These are sorrows which are not often computed in the
general account. It is highly probable that none of them afflict
you. You have your parents, and very good people they are. You
yourself are no doubt a very good young man--so everybody says--and
you have health and strength. Besides, you have property, much
more, I am told, than falls to the lot ordinarily of young people
in this country. These are reasons why you should not feel any
sorrow; but were all these mine and a great deal more, I'm afraid
it would not make me any more contented. You, perhaps, will
not understand this, William Hinkley, but I assure you that such,
nevertheless is my perfect conviction."
"Yes, I can, and do understand it, Margaret," said the young man,
with flushed cheek and a very tremulous voice, as he listened to
language which, though not intended to be contemptuous, was yet
distinctly colored by that scornful estimate which the maiden had
long since made of the young man's abilities. In this respect she
had done injustice to his mind, which had been kept in subjection
and deprived of its ordinary strength and courage, by the enfeebling
fondness of his heart.
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