Some people called him a smooth-faced hypocrite, and I guess they were not very far wrong." Andrew asked no more questions for some time, but sat, thoughtful, with his face so far turned away from the young man, that its expression could not be seen.
"Mrs.Howland is living, I presume ?" said he, at length, in a tone as indifferent as he could assume; but which was, nevertheless, unsteady.
"Yes.

She was living when I came away." Andrew drew a quick breath, and then his laboring chest found relief in a long expiration.
"Poor old man! I'm sorry for him," came from his lips in a few moments afterwards.

The tone was half indifferent, yet expressed some sympathy.
"Everybody seems sorry for him," said Winters.

"It has broken him down very much.

He looks ten years older." "Is he entirely out of business ?" asked Andrew.
"No; he is still going on; but he doesn't appear to do much.