He returned to the work in which he had been engaged, and resumed it, supposing he had not been observed.
— from Charlie Codman's Cruise: A Story for Boys by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

If she be elegant and refined; if she has learned how to govern, first herself, and then those about her, there is a charm diffused through the home which reveals itself in the good order of the establishment, in the politeness of the servants, in the genial disposition of the children, in the delightful intercourse of the different portions of the household, and in the fact that "her husband is known in the gates when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
— from The True Woman A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman vs. Ballot by Justin D. (Justin Dewey) Fulton