If, only, he was, perhaps, thinking, if only the good God had not given him so sensitive and fine-tempered a spirit of conscientiousness.

He almost envied men of coarse, blunt feelings, of common ideals of duty and service.
His wife watched him anxiously.

She knew it was a crisis with him.

At last he said:-- "Well, Sarah, I don't know but you're right.

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.