Prayers, as usual, concluded the day, and the family retired to rest at an early hour.
This system of things may appear sufficiently monotonous, but it was precisely adapted to the exigencies of the case, and produced a most salutary effect.

Regular duties and regular employments being imposed upon each, and their constant recurrence, so far from being irksome, soon became agreeable.

After a while the whole family seemed to grow indifferent to the external world--to live only for each other, and to think only of each other--and to Leonard Holt, indeed, that house was all the world.

Those walls contained everything dear to him, and he would have been quite content never to leave them if Amabel had been always near.

He made no attempt to renew his suit--seldom or never exchanging a word with her, and might have been supposed to have become wholly indifferent to her.