Spoken grief relieves itself; and when one can give counsel, one always hopes at least that that counsel will be effective.

To her son she had said, more than once, that it was a pity that Mr.Robarts should follow the hounds.--"The world has agreed that it is unbecoming in a clergyman," she would urge, in her deprecatory tone.

But her son would by no means give her any comfort.

"He doesn't hunt, you know--not as I do," he would say.

"And if he did, I really don't see the harm of it.