The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant

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...and ill-conditioned when in pain, stupified with wine when well, and at all times of a dreary vacuity of mind, this pillar of the State, wielder of men's votes, arbiter of parish fates and men's fortunes, was not a lovable man to live with. To outsiders he might be an object of pity or scorn; but to his wife! Ah, well, the servants said she looked worried. Let it pass. And yet had this been all she might have been in a fashion happy, for she could turn off much of the ill-humour of her husband on his servants by simply 119 avoiding him. Other troubles, however, were coming thick upon her, a...