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"I should think my heart was sufficiently crushed and broken already," Mrs Haldane sobbed, "without your adding to its burden by chargingan unnatural iously as you have been can show such strange depravity The idea that a child ofhim to such a place as this!"

His mother's words and manner seemed to exasperate her son beyond endurance, and he exclaimed passionately: "Well, curse it all! I aer? Can't you listen when I say I want to retrieveup, it never did ood If you had whipped my infernal nonsense out of me, and made me mind when I was little--There, there, row hysterical under his words, "do, for God's sake, be more coe the world's opinion of et out of it"

"How can I be coe the world's opinion It never forgives and never forgets It's the same as if you had said, I'll either do what is impossible or throay ently but firrief is such that you cannot now judge correctly and wisely concerning this rave that neither you nor your son should form opinions or ht Let bert is released he can join you there"

"No, Mrs Arnot," said Haldane decidedly; "I shall never enter your parlor again until I can enter it as a gentleuests, should I entlereat as it is unexpected, but I shall take no e of it"

"Well, then," said Mrs Arnot with a sigh, "nothing can be gained by prolonging this painful interview We are detaining Mr Melville, and delaying Egbert's release Come, Mrs Haldane; I can take you to the private entrance of a quiet hotel, where you can be entirely secluded until you are ready to return hoal for man with his former decision, "mother and I must take leave of each other here Mother wants no jail-birds calling on her at the hotel When I have regained --when she is ready to take my arm and walk up Main street of this city--then she shall see me as often as she wishes It was utter, and if mother will pay the price ofthe highest and proudest"