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In addition to this, Howel's own debts, both on the turf and to his tradesmen, were enormous, and ignominy surrounded him on all sides. Rowland groaned aloud as he told Gladys these horrible truths, and Gladys had no words of comfort; all she could say was, 'It is not poor Netta's fault; it is not yours, Mr Rowland, or that of any one belonging to you.
He laid bare Howel's heart to himself, for the first time that it had ever been so exposed, and then showed him the denunciations of the law against sin. He did not spare him. He knew that the only way to save such a man was by bringing him to know himself first, and then to preach repentance and remission of sin.
'My dear, interposed mild Mrs Prothero, 'if he gets steady, and settles down, it might be better to let them marry, than to make them miserable for life. 'Study! miserable! mother, you're a I beg your pardon, but when Howel's study, I'll turn to smoking cigars. Why, the very night of his father's funeral he was half drunk, instead of being decent for once.
Rowland heard that Mr Deep had been arrested upon a charge of abetting Howel in his crimes, and that a search-warrant for the examination of his papers had brought to light other nefarious dealings, as well as an unsigned letter, supposed to be in Howel's writing, intimating his intention of going to America.
In this difficulty, the conditions under which I was acting permitted me to appeal to the bride. When she too said No, I was not to be trifled with. I showed her poor Lady's Howel's will. After reading the terms in which my dear old friend alluded to her she burst out crying. I interpreted those grateful tears as an expression of repentance for the ill-considered reply which I had just received.
This had caused inquiries to be made at the docks, and police emissaries to be despatched forthwith to America. A person answering his description had sailed for that continent from Southampton the day after Howel left his house, but unaccompanied by wife or child. Strange to say that the Epsom races had come off, and that Howel's horse, Magnificent, had actually won the Derby stakes!
Go up the avenue, and let Netta know you've come. We shall be home to dinner at seven. Good-bye for the present. Owen did not stay to consider, but walked past the handsome lodge, and up the drive, according to Howel's direction. 'Mighty condescending and very patronising, cousin Howel! he soliloquised; 'but I will go and see how Netta gets on, and how your highness treats her.
Here Netta leant her head on Howel's knees, and began to sob. He put his hand on her head, smoothed her hair, and finally raised her from the ground, and took her in his arms to his weak, wicked heart a heart not wholly depraved, because there was still in it love for his wife.
Dunwal and his daughter had some few men and pack horses with them, and one Cornish maiden who attended Mara, so that we were quite a little train as we rode from Pembroke toward Tenby in the late afternoon, with a score of Howel's guards to care for us in all honour.
It was he who had been Howel's attorney in all his dealings with Sir Samuel Spendall, Mr Simpson and others, and although his reputation was not very good amongst his professional brethren, nothing dishonourable had ever been proved against him.
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