The owner of the name was the young woman by whose means Mr.Darton proposed to put an end to his bachelor condition on the approaching day.
The mother's bereavement had been so long ago as not to leave much mark of its occurrence upon her now, either in face or clothes.

She had resumed the mob-cap of her early married life, enlivening its whiteness by a few rose-du-Barry ribbons.

Sally required no such aids to pinkness.
Roseate good-nature lit up her gaze; her features showed curves of decision and judgment; and she might have been regarded without much mistake as a warm-hearted, quick-spirited, handsome girl.
She did most of the talking, her mother listening with a half-absent air, as she picked up fragments of red-hot wood ember with the tongs, and piled them upon the brands.

But the number of speeches that passed was very small in proportion to the meanings exchanged.

Long experience together often enabled them to see the course of thought in each other's minds without a word being spoken.