What must the wife think of her husband, when she feared that he would be angered by little matters at such a time as this! "Do you think it will make him very unhappy ?" Lady Clavering asked.
"Of course it will make him unhappy.

How should it be otherwise ?" "He had said so often that the child would die.

He will have got used to the fear." "His grief will be as fresh now as though he had never thought so, and never said so." "He is so hard; and then he has such will, such power.

He will thrust it off from him and determine that it shall not oppress him.

I know him so well." "We should all make some exertion like that in our sorrow, trusting to God's kindness to relieve us.