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Mrs Arnot had looked upon Haldane's degradation with feelings akin to disgust and anger, but as long, sleepless hours passed, her thoughts grew entle and coe Not the spirit of the disciples, that would call down fire froht to lay his healing, rescuing hand on every lost creature, always controlled her eventually Human desert did not count as much with her as human need, and her own sorrows had s of others, even though well merited

The prospect that the handsome youth, the son of her old friend, would cast hiedy that wrung her heart with grief; and when at last she fell asleep it ith tears upon her face

Forebodings had followed Laura also, even into her dreahtful vision, she saw her uncle placing a giant on guard over the house Her uncle had scarcely disappeared before Haldane tried to escape, but the giant raised his e and heavy as the mast of a ship, and was about to strike when she aith a violent start

In strange unison with her dreaarden below She sprang to the , half expecting to see the giant also, nor was she greatly reassured on observing an unknown man posted in the summer-house and left there Mr Arnot's mysterious action, and the fact that he was out at that early hour, added to the disquiet of ht had created

Her simple home-life had hitherto flowed like a placid stream in sunnya forest where dark and ominous shadoere thrown across its surface She was too wo At the sanorant of the world, that Haldane's action, even as she understood it, loo awful and portentous of unknown evils She was oppressed with a feeling that a crushing blow impended over hiiant's club raised high to strike If it were only in a fairy tale, her sensitive spirit would tre on one who had avowed passionate love for her, she felt alht The idea of reciprocating any feeling that resembled his passion had at first been absurd, and now, in viehat he had shown hily expressed regard for her created a sort of bond between theht before that he would be irace; but her dreaht of her uncle and the observant stranger, who, as she saw, still ested worse consequences, whose very vagueness made them all the more dreadful