Outside active sins, to which it may be presumed no temptation allured herself, were abominable to her.

Evil thoughts, hardness of heart, suspicions, unforgivingness, hatred, being too impalpable for denunciation in the Decalogue but lying nearer to the hearts of most men than murder, theft, adultery, and perjury, were not equally abhorrent to her.

She had therefore allowed herself to believe all evil of this man, and from the very first had set him down in her heart as a hopeless sinner.

The others had opposed her,--because the man had money.

In the midst of her shipwreck, in the midst of her misery, through all her maternal agony, there was a certain triumph to her in this.