She stopped, and found herself blushing even in the darkness.

As the thought and blush were the usual sequel of her reflections, it is to be feared that they may have been at times the impelling cause.
Mr.Carr, however, made up for his daughters' want of sympathy with metropolitan life.

To their astonishment, he not only plunged into the fashionable gayeties and amusements of the town, but in dress and manner assumed the role of a leader of society.

The invariable answer to their half-humorous comment was the necessities of the mine, and the policy of frequenting the company of capitalists, to enlist their support and confidence.

There was something in this so unlike their father, that what at any other time they would have hailed as a relief to his habitual abstraction now half alarmed them.