As the days passed by, and as other tidings came in, confirmatory of those which had before reached him, the archdeacon felt himself unable not to believe in the man's guilt.
And the fear which he entertained as to his son's intended marriage with Grace Crawley, tended to increase the strength of his belief.
Dr.Grantly had been a very successful man in the world, and on all ordinary occasions had been able to show that bold front with which success endows a man.

But he still had his moments of weakness, and feared greatly lest anything of misfortune should touch him, and mar the comely roundness of his prosperity.

He was very wealthy.

The wife of his bosom had been to him all that a wife should be.

His reputation in the clerical world stood very high.