Possibly at the very time this happened, it might have something else to afflict it; and as afflictions are sent down for our good, and that as this had never done the SHANDY FAMILY any good at all, it might lie waiting till apt times and circumstances should give it an opportunity to discharge its office. 
Perhaps at the time the event happened, our family had something else to afflict it; and it lay waiting for an opportunity to do its work. 