Both husband and wife were equally happy in the enjoyment of their new life, and equally unsocial in taking no measures whatever to publish it to others.
Such was the story of the rector's marriage.

Socially, Mr.Carling's position was but little affected either way by the change in his life.
As a bachelor, his circle of friends had been a small one, and when he married he made no attempt to enlarge it.

He had never been popular with the inhabitants of his parish generally.

Essentially a weak man, he was, like other weak men, only capable of asserting himself positively in serious matters by running into extremes.

As a consequence of this moral defect, he presented some singular anomalies in character.