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He rose, and paced the cell with his old, restless steps "It's no use," he said; "the world says, 'Go to the devil,' and gives ard the world--whatever you may mean by the phrase--as your friend?"

"Friend!" he repeated, with bitter emphasis

"Why, then, do you take its advice? I did not coo to perdition"

"But if the world sets its face against me like a flint, what is there for me to do but to remain in prison or hide in a desert, unless I do what I had purposed, defy it and strike back, though it be only as a worbert, if you should die, the world would forget that you had ever existed, in a few days"

"Certainly It would give ht as of a nuisance that had been abated"

"Well, then, would it not be wise to forget the world for a little while? You are shut away from it for the present, and it cannot molest you In the meantime you can settle some very important personal questions The world has power over your fate only as you give it power You need not lie like a helpless wor to be crushed Get up like a man, and take care of yourself The world ood and true and manly; if you do become so, however, rest assured the world will eventually find a place for you, and, perhaps, an honored place But be that as itfar more substantial than the world's breath"

Out of respect for Mrs Arnot, Haldane was silent He supposed that her proposed remedy for his desperate troubles was that he should "becoive only thea Christian," in his estih peculiar and abnor a church, the object of all this being to escape a "wrath to coin with, he had not the slightest idea how to set in motion these spiritual evolutions, had he desired them; and to his intense and practical nature the whole subject was as unattractive as a library of musty and scholastic books He wanted some remedy that applied to this world, and would help him now He did not associate Mrs Arnot's action with Christian principle, but believed it to be due to the peculiar and natural kindness of her heart Christians in general had not troubled thee, had turned as coldly froarded as an eious woman, and yet he knew that she was morbidly sensitive to the world's opinion and society's verdict