This sudden lifting of the burthen made him feel how heavy it had been--how terrible the responsibility--how sickening the fear.
"Thank God! In any case, you are quite safe now--you and the children!" He sat down, very pale.

His wife knelt beside him, and put her arms around his neck--I quietly went out of the room.
When I came in again, they were standing by the fire-side--both cheerful, as two people to whom had happened such unexpected good fortune might naturally be expected to appear.

I offered my congratulations in rather a comical vein than otherwise; we all of us had caught John's habit of putting things in a comic light whenever he felt them keenly.
"Yes, he is a rich man now--mind you treat your brother with extra respect, Phineas." "And your sister too.
'For she sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare.' She's quite young and handsome still--isn't she?
How magnificent she'll look in that grey silk gown!" "John, you ought to be ashamed of yourself! you--the father of a family! you--that are to be the largest mill-owner at Enderley--" He looked at her fondly, half deprecatingly.

"Not till I have made you and the children all safe--as I said." "We are safe--quite safe--when we have you.

Oh, Phineas! make him see it as I do.