Identify the passage and explain what it shows about the cha…
Identify the passage and explain what it shows about the characters that it refers to. From the mistress of the house, the visitor glanced to the house itself. There was not sign of a 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.