16/27 'Oh, mamma! oh, mamma!' Katie had no very accurate conception of what an arrest for debt meant. She knew that next to death imprisonment was the severest punishment inflicted on erring mortals, and she now heard that Charley was in prison. She did not stop to think whether it was for his life, or for some more limited period. It was enough for her to know, that this terrible misfortune had come upon him, to him who, to her young fancy, was so bright, so good, so clever, so excellent, upon him who had saved her life--upon him whom she so dearly loved. She was indeed sorry to hear such tidings of Charley Tudor; but her grief was now deeper even than that. |