If I were to hug you with joy, and tell you how good he is, and how fortunate you are,--if I were to praise him, and bid you triumph in your success, as might be expected on such an occasion,--you would put on a long face at once, and tell me that though the thing is to be, it would be much better that the thing shouldn't be. 
If I were to hug you with joy, and tell you how good he is, and how fortunate you are, you would put on a long face, and tell me that it would be much better that the thing shouldn't be. 