A man always can do right, even though he has done wrong before.

But that previous wrong adds so much difficulty to the path--a difficulty which increases in tremendous ratio, till a man at last is choked in his struggling, and is drowned beneath the waters.

And then he put away Sowerby's letter carefully, locking it up from his wife's sight.

It was a letter that no parish clergyman should have received.

So much he acknowledged to himself.