The consequence was that Carroll had come with his wife and six daughters and taken a house close to him.
There are such "whips and scorns" in the world to which a man shall be so subject as to have the whole tenor of his life changed by them.

The hero bears them heroically, making no complaints to those around him.
The common man shrinks, and squeals, and cringes, so that he is known to those around him as one especially persecuted.

In this respect Mr.Grey was a grand hero.

When he spoke to his friends of Mrs.Carroll his friends were taught to believe that his outside arrangements with his sister were perfectly comfortable.

No doubt there did creep out among those who were most intimate with him a knowledge that Mr.Carroll,--for the captain had, in truth, never been more than a lieutenant, and had now long since sold out,--was impecunious, and a trouble rather than otherwise.