A deep sigh heaved the wife's bosom as she remembered this; and, for some moments, she suffered from keen self-reproaches.

But, an accusing spirit quickly obliterated this impression.

In her heart she wrote many bitter things against her husband, and magnified habits and peculiarities into serious faults.
Poor, unhappy wife! How little did she comprehend the fact that her husband's feet were near the brink of a precipice, and that a fearful abyss of ruin was below; else would she have drawn him lovingly back, instead of driving him onward to destruction..