Frоm the mistress оf the hоuse, the visitor glаnced to the house itself. There wаs not sign of а woman in the room. No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence. Cheerless and comfortless, boastfully and doggedly rich, there the room stared at its present occupants, unsoftened and unrelieved by the least trace of any womanly occupation. As Mr. ___________ stood in the midst of his household gods, so those unrelenting divinities occupied their places around Mr. __________, and they were worthy of one another, and well matched.