The loss of a limb means severed muscles, bones and nerves.
Nature never forgets that they ought to be there, but as they are not there she does without them; but none the less she feels for them instinctively, and becomes disappointed and bitter because she is refused the use of them.
Add to this the anxiety, the sufferings the amputated man feels when he is also deprived of his means of livelihood, as well as his limb, and from comfort comes down to penury.

Perhaps he has been able hitherto to keep his wife and children with a fair amount of comfort; now he is helpless and has to depend upon them.
He may be of proud spirit, but he has to endure mortification by seeing his wife labour and slave for him.

He becomes moody, then passionate, a little drink maddens him, then comes the danger.

He does something, then the police are required, and prison awaits him.

There he thinks and broods over his wrong, with bitterness and revengeful spirit.