Mere life without suffering seems enough for most people, but I do not think it could go on so for ever.
I can not help fancying that, but for death, utter dreariness would at length master the healthiest in whom the true life has not begun to shine.

But so satisfying is the mere earthly existence to some at present, that this remark must sound to them bare insanity.
Partly out of compliment to Mr.Redmain, the Mortimers had scarcely a visitor; for he would not come out of his room when he knew there was a stranger in the house.

Fond of company of a certain kind when he was well, he could not endure an unknown face when he was ill.

He told Lady Malice that at such times a stranger always looked a devil to him.
Hence the time was dull for everybody--dullest, perhaps, for Sepia, who, as well as Redmain, had a few things that required forgetting.

It was no wonder, then, that Hesper, after a fort-night of it, should think once more of the young woman in the draper's shop of Testbridge.
One morning, in consequence, she ordered her brougham, and drove to the town..