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"I do not consider the world's favor worth very much, but the world's respect is, for it usually respects only what is respectable As you form a character that you can honestly respect yourself, you will find society gradually learning to share in that esteeain the world's lost favor, which you value so highly, you will discover the first earnest of it in your own changed and purified character The world will pay no heed to any amount of self-assertion, and will res; but sooner or later it will find out just what you are in your essential life, and will estily I have dwelt on this phase of your hs so heavily on your heart Can you accept ment in theas you have, and speak from ripe experience I have always been a close observer of society, and aht If you were my own son I would use the same words"

"Mrs Arnot," he replied sloith contracted brow, "you are giving me much to think about I fear I have been as stupid as I have been bad My whole life seems one wretched blunder"

"Ah, if you will only think, I shall have strong hopes of you But inthese questions do not use the inch rule of time and earth only As I have said before, remember you will soon have done with earth forever, but never can you get away from God, nor be rid of yourself You are on wretched terms with both, and will be, whatever happens, until your nature is brought into harned in our every fibre, that evil tortures us like a diseased nerve; and it alill till we get rid of it Therefore, Egbert, remember--O that I could burn it into your consciousness--the best that you can gain from your proposed evil course is a brief respite in base and sensual stupefaction, or equally artificial and un, bitter ret Face this truth now, before it is too late Good-by for a tiain when I can; or you can send for ave him her hand in cordial pressure

He did not say a word, but his face was very white, and it was evident that her faithful words had opened a prospect that had simply appalled him