The old servant longed to offer his arm to the young, lonely creature, as an assurance of sympathy and protection.

From this shock she certainly rallied, and soon.

The pecuniary difficulties of her new home were exactly what a devoted spirit like hers was fitted to encounter.

Her husband bore testimony, after the catastrophe, that a brighter being, a more sympathising and agreeable companion, never blessed any man's home.

When he afterwards called her cold and mathematical, and over-pious, and so forth, it was when public opinion had gone against him, and when he had discovered that her fidelity and mercy, her silence and magnanimity, might be relied on, so that he was at full liberty to make his part good, as far as she was concerned.
'Silent she was even to her own parents, whose feelings she magnanimously spared.