Mrs. Rutherford looked motherly at the eager girl and caressed her curls[…]

She went missing in somewhat spooky circumstances.

Cast iron is popular for cookware where an even heating temperature is important.

He never wants a reserve upon any emergency, which would appear desperate to others; and makes little use of those thousand projectors and schematists, who are daily plying him with their visions, but to be thoroughly convinced, by the comparison, that his own notions are the best.