She could not but feel that Alaric had been the means of disgracing and degrading one child; and truly, deeply, warmly, as she sympathized with the other, she could not bring herself to feel the same sympathy for the object of her love.

It was a sore day for her and hers, that on which the Tudors had first entered her house.
Nevertheless she assented to Katie's proposal, and undertook the task of asking Charley down to Hampton.
Since Alaric's conviction Charley led a busy life; and as men who have really something to do have seldom time to get into much mischief, he had been peculiarly moral and respectable.

It is not surprising that at such a moment Gertrude found that Alaric's newer friends fell off from him.

Of course they did; nor is it a sign of ingratitude or heartlessness in the world that at such a period of great distress new friends should fall off.

New friends, like one's best coat and polished patent-leather dress boots, are only intended for holiday wear.