They were not striking, and yet they were qualities that commanded respect.

But he looked in vain for those high ideals of a vocation and a goal that so filled his own soul.

If she read of Mary Lyon, she had no aspiration to imitate her.

Her whole mind seemed full of the ordinary cares of life.
Albert could not abide that anybody should expend even such abilities as Isa possessed on affairs of raiment and domestic economy.

The very tokens of good taste and refined feeling in her dress were to him evidences of over-careful vanity.
But when his mother and Katy had gone out on the morning after he had overheard Smith Westcott expound his views on the matter of marriage, Charlton sought Isa Marlay.