked to him exactly like her mother's, although the coloring was so different.

Maria was a blonde, and her mother had been dark.

There was something about the excitement hardly restrained in her little face, which made the man realize that the dead wife yet lived and reigned triumphant in her child.

He himself was conscious that he conducted himself rather awkwardly and foolishly.