A sense of mistake and failure hung heavily upon his spirits, and the cry of "vanity, vanity, all is vanity," came readily to his lips.

There is an infinite pathos in those melancholy words which have just been quoted.

The sun of life, which had shone so splendidly at its meridian, was setting amid clouds.

The darkness which overspread him came from the action of the 7th of March, and the conflict which it had caused.

If there were failure and mistake they were there.