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Updated: May 19, 2025

Ivison's letter, did not add to Haldane's popularity at the mill, they led to his being severely let alone at first, and an increasingly frank and affable manner on the part of the young man, as he gained in patience and serenity, gradually disarmed those who were not vindictive and blind from prejudice. Poor Mrs. Haldane seemed destined to be her son's evil genius to the end.

Edward Payson Roe - A Knight of the Nineteenth Century

Growther pondered over the question a few minutes, and then said sententiously: "I'm inclined to think the Lord gives us as good work as we're cap'ble of doin'. He'll promote you when you've growed a little more." The next morning Haldane received a message directing him to report at Mr. Ivison's private office during the noon recess.

Edward Payson Roe - A Knight of the Nineteenth Century

Ivison's defence of him, which appeared in the "Courier" of the following morning. "You perceive," he wrote, "that a stranger has taken pains to inform himself correctly in regard to the facts of the case, and that he has for me some charity and hope.

Edward Payson Roe - A Knight of the Nineteenth Century

Ivison's communication a prominent place. It is not our intention to "strike" any one, but merely to record each day's events as they come to us. With the best intentions mistakes are sometimes made. We have no possible motive for not wishing young Haldane well we do wish him success in achieving a better future than his past actions have led us to expect.

Edward Payson Roe - A Knight of the Nineteenth Century

Ivison's employ, and the explanation, which soon afterward appeared, gave him great encouragement. The man whom he had so severely punished in his outburst of passion, vented his spite by giving to the Morning Courier an exaggerated and distorted account of the affair, in which the youth was made to exchange places with himself, and appear as a coarse, quarrelsome bully.

Edward Payson Roe - A Knight of the Nineteenth Century