He did not study Machiavelli so intensely,--and he did not return to the spectacles; which last was an excellent sign.

Moreover, the humanizing influence of the tidy English wife might be seen in the improvement of his outward or artificial man.
His clothes seemed to fit him better; indeed, the clothes were new.

Mrs.
Dale no longer remarked that the buttons were off the wristbands, which was a great satisfaction to her.

But the sage still remained faithful to the pipe, the cloak, and the red silk umbrella.

Mrs.Riccabocca had (to her credit be it spoken) used all becoming and wife-like arts against these three remnants of the old bachelor, Adam, but in vain.