The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature; and the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter, and depart, and enter again, like demons who had found in him a ready-garnished home.

一个人因做错事而给自己套上的枷锁，会使最和善的天性也滋生怨恨；性情温和、心怀柔情的戈德弗雷·卡斯，正迅速变得愤懑，残酷的念头像找到现成住所的魔鬼，时去时来。