Good Heavens! is it possible I can be hungry ?" He spoke with an indescribable expression of mingled astonishment and dread.

Suddenly there broke upon him the possibility of suffering want in many forms in the future, and yet he felt ashamed of foreseeing them in this, the first day of his great calamity.

Until this moment he had been too absorbed in dwelling upon the moral and social consequences of his crime, to realize how utterly worn out he was; but all his physical strength appeared to collapse in an instant.
And now for the first time Phebe beheld the change in him, and stood gazing at him in mute surprise and sorrow.

He had always been careful of his personal appearance, with a refinement and daintiness which had grown especially fastidious since his marriage.

But now his coat, wet through during the night, and dried only by the keen air of the hills, was creased and soiled, and his boots were thickly covered with mud and clay.