It was very hard.

The whole thing was cruelly hard.

It was cruelly hard upon him that he should be brought into this trouble, and be forced to take upon himself the armour of a knight-errant for the redress of the wrong on the part of the young lady.

But when alone in his house, or with his child, he declared to himself that he would do so.

It might well be that he could not live in Barsetshire after he had married Mr.Crawley's daughter.