CHAPTER VI.
THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE STUDENT .-- A SUMMER SCENE--ARAM'S CONVERSATION WITH WALTER, AND SUBSEQUENT COLLOQUY WITH HIMSELF.
"The soft season, the firmament serene, The loun illuminate air, and firth amene The silver-scalit fishes on the grete O'er-thwart clear streams sprinkillond for the heat," -- Gawin Douglas.
"Ilia subter Caecum vulnus habes; sed lato balteus auro Praetegit." -- Persius.
Several days elapsed before the family of the manor-house encountered Aram again.

The old woman came once or twice to present the inquiries of her master as to Miss Lester's accident; but Aram himself did not appear.

This want to interest certainly offended Madeline, although she still drew upon herself Walter's displeasure, by disputing and resenting the unfavourable strictures on the scholar, in which that young gentleman delighted to indulge.

By degrees, however, as the days passed without maturing the acquaintance which Walter had disapproved, the youth relaxed in his attacks, and seemed to yield to the remonstrances of his uncle.

Lester had, indeed, conceived an especial inclination towards the recluse.