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Arnot's dark cheek had grown more swarthy at the epithet of "dastard," but he coolly waited until Haldane had finished, and then asked in his former tone: "Did they take the money from your person and open the envelopes, one carefully, the other recklessly, before they won it?"
The moment the editor caught sight of the business stamp on Mr. Arnot's letter and the formal handwriting, his manner changed, and he said suavely: "I beg your pardon we have misunderstood one another take a chair."
Sir Walter always took a warm interest in the school. His speech as Chairman at the opening ceremony, on the 1st October 1824, is quoted in the Life, vol. vii. p. 268. Burnt at Edinburgh in 1670. See Arnot's Crim. Trials. 4to, Edin. 1785. Afterwards Sir John Rennie, knighted on the completion of the Bridge. See ante, p. 307, and post, p. 359. Dr. Marshman died in 1837.
The restraint of the counting-room grew irksome. Associations were formed in the city which tended toward his old evil habits. As a piece of Mr. Arnot's machinery he did not move with the increasing precision that his employer required and expected on his becoming better acquainted with his duties. Mrs.
Arnot's face, he said: "I don't think a bit better of myself. I'm twisted all out o' shape. But the little chap has taught me how the Good Father will receive me." The wealthiest people of Hillaton are glad to obtain the services of Dr.
"At least, before any correspondence takes place between us, I wish to look into his eyes, and if I see the faintest trace of shrinking from me there, as I saw it in Mr. Beaumont's eyes, I will never marry him, truly as I love him." Mrs. Arnot's face had lighted up with its old-time expression, as she said: "Laura, don't you know Egbert Haldane better than that?"
She became to him a pale and lovely saint, too remote and sacred for his human love, and yet sufficiently human to continually haunt his mind with a vague and regretful pain that he could never reach her side. He now learned from its loss how valuable Mrs. Arnot's society had been to him.
Arnot described is doin' me a sight o' good, and if I could find some poor little critter just like him, with no one to look after him, I'd take him in and do for him in a minit." "Mr. Growther," said Haldane, huskily, "you have found that poor misshapen, dwarfed creature that I fear will never attain the proportions of a true man. Of course you see through Mrs. Arnot's imagery.
Arnot's Bible, and here and there a text would flash out like a light upon the clouded future, but as a general thing the words had little meaning. To his ardent and somewhat imaginative nature she had presented the struggle toward a better life in the most attractive light.
But, with the characteristic recklessness of young men who have wealth to fall back upon, he had fortified himself by thoughts like the following: "If they do not treat me well, or try to put me into a straight-jacket, or if I find the counting-house too dull, I can bid them good-morning whenever I choose." But Mrs. Arnot's frank and cordial reception was an agreeable surprise.
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