The latter was evidently a trifle compared with the former.

Providence had most kindly provided for our happiness in denying the ability to see beyond the present moment.
Noah took the affair even more at heart than myself.

He told me, with a rueful and prognosticating countenance, that we were fast drawing near to the autumnal equinox, when we should reach the commencement of a natural night of six months' duration; and although the benevolent substitute of steam might certainly in some degree lessen the evil, that it was a furious evil, after all, to exist for a period so weary without enjoying the light of the sun.

He found the external glare of day bad enough, but he did not believe he should be able to endure its total absence.

"Natur' had made him a 'watch and watch' critter.