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The "mysterious providence" of which Mrs Haldane wrote was to Mrs Arnot a legitimate and almost inevitable result But, now that the mischief had been accomplished, she was the last one in the world to say to her friend, "I told you so" To her mind the providential feature in thethe evil which the mother had unconsciously developed This opportunity was in the line of her most cherished plan and hope of usefulness, as will be hereafter seen, and she had lost no tiive Haldane e-room She also secured his consent that the youth should become a member of the family, for a time at least Mr Arnot yielded these points reluctantly, for it was a part of his policy to have no more personal relations with his employes than with his machinery He wished them to feel that they were merely a part of his systeularly and accurately he must be cast aside as certainly as a broken or defective wheel But as his wife's health made her practically a silent partner in his vast business, he yielded--though with rather ill grace, and with a prediction that it "would not ell"

Haldane are that hisletter to Mrs Arnot, and he supposed that his employer and his wife had thus become acquainted with all his misdeeds He, therefore, rather dreaded to raceless and difficult subject, that could not be ed at ho men who have wealth to fall back upon, he had fortified hi: "If they do not treat ht-jacket, or if I find the counting-house too dull, I can bid the whenever I choose"

But Mrs Arnot's frank and cordial reception was an agreeable surprise He arrived quite late in the evening, and she had a delightful little lunch brought to hiraceful tact had banished all stiffness and sense of strangeness, and he found hi into friendliness toward one whom he had especially dreaded as a "remarkably pious lady"--for thus his e that he should be rapidly disarraph Though her face was rather plain, it was so expressive of herself that it seldom failed to fascinate Nature can do much to render a countenance attractive, but character accomplishes far more The beauty which is of featureeye The beauty which is the reflex of character holds the eye, and eventually wins the heart Those who knew Mrs Arnot best declared that, instead of growing old and ho ray early, and was fast becorown old very fast She had dwelt, as it were, on the northern side of an iceberg, and in her vain attempt to melt and humanize it, had almost perished herself As the earthly streaealed, she was led to accept of the love of God, and the long arctic winter of her despair passed gradually away She was noing young again A faint bloo that fulness which is associated with the ht black eyes were the most attractive and expressive feature which she possessed, and they often seeifted with peculiar powers