And godly men live well,--but we never see them living as though such were their conviction.

And were it so, who would strive and moil in this world?
When the heart has been broken, and the spirit ground to the dust by misery, then,--such is God's mercy--eternity suffices to make life bearable.

When Mrs.O'Hara spoke to her daughter of eternity, there was but cold comfort in the word.

The girl wanted something here,--pleasures, companions, work, perhaps a lover.

This had happened before Lieutenant Neville of the 20th Hussars had been seen in those parts.
And the mother herself, in speaking as she had spoken, had, perhaps unintentionally, indulged in a sarcasm on life which the daughter certainly had not been intended to understand.