But by a man of his habits and his property, such a burden as this could hardly have been accounted any burden at all.

That he did, however, in this mental privacy of his carry some heavy burden, was made plain enough to all who knew him.
And Lady Fitzgerald was in many things a counterpart of her husband, not in health so much as in spirits.

She, also, was old for her age, and woebegone, not only in appearance, but also in the inner workings of her heart.

But then it was known of her that she had undergone deep sorrows in her early youth, which had left their mark upon her brow, and their trace upon her inmost thoughts.

Sir Thomas had not been her first husband.