They told him that he was a young man still, and Providence watched over him; in a year or two he would be all the better for this sad visitation.

And he said yes to their excellent advice, and was very much obliged to them.

At the same time it was clear to me, who watched him like a daughter, that he became heavy in his mind, and sighed, as these kind friends, one after the other, enjoyed what he still could do for them, but rode away out of his gate with too much delicacy to draw purse-strings.

Not that he would have accepted a loan from the heartiest heart of all of them, only that he would have liked the offer, to understand their meaning.

And several of them were men--as Firm, in his young indignation, told me--who had been altogether set up in life by the kindness of Sampson Gundry.
Perhaps the Sawyer, after all his years, had no right to be vexed by this.