But her husband could not forget it.

In fact, it had awakened his mind to a most distressing sense of the folly, not to say sin, of which he had been guilty.
In self upbraidings, in the bitterness of grief for which there came no alleviation, the time passed on, and Mr.Bancroft lived in the daily fear of receiving a still deeper punishment.
One day, most disastrous intelligence came to the office in which he was employed.

There had been a fierce gale along the whole coast, and the shipping had suffered severely.

The number of wrecks, with the sacrifice of life, was appalling.

Among the vessels lost, were ten insured in the office.