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Their aim was to excite Haldane to the last degree of recklessness, and yet keep him sufficiently sober for further playing. From Harker they had learned that Mr. Arnot had probably sent him in the place of the clerk usually employed; and, if so, it was quite certain that he had a large sum of money upon his person.

After Haldane appeared he delayed until a few cronies whom he could depend upon had dropped in, and then, in an off-hand way, stepped up to the despondent youth, and said: "I zay, mister, you been here zwei week; I want you bay me now." "What do you mean?" asked Haldane, looking up with an uncomprehending stare. "Dis is vot I mean; you buts me off long nuff. I vants zwei weeks' bort."

But when a mind has become mystified with preconceived ideas and prejudices, it is no easy task to reveal to it the truth, however simple. Mrs. Arnot had come into the light but slowly herself, and she had passed through too many deep and prolonged spiritual experiences to hope for any immediate and radical change in Haldane.

"Yes, by the first train, to-morrow." "Well!" they chorused, with a long breath, but as all language seemed inadequate they added nothing to their exclamation. Mrs. Haldane slowly wiped her eyes, and said, "Egbert is excited now, and does not realize how we feel.

The Haldane who had meditated "gloomy grandeur" would not have looked at the poor, besmirched Haldane who had just accepted what the world would regard as charity. The only reason why the proud, aristocratic youth could tolerate and make excuse for the disreputable character who was glad to eat the dinner given by Jeremiah Growther, was that this same ill-conditioned fellow was himself.

Nor has the history of this controversy ended. "Thoughtful men," the Archbishop of Canterbury has told the House of Lords, "... see the absolute need, if a Church is to be strong and vigorous, for the Church, qua church, to be able to say what it can do as a church." "The rule of the sovereign, the rule of Parliament," replied Lord Haldane, "extend as far as the rule of the Church.

My best hope is to find, as you said upon another occasion, my own little nook in the vineyard, and quietly do my work there." After considerable hesitation the faculty of the university received Haldane as a student, and Mr. Ivison parted with him very reluctantly.

Arnot austerely, "to seek for something else than amusement. When I was at your age I so invested my evenings that they now tell in my business." "I am willing to invest this evening in a way to make it tell upon my future," replied Haldane, with a meaning glance at Laura. Mr.

"Why don't you go home, then?" "I'll go to the bottom of the river first." "That would suit the devil, the crabs, and the eels," remarked Mr. Growther. "Faugh! crabs and eels!" exclaimed Haldane with a shudder of disgust. "That's all you'd find at the bottom of the river, except mud," responded Mr. Growther, effectually quenching all tragic and suicidal ideas by his prosaic statement of the facts.

And yet it would appear that many, like poor Haldane, are tempted on one hand to entertain no Christian hope because they cannot produce these deep and happy emotions; or, on the other hand, to give up Christian hope because these emotions cease in the inevitable reaction that follows them.