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Arnot sternly. "Too much time has been wasted over the affair already, but out of regard for his mother I wished to give this young man an opportunity to make an exculpating explanation or excuse, if it were in his power. Since, according to his own statement, he is guilty, the law must take its course." "You don't mean to send me to prison?" asked Haldane excitedly.
You may trust 'Jeems' to keep out all but the very first-class those who can exchange silk and broadcloth for the white robe. But what on earth could have brought about such a speedy transition from jail to church on the part of Haldane?" "I invited him," said Mrs. Arnot, in a pained tone; "but I did not think it would be to meet with insult" "Insult! Quite the reverse.
Arnot, before anything further is said upon this matter, I would like to see you in your library" he followed her without a word. Before the library door closed, however, he could not forbear snarling. "I told you that your having this big spoiled boy as an inmate of the house would not work well." "He has been offering himself to Laura, has he not?" she said quietly.
But all he requires is good living, and I'll trust to you for that. He's a trump, if he is a Yankee. But drat him, I thought he'd spoil the joke by dying, at one time." The sentiments that people like Mrs. Poland and her daughter, Mrs. Arnot, and Laura, would naturally entertain toward one who had served them as Haldane had done, and at such risk to himself, can be better imagined than portrayed.
After the words were spoken she was already to wish that she had bitten her tongue out. "Christ worked among them," replied he gravely, and then he added, with a look of grateful affection toward Mrs. Arnot, "Besides, your aunt has taught me by a happy experience that there are some possibilities of a change for the better in 'such people." "Mr.
While, on the one hand, it rendered her incapable of a sordid and calculating scheme of life, on the other, it might lead to feeling and action prejudicial to her happiness. Mrs. Arnot did not intend that she should brood over Haldane until her vivid imagination should weave a net out of his misfortunes which might insnare her heart.
His wife's nervous timidity vanished at once, and she stepped forward to join her husband, while Laura stood looking out from the parlor entrance with a pale and frightened face. "Can it be bad news from home?" she thought. "Who is there?" demanded Mr. Arnot, sternly. "Me and Misther Haldane," answered a voice without in broadest brogue. "Mr. Haldane!" exclaimed Mr.
But he daily grew more bent on making an honest trial, and in this effort a certain native persistency and unwillingness to yield would be of much help to him. He was now willing, also, to receive any aid which self-respect permitted him to accept, and was grateful for the copying obtained for him by Mrs. Arnot. But she frankly told him that it would not last long.
Arnot admitted to himself that he had never been asked so embarrassing a question in all his life. Before him was his wife's friend, a lady of the highest social rank, and she was so unmistakably a lady that he could treat her with only the utmost deference.
Arnot, whom she regarded as Haldane's good angel; and she was quite as disinterested in her hope for the young man's moral improvement as her aunt herself. The task, moreover, was doubly pleasing since she could perform it in a way that was so womanly and agreeable.
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