I have no heart to undertake the office.

Alas! what have I to do in the house of feasting?
Maria! I fear lest my griefs should prove obtrusive.

Yet bear with me a little--I have recovered already a share of my former spirits.
I fear more for Allan than myself.

The loss of two such parents, within so short an interval, bears very heavy on him.

The boy _hangs_ about me from morning till night.