And with inexpressible joy he clasped his blooming wife in his arms, compared the lifeless splendor of the former minister with the warm, evermore richly developing activity of the simple deputy, and his full heart gratefully overflowed in the proud words, "Yes, my wife, you were right; it is not what the world is to us, but what we are to the world, that is the measure of our happiness."
FOOTNOTE:
[Footnote 1]: A Jesuit prayer.
[Footnote 2]: An instrument used by the Jesuits for penance and punishment.