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After receiving rebuffs, and often what he regarded as insults, for hours, the young rew pale and haggard, not only froue, but from that which tells disastrously alement He saw that he had not yet fully realized the consequences of his folly The deep and seely implacable resentment of society was a continued surprise He was not conscious of being a monster of wickedness, and it seemed to him that after his bitter experience he would rather starve than again touch as not his own

But the trouble is, the world does not give us ine, even if aware of our thoughts It is e do that forms public opinion; and it was both natural and just that the public should have a very decided opinion of one who had recently shown hi, drunkenness, and practical theft

And yet the probabilities were that if some kind, just man had bestowed upon Haldane both employment and trust, with a chance to rise, his bitter lesson would have made him scrupulously careful to shun his peculiar teards one who has committed a crime as a criminal, and treats him as such It cannot, if it would, nicely calculate the hidden eneralities, regardless of the exceptions; and thus it often happens that men and women who at first can scarcely understand the world's adverse opinion, are disheartened by it, and at last coht

As, at the time of his first arrest, Haldane had found his eyes drawn by a strange, cruel fascination to every scornful or curious face upon the street, so now he began to feel aand thinking of him He purchased both that day's papers and those of the previous day, and, finding a little out-of-the-way restaurant kept by a foreigner, he "supped full with"--ere to him emphatically--"horrors"; the dinner and supper co cold, in theas the place in which it was served

His eyes dwelt longest upon those sentences which were the most unmercifully severe, and they seemed to burn their way into his very soul Was he in truth such a miscreant as the "Courier" described? Mrs Arnot had not shrunk from him as from contamination; but she was different from all other people that he had known; and he now remerave, troubled way, as if both its character and consequences were serious indeed