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The future was very dark and uncertain What he was to do, hoas to live, he could not foresee Even the prison seee from the world, out into which he would be thrown that day, as one ht be

While eager to receive counsel and advice from Mrs Arnot, he felt a peculiar reluctance to take any pecuniary assistance, and he fairly dreaded to have her offer it; still, it er

After receiving his reat even for anger He was ashaement, and felt that they were unmanly, and yet was powerless to resist the leaden depression that weighed him down

Mrs Arnot had promised to call just before his release, and when she entered his cell she at once saw that soave her the letter just received

After reading it Mrs Arnot did not speak for some time, and her face wore a sad, pained look

At last she said, "You both ht to cherish resent, and that it will end worse than before I think she is ht, and it will be easier for you to commence your better and reforests I abert, but I have not been able to find any employ to have you accept Perhaps Providence points to submission to your mother's will"

"If so, then I lose what little faith I have in Providence," he replied impetuously "It is here, in this city, that I have fallen and disgraced ht to redeeo, in pride and self-confidence, I ht have been expected Instead of being a gifted and brilliant ht under a cloud as h misfortune as fault, I have discoveredonly in bad passions and bad habits Can I escape these passions and habits by going elsewhere? You have told ness to help such as I am If he will not help me here, he will not anywhere; and if, with his aid, I cannot surmount the obstacles in my way here, what is God's pro, and what are we but victims of circumstances?"