Since his health began to decline he would go nowhere without her, though he spoke seldom a pleasant, and often a very unpleasant word to her.

He never praised her to her face, but swore deeply to her excellence in ears that cared little to hear of it.

When at home she must always be within his reach, if not within his call; but he was far from slow to anger with her, and she dreaded his anger, not so much from love or fear as from nicety, because of the ugly things he would say when he was offended with her.

One hears of ruling by love and ruling by fear, but this man ruled by disgust.

At home he lived much as we have seen him in the house of another, cared for nobody's comfort but his own, and was hard to keep in good humour--such good humour as was possible to him.