Chapter XX

He knows the "lesser grief" that can be told, also the "deeper anguish which cannot be spoken:" his spirits are thus variably affected.

In his lighter mood, he laments as servants mourn for a good master who has died:

"It will be hard, they say, to find
Another service such as this."

But he is also visited by a sense of deeper deprivation, such as children feel when they lose a father, and

"see the vacant chair, and think,
How good! how kind! and he is gone."