Such contrasts, though useful, cannot but be painful to the mind, and we would, a thousand times, rather give pleasure than pain.

But one more striking contrast we will give, as requisite to show the tendency of good or bad principles, united with good or bad habits.
Unable to get any employment in the village, Thorne, hearing that steady work could be obtained in Charleston, South Carolina, sold off a portion of his scanty effects, by which he received money enough to remove there with his wife and child.

Thus were the sisters separated; and in that separation, gradually estranged from the tender and lively affection that presence and constant intercourse had kept burning with undiminished brightness.

Each became more and more absorbed, every day, in increasing cares and duties; yet to one those cares and duties were painful, and to the other full of delight.
Ten years from the day on which they parted in tears, Ellen sat, near the close of day, in a meanly furnished room, in one of the southern cities, watching, with a troubled countenance, the restless slumber of her husband.

Her face was very thin and pale, and it had a fixed and strongly marked expression of suffering.