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"'Her relations to Mrs Haldane!' As if she were not always at the beck and call of every beggar and criminal in town! I do wish I had a as tooto do with this low scum"

A few moments later Mr Arnot broke out aneith e driven rapidly away

As by the flickering light of a dip candle Mrs Arnot saw Haldane's pale, haggard face, she did not regret that she had coave to her the evidence of a hu these deep questions of life, soard themselves as brave or philosophical Perhaps it were nearer the truth to say they are stolid, and are staring at that which they do not understand and cannot yet realize Where in history do we read--who froive--an instance of a happy life developing under the deepening shadow of evil? Suppose one has seen high types of character and happiness, and was capable of appreciating them, but finds that he has cherished a sottish, beastly nature so long that it has beco to hold him in thraldom ever afterward;--can there be a re of a debased nature drags the soul away froood and pure--to the hideous solitude of self and memory

There are those ill be incredulous and even resentful in view of this picture, but it will not be the first time that facts have been quarrelled with It is true that e,appetite or passion, perhaps bysorrow, of which superficial observers of life can have no idea, they speak of these horrid chains; so at theed down and away--away from honorable companionships and friendships; away from places of trust, from walks of usefulness and safety; away from parents, from wife and children, until the awful isolation is couilty soul finds itself alone with the sin that mastered it, conscious that God only will ever see and reet in order to obtain relief frohtly to be looked upon; and in h itbefore it is possible