That amount of restlessness, that desultoriness of attention, which made a small torture to Ezra, was to Lapidoth an irksome submission to restraint, only made bearable by his thinking of it as a means of by-and-by securing a well-conditioned freedom. 
Lapidoth's submission to restraint was only made bearable to him by his thinking of it as a means of by-and-by securing freedom. 