Yet, though such service be, with us, removed
From sense of degradation, not the less
The ungentle mind can easily find means
To impose severe restraints and laws unjust,
Which hapless Ellen now was doomed to feel:
For (blinded by an over-anxious dread
Of such excitement and divided thought[609]
As with her office would but ill accord)[610]
The pair, whose infant she was bound to nurse,
Forbad her all communion with her own: